Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st

Transformers News: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st

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We just received an update on the return of the Transformers Prime First Edition line and the BigBadToyStore Transformers Prime Dark Energon line from our friends at Hasbro. See details below:

Transformers Prime First Edition and Dark Energon Update

Transformers fans,

At Comic-Con, the Transformers team announced that the Transformers Prime First Edition action figure line would be made available at Toys R Us. We’re excited to share with you that BigBadToyStore.com and Entertainment Earth will also carry the line. The Transformers Prime First Edition items that will be available at all three of these retailers include:

Deluxe Scale:
· STARSCREAM

· ARCEE

· TERRORCON CLIFFJUMPER

· VEHICON

Voyager Scale:
· BULKHEAD

· OPTIMUS PRIME

Additionally, BigBadToyStore.com will start pre-sell for their Dark Energon exclusive items that were announced at Comic-Con on September 1. The items in this line include:

Deluxe Scale:
· DARK ENERGON DEFENDER WHEELJACK

· DARK ENERGON KNOCKOUT

· DARK ENERGON STARSCREAM

· DARK ENERGON DEFENDER BUMBLEBEE

Voyager Scale:
· DARK ENERGON DEFENDER OPTIMUS PRIME

· DARK ENERGON MEGATRON

Credit(s): Hasbro

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Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414710)
Posted by C - 310 on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:11pm CDT

Hmm, they didn't say what date the 1st Ed. would become available though. (From what was in the article, it sounds like Sept 1 is the date for Dark Energon stuff only) The suspense!

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414712)
Posted by JackStraw on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:16pm CDT

Great great news! :APPLAUSE:

Hopefully they'll be ready available and not overpriced.

Now what are we supposed to do with all these PRID Bulkheads and Optimii?

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414715)
Posted by PrymeStriker on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:22pm CDT

C - 310 wrote:Hmm, they didn't say what date the 1st Ed. would become available though. (From what was in the article, it sounds like Sept 1 is the date for Dark Energon stuff only) The suspense!

At SDCC, it said the FEs were going to be released Nov '12.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414716)
Posted by craggy on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:30pm CDT

wouldn't mind a FE Bulkhead. Some of the Dark Energon repaints are pretty cool, but not sure I'm totally digging the translucency. Were Slicer solid colours I'd be getting him for sure. Suppose it works pretty nicely for Skywarp at least.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414718)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:32pm CDT

Terrorcon Cliffjumper will be mine :twisted:

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414724)
Posted by kirbenvost on August 29th, 2012 @ 8:54pm CDT

Nice, looking forward to picking up a Vehicon. Hopefully they get released in Canada, but even if not it'll still be cheaper than the Takara one.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414728)
Posted by Doubledealer93 on August 29th, 2012 @ 9:03pm CDT

totally getting more vehicons and terrorcon cliffjumper.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414735)
Posted by PrymeStriker on August 29th, 2012 @ 9:08pm CDT

I'm only up for Bulk, Prime, and Terrorcon Cliff. That's about it.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414736)
Posted by Hypershock on August 29th, 2012 @ 9:12pm CDT

Sah-weeet, imma be gettin me a Screamer, bulk, and maybe a Prime :-B

I wanna hold out for the normal cliff though, i like his look better

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414747)
Posted by bkz on August 29th, 2012 @ 9:28pm CDT

Anyone know what time on the 1st the pre-orders will be available?

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Posted by Hypershock on August 29th, 2012 @ 9:45pm CDT

bkz wrote:Anyone know what time on the 1st the pre-orders will be available?

I wish

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414782)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 29th, 2012 @ 10:57pm CDT

What's with the "Defender" part of the Dark Energon Autobots' names?

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Posted by PrymeStriker on August 29th, 2012 @ 11:18pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:What's with the "Defender" part of the Dark Energon Autobots' names?

Sales gimmick?

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414800)
Posted by mooncake623 on August 29th, 2012 @ 11:48pm CDT

looking for preorders if not i will miss it =/

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414806)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on August 30th, 2012 @ 12:05am CDT

Im sure they'll be extremely overpriced, gonna say $25 for a deluxe & $50 for a voyager. I would like to pick up an Arcee but not paying an arm and a leg for one, my collection will be just fine with out one.

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Posted by MINDVVIPE on August 30th, 2012 @ 12:16am CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:Im sure they'll be extremely overpriced, gonna say $25 for a deluxe & $50 for a voyager. I would like to pick up an Arcee but not paying an arm and a leg for one, my collection will be just fine with out one.

Toy'r'us should have them for regular price.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414860)
Posted by jspags15 on August 30th, 2012 @ 7:12am CDT

I don't understand the distribution of the Prime line at all. I've never seen any of the PRiD figures other then at some Walmarts and now the stopped putting them out because of the Cybertron line filling the racks. I already have all of these figures because hasbro led us to believe the states weren't getting them, especially a terrorcon CJ, I thought that was a Takara exclusive. I hate Hasbro, release the figures on a normal schedule.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414869)
Posted by GuyIncognito on August 30th, 2012 @ 7:48am CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:Im sure they'll be extremely overpriced, gonna say $25 for a deluxe & $50 for a voyager.

The Dark Energon figures from BBTS will probably be that much, but I'm sure the TRU FE figs will be normal TRU prices.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414881)
Posted by AutobotMR2 on August 30th, 2012 @ 8:12am CDT

I would get that DE Wheeljack in a heartbeat if someone can give me help me with covering up his 2 Autobot symbols so I can tack on some 'con symbols and make him Slicer. :grin:

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1414993)
Posted by SpaceKaseJase on August 30th, 2012 @ 2:30pm CDT

Started collecting TF prime a little late, but I am only missing a few for my collection. I am glad I haven't opened anything yet after reading this lovely tidbit. I've got RID Optimus and Bulkhead, so I may take them back to Target in order to get the FE ones. They are really the only RID I have that I want to take back. Am desparately wanting RID Vehicon, but may settle for FE. So, November is roughly when FE will hit TRU?

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Posted by Hypershock on August 30th, 2012 @ 4:50pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:What's with the "Defender" part of the Dark Energon Autobots' names?

I think it means the Autobots have equipped themselves to deal with Dark energon, as in "defending" against it

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1415072)
Posted by LiKwid on August 30th, 2012 @ 5:46pm CDT

Now the question..Will the Dark energon figures be in traditional PRID packaging or will their cards, boxes just be re-colored Prid packaging....

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Posted by Hypershock on August 30th, 2012 @ 7:15pm CDT

LiKwid wrote:Now the question..Will the Dark energon figures be in traditional PRID packaging or will their cards, boxes just be re-colored Prid packaging....

Here ya go

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Posted by Heavy B on August 30th, 2012 @ 7:47pm CDT

Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

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Posted by PrymeStriker on August 30th, 2012 @ 8:18pm CDT

Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1415281)
Posted by Flux Convoy on August 31st, 2012 @ 9:40am CDT

Looking forward to the Dark Energon Voyagers. I think the others look very nice too. I simply don't have a reason or a place for them.

First Editions I'm good on. If I can find a Terrorcon CJ I might pick him up for shits and giggles.

Re: Transformers Prime First Edition to be Available at Toys"R"Us, BBTS, & Entertainment Earth - BBTS Exclusive Dark Energon Pre-Orders Open September 1st (1415323)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 31st, 2012 @ 11:39am CDT

PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

Praise the lord!

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Posted by PrymeStriker on August 31st, 2012 @ 11:46am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

Praise the lord!

I actually missed out on that Bumblebee, believe it or not. And now I'm sad they're not going to release him (at least make him short-packed :roll:

)

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Posted by Heavy B on August 31st, 2012 @ 7:18pm CDT

PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

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Posted by xyl360 on August 31st, 2012 @ 7:59pm CDT

Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

Maybe they (Has/Tak) modified the original FE's head mold to make it 'zombified' so now the original version doesn't exist any more?

It is odd that they're releasing that one at retail though, since it was an SDCC exclusive and all. Maybe it will only have the head but not the dark energon 'damage' etc. on the body (which would be boooring in my opinion).

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Posted by MINDVVIPE on August 31st, 2012 @ 8:15pm CDT

I want the F'ed up cliffjumper :twisted:

And it looks like the body does have the dark energon damage from what I can tell from the pic posted. Ya, definitely would be boring without the body damage. It'd be cool to add some of your own damage to the figure like melted plastic pieces here and there.

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Posted by RAcast on August 31st, 2012 @ 9:07pm CDT

Zombiejumper is cannon and is amazing, I fail to understand why you'd want anything else!

Did I mention he's a giant transforming ZOMBIE ROBOT? Seriously, I challenge you to come up with something more awesome.

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Posted by PrymeStriker on August 31st, 2012 @ 9:10pm CDT

RAcast wrote:Did I mention he's a giant transforming ZOMBIE ROBOT? Seriously, I challenge you to come up with something more awesome.

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Posted by xyl360 on August 31st, 2012 @ 9:47pm CDT

RAcast wrote:Zombiejumper is cannon and is amazing, I fail to understand why you'd want anything else!

Did I mention he's a giant transforming ZOMBIE ROBOT? Seriously, I challenge you to come up with something more awesome.

I want one just because I didn't get the SDCC version (got the Takara one though, but he stays in glorious clear purple car mode

). I have the Takara FE version as well as the Hasbro FE version (different shades of red, who knew?), so I don't need another one of that, but I can certainly understand why those who missed the boat on the original FE run would want that instead of ZombieJumper. Still, it works out well for me if he's the same as the one that SDCC got.

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Posted by Spleenzorio on September 1st, 2012 @ 12:00am CDT

Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

FE Cliffjumper? I might take a drive to TRU and I can check if they have any. They usually have tons of Bumblebees for whoever was looking in an earlier post.

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Posted by PrymeStriker on September 1st, 2012 @ 12:14am CDT

Spleenzorio wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

FE Cliffjumper? I might take a drive to TRU and I can check if they have any. They usually have tons of Bumblebees for whoever was looking in an earlier post.

That would be me. Hi.

My TRU has even less than shit. :-(

I don't like my area's retail system. It really sucks.

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Posted by Spleenzorio on September 1st, 2012 @ 12:27am CDT

PrymeStriker wrote:
Spleenzorio wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

FE Cliffjumper? I might take a drive to TRU and I can check if they have any. They usually have tons of Bumblebees for whoever was looking in an earlier post.

That would be me. Hi.

My TRU has even less than shit.

I don't like my area's retail system. It really sucks.

Not even exaggerating, but my store has over 9000 Bumblebees. Perks of having the biggest TRU in Canada a 15 min drive away

. I'll check and update you guys on what I find and maybe we can work somethin out.

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Posted by King Kuuga on September 1st, 2012 @ 12:34am CDT

Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

Apparently they took a survey and Zombiejumper won out overwhelmingly over regular Cliffjumper and Bumblebee.

As for differences from the SDCC Terrorcon Cliffjumper, I believe the retail one doesn't have the cracked window or some of the extra paint details. And of course no Dark Energon shards.

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Posted by MINDVVIPE on September 1st, 2012 @ 12:37am CDT

That Bot wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:
PrymeStriker wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Terrorcon Cliffjumper? What about Regular Cliffjumper?

Nope, he's not being released. Neither is Bumblebee.

God damn it. I don't want the f'd up cliffjumper, I want the real deal. WHY IS THAT SO BLOODY IMPOSIBLE

Apparently they took a survey and Zombiejumper won out overwhelmingly over regular Cliffjumper and Bumblebee.

As for differences from the SDCC Terrorcon Cliffjumper, I believe the retail one doesn't have the cracked window or some of the extra paint details. And of course no Dark Energon shards.

That sucks about the differences. Glad about the cracked window though, might as well have a real crack going through rather than a fake looking painted one on, which I can figure out myself. Actually, I could probably figure out some purple paint damage on my own. Maybe I'll buy 2 to have one to see how zombie'ed I can make it.