Transformers: The Last Knight Wave 2 Deluxes Found at Walmart

Part of me wants to buy two Drifts. One to make more screen accurate, and another for a potential DOTM Soundwave custom.

Damn really??! I've had Wave 2 for like 2 months

shajaki wrote:Damn really??! I've had Wave 2 for like 2 months

Nothing but wave 1 figures shelfwarming ALL of the Walmarts, Targets, and TRU's in my area. Haven't seen any other waves at all.

shajaki wrote:Damn really??! I've had Wave 2 for like 2 months

Yeah, thats the universe trying to give us something extra for the prices going from 20-30 for us.

I've only seen wave 1 stuff clogging shelves at my local stores. Lots and lots of Slash and Berserker (the latter of which I kiiiinda want to get, but for those prices...maybe not).

I'm not too actively seeking these figs, but it's down right shameful how much wave 1 stuff is just, hangin' around. Both at Walmart and Target.

On the bright side, if they're shelfwarming, they should go down to decent prices eventually!

... instead of the Wave 3 stuff we'd love and want on sale.

Cobotron wrote:I'm not too actively seeking these figs, but it's down right shameful how much wave 1 stuff is just, hangin' around. Both at Walmart and Target.

This reminds me of when the AOE toyline came out. The shelfwarming around my area was so bad that it extended into CW, which didn't even get to saturate until around June thanks to all of the AOE stuff.

I was still seeing AoE stuff last year alongside TR wave 2 and the Scorponok RiD wave. So many rippersnapper Grimlocks... So many...

STILL nothing but Wave 1 TLK and Wave 3 Titans Return at my nearest Toys R Us/The Entertainer in Cambridge, England. Argos still the only place that had Wave 2 figures (and even then they have Drift misnamed as Sideswipe in the catalogue). Good thing I already got Deluxe Sqweeks and voyager Megatron from other sources many, many months ago now or I'd really be pissed off.
And still only wave 1 Tiny Turbo Changers. I want tiny Sqweeks from Wave 2 dammit.

Autobot N wrote:

Cobotron wrote:I'm not too actively seeking these figs, but it's down right shameful how much wave 1 stuff is just, hangin' around. Both at Walmart and Target.

This reminds me of when the AOE toyline came out. The shelfwarming around my area was so bad that it extended into CW, which didn't even get to saturate until around June thanks to all of the AOE stuff.

I never saw Leader class CW at Target because the shelf was stuffed with AOE leader grimlock. Who knows if I will ever see Voyager nitro because it is stuffed with TLK Voyager grimlock.

Kurona wrote:I was still seeing AoE stuff last year alongside TR wave 2 and the Scorponok RiD wave. So many rippersnapper Grimlocks... So many...

Oh man that Scorponok wave. I dont know why that one is so resilient but I still see it at my TRUs, even though they have moved past onto later waves.

Well good luck to you all on your TLK hunts!

I stopped by 4 stores today, 2 TRU, 1 Walmart and 1 Target. I saw a sum total of 47 Grimlocks. So, maybe next year for Nitro?

My Walmart has the Leader Optimus repaint, I love the Voyager of this year, but part of me still wants an AOE Leader Prime, even if the mold kind of sucks.

Quantum Surge wrote:My Walmart has the Leader Optimus repaint, I love the Voyager of this year, but part of me still wants an AOE Leader Prime, even if the mold kind of sucks.

For some reason I can't explain, I'm really fond of my AOE Leader Prime. That TLK one looks like unpainted crap, though. Why can't Hasbro be the hero for once and import Callibur Prime, if not for my sake, then for my wallet's?

Probably because of all the people hatin' on the movie over here. Why sell the good stuff here when all the movie money is being made overseas?

If you really want a Calibur Optimus, order one from Hobby Link Japan. It cost me $72.88, about $20 more than buying Leader Optimus locally after tax, and he came with an extra gold-plated shield in the box that's running $40.00 separate elsewhere.

Steelbane looks really cool.

I'm with Shajaki on this one, my target takes forever to get anything new so seeing wave 2 is news for me.

Really? I've already had time to buy and lose my TLK Drift.

Wave one deluxes are still shelfwarming all the stores in my area too. And that's with all the Walmarts selling them for $15 and change since they put them on the pegs. They were NEVER the full $20 there as far as I've seen and they just aren't selling quickly. I could understand Toys R Us and Target having problems selling them since they all have them at the $20 but at $15, you'd think they'd be selling faster.

Checked yesterday, and we are still at wave 1 with the toyline. That wave, they so screwed up. Barricade is the only figure I have seen consistently move, and slash and grimlock the 2 who consistently won't.

On the plus side, I received a nice package from Canada from a certain James of William, and it had a Sqweeks and deluxe Megatron in it.

Megs is alright. I never had the mold, so this is my first go, and I am amazed at how tiny it is compared to the other deluxes. Reminds me of the poor 2013 days.

Sqweeks however is an absolute joy. this little guy may not move much, but he has so much playability. I love him! he's cute and fun and has lots of cool things to mess around with

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Checked yesterday, and we are still at wave 1 with the toyline. That wave, they so screwed up. Barricade is the only figure I have seen consistently move, and slash and grimlock the 2 who consistently won't.

On the plus side, I received a nice package from Canada from a certain James of William, and it had a Sqweeks and deluxe Megatron in it.

Megs is alright. I never had the mold, so this is my first go, and I am amazed at how tiny it is compared to the other deluxes. Reminds me of the poor 2013 days.

Sqweeks however is an absolute joy. this little guy may not move much, but he has so much playability. I love him! he's cute and fun and has lots of cool things to mess around with

yeah, even though Sqweeks is technically smaller I felt he was the best bang for my buck amongst all movie deluxes so far. And yes, Deluxe Megatron is small and the mold is from 2013 I really dont like that era of Transformers due to how cheap the figures felt. Hence why I was baffled when people preffered the Club Krok over the TR Krok. Why spend something like 40$ for this mold when you could get the TR one, which is bigger and feels more solid (and cheaper of course).

I will give that mold and other molds from that era some credit though, it has a nice complexity. More complex than every movie deluxe released I feel (and more complex than the TR deluxes). Its odd but transfomrers have this 3 pillar system of Feeling Solid, Being Complex, and Being Low Price that are hard to always obtain. I can only think of a handful like that (HFTD Leader Starscream, ROTF Bludgeon and a few Animated toys come to mind).

So yeah, the mold definitely has its weaknesses but it is still better than other deluxes of that time, like FOC Shockwave which has the same small stature and felt even cheaper and had a super simple transformation. I am glad we are far away from that era.

And plus I really really love that headsculpt on deluxe megs, a fun mix of styles which I feel works with this toy. I am happy to own it.

I'll use Will Holy Trinity, Meaning Quality, size, and price.

The WORST deluxe I ever had (and still have) is definitely FOC Jazz. Tiny, gapy, feel cheap as fak, with almost clear white plastics, and come with a ridiculously tiny gun. Plus almost no paint. That toy was almost like rubbery at gun point.

Best deluxe is without contest HFTD Battle Blades Bumblebee. Huge, solid, masterfully painted, and loaded with non-intrusive gimmicks. No wonder Takara reissued it as a "voyager".

Ok so through coupons and deals I got these 4 toys because it worked out that getting more was more worth it. These 4 are not my favourites though and will be exchanging 2 for wave 3 deluxes when they arrive. But I ont know which 2 to keep and which 2 to eventually exchange for toys I know I want more (new Bee and Crosshairs). So from your experiences with these, guys, let me know which 2 are the better of the 4:

william-james88 wrote:Ok so through coupons and deals I got these 4 toys because it worked out that getting more was more worth it. These 4 are not my favourites though and will be exchanging 2 for wave 3 deluxes when they arrive. But I ont know which 2 to keep and which 2 to eventually exchange for toys I know I want more (new Bee and Crosshairs). So from your experiences with these, guys, let me know which 2 are the better of the 4:

I can't speak from experience on any of these exact toys, but I'd advocate for keeping Barricade and Steelbane (especially if you've already got a version of the other two from AoE). Consensus on Barricade seems to be that he's good if small; Steelbane seems to be decent with a few design flaws, but his main problem is loose joints which are of course fixable. Meanwhile I haven't heard anything about the Bumblebee aside from the fact that there are variants with more/less paint, and from my own experience with the AoE Deluxe Drift he's probably one of my most regretted TF purchases overall. Just my two cents obviously - you'd most certainly be better off with advice from people with these exact figures - but at the very least I'd strongly advocate for not keeping Drift, if my feelings on his base-tooling from the previous movie are anything to go by.

They've been seen online, but now we have a sighting in the wild! The Target Exclusive 3-pack of Tiny Turbo Changers, consisting of Optimus Prime, Steelbane, and Bumblebee has been sighted at a Target near downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, by yours truly. Hopefully, (especially for fans of the Tiny Turbo Changers line) these will be showing up at a Target near you soon! Happy Hunting!

@Will

Didn't you already have that Drift and Barricade? If yes, exchange them, if not, they're keepers. One thing for sure is that Bee gotta go. One thing for sure is you have to keep Barricade if you don't have it. He's a classic figure lost in a Movie line and I like it. I hope you'll too.

As for Steelbane, if you have the patience to use Pledge floor Finish, you have something that still look awesome and is interesting. I'd keep it.

-Kanrabat- wrote:@Will

Didn't you already have that Drift and Barricade? If yes, exchange them, if not, they're keepers. One thing for sure is that Bee gotta go. One thing for sure is you have to keep Barricade if you don't have it. He's a classic figure lost in a Movie line and I like it. I hope you'll too.

As for Steelbane, if you have the patience to use Pledge floor Finish, you have something that still look awesome and is interesting. I'd keep it.

Thanks for the feedback, thats what I will do. And yes I did have those 2 but I returned them to walmart since I thought they sucked and I was waiting to see if they would issue box sets with beter paint apps like last time. But since its not the case, I got them again because of the deal with the coupons.
I opened barricade

Do any of the fans here live in San Jose, CA? Because this is where the latest deluxes from Transformers: The Last Knight. At the Walmart on Story Rd, to be more precise. These are the wave 3 deluxes which include a new Bumblebee and practically new Crosshairs, a redeco of Strafe and a rerelease of the Drift toy that came in wave 2. Cogman is not part of this wave. For those who are not in the area, this wave is now available for preorder at BBTS, confirming the case content just described.
These were found by a cousin of TFW2005 user Gallade.

Good luck with the hunt!

Will, Barricade is the best of that group by far. Great figure, you've heard all my praise for him. Keep him for sure.

As for the others, return the Bee. the other 2, I have no interest in getting, so I don't have them in any capacity, so I cannot really speak for them.

However, I will say this about a different set of movie figures: the wave 3 voyagers are the best of the best. Scorn is my favorite dinobot mold of any dinobot ever. He is a great figure, large, heavy, transformation is fun, posable, and extremely well painted. He feels like such a great mold, and he is so pleasing to both look at and play with.

Nitro Zeus is my favorite figure of the year, period. I have had him for a few weeks, and he is still an absolute joy. He is so much fun and so playable! The transformation is cool, pretty complex, but yet easy once you do it once or twice. The jet mode is delicious, and the robot mode is awesome. Couple that with the titan master compatibility, and you have an all around awesome figure. He will be figure of the year for me, and he is my favorite movie decepticon ever and right up there in contention for best movie figure period.

Oh I am all over those voyagers once they are spotted, thats for sure!

william-james88 wrote:Oh I am all over those voyagers once they are spotted, thats for sure!

I'm just glad I got them from tfsource. You will need to talk about both once you get them. they are amongst the best voyagers to come out in the movie lines and over the past several years in general. you gotta find yourself a legion Crosshair too, so you can have him riding his big buddy

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Oh I am all over those voyagers once they are spotted, thats for sure!

I'm just glad I got them from tfsource. You will need to talk about both once you get them. they are amongst the best voyagers to come out in the movie lines and over the past several years in general. you gotta find yourself a legion Crosshair too, so you can have him riding his big buddy

yes I do. That is probably my favourite picture I have ever seen that you took

really disappointed in the way bbts has not been releasing single figs for the deluxes. i do not want the repaints.

griftimus prime wrote:really disappointed in the way bbts has not been releasing single figs for the deluxes. i do not want the repaints.

well thats the deal, no one does. But since they are packaged as much as the non repaints they cant afford to seperate them or else every collector they cater to will buy the new molds and the rest will never sell and they will lose money.

Yeah, the wave 1 flood has hit really hard near me, as well. Absolutely NOTHING but Barricade, Slash, Bumblebee, and Voyager Grimlock. We finally got the Voyager Prime for the first time a couple weeks ago, and then I saw Leader Megs and Prime for the first time last week. Literally nothing else new, in any size class.

Also, more bad news: Most of the time, I'll ask an employee if they have anything new in back, and this last visit to my local Target, the employee told me they "haven't been getting any new shipments in." and that it was "Bizarre, it's almost like they've been discontinued." That's kind of unnerving.

Bronzewolf wrote:Yeah, the wave 1 flood has hit really hard near me, as well. Absolutely NOTHING but Barricade, Slash, Bumblebee, and Voyager Grimlock. We finally got the Voyager Prime for the first time a couple weeks ago, and then I saw Leader Megs and Prime for the first time last week. Literally nothing else new, in any size class.

Also, more bad news: Most of the time, I'll ask an employee if they have anything new in back, and this last visit to my local Target, the employee told me they "haven't been getting any new shipments in." and that it was "Bizarre, it's almost like they've been discontinued." That's kind of unnerving.

I get that discontinued bit from staff all the time, don't mind it. As soon as they see 0 in stock and 0 coming in for the next few shipments (which is like 2 weeks), they automatically say discontinued when we know its not the case.

Still havent seen wave 2 and wave 3 is showing up, glad im not collecting movie figures. Hasbro really needs to fix this distribution problem, it went from the last wave not showing up to multiple waves never showing up, and its in every single line not just one.

By Rodimus Prime's request, I made a few COMPARISON SHOTS BETWEEN LEADER '07 MEGATRON'S AND LEADER TLK MEGATRON'S VEHICLE MODES a few pages back.

After playing with my '07 "icy" voyager Megatron, why not do the same and compare it to the TLK voyager? So here's the comparison for the jet/spaceship modes.



Right of the bat, '07 voyager Megs is WAY more fun to fiddle with than the leader. Easier transformation, better look overall, and it just ooze personality. Sure, that spaceship mode is mostly Megs doing the "Superman", but it give him a much more streamlined look than the leader.

That said, the TLK voyager is a much, much better toy in every ways. The transformation is still fun and Megs change shape completely. The jet is perfectly sleek with barely any undercarriage and is a much more better design. Despite the TLK awesomeness, it dosent remove any love and appreciation for the good old '07 voyager though.









As you just saw above, '07 is more massive and chunkier than the TLK. However, both bot modes are relatively the same size. Seeing these two toys side by side show me how not only the toy designs and technology have improved in 10 years, but how Megatron himself have also matured. The guy now understand a bit better that Transformers need to make an effort to be... in disguise!

Hoping wave 2 and three deluxe and voyagers show up at TFcon DC plus Hot Rod and Cogman

Nothing but Berserker's and Slash's in my area as far as deluxes. Not even the occasional Barricade or Bumblebee anymore. At least wave 2 voyagers finally started coming in.

I mentioned in another thread that this line is reeeeeally giving me flashbacks to to the 3rd movie line. DotM had the same problem with a first wave made of repaints and characters who weren't even in the movie (stupid twins and Jolts everywhere), and shelfwarmed for months because of it. End result was the final wave was cancelled. Really not going to be shocked if Cogman, the only deluxe left I really want, doesn't see wide release.

Spider5800 wrote:Nothing but Berserker's and Slash's in my area as far as deluxes. Not even the occasional Barricade or Bumblebee anymore. At least wave 2 voyagers finally started coming in.

I mentioned in another thread that this line is reeeeeally giving me flashbacks to to the 3rd movie line. DotM had the same problem with a first wave made of repaints and characters who weren't even in the movie (stupid twins and Jolts everywhere), and shelfwarmed for months because of it. End result was the final wave was cancelled. Really not going to be shocked if Cogman, the only deluxe left I really want, doesn't see wide release.

But if I recall, a big problem with DOTM was the swarm of Bees everywhere. And in this line, that deluxe we all crap on is selling like hotcakes. So while there are som similarities, the toys we constantly see are totally different.

william-james88 wrote:But if I recall, a big problem with DOTM was the swarm of Bees everywhere. And in this line, that deluxe we all crap on is selling like hotcakes. So while there are som similarities, the toys we constantly see are totally different.

I mean, those DotM Bees were new molds, but I feel pretty comfortable lumping those in with repaints since they were the same character that already had 5 deluxe molds and like a dozen repaints and variants in the previous two lines. The two more molds they dropped in DotM put him at 7 deluxes and god knows how many variants in a 5 year span. Everyone already had a Bee (and probably a better mold than the crappy DotM toys, too), so of course he was a pegwarmer.

In comparison, in the last 5 years there's really only been three deluxe movie Bee molds, the two from AoE and the new TLK deluxe that hasn't seen wide release yet. He's the second most popular character in these movies, so yeah, of course he sold better this time, kids haven't been able to buy him in three years.

My comparison was more about how they again had repaints (Bee, Grimlock) and characters who aren't even in the movie (Slash, Berserker appears for like 5 seconds) as the freaking premier wave of this line when new molds and more relevant/popular characters would have made way more sense, and would have sold by now instead of lingering on shelves for months. There's a reason all the Primes and Barricades were scooped up while everything else just lingers. Why would stores want to restock with waves 2 and 3 when wave 1 just sat around taking up space? Hasbro made the same mistake as DotM, and it may cost us some good figures like it did that time too.

While a good part of the world has had this toy out for quite a while, Knight Armor Hound was never found in the US, until now. Panda Prime has found this Hound at Walmart. This makes the Knight Armor subline fully out at retail. The only toys from Transformers: The Last Knight line still not found in the US are the wave 3 one steps, wave 3 legions and leader Dragon Storm so let us know if you find them.

Congrats 3 people looking for him!

Can't wait to find Dragonstorm, but I JUST found Scorn and have only found Staffe from wave 3. Not looking great for getting last knight without relying on e-stores:\

I found a leader Megs and a leader prime about two weeks ago at the local Target. No Dragon. I snagged Megs. I checked back the other day, and leader Prime was still shelf warming in the exact same spot, and nuthin else new. Gonna have to check some other stores.

EunuchRon wrote:I found a leader Megs and a leader prime about two weeks ago at the local Target. No Dragon. I snagged Megs. I checked back the other day, and leader Prime was still shelf warming in the exact same spot, and nuthin else new. Gonna have to check some other stores.

Is 2 weeks really the time we now wait to call something a shelfwarmer?

william-james88 wrote:

EunuchRon wrote:I found a leader Megs and a leader prime about two weeks ago at the local Target. No Dragon. I snagged Megs. I checked back the other day, and leader Prime was still shelf warming in the exact same spot, and nuthin else new. Gonna have to check some other stores.

Is 2 weeks really the time we now wait to call something a shelfwarmer?

But if no one ducking touched it, it's probably going to shelfwarm.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Still havent seen wave 2 and wave 3 is showing up, glad im not collecting movie figures. Hasbro really needs to fix this distribution problem, it went from the last wave not showing up to multiple waves never showing up, and its in every single line not just one.

Ugh...tell us about it pal! coz here in the UK we're still stuck with Wave 1 of the Tiny Turbo Changers! & god knows if or even when we'll see Wave 2(in order to get that Sqweeks figure) now YES!!! places like Ebay ect have SOME of Wave 2(minus Sqweeks...so far!) but I also am waiting for Deluxe Cogman(even though he's on preorder on the Kapow website) but no sign of any bricks & mortar shop distribution of him yet(in the UK)

Meh I saw this today here in Australia

william-james88 wrote:

EunuchRon wrote:I found a leader Megs and a leader prime about two weeks ago at the local Target. No Dragon. I snagged Megs. I checked back the other day, and leader Prime was still shelf warming in the exact same spot, and nuthin else new. Gonna have to check some other stores.

Is 2 weeks really the time we now wait to call something a shelfwarmer?

Well how long should it be, dude? Nobody ever told me how long somethin's gotta sit. Can you throw me a bone here?

After two weeks there's NO other leaders there except Prime, and it's the same one sitting in the same spot at the same funky angle it was when I got Megs. All I'm saying is... they got nothin' else in. I was lucky to get the only Megs that showed up, and I'm not sure they're gonna get any more.