Video Review - Transformers Generations Selects Lift Ticket

HmHmmm! Makes me think of a Big Mac & fries.

Joking aside, the colors & deco really make the figure POP!

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Lore Keepers review of Selects Black Zarak may not be the first, but it's certainly one of the best and most comprehensive so far.

Also we get confirmation that BZ is in stock at BBTS. If it wasn't for the taxes making it more expensive, I'd cancel my Pulse pre order, but I'm still hoping GameStop in my the United States gets it soon,since Canada now seems to be getting them in stock.

Me, waiting for my BZ shipping notice from Age 3 & Up...

^ I recall you saying you already paid for your BZ in advance. Are you able to cancel and get a refund? I was just wondering in case you were able to go to a local GameStop and actually find one in store, I've read online they are showing up at Canadian GameStop stores, and they are supposed to start shipping to customers who pre-ordered in the U.S. starting next week sometime, which would place them starting to show up in U.S. stores I'd imagine as well around that same time.

o.supreme wrote:^ I recall you saying you already paid for your BZ in advance. Are you able to cancel and get a refund? I was just wondering in case you were able to go to a local GameStop and actually find one in store, I've read online they are showing up at Canadian GameStop stores, and they are supposed to start shipping to customers who pre-ordered in the U.S. starting next week sometime, which would place them starting to show up in U.S. stores I'd imagine as well around that same time.

I think it's too late for a refund.
Beside, mine was at least 50$can cheaper than GameStop over-all. I'll just have to wait some more.

I get that. As I said earlier. If not for the increased price and taxes, I'd be ordering from BBTS right now and canceling my Pulse order.

Fortunately GameStop (at least in the United States), charges the same amount as Pulse was initially (before the price increase), plus there would be no shipping cost, and I have GS discount coupons on top of all of that, so getting it form GameStop in a store would be an all around win vs Pulse. I would order form their site, but the item is not available currently, which is a shame, because GS had a great sale on toys which would have included BZ if it were available to pre-order.

I was hoping for a TF Tuesday reveal today, we shall see in the next few minutes if anything. I know there have been a ton of name leaks, and store listings, but I believe (correct me if I am mistaken), but Diaclone Bluestreak is the only leaked toy image of anything from Generations that hasn't been officially revealed correct? well...I guess Titan Cybertron Metroplex counts too, but I figure that reveal is still a ways off.

o.supreme wrote:I believe (correct me if I am mistaken), but Diaclone Bluestreak is the only leaked toy image of anything from Generations that hasn't been officially revealed correct? well...I guess Titan Cybertron Metroplex counts too, but I figure that reveal is still a ways off.

I think that is accurate, yeah, although Silverstreak is supposed to be a Target exclusive, so the most likely candidates for a Tuesday reveal would be DK3/Blue Trailbreaker and the Cyclonus' Armada repaint as the only remaining Selects that we know of (assuming Clampdown has had his Selects release cancelled as the leakers believe).

Looks like Pulse's new stuff for today is some Marvel and Star Wars drops though.

Nemesis Primal wrote:I think that is accurate, yeah, although Silverstreak is supposed to be a Target exclusive, so the most likely candidates for a Tuesday reveal would be DK3/Blue Trailbreaker and the Cyclonus' Armada repaint as the only remaining Selects that we know of (assuming Clampdown has had his Selects release cancelled as the leakers believe).

Looks like Pulse's new stuff for today is some Marvel and Star Wars drops though.

Cool. There haven't been any leaked pics of DK-3 yet, so either its a ways off, or he has been leak proof, which isn't bad. I wasn't even aware of the possibility Clampdown...interesting though.

yeah...I got the email about the Sar Wars and Marvel Legends X-Men drops. Cool for fans of those lines, no TF news is sad though.

I'll keep holding out hope for some news about Black Zarak this week from Pulse or Gamestop...Probably not though.

o.supreme wrote:I wasn't even aware of the possibility Clampdown...interesting though.

Clampdown is in a weird spot. When he first leaked, he was in the same situation as Deep Cover last year, where he had a Selects listing and a separate Walmart exclusive listing, so people were speculating one would be the Siege mold and one would be the retooled Kingdom mold, but now the leakers have said more recently that Selects Clampdown has been stricken/is missing from the more recent order sheets, so that release may have been cancelled? It's up in the air.

If Selects Clampdown is cancelled though, I'm curious if Hasbro's going to release another Selects we haven't heard about yet to replace him (Detritus, Loudpedal, and/or another missing Seeker please).

Or maybe Clampdown is being moved to a multipack with other uses of the Kingdom Sideswipe tooling? They did that for Spin Out and Cordon from the Earthrise Sunstreaker mold. It would be an easy way to put out the “Earthmode” versions of Tigertrack and Deep Cover, for instance.

Or it could be a case of mistaken identities...

Earth mode Clampdown and Deep Cover as a two pack would make a lot of sense. I don't see them revisiting the Siege mold, but starting fresh with a pair of Earthrise molds would make for a nice set.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Earth mode Clampdown and Deep Cover as a two pack would make a lot of sense. I don't see them revisiting the Siege mold, but starting fresh with a pair of Earthrise molds would make for a nice set.

Emerje

I thought CLampdown was in Velocitron with an Earth Mode (which makes no sense)?

sol magnus wrote:

Emerje wrote:Earth mode Clampdown and Deep Cover as a two pack would make a lot of sense. I don't see them revisiting the Siege mold, but starting fresh with a pair of Earthrise molds would make for a nice set.

Emerje

I thought CLampdown was in Velocitron with an Earth Mode (which makes no sense)?

Forgot about that, was a mold ever said or was it just assumed because it's the most recent? Using the Siege mold for the Velocitron series and using the Earth mode in Selects seems like the best way to go similar to how Deep Cover was done.

Emerje

Wolfman Jake wrote:It would be an easy way to put out the “Earthmode” versions of Tigertrack and Deep Cover, for instance.

....I don't foresee them coming out with Earth mode versions of those 2, honestly. Hasbro still hasn't done an Earth mode redo for Hound yet, despite those who claim that Hasbro needs to, I highly doubt they're going to prioritize updating two nobody repaints when they aren't even committing to updating all the Ark cast. Plus there's still so many other characters Selects could do, I don't think they need to do repeat characters (Megatron gets a pass because he's Megatron, of course they did multiples of him, and those had VERY different decos).

sol magnus wrote:

Emerje wrote:Earth mode Clampdown and Deep Cover as a two pack would make a lot of sense. I don't see them revisiting the Siege mold, but starting fresh with a pair of Earthrise molds would make for a nice set.

Emerje

I thought CLampdown was in Velocitron with an Earth Mode (which makes no sense)?

A Clampdown is in the Velocitron lineup, we have no clue which mold it uses. The whole "one will be the Siege mold, one will be the ER/Kingdom mold" was what people settled on as the only logical reason why there would be 2 Clampdowns (doing the color-invert they did to Deep Cover doesn't really work here), but we honestly know nothing about either release other than "we had listings for 2, one of them is gone now".

Honestly I'd rather have proper Earth mode versions of Clampdown and Deep Cover than some of the random Diaclone repaints we're getting.

Emerje

Black Zarak continues to look nice. I had a fakeout this morning thinking i was charged for him, but it was only a marvel legends astral Strange.

I'm kinda surprised there were no selects reveals friday, but that is ok for right now

JD Red Knight exist.
It's a repaint/remold of a Movie toy.
On the box, no truck nor Paramount license is seen.


Does that means Movie Select toys are possible, even if those would too, be Hasbro Asia exclusives?

-Kanrabat- wrote:JD Red Knight exist.
It's a repaint/remold of a Movie toy.
On the box, no truck nor Paramount license is seen.


Does that means Movie Select toys are possible, even if those would too, be Hasbro Asia exclusives?

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Is that a brand new JD Red Knight, or is that just the same one that came out four years ago in 2018?