Walmart Canada Proudly Displays Cosmos in their Christmas Toy Catalogue
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This made me chuckle, it seems Walmart is well aware of which Tansformers are hotter than others. Walmart released a catalogue in Canada and the page featuring Transformers has the 2 brand new molds Cosmos and Override. While Override has been rather easy to obtain, Cosmos has been a hassle for many Canadians (though the online preorders did pull through) so it definitely adds some salt to the wound to have them promoting a toy that is hard to find. Of course, it could all be a coincidence. Fans of mistransformed shots will love this one of Override. Lastly, while the page shows discount on several toys, the Transformers are not marked down. Not that they need to, Cosmos is selling quite well at 35.97$ CAD plus taxes.
As we learn yesterday, while Hasbro can advise Walmart on case distribution, Walmart has the final say. Which in turn just makes it odd that they promote a toy that they themselves shortpacked. It could of course just be a coincidence since Walmart is huge and the person making the catalogue probably has 0 knowledge of the case assortment or the distribution issues.
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Posted by Cyber Bishop on October 21st, 2022 @ 1:56pm CDT
Posted by sol magnus on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:08pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:09pm CDT
And Road rocket? Have they never seen a motorcycle before?
Talk about absurdity....
Posted by william-james88 on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:31pm CDT
sol magnus wrote:And the prices are nonsense, too!
Cosmos still sold out in stores and online at those prices.
Posted by Bumblevivisector on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:32pm CDT
It's like he's popping a wheelie away from his wheels.Overcracker wrote:What did they do to Override? My god... can nobody rotate her shoulders up?
And Road rocket? Have they never seen a motorcycle before?
Talk about absurdity....
Cosmos looks like he's running off to find RTS Windcharger in that 5 below ad a decade ago.
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:33pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:34pm CDT
Bumblevivisector wrote:It's like he's popping a wheelie away from his wheels.Overcracker wrote:What did they do to Override? My god... can nobody rotate her shoulders up?
And Road rocket? Have they never seen a motorcycle before?
Talk about absurdity....
Cosmos looks like he's running off to find RTS Windcharger in that 5 below ad a decade ago.
Yup. Its so strange. Why would anybody do that?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:35pm CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:Hauler’s face suddenly makes a lot more sense. He’s horrified at what’s happened to his friends.
I share his horror
Posted by sol magnus on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:37pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:sol magnus wrote:And the prices are nonsense, too!
Cosmos still sold out in stores and online at those prices.
Oh, I get it. But Canadian prices are the worst...sold out or no.
Posted by First-Aid on October 21st, 2022 @ 2:56pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 21st, 2022 @ 3:10pm CDT
At least I got Cosmos. The pinned shoulders was a very bad design choice.
Posted by SpaceEagle on October 21st, 2022 @ 3:11pm CDT
![Laughing :lol:](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
Posted by Mkall on October 21st, 2022 @ 4:36pm CDT
Posted by Mkall on October 21st, 2022 @ 4:37pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on October 21st, 2022 @ 9:00pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:I never, ever saw Override in stores, nor Scourge. Same thing on Walmart.ca. Both were instantly sold out before I ever had the chance to preorder.
At least I got Cosmos. The pinned shoulders was a very bad design choice.
I see lots of Scourge and Override in my stores, if you want me to pick it up for you, let me know
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 21st, 2022 @ 9:23pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:I never, ever saw Override in stores, nor Scourge. Same thing on Walmart.ca. Both were instantly sold out before I ever had the chance to preorder.
At least I got Cosmos. The pinned shoulders was a very bad design choice.
I see lots of Scourge and Override in my stores, if you want me to pick it up for you, let me know
Thanks!
Sending a PM.
No having to suffer through any shipping fees is a boon.
![Thumbs Up! ;)^](/energonpub/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
Posted by just_aCloud on October 21st, 2022 @ 10:35pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on October 22nd, 2022 @ 12:15am CDT
Emerje
Posted by Flashwave on October 22nd, 2022 @ 1:11am CDT
Bumblevivisector wrote:It's like he's popping a wheelie away from his wheels.Overcracker wrote:What did they do to Override? My god... can nobody rotate her shoulders up?
And Road rocket? Have they never seen a motorcycle before?
Talk about absurdity....
Cosmos looks like he's running off to find RTS Windcharger in that 5 below ad a decade ago.
Look at the Disc Weapon from Road Rocket, I *think* they were trying to make it look like he launched it like a catapult, whixh wouldn't make much sense for a Disc weapon except thats how the Rotor Force weapons were launched in G2. It just looks bad without and contextualizing.
Override is just melting it looks like.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 22nd, 2022 @ 5:39am CDT
Emerje wrote:I'm actually surprised they figured out what to do with Hauler's gun hand and then somehow stuck his regular gun to the side of his arm.
Emerje
I do the same. It looks nice and it's a way to have an "overkill" bot.
![Cool 8-)](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_14.gif)
Wait... Now that I've properly seen the picture, WTF am I looking at?
What I do is both hands tuck away, claw on the right, nozzle on the left, and the gun use the side-peg and plug on the left forearm along the nozzle.
What the photographer did here is a mess.
Also, poor Override, not even bothering finishing transforming him.
![Doh! #-o](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_34.gif)
Posted by First-Aid on October 22nd, 2022 @ 9:52am CDT
Posted by DeathReviews on October 22nd, 2022 @ 2:46pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 27th, 2022 @ 7:18pm CDT
Posted by sol magnus on October 27th, 2022 @ 9:54pm CDT
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.
I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!
Posted by william-james88 on October 27th, 2022 @ 10:52pm CDT
sol magnus wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.
I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!
Congrats on that one
Posted by sol magnus on October 28th, 2022 @ 8:04am CDT
william-james88 wrote:sol magnus wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.
I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!
Congrats on that one
Yeah, I didn't want to play the waiting game with Walgreens, so she was the priority. Crasher is a must-get, but can wait - still not even sure what I want to do about Shadowstrip.
Posted by Burn on October 28th, 2022 @ 6:22pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 29th, 2022 @ 8:38pm CDT
sol magnus wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Crasher and Shadow Strip went up on Pulse, both are in stock purchases. I just bought both, should be here next week-ish.
I'll wait for those. Got Minerva, though!
Same!
Burn wrote:Snapped up Crasher and Shadowstrip yesterday at K-Mart, hopefully can bust them out this weekend. Never got the Mirage mold so Crasher is a new mold for me.
I sold my Kingdom Mirage, so Crasher will be the only version of that particular mold I will have too. She'll go well with Road Ranger and Bug Bite I think
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 30th, 2022 @ 9:00am CDT
Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.
![Doh! #-o](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_34.gif)
Posted by Sabrblade on October 30th, 2022 @ 9:25am CDT
But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.
Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 30th, 2022 @ 10:46am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.
Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.
Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.
After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.
Posted by Sabrblade on October 30th, 2022 @ 10:55am CDT
Ironic that you word it that way, since Deluxes were huge back in the original Cybertron line, and this new Override is also the same height as the original.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.
Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.
Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.
After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.
Everything has shrunk since 2005/2006, yet Override being a Voyager restores the character to its original toy's size.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 30th, 2022 @ 11:00am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:[
Everything has shrunk since 2005/2006, yet Override being a Voyager restores the character to its original toy's size.
Well, that's exactly my point.
Back in the days when I was first collecting (12 years ago!), deluxes were 15$CAN.
Now the "same" deluxe is 45$CAN.
That's basically a price increase of over 200%.
![Shocked :shock:](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on October 30th, 2022 @ 1:15pm CDT
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 30th, 2022 @ 3:35pm CDT
It's a combination of those two plus parts count. Some figures have mixes of all three, some skew towards one direction specifically, which is how you have "normal sized Voyagers" in the same price point as figures like SS86 Hot Rod, Kingdom Primal, etc.Till-all-R1 wrote:Wait a minute, I thought size wasn't a factor in scaling but the complexity in engineering? At least that's the argument I kept hearing to explain why a smaller bot was in a higher price point.
I'm assuming some of the price is also to account for the fact that Takara pulled an entirely new mold out of their ass using the budget of a retool.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:But Override is the same height as Siege Springer and Earthrise Grapple.-Kanrabat- wrote:After getting, unboxing, and transforming Override, I find that HE's an awesome transformers... But the fact that he's voyager priced piss me off to no end. Contrary to SS86 Hotrod, NOTHING here scream "extra parts" or "high engineering". It's also the same size overall as your standard deluxe.
Override is a DELUXE sold at voyager price.
Sigh...
The prices increases are getting ridiculous.
Well, maybe in height, but it just doesn't feel like a voyager at all.
After playing with my Wrecker Springer, that one feels like a voyager for it's mass and parts count. But Override barely feels like an old school deluxe.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 30th, 2022 @ 5:46pm CDT
Nemesis Primal wrote: I'm assuming some of the price is also to account for the fact that Takara pulled an entirely new mold out of their ass using the budget of a retool.
That's kinda like most of these Crossover toys, but without the extra layer of another IP's licence. Not as egregious a these, but a bit infuriating nonetheless.
Posted by M. Spector on October 31st, 2022 @ 7:18pm CDT
![Thinking :-?](/energonpub/images/smilies/icon_33.gif)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 3rd, 2022 @ 9:01pm CDT
Shadowstrip is real nice in terms of paint, and I like the mold a lot, so I think he will remain as an individual. I am not really inclined to get any other G2 Stunticons unless they do Breakdown. I will say his waist will not secure properly though, so his 2 halves don't like to stay together. But he's nice, but not as tight quality wise as the G1 colored one.
As for Crasher, she is a mixed bag. She is nicely painted, but her alt mode is sort of torqued so she won't set on all 4 wheels, and her feet have an issue somewhere, the front of the racecar mode will not let her feet rest flat. She isn't bad, but I am not a fan of the Kingdom Mirage mold, and she did little to change my mind.
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/dlnBodd.png)
Posted by Nemesis Destron on November 7th, 2022 @ 6:48pm CST
![Vehicon :VEHI:](/energonpub/images/smilies/vehicon.gif)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on November 7th, 2022 @ 9:23pm CST
Luckily my preorder for Elita-1 got a price reduction just before it shipped to $18 and change so it makes up for some other higher priced bots I paid full price for and regretted it.
Posted by Hero Alpha on November 8th, 2022 @ 1:53pm CST
Nemesis Destron wrote:So I want to see the Bigfoot of this line so I can say, "yeah I seen it" and I'm talking about the sought after Cosmos figure. Who said "to hell with this" and broke down buying him else where and perhaps spending extra...? Luckily for me this figure was a total pass for me but do you continue to hold out until sighted on the pegs?
I love the look of this Cosmos figure and I am holding out hope I find one in store. Or at least online at stock price. I'm not going to pay scalper prices.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 25th, 2022 @ 11:02am CST
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Posted by Rodimus Prime on November 25th, 2022 @ 11:55am CST
Posted by o.supreme on December 7th, 2022 @ 4:33pm CST
![Frustration :BANG_HEAD:](/energonpub/images/smilies/bang_wall.gif)
This is why I hate store exclusives. I hope I can just find the dumb thing in a store somewhere, and then cancel my pre-order.
Posted by william-james88 on December 7th, 2022 @ 5:34pm CST
o.supreme wrote:...and to the shock of Nobody in the world, Walmart has delayed my Galaxy Shuttle Pre-order from 12/9/22, to 01/06/23.
This is why I hate store exclusives. I hope I can just find the dumb thing in a store somewhere, and then cancel my pre-order.
I hope you do too
Posted by Rodimus Prime on December 7th, 2022 @ 6:20pm CST
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 7th, 2022 @ 6:23pm CST
Rodimus Prime wrote:Were there any retooling done to Galaxy Shuttle to differentiate him from Astrotrain besides the paint job?
New head.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 7th, 2022 @ 7:03pm CST
He arrived just in time too, since Star Saber will be shipping out soon
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/YCtsmOh.png)
Posted by Emerje on December 8th, 2022 @ 9:33am CST
Emerje
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 8th, 2022 @ 9:44am CST
Emerje wrote:I doubt it'll be hard to find Galaxy Shuttle for those of us that found Scourge to be abundant.
Emerje
My local Walmart has 3 Scourges, I'm honestly surprised i've seen him as much as I have