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Walmart Exclusive Star Raiders Transformers Available for Preorder

Posted by william-james88 Mar 14, 2024 at 9:55am CDT 64,770 views
Hasbro has officially revealed the Transformers Star Raiders figures and the preorders are live.
Below are the links.

Remember, some Walmart exclusive never made it to store shelves and remained online only, like Galaxy Shuttle and TLK Hot Rod.

Here are the links:

Lockdown: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5290101948

Cannonball: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5226743233

Ferak: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5285700004

Filch: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5290101950

They are also available in minimal quantities on Pulse for Premium members.

https://hasbropulse.com/products/transf ... r-lockdown

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Comment by ScottyP Mar 14, 2024
I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;
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Comment by Emerje Mar 14, 2024
Very fast stream today with nothing we haven't seen before (they joke about Legacy United wave 2 has already been leaked, but they'll be talking Legacy all of next week's stream). They did mention a couple things about the Star Raider figures. Cannonball can store his weapons in his legs. His Cyber Key slots in the same way the original does, not with a peg or anything like that. The images of Lockdown and the one they had on the stream are missing additional silver and green paint ops on his legs shown on the back of the box CAD version and will be updating the images soon. Likewise Ferak will have some additional paint on his chest.

Emerje
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Comment by cruizerdave Mar 14, 2024
Looks good. Just not $55 good.
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Comment by Emerje Mar 14, 2024
ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje
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Comment by Flashwave Mar 14, 2024
God's dammit Walmart...

Well I got Lockdown, my highest priority, at least. And Ferak. Cannonball sold out in my cart though and Filch was already long gone. Why don't heir damned exclusives have to be so difficult to get
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Comment by william-james88 Mar 14, 2024
Flashwave wrote:God's dammit Walmart...

Well I got Lockdown, my highest priority, at least. And Ferak. Cannonball sold out in my cart though and Filch was already long gone. Why don't heir damned exclusives have to be so difficult to get


I think it's because they mainly want you to get them in store
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Comment by o.supreme Mar 14, 2024
Emerje wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje


ok, so Im a little confused.... Hasbro just released a Voyager Thundertron for Legacy United. But Walmart is getting a Leader later this year? Is this just going to be a repaint with some "added stuff" to make it a Leader?

The worst part of those refreshes was that while all 3 were on Pulse in limited Quantities, Galaxy Shuttle was only on Walmart.com for a short time as well (so glad I got one), while Crasher and Shadowstrip never had valid pre-orders on Walmart.com.

Galaxy Shuttle never showed up in stores, while Crasher and Shadowstrip were extremely limited. I still cant believe I actually found a single Shadowstip in the wild, at a random visit to a Walmart I don't frequent.
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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 14, 2024
o.supreme wrote:
Emerje wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje


ok, so Im a little confused.... Hasbro just released a Voyager Thundertron for Legacy United. But Walmart is getting a Leader later this year? Is this just going to be a repaint with some "added stuff" to make it a Leader?
We've been wondering about that ever since the leaks first revealed the two different Thundertron releases.
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Comment by Razorbeast88 Mar 14, 2024
No luck online but thankfully my Walmart always seems to be overloaded with the exclusives (there's still a bunch of grimlocks and cloud covers there now)

I'm definitely gonna get ferak and filch, though the wing pieces seem a little too big for her forearms. Cannonball having the hammer, claw, and gun is awesome. Love that. Lockdown idk now. They basically said they're gonna do an animated lockdown eventually. Though I could still use this one for junkasaurus. Decisions decisions

I really want roadpig and thundertron to be revealed already. The anticipation is getting annoying

Word of the day for this stream was definitely "exemplify" lol
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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 14, 2024
It's funny seeing so many people so interested in Ferak when, back when the BotCon 2014 version was first unveiled, everyone and their mother considered Ferak to be the biggest waste of plastic that Fun Pub had ever made up to that point.
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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 14, 2024


In today's stream,
  • Mark called Lockdown a Weaponizer.
  • Ferak's face is based on Floro Dery's early Cyclonus face design, which was used for the Marvel version of Cyclonus.
  • And a few mistakes were made: Mark repeatedly said Filch is from Cyberverse, and both he and BMac repeatedly mispronounced Ferak's name as "Fer-ROCK" instead of "Fair-ack".
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Comment by chuckdawg1999 Mar 14, 2024
I got the figures I wanted but I noticed that when I used a Credit Card I wasn't charged but when I used a debit card I was charged right away, I think Walmart might be one of those stores that charges Debit Cards right away, it happens.

Speaking of figures I was waiting for...

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Comment by TF-fan kev777 Mar 14, 2024
Emerje wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje


Are you sure they meant a later wave when they said the rest would come later in the year? The Toxitron colletion was only 1 wave with Toxitron, Cloudcover and Jazz revealed and put up for pre-order at the collector con and the remaining figures revealed at SDCC officially but being found in stores a week or 2 earlier. Unless they specifically said a later wave, I'm more inclined to think they meant the reveals are what are coming later, not the toys themselves. If that is the case, then it should be an even case of 4 deluxes with nobody shortpacked and solid cases of 1 figure for voyager and leader.
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Comment by william-james88 Mar 14, 2024
TF-fan kev777 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje


Are you sure they meant a later wave when they said the rest would come later in the year? The Toxitron colletion was only 1 wave with Toxitron, Cloudcover and Jazz revealed and put up for pre-order at the collector con and the remaining figures revealed at SDCC officially but being found in stores a week or 2 earlier. Unless they specifically said a later wave, I'm more inclined to think they meant the reveals are what are coming later, not the toys themselves. If that is the case, then it should be an even case of 4 deluxes with nobody shortpacked and solid cases of 1 figure for voyager and leader.


Its the same as the toxitron wave. While the toys will be revealed at different times, they will all be released in the same wave
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Comment by william-james88 Mar 14, 2024
Hasbro and one of the main designers, Mark Maher, has posted new photos of the Star Raiders which were officially revealed yesterday. While we see nice shots of the group is does give us a better look at the final deco for Lockdown, which has extra deco on the hood including green stripes and individually painted spikes. Ferak is said to also have extra deco not seen in the initial stock images which we can see in these photos.

Mark posted his own photos on Instagram which show how you can give Lockdown longer legs, making him look more like his lanky self. As an extra bonus, those leg extensions seem to be a preview of Road Pig, the 4th deluxe in this line, and those are his arms. Which means that he is the Crashbar mold and the final piece to completing Junkasaurus.

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Comment by Razorbeast88 Mar 14, 2024


And here's the review for Shard
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Comment by steve2275 Mar 16, 2024
I actually like these faces
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Comment by Bumblevivisector Mar 16, 2024
steve2275 wrote:I actually like these faces
Agreed, except Lockdown's, which I'm on the fence about. I know he can't have his trademark Animated squint in every universe, but these big, insectoid, compound eyes, combined with his mouth sculpt, make him look stoned or something...from certain angles at least. In one pic he looks OK, so I might need to see him in person. Or I might just not need another Lockdown.

Cannonball's the opposite. Never bothered with him before because I thought the original Cybertron Red Alert repaint looked kind of cheap or something; maybe I was just mad that the obvious Crankcase repaint hadn't happened yet. But this one looks just cool enough that he might be my first Cannonball.
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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 16, 2024
Bumblevivisector wrote:
steve2275 wrote:I actually like these faces
Agreed, except Lockdown's, which I'm on the fence about. I know he can't have his trademark Animated squint in every universe, but these big, insectoid, compound eyes, combined with his mouth sculpt, make him look stoned or something...from certain angles at least. In one pic he looks OK, so I might need to see him in person. Or I might just not need another Lockdown.
It's the same head design as the Lockdown from the Revenge of the Fallen toyline.

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