Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder

Thursday, March 13th, 2025 11:47AM CDT

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Two legends of Transformers: Cybertron return for their 20th anniversary!

Sideways – The mysterious descendent of Liege Maximo converts between robot and jet mode in 21 steps. Armed with swords, a shield, and a Cyber Planet Key, this rogue warrior is ready for battle.

Excellion – The speed-driven descendent of Amalgamous Prime blazes onto the battlefield! This figure converts from robot to sports car mode in 17 steps and includes a blaster and Cyber Planet Key.

Sideways
USA: https://www.walmart.com/ip/TRA-GEN-CAPS ... pe=REGULAR
Canada: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Transforme ... om=/search

Excellion
USA: https://www.walmart.com/ip/TRA-GEN-CAPS ... om=/search
Canada: https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Transforme ... om=/search

These are both Walmart exclusives but they are available in limited quantities on Hasbro Pulse!

https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/tra ... NgBpLkaLsv

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Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189072)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on March 13th, 2025 @ 12:48pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:Sideways – The mysterious descendent of Liege Maximo

Every time this gets a new official mention, I get my hopes up for this design being redecoed mostly mint green with a little white for a wide release. That'll probably happen when I finally get around to repainting the one that's been on my workbench almost 2 decades.

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189073)
Posted by Dino-Snarl on March 13th, 2025 @ 12:58pm CDT

They also reissued Devcon. Someone here asked for that. Enjoy!

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189091)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on March 14th, 2025 @ 11:07am CDT

william-james88 wrote:Sideways – The mysterious descendent of Liege Maximo

Leige Maximo makes so much sense for Sideways

Also, its so weird seeing Excellion referred to as a legend of Cybertron feels so bizarre given that the character never appeared in the cartoon or its comics, and his only appearance in any media is a text-only story from Timelines

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189093)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 14th, 2025 @ 11:11am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Sideways – The mysterious descendent of Liege Maximo

Leige Maximo makes so much sense for Sideways

Also, its so weird seeing Excellion referred to as a legend of Cybertron feels so bizarre given that the character never appeared in the cartoon or its comics, and his only appearance in any media is a text-only story from Timelines

It might be a subtle wink to the old "Legends of Cybertron" Hot Shot toy, specifically the red version that used Excellion's deco but was inexplicably still named "Hot Shot" instead, as though referring to him as such now is trying to make up for that little goof and finally give him his due respect.

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189094)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on March 14th, 2025 @ 12:09pm CDT

Going to be interesting once again to see Astrotrain and Blastoff displayed next to each other both being shuttles yet different sizes. lol

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189096)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 14th, 2025 @ 12:12pm CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Going to be interesting once again to see Astrotrain and Blastoff displayed next to each other both being shuttles yet different sizes. lol

It's this line of thinking right here that led to Combiner Wars Blast Off initially being released as a jet instead of a shuttle.

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189098)
Posted by Overcracker on March 14th, 2025 @ 1:36pm CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Going to be interesting once again to see Astrotrain and Blastoff displayed next to each other both being shuttles yet different sizes. lol

Scale is out the window with the Combaticons anyway.

Even if they make Blast Off a Jet, it's still widely out of scale with a Tank, a Jeep and a Helicopter regardless.

Just let him be a totally off scale Shuttle and we'll be fine.

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Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189099)
Posted by william-james88 on March 14th, 2025 @ 1:44pm CDT

Preordered sideways. Great take on one of my all time favourite bot mode designs

Re: Walmart Exclusives Transformers Sideways and Excellion are Up for Preorder (2189101)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on March 14th, 2025 @ 2:51pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:It might be a subtle wink to the old "Legends of Cybertron" Hot Shot toy, specifically the red version that used Excellion's deco but was inexplicably still named "Hot Shot" instead, as though referring to him as such now is trying to make up for that little goof and finally give him his due respect.

Whoa, that's a deep reference.

You're likely right, though, as I think that's too specific to be coincidental.