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Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners

Posted by william-james88 Oct 10, 2021 at 3:30pm CDT 51,418 views
We got two big sightings to share that are making Canadians fan scramble out to hunt. First is Origins Bumblebee from the Buzzworthy Bumblebee line. This toy retails for $34 CAD and is selling out very quickly. It has been found across Canada these past few days.
A big surprise has been finding the Shattered Glass Optimus Prime and Ratchet set at Winners, which is what TJMaxx is called in Canada. This set is only $30. It has been found in a few provinces so far, like Quebec and Ontario.









Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners
Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shaterred Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners

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Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by -Kanrabat- Oct 10, 2021
You always find the best stuff at your Winners.
On my end, it's always Rescue Bots "shampoo bottles" available and nothing else.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by JomasterII Oct 10, 2021
30 CAD?! Holy crap!!

...anyone willing to middleman for me? :v
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Oct 10, 2021
JomasterII wrote:30 CAD?! Holy crap!!

...anyone willing to middleman for me? :v


If I find another, I will let you know. Pribkem is shipoing will be like 40 USD
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by Flashwave Oct 10, 2021
Wonder if that means SG will hit Ollie's soon stateside? Kinda wish I had waited for a sale price, but oh well
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by JomasterII Oct 10, 2021
william-james88 wrote:
JomasterII wrote:30 CAD?! Holy crap!!

...anyone willing to middleman for me? :v


If I find another, I will let you know. Pribkem is shipoing will be like 40 USD

40USD?! Damn, I thought Small Packet from Canada to Australia was cheaper. Canada Post shipping estimates lying to me again... @ ~ @
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Oct 10, 2021
Flashwave wrote:Wonder if that means SG will hit Ollie's soon stateside? Kinda wish I had waited for a sale price, but oh well


Its unrelated.

JomasterII wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
JomasterII wrote:30 CAD?! Holy crap!!

...anyone willing to middleman for me? :v


If I find another, I will let you know. Pribkem is shipoing will be like 40 USD

40USD?! Damn, I thought Small Packet from Canada to Australia was cheaper. Canada Post shipping estimates lying to me again... @ ~ @


This wont be small packet, its a big box. What did canada post say?
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by JomasterII Oct 10, 2021
william-james88 wrote:
Flashwave wrote:Wonder if that means SG will hit Ollie's soon stateside? Kinda wish I had waited for a sale price, but oh well


Its unrelated.

JomasterII wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
JomasterII wrote:30 CAD?! Holy crap!!

...anyone willing to middleman for me? :v


If I find another, I will let you know. Pribkem is shipoing will be like 40 USD

40USD?! Damn, I thought Small Packet from Canada to Australia was cheaper. Canada Post shipping estimates lying to me again... @ ~ @


This wont be small packet, its a big box. What did canada post say?


I chucked in the package dimensions and weight from the Amazon listing because I thought that would be fitting. Destination Australia, sending from a random Quebec postcode I plucked off Google (rounded UP to the nearest decimal by the way, so instead of ‎31.39 x 22.81 x 8.41 cm it's 32 x 23 x 9 and 1.1kg instead of 1.03) - it said about 30 CAD for Small Packet ($31.17 specifically).
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by -Kanrabat- Oct 11, 2021
This remain without tracking number by snail mail. No tracking, no insurance either.
Then for DOUBLE the previous price, you get tracking and insurance, but it's still snail mail.
Double again, and it's finally air mail.

Now add the covid restrictions on top and the fact that the GESTAPO may prevent your package for ever reaching your local post office and it's a recipe for disaster.

Individuals get really screwed over with postage fees compared to stores.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by JomasterII Oct 11, 2021
-Kanrabat- wrote:This remain without tracking number by snail mail. No tracking, no insurance either.
Then for DOUBLE the previous price, you get tracking and insurance, but it's still snail mail.
Double again, and it's finally air mail.

Now add the covid restrictions on top and the fact that the GESTAPO may prevent your package for ever reaching your local post office and it's a recipe for disaster.

Individuals get really screwed over with postage fees compared to stores.

Welp, RIP.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by -Kanrabat- Oct 19, 2021
Well, here's a sighting that's worth it.

BWBB Origin Bumblebee is finally available at Toys R Us online!
About freaking time!

https://www.toysrus.ca/en/Transformers- ... 6795A.html
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by -Kanrabat- Oct 22, 2021
My local Toys r Us is FULLY STOCKED!

Notably with that new Cyberverse 4 pack and BWBB Origin Bee, and MPM-12.

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Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Nov 12, 2021
I write a post like this every year just to show how big a deal (or not) this brand that we love is during the holiday season, when more toys are bought. Toysrus Canada released their Holliday flyer a little while ago and decorated their stores. The Transformers section, which had slightly dwindled during the year, is now back to being fully stocked with plenty of exclusives including: the Crossover X-Panse, Draculus and Ectotron, the Buzzworthy line including Worlds Collide and Studio Series 2 packs, T Wrecks and the Masterpiece Optimus Prime from the Bumblebee movie. The only line with deals though is the Cyberverse lines where the roll n' change and roll n' combine toys are on sale until November 17.

It was great to see a big Transformers section still around on a non Movie year. By comparison the Star Wars toy section was really reduced with there being no movies this year. Marvel, however had an even bigger section than Transformers, due to there being 4 films and 3 series out this year (one film being Spider-man with loads of toys). There was also loads of He-Man, Ghostbusters and Power Rangers, a real smorgasbord for anyone who grew up in the 80s or 90s. Overall, as you can see below, the store was overloaded with toys. Enjoy.

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Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by Bleak5170 Nov 12, 2021
I don't really collect the toys, (buy the odd figure here and there), but is that Ractonite the biggest peg-warmer TF of all time? I literally see ridiculous amounts of him in every store I go to.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by o.supreme Nov 12, 2021
Definitely feel privileged. While it is nice that my local Walmarts are starting to get some toys finally, The pics of that one TRU easily equate to more than any 10 Walmarts or Targets in my area. Also, I know we've discussed quality vs quantity before, but that seems to be a good mix of product from all lines. I'd be blown away to see anything close to that in my area ever again.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by transformers_va Nov 12, 2021
Wow!! If only the Canadians had been running the U.S. stores, perhaps they'd still be around. This was the typical scene in a U.S. TRU (at least, around the DC area)... HUGE difference!
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Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by o.supreme Nov 12, 2021
That pic is from a recent Target correct? I don't recall TRU having inventory issues until it was made public that stores were closing, and they had filed for bankruptcy, it was just total mismanagement of the business as a whole that lead to it's demise in the U.S.

To be fair, at its peak there were probably 10 times as many TRU stores in the U.S. as Canada to meet the demand at the time. Unfortunately nothing good lasts forever.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by cloudballoon Nov 12, 2021
transformers_va wrote:Wow!! If only the Canadians had been running the U.S. stores, perhaps they'd still be around. This was the typical scene in a U.S. TRU (at least, around the DC area)... HUGE difference!
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I live in the biggest suburb (Markham) of the biggest city (Toronto) in Canada. And the Walmarts & TRU around my area is not that much different from this photo for TFs. The WM & TRU in the biggest Mall in the area both dedicate about 1 pane (3-4 feet?) wide for TF only. They scaled back the TF section since around AoE and has been ever sadder since. I given up toy hunting in brick & mortar stores about 4 years ago. It's much more assured to get what I want online.

TRU Canada's website absolutely sucks at listing new items. Walmart.ca's prices are mostly ridiculous and scalpers' paradise. I'm now mostly forced to order sing Amazon.ca & GameStop if I want to get anything that's new.
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by transformers_va Nov 12, 2021
o.supreme wrote:I don't recall TRU having inventory issues until it was made public that stores were closing
For years before that announcement, I was seeing shelves that were nearly empty, and the products that they did have, were usually piled on shelves with little to no organisation. The U.S. stores were poorly run, and the employees' wages were laughable
Re: Canadian TF Sightings: Origins Bumblebee at Toysrus and Shattered Glass Optimus + Ratchet at Winners (view post)
Comment by transformers_va Nov 12, 2021
cloudballoon wrote:I given up toy hunting in brick & mortar stores about 4 years ago. It's much more assured to get what I want online.
I agree with you about online shopping, but I like the brick & mortar stores, due to the hunt and reward of finding new characters in the store.. buying them online is generally more reliable, but not as rewarding :-D
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