Combiner Wars Leader Thundercracker listed and shipping now from Toysrus.ca
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May 14, 2015 at 9:44am CDT
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Comment by Shockwave7
May 14, 2015
And still no sign of any wave3 figures on hasbrotoyshop.com.
Why is the official online distribution outlet for Hasbro the last to get the figures that THEY manufacture?
Why is the official online distribution outlet for Hasbro the last to get the figures that THEY manufacture?
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It's on purpose. If they don't solicit orders until after 3rd party retailers have had the opportunity to get items to the masses, those other retailers can't complain that Hasbro is selling direct online and trying to cut them out of the equation.
Comment by Editor
May 14, 2015
Shockwave7 wrote:And still no sign of any wave3 figures on hasbrotoyshop.com.
Why is the official online distribution outlet for Hasbro the last to get the figures that THEY manufacture?
It's on purpose. If they don't solicit orders until after 3rd party retailers have had the opportunity to get items to the masses, those other retailers can't complain that Hasbro is selling direct online and trying to cut them out of the equation.
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Can you please stop with this, it is very close to spamming. We already told you and I will say it one last time: HTS will be the LAST place to get this stuff online because Hasbro needs to first have to fulfill the orders of their buyers. Now please stop asking the same question everytime.
Comment by william-james88
May 14, 2015
Shockwave7 wrote:And still no sign of any wave3 figures on hasbrotoyshop.com.
Why is the official online distribution outlet for Hasbro the last to get the figures that THEY manufacture?
Can you please stop with this, it is very close to spamming. We already told you and I will say it one last time: HTS will be the LAST place to get this stuff online because Hasbro needs to first have to fulfill the orders of their buyers. Now please stop asking the same question everytime.
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Comment by william-james88
May 15, 2015
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Comment by -Kanrabat-
May 15, 2015
Air Raid... I NEED IT!
Pleas, my local Walmart, please have it.
Pleas, my local Walmart, please have it.
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Comment by shajaki
May 18, 2015
Well, I thought I'd share my NOT-haul...
Found one set of Wave 2 Deluxe's and a couple Legends Huffer's today!
At Wal-Mart
Oh well. I'll find them in TRU and use my rainchecks eventually.
I even asked if they'd price-match my rainchecks. No such luck
Found one set of Wave 2 Deluxe's and a couple Legends Huffer's today!
At Wal-Mart
Oh well. I'll find them in TRU and use my rainchecks eventually.
I even asked if they'd price-match my rainchecks. No such luck
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Your doing a good job Shajaki, that sweet raincheck deal will make it all the more worthwhile. And is that Huffer<s first sighting in Canada ?!
Comment by william-james88
May 18, 2015
shajaki wrote:Well, I thought I'd share my NOT-haul...
Found one set of Wave 2 Deluxe's and a couple Legends Huffer's today!
Your doing a good job Shajaki, that sweet raincheck deal will make it all the more worthwhile. And is that Huffer<s first sighting in Canada ?!
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Comment by -Kanrabat-
May 18, 2015
Both my local Laval Walmart and TrU have NO wave 2 deluxes at all. Will I ever be able to complete my Superion? 

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And yeah, I'm totally with you on waiting. I'll be saving $20 by waiting for TRU! (you da man BTW)
Comment by shajaki
May 18, 2015
Is it? Damn I'd have taken a pic if I had realizedwilliam-james88 wrote:Your doing a good job Shajaki, that sweet raincheck deal will make it all the more worthwhile. And is that Huffer<s first sighting in Canada ?!shajaki wrote:Well, I thought I'd share my NOT-haul...
Found one set of Wave 2 Deluxe's and a couple Legends Huffer's today!
And yeah, I'm totally with you on waiting. I'll be saving $20 by waiting for TRU! (you da man BTW)

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Haha, thanks, thats very nice of you. And after further checking, while it is the first time one of us found Huffer, he has been found in BC since May 1st: http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=58932
And Thundercracker was recently found at TRU in Ontario, which is not too surprising since he started shipping from TRU.ca a few days ago.
Comment by william-james88
May 18, 2015
shajaki wrote:Is it? Damn I'd have taken a pic if I had realizedwilliam-james88 wrote:Your doing a good job Shajaki, that sweet raincheck deal will make it all the more worthwhile. And is that Huffer<s first sighting in Canada ?!shajaki wrote:Well, I thought I'd share my NOT-haul...
Found one set of Wave 2 Deluxe's and a couple Legends Huffer's today!![]()
And yeah, I'm totally with you on waiting. I'll be saving $20 by waiting for TRU! (you da man BTW)
Haha, thanks, thats very nice of you. And after further checking, while it is the first time one of us found Huffer, he has been found in BC since May 1st: http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/showthread.php?t=58932
And Thundercracker was recently found at TRU in Ontario, which is not too surprising since he started shipping from TRU.ca a few days ago.
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Comment by MadCow
May 18, 2015
are deluxe chromia and arcee out yet? sorry i havent been going to my toys r us for a bit...
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nope and brainstorm neither
Comment by william-james88
May 18, 2015
General Swoop wrote:are deluxe chromia and arcee out yet? sorry i havent been going to my toys r us for a bit...
nope and brainstorm neither
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Comment by Editor
May 19, 2015
Not trying to be negative, but unless there is any evidence to the contrary, but as later releases are making their way through Walmart and TRU, we may need to assume that the wave with Arcee and Chromia may simply not be making their way to Canadian stores. It may be that HasCan didn't offer or had enough purchase requests to make it possible for a Canadian retail run.
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Comment by shajaki
May 19, 2015
I'm pretty sure that IF the ladies show up, it'll be somewhere like Winners. But I heavily doubt that even.
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I highly doubt that will be the case. Toysrus did not get the past 3 generations waves until at least 6 months after the states. The first time I saw windblade was when they had that half price on all generation deluxes deal. And guys, think about it, we only got Roadbuster and Skybyte about 2 months ago. This is just feeling long because we really want these but so far they are not taking longer than any previous wave since the time I started collecting.
Comment by william-james88
May 19, 2015
Editor wrote:Not trying to be negative, but unless there is any evidence to the contrary, but as later releases are making their way through Walmart and TRU, we may need to assume that the wave with Arcee and Chromia may simply not be making their way to Canadian stores. It may be that HasCan didn't offer or had enough purchase requests to make it possible for a Canadian retail run.
I highly doubt that will be the case. Toysrus did not get the past 3 generations waves until at least 6 months after the states. The first time I saw windblade was when they had that half price on all generation deluxes deal. And guys, think about it, we only got Roadbuster and Skybyte about 2 months ago. This is just feeling long because we really want these but so far they are not taking longer than any previous wave since the time I started collecting.
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Comment by shajaki
May 19, 2015
I like your positivity, but with Wave 1 CW saturating shelves so bad that we can barely get Wave 2, I'm not as hopeful. Sadly I think we would have had them if Target didn't close up shop, that's where I found the Windblade assortment (almost the same time as the Americans).
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Comment by Editor
May 19, 2015
Maybe. We have been quite lucky with Transformers that we have not seen to many skipped waves in recent years, but it can happen. The simple fact is if the store buyers haven't purchased them, we don't get them.
What may be better than just waiting would be to try reaching and confirming with TRU or Hasbro Canada if they are on their way, initial customer support won't be too much help on this one so it may take a bit of back&forth before getting an answer.
Look at the last GIJoe movie, the figures had 3 waves, but as far as TRU is concerned, the 2 wave doesn't exist for them and the third wave if they had them would have been the bare minimum (the ones I found were all at Target, if they had earlier waves my local one wasn't open at that point), But wave 1... I can still find wave 1 on some TRU shelves. Marvel Black Series may also be effected by this, as the wave with Death's Head, Drax and such I haven't seen boo of at any of the local TRU's.
Again I'm not trying to be negative, especially because I really don't want or need to find out if worst case situation, it wasn't ordered because of an outdated "Girl Robots????" mind set by some out of touch buyer(s).
What may be better than just waiting would be to try reaching and confirming with TRU or Hasbro Canada if they are on their way, initial customer support won't be too much help on this one so it may take a bit of back&forth before getting an answer.
Look at the last GIJoe movie, the figures had 3 waves, but as far as TRU is concerned, the 2 wave doesn't exist for them and the third wave if they had them would have been the bare minimum (the ones I found were all at Target, if they had earlier waves my local one wasn't open at that point), But wave 1... I can still find wave 1 on some TRU shelves. Marvel Black Series may also be effected by this, as the wave with Death's Head, Drax and such I haven't seen boo of at any of the local TRU's.
Again I'm not trying to be negative, especially because I really don't want or need to find out if worst case situation, it wasn't ordered because of an outdated "Girl Robots????" mind set by some out of touch buyer(s).
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But I am not comparing target or Walmart who usually get their stuff first. I am only comparing tru with tru since they are the only store that eventually got everything (Walmart never had roadbuster, to my knowledge). At my TRU, there is a seperate arrangement of pegs for combiner wars and last year's generations figures which are being treated as this year's figures (since many are). I feel TRU is dinstinguishing these two lines, and the different prices help solidify this hypothesis. Pretty much, CW is a different line and is treated as such and thus we shouldnt use it to compare something being late or not.
I will be optimistic until the very end
Comment by william-james88
May 19, 2015
shajaki wrote:I like your positivity, but with Wave 1 CW saturating shelves so bad that we can barely get Wave 2, I'm not as hopeful. Sadly I think we would have had them if Target didn't close up shop, that's where I found the Windblade assortment (almost the same time as the Americans).
But I am not comparing target or Walmart who usually get their stuff first. I am only comparing tru with tru since they are the only store that eventually got everything (Walmart never had roadbuster, to my knowledge). At my TRU, there is a seperate arrangement of pegs for combiner wars and last year's generations figures which are being treated as this year's figures (since many are). I feel TRU is dinstinguishing these two lines, and the different prices help solidify this hypothesis. Pretty much, CW is a different line and is treated as such and thus we shouldnt use it to compare something being late or not.
I will be optimistic until the very end
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Comment by shajaki
May 19, 2015
Fair points sir. Fair points 
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Comment by -Kanrabat-
May 19, 2015
I remember fondly when it took A FULL YEAR to get wave 2 of TF Prime deluxes. 

