Hasbro Pulse UK has Pre Orders for Kingdom Wave 4 Toys

Wolfman Jake wrote:

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Wolfman Jake wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Attempting to transform Kingdom Rhinox without the instructions is one of my dumber decisions.

Indeed. I had to cave-in and use the instructions pretty early on, despite having watched several reviews which showed the transformation. Kingdom Rhinox is perhaps the most difficult conversion to learn in the whole War for Cybertron Trilogy.

It's not Difficult in an interesting way, it's difficult in a "clearance wasn't designed". He really feels like the ER Arcee of Kingdom (which is funny because she's also in Kingdom).

What sets Rhinox apart from Arcee, though, is everything else. He's a sturdy figure, the kibble backpack is minimal, and most everything does tab together well once it's in place. Arcee is made of thin plastic, the origami is easy to understand, but doesn't fit together well because of tolerance issues, and most of the robot is literally just crammed into the car shell however you can manage. It's trash.

Rhinox is beyter than Arcee for sure, there are just some really dumb design issues going on, aside from the puzzling headsculpt choices. I realy dislike his fake rhino feet in robot mode. They cause all that annoyance in transformation and they look just as goofy as if he was using the real parts.

Mistaken_Table wrote:Don't know about the other Pulse branches, but the UK one is borderline useless. I use them to GUARANTEE getting a figure at some point eventually, but it gets cancelled as soon as an actual online retailer puts their pre-orders up.

As a laugh I've trusted them with getting me a Dracodon, which I pre-ordered at its reveal. Earliest they can get 1 to me is December. Pathetic.

Pulse usually comes last in terms of preorders, but often times they'll jump the date forward. Sometimes this will result in them sending out a second run that fixes issues, but that's not common.
The extended timeframe is actually helpful because it gives me more time to decide on the figures.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:3) Tigatron is really cool looking, love me a regular Bengal Tiger! And he and Shadow Panther will look great together as the mutant cat brothers.

I'm considering renaming my two Siegfried and Roy.

Anyone else getting delay notifications for Road Rage?
I really didn't think this would happen since this is a Redcard exclusive.
But this past Friday my delivery went from Monday (which was the date for a while), to Saturday, to yesterday, back to today, and now to October 11th.

Not sure how when it's supposedly been in a city that's roughly 40-ish minutes away...

Sowndwave76 wrote:Anyone else getting delay notifications for Road Rage?
I really didn't think this would happen since this is a Redcard exclusive.
But this past Friday my delivery went from Monday (which was the date for a while), to Saturday, to yesterday, back to today, and now to October 11th.

Not sure how when it's supposedly been in a city that's roughly 40-ish minutes away...

Mine shipped.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

The guy on the TV is not amused.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

The guy on the TV is not amused.

And what exactly is The Ark doing with its right foot?

I've managed to get pre-orders in for Tigatron and Waspinator, but as I've said in an earlier post, because the wait has been so frustratingly long for wave 4 to become available, I'm not even excited to own these two any more.
With that said, I now either own or have pre-orders in for everything I wanted from the Kingdom toyline. I'm pretty happy with the line overall, it's great that Hasbro has celebrated the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars by making new toys of the season 1 cast, and I've been given the opportunity to own new toys of characters from my favourite childhood TV show, but the actual execution has been a mixed bag. You have fantastic mini-masterpieces like Optimus Primal, Dinobot, Airazor and Beast Wars Megatron, but you also have figures that end up looking a bit doofy like Scorponok and Cheetor, as well as Rhinox the frustratingly difficult Rubik's cube. Scorponok also marks the first time I've ever bought an upgrade kit for a Trasformer (a pair of thigh extenders to make him an inch or so taller), and I have a sinking feeling that it won't be the last.
While it's nice that Hasbro has learned some lessons from the Earthrise Galactic Odyssey sets and made exclusives easier to get for international fans (or at least British fans...), I still think Kingdom had more exclusives than it really needed. Terrorsaur really should've been in Deluxe wave 4 in place of Shadow Panther, who would've been just fine as part of Generations: Selects along with Puffer, Road Ranger, Jackpot and Mutant Tigatron.
Despite my hang-ups, I'm glad Kingdom happened, I've been waiting for something like this since Thrillng 30 Waspinator and Rhinox were announced back in 2013, there were days where I thought it would never happen, but it's been great revisiting the Beast Wars world again, and I'm happy this year won't be the end of new Beast Wars figures.

Thats a great point, why would Shadow Panther be mainline instead of Terrorsaur? Odd indeed. Shadow Panther could work with the theme of the golden disk line by having 2 mutant beast wars figures.

As for wave 4, the most frustrsting thing about it is that Hasbro keft possible misinfirmation and confusion run rampant by not revealing anything.

Also, while I was a much bigger fan of the show than the original toys (I had more Transmetals as the show went on, and non-show character toys but...) It was still nice to see some love for specific characters. I would have thought that of all the S1 cast, Tigatron and Airazor would have been the last to get remakes. Neither seemed to have been liked very much, at least in the early days when I was on forums. Although I don't plan to own either of their new toys, I'm glad fans are enjoying them and seem to have a favorable opinion of them overall (well at least Airazor, Tigatorn seems to have a lot of high anticipation thus far).