In Hand and Official Images of Transformers Legacy United Wave 4 Figures

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I probably missed when it was made known, but I'm a little disappointed that Slipstream is a windblade repaint. Would like to have seen her with her own design. Oh well.

Preach it! I've been saying that since she was first unveiled. That isn't Slipstream, it's Windblade cosplaying in Slipstrean's colors and wearing Starscream's male Seeker head.

The only highlight Slipstream has is her paint aps are nice. Otherwise I'm only buying her after a really big discount.

Emerje

After finally getting Speedia Crasher, I have my Legacy GoBots complete! (I guess?)

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:After finally getting Speedia Crasher, I have my Legacy GoBots complete! (I guess?)

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No Bug Bite or Road Ranger?

Bug Bite is a GoBots? Appart the Super Gobots that is a yellow Beetle. Appart the name, Select Bug-Bite do not even try. (I still have to hunt him down regardless.)

As for Road Ranger, same thing. I do have him with my Huffer crew.

Hell, not even Pathfinder.

Small Foot makes a commandable effort, but half his colors are wrong.

Treds and Crasher are the closest compared to their Gobots counterparts.

I'm looking forward more Gobots Transformers, but they should go as close to the originals as they are allowed.
Speaking of which, I would love to see a Junkion-modulator deluxe bike repainted as Cy-Kill and maybe the Needlenose mold could work for Leader-1.

I see these are meant to be updates from the TRANSFORMERS G1 originals.

I had the BANDAI GoBots in mind.

Simple question to start us off: Have you seen the Star Raiders line at your local US Walmart? I ask because the answers given to that question so far have been nothing but frustrating or confusing. While Walmart has gotten its stock for distribution, they've only used it so far to fulfill online orders. And there's a lot of stock online with both Road Pig and the Thundertron leader set still available for purchase.

That last bit is a rarity as Walmart will sell out of exclusives online, with the bulk of stock going to stores instead. However, these toys have been available and shipping from their website but they have yet to be found in stores... or have they?

With the toys shipping from the Walmart website, fans got excited to find these exclusives in stores. But that lead to frustration since the hunt resulted next to no sightings. What was found was confusing and has lead to some misinformation being spread by other news sites. The few toys from the Star Raiders capsule that were found were never found with casemates, but as single examples, and often times discounted too. Like the sighting below which just so happens to have the 2 products that have finally been shipping from Walmart.com.

It most likely means that these are returns and them being discounted is due to Walmart not having these skus on the planogram (no designated space on the shelf). We tend to see that with older releases which no longer have a designated space on the shelf, but it's the same cause regardless. And that is extra confusing and frustrating since it means that as of right now there is no plan to have these toys on shelves.

That also means that any sighting being shared online is not legitimate as it does not indicate that this line is being distributed to stores. It instead simply means that fans are returning toys they purchased online. So in the end, there is no concrete evidence that this line is being distributed to stores right now. We have no real sighting of this Star Raiders line in US Walmarts so far.

Let us know how your experience has been with this exclusive subline and if you have found it in a decent amount in your area (if you are in the US). Who knows, maybe one of you has a sighting of a non returned item to share.



Pictured above: returns and false hope
Photo by Red Snarl

Sabrblade wrote:The image is broken.

Adding to the confusion.

Brilliant.

I couldn't find them at my local Walmart yet, so I instead got Ferak with Marvel Legends Venom online. I have a feeling the other exclusives won't be any easier to get apart from Thundertron and Road Pig.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I opened the "leader" 3 pack.

Thundertron is horrendous. The bot is great, sure, but the transformation is not fun for a wolf mode that is ugly all over.

He's a lion.

Hence why his original toy was redecoed (with no retooling) into Leo Prime.

Fans seemed real quick to correct my youtube review and say he's a liger.

I think Walmart simply can't handle two exclusive lines at once. Right now they're focused on TFOne and its exclusives leaving nowhere to put another set of exclusives in an already crowded toy aisle. My local Walmart had a big display set up in the aisle, but a week later they've already taken it down and moved all the figures to the Transformers section packing what space there was. There simply isn't anywhere to put Star Raiders right now.

Emerje