"Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Dec 14, 2013 at 4:41pm CST
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Re: "Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Comment by Megazarak
Dec 14, 2013
Is this Blight's weapon the same colour as Hun-Gurr's?
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Comment by Noideaforaname
Dec 14, 2013
I got this set from Target months ago. 'Course, I've only ever seen 2 sets, and I bought one of them.
Hope more people are able to find it, red Blight is awesome.
Yep. It's identical in color and form to the regular retail Blight, in fact.
Hope more people are able to find it, red Blight is awesome.
Megazarak wrote:Is this Blight's weapon the same colour as Hun-Gurr's?
Yep. It's identical in color and form to the regular retail Blight, in fact.
Re: "Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Comment by Hip-Hoptimus Rime
Dec 14, 2013
Mmmmm, local. I love this version of Bee, the deluxe is great.
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Comment by Sabrblade
Dec 14, 2013
I found this set a few weeks ago.
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Excellent! Thanks for the info.
Comment by Megazarak
Dec 14, 2013
Noideaforaname wrote:Megazarak wrote:Is this Blight's weapon the same colour as Hun-Gurr's?
Yep. It's identical in color and form to the regular retail Blight, in fact.
Excellent! Thanks for the info.
Re: "Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Comment by Megatron Wolf
Dec 15, 2013
this has been out at the targets here for over a month now, started showing up not long after the first batch of the rising exclusives hit. Now if only they'd stock everything else this way
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Comment by SG Roadbuster
Dec 15, 2013
This is news? I found this at one of my Target's here in Texas....... I reckon about 4 weeks ago.
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This is what happens when nobody except the staff submits sightings...
Comment by Mindmaster
Dec 15, 2013
SG Roadbuster wrote:This is news? I found this at one of my Target's here in Texas....... I reckon about 4 weeks ago.
This is what happens when nobody except the staff submits sightings...
Re: "Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Comment by Mkall
Dec 15, 2013
I'd love to get my hands on one of these sets (or just Blight by himself), if someone's able to find one for me, I offer full compensation. 
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I should probably stop assuming that just because I'm in New Jersey that doesn't mean everybody else saw them, then.
Comment by Noideaforaname
Dec 15, 2013
Mindmaster wrote:This is what happens when nobody except the staff submits sightings...
I should probably stop assuming that just because I'm in New Jersey that doesn't mean everybody else saw them, then.
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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat
Dec 15, 2013
That's why we have this sticky
I'd say, whenever you sight something new in your area, look through the forum, if there's no thread dedicated, make one! Only makes sense, no?
I'd say, whenever you sight something new in your area, look through the forum, if there's no thread dedicated, make one! Only makes sense, no?
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Please do it, people. It'll make our lives better, especially mine.
Comment by Mindmaster
Dec 15, 2013
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That's why we have this sticky
I'd say, whenever you sight something new in your area, look through the forum, if there's no thread dedicated, make one! Only makes sense, no?
Please do it, people. It'll make our lives better, especially mine.
Re: "Predacons Rising" Night Shadow Bumblebee vs. Blight Spotted in Retail
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Comment by shin_hibiki
Dec 15, 2013
Hope it shows up here soon--I've been looking for weeks. Distribution of this particular item seems unusually spotty for some reason.
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Comment by Noideaforaname
Dec 15, 2013
Wave 2 of any of the "Preds Rising" stuff seems rare, though yeah this one is especially hard to find. Evidently not many people want Cindersaur and G1-ish Smokescreen...
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Comment by ScottyP
Dec 16, 2013
I heard an interesting theory on why these have been so elusive. It may have even been in a thread here. It could also be total bull, but who cares, it's fun.
Story goes like this. This was supposed to be in Wave 1 of the PR releases, which would make sense because then you'd have a Bumblebee in each wave rather than 0 in wave 1 and two in wave 2. The factories screwed up and put nothing but Cindersaur/Smokescreen in the Wave 1 cases. I feel like there's a picture floating out there somewhere of a wave 1 cases labeled to be containing these guys, which would prove that part.
Here's the part that can't really be proven, me thinks:
So Wave 2 gets packed up and shipped to Target distribution, with, you guessed it, yet more Cindersaur and Smokescreen. So when Cinder and Smokes sold out, places just got more of them and more of them. Due to their clogging shelves preventing more ordering by stores, and the time to get the other corrected wave 1 cases over on a boat and into Target's distribution channels, they only started to pop up about 6 weeks ago in various places.
Story goes like this. This was supposed to be in Wave 1 of the PR releases, which would make sense because then you'd have a Bumblebee in each wave rather than 0 in wave 1 and two in wave 2. The factories screwed up and put nothing but Cindersaur/Smokescreen in the Wave 1 cases. I feel like there's a picture floating out there somewhere of a wave 1 cases labeled to be containing these guys, which would prove that part.
Here's the part that can't really be proven, me thinks:
So Wave 2 gets packed up and shipped to Target distribution, with, you guessed it, yet more Cindersaur and Smokescreen. So when Cinder and Smokes sold out, places just got more of them and more of them. Due to their clogging shelves preventing more ordering by stores, and the time to get the other corrected wave 1 cases over on a boat and into Target's distribution channels, they only started to pop up about 6 weeks ago in various places.
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It's actually a given that initially Predacons Rising pretty much shipped in solid cases (with only a single figure or set). The second half has been out for a while now in Deluxe and Voyager Classes, but Legion and Commander seem to be lagging behind a bit. Have we even confirmed that Shockwave vs. Bombshock is out?
Comment by Jelze Bunnycat
Dec 16, 2013
ScottyP wrote:I heard an interesting theory on why these have been so elusive. It may have even been in a thread here. It could also be total bull, but who cares, it's fun.
Story goes like this. This was supposed to be in Wave 1 of the PR releases, which would make sense because then you'd have a Bumblebee in each wave rather than 0 in wave 1 and two in wave 2. The factories screwed up and put nothing but Cindersaur/Smokescreen in the Wave 1 cases. I feel like there's a picture floating out there somewhere of a wave 1 cases labeled to be containing these guys, which would prove that part.
Here's the part that can't really be proven, me thinks:
So Wave 2 gets packed up and shipped to Target distribution, with, you guessed it, yet more Cindersaur and Smokescreen. So when Cinder and Smokes sold out, places just got more of them and more of them. Due to their clogging shelves preventing more ordering by stores, and the time to get the other corrected wave 1 cases over on a boat and into Target's distribution channels, they only started to pop up about 6 weeks ago in various places.
It's actually a given that initially Predacons Rising pretty much shipped in solid cases (with only a single figure or set). The second half has been out for a while now in Deluxe and Voyager Classes, but Legion and Commander seem to be lagging behind a bit. Have we even confirmed that Shockwave vs. Bombshock is out?
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Comment by Noideaforaname
Dec 16, 2013
Would make sense the Voyagers and Deluxes are moving, as Darksteel and Sky Lynx were in the show/movie, unlike the rest of the PR stuff.
Haven't seen the BombShockWave set yet, though I haven't been to Target in a while.
Haven't seen the BombShockWave set yet, though I haven't been to Target in a while.
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Shockwave vs. Bombshock have hit saturation here. I've had my set since early October. They're basically the only Wave 2 PR thing that's been easy to find
Comment by ScottyP
Dec 16, 2013
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
It's actually a given that initially Predacons Rising pretty much shipped in solid cases (with only a single figure or set). The second half has been out for a while now in Deluxe and Voyager Classes, but Legion and Commander seem to be lagging behind a bit. Have we even confirmed that Shockwave vs. Bombshock is out?
Shockwave vs. Bombshock have hit saturation here. I've had my set since early October. They're basically the only Wave 2 PR thing that's been easy to find
