Target Summer Geek-Out Transformers Street Fighter and Tonka Devastator Preorders Live

Tonkanator... That is amazing.

I wonder if the Street Fighter toys are just leftovers from a few years ago. It'll be obvious when the packaging is revealed I guess. Seems odd since not much is going on with Street Fighter right now.

william-james88 wrote:Those prices are utter nonsense

For Devastator Tonka Deco I agree. I was also about to agree for the Street Fighter toys as well, but it seems Hasbro being able to offer these directly has kept cost down somewhat. Still in light of these being based on toys from 4 years ago, with the tools already made, but cost of materials going up, I guess it's an even trade.

Lastly, depending truly if these are leftovers, or newly made toys, the originals went on sale before leaving most online retailers. Unless Hasbro's quantities are extremally in short supply there is a good chance these will go on sale as well. I just dont see Street Fighter as a hot IP right now.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65321 (2018) $90 originally, down to $80. (2022 on Pulse $75.00)
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65318 (2018) $130 originally, down to $91. (2022 on Pulse $113.00)

o.supreme wrote:I wonder if the Street Fighter toys are just leftovers from a few years ago. It'll be obvious when the packaging is revealed I guess. Seems odd since not much is going on with Street Fighter right now.

william-james88 wrote:Those prices are utter nonsense

For Devastator Tonka Deco I agree. I was also about to agree for the Street Fighter toys as well, but it seems Hasbro being able to offer these directly has kept cost down somewhat. Still in light of these being based on toys from 4 years ago, with the tools already made, but cost of materials going up, I guess it's an even trade.

Lastly, depending truly if these are leftovers, or newly made toys, the originals went on sale before leaving most online retailers. Unless Hasbro's quantities are extremally in short supply there is a good chance these will go on sale as well. I just dont see Street Fighter as a hot IP right now.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65321 (2018) $90 originally, down to $80. (2022 on Pulse $75.00)
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65318 (2018) $130 originally, down to $91. (2022 on Pulse $113.00)

Since they're calling it Street Fighter II and not trying to keep up with the hype and calling it Street Fighter VI it'll probably just be the same box with a slip cover/outer box, Hasbro loves those.

The $30 mark up on Tonkanator over the $75 price that the reissue from 2019 is a blatant cash grab on Hasbro's part. There's no way it costs that much more to produce in three years, especially when they own Tonka so there's no gratuitous license fees involved this time.

Shame it looks like the Tonka logo is tampographed on rather than a sticker, they really didn't want people using this as G2 Devastator. I kinda like the use of black instead of purple, though there are G2 KOs that do the same thing.

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Reissue ? Whatever, I dont care.

I had zero interest in them before when they were a Takara/Tomy release and that interest is the same now that Hasbro is releasing them. Tonkatron, nice little set but nof'ing way would I pick it up at 70 or the current cash grab price.

Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

This was my exact thought when i saw it. Why not use the titan? why?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

This was my exact thought when i saw it. Why not use the titan? why?

Because reusing the G1 mold for the 999th time is easy mode.

The G1 molds also fit much better with the original Tonka GoBots molds, as I feel like the names are meant to sound vaguely GoBots-y.

Over $100 for a dialled-in G1 Devvy with the words "Tonka" randomly plonked on it and some Autobot symbols? Hasbro must think that there are some real chumps in this community if they think they will sell in any significant numbers. They didn't event bother to offer remolded accessories (head, chest, etc).




I suppose next, Hasblo will release a set of smaller-than-the-original, green, plastic faux-Tonka trucks with a Deception symbol on them and charge $100 a pop too?

We can easily get KO Yellow Devastators too:

- https://www.ebay.com/itm/224968628302?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

- https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/tran ... t=Pc2Msite

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYP6ed_vBUs

I'm sure I've seen the G2 version "knocking about" fairly often too.


As for the SF2 figs, I passed on those when they were released domestically, so I'm not bothering with them now. They look bloody awful.

I picked up the SF2 figures from TFSource during the 2019 Black Friday sale. Ken vs. Chun-Li was $60 and Ryu vs. Vega/Bison was $90. I'm much happier with those prices than either the original prices or the current prices. Plus I got a free figure for my order over $300.

And I couldn't care less for more G1 reissues. I've moved past G1 figures a long time ago. I had them, I loved them, I no longer need/want them. But it's great for those of you who still want them. I just can't wait for this to go on steep clearance just like all the reissues did except for Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, PMOP and maybe one or two others over the two decades or so they've been doing them outside of Japan.

I'm like some of the others who have commented and would've been down for Tonkanator done from UW Devastator. UW over CW of course as it seems Hasbro doesn't shy away from Takara toolings anymore.

So these are all easy passes for me but not because I don't like them.

I wonder if Hasbro will be reissuing the Takara Star Wars Transformers. Not because I don't have them already but because Han and Chewie are some of my favorite female Transformers and others need to own them. Yes, they're female lol. Han has a HUGE monoboob shelf and not in a Jazz or Prowl kind of way but an Arcee kind of way. It even has high heels and what could pass for Anode's head. Chewie's torso and head looks feminine to me as well. They both have hot pants on too. Chewie also has the open hand like the Rust Renegades. Han has inward elbow joints to have hand on hip poses. Just a little fun but they are indeed female in my collection. They are good toys along with Darth Vader though. And Chewie doesn't crumble to dust.

Oh wait no sorry, they can't bring them over. They have waffles and hollow forearms where the hands were. I don't think the fandom is ready to know that their lords and saviors at Takara do that even without Hasbro involvement. Some still don't acknowledge that waffling isn't new and has been around since G1 and that Beast Wars might have some of the most egregious examples. I wonder what they'd think if they found out that intrusive gimmicks are most likely Takara's doing too if Daigunder and Web Diver are any indication. I'm just having some fun again but am kinda serious.