Transformers Selects Legacy DK-2 Guard Found at TRU Canada for $45 + Review

Toys R Us can shove it.

I'll never buy anything there, ever. They takes us for fools. All of their "exclusives" can also be bought elsewhere and for ironically cheaper even when adding shipping.

So there.

Screw you, TrU. Screw you deeply.

Brutal brawl wrote:Cant believe a currnt deluxe class is selling for 5$cad less than a titans return leader class

In Canada, a TR leader was 60 or 70$CAN if I remember.

Still, they were often on sale at 45$ or 50$CAN. Especially the overpacked ones like Overlord.

Regardless, Toys R Us must have smoked some amazing stuff to makes ALL of their prices explode like this. Especially for Transformers.

william-james88 wrote:

Brutal brawl wrote:Cant believe a currnt deluxe class is selling for 5$cad less than a titans return leader class

It's different currencies though, you have to convert to see the actual difference (which turns out to be $25 USD)

45$can is 36$US.

TrU think they are a eBay seller I guess.

william-james88 wrote:Ah right, I used the wrong number, it's a $20 USD difference then between what they charge for a deluxe and what Hasbro Pulse charges for a leader

Don't get me started on that 110$can (88$us) Ecto-1.
AND IT'S NOT EVEN THE AFTERLIFE VERSION!
When it came out 3 years ago, it was 60$can (48$us) and even then, I found it too expensive.

TrU has jumped the shark with their pricing.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:They're turning into US TRU

Which means they don't have much longer and once they're gone, they will NOT be missed.

o.supreme wrote:Ok Hasbro, we are essentially caught up with Selects now. Are we going to get any new reveals any time soon?

I think it was said by leaker that those Beast Wars figures Walmart are getting, along with that Target Bluestreak, were all originally supposed to be the next selects figures. But since retailers are fond of exclusives, Hasbro worked out something with them and is releasing it in this new way instead. In the end, there is no difference in the type of toy a selects figure is and these upcoming 4 exclusives.

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:In the end, there is no difference in the type of toy a selects figure is and these upcoming 4 exclusives.

True. But I see those 3 BW Legacy Walmart exclusives as more of a stand-in for what would have been a media tie-in line, and since there is none this year Walmart opted for those instead. For the past 3 years there were retailer exclusives in addition to Selects (although their "type" is essentially the same, I agree). It just means we are getting less toys overall, which is kind of disappointing.

Very glad you brought that up because that is the cherry on top that just seals the whole rumour as being true for me.

Walmart already has a confirmed stand in for what would have been the media tie in line: The upcoming velocitron line. Which is exactly like the netflix line with a mix of redecos and retools ranging from extensive to minimal, and in 3 different classes.

And they also have more BW reissues, so that fills the shelves as well.

So these BW redeco toys (and that silverstreak) end up being extra to that, and more exclusives than would have been planned if we compare year over year.

That really brings home those rumours that these BW redecos are selects figures. Comes out to the same thing of course, but we know for a fact that these are not stand ins for the WFC Netflix lines.

o.supreme wrote:Oh that's cool. I Didn't know about the Velocitron line. Looking forward to hearing more about that.

There's a whole thread about it.

In terms of Selects reveals, we do still have Armada/Toy Colors Cyclonus and DK3/Blue Trailbreaker to get through, after that we're out of leaks (unless the Selects Clampdown isn't cancelled).

william-james88 wrote:I think it was said by leaker that those Beast Wars figures Walmart are getting, along with that Target Bluestreak, were all originally supposed to be the next selects figures.

BW Buzzsaw and Sandstorm started out rumored for Selects, yeah, but Silverstreak never was, that was just the early reviewers that originally leaked him talking out their asses because they didn't have instructions/packaging or any leaks/rumors to go off of in order to place what line he'd be in.

Looks pretty real.