Walmart G1 Reissue Skywarp with Cartoon Deco Found in Canada + Review

I received both of mine from Walmart last week and I'm in New York.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Emerje wrote:Distribution of this line is practically nonexistent in th US. Only one most of us ever saw was Starscream. It's online or nothing for most of us.

Well, now I can't even say this one is in stores. They didn't even replace it with anything, they just stuck more Ninja Turtle movie stuff in its place.

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And yes, I bought it, doesn't hurt to have a spare G1 Starscream around.

Emerje

Starscreams are still warming around here, and he's still the only one I have seen.

At least Hot Rod was good, he was the only one I wanted

I've been buying all of them and I can't wait to stick Missing Link Anime Prime with them next year.

BTW, Blaster and Soundwave were on Pulse and Walmart.com Friday. Soundwave sold before I could get him on Pulse but I was able to get Blaster. Both are sold out on Walmart.com. Hopefully they come back in stock. And at their normal price (on Walmart.com) and not their ridiculous random price markups on exclusives like their current $52.50 asking price for Thundercracker and Skywarp (and yes, that's the Walmart price, not a secondary seller).

Emerje

I managed to get my preorder for Soundwave in with Walmart.
With the retro-styled, clear-window packaging, I may be leaving this one sealed.

Does anyone know if this reissue mold is an exact replica to the original with metal parts? I still have the metal body to my original Skywarp but it's missing tons of pieces like the wings. So I'm hoping I could use this for parts.

b3films wrote:Does anyone know if this reissue mold is an exact replica to the original with metal parts? I still have the metal body to my original Skywarp but it's missing tons of pieces like the wings. So I'm hoping I could use this for parts.

All metals remains but putting the wings on your original may result in a mismatch of colors. You should buy one of the previous Skywarp reissue instead if you want your original back.

But as we often say, why not both? Get this Toon G1, and get a normal reissue. And if only the wings matter, you could even cheat and buy a G1 knock-off. It all depend on how much you're willing to spend and how much original you want your old G1 toy to be.

Happily pre-ordered Soundwave and Blaster on Walmart.ca. Jan-1st-24 release. Have so many of these two as releases, but at least they are cartoon accurate to make them unique.

Went to my Wal-Mart today, they had Starscreams galore, discounted to $27.

Still no traces of Blaster and Soundwave in Canada.

While we know all the Legacy and Studio Series coming out this year, we still didn't know all exclusives. JTPrime17 is sharing some listings with us regarding non general release items:

TRA GEN SELECTS DLX 3 PACK TREDS, PATHFINDER, & SMALLFOOT
Product Number: F9650

This is not an exclusive but it won't be found in stores either, so preorder it from whichever online retailer you feel most comfortable with when it is made available. These are redecos of recent figures to represent Go Bot characters. Pathfinder, for instance, will be a redeco of Cosmos. It might be grey to match the original Go Bots toy or blue to match the Transformers homage figure.


TRA BB GEN SS 2 PACK VOY 86 RATCHET, & DLX 86 BRAWN (battle damaged)
Product Number: F9878

TRA OPTIMUS PRIME AND AUTOBOT BULLSEYE
Product Number: F9652

Those two are Target exclusives. The 86 two pack will be battle damaged, same as the Ironhide/Prowl pack. The Optimus toy will be a redeco of the G2 laser Optimus cab (again) with the standard Earthrise trailer in a Target themed deco. Bullseye is a repaint of the micro-master Ravage mold.


TRA GEN RETRO OPTIMUS PRIME
Product Number: G0153

TRA GEN RETRO BOMBSHELL & RAMHORN
Product Number: G0237

TRA GEN LEGACY STARSEEKERS DLX ROADPIG
Product Number: G0232

Those three are all Walmart exclusives. The retros are G1 toys in cartoon deco, and Optimus will come with a trailer. We knew of the upcoming Walmart exclusive Starseeker line. Roadpig is a retool of Crashbar, letting us finally complete the Junkasaurus combiner.


TRA GEN MAYHEM VOY BLUDGEON & DLX RUCKUS
Product Number: G0182

Amazon’s exclusive this year are the Mayhem Attack Squad, which will be 3 multipacks, with a total of 7 figures.

Quantum Surge wrote:I wonder how much that Retro Optimus reissue would cost since the last Walmart version cost nearly more than it deserved without a trailer.

I'm thinking somewhere near the $75 mark