Wave 5 Deluxes from Transformers Titans Return Now Available Online at Toysrus.ca

RAR wrote:New Chefatron Review :
Wingspan & Cloudraker

Does he say in which store he picked it up? That could be news since it could give hint as to which interational retailers are getting these when its not wallgreens.

Sabrblade wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:There is a POSSIBILITY we might get Snapdragon for a retool of Overlord's jet!


Annnd this Abomination is making ideas to create a fan mode for Overlord

images are from TFW2005
link is directed here: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/t ... 0/page-978

What possibility? There's nothing official about this. It's just some guy going "Hey, check out these neat fan modes I made from my Overlord toys." And they are neat, but that's all they are: fan modes.

Yeah that's like saying we might get a sinner twin out of TR Scourge because Takara drew him doing a headstand and made him a two headed dragon. No

o.supreme wrote:Chaos on Velocitron in stock at TRU.com, get it while you can...


http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.js ... kShop=true

Only in stock for store pickup. No ship to home.

RNSrobot wrote:Incorrect. Shuffler and repugnus have been sighted and purchased across Canada. However, in the most minimal quantities.

Really?! I never saw it ever. Do you have a link to a post so I can see where? And do you remember which retailer it was?

Edit: I looked into this and unless you have seen something other than this, it appears that any sighting was at a collectable store like Toy Traders in Vancouver. So they didnt get their stock directly from Hasbro but from a middleman like Diamond. It seems Hasbro Canada hasnt distributed these toys yet and they havent appeared at stores like Toysrus or Walmart. If you saw otherwise, please let me know because this is troubling me.

Meanwhile wave 4 hasn't popped up on the US TRU site. Heck, not even Hasbro has wave 4 for sale yet. Though they do have them listed. And don't get me started on my local store. Still on waves 2 and 3.

Cloudraker and Wingspan set is now in stock at Tfsource

Here's my take on the Chaos on Velocitron boxset: It's garbage. "Quickswitch" is indefensible - I don't care how good the paintjob is, the sheer stupidity of the concept ruins the figure. And, given the character selection, the name is a complete misfit. If there had been an homage to someone like Cybertron Hot Shot, Clocker, Ransack, Crumplezone, or Override (like that TR-Blurr-into-Override TFSS concept) in there it would work, but as it stands? FAIL. It should be recalled on the grounds of a bad idea, the Quickswitches sent back to the factory so that their plastic can be recycled for things actually worth manufacturing, and the remaining figures repackaged as a new boxset with a relevant name. Failing that, Hasbro should at least tell the retailers to de-list it until they can send stickers to give it a more fitting name. But ideally the Quickswitches should be destroyed and the remaining figures repackaged under a new set name.

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Would you feel the same if the Generation 1 toyline never had its toy bios, Marvel comic, and Sunbow cartoon & movie? Those factors played a huge role in the Transformers line's lasting success.

Well. Yes. The G1 bios were all I needed as a kid.

You, uh, kinda misread that. Sabrblade said "If it had never had even the toy bios," not "If it had only had the toy bios." As in, no backstory or personality at all.

As someone who knows Greatshot exists and who can think another possibility for a Sixshot recolor based on the set's name (that being an homage to Cybertron Megatron), CoV Quickswitch irritates me. As someone who got into Transformers because of Cybertron - the series that introduced Velocitron - the lack of Velocitron-relevant characters in a set called "Chaos on Velocitron" irritates me. But at least an ill-chosen set name is something that can be fixed by slapping a sticker with a new one the box. Quickswitch on the other hand... ugh...

On a non-ranty note, I had another customization idea for Powermaster Prime: Kitbashing a Classics Deluxe Prime into a cab robot for him.

Wolfman Jake, why do you insist on making such pathetic excuses for that set's stupidity? Hasbro blew it and that's that.

I realize that recalling the boxset and recycling Quickswitch's plastic is a pure fantasy. However, changing the name is not - that doesn't require a recall, that just requires sending stickers. And I stand by the name being stupid. If there's no character or story to tie it to Velocitron, it shouldn't be called Chaos on Velocitron. It's not like a Unicron Trilogy reference character would have been unreasonable considering that the other large boxset from Titans Return has TIDAL WAVE in it. But as it stands, nobody in the set has anything to do with Velocitron - whether you go by its main depiction or by its depiction in the IDW continuity.

Yes, I am aware that Greatshot had a new chestplate, robot head, beast head, and shoulder tips. But repainting Sixshot and giving him a new face would nonetheless have made a better Greatshot than it did a Quickswitch because Greatshot actually shares a base design with Sixshot. The extensive paint job doesn't really make him look like Quickswitch, it just makes him look like Sixshot doing Quickswitch cosplay. Whereas with Greatshot a good paintjob could have at least simulated the different chestplate by painting the design from it on, and alluded to the silver horns with some silver paint on the "fins" at either side of Sixshot's helmet. And fanmoding the altmodes doesn't really improve Quickswitch resemblance either.
Also, Quickswitch may have been a Hasbro character, but the only continuity he has so far played any role of consequence in is the Ladybird childrens' storybooks from the eighties and hasn't appeared in the IDW comics at all, whereas Greatshot not only played a significant role in Victory (which would be known to adult collectors AKA who this set is more aimed at), he has appeared (Albeit minorly) in the IDW comics and can likely expect more of a role. And, I reiterate, they could alternatively have gone for a Cybertron Megatron homage which would A. give the lacking Velocitron connection and B. Be reasonably recognizable to older US fans.
So Titans Return Quickswitch is nothing more than a polished turd. An expensive, wasteful, polished turd. End of story.

French forums are full of ZeldaTheSwordsman. That's why I left them.
I hope there's will be only one ZeldaTheSwordsman here.