Where In The World Is Reveal The Shield Windcharger?

Got to laugh about this considering this was probably going to be the only scout I've ever purchased. Hope we see this later in the DOTM line along with Rumble.

Mr O wrote:And you are..?

An admirer of all things related to overreaction. Maintain some sort of perspective in the matter of collecting toys. Try not to get emotional about that which is most frivolous. I am sure you comprehend my meaning.

If someone could get me a hook up I would gladly pay via paypal (Item+shipping+plus a finders fee) -pm me please! (just want one)

Right now Hasbro is a piece of s**t on my s**tlist. Going to target every day in hopes of finding an additional 2 wreck gars for the Junkion armor I already paid for. Cant find a god damn thing. In K-Mart, wal-mart, or TRU. And forget about Grapple and Lugnut. Have never seen em. I refuse to start having to buy Hasbro stuff online and pay shipping and wait for stuff that is supposeed available right here. This is BS...

Rated X wrote:Right now Hasbro is a piece of s**t on my s**tlist. Going to target every day in hopes of finding an additional 2 wreck gars for the Junkion armor I already paid for. Cant find a god damn thing. In K-Mart, wal-mart, or TRU. And forget about Grapple and Lugnut. Have never seen em. I refuse to start having to buy Hasbro stuff online and pay shipping and wait for stuff that is supposeed available right here. This is BS...

Don't Blame Hasbro, blame the suppliers that actually sell their wares.

Although I DO blame Hasbro for short-packing Windcharger in cases of 8. Seriously, WTF?

LOST Cybertronian wrote:Where in the world is Reveal The Shield Windcharger? If you live in Canada or the United Kingdom, then you already know the answer to this question. If you live in the United States or anywhere else with a shortage of the aforementioned bot, then you know the frustration this question has brought to many collectors. The latest RTS Scout assortment has been spotted all over Canada and the U.K.

Why haven't we seen hide nor hair of these figures in the U.S.? The answer to this question is purely speculation at this point. There are rumors that Hasbro has decided to cancel the scout assortment in the U.S. There could be many possible reasons why Hasbro would choose to do this if it is true. One reason might be that over seas currencies are doing better than the U.S. Dollar. Other companies have done this before. Here are a couple of interesting articles about this practice.

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Also in the same predicament are the RTS G1 legends assortment. Whether or not these will hit the shelves in the U.S. is up for debate. This is the exact same mix of ingredients that happened to the Transformers Universe G1 legends assortment the came out before the first Transformers movie in 2006. Many collectors reported never seeing them at retail. Will this happen again?

This is purely speculation based on the availble facts.

This is just not true. These figures have in fact been released to the US market. One has to assume, in fact, that the larger retailers (Wal-Mart) have just stopped ordering this stuff in anticipation of upcoming movie product, much the same way they fall off at the tail end of any line. So much of their inventory will be tied up in movie product that they can't sell until street date hits, that they are happy to sell out existing product on the pegs, and not worry about refreshing until the next planogram hits. In other words, the problem isn't just Hasbro's fault, but also the Big Three toy retailers for being too big to pay attention to particular assortment mixes.

I say that these figures have been released to US retail because they shipped through Diamond Comics Distributors to your local comic shop (also known as "Channel Six," in retail terms), if they carry them. We currently have all the G1 Legends (OP, Megs, Starscream, Trail"cutter", Gold Bumblebee, and Prowl) in stock at my store, but have long since sold out the more desirable Windchargers. For those of you still looking for these pieces, my advice is to try your LCS to see if they have anything left. I suppose it's likely these toys could also show up at other Channel Six retailers, places you wouldn't usually look for toys, like Kohl's, or drug stores, or some such. Good luck guys, and happy hunting!

i dont agree with the article on the front page. there i said it quoting a few articles about the wii while people are paying 200+ dollars for smartphones,and other gizmos (ps3, xbox, apple)not to mention apps and $60 games negates that in my book. bottom line is most stores loaded up on rotf and htfd and got burned in the sense that they now have to get rid of it all at the same time theyre trying to move rts, pcc, and generations.its oversaturated pure and simple.its just oversaturated with stuff collectors are tired of and already have.
my other reasoning is that if scouts were really dead hasbro wouldnt be making such a push with this new "cyberverse" incarnation with you guessed it scout size figures.my guess and ill stick to it is that theyll release these last figures in the movie line.
personally im not feeling wincharger but i sympathize with those who want him.

Tack virtually any of the other 2011 waves onto this, and that's Minnesota. We get it late as-is, if at all.

Just calm down everyone. We're going to get them eventually.

HFTD line really messed stuff up with all the excess stock. If it dissapeared we wouldn't have this problem.

Hurts to see so many of our TF Brothers in trouble, especially when (last time I was there) my local ASDA had a few in stock

robofreak wrote:Just calm down everyone. We're going to get them eventually.

HFTD line really messed stuff up with all the excess stock. If it dissapeared we wouldn't have this problem.

THIS!
exactly i mean every store in my area still has
walmart-7-8 leader ss/prime
tru-at least 12 leaders and 60multipacks
target-htfd deluxes to the max

these are estimates from my visits to them today.

robofreak wrote:Just calm down everyone. We're going to get them eventually.

HFTD line really messed stuff up with all the excess stock. If it dissapeared we wouldn't have this problem.

Most of you will, I still have barely wave 2 of the PCC the wave one has been here for forever, and the stupid Chromia repaints and Skids repaints are still on shelves. Along with them is barely ANY generations figures in the first place i was lucky to get my Drift, which was already opened and missing the 2 short swords. =_=
Edit: Sorry, the amount of rage rushing through my veins makes me wanna bash my head into every darn store manager I know.

onsanyo-con wrote:

robofreak wrote:Just calm down everyone. We're going to get them eventually.

HFTD line really messed stuff up with all the excess stock. If it dissapeared we wouldn't have this problem.

Most of you will, I still have barely wave 2 of the PCC the wave one has been here for forever, and the stupid Chromia repaints and Skids repaints are still on shelves. Along with them is barely ANY generations figures in the first place i was lucky to get my Drift, which was already opened and missing the 2 short swords. =_=
Edit: Sorry, the amount of rage rushing through my veins makes me wanna bash my head into every darn store manager I know.

try looking in khols,burlington coat factory, or tjmaxx/marshalls i found nearly every pcc even the newer waves there.hope that helps a little

big surprise. im still waiting on RTS wave 1. seriously, i still have first wave ROTF toys where i live. i compleately missed out on most of the new toys that came out the last 6-7 months

the title should also say all RTS except for Battle in space, PCC wave 2 and above, and the generations wave with Kup. And since DOTM is right around the corner we're probably never going to see these on shelves, and since HTS is always sold out most of us will never have them. Maybe if there werent so many damn sea attack ravages out there there wouldnt be a problem.

Megatron Wolf wrote:the title should also say all RTS except for Battle in space, PCC wave 2 and above, and the generations wave with Kup. And since DOTM is right around the corner we're probably never going to see these on shelves, and since HTS is always sold out most of us will never have them. Maybe if there werent so many damn sea attack ravages out there there wouldnt be a problem.

Yeah, It's kinda depressing isn't it? I'm all for diversity and stuff but some many posters are right about the damage the RotF stuff has done to most stores. Thankfully, I got most of the ones I wanted online already, but it seems I should give up trying to find Wreckgar, Wheeljack and Rumble/Frenzy. very sad times indeed, I will keep and eye out for Windcharger and see if I can help peeps out but my area blows lol. Hopefully in the summer I can just order online again, store hunting sucks, especially with DotM on the horizon

At least in my area, the scouts are the worst selling class of all. Maybe the sales are just too slow to have incentive to put more out before DOTM. However, I've just started to see new Generations and Reveal the Shield all over, including older waves of Generations, HFTD, and PCC that never made it to the shelves. I have a feeling my theory will be correct...May 16th will be the day of "old" TF clearance.

It's not like I ever really got much in my neck of the woods. Still, I was looking forward to RtS Frenzy.

Mkall wrote:

Rated X wrote:Right now Hasbro is a piece of s**t on my s**tlist. Going to target every day in hopes of finding an additional 2 wreck gars for the Junkion armor I already paid for. Cant find a god damn thing. In K-Mart, wal-mart, or TRU. And forget about Grapple and Lugnut. Have never seen em. I refuse to start having to buy Hasbro stuff online and pay shipping and wait for stuff that is supposeed available right here. This is BS...

Don't Blame Hasbro, blame the suppliers that actually sell their wares.

Although I DO blame Hasbro for short-packing Windcharger in cases of 8. Seriously, WTF?

Exactly. This is about stores ordering too much slow-moving HFTD stock and then wanting to skip these waves in favor of DOTM. Hasbro deserves some of the blame because of crappy wave assortments and misjudging how well certain items would sell. But it's not all them. And this always seems to happen before a movie line, unfortunately.

Ironically, I anticipated this happening in Canada so I preordered nearly all of my RTS/Generations figs, but I'm still out of luck for Rumble & Frenzy. They'll sell them eventually though, if they already produced them. It's just a question of when.

Didn't the same thing happen for Skystalker's wave in the ROTF toyline? I mean, I NEVER saw him in stores. Same for Evac and Skipjack.

ahemhemhem...
"unless you are in the UK"
i have one thing to say to that:
BERKSHIRE, the place where they never even got generations.

hi guys im already offering my services of find a windcharger for Naked Magnus (RoS) and ship it from newcastle upon tyne to the US
if anyone else is wanting one like mkall just send me a PM.

within a 15 min drive of my house i have a toys R us, a large Tescos(gets Target stuff) and Asda(gets Wall*mart stuff) as well as a smyths toy shop

i wont charge any major commission just the total cost of the item and P+P rounded up a little
so if wincharger cost say £12, packaging £3 and postage £5 (£18) i will ask for £20. does that sound fair ?
of course it all depends if i can find some first


if anyone wants a reference before parting with their cash PM Naked Magnus

I can't find any of the current TFs I want online except for on Amazon...
Wheeljack
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-2859?tag=seibertron07-20& ... 561&sr=1-1
Wreck-Gar
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Reve?tag=seibertron07-20& ... 952&sr=1-6
Wincharger
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Dece?tag=seibertron07-20& ... 952&sr=1-1
Perceptor
http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Reve?tag=seibertron07-20& ... 025&sr=1-1

So someone in the states has them available, but you're gonna pay almost twice the price, except for Windcharger, who's going for 70 bucks...

70 dollars, for a scout class toy that's normally, what, 8 dollars? Someone's makin out big time, if they can find anyone to buy them...

I'm just wondering where the rest of the RTS stuff is. Up here in Rochester NY, I haven't seen Tracks, Jazz, or much of the other Generations line.

I live in Utah, and have noted a few things of late in regard to stores stocking Transformers.

TRU: They only have a small fraction of 'new' Tformers. (I saw 1 Kup and 1 Scourge just yesterday). Everything else is stuff that they obviously overstocked on somehow. For example, the TRU I was in had like 9-10 'Ultimate' Bumblebees from ROTF, and 10 Battle Hook Optimus Prime figures. The shelves are also stuffed with multi figure box sets (like Rumble in the Ruins and Gathering on the Nemesis) that just aren't moving. As far as Deluxe figures go, they had no new scouts, NO voyager figures at all. However, they DID have like 20 'Electrostatic Jolt' figures along with 20-ish Skid and Mudflap figures. In short - they seem to have been given tons of shelf warmer figures that nobody wants. Well, at least it will LOOK like they have plenty of Tformer figures....

K-Mart: The local Kmart stores I've been in lately haven't had anything new on the shelves in 2-3 months. Since the holidays, they seem to have had no new shipments. To their credit, they were one of the ONLY stores in which I found a Highbrow voyager. Granted I didn't want him, but still... I was in Kmart just the other day and their shelves are now almost totally empty of Deluxe figures. Like TRU, they have PLENTY of Battle Hook Optimus and 4-5 ROTF Ultimate Bumblebees, which are pretty much guaranteed to never go anywhere. K-Mart charges more for their toys. But generally, they get them before other stores (when they get them at all). So I'm keeping an eye out....

Target: Another store that (generally) gets figures before other stores, and one where I've been visiting and keeping an eye on. Right now, they have tons of Generations figures, Cyberton Soundwave, Cliffjumper, Megatron. They also have TONS of 'Skullgrin' repaints of Darkmount. Mixed in is smattering of newer RTS figures. According to the clerk I spoke with, they have a stash of toys they 'keep in back'. When one or two on the shelf get sold, they pull out a few to replace them. Seems a silly way to do it. I wish they'd just let me paw through their boxes to see what they've got that they're not sharing. But who knows what they're holding out? Could be they have a stash of Windchargers/Lugnuts that they're just not sharing because they still have 4-5 'Banzaiatron' and 'hubcap' figures on the shelf.

Wal-mart: Like TRU, Wal-mart seems to have been stiffed with tons of figures, but they're figures that nobody wants. The last few weeks I've visited, I've seen only the same array of leftover ROTF deluxe figures (and the 3D glasses Prime preview). They also have a bunch of 'Banzaitron' figures, and I haven't seen any new voyager figures in months.

So SOMETHING has been going on since the holidays last year. US stores haven't been getting the figures as fast. Is it the economy? Could be. I'll still be haunting the stores, because like many, I'd rather not shop online if I can just drive by a store and find the figure on the shelf.

Will 'the economy' get better? Not the way things are being run. I just hope I can find Lugnut, Warpath, Rumble and a few other RTS/Generations figures before things get any worse. I couldn't care less about the movie figures. Since movie1, they've been a waste.

Wouldn't mind so much if they you know...

Put it on the Hasbro Toy Store website.

I mean seriously if they have these things just sitting around and not sending to the retailers then they should just put them on the Hasbro store. Just to get rid of them.

I am now sad.

Interesting. Oh well, I never wanted a scout Windcharger. I want a proper deluxe upgrade...and I don't want a Wii either.

I imagine we will still be seeing Windcharger, Rumble, and Frenzy somewhere down the line, juts not RTS i guess.

That would explain why the only things (scout, deluxe, etc.) hanging on every store peg in an 8 mile radius are first wave Generations, HFTD, PCC, and NEST for the last several weeks. Oh and that ugly and expensive Optimus Prime preview pack. There are like 5 pegs at every store and they're filled to the max.

I'd kill for ANYTHING right now, my Transformers fund is FULL D: and my collection needs mooarrrr

Well we knew the Scout class was going to be renamed so that sorta can count as a discontinuation. Personally if they were going to discontinue a size class I would start with the more expensive ones. As many have mentioned I think this has to do with stores wanting to thin the shelves for DOTM. It happened before ROTF and caused the delay of Animated. I do think we will see these toys eventually, like around Christmas which is when I saw Wave 3 ROTF voyagers and deluxes that my TRU's were holding onto. Yes I think it's scuzzy and not in tune with what Hasbro wants, but at the end of the day the retailers are the boss.

I hope nothing serious happens to this guy. I really like the mold a lot and it looks so good. Really hope we start seeing him on shelves pretty soon. Besides... BigBad, RobotKingdom, and all those other big online sellers are all sold out of Windcharger

I got mine

I nabbed it from HTS, and when I realized I had just paid $15 (with shipping) for a scout, I went back and ordered several more items, including a second Windcharger ... but by the time I hit the checkout button on the second order, they were already sold out.

Suddenly that $15 seemed really cheap!

*Looks at preorder from bbts* I got a bead feeling about my preorder...

This is a surprise. Usually its a real battle to find TFs down here in Tasmania but I picked up a windcharger from big W 2 weeks ago for 15 bucks.

All the other RTS figs I had to order online.

After my 5th or 6th trip around to the stores looking for anything more recent than Scourge and Kup, I just got so angry with Hasbro, the stores, and the whole situation that I was just about feeling like saying f*** it to the whole thing and give up entirely.

I did manage to snag a g2 OP at Hasbro Toy Store, but damn at the shipping price. This is one reason I don't buy online, but when it's either that or see store after store week after week with absolutely no restocking being done other than at one point Rodimus/Cyclonus 2pks and DOTM Preview Prime showed up, but otherwise those exact same damn HFTD's I don't want, never wanted, never will want hanging from the shelves mocking me.

HTS was out of Wreck Gar and Perceptor, so looks like I'll never get those. And now I guess Windcharger gets added to the "forget it, never gonna happen" list. I don't even want to think about Thundercraker and Wheeljack.

It wouldn't be so bad, if I didn't know that in just about a month or so, the shelves will be filled with stuff for DOTM, which I don't care about. I know, it'll sell, and it'll make them money and yadda yadda business blah blah, but I have just about had it with this whole situation.

Wow. How much more can life suck for a TF collector right now? News flash. The stuff doesn't sell because nobody has it. I want it at least at HTS but what happens there is the scalpers all buy those up too to gauge those who don't like to order from online sites. I myself had an issue with HTS double billing me but I would gladly go thru that again to get a Windcharger.

If this is true, I certainly have no good words for Hasbro at this moment. Importing should be a choice, not a necessity. this certainly makes me respect them less.

Optimum Supreme wrote:After my 5th or 6th trip around to the stores looking for anything more recent than Scourge and Kup, I just got so angry with Hasbro, the stores, and the whole situation that I was just about feeling like saying f*** it to the whole thing and give up entirely.

I did manage to snag a g2 OP at Hasbro Toy Store, but damn at the shipping price. This is one reason I don't buy online, but when it's either that or see store after store week after week with absolutely no restocking being done other than at one point Rodimus/Cyclonus 2pks and DOTM Preview Prime showed up, but otherwise those exact same damn HFTD's I don't want, never wanted, never will want hanging from the shelves mocking me.

HTS was out of Wreck Gar and Perceptor, so looks like I'll never get those. And now I guess Windcharger gets added to the "forget it, never gonna happen" list. I don't even want to think about Thundercraker and Wheeljack.

It wouldn't be so bad, if I didn't know that in just about a month or so, the shelves will be filled with stuff for DOTM, which I don't care about. I know, it'll sell, and it'll make them money and yadda yadda business blah blah, but I have just about had it with this whole situation.

The only things I see are the stupid tuner mudflaps and a ton of ravages, not to mention the chromia repaints. I only found one skull grin but dont have my financial situation in check yet, so thats down the drain.

It's not like I'd be able to get Rumble anyway, given how slow my stores are. I have a feeling the figures will still be released sometime, though. Hasbro wouldn't go to the trouble of making several new molds and then not release them. At least if they get released in the movie line, they might be a little easier to find. I really hope this isn't true, though.

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Darkman20xx wrote:Wow. How much more can life suck for a TF collector right now? News flash. The stuff doesn't sell because nobody has it. I want it at least at HTS but what happens there is the scalpers all buy those up too to gauge those who don't like to order from online sites. I myself had an issue with HTS double billing me but I would gladly go thru that again to get a Windcharger.

This simply is not true. This figure was only available on HTS for 20 minutes with a limit of one per order. That said, how would a scalper know it was only going to be available for 20 minutes making the figure at $16 a piece (after shipping) still a highly profitable venture? Second, even if the scalper was that intuitive, HTS cancels multiple purchases of the same figure even when they're ordered separately...so these hypothetical scalpers would have to have had multiple HTS accounts, each going to a different address, each paid with a different credit card, all hoarded in 20 minutes time. In other words, HIGHLY unlikley scalping was the issue here.

This is Energon Ultra Magnus all over again... stateside we aint got none and they shelfwarmed all over in the UK... anyone wanna send a windcharger and rumble to ohio... let me know!

i just hope the line continues during the dotm line because then why does hasbro make new figures right before the release of the 3rd movie and highly anticapated new figures. so to me the other toy lines will comtinue with the dotm toys.

Just to clarify, W'charger is NOT shelfwarming here in the UK, he is only two per case of twelve and had been scalped hard, mostly by UK fans trying to hook up or trade with US ones and that was *before* the cancellation announcement.....

TheDownshift wrote:http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/4/4e/HeySeibertron.JPG

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You know, you're not the first person on this site to have visited 4chan and ED.

I have a hard time beliveing that we won't see these figures molds somewhere down the line. I can't see them never hitting stores, just my have to wati until the bulk of DotM is out around the end of the summer.

*little voice in the back of my mind* Like the last wave of Robot hereos that never showed up???

A friend of mine is going to England in four days. I've already hit him up about Windcharger. Let's hope he finds some for me!

*Sigh* Hasbro must know we want this figure.

Energon Is My Drug wrote:A friend of mine is going to England in four days. I've already hit him up about Windcharger. Let's hope he finds some for me!

I already got one but I'm with ya buddy.