Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ultra Bee and Menasor Found at US Toysrus Stores
Friday, July 21st, 2017 11:34AM CDT
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Posted by Carnivius_Prime on July 21st, 2017 @ 12:06pm CDT
You can sorta see it at the bottom of this blurry pic of RC Sqweeks I took. Clearly I was more interested in Sqweeks but yeah I did spot the menasor
Posted by Va'al on July 23rd, 2017 @ 3:28am CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on July 23rd, 2017 @ 12:10pm CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 24th, 2017 @ 1:25am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 24th, 2017 @ 12:38pm CDT
Also, Saberclaw may be the best thing I have ever seen or heard of.
Really excited for the team combiners still. Galvatronus looks really cool to go with the other 2.
Will get both the warrior and legion Twinferno. That guy looks cool.
Too bad there were no new warrior reveals though
Posted by william-james88 on July 24th, 2017 @ 3:01pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote: Also will definitely get Dragbreak now. These Crash combiners are some of my favorite things.
If you like these toys, then you will love dragbreak. great mix of colours and its the only toy to really use that flap as part of its aesthetic in vehicle mode (where it becomes the racecar spoiler).
I am also sad about no warrior reveals.
Posted by Bronzewolf on July 24th, 2017 @ 5:45pm CDT
Posted by Kurona on July 24th, 2017 @ 6:06pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 24th, 2017 @ 8:28pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:For those that are interested here's my review of Combiner Activators Soundwave:
Posted by RAR on July 25th, 2017 @ 3:55am CDT
Posted by Stuartmaximus on July 26th, 2017 @ 12:50pm CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 26th, 2017 @ 8:19pm CDT
Posted by Kotori_Sonoda on July 29th, 2017 @ 6:07am CDT
Love the toy, just needs a lot of paint apps.
Posted by Stuartmaximus on August 2nd, 2017 @ 4:25am CDT
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/08/01/robo ... ail-346102
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 9th, 2017 @ 1:43pm CDT
Posted by Prime Target on August 9th, 2017 @ 11:06pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 10th, 2017 @ 2:57am CDT
Prime Target wrote:Also is Twinferno a new character here or is he supposed to be a Doublecross redesign?
A bit of both, given how universes work in Transformers. "Twinferno" is the new name for Doublecross in any given line, due Hasbro being unable to obtain the legal rights, or trademark, to the name. No big loss, the new name is better than the old one, a rarity.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 10th, 2017 @ 11:08pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on August 10th, 2017 @ 11:14pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just saw the episode with Blastwave and was wondering, is he still available on shelves where the cartoon airs? I know the episode is a few weeks old but this was like a Wave 1 or 2 Combiner Force figure.
Yes. He is currently still available in Canadian Walmart stores. He's available in the US no?
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 11th, 2017 @ 10:34am CDT
william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just saw the episode with Blastwave and was wondering, is he still available on shelves where the cartoon airs? I know the episode is a few weeks old but this was like a Wave 1 or 2 Combiner Force figure.
Yes. He is currently still available in Canadian Walmart stores. He's available in the US no?
The wave he's in is still available at my local Walmarts, but the one after it is moving in fast.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 11th, 2017 @ 6:12pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just saw the episode with Blastwave and was wondering, is he still available on shelves where the cartoon airs? I know the episode is a few weeks old but this was like a Wave 1 or 2 Combiner Force figure.
Yes. He is currently still available in Canadian Walmart stores. He's available in the US no?
On Amazon yes, anyplace else no clue.
Posted by Kotori_Sonoda on August 12th, 2017 @ 8:21am CDT
I definitely like Bumblebee more, better articulated and stable.
Steeljaw, I really want to love him, but I think the arms are limited and the way the feet are made sucks. I do like how he looks though.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 12th, 2017 @ 5:35pm CDT
I love how Bee's robot head goes inside his combiner head. that seems to be a popular things nowadays, see TLK Infernocus
I think between them, Ultra Bee is my favorite. The 4 bot combining thing is really unique and I love it. The figures themselves are cool for the simple things that they are.
Posted by william-james88 on August 14th, 2017 @ 9:03pm CDT
Case of 8 individually packaged figures includes:
1x TRA RID WARRIOR BUMBLEBEE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR GRIMLOCK
1x TRA RID WARRIOR STRONGARM
1x TRA RID WARR POWER SURGE OPTIMUS PRIME
1x TRA RID WARRIOR STARSCREAM
1x TRA RID WARRIOR WINDBLADE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR SOUNDWAVE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR AUTOBOT TWINFERNO
Posted by PeterPrime on August 14th, 2017 @ 9:26pm CDT
Posted by RAR on August 15th, 2017 @ 4:14am CDT
Tesco is weird they have a shelf space for Transformers that is always empty around here. even when they are hugely over priced they still seem to clear quickly.
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1x TRA RID WARRIOR BUMBLEBEE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR GRIMLOCK
1x TRA RID WARRIOR STRONGARM
1x TRA RID WARR POWER SURGE OPTIMUS PRIME
1x TRA RID WARRIOR STARSCREAM
1x TRA RID WARRIOR WINDBLADE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR SOUNDWAVE
1x TRA RID WARRIOR AUTOBOT TWINFERNO
I suppose Bumblebee has not been around much for a while now.
A Grimlock with Battlemask (but in green) or a Windblade with the new head but the old colours - would have been more use perhaps.
I'm sick to death of seeing Strongarm though - she's very over-supplied - where is Jazz, Scatterspike, Bisk & Ratchet ? Heck where is Steeljaw.
[yes I know there is a twin pack]
The UK need Bisk, Ratchet & Scatterspike - I suspect they don't have the push in the UK to pester the head office for a wave with them in - or they might be using the Stunticon excuse again about not being able to release them due to packaging.... as they'd need to repack them in Combiner Force packets and get them safety tested.
But they had to make new boxes for Strongarm, Grimlock, Bumblebee and others.
I think a better way to spend their time would be to pop in a few sandy deco versions - or versions with battle mask heads. Or even re-releasing drift with the Japanese head.
Grimlock, Windblade and Jazz already have an alternative head - why don't they use them.
If Bee was released again with a battle mask head i'd buy him again.
Also if they must keep re-releasing Strongarm they could at least make here in the reverse colour deco or in Black & white. even if they don't want to release her with a new head.
Also since the toys have got more expensive since they 1st came out they could probably add a bit more paint back too..
Seems like a waste of sale potential to me to at the very least not re-release Jazz & Ratchet or consider using the alternative heads - where they are available.
Posted by Megatron Wolf on August 15th, 2017 @ 4:16am CDT
Posted by Optimum Supreme on August 15th, 2017 @ 10:45am CDT
RAR wrote:All the shelf space for RID has vanished when TESCO got some in (in some places in the UK) they were gone in moments leaving empty shelves again.
Having to split the Transfomers area three ways (RID, TR, TLK) certainly can't help.
BTW, is anyone that wants a Grimlock not able to find one by now. I swear that guy's worse than most line's Bumblebee. Least I waited for the "gold"/g1 redeco...
Posted by william-james88 on August 15th, 2017 @ 10:52am CDT
Optimum Supreme wrote:
Having to split the Transfomers area three ways (RID, TR, TLK) certainly can't help.
We now have proof that has absolutely nothing to do with it. If stores wanted to stock the shelves, they could. It's just toy products like any other, all part of a hasbro order. If anyone has doubts, check these pics of consistently stocked shelves from various stores in my area including the latest toys for all 3 lines:
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1903604
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904234
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904307
Posted by leokearon on August 15th, 2017 @ 11:30am CDT
RAR wrote:All the shelf space for RID has vanished when TESCO got some in (in some places in the UK) they were gone in moments leaving empty shelves again.
Tesco is weird they have a shelf space for Transformers that is always empty around here. even when they are hugely over priced they still seem to clear quickly.
Same here in Ireland, what doesn't help in Tesco is that hardly of the shops sell the same products or waves. For example the Tesco in Tramore (a seaside town) got in the RID wave with Soundwave and Blurr, but not of the four Tesco's in Waterford (A large City) ever got them in. Similarly 1 Tesco was selling the wave 2 TR Legends but no other Tesco around the country that I have been to was selling them or any TR toys.
Posted by Bronzewolf on August 16th, 2017 @ 12:10am CDT
Check them out mirrored below, and tell us if you'll be adding this incarnation of Soundwave to your collection.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 16th, 2017 @ 9:05am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:
Having to split the Transfomers area three ways (RID, TR, TLK) certainly can't help.
We now have proof that has absolutely nothing to do with it. If stores wanted to stock the shelves, they could. It's just toy products like any other, all part of a hasbro order. If anyone has doubts, check these pics of consistently stocked shelves from various stores in my area including the latest toys for all 3 lines:
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1903604
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904234
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904307
I must still protest this. There are very few instances where this has proven to be true, and most of them come from Canada or a major city where a TFW guy takes pictures for sightings. There may be proof, but for 90%+ of us, it is no where close to being true
Posted by william-james88 on August 16th, 2017 @ 9:35am CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:william-james88 wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:
Having to split the Transfomers area three ways (RID, TR, TLK) certainly can't help.
We now have proof that has absolutely nothing to do with it. If stores wanted to stock the shelves, they could. It's just toy products like any other, all part of a hasbro order. If anyone has doubts, check these pics of consistently stocked shelves from various stores in my area including the latest toys for all 3 lines:
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1903604
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904234
brag-or-cry-about-your-retail-transformers-section-t106967s350.php#p1904307
I must still protest this. There are very few instances where this has proven to be true, and most of them come from Canada or a major city where a TFW guy takes pictures for sightings. There may be proof, but for 90%+ of us, it is no where close to being true
The question was never whether it would look like this for all of us, it was just whether it could work or not. So all you need is one example to see that it is probable and that the problem does not lie in the fact that its 3 lines occupying one brand's shelf space.
And we dont only have one example, we have an entire north american country with the same stores as the US showing its possible as well as other stores in the US in certain areas. If handling 3 lines was truly impossible, then you would have no examples, let alone all that has been shown. So that means that having to stock 3 lines is not the main factor. Let me ask you people this, were your walmarts and TRUs well stocked when there were only 2 lines? So before the movie line? was everything up to date all the time for those 2 lines? If not, then that means there was mismanagement (or lack of dedicated support) on their part all along and adding a third line does not factor into any distribution woes.
I dont remember anyone in the US saying in january that their stores were well stocked with all of TR wave 3, a time before we had the movie line and only had two lines to deal with. I instead remember heavy frustration and worry that toys might never come or waves might be skipped. So same as usual. Since this was before a third line factored into anything, then that means having 3 lines was not related and is not related. The stores that were well stocked and managed continue to be so and the ones that weren't continue to suck. I have never seen anything to suggest otherwise.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 16th, 2017 @ 9:51am CDT
Posted by RAR on August 16th, 2017 @ 1:50pm CDT
For example they'd sell TLK legions but not the RID ones as well.
Posted by william-james88 on August 17th, 2017 @ 10:43am CDT
Posted by Kurona on August 17th, 2017 @ 10:45am CDT
Posted by bacem on August 17th, 2017 @ 9:51pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on August 17th, 2017 @ 10:54pm CDT
bacem wrote:one step less than the warrior class. that one step is probably the part where you straighten the wings in vehicle mode. most of the step will practically the exact same. but still, this legion class actually looks neat. might pick it up if it ever show up over here.
I thought it would be the step with his toes.
Posted by RAR on August 18th, 2017 @ 9:16am CDT
It's weird. 2 should be the minimum.
I really hope they do something nice for the UK market like actually release Legion Bisk.
They could have also have made a Legion Thermidor pretty easily too or even a Purple & Green Blurr.
They could show some more effort at least. They claim RID isn't dead yet - but with the final batch of the show being so small I'd be very surprised if they put even as much of a push into winding it up as they did into Predacons Rising.
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I wish Hasbro wasn't being so cheap with their cartoons now - as what I'd actually like is a cartoon based on the unusued content for the cancelled Transformers Universe game (and perhaps the Japanese MMO) that would be a semi-sequel to Prime/RID too but with a return to the TF Prime art style.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 18th, 2017 @ 7:43pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on August 18th, 2017 @ 7:54pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:One bad thing I have to say about Combiner Force is how they've been packaging the One-Step and Hyperchange figures. The open front is terrible to store and leaves the figure open to damage.
Open to theft too.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 19th, 2017 @ 11:58pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:One bad thing I have to say about Combiner Force is how they've been packaging the One-Step and Hyperchange figures. The open front is terrible to store and leaves the figure open to damage.
Open to theft too.
Sadly that too.
Posted by william-james88 on August 22nd, 2017 @ 9:25am CDT
Posted by RAR on August 22nd, 2017 @ 10:23am CDT
I'm glad they are making a few more though - I'd love to get another dozen of them - the more they make the more useful they get.
I still wish the UK would get it's own tailored refresh warrior wave with all the things we missed out on or got understocked.
Really what is wrong with these people never re-issuing Jazz.
Posted by Kurona on August 22nd, 2017 @ 10:32am CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 22nd, 2017 @ 12:08pm CDT
Posted by RAR on August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:32pm CDT
She's now outstayed her welcome - it would be as bad if they repainted her - or released her with a different weapon or battle mask - but the same one over and over is now boring to me.
I wanted Jazz, Ratchet, Scatterspike, Bisk to break up the monotany of another refresh leading to another re-release of Strongarm & Grimlock (again).
Why not re-release Steeljaw - even Thunderhoof has only been refreshed once. But some of the toys never. Considering Grimlock has been out so many times i've lost count - I don't think it's unreasonable to way - "Hey how about sliding in a Jazz or Bisk for a change".
Besides Grimlock and Strongarm are going to sell slower than a new toy would... at least until they have a sale offer on them.
Posted by ThunderThruster on August 23rd, 2017 @ 7:32am CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:I think the Lunar Prime repaint is the case mate to these new crash combiners. Here's a thought, what if the Prime/Strongarm set is a pre-tool for a Motormaster/Heatseaker release? Even better, the Stunticon set is redone as Optimus Prime and the Autobots. How about that?
There's no new tooling to Lunar force Prime Strong, it's just different plastic and paint colours.
However it does appear that the Optimus that comes as part of PrimeLock is either a retool or new mold, consider the different combined mode; head, shoulders & waist-plate.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 23rd, 2017 @ 9:22am CDT
ThunderThruster wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:I think the Lunar Prime repaint is the case mate to these new crash combiners. Here's a thought, what if the Prime/Strongarm set is a pre-tool for a Motormaster/Heatseaker release? Even better, the Stunticon set is redone as Optimus Prime and the Autobots. How about that?
There's no new tooling to Lunar force Prime Strong, it's just different plastic and paint colours.
However it does appear that the Optimus that comes as part of PrimeLock is either a retool or new mold, consider the different combined mode; head, shoulders & waist-plate.
I think he's talking about the molds in general, and I don't really see it. Optimus is a long-nose truck, while Motormaster is the cab-over-engine type, and Heatseeker lacks the lightbar. So far retools for Crash Combiners are limited to the robot forms with new heads and chest.