Where to Order all the Awesome New Siege Toys Now

Hellscream9999 wrote:<snip>
pulse has him [Ectotron] instock https://hasbropulse.com/collections/transformers/products/transformers-generations-collaborative-ghostbusters-mash-up-ecto-1-ectotron

Thanks, dude! I just preordered Lancer, Shackwave, and the Rafraktor 3-pack there too...

12 years later and a new mold, still just as hilarious

Strangely, the Walmart listing for Soundblaster has him numbered as S55, instead of the S63 shown on the packaging.

Did anyone get a S-number for the Refraktor set yet?

I feel so overwhelmed right now. I feel like Siege is literally out of control. All this to consider, and $160 Omega is still in development. I don't remember ever feeling like this with any of the previous Generations lines. I don't remember feeling forced to choose or pass up so much product. Am I alone here?

procyon wrote:I feel so overwhelmed right now. I feel like Siege is literally out of control. All this to consider, and $160 Omega is still in development. I don't remember ever feeling like this with any of the previous Generations lines. I don't remember feeling forced to choose or pass up so much product. Am I alone here?

Nope. This is some next-level consumerism.

procyon wrote:I feel so overwhelmed right now. I feel like Siege is literally out of control. All this to consider, and $160 Omega is still in development. I don't remember ever feeling like this with any of the previous Generations lines. I don't remember feeling forced to choose or pass up so much product. Am I alone here?

Not at all. Being a completionist is brutal for Siege. Otherwise hard lines have to be drawn. I'm not skipping much butnim skipping some. That FOMOnster is a real FOMOther.

wasnt ratchet also supposed to go on preorder today at the same time as the rest? I could have sworn thats what the slide said

SpikeyTigertron wrote:oh neat.... Impactor hasn't lost his hand yet lol

If you look real close at the alt mode shot, when his hands are flipped back there are 5 mm holes in the back of his "wrists" where you can plug in his harpoon . So you can chose. OPTIONS!

Immortal Starscream wrote:wasnt ratchet also supposed to go on preorder today at the same time as the rest? I could have sworn thats what the slide said

No, that's what they said. But it IS Walgreens. Toys aren't EXACTLY a specialty of theirs.

We will maybe see it tomorrow.

procyon wrote:I feel so overwhelmed right now. I feel like Siege is literally out of control. All this to consider, and $160 Omega is still in development. I don't remember ever feeling like this with any of the previous Generations lines. I don't remember feeling forced to choose or pass up so much product. Am I alone here?

I know what you mean. It's as if all the previous years of CHUG packed into just one line all at once.

I'm just gonna get what I like and be happy with what I have.

And maybe also get a stupidly large Unicron too.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:12 years later and a new mold, still just as hilarious

What are you referring to?

They’re pumping out toys like it’s 1984 or something thanks Reaganomics.

Is Lancer and the G1 Refraktor set Pulse exclusives, or will they be available elsewhere?

Because this Canadian will be gimped on shipping and exchange rates.

william-james88 wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:12 years later and a new mold, still just as hilarious

What are you referring to?

Holo Mirage.


Y'know... In the wake of the Aragon reveal, what would people think of Skytread being redecoed as a combination of Cromar and Zetar?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Dr. Caelus wrote:Refraktor 3pk: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/pre ... eam-3-pack

Is this a Pulse exclusive, or will it find it's way into brick an mortar stores? Like Walmart or TrU in Canada, for example?

No brick and mortar for those. And there is no french on those boxes. But keep an eye out on ages 3 and up, they usually have those and they are the canadian equivalent of BBTS. I already sent you a link to show you that you could buy the generations select exclusives from them.

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Dr. Caelus wrote:Refraktor 3pk: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/pre ... eam-3-pack

Is this a Pulse exclusive, or will it find it's way into brick an mortar stores? Like Walmart or TrU in Canada, for example?

No brick and mortar for those. And there is no french on those boxes. But keep an eye out on ages 3 and up, they usually have those and they are the canadian equivalent of BBTS. I already sent you a link to show you that you could buy the generations select exclusives from them.

The price will match for sure.
I wonder if Pulse can "hold on" items so that they ship at the same time. I'd want my Refraktor set and Lancer to ship together because it WILL be 30$ to ship regardless if it's just one figure or both.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is Lancer and the G1 Refraktor set Pulse exclusives, or will they be available elsewhere?

Because this Canadian will be gimped on shipping and exchange rates.

BBTS (maybe Entertainment Earth- I haven't looked yet)

Well that hurt, at least it was quick. I ended up ordering and pre-ordering all of the exclusives (and got around to ordering MP+ Smokescreen and snagged Red Wing this morning). I was able to come up with $25 in Amazon gift cards to help soften that blow. Bring on the rest of the Target exclusives!

Emerje

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Dr. Caelus wrote:Refraktor 3pk: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/pre ... eam-3-pack

Is this a Pulse exclusive, or will it find it's way into brick an mortar stores? Like Walmart or TrU in Canada, for example?

No brick and mortar for those. And there is no french on those boxes. But keep an eye out on ages 3 and up, they usually have those and they are the canadian equivalent of BBTS. I already sent you a link to show you that you could buy the generations select exclusives from them.

The price will match for sure.
I wonder if Pulse can "hold on" items so that they ship at the same time. I'd want my Refraktor set and Lancer to ship together because it WILL be 30$ to ship regardless if it's just one figure or both.

I doubt it but never hurts to ask. Their schtick is their new premium service so you can get free shipping and not worry about them warehousing your goods. But I doubt they're offering that service up north.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Y'know... In the wake of the Aragon reveal, what would people think of Skytread being redecoed as a combination of Cromar and Zetar?

According to the leaks/rumors that were right about Galactic Man, the Refraktor pack, 2/3's of this new Amazon set, and the Rainmakers, we're getting Cromar from Six-Gun and Zetar from Brunt, both with new head sculpts.

That leak also attests that we're getting Cybertron Hot Shot from Hound, Nightbird from Chromia, and Coneheads at some point in the future, so look forwards to those.

Nemesis Primal wrote:and Coneheads at some point in the future, so look forwards to those.

I remember all those leaks except for the coneheads, care to share that bit with a link to the rumour?

Does preordering regular retail items on Amazon typically work out, or do they hit widespread brick and mortar before the ship date?

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Does preordering regular retail items on Amazon typically work out, or do they hit widespread brick and mortar before the ship date?

Its a mixed bag. For me (Chicago area) just recently Springer showed up at retail before Amazon's July 1st ship date. But Smashdown and Caliburst shipped from Amazon on July 1st before they showed up at retail (I ordered these just before the ship date). But in both cases whoever was earlier was only about a week earlier. Brunt and Refractor were a bit different in that Amazon didn't have a preorder, they just came into and out of stock periodically, but only after they started to pop up at retail first.

william-james88 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:and Coneheads at some point in the future, so look forwards to those.

I remember all those leaks except for the coneheads, care to share that bit with a link to the rumour?

I'm not on the TFW boards, but after the Galactic Man reveal when someone linked in the Selects thread to the leak, I started occasionally checking the posts of the original source. He's made multiple posts in response to questions about Seekers, and while they've generally been ambiguous, they've hinted that Coneheads are coming and we might be getting a number of Seekers comparable to the Classics mold.

Posts like this: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/siege-rainmakers-in-package-and-found-at-us-retail.1177783/page-9#post-17038986
And this: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/war-for-cybertron-siege-appreciation-thread.1156282/page-851#post-17024830

Those two posts are the most substantial ones. Other than that, it's been a lot of ambiguous "Trust me" statements towards people doubting the leaks or calling them baseless rumors, so I don't know if the Coneheads are as safe of bets as the rest of the leaks, but that's what I got. If I had to guess, it sounds to me like they are coming, but in the next part of the trilogy.

In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Does preordering regular retail items on Amazon typically work out, or do they hit widespread brick and mortar before the ship date?

Well, if you remember the jetfire debacle, amazon keeps orders open forever, even if they exceed the number of product that they ordered, which has happened several times in the last couple of years for tf's and has led to a lot of unfulfilled orders, so there's that

Vic Zanzibar wrote:Does preordering regular retail items on Amazon typically work out, or do they hit widespread brick and mortar before the ship date?

there is no such thing as widespread anymore due to spotty distribution state per state, city to city, retailer to retailer. preordering on amazon at least guarantees you will get it and dont have to hunt.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:and Coneheads at some point in the future, so look forwards to those.

I remember all those leaks except for the coneheads, care to share that bit with a link to the rumour?

I'm not on the TFW boards, but after the Galactic Man reveal when someone linked in the Selects thread to the leak, I started occasionally checking the posts of the original source. He's made multiple posts in response to questions about Seekers, and while they've generally been ambiguous, they've hinted that Coneheads are coming and we might be getting a number of Seekers comparable to the Classics mold.

Posts like this: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/siege-rainmakers-in-package-and-found-at-us-retail.1177783/page-9#post-17038986
And this: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/war-for-cybertron-siege-appreciation-thread.1156282/page-851#post-17024830

Those two posts are the most substantial ones. Other than that, it's been a lot of ambiguous "Trust me" statements towards people doubting the leaks or calling them baseless rumors, so I don't know if the Coneheads are as safe of bets as the rest of the leaks, but that's what I got. If I had to guess, it sounds to me like they are coming, but in the next part of the trilogy.

In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

well where there's a great seeker mold, coneheads are usually not far behind

but seriously though, hasbro seem intent on giving us all the seekers out of this mold and there's room for a conehead in the current mold, so I'd be surprised if they didn't milk this mold as hard as they can

I just hope they'll tweak the wing shells when they do.

..another question, these are all models show for this SDCC? Or will we get more maybe? Also, the new chapter for war for Cybertron will be "the Ark" it's right? Thanks

I wish we had actual product shots of these two animated versions. Other than brightening up the colors I can't see there will be much difference? ANyone?

Nemesis Primal wrote:In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

Turns out the micromaster 10 pack contains S58-S62, so I think we have Siege in its entirety revealed unless they are going higher than the 35th anniversary guys at S63-S66. This assumes Rung, the other battlemaster and the 2 micromaster packs on display are S44-S47. What is weird is that the G1 Reflector 3-pack doesn't appear to have a number. Unless they aren't siege, but GS-04 in the selects line.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Dr. Caelus wrote:Refraktor 3pk: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/pre ... eam-3-pack

Is this a Pulse exclusive, or will it find it's way into brick an mortar stores? Like Walmart or TrU in Canada, for example?

No brick and mortar for those. And there is no french on those boxes. But keep an eye out on ages 3 and up, they usually have those and they are the canadian equivalent of BBTS. I already sent you a link to show you that you could buy the generations select exclusives from them.

The price will match for sure.
I wonder if Pulse can "hold on" items so that they ship at the same time. I'd want my Refraktor set and Lancer to ship together because it WILL be 30$ to ship regardless if it's just one figure or both.

It is my experience that Pulse ships *everything* seperately as it comes in, no bulk orders... I've had 2-3 boxes come in at once from there... it's a PITA.

Seeing the cooperation among everyone here to get the links was really encouraging. Makes me feel like a dingus for F5'ing Hasbro and Amazon, thinking scalpers would devour everything like in the old days.

Hot takes on the new reveals:
Camera Refraktor works surprisingly well, Kremzeek makes it a killer set! Sticking with my doofy KO, but very happy for other, more loyal collectors. The camera mode on mine has made for a great display piece and I see this doing the same for lots of other fans.
Seeing Skywarp and the Firestormers up for pre-order is encouraging, hopefully Redwing gets the same treatment outside the US...? That Redcard business still has me peeved. On a similar front, I'm curious to see if people will be reselling Slamdance separate from the other firestormers, and how much he goes for on the aftermarket. With more paint, his color reversal could have been minimized but... it wasn't.
Soundblaster is not for me, definitely prefer the FoC version since it's a better double for Logos Prime. Bluestreak would be tempting since he's something of a hole in my collection, but the mold is out-scale with said collection. C'est la vie. Wonder if they'll make blue+yellow alternators/prime Smokescreen, or diaclone bluestreak?
I genuinely did not expect cel-shaded prime and megatron. The amount of paint is... shocking. I honestly thought they would start a line of minor/damage-free variants, then throw Soundwave in there to twist the knife a bit. As it stands, I love they exist but won't bite for fear of starting a weird micro-collection made of overpriced exclusives.
For Wave 5 (seriously WHAT and HOW) I pre-ordered apeface and crosshairs. Shame Rung wasn't pre-orderable, I'm sure he'd have sold through. If I ever see a Rung for SRP or less I'm buying - just too weird and the novelty factor overrides all my frustration with battlemasters NOT being worth $6. Really helps when there's a character attached to the toy, instead of just a gimmick. I'm not keen on re-buying the same characters over and over, though, so Astrotrain and Spinister, for all their engineering glory, are out. The sheer volume of amazing product means there will be other chances to own transformers of that caliber in the main line - heck, maybe retools of those two.
The Micromaster 10-pack is a neat idea, but not enough to pull me to Target - same for the rainmakers I've jabbered on about before.

Now comes the part where I give up on all my griping over Siege and fork over a ton of cash for probably-tiny figures. The fan vote three-pack had me in awe, so I pre-ordered it immediately. I don't care much for Mirage, though the head looks nice. Recent photos have shown that he's an absolute shrimp of a deluxe, so I might resell him. I was surprised by how much better Impactor looked with the IDW spartan helmet and caution stripes. Even the strange chest design looked better once he had the proper noggin. Encouraging to see him stand over a head above mirage, but who knows what that even means for size. My Universe Onslaught custom undoubtedly dwarfs him. And then there was Aragon.

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The main reason I pre-ordered, of all the silly reasons to buy that set, he takes the cake. Sure the head looks ridiculous, almost gobot-like and sure he looks like he's wearing red pajamas, but I am overjoyed to see the weaponizers getting redecoed. Even his name seems unsuited to Transformers, but it just works. Somehow, it works. Only problem is, I'm now roped into trying to get the other two.

Somehow the Transformers team have outdone themselves to make WFC a new golden age - quite literally, given the astronomically rising prices, but golden nonetheless. Since 2018, generations has covered the first decade of Masterpiece releases. It's staggering. I'm not sure which will quit first: SIEGE's barrage of new releases or my keyboard typing this lengthy po

Hey wait! What ever became of that silver battlemaster we saw in the case? I don't think it's been addressed yet.

Optibotimus posted pics of the display for Ratchet, Mirage and Impactor on his Twitter. I remember that he doesn't want it to be newsed, but I think someone mentioned that it was fine to point things out? Apologies if I got that wrong, but I figured it was worth pointing out

I don't get it. Why the hell do the Dinocassettes(squeal) come with another Frenzy?! THAT COULD HAVE BEEN RATBAT GOD DAMN IT
And don't give me any "they may not have the mold available" bs when they reissued THE DINOCASSETTES.
The reveals were super duper cool and I want practically everything, but a second, lone Frenzy baffles me.

MaverickPrime wrote: lone Frenzy baffles me.

Me too. Seriously, I thought they would release Frenzy and Rumble together. And if it were me, I would have made impossible to distinguish on the packaging which is which.

That Dino Casette duocon should have been a 2 pack as well with a reduced price.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote: lone Frenzy baffles me.

Me too. Seriously, I thought they would release Frenzy and Rumble together. And if it were me, I would have made impossible to distinguish on the packaging which is which.

That Dino Casette duocon should have been a 2 pack as well with a reduced price.

Oooor instead of Frenzy they could include Enemy:

Perhaps we should contact Hasbro and ask that they make that change? The pack's not due out til September.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:In other news, we're now only missing anywhere from 2 to 5 Siege figures/sets and at least 1 Selects release, and we have leaks pointing to 4 of those figures, so that's awesome.

Turns out the micromaster 10 pack contains S58-S62, so I think we have Siege in its entirety revealed unless they are going higher than the 35th anniversary guys at S63-S66. This assumes Rung, the other battlemaster and the 2 micromaster packs on display are S44-S47. What is weird is that the G1 Reflector 3-pack doesn't appear to have a number. Unless they aren't siege, but GS-04 in the selects line.

Yeah, I saw those numbers on the SDCC thread. And Rung and crew don't have to be assumptions anymore, the Walmart page for Soundblaster calls out Ratbat and Rumble as WFC-S46 in the item descriptions. Now granted, said page also incorrectly numbers Soundblaster himself, but it makes sense and it's enough confirmation for me.

At this point my three biggest questions are:
~Who/what the heck is that mystery silver Battlemaster?
~Are Nightbird, Hot Shot, and the other Powerdashers Selects figures then, or is there more past S66?
~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Nemesis Primal wrote:~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Probably depends on how many other people do the same thing. If you're willing to go through the effort, selling Mirage could help offset the hefty price of the set. A little bit.

After reading through the last 5 pages of this thread, I gotta say I'm happy for you guys, being able to gobble up all this stuff to your hearts' content. For some reason it's not the case most of the time, so I guess Hasbro did it right this time, for the most part.

Having said that, I'm also glad that most of these reveals and new figures don't interest me, I'm saving a lot of money. The only ones I'm interested in basically are Spinister, Apeface, Crosshairs and Ratchet right now, and I can wait until they're actually available to buy instead of pre-ordering.

My only thought, is there a possibility that Ratchet with a comic-accurate head (red helmet, white visor) might show up later somehow, somewhere as an exclusive, or is this the only version of the figure we'll ever get, since it's a Walgreens exclusive and not directly from Hasbro?

Nemesis Primal wrote:"Firestormers": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P2JB241/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&psc=1

Skywarp: https://www.amazon.com/Tra-Voyager-Skywarp-Battle-Pack/dp/B07NZ86GJP/ref=olp_product_details?tag=seibertron07-20&_encoding=UTF8&me

Fan-Vote Pack: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PZY481L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&psc=1

The price for the newly announced set seems a bit high to me, I'm undecided about it, but I got a preorder on the Firestormers.

Ordered Skywarp as he's priority. May pre-order Firestormers later, but Fan pack is gonna have to be a pass.

There's no link for Ratchet and he is NOT on Walgreens.com.

One thing I have to say with all this repro goodness happening is, I definitely would purchase a Delta Magnus Siege figure should they give that the go ahead.

Nemesis Primal wrote:~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Sadly, we are not all as unique as we think, meaning that if you share these feelings so do many others. And we all have finite disposable income. All to say that this pack is not likely to sell out so quick. As with most other exclusives on amazon (especially those that garner less excitement), I have found it pays off to just wait and get it for cheaper. Wait for it to be 20$ off, buy it then and consider Mirage a freebie.

Latebrus-K wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:~Is it worth it to buy that Fan Vote 3 pack for Impactor and Aragon when I hate that Mirage figure? I don't know that I want to spend 70 bucks for an exclusive when I only want 2/3's of it's contents, but Impactor looks so perfect....

Probably depends on how many other people do the same thing. If you're willing to go through the effort, selling Mirage could help offset the hefty price of the set. A little bit.

I'm in the same boat as Nemesis Primal and that is probably what I'll end up doing.

I'd only want the power dasher from it so I'm likely to just buy one separately like I did with orion pax from the tribute pack so I didn't end up with a wfc video game optimus. I'll pick up the regular impactor and leave mirage be. Not the best way of going about it but at least it cuts down on clutter.
Delta magnus would be an easy pass too, unless the trailer gets redesigned to hold cars which isn't happening any time soon. Tho never say never on it holding micromasters now that ratchet has a cross play function.

So are the Rainmakers generally available yet, or is it just a few instances here and there?

Looking at some of these, I ordered from TF source to get the free shipping in my stack for a couple, but like the Galactic Man shockwave is a pretty easy pass for me at that price. I don't thing I'll be bothering with pregnant Soundwave, I mean Soundblaster either.

I think the fan vote three pack, I like Impactor, but I'm not too concerned about the the other two in it. I'll wait for a sale maybe.

Rodimus Knight, there IS supposed to be a general release Impactor, too. Depending on if you're okay with the head sculpt, you can probably just get that one on the cheap.

Vic Zanzibar wrote:So are the Rainmakers generally available yet, or is it just a few instances here and there?

They are just starting to show up. The east and west coasts have had some sightings already, and in my area they appear to be in transit and should be showing up within the next week or so. I used the DCPI code 087-16-9185, and had an employee look them up.