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[Jelze Bunnycat]

has gold plastic technology improved over the years?
a little risky using it, if it still has the same issues

Hasbro is aware, they've adjusted the formula to reduce the amount of flake so cases are now sporadic. Besides, CW G2 Quickslinger doesn't seem to have any metallic flake at all, so he should be safe.

[chuckdawg1999]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

[william-james88]

Saw Mirage, Ironhide, and Prowl at a local store yesterday, and after close examination, the head sculpts are not as good as what I initially thought.
For me, best CW head sculpt awards go to the Constructicons.

I found Streetwise to have quite a emarkable headsculpt and that Prowl looked great too. Are the constructicons that much better than Streetwise?

Can't wait to have this guy, though I see that Powerglide seems to be a matte grey rather than silver? That's a bummer.

Which pic of powerglide are you referring to?

has gold plastic technology improved over the years?
a little risky using it, if it still has the same issues

Its not the same gold plastic. This is more like what they used for voyager movie grimlock.

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

Yup, my friend Kanrabat never found all of them at his local toysrus, they were very scarce in Quebec. The only reason I didnt mind was because I had ordered them from tru.ca online when they were available for a day. They never became available online again. Of all the waves so far, this is the one which seems to never have truly reached saturation.

[Cobotron]

All I see on shelves, while out and about these days are Protectbots. Although I've only seen Hotspot once in the wild.

[that1guysittingthere]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

No sign of them in West Michigan, or at least the areas where I live in. I remember that my local Target got wave 4 deluxes, but it looks like they completely skipped wave 3. All the other stores I go to are full of RiD stuff.

[DedicatedGhostArt]

has gold plastic technology improved over the years?
a little risky using it, if it still has the same issues

I haven't heard any issues about Generations Goldfire/Goldbug, so I wouldn't say it's an issue...

[Sabrblade]

John Warden confirmed at SDCC that CW G2 Quickslinger will not suffer from GPS.

[william-james88]

John Warden confirmed at SDCC that CW G2 Quickslinger will not suffer from GPS.

While this is nice to know, I didnt really need a confirmation since I believe they are well aware of the problem. Has there been a recorded case of this stuff even happening in the past 10 years?

[Sabrblade]

John Warden confirmed at SDCC that CW G2 Quickslinger will not suffer from GPS.

While this is nice to know, I didnt really need a confirmation since I believe they are well aware of the problem. Has there been a recorded case of this stuff even happening in the past 10 years?

In the past ten years? Well, there's been the Star Wars Transformers Chewbacca from 2006, Cybertron Repugnus also from 2006 (which later got rereleased in 2009 in the second Universe line), and Universe/Cybertron Micromaster Superion from 2007.

Though, the greater significance in John Warden's confirmation besides the confirmation in and of itself is that his confirmation might be the first documented instance of the fan-coined "GPS" term being used by Hasbro in an official capacity.

[william-james88]

John Warden confirmed at SDCC that CW G2 Quickslinger will not suffer from GPS.

While this is nice to know, I didnt really need a confirmation since I believe they are well aware of the problem. Has there been a recorded case of this stuff even happening in the past 10 years?

In the past ten years? Well, there's been the Star Wars Transformers Chewbacca from 2006, Cybertron Repugnus also from 2006 (which later got rereleased in 2009 in the second Universe line), and Universe/Cybertron Micromaster Superion from 2007.

Though, the greater significance in John Warden's confirmation besides the confirmation in and of itself is that his confirmation might be the first documented instance of the fan-coined "GPS" term being used by Hasbro in an official capacity.

CHEWBACCA! I knew of that one but forgot in the moment of writing. Wasnt aware of the others. And yeah, that is really cool to know that it is a termed also used by Hasbro.

[RAR]

There are other long running issues with toys to do with gold and silver - not plastic but paint - Gold paint can fade and Silver paint can go black. a couple examples would be some MASK toys and also the chest of Beast Wars II Galvatron.

Who also suffered from GPS a bit

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

That question made me realise how true some complaints about bad distributions are. In McKinney TX, the Walmarts are cleaned out of Generations, some odd Rattraps aside, while the Targets are somewhat up to date with Offroad and Breakdown on the pegs, and Wave 3 Cyclonus and Hot Spot with proper Legends to boot.

I'm holding out on the Protectobots in the hope I can easily find UW Guardian somewhere. I do know that once I find Rook, he'll be bought.

[Rodimus Prime]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

That question made me realise how true some complaints about bad distributions are. In McKinney TX, the Walmarts are cleaned out of Generations, some odd Rattraps aside, while the Targets are somewhat up to date with Offroad and Breakdown on the pegs, and Wave 3 Cyclonus and Hot Spot with proper Legends to boot.

I'm holding out on the Protectobots in the hope I can easily find UW Guardian somewhere. I do know that once I find Rook, he'll be bought.

My Walmart has Rook, Streetwise and about 10 Blades figures. TRU Has Hotspot. No First Aid anywhere in sight.

[megatronus]

I don't remember the last time I ordered a case of figures from BBTS, but I did order a case of 8 for the Protectobot deluxes. Those limbs have been particularly difficult to find for some, and things like Force Friday and subsequent waves of Hasbro product have made it unlikely we'll see more...

[LegendaryAntiHero]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

[Jelze Bunnycat]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

Uhm... they did. They never restock the space.

[william-james88]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

Uhm... they did. They never restock the space.

Yeah, I concur, the pegs in the tf section at my walmart are now serving for extra pegs to spider-man toys. The good news though is that this shows Walmart, Toysrus and Hasbro that these toys are selling. I know for a fact that the local (canadian) hasbro Distribution centres are all out of wave 1-3 deluxe and voyagers.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

That question made me realise how true some complaints about bad distributions are. In McKinney TX, the Walmarts are cleaned out of Generations, some odd Rattraps aside, while the Targets are somewhat up to date with Offroad and Breakdown on the pegs, and Wave 3 Cyclonus and Hot Spot with proper Legends to boot.

I'm holding out on the Protectobots in the hope I can easily find UW Guardian somewhere. I do know that once I find Rook, he'll be bought.

My Walmart has Rook, Streetwise and about 10 Blades figures. TRU Has Hotspot. No First Aid anywhere in sight.

Pretty sure First Aid is the most popular considering his MTMTE role. I was very happy when they said they were releasing him, and I actually am considering getting a 2nd one to have by himself

[no-one]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

Uhm... they did. They never restock the space.

Yeah, I concur, the pegs in the tf section at my walmart are now serving for extra pegs to spider-man toys. The good news though is that this shows Walmart, Toysrus and Hasbro that these toys are selling. I know for a fact that the local (canadian) hasbro Distribution centres are all out of wave 1-3 deluxe and voyagers.

Same here, for the last few weeks most stores either have empty CW pegs or they still have wave 2. I wanna say I've seen maybe two stockings/restockings of wave 3 and only one stocking of wave 4.

I did spot two cases on pegs of wave 4 last week at a Target, but it wasn't in my "home" area.

I have been seeing a lot of restocking of waves 3/4 of the legend figures though. I still haven't been able to find Viper in the wild yet. Dem collectors are quick.

[that1guysittingthere]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

Uhm... they did. They never restock the space.

I know for sure that my local Meijer has not restocked their deluxes since Wave 1 in February-March. Same with Target, although the closest Target got Wave 4 (by skipping waves 2 and 3, and possible even wave 1) TRU here hasn't restocked since Wave 2. As for my local Walmart, I found Rattraps lying around. Decided to pick one up since he's been waiting for a year.

[Optimum Supreme]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

No sign of them in West Michigan, or at least the areas where I live in. I remember that my local Target got wave 4 deluxes, but it looks like they completely skipped wave 3. All the other stores I go to are full of RiD stuff.

In my part of the state wave three just hit in the last few weeks. I suspect wave 4 might show up around Christmas, if I'm lucky.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Just wondering, anybody here still looking for the Protectobots?

No sign of them in West Michigan, or at least the areas where I live in. I remember that my local Target got wave 4 deluxes, but it looks like they completely skipped wave 3. All the other stores I go to are full of RiD stuff.

In my part of the state wave three just hit in the last few weeks. I suspect wave 4 might show up around Christmas, if I'm lucky.

I got mine, but I have yet to see anything in stores around here past wave 2....

[Railbomb]

That sounds terrible. All stores should make a alot of space for Transformers

Uhm... they did. They never restock the space.

Actually at a Target near me the Transformers section got eaten up by the the Star Wars stuff and has yet to show up somewhere else.

[RAR]

My Walmart has Rook, Streetwise and about 10 Blades figures. TRU Has Hotspot. No First Aid anywhere in sight.

I saw a similar situation in a UK Sainsbury's lots of Blades (at least eight ), a couple of Rooks, one Streetwise and not a single First Aid - then to make matters worse they don't even sell Legends and Voyagers.

I'll be relying on grey importers/discount chains The January sales or EBay I guess.

[Edited to remove a Smiley that was causing an error]

[william-james88]

Something tells me these protectobots will go for quite a bit on the secondary market in a year or two.