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I was wondering if you can remove PMOP(Powermaster Optimus Prime)/Super Ginrai's (Soon TM) Trailer.......
would that make the toy destroyed?
Or.... just it would make the toy awesome?

Albatross250 wrote:I was wondering if you can remove PMOP(Powermaster Optimus Prime)/Super Ginrai's (Soon TM) Trailer.......
would that make the toy destroyed?
Or.... just it would make the toy awesome?

I think you are asking if the cab can be separated from the rest, right? If not, I apologize for misunderstanding. If so, the removal of a single screw from the bottom should work to allow the cab to be separated from the trailer. The screw appears to secure the trailer via a large circular capture near the back of the tractor in this picture.


Transformers Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime Gallery

It shouldn't destroy the figure unless the screw becomes stripped or something.

Of course, it's a little bit pointless as there's not much the trailer can do on it's own - unless you just want a small Optimus cab.

Emerje wrote:

Kurona wrote:Sixshot hasn't shown any compatibility yet, though I think him having his tank mode renamed 'battle station mode' is pretty telling.

They didn't rename it, they mixed up the pictures in the slides.


The picture for tank mode is battle car mode while battle station mode is showing tank mode. That means whatever his real battle station mode is it hasn't been shown yet and he has six alt modes for seven total modes.

Ironhidensh wrote:

Mr Skram wrote:I've only seen one PMOP in stores. No other wave 1 or 2 Leaders at all. Pretty weird. No wave 2 Voyagers yet either.

Weird. Leader Prime and Blaster are both shelf warming in northern Indiana areas.

Between two Walmarts I've only seen three PMOPs and two Blasters since release. Furthermore I've never seen both at the same time and they're always selling out leaving weeks of no Leaders (aside from CW Skywarp) on the shelves. I still haven't seen wave 2 Voyagers or Leaders either. Plus I've mentioned before that my area completely skipped Titan Masters wave 2, instead jumping to revision wave 2 (Apeface, Brawn, Loudmouth, and Nightbeat) so no Clobber or Skytread for me.

Emerje

Williamjames88 will call you out for calling them "shelfwarmers"as

"it is defined as is the colloquial term for a toy or product that either fails to sell well or is over-produced, leaving residual quantities on store shelves for months or even years after its original release, generally far in excess of other toys from the same waves."

At least when I call stuff "shelfwarmers". But then again, if its been shelfwarming for four (4) "months", does that not fall to into the definition?

What does that make wj88 then?

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

Immortal Starscream wrote:Is it just me or does hotrods titan master look like an unpainted saber? Specifically sabers brain of courage?

Its based on Hasbro Masterpiece Offshoot.

Man I want that thing. Still amazes me that Hasbro actually made a whole new figure for an MP release rather than make a repaint the only change. I don't care if it didn't come with the trailer; that's an impressive amount of effort.

Didn't like this review.

If buying a possibly faulty figure that "fell off a truck" is the cost of being the first to review it, you're doing the figure and the viewers a disservice.

We still don't know what we're getting.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

With nothing else better to do?......shelfwarming

Bumblebee21 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

My TRU would never have me as an employee, I think they hate me (and my awesome legal cost saving methods!).

Anyways, calling anything from TR shelfwarming is absurd. The line is way too young and its impossible to know if the stock you keep seeing week after week is the same stock or a restock.

Although I do find some retailers pricing to be puzzling. With such a "young" line, Wal-Mart cutting their prices for deluxes to $9.88 U.S. (slightly less than a legends class??) Perhaps this is a strategy to avoid product sitting on shelves? Though pretty much everywhere I go, I still see CW Leader Class at $45 (Mostly Skywarps, but now some Starscreams also, and still the occasional sightings of both Megatrons). I would have thought retailers would have cut cost on those a while ago to free up shelf space for new product.

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

My TRU would never have me as an employee, I think they hate me (and my awesome legal cost saving methods!).

Anyways, calling anything from TR shelfwarming is absurd. The line is way too young and its impossible to know if the stock you keep seeing week after week is the same stock or a restock.

And if the TRU employee tells me a TR stock has been there for like a month or two (it falls under the definition of "months"). So technically it is shelfwarming. One month, then it ain't. 2 months up it's months then it is shelfwarming...by the definition.

Now if you will demand TRU inventory records, from your's truly then I'd be happy to oblige but only if you also demand it too from other posters who use the term.

This is what happens when people argue how many angels can sit on a needle's head

Wish they were selling deluxes here for a tenner...

I don't know if this has been mentioned, or reported yet, but target has dropped the price on Titans returns deluxe figures to 9.99

william-james88 wrote:Depends what you consider "real". Hasbro only ever used Sky Shadow as a name for his toy released by them so we will see if that ends up being the name of this toy too. It's the name of the Hasbro listing so far: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... dow/36300/

Okay, I forgot about that product listing. That's the missing piece of information that pushes the likelihood of this toy into being Sky Shadow rather than Blackshadow. I will not bring it up again unless it gets confirmed as Blackshadow and someone still uses Sky Shadow.

I'm having quite a run of luck today. First, I tried to return a Brainstorm to a physical Walgreens. I only ordered 2 for free shipping, and planned on releasing one into the wild. However, the store was completely clueless on how to process a return from an online order. I then spent about 10 minutes on the phone with customer service to get the issue fixed. Long story short, they refunded me and told me to just keep the figure. Basically it wasn't worth it for them to have me ship it back to them. Not sure why they didn't try to have me return it at the store with clear instructions for the staff, but no complaints here.

Next, I was just messing around on BBTS and checking to see if anything else from TR wave 3 had sold out. I was hoping to see SixShot sold out to confirm that preordering it was the right choice, cuz I'm weird like that. It's not, but I did notice that Gnaw was no longer sold out. I thought that must be a mistake, so I tried to preorder it. It didn't take the first time, but it worked the second time. I'm not sure if BBTS got additional stock or if someone decided to cancel their order. But I think I snagged the last one, if there is one to be snagged. Of course it could just be a computer glitch, but I do see the preorder in my account.

So now I get to internally debate if I should keep or cancel my preorder for SixShot and Gnaw. BBTS lets you cancel up until they receive their stock.....

[edit: fixed quote]

And you quoted my post for what reason?

King Kuuga wrote:And you quoted my post for what reason?

Apologies, clicked the wrong button. I can't win em all lol

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

My TRU would never have me as an employee, I think they hate me (and my awesome legal cost saving methods!).

Anyways, calling anything from TR shelfwarming is absurd. The line is way too young and its impossible to know if the stock you keep seeing week after week is the same stock or a restock.

And if the TRU employee tells me a TR stock has been there for like a month or two (it falls under the definition of "months"). So technically it is shelfwarming. One month, then it ain't. 2 months up it's months then it is shelfwarming...by the definition.

Now if you will demand TRU inventory records, from your's truly then I'd be happy to oblige but only if you also demand it too from other posters who use the term.

This is what happens when people argue how many angels can sit on a needle's head

None of that matters. A shelfwarmer is not defined by how long he is around. In the 80s you kept seeing Ramjet year after year but its not because he was shelfwarming, hasbro just kept pumping these toys out, rereleasing them, and they kept being bought and restocked.

A true shelfwarmer is a toy that is still on shelves when it can no longer be orderd, hence why the definition expresses that it was to be from another line when having the new line next to it. A good example would be ROTF toys still being around when DOTM is out, or all those simplified AOE tfs still being available when The last Knight toys come around. Those are shelfwarmers. You can all have your own views on a shelfwarmer and I wont police it. But if anyone wants to use it by its actual term, then the months is not as relevant as them appearing alongside a new line of toys. When you look at it that way, there arent that many shelfwarmers really. And plus, its not a great word to label a toy. I mean, we are all hoping parents and collectors find these TR toys this christmas season right? So why would there be despair to still see PMOP on the shelves?

william-james88 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
What does that make wj88 then?

an employee

My TRU would never have me as an employee, I think they hate me (and my awesome legal cost saving methods!).

Anyways, calling anything from TR shelfwarming is absurd. The line is way too young and its impossible to know if the stock you keep seeing week after week is the same stock or a restock.

And if the TRU employee tells me a TR stock has been there for like a month or two (it falls under the definition of "months"). So technically it is shelfwarming. One month, then it ain't. 2 months up it's months then it is shelfwarming...by the definition.

Now if you will demand TRU inventory records, from your's truly then I'd be happy to oblige but only if you also demand it too from other posters who use the term.

This is what happens when people argue how many angels can sit on a needle's head

None of that matters. A shelfwarmer is not defined by how long he is around. In the 80s you kept seeing Ramjet year after year but its not because he was shelfwarming, hasbro just kept pumping these toys out, rereleasing them, and they kept being bought and restocked.

A true shelfwarmer is a toy that is still on shelves when it can no longer be orderd, hence why the definition expresses that it was to be from another line when having the new line next to it. A good example would be ROTF toys still being around when DOTM is out, or all those simplified AOE tfs still being available when The last Knight toys come around. Those are shelfwarmers. You can all have your own views on a shelfwarmer and I wont police it. But if anyone wants to use it by its actual term, then the months is not as relevant as them appearing alongside a new line of toys. When you look at it that way, there arent that many shelfwarmers really. And plus, its not a great word to label a toy. I mean, we are all hoping parents and collectors find these TR toys this christmas season right? So why would there be despair to still see PMOP on the shelves?

Are you guys really still talking about this? I actually tried googling "shelfwarmer" and came across the TFWiki entry for it. Maybe cuz I'm bored, but I read the article and it was quite informative. Though I feel like one of you guys on here wrote it lol.

nycPrime wrote: Maybe cuz I'm bored, but I read the article and it was quite informative. Though I feel like one of you guys on here wrote it lol.

Well then you can be an excellent judge on this. From what you have read, what would make sense to call a shelfwarmer to you. Would anything from Titans return currently being on the shelf really count as shelfwarming?

My hope is kind of that the Takara version of TR Hot Rod uses a similar Rodimus Convoy deco to his last United toy. It was the best deco of the Classics mold.

william-james88 wrote:

nycPrime wrote: Maybe cuz I'm bored, but I read the article and it was quite informative. Though I feel like one of you guys on here wrote it lol.

Well then you can be an excellent judge on this. From what you have read, what would make sense to call a shelfwarmer to you. Would anything from Titans return currently being on the shelf really count as shelfwarming?

While I would hardly consider TFWiki an authoritative source, it is not clear on the definition. The article starts off with: Shelfwarmer is the colloquial term for a toy or product that either fails to sell well or is over-produced, leaving residual quantities on store shelves for months or even years after its original release, generally far in excess of other toys from the same waves.

It does go on to say: The inherent problem with just coming up with a list of shelfwarmers is that it varies drastically from locality to locality. Some toys will sell like gangbusters in one state or country, yet warm shelves forever in other places ... This all has led to some heated (or at least obstinate) debates online over which toys are/were vicious shelfwarmers.

Long story short, and probably not the answer anyone wants to hear....is "it depends."

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shelfwarmer

It's November, which means it's the season of sales and deals, and boy have they been coming out in droves. We have another one today, cortesy of Seibertronian Ironhidensh, that pertains to US Target stores. Apparently Target is selling Titans Return deluxes at only $10USD. This might be in preparation for the holiday season, or to clear things out before wave 2 or 3 comes. Check out his photo down below that confirms he picked up Titans Return Blurr at that price. It's currently unknown wether or not this sale is available anywhere else in the world, or even in the United States, as this could be a regional thing, but if you find anything at your local Target, please send it out way or leave a comment here!