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o.supreme wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:My only thought was that Prime also came with his trailer yet at Leader Class price point, so this is the aspect that hangs me up over Rodimus being worth $90 versus Prime at $52.

You cannot compare Optimus Prime trailer with Rodimus Prime's trailer. Optimus's is barely a margarine container with nest to no parts. Rodimus's is huge, with hinges, big cannon, storage spaces, pistons, and whatnots.

Agreed. RP does come with a LOT of bells and whistles on the trailer. I understand why a lot of people enjoy it. For me though, is wasn't necessary. They could have done a simpler trailer at the Leader price point, and I would have been just as satisfied.

I forget... Kanrabat...are you the one with the scale? I'd like to compare the weight of all 3 CC so far. Everyone refers to the Rodimus portion as "beefy", "solid" etc... While it certainly does hold together well, and the engineering is impressive, I don't think it has any more heft than most other comparable Transformers.

I guess it really boils down to what a person is after, as someone who's only looking for display purposes and not immersive interaction or shall we say "play feature" in the trailer, that aspect really doesn't go far with me. So I guess maybe I should have just waited for a Voyager version that's just him or Leader release with a more basic trailer.

Don't get me wrong it's certainly a cool figure and great that they went that far for those who enjoy that type of thing.

A more "Basic" trailer would have never worked for Rodimus Prime. Especially that Hotrod is already a voyager, just adding a cheap trailer to SS86 Hot Rod would have been so cheap and useless.

Personally, I don't think Commander Rodimus Prime is worth the full Commander price, but he's worth more than leader price. So if you can get him on sale (like I did) it's the "correct" price.

Speaking of the trailer, all these 5mm ports are just overkill and it make the inside of the trailer look like it's textured for some... other purpose.

My Kingdom sideswipe and Maximal Skywarp just arrived via Amazon a short while ago.

On Packaging: I know people have had issues with them just sending the box straight through with last years exclusives. I can confirm that more care was taken this time. The package was an Amazon box with bubble filler and a Hasbro box inside. Inside the Hasbro box is the main box containing the two figures.

The figures: long story short, if you have Siege Sideswipe and Kingdom Airrazor, you know what to expect. Sideswipe is identical save parts to make the Lamborghini alt mode and comes with the cartoon-accurate missile launcher for the right shoulder. Otherwise, it's a cleaner bot mode.

Skywarp: different color scheme and different head.

So, Pulse finally sent me Galvatron yezterday, which is good, since I've never seen him in a store, but...

(1) His shoulders are still misassembled!

(2) Folding his head in during transformation feels like it's going to break the figure, and produces a loud pop. Oddly, the problem only goes one direction. Transformation to bot mode is perfectly smooth.

I was very surprised to see many eBay seller's parting ways with their trailers for Rodimus.

I got it in me now to keep any piece I don't care for from any figure I get and just put it away for the simple reason of "what if" and not just chuck it out like I use to.

I guess those selling the trailer parts are happy with the core figure and have zero intent for use/display with the trailer.

Nemesis Destron wrote:I was very surprised to see many eBay seller's parting ways with their trailers for Rodimus.

I got it in me now to keep any piece I don't care for from any figure I get and just put it away for the simple reason of "what if" and not just chuck it out like I use to.

I guess those selling the trailer parts are happy with the core figure and have zero intent for use/display with the trailer.

A better question would be, who's buying all those trailers...

ZeroWolf wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:I was very surprised to see many eBay seller's parting ways with their trailers for Rodimus.

I got it in me now to keep any piece I don't care for from any figure I get and just put it away for the simple reason of "what if" and not just chuck it out like I use to.

I guess those selling the trailer parts are happy with the core figure and have zero intent for use/display with the trailer.

A better question would be, who's buying all those trailers...

What for what use?

I don't really see much use in just a trailer unless you simply want a cannon for some other figure display.

Roadbuster wrote:My Kingdom sideswipe and Maximal Skywarp just arrived via Amazon a short while ago.

Got all excited just now getting home and seeing an Amazon box on my doorstep, only to find out that it wasn't Sideswipe but Rescue Armor Potts 2pk! lol

My preorder for Kingdom Scorponok arrived today. Was really excited for it, but I have to admit, this was the first big whiff for me of the Beast Wars characters in the Kingdom line.

Good stuff out of the way first: It looks very good. The bot mode is very accurate to his show appearance, although a little stocky, and the scorpion mode is going for a more realistic (and creepy) look, par for the course for this line so far. The transformation is actually very unique (love the way the legs both become part of the tail), and the included weapons look good in the claws.

But a couple of issues popped up pretty early on mine. First off, its a little small. Scorponok wasn't the biggest character on BW, so not a huge issue, but he's shorter than Kingdom Blackarachnia, so its somewhat noticeable.

The bigger issue though, is all the red parts are absurdly loose. These are the ball jointed legs and the stinger on the tail, and they pop off CONSTANTLY. The legs can barely be twisted before falling off, and the stinger...that thing just fell off in the box. I posed it in robot mode with my other Predacons and am worried it's just going fall off the shelf and get lost somewhere. I'm not even sure floor polish will help, it's WAY too loose.

As I mentioned, this was the first BW character from this line that has disappointed me, the rest have been anywhere from good to great, so not sure what happened with this guy.

Got my Kingdom Ark so here's my TlDr review:

The ship is nice but it need side-panels.

Transformation is clickity-clackity with satisfying ratchets but those two panels at the bottom of the ship are annoying for popping off all the time.

The bot is huge and impressive despite some hollow spaces.

Teletran-1 is pretty nice in computer mode but the bot is meh.

The fire effects and the microtimus will stay in the box. I can't use them anywhere and the spaceship will stand on it's rear-end when I display it so no fire.

Overall, not worth the normal 250$CAN plus taxes, but well worth the 188$CAN total I paid after the sale and promo gift card.

Chefatron put up reviews for Puffer and Road Ranger

yEw mEaN tHiEfATrOn? yeW meAn chEFatHiEF?
sToLeN iTs sToLeN I kAnT bEliEvE wE'rE prOmOtiNG tHieVeRY

Anyways here are the links

https://youtu.be/u6v0p8dCnUA

https://youtu.be/6loq7vWxLJE

So since we have Huffer and Puffer, when are we gonna get a BlowYourHouseDowner?

Razorbeast88 wrote:So since we have Huffer and Puffer, when are we gonna get a BlowYourHouseDowner?

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:So since we have Huffer and Puffer, when are we gonna get a BlowYourHouseDowner?

In a 2 pack with NotByTheHairOfMyChinnyChinChinner

Razorbeast88 wrote:So since we have Huffer and Puffer, when are we gonna get a BlowYourHouseDowner?

Puffer? But I hardly knew 'er!

People got jokes on this site I see. Can somebody explain to me the reason behind Road Ranger not looking blue and red like the original GoBot toy? I read the wiki listing but it really didn't explain much.

Has anybody's Waspinator and Sgadow Panther shipped yet? It's been four days now.

Lore Keeper wrote:Has anybody's Waspinator and Sgadow Panther shipped yet? It's been four days now.

My coneheads took a week to ship form them. And now this wave is found in the US.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:People got jokes on this site I see. Can somebody explain to me the reason behind Road Ranger not looking blue and red like the original GoBot toy? I read the wiki listing but it really didn't explain much.

The upcoming release uses the same deco as the eHobby release from 2004. Why eHobby used that deco in the first place? no clue.

william-james88 wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:Has anybody's Waspinator and Sgadow Panther shipped yet? It's been four days now.

My coneheads took a week to ship form them. And now this wave is found in the US.

Yeah, kinda figures that would happen right after I order them from Canada.

Apparently wave 4 deluxes have now been spotted at U.S. retail (personally I haven't even seen wave 3 at stores yet despite getting them online weeks ago)

https://www.allspark.com/us-retail-sigh ... -in-texas/

Lore Keeper wrote:Has anybody's Waspinator and Shadow Panther shipped yet? It's been four days now.

??? Where did you pre-order from, there are no sites I am aware of that have official pre-orders available, which is what makes the instore sighting both intriguing, but also frustrating.

o.supreme wrote:Speaking of Grand Max, I just recalled this. The first time a crowdfunding endeavor was attempted:

Grand Maximus was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive; he was available for preorder starting October 11 at 12:00 am until November 2 at 1:00 pm. A minimum of 2000 orders were required for the figure to be produced, this target was reached on October 27. Upon 3000 preorders or more, he would have included a new Pretender Suit retooled from Power of the Primes Micronus's decoy armor, presumably intended for Waverider, which can transform into a weapon, store Gran's Headmaster, or attach to a Prime Master in weapon mode. Unfortunately, preorders did not reach this level within the three-week deadline.

So while limited only to customers in Japan, and with a 3 week order window, they reached the 2000 production goal, but not the 3000 stretch goal, which is kind of sad. But other than some Botcon exclusives which range in the low 100's to sometimes 2000's, It is nice to know I own a toy that we know less than 3000 of exist in the whole world.

Dammit, I had almost pushed the existence of a Waverider/Diver mould out of my head. Now I have to be angry all over again, lol. I really wish would get this out to us somehow. Diver is my fav of the main Pretenders too.

As we predicted in our recent article regarding these same two toys, these shipping now from a Canadian retailer meant that it would be only a matter of time before we saw them in the US as well. Turns out, it took even less time than I would have imagined. This wave of Transformers Kingdom deluxe stores was found at a Walmart in Texas by TF fan Robert who posted it on Twitter. Now if this is wave 4 as opposed to a "in between" wave, it is very early since it has not been revealed, there are no preorders and conventional scheduling would have it appearing on shelves in October. But maybe the plan is still to have everything Kingdom related out by the end of the year, meaning that the final wave with Pipes and Slammer will still be out in Q4 of this year.

The good news here is that finding this Q4 product on the shelves means that Hasbro did secure enough shipping contracts to keep stocking shelves (or else you simply would not have seen these).

o.supreme wrote:Apparently wave 4 deluxes have now been spotted at U.S. retail (personally I haven't even seen wave 3 at stores yet despite getting them online weeks ago)

https://www.allspark.com/us-retail-sigh ... -in-texas/

Lore Keeper wrote:Has anybody's Waspinator and Shadow Panther shipped yet? It's been four days now.

??? Where did you pre-order from, there are no sites I am aware of that have official pre-orders available, which is what makes the instore sighting both intriguing, but also frustrating.

There's a website called Toy Snowman. They had a news alert about it here a few days ago. Be warned, if you live in the US, you'll pay a LOT more for it.

Glad they are slowly coming. Whatever gets Tigatron out is all I care about. He is one I can't wait to get.