Combiner Wars Computron Discounted At TJ Maxx, Titans Return at Marshall's

Computron at TJ Maxx! Time to hunt again.

No luck with computron at 4-5 stores over the weekend. Hope this is real. Wonder if HTS will also drop the price like it did for the g2 sets.

I'm actually more curious about the TR figures, those are brand new, wave two hasn't even shown up in some retail areas of the U.S. yet, to have them in Market 6 stores already is quite confusing. If I saw leaders at Marshalls or TJ Maxx I'd definitely snatch them since I've been waiting for the prices to go down at normal retail chains.

I so called Computron appearing at Marshall's! Next up, G2 Bruticus!

And Computron for only 40 bucks? Yes please, got my Xmas settled

Wha wha whaaat?

I need Computron in my life like right now. I found G2 Menasor at my Marshalls in Peoria, Illinois. They had 4 of them when I bought mine on 11.11.16. I saw no TF Returns figures of any kind and no Superion. My TJ Maxx is a joke, but they have not put out all of their toys yet like Marshalls. I'm hoping the tables go up soon and I can find a Computron. I like my Menasor, but dang why didn't Hasbro fix mold issues by this point. My hips are fine, but Blackjack will not slide onto pegs in Motromaster's chest plate...that really sucks. The colors on the G2 pop and I'm happy with this $40 purchase. I have seen nothing at my local Ross stores either. We have two of those and toy setup for Christmas has also been a joke.

I have UW Computron, but at $40, I'd still pick this set up, just for the variety.

Too bad the Marshalls near me doesn't carry toys

My TJ Maxx didn't have Computron, but it did have a Scattershot for $12.99, which I picked up.

good idea

Computron is bought if/when i find one, so's Astrotrain but where the heck are these coming from?

o.supreme wrote:I'm actually more curious about the TR figures, those are brand new, wave two hasn't even shown up in some retail areas of the U.S. yet, to have them in Market 6 stores already is quite confusing. If I saw leaders at Marshalls or TJ Maxx I'd definitely snatch them since I've been waiting for the prices to go down at normal retail chains.

Yea anything from TR at Marshalls/TJMaxx strikes me as odd given how current they are. In any case, has this and Computron been confirmed as true? Is it just me, or are all the forums just reposting the original story? And I don't recall seeing a pic with a receipt, though I wasn't paying that much attention...

nycPrime wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I'm actually more curious about the TR figures, those are brand new, wave two hasn't even shown up in some retail areas of the U.S. yet, to have them in Market 6 stores already is quite confusing. If I saw leaders at Marshalls or TJ Maxx I'd definitely snatch them since I've been waiting for the prices to go down at normal retail chains.

Yea anything from TR at Marshalls/TJMaxx strikes me as odd given how current they are. In any case, has this and Computron been confirmed as true? Is it just me, or are all the forums just reposting the original story? And I don't recall seeing a pic with a receipt, though I wasn't paying that much attention...

Yes its all the same story, there have yet to be more sightings.

Man, combiner sets for $40,-... That's NEVER gonna happen here in the EU
First Victorion, now Computron and G2 sets... Well, on the other hand, you guys are now stuck with Trump for POTUS, so cheap combiners are a small comfort I guess

Sjeng wrote:Man, combiner sets for $40,-... That's NEVER gonna happen here in the EU
First Victorion, now Computron and G2 sets... Well, on the other hand, you guys are now stuck with Trump for POTUS, so cheap combiners are a small comfort I guess

Do you not have TK Maxx?

And I know it was lighthearted, but let's keep politics off the threads

Uh, what state were these found in? That always helps.

Kurona wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Man, combiner sets for $40,-... That's NEVER gonna happen here in the EU
First Victorion, now Computron and G2 sets... Well, on the other hand, you guys are now stuck with Trump for POTUS, so cheap combiners are a small comfort I guess

Do you not have TK Maxx?

And I know it was lighthearted, but let's keep politics off the threads

Yeah, got it I agree.

Well, I googled it, and apparently, we DO have TK Maxx!! Never ever heard of them, but there's one pretty close in Heerlen, and also a bit further in Germany, Aachen! Sadly, you can't see what they have online...
Can you call them and ask?

Sjeng wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Man, combiner sets for $40,-... That's NEVER gonna happen here in the EU
First Victorion, now Computron and G2 sets...

Do you not have TK Maxx?

And I know it was lighthearted, but let's keep politics off the threads

Yeah, got it I agree.

Well, I googled it, and apparently, we DO have TK Maxx!! Never ever heard of them, but there's one pretty close in Heerlen, and also a bit further in Germany, Aachen! Sadly, you can't see what they have online...
Can you call them and ask?

Don't blame you - I barely recall them existing here until we found out about that £13 Sky Lynx.
From what I've heard the stock can vary greatly depending on the store; I guess it's just up for luck. Sky Lynx, CW boxsets, random Legends Class dudes, RiD 2015 deployers, Titans Return Leaders - it's pretty much a random grab-bag. I suppose you might be able to call the individual store itself and ask, but it doesn't exactly seem like they stock toys in the typical sense; just take on residual stock from elsewhere and price it according to what they think it's worth. Still, wouldn't hurt to try, right?

Yes it's pretty Random the toys come in a cage or black plastic boxes of random stuff. heck the same toy can come in more than once and be a different price each time too - for example when I bought Blaster he was £24.99 and yet the Combiner Wars Leader Thundercracker they have at the moment is £29.99

Cyber Bishop wrote:Uh, what state were these found in? That always helps.

The original person didn't even say where he got it.

I don't doubt that he found this at a TJMAxx, but I don't like that he only took pictures after he bought it with no receipt or location

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Uh, what state were these found in? That always helps.

The original person didn't even say where he got it.

I don't doubt that he found this at a TJMAxx, but I don't like that he only took pictures after he bought it with no receipt or location

But he didn't do that, the pictures in the article are right from the store.



Emerje

Went to one local Ross & Marshalls by my work yesterday (they are right next to each other...which never made much sense to me ). But no TR toys, just the usual CW Voyagers for $14.99. Today I hope to check another TJ Maxx/Marshalls/Ross that are on a different route between my Work & Home.

Canadian Marshalls had nothing.

I have only once seen Transformers Generation toys at Marshalls and never at TJ Maxx. It's depressing.

I went to my local TJ Maxx on Sunday, even called the store to make see if they had it. The workers there had no clue what I was talking about. I even told them specifically what I was looking for, and got excited when they said they had it and had it saved for me to pick up, only to find out that it was Combiner Wars Motormaster.

I'm not sure how they got Motormaster from Computron.. but they did. My theory is that they saw a box that said "Transformers: Combiner Wars" and just assumed it was it.

Guess I'm going to have to keep checking TJ Maxx and even Marshalls. Even if it is time-consuming and a waste of gas, or order online..

ultrascottus wrote:The workers there had no clue what I was talking about. I even told them specifically what I was looking for, and got excited when they said they had it and had it saved for me to pick up, only to find out that it was Combiner Wars Motormaster.

I'm not sure how they got Motormaster from Computron.. but they did. My theory is that they saw a box that said "Transformers: Combiner Wars" and just assumed it was it.

Unfortunately I learned a long...long time ago, that unless you are calling a toy store specifically, it isn't worth it to call ahead. This even applies at Wal-Mart and Target. Yes workers especially at Market 6 stores have no clue, because toys are a drop in the bucket compared with everything else they sell, and as most of you can tell when you walk in, there is no rhyme or reason to any of their toy sections. Stuff is just put on shelves randomly. Often you have to look behind product to find other totally unrelated items, which is why I am very thorough when I go to these places because sometimes you do find a hidden gem. The employees don't even know what to expect in their shipments, stuff just sort of "shows up" from others stores or warehouses presumably.

I understand the desire not to waste gas/time on travel. Fortunately I live in a suburb of a fairly large city, so there are actually more of these stores than I can go to in any given time, so I plan my routes. I went to a couple yesterday. Today I plan on going home a different direction that will pass by 3 of these stores.

Cyber Bishop wrote:Uh, what state were these found in? That always helps.

He found Computron at TJ Maxx in Fenton, Missouri, and Astrotrain at Marshalls off Lindburg in St. Louis, Missouri.

Source.

Kurona wrote:

Sjeng wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Man, combiner sets for $40,-... That's NEVER gonna happen here in the EU
First Victorion, now Computron and G2 sets...

Do you not have TK Maxx?

And I know it was lighthearted, but let's keep politics off the threads

Yeah, got it I agree.

Well, I googled it, and apparently, we DO have TK Maxx!! Never ever heard of them, but there's one pretty close in Heerlen, and also a bit further in Germany, Aachen! Sadly, you can't see what they have online...
Can you call them and ask?

Don't blame you - I barely recall them existing here until we found out about that £13 Sky Lynx.
From what I've heard the stock can vary greatly depending on the store; I guess it's just up for luck. Sky Lynx, CW boxsets, random Legends Class dudes, RiD 2015 deployers, Titans Return Leaders - it's pretty much a random grab-bag. I suppose you might be able to call the individual store itself and ask, but it doesn't exactly seem like they stock toys in the typical sense; just take on residual stock from elsewhere and price it according to what they think it's worth. Still, wouldn't hurt to try, right?

Yeah I found Sky Lynx for $13 here at a Marshall's or Ross in San Diego. I was NOT going to pay 30 for him, but the lower price was just fine. He looks like a big puppy. lol.

o.supreme wrote:

ultrascottus wrote:The workers there had no clue what I was talking about. I even told them specifically what I was looking for, and got excited when they said they had it and had it saved for me to pick up, only to find out that it was Combiner Wars Motormaster.

I'm not sure how they got Motormaster from Computron.. but they did. My theory is that they saw a box that said "Transformers: Combiner Wars" and just assumed it was it.

Unfortunately I learned a long...long time ago, that unless you are calling a toy store specifically, it isn't worth it to call ahead. This even applies at Wal-Mart and Target. Yes workers especially at Market 6 stores have no clue, because toys are a drop in the bucket compared with everything else they sell, and as most of you can tell when you walk in, there is no rhyme or reason to any of their toy sections. Stuff is just put on shelves randomly. Often you have to look behind product to find other totally unrelated items, which is why I am very thorough when I go to these places because sometimes you do find a hidden gem. The employees don't even know what to expect in their shipments, stuff just sort of "shows up" from others stores or warehouses presumably.

I understand the desire not to waste gas/time on travel. Fortunately I live in a suburb of a fairly large city, so there are actually more of these stores than I can go to in any given time, so I plan my routes. I went to a couple yesterday. Today I plan on going home a different direction that will pass by 3 of these stores.

Yeah, you are right. 100% I live in the middle of nowhere, essentially, and if I want to go get anything, I would have to travel 45 mins, at least to even look. Might be better if I knew someone close, that could help me out.. lol

Yes you read that right. We are talking about Transformers Combiner Wars Wave 2 from over a year ago. Cases of the wave 2 revision wave (which also includes Dragstrip) were found at a UK chain called Guess How Much? for £6.99. The photo with Dragstrip comes from their Doncaster store. You can click here to go to their store locator to see if you have one near you.





You will notice in the photo evidence that these come with the comics and were thus not initially meant for UK distribution. Instead, these are grey imports, which means they weren't brough over by Hasbro UK but by another importer.

It's similar to how BBTS imports platinum editions from China and sells them for a similar price to the exclusive US retailer. It is also called parallel importing.

The fan who gathered all this news for us, TFW2005 member Payres, explains it better in the following quote:

A "grey import" is a toy that's been imported into the UK by a firm other than Hasbro themselves.

This usually means there's a sticker somewhere on the packaging saying "imported by" and naming the firm.

This particular firm has a record for this sort of thing going back to the mid 90s, maybe earlier

Grey Imports are frequently left over stock from another region so the boxes/cards for the toys are usually not the standard ones for the UK. Sometimes it's hard to tell but there's a dead giveaway here as these CW toys have the comics which the UK versions didn't. Last year lots of chains got cases of T30 Voyagers in stock, which we never got here.

Generally grey imports are sold to discount chains such as TK Maxx, Home Bargains and B&M. The discount chain mentioned here is a new one on most people. However at this time of year, when shelf turnover is high, they can end up in normal retail stores.

How widespread it is outside the UK I haven't a clue!

Good luck finding one, though. There's a grand total of 6 stores in the entire United Kingdom, and none of them in Scotland or Ireland.

https://ghmstores.co.uk/store-locator/?location=all

I want those comics...

Agamemnon wrote:I want those comics...

Thats right, I forget, you guys never did get the Dragstrip comic.

And I dont know if you remember Agamemnon, but the Alpha Bravo comics were given out free at a Shanghai event since they ended up never being used for a revision wave.

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:I want those comics...

Thats right, I forget, you guys never did get the Dragstrip comic.

And I dont know if you remember Agamemnon, but the Alpha Bravo comics were given out free at a Shanghai event since they ended up never being used for a revision wave.

yeah we did get dragstrip. i remember going to a tru or 2 and seeing him with the other stuntcions.I remember it vividly because it meant i was gonna have to wait longer for air raid.i had slingshot before i had air raid.
the comics did end up being reused tho. they were with the combaticons

Weird that the comic versions wound up in Britain, when at a Target here in America I saw the non-comic versions back when they were the current wave. My own had the comics because I went BBTS thinking I'd never see them (and for the most part I was right)

Oh wait... Dragstrip was wave 1, so I'm not talking about him, but for the ones actually in wave 2, what I said applies..

Right now, I've seen comic-less versions of CW Ironhide and Sunstreaker at TJ Maxx stores.

Sabrblade wrote:Right now, I've seen comic-less versions of CW Ironhide and Sunstreaker at TJ Maxx stores.

is sabr doing some hunting.
yeah i saw blast off swindle hound and mirage

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Right now, I've seen comic-less versions of CW Ironhide and Sunstreaker at TJ Maxx stores.

is sabr doing some hunting.
yeah i saw blast off swindle hound and mirage

I am pretty sure those are canadian overstock.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:I want those comics...

Thats right, I forget, you guys never did get the Dragstrip comic.

And I dont know if you remember Agamemnon, but the Alpha Bravo comics were given out free at a Shanghai event since they ended up never being used for a revision wave.

yeah we did get dragstrip. i remember going to a tru or 2 and seeing him with the other stuntcions.I remember it vividly because it meant i was gonna have to wait longer for air raid.i had slingshot before i had air raid.
the comics did end up being reused tho. they were with the combaticons

Indeed, if it could be found, I believe Dragstrip with comic was packed in wave 2 cases. (I never saw one in person.) And I wish I was in Shanghai when that happened. I haven't looked for some time, but I imagine these covers are around. I just wonder if they are available at a premium price because of completionists like me....

Yes I've know about United Overseas Limited (Kingsley Paige) for a long time.
I really must check to see if they have anything to do with MBC (Chorley Woods Herts) who is the other one who does a lot of this stuff.

Those grey imports have been around literally for ever - they used to import Goadaikins in the 1980s and American Packed MASK, also lines like Air Raiders, Bone Age & Robotix even some Inhumanoids. egg beasts as well as Transformers, Gi Joe, Batman toys & 90's Action Man and likely dozens more.

I think people really noticed them though when they started dumping all that Chinese G1 & G2 stuff on cheap stores in the 1990s. (Like Devastator) they even used to sell their imports in Woolworths - I often hear people wondering why they have a Frenzy with plastic feet. (that is why).

Though Woolworths also did their own importing / exclusives too as dd ASDA (oddly this was before they were owned by Walmart).

I'm starting to see more of this sort of things - looking at the stuff TRU, The Entertainer & even Very have suddenly been stocking - makes me smell "Imports" I get that vibe from the sudden appearance of later Jurassic World toys - that previously had been on sale no where and that appear to not be in European packaging.

It would be terrific if they've imported some Voyagers too - then you might see Motormaster & white Optimus too.

Oh and there are imports of the legends class too (including Viper & Blackjack) in some cheapstores like the Original factory Shop marked 'MBC limited' as well as a whole lot of Hero mashers that have shown up out of no where that I've never seen before in the UK like Red Hulk & Deadpool.

I got a Blackjack myself in OFS 2 weeks ago for £6.00.

So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

nycPrime wrote:So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

he will be out just got to give it some time.
it probably just got out early.
im not sure about the choo choos tho

Bumblebee21 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

he will be out just got to give it some time.
it probably just got out early.
im not sure about the choo choos tho

Yeah those astrotrains look like mistakes, like they were sent the wrong batch of Generations Voyagers.

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

he will be out just got to give it some time.
it probably just got out early.
im not sure about the choo choos tho

Yeah those astrotrains look like mistakes, like they were sent the wrong batch of Generations Voyagers.

of course if its true its sad and there goes my switch astrotrain for alpha trion plan

but i dont think that compy was a mistake since the other boxsets have been showing

Found g2 menasour but no computron.

Also found a G2 Menasor at Marshalls, box was pretty beat up though. All 3 (TJ Maxx, Marshalls & Ross) had CW Voyagers. 14.99 at the first two, and $12.99 at Ross. Something tells me Hasbro just way over produced on these. I mean I thought it would have been pretty simple math. You are only going to need one voyager for every 4 deluxes in a line mostly dedicated to combiners, I mean not that many people are going to collect these on their own.... . I know TR is a whole different deal but...Sadly no TR figures spotted yet

nycPrime wrote:So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

I posted before, but it was probably missed being at the bottom of the previous page. The sighting for Computron was in fact real as the pictures were taken right on the TJ Maxx shelves.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:

nycPrime wrote:So is it possible that computron at tj maxx was either a one-off mistake or not true to begin with? I feel like everyone has been searching for it, myself included. You would think by now a few more would've turned up.

I posted before, but it was probably missed being at the bottom of the previous page. The sighting for Computron was in fact real as the pictures were taken right on the TJ Maxx shelves.



Emerje

I just find it odd no one else has found it yet. The last few times someone on this forum found something at Marshalls or TJ Maxx (Sky Lynx, G2 sets), others have also found it within a few days. But as others have mentioned, maybe that particular store somehow just got it early (I hope) as opposed to some elaborate hoax.

That's the photo I took while in store last Tuesday around 18:30 - but they had a few Dragstrips.

Prime Nova wrote:That's the photo I took while in store last Tuesday around 18:30 - but they had a few Dragstrips.

so you found computron

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Prime Nova wrote:That's the photo I took while in store last Tuesday around 18:30 - but they had a few Dragstrips.

so you found computron

He might be referring to the news about the combiner wars dragstrip found in UK.

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Prime Nova wrote:That's the photo I took while in store last Tuesday around 18:30 - but they had a few Dragstrips.

so you found computron

He might be referring to the news about the combiner wars dragstrip found in UK.

true that is another possibility