Combiner Wars Deluxe Groove Now Available On HasbroToyShop.com

Aaaand its arriving in a week or so. Glad I caught this one before the rest of the world woke up.

Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

A terrific toy, I'm very glad I snagged him a couple months ago. I'm no G1 slave but IMO Defensor looks better with two slim limbs, two bigger. Albeit my Defensor is Groove, Blades, Streetwise, Rook. First Aid is one of Galvatronus' limbs...

He has ALL THE TRUCKS.

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

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So, is Groove just finally now coming available? You know, "May Mayhem" in September? I got my Groove in May from Robot Kingdom, so I stopped paying attention to the matter, but it seems to me like this is only now becoming available.

Kurona wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

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He was probably including shipping with that price.

Dagon wrote:So, is Groove just finally now coming available? You know, "May Mayhem" in September? I got my Groove in May from Robot Kingdom, so I stopped paying attention to the matter, but it seems to me like this is only now becoming available.

I and many others got him in may from bbts or Amazon or wherever. Seems like retailers sold out quickly but were promised more later.

Kurona wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

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Those pesky things called shipping and sales tax, it would come to $24.90 for me.

Emerje

As we all know, Unite Warriors and Combiner Wars have a few Deluxe class figures that are different.
So far, I've collected five U.W. sets. This got me thinking: Hasbro introduced a few new Deluxe characters for their combiners, which Takara didn't do, and instead chose for classic names.
Fortunately, if you still want those new characters, Hasbro lets you buy them all seperately.
I'm not talking about the few robots that have the same name, but a different mold, such as Blastoff and Nosecone for example.
I'm talking about Offroad (who wasn't a G1 Menasor limb), Rook (Defensor), Alpha Bravo (Superion).
And there's also the difference in Skyreign/Lynxmaster with UW having Ratchet, and CW having Smokescreen.

I'm thinking of getting the UW Lynxmaster (for Ratchet mostly), and hopefully UW Superion (with Slingshot) and then getting 4 "missing" deluxes, plus another Voyager, to create a new Combiner:
- CW white Convoi or whatever he's called, or another Voyager that's not in UW-01 through 08.
- CW Offroad
- CW Rook
- CW Smokescreen
- CW Alpha Bravo

I want this to be an all autobot combiner though, but that's okay, because I never liked Roller on Grand Galvatron as an autobot. Galvatron need decepticons imo, so I can swap out Offroad with Roller!
The new combiner's legs would be Rook & Roller! Rock & Roll Convoi!

The trick is: finding all these seperate figures... They're just nowhere to be found in the EU, except maybe from Kapow Toys, with whom I sadly have quite a bad experience.
So if you know any EU online shops that may have these figures, please let me know

That is a good suggestion putting Off Road on Galvatron.

I still hold out a vague hope for some CW Vs sets some time - as there sure are a lot of obvious repaints : Detritus, Slicer, Hoist, Sideswipe, Red Alert, (possibly Jazz), maybe another Ratchet (green or red & white maybe), A western version of Breakdown (maybe using the First Aid Mould), Exhaust, Tigertrack, Clamp Down, Deepcover, Silverstreak, and so on.. not to mention there is some potential for Turbomasters, Predator Planes & Seekers there too.

While I think of it Groove's Dlx could be turned into Dlx Wreck Gar, Road Pig or Sideways too.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too late hts

If you're not sure if you want to order this one? Check out the video review!

https://youtu.be/lRRLF_d3lvA

Sigh. Is this guy/mold ever going to get a single release over in the UK?

Emerje wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

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Those pesky things called shipping and sales tax, it would come to $24.90 for me.

Emerje

If you spend another $34, maybe picking up some TR guys, you would get the free shipping and it would be well worth it

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

People happily paid that from BBTS back when he came out in May.

Also, check how much Quickslinger and Wildrider are going for on he secondary market. Lots of people regret not getting them when they could. You dont have to get him, of course, but this price might look like a bargain one year from now.

Sjeng wrote:I'm thinking of getting the UW Lynxmaster (for Ratchet mostly), and hopefully UW Superion (with Slingshot) and then getting 4 "missing" deluxes, plus another Voyager, to create a new Combiner:
- CW white Convoi or whatever he's called, or another Voyager that's not in UW-01 through 08.
- CW Offroad
- CW Rook
- CW Smokescreen
- CW Alpha Bravo

I want this to be an all autobot combiner though, but that's okay, because I never liked Roller on Grand Galvatron as an autobot. Galvatron need decepticons imo, so I can swap out Offroad with Roller!
The new combiner's legs would be Rook & Roller! Rock & Roll Convoi!

The trick is: finding all these seperate figures... They're just nowhere to be found in the EU, except maybe from Kapow Toys, with whom I sadly have quite a bad experience.
So if you know any EU online shops that may have these figures, please let me know

That is exactly what I did. I am getting all the UW sets, and only the CW figures not released in the UW series. You can still make that all Autobot combiner... (Battle Core Optimus, Alpha Bravo, Rook, Smokescreen and the 5th member will either be the "bonus" to next years TFSS 5.0 Subscription Service, or if that turns out to be a Decepticon you could add in Botcon 2016 Unit-3 or Tigatron.

My all 'con unique combiner will be Grand Scourge with CW Blast Off and Vortex (as they are significantly different from their UW counterparts) Off Road and 2016 Botcon Terrorsaur

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:Yeah as much as i want one i cant justify spending $26.04 on a single deluxe, sorry hasbro im taking my money elsewhere.

??

Those pesky things called shipping and sales tax, it would come to $24.90 for me.

Emerje

If you spend another $34, maybe picking up some TR guys, you would get the free shipping and it would be well worth it

I couldn't get the $50 free shipping to activate for me, so I just got this guy - it's worth it though

Saw 1 each of the Sky Reign wave of deluxes yesterday in MA.

RAR wrote:I will sometimes buy from Japan but I tend to avoid Canada as even something small is crazy prices from there. so I would only recommend it if you are aware of all costs (including customs charges) up front.

There are a few good ebay sellers on the continent worth dealing with there is one who has 9.99 (euro) shipping on most things but charges no more post no matter what you buy.

I think he might be in the Netherlands even.

I'll try to find him thanks! Do you remember the name?

By the way Sjeng, just to make finding him easier; the white Optimus' official name is Battle Core Optimus Prime.

So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

Yeah, that's not bad, already got mine from hts though

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

Yeah, that's not bad, already got mine from hts though

Man I wish I had waited on Groove before ordering from Amazon. Could've gotten him and Blaster with the Labor Day sale, which still looked like it worked as of this morning. I'm praying the wave 2 deluxes show up on HTS before they deactivate the code.

nycPrime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

Yeah, that's not bad, already got mine from hts though

Man I wish I had waited on Groove before ordering from Amazon. Could've gotten him and Blaster with the Labor Day sale, which still looked like it worked as of this morning. I'm praying the wave 2 deluxes show up on HTS before they deactivate the code.

Actually an update on HTS. They shipped my order this morning, but my tracking number is not working AND I can't contact them since both the email system and the phone seem to be malfunctioning...

Sjeng wrote:I'll try to find him thanks! Do you remember the name?

Yes it was : gerrutcamaro (https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fusr%2Fgerrutcamaro%3F)

Some other useful sellers : (for Perfect effect stuff)

day366
masterforce-co-uk

Just remember try changing to .co.uk or .com or other places even to get different results - for example items listed for Australia Dollars might sometime be slightly cheaper but still listed as worldwide shipping.

nycPrime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

Yeah, that's not bad, already got mine from hts though

Man I wish I had waited on Groove before ordering from Amazon. Could've gotten him and Blaster with the Labor Day sale, which still looked like it worked as of this morning. I'm praying the wave 2 deluxes show up on HTS before they deactivate the code.

Well, you still pay shipping and taxes, and that'll be more than $10 (well, for most of us), so you're really not getting anything out of it...

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

Yeah, that's not bad, already got mine from hts though

Man I wish I had waited on Groove before ordering from Amazon. Could've gotten him and Blaster with the Labor Day sale, which still looked like it worked as of this morning. I'm praying the wave 2 deluxes show up on HTS before they deactivate the code.

Actually an update on HTS. They shipped my order this morning, but my tracking number is not working AND I can't contact them since both the email system and the phone seem to be malfunctioning...

Mine was the same way with sentinel and rewind initially, I just gave it a day, and it was up and running

Hellscream9999 wrote:Mine was the same way with sentinel and rewind initially, I just gave it a day, and it was up and running

Good to hear, Thanks Scream!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Mine was the same way with sentinel and rewind initially, I just gave it a day, and it was up and running

Good to hear, Thanks Scream!

Yeah, I had two links to the tracking thing and neither worked, but I had the order numbers and whatnot, so I wasn't worried as I figured that I could call them if need be. But if everything's down, then I'd be little concerned. I say wait 'til tomorrow afternoon and check again.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

I've had him on preorder from a place called Scramble Core since May. Since then, I've had a couple people who own stores approach me, tell me they're getting Groove in, and wanted to know if I wanted to put one down. Wish I could, but the place I originally ordered from won't cancel preorders, so now I'm stuck with them. If e-trailers have had him for a while now, then I guess I'll need to see if I've gotten a shipping notification yet.

Mindmaster wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

I've had him on preorder from a place called Scramble Core since May. Since then, I've had a couple people who own stores approach me, tell me they're getting Groove in, and wanted to know if I wanted to put one down. Wish I could, but the place I originally ordered from won't cancel preorders, so now I'm stuck with them. If e-trailers have had him for a while now, then I guess I'll need to see if I've gotten a shipping notification yet.

I'd say drop scramble core after this, sounds like a bad deal to pre-order with them, even a tiny bit shady

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:So does this mean that online retailers will have him soon? Hope to get my order in soon... Four/five months an an awfully long wait for me!

The other online retailers have had him in stock, for a couple weeks actually... for $25...

Ages 3 and Up has him for close to retail prices right now http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... r-release/

I've had him on preorder from a place called Scramble Core since May. Since then, I've had a couple people who own stores approach me, tell me they're getting Groove in, and wanted to know if I wanted to put one down. Wish I could, but the place I originally ordered from won't cancel preorders, so now I'm stuck with them. If e-trailers have had him for a while now, then I guess I'll need to see if I've gotten a shipping notification yet.

I'd say drop scramble core after this, sounds like a bad deal to pre-order with them, even a tiny bit shady

I only ordered from them because it was the only other place at the time that still had preorders open. Only did it to secure a spot. If I'd've known what I do now, I definitely would've waited. I was blessed to be one of the lucky few to get their Slingshot and Wildrider back when they were $16 a pop, and seeing their aftermarket prices now, I wasn't going to chance it with Groove!

Mindmaster wrote:I only ordered from them because it was the only other place at the time that still had preorders open. Only did it to secure a spot. If I'd've known what I do now, I definitely would've waited. I was blessed to be one of the lucky few to get their Slingshot and Wildrider back when they were $16 a pop, and seeing their aftermarket prices now, I wasn't going to chance it with Groove!

I still think you did a smart move. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Could you write to them?

william-james88 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I only ordered from them because it was the only other place at the time that still had preorders open. Only did it to secure a spot. If I'd've known what I do now, I definitely would've waited. I was blessed to be one of the lucky few to get their Slingshot and Wildrider back when they were $16 a pop, and seeing their aftermarket prices now, I wasn't going to chance it with Groove!

I still think you did a smart move. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Could you write to them?

Probably will later today. Currently at college waiting for the next class to start in a few minutes!

Mindmaster wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I only ordered from them because it was the only other place at the time that still had preorders open. Only did it to secure a spot. If I'd've known what I do now, I definitely would've waited. I was blessed to be one of the lucky few to get their Slingshot and Wildrider back when they were $16 a pop, and seeing their aftermarket prices now, I wasn't going to chance it with Groove!

I still think you did a smart move. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Could you write to them?

Probably will later today. Currently at college waiting for the next class to start in a few minutes!

Whats the class?

william-james88 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I only ordered from them because it was the only other place at the time that still had preorders open. Only did it to secure a spot. If I'd've known what I do now, I definitely would've waited. I was blessed to be one of the lucky few to get their Slingshot and Wildrider back when they were $16 a pop, and seeing their aftermarket prices now, I wasn't going to chance it with Groove!

I still think you did a smart move. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Could you write to them?

Probably will later today. Currently at college waiting for the next class to start in a few minutes!

Whats the class?

English, dear Wiljam!

By the way, I actually just wrote Scramble Core a quick note asking about the ETA of when they're getting their stock.

Well, that was fast. Still October for them, sadly.

Ryan,

As of right now, we do have an estimated October release date for Groove. We did receive a small batch of them from Hasbro but we're filled from orders prior to yours. Hopefully this means we will get more in shortly but we are at the mercy of Hasbro's distribution.

If you do not want to wait, we can always exchange it for an instock item of equal value(or pay the difference on a higher priced item) or we can issue you store credit.

Regards,

Edward Weinheimer
Owner
ScrambleCore

That is one thing that makes me Leary of some online retailers. If something is not in stock...don't offer a pre-order for it unless you are 100% CERTAIN you are getting more in. I see several sites with "wait lists" on out of stock items...some wont charge you until they get the product...but some will...stringing you along for months until they absolutely have no chance of getting said item, then they will cancel your order, and refund the money. But it just gives a lot of people false hope. I like BBTS. If you check there daily occasionally they may get an item back....

About 3 months ago I saw they had a UW-EX Ground Scourge in stock...actually 2 and I jumped on that and bought both....a few days ago I saw they got ONE UW-06 Bruticus...but I hesitated...my loss because someone else jumped on it, rightfully so.

Mindmaster wrote:Well, that was fast. Still October for them, sadly.

Ryan,

As of right now, we do have an estimated October release date for Groove. We did receive a small batch of them from Hasbro but we're filled from orders prior to yours. Hopefully this means we will get more in shortly but we are at the mercy of Hasbro's distribution.

If you do not want to wait, we can always exchange it for an instock item of equal value(or pay the difference on a higher priced item) or we can issue you store credit.

Regards,

Edward Weinheimer
Owner
ScrambleCore

Well, that was the original estimated arrival time for that figure, so they're still on track. I say order one from hts, and swap your pre-order for an in-stock figure you want, win-win

Sjeng wrote:As we all know, Unite Warriors and Combiner Wars have a few Deluxe class figures that are different.
So far, I've collected five U.W. sets. This got me thinking: Hasbro introduced a few new Deluxe characters for their combiners, which Takara didn't do, and instead chose for classic names.
Fortunately, if you still want those new characters, Hasbro lets you buy them all seperately.
I'm not talking about the few robots that have the same name, but a different mold, such as Blastoff and Nosecone for example.
I'm talking about Offroad (who wasn't a G1 Menasor limb), Rook (Defensor), Alpha Bravo (Superion).
And there's also the difference in Skyreign/Lynxmaster with UW having Ratchet, and CW having Smokescreen.

I'm thinking of getting the UW Lynxmaster (for Ratchet mostly), and hopefully UW Superion (with Slingshot) and then getting 4 "missing" deluxes, plus another Voyager, to create a new Combiner:
- CW white Convoi or whatever he's called, or another Voyager that's not in UW-01 through 08.
- CW Offroad
- CW Rook
- CW Smokescreen
- CW Alpha Bravo

I want this to be an all autobot combiner though, but that's okay, because I never liked Roller on Grand Galvatron as an autobot. Galvatron need decepticons imo, so I can swap out Offroad with Roller!
The new combiner's legs would be Rook & Roller! Rock & Roll Convoi!

The trick is: finding all these seperate figures... They're just nowhere to be found in the EU, except maybe from Kapow Toys, with whom I sadly have quite a bad experience.
So if you know any EU online shops that may have these figures, please let me know

I thought Hasbro dropped the ball by not doing a seeker remold of one of the deluxes. Endless repaints and limbs for the voyager torsos.

I like how most people are sick and tired of the CW molds and we're all sitting here wishing Hasbro did a billion more redecoes

Kurona wrote:I like how most people are sick and tired of the CW molds and we're all sitting here wishing Hasbro did a billion more redecoes

Seeker combiner!! Seeker. combiner.

Kurona wrote:I like how most people are sick and tired of the CW molds and we're all sitting here wishing Hasbro did a billion more redecoes

I think it's mainly because they weren't being very inventive about them and weren't going full extra mile... Bots we've seen several times already got unimaginative uses (mainly the ones composing Sky Reign and Optimus Maximus, sans torsos). Would've loved to have seen bots that haven't seen a good update yet; Predators! Turbochargers! Maybe some Pretenders sans shells there, too! That's what I would've liked to have seen, not a rehash of the 84/85 crew who already have some good figures out there and not reuses of previous molds that don't necessarily fit the character (looking at you, Sunstreaker and Ironhide).

Deluxe Groove available again on Amazon for $16.99 + tax. Decent deal if you're a Prime member and can get this with free shipping.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DLZUVYA/re ... uxe+groove?tag=seibertron07-20&

It shows up as $29.67 for me.

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Did any UKsters ever order a cheap CW Victorion off the USA Amazon site - and if so did they get charged customs when it arrived as it doesn't charge the fee's on the site so that implies it isn't prepaid customs like they sometimes have ?

As obviously it makes more sense to be patient with Vicki if you are going to get £20.00 tax slapped on top of the price and end up paying £80.00 for her - not sensible when often the boxed sets end up on sale for something under £70.00 from time to time.

They sold out of the reasonably priced ones almost right away.

Mr Skram wrote:They sold out of the reasonably priced ones almost right away.

Yea, unfortunately anytime Amazon directly sells a popular figure, especially one that isn't widely available, they sell out fairly quickly. This is the 2nd time I've seen it available through Amazon at $16.99, so they may very well get more stock in the near future.

Interestingly, I noticed Toy Dojo dropped the price of this figure to $19.99.

nycPrime wrote:

Mr Skram wrote:They sold out of the reasonably priced ones almost right away.

Yea, unfortunately anytime Amazon directly sells a popular figure, especially one that isn't widely available, they sell out fairly quickly. This is the 2nd time I've seen it available through Amazon at $16.99, so they may very well get more stock in the near future.

Interestingly, I noticed Toy Dojo dropped the price of this figure to $19.99.

Keep checking throughout the day and the next few days. I got mine from Amazon back in May and they came available and then sold out 3 times in the same day before I got my order in.