First Images of Transformers "Earthrise" Runabout

The paint detail differences on the front of the car modes actually do kinda create an illusion of them sorta looking like different cars.

The head sculpts look different.

Edit: Huh the two always had different heads...huh how did I never notice?

Deadput wrote:The head sculpts look different.

Will said that.

I know the idea of ER having 4th wave has been dismissed by some, but Hasbro stated as much with their Map, and until Hasbro says they changed their plan, that is what I'm going with. I still believe that Runabout & Thrust may be the only toys of a standard retail 4th wave (repacked with others of course). Pretty much every exclusive has been revealed. It would not make sense to me for these to be released as Selects, nor in a 2 pack from Amazon, but I guess stranger things have happened.

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:The head sculpts look different.

Will said that.

Didn't read article just looked at pictures since tired and just browsing phone before sleep

I may actually pick up Runabout because I prefer that color scheme. I would pickup Runamuck, but the lack of orange makes the white a bit too overpowering

o.supreme wrote:I know the idea of ER having 4th wave has been dismissed by some, but Hasbro stated as much with their Map, and until Hasbro says they changed their plan, that is what I'm going with. I still believe that Runabout & Thrust may be the only toys of a standard retail 4th wave (repacked with others of course). Pretty much every exclusive has been revealed. It would not make sense to me for these to be released as Selects, nor in a 2 pack from Amazon, but I guess stranger things have happened.

Well Thrust and Runabout both have WFC-E numbers, so selects is out. Also Thrust is WFC-E26, way too low to be in wave 4. Also, the shelf tags in Canada showed he was a solid case and likely an exclusive like Bluestreak. Runabout is WFC-E41 which does line up with wave 4 if it still exists, but it also lines up with where many exclusives ended up for Siege.

Keep in mind, the map is the only item that ever indicated a wave 4 and that would have been created before Covid-19 threw everything off.

Since wave 2 isn't even in stores yet, I can definitely see them moving Runabout to online only just so they don't have to delay the start of Kingdom. From a planning standpoint, skipping wave 4 for retail/in stores and moving it to online only makes the most sense so that they can try to line up Kingdom wave 1 for January.

I mean obviously Runabout was going to be a thing but I’m taken by how spiffy he looks! Will definitely get him and Runamuck for sure.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Since wave 2 isn't even in stores yet,

The first sighting of wave 2 in stores happened this past weekend

https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/09/05/tra ... ail-418721

Looks way better in black. The gold strips placement and lack of on runamuck along with the panels showing more, just make it look bad. Would have preferred the decepticon symbols to be on the hoods like the originals but hey.

Still on the fence due to runamuck and may go for g1 over them.

Owch, just bad luck on Scorponoks color Mine was fine, all though his box wasnt sealed and arrived with some box damage that must have happened before it was packed as the packaging was fine -didnt matter as i'm not keeping the box anyways and I'm not one of the crappy people that tries to charge money for current gen empty boxes.

I 've been keeping the boxes for my Titans as of late. The only ones I dont have my boxes for are Fort Max & Tryp, but as you said, I'm not going to pay to get them again. I know the art exists online, but it would be nice if most of the current Generations art was collected together in some sort of coffee-table type book. I know several books exist for older artwork, I have a few of them, but none that I can recall for art especially from CW on. That Art of Transformers Genesis book released by Image is one of my most prized possessions.

Look at that tiny head, he and Cromar could have a competition. It's shaped like a milk dud lol. I do like his carrier mode the most.

It's not as though metroplex or Fort max can even go back in their boxes after the arm is attached though I held onto the boxes until space demanded they go. Scorponoks box seemed pretty slim so it was a nice surprise how hefty it is. Kinda surprised it passes the tests that orig Fort max can't seem to get around for reissues. If scorp falls off a shelve and lands on anything, it's taking that thing out for sure.

o.supreme wrote:I know the art exists online, but it would be nice if most of the current Generations art was collected together in some sort of coffee-table type book. I know several books exist for older artwork, I have a few of them, but none that I can recall for art especially from CW on. That Art of Transformers Genesis book released by Image is one of my most prized possessions.

Go buy Transformers: A Visual History.

Sabrblade wrote:Go buy Transformers: A Visual History.

I've seen people review it, it looks cool, but seems to sample a little bit from all eras, rather than being comprehensive of just one era.

It's nice to finally see Runabout. It's a little disappointing that they don't have different alt modes, but I didn't really expect them to. The new headsculpt is nice. I like the clear red for the windows, it adds a nice pop of color that makes me wish Runamuck used clear orange instead of gray.

But on the subject of how he's being released, wasn't there a Target listing for Runabout?

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Go buy Transformers: A Visual History.

I've seen people review it, it looks cool, but seems to sample a little bit from all eras, rather than being comprehensive of just one era.

More like a LOT bit from all eras. The book is THIIIIIICK!

Feels kinda weird being happy with a wfc deluxe car mode and snap dragons ship modes pretty good too despite the odd unfinished looking rear. His cockpit is scary tight when opening/closing but it's not something I'm going to do often and the titan master could probably be sneaked into it during transformation.

blackeyedprime wrote:Feels kinda weird being happy with a wfc deluxe car mode and snap dragons ship modes pretty good too despite the odd unfinished looking rear. His cockpit is scary tight when opening/closing but it's not something I'm going to do often and the titan master could probably be sneaked into it during transformation.

Ok, so I'm not the only one feeling that way about the cockpit. I think it is a really cool design, how the cockpit splits and folds all up into the legs, but those two yellow flaps could are really tight to flip open.

...so hold on, Runabout comes with two guns? I mean, yes he looks great, yes I'm gonna get him, but ignoring that for now...two guns. Where's Runamuck's second gun, since one of Runabout's guns is Runamuck's gun but repainted? Or does Runabout get a second gun because of his exclusive status, like Selects Tigertrack having all the accessories for that mold? Does this mean there's another version of this mold that has just the Runabout gun? Does this mean anything, or am I putting too much thought into this?

Tuned Agent wrote:But on the subject of how he's being released, wasn't there a Target listing for Runabout?

There was in fact, it's how we found out he existed in the first place.

blackeyedprime wrote:Tontons review of Ratchet is up, pretty darn unbleeped funny as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9-7WptJETY

Why did I giggle like an idiot every time he cursed at the toy? I hope this is his format going forward.

Kyleor wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Tontons review of Ratchet is up, pretty darn unbleeped funny as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9-7WptJETY

Why did I giggle like an idiot every time he cursed at the toy? I hope this is his format going forward.

I prefer his other reviews or the fun he had with rattrap. Swearing wears off for me after a fair few mins and nothing he does can beat him cursing the completed ss devy after the months it had taken to get all the figures for disappointment. It was bound to be downill after he used tit in the warpath review

I'd love to get my hands on these. I wonder if it'd be possible to cut off those fake wheels as I'm fine with them not looking like their G1 selves in that regard. And I wonder how someone in Australia will be able to get their hands on them...?

The voyagers in the third wave of Transformers WFC Earthrise have been found in Canada and the UK. The two toys in that wave are Megatron and the Quintesson judge and they were found at EB Games in Canada, thanks to a sighting from Cybertron.ca, and at Smyths in the UK, thanks to a message from a fan called Tim who sent us an e-mail.

As for the US, well it has been a long time since we saw some new Earthrise deluxes on shelves. Well, we knew it had to come soon, after Target got their initial shipment and now it's happened. This wave with Arcee, Airwave, Smokescreen and Allicon was found in a Target in Pensylvania. They were found by a TFW2005 member called Worldsgreatest who posted on their boards.

If you have found any of these, please share your sightings with the community on our forums.

Sabrblade wrote:The paint detail differences on the front of the car modes actually do kinda create an illusion of them sorta looking like different cars.

What also helps is that Eathrise Runamuck's car mode doesn't look any more "spot on" to G1 Runamuck's car mode than G1 Runabout's car mode. For instance, the front end of the car for the Earthrise mold is entirely different from either G1 toy. Runamuck shouldn't have any small side back seat windows on his car either, but they're there on the Earthrise mold, making it actually more accurate to G1 Runabout in that regard. Using one mold that doesn't particularly match either G1 car precisely is rather genius and cost effective. The different head sculpts, colors, and paint masks are plenty to differentiate the two now.

Of course, both are supposed to be more cartoon accurate that toy accurate, so can anyone dig deep and find the original Sunbow character models for Runamuck and Runabout? Were they drawn exactly the same way in robot mode (and/or car mode), but with different heads and colors?

I think i prefer the Generations pair. Don't get me wrong these look nice, but they are so blocky.

Is it pretty much assumed now that the Quitesson Pit of Judgment set will be put up for order once Pulsecon starts? We got tipped off on it weeks ago, and reviewers all over YouTube have gotten copies of it, but still no official word from Hasbro on how this set will be released. I don't want to miss out on it!

Wolfman Jake wrote:Is it pretty much assumed now that the Quitesson Pit of Judgment set will be put up for order once Pulsecon starts? We got tipped off on it weeks ago, and reviewers all over YouTube have gotten copies of it, but still no official word from Hasbro on how this set will be released. I don't want to miss out on it!

There was a leaked listing about a week and a half ago (I only saw it on a line chat I'm part of, it wasn't posted on a TF site as far as I know) and it called out the SDCC exclusives that would see release at Pulsecon, and the TF item on there was the Pit of Judgement. Said listing also included the ghostbusters Luis/demon dog set (which I'm hoping to get), some black series, some marvel legends, some power rangers, etc., and based on other fandoms and expectations the listing made sense and seemed legit.

What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

I never realized the G1 figures were different cars. Learn something new every day!

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

Dude, stop trying to make any sense out of it, you'll drive yourself nuts (if you haven't already). Especially if I tell you I'm in Chicago and my 3rd Airwave is shipping from Tucson, AZ, while the other 2 came from Tennessee.

No clue how they are (dis)organizing things.

Hrmmm... I wonder if we can call Target corporate and have them redirect the one coming from AZ to me, and the one coming from PA to you.... .

Reminds me of every time I see 2 logging trucks on the highway pass each other, what's that about.

Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

lol, that's the continual downside of pre-ordering from amazon, they just leave orders open after they run out of stock and assume they'll get another shipment, good luck getting them, they look cool

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

lol, that's the continual downside of pre-ordering from amazon, they just leave orders open after they run out of stock and assume they'll get another shipment, good luck getting them, they look cool

Yeah, I'm supposed to get them on Monday. If it doesn't happen, I'll either bite the eBay bullet or just say screw it and go without. I have the OG seekers set.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

Dude, stop trying to make any sense out of it, you'll drive yourself nuts (if you haven't already). Especially if I tell you I'm in Chicago and my 3rd Airwave is shipping from Tucson, AZ, while the other 2 came from Tennessee.

No clue how they are (dis)organizing things.

So, first step in the process is that Product goes from Customs to a Hasbro warehouse. No clue where that is, surely they have a west coast facility because most sightings seem to ahow up there, but Providence is a safe guess.

Once Hasbro has confirmed they got all of the cases from the factory and that a container didnt like fall in the oceab,, they start to fulfill the Target Orders. Its very likely those go yo a single main Hub for Target and then get broken down into regional Distribution, which then gets broken to a main hub for each State, which sends them to Hubs that cover the counties, then finally on to each store. It's POSSIBLE Hasbro has an arrangement with places to send to multiple regional hubs, but I doubt it.

Anyway, what you said is not far off: Target started fulfilling Air Wave preorders from whatever Warehouse had stock in first. In this case, it was York PA. Probably, York had stock first because it was closest to Providence. The Container full of Transformers bound for the other Warehouses, including the ones that your orders typically are fulfilled from, were probably either still en-route or hadallocated all of the stock to Stores first (I get the impression that Target stocks their store shelves first before filling Pre-Orser stock) when York popped up in the system as having stock.

I think by Sunday I'll have the other three Wave 2 Deluxes so Amazon is slowly getting back on track.

o.supreme wrote:Hrmmm... I wonder if we can call Target corporate and have them redirect the one coming from AZ to me, and the one coming from PA to you.... .

Reminds me of every time I see 2 logging trucks on the highway pass each other, what's that about.

That would be a whole other exercise in frustration. Both of mine shipped Fedex and both arrive tomorrow. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago, less than 10 miles from the Indiana border. Both of my packages got routed through Indianapolis, then to a Fedex location in Chicago this morning, then to another location in Munster, IN where the trucks that serve my town come out of. Yep, they will have crossed the IL/IN border 3 times in under 24 hours on the way here. Same thing happens when I order from BBTS.

How many shipping warehouses does Target use? My Airwave shipped Monday from MA via UPS and arrived today. Allicon also shipped Monday from TN via FedEx and arriving Friday. Smokescreen and Arcee shipped 9/2 from IN via FedEx and arrived Sunday. They're really just coming from everywhere. For some reason the address label on that last one had the wrong city (Augusta) listed even though all of these are from the same order. Thankfully it still arrived fine.

Emerje

I got the Allicon yesterday, and Airwave and Smokescreen today. Arcee arrives tomorrow. I thought I would be bored by Smokescreen, but it's much nicer than the Siege version. I have to get out his Siege shoulder cannons to see if the whole package works.

Target is just shipping things left and right as they come in, not filling full orders but just shooting product to people one at a time for some reason. I pre-ordered Snapdragon, the Quint, and Smokescreen all at the same time. Snapdragon came the beginning of the month, Smokescreen will be here next week, and while the Quint hasn't shipped yet I was finally charged for him today completing out the order.

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Amazon Canada is only shipping them out to me in October

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Amazon Canada is only shipping them out to me in October

All this is making me somewhat nervous for Ironhide/Prowl in November.

Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Smokescreen is the only one I want from wave 2, and I'm debating getting him online or waiting for a B&M appearance. Amazon and Pulse haven't made good impressions on me this past month. But neither has Target or Wal-Mart.

blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Do you have a pic of a case with just him in it? Because confirming he is being shipped in solid cases could be interesting.

william-james88 wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Do you have a pic of a case with just him in it? Because confirming he is being shipped in solid cases could be interesting.

Yeah, I thought that was kinda crazy, too. Smokescreen doesn't have his own SKU number.

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

I was in the same boat for this guys as well; almost mirror image of circumstances. Finally got him yesterday, opened him today.