Links to Walmart Pages for Exclusive Star Raider Transformers, Preorders Available Thursday

Any thoughts on which one will be the most sought after and triple in price almost overnight? lol
Probably not looking at a repeat Cosmos situation as each DLX figure should come 2 each making it 6 bots per case right? While Ferak is 4X per case?

For some reason I thought there was a 5th figure, another voyager.

If not, I guess Ferak will be solid case, which is good for me since that's the only one I want.

Till-all-R1 wrote:Any thoughts on which one will be the most sought after and triple in price almost overnight? lol
Probably not looking at a repeat Cosmos situation as each DLX figure should come 2 each making it 6 bots per case right? While Ferak is 4X per case?

You'd have gotten the same issue if Cosmos was 2 per case, which we saw with Crasher.

But none of these figures are of G1 show characters, and none have very unique molding so if any are hard to find it will only be because of bad distribution and not due to demand.

Rodimus Prime wrote:For some reason I thought there was a 5th figure, another voyager.

If not, I guess Ferak will be solid case, which is good for me since that's the only one I want.

Ferak is the only voyager, but there's also Roadpig as a deluxe and Thundertron as a leader

I forget, does Walmart charge in advance or when things ship?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I forget, does Walmart charge in advance or when things ship?

They put a hold, but unlike many retailers, for some reason it takes several days (rather than just a "check" to make sure funds are there). So they dont actually charge until the item ships, but to secure your order, may take several days, kind of annoying.

As for which will be the hardest to find.... The voyager and leader being only 1 (and in cases of and 3 respectively) should be easy enough to obtain if they do show up in stores (Like G2 Grimlock, Toxitron, and the Voyager Cloudcover were in abundance).

If there are 4 deluxes (Cases of 8, and 2 per case), that would be even, then as WJ said, its up to distribution. My guess is that Lockdown might be slightly more popular than the others, but I honestly dont know. I'm just being pessimistic because Lockdown is the only one I'm remotely interested in, so according to Murphys law, that WILL be the hardest to get .

Lastly, is Roadpig part of this subline? I thought he was part of something else?

o.supreme wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I forget, does Walmart charge in advance or when things ship?

They put a hold, but unlike many retailers, for some reason it takes several days (rather than just a "check" to make sure funds are there). So they dont actually charge until the item ships, but to secure your order, may take several days, kind of annoying.

As for which will be the hardest to find.... The voyager and leader being only 1 (and in cases of and 3 respectively) should be easy enough to obtain if they do show up in stores (Like G2 Grimlock, Toxitron, and the Voyager Cloudcover were in abundance).

If there are 4 deluxes (Cases of 8, and 2 per case), that would be even, then as WJ said, its up to distribution. My guess is that Lockdown might be slightly more popular than the others, but I honestly dont know. I'm just being pessimistic because Lockdown is the only one I'm remotely interested in, so according to Murphys law, that WILL be the hardest to get .

Lastly, is Roadpig part of this subline? I thought he was part of something else?

Roadpig is part of this subline

o.supreme wrote:As for which will be the hardest to find.... The voyager and leader being only 1 (and in cases of and 3 respectively) should be easy enough to obtain if they do show up in stores (Like G2 Grimlock, Toxitron, and the Voyager Cloudcover were in abundance).

I wish! Between my two local stores one skipped the entire line all together, the other had multiple restocks of the Deluxes (I think I counted 6 times) and Cloudcover was plentiful (and still is) but never got the leaders, didn't even make space for them. Many reported the same and others even reported the Leaders going directly to clearance. Distribution of exclusive at Walmart is about as random as it gets, always has been, what's abundant at one store can be non existent at the next. We won't really know what's easy to get until after they show up in stores, we can't even use past distribution as a metric.

Lastly, is Roadpig part of this subline? I thought he was part of something else?

Yes Roadpig is the fourth Deluxe, there's only four this time around.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:For some reason I thought there was a 5th figure, another voyager.

If not, I guess Ferak will be solid case, which is good for me since that's the only one I want.

Ferak is the only voyager, but there's also Roadpig as a deluxe and Thundertron as a leader

I am genuinely amazed there hasn't been a Cyclonus Armada redeco in the Legacy or even SS'86 line yet? Universe Cyclonus had at least three colour variations of purple. The Secondary Cyclonus (that had more screen time than the fifth Dinobot) could easily work with one of those.

Emerje wrote: is about as random as it gets, always has been, what's abundant at one store can be non existent at the next. We won't really know what's easy to get until after they show up in stores, we can't even use past distribution as a metric.

Emerje

You got all the deluxes, I got the Leaders. Too bad the stores near us couldn't have swapped these out to our preferences Yeah Distribution sucks. Paying scalper prices for a single deluxe because it was not obtainable is not something I like doing.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I am genuinely amazed there hasn't been a Cyclonus Armada redeco in the Legacy or even SS'86 line yet? Universe Cyclonus had at least three colour variations of purple. The Secondary Cyclonus (that had more screen time than the fifth Dinobot) could easily work with one of those.

Maybe because he was on screen for only a few shots? We did get a Sweep from the Scourge mold (whose deco ironically looks more like Scourge than Scourge does) so I guess we could get a "Cy-clone-us" as well. Probably towards the tail end of SS86, when they run out of characters.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I am genuinely amazed there hasn't been a Cyclonus Armada redeco in the Legacy or even SS'86 line yet? Universe Cyclonus had at least three colour variations of purple. The Secondary Cyclonus (that had more screen time than the fifth Dinobot) could easily work with one of those.

Maybe because he was on screen for only a few shots? We did get a Sweep from the Scourge mold (whose deco ironically looks more like Scourge than Scourge does) so I guess we could get a "Cy-clone-us" as well. Probably towards the tail end of SS86, when they run out of characters.

Some have bought the Selects toy-colors Cyclonus to use as an Armada.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Maybe because he was on screen for only a few shots?

AllNewSuperRobot wrote: The Secondary Cyclonus (that had more screen time than the fifth Dinobot)

It was joked that Snarl shouldn't have been part of the SS'86 line for that very reason. Yet his figure exists

Rodimus Prime wrote:We did get a Sweep from the Scourge mold (whose deco ironically looks more like Scourge than Scourge does) so I guess we could get a "Cy-clone-us" as well. Probably towards the tail end of SS86, when they run out of characters.

I'm surprised they didn't release Armada at the same time as the Sweeps to be fair. Both Cyclonus and Scourge are army builders within the context of the Movie. So it does seem like an oversight.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I'm surprised they didn't release Armada at the same time as the Sweeps to be fair. Both Cyclonus and Scourge are army builders within the context of the Movie. So it does seem like an oversight.

Apparently, the Sweep release happened because they use the wrong/a bad color source for Scourge's deco, with the Sweep having the correct deco for Scourge.

Also:

Sabrblade wrote:Some have bought the Selects toy-colors Cyclonus to use as an Armada.

Sabrblade wrote:Apparently, the Sweep release happened because they use the wrong/a bad color source for Scourge's deco, with the Sweep having the correct deco for Scourge.

Interesting. In truth it does still bother me that Sweep was sold as an individual figure. A twin pack at least should be mandatory for a troop builder.

Sabrblade wrote:Some have bought the Selects toy-colors Cyclonus to use as an Armada.

I know, I read that before commenting. But the added decals and blue "ears" bug me with that release. If anything, Selects could be Cyclonus and Armada the other release. But it still isn't ideal. Given that just like the Sweeps, the majority of the colour scheme should look the same.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Some have bought the Selects toy-colors Cyclonus to use as an Armada.

I know, I read that before commenting. But the added decals and blue "ears" bug me with that release. If anything, Selects could be Cyclonus and Armada the other release. But it still isn't ideal. Given that just like the Sweeps, the majority of the colour scheme should look the same.

Most of those details are stickers that you have to apply yourself, so the base figure doesn't have them.

Sabrblade wrote:Most of those details are stickers that you have to apply yourself, so the base figure doesn't have them.

True. But those ears still aren't right
Plus, the two tones of purple on the other Cyclonus should have been flipped really.

Rodimus Prime wrote:For some reason I thought there was a 5th figure, another voyager.

If not, I guess Ferak will be solid case, which is good for me since that's the only one I want.

Thundertron was the fifth figure in the leak and is supposed to be a leader pack (assuming he comes with something else.) he's product number G0236 according to the leak.

A fellow Québécois already got his hands on the leader Sandstorm and made a video review.
Yes, PVP got beaten on this one!

Have a look:

Same thing with Silverbolt!

M'eh. This next Walmart 'exclusive' line looks like a hard pass for me at least.

DeathReviews wrote:M'eh. This next Walmart 'exclusive' line looks like a hard pass for me at least.

Seems to be the general feeling. Similar to the G2 line we last had.
And to be fair, that's how it should be with exclusives, just extra product that is not "essential" to complete collections.

Some Transformers Legacy United Wave 2 toys have been found in collector stores and so we now have video reviews for these.

Below you will see reviews for deluxe Chromia, voyager Silverbolt and leader Sandstorm.

These have yet to be officially announced and the only place that had them available to ship to the US was CMD store which is now sold out.

We should be getting preorders before the end of March.

I will have 1 of each please.

I am impressed with those 3, especially Sandstorm and Silverbolt. Sandstorm is a really good modern take on the G1 original. Silverbolt looks awesome, more BW is always welcome. Chromia will join my fembot team.

Although I'm really bothered by the bot's feet, Sandstorm is a must get just because I'm still missing him and Swoop in my "seen-on-screen" G1 characters' shelves. Still, it's a good overall effort on Hasbro to get this close to a modernized G1 toon/toy mix. Looks fun.

My limited shelves space only let me collect G1 S1-S3 and OP/Megs of other series and some "MUST NEED!!!" level of want, This Silverbolt is not it. Too bad, as like many BW fans, Dinobot & the Silverbolt/Blackarachnia story arcs were my favorites in the series. But the Kingdom/Legacy figures aren't what I hoped they'd be.

Chromia... I'm fine with my T30 version (the TFA Arcee retool), but I love the Legacy TFA Prowl mold. So if I see it on discount/clearance, I'll probably get one and repaint it into any one of the Fembot that's missing on my G1 shelf.


I see no PO yet on any of the Canadian online retailers...

I recently set adie some transformers for my 5 year old and 8 year old nephews to play with.

This has somewhat changed my perspective on transformers.
I myself grew up with beast wars, so I love the silverbolt figure...

I don't think my nephews would understand the figure.

I'm no expert on Chromia, especially Cyberverse which I never watched, but her bot from doesn't seem too accurate to according to the images I've seen. That said it looks decent enough for an extrapolation of what a live action might be from a motorcycle, and if I had more room on my Autobot shelf I'd consider buying it. But since I don't I'll have to pass and hold that spot open for Gears.

If they ever release something lie this version I'd buy it.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Chromia_Cy ... oncept.jpg

I came close to getting thrilling thirty figure but $30 was a bit much for my taste.

Nice to see sandstorms feet can be folded so they dont look fugly, hopefully with the wheels down it will give it stability. still not keen on the head/yellow cap.

Till-all-R1 wrote:I'm no expert on Chromia, especially Cyberverse which I never watched, but her bot from doesn't seem too accurate to according to the images I've seen.

Yeah, they didn't even try to make her look accurate to Cyberverse Chromia from the neck down. They just stuck a new head on the G1-ified body of Legacy Animated Prowl, changed the colors, and called it a day.

Sabrblade wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:I'm no expert on Chromia, especially Cyberverse which I never watched, but her bot from doesn't seem too accurate to according to the images I've seen.

Yeah, they didn't even try to make her look accurate to Cyberverse Chromia from the neck down. They just stuck a new head on the G1-ified body of Legacy Animated Prowl, changed the colors, and called it a day.

I would have expected something like this on a Select toy, or some sort of exclusive. It's sad for a mainline toy.

It's not even 7 AM PST on March 14, and all of Star Raiders are sold out? The listings said they wouldn't be available until then. Or is it a case of them clearing the listings before making them available?

Gearslide wrote:It's not even 7 AM PST on March 14, and all of Star Raiders are sold out? The listings said they wouldn't be available until then. Or is it a case of them clearing the listings before making them available?

Looks like all of Hasbro's stuff is down, it's probably temporary.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Gearslide wrote:It's not even 7 AM PST on March 14, and all of Star Raiders are sold out? The listings said they wouldn't be available until then. Or is it a case of them clearing the listings before making them available?

Looks like all of Hasbro's stuff is down, it's probably temporary.

Emerje

Seems like it was indeed to get things ready. At 7:01 AM I was able to pre-order Cannonball from Walmart.

I do wonder if any of these are at risk of selling out. Who would be the most popular? Lockdown, maybe?

Gearslide wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Gearslide wrote:It's not even 7 AM PST on March 14, and all of Star Raiders are sold out? The listings said they wouldn't be available until then. Or is it a case of them clearing the listings before making them available?

Looks like all of Hasbro's stuff is down, it's probably temporary.

Emerje

Seems like it was indeed to get things ready. At 7:01 AM I was able to pre-order Cannonball from Walmart.

I do wonder if any of these are at risk of selling out. Who would be the most popular? Lockdown, maybe?

I was able to order all four (no Road Pig or Thundertron yet), but the one that gave me the most trouble was Filch, I kept getting an error stating that she couldn't be added due to popularity and to try later, but after a couple minutes I was able to get her. She'll probably be the most popular since it's her first real figure.

Emerje

Links are live now and avail on Pulse! GO for exclusives!!

And Filch sold out on both Walmart.com and Pulse. She's definitely the most popular figure in the series. Less than 20 minutes.

Emerje

Hasbro has officially revealed the Transformers Star Raiders figures and the preorders are live.
Below are the links.

Remember, some Walmart exclusive never made it to store shelves and remained online only, like Galaxy Shuttle and TLK Hot Rod.

Here are the links:

Lockdown: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5290101948?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Cannonball: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5226743233?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Ferak: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5285700004?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

Filch: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers ... 5290101950?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff

They are also available in minimal quantities on Pulse for Premium members.

https://hasbropulse.com/products/transf ... r-lockdown

Emerje wrote:And Filch sold out on both Walmart.com and Pulse. She's definitely the most popular figure in the series. Less than 20 minutes.

Emerje

I had to look her up to even know who she was. But I guess that makes sense. IIRC... The Decepticons with the unique Beast Modes were quite popular in RiD15. The fact that few of them actually had toys I guess shows there is a demand for them.

The fact that these aren't coming out until August put me off pre-ordering. There's only one I marginally want, and not enough to set aside $25 for 5 months. If I see it in stores great. If not, no biggie this time.

I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Very fast stream today with nothing we haven't seen before (they joke about Legacy United wave 2 has already been leaked, but they'll be talking Legacy all of next week's stream). They did mention a couple things about the Star Raider figures. Cannonball can store his weapons in his legs. His Cyber Key slots in the same way the original does, not with a peg or anything like that. The images of Lockdown and the one they had on the stream are missing additional silver and green paint ops on his legs shown on the back of the box CAD version and will be updating the images soon. Likewise Ferak will have some additional paint on his chest.

Emerje

Looks good. Just not $55 good.

ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje

God's dammit Walmart...

Well I got Lockdown, my highest priority, at least. And Ferak. Cannonball sold out in my cart though and Filch was already long gone. Why don't heir damned exclusives have to be so difficult to get

Flashwave wrote:God's dammit Walmart...

Well I got Lockdown, my highest priority, at least. And Ferak. Cannonball sold out in my cart though and Filch was already long gone. Why don't heir damned exclusives have to be so difficult to get

I think it's because they mainly want you to get them in store

Emerje wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje

ok, so Im a little confused.... Hasbro just released a Voyager Thundertron for Legacy United. But Walmart is getting a Leader later this year? Is this just going to be a repaint with some "added stuff" to make it a Leader?

The worst part of those refreshes was that while all 3 were on Pulse in limited Quantities, Galaxy Shuttle was only on Walmart.com for a short time as well (so glad I got one), while Crasher and Shadowstrip never had valid pre-orders on Walmart.com.

Galaxy Shuttle never showed up in stores, while Crasher and Shadowstrip were extremely limited. I still cant believe I actually found a single Shadowstip in the wild, at a random visit to a Walmart I don't frequent.

o.supreme wrote:

Emerje wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I can tell Filch is the short-packed one ;_;

Here we thought they finally smartened up and did an even case of 4 figures, only for the stream to confirm that Road Pig and Thundertron are coming later in the year so it looks like we're getting another instance like Velocitron where we get a late refresh that swaps some Deluxe figures out for another (and most Walmarts wont even bother like with Crasher, Shadowstrip and Galaxy Shuttle).

Emerje

ok, so Im a little confused.... Hasbro just released a Voyager Thundertron for Legacy United. But Walmart is getting a Leader later this year? Is this just going to be a repaint with some "added stuff" to make it a Leader?

We've been wondering about that ever since the leaks first revealed the two different Thundertron releases.

No luck online but thankfully my Walmart always seems to be overloaded with the exclusives (there's still a bunch of grimlocks and cloud covers there now)

I'm definitely gonna get ferak and filch, though the wing pieces seem a little too big for her forearms. Cannonball having the hammer, claw, and gun is awesome. Love that. Lockdown idk now. They basically said they're gonna do an animated lockdown eventually. Though I could still use this one for junkasaurus. Decisions decisions

I really want roadpig and thundertron to be revealed already. The anticipation is getting annoying

Word of the day for this stream was definitely "exemplify" lol

It's funny seeing so many people so interested in Ferak when, back when the BotCon 2014 version was first unveiled, everyone and their mother considered Ferak to be the biggest waste of plastic that Fun Pub had ever made up to that point.

In today's stream,

• Mark called Lockdown a Weaponizer.
• Ferak's face is based on Floro Dery's early Cyclonus face design, which was used for the Marvel version of Cyclonus.
• And a few mistakes were made: Mark repeatedly said Filch is from Cyberverse, and both he and BMac repeatedly mispronounced Ferak's name as "Fer-ROCK" instead of "Fair-ack".

I got the figures I wanted but I noticed that when I used a Credit Card I wasn't charged but when I used a debit card I was charged right away, I think Walmart might be one of those stores that charges Debit Cards right away, it happens.

Speaking of figures I was waiting for...