New Video Review of Transformers Kingdom Core Class Hot Rod

Hot Rod is my favorite 'Bot so I'll more than likely pick this up. But, I won't lose any sleep if I can't find him at retail.

Nice, remarkable conversion complexity for such a small figure.

I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

Barricade.it wrote:Nice, remarkable conversion complexity for such a small figure.

I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

Profit margins. As the cost of manufacturing goes up (raw materials, labour etc) companies can either absorb the costs (thus taking a hit to profit) or roll with it and cut back on costs (using less materials etc) and/or raising prices.

Barricade.it wrote:I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

He's smaller than previous generations legends class figures?

Anybody have a link to a pre-order or actual order for Core Hot Rod on Amazon?

Only seeing him win Target's website but not Amazon.

Overcracker wrote:Anybody have a link to a pre-order or actual order for Core Hot Rod on Amazon?

Only seeing him win Target's website but not Amazon.

I have a link to the Listing, but no pre-orders and a 3rd party seller is the only one currently selling at a ridiculous markup for a figure that is about to hit retail.

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Toy ... C77&sr=8-7?tag=seibertron07-20&

You should at least be able to put it in your watch list and wait for Amazon to get some in stock.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Anybody have a link to a pre-order or actual order for Core Hot Rod on Amazon?

Only seeing him win Target's website but not Amazon.

I have a link to the Listing, but no pre-orders and a 3rd party seller is the only one currently selling at a ridiculous markup for a figure that is about to hit retail.

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Toy ... C77&sr=8-7?tag=seibertron07-20&

You should at least be able to put it in your watch list and wait for Amazon to get some in stock.

Thanks. He's been added to my List. Hopefully he comes in stock soon.

Worst case scenario is you wait a few extra months and getet the Legacy version packaging instead of Kingdom. Being part of the first wave, it shouldn't be hard to find.

I made a big old mess with Shockwave and the Fossilizers. Let's call him Onyx Prime (looks nothing like him in the comics I know)

william-james88 wrote:

Barricade.it wrote:I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

He's smaller than previous generations legends class figures?

Thank you for the reality check, Will.

From everything we've seen, he's still the same "Pocket-size but too big to be used with the older pocket-size versions of characters" that the Legends class became circa 2013 and continues to be when used for pocket-size versions of characters instead of as a replacement for the old Basic/Scout class.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Barricade.it wrote:I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

He's smaller than previous generations legends class figures?

Thank you for the reality check, Will.

From everything we've seen, he's still the same "Pocket-size but too big to be used with the older pocket-size versions of characters" that the Legends class became circa 2013 and continues to be when used for pocket-size versions of characters instead of as a replacement for the old Basic/Scout class.

You know, I'm actually very curious how the parts count differs between CW Legends Hot Rod and Kingdom Core Hot Rod because I feel like the Kingdom figure is much more complex. And for basically the same price since most major retailers haven't taken these past the $10 mark yet.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Barricade.it wrote:I ask myself why TF figures are getting smaller and smaller...

He's smaller than previous generations legends class figures?

Thank you for the reality check, Will.

From everything we've seen, he's still the same "Pocket-size but too big to be used with the older pocket-size versions of characters" that the Legends class became circa 2013 and continues to be when used for pocket-size versions of characters instead of as a replacement for the old Basic/Scout class.

You know, I'm actually very curious how the parts count differs between CW Legends Hot Rod and Kingdom Core Hot Rod because I feel like the Kingdom figure is much more complex. And for basically the same price since most major retailers haven't taken these past the $10 mark yet.

Emerje

What probably helps is that Legacy Hot Rod uses two molds instead of CW's three:

CW
Mold 1: Wheels, shoulder hinges
Mold 2: Car shell (incl. lower legs), main hinge
Mold 3: Back, upper legs, head, weapon

Legacy
Mold 1: Wheels
Mold 2: everything else (all the orange looks to be paint)

Not counting the weapon for Legacy here, on the suspicion it's separate from the main tooling.

I'm a bit late to the party on getting optimus primal but the Netflix pack was discounted and I was mainly after rattrap. The chest gap on primal is just bad the lack of some articulation on the arms due to the shoulder and the fugly elbow joints even worse. Shame kingdoms beast wars characters really have failed for the most part.

Rattrap was more fiddly than I expected and the rear legs feel loose when putting into beast mode. Bot mode he his nice if a bit too small for my liking but will have to do until I find the t30 version. Think I'm skipping packrat now though so it saves on that at least.

Amazon is shipping Golden Disk Tigatron! Mine should be here Thursday.



Emerje

Just came here to say the same thing on Tigatron. Who-hoo!

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Just came here to say the same thing on Tigatron. Who-hoo!

Sameeeee. Now just wondering when terrorsaur will ship

And I still haven't decided on just getting Pipes or getting Puffer and Road Ranger

Razorbeast88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Just came here to say the same thing on Tigatron. Who-hoo!

Sameeeee. Now just wondering when terrorsaur will ship

And I still haven't decided on just getting Pipes or getting Puffer and Road Ranger

Why not all of them?

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Just came here to say the same thing on Tigatron. Who-hoo!

Sameeeee. Now just wondering when terrorsaur will ship

And I still haven't decided on just getting Pipes or getting Puffer and Road Ranger

Why not all of them?

Solid idea but eh I just don't really want to have 3 of that same mold. That, along with keeping my collection more condensed and selective, and trying to save money and just get the figures I really really want.

Pipes probably has my favorite color scheme, but the other 2 have decent colors and cool enough head sculpts. That and their obscurity makes them more interesting

No notice on my Tigertron yet (yes I am using that spelling to differentiate them), but I am excited for Tony the T to arrive

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:No notice on my Tigertron yet (yes I am using that spelling to differentiate them), but I am excited for Tony the T to arrive

That's grrrrrreat!

Definitely calling mine Tony now.

This one took a while. After being available in limited amounts on the Pulse and Walgreens sites, the Walgreens exclusive Transformers Kingdom Red Alert is now available on Walgreens.com and it does not seem to be in limited amounts like last time. It is available to purchase and ready to ship. The toy is $22.99. It has yet to sell out and it has yet to be seen at brick and mortar locations, so maybe they are simply diverting all their stock of this toy as online only. We'll see. Regardless, we wanted to let you know since many American fans have yet to own this toy. We will all see how long it takes to sell out once this news goes live, we wish you all the best with it!

Link: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/trans ... 60-product

Finally! And thankfully I managed to get an order in this time! :')

Thanks for sharing this news!
I wasn't going to be crushed if I didn't get this guy, but I'm more than happy this worked out.

Sowndwave76 wrote:Thanks for sharing this news!
I wasn't going to be crushed if I didn't get this guy, but I'm more than happy this worked out.

Very glad I could help

So glad, I checked news today. Thanks!

I got mine off the Walgreens website months ago, so I don't know how this is news.

Crosscheck wrote:I got mine off the Walgreens website months ago, so I don't know how this is news.

Because after that initial limited availability, he wasn't in stock and there was still demand? Multiple people have already said, "thanks for the heads up, that's how I got him," that's why it's news.

Wow..

I'm glad that I was content with the SIEGE version of Red Alert being that it took this long for this exclusive to finally show up on their own website. I get that it's likely due to COVID and Shipping issues but I shutter to think about how much madness collectors will be going through if the leaks about Minerva being a Walgreen's exclusive are true.

The only thing keeping me from not being as worried is because of so many other figures who rank higher on my to get list (Blitzwing, Sludge, Black Convoy, Crankcase, A3, Omega Guardian, etc.) this year.

Crosscheck wrote:I got mine off the Walgreens website months ago, so I don't know how this is news.

The article probably could have been worded slightly differently. Instead of implying it was the first time available on the website, they could have said "it is once again available', or something like that.

Still, it is appreciated because it is a high demand item that has been mostly unavailable except for a brief few hours one day in Pulse, then again a couple months ago on Walgreens.com, only for a few hours before selling out. Why it didn't make it to stores is a mystery, but hopefully everyone who wants a Kingdom Red Alert can now get one.

Thank you so much for posting this! I've been searching Walgreens for the past few months looking for him, never found him! Although I'm paying a lot for shipping, I'm so glad I won't have to drive to multiple Walgreens anymore looking for him. Thanks for the heads up!!! Got my order in!

o.supreme wrote:

Crosscheck wrote:I got mine off the Walgreens website months ago, so I don't know how this is news.

The article probably could have been worded slightly differently. Instead of implying it was the first time available on the website, they could have said "it is once again available', or something like that.

Thanks, I worded it better, or at least I hope I did

Amazon just charged me for Golden Disk Tigatron. Estimate arrival January 30th. So should be here on Sunday interestingly enough.

My white Tigatron should arrive a bit later than that.

william-james88 wrote:Thanks, I worded it better, or at least I hope I did

Awesome . I just wanted to make sure that I didn't cut down the value of your original news in general. a LOT of people are appreciative of being informed as K Red Alert was super limited on Pulse and WG previously.

It's hard to find a balance, because occasionally I'll see items that come back in stock on Pulse or other places, and just make a post to a thread, because sometimes they were hard to find items, but I'm not the one to judge whether it was newsworthy or not. I'm not the judge here either, but as just a shlub, I think it was defintely helpful to the community overall in this case.

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Thanks, I worded it better, or at least I hope I did

Awesome . I just wanted to make sure that I didn't cut down the value of your original news in general. a LOT of people are appreciative of being informed as K Red Alert was super limited on Pulse and WG previously.

It's hard to find a balance, because occasionally I'll see items that come back in stock on Pulse or other places, and just make a post to a thread, because sometimes they were hard to find items, but I'm not the one to judge whether it was newsworthy or not. I'm not the judge here either, but as just a shlub, I think it was defintely helpful to the community overall in this case.

Thanks man.

Bought!

My Mutant Tigatron arrived yesterday. Very unexpectedly.

I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

DeathReviews wrote:I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

Maybe in Malibu?

DeathReviews wrote:I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

I know the police in Dubai have Bugatti's and other high end vehicles (as well as normal police cars), so it wouldn't surprise me to find one there.

I got to play with my monkey at work for a bit, except he wouldn't monkey






Despite thinking the figure isn't good and that was before finding his chest is a bit off color in beast mode I opted for a replacement.

DeathReviews wrote:I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

For "robots in disguise," the Autobots sure do have a lot of conspicuous alt modes

Autobot N wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

For "robots in disguise," the Autobots sure do have a lot of conspicuous alt modes

But if you see any kind of vehicle, even one very much out of place, would you say it can turn into a robot?

Got my Golden Disk Mutant Tigatron!

Have some pictures.
Also, I would have liked to compared him with the regular voyager Tigatron, but I never ever saw the damn thing in store so have the "vintage" one instead.

























This is really an upscaled and slightly improved Cheetor. But eh, if it ain't broke...

Seeing how the Mutant Head looks more like a mask than a proper head unto itself, I just had an idea for how to headcanon this figure outside of its online bio backstory:

This could be what became of a Tigatron who really did quit the Beast Wars in "Law of the Jungle" and never rejoined the Maximals. The death of Snowstalker and the lack of receiving sympathy and convincing from Optimus hardened him to the point that he became something of a wandering protector of nature, an isolated creature who would strike down any who would do harm to the planet, his home, with little mercy. He'd show the Maximals some, but Predacons would be dealt without hesitation. The Mutant Head would represent a mask he'd wear to hide his face and inner shame behind his colder exterior that, ironically, is now colored to better match the wrath of Nature's Fury.

Surprised nobody else posted this. Got an email around 1am from Pulse saying the Behold, Galvatron set arrived early and will be shipping soon!

Emerje

Autobot N wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:I don't believe I have ever seen the chief of any fire department, tooling around in a custom painted Lamborghini.

For "robots in disguise," the Autobots sure do have a lot of conspicuous alt modes

A Lambo is just barely possible as a fire chief's fast-response car. I don't find it quiiite as much of a stretch as a Lambo being a patrol car (especially a Lambo with a supercharger - looking at you, Cordon). And making Red Alert a Fire Chief car did further distinguish him from Prowl, the police car the line already had (and the most realistic option amongst the Diaclone police-deco toys, because Japanese PDs actually did use Datsun Fairladies as patrol cars).

Mirage, Wheeljack, and Smokescreen are easily the worst though (especially Mirage).

Got Cyclonus in this week (he was a birthday gift), and am quite happy to have him.

I very much appreciate how much better this view is compared to his 2008 counterpart.

Sabrblade wrote:Seeing how the Mutant Head looks more like a mask than a proper head unto itself, I just had an idea for how to headcanon this figure outside of its online bio backstory:

This could be what became of a Tigatron who really did quit the Beast Wars in "Law of the Jungle" and never rejoined the Maximals. The death of Snowstalker and the lack of receiving sympathy and convincing from Optimus hardened him to the point that he became something of a wandering protector of nature, an isolated creature who would strike down any who would do harm to the planet, his home, with little mercy. He'd show the Maximals some, but Predacons would be dealt without hesitation. The Mutant Head would represent a mask he'd wear to hide his face and inner shame behind his colder exterior that, ironically, is now colored to better match the wrath of Nature's Fury.

Ooh, very interesting headcanon.
Somewhat related, I personally like to headcanon Optimus Primal and BW Megs' "mutant head" masks as war masks rather than actual mutant noggins.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Somewhat related, I personally like to headcanon Optimus Primal and BW Megs' "mutant head" masks as war masks rather than actual mutant noggins.

Similarly, T-Wrecks's mutant head was treated as a battle mask on his original toy's appearance in The Wreckers issue #2.

For what it's worth, I read years ago that back in the 80s Japanese Fire and Police commanders used sports cars for fast response times. Not sure if that still happens now.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:For what it's worth, I read years ago that back in the 80s Japanese Fire and Police commanders used sports cars for fast response times. Not sure if that still happens now.

Well, Takara did also use a Lambo as a police car in the Car Robots line back in 2000.

So I ended up with a weird deal after the fact on Amazon for the Grimlock/Mirage set. I ended up getting it for free. I only noticed this because I needed to return my Slammer that I pre-ordered using the wishlist trick back in May, just before I ordered the Grimlock/Mirage set. When I was searching for the order to make the return, I noticed it said refund issued for Grimlock/Mirage.

The only thing I can think of is that my package missed a scan somewhere and never showed up as delivered in Amazon's system and after some period of time, they automatically issued a refund. It is sitting in the basement, so it definitely made it here.

Makes me wonder how many other orders I might have gotten free after the fact.