Robots in Disguise Combiner Force Crash Combiners Found at Retail

I guess the window has passed on the Weaponizer Minicons. I'd love to know what happened.

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chuckdawg1999 wrote:I guess the window has passed on the Weaponizer Minicons. I'd love to know what happened.

I was under the impression that the stateside release of pretty much anything minicon-related got ruined by the first couple waves of minicons and deployers not selling so great.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:We have a new sighting for you to check out today, this time in the form of a video showing that Combiner Force is hitting US retail! Youtuber Panda Prime Productions was kind enough to take this video from the local walmart, showing Combiner Force Beeswipe (Bumblebee and Sideswipe) And Prime Strong (Strongarm and Optimus Prime). In the video, it is shown that the figures appear to be going for around $9.84 per 2-pack, about the price of a 1-step changer. Now that you know they are hitting the shelves, go out and find yourselves some Combiner Force combiners!

Where in the US were these found?

I agree with the reviewer that you do get that WFC/FOC/TFA vibe with Soundwave

Blurr looks cool too, although pity you couldn't fit a Titan Master sized figure in is car mode coz that canopy looks like it could open

Zeedust wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I guess the window has passed on the Weaponizer Minicons. I'd love to know what happened.

I was under the impression that the stateside release of pretty much anything minicon-related got ruined by the first couple waves of minicons and deployers not selling so great.

Pretty much, and it's very disappointing. I wanted some weapons minicons, but there are still hoards of wave 1 and 2 guys clogging the shelves. Nothing past that

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:[quote="Emerje"
We know they have bot modes

I don't think Jelze knows

I forgot, simply because the images for the smaller robot modes were smaller than the others and thus stood out less. I thus retract my statements and hide in shame [/quote]


No shame to be claimed they really do not promote their individual robot modes at all ; they are not shown in the Advert video and they are only tiny blurbs on the boxes - and the only reason I knew myself was I saw that video posted on the Seibertron Youtube page that shows the Sideswipe in individual robot mode.

I would put this down as another example of the terrible product information Transformers has - especially on RID toys (the Instructions are border-line unreadable.) They are so small it's easier to look up a scan online that look at the actual packets.

Kickback? Why... for... me no find.... where ME am...?

From Cybertron Philipines, we have in package images for the upcoming second assortment of the Robots in Disguise Combiner Force toys. While many toys repeat, we do get the new warrior Decepticons like Soundwave and Skywarp, and Blurr gets 3 toys through different classes. You also get a new class replacing the 3 step changers called Hyper Flip. These seem to be new molds but they are very reminiscent of the 3 step changers. Also, the repacked Windblade seems to have different paint apps. Let us know what you think. Here is the breakdown:

Combiner Force Legion Wave 2 – Blurr, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Bisk
Combiner Force One-Step Changers Wave 2 – Blurr, a new version of Sideswipe, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Drift
Combiner Force Hyper Flip Wave 1 – Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, and Thunderhoof
Combiner Force Crash Combiners Wave 2 – Skyhammer and Stormsledge, Primestrong and Beeside.
Combiner Force Warrior Wave 2 – Blurr, Soundwave, Skywarp, Grimlock and Windblade.

I do hope that Windblade's better than the last...

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I guess the window has passed on the Weaponizer Minicons. I'd love to know what happened.

They were never found in the US?

On the flipside, you guys got the weapon minicon 4 pack, Canada never got it.

Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

william-james88 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I guess the window has passed on the Weaponizer Minicons. I'd love to know what happened.

They were never found in the US?

On the flipside, you guys got the weapon minicon 4 pack, Canada never got it.

Well, yes and no. It was released but I don't think it made it into all stores, the same thing with that other 4 pack with the weaponized Slipstream.

william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these

Not as a front page news post.

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:We know they have bot modes, the question was if they could form both the top and bottom halves of the combined mode which they can't.

Emerje

JelZe had just claimed otherwise in her previous post above. That's what RAR was responding to.

My fault, I misread her post as meaning they're only tops or bottoms, not both and thought RAR was replying to something else since Will had already just mentioned the bot modes.

Anyway, there's still people finding wave 1 Minicons in stores? I really haven't seen too many Minicons of any type lately. What I have seen is pegs full of Windblade and nothing else. Kids aren't being fooled by the bad paint job I guess.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:We know they have bot modes, the question was if they could form both the top and bottom halves of the combined mode which they can't.

Emerje

JelZe had just claimed otherwise in her previous post above. That's what RAR was responding to.

My fault, I misread her post as meaning they're only tops or bottoms, not both and thought RAR was replying to something else since Will had already just mentioned the bot modes.

Anyway, there's still people finding wave 1 Minicons in stores? I really haven't seen too many Minicons of any type lately. What I have seen is pegs full of Windblade and nothing else. Kids aren't being fooled by the bad paint job I guess.

Emerje

I still see them, but they've been mostly plucked dry after Christmas. Thank Goodness. Right now Walmart has them on Rollback... as "Weaponizer Minicon Asst." We never got past wave 2!

Kurona wrote:I do hope that Windblade's better than the last...

She has a new battle mask facesculpt!

https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/99399-post-pictures-of-your-fan-modes/page-1186#entry3415671




https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/99399-post-pictures-of-your-fan-modes/page-1187#entry3415881

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:I do hope that Windblade's better than the last...

She has a new battle mask facesculpt!

https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/99399-post-pictures-of-your-fan-modes/page-1186#entry3415671




https://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/99399-post-pictures-of-your-fan-modes/page-1187#entry3415881

She ain't messing around. Kind of want to pick her up now!

Wow that blurr reminds me a lot of Prime Wheeljack. It's pretty awesome... I wasn't planning on buying anymore non-idw characters anymore, but I might have to pick this up.

If they were going to give Windblade a new head anyway, why not just make her Maxima?

... She looks the same to me. Then again, if they actually redecoed her and gave her a fancy title like "Blizzard Strike", "Alpine Strike" or "Night Ops" maybe I'd notice the difference.

I like the blue Cockpit on Windylass and the bi more dark tone overall helps her look - It would be nice to have the option to duel wield swords too with the purchase of this figure in addition to the previous one - likewise she can have a couple of hairfan blades too. I do wish this mould had hinged wings that could flow down like a cape it might help her look cooler and also help here stand better - as she falls over more often than any other single figure I own due to the tiny feet spikes and all the weigh being in the top of her body and the knees are weak too.

However I appreciate and support the idea of battle mask faces - I hope Hasbro do something with the other bumblebee mould & other Grimlock mould - though i'd likely rather have a G2 purple or Tigerstripe coloured Grimlock than another Green one with a battlemask head.

I guess we will have to call this 2017 Windblade or Combiner Force Windblade to distinguish her from the previous one.

I will admit though I'm puzzled why not make some Sandy deco RID already ? They have been like that in the show more than once and yet not a single toy - all I've seen is a couple of prototype Legions in sandy deco that never came out.

It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

I Have to hope that TRU doesn't fall asleep just yet on the new Titans Returns and RID 2017 (funny isn't it a line that only some seem to much like is one of the longest lasting kids lines now).

But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.

all i can say is i enjoy watching the show

RAR wrote:I like the blue Cockpit on Windylass and the bi more dark tone overall helps her look - It would be nice to have the option to duel wield swords too with the purchase of this figure in addition to the previous one - likewise she can have a couple of hairfan blades too. I do wish this mould had hinged wings that could flow down like a cape it might help her look cooler and also help here stand better - as she falls over more often than any other single figure I own due to the tiny feet spikes and all the weigh being in the top of her body and the knees are weak too.

However I appreciate and support the idea of battle mask faces - I hope Hasbro do something with the other bumblebee mould & other Grimlock mould - though i'd likely rather have a G2 purple or Tigerstripe coloured Grimlock than another Green one with a battlemask head.

I guess we will have to call this 2017 Windblade or Combiner Force Windblade to distinguish her from the previous one.

I will admit though I'm puzzled why not make some Sandy deco RID already ? They have been like that in the show more than once and yet not a single toy - all I've seen is a couple of prototype Legions in sandy deco that never came out.

It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

I Have to hope that TRU doesn't fall asleep just yet on the new Titans Returns and RID 2017 (funny isn't it a line that only some seem to much like is one of the longest lasting kids lines now).

But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.

It took forever to get Legends Groundpounder. I'd love to see something bigger. Maybe one of these new Activator type figures.

It does make me feel better that other people weren't able to find those Weaponized Minicons. Really surprised Hasbro dropped the ball that bad.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:It does make me feel better that other people weren't able to find those Weaponized Minicons. Really surprised Hasbro dropped the ball that bad.

I think it's just the stores not feeling the need to order more stock. The first two waves just didn't sell...

Only Weaponizers I saw were two of the 4-packs, only then they were only at Target. I almost got one just for Autobot Dragonus.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these

Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these

Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not

Will's post was the front page news post containing the newsworthy contents of Bumblebee21's post.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these

Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not

Will's post was the front page news post containing the newsworthy contents of Bumblebee21's post.

yeah i was first. i dont really care as long as people know the reviews are up.

This came out of nowhere (again). We are getting a new Windblade. It is a redeco of the previous Warrior Windblade mold with a battlemask. It was revealed at a Hasbro event in the Philippines. We do not know if that means it will be found on the show. What do you make of it? Would you double dip? Or would you buy this one over the other version?

Honestly the colours are just so much better than the previous release; and the battle mask, whether it appears on the show or not is just friggin' cool. Could still do with a bit more colour, but since I can't see Takara releasing such a minor retool...

Wow. That looks good. We already knew what it looked liked from the back of the Titan Force box, but it looks better in person.

Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Oh you mean- *aimed at by multiple firearms* nevermind.

And yeah, that does look evil.. SG Windblade anyone?

RAR wrote:It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

That would explain why I sell so many Rescue Bots toys to the UK. Wasn't aware that Rescue Bots were hard to find across the pond. Rescue Bots continues to be one of the biggest regular sellers from the Seibertron.com store.

Holy crap, between the newer RiD toys AND most of Titans Return, the designers are REALLY upping their game, I'm very impressed!
But sadly, I can't get the thought of how utterly astonishing these toys would've been if the budget was like it was before out of my head, imagine these new designs but with the mass and build quality of Cybertron toys and the paint detailing of the 2001 RiD figures and the parts count of ROTF...those would've been Masterpieces

[quote="RAR] But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.[/quote]

Nah, the real joke is they keep making things cheaper and cheaper but we keep lapping it up.

TimothyR wrote:Nah, the real joke is they keep making things cheaper and cheaper but we keep lapping it up.

I notice how there was a lot of complaining about Off Road, Alpha Bravo and Rook ; but over time people seemed to kinda get on board with the idea.

The number of Characters we get now who are new is very small indeed. where as wizz back in time 30-32 years the majority of them are new - regardless of who is on the cartoon at the time.

It's like Hasbro is allergic to making new sub-groups or teams of original characters who sell just on the basis that they look cool and do cool stuff.

If they don't want to do "totally new" the compromise that usually comes to mind is to make proper toy versions of the Kre-O combiners - I would be really interested by that to see who people would react to a (almost) brand new beast combiner that isn't Monstructor or Predaking or Abominus.

But considering they often don't even make toys of Characters from their own TV shows - I remain sceptical that they will have a change of heart in that regard anytime soon.

But might people like original Characters over say pretender homages or a rest to zero again and zooming back to 2006 again in terms of the non-cartoon toyline.

Especially as modern toys are likely to be inferior to late 2000's ones in some respects.

Though I guess you could argue the toss on Hotrod. I'm still pondering that one myself.

Panda Prime Productions has a review of the newly found Robots in Disguise Combiner Force figures. This video features the two sets currently available, Primestrong (which combines Strongarm with Optimus Prime) and Beeside (which combines Bumblebee and Sideswipe). You can see their individual robot modes, how the gimmick works and the combined form. Let us know what you think of them and if your kids would like them!

My 3 year old will love these. My 6 year old, who plays with Generations, Combiner Wars, and Titans Return characters, will not.

Windblade's going to an Eyes Wide Shut party.

Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

I've seen customizers saying they want to turn her into Maxima, also known as She Who Sings, the First Maximal, Daughter of the Founder of the Maximals Fortress Maximus, from the amazingly-written series Beast Wars: Uprising.

Some more Chefatron reviews are up (see the Titans Returns thread for others) ; here are the RID-17 ones though :

Alpine Strike Drift Review :



Warrior Skywarp review :




Legion Springload Review :



Legion Blurr Review :

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Oh you mean- *aimed at by multiple firearms* nevermind.

And yeah, that does look evil.. SG Windblade anyone?

SG windbladr already exists she doesn't where the battle mask at all rather she has an color that is an homage to a certain anime character....

Seibertronian RAR has provided us with more reviews today, this time in the form of a pair of repaints along with a new legion class figure: Blurr! Warrior Alpine Strike Drift is a repaint of the warrior class figure in an homage to the IDW character of the same name. Skywarp is a repaint of the Warrior Starscream mold, looking very nice in his black and purple. And rounding out the crew is legion class Blurr, an all new mold and a potential piece of a Robots in Disguise/Rescue Bots toy crossover.

You can check out the reviews below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

I just realised I don't know if Bisk is a 2017 Legion wave 1 or Legion wave 2 repack since he was skipped in the UK in the previous packaging style I hope he will get released in the new packaging either in wave 1 or 2 of Combiner Force Legions.

Maybe by the time he comes out I can actually find a Legion Ratchet that has two legs painted the same and not one thickly painted and one thinly painted - I've not seen such a common paint error since the Hasbro Asia Conehead 3 pack version of Thrust who had the same problem on his lift fans (I have two and they are both like that - but at least I can swap them now).

It would be great if they wrap Warrior Ratchet & Bisk back into a later wave too since both of those seem to have been skipped to - I remain a bit scared they might forget to do that though since Jazz was not reissued at all so far - where as Grimlock and Strongarm you can't escape from them.

Part of the new Combiner Force sub-line for Transformers: Robots in Disguise toys, the new class of Activators is appearing back in our plastic lives - many were first seen here - and thanks to fellow Seibertronian Bounti76, we have the first second US sighting in Centerville, Utah, and its Walmart store. As you can see pictured below, Strongarm and Trickout were available, and we're told the Bumblebee two-pack also was, as we reported a couple of weeks back- happy hunting!

So are those repacks or new molds.

Bumblebee21 wrote:So are those repacks or new molds.

New molds. They are kind of like Dark of the Moon era Stealth Force activated by minicons

Are they the same size as warrior class?

RustedCross wrote:Are they the same size as warrior class?

That I do not know. I haven't seen them personally.

I will say though that after watching the reviews, Blurr is a stunner. Stormshot has some impressive paint. the Blastwave/Bludgeon remolding looks awesome. And Soundwave still looks cool but a bit finniky