Transformer Combiner Wars G2 Superion Now In Stock at Walmart.ca
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Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Downshift, we have our first North American listing for the Combienr Wars G2 sets with a listing of G2 Superion found on Walmart.ca. It has the same price previously found on the Toysrus computer database, 149.92$ Canadian. This listing tells us that the initial G2 box sets will not be retailer exclusive and that they are indeed meant to start selling this holiday season. This should be available in the states sometime soon, either a Walmart or Toysrus (or Target since I here they still exist over there).
The listing also offered new stock images which are less touched up than usual as well as Walmart's own brand of bio:
Superion is driven by one thing and one thing only: a desire to obliterate the enemy. He attacks Decepticons – on the ground or in the air – with all-out force.
Convert, attack and destroy with this incredible 7-in-1 Superion Collection Pack!
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Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 16th, 2015 @ 8:52am CST
Posted by Autobot N on December 16th, 2015 @ 8:55am CST
Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Called it, holiday release, shame it probably won't show up in stores before christmas
For me, that's a good thing considering I won't get anymore money until after Christmas. Although, I'm not sure how I can get this, Sky Reign, Grand Galvatron, and PC-08-9 in one swing, so I might have to wait on G2 Superion and the upgrade kits.
Posted by william-james88 on December 16th, 2015 @ 9:00am CST
Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Called it, holiday release, shame it probably won't show up in stores before christmas
Pretty sure these will never show in stores and only be available online like Brake Neck and Quickslinger.
Posted by o.supreme on December 16th, 2015 @ 9:13am CST
Posted by ScottyP on December 16th, 2015 @ 9:16am CST
I think this is correct, but also a huge mistake*. Even a small brick and mortar run would probably clear out during the holidays. Cool gift for collectors, except no one buys these types of gifts for upcoming holidays like New Year's/MLK Day/President's Day.william-james88 wrote:Hellscream9999 wrote:HA! Called it, holiday release, shame it probably won't show up in stores before christmas
Pretty sure these will never show in stores and only be available online like Brake Neck and Quickslinger.
Hell just the timing of these is clearly a supply chain screwup. When did we see the boxed Superion images, months ago? Where have they been sitting around? Somebody messed up somewhere, at least that's my theory.
All that aside I look forward to these sets immensely. Bring on G2 Defensor!
*Edit for clarity: mistake on the collective retailers' part for not ordering them into physical stores at all in time for the holidays, were it an option. Mistake on Hasbro's part if they didn't make that an option for even a small (<10,000 pieces) quantity.
Posted by brokenchopstick on December 16th, 2015 @ 9:39am CST
Skydive, do you even lift, bro?
Posted by RAR on December 16th, 2015 @ 12:25pm CST
If you crunch the numbers they are pretty much $50.00 over priced - even if you are generous and class the Deluxe price point as $20.00 & Voyager as $35.00 & Legends/Basic as £15.00 they are still over priced.
$20.00+$20.00+$20.00+$20.00
+$35.00
+$15.00
= $140.00 ($10.00 overpriced)
So even inflating the prices to the most insane price a store could conceivable try to charge for the individual items they are still to much - if they try to further inflate the Price for Victorion - I will laugh in their face.
Why would I pay as much for a Hasbro toy that I could buy a Unite Warriors Gift set for - "with shipping" and then I'd have to pay international postage on the gift sets as well making them way more expensive than any AOE set except the SDCC one.
And if you class them by a more sensible price... They'd be more like $15.00X4
$25.00
& $10.00
Though some of my contacts tell me their local American retailers have taken to charging $15.00 for Legends class now.
But lets be honest paying a premium for Silverbolt in any colour would leave a bad taste in my mouth - especially as he has a tendency to break.
Posted by steals_your_goats on December 16th, 2015 @ 1:23pm CST
RAR wrote:The Age of Extinction Dinobot sets and the Autobot Alliance set seemed like better value for money to me.
If you crunch the numbers they are pretty much $50.00 over priced - even if you are generous and class the Deluxe price point as $20.00 & Voyager as $35.00 & Legends/Basic as £15.00 they are still over priced.
$20.00+$20.00+$20.00+$20.00
+$35.00
+$15.00
= $140.00 ($10.00 overpriced)
So even inflating the prices to the most insane price a store could conceivable try to charge for the individual items they are still to much - if they try to further inflate the Price for Victorion - I will laugh in their face.
Why would I pay as much for a Hasbro toy that I could buy a Unite Warriors Gift set for - "with shipping" and then I'd have to pay international postage on the gift sets as well making them way more expensive than any AOE set except the SDCC one.
And if you class them by a more sensible price... They'd be more like $15.00X4
$25.00
& $10.00
Though some of my contacts tell me their local American retailers have taken to charging $15.00 for Legends class now.
But lets be honest paying a premium for Silverbolt in any colour would leave a bad taste in my mouth - especially as he has a tendency to break.
You realise that these are the Canadian prices right? They're always higher than the American prices which have already been semi revealed to be around the $100 mark.
My bad I thought they were more expensive than they really are.
Posted by King Kuuga on December 16th, 2015 @ 1:38pm CST
RAR wrote:The Age of Extinction Dinobot sets and the Autobot Alliance set seemed like better value for money to me.
If you crunch the numbers they are pretty much $50.00 over priced - even if you are generous and class the Deluxe price point as $20.00 & Voyager as $35.00 & Legends/Basic as £15.00 they are still over priced.
$20.00+$20.00+$20.00+$20.00
+$35.00
+$15.00
= $140.00 ($10.00 overpriced)
So even inflating the prices to the most insane price a store could conceivable try to charge for the individual items they are still to much - if they try to further inflate the Price for Victorion - I will laugh in their face.
Why would I pay as much for a Hasbro toy that I could buy a Unite Warriors Gift set for - "with shipping" and then I'd have to pay international postage on the gift sets as well making them way more expensive than any AOE set except the SDCC one.
And if you class them by a more sensible price... They'd be more like $15.00X4
$25.00
& $10.00
Though some of my contacts tell me their local American retailers have taken to charging $15.00 for Legends class now.
But lets be honest paying a premium for Silverbolt in any colour would leave a bad taste in my mouth - especially as he has a tendency to break.
$150 Canadian is about $108 USD, much more in line with their MSRP of $100USD.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 16th, 2015 @ 1:54pm CST
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 16th, 2015 @ 8:16pm CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 17th, 2015 @ 1:09pm CST
Posted by fenrir72 on December 17th, 2015 @ 9:05pm CST
Just sharing the love. Vehicon General of the TAV line is available again at amiami.
Posted by william-james88 on December 17th, 2015 @ 10:08pm CST
fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-011315&page=top
Just sharing the love. Vehicon General of the TAV line is available again at amiami.
not cheap though
Posted by RAR on December 17th, 2015 @ 11:02pm CST
$100.00 each means the 4 we know about would cost $400.00 if they did come out at a higher price though they that makes your spend $600.00 for the 4 sets instead - a big jump in price.
I do wonder if G2 Defensor may show up as a comic convention toy exclusive though.
I'm still left hoping that there may be a G2 Rook, Off Road & Alpha Bravo though sometime - but also left wondering if they should be a unique coloring or the same as the character they used to stand it for.
As I have said before I do really like the idea of a spare team member.
I have also mentioned before that I suspect the Transformation that many of these Limb-bots have makes a potential Seacon Rifle mode possible too using the extra team member. Heck you can do that already with Rook.
Posted by fenrir72 on December 17th, 2015 @ 11:51pm CST
william-james88 wrote:fenrir72 wrote:http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-011315&page=top
Just sharing the love. Vehicon General of the TAV line is available again at amiami.
not cheap though
Yeah. At full price this time. Though given how HTF they are (RK is still out of stock)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 24th, 2015 @ 12:23am CST
Sky Lynx is expected to be available in February, the listing may be viewed by clicking the picture:
Onslaught was reported to a 'running change' that included a more show accurate olive green chest plate for Bruticus - as seen in our galleries from Botcon '15 - instead of the wave 1 toy accurate grey colored chest plate. However, the images for the wave seem to contradict this;
While questions about how this running change will take place, one thing is for sure, Sky Lynx's release is quickly approaching. Are you excited for Sky Lynx? Let us know in the comments below.
Posted by Ultra Markus on December 24th, 2015 @ 1:21am CST
his chest was all blue in the show
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 24th, 2015 @ 1:31am CST
Ultra Markus wrote:show accurate olive green chest plate? what are they talking about/
his chest was all blue in the show
Bruticus' chest plate would be green as seen here:
Thought it was generally common knowledge by now, but I guess I'll just update the news post... Thanks for letting me know that this should have been clarified.
Posted by King Kuuga on December 24th, 2015 @ 3:02am CST
Posted by Burn on December 24th, 2015 @ 4:56am CST
http://www.premiumcollectables.com.au/p ... s-sky-lynx
Posted by BATTLEMASTER IIC on December 24th, 2015 @ 6:00am CST
Posted by no-one on December 24th, 2015 @ 7:00am CST
Posted by Rated X on December 24th, 2015 @ 7:39am CST
Posted by Randomhero on December 24th, 2015 @ 7:43am CST
carytheone wrote:I'm not feeling Bruticus with green chesticles. I'm team grey all the whey!
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I love the cartoon but I'd rather have a grey chest plate. I wouldn't even say his cartoon chest was green. I always saw it as blastoff's wings and was more brown. That always confused me as a kid. Why would part of blast off be the chest of bruticus? I'm curious to what Takara does since they lean toward cartoon color schemes.
Still getting hasbro but I'm also gonna get takaras. Not because I think they'll do a new blastoff but because bruticus is my boy.
Posted by william-james88 on December 24th, 2015 @ 8:33am CST
Randomhero wrote:carytheone wrote:I'm not feeling Bruticus with green chesticles. I'm team grey all the whey!
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I love the cartoon but I'd rather have a grey chest plate. I wouldn't even say his cartoon chest was green. I always saw it as blastoff's wings and was more brown. That always confused me as a kid. Why would part of blast off be the chest of bruticus? I'm curious to what Takara does since they lean toward cartoon color schemes.
Still getting hasbro but I'm also gonna get takaras. Not because I think they'll do a new blastoff but because bruticus is my boy.
Even if they make it an exclusive and force us to get the more expensive asian release, like Defensor?
Posted by Randomhero on December 24th, 2015 @ 8:38am CST
william-james88 wrote:Randomhero wrote:carytheone wrote:I'm not feeling Bruticus with green chesticles. I'm team grey all the whey!
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I love the cartoon but I'd rather have a grey chest plate. I wouldn't even say his cartoon chest was green. I always saw it as blastoff's wings and was more brown. That always confused me as a kid. Why would part of blast off be the chest of bruticus? I'm curious to what Takara does since they lean toward cartoon color schemes.
Still getting hasbro but I'm also gonna get takaras. Not because I think they'll do a new blastoff but because bruticus is my boy.
Even if they make it an exclusive and force us to get the more expensive asian release, like Defensor?
I did it for the Fall of Cybertron one I'm more than happy to do it with this.
Posted by Randomhero on December 24th, 2015 @ 8:53am CST
Posted by no-one on December 24th, 2015 @ 9:22am CST
Yes, but it's not as stable. The wings of the chest piece pegs into the arms when they are up like that. This makes his shoulders super stable.BATTLEMASTER IIC wrote:Can Bruticus be transformed without Onslaught's wheels sticking up over his shoulders just like the convention picture above?
Plenty of options though. You could leave them pegged in and just fold the forearms back and down a bit. They will stick out just a little. Or you could just mistransform him and have them rotated like Defensor. You get a little more shoulder movement action this way.
Check how the Perfect Effect team has him posed.
Posted by BATTLEMASTER IIC on December 24th, 2015 @ 12:02pm CST
I am totally looking forward to getting Skylynx. Scattershot is a pass for me. If only more work went into that figure to differentiate it from Superion!
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 24th, 2015 @ 12:08pm CST
Can't wait to see some reviews of him; and then to get him, he looks so cool
Posted by Ultra Markus on December 24th, 2015 @ 4:11pm CST
for it to be bruticus chest it would be dark grey with brown and purple in the center to be show accurate not olive greenHellscream9999 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:show accurate olive green chest plate? what are they talking about/
his chest was all blue in the show
Bruticus' chest plate would be green as seen here:
Thought it was generally common knowledge by now, but I guess I'll just update the news post... Thanks for letting me know that this should have been clarified.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 24th, 2015 @ 6:00pm CST
Ultra Markus wrote:for it to be bruticus chest it would be dark grey with brown and purple in the center to be show accurate not olive greenHellscream9999 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:show accurate olive green chest plate? what are they talking about/
his chest was all blue in the show
Bruticus' chest plate would be green as seen here:
Thought it was generally common knowledge by now, but I guess I'll just update the news post... Thanks for letting me know that this should have been clarified.
Look man, I dunno, that's just what hasbro said at botcon - and based on the consistently poor animation, they may have just been looking at a different screenshot than you did
Posted by Ultra Markus on December 25th, 2015 @ 1:06am CST
Hellscream9999 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:for it to be bruticus chest it would be dark grey with brown and purple in the center to be show accurate not olive greenHellscream9999 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:show accurate olive green chest plate? what are they talking about/
his chest was all blue in the show
Bruticus' chest plate would be green as seen here:
Thought it was generally common knowledge by now, but I guess I'll just update the news post... Thanks for letting me know that this should have been clarified.
Look man, I dunno, that's just what hasbro said at botcon - and based on the consistently poor animation, they may have just been looking at a different screenshot than you did
thats not likely, go google G1 Bruticus and i guarantee most if not all screen shots are the same like this one
anyway someone somewhere is either ignorant or just cant report the right info
Posted by Sabrblade on December 25th, 2015 @ 1:21am CST
So the green chestplate of the non-gray version might not have been meant to serve any real purpose for Bruticus and instead was for Onslaught's sake.
Posted by Wolfman Jake on December 27th, 2015 @ 8:03pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:So the green chestplate of the non-gray version might not have been meant to serve any real purpose for Bruticus and instead was for Onslaught's sake.
Exactly, the olive green chest plate for Bruticus translates into a much more toy accurate AND cartoon accurate gun turret for Onslaught's alt mode. If you're like me and get two of each set of combiners to simultaneously display the individual team members and their gestalt form, this is great news, as you can have a more accurate looking Onslaught AND a more (toy) accurate Bruticus if you buy one of each Onslaught variant. I'm sure Takara will invariably give us a cartoon accurate chest plate for Bruticus, probably at the cost of Onslaught's screen accuracy, though.
Posted by Ultra Markus on December 27th, 2015 @ 8:42pm CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade wrote:So the green chestplate of the non-gray version might not have been meant to serve any real purpose for Bruticus and instead was for Onslaught's sake.
Exactly, the olive green chest plate for Bruticus translates into a much more toy accurate AND cartoon accurate gun turret for Onslaught's alt mode. If you're like me and get two of each set of combiners to simultaneously display the individual team members and their gestalt form, this is great news, as you can have a more accurate looking Onslaught AND a more (toy) accurate Bruticus if you buy one of each Onslaught variant. I'm sure Takara will invariably give us a cartoon accurate chest plate for Bruticus, probably at the cost of Onslaught's screen accuracy, though.
most people don't buy two of every figure besides when does hasbro do cartoon accuracy thats takara's thing it also doesnt take away the look of onslaughts vehicle or robot having that grey instead of green but it does take away from Bruticus's look having a green chest, either way if im stuck with the green chest some paint will fix it up real nice!
Posted by william-james88 on December 27th, 2015 @ 8:50pm CST
Ultra Markus wrote:most people don't buy two of every figure besides when does hasbro do cartoon accuracy thats takara's thing it also doesnt take away the look of onslaughts vehicle or robot having that grey instead of green but it does take away from Bruticus's look having a green chest, either way if im stuck with the green chest some paint will fix it up real nice!
CW Magnus was cartoon accurate over Takara's MTMTE accuracy.
Posted by Wolfman Jake on December 27th, 2015 @ 8:52pm CST
Ultra Markus wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:Exactly, the olive green chest plate for Bruticus translates into a much more toy accurate AND cartoon accurate gun turret for Onslaught's alt mode. If you're like me and get two of each set of combiners to simultaneously display the individual team members and their gestalt form, this is great news, as you can have a more accurate looking Onslaught AND a more (toy) accurate Bruticus if you buy one of each Onslaught variant. I'm sure Takara will invariably give us a cartoon accurate chest plate for Bruticus, probably at the cost of Onslaught's screen accuracy, though.
most people don't buy two of every figure besides when does hasbro do cartoon accuracy thats takara's thing it also doesnt take away the look of onslaughts vehicle or robot having that grey instead of green but it does take away from Bruticus's look having a green chest, either way if im stuck with the green chest some paint will fix it up real nice!
Yes, cartoon accuracy is Takara's thing. That's why I speculated they would do a cartoon accurate chest for Bruticus, which Hasbro hasn't done. They've done a toy accurate gray chest for Bruticus, which makes for non screen accurate combined mode and a non toy accurate Onslaught alt mode. Hasbro's also done a non toy or cartoon accurate olive green/brown chest for Bruticus, which provides for a toy accurate alt mode for Onslaught that also happens to be cartoon accurate in this case. You may not think the gray paneling and turret in the middle of Onslaught's alt mode takes away from the figure, and I agree it looks mostly fine to me, but other's, including presumably some on Hasbro's design team, would rather have an option for a more toy accurate olive green for those pieces in question. The two variants released is their compromise, I suppose, so that consumers can choose what is more important to them, a toy accurate Bruticus or a toy accurate Onslaught.
william-james88 wrote:CW Magnus was cartoon accurate over Takara's MTMTE accuracy.
Almost. I'd say that Hasbro's CW Ultra Magnus has a very G1 cartoon accurate paint mask, but uses color hues more accurate to the G1 toy than to his cartoon appearance. The light versus the much darker blue is a dead giveaway. Still, CW Ultra Magnus is one of my favorite releases of 2015. I don't get why some people revile it so much. I've not had any of the issues people have mentioned with the quality of the plastic. He could hold his guns a little more securely in his hands, but that's about the only real issue I've had.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on December 27th, 2015 @ 9:10pm CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade wrote:So the green chestplate of the non-gray version might not have been meant to serve any real purpose for Bruticus and instead was for Onslaught's sake.
Exactly, the olive green chest plate for Bruticus translates into a much more toy accurate AND cartoon accurate gun turret for Onslaught's alt mode. If you're like me and get two of each set of combiners to simultaneously display the individual team members and their gestalt form, this is great news, as you can have a more accurate looking Onslaught AND a more (toy) accurate Bruticus if you buy one of each Onslaught variant. I'm sure Takara will invariably give us a cartoon accurate chest plate for Bruticus, probably at the cost of Onslaught's screen accuracy, though.
Unless they paint both sides of the chest plate, but that would probably sponge budget from alotta sources though
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 29th, 2015 @ 10:16am CST
And as for Bruticus and Onslaught: I want the green version. it looks a little less drab to me. I will gladly take whichever one I end up with, but I would prefer the green
Posted by william-james88 on January 1st, 2016 @ 9:46am CST
BBTS preorder for 145$ read em and weap
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail
There is also TF Source who is charging a bit less but still within my predicted price range with a price of 130$
http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/11227/
But that wont get you free shipping since its below 150$ (thank the Lord!)
Posted by Cobotron on January 1st, 2016 @ 9:07pm CST
18,730 JPY (=$155.27) and 16,960 JPY (=$140.60)
It looks like those with the lower price have damaged boxes. So, based on what I paid for shipping, which was SAL, this would land him at about $185 shipped to the North America.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-012326-D001
Posted by william-james88 on January 1st, 2016 @ 9:11pm CST
Cobotron wrote:I was making my rounds and noticed that Amiami has two price points on UW Devastator.
18,730 JPY (=$155.27) and 16,960 JPY (=$140.60)
It looks like those with the lower price have damaged boxes. So, based on what I paid for shipping, which was SAL, this would land him at about $185 shipped to the North America.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-012326-D001
But you cant buy those anymore though. And Legends Ultra Magnus had that too. I didnt think about it being damaged boxes though, that makes a lot of sense!
Posted by Cobotron on January 1st, 2016 @ 9:15pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Cobotron wrote:I was making my rounds and noticed that Amiami has two price points on UW Devastator.
18,730 JPY (=$155.27) and 16,960 JPY (=$140.60)
It looks like those with the lower price have damaged boxes. So, based on what I paid for shipping, which was SAL, this would land him at about $185 shipped to the North America.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-012326-D001
But you cant buy those anymore though. And Legends Ultra Magnus had that too. I didnt think about it being damaged boxes though, that makes a lot of sense!
Oh sorry! I didn't notice the GIANT button at the top that reads "ORDERS CLOSED".
My bad.
It gives a description of condition under the heading, Product Notes.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 11th, 2016 @ 12:18am CST
Cobotron wrote:william-james88 wrote:Cobotron wrote:I was making my rounds and noticed that Amiami has two price points on UW Devastator.
18,730 JPY (=$155.27) and 16,960 JPY (=$140.60)
It looks like those with the lower price have damaged boxes. So, based on what I paid for shipping, which was SAL, this would land him at about $185 shipped to the North America.
http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=FIGURE-012326-D001
But you cant buy those anymore though. And Legends Ultra Magnus had that too. I didnt think about it being damaged boxes though, that makes a lot of sense!
Oh sorry! I didn't notice the GIANT button at the top that reads "ORDERS CLOSED".
My bad.
It gives a description of condition under the heading, Product Notes.
Just as probably hundreds of people reading this got their hopes up
Posted by King Kuuga on January 11th, 2016 @ 1:37am CST
Posted by ScottyP on January 12th, 2016 @ 12:25pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 12th, 2016 @ 1:20pm CST
ScottyP wrote:G2 Superion came back in stock for like five minutes. I missed it again, now the earlier link from the news post is dead. Just wanted to give a heads up about the link.
Sounds like a pain in the rear. Man he must be popular
Posted by Hellscream9999 on January 12th, 2016 @ 1:21pm CST
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:ScottyP wrote:G2 Superion came back in stock for like five minutes. I missed it again, now the earlier link from the news post is dead. Just wanted to give a heads up about the link.
Sounds like a pain in the rear. Man he must be popular
Either that, or they're just getting a couple in at a time at various third parties that are hosted on amazon, just need to wait a little, I'm sure online retailers will be flooded with these