Transformers Discount Bundles Found in Walmart Stores

Checked Walmart this morning to see if these were showing up, but I couldn't even find a price tag for them. Meanwhile they had four shelves for Barbie campers and Hot Wheels T-rex trucks but only the top shelf had anything on them. There was a bunch of Lego so this picture at least tells me where to check.

Emerje

Transtopias Rodimus Prime wrote:Are they available online or in store only?

I put an online link in the article to one of the bundles

Thanks for the link!

A couple pretty cool bits from the livestream today, first is that the design team said they had a lot of demand for Mohawk and second is that Evan specifically mentioned the current concept art figures as the gateway to figures of characters from the Bayverse movie games, which would be awesome!

The extended cast roster for Studio Series September this year ended up being pretty well timed!

Mohawk's bike mode is pretty cool.

Megatron, don't know. Might wait until he goes on sale. The triple changing is a bit crude. Seems like tanks turning into jets is always a hard thing to get right. *cough,* looks at Legacy Blitzwing *cough*.

Overcracker wrote:Megatron, don;t know. Might wait until he goes on sale. The triple changing is a bit crude. Seems like tanks turning into jets is always a hard thing to get right. *cough,* looks at Legacy Blitzwing *cough*.

I'd have preferred a more faithful "concept art" rendition of this guy:



As opposed to a Movieverse adaptation.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:A couple pretty cool bits from the livestream today, first is that the design team said they had a lot of demand for Mohawk and second is that Evan specifically mentioned the current concept art figures as the gateway to figures of characters from the Bayverse movie games, which would be awesome!

The extended cast roster for Studio Series September this year ended up being pretty well timed!

Also really felt like they were trying to hint to some degree at Stratosphere coming in the future too

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Megatron, don;t know. Might wait until he goes on sale. The triple changing is a bit crude. Seems like tanks turning into jets is always a hard thing to get right. *cough,* looks at Legacy Blitzwing *cough*.

I'd have preferred a more faithful "concept art" rendition of this guy:



As opposed to a Movieverse adaptation.

I agree, that Prototype looked really good in both modes, and you were hard pressed to tell it turned into the other mode.

But alas, the actual BB Megatron toy, does not even look like the concept art all that much in either tank or jet modes.

They mentioned the connection between BB Megs and Marauder Megs in the Pulse stream today. I saw a resemblance. But it is a very loose one. Another example of the original design being better than the modern interpretation IE Gamer Series Starscream.

To provide an update on the bundles, Legacy and Studio Series 86/BB packs have been spotted at retail. My local one only had Legacy, but there’s been no in-person sightings of the Studio Series Bayverse packs yet. The bundle initially labelled as TF2 bundle 2 had its named changed to Arcee and Sideways, someone on TFW ordered it and confirmed the naming is correct, which then raises questions about the “TF6 and 86 Bundle 1” which uses the picture of Arcee and Sideways.

Still no info on the TF5 bundle.

I spotted the MV6 Brawn and MV6 Ironhidde and SS86 Perceptor and MV6 Wheeljack bundles along with some from Legacy in my local Walmart. Those were the only 2 SS bundles I saw at my store.

Quick update, some of the packs just became available online! I ordered the ROTF Bumblebee and Jolt pack, looking forwards to a DOTM Jolt repaint!

Found the BB/86/Legacy packs at my local Walmart. They’re up in the front in the holiday section rather than back in with the rest of the toys:

I found the following two packs at my local Walmart last night:
BB Ratchet and Brawn
BB Ironhide and Arcee
BB Wheeljack and 86 Preceptor
Legacy Tarantulas and Elita-1
Legacy Skullgrin and Dead End
Legacy Wildrider and Knock Out

They're in the holiday section near the front, NOT the regular toy section.

Spruced up my paint work on DOTM Shockwave, Wheelie, Brains, and the NEST Soldier!

This is really such a great set, I hope it gets reissued so more people can get ahold of it. By the way, did you know that Shockwave's horns in DOTM are asymmetrical? I didn't find out until someone else pointed it out recently, and the Studio Series figure actually reflects that too!

ROTF Bumblebee and Jolt Walmart bundle arrived!

Picking up this discussion from the 86 thread,

Which live action characters would you like to see in Studio Series Commander Class?

My first pick would be DOTM Devcon! That'd be a proper size for how he appeared on screen and has been surprisingly popular in stuff like the fan vote we held the other year. He's a more obscure character, but we're also getting Magmatron as a Commander, so obscure characters are on the table!

If we get a core class AOE/TLK Knight Prime to go with SS Grimlock, a Commander Dragonstorm to fit that same relative scale would be great! I like the idea of 3 bots or so that are roughly Optimus height in robot mode (thus scaling with standard Studio Series in robot mode) that then works with core class figures/ Grimlock in robot mode.

Similarly going with that core class scale, ROTB Stratosphere would be a good pick! He really needs a figure.

The dinobots are tricky because they'd be titan scale in actual SS scale (if not bigger), so I'd probably like to see the rest as Leaders just to scale with Grimlock, and then we get some aforementioned AOE core class Autobots to go with them.

Demolishor as a non-combining new mold Commander class would be awesome, but a repaint of Scavenger would be much more likely.

Stratosphere would be cool, or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic
Deluxe toy sucks, voyager price point would probably make it better

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic

Being reasonable kinda goes without saying.

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic
Deluxe toy sucks, voyager price point would probably make it better

I could see a "voyager" Lockdown. Improve the engineering, increase the parts count, and manage to hide as much car kibble as possible à la Unique Toys Perukill. Finalise the set by adding his huge face-sniper canon and a cyber dog.

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic

Being reasonable kinda goes without saying.

If it was something I expected to happen, then yes. Expectations should be reasonable
But a little pipe dream never hurt anyone

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic
Deluxe toy sucks, voyager price point would probably make it better

I could see a "voyager" Lockdown. Improve the engineering, increase the parts count, and manage to hide as much car kibble as possible à la Unique Toys Perukill. Finalise the set by adding his huge face-sniper canon and a cyber dog.

That would be pretty cool
Though I think with cyber dog and proper face cannon they'd make that a leader
Unless the dog is sold separately as a core class or something, maybe a set of 2

Razorbeast88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:or a really nice lockdown with all the bells and whistles

They're not gonna do a Deluxe-sized Lamborghini as a Commander class.

Okay, but I was asked what I would like. Not what was realistic
Deluxe toy sucks, voyager price point would probably make it better

I could see a "voyager" Lockdown. Improve the engineering, increase the parts count, and manage to hide as much car kibble as possible à la Unique Toys Perukill. Finalise the set by adding his huge face-sniper canon and a cyber dog.

That would be pretty cool
Though I think with cyber dog and proper face cannon they'd make that a leader
Unless the dog is sold separately as a core class or something, maybe a set of 2

With the tiniest "leader" ever that is ROTB Optimus Primal, I can definitely see that happening.

I’d personally love to see SS try a Lamborghini Mirage, since the proper Porche one has way too much kibble in robot mode.

Didn’t realize we were exclusively talking about the commander class.

I'd love to see a CC Scorn figure. As much as I like Leader Grimlock he does have a few issues that I think Scorn could avoid at the larger scale. Plus he's supposed to be bigger than Grimlock so it works out.

Definitely like the idea of Devcon at that scale. Same with Stratosphere, maybe include a Core Prime.

This is a dumb wish, but I want a large Dark of the Moon Megatron. The one we got at the time was a Voyager and the one we got in Studio Series was "new scale". I want a big one to go with the large Megs from the first movie to TLK. I don't know if I need a big Galvatron, but I really want a bigger Megatruck to have all four at the same size. I really don't want to (and wont) buy an OSKO to make that happen if such a thing exists.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:This is a dumb wish, but I want a large Dark of the Moon Megatron.
Emerje

It's far from dumb. The Leader DOTM Megatron is good, but the square legs are all wrong and he got so much hollow spaces to fill in. So with a Commander budget, I'm sure we can have a DOTM Megatron that would be perfect looking, and I mean, TRULY PERFECT looking in both modes, AND be in scale.

If we get something in-between the SS Leader DOTM Megatron and the Unique Toys Desperado, I'd be all over it.

This week's #BacktoBaysics post is on Demolishor!

It would also scale with all the old Legends class and Cyberverse toys from the toylines of the first film trilogy.

I just got Core Noah and I find hilarious that it's LITERALLY a "bot" with a vehicle on his back. No shame at all and I love it.

Also, that jet wasn't chosen at random. Not sure if I'm the first one to notice it.

Reminds me more of Jetblade.


Transformers Hunt For The Decepticons Jetblade Gallery

I am still longing for a commander class Demolishor, that was such an awesome scene.

Stratosphere needs to be big too.

Infernocus could work at a commander price point too I think.

Putting that Jolt I got from the Walmart bundle to good use, here's my custom DOTM Jolt! In addition to paint work, I added some pieces to the head sculpt to make it look a bit more like the concept art design that the original DOTM deluxe uses!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Putting that Jolt I got from the Walmart bundle to good use, here's my custom DOTM Jolt! In addition to paint work, I added some pieces to the head sculpt to make it look a bit more like the concept art design that the original DOTM deluxe uses!

Jolt bot main.jpg

Jolt bot 2.jpg

Jolt bot side.jpg

DOTM Jolt alt main.jpg

DOTM Jolt alt R.jpg

DOTM Jolt alt R back.jpg

Nice work! I've always had a soft spot for Jolt, for some reason. I think that it's because he turns into a normal looking car.

Rtron wrote:Nice work! I've always had a soft spot for Jolt, for some reason. I think that it's because he turns into a normal looking car.

Thanks! Jolt's had an interesting hisotry with toys, especially with that original DOTM deluxe. It was crazy getting the first good look at his CG model with Sam Smith's screen to toy post!

I still love those DotM colors on Jolt, still wish he had made that movie too

Look at what popped in my YT recommends:

Unboxing and review of the upcoming SS Bee Movie concept Leader Megatron!

-Kanrabat- wrote:Look at what popped in my YT recommends:

Unboxing and review of the upcoming SS Bee Movie concept Leader Megatron!

Wow, he looks even shinier than in previous stock photos and the Pulse stream. Even compared to ROTB Prime next to him there's more of a reflectiveness to the silver. It's pretty impressive what they can do with these new plastic coatings over traditional paint.

Emerje

The bot mode is perfect, but both vehicles are compromised. They are more "fan modes" than anything else. Regardless, I still want that Megs.

Hasbro is going big on the Bumblebee movie Cybertronian designs in 2024. Below you will find a review to the triple changer leader Megatron we'll be getting soon. Also, we now have the first images for the upcoming voyager Shockwave from this same subline. It is basically the same design we got with the core class version but now the size of voyager BBM Soundwave. The alt mode is still not much to look at. These images come from Transmimi over at TFW2005.

Hasbro is going big on the Bumblebee movie Cybertronian designs in 2024. Below you will find a review to the triple changer leader Megatron we'll be getting soon. Also, we now have the first images for the upcoming voyager Shockwave from this same subline. It is basically the same design we got with the core class version but now the size of voyager BBM Soundwave. The alt mode is still not much to look at. These images come from Transmimi over at TFW2005.

Very Prime Shockwave-esque altmode.

Somehow he looks more proportionate than the CG model

Shockwave alt looks like he has fallen and will kill you before he gets up. "YOU TRIPPED ME!"

I think his thighs and feet should be a lighter shade of silver, though the darker silver does look grittier.

And it's amusing to me how his arm cannon is this big, massive piece that ends in a teensy gun barrel. *pew pew pew*

The arm cannon is mistransformed it folds up more

As I said, I would have preferred if Megs would only had one altmode. There's too many gaps in his altmodes. Still, I do like him very much.

As for Shockwave, he's pretty much perfect and his altmode look solid.