Transformers Generations Selects Lancer is Available Again from Hasbro Pulse

Thank you! Now I can cancel my pre-order at Big Bad and soon I will have Orthia complete!

Mere days after mine just arrived from Action Robo. Oh well, glad others will get another chance to get her.

So I tried to get an definitive answer out of Hasbro Pulse customer service on whether or not they'd be offering the remaining two Seacons. Their customer service rep was less than helpful, basically just saying the only info they have is what's on the site after first somehow thinking I was asking about a re-release even though I never mentioned one. I'll just post my email chain below:

Emerje wrote:Any idea when the third set of Selects Seacons will be available for pre-order? Takara Tomy is already offering them and shops here are taking orders. Pulse seems to be behind and fans are getting anxious.

Jared at Hasbro Pulse wrote:Thank you for reaching out to us in regards to this. We do apologize but we are unaware of if or when that figure will be re-released for sale on our Hasbro Pulse website as we are limited to the products and information that is currently listed on the website. We would advise checking the website for updates as new products can be added at any time.

Emerje wrote:Hi, I think you might have misunderstood my question. I wasn't talking about a re-release, I was talking about a first release of figures 5 and 6 (wave 3) of Transformers Selects Seacons. The first four figures were sold on Hasbro Pulse, but the last two figures remain missing. https://hasbropulse.com/pages/search-re ... ?q=seacons

These have been available at Takara Tomy Mall for a few weeks now and usually Hasbro Pulse lists Takara Tomy's Selects figures within a couple days of the Japanese listing. https://takaratomymall.jp/shop/goods/se ... %83%93%83Y

I just want to know if Hasbro Pulse is going to complete the set or if fans are going to be forced to buy them from other sellers at a higher price?

Jared at Hasbro Pulse wrote:Thank you for reaching back out to us. We do apologize but we are limited to the information that is currently listed on the Hasbro Pulse website and are unaware of if we are going to be selling those figures. We would advise keeping an eye on the website and new items can be added at any time.

Good ol' noncommittal customer service. I guess expecting them to actually find out is asking too much.

Emerje

Does that mean Age 3 & Up plus other resellers will finally fulfil and ship out their Lancer preorders?

Emerje wrote:So I tried to get an definitive answer out of Hasbro Pulse customer service on whether or not they'd be offering the remaining two Seacons. Their customer service rep was less than helpful, basically just saying the only info they have is what's on the site after first somehow thinking I was asking about a re-release even though I never mentioned one. I'll just post my email chain below:

Emerje wrote:Any idea when the third set of Selects Seacons will be available for pre-order? Takara Tomy is already offering them and shops here are taking orders. Pulse seems to be behind and fans are getting anxious.

Jared at Hasbro Pulse wrote:Thank you for reaching out to us in regards to this. We do apologize but we are unaware of if or when that figure will be re-released for sale on our Hasbro Pulse website as we are limited to the products and information that is currently listed on the website. We would advise checking the website for updates as new products can be added at any time.

Emerje wrote:Hi, I think you might have misunderstood my question. I wasn't talking about a re-release, I was talking about a first release of figures 5 and 6 (wave 3) of Transformers Selects Seacons. The first four figures were sold on Hasbro Pulse, but the last two figures remain missing. https://hasbropulse.com/pages/search-re ... ?q=seacons

These have been available at Takara Tomy Mall for a few weeks now and usually Hasbro Pulse lists Takara Tomy's Selects figures within a couple days of the Japanese listing. https://takaratomymall.jp/shop/goods/se ... %83%93%83Y

I just want to know if Hasbro Pulse is going to complete the set or if fans are going to be forced to buy them from other sellers at a higher price?

Jared at Hasbro Pulse wrote:Thank you for reaching back out to us. We do apologize but we are limited to the information that is currently listed on the Hasbro Pulse website and are unaware of if we are going to be selling those figures. We would advise keeping an eye on the website and new items can be added at any time.

Good ol' noncommittal customer service. I guess expecting them to actually find out is asking too much.

Emerje

Yep. That's the same line I got when I asked their Customer Service "Chat" line about a month ago (minus the confusion about the "re-release").

So, per their sage advice, I keep checking the site multiple times throughout the day. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they post Tentakil and Overbite within two days of when pre-orders are no longer taken for them. But just in case HP does drop the ball on the last two, I've pre-ordered them at Toy Dojo as a Plan B. I won't be charged until the items come in and I can cancel them before then if I'm able to pre-order them from Hasbro Pulse. And though I realize each is $5.00 more than what HP would list them for, at least I'll have them pre-ordered in case HP doesn't list the last two at all.

Secured my Lancer, and went and cancelled from TFsource. Now I can have a complete Orthia next week!

Jared...that just sounds like a customer reps name.

Stargrave wrote:Jared...that just sounds like a customer reps name.

That and "Rich".

You tool
That got me good.

Hey I'm a customer service Captain ok pal. That's like, the Wreckers of customer service.

Figures I see the news post to late. Went to go purchase Lancer and sold out. Just my luck.

Stargrave wrote:You tool
That got me good.

Hey I'm a customer service Captain ok pal. That's like, the Wreckers of customer service.

I've been putting up with "Jake, from State Farm" jokes for YEARS now.

Phew! Got mine ordered before it sold out. I saw this post yesterday while at work. Some kid saw what I was ordering while I was on the computer and just stood there.

Need any persuasion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXC_7ZSTjfk&t=1s

Has anybody canceled then reordered and canceled and reordered on Pulse just to get free shipping? I've did that with Apeface so I could get Barricade and Smokescreen shipped free and Astrotrain so I could get Lancer free. I would have gotten Lancer, Barricade, and Smokescreen at the same time to get the shipping since they count the tax as part of the $70 but didn't realize those two were in stock when I got Lancer only noticed after seeing someone comment on the Facebook post.

You deliberately do all that just for free shipping?

Stargrave wrote:You deliberately do all that just for free shipping?

As a Canadian, I could juggle bowling pins while jumping through hoops on fire, I will never, ever get free shipping from Pulse.

aronjlove wrote:Has anybody *done the hokey pokey* to get free shipping...

No, but I love it

Sounds a little confusing, but didn't work out?


Off topic but on subject of Pulse, when do the free premium subs end? I might need to jump sooner than later to enjoy a little more of that sweet free shipping nectar myself

As a member of the Church of Amazon's congregation, free shipping is like my rosary or something. The analogy fell apart at the end but yes I will do crazy stuff to get free shipping. Years of Amazon Prime have beaten the "free shipping" mantra into my head.

aronjlove wrote:As a member of the Church of Amazon's congregation, free shipping is like my rosary or something. The analogy fell apart at the end but yes I will do crazy stuff to get free shipping. Years of Amazon Prime have beaten the "free shipping" mantra into my head.

Preach it! I've spent hours browsing a site hemming and hawing, finally commiting and adding item(s) to the cart to just close the tab once I see the shipping

Especially when it is the same as a battlemaster or one of the older legends size figures

Wireless_Phantom wrote:I'm really hoping HP carries the last two seacons. it'd be a pain in the ass to have to go to another store.

They just got put up this morning

Fans waiting for the final two Seacons to show up on Pulse can rest easy. They are now available on Pulse under the following names:

Takara Tomy Transformers Generations Piranacon 5

Takara Tomy Transformers Generations Piranacon 6

Both are $34.99 USD and will ship out March 28th, 2020

These new Generations Selects Overbite and Tentakil figures are also available for Australians though the EB Games and Zing Website. The price there is $78.00 AUD each ($53.24 USD) with a $10 AUD deposit. As you can see, the prices don't match up at all with what Pulse is charging on their end, which people already find to be excessive.

Ages 3+ are $39.95 each, but I went ahead with them because Chosen Prime was showing sold out and Pulse was dragging their butts.

Brokebot wrote:Ages 3+ are $39.95 each, but I went ahead with them because Chosen Prime was showing sold out and Pulse was dragging their butts.

Even with their 10% cancellation fee, it might be worth it since Hasbro Pulse is more than 10% cheaper and you could get free shipping.

And, just cancelled from TF Source and ordered from Pulse. Bout time.

Glad those are finally up. Still keeping my TFsource pre-order, but glad Pulse finally caught up

Okay, Pulse, we need to talk about these short preorder windows... Eight days? Seriously?

Zeedust wrote:Okay, Pulse, we need to talk about these short preorder windows... Eight days? Seriously?

They completely dropped the ball on these 2. I believe the first 2 pairs of seacons each gave about a month, so these likely were supposed to go up pretty soon after they were announced by Takara, but Hasbro was likely distracted by Unicron and NYCC and forgot to put them up.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Zeedust wrote:Okay, Pulse, we need to talk about these short preorder windows... Eight days? Seriously?

They completely dropped the ball on these 2. I believe the first 2 pairs of seacons each gave about a month, so these likely were supposed to go up pretty soon after they were announced by Takara, but Hasbro was likely distracted by Unicron and NYCC and forgot to put them up.

My guess too, they failed to get the pre-orders up and only just realized it

I’ve been checking Hasbro Pulse daily for the last two or three weeks now, nervous I’d miss those final two figures of the set. Gotta’ love pointless anxiety! I’m really looking forward to this set, especially after adding a comolete set of G1 Seacons to my collection last Christmas. Cheers!

Got my preorders in for the last of the PCon figures. Should be a great set once it all gets completed.

Man, I wish the Seacons were widely available...

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Zeedust wrote:Okay, Pulse, we need to talk about these short preorder windows... Eight days? Seriously?

They completely dropped the ball on these 2. I believe the first 2 pairs of seacons each gave about a month, so these likely were supposed to go up pretty soon after they were announced by Takara, but Hasbro was likely distracted by Unicron and NYCC and forgot to put them up.

My guess too, they failed to get the pre-orders up and only just realized it

A reasonable theory, but that doesn't make it better.

And I don't think a one-month window of availability is exactly great either.

And after 20 months, Orthia is complete! And I have to say, I think Lancer is actually my favorite of the limb gals

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:And after 20 months, Orthia is complete! And I have to say, I think Lancer is actually my favorite of the limb gals

I can't wait to complete mine. Although that means I need to hurry up with the stop motion story I'm working on. Orthia was attacked by Optimus Primal and lost her arm during the War but in reality Lancer and Primal were tired of Orthia's nagging and wanted to go to a rave hosted by Soundwave. Pulse deliveries are showing up Friday and Monday so maybe I'll get it done over the weekend...

Some more Orthia for y'all

I love how Orthia looks with the feet flipped around like that! I've been putting the black toes forward and using the Prime Armor pieces for heel support instead of the toes. Using them as the toes almost makes the entire leg and foot look like it's one integrated piece. That's a much cleaner look for a combiner.

Wolfman Jake wrote:I love how Orthia looks with the feet flipped around like that! I've been putting the black toes forward and using the Prime Armor pieces for heel support instead of the toes. Using them as the toes almost makes the entire leg and foot look like it's one integrated piece. That's a much cleaner look for a combiner.

None of my PotP-footed combiners use the actual feet as the toes, I use all of the prime armor pieces for the toes. It actually makes the feet look larger! That's the one thing I really didn't like about PotP: the feet are too small and very unstable.

Wolfman Jake wrote:I love how Orthia looks with the feet flipped around like that! I've been putting the black toes forward and using the Prime Armor pieces for heel support instead of the toes. Using them as the toes almost makes the entire leg and foot look like it's one integrated piece. That's a much cleaner look for a combiner.

I do that for all my PotPie combiners. Not only for looks either, I find it helps a little bit with stability against that forward lean whenever you extend the arms outward.

While WFC Smokescreen is as available as May Mayhem toys of the past in the US, he was sold out rather fast from any retailer who had preorders online in Canada. EBGames only ordered enough to cover preorders, for instance. So I am happy to report that Canadians who didn't get him yet can get him through Toysrus.ca which is becoming the main place to get Transformers Generations Selects toys in the country. He is available right here for $29.99 CAD.

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I am patiently waiting for Lancer to come back in stock on Pulse. I know as soon as I order it from somewhere else it will be back in stock. Just playing the refresh game.

With the final two members of the Transformers Generations Selects Seacon team unveiled recently, it was only a matter of time before we finally saw what the full combiner looked like in its dinal deco. Check out the new images of Piranacon, or King Poseidon as he is known in Japan, below that were posted earlier today on the Transformers Overdrive Facebook page, which we mirrored below for your viewing convenience. You can view images of the other four Seacons who combine with Overbite and Tentakil to form the Decepticon Combiner PIRANACON (aka KING POSEIDON) which were previously revealed here: Snaptrap (Turtler), Skalor (Gulf), Seawing (Kraken), and Nautilator (Lobclaw).

Awesome! Tentakil makes a weird leg, though.

If they redeco him as God Neptune, I would buy it in an instance.

It could work as God Neptune, the pirates from Beast Wars 2, however they might have one big problem: Nautilator was missing from the group. Only big concern.

I just noticed that Snaptrap's combined mode legs for his torso mode look to be the same as Combiner Wars Silverbolt, just remolded a bit.

Well that is a gorgeous sight to behold, they've done a terrific job here.

Survivefan23 wrote:It could work as God Neptune, the pirates from Beast Wars 2, however they might have one big problem: Nautilator was missing from the group. Only big concern.

There are five limbs as it is now, with the one that doesn't get to be an arm or a leg used as a large weapon in combined mode. Reducing the group to four limbs and a torso would make it just like any other Scramble City combiner style team. I don't see the issue, honestly.

Survivefan23 wrote:I just noticed that Snaptrap's combined mode legs for his torso mode look to be the same as Combiner Wars Silverbolt, just remolded a bit.

That's because Snaptrap is a retool of PotP Hun-Gurrr, who is himself either a heavy retool of CW Silverbolt OR a case of shared engineering.

I am still kind of unclear about this set. Is it just a Japanese exclusive, Hasbro Pulse exclusive?

One of the best looking Gestalts to date!