Transformers Titans Return Trypticon Sighted at UK Retail

I was actually hoping that the reason Trypticon was taking so long to be released was that they were addressing the hip problem, but obviously that was me being stupidly optimistic.

TRU(UK) have it up on their site too
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/mobile/toys/tr ... 2613320001

Does anyone have any positive experiences with his hips? I took the plunge and bought him from robot kingdom

https://www.tf-robots.nl/a-48250844/op- ... trypticon/

€194,90 in the NL... Nope.

Ordered mine right now.
Once it will arrive, I'll check for the springs.
I wanted to search for alternative springs before getting him, but without knowing the size and strenght of the original ones, I feared I could get wrong springs

Mine hasn't been released from its box yet. Might have a look at the weekend but I don't want to break it.

Gamerlingual wrote:Does anyone have any positive experiences with his hips? I took the plunge and bought him from robot kingdom

I think rather few people (on these boards, at least) have had any experience with Trypticon, positive or negative, since he hasn't been very readily available up to this point. Looks like there'll be quite a few more people to submit their experiences soon, though, if the last few posts are anything to go by!

Hasbro Trypticons have started showing up right NOW in the UK. Check your local Smyths toys and TRUs

Qwan wrote:

Gamerlingual wrote:Does anyone have any positive experiences with his hips? I took the plunge and bought him from robot kingdom

I think rather few people (on these boards, at least) have had any experience with Trypticon, positive or negative, since he hasn't been very readily available up to this point. Looks like there'll be quite a few more people to submit their experiences soon, though, if the last few posts are anything to go by!

Is there a chance that not all the springs will be bad?

I will become a guinea pig

Gamerlingual wrote:Is there a chance that not all the springs will be bad?

I will become a guinea pig

Virtually no chance, as the problem is 2 fold, 1) the springs are too strong for the joint, but the bigger problems is 2) they used very soft plastic on the ratchets.

Man, Hasbro REALLY needs to start working on their QC issues. I mean how many bad toys do they need to make to wake up?

Sjeng wrote:Man, Hasbro REALLY needs to start working on their QC issues. I mean how many bad toys do they need to make to wake up?

Unfortunately I don't think it's so much about the number of bad toys as it is about the ratio of 'fine' to 'bad', and even then it'd be more about how many complaints they get or whatever, rather than how bad or widespread the issue itself is. Think about how many toys there are in the TR line, and how many of those have had devastating QC issues (including Trypticon); then, think about how many Trypticons they'll still sell compared to the surely-small number of complaints they'll actually receive about those toys, even if the problem exists on every copy. It's a fairly logical (or "logical") business move and much as I hate to say it, we're pretty much stuck voting with our wallets or sending complaints to a multinational corporation to try and instigate some kind of change - and even then there's a chance they'd get the wrong message and put Titans to bed or something...

It's hard being individual collectors trying to deal with a large faceless business

Qwan wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Man, Hasbro REALLY needs to start working on their QC issues. I mean how many bad toys do they need to make to wake up?

Unfortunately I don't think it's so much about the number of bad toys as it is about the ratio of 'fine' to 'bad', and even then it'd be more about how many complaints they get or whatever, rather than how bad or widespread the issue itself is. Think about how many toys there are in the TR line, and how many of those have had devastating QC issues (including Trypticon); then, think about how many Trypticons they'll still sell compared to the surely-small number of complaints they'll actually receive about those toys, even if the problem exists on every copy. It's a fairly logical (or "logical") business move and much as I hate to say it, we're pretty much stuck voting with our wallets or sending complaints to a multinational corporation to try and instigate some kind of change - and even then there's a chance they'd get the wrong message and put Titans to bed or something...

It's hard being individual collectors trying to deal with a large faceless business

So most likely I'm screwed. How sad

Basically you will need enough people to write in complaints with documentation for them to acknowledge it at all.

Trypticon is available in Ireland for €180

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toy ... n/p/159986

Shame the hip problems mean I won't be buying him

I'll get Legends if this turns out to be garbage

Gamerlingual wrote:I'll get Legends if this turns out to be garbage

What makes you think TT will do any different? Assuming you are referring to the hips, nothing else was changed on the toy, so it is highly unlikely they will spend a significant amount of extra money to redesign the hips.

mordhelm wrote:What makes you think TT will do any different? Assuming you are referring to the hips, nothing else was changed on the toy, so it is highly unlikely they will spend a significant amount of extra money to redesign the hips.

aye that's what i fear

&......

even after the TT version costing more than the Hasbro one

mordhelm wrote:

Gamerlingual wrote:I'll get Legends if this turns out to be garbage

What makes you think TT will do any different? Assuming you are referring to the hips, nothing else was changed on the toy, so it is highly unlikely they will spend a significant amount of extra money to redesign the hips.

Why not? It'll be ordered through Amazon. Safer to me

To expand on the ireland news.

he's available in a varity of smyths around the country. as i type if your in dublin he's in swords and blanchardstown but theres only ONE in stock at each.

the roll out date is 1st of july to the 10th so he should be country wide here by monday.

tis indeed 179.99 euros.

pretty epic video on their site too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40pzz9owwI

im kinda gobsmacked TBH. Smyths, hell NO ONE, Has ever sold such an expensive TF toy at retail here that i can recall. we never got metroplex/ fort max/ devestator on their release. the only combiner wars box set we got was computron FFS !

im delighted but kinda baffled. with our luck the fecking hips thing could sour them on doing it again if its a wide scale complaint.

Just opened my Trypticon to find that there was no instruction or sticker sheet!

Gamerlingual wrote:

mordhelm wrote:

Gamerlingual wrote:I'll get Legends if this turns out to be garbage

What makes you think TT will do any different? Assuming you are referring to the hips, nothing else was changed on the toy, so it is highly unlikely they will spend a significant amount of extra money to redesign the hips.

Why not? It'll be ordered through Amazon. Safer to me

TakaraTomy's Dinosaurer's release date is really close to Hasbro's Trypticon's, hardly leaving any development time for retools and fixes.

Ravage XK wrote:Just opened my Trypticon to find that there was no instruction or sticker sheet!

Really? If so, that sucks. Those sheets should come in a little plastic baggie which sits free-floating in the box, behind the cardboard shell that Trypticon's attached to. It might be possible that you missed them, but if they're really not there I don't know what to say.

Qwan wrote:

Ravage XK wrote:Just opened my Trypticon to find that there was no instruction or sticker sheet!

Really? If so, that sucks. Those sheets should come in a little plastic baggie which sits free-floating in the box, behind the cardboard shell that Trypticon's attached to. It might be possible that you missed them, but if they're really not there I don't know what to say.

Nope, not there. I checked many times, just in case I had missed. Seeing as each end of the box is only secured by one central piece of tape it is possible they slipped out. I have contacted Kapow Toys to see if they found a set loose after they dispatched. Long shot but you never know.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Gamerlingual wrote:

mordhelm wrote:

Gamerlingual wrote:I'll get Legends if this turns out to be garbage

What makes you think TT will do any different? Assuming you are referring to the hips, nothing else was changed on the toy, so it is highly unlikely they will spend a significant amount of extra money to redesign the hips.

Why not? It'll be ordered through Amazon. Safer to me

TakaraTomy's Dinosaurer's release date is really close to Hasbro's Trypticon's, hardly leaving any development time for retools and fixes.

hmmm... ....not sure coz we know that Kapow release dates(if ordered through them?) can sometimes be rather vague & hit & miss!(so..for instance...when they say an August release...for the TT....it doesn't say WHEN in August? or if it even ends up coming out in August at all? coz i ordered a 3p fig....Lord Scorpion...from them a while back! & the release/delivery date was supposed to be June....so June came....and went...& the fig didn't arrive til many months later! now YES!!! that's prob down to the company that made the fig rather than Kapow, but..who knows at this stage whether TT will still go ahead with the release of Trypticon at some point in August or may delay to try to sort or fix the leg joint issue?)

trypticons up on amazon.co.uk now for £149.99.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-Generations-Titans-Return-Trypticon/dp/B071LG12WX/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1?tag=seibertron075-21&_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1MYNNWRP3036AWBJARGW


temporarily out of stock at the mo but he's free delivery in the UK too so when he's back in its looking to be the cheapest deal for him yet.

even posting to ireland means after exchange rates he's only 63cents more expensive than smyths so if youve no luck getting him at retail here thats probably your best chance of getting the guy at an aproximate price point.

(obviously that exchange rate is dependant on STG/EURO conversion but since BREXIT importings got HELLA Cheap from the UK)

I should get mine tomorrow! Then I'll do a small trip to the hardware store looking for alternative springs.
I'll go for a pring of the same size, but weaker. I'll tell you if I'll find what I'm looking for

The hip QC issues may not be as widespread a previously believed, according to this guy:

I picked up Trypticon locally over the weekend because I have no patience or self-control. I dismantled the hips, inspected the whole lot, put them back together, and then stressed the crap out of them - spun them a few dozen full rotations each, back and forth a bunch, rotated from the body with the legs planted, anything I could think of - then took them apart again. Zero change. The green plastic is definitely softer than the rest, but it's still plenty sturdy. It might not be the sky is falling, every Trypticon will die issue that the guy reporting the fix thinks it is. In fact, is his the only report we've got? I know that a lot of people won't want to even risk breakage and will just clip the springs immediately, so reports will be skewed.

Watch out for the stickers, though. I'm about half way through and there's been several whose numbers may be transposed. Some are definitely the wrong way around, they're odd-shaped ones which only go in one way, and some are wrong according to the instructions and box pics, but might not actually be wrong, it's up to you to decide. It doesn't help that the sticker instructions are awful, possibly the worst I've seen. The stickers are also thin foil, and will basically fuse themselves to the first thing they touch, especially themselves.

Sabrblade wrote:The hip QC issues may not be as widespread a previously believed, according to this guy:

I picked up Trypticon locally over the weekend because I have no patience or self-control. I dismantled the hips, inspected the whole lot, put them back together, and then stressed the crap out of them - spun them a few dozen full rotations each, back and forth a bunch, rotated from the body with the legs planted, anything I could think of - then took them apart again. Zero change. The green plastic is definitely softer than the rest, but it's still plenty sturdy. It might not be the sky is falling, every Trypticon will die issue that the guy reporting the fix thinks it is. In fact, is his the only report we've got? I know that a lot of people won't want to even risk breakage and will just clip the springs immediately, so reports will be skewed.

Watch out for the stickers, though. I'm about half way through and there's been several whose numbers may be transposed. Some are definitely the wrong way around, they're odd-shaped ones which only go in one way, and some are wrong according to the instructions and box pics, but might not actually be wrong, it's up to you to decide. It doesn't help that the sticker instructions are awful, possibly the worst I've seen. The stickers are also thin foil, and will basically fuse themselves to the first thing they touch, especially themselves.

It's one of the things I was asking myself about the number of defective Trypticon that we saw so far.
Considering how much a new pair of springs costs, thought, I prefer to avoid the risk for the moment.

Sabrblade wrote:The hip QC issues may not be as widespread a previously believed, according to this guy:

I picked up Trypticon locally over the weekend because I have no patience or self-control. I dismantled the hips, inspected the whole lot, put them back together, and then stressed the crap out of them - spun them a few dozen full rotations each, back and forth a bunch, rotated from the body with the legs planted, anything I could think of - then took them apart again. Zero change. The green plastic is definitely softer than the rest, but it's still plenty sturdy. It might not be the sky is falling, every Trypticon will die issue that the guy reporting the fix thinks it is. [Qwan note: ] In fact, is his the only report we've got? I know that a lot of people won't want to even risk breakage and will just clip the springs immediately, so reports will be skewed.

Watch out for the stickers, though. I'm about half way through and there's been several whose numbers may be transposed. Some are definitely the wrong way around, they're odd-shaped ones which only go in one way, and some are wrong according to the instructions and box pics, but might not actually be wrong, it's up to you to decide. It doesn't help that the sticker instructions are awful, possibly the worst I've seen. The stickers are also thin foil, and will basically fuse themselves to the first thing they touch, especially themselves.

If this is true, that'd be great for others who are on the fence after this apparent issue! Admittedly two reports wasn't much to go on in the first place, but better safe than sorry until we had some counter-reports I suppose.

Though I wonder if simply disassembling the hips alone might be the trick? I really wish I remembered which hip I disassembled before breakage, in comparison to the side that broke, so I could add evidence one way or the other; as it stands, we once again just have one or two accounts to work off of. I can only hope we'll get more (hopefully positive ) information once more people start getting him in hand - how are all you guys' Trypticons shipping along, by the way? - but for now I suppose it's another unsolved mystery for Mr. Stack to recount .

Very true about the stickers too (and their instructions, blech - there's at least one pair of stickers that the instructions clearly tell you to put on the wrong place, but I can't remember which ones they are at this exact moment). I've left the stickers off the eyes on my second copy, partly because I like the look of clear orange plastic as much as the glowy-orangey-gold that the stickers make them, and partly because it's nigh-impossible to get them lined up perfectly so they don't crinkle and end up looking sucky.

Trypticon is OUT!!!! Not only is he shipping from online retailers like BBTS (for those who preordered him), but he has appeared at US retail. The picture below comes from a sighting at a Think Geek store in Oklahoma. The price is the MSRP of $150 and it was found by TFW2005 board member Heat Guy.

The hunt is on and remember to let fans know where you find him in our sightings forum and sightings section.

That's a lot of money for dodgy legs.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:That's a lot of money for dodgy legs.

LOLOLOL

We didn't really have any out of the box major issues with the other Titans did we? I mean yeah, Metro and Maxi have legs that collapse under their own weight sometimes but they didn't break.

Has anyone actually confirmed that the legs are breaking? All I've seen are videos with people concerned about them, but no actual breaking yet.

Wait, Trypticon is shipping for some people from BBTS? I thought I was one of the first to pre-order (I even got a News credit here for being the first to mention it). Do certain people get priority regardless of order time?

I checked out in Des Moines Iowa. Nothing at the toysrus yet.

mazingaspidey wrote:Has anyone actually confirmed that the legs are breaking? All I've seen are videos with people concerned about them, but no actual breaking yet.

Qwan back in page 24 of this very thread posted some pics of the damage and explanation. He followed up with a fix tutorial in page 26.

transformers-generations-titan-class-trypticon-thread-t108671s575.php#p1892170

I just checked my local thinkgeek and found 4

I saw that, but has the damage been displayed on any other toys? One person's report doesn't mean it's an epidemic and you can't rule out improper handling until it's replicated via normal use.

Since its just now starting to get a full release, we may need to wait a bit before we get actual reports of it.

If it even is a QC issue affecting more than a few samples.

Nice. How do you find the hips? Do they carry all the flaws that have been profiled in other threads, or was that just a fluke?

mordhelm wrote:Wait, Trypticon is shipping for some people from BBTS? I thought I was one of the first to pre-order (I even got a News credit here for being the first to mention it). Do certain people get priority regardless of order time?

I feel thine agony. I had it on pre-order too. Guess some pre-order is more 'order' than 'pre'.....

So if your Trypticon's hip thingy does turn out to be a dud one, what's the extent of the damage? Is it as bad as causing parts to fall off, or does it just become very loose and unable to support anything? Is it something you could viably take back to the store to return it and say "hey this is broken gimme my money back"?

itscramtastic wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:That's a lot of money for dodgy legs.

LOLOLOL

We didn't really have any out of the box major issues with the other Titans did we? I mean yeah, Metro and Maxi have legs that collapse under their own weight sometimes but they didn't break.

Devastator too didn't have any issue of that kind

Kurona wrote:So if your Trypticon's hip thingy does turn out to be a dud one, what's the extent of the damage? Is it as bad as causing parts to fall off, or does it just become very loose and unable to support anything? Is it something you could viably take back to the store to return it and say "hey this is broken gimme my money back"?

That probably depends on the store, but in most cases, I imagine so.

If his ratchet-jointed legs become loose to the point that he can't stand up, I'm sure that in itself is either 'broken' or 'defective' enough by the standards of Wal-Mart or Target to exchange.

Trypticon is OUT!!!! Not only is he shipping from online retailers like BBTS (for those who preordered him), but he has appeared at US retail. The picture below comes from a sighting at a Think Geek store in Oklahoma.

I don't think a small chain of specialty shops counts as "being out" at retail any more than BBTS shipping preorders does. Try again when it shows up en masse at TRU, Walmart, Target, etc. you know, actual mass retail. (not that it'll show up at any of the ones in my area )

No worries. Hasbro is promptly sending out replacement legs to all defective Trypticons.

MadProject wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:That's a lot of money for dodgy legs.

LOLOLOL

We didn't really have any out of the box major issues with the other Titans did we? I mean yeah, Metro and Maxi have legs that collapse under their own weight sometimes but they didn't break.

Devastator too didn't have any issue of that kind

Some people had issues with a tab on Scrapper that keeps his scoop/blade/whatever in position for foot mode snapping off when transforming. I don't know the level of widespread it was, it hasn't happened on mine (mine did have two right hands, though, a completely different, one off issue!)

Optimum Supreme wrote:

MadProject wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:That's a lot of money for dodgy legs.

LOLOLOL

We didn't really have any out of the box major issues with the other Titans did we? I mean yeah, Metro and Maxi have legs that collapse under their own weight sometimes but they didn't break.

Devastator too didn't have any issue of that kind

Some people had issues with a tab on Scrapper that keeps his scoop/blade/whatever in position for foot mode snapping off when transforming. I don't know the level of widespread it was, it hasn't happened on mine (mine did have two right hands, though, a completely different, one off issue!)

I had that issue but it was because transforming wasnt done in the proper order for that particular peg. Mistransforming it would lead to a snap on any version, Hasbro or Takara. That was more the user`s fault (I would know, I did the same mistake). Of course the debate remains on how much Hasbro or Takara shoudl rely on the user respecting the precise instructions.

mazingaspidey wrote:I saw that, but has the damage been displayed on any other toys? One person's report doesn't mean it's an epidemic and you can't rule out improper handling until it's replicated via normal use.

We will find out soon enough

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Trypticon is OUT!!!! Not only is he shipping from online retailers like BBTS (for those who preordered him), but he has appeared at US retail. The picture below comes from a sighting at a Think Geek store in Oklahoma.

I don't think a small chain of specialty shops counts as "being out" at retail any more than BBTS shipping preorders does. Try again when it shows up en masse at TRU, Walmart, Target, etc. you know, actual mass retail. (not that it'll show up at any of the ones in my area )

It does count. If we waited for the combienr box sets to show up at your retail to write an article saying they were out, we still wouldnt have an article.

Point is, its out somewhere so it might come out elsewhere.