Video Review - Transformers Robots in Disguise Mega Five-Step Megatronus

Lockdownhunter wrote:That is why the Legion class version is better.No faux windows hanging around in alt mode.


BTW,I wonder whether this is mistransformed.Hopefully it is.

I find fake rake worse than fake windows for this particular toy. I find a Fake rake undermines the creativity of the character's design.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

3-step Thunderhoof again hits my sweet spot. First Optimus, now this guy... Well... Guess I gotta hunt this guy down when he shows up.

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

Wait what?! They do that?!

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

Wait what?! They do that?!

They have done that in the past, though not with RiD toys specifically, but that is enough for me to avoid it

Also a sign this is a premature listing: the scan code on him is not recognized by the app.

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

Wait what?! They do that?!

They have done that in the past, though not with RiD toys specifically, but that is enough for me to avoid it

Also a sign this is a premature listing: the scan code on him is not recognized by the app.

Well that is an odd thing that I didnt mention in the article: this 3 step Thunderhoof wasn't/isn't in the app. I believe that is the very first revealed RID toy since the app came live that didnt first appear there (which makes sense since the whole deal is that every toy would be scan-able). He also wasnt on any preorder listings. He really is out of the blue.

So the lesson is, don't shop Kmart online. But thanks for the leak!

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

This happened to me. Not with this toy but during HFTD. Basically they have the store staff filling orders and they just grab whatever is on the shelf. Customer Service is a pain too.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.

Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.

This happened to me. Not with this toy but during HFTD. Basically they have the store staff filling orders and they just grab whatever is on the shelf. Customer Service is a pain too.

I had a similar experience trying to order Generations figures on their website in 2011. They basically tried to fill my order with shelf warming figures at the time. Thankfully I was able to get a full refund. However, I will still find my way to the actual brick and mortar stores to try my luck at what I may find.

Also, I really want that 3-Step Thunderhoof.

Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

I dont find it weird, I think it adds variety.

william-james88 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

I dont find it weird, I think it adds variety.

Aye true

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Lockdownhunter wrote:All these and not another new ? Steeljaw does not even get a repaint.

He did in Japan.

Phantomjaw

I can confirm that he is awesome!

Well,he looks weird.

Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"

ScottyP wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"

I can, as you imagine, very much sympathise with you. But from the CW side of things.

ScottyP wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).

Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form

Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"

From the video reviews of those Deployers I've seen...they're not getting great reviews....so I wouldn't get too disheartened

Well, that came out of nowhere. things escalated quickly...

Still, NEED WARRIOR THUNDERHOOF!!!

That is all

Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.

We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.

We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.

But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.

We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.

But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?

We know they're releasing the Hasbro versions for the Japanese release of "Clash of the Transformers", but the Supreme Mode and Battle Mode toys are something else in the main TAV line. For instance, Optimus we know is getting a retool of his large figure to resemble his finale upgrade, which is a separate release of the smaller CotTFs Warrior figure. So Japan is getting what the West is getting plus their own stuff that we're not getting.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...

Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.

We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.

But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?

We know they're releasing the Hasbro versions for the Japanese release of "Clash of the Transformers", but the Supreme Mode and Battle Mode toys are something else in the main TAV line. For instance, Optimus we know is getting a retool of his large figure to resemble his finale upgrade, which is a separate release of the smaller CotTFs Warrior figure. So Japan is getting what the West is getting plus their own stuff that we're not getting.

All I really want is to see them get the proper retooling to go with the paint job, plus Strongarm (they seem to be forgetting her....) I personally loved the Hunter armor upgrade, so I wants

Howdy fellow Seibertronians! Robots in Disguise Three-Step Changers Sideswipe has been spotted at Target in Baton Rouge, LA by yours truly. This particular Target seems to be a hotbed for RID sightings. Sideswipe, like others in the Three-Step Changers series was tagged and verified at $19.99 USD.




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Look, CAR parts, I can tell it actually turns into a car. Sideswipe looks pretty good here.

Not bad at all.

Doesn't do it for me like 3 step Thunderhoof or Prime. Not enough color/cool design going on. He looks okay, but that's about it.

Hope his head isn't in a perpetual state of looking downwards. Bee is plagued by that and Mega Optimus is finicky.

ScottyP wrote:Hope his head isn't in a perpetual state of looking downwards. Bee is plagued by that and Mega Optimus is finicky.

I did try and push it back up, but it wouldn't go. I didn't know it was an epidemic, I just assumed it was just a bum figure. Probably safe to assume Sideswipe is just perpetually down in the dumps then.

I'm looking forward to the fully articulated voyager/leader Optimus Takara is going to make

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I'm looking forward to the fully articulated voyager/leader Optimus Takara is going to make

Me too! And he looks to be at least leader size, which is fun. He will be coming out at the end of this month

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I'm looking forward to the fully articulated voyager/leader Optimus Takara is going to make

Me too! And he looks to be at least leader size, which is fun. He will be coming out at the end of this month

For that one fan out there who isn't tired of more news on the Three Step Changers, here is something for you. While he was first seen at SDCC 2015, we now have the official images for Transformers Robots in Disguise Three Step Changer Night Ops Bumblebee. He is a redeco of the original three step changer and not of the retooled Clash of the Transformers version.

This come from Entertainment Earth.



From SDCC 2015

Here are some in hand images of ToysRUs Exclusive Robots in Disguise Clash of the Transformers Warrior Class Optimus Prime and Sideswipe. These are allspark blue infused redecos of Robots in Disguise Warrior Class Optimus Prime and Sideswipe attempting to mirror their deco in the season one finale.

These have yet to be found in the US.

Thanks for the pics. These guys look awesome.

So, Will, how about the Sideswipe arm/shoulder problem thingy? Was it fixed on that one or is it the same?

This whole line sux @$$ IMO but this OP looks cool for my money. The all black ax could be better but I'm over it...'nuff said!

-Kanrabat- wrote:So, Will, how about the Sideswipe arm/shoulder problem thingy? Was it fixed on that one or is it the same?

Same, its pretty terrible. However, his arms are stopped by his chest unless you do it on purpose to pull them out. So not the intended peg, but he can still do some neat poses.

So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

william-james88 wrote:

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

Not really. the big risk will be the warriors selling out when they come!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

Not really. the big risk will be the warriors selling out when they come!

Haha, nice You know, we joke around about this product line but it is selling quite well everywhere I go. And I havent even contributed to it since I buy the Takara versions instead. There are very few wave 1 and 2 warriors left anywhere, and the toysrus I took those COTF redecos from only has those redecos for the most part, which is technically the latest ones to come out.

william-james88 wrote:

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

That's fantastic news! When do we expect these to come out?

Puhonix wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

That's fantastic news! When do we expect these to come out?

Sadly, there is no estimated release date. Hasbro even said we have seen all that is coming out this year for the line so it might have to wait about 4 months (since the first RID toys last year came out before christmas).

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Puhonix wrote:So i'm at Toys R Us and I'm looking at one-step change Fracture, Underbite, and Thunderhoof, and I can't decide if I should buy them, or wait for the Warrior class figures to come out? Does anyone know what the future of Warrior class might be?

Quillfire, Megatronus and Thunderfoot were found in store listings. And Hasbro did say that other decepticons will be released in the warrior class and I will be waiting for those. I dont think we risk the other stuff selling out while awaiting confirmation.

Not really. the big risk will be the warriors selling out when they come!

Haha, nice You know, we joke around about this product line but it is selling quite well everywhere I go. And I havent even contributed to it since I buy the Takara versions instead. There are very few wave 1 and 2 warriors left anywhere, and the toysrus I took those COTF redecos from only has those redecos for the most part, which is technically the latest ones to come out.

I can back that up. I've been rounding out my warriors and some of them wave 1's are getting pretty scarce. I have been seeing a lot of Jazz and Sideswipe at retail though. So, I guess that is good. Now bring on them warrior 'Cons!

Hey Carytheone, I was gonna give you some proof to back up our statements and while I do have it, something interesting came up. So Walmart has more Combiner Wars deluxes than RID Warrior figures:



BUT Toysrus now has that RID Clash of the Transformers promotion with the exclusives, so there is not one single combiner wars deluxe left and instead it is all exclusive figures as far as the eye can see, check it out.


Toysrus appears to be pretty confident in their alliance with the Robots in Disguise line. Not only do they have exclusives in the Legends, Warrior, 3 Step and Ultra classes but these exclusives are worldwide, including Japan's Toysrus stores, where those same exclusive figures are distributed by Takara. An exclusive sublne this wide is unprecedented. While this subline is not found in the US yet, it is very prominent in Canada, with Toysrus displaying the subline and line as a whole in prominence. Below are pictures of this display and you can get some in hand images of the exclusive Warrior Class Optimus Prime and Sideswipe here. Toysrus appears to be calling this marketting oush "Autobot August"! The promotion has nothing to do with discounted prices though.



The other sides of the display area had other Robots in Disguise products.





And the Transformers aisle had those Toysrus Exclusives as far as the eye could see.

Meanwhile, I think I'll have no choice but to pay the big bucks for Defensor...

-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, I think I'll have no choice but to pay the big bucks for Defensor...

Just wait a bit, I am sure he will show up at walmart. You never saw him?

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, I think I'll have no choice but to pay the big bucks for Defensor...

Just wait a bit, I am sure he will show up at walmart. You never saw him?

Nope. Same old wave 1 or 2 without any voyagers or the scouts that matter, meaning Grooves and Blackjack.