New Earthrise Sightings: Wave 2 Deluxes in US and Wave 3 Voyagers in Canada and UK

Sabrblade wrote:The paint detail differences on the front of the car modes actually do kinda create an illusion of them sorta looking like different cars.

What also helps is that Eathrise Runamuck's car mode doesn't look any more "spot on" to G1 Runamuck's car mode than G1 Runabout's car mode. For instance, the front end of the car for the Earthrise mold is entirely different from either G1 toy. Runamuck shouldn't have any small side back seat windows on his car either, but they're there on the Earthrise mold, making it actually more accurate to G1 Runabout in that regard. Using one mold that doesn't particularly match either G1 car precisely is rather genius and cost effective. The different head sculpts, colors, and paint masks are plenty to differentiate the two now.

Of course, both are supposed to be more cartoon accurate that toy accurate, so can anyone dig deep and find the original Sunbow character models for Runamuck and Runabout? Were they drawn exactly the same way in robot mode (and/or car mode), but with different heads and colors?

I think i prefer the Generations pair. Don't get me wrong these look nice, but they are so blocky.

Is it pretty much assumed now that the Quitesson Pit of Judgment set will be put up for order once Pulsecon starts? We got tipped off on it weeks ago, and reviewers all over YouTube have gotten copies of it, but still no official word from Hasbro on how this set will be released. I don't want to miss out on it!

Wolfman Jake wrote:Is it pretty much assumed now that the Quitesson Pit of Judgment set will be put up for order once Pulsecon starts? We got tipped off on it weeks ago, and reviewers all over YouTube have gotten copies of it, but still no official word from Hasbro on how this set will be released. I don't want to miss out on it!

There was a leaked listing about a week and a half ago (I only saw it on a line chat I'm part of, it wasn't posted on a TF site as far as I know) and it called out the SDCC exclusives that would see release at Pulsecon, and the TF item on there was the Pit of Judgement. Said listing also included the ghostbusters Luis/demon dog set (which I'm hoping to get), some black series, some marvel legends, some power rangers, etc., and based on other fandoms and expectations the listing made sense and seemed legit.

What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

I never realized the G1 figures were different cars. Learn something new every day!

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

Dude, stop trying to make any sense out of it, you'll drive yourself nuts (if you haven't already). Especially if I tell you I'm in Chicago and my 3rd Airwave is shipping from Tucson, AZ, while the other 2 came from Tennessee.

No clue how they are (dis)organizing things.

Hrmmm... I wonder if we can call Target corporate and have them redirect the one coming from AZ to me, and the one coming from PA to you.... .

Reminds me of every time I see 2 logging trucks on the highway pass each other, what's that about.

Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

lol, that's the continual downside of pre-ordering from amazon, they just leave orders open after they run out of stock and assume they'll get another shipment, good luck getting them, they look cool

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

lol, that's the continual downside of pre-ordering from amazon, they just leave orders open after they run out of stock and assume they'll get another shipment, good luck getting them, they look cool

Yeah, I'm supposed to get them on Monday. If it doesn't happen, I'll either bite the eBay bullet or just say screw it and go without. I have the OG seekers set.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

Pre-Ordered on Target.com back in March. (Expected 9/1)
Delayed to 9/14
Delayed to 9/18
Out Of Stock (sorry you can cancel your order and we wont charge you for it)
oh ok we found some more we're going to ship it
ship it
ship it
ok we have a label for you, It's a Fedex tracking #, but we're linking to UPS...
after copy/paste and running it through FedEx, It says the label was originated in York PA. usually Target orders for me come from OR or WA because I'm on the west coast. Interesting that this has to come from PA (the same state a s the first B&M sighting if I am correct?)
Are there no other shipments of wave 2 in the entire country???
still says I'm supposed to have it by 9/18, here's to hoping.

This was the only wave 2 figure I wanted, but man what a pain. I told my daughter if I ever saw ER Arcee in store, I'd get it foe her, at this rate I doubt that will ever happen.

Dude, stop trying to make any sense out of it, you'll drive yourself nuts (if you haven't already). Especially if I tell you I'm in Chicago and my 3rd Airwave is shipping from Tucson, AZ, while the other 2 came from Tennessee.

No clue how they are (dis)organizing things.

So, first step in the process is that Product goes from Customs to a Hasbro warehouse. No clue where that is, surely they have a west coast facility because most sightings seem to ahow up there, but Providence is a safe guess.

Once Hasbro has confirmed they got all of the cases from the factory and that a container didnt like fall in the oceab,, they start to fulfill the Target Orders. Its very likely those go yo a single main Hub for Target and then get broken down into regional Distribution, which then gets broken to a main hub for each State, which sends them to Hubs that cover the counties, then finally on to each store. It's POSSIBLE Hasbro has an arrangement with places to send to multiple regional hubs, but I doubt it.

Anyway, what you said is not far off: Target started fulfilling Air Wave preorders from whatever Warehouse had stock in first. In this case, it was York PA. Probably, York had stock first because it was closest to Providence. The Container full of Transformers bound for the other Warehouses, including the ones that your orders typically are fulfilled from, were probably either still en-route or hadallocated all of the stock to Stores first (I get the impression that Target stocks their store shelves first before filling Pre-Orser stock) when York popped up in the system as having stock.

I think by Sunday I'll have the other three Wave 2 Deluxes so Amazon is slowly getting back on track.

o.supreme wrote:Hrmmm... I wonder if we can call Target corporate and have them redirect the one coming from AZ to me, and the one coming from PA to you.... .

Reminds me of every time I see 2 logging trucks on the highway pass each other, what's that about.

That would be a whole other exercise in frustration. Both of mine shipped Fedex and both arrive tomorrow. I live in the south suburbs of Chicago, less than 10 miles from the Indiana border. Both of my packages got routed through Indianapolis, then to a Fedex location in Chicago this morning, then to another location in Munster, IN where the trucks that serve my town come out of. Yep, they will have crossed the IL/IN border 3 times in under 24 hours on the way here. Same thing happens when I order from BBTS.

How many shipping warehouses does Target use? My Airwave shipped Monday from MA via UPS and arrived today. Allicon also shipped Monday from TN via FedEx and arriving Friday. Smokescreen and Arcee shipped 9/2 from IN via FedEx and arrived Sunday. They're really just coming from everywhere. For some reason the address label on that last one had the wrong city (Augusta) listed even though all of these are from the same order. Thankfully it still arrived fine.

Emerje

I got the Allicon yesterday, and Airwave and Smokescreen today. Arcee arrives tomorrow. I thought I would be bored by Smokescreen, but it's much nicer than the Siege version. I have to get out his Siege shoulder cannons to see if the whole package works.

Target is just shipping things left and right as they come in, not filling full orders but just shooting product to people one at a time for some reason. I pre-ordered Snapdragon, the Quint, and Smokescreen all at the same time. Snapdragon came the beginning of the month, Smokescreen will be here next week, and while the Quint hasn't shipped yet I was finally charged for him today completing out the order.

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Amazon Canada is only shipping them out to me in October

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Shipping woes? My coneheads still haven't shipped from Amazon!

Jeeze, man. Mine were delayed too, but I've had them for like two weeks now.

Amazon Canada is only shipping them out to me in October

All this is making me somewhat nervous for Ironhide/Prowl in November.

Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Smokescreen is the only one I want from wave 2, and I'm debating getting him online or waiting for a B&M appearance. Amazon and Pulse haven't made good impressions on me this past month. But neither has Target or Wal-Mart.

blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Do you have a pic of a case with just him in it? Because confirming he is being shipped in solid cases could be interesting.

william-james88 wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Do you have a pic of a case with just him in it? Because confirming he is being shipped in solid cases could be interesting.

Yeah, I thought that was kinda crazy, too. Smokescreen doesn't have his own SKU number.

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

I was in the same boat for this guys as well; almost mirror image of circumstances. Finally got him yesterday, opened him today.

Flashwave wrote:So, first step in the process is that Product goes from Customs to a Hasbro warehouse. No clue where that is, surely they have a west coast facility because most sightings seem to ahow up there, but Providence is a safe guess.

Just a quick correction on this.
I live in RI; Hasbro has not had a functional warehouse of scale here since the late 80's - 90's.
The corporate offices are located in Pawtucket and Providence, with a small mold works in Central Falls.

Otherwise, the distro warehouse that does service the US, specifically east of the Mississippi River and generally east of the Rocky Mountains, is in Jonestown, PA.
That was the site of the Omega Supreme blowout not too long after his release.
https://imperialholocron.com/hasbro-warehouse-sale-brings-pre-christmas-deals/

Not sure about a west coast location; Long Beach, CA or that vicinity would make sense due to the proliferation of the docks there.

triKlops wrote:

o.supreme wrote:What a long strange trip it's been, just to get Airwave

I was in the same boat for this guys as well; almost mirror image of circumstances. Finally got him yesterday, opened him today.

I like him more than I do Ironworks which surprised me. I even figured out how to make a proper tank mode out of him for the Hothouse repaint which makes me very happy since none of the stock photos suit him.

My Allicon was supposed to arrive today from Target, but FedEx is cruelly teasing me. On his way to Maine he went up from CT to NH, but then today he went back to CT.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile wave 2 deluxes for retail here have been cases of only Smokescreen. Doesn't bother me much as I'm only wanting the Allicon and it makes sense to get the quint pit of judgement first depending how it is offered over seas (pulse con is doing general sales for us/Canada on the 2nd day and first day is for paid pulse members).
Fingers crossed it's not through Amazon.

Do you have a pic of a case with just him in it? Because confirming he is being shipped in solid cases could be interesting.

Sadly no, a store worker might be able to provide one. Has to be the erm.. Case... It is the only deluxe of the wave that Smyths has had in store online/in store. Its not as though any of the others have been sighted/available to buy and they are showing different dates for his wave mates (allicon etc) to arrive on their website.
I know picking staff could have been lazy but the chances of them only picking loads of only smokescreen for fifty plus retail stores over sending out sealed assortment cases is unlikely. Siege Smokescreen wasn't available at retail, so its not as though his wave mates have been used to fill preorders and left loads of just him available.

Emerje wrote:I like him more than I do Ironworks which surprised me. I even figured out how to make a proper tank mode out of him for the Hothouse repaint which makes me very happy since none of the stock photos suit him.

Can you share how you did this? I tried to pull that off with my copy and I didn't like anything I came up with. Both airport modes and the robot mode are fine, but I didn't like the G1-style rocket base, plus it's not a good fit for Hothouse anyway.

Has anyone else used Megalopolis.toys? I ordered Exhaust and Greasepit back before they were actually revealed and they shipped out right away. Now, however, I've been waiting for a month for ER Starscream and Sky Lynx to actually ship. I emailed them and they said they were waiting on a case of Screamers to show up but that was a week ago. I saw Sky Lynx at Target today and wanted to grab him but I've seen on Twitter that others have had issues with canceling orders from them.

Along with Sky Lynx, there were four ER seeker sets, 3 Cyberverse seeker sets, and three MPM Starscreams. A bunch of Grapples, Hoists, and Wheeljacks were on the pegs. Oh, lol, and about five Siege Shockwaves. Grapple will keep him good company I think.

No wave 2 at my Targets and I was hoping I'd see an Allicon as that is probably the one wave 2 figure I don't have on order that I'd like to get.

On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

Mindmaster wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

One theory I saw was that Prime members got the outer box (I did), but a buddy of mine just got the package art with a label on it (and doesn't have Prime).

aronjlove wrote:Has anyone else used Megalopolis.toys? I ordered Exhaust and Greasepit back before they were actually revealed and they shipped out right away. Now, however, I've been waiting for a month for ER Starscream and Sky Lynx to actually ship. I emailed them and they said they were waiting on a case of Screamers to show up but that was a week ago. I saw Sky Lynx at Target today and wanted to grab him but I've seen on Twitter that others have had issues with canceling orders from them.

Along with Sky Lynx, there were four ER seeker sets, 3 Cyberverse seeker sets, and three MPM Starscreams. A bunch of Grapples, Hoists, and Wheeljacks were on the pegs. Oh, lol, and about five Siege Shockwaves. Grapple will keep him good company I think.

No wave 2 at my Targets and I was hoping I'd see an Allicon as that is probably the one wave 2 figure I don't have on order that I'd like to get.

I've tried Megalopolis and have found them to be completely terrible. They had Snapdragon listed as in-stock when in truth they were waiting for the shipment. Because of this I couldn't cancel the order without incurring a 15% restocking fee. Long story short I had to open a complaint with PayPal to get my full money back. I wasn't the only one to have this problem.

sol magnus wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

One theory I saw was that Prime members got the outer box (I did), but a buddy of mine just got the package art with a label on it (and doesn't have Prime).

Mine came in an Amazon box with a shipping label still slapped on the packaging box. Makes no sense.

Speaking of Amazon I don't even have an ETA on Smokescreen even though come Sunday I'll have the rest of the figures of the wave. The going theory is Amazon is getting straight cases of individual figures.

sol magnus wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

One theory I saw was that Prime members got the outer box (I did), but a buddy of mine just got the package art with a label on it (and doesn't have Prime).

Not exactly an accurate theory seeing as I don’t have Amazon Prime but got my set in a shipping box.

Mindmaster wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

Mine came weeks after the first people to get theirs got theirs, and it too had the shipping labels directly on the box with no outer shipping box.

Mindmaster wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:On Ebay there are quite a few sellers that are selling the Conehead Seekers box alone...empty. So what is the deal, what am I missing?

Some collectors who like to keep the box had theirs sent with no outer box. It was straight up slapped with a shipping label and sent on its way. The first people to get theirs seems to be the only group to have theirs shipped like that, people like myself who got theirs a week later got theirs shipped in boxes with no trouble.

One theory I saw was that Prime members got the outer box (I did), but a buddy of mine just got the package art with a label on it (and doesn't have Prime).

Not exactly an accurate theory seeing as I don’t have Amazon Prime but got my set in a shipping box.

That's why I said theory. With the extremely limited sample size, it made some kind of sense, but I didn't exactly adopt it. Don't know enough collectors to call that solid evidence.

Here is a link to ER Bluestreak on Amazon that can be used for email notifications and adding to a wishlist.

aronjlove wrote:Here is a link to ER Bluestreak on Amazon that can be used for email notifications and adding to a wishlist.

So even in the US he's going to be an Amazon exclusive? So much for Walgreens. So then who's the Walgreens exclusive?

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Emerje wrote:I like him more than I do Ironworks which surprised me. I even figured out how to make a proper tank mode out of him for the Hothouse repaint which makes me very happy since none of the stock photos suit him.

Can you share how you did this? I tried to pull that off with my copy and I didn't like anything I came up with. Both airport modes and the robot mode are fine, but I didn't like the G1-style rocket base, plus it's not a good fit for Hothouse anyway.

I wish the gun was offset (and Selects Hothouse's gun wasn't painted black), but at least it can tilt up and down like the original.

Emerje

Thanks so much! Not sure if I'll use it, but it's definitely a better fit for Hothouse than Airwave's default. My MM bases will probably spend most of their time in their city modes anyway.

I appreciate that you took the time to take pictures!

Well my Airwave made it to MO, getting slightly closer. Friday cant come soon enough. In other news. I guess we have our first official sighting of ER Wave 3 BM Doublecrosser yesterday.


https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/09/12/tra ... ail-419373


I went to my closest Target this morning, and they were completely out of BM's, and the employee I asked said the next shipment is due Tuesday the 15th, so I am trying to figure a way I can take an early break from work, and run down there when doors open...I know there is no guarantee (It could be ER wave 1 or 2 again, or another Siege Wave for all I know)

just saying, Sky Lynx is the Trypticon of the Autobots. He takes up so much damn space'

aronjlove wrote:Here is a link to ER Bluestreak on Amazon that can be used for email notifications and adding to a wishlist.

Thanks for sharing this... I had started checking Walgreens.com.
I've passed on a ton of stuff from these two recent lines, but I'm really wanting this guy.

Bought me a Sky Lynx from Amazon Friday and got him Yesterday.

So first off, I LOVE this figure. Skyfire might still be *slightly* the better Commander Class, but SkyLynx is a solid entry and I dont regret paying basically retail for him at all.

My biggest gripe with OS's blast effects was how heavy the smoke effect was on them. I immediately gave all but the three small flare bursts to Supreme and he looks much better. Sky Lynx himself uses the three smaller bursts as thruster flames, but truthfully I am not a huge fan of the Blast Effects as a gimmick so no love lost there.

On fist inspection, I noticed what I thought was a seam around the cockpit windows. For a small moment I had hopes that you could open his cockpit and put a TitanMaster in side like you could Skyfire. You can't, its just the way the cabin is molded, but man that woulda been a bice nod to us if they had continued the Master playability now three lines later.

All of the joints are solid, and the ratchets are wonderfully appreciated. I have had two mushroom pegs slip off, that seems to be a growing issue with Hasbro's figures *cough*WheeljackElbow*/Cough* but they went right back in. I popped the lynx head off the ball joint by accident but that was 100% my fault. There is either a white plastic showing through or the side of the ball joint socket is stressed there. Hopibg its the former. Its not in an easy spot to see so I suspect its just a spot of unpainted plastic.

My only real gripe is the way the wings come to the shuttle body. The joint just does not feel natural right there. CW Sky Lynx pulled off some good wing joints, but this just doesnt quite hit the right notes. The wings themselves however are fine.

I thought I would never use the Dino Bird mode but I find myself posing it more than the combined robot mode. Its really grown on me.

I need to break out my DW Voltron combiner, the Lynx is BEGGING for some Voltron playmates.

I hope some 3rd party comes up with the rocket boosters for the Shuttle mode. Maybe something like DoubleDealer's missile for the big orange fuel tank and then something to do with the rockets just for grins and giggles. Double down on the space shuttle motif

On the topic of CW SkyLynx, I liked that he had the three tail design and that Hasbro took some liberties with the shuttle mode. Its cool that this one is licensed, but it makes for a blander look. My CW Lynx is using the G2 Aerialbots as the "Third Air Strike Division".

Rodimus Prime wrote:I'd like to see some comparison shots with TR Arcee.

I finally got around to it, sorry it took so long. I also have a few more shots with my other bubblegum flavored Arcee figures. I'll add all the pictures I took to a dedicated post as to not bog this one down with a bunch of pictures. For right now though, it's a pic each of TR and ER Arcee together in robot and vehicle modes as well as a pair for Animated and Cyberverse Arcee. The last picture is one of ER Arcee with Weijiang Alcee mainly showing how ER Arcee should've handled her kibble to form a hoverboard or even a riot shield. The front center of the vehicle should've detached from ER Arcee along with the back as it does with Alcee. It could then collapse or fold up and over in some way as to hide the seats in the center with the windshield folding down to help accomdate. This way the hoverboard would have a front to it making it actually look somewhat like a hoverboard and not like the detached back half of a car like vehicle as it currently does. I might have to pick up a second ER Arcee and see if I can't somehow cut off the aforementioned hood piece and somehow attach it to the rest of the kibble like Alcee. I think just gluing the part onto where it needs to be for vehicle mode would work and it wouldn't need anything any fancier like added pieces. It should still be able to transform properly as well just now it will have the hood as an insect-like abdomen or coat tails not unlike Animated Arcee. The weapon storage slot for vehicle mode will slightly get in the way while cutting though but it doesn't look to be something that's too difficult to make happen.

We have news that Transformers Earthrise Battle Master class wave 3 has been found at US retail. TF fan Shark Jumper Daimao found them at a Target in Southern California. They were priced at 5.99. Cybertronian Doublecrosser is the only new toy in this wave, here are the full contents:

2x Soundbarrier
1x Slitherfang
3x Doublecrosser

If you have found them, share your sightings with our community in the sightings section and on our boards in your region related thread.

This sighting was originally posted here.

Why is Slitherfang shortpacked? He's the only one of these I want and I have not seen him yet

Still have yet to see Wave 1 of these figures.

Flashwave wrote:Why is Slitherfang shortpacked? He's the only one of these I want and I have not seen him yet

Probably because he was just released in wave 2 while Soundbarrier was wave 1 and under normal circumstances would be harder to find. Of course in reality they're all hard to find since Walmart doesn't sell them. I haven't found wave 2 at Target yet, but I was able to order a Slitherfang from Amazon, though it's shipping slowly (arrives Friday, ordered it last week with Amazon Prime, such is 2020).

Emerje

My Target is full to the brim with Slitherfang and Rung. With as awful as distribution has been for Earthrise (3 1/2 months left in 2020, and I still haven't seen Wave TWO of Deluxes anywhere), I wonder if I'll see Doublecrosser at all.