Transformers Legacy Evolution Wave 2 Deluxe Found at Gamestop in US

They're coming! My Shrapnel shipped from Amazon last night and should be here today.

That's a neat 2-pack and I'd be keen on getting Ariel, but like others have pointed out just not a fan of that Kup mold enough to sell me on it completely.

I only have 2 Amazon pre-orders at the moment:

Crashbar (still shows a release date of May 1st ) and Core Grimlock (June 1st). It would be nice though, for once, to have these items in-hand before the next wave goes up for pre-order.

I still have yet to see studio series Ironhide or transmetal 2 megs at retail. People finding new transformers are sure lucky!

Nacelle may be cool since I never got Thrust and may never either. Although I am still waiting on news of a G2 Starscream. That is my only real seeker want after getting a Sandstorm.

Cheetron wrote:I still have yet to see studio series Ironhide or transmetal 2 megs at retail. People finding new transformers are sure lucky!

TMII Megatron, nope, I doubt I'll see that any time soon. SS86 Ironhide though....That and AoE Galvatron are at every Target in my neck of the woods at least, theyve even gone on sale a couple of times.

Cheetron wrote:I still have yet to see studio series Ironhide or transmetal 2 megs at retail. People finding new transformers are sure lucky!

I only saw Ironhide for the first time today at Target, they're still shipping. Haven't seen TM2 Megs in stores, but they restocked on Pulse so I grabbed one there.

Emerje

I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

And speaking of Primes, it seems like (at least according to Entertainment Earth) we'll be getting Armada Prime officially revealed April 18th

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:OK, this has been gnawing on my mind for a few weeks, but... has any of you people's Walmarts done away with Legacy Core Class? My local ones no longer has the associated peg tags, just the ones for Studio Series Core Class, I'm starting to get worried.

I have not seen any Legacy cores past wave 1.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Wow, one of the last G1 cartoon only characters finally gets a toy! I loved these Cybertron lore filled episodes.

Who'd left who hasn't got a modern toy? A-3, Steeljaw, and Sea Spray's girlfriend right?

Alpha Trion has 2 toys from the last 10 years.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Nacelle incoming as an Amazon exclusive via JTPrime

Nice, hope he ends up matching the Botcon one, that was a more unique seeker

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Wow, one of the last G1 cartoon only characters finally gets a toy! I loved these Cybertron lore filled episodes.

Who'd left who hasn't got a modern toy? A-3, Steeljaw, and Sea Spray's girlfriend right?

Alpha Trion has 2 toys from the last 10 years.

Not old man Alpha Trion, his younger self, A3.



Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

I'm mostly worried that it's an SDCC or Fan Fest exclusive like Dion and Erial are rumored to be. Though, they do seem to have gone the route of making enough so the stock lasts a while if Orion and Alpha Trion are any indication

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

I'm mostly worried that it's an SDCC or Fan Fest exclusive like Dion and Erial are rumored to be. Though, they do seem to have gone the route of making enough so the stock lasts a while if Orion and Alpha Trion are any indication

Ravage and the Alpha Trion/Orion were readily available well after their respective conventions, I think this set will be the same. If I wanted, I could have bought both during big Hasbro Pulse sales too, but I already had Ravage and did not want Trion/Pax

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

Ehhhhh, kinda? But made to order is a whole different matter. I would consider them different than a limited release.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

Ehhhhh, kinda? But made to order is a whole different matter. I would consider them different than a limited release.

I mean, they're still one-time-only releases given only to those who were able to contribute to their single production run in a single period of time, and everyone else who, for whatever reason, failed to make that very specific deadline are SOL, needing to resort to the higher secondary market prices in hopes that enough flippers contributed to the production run to have enough left over for those who missed out to still get a more expensive one.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I hope that leaked VNR Optimus isn't some limited exclusive. I'd love to pick him up to go with Legacy Arcee and Knock Out to serve as "Prime Universe Optimus Prime".

It's exclusive but shouldn't be limited. I don't think we've had anything labelled as limited in a long time.

HasLab exclusives?

Ehhhhh, kinda? But made to order is a whole different matter. I would consider them different than a limited release.

I mean, they're still one-time-only releases given only to those who were able to contribute to their single production run in a single period of time, and everyone else who, for whatever reason, failed to make that very specific deadline are SOL, needing to resort to the higher secondary market prices in hopes that enough flippers contributed to the production run to have enough left over for those who missed out to still get a more expensive one.

Yeah, but by the nature of how they're produced crowdfunded figures are unlimited. They'll make as many as there are orders and nearly everyone in the world can take part, the only limit is time. They don't become limited to a specific number until the campaign is over, but the same can be said for any figure that's out of production.

Emerje

I really hope we get Nacelle in the Thrust mold and not the Tetra Jet mold. I would have picked up Red Wing had it not been for that mold.

I'm hoping Nacelle ends up having the dark navy blue and dark gray I saw in a specific google image result. I would even like it if the red stripe on the wings was more of a maroon/auburn.
Regular red, white and blue will look too basic, elementary, and "good guy" for me.

Looking forward to Shrapnel showing up from Amazon this Monday...
Now, black elbows and fists, and the back of the torso being purple and not black are all a little disappointing. Considering the engineering isn't crazy, the parts count can't be that high, Hastak will get another use of the base mold, AND the fact that this figure is this character's first deluxe class update ever... Just seems like Hastak should've taken the extra steps to do this completely right with the correct colors in those places.
And still, I'm really happy with him overall and am excited to finally add this guy to my collection. The bug mode is beautiful.

Sowndwave76 wrote:I'm hoping Nacelle ends up having the dark navy blue and dark gray I saw in a specific google image result. I would even like it if the red stripe on the wings was more of a maroon/auburn.
Regular red, white and blue will look too basic, elementary, and "good guy" for me.

Here's Nacelle's Seibertron.com toy gallery for a full look at his colors.


Transformers Subscription Service Nacelle Gallery

Yeah, if those are the colors, this is an easy pass for me.

Sowndwave76 wrote:Yeah, if those are the colors, this is an easy pass for me.

His deco is based on this old Japanese catalog:

Sabrblade wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:Yeah, if those are the colors, this is an easy pass for me.

His deco is based on this old Japanese catalog:

That's cool I guess... Just not for my collection.

We have an interesting bit of news to bring to you all. Thanks to Seibertronian fonziechavez for this. He recently received his order of Crosscut from Hasbro Pulse, who's a recolor of the Burnout version of the Legacy Skids mold. But as you can clearly see from the pictures below, his Crosscut figure was packed in the wrong box, instead of Crosscut's own. The box and box art belong to Medix, an Autobot brought into Legacy as a G1 version of the character from the Transformers Rescue Bots line. Medix is rumored to be this year's store exclusive for Walgreens, continuing their tradition of having an exclusive with a medical or science theme (Brainstorm, Ratchet, Minerva....(and for some reason, Bluestreak). Check out the pictures below!









As can be clearly seen from these images, Medix is a re-use of the Crankcase version of the Skids/Burnout/Crosscut/Crankcase mold, with the masked head originally used on Burnout from the Velocitron Speedia 500 line. He'll apparently come with translucent red versions of the weapons that originally came with Legacy Elita-1 and Minerva, as well as the grille-gun and pistol from Crankcase.

So what do you all think of this packaging error that gives us a first look at Medix's box? Has anyone else gotten any Legacy figures with similar mistakes? Let us know in the forums and the comments below!

It would have been funny if there was another Dion that's a repaint of the same line's Hot Shot down the road

Funny that Hasbro would "post a spoiler" themselves.

I'll have to hunt down that Medix at my local GameStop.

@fonziechavez Which set of instructions came with him?

I love that Medix appears to be the most heavily armed bot in Evolution so far.

Medix: Walgreens exclusive for 2023, sure to be in stores by 2025…

Also, if anyone still wants Minerva, get her while you can:

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/hasbr ... position=1

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I love that Medix appears to be the most heavily armed bot in Evolution so far.

They're all healing guns, don't worry
Like the various Medi-Guns from Team Fortress 2 heh!

My local target has eight metalhawks in stock for some reason. The only other legacy evolution toys it has had in stock have been one Tarn and one Leo Prime, so that's great.

o.supreme wrote:Medix: Walgreens exclusive for 2023, sure to be in stores by 2025…

Also, if anyone still wants Minerva, get her while you can:

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/hasbr ... position=1

Thanks for posting. I saw one in the wild a few days ago and tried to go back yesterday and of course it was snatched up. Stores in big cities have a general problem with stocking in the best of circumstances let alone a collectible exclusive or anything like the debacle that has been every walgreen's release. That combined with the rent tax on instore purchases and it's a hard place for the fun of the hunt in collecting in any big city. Makes most places more like museums than viable places to look for stuff to buy in hobbies line tf's. Guess i'll get this one the same way i have every walgreen's exclusive i have.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I love that Medix appears to be the most heavily armed bot in Evolution so far.

Well it makes sense if you watched The Transformers: The Movie.

The "military strategist" Prowl and the "weapon specialist" Ironhide each used a single gun while fighting the Decepticons on the shuttle. Yet the medic Ratchet is dual wielding guns while fighting.

So Medix learned a valuable lesson. Two guns aren't enough, so better make it four with two shoulder cannons and maybe a chest cannon?. I mean, you can put a blast effect there to make it look like one. Maybe use one of those barrel extensions from Red Cog to make it official.

Just don't take the Autobot medics lightly.

o.supreme wrote:Medix: Walgreens exclusive for 2023, sure to be in stores by 2025…

Also, if anyone still wants Minerva, get her while you can:

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/hasbr ... position=1

Has she always been available there or is she newly been restocked there?

It's been there for about a month Sabre posted when it was first available.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I love that Medix appears to be the most heavily armed bot in Evolution so far.

It's more annoying that his mold mate, literally called a Triggercon, isn't as well armed as him and should have been. But then again Walgreens Ratchet also came with a ton of accessories without causing the price to go up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Emerje

o.supreme wrote:Medix: Walgreens exclusive for 2023, sure to be in stores by 2025…

Also, if anyone still wants Minerva, get her while you can:

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/hasbr ... position=1

Wow you really do just jump sites and copy/paste your posts huh?

My two copies of Shrapnel arrived even earlier than expected...

Despite my dislike of the non-accurate colors in a few locations, this is a fantastic figure.
I will say the head joint is too tight, but the snug joints everywhere else are very welcomed.

Relatively speaking, it feels so so good to finally have this guy in my collection.
Based on looks alone, he's probably in my top 10 favorite Decepticon characters, and definitely in my top 10 mainline Decepticon figures.

My Prowl got here from Amazon today. Really solid update, only issue I have is the shurikens and how the blades fold out. Other than that, I'm really happy with him. Hope we get Lockdown and others in future

Sentinel_Primal wrote:My Prowl got here from Amazon today. Really solid update, only issue I have is the shurikens and how the blades fold out. Other than that, I'm really happy with him. Hope we get Lockdown and others in future

One of mine doesn't open right, but I tried to pry it open instead of rotating it before I read the directions. I assume it's pretty easy to mess up the gear tabs.

The kickstand basically doesn't work, but it's possible I didn't have the alt-mode tabbed in 100% correctly. The main thing I can't get to look right is the foot on the back wheel locking into the underside of the forearms. It's a bikeformer though, that's just how they are.

Fun toy, looks great. He'll probably hang out with Prime Universe Arcee on my shelves, when I get the time and space to set them up properly. One of many deskbots for now.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:My Prowl got here from Amazon today. Really solid update, only issue I have is the shurikens and how the blades fold out. Other than that, I'm really happy with him. Hope we get Lockdown and others in future

One of mine doesn't open right, but I tried to pry it open instead of rotating it before I read the directions. I assume it's pretty easy to mess up the gear tabs.

The kickstand basically doesn't work, but it's possible I didn't have the alt-mode tabbed in 100% correctly. The main thing I can't get to look right is the foot on the back wheel locking into the underside of the forearms. It's a bikeformer though, that's just how they are.

Fun toy, looks great. He'll probably hang out with Prime Universe Arcee on my shelves, when I get the time and space to set them up properly. One of many deskbots for now.

The kickstand seems to decide whether or not it wants to work at random if I'm honest. And the gears seem to not really like staying lined up, especially because if you roll the wheels in reverse, the blades can get caught and force them out of alignment

My Skyquake and Prowl are due in today, they were the 2 figures i was really looking forward to from this wave.

Oh yes, we are feasting tonight



These 2 guys were the ones from this wave i really wanted, and they so far live up to my hopes.

Prowl is pretty nice in hand. I still wish he had the lithe thighs and skinny face with the chin, but he still is pretty good. I like how they did capture his essence, and I like his head a good bit with the visor, I love visors wit the gold headcrest set against a black helmet like this. Now we need a selects voyager release with the sidecar armor!

Skyquake is also pretty dang good. I like how big he feels, I like how TMII Megatron and Skyquake brought back some bigger style leaders that have such a presence to them. I wish his gun was bigger, and I don't intend to use his sword since he never did and it helps separate him from Dreadwing. I wish whatever change they had to make to his torso hadn't had to happen, since his backpack sticks out some and is angled down, and I also wish his chest maybe wasn't so flat and his butterfly joints were a little stiffer, but he's a dang fun toy. I am very happy to have him

War Dawn set does nothing for me, I would have maybe got Dion had he been a different mold and offered on his own but I don't care about him enough to buy him from a mold I don't like in a two-pack I don't want.

Nacelle I'll probably grab, as he's basically the only Seeker left I would actually want made from the ER mold due to the Thrust wings. I do wonder what else Amazon has in store though, since the JTPrime listing says Nacelle is part of a capsule, but Nacelle himself doesn't fit cleanly into any specific groups or themes I can think of outside of being another Seeker (and being baaaarely in the Welcoming Committee).....unless it's a subline of all FunPub characters? Or they're just gonna retcon him into being part of like the Mayhem Attack Squad or something, considering the current team is already fudging around with subline releases/themes to get Toxitron out.

I did get Skyquake, Crashbar, and Twincast from BBTS 2 weeks ago, and have zero complaints about any of them. Skyquake properly exudes boss character energy, Crashbar is honestly one of my favorite Legacy figures thus far, and Twincast...sure is Twincast, that basically only bought for Rewind, but the colors do look a bit nicer than I expected in-hand.

A new Hasbro Pulse fanstream has been announced for 4th April, a week from now. This will most likely be officially revealing Legacy Wave 3 and Armada Optimus, perhaps even the Titan as well. I do wonder if they'll also show more from the Toxitron collection, perhaps the recently leaked Mirage and Sideswipe? I'm also keen to see how many microseconds it'll take for the Dirge re-issue to sell out on Hasbro Pulse, my guess is a fraction of 0.0000000000000001% of a microsecond.

Munkky wrote:A new Hasbro Pulse fanstream has been announced for 4th April, a week from now. This will most likely be officially revealing Legacy Wave 3 and Armada Optimus, perhaps even the Titan as well. I do wonder if they'll also show more from the Toxitron collection, perhaps the recently leaked Mirage and Sideswipe? I'm also keen to see how many microseconds it'll take for the Dirge re-issue to sell out on Hasbro Pulse, my guess is a fraction of 0.0000000000000001% of a microsecond.

They might even show the War Dawn 2-pack since the one found at a GameStop was also a leak.

With Walmart and Target lagging behind online retailers, like Amazon and stores which may cater more to collectors, there can be great discrepency between the time a toy is made available to fans and the time it shows up at a big box store. So we wanted to let you know that the wave of Legacy Legacy Evolution that includes Skyquake and a repacked Dragon Megatron has been found at a Gamestop in California. It was found by Sness who posted it here.

For those wanting a review in case you aren't sure if you want to buy into this mold (since we know Dreadwing is coming too and possibly much more), here is a review that shows size comparisons.

I found them as well, just forgot to post them. Wish I could get some credit.

BIGGUY007 wrote:I found them as well, just forgot to post them. Wish I could get some credit.

How much were they?

alphatron10 wrote:

BIGGUY007 wrote:I found them as well, just forgot to post them. Wish I could get some credit.

How much were they?

About $55 plus tax.