I was hoping they would show up at Kroger again. I had no problem finding wave 2 there. Found them on the first try.

 

Wave 2 was just sighted at a junk shop in Tatooine...

 

It appears so doesn't it. That means a lot of us won't have the full 13. At least not from Hasbro. So is it wave 1, 2, 3, Blastoff, and the SDCC to get the 13? (I just have wave 1 & 2 lol)

I got my wave 2 Primemasters at Walmart the weekend before last.

Actually Wave 3 deluxes started hitting Walmarts last week. I got the remaining Terrorcon's to make Abominus. And my town isn't anything special so be on the lookout.

Heh. If we're still talking about Walmart, they have too much of wave 1, lol I'm sure it's coming though :-D

 

Titans Return all over again.

 

You don't need Blast Off (he comes with Megatronus, who is also in wave 3), though you need Predaking for Onyx Prime.

 

I want that little skull samurai guy bad 

 

Too bad i have chores or id pick them up along with a couple of power converters at tashi station.

 

If youre in the MidWest, try meijer. Where I found Jazz and Lockdown last week. Got Brawl and Megs off Amazon.

 

Unfortunately my walmart just got terrorcons so I doubt ill see the primes anytime soon I\'ve only seen the wave 1 versions, not all Texas Walmarts are equal unfortunately 

 

I think Hasbro in some form will outlive the version of Walmart we have now. Walmart's grocery and mobile order is fine but their toy approach is a mess. Not manufacturer's fault.

Unless it's Transformers, they need to reduce their movie toy ordering. Movie toys (including super-hero) have sold worse than cartoon/comics toys (including super-hero) for 30+ years, Transformers excluded. I don't think I'm being the old crank here. I remember Bob the Goon from the Batman line. I watch inventory on the whole section. The Incredibles barely has a REAL toyline. It's mostly grandma gifts for toddlers for a great movie with no buzz and Walmart went all in on it.

Also, when DC does an animated adaptation of a comic, ORDER LIGHT. Nobody in a Walmart toy aisle gives a damn about Frank Miller and those who do already preordered theirs.

Is it poseable? Toyetic? Does it look like a poisonous tropical fish? Does it have collector appeal? Does it have a play pattern? Does it have aesthetic? If not, I don't care if Spielberg directed it or if it's likely to get an Oscar or if it looks like a fun film.

I spent years working with kids after school. I have master's degrees, plural, in business and studying folk narratives. I can tell if a toyline will be like crack or not and cross-plan promotion of new lines at a store level. Walmart is dumbing down their ordering to a dangerous point. It looks like it probably hurt PotP considerably that they tried to push 3 year old bad ordering decision shelf warmers last Christmas and failed to support new lines.

 

And whether targeting kids or grown ups: toys are periodicals, magazines practically. The new stuff has to push while it's topical.

Few movies are topics of conversation for the 3 months needed until the next wave hits.

 

That's why allspark tech failed

 

So wave 3 Primes are in California now also?

 

One thing I noticed specially with Hasbro is all their lines have have to many options. Look at Star Wars as an example the have 3.74” figures both with 5 points articulation, the 3.75” black series, black series statues 6” black series, 10” figures role playing items, the “girl” line of figures which I forgot the name of the line. Then they also focus on too many gimmicks and then turn around and claim they don’t have the money to make really good vehicles and play sets unless you sign up for their kickstarter program. The 80’s they focused on one size and was able to make amazing world building playsets and many more characters for kids to choose from. I think they would do better if they took a page from their old play book from lines like G.I. JOE or Kenner’s Star Wars line were the focus was on cheap figures and affordable playsets I believe they would do better. One last thing I do understand things are more expensive these days but going back to this format might be better for them. But as always this just my opinion.

 

Anyone know the upc or sku for titan masters to use on brickseek?

 

At least it wasn't somewhere odd like Piggly Wiggly.

 

Yeah. Got mine in Burbank. They also had 1 voyager Inferno, but my funds were limited.

 

...well sure it is: retailers clearly no longer order and stock by the old-school algorithms hasbro's distribution model was designed around, haven't really done so for years, and hasbro's subline/assortment/wave scheme has failed miserably at adapting to serve the current brick-and-mortar marketplace...

...folks can say whatever they want about stock being the retailers' reposibility, but when consumers give up on brick-and-mortar shopping and hasbro loses its hands-on marketing channel, that's a direct result of hasbro clinging to an obsolete distribution model...physical toys are precariously perched on the cusp of where compact discs set ten years ago, and they will absolutely go the same way unless hasbro makes some radical changes in how they market and distribute their products...

...in the end, survivial of a product line is the manufacturer's responsibility, not the retailer's...

 

I highly recommend watching this thread:

UPC/EAN barcode list for modern Transformers toys

Quintus Prime: Hasbro product code # E1117, UPC # 630509701193, EAN # 5010993514038
Megatronus: Hasbro product code # E1118, UPC # 630509701209, EAN # 5010993514014
Solus Prime: Hasbro product code # E1119, UPC # 630509701186, EAN # 5010993514021

 

LEGEND!