RTS Legends at Dollar General with generic packaging

Superquad7 · 05-15-2012, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by JamesBenjamin

No sightings yet, but its hard to believe Hasbro would make a whole assortment for one chain. Last years "Dollar General" toys were the dino-scouts packaged on Generations cards as well as a re-issue of the optimus vs megatron set (crappy deluxe molds), and some places got leftovers of the walmart exclusive sets. All that stuff turned up at multiple retailers eventually, so I'd think that through the summer/fall/christmas they'll end up everywhere sooner or later.

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Originally Posted by LogicalLuke

Very good possibility.

Agreed. I've never seen any of these that show up at the dollar stores as a specially made assortment but Hasbro simply continually putting their product out in other places such as these. Surplus stock that gets a different packaging. These figures showed up at the Five Below stores as well.

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Originally Posted by Timesynch

Skywarp and Thundercracker need to see a release next.

YES.

Th0r4z1n3 · 05-16-2012, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Superquad7

Agreed. I've never seen any of these that show up at the dollar stores as a specially made assortment but Hasbro simply continually putting their product out in other places such as these. Surplus stock that gets a different packaging. These figures showed up at the Five Below stores as well.

I'm pretty sure they'er the Takara EZ Chronicles ones (at least SS), but I've never heard of TakaraTomy overstock ending up at the Dollar Stores here in the States, it's usually just Hasbro overstock as far as I know.

shibamura_prime · 05-16-2012, 04:47 PM

I bought a DG Starscream to compare with my Chronicle one since I'm a Legends nut. I gave the DG one to a friend and didn't think to take pictures beforehand, but I looked both of them over up and down and couldn't find any differences between the two. Paint apps, plastic and trademark stamps all looked exactly the same. I have a DG Prime I'm keeping on the card too and from what I can tell through the bubble that he's pretty much identical to his Chronicle counterpart as well.

JamesBenjamin · 05-16-2012, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Th0r4z1n3

I'm pretty sure they'er the Takara EZ Chronicles ones (at least SS), but I've never heard of TakaraTomy overstock ending up at the Dollar Stores here in the States, it's usually just Hasbro overstock as far as I know.

Its definitely not any kind of overstock, as Hasbro has reported (via answers about the Joe figs) that they're trying to "expand their brands" by putting core characters into these el-cheapo stores. So we got Prime, Megs, BB, and SS; joes are cobra commander, duke, snake eyes, storm shadow, cobra trooper and shipwreck (who isnt quite as 'core' as the others); and marvel gets Iron Man, spider man, captain America, etc.

This was a conscious choice, so its not overstock.

That said, the joe figs are apparently getting repaints, so we *might* get them too, but with the joes its the same guys in new colors. with us if we get them they'd be other characters, so who knows...

Th0r4z1n3 · 05-16-2012, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by shibamura_prime

I bought a DG Starscream to compare with my Chronicle one since I'm a Legends nut. I gave the DG one to a friend and didn't think to take pictures beforehand, but I looked both of them over up and down and couldn't find any differences between the two. Paint apps, plastic and trademark stamps all looked exactly the same. I have a DG Prime I'm keeping on the card too and from what I can tell through the bubble that he's pretty much identical to his Chronicle counterpart as well.

That's enough confirmation for me, I'm not gonna bother with an EZ Starscream then. Thanks for the info man!

...and how in the heck do you have negative 4 news credits?! LOL

SlaveToLogic · 10-22-2012, 02:51 AM

I saw these, and didn't buy them...

I hope they're still there.

SlaveToLogic · 10-22-2012, 02:51 AM

Double Post Error.

G1Prowl · 10-22-2012, 02:54 AM

As an addendum to this, these are also available at Big Lots, and the Big Lots versions are the GDO remolds in Starscream and Optimus colors. Not news, but since this thread got revived, I figured I'd put it out here.

Superquad7 · 10-23-2012, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by G1Prowl

As an addendum to this, these are also available at Big Lots, and the Big Lots versions are the GDO remolds in Starscream and Optimus colors. Not news, but since this thread got revived, I figured I'd put it out here.

This is where I found mine. I couldn't find them at the Dollar General/Family Dollar stores.

Niv3k · 10-23-2012, 03:20 AM

I like the RTS Megatron Gun more but this looks cool too.
Now make a Soundwave Legend!

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