Toys and their waves

Lockdown · 02-24-2008, 07:54 AM

Well according to those numbers we got a while back there should be 5 deluxes and 3 voyagers beyond everything we have seen released in 08 though its possible those numbers were from before the lines pushback.

Fort Max · 02-24-2008, 08:13 AM

I think those numbers were from a pre-toyfair press piece that pre-dated the show by about a month so they'd be pretty accurate to go on for the first year of the line.

hutchprime · 02-24-2008, 09:54 AM

Thanks for the info Fort Max

Hmmmm...any thoughts on why Grimlock wasn't shown at TF? Are he and Slag not coming out this year then? Probably same with Blitzwing and Lugnut I guess...

I always find it odd when shows wait to release figs of characters that show up really early in the show. Also strange to see a character that we'd never see before (Oil Slick) get released earlier than some ofThank the very first characters on the show...

Fort Max · 02-24-2008, 10:32 AM

Hasbro just wanted to push the deluxes to reatilers more I think, or they didn't have the space on the show floor.
Whatever the case there, all the Voyagers you mentioned should be out this year. We'll know more after Botcon certainly.

MaikeruSan · 02-24-2008, 01:12 PM

As far as we know they arnt making a Blitzwing yet. They are going to but by the looks of it they havent even prototyped him yet.

Fort Max · 02-24-2008, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MaikeruSan

As far as we know they arnt making a Blitzwing yet. They are going to but by the looks of it they havent even prototyped him yet.

It was last summer when they showed us the line art at Botcon/SDCC and that was defintely toy design sketches. They've probably at least finished a prototype by now. I imagine he'll be in the case at Botcon or on the slides again at the very least.

Edit: I thought I'd better dig up the pic to make sure I was remembering it correctly