That’s right, the Class III Star Wars Transformers Darth Vader has hit US retail. This $40 giant toy has four modes – Anakin Skywalker, who turns into a Republic Attack Cruiser. But Anakin falls to the Dark Side, and the toy becomes Darth Vader, who turns into an Imperial Star Destroyer. It’s effectively two different toys in one!
The Force was definitely strong with ViceGripX, who found this toy at the Toys R Us in Tacoma, WA.
Autovolt 127
Even at 5 bucks i'd pass on this…..
Reeds
I with this was on the front of the box with exclamation points. I might buy it then.
Sokar
Strange as it is, it seems as if the price drop (in Canada at least) is restricted to the first run packaging of this figure. I've seen in several walmarts and toys r us stores where you will have the two seperated within the same aisle and one is 20$ while the other is 50$. I scanned both to confirm as well, and in each case the old packaging came up significantly cheaper than the new packaging even though they appear to be the exact same toy.
Autobot Burnout
There were three of them in a TJMAXX today for about $25.
Still not paying that much for that thing after all the bad reviews it's gotten.
Omega Charge
I saw one at Marshall's today too for $24.
Keith Prime
This being the last posted in thread for Anakin/ Vader, I'll post here.
I was TF hunting in Southern IL (16 ~ 20 miles from St. Louis, MO — Shilow, IL Target @ Green Mount Road near I-64), & saw the (3 total, I think) Quad-changer for $17. I had the mind to track someone down & confirm that is the price in the system. What's funny, he was next to a Class? II (one of the droid ships) that cost $21.
Looks like he did about as well as people thought, & he's being offloaded now.
Forgot to take a pic. I did not get one; gotta watch my spending.
Uniprimus
Im a huge star wars fan and this is by far the best crossover transformer ive ever seen!!! I will buy this monster!!!
SGTsoundwave
it's a nice figure with transformation and such, no complaints there but, WORK ON THE HEAD MOLDS!!!!!!
Galvacron 3
Looking forward to the inevitable Radicon that turns this toy into Mega Maid/Spaceball 1.
But I'm a sucker for both Star Wars and Transformers so I'll sadly be buying this. At least I'll get more out of this than The Complete Saga on Blu-ray.
clonemanager
The Starwars Franchise must have pre-contributed alot of funding into these development…. An example how R&D goes into a deep hole…
Satomiblood
They could do a "test run" for a GI Joe/Transformers crossover where they only create a few molds. I kind of don't understand Hasbro's refusal to look into something like this. If they're afraid of taking risks, or not convinced that it's going to sell, then how come those very same concerns haven't stopped them from creating lines that were hit or miss among fans? Oh well. Same tired argument, different day.
Omega_Sentinel
Well, we've already gotten a Snowcat. That's probably going to be as good as it gets.
Dake
There have been no shortage of requests followed by flat refusals from Hasbro.
darthJMZ
Has there been any mention of the possibilty for GI JOE Crossovers?
Like Megatron as a HISS
destrongerlupus
$70 was a CASE price, which in normal Internet-Message-Board-Telephone-Game fashion became commonly accepted as the unit price within about 2 seconds, even though it was never stated to be such and immediately refuted after the first chicken-little cried that the $70 sky was falling.
I've got one in my POL, and I'm looking forward to doing a little tweaking and making him into one of the 13…or something.
D/L
doctajones428
Dang, I saw one of these in Edmonton today
gabumon
Wow, only $40? Wasn't the Vader/Star Dest like $70?
It's within consideration, deps on how it looks in person.
Dake
Exactly. The price we pay in weird and awkward "Mech" modes is usually outweighed by very well done vehicle modes. Here they dropped the ball on both ends with the strange, narrowly thick proportions of the Republic Cruiser/Star Destroyer combined with ridiculous mech modes to boot.
If the ships had looked like all the other crossovers vehicles I probably would've picked this up for the Action Fleet Style Republic Cruiser. As is, it just looks bad.
G1Jetfire
Every mode is dissapointing. With the success of the Han Solo+Chewbaca/Millenium Falcon and the Darth Vader/Death Star, Hasbro didn't meet the potential of this product.
JavaJim
I thought that same thing as many of the folks who are slamming the idea of combining them, but as a Transformers fan, and a Star Wars fan, I love seeing quality Star Wars ships displayed in fight scenes with transformation / bot forms here and there. It's a wild take on the Star War saga, and nearly ever ship I have (have every one of them now) is a quality product.