Thanks to TFW2005 members JaY88 and mcluskyism for passing along some retail sighting news from the UK. Wave 4 of the Transformers Hero Mashers line has been spotted, which will contain Robots In Disguise versions of Optimus Prime, Strongarm and Clampdown. This is the first place that Clampdown has been made available in toy form!
This looks to be the first place worldwide that this assortment is available – like the previous assortment which has been turning up in Australia, Canada, the UK and Germany since February this year, these have yet to hit the USA.
Make the jump to discuss the find and see the mirrored image.
astrocreep777
Damn I need clampdown untill we get a warrior clampdown
BattleUpSaber
That Clampdown actually looks quite good.
No they're not. One is ridiculously annoying, the other is ridiculously funny.
T-Hybrid
Are Clampdown and Bisq the same guy?
Aigis
I'd like to get that Strongarm, if it actually comes out here.
dCon
Idk what the heck my.towns doing I guess they're just F***king off and not even caring about their consumers and still force feeding us AOE crap that never sols last year. Ugh I HATE seeing those they can't even get combiner war deluxes in walmart to sell the voyager combiner wars so they are gonna think transformers don't sell when they most assuredly DO sell its just not shit that's old nobody wants. And b4 AOE the stores were kicking ass!
On topic I like that clamp down I may get him if I ever see him :roll
Nevermore
I saw Beast Hunter Commander Bludgeon at TRU the other day…
ZapRowsdower
I've about given up on US releases. They're so unreliable that you can easily miss entire waves. Kind of makes sense for Europe to get these toys, when USA retailers are just slow or unresponsive to all the new products (i.e. the toys have to go SOMEWHERE). Awesome for our European bros! Not so much for me (still need that Prime Bludgeon!).
Nevermore
So to sum it up again:
Wave 3 with RID Bumblebee, Sideswipe and Steeljaw is currently out in Australia, Canada, the UK and Germany. No US sighting yet.
Wave 4 with RID Optimus Prime, Strongarm and Clampdown has been released in the UK.
The "list of Transformers product available online and/or internationally but still absent from US retail" keeps growing longer and longer.
mcluskyism
I did post a photo in your other wrongly titled thread, so here it is again. Strongarm and Clampdown, you can just about see Prime behind A-Bomb.
JaY88
Hi all!
Unfortunately I don't have a picture (nor could I provide one anyway given how you have to post photos from a URL) but I saw a Hero-Mashers Strongarm in ASDA Basildon yesterday. She is part of Wave 4 (or RID wave 2) I believe with Optimus and Bisk/Clampdown (the crab looking guy), so I imagine they were on the shelf too! I imagine if someone else sights these they'll get the credit but I just wanted to put on record that they are out there now in the UK at the very least!