The Transformers Age of Extinction collection pack of six one-step changer Transformers has now been sighted at US retail. The set of six figures includes the one-step changer versions of Bumblebee, Drift, Lockdown, Dinobot Slug and Dinobot Grimlock, along with an exclusive-to-this-set Silver Knight Optimus Prime one-step changer. It was sighted at Target in Richfield, MN by TFW2005 member Mister Gone
Paradigm-Shift Prime
More shelf warmers.
What a horribly managed toy line.
Scypris
Target got the short end of the stick for exclusives, didnt they? Not so much in numbers, but ones that are worth buying.
Chaos Muffin
Will take One-Step pass these while walking to the Generations stuff.
Raiyuki
Why does TRU which sucks at distributing get good exclusives and Target gets these
LegendAntihero
I'll only pick this up if Target puts it on clearance
pscoop
Great! Now these this will be clogging the pegs and the shelves!
anikenvader
Aw man. This has been at my Target for about a week and a half. .-. Actually kind of tempting, as this ind of line I've only gotten Flip Change Lockdown, this pack would be good for getting a taste of how well they work. Here's to a clearance, in the future!
moreprimeland
Poor Si… you're right… you've had some busy weeks lately….
……..I could help you type.
WEEGEE
What's the price
Autovolt 127
Yeah I agree Walmart and Target are getting really short sighted and never pick up the really interesting retail exclusives.
neeral36
Had a brain fart and forgot to post it there. I don't normally find anything first; that is the west coast folks.
Nevermore
Might have posted it in the news forum, then.
neeral36
Spotted it a last week at one of my local targets.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-sightings/86472-virginia-transformers-sightings-1298.html
ZapRowsdower
1) Your complaints could be copied and pasted from EVERY movie line: i.e. someone always says the same thing about that year's current line (no chara representation, "crappy" toys, wrong scale, etc.)
2) You cannot subjectively condemn a line without getting a sense of the consensus. Sure, I hated MOST of the movie lines, but if the lot of you bought and enjoyed it, I can't say the entire line is a fail or wasted effort. Granted, the kids don't really seem to care about the 1-steppers, so maybe that's your point? (But here again, is this new?)
3) Evasion Mode Optimus should be somewhere in your GOOD list: people do gush about it constantly, in case you hadn't noticed! It's designed by an MP guy, too!
I'm not sure why you think this set is a good thing… But seriously, I agree 100%, and your post was quite humorous.
Morbo
Great, another store-exclusive multi-pack full of crummy figures that will be absurdly overstocked and shelfwarm hard well into next year, until it's clearanced at a quarter of its initial price. At least it will eat up space that might have gone to interesting Generations Voyager or Leader class figures.
BERSEKAEL
Agree 100%… I pre ordered the 3 figurines and blu-ray combo (at least acurate colors, lack of articulations but I don't see much articulations on this new toys either)… this time I will pass on movie toys, nothing match previous movie's taste.
Primacronus
Most likely referring to no Deluxe scale Stinger, which is a valid complaint.
Sol Fury
Sorry, how do you mean "not all the characters"? Last I checked everyone was represented in some size class or other, and it's still a bit early to be closing the door on others getting representation.
I'll totally agree with you on the elbows, what an utter pain.
Timothy.R
ugh.. it REALLY annoys the hell out of my that all of the retail exclusives totally suck.
why can't the autobot set be a target or TRU exclusive.. why can't rusty prime be a target or TRU exclusive.. i just don't understand it.
oh well, they've shot themselves in the foot enough as it is with this line.
i REALLY hope there are some major changes between now and the next movie line. i can't take another dismal movie line like this. a serious lack of articulation, COMPLETELY wrong colors, lack of paint, scale problems, hideous modes (i'm lookin' at you leader/voyager grimlock t rex modes), and not releasing all of the characters..
the first three movie lines left a good taste in my mouth because even though there were a few bad figures, there were quite a few good ones, and those good ones were enough to make me happy. this line however has like 3 good figures tops.. hound, updated bumblebee, and maybe lockdown. but there's no rotf leader prime, no leader ironhide/sentinel/starscream, no human alliance soundwave/roadbuster/jazz, no deluxe topspin/leadfoot/que.. there just aren't enough solid figures in this line.
and don't get me started with the inwards bending elbows, my goodness.
Sol Fury
It's one of a dozen things on a to-do list – I figured you guys might want a look at this cool Leader class Jetfire and this Deluxe class lass who arrived last week first