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Quickslinger & Brake-Neck up for pre-order on robotkingdom!

Generations 2015 Deluxe Quickslinger & Brake-Neck Set of 2. Preorder, start shipping 4 May 2015. - Pre-Order

 

Ive preordered Brake-Neck.

Now we play the waiting game lol

 

So does Robotkingdom charge immediately when you pre-order or when the items are in stock? I forget...

 

Yes, they charge immediately for pre-orders.

 

Kapow

Brake Neck Transformers Combiner Wars Deluxe Brake-Neck

Quickslinger Transformers Combiner Wars Deluxe Quickslinger

 

I'm glad Hasbro is thinking ahead so that 3rd Parties won't be able to make money out of us

 

Blah. I'll just wait for one of the big us retailers then.

 

Oh, I'm tired of playing the waiting game. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos!  

 

ohh yeah  

 

Hopefully BBTS will have these up for preorder in the next day or so.

 

CP pre-orders up.

Combiner Wars Deluxe Brakeneck
Combiner Wars Deluxe Quickslinger

 

So will these two have any form of retail release or is it online only? I heard rumours of them possibly getting an TRU release also?

 

The first hint of them we ever got was via a TRU listing that was later confirmed by a second TRU employee.

Thus far we don't know the exact details of their future availability.

 

I've been trying to decide which combiner teams I am going to try and collect, the Stunticons and Aerialbots are cool but I might go with the Protectobots and Combaticons (when they come out). That being said I'm glad they're making Slingshot and Wildrider for the line.

After talking to a lot of friends who have their own toy lines, it is stupidly expensive in 2015 to make new molds for toys. I remember reading an interview with a Hologram Sculptor for Hasbro's Visionaries line back in the late 80's and he said Hasbro would not think anything of throwing thousands of dollars into a toyline, only to say "Eh, scrap it." and just cancel the entire line. What they paid him to do his work, was enough to put a down payment on a house!

Fast forward to 2015 were toys are not as big with kids as they were 20+ years ago, oil costs are higher and steel molds in China are expensive, Hasbro has to figure out how to get the most bang for their buck. A steel mold can typically hold X amount of parts, so they may have to think

"Ok, if we want to have Slingshot and Wildrider in the line, they're only new parts will be the head. We can fit an extra head or two on the mold and unfortunately nothing else."

Same thing when you look at Blades: they may have had a certain amount to spend on new parts for the Protectobots and had to decide how to disperse it. Making toys is stupidly complicated sometimes.

-Quickswitch

 

Those CP links take me to pages that say product not found.

 

In the other thread, Sidecutter said he was informed that they weren't supposed to be put up yet, but if you want to order them then to e-mail him.