Target getting close to stocking TF5 toys?

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by quantumhawk, Jan 12, 2017.

  1. MnemonicSyntax

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    No problem man, glad to help.

    I'm sure being an exclusive will alleviate some of the issues people are having with this "repaint" considering it's a previously used mold. Being for a specific market means it's just a bonus and based on the posts, not a bonus that most of us are thrilled about anyway.
     
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    Funny thing is I actually would be tempted except that I absolutely hate the size of leaders from last time around. They're too small to go with anything else. I ended up with upscaled KO's of both. If this gets upscaled I might even bite (especially if they add chrome to the smoke stacks). Probably not though, especially if Prime gets a new and improved leader class (which seems likely).
     
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    I think that you have to bend his hip to get his legs to peg them in to lock throws some people as to how it is "supposed" to work.
    It is really hard to get across in Videos too and some people seem to miss it completely.

    I'm certainly having to pop appart and clear nail polish a lot more toys ball cups & Mushroom Pags recently. in the past I almost never had to to that with Mushroom pegs at all it was usually just hips and shoulders where as there are toys made in 2016 that I've had into a pile of parts so it ends up like a reverse model kit.

    Those sickers wouldn't be as bad if they were not using such poor glue were not placed on raised surface instead of in pre-cut gaps and were semi-gloss or mat instead of being a mirror chrome. That said it's especially vexing when in the same toyline they use Tampographs to emulate the shape and appearance of original G1 toys stickers so well (on Twinferno for example).



    Nothing structurally - I was just suggesting that if a 3rd party Dino does well they might want to do a Stinger - same idea with the upgraded overscale Movie Bee that is also coming out. If someone was going to make a stinger based on a pre-existing toy then Bee would be the starting point I would guess due to them sharing a robot mode for the most part and the main changes being in the vehicle shell parts.
     
  4. Tman978

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    I wonder if Hasbro has ever seriously considered making bigger cases (for movie waves) with a larger selection of figures? AOE had about 3 waves didn't it? If they'd jammed those into 2 bigger waves it might have worked out better. Everybody orders way to much at the front of the first (and in some cases 2nd wave) then the bottle neck occurs. If they had just about everything out they wanted to have out it might go better.

    There's probably one or more reasons I don't see for why this would be a bad or unrealistic idea.
     
  6. Lazerwave

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    It's bothering me there is no release date confirmed, while they have all the tags at stores now.
     
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    I do not care for any movie toy TF1 to TF5.............

    Now if stores would get off their asses, restock and do there resets from Christmas maybe I could find some new goddamned deluxes near me....

    So if stock TF5 shit does that I am all for it.
     
  8. BenjaminXavier

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    They do 8 so stores can have two pegs of four toys. The pegs are a standard size.
     
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    UK is getting the TF5 toys on April. Expect the same elsewhere as well. :)