Thats too much - I got siege astrotrain for 17.99 at ROSS, and its the exact same figure...



See if they'll price match?

 

Ugh, how I wish I had a Ross in my state...

 

I got the Siege Astrotrain for the price you paid. Ultra Magnus, Spring, Cog and Siege Starscream as well. I think $30 is fine for Earthrise Astrotrain if you can't find a Siege version though.

I asked if they could price match as I was going to pick up another and they wouldn't.

 

I wish I had been able to find Cog. Lucky

 

I would say keep trying in your area if you have multiple Ross locations. Stock in my area really varies by location. I'd also say to look online if a lot of driving is going to be involved. If you factor in gas for a few unsuccessful trips it starts to add up to reg price online (assuming you get free shipping).

I was thrilled to get Magnus and Astrotrain. The rest are nice, but Magnus in particular is the one that I really wanted.

 

The new Titan will be in Kingdom right?

 

Yes. Toylines only get one titan each, minus the aptly named Titans Return, which had two.

 

You guys think the seas of grapples affected distribution with wave 3 voyagers?
Pushing back quintesson judge to wave 3 was one of the worse ideas hasbro has ever had

 

Nah all around the world we have had shelf warmers, I think covid 19 has really effected earth rise, I mean why wouldn't it

 

Agreed. Every line has a wave 1 shelfwarmer. Siege gave us 2 in Megatron and Shockwave.

I don't know that moving up Quint would have helped a lot. It put more Starscreams out there and I'm not convinced that he'll be a hit with the kiddies. I think the bigger error was doing 2 Grapples to 1 Starscream in Wave 1. Maybe they expected low demand due to Siege Starscream's recent release?

I do feel like we got shortchanged in Earthrise between Siege's Wave 5, the disruption of the supply chain due to 'rona, and I suspect the need to end the toyline in 2020 so they could do the anniversaries of Beast Wars and TFTM in 2021.

 

I was just able to pre-order Thrust via the target app, Hoping whoever missed out could do the same.

 

In my part of the world, the local TRU only had per store 3 Optimus', 1 Astrotrain, a lot of Soundbarriers (a loooooooooot) then boooooom! The beerbug! Again, the clusterfk irony was that online, couldn't get a Soundbarrier until the middle of the year (around June). No Grapples at all. None! Had to depend on amiami and other online sellers. to find Grapple. 

 

Did you say ER Grapple?



SRP at approximately USD $42.50 & now he's clearancing in most retail outlets at USD $18.70. (Picture courtesy of fellow Boardie lake88)

 

Yer' not kidding... pic courtesy of ME.

 

Probably because wave 1 was in distribution for much longer than it should have been. Stores stock up for the rest of the year and supply chain says okay here’s more of the January product.

 

It's also due to the frustrating decision to start packing Voyagers 3 to a case - 2 Grapples for every 1 Starscream means a whole lot of leftover Grapples.

 

Grapple definitely didn't hit my area that hard. I think I've only ever seen one or two Grapples in store since release.

 

Every store I go to has AT LEAST 5 Grapples on the shelf!

Seriously, when Victoria's Secret Start carrying Transformers? 

 

Yeah, its been a Grapple-pocalypse. They've been mildly shelf warming in my area too.  

 

Grappocalypse?