Buzzworthy Bumblebee stinger and drop kick two packs found at U.S. retail

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    Was visiting target in Oshkosh Wisconsin and found these two packs. I believe they have yet to be reported as found in the United States.
     
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    Pretty surreal seeing High Octane BB on shelves again.

    Almost as surreal as seeing the Movie1 Deluxe Bumblebee and Protoform Optimus Prime again in 2017.
     
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    Nice Words Collide humble brag, too. ;) 
     
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    Ah, neat! *sees three Wold's collide sets* ahk! my heart!
     
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    Exactly.
     
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    But they’re all apart of the same case assortment.

    2x Clunker Bee vs Barricade
    1x High Ocatne Bee vs Stinger
    1x VW Bee vs Dropkick

    (That’s the case breakdown I saw at my Target)

    So if one is found at retail, technically aren’t they all found then?
     
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    Usually, yes.

    (And it's "a part", not "apart".)
     
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    Since we have been reporting each pack we can finish to post this wave.
     
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    Checked my target during lunch time. They literally had zero transformers. Not one.
     
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    Ive seen all of these plus the barricade pack. They were all plentiful here so they probably wont sell well unless its to new collectors trying to catch up. I found Saucer Bee and bought him, but still looking for the Fangry set.
     
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    this was spotted much earlier,
    in addition to the Saturday sighting
    onTuesday ghostyurei posted in California sightings thread and I headed there to get it:

    California Transformers Sightings
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    I spotted the stinger set this past Tuesday. Didn't know we were still waiting for a sighting :lol 
     
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    So, I know a couple TLK toys have been repurposed as SS, which isn\'t that bad. I look back at TLK as proto-SS anyway... But this is a first, a 7 year old toy (SS 79 High Octane BB) from AoE has been repurposed as a SS toy. Kind of odd is you ask me. 
     
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    Classics seeker mold saw life for a decade plus they just pulled out the TR double cross mold out for Fangry and rereleased the original headmasters earlier this year. Not that weird to be honest
     
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    My local Target put all transformers on clearance weeks ago. It has been deserted for transformers for a while.  I hope they plan to add some new stuff instead of giving up on transformers ...
     
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    word is they’re scheduled for a reset so they’re purposely holding off on a lot of orders
     
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    Those are not the Original Headmasters from 1987, they are from the TR/Legends line, just in retro packaging, so that goes back to only 2016, also the mold used for Fangry was also developed in 2016 (only 5 years old). But again these are all for "Retro" style releases. I expect this. I would even expect/hope that any future combiners still use the system developed for CW since it works so well.

    What I was getting at was the idea that the SS line was supposed to be the best possible on-screen representation of the live action movie characters, which obviously was not the goal back in 2014. It just seems like a cheap way t bring a figure back that is out of place with the rest of SS instead of developing a new one.
     
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