Terry and ShowZ have had them for a week or so. Didn't check anywhere else as I only buy from Terry and ShowZ.

 

ShowZ Terry's Baba's Bombusbee TF Direct all have both for preorder and TFS Express has only Thundercracker. I haven't paid much attention to other china stores but I'm sure more have them and U.S. stores are usually off the charts ridiculous imo so I never look at them unless I hear about a special deal on something.

 

Why not just ask those sellers directly? You would have gotten your answers sooner.

 

What?

 

tabiurf asked if anyone else preorders TC/SW

shmoops responds 1 minute later....

i dunno how much sooner a seller can respond?

 

And it usually takes a few days for ShowZ or Terry to respond.

And I'm still not sure why I was told I should ask the sellers?!

 

ask them, maybe they'll tell you?????  

 

You can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass. But I'd rather take the butcher's word for it.

 

i think showz was one of the first to have tc/sw up on preorder, same with DS crimson wings?

the more i transform this dood, the more i'm finding his transformation to be easy. i'm not running into clearance issues anymore once i solved that cockpit issue.

I pulled out MakeToys meteor to compare *BARF* omg so bad by comparison. dunno how i thought it looked good. Then i pulled out mp11... and oh... yeah... now i understood.

 

I really need to transform him again. The more I look back at it, the more I think it’s the arms that frustrated me. Those things are annoyingly placed.

 

Once you figure out how to do it, they're not hard. That video from before everyone points to that's transformation only both ways (sorry, don't have the link) shows the perfect trick on how. If you get that down, you'll be good.

 

It was a joke, since you answered fast.

 

I know! I was SO excited to get my Maketoys seekers! And I paid secondary market price for them too, like an IDIOT. I'd say almost my entire collection I could make my money back on figures or make a profit from them. Not the MT Seekers. That is an absolute loss, LOL

 

yeah his arms can get tricky. lotta the youtube vids block the view so its hard to see an easy way.

i made a couple vids cuuuzzzz i dunno - i think its that self discovery of an easier process that got me jazzed (specially that cockpit rotate). their manuals are shit.

Anyways, i'm no youtuber, but hope this helps some folks:

How i pop the chest - transforming him a bit helps loosen up some parts so the cockpit canopy is easier to access here:

how i get the shoulder pieces behind his intakes without scuffing

how i get teh arms transformed - hope this helps simplify things. theres no good vids of it:

another angle of the other arm

cockpit rotation. this was the one that gave me lots of trouble cuz i couldnt figure out the best angle to get clearance. it would always transform but never smoothly. but closing rather than opening those flap things actually helped a ton with clearance (i kept rotating it for funsies) - a lot of earlier youtube vids did it differently. dunno if that's been updated:

 

Okay. I'll buy from you.

 

I'm glad someone got it!!  

 

What’s going on here?

 

Looks like covers for the wing tracks on his back and maybe the black pieces?

 

I hit the thumbs up cuz I'm sure this is good but I have no idea what I'm looking at