Never pay attention to Bio's on the box myself. Going by her appearance, this is IDW Minerva. Much like the thrilling 30 Nightbeat.
Well I think most people raged about Hasbro wanting $55 for that Blitzwing more than anything. Leader class is a hard pill to swallow. In Minerva's case, she's the latest in a long line of Generations figures who aren't 1:1 with the original. She goes well with Targetmasters with no Targetmaster partners, Throttlebots that don't throttle, Powermasters who are now Headmasters, UT bots without Minicons or Cyber Keys, Combiner bots like BW Skywarp who can't combine, etc.. So she doesn't have a Headmaster, at least she has a body, most of the other '88 Headmasters so far are just their heads. I need to go back and get one someday, Hot Shot made that mold look good.
On one hand, she’s not a Headmaster. On the other hand, they managed to make a convincing Minerva out of Elita One, and I’m impressed with how well her colors adapt to this mold. I think I’ll buy her anyway, even if I wish her head had Titan Master compatibility (and it would have taken a fair amount of retooling to make that happen outside of a TR redeco or a completely new mold, so in the meantime I’m willing to settle for this).
Not bad, not bad at all. All she really needs is a reprolabel or two and I think she'd be a perfect CHUG Minerva. Yeah she's missing the headmaster gimmick but I was expecting that anyways.
Photos are not by Crimson. But apparently someone found Minerva at Walmart and checked out. So She’s apparently not Walgreens exclusive since if she was Walmart would not ring her up. So that’ll be easier to get her now
I wonder if Hasbro has their corporate meetings inside a Walmart cause they seem to be fond of the store.
I’m glad it’s Walmart since I live by like 5 lol. I only have 2 Walgreens in walking distance from me
I'm inclined to believe this is a shipping error until we get more info. IIRC the same thing happened with the BB Worlds Collide set, that showed up at Walmart first
So weird. You know, I'd be fine if Walgreens canceled their order for this and then Walmart picked her up. In fact I'd be fine if Walgreens stopped trying to carry exclusives at all!
I don’t know what barcode they scanned that would ring up in the system, because her’s isn’t registered in Walmart’s system. This is 90% a Distribution error. Also she’s labeled as “F30815L00 Tra Gen legacy EV Walgreen’s 1” on shipping manifest. Otherwise congrats to person who found her.