Today I finally found the early CW deluxe figures in a Dracik store, which was totally unexpected. Took some time, but here they are. US packaging with the IDW comics and the obligatory language sticker slapped on the back. 20 EUR each. They also had leader Thundercracker for 44 EUR. I guess better late than never.
What. What the hell? How? Why? The lines's over and only now you guys are getting this. That's awful.
Same case that showed up here "grey imported" about a month ago. Combiner Wars Deluxe Wave 2 Grey Imported into the UK Those also look imported.
Thundercracker is also an import in non-European packaging. According to the sticker, he was originally released in... China.
Yeah, I've seen this packaging here in Sweden as well. Not in regular stores but in a low-price warehouse that gets a lot of smaller batches of limited stock. It was all the Stunticon limbs plus an aerialbot and some legends. Deluxes had the IDW comic but Hasbro Canada marking and the legends were multilingual in english, french, spanish and probably portugese. All had chinese and UK stickers. This is in addition to toy stores stocking the regular EU releases.
Hasbro Canada marking is found on every non-European packaging even if it's specifically English-only US packaging.
