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TRANSFORMERS TOYS

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(Official Transformers, but not the main line.)

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Mighty Muggs Transformers     Take an idea that works nicely at 2" high, blow it up into a 6" tall toy with the same Lego-figure articulation and lack of detail, and you get a line I won't spend money on. I haven't been impressed by the existing Mighty Muggs, and I'm not impressed by these. But I'll still list 'em for those what care.

---WAVE 3: Mixed G1/Movie assortment, with G1 Shockwave and Jazz, RotF Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. Quality control on the paint applications is reportedly dodgy even for Hasbro. 12/5/09: TRU in Torrance CA, Hawthorne CA.


Marvel Transformers
    We've had plenty of Marvel Megamorph toys over the years, but never Transformers™ of Marvel characters. That changes in 2008! Only one size class to start with, a $15 size comparable to Star Wars TF Standard. Part of the new "Transformers Crossovers" imprint.

---WAVE 5: Hulk (Bulldozer), Spider-Man (racecar), Wolverine (X-Force redeco in black and gray). 1/5/09: At BBTS.com and at least one Walmart (not a sighting sent to me, so missing info). 1/23: Target in Muncie IN. 2/13: Walmart in Junction City KS (Spider-Man only, although it may be wave 6 given that the cosells include the Thing redeco of the bulldozer). 2/14: Walmart in Manhattan KS. Hulk's co-sells show Punisher as a retool of Captain America, so I suspect the co-sells were done before the actual shipping waves were decided on. 2/27: Walmart in Topeka KS. 3/18: Target in Salina KS.
---WAVE 6: Black Costume Spider-Man (racecar redeco), Iron Man (sportscar, new mold). Probably some reships. 6/17/10: Target in Muncie IN. 7/31: Walmart in Junction City KS. 8/28: Walmart in Topeka KS.
---IRON MAN 2 WAVE: The new sportscar Iron Man, the old fighter jet Iron Man (possibly a slight deco tweak), the combiner Iron Man redecoed as War Machine and sold alone, plus a remold of Captain America (new head, removed chainmail pattern, replace shield with gun), all shipping with Iron Man 2 packaging. 7/24/10: K-Mart in Topeka KS. $15.99 each. 7/28: Target in Manhattan KS. 7/30: Target in Muncie IN. 8/1: Target in Manhattan Beach CA, Redondo Beach CA. 8/28: Walmart in Topeka KS.


Star Wars Transformers
    The second major brand extension of Transformers (Animorphs being the first), these are mostly at the $15 price point. They used to come with Diaclone-like pilot figures, but those were dropped when the move was made to the new "Crossovers" packaging.

---STANDARD WAVE C9: Anakin Skywalker (Twilight, the ship from the Clone Wars cartoon) with R2-D2, Y-Wing Pilot (Clone Wars version Y-Wing, not A New Hope version), plus reships. Anakin doesn't look very good, but I like the Y-Wing Pilot. 2/17/10: Target in Muncie IN. 2/27: Target in Topeka KS. (Oddly, one rang up as $16.09 and the other as $14.99.) 3/18: Target in Salina KS (Twilight only). 5/21: Target in Manhattan KS; Walmart in Topeka KS. 5/24: Walmart in Green Bay WI.
---STANDARD WAVE C10: Not sure if this is the exact assortment, but it's all stuff that showed up new on HasbroToyShop.com in early April: Anakin Skywalker (Y-Wing head swap), Cad Bane (Magna Guard Starfighter with a head swap redecoed as the Xanadu Blood), Obi Wan Kenobi (yet another head-swapped Episode 2 starfighter, although it looks like they may have left out the hyperdrive ring this time). 4/7/10: On HTS.com for immediate delivery.
---STANDARD WAVE C11: Yoda (Republic Shuttle, new mold and not the Imperial Shuttle with a wing chopped off), Captain Rex (Freeco Speeder) and the usual padding of reissues. Packaging changes again this time, to a mostly blue and black cardback, a bit flimsier than the previous wave. 6/30/10: Available at Toysrus.com for $14.99. 7/1: TRU in Burbank CA. 7/15: TRU in Muncie IN. 7/24: TRU in Topeka KS. 8/1: Target in Manhattan Beach CA, Redondo Beach CA.
---STANDARD WAVE C12: 8/2/10: The TX-130 Fighter Tank/Clone Trooper has been spotted at Target in Pasadena CA. This is officially the second wave of the fiscal year, padded out with reships in the new packaging, including Cad Bane/Xanadu Blood (he has no hat, so it must have been a bad plan), Turbo Tank/Commander Cody, Jedi Starfighter/Obi Wan. 8/3: Target in Manhattan KS, price back up to $16.99. 8/13: Walmart in Manhattan KS. Review is now up. 8/14: Target in Mt. Kisco NY. 8/21: Walmart in Portland IN. 8/28: Walmart and TRU in Topeka KS.


STORE EXCLUSIVES

    Pretty much what the header says. Toys that are only being sold through one store, or maybe a couple of stores owned by the same holding company. I'm not going to bother with bonus packs anymore unless the bonus is something new (like the Classics Mini-Cons packed with Primus). If it's a movie toyline thing, odds are it'll be on the movie page instead. This section will just be for stuff that's not obviously part of some other line, like exclusive movie toys (which will be on the movie page) or exclusive TF:A.

---BBTS EXCLUSIVE SEACONS: A gift set of the G1 Seacons in new colors is being released through bigbadtoystore.com as an exclusive. Unknown at this time whether this is the only version that will be available, or if a brick and mortar like TRU will get a color variant exclusive.

---TRU EXCLUSIVE MASTERPIECE GRIMLOCK: Big Grim, finally released in America, through Toys R Us. $69.99. 8/4: Torrance CA. 8/11: Hawthorne CA. 8/16: Cross County Plaza NY. 8/19: Muncie IN. 8/25: Culver City CA.

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The Movies
   Due to the huge amount of Movie-specific product, this gets a separate sightings page. Updated: 9/2/10.
Power Core Combiners
   A small interval line, these feature Scout-sized core figures and smaller vehicles that either become limbs or are four-form Mini-Cons (robot, vehicle weapon, robot weapon, armor). Deluxe sets (called Commander Class) are Scout and quad-Mini, Voyagers are Scout and four limbs.

DELUXE

---WAVE 1: Huffer (semitractor) with Caliburst (artillery emplacement), Searchlight (helicopter) with Backwind (hook truck thing), Smolder (firetruck) with Chopster (combat jet). Smolder is the lone Decepticon in the set, and the first Decepticon fire truck. 6/29/10: TRU in Cross County Plaza NY. 6/30: On toysrus.com for $9.99. TRU in Torrance CA, Danbury CT, Waterbury CT, Whitestone Bridge NY. 7/1: TRU in Burbank CA. 7/5: TRU in Hawthorne CA. 7/12: K-Mart in Torrance CA. 7/15: TRU in Muncie IN; K-Mart in Manhattan KS ($10.99). 7/19: K-Mart and TRU in Bloomington IL; TRU in Peoria IL. 7/24: K-Mart in Topeka KS. 7/28: Target in Manhattan KS. 7/30: Target in Muncie IN. 8/1: Target in Decatur IL. 8/14: Walmart in Decatur IL. 8/21: Walmart in Junction City KS. 8/24: Walmart in Manhattan KS. 8/28: Walmart, TRU and Target in Topeka KS.
---WAVE 2: Icepick with Chainclaw, Leadfoot with Pinpoint, Sledge with Throttler. A running change will put all six Commander Class to date in one shipment. 8/5/10: Walmart in Torrance CA. 8/14: Walmart in Decatur IL.
---BEYOND: Redecos with mix and match coming, mostly putting Commanders in Combiners and vice versa and mixing up the Mini-Cons and drones. Windburn with Darkgrey (Searchlight with Caliburst), Steelshot with Beacon (Bombshock with Backwind), Darkstream with Razorbeam (Skyburst with Chopster).

VOYAGER

---WAVE 1: Aerialbots team (Skyburst) and Combaticons team (Bombshock). 6/30/10: Aerialbots set available on Toysrus.com. No Combaticons listed, though. Both sets at TRU in Torrance CA, Whitestone Bridge NY. 7/5: TRU in Hawthorne CA. 7/12: Target in Torrance CA, South Carson CA; K-Mart in Torrance CA, Carson CA. 7/15: K-Mart in Manhattan KS ($21.99). 7/19: K-Mart in Decatur IL. 7/21: TRU in Muncie IN. 7/24: K-Mart and TRU in Topeka KS. 7/28: Target in Topeka KS. 7/30: Target in Muncie IN. 8/14: Walmart in Decatur IL. 8/24: Walmart in Manhattan KS. 8/28: K-Mart in Topeka KS.
---WAVE 2: Double Clutch with Rallybots and Mudslinger with Destructicons. It looks like the first release of these is a mixed case with wave 1. 7/28/10: Target in Manhattan KS. 8/1: Target in Manhattan Beach CA, Redondo Beach CA. 8/14: Walmart in Decatur IL. 8/20: Walmart in Manhattan KS. 8/21: Walmart in Muncie IN, Junction City KS. 8/23: Walmart in Clemson SC. 8/28: Walmart in Topeka KS.
---BEYOND: More mix and match stuff. Protectobots with Stakeout (white Smolder with redecos of the halftrack and AA tank from Bombshock, and the rescue helicopter and F-15 from Skyburst), Destrons with Crankcase (black Huffer with redecos of the remaining Aerialbot and Combaticon drones). Huffer/Crankcase's combiner head looks like Menasor's, and this team does seem intended to be a Menasor homage, although they decided to try a second time on the Stunticons and that name will show up later (using Rallybot redecos, presumably).


Generations
    The "stuff that's not in the main line" line, replacing Universe. It will include both the usual previous-generation homages and a few distinct sub-lines such as the War for Cybertron game toys. All War for Cybertron toys will be Deluxes, and it's possible we won't see any other size class in this line.

DELUXE

---WAVE 1: WfC Optimus Prime (armored truck), WfC Bumblebee (like a 4-wheeled Tron bike), Drift (sports car, character from the IDW comic), Thrust (Classic Starscream remold). 6/15/10: Copies are floating around, but I haven't heard any major retailer sightings. 6/23: TRU in Rockville MD! $11.99 shelf price. 6/24: TRU in Fayetteville NC, White Plains NY. Odds are good most TRUs will have 'em. 6/25: To wit, TRU in El Paso TX. 6/27: Torrance CA, Culver City CA. 6/30: Toysrus.com lists the WfC figures but has them out of stock, and doesn't list the other two at all anymore, having sold out days ago. TRU in Torrance CA (just the WfC's spotted), Whitestone Bridge NY (all four). 7/1: TRU in Monrovia CA, Burnank CA. 7/3: TRU in Muncie IN. 7/5: TRU in Hawthorne CA (WfC only). 7/21: TRU in Torrance CA (all four). 8/1: Target in Manhattan KS, San Pedro CA, Redondo Beach CA. 8/9: Target in North Dartmouth MA. 8/21: Walmart in Junction City KS. 8/23: Walmart in Clemson SC. 8/28: Walmart, TRU and Target in Topeka KS.
---WAVE 2: If BBTS is to be believed, the second assortment will keep the two WfC toys and swap in Darkmount (Straxus from the Marvel G1 comic, as a halftrack) and WfC Megatron (hovertank-ish thing).
---WAVE 3: Again going by BBTS on this, and looking so far out gets a bit dubious. Repeats of Drift, Darkmount, WfC Bumblebee, WfC Megatron all one to a case, plus WfC Soundwave (combat car) and Red Alert (Classics Sideswipe with a lightbar, not the same as the Henkei mold) two to a case.


TF Animated
   As of mid-2010 there's still unreleased but complete molds, the disposition of which remains...uncertain. It's possible we'll see these as store exclusives, or maybe rebranded under the Generations line.

DELUXE

---WAVE 8: Rodimus Minor (sports car) and Cybertron Ironhide (headswap on Cybertron Ratchet), plus likely reships (the co-sell on the package can't really be trusted, though). 8/4/10: TRU in Torrance CA. 8/11: TRU in Hawthorne CA. 8/20: TRU in Cross County NY. Starting to look like these might be TRU exclusives, and they ship with more or Arcee and Cybertronian Ratchet in some cases.

VOYAGER

---UNKNOWN: A few unreleased molds are out there, such as Golfire Grimlock (redeco) or a deluxe Bumblebee priced-up by the addition of a submarine rig that turns into armor for the robot mode. Odds are they'll all come out eventually. Thundercracker (Starscream redeco) has been spotted in package (pre-release) with cosells of Mudbuster Bulkhead (minor redeco) and Wingblade Optimus Prime (heavily modified Deluxe Optimus Prime with lots of accessories in the spirit of the Bumblesub, comes with an appropriately sized version of the Magnus Hammer).

OTHER STUFF

Note: I will be less detailed about sightings on this side.
OTHER TF STUFF
(TF-themed but probably not transforming)

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    MEDICAL: Icepacks in the shapes of Optimus Prime's and Bumblebee's heads from TF:A, meant for treating injuries. 1/29/09: $4.88 at Wal-Mart (you may have to look around a bit, I found some in the clearance aisle but not on clearance). 2/21: TF:A Band-Aids™ for $1.88 at Walmart.

    TF:A DINING SET: Cup with Optimus Prime, bowl with Bumblebee, plate with Optimus Prime. Box set for $7.99 in little kid sizes. The bowl is generally flatter than the one from the TF:Movie set, and the cup is clear blue plastic rather than clear colorless. 11/14/08: Found at Target mixed in with leftover TF:Movie dining sets. 8/13/09: Individual elements (plate, bow, cup, plus covered cups) are available at Hy-Vee.

    GAMES: 6/23/10: Transformers: War for Cybertron is out on multiple platforms, to good critical reception.

    CLOTHING: 6/23/10: Transformers kid-clothes have become pretty standard now, I won't list things here unless they're notable in some way.

    BOOKS: 3/5/10: Amazon has the AllSpark Almanac II on pre-order, and what looks to be a TF:A sequel book of some sort (but there's no details up at the moment). 6/23: Transformers: Exodus is out. It's a hardcover novel that sets up the new official non-movie continuity. In theory, everything not related to the movies that comes out from now on in Transformers (including the War for Cybertron game and the upcoming Transformers: Prime cartoon) will follow this canon. $30 shelf price, cheaper most online sources, but not available as an eBook last I checked. Well, not LEGALLY.

    CD/DVD: 1/12/10: The second half of G1 Season 2 DVD set is out now.

NON-TF STUFF
(Things a TF fan might be interested in.)

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    BIG LOTS KNOCKOFFS: Big Lots is getting their next assortment of knockoffs and cheapo transforming robots out. 8/28/10: In addition to the usual (insects, crappy dinos, knockoff G1 combiner teams, etc) they've added a few more $10 sets, none of which I felt the need to buy. The "Transform Vehicle King TK" line has pretty big robots that turn into various quarter miler race cars (non-realistic), and I think they're supposed to have pull-back motors. Fire Chariot (motorcycle) and Speed Chariot (car) are Voyager sized and, well, suck.

    ANDROIDZ: From Toy Quest, free-rolling robots that come separately or with various track sets. There's also an "enter the code on the toy" online game I haven't tried. The articulation is basically swivel shoulders and hinges to let the arms lift to the sides...the arms are swappable, but I don't think this is an intentional play pattern. 8/28/10: Toys R Us has gotten what looks to be the entire line.

    HERO FACTORY: This is what Lego is replacing Bionicle with. Pretty much the same basic aesthetic and a lot of the same parts, but a new storyline. The $8 price point is the heroes, who have about the same level of detail and articulation as the original Toa (or the Stars line that ended Bionicle...same shape and size of can, too). Six of them mostly differing in helmets, weapons and colors, as usual. The token female this time is green, Natalie Breez. $13 price point for four villains with more of a Barraki-level of detail and variation. 7/19/10: TRU has had the $8 cans for about a month, today I found the $13 villains at Walmart. 7/24: TRU now has the whole line (two villains at $20, hero vehicles at the higher price points). 7/28: Target and K-Mart now also have the full line, probably Walmart too.

    T3 SOLAR ROBOT: These are solar-powered toys that claim on the box to be "transforming robots", but they're really kits that can be rebuilt into multiple forms (i.e. robot/tank/scorpion) using mostly the same parts. They walk or roll along as relevant to the way they've been put together. 7/3/10: $19.99 at Hastings. I passed.

    IMAGINEXT ROBOT POLICE: Fisher-Price's sci-fi-themed subline in Imaginext has added a bunch of new robots. They don't transform, but they are designed to look like they would in-story. The $6.99 sets have a human (cop or criminal) figure with the obligatory armor harness and chunky weapon, and a robot slightly taller than the human. Each robot has some action feature, like spinning rotors or clamping jaws. There's four Police sets (tugboat, submarine, jet and ATV morph robots) and two Robot Villain sets (helicopter and satellite). Definitely worth pursuing if you have old Go Go Gobots that want new friends and rivals. Larger sets will include big mecha suits and the inevitable playset. Each of the $6.99 sets comes with a different game on CDROM, but since it's PC-only I likely won't be bothering to play mine. 6/10/10: $6.99 sets have hit Target's endcap displays.

    MATCHBOX HERO POP-UPS: These are six-wheeled trucks (dumptruck, garbage truck, possible others) that have the front end rear up to make a sort of robot mode. The $15 size does so at the push of a button, with light and sound accompanying it. The $20 size appears to need manual "transformation" but has more light and sound gimmicks. The cabs are not cartoony or made to look like faces, so the robots are fairly non-human. 2/27/10: Spotted at Walmart.

    WALGREENS STUFF: 8/26/10: M.A.R.S. Converters Cybotronix is a line of 9" tall robots with Scout-complexity to them that turn into various ground vehicles. They have techspecs, sorta (Speed, Power, Skill, Defence and Intelligence bars, but no numbers) and individual names. $9.99 each. I got Valve Charger (red 50s muscle car) and saw but passed on Accelerator (silver sportscar) and Drifter (blue convertible). Also on the cosell are Earthmover (yellow bulldozer), Bio-mixer (blue cement mixer) and Spot Explorer (tan and brown SUV or pickup truck, vehicle mode isn't shown). All three I saw in person clearly had the same transformation. The one I got is pretty floppy in robot mode, with the roof panel not really locking anywhere, but it has a higher quality feel to it than I was expecting. His vehicle mode is 7.5" long and reasonably sturdy, if hollow-feeling. Undocumented feature: the headlights extend as chest cannons. 8/28: I picked up Drifter after seeing that it had a significantly different transformation, but it doesn't hold together as well in vehicle mode, and the shoulder joints seem designed to fall apart. Meh.

    BAKUGAN COMBINER: A TRU exclusive, with seven existing Bakugans (including regulars, specials and traps) that connect via their magnets into something resembling a large beast. May involve some mold re-engineering. $39.99, sounds massively overpriced to me. 8/30/09: Hawthorne CA. 9/18: There's a second combiner, made from new Trap units, called the Bakugan Maxus Dragonoid. It is reportedly total scalperbait, though. TRU in Hawthorne CA had some, but they're probably already on eBay. 10/4: Target.com has the Maxus for $39.99 online-only. 10/9: Walmart now carrying Maxus in store for $34. The Maxus holds together with pegs, not magnets.

    FOOTBALL ROBOTS: "Cleatus" the 10" tall Fox Sports robot has popped back up at K-Mart for $19.99. 9/26/09: ProBots has a line of football robots licensing the likenesses of various players. The 10" versions are $20 and feature a Power Rangers-style head-flip that swaps between robotic helmet and player's face. The general aesthetic is somewhat Gundamy, and they use magnets to hold the football in the robot's hand. I wasn't impressed enough to drop $20, though. The assortment includes Romo, Eli Manning, Brady and ROFLs...er, Roethlisberger. There's also a 6" line listed as a co-sell, but I haven't seen those in the store yet. 10/31: Spotted the 6" assortment at TRU for $11.99, grabbed ROFLsburger. Er, Roethlisberger. Comments once I actually open it. 11/3: Eh, not really worth $12. The jointing is a bit loose, the magnet in the forearm that's supposed to hold the football isn't all that strong, and the head-flip gimmick comes out of true pretty easily.

    BATTLE MACHINES: From Jada, a licensor that had a piece of the classic Speed Racer market last year, this is a $3 price point 1:64 car set of armed and armored regular vehicles, a la Deathrace or Car Wars. Each model has two color schemes (with slight mold variations in some cases). Neither of the 69 Camaro versions is yellow, though, and there's nothing really close to Frankenstein's Monster from the recent Deathrace movie (I've got a Matchbox of the base vehicle sitting around waiting to be kitbashed, though). A little more cruddy chrome than I'd like, but looked good enough for me to pick up a couple. 8/20/09: Walmart is carrying these, at least. 9/19: There's 1:32 versions at the $5 price point, and 1:24 at $12-13. 10/25: A pair of roughly 1:24 remote control Battle Machines sells together for $45.

    MARVEL UNIVERSE MEGA BLOKS: Another series of these has started showing up, with Wolverine, Spider-Man and Iron Man in the assortment. 7/11/09: Spotted Wolverine at TRU, passed on it. I might get Iron Man if I see it, but at $15 I'm rather reluctant. 8/20: I have heard that Mega Bloks brand is teetering on the edge of bankrupcy, so we may never see the rest of this line or the Neo Machines.

    LEGO: 12/22/09: Power Miners year three includes the $20 price point Magma Mech 8189. It's shorter than the $20 Exo-Force sets, and is articulated in much the same way as the $8 mining mech from the first year, but has some nice gimmicks. Also, the Ben10 Alien Force sets are out, $15 Bionicle-ish figures (rather than Galador-like) that could be raided for mech-making. They're not really worth $15, though, and share about as many pieces as early Bionicles (i.e. differing mainly in color, head and a few details). Humongousaur is the only one with unique hands, for instance. 1/12/10: Pictures have started showing up of Hero Machine, the successor line to Bionicle.

    MEGA BLOKS: 7/27/09: Spotted in the Phillippines and Amazon.co.uk is a new line, Neo Machines, in which the Neo Shifters turn into vehicles, more or less. The lowest price point is just redeco'ed PlasmaTech figures with new guns, but then there's a $10 or so price point and a $25 size. The vehicle modes are pretty skeletal, but at least it's not more spheres! 8/20: As mentioned above, Mega Brands' financial difficulties mean we may never see these in America, sigh. 8/29: The Magnext line now has Halo figures. 2/3/10: The small car and jet Neo Machines sets have started hitting Walgreens (Ft. Lauderdale FL sighting, will check my local ones soon). The jet is reportedly kinda RotF-Soundwave-ish. 4/3: I found a couple of sets the other week. Sadly, they don't actually transform, they have to be taken apart and rebuilt for vehicle mode (and not all the pieces are used). They have pilot seats for the little Neo figures, but only the larger Neo Machine sets come with pilots. 4/7: I've found alternate ways to get decent vehicles out of both sets without requiring reassembly. For Jetstrike, mount the wings on the connectors at the small of his back in robot mode rather than on the top of his back. To transform, turn the head around to be the fin, fold the arms back as the tail section, and fold up the wings. The launcher can mount on the underside, and the feet peg together (the pegs need to be moved elsewhere in robot mode). For Quadrock, just make the robot according to instructions and use the launcher to peg the feet together at the front of a dragster mode with the arm guns sticking up at the back.

    POWER RANGERS: 8/21/10: "Cell Phone" morphers (Red and Green Rangers) that are basically rangers with cell phone torsos with their limbs folding up around the sides (still looking like limbs) for altmode. Pretty crappy, but they're out now.