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Target Exclusives
With TRU effectively gone (two stores opening by the end of
2019 doesn't really count), Target is stepping up on the exclusives. The
Buzzworthy Bumblebee line seems to be their main trade dress for exclusives,
building on their 2018 Bumblebee movie exclusives but often having nothing to
do with Bumblebee.
ONE-STEP CHANGERS: Cyberverse One-Step Changers Prowl and Starscream
in Buzzworthy packaging, no changes to the toys. 5/24/23: Redondo Beach
CA.
JUNGLE MISSION: A three-pack of Deluxes, it appears they will all get
individual Deluxe releases with little to no change in mold or color.
Cheetor (robot cheetah), Nightracer (unlicensed sportscar), and Wheeljack (VW
Minibus). $55 price point. 3/30/23: Amarillo TX. 4/1: Torrance CA.
4/2: South Carson CA. 4/6: Redondo Beach CA. 5/24: Down to half price some
places.
ORIGINS JAZZ: aka "Jazzworthy Jazz," as he showed up in the first G1
episode. 3/12/23: Baltimore MD. Also somewhere in VA. 3/18:
Vauxhall NJ. 3/22: Torrance CA. Note, there's multiple reports of paint
damage to the chest due to how it's packaged. 3/23: Amarillo TX (and no
damage, but of course I pre-ordered from Pulse). 4/6: Redondo Beach CA.
BUZZWORTHY BUMBLEBEE IGNITER 2-PACK: BB Movie Igniters (Power Class,
IIR) of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee each with a motor piece, $27. 2/9/23:
Amarillo TX.
BUZZWORTHY BUMBLEBEE ONE-STEPS: Megatron (Cyberverse hovertank),
probably others but that's all I saw. 2/9/23: Amarillo TX.
BUZZWORTHY BUMBLEBEE OPTIMUS PRIME: RotF-style Voyager(?).
1/13/23: Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson CA.
BUZZWORTHY SWOOP/BUMBLEBEE PACK: Crash Combiner "BumbleSwoop" set in
new packaging. 1/13/23: Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson
CA. 1/17: Amarillo TX, $26.49. Not worth it.
BUZZWORTHY BUMBLEBEE N.E.S.T.: Offroad Bumblebee and Bonecrusher in
N.E.S.T. colors (which is to say, gray). 1/13/23: Just Bonecrusher in
Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson CA. (They're different
sizes so come in different cases.) 1/19: Bonecrusher in Amarillo TX. 1/23:
Bonecrusher in Pace FL. 3/3: Ratchet in South Carson CA (and I think
Amarillo TX...I think I saw it the other day but misremembered it as being
old). 4/6: Ratchet in Redondo Beach CA.
"TONKANATOR": Transformers Collaborative, TF with Tonka. A redeco of
the Vintage G1 Devastator gift set with Tonka colors and logos, plus new
Tonka-based names for all the components. Oh, and they're Autobots. $105 at
Target. 10/12/22: Amarillo TX. 10/13: Pace FL, Burke VA.
BUZZWORTHY ONE-STEPS: Repackaged Cyberverse One-Steps Optimus Prime,
Megatron, and Skybyte. 8/29/22: Torrance CA.
BUZZWORTHY HEROES OF CYBERTRON: Simple open-face box repack of
Cyberverse Deluxe Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Cheetor (no Maccadam parts).
$63. 7/22/22: Amarillo TX. 7/31: South Carson CA. 8/4: Torrance CA,
Manhattan Beach CA. 8/6: Hawthorne CA. 8/7: Woodbridge VA.
RED COG: Mostly black, gray, and silver, but with some red. Loosely
based on the redshirt Security Officer redeco of the Cog model seen in the
Siege cartoon, plus extra weapons taken from other Siege molds to give him
more of an arsenal, plus a new gun designed to let him attach to Earthrise
Arcee to replicate the scene from Siege. 7/26/22: Amarillo TX, South
Carson CA. And yes, it says "Red Cog" on the package. $31.49 shelf
price. 8/4: Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA. 8/7: Woodbridge VA.
BUZZWORTHY CREATURES COLLIDE: Autobot Goldbug (VW body from the
Netflix exclusive, Goldbug head), Ransack (black and yellow redeco of Legends
Kickback), Skywarp (purple and black Kingdom Waspinator), Predacon Scorponok
(Kingdom Scorponok in toy colors). I was kinda hoping Ransack would be sold
separately, I really don't want more of the other three molds. 7/15/22:
Clark NJ. 7/22: Newnan GA. 7/23: Gardenia CA. 7/31: South Carson CA.
8/4: Gaithersburg MD. 8/5: Amarillo TX. Check carefully, some of the boxes
I checked rattled as if parts had fallen off or come out of their binding,
and the boxes DO have holes in them out of which pieces can fall. 8/7:
Woodbridge VA.
BUZZWORTHY TERRORSAUR: Golden Disk Terrorsaur in more toy-accurate
colors. Not to be confused with the Vintage Terrorsaur at Walmart, which
costs about the same but is a Basic. 7/15/22: Clark NJ. 7/22: Newnan
GA. 7/23: Gardenia CA. 7/31: Torrance CA. 8/4: Gaithersburg MD, Manhattan
Beach CA. 8/6: Hawthorne CA. 8/7: Woodbridge VA. 9/2: Lubbock TX, Amarillo
TX.
BUZZWORTHY DINOBOT: Kingdom Dinobot mold redecoed in toy-accurate
colors (the Kingdom version was show-accurate) with the Maximal Grimlock head
(again, to be more accurate to the 1996 toy). Legacy-shaped box, Buzzworthy
trade dress. 7/14/22: South Carson CA. Four to a case. 7/15: Clark
NJ. 7/22: Newnan GA. 7/23: Gardenia CA. 7/25: Amarillo TX. 8/4:
Gaithersburg MD, Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA. 8/6: Hawthorne CE. 8/7:
Woodbridge VA.
BUZZWORTHY ONE-STEPS: Repackages of Cyberverse One-Step Wheeljack
(which is pretty good for a One-Step) and Shockwave (which is not).
5/1/22: Amarillo TX.
BUZZWORTHY CLIFFJUMPER and KUP: With Studio Series numbers
(Cliffjumper is 86-13, Kup keeps 86-02), but as part of the Buzzworthy line.
Kup has some paint changes (mainly an opaque windshield), Cliffjumper has new
paints and retooled arms. 12/6/21: Spotted at what I guess is a specialty
store in Asia. 2/20/22: Vauxhall NJ. 3/4: Amarillo TX (one of
each). 3/5: Braintree MA.
BUZZWORTHY SILVERSTREAK: With blue accents, appears to be in a
dedicated case. 3/30/22: Manhattan Beach CA, Springfield VA. 3/31:
Amarillo TX, Pensacola FL, South Carson CA. 4/2: Quincy MA, Braintree MA.
5/18: Gaithersburg MD.
Walmart Exclusives
RETRO STARSCREAM and HOT ROD: G1 reissues in movie-accurate colors.
Starscream has a small Megatron gun and fists remolded to be able to hold it,
I think. $34. 1/17/23: Amarillo TX (Starscream only).
SPEEDIA 500: A big cluster of new and old molds bound loosely by the
theme of characters appearing at (if not necessarily racing in) the Speedie
500, Velocitron's general election.
- DELUXE 1: Blurr (Studio 86 retool with a new front end in vehicle mode),
Clampdown (police redeco of the most recent retool of Sideswipe with a new
head, he's there to ticket the racers), Cosmos (good luck ever finding one,
new mold and shortpacked), Burnout (black redeco and headswap of Legacy
Skids), and Roadrocket (head swap redeco of Legacy Arcee). 7/31/22: Pace
FL. (Cosmos already gone when the sighter got there.) 8/3: Amarillo TX,
also no Cosmos. 8/5: Canyon TX, Cosmos found (but not by me). 8/15: There
seems to be a second assortment with more Cosmos and Clampdown in it, hitting
various places (including Amarillo) this week.
- DELUXE 2: Decepticon Crasher (Mirage using the Battle Against Time mold
but the 3-pack face mold), Shadow Strip (G2 Drag Strip). 12/24/22:
Minneapolis area. 1/27/23: Dumas TX.
- VOYAGER: Override (new mold), Autobot Hauler (green deco of ER Grapple,
someone gotta clean up the wrecks). 8/3/22: Amarillo TX, Canyon TX.
12/24: Now on clearance for $25, I grabbed a Hauler.
- LEADER: Scourge (RiD2000 redeco of Legacy Laser Optimus Prime).
7/31/22: Pace FL. 8/8: Amarillo TX. (I passed on it, I didn't like
the mold enough to want more of it at $56.)
LEGACY DELUXE: All based on Kingdom molds. Nightprowler (Cheetor
redeco based on an unreleased Universe toy), Buzzsaw (head-swap redeco of
Waspinator, based on BW Buzzsaw), Sandstorm (tan and red redeco of Scorponok
based on a BotCon exclusive from the late 90s). 5/18/22: Amarillo TX.
5/26: Pace FL.
VINTAGE BEAST WARS DELUXE WAVE 3: Cybershark, $25. And I finally
noticed that the techspecs use the four-icon system that Legacy does.
4/17/22: Amarillo TX. 4/30: Weymouth MA. 5/26: Pace FL.
VINTAGE BEAST WARS DELUXE WAVE 4: Wolfang and Retrax, $28.
12/5/22: Amarillo TX. Part of an aisle display of other $28 toys like
holiday color Imperial Scout Trooper (Black Series).
VINTAGE BEAST WARS SCORPONOK: In 1990s-style packaging, the old "Mega"
figure is now $42 at Walmart. I did not buy one to see what small mold
differences there might be, but it is a more show-accurate color scheme.
1/29/22: Amarillo TX. 2/3: Pace FL. 12/24: Now available at Ross for
$15, so I snagged one.
Amazon Exclusives
The Kingdom set is Battle Across Time, pairing a Cybertronian with a beast
warrior of some sort.
MIRAGE and GRIMLOCK: A heavily retooled Siege Mirage updated for a
more Earth-like mode, and a head-swap redeco of Voyager Dinobot.
SIDESWIPE and SKYWARP: An updated Sideswipe retool that resembles
Earthrise Sunstreaker in vehicle mode, plus a head-swap of Airazor as BWII
Skywarp (from the combiner team). 12/24/22: They've been showing up at Ross
for a few weeks now, sorry I forgot to mention it.
Other Store Exclusives
MINERVA: A co-tool of Legacy Arcee with a different head and
lightbar. Walgreens co-exclusive with Hasbro Pulse, tends to be a "show up
and sell out" item online. 12/22/22: Walgreens in East Torrance CA.
12/23: Gardenia CA.
RED ALERT: Kingdom's Walgreens exclusive has started to actually show
up in stores recently. 1/15/23: Amarillo TX. (It was part of a
Tracks wave case, not purely Red Alert, and it was with the Valentine's
stuff.)
AUTHENTICS: Replacing the repackaged Legion figures that have been
perpetually available at stores like Dollar General. The "Bravo" assortment
has Legends-sized figures for $5, first wave being Bumblebee, Megatron,
Optimus, and Starscream. These are simplified designs in the same vein as
the Cyber Battalion figures. The "Alpha" assortment adds a few joints and is
closer to Battalion size, but is still very simplified, and packaged on a
large blister card. 4/23/21: Bravo class Barricade at Family Dollar in
Amarillo TX. Needs window paint, but otherwise decent in both modes. It
even has elbows. 5/17/21: Alpha class Shockwave at Dollar General in
Amarillo TX. It turns into the inevitable "spaceship," although I'm
pretty sure the instructions and package photos have the spaceship mode
upside down. 5/22: Barricade at Family Dollar in Valley AL. 5/21/22: A year
since my last sighting, and I found Alpha class Wheeljack at Family Dollar in
Amarillo TX. $11.25 is now the Alpha price point. 6/18: Bravo class Arcee
(car) at Dollar General in Amarillo TX, still $5 and $10 price points there.
It's prone to popping apart on ball joints and the transformation is very
finicky, but if you do it right the car is reasonably solid. And they didn't
give her lipstick.
Transformers BotBots
Gotta catch a mall!
SERIES 6: Currently pre-orderable on Amazon, for Fall 2022 shipping.
Only entire cases available as of Spring 2022. Includes some vehicle sets
linked to the Netflix cartoon. Shipped in November, my review is now up (see
Side Lines in the navbar up top).
Transformers Rescue Bots/Classic Heroes Team
In 2022, the branding changed to Classic Heroes Team, dropping Rescue Bots
entirely. But they're still basically Rescue Bots.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM REPACKS: Repackages of "Basic" class sports car
Bumblebee and truck Optimus from back in the Rescue Bots days. 1/21/21:
Target in Amarillo TX.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM GRIMLOCK: Robot to dinosaur, new mold. $10.88 at
Walmart. 8/1/22: Seems to have been a dedicated case, Walmart in Amarillo
TX.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM OPTIMUS PRIMAL: Robot to missile-backpack
gorilla. 8/11/22: Walmart in Amarillo TX.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM MEGATRON: Drill tank, but in otherwise G1-ish
colors rather than hazard stripe miner colors. 8/11/22: Walmart in
Amarillo TX.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM MEGATRON (GATOR): No sightings yet as of 12/24/22,
but pictures have shown up of a gator Megatron, first time he's had that mode
in wide release since 1996-7.
CLASSIC HEROES TEAM STARSCREAM: Cute little jet, might be released at
the same time as Megatortron.
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The Movies
Due to the huge amount of Movie-specific product, this gets
a separate sightings page. Updated:
5/25/23.
Transformers: EarthSpark
With a new show on Paramount Plus, Cyberverse's replacement as the "line for
kids that has a cartoon" is set in an alternate G1-style universe in which
the war ended over a decade ago and left a handful of Cybertronians stranded
on Earth...with Megatron having done a face turn. A new breed of Terran-born
Cybertronians (with birthing processes reminiscent of Armada's Mini-Con
plates) bond with humans and need to be kept secret because the Autobots'
human allies are maybe not trustworthy. Terrans are their own factionless
faction so far. First season came out in late 2022, toys started in 2023.
TACTICON WAVE 1: The cheapo size class, these transform into brickish
robots that are meant to be finger puppets. This wave is the inevitable
Optimus, Megatron, and Bumblebee. $5 each in tiny boxes, and I wonder if
they had to resist the temptation to make them blind boxes. 1/23/23:
Walmart in Canyon TX. 1/24: Walmart in Amarillo TX. 4/2: Target in
Amarillo TX.
1-STEP FLIP CHANGERS WAVE 1: Because this class ain't going away, it
just gets slightly renamed every few years. Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and
(shockingly not Megatron) Wheeljack. 1/17/23: BB and Optimus at Target in
Amarillo TX. I guess Wheeljack is shortpacked? I did find it a few days
later at the same Target.
1-STEP FLIP CHANGERS WAVE 2: Swindle (sort of a Hummvee) and Soundwave
(stealth bomber, throwback to Cybertron Trilogy, sort of). 3/30/23:
Target in Amarillo TX.
WARRIOR CLASS WAVE 1: Like previous Warriors, they involve some sort
of attack gimmick, and are a bit on the cheap-feeling side. Elita-1 (weird
SUV thing), Optimus Prime, Skywarp (a femmebot in this universe).
1/13/23: Target in Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson CA.
1/14: Target in Amarillo TX (Skywarp and Optimus only). 1/23: Walmart in
Canyon TX (no Elita). 2/2: Target in Amarillo TX (all three).
DELUXE CLASS WAVE 1: Back to the Build-A-Figure gimmick on these
slightly more complex figures that are to scale with the Warriors, more or
less. The first BAF is Dr. Mandroid (who has 7 parts but that includes two
choices of left arm) who won't be complete until wave 3. This wave is
Bumblebee ("mid-life crisis" car), Megatron (cargo plane), and Terran Twitch
(Cybertronian flying drone). 1/12/23: I found just a couple of Megatrons
at Target in Amarillo TX. $20 at Target. Dunno if Megatron was
longpacked, or just unloved. 1/13: Just Megatron and Bumblebee at Targets in
Torrance CA, Manhattan Beach CA, and South Carson CA. The case assortments
might be kinda messed up? 1/17: Bumblebee added to Megatron at Target in
Amarillo TX...maybe someone who bought them all earlier decided to return
one? 1/23: Just Megatron and Bumblebee at Target in Pace FL. 1/24: Walmart
in Pace FL. 1/27: Walmart in Canyon TX. 1/28: Walmart in Amarillo TX
(finally found Twitch).
DELUXE WAVE 2: Optimus Prime (truck), Shockwave (walker tank), and
repacks. 5/26/23: Target in Pace FL. 5/27: Target in Amarillo TX
(Optimus only, fortunately I got Shockwave from Pulse today).
SPIN CHANGERS WAVE 1: This is the largest size class so far. A human
figure placed on the partially transformed robot makes it automatically
spin-change the rest of the way into (brickish) robot mode. Each also has an
accessory that can be used by the human partner. Bumblebee with Mo Malto,
Optimus Prime with Robby Malto. 1/13/23: Targets in Torrance CA,
Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson CA. 1/14: Target in Amarillo TX.
Transformers: Cyberverse
Replacing the 2015-18 Robots in Disguise series, with similar levels of
complexity in design, is the Cyberverse series. This is the first tie-in to
the "evergreen" concept with designs that are supposedly going to keep being
used in some fashion forever (i.e. until there's another management change).
The Scout class is back, as a sort of Actionmaster Elite riff, robots that
only partially transform. Warriors have motion gimmicks, which always hurts
articulation and appearance. We'll see if it's any good. (Narrator: They
weren't.) As of 2022 it's more of a placeholder, with very few new toys (and
used in one case for a Rise of the Beasts toy that was ready too soon).
They're still on the shelves, but it's all repackages of older toys.
WARRIOR SNARL: The only new figure in Wave 9. Turns into a robot
sorta-stegosaur. 1/30/22: Walmart in Amarillo TX.
WARRIOR DEAD END: With reships, no doubt. Only new figure in "Wave
10". Sports car. 12/23/21: Walmart in Canyon TX. 12/27: Walmart in
Amarillo TX.
DELUXE WAVE 3: Slug gets his own wave, with reissues (in new
packaging, missing BAF pieces) of Soundwave, Arcee, Starscream, and
Thunderhowl. 12/22/21: Target in Amarillo TX. Priced $13.99, so if
that wasn't an error this might be a good excuse to go back and get any you
skipped (except Thunderhowl, he still sucks).
SMASH CHANGER OPTIMUS PRIME: The vehicle mode looks like a garbage
truck, the face is movieverse, and the gimmick is that if you smash the
vehicle mode down it automatically springs up into robot mode. $34 at
Walmart. 9/24/22: Walmart in Amarillo TX. It's not good.
Transformers: Generations
The War for Cybertron trilogy wrapped up with Kingdom, and Generations
shifted to Legacy, which is a bit more aggressive about homages to characters
other than just G1 and Beast Wars, with a thin "interdimensional battle"
premise. Some redecos and retools of WfC toys do show up, though.
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 1: Hot Rod (new packaging), Skywarp (Kingdom
Starscream redeco with new weapon), Iguanus (motorcycle-ish). Their weapons
combine into the sword seen on Kingdom Hot Rod's package. Warning: their
weapons are also reportedly easy to steal from the open-window boxes (looks
like it's mostly Skywarp that's vunlerable). 4/15/22: Target in Redlands
CA. 4/24: Walmart in Amarillo TX ($11.48). 4/30: Target in Amarillo TX
($10); Walmart in Navarre FL. 5/1: Target in Dorchester MA, Braintree MA.
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 2: G2 Universe Megatron (redeco of Kingdom Core
Megatron), Shockwave (altmode looks similar to Combiner Wars Shockwave, big
pink radar dish weapon), Optimus Prime (repack of Kingdom Core Optimus).
8/31/22: Target in Manhattan Beach CA. 9/1: Target in Gardenia CA,
Torrance CA. 9/15: Target in Pensacola FL. 11/18: Walmart in Amarillo TX,
part of the holiday aisle bunkers.
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 3: Bomb-Burst (monster to inner bot vehicle
mode homage, like with Iguanus) and a repackage of Kingdom Soundwave.
10/18/22: Target in Paso Robles CA, San Luis Obispo CA. 10/21: Target
in Pensacola FL. 11/27: Just Soundwave ($12) at Target in Amarillo TX.
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 4 (EVOLUTION 1): Slug (Triceratops), Sludge
(Brontosaur), and Soundblaster (redeco of Kingdom Soundwave). The Dinobots
will combine into a slightly larger robot. 1/25/23: Target in Torrance
CA (Slug only, oddly). 3/2: Target in Pace FL (Sludge only).
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 5: Legacy Bomb-Burst in new packaging, Legacy
Evolution Thundercracker (yet another redeco of Kingdom Starscream), Grimlock
(Dinobot), and Nemesis Prime (black redeco of Kingdom Core Optimus).
2/7/23: Partial case at Target in Torrance CA. Just Thundercracker
and Bomb-Burst. 3/16: Another partial case, just Nemesis Prime and Grimlock
at Target in South Carson CA. 4/2: Just Thundercracker and Grimlock at
GameStop in Amarillo TX ($12).
LEGACY CORE CLASS WAVE 6: Scarr (anyklosaur maybe), Swoop (pterosaur),
Starscream (repackage of Kingdom toy), and reship of Grimlock. 5/24/23:
Target in Redondo Beach CA. Note, Amazon and Hasbro Pulse both list this
wave as coming in August.
LEGACY DELUXE WAVE 1: Skids (compact van), Dragstrip (racecar), Prime
Univere Arcee (motorcycle-ish), Kickback (grasshopper). 3/29/22: Target
in Decatur IL. 3/30: Target in Manhattan Beach CA (Skids only). 3/31:
Target in Pensacola FL (Skids and Arcee only), South Carson CA (Arcee only).
It's possible that some cases of Silverstreak aren't purely Silverstreak, but
contain one or two of this wave. 4/2: Target in Quincy MA, Braintree MA.
4/3: Target in Amarillo TX (someone beat me to the Kickback, or it was only a
partial box), Fair Lakes VA (Arcee only). 4/10: Skids and Kickback plus
Silverstreak at Target in Torrance CA. 4/19: Full case at Walmart in Pace
FL. 4/23: Full case at Walmart in City of Industry CA (and I found a
Kickback finally at Walmart in Amarillo). 4/24: Dragstrip in with
Silverstreaks at Target in Torrance CA. 4/30: Walmart in Navarre FL.
LEGACY DELUXE WAVE 2: Decepticon Wildrider (Stunticon), Prime Universe
Knock-Out, Predacon Tarantulas, Elita-1. No regular brick and mortar
sightings yet, but I got 'em 8/15/22 at my comic shop for $25 each.
9/1/22: Target in Gardenia CA. 9/15: Target in Pensacola FL (only
Tarantulas and Elita). 9/25: Target in Torrance CA, South Carson CA.
2/17/23: Walmart in Pace FL. (Given that local Walmarts are still just
loaded with wave 1, there might have been an issue with their wave 2
shipments?)
LEGACY DELUXE WAVE 3: Pointblank, Crankcase, Skullgrin (Pretender shell
bot mode, but inner robot vehicle mode), Deadend (Wildrider retool).
11/7/22: Target in Decatur IL. 11/15: Target in Amarillo TX (only
found Pointblank and Skullgrin). (11/18: found just Crankcase at the same
Target.) 1/13/23: Just Pointblank for some reason at Targets in Torrance CA,
Manhattan Beach CA, South Carson CA. (It's also possible that the sighter
just clumped things together.)
LEGACY DELUXE WAVE 4 (EVOLUTION 1): Armada Universe Hot Shot,
Breakdown (in regular Legacy packaging), Needlenose with Sunbeam and Zigzag,
Scraphook (Junkion truck). 2/16/23: Scraphook only at Target in Amarillo
TX. I found it all on its own in the books section, suggesting to me
that someone grabbed the entire peg's worth, then checked their budget later
and dumped Scraphook because they were too lazy to put it back in the toy
section. 2/20: Just Scraphook and Hot Shot, Target in South Carson CA. It
appeared to be a full case of just those two, so the waves are going wonky
again. 2/23: Needlenose and Breakdown, Target in Amarillo TX. (Breakdown's
packaging is not quite regular Legacy, it has the QR code on top like the
rest of Evolution.) 2/25: Just Needlenose at Target in South Carson CA; full
wave at Walmart in Amarillo TX. 3/2: Target in Pace FL. 3/20: Target in
Torrance CA (just Hot Shot and Scraphook). 3/22: The rest of the wave in
Torrance CA.
LEGACY DELUXE WAVE 5 (EVO 2): Crashbar (Modulator Junkion motorcycle),
Crosscut (Skids retool), Animated Universe Prowl (motorcycle), Shrapnel
(Insecticon). 3/31/23: Gamestop in Amarillo TX. $25 each, the one I
checked only had Crosscut, but one across town had more. (A couple days
later I checked that one and got Prowl and Shrapnel.)
LEGACY VOYAGER WAVE 1: Blaster (repackage) and Bulkhead (military
truck, supposedly Prime Universe but closer to the altmode Hound had in The
Last Knight). 3/20/22: Target in Amarillo TX. 3/27: Target in
Woodbridge VA. 3/29: Target in Decatur IL. 3/30: Target in Springfield VA.
3/31: Target in Pensacola FL, South Carson CA. 4/2: Target in Quincy MA,
Braintree MA, Dorchester MA, Randolph MA. 4/3: Target in Torrance CA,
Manhattan Beach CA, Inglewood CA. Blaster seems to be shortpacked. 4/24:
Walmart in Amarillo TX. Blaster definitely shortpacked. 4/30: Walmart in
Navarre FL.
LEGACY VOYAGER WAVE 2: Soundwave (Siege mold with a new paint job and
no splatter), and Jhiaxus (new mold Cybertronian spaceship). 8/24/22:
Just Soundwave, Walmart in Amarillo TX. 8/31: Target in Manhattan Beach
CA. 9/1: Target in Torrance CA. 9/2: Target in Amarillo TX (once again
someone beat me to the Jhiaxus, it looks like the case may be mostly
Bulkhead). 9/6: Walmart in Torrance CA. 9/8: Walmart in Amarillo TX (just
Jhiaxus, oddly). 10/12: What seems to have been a case of mostly or all
Jhiaxus at Target in Amarillo TX.
LEGACY VOYAGER WAVE 3: Beast Wars Inferno (ant) shortpacked with
Soundwave and Bulkhead taking up most of the case, at least initially.
Armada Starscream is technically part of this wave, but I haven't gotten any
regular brick and mortar sightings of it yet. 11/26/22: Target in Pomona
CA. 11/27: Target in Amarillo TX. 11/28: Target in Burke VA, this time
just Armada Starscream, so we may be looking at multiple sub-waves or just
warehouses trying to get rid of older stuff and not being too choosy about
what goes in the box. 11/30: And now just a single Armada Starscream and
nothing else in the size at Target in Amarillo TX (either stockroom
weirdness, or a scalper deciding to get a refund because it wasn't selling on
eBay for enough). 1/28/23: Target in Woodland Hills CA (Starscream only).
3/2: Starscream at Target in Pace FL.
LEGACY VOYAGER WAVE 4 (EVOLUTION WAVE 1): Leo Prime (Lioconvoy, lion)
and Tarn (Cybertronian tank). New trade dress, the QR codes are gone, and
the half-hearted attempts at combining energy weapons have been replaced by
self-contained "EVO-FUSION" gimmicks. 1/24/23: Target in Amarillo TX.
1/28: Target in Stoughton MA, Woodland Hills CA (Leo Prime only). It's
possible that some stores are getting mixed cases with Leo and Starscream.
2/5: Target in South Carson CA (just Leo Prime). 2/13: Target in Pomona CA.
2/17: Target in Torrance CA, in large numbers. 2/22: Target in Pensacola
FL. 3/8: Leo Prime and Armada Starscream case at Target in Torrance CA.
More headless Leo Primes are showing up, either vandalism or issues with
damage during shipping and toys being put out without checking for it.
LEGACY VOYAGER WAVE 5 (EVOLUTION 2): Metalhawk (jet) and Twincast
(blue redeco of Earthrise Blaster with black redeco of Eject as Rewind).
2/28/23: Walmart in Amarillo TX. 3/1: Walmart in LaGrange GA. 3/10:
Walmart in Pace FL. 3/12: Metalhawk and Armadascream in San Pedro CA. 3/20:
Dedicated case of Metalhawk at Target in Torrance CA. Both at Target in
Amarillo TX. 4/22: Target in Manhattan Beach CA.
LEGACY LEADER WAVE 1: Laser Optimus Prime (homage to the G2 toy),
repackaged Galvatron (without damage effect deco). 3/31/22: Target in
Pensacola FL. 4/2: Target in Braintree MA, Dorchester MA, Randolph MA.
4/3: Target in Amarillo TX (someone beat me to Prime). 4/4: Target in
Bloomington IL. 4/7: Target in South Carson CA (Galvatron only). 4/22:
Walmart in Canyon TX (gone before I could get there). 4/30: Walmart in
Navarre FL. 5/5: Walmart in Amarillo TX (oddly, set up as a hanging
sidecap), although the sidecap had Voyagers and I found Laser Op in a random
blank spot near TFs). 5/18: Target in Gaithersburg MD.
LEGACY LEADER WAVE 2: Blitzwing and one presumes more Laser Optimus
Prime. 4/25/22: Target in Cleveland OH (sighting courtesy of the
AllSpark, I don't have any sighters out there). 6/21: Walmart in Sacramento
CA. Very slow trickle. 7/2: Walmart in Amarillo TX (I didn't see it,
someone else did, hopefully it's still there tomorrow). (It wasn't.) 9/20:
Target in Pace FL. (I ended up buying it online.) 10/5: Target in Torrance
CA. 10/26: Target in Amarillo TX.
LEGACY LEADER WAVE 3 (EVOLUTION 1): Transmetal II Megatron (dragon, no
chrome). Dedicated case. 3/28/23: Target in Manhattan Beach CA. (I
got mine on Pulse a while back.) 4/30: Target in Torrance CA.
LEGACY LEADER WAVE 4 (EVO 2): Prime Universe Skyquake, sort of a cross
between the Euro-exclusive late-G1 Skyquake (aka Machine Wars Starscream) and
the Prime version, including the Euro version's "dock a smaller jet on top"
feature (with Needlenose filling that role). 4/2/23: GameStop in Amarillo
TX ($56). 4/30: Case of Skyquake and TM2 Megatron, Target in South
Carson CA.
LEGACY COMMANDER CLASS: Motormaster, whose trailer turns into a
skeleton upon which you hang the rest of the Stunticons to make a
show-accurate Menasor. 7/31/22: Street date at Target, I was able to
order one for local pickup today. And it got cancelled, and is no longer
available at all online. Sounds like someone left in an automatic street
date and forgot to cancel it when product failed to show up. 8/4/22:
Target in Manhattan Beach CA. 8/5: NOW Target in Amarillo TX has it.
Too late guys, I got mine from Amazon the other day. 8/6: Target in
Hawthorne CA.
LEGACY TITAN CLASS: Metroplex. No, not the G1 version, this is a redo
of Cybertron Metroplex, who sort of turns into a bucket excavator if you have
very blurry vision. MSRP is up to $190, I may not bother getting this one
unless I actually see it on the shelf. Definitely not ordering it online.
7/24/22: Target in South Carson CA. Case of two. 7/26: Target in Amarillo
TX. (I picked it up, but between RedCard and some Target Circle offers I had
saved up, I managed to save about $30 on it.) (The same Target has had three
on the shelf for about a month as of 9/1.)
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