TRU (and eBay) tend to be the exclusive location for these in America, but not always. Sometimes K-Mart gets 'em. Also tossing the new Studio Series (with theoretically superior paint jobs) into the mix.

STUDIO SERIES THUNDERCRACKER: This is the Nitro Zeus mold with a new Seeker-style head, in blue. 3/7/18: TRU in Torrance CA. $29.99, four to a case.

Other Store Exclusives

WALGREENS WRECK-GAR: Retool of the Deluxe Groove mold, with the axe from the Thrilling 30 Wreck-Gar, and a Dinobot-mold Prime Armor. 10/27/18: Amarillo TX. 11/2: Fayetteville NC. 11/5: Greenville SC.

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. First Alpha wave is Optimus, Grimlock, and Bumblebee. 3/30/18: Bravo Optimus and Megatron at Dollar General in Amarillo TX. 3/31: Bravo Megatron, Bumblebee, and Starscream at Family Dollar in Amarillo TX. $5.25 at FD. 5/10: Alpha Bumblebee and Optimus Prime at Family Dollar in Amarillo TX, $10. 5/11: Had to check five more FDs, but found Grimlock. 5/14: Bravo at FD in Lanett AL. 5/31: Alpha at Dollar General in West Point GA. 6/1: Alpha at Dollar General in Amarillo TX. 9/1: Bravos at Walgreens for $7. SOOOOOO not worth that much. 10/19: Alphas at Big Lots for $10. 1/3/19: Alpha class Megatron at Family Dollar in Amarillo TX.

CYBER BATTALION: Not exactly a single store exclusive, but seems to be limited to "second tier" retailers like Walgreens or Meijer. These are largely Legion designs scaled up to Voyager size, but with extra joints, changed details, and so forth. Some are entirely new, but they draw inspiration from Legion-style transformations. Sold in non-window boxes at Deluxe price. 9/3/17: Bumblebee (movie-style Legion design, but with G1-inspired head) at Walgreens in Amarillo TX. Cosell is Megatron. Someone else in town spotted Jetfire and Prowl at a Walgreens I didn't check today, hopefully they'll still be there tomorrow. 9/4: Well, Jetfire was. It was stuck between plush animals on the top shelf of the cleaning supplies aisle. 9/6: Optimus Prime (based on the Legion Generations truck that keeps showing up in Dollar General) has been spotted in Brooklyn NY, alongside BB, Jetfire, and Prowl. So far no one has found a Megatron, despite it being on a lot of co-sells. 9/8: Optimus spotted by someone else at the Walgreens in Amarillo that I never visit (a part of town that's far enough away and has few enough draws for me that I almost never go there). 9/21: Walgreens in Simpsonville SC. 3/19/18: Sideswipe and Shockwave have been spotted in California. 3/29: Sideswipe and Shockwave at Walgreens in Quincy MA. 3/30: Sideswipe at Walgreens in Amarillo TX. (Sideswipe is clearly meant to be G1 Sideswipe, but the vehicle mode brings in slements of PRiD Sideswipe.) 4/1: Found Shockwave in Amarillo. Sideswipe definitely seems to be the shelfwarmer of the two. 4/6: Shockwave wave Big Bear CA. 4/8: Jetfire in Quincy MA. (They seem to be pushing out leftovers of that pair while sending the Shock wave.) 6/7: Shockwave at Walgreens in Fayetteville NC.

WALMART G1 REISSUES: First wave largely clearanced, other than the Minibot redecos, which are easy to find at Walmarts for about $8. 1/13/19: Reissue Optimus Prime without trailer, Amarillo TX. This is $50, so a hard pass from me.

MINIBOT REDECOS: Bumblebee, Outback, Swerve, and Tailgate. Based on the recent Japanese release of the G1 Minibots, these have more paint apps and Bumblebee has a new face. Another Walmart exclusive, with a December 17 street date (but you might get lucky early). 12/17/18: Okay, it's street date, I grabbed BB in Amarillo TX. $7.86 each. 12/18: Quincy MA.

TITAN GUARDIANS: Walmart has brought back some of the old (4-5 years ago) Titan Guardians for $5 each to flesh out the low end of the G1 reissues displays. These are rotocast softer plastic non-transforming figures with limited articulation (shoulders, neck, waist), same ones that showed up at Big Lots in 2012-14 but with "Walmart Exclusive" stickers slapped on the tags. Tray assortment I saw has three TF:Prime Bumblebees, one TF:Prime Shockwave, five G1 Optimus Prime, two G1 Megatron, one each of G1 Starscream and Soundwave. 10/3/18: Amarillo TX. 11/11: Fayetteville NC.

    Gotta catch a mall!

SINGLE-PACK WAVE 1: A blind assortment, $3 each. 12/5/18: Walmart has these in their holiday impulse buy aisle bins. 1/10/19: Some Walmarts are getting POP displays of all 24 in a nice display box. 1/11: Target in Pensacola FL.

FIVE-PACKS WAVE 1: While themed for one of the tribes (i.e. Toilet Troop), these really only have two from the named tribe, two more from other tribes, and one "blind" (always the same one for a 5-pack, though) Lost Bot. 12/5/18: A few have been available on Amazon for a few weeks, but you don't get to pick which of the two or three out of a theme (so you'd buy a Toilet Troop set, and get a random one of the two different Toilet Troop sets). 12/30/18: All eight sets (two Techie Team, three Toilet Troop, three Sugar Shocks) are at Big Lots in Amarillo TX. $10 each. Finally used one of those "$10 off $50" email coupons.... 1/1/19: Target in Amarillo TX. 1/11: Target in Pensacola FL. 1/13: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

EIGHT-PACKS WAVE 1: Same basic idea as the 5-packs, just bigger. Eight different sets, $15 price point. 1/8/19: Target in Amarillo TX. I got all 8, ouch to my wallet. 1/11: Target in Pensacola FL. 1/13: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

    On a routine patrol, four 'bots in stasis...who have now set up an Academy.

FLIP-BOTS WAVE 3: Muscle car Bumblebee, muscle car Boulder, single-packed jetplane Blades. 4/13/18: TRU and Target in Amarillo TX. 4/14: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

FLIP-BOTS LAUNCHERS: Bumblebee Quick Launch Garage with a little spring-launcher thing that sends the toy through a garage facade, jet-mode Airport Blastoff Blades with a runway-themed launcher. Blades is severely shortpacked. 7/29/17: $9.10 at Walmart.com. 8/11: $12.99 at both Target and TRU in Amarillo TX. Blades seems to be one per case.

FLIP-RACERS PULLBACKS: This one caught me by surprise, I spotted Heatwave (monster truck sort of firetruck) at Ross, nothing else. 12/8/18: Ross in Amarillo TX.

FLIP-BOTS CONSTRUCTION TEAM: Boulder, Salvage, and new cement mixer character Mortar (mostly orange). 9/21/17: Available on HasbroToyShop.com for $16.

SCOUT WAVE WHO KNOWS? Seriously, the official wave number is about twice as big as the last one I used, probably because slight assortment tweaks got labeled as distinct waves. Anyway, the latest batch is Heatwave (Morbot racecar retool), Bumblebee (redeco of the Rock Resue Team version, without the Mini-Cons), possibly others. TFWiki calls this Rescan Series wave 16. 11/9/18: Target in Amarillo TX.

WALMART BUMBLEBEE TRAIN SCOUTS: As part of the promotion for the Bumblebee movie, Walmart set up an aisle display (or "train") with a bunch of Bumblebees, the racing truck Optimus, plus motorcycle Chase (retool of motorcycle Bumblebee) and cement mixer Salvage (new mold), neither of which I saw during their theoretical initial releases. Also includes Academy Scout Wave 1 below. 12/20/18: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

ACADEMY SCOUT WAVE 1: Hot Shot (jet mode, a "same engineering" version of the jet Bumblebee) with the RBA logo, and Wedge (a head-swap redeco of Arctic Rescue Boulder). 12/19/18: Walmart in Amarillo TX. (Just Hot Shot) 12/20: Walmart in Amarillo TX (both).

EPIC WAVE 5?: $10 price point. Hollow "Titan Hero" style figures, but the chests open up to let human-scale figures ride inside. This wave adds Optimus Prime (truck), and seems to have reships of Boulder, Heatwave, and Bumblebee. 10/14/18: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

MEGA MIGHTIES WAVE 1: These are like the Epic ones, but with oversized heads and broader shoulders, priced at $20 while still just being rotocast figures with minimal articulation. First wave seems to just be Bumblebee and Hot Shot, based on what showed up in the aisle display I saw. 11/30/18: Walmart in Amarillo TX. 1/4/19: $9.99 at Target in Amarillo TX. I suspect the Walmart pricing was in error.

DELUXE RBA WAVE 1: Based on the engineering of Scouts, but somewhat larger and with a motion gimmick, at the $15 price point. Medix (inspired by Quickshadow, with a claw gimmick), Whirl (loosely based on Blades, with a spinning blades gimmick). 1/4/19: Target in Amarillo TX.

QUICK DIG BOULDER: Entirely new mold, Boulder turning into a sort of "four tread/leg" vehicle (think Alphonse from Dominion Tank Police, or Huffer and Pipes from TF:Animated) with a backhoe. 5/16/18: Target in Amarillo TX. 6/6: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

BUMBLEBEE RESCUE GUARD: A large (but still simple) sports car Bumblebee with two animal helpers based loosely on the firehouse dalmation and Valor, but about twice as big. $40 price point, partially explained by light and sound gimmicks. 8/3/18: Target and Walmart in Amarillo TX.

OPTIMUS PRIME RACE TRACK TRAILER: Similar deco to the 2016 Racing Trailer, but this one is a new mold and comes with Flip-and-Change Bumblebee and Blurr. The trailer becomes a launcher that takes robot mode FnC's and fires them off down a track. No connector at the end for Hot Wheels track compatibility, as far as I can tell. 8/3/17: Up on Target.com (and actually for sale online). 8/11: TRU in Amarillo TX, $65. 8/12: Walmart in Amarillo TX, $49.44.

BLURR REVERSE RACEWAY: Another gimmick track set I can't recall seeing at any regular retail prior to seeing it at Ross. Clear variant Blurr with a set that has him race up a tower and transform at the top. 12/8/18: Ross in Amarillo TX.

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    VALENTINES: 1/2/19: Walmart has evergreen-design cards with temporary tattoos, yawn. They also have decided that Easter Baskets should be extended to Valentine's Day, so there's not-actually-Easter baskets of various licensed properties, including a movie Bumblebee mini-lunchbox with water bottle, puzzle, and coloring/activity book (with some partially melted crayons). 1/4: Target has Valentine's cards with glow sticks, $4.

    METALS G1 OPTIMUS PRIME: Same company as the Hollywood Rides movie tie-in die-cast vehicles, this is the G1 vehicle mode and the box has G1-style packaging. $7 price point. 1/1/19: Walmart in Amarillo TX.

    PLUSH CLIPS: These transform by turning inside out, so the cloth of the altmode gets wadded up inside the chibi head of the robot mode. Optimus Prime (tractor-trailer), Starscream (jet), Hot Rod and Bumblebee (seem to be the same "mold" of car, but with different patterns), Soundwave (tape player). $6 at Target. 11/2/18: Spotted at Target in Amarillo TX. On an endcape, decided they weren't quite worth $6. 11/16: These have been moved to the stocking stuffers aisle and dropped to $5. 1/1/19: On clearance for $1.49 at Target.

    TF CCG: Oversized warrior cards and regular sized "battle deck" cards, $15 for a faction starter with 4 warriors and 40 battle cards, $4 for a booster with one warrior and 7 battle cards. 9/28/18: Found at Target in Amarillo TX. Note, there's ONLY an Autobot starter, if you want to play Decepticon expect to buy a lot of boosters. The full rules are not included in the starter, just the "basic game" that can be played with one starter and none of the card abilities, glorified "War". Everything about this release stinks of abandonware, like they committed to making it and then changed their minds after it was too late to completely stop it. It is easily the worst bad-faith release of a CCG I can recall seeing, and I was around for the CCG boom. Not going to bother reviewing the mechanics, just gonna say to not waste your money. 10/5: Now also part of Walmart's collectible stuff aisles.

    MY BUSY BOOK: TRANSFORMERS: A board book with figures and playmat, using the Evergreen designs. Has robot and vehicle mode painted sorta-decoys for Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, and Hot Rod. 8/31/18: $10 in the Bargain Priced kidbook section at Barnes & Noble.

    HOLLYWOOD RIDES R/C BUMBLEBEE: A 1:16 sale Last Knight styled Bumblebee with remote control (2.46GHz controller) and USB connection. $25 price point. 8/3/18: Target in Amarillo TX.

    PEZ: G1 Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Bumblebee. Megatron could use a bit more paint (especially on the forehead), but otherwise decent. $2.49 at Toys R Us. 10/31/15: TRU in Amarillo TX. 7/14/17: RiD versions out now, I've seen Optimus and BB but suspect there might be more. 2/8/18: Pez Conenctibles, which come with torsos and arms that snap onto the dispenser, are available in RiD Optimus and BB varieties, $5.

   I've stopped tracking most of the "artifacts" stuff, since Transformers has reached the cultural saturation point where you can be pretty sure there'll be party supplies, water bottles, t-shirts, and so forth readily available.

    TRANSFORMING BEN 10: Basically, the alien's torso flips open to swap Ben's head out and put his t-shirt on the chest, while turning the legs at the waist so that you an see his little human arms behind his big alien arms. Like those head-swap Power Rangers toys, but very much worse. 1/18/19: Spotted at Walmart in Amarillo TX.

    X-CHANGERS ROBOT BLASTERS: Nerf-style dart guns that turn into bricky robots and combine into a giant brick. $15 each at Cracker Barrel Country Stores. 1/3/19: Spotted in Amarilo TX. Passed on them.

    DOLLAR TREE KNOCKOFFS: Sold as Robot Transforing Vehicle, these are Legion sized, and $1 each...you get what you pay for. There's a jet (with elements of Thunderwing from the Classics Clear Skies Team of Mini-Cons), a tank (clearly based on the G1 Micromaster Sidetrack), a missile truck (which sucks), and a military ship. They're molded in two colors each, and color-flip version are also available (so a green tank with gray guns, or a gray tank with green guns). 3/23/18: Amarillo TX. (Later notes: the jet IS Thunderwing, just misassembled. The missile truck is Red Hot with some tweaks. Best guess on the boat is that it's a bullet train turned upside down and with boat details added.)

    MECARD: Bakugan with cars that pop open into sorta-robots when you run them over the metal card, basically. The ones I saw didn't impress me (Prince Kong, Tanatos, Mirinae). No price on the peg, wasn't motivated enough to drag one to a a working price check. 3/2/18: TRU in Amarillo TX.

    SCREECHERS WILD: Cars and other vehicles that turn into disk-shooting critters. The $7 price point is cars (spider, hawk, pterosaur, scorpion), the $10 price point has a trukkmunky and a T.rex/tank. The $10 ones are more "Turns into a rolling platform with a beast riding it" though. There's a tie-in cartoon on YouTube. They transform by driving up to and capturing a disk. The included checklist doesn't say which one is what price point. If there's a game that goes along with them, there's no rules in the $7 package (I got Nightweaver, not terribly impressed).     BEN 10 OMNI-LAUNCH BATTLE FIGURES: Omnitrix-face-shaped disks that pop off the wrist launcher and unfold into aliens, similar to the War for Cybertron minion disks. 1/13/18: Spotted at Target in Amarillo TX. (They didn't have shelf tags yet, dunno the price.)     HAVEX MACHINES: Folded-up pods that (in theory) auto-transform into fighting vehicles when a Micro-Machines-sized car is rolled up into them. In practice, the car is way too light to trigger the action, even though the "pod" mode is very touchy. One set is a mecha rig (Combat Bot), the rest are various sea/air/land vehicles (Star Blaster spaceship kinda like a B5 Starfury, Mech Ray and Lightning Sub submarines, Mech Bug walker, Sonic Jet and Strike Chopper aircraft). $15 price point. 8/25/17: TRU in Amarillo TX.

    MECH X4: The spoof of giant robot shows on Disney XD gets merch a year or so after the show launches. 8/11/17: Spotted a $20 basic set with the main mech and its support vehicle that combines with it, a larger no-shelf-tag-yet light and sound MECH X4, various rubbery monsters and roleplay gear, all at TRU in Amarillo TX.

    VOLTRON: Toys based on the Netflix series finally hitting stores in January 2017. A mix of non-transforming Voltron figures, lion figures, masks, a big non-transforming Voltron, and a really expensive 16" Voltron sold separately as lions that do combine. Dunno the prices, the store I first saw them at was stocking them on WWE pegs and hadn't posted new prices yet. 1/3/17: Target in Amarillo TX. 8/11: Forgot to mention this earlier, but new metal-including combining lions are now available at Walmart and Target locally, probably most places.

    MARS Converters: $10 large toys, generally found at Walmart and various discount stores (TJMaxx, Family Dollar, etc). Current wave is dinos and dragons, with a red T.rex, a blue sorta-stegosaur, and a yellow dragon. 9/30/16: Family Dollar carrying these as part of their holiday toy expansion. 4/20/17: The vehicle waves are starting to show up again at Walmart in new packaging, with a "Cybotronix" line name in addition to MARS Converters. Spotted the blue sportscar and the gray sportscar in the new packaging today. 10/13: Tank and fighter jet join the assortment, found at Family Dollar. 11/4/18: A two-pack of the red and blue dinosaurs has shown up at Ross, $18. 11/9: There's also two-packs of the tank and jet, plus the blue and silver sports cars, part of their holiday displays at Ross.

    SUPER WINGS: This is a show for very little kids, like "too young for Rescue Bots" level, from what I've heard. At the $10 level there's Rescue-Bots-level aircraft that turn into cockpit-torso'ed robots: Jett (cargo jet), Donnie (cargo heavy lift prop plane), Jerome (fighter jet), and Dizzy (pink female helicopter). 3/31/17: These are finding their way back into non-TRU stores after months of absence or "stick it in a corner somewhere" stocking, and the larger sized Paul is now in the assortment. Cosells indicate Grand Albert, Bello (safari striped bush pilot plane) and Mira will also be available at this size soon, if not already. 5/22: Grand Albert and Bello Deluxes at Target in Green Bay WI. Decided to not try to fit them in my luggage, though. 8/13: New rescue vehicle sets have hit TRU as part of the Fall reset. The main four characters each get $15 sets that use a "Legion" sized figure as the driver, and a vehicle that turns into a mech suit for which the little figure forms a head. Transtectors, basically. Dizzy's Rescue Tow, Jett's Robo Rig (fire truck), Donnie's Dozer (more of an all-purpose construction vehicle), and Paul's Cruiser (Paul displaces Jerome in the main four, apparently). There's also a super-sized $40 Jett's Robo Rig that uses a $10-size "Deluxe" Jett as the pilot and head. They all have functionally the same transformation. 1/21/18: Finally found Deluxe Mira at TRU in Amarillo TX. 2/8: New Legion-type set found at Walmart in Amarillo TX for $9.80. Astra (space shuttle), Flip (cargo plane), Todd (drill plane o_O) and Agent Chace (sic, jet). 3/29: Found Deluxe size versions of Astra and Todd (Chace and Flip are cosells, but didn't see any on the shelf).

    OTHER KNOCKOFFS: 2/18/18: Dollar General's Easter baskets include a really cruddy looking non-transforming 4" tall Optimus Prime in their $5 baskets. 11/18: Tuesday Morning is carrying Voyager-sized but not Voyager-detail "Mega-Tech Dinos" in near duplicates of TF5 Voyager packaging, $5 each. Tech Predator is Scorn, with back frill removable to use as melee weapons, and Armor Dinosaur is Grimlock. The package warns that "Specificiations colours and contents may vary from ollustrations." Heh.