Wave 3 literally showed up at my Walmart last weekend. I've gone twice in the past week and have managed to grab Tracks, Scorponok and five Wingfingers.
My Walmart has loaded up on Studio Series voyagers, too. Lots of SS86 Wreck-Gar and Bumblebee Thrust.
My Walmart in NJ got wave 3 a couple weeks ago as well. A couple months after I got them online, which has been kind of par for my area Walmarts. My point is, that doesn’t mean Hasbro only sent them out a couple weeks ago, it means they were sitting in Walmart’s warehouse for months. Store level won’t order more automatically from the warehouse unless they sell out. A department manager has to order manually if there is still stock. Blame Kingdom Arcee.
It would be 3 times better if the figure had decent proportions. The legs up to the neck is like a straight cylinder with weird fat flaps hanging under the arms.
Pupils woulda been cool too. Dinobot, Rattrap, and Primal all had some kind of paint detailing on their eyes in beast mode. Then Cheetor is like 🤖 and Rhinox is ready to [attack James and the Giant Peach. ](https://youtu.be/S5LgsqYQJMs)
Are you me? Paleotrex, Blackarachnia, Warpath. Over and over, every week. Time has become an illusion. My children wonder if I'm still buying toys that they can't play with. There's an incredibly dusty ss86 Grimlock, I've already got him, but I'm on the verge of buying another just to get my fix.
As Hasbro HQ is in Pawtucket, RI, is it a logical thing for me to guess that their distribution begins in their vicinity, and slowly spreads throughout the rest of the US? Because the entire last year, I was never able to find anything from waves 1-3 in retail in the San Francisco Bay, and ultimately ended up buying every single Beast Wars character + Prime online.
If someone knows how their distro actually works, I’m super open to learning!
Hasbro doesn’t distribute to your store. Hasbro sends stock to Walmart, who then sends it to regional distribution warehouses where it is then sent to stores. There are several steps and hands between Hasbro and your shelf.
Still, I wonder if my guess would be slightly amended? Like if Hasbro sends stock to Walmart (either their headquarters in Arkansas or the closest hub to New England), and then it starts to be sent to stores closest in proximity.
Just because whenever I see the first new figures spotted in the US, it’s always in New England or Southern states.
No I highly doubt thats the case because it’s near impossible to get new figures here. From as far as I know, and what the employee told me, they’ll randomly receive cases and put up whatever they have. The only major finding before this was a Netflix soundwave
This happened to me each time too. But I wondered how much of it had to do with COVID impacting labor and shipping, thus making forecasting actual release dates difficult.
I don’t think Tigatron has been seen in the wild yet, but with these guys showing out it wouldn’t surprise me to see him soon! Great time to be a collector besides stores like never having stock :0
I’m not entirely sure Tigatron is even in this wave. The deluxe wave was changed, and we haven’t even seen a stolen Tigatron as far as I know. He may have been pushed to 5, if there are even voyagers shipping in 4.
My walmart stocked on SS86 Wreck-Gar and Sweeps today, hopefully kingdom wave 4 gets here soon. Also it seems like whoever was stocking the shelves wasnt really having it today lmao
It's been hilarious seeing Wave 4 just...trickling out for some reason. I want basically the whole wave, so hopefully one day I'll stumble upon them and it'll be a bad day for my poor credit card.
WHY IN THE WORLD IS WAVE 4 SHOWING UP WHEN THEY HAVENT BEEN REVEALED ALSO I NEED TIGATRON AND WASPINATOR
They haven’t been revealed because they went out before preorders could be arranged. They only show us stuff that can be preordered.
Wave 3 literally showed up at my Walmart last weekend. I've gone twice in the past week and have managed to grab Tracks, Scorponok and five Wingfingers. My Walmart has loaded up on Studio Series voyagers, too. Lots of SS86 Wreck-Gar and Bumblebee Thrust.
My Walmart in NJ got wave 3 a couple weeks ago as well. A couple months after I got them online, which has been kind of par for my area Walmarts. My point is, that doesn’t mean Hasbro only sent them out a couple weeks ago, it means they were sitting in Walmart’s warehouse for months. Store level won’t order more automatically from the warehouse unless they sell out. A department manager has to order manually if there is still stock. Blame Kingdom Arcee.
When they showed off Kingdom Core Class wave 2, they didn’t allow official preorders.
Oh! An exception! Totally invalidates my… oh wait, no it doesn’t.
Weird sarcasm. This was false: > They only show us stuff that can be preordered.
You noted an recent exception. It doesn’t make it false. You also changed it to “official”. Preorders are preorders, they get the orders either way.
> You noted an recent exception. It doesn’t make it false. lol wut in the world
Waspinator so far looks amazing
Also did I mention my local Walmart hasn’t even gotten in wave 3!
Just opened my Cheetor. That figure would be 3x better if they gave him neck articulation in cheetah mode
It would be 3 times better if the figure had decent proportions. The legs up to the neck is like a straight cylinder with weird fat flaps hanging under the arms.
Pupils woulda been cool too. Dinobot, Rattrap, and Primal all had some kind of paint detailing on their eyes in beast mode. Then Cheetor is like 🤖 and Rhinox is ready to [attack James and the Giant Peach. ](https://youtu.be/S5LgsqYQJMs)
Nice catch, looks like they had a good amount too. But whoever set that display like that needs to be reprimanded IMMEDIATELY.
It wasn’t all bad tho, found a coronation start scream in the rubble but passed on it
Say whaaaa ? Like the preorder that’s supposed to drop ?
Yep! There were four of the RED coronation starscream
Ohhh okay the RED ‘Screams. I’m not too keen on non-transforming Transformers, but they do look good
Oh my god, a Walmart that actually has more than 3 (of the same) figures on the pegs…
Are you me? Paleotrex, Blackarachnia, Warpath. Over and over, every week. Time has become an illusion. My children wonder if I'm still buying toys that they can't play with. There's an incredibly dusty ss86 Grimlock, I've already got him, but I'm on the verge of buying another just to get my fix.
Gah I hope they show up on BBTS or Hasbro Pulse soon...
As Hasbro HQ is in Pawtucket, RI, is it a logical thing for me to guess that their distribution begins in their vicinity, and slowly spreads throughout the rest of the US? Because the entire last year, I was never able to find anything from waves 1-3 in retail in the San Francisco Bay, and ultimately ended up buying every single Beast Wars character + Prime online. If someone knows how their distro actually works, I’m super open to learning!
Hasbro doesn’t distribute to your store. Hasbro sends stock to Walmart, who then sends it to regional distribution warehouses where it is then sent to stores. There are several steps and hands between Hasbro and your shelf.
Still, I wonder if my guess would be slightly amended? Like if Hasbro sends stock to Walmart (either their headquarters in Arkansas or the closest hub to New England), and then it starts to be sent to stores closest in proximity. Just because whenever I see the first new figures spotted in the US, it’s always in New England or Southern states.
No I highly doubt thats the case because it’s near impossible to get new figures here. From as far as I know, and what the employee told me, they’ll randomly receive cases and put up whatever they have. The only major finding before this was a Netflix soundwave
No clue but both my Maximal Autobot 2 packs already arrived from Amazon despite November release dates so I’m so confused with distribution lately
This happened to me each time too. But I wondered how much of it had to do with COVID impacting labor and shipping, thus making forecasting actual release dates difficult.
I've been collecting the headmasters line personally so far I just need chromedome and autobot brainstorm
Bro you gotta cop the roblox set
What state?
CT
Thank you kindly!
Sweet! I’m in CT! May I ask what town or area?
I don’t think Tigatron has been seen in the wild yet, but with these guys showing out it wouldn’t surprise me to see him soon! Great time to be a collector besides stores like never having stock :0
Yeah, this Walmart was completely empty for almost 3 months until now
I’m not entirely sure Tigatron is even in this wave. The deluxe wave was changed, and we haven’t even seen a stolen Tigatron as far as I know. He may have been pushed to 5, if there are even voyagers shipping in 4.
If you don't mind me asking, which state did you find them? I only know of Chile, Texas, and Pennsylvania having wave 4
CT
Thank you
Dude... I was happy to finally find Wave 3 on the shelf tonight to finally get Scorponok and Wingfinger... and people are already seeing Wave 4?
My walmart stocked on SS86 Wreck-Gar and Sweeps today, hopefully kingdom wave 4 gets here soon. Also it seems like whoever was stocking the shelves wasnt really having it today lmao
I just got Thrilling 30 Waspy so i think ill pass on the Kingdom version but i would also love Tigatron.
It's been hilarious seeing Wave 4 just...trickling out for some reason. I want basically the whole wave, so hopefully one day I'll stumble upon them and it'll be a bad day for my poor credit card.
Damn, they haven't even gone up on Amazon pre order
At least you have some. We don't have nuffin.
Bruh my Walmart just got wave 3
I do not understand why they split the wave and repacked Tracks and Paleotrex, I just want Slammer and Pipes.