We’ve got some hot sightings news for those of you in Australia! The first wave of 2016 Combiner Wars Legends have arrived on pegs in Australia. Australian collectors can add Buzzsaw, Chopshop, Pipes, and Shockwave to their collections now – and hopefully a US retail sighting will not be too far away! The set of four was spotted by TFW2005 member vorox4251 at a KNart in Victoria, Australia.
Happy hunting to all our friends in Australia!
Nevermore
Actually actually, the packaging isn't "from Canada"; in fact, Hasbro generally uses two or three types of packaging these days:
English only: Currently limited to Combiner Wars Deluxe Class figures with comics. Telltale sign: "Ages 5+" (or "Ages 8+"). If this variety exists, it's typically the packaging used for the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan. (Sometimes also available in Canada, but this is typically a fluke.)
"International" type 1, aka "continental American". Four languages (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese). Telltale sign: "Age Edad Idade 5+" (or "Age Edad Idade 8+"). This variety is typically the packaging used for Canada and Latin America. If no English-only packaging exists, this variety is also available in the markets that would otherwise get English-only packaging.
"International" type 2, aka "European" (frequently, but inadequately also called "UK packaging" by fans who don't know any better). Used to be up to 13 languages, these days it's only four as well (English, French, German and Spanish). Telltale sign: A bare "5+" (or "8+"). Available in, obviously, Europe (including, but not limited to, the UK).
Note that multilingual American packaging features "Canadian French" and "Latin American Spanish", whereas European packaging features "French French" and "Spanish Spanish", which often tend to have differences in translation, terminology, grammar and spelling. On the other hand, English texts are the same between the two (or three) versions, there are no "American English" and "British English" differences between the texts on the packaging.
vorox4251
actually a lot of the packaging used is from canada
Nevermore
Isn't that standard feature for packaging these days? I purchased the wave 4 Voyagers from BBTS, and the packaging has Australian and New Zealand details on the bottom. Australia typically tends to get whatever packaging is available in the US. Is there ever any difference in packaging between the two markets?
ClutchKick
Hahaha, "KNart".
PostwarOcean
Well, I guess that's why all 4 of mine has the Australia distrabution information on the bottom rather than the US.
vorox4251
i found these at my kmart in Victoria
EDIT-Mod please rename to 2016