We’ve got another first sighting for you, this time from Germany. The non-faceplate, non-exclusive, mainline version of Megatronus – who features the variant head showing off the ancient Decepticon’s face and menacing red eyes – has been found at German retail. He was sighted alone, without wavemates Fracture or the new Optimus Prime and Bumblebee redecos. This one is not the same as the “Clash of the Transformers” variant, which is now out at US retail and features a closed faceplate.
With the rest of the assortment also out in Australia, a US retail sighting should not be too far into the future. A big thanks to TFW2005 member Nevermore for sending us word of this sighting, from the Galeria Kaufhof department store in downtown Duisburg, Germany.
UPDATE: Nevermore reports that the rest of the assortment of new Warriors such as Fracture have also been spotted.
Nevermore
The Warriors are now also available at Toys"R"Us:
Night Strike Bumblebee and Megatronus at TRU in downtown Essen…
… Fracture at TRU inside the Ruhr Park shopping mall in Bochum…
… and Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime at TRU in Dortmund-Oespel.
BB Shockwave
Congrats, I see you finally managed the bigwigs at TFW2005 to actually notice something as news! Seriously, how many times did you, Pavol, or myself start threads about first sightings of a toy and never have it frontpaged…. I just dunno what the magic word is to use when starting a thread that gets them to decide to declare it as news.
Interesting that there are two versions of the guy. The tablet game lists that version as Warrior Elite Megatronus, but I guess the actual toy has the same name.
Nevermore
And as I told you on the phone today, I just found the rest of the wave at the Galeria Kaufhof department store inside the CentrO shipping mall in Oberhausen: Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime, Night Strike Bumblebee and Decepticon Fracture. I think they had two of each.
I guess they split up a case between the two stores, with the one in Duisburg getting the two Megatronus…es and the one in Oberhausen getting the rest.
Another thing I noticed: European packaging dropped multilingual prefixes for same-character redecos again – now it's just plain English "Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime" and "Night Strike Bumblebee". Previous Warrior, Legion, One-Step and Three-Step Changers ("Night Ops Bumblebee", "Gold Armor Grimlock", "Ninja Mode Sideswipe", "Alpine Strike Sideswipe", "Patrol Mode Strongarm" etc.) had those prefixes in four languages, just like in the US.
Nemesis Scourge
Now it is just one. Bought one yesterday after your call, Nevermore.
And I got it 15% off! Awesome!
Cha Chi
Nice. Come on pre-xmass new toys for the UK.
Anys euro sightings of minicons wave 2?
Underlord
Wonder if this will come out in the UK? Wouldn't mind seeing this in hand.
Nevermore
Saw two of them at the Galeria Kaufhof department store in downtown Duisburg.
This is the "face" version that's supposedly available as part of wave 5 of the general retail assortment. Didn't see Fracture, Night Strike Bumblebee or Alpine Strike Optimus Prime, though.
As far as I'm aware, this hasn't been released at US retail yet. (Megatronus has been found at Toys"R"Us in the US, but only the "mask" version that's part of the TRU exclusive "Clash of the Transformers" subline imprint.)