Coming in this evening is a pair of fantastic reveals: Titans Return Misfire and Slugslinger! News comes way courtesy of Ozformers via Hasbro Australia at Toyfair. Both figures will be retools of the popular Titans Return Triggerhappy mold. Their Titanmaster names should be revealed later today.
Are these worthy of a future purchase? Sound off after the jump!
Staff Edit:
Thanks to Ozformers once again, the Titanmaster names will be the same as their 1980s Nebulons. Misfire will have Aimless and Slugslinger will have Caliburst.
FlourscentMilk
So no Overlord on shelves? If so that really sucks, he is/was my most anticipated figure of TR
Lord Dcast
Australia's basically in the same boat. We got a few in Sydney, less in Melbourne, a couple across Australia…and then nothing.
And now, according to the sales guys at the Sydney Hasbro POTP event, POTP is basically coming to shelves in the third week of January to everywhere but Kmart (and of course David Jones, because they don't stock TFs anymore). This also means bye bye Overlord and Ramhorn.
I think it's safe to assume he's not coming. The best thing to do is go to the TCCA Facebook BST group and ask around for the ones. A lot of people buy things just to play a bit for a few months, then they sell them off.
ultramagnus1
Apologies if this has been said but for fans based in UK/Ireland it is virtually impossible for us to find misfire at a brick and mortar store because Hasbro decided in their infinite wisdom that they were cancelling wave 5 and presumably slugslinger here to make way for potp.
So to get this guy you have to buy online. I snagged the takara version through a specialist store. But its beyond frustrating for us here.
Ronbot1986
I also think it is a lack of getting the waves out of the back of the store.
lots of factors contribute. I agree with you. Repeat waves with two new figures.
FlourscentMilk
I got Slugslinger from Kmart, there were two of him in stock so I impulse bought him, I check back at the store a 3 days later… Gone, never seen him since. This was in Melbourne btw
ryu hayabusha
I need misfire….
RKillian
Hasbro _knew_ they only had so many deluxes planned for Titans Return. They knew they goofed by overloading wave 4 and they knew they could've fit a 4th in wave 5. Yet they chose to do this weird wave 6 anyway.
Pfg80
Stores can't pick figures which we blame on Hasbro (like if you want Slugslinger a store will get one but lilely one of his wavemates) or in other words why can't Hasbro get every figure to every store willing to sell that figure.
The fix is online but that will cost more in most cases or at least when it's rare.
We just like getting our toys without the hassle of shipping, customs etc and see what we buy in hand.
Ronbot1986
So what is the deal with all the talk about Hasbro and figures not showing up in stores. In other words WHATS THE BIG PICTURE? What is the problem? I see everyone’s point but no fix no answers???
Mecheon
Everything's expected here in January. If Griffin pops up, I know he knows people who have better ideas about these things and can comment more
But uh, yeah, Slugslinger and Misfire already came and went here in Melbourne, though only at Myer and KMart.
Lord Dcast
This is nice, but it begs the question; when do we get Power of the Primes? Does this mean it won't be out until possibly May?
Razor24
That's good news. Lets hope we see something similar happening in Australia as well.
I never saw anything past wave 4 here but who knows they might bundle wave 5 and 6 together seems Slugslinger is the only figure in wave 6
*Update*
Hahaha I do not know if it is a random coincidence or what but I just got a followup email from Hasbro!
I never even responded to their first email…
Myer had stock in early August and Kmart in early September.
We are expecting to receive another small quantity which will probably not be in stores until the new year. I do not know at this stage which stores that will be, however, the usual stockists are
Big W
Kmart
Target
Mr Toys (they have an online store)
I hope this is helpful.
Kind regards
Tania"
Hell yes THIS is much more helpful! Thank you Tania for cleaning up Mike's useless response!
She deserves a reply and a thank you!
Icefire90
I walked into my Walmart not expecting anything new, considering we never got wave 5, and bam there was slugslinger
Jaymo
Same here. Nothing on the pegs past wave 2 for months now four different Walmart have all stocked Slugslinger. I'm guessing Potp won't get stocked until the January resets.
Megatronwp38
My local Walmart has not had anything new in at least 8 months, went there yesterday to get a prescription and guess what? They had 4 Slugs lingers. Lol. I bought one just because even though I already got one from bbts months ago.
Lord Dcast
Or from David Jones, because they 'don't think Transformers are worth selling anymore because they don't make them money'.
Razor24
Yeah it seems that way…. Just not from Myer Online cause they are just as bad
Lord Dcast
Damn, that sucks. Maybe the future of toy shopping really is online only at this rate.
Razor24
Nah it's definitely Hasbro's fault dude. I spoke to Toyworld (one of the retailers they listed in the email) yesterday and they told me they had zero control over what figures they get from Hasbro.
If they requested a shipment of Transformers they would just get a box of figures and have to sell what they get. So it's not like they are actively choosing what to stock and not to stock. They could literally get a case full of hotrods and have one Slugslinger in it.
The only control that retailers have from what Toyworld told me is the range and the size class. If they wanted deluxe TLK figures they would get them but they wouldn't even know what they were getting until they openned the case.
If you look at the Myer website they do the same thing with TR figures. You buy a deluxe figure and they will send you what they have (most likely a hotrod ). You can't even choose what you want lol