TFW2005 board member Born Toulouse has reported that Titans Return Legends Wave 3 – Bumblebee and Kickback has finally made it to German retail. These figures were initially found at the Intertoys store in Frankfort, with board member Nevermore also finding Bumblebee at the Intertoys in Dinslaken.
Additionally, the Intertoys store in Wesel and Bocholt had the new RID “Combiner Force” wave 2 (repackaged) and wave 11 Legion Class figures, including Bumblebee, Bisk and Blurr.
Happy hunting to our fellow Transformers fans in Germany.
Nevermore
Another Bumblebee at the Intertoys store inside the Shopping Arkaden mall in Bocholt today.
Nevermore
Gnah gnah gnah gnah. After searching like crazy for weeks, I finally gave up and ordered three Gnaws from a third party seller on Amazon. What do I find today at TRU in downtown Essen? Gnaw.
BB Shockwave
Well, then why did CW Leaders suddenly show up here this year? Besides, the same retailers did order the even larger CW Devastator and TF5 giant Grimlock. Hasbro should at least OFFER these toys to us, and I am fairly sure it doesn't do that – same as how is often forgets to alert them about whole new waves.
But the best option would be to simply establish a HTS webshop here in Europe.
Also, to the responses above – I am not saying this because I have forgotten these "basic facts". I have the right to complain about the shoddy distribution in Europe, which could be done better. Like with Lego, where I don't have to try and find stuff from Ebay because even if they have sets they do not sell here in Europe, they do have a service where you can order them directly from the company, no extra retailer prices attached.
And this is all not directed at you Nevermore, it was a general complaint I tend to make whenever I see that other countries get stuff I have to get from the USA or China. OF COURSE I will get jealous.
Nevermore
Jesus, what the hell.
I've checked nearly all Intertoys stores in North-Rhine Westphalia this week after finding Bumblebee at the store in Dinslaken:
Wesel, Bocholt, downtown Herne, Herne-Wanne (aka Wanne-Eickel), Bottrop, Krefeld, Neuss, Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, Düsseldorf, Gladbeck, Dorsten, Recklinghausen and Herne.
This is what I found:
One lonely Bumblebee at the store in Bottrop on Tuesday.
And finally, one lone Kickback at the store in Herten today.
Still no Gnaw.
Old Combiner Wars Legends? Plenty. Titans Return wave 1 Legends? Also more than enough.
Nevermore
It's not the first time we've had this discussion, and it's not the first time he's been told the same basic facts.
Jerrimus
Being the resident know-it-all doesn't mean also being the resident king of condescension.
The Asp
On the front page it says FrankfOrt.
Now I don't know as much about Deutschland as I'd like, but Really?
ElekTriC
saw bb in the netherlands aswell
Nevermore
Hasbro cannot force retailers to carry toys.
If nobody wants to order Leaders, Hasbro won't just send them to distribution-land, waiting for someone to pick them up.
BB Shockwave
Nice news for you guys! I just still don\'t understand why in this day and age, Hasbro cannot make the SAME distribution for the whole of Europe. Hungary or Slovakie still has no TR Leaders for example. I wonder when these will appear here, since you guys already got movie TF5 toys too. I worry our county will only get the movie toys. And when TF4 was out, we did not get any proper deluxes and voyagers, just the 1-step changer and power battler junk…
Nevermore
Back in November (!), we got word from Hasbro Germany that wave 3 of the Titans Return Legends figures was shipping to German retail. This promptly resulted in fans rushing to their local stores, only to return empty-handed. What followed were five months of nothing but disappointment.
One week ago, TFW2005 member Born Toulouse reported having found Legends Bumblebee and Kickback at the Intertoys store in Frankfurt, the only Intertoys store that far south (most of their stores are located in the federal state I live in, near the Dutch border).
Over the course of the past week, I've checked out several Intertoys stores in the neighboring cities, and finally found a lone Bumblebee at the store in Dinslaken today.
The worst part: Intertoys, being a chain with a Dutch parent company, is getting its stock through Hasbro Netherlands (which I had the staff at the store confirm to me again today), which means the long-overdue German retail Legends wave 3 stock is still AWOL.
Meanwhile, the Intertoys stores in Wesel and Bocholt didn't have the Titans Return wave 3 Legends, but they did have new RID Legions: Wave 2 of Legion Class figures in "Combiner Force" packaging, and wave 11 of the RID Legion Class assortment containing new product overall.
This wave contains Bumblebee (the oooold 2014/2015 wave 1 figure in new packaging), Bisk (theoretically also old toy, previously released in "Mini-Con Weaponizers" packaging, but that wave was apparently never released anywhere outside the US) and Blurr (a genuinely new toy).
This wave has already been released in the Philippines, Australia and Malaysia and has been stocked by US-based online retailers, but to my knowledge hasn't been found at US retail yet.