Last week we were able to share some information on a set of upcoming store exclusive toys, and now, care of Hasbro Australia and Ozformers, we have some details on which of those releases will be making it to Australia – as well as information on one more exclusive not revealed last week, a six pack of One Step Changers.
The release list goes as follows:
Australian Big W exclusives
C2034 TRA MV5 Turbo Changer (1-step) TF5 Figure 6pk (for June toy sale)
(Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Hound, Barricade, Megatron) (This is anticipated to be a Target exclusive in the US, as it sports the same decoder promo as the known Target exclusive Voyager Optimus Prime)
Toys R Us Australia exclusives
C2022 MTC Legion TF5 Figure 2pk (Optimus/Grimlock, Megatron/Bumblebee)
C2023 MTC Deluxe TF5 Figure (this could be both Skullitron and stealthbomber Megatron)
C2024 MTC 5 Bot Combiner Infernocus Figure
C2025 MTC Deluxe TF5 Optimus Prime 2pk
Ozformer’s own Griffin-of-Oz notes that this potentially means the character Hot Rod will not be making it to Australia, from his absence from the list, and generally that all of Walmart’s Autobots Unite exclusives will not be making it to the country.
It is unknown if other countries will follow suit on this distribution of the exclusives overseas, though it certainly bodes well for TRUs worldwide carrying their Mission to Cybertron subline. When we learn more, we will share it with you here.
Nevermore
And the AOE one before that.
DeletedUser_119270
Yeah,Target had the RID 1 step pack too.
Digilaut
*Optimus Prime voice*: 'eBay.'
Or one of the many online stores. Or try asking a helpful boardmember to hook you up!
ThomasL
Then how are Australian Collectors supposed to get Deluxe Hot Rod?
griffin-of-oz
Unfortunately, it isn't very big.
Thanks to Hasbro Australia, we have the following list of items coming here as store exclusives.
It may not be many, but that is probably because they couldn't get Retailers here to take on any more product…. so a big thanks to them for passing on this list to us, so that it at least lets us Australian collectors know what toys to chase up from foreign sources while they are available, so that we don't wait for them to show up here and then miss out on them completely.
This may mean that we will not be getting any Hot Rod toys in Australia, as the list doesn't contain any of that Walmart exclusive character.
C2034 TRA MV5 Turbo Changer (1-step) TF5 Figure 6pk (Big W) (for June toy sale)
(Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Hound, Barricade, Megatron)
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C2022 MTC Legion TF5 Figure 2pk (Optimus/Grimlock, Megatron/Bumblebee) (TRU) (already found at some TRU stores here)
C2023 MTC Deluxe TF5 Figure (TRU) (this could be both Skullitron and stealthbomber Megatron)
C2024 MTC 5 Bot Combiner Infernocus Figure (TRU)
C2025 MTC Deluxe TF5 Optimus Prime 2pk (TRU) (already found at some TRU stores here)
(the 6-pack of 1-steps was noted as "Walmart" on my list, but the packaging has the same decoder promo as the Target/Argos exclusive Optimus box, so I think it is actually going to be a US Target exclusive)