Fill up those gas tanks and get ready because the hunt has begun again! 2005 Board member Domino reports finding the latest wave of deluxe Titans Return figures at US retail. Domino found the latest wave at a Target in Hoover, Alabama. This wave consists of WindBlade, Misfire and Twin Twist.
Click on the title bar to check out the photographic proof! Happy hunting!
Chillyn
Just get the 3 pack. Seriously
Preorder then cancel if you find at retail. Probably won't hit till end of the month
transmasterc
I was up in TN last weekend and found wave 5 at both the Target on Old Hickory road and Coolsprings. I found Twintwist and Misfire again Sunday at the Target in Jones Valley in Huntsville AL.
Mr. Chaos
Michigan had them too. Spotted at Meijer and after a small scanning issue they can be purchased
Trailbreaker26
So… Alabama, Tennessee, but nowhere else? NC has no wave 5.
(Twin Twist: I SEE YOU at BBTS for $26, including shipping… but I'm not biting yet.)
ZapRowsdower
The HYPE is strong with this one…
HASBRO, DON'T LET US DOWN!!!!
WishfulThinking
It's not repaints. It's all new CW molds. And it is coming.
ZapRowsdower
BOTH! I missed that leak! Thanks for sharing. But… ehhh… until we see something more official, I'm hesitant to believe Abominus is actually coming. Even worse, it could be a repaint of some random CW junk…
EXACTLY. The TLK Wave 1 toys… WHAT. THE. F*CK. At first, it made sense to me: I assumed they were behind in production/design/testing and just wanted something on shelves in time for the movies. That makes sense. Except that we just bought these toys, not 2 years ago! And the new colors are clearly not distinctively better enough to warrant second purchases (they sold the dinobots in decent colors in the box sets already!).
Then the movie BOMBS (as I predicted, given the sh*t marketing and invisible audience hooks), and now NO ONE wants these toys. The stores ordering a ton of Wave 1 movie toys is par for the course… so as you said, Hasbro should have known better than to START with repaints. Are there some great TLK toys? You'll never know! Wave 1s will haunt these shelves for years!
And Michael Bay needs to learn how to make a movie – remember: if the movie hadn't bombed, SOME of these may have moved with the kids.
That's messed up: I bought a bunch of Kroks and Quakes cause of their rarity! I don't regret it (they're awesome), but it kind of sucks to see them flood any shelf! I guess they were too obscure for some people.
Chillyn
At this point I am happy to pay $20 for a sqweeks, I heard they had wave 2 briefly at fred Meyer and I was ready to pay 25!!! Thankfully for my wallets sake, they only had slog left which I could care less about. Just bought him less than a year ago at ross for $6.
My final point is hardly anybody is bitching about paying what they did for hound, cogman, megatron, sqweeks, steelbane, skulltron, or really any of w2. If they just served us with the new molds right off the
bat, the price wouldnt be the issue it is because they wanted to throw out the repaint shit first. Kids aren't stupid either and know what they have. It's so obvious, I don't know how these people can tie their shoes in the morning
Target needs to throw w1 on the clearance end cap for 75% off. They might move then
GizmoTron
Maybe. Selection is a problem with Wave 1, but I still think just price cutting them down to $15 or running some amazing Cartwheel deals would help clear out those shippers that are still full of Wave 1 Deluxes.
I also wouldn't be sad to see the $9.99 temporary price cut on Titans Return Deluxes appear again at these stores.
Smitty.1981
I was at Target this morning and had then pull a case of Deluxe toys from the back, also wave 3 the guy went and pit the back in the stock room leaving the lone Highbrow alone in the toy isle.
Chillyn
They should have started with wave 2. They could have overstocked and still moved them. I don't know the fuck face who is responsible for these kinds of logistics, but they need to be replaced by someone who cares about their job
Aigis
My Target has so many Kroks and Quakes I don't think wave 5 will ever come here.
GizmoTron
August is the month for both Target and Wal-Mart.
Wave 1 of TLK would also move a little quicker if both of the above stores hadn't over ordered it. Target also needs to run better sales.
Chillyn
Classic target shit, mine doesn't even bother with that anymore. The lone 2 figures from w3 have been shelf warming for weeks. And this is the "happening" target in town. Aug.7 is the reset at walmart. Not sure if that specific date is for everywhere, but they all usually do it around the same time.
Still can't find any wave 2 TLK shit. Pathetic. This is the stuff they are supposed to be hustling above everything else. And whose bright idea was it to release all the repaints first? They should have just grouped them together in a boxset and slapped an exclusive sticker on them. People may have bought them. Either way, they wouldn't be clogging the pegs
worldsgreatest
Not sure if you're just super excited or you just missed the leak: Abominus is confirmed for PoTP.
DeletedUser_119270
I don't even have Wave 3!
ljacone
Still never seen Wave 4… good hunting everyone!
ZapRowsdower
Nevermind… Target CAN'T count.
Wave 1… 2… 3…. 4…. 3????
They restocked the deluxes with WAVE 3.
TFXProtector
I foresee Misfire being a huge seller.
Put him in plane mode and look at him from the side. That's right, you see it…. 1989 Batwing.
Oh, the customs that are going to come from this guy…
The Kup
Misfire and Twin twist DO have waist swivels. Windblade is the only one from this wave that doesn't have one.