Good news for Canadian G1 collectors. We can report that the Walmart Exclusive G1 Hot Rod Reissue was finally hit Canadian shelves.
Thanks to BigDoomWW of the Cybertron.ca forums for sharing a picture of the G1 Hot Rod reissue which was spotted at Walmart in British Columbia. The retail price is $39.97 CAD or $30.66 USD approximately.
Lucky Canadian collectors finally have all the Walmart G1 reissues available. We had reported the G1 Minibots , G1 Starscream and Devastator previously. US collectors have been able to grab some of these reiissues online, but they haven’t seen spotted at Walmarts stores yet.
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goldenboy1on1
I found Starscream. Passed on the minibots. Haven't seen the combiners or hot rod yet though.
Hadlen_Weltall
Maybe.. it all depends on the success of the surgery for my PE upgrade set… I might need a donor corpse… but I'm not buying a case!
ZapRowsdower
And then Hasbro re-releases Grimlock in Wave 3! So.. ehhh… maybe you should consider building an army of Grimlocks to help your local store?
Hadlen_Weltall
All I see locally is a pyramid of Grimlocks… like someone just opened every wave 1 case they had at one time.
XIVOLVE
Schedules? TFs don't care about no schedules. They'll pop up whenever they feel like it and whether you know about it or not.
Nevermore
What do you mean "scheduled"?
There's a line-up of reissues that's excusive to Walmart in the US and Canada (although the US only got them via the Walmart online store thus far), referred to as "Vintage G1" on the Walmart.com and Walmart.ca websites. Hot Rod was actually the first of these we learned about a few months ago when he was first listed by Asian online retailers.
All the other reissues we knew about have been found at Canadian Walmart stores, Hot Rod was the only one still missing.
Roadbuster25
Was Hotrod scheduled to be reissued? It seems so random
Hotconvoy
What?!
HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT THE GREATEST AUTOBOT, AND FURTHERMORE THE GREATEST TRANSFORMER EVER!
Lazerwave
Going hunting this weekend.
Black Conoy
Hot Rod sucks
rapid_fire
Ones in Canada so far are backwards. I'll be opening it to flip it around the right way.
Its not like this will ever be worth what an original sealed one goes for. No sense in buying these to keep sealed to try and profit off of. Keep the box to display it in, sure, but no point in keeping it sealed.
WarInTheFloor
That is NOT a Chevy Cavalier I mean wtf hasbro GOSH!
all are dead
Someone who ordered it from Walmart.com US said theirs arrived correctly placed in the box.
Smokescreen38
I’m a huge G1 fan, I LOVE the original Hotrod figure. I have a MIB Targetmaster, two loose originals, the early 2000s Rodimus Major TRU version…but why the ever loving fuck would they box this thing backwards? I am only interested in a MISB one at this point and this is a ridiculous error so I’m going to pass until they fix it.
rapid_fire
He's $40 here in canada, studio series deluxes are $30 and he's bigger plus comes with stickers, weapons and diecast. Plus hes more of a premium collectable. Can't complain really
myrrh
…thirty bucks?!..yikes!..
…that's almost double the rate of inflation since '86!..
metalwar2010
Those won't get damaged like that
Got mine in yesterday from Wally World in the US. Though I had hoped the car was facing the other way around, I was equally disappointed that the instructions and decals are floating in the back of the box behind the car. I wish they could've bagged those two together at least.
Got Devastator and Starscream too. Just waiting for the minibots now.
stad
Plenty are getting their orders, I don't believe they've been found in stores however. (except one single HR that was likely a return)
Shade 20×6
\"G1 reissues found outside of the US\" doesn\'t really feel like news to me any more at this point.
mista2x
lol, I'm in the US…
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