Excellent news for our fellow Transformers fans in Canada: the highly anticipated Siege Leader Class figures Shockwave and Ultra Magnus have arrived to EB Games locations in Manitoba, the Maritime Provinces, Ontario and Quebec thanks to multiple reports from friend site Cybertron.ca and TFW2005’s Fc203 signal boost of wingorlose.
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madex
So these can’t bolth be bought on eg games site right.
General Tekno
Well, if you've got one of the EB Platinum cards, it takes out a bit of the sting. The 10% discount on toys you get from it is something I've definitely gotten my money's worth with.
Incepticon
Oh wow, fuuuuuuuck that then. I was so impressed with these designs and first waves character choices that I was convinced that this would be the first retail line I bothered buying again since Animated or the first wave of Prime. But no way. Not at $70 for "Leaders" that are now basically the size of small Voyagers. Even $50 would be pushing it. Haha If I'm going to pay ridiculous always-getting-higher prices, I'll just stick with the Masterpieces and select 3P's then.
Soundwave2
Saw this guy at WalMart earlier but wasn't interested in him. I was too busy looking around for Ultra Magnus,lol
calubin175
I think the price in Australia will be much higher.
Shepard Prime
Yeah, Siege Shockwave is one of the few figs I was considering skipping (most of the Siege line is insta-buys for me and I have Sideswipe and Hound so far) since I saw his bot mode first with the armor attached. On it's own w/out the armor, he looks a lot better but I didn't know it could detach back when pics started circulating. But when I saw the alt mode I was floored. "Okay, yeah, I want this."
Wh33ls
Hell yay! The one of the reasons I got him, Walgreens, but like you, I'm getting Siege one for alt mode.
Shepard Prime
I'll probably still get him, mostly for the kickass alt mode. The bot mode (to me) is trumped by the Cyber Battalion Walgreen's Shockwave.
Skyquake21
Hes the size of a small voyager. Which is a shame, considering this is the only thing we can get from a Hasbro Shockwave in a very long time.
Shepard Prime
Wow, so not even a voyager then?
CobraKai
I checked my Target in SoCal. They got some Battlemasters and Micro Masters, but no Deluxes, Voyagers, or Leaders.
myrrh
…somebody mentioned that target is scheduled to set seige displays today, january 6th…
Batman
For some reason I thought these were gonna be $89.99 up here, $69.99 is a bit better.
Canadian prices are always higher then US prices. It comes down to the exchange rate and we are always told that because there is a smaller population over a large amount of area it costs more for us to have nice things. For example a $10 LEGO set in the USA is $20 in Canada. Hasbro works the same way. I think Funko is really the only company that basically charges the Canadian dollar equivalent. So like a $10 figure is $12-$13 here.
I saw these in Ottawa on Thursday at EB. Magnus is the better of the two. Shockwave is tiny. Considered getting them but for $160 after tax I decided that money would be better spent towards a second DX VF-1J Valkyrie.
Mudslide
Maybe someday stores down here in the states will actually bother to stock their shelves.
Skyquake21
I was hoping that without the armor, Siege Shockwave would be displayed with CW leader Megs and TR Soundwave.
that is definitely not the case. Siege Shockwave without the armor is borderline a large deluxe, only going up to TR soundwaves waist in terms of height Just a word of warning since these are quote unquote labeled as generations leaders
Chaos Muffin
Isnt this marked up game store prices though?
Gamestop does the same crap here but we go to Target & Walmart for the general msrp pricing.
CyberDragon10K
Okay, that's pretty damn bad. Amazon tends to be smoking with some of their CAD prices at times though. I don't think PotP Nemesis Prime dropped to something "reasonable" until well after it's stint as a Prime Day exclusive.
Now that I think about it, New Years and Boxing Day/Christmas in combination were probably responsible for certain TFs being relatively sane in cost.
CobraKai
Are the prices high in Canada cuz it’s from EB Games? I know GameStop tends to hike up the prices on some of their toys. What are Leader prices like at a Target or similar chain?
Anti Spark
Ill wait for sale or toy show when someone wants to unload them.
Shepard Prime
Is Shockwave roughly Ultra Magnus' height, who himself is seemingly barely taller than CW OPtimus?