Takara-Tomy Mall have updated their order page for the Unite Warriors UW-06 Grand Galvatron set with a comic explaining the origins of this all-new gestalt. Following the defeat of Galvatron in the year 2011 (as depicted in the Headmasters series), Cyclonus found the body of his leader frozen in ice – and contact with Galvatron led to Cyclonus getting Galvatron downloaded into his body, with a Galvatron head spontaneously popping out of his torso! From there a trip follows to the severed head of Unicron, adrift in a field of spacejunk, where Unicron summons three lost souls from the wider Transformers multiverse – Armada Thrust, Prime Breakdown, and a Wandering Roller – who, together with Starscream’s Ghost, form the limbs of the combiner known as Grand Galvatron! It’s a slightly offbeat tale, featuring art by More than Meets the Eye guest artist Hayato Sakamoto – check it out attached to this post!
Windsweeper II
Or Hasbro doesnt care about him at all.
Exodus
My bad, I meant to say new combiner figures in a sense.
MrSoundmeister
Well, Technically A few existing dudes from other universe… And Starscream.
Also, Takara REALLY loves prime Breakdown, don't they?
Exodus
Yeah Grand Galvatron at least gave us all new characters, while Sky Reign it's just Ratchet and Sky Lynx if you're having a hard time getting him.
Also speaking of $200 some how TFSource has more now.
Transformers Unite Warriors – UW-06 – Grand Galvatron
UltraMagnanimus
Cool thanks for the advice. Looks like I might have to bite the bullet before he gets to 200$.
At least with Sky Reign they didnt add as much cool new stuff so I wont feel bad if I miss out on him.
RazorclawX
It was a TakaraTomy online exclusive; those things don't tend to last very long due to the limited production run for such things (Japan's market for exclusives is rather small compared to a mass market release so it's equivalent of over here being a limited run piece). That is just one of those things you have to watch for when deciding if you want a limited-run figure.
Japan's Sky Reign (Lynx Master) is looking to be in a similar situation, but in this case I believe that comes down to how much you want CW Ratchet as opposed to how much you want a crazy multiversal zombie combiner (and lets face it, that's a stroke of genius to give us a few dead guys and an IDW comic character who otherwise would have no business being in this line).
Robogeek28
Mine arrived yesterday.
It'll take me forever to open, but it's here at least.
UltraMagnanimus
Dang these are getting hard to find for under 180. Seems like it came out, no one really cared, now its gone and people are panicking and buying them for inflated prices.
In the experience of long time collectors, is this the kind of thing that comes around again, or is the stock really all gone and it will just keep climbing in price?
artiepants
I think my seller was GadgeToys – it was $165 free shipping (if I hadn't waited I'd seen a couple for $148 free shipping the weekend before)
Exodus
Almost the same actually but dang, love how companies take advantage of that…
Mirage232
For anyone who is still looking to buy this combiner, he is still available at Tempting Toys & Collectibles:
Takara Tomy UW-06 Unite Warriors GRAND GALVATRON Gift Set (read description for free domestic shipping), Tempting Toys and Collectibles
I just bought it from them a couple of days ago for $159.99 shipped but now I can see it went up to $179.99. Still better than Ebay I suppose.
Robogeek28
I finally caved and used my saved Amazon cash to get this set for $138 shipped just now.
Exodus
Yup I wanted to get my second one that way for sure, glad I was paying attention somewhat A BF sale right
Which one? That sucks though.
shadowbug
Seems like there were a bunch of us hoping for that as well. I was 2 weeks away from getting some cash to blow on toys and now it seems to be more money than it's worth. Do the retailers like bbts ever get restocks on these; or does Takara ever re-up production?
Robogeek28
Yeah that was my mistake as well.
worldsgreatest
I bought one from an online retailer a week ago and haven't gotten any kind of acknowledgement or shipping notice…and now they're sold out. Not confidence inspiring.
Bountyan
Wait, this is actually selling out? I wasn't paying attention to stock because I was assuming not many people wanted to buy this and I was waiting for a sale. Oops LOL
Sammael
Huh, good thing I got it from a Taiwanese seller for $125 + shipping.
Exodus
How long ago was this? I was waiting to get my second one and saw that the agabyss place had it still for 158 which was 2 days ago as well as watching 3 on Ebay from a Taiwanese seller which had it for 167. Checked back today they were sold out and the Taiwan sellers shot it up to 180 so I went ahead and bought it there before another initial increase or it selling out.
Haha I know that feeling…
Sy-Rein
Cyclonus is available and depending on if I hear from another member, Thrust might be available.
Send me a PM if you want to discuss further.