Courtesy of our very own 2005 Boards member griffin-of-oz for giving us the heads up of some new Australian Sightings: Bumblebee Movie Energon Igniters Wave 2 Power Plus & Titan Changers And More interesting items for fellow Australian collectors.
Energon Igniter Wave 2 Power Plus Shatter and Wave 2 Titan Changers (re-release of The Last Knight Titan Changers Bumblebee and Megatron) were found at BigW.
griffin-of-oz also lets us know some more items available at Australian market (retail or online):
- Rescue Bots Rescan Qaves 18 & 19. New figures of Race Car Heatwave and ATV Bumblebee found at Kmart.
- Power Of The Primes Nemesis Prime. Available via Amazon Australia for AU$100 ($72.46).
- Studio Series Electronic Bumblebee Showcase Helmet. Also available via Amazon Australia.
- Transformers Trading Card Game. Now available at Kmart and BigW.
Happy hunting to all Australian fans!
Nevermore
Transformers Titan Changers – Assorted – 6850301
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https://www.walmart.com/ip/TRANSFORMERS-MV6-TITAN-CHANGER-BUMBLEBEE-CAMARO/100908237
https://www.walmart.com/ip/TRANSFORMERS-MV6-TITAN-CHANGER-MEGATRON/159156049
griffin-of-oz
Sooo… if my theory is correct that Optimus, Megatron and Camaro Bee were originally meant to be wave 1, they must have needed to change the packaging at the last minute for Optimus so that it wasn't promoting a toy that wasn't to come out for a couple months… and then still use that original packaging when it was re-released in wave 2 with Megatron and Camaro Bee.
(not that anyone will care… being Titan Changers, and unchanged reissues at that)
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Nevermore
The original co-sell was Shatter:
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EDIT: Maybe. That's European packaging.
griffin-of-oz
Already had you in mind when I was taking the photos earlier in the day…
(see last photo in my post above)
My guess is that the consecutive product numbers might have meant that the three TF5 Titan Changers were originally planned to be wave 1, and then we'd get the new Shatter and new Bumblebee later as wave 2.
griffin-of-oz
Some extra photos of the wave 2 Titan Changers… despite being a surprise to find out that there was a second wave, it was very disappointing to find that the two "new" figures are just re-releases of TF5 Titan Changers (Megatron and Bumblebee). Meanwhile, the third Titan Changer from TF5 (Optimus) who was in the first wave of Bumblebee Movie Titan Changers, might have been re-released in wave 2 packaging, because it has the co-sell of Megatron on it.
(I can't find an image online of the back of wave 1 Optimus Box, to see who the co-sell was)
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Nevermore
UPCs for Titan Changers Bumblebee and Megatron?
griffin-of-oz
New Transformers toys in Australia from the last few days (and one I missed from last month)…
– Energon Igniter Power Plus w2 Shatter, found at BigW.
– Bumblebee Movie Titan Changer w2 (re-release of TF5 Bumblebee and Megatron) also found at BigW.
– Rescue Bots Rescan, waves 18 & 19, which has the new figures of Race Car Heatwave and ATV Bumblebee, found at Kmart.
– POTP Nemesis Prime is a store exclusive to Amazon Australia, and is now available there for AU$100. (also, Amazon Australia is only the second "retailer" outside of Toyworld stores to have in-stock, POTP Predaking from Hasbro Australia)
– Studio Series Bumblebee Showcase Helmet is also on hand at Amazon Australia, for AU$112, and looks to be the only "retailer" to be stocking it in Australia.
– also, the Trading Card Game has now appeared at two national retailers – Kmart and BigW, with the Starter Pack being $24-25 and the Booster Packs being $6-7.
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