Via friend site Cybertron.ca we can report that the G1 Astrotrain Reissue is out at Canadian retail.
Cybertron.ca member Longshot found Astrotrain at Walmart in Ontario for $69.99 CAD ($53.30 approximately). Time to check your nearest Walmart to try to add some G1 flavor into your collection.
Happy hunting!
wideload
Hmmm….can get him for $50 USD to a us postal box….tempted by that actually. He is sitting online there, so there is some hope of a discounted price in the future.
Nevermore
Where exactly is the fun in overreacting and blowing things out of proportion?
galvatran
Chill. Sucking the fun out of this forum.
Nevermore
Here's this novel idea: How about reading up on the actual facts and details rather than reacting to someone else's reaction to someone else's simplified and dramatized reporting of events?
Once again, the police will not come to your house to confiscate your 36-year-old G1 Megatron toy. The only thing that has happened is that the sale of realistic firearm replicas is now banned in New Jersey. Toy weapons with orange tips are fine.
So really, nothing really new here.
Take this comparison image taken straight from the actual news story. Do you see a crucial difference between several of the items on dispay?
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Those all-black toy guns are now banned. The black one with the orange tip, maybe. The yellow water gun should be fine.
Besides, this whole story is off topic because TFfangeek apparently does not understand the concept of "starting a new thread in the appropriate section" and instead decided to post his hyperbolic overreaction in several tangentially related threads apropos of nothing.
Venixion
I think New Jersey may be overreacting. Did they ban water and nerf guns too?
Lazerwave
Did you pick one up or too expensive?
DesertDog
There were four on the shelf when I found mine here in Calgary, and that was after someone else spotted them so I’d say that store got in at least 6.
That was after hitting 1/2 dozen WM’s, so anyone thinking he’s going to shelf warm might just be disappointed.
Scowly Prowl
Well, that's progress.
Wikkid
Found in Sask.
Canbot
I too haven't spotted him. Every time I hit the WMs, I check. Keep hoping to fund the cassettes, as some prices are still up.
Humpski
My friend found one for me in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He found me Soundwave as well earlier. Not sure why Fredericton gets everything and the rest of the Maritimes get nothing.
cagey
I want the freakin realistically colored reissue still.
Lazerwave
So far, I went to 2 Walmarts and nothing.
Scowly Prowl
The only G1 TF releases I have seen on discount were Hot Rod and OP. I was a bit late to the game with Starscream and Devy, and even then, I didn't see them on sale. Everyone else has been either at regular price, or cleaned out of stores.
FWIW, I don't believe that Astrotrain will show up in large numbers in Canada, anywhere. Two per box? One box per store? Fuhgeddaboutit.
imfallenangel
Trouble is, the people that get them regardless… you'd think that most would have more common sense and by everyone not buying any until they reduce the prices, it would send the signal, but the truth is, I see people run to get them regardless.
I would believe so, they were released many months ago in limited stock, got a Warpath then (at least the minis are better priced) and then nothing until a month or so ago where they showed up everywhere is fair quantity. I see them shelfwarming at most Walmarts in my area. I wish Cosmo and other ones would start showing up.
So far of all the re-issues, Warpath is the only one I paid regular price, but then, the only other I got was StarScream on 30$ liquidation.
Canbot
Don't worry, Ihave a feeling these 15 dollar blowouts are BS anyway.
Let's.see.some.receipts!
Canbot
Instabuy for me.
Then return it for the clearanced toy if I can…that price sucks.
Wikkid
I’ll probably still buy it cause I remember seeing it in store as a kid and wanted it.
Blaster (when released)…. not so much.
Also somewhat related, was Warpath and Gears a wide release? I seem to see em everywhere but don’t recall a lot of talk about them months ago.
TFfangeek
I did not no where else to report this jaw dropping news. Generation 1 Megatron has been banned from New Jersey. Apparently a new anit-toy gun law has been passed forbiddening the sale and purchasing of toy guns that look like \"childrens\" versions of real life fire arms. You can joke that G1 Megatron has been labeled the most sinister of all Transformers figures, since he is now banned in one of the 50 U.S. states, but everyone in the state of New Jersey is no longer allowed to have G1 Megatron in their Transformers collections.
This news has been shared on YouTube by Transformers fan Rodimus Primal, please watch here:
What do think TFW2005?