Thanks to our very own TFW2005 veteran Shin-Gouki for giving us the heads up of his sighting of the new Transformers G1 Blaster reissue at US retail.
Blaster is back to the US shelves as a Walmart exclusive. It was found at Scottsdale Walmart, Arizona for $29.84. Time to check your local Walmart store to try to add some G1 flavor for your collections.
Happy hunting!
Effigy
After getting an email on Wednesday that said it was delayed to some indefinite time but 'We'll let you know when your item ships' it finally showed up at my office on Monday. With no notice, of course.
extracomputer
Arrived today. And yesterday they said it was delayed another month before shipping it out 4 hours later.
Box showed with some bends and creases in it. Nothing horrible but definitely disappointing. The bigger disappointment for me is he is tan instead of silver. Have to decide if I want to paint him or leave it. Was surprised all stickers are already on and nothing to apply. Don’t think the original came this way but maybe. Was many moons ago when I opened up the original one.
Cardion
Blaster. Cancelled.
Glad I picked up a back-up when I saw him in person last week.
extracomputer
Ok earlier today I got notice of another delay and you were all getting cancellation notices. About 4 hours ago I got notified by text that a package was showing up tomorrow. I still don’t t have an email from anyone and have been looking everywhere to see who shipped me something. Thought what the heck I will just look on the Walmart app for fun. I found in there it was shipped by FedEx today and arrives Thursday. Wow. They are so unorganized. Now I just hope packaging arrives in good shape and it’s not one of the tan ones I seen at my local store
Aigis
I completely forgot this was coming out til I randomly found one a few days ago.
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G1 Cassette Hunter
Be glad they don't care about their web site. If they did, imagine 2 Amazon's….
Miradus
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why do I order from walmart again? Why do they give exclusives to them?
This is now the 3rd time I've gotten a preorder cancelled – I'd almost rather pay a scalper price then deal with this.
I cancelled my back to the future preorder with them, and ordered on target. Hopefully they arnt as dumpy.
betsuni
Here I thought I would be sneaky and get around them cancelling/delaying orders by ordering one for pickup at my local store. They showed my store having them in stock last night.
This morning, pickup order cancelled and suddenly their inventory shows sold out (and the neighboring stores). Yeah I don't get their site.
extracomputer
Just got an email from them. Didn’t cancel mine but moved the shipping date to October 22. Like the 4th or 5th time it has been moved out.
Was going to pick one up at my Walmart but the plastic on them was all tan instead of silver. Thought I would see what they shipped me instead to see if ones in store were just a bad batch.
extracomputer
Good grief. Morons. If they can’t ship them take down the order page. If they can ship them stop canceling orders
tfike110
Just hopped on WM site and did the same thing. I agree, very dumb.
RavageX9
Had mine cancelled a few minutes ago and reordered on WM site to have it shipped by Friday. Dumb.
tfike110
Just had my pre-order cancelled. I havent had time to go to WM to look for one on shelves (plus didnt think i needed to since I had it preordered since late June).
Plus I'm pretty patient so I figured it would get to me eventually.
This reminds me of when I had all of my minibot preorders cancelled.
WM really sucks at these G1 exclusive releases.
Did anyone else have their order cancelled?
extracomputer
I will leave my preorder up then on the website. Just thought I could pick it up faster locally but don’t want it if it looks like that. Reminded if someone mixed in a bunch of brown in the silver.
extracomputer
Odd not sure why my comment double posted. Anyways no I didn’t take a picture. I went in to buy it but left it after seeing that. You couldn’t miss it as it wasn’t even remotely silver in color. The yellow and orangish red looked great but the tan was just not even close to being right.
extracomputer
Found blaster at my Walmart today but he is a fairly dark tan color instead of silver. Is this a bad batch or are they all tan now?
MegaPrime33
Any photos of it? From the very few I've seen, I didn't particular notice a color change.
extracomputer
Found blaster at my Walmart today but he is a fairly dark tan color instead of silver. Is this a bad batch or are they all tan now?
Spekkio
The last time I had to return a defective toy, I stuck a Post-It Note inside the box between the toy and the window that clearly said Defective in the hopes that it would prevent that from happening, or alternatively get missed and then customers could see the note and leave it on the shelves until a more diligent employee noticed. For all I know the note got found and thrown away and the item put back on the shelf, but I thought it was worth a shot.
RKillian
Walmart could sell Sherman tanks and half of them would arrive damaged.