And out of nowhere, Earthrise Bluestreak has been found at US retail as a Walgreens exclusive.
2005 Board member NotoriousBSG82 shared photographic proof of his sighting at a Walgreens store at Louisville, Kentucky. The receipt indicates it is a store exclusive which seems quite strange considering we had known of an Amazon listing of this figure before.
Happy hunting!
Lincoln Tunnel
Man, I love the figure but the QC is something else. My copy has open knees, but there was so much flash left on some parts that things wouldn't line up, the tab that secures his car hood to his abs in robot mode didn't fit, and one of the tabs that hold his arms in place in car mode snapped right off the first time I transformed him from car to robot mode.
Luckily the tab for the arm being gone doesn't seem to affect structural integrity in either mode. The mold flash and ab-tab were fixed easily enough with an xacto knife but that's not something I should ever have to do just to get the dude to fit together.
I'd probably be more upset if he wasn't the best looking use of this mold. Visually, he's just really slick, and his proportions jive so much better with me than the siege version.
Purple Heart
There is a variant?
B-Fox
Saw BS in large numbers at two Walgreens – one's entire stock was the closed knees version and the other had nothing but the open knees version.
SaTaNabusJones
Finally got one today, and the effing windshield hinges break off before I can even finish transforming it for the first time…what a piece of junk…I didn't have this issue with Smokescreen or Prowl…now I get to hunt for another and I'll have to live with not being able to transform it. I hate exclusives…toy collecting isn't supposed to be stressful…why do they intentionally make collectors jump through hoops to buy their product…I stopped collecting GIJoes because of this crap, and it's starting to look like I need to get out of Transformers collecting if they make things any worse.
Orb01
I got mine at a Walgreens in the US with open knees but he didn't have the tabs in his roof. I thought open knees were normal since both my Prowl and Smokescreen have them (also both have roof tabs) and I got Bluestreak last.
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Cyber Silver
Is there any visual comparisons between open and closed knees? I want to be sure if it\'s the figuers fault or my fault that I can\'t keep everything together.
fedgez
I believe that is only an overseas release, I have not seen anyone that bought one at Walgreens that had that difference.
durroth
yeah it seems so. I broke the stupid peg on his feet trying to get him to close properly. ah well. I'll use him as a head replacement for Siege Bluestreak and hunt down an open knee version
TFXProtector
If he's closed knee, he'll never properly close. If he's opened knee (small tabs on the roof are dead giveaway) then he will. Sounds like you got the former, instead of the latter.
durroth
I found a couple at my local walgreens today. Does anyone know if theres a trick to get everything together in alt mode? the feet and canopy just dont seem to want to hold their proper place, like they didn't give them enough room to slot in fully
TFXProtector
They asked me (automated email, of course) to post a review, which I did, only to have the page pulled. Today, I received another email to review it, so I thought I'd click the link for gits n' shiggles and the page is gone. LOL Who's running this show?
Qazsedcftgb2
Thank you, good to know. I feel like with Christmas its imminent for a restock, but I didn't know if the web page being removed is normal. Next time I'll be sure to grab one online, I just took a hiatus from the boards when it was available and missed out
SGMan
I can’t speak about Transformers directly as I only recently started collecting again after a 10 year hiatus but… Walgreens has definitely taken down pages for Funko and marvel legends exclusives between restocks. I wouldn’t expect Bluestreak to be any different. I’d be extremely surprised if he wasn’t back up before Christmas.
Qazsedcftgb2
I completely missed when Bluestreak was online available to order, and every walgreens I've checked has had nothing. His page on their site is down so I can't even ask an associate for help. Any chance they will have more shipments, and also has this ever happened before? I hope they become available online again but I dont know if there's precedent or not.
SGMan
sure but I’m pretty sure they are sold out right now. I got mine from them back in September. I don’t know how often they restock and the shipping can be pricey coming from Taiwan.
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bradforj
Would you mind sharing the link to the retailer? I would be interested in buying from them.
SGMan
Not from Walgreens but yes. I have an open knee Bluestreak from a Taiwan retailer.
bradforj
Has anyone seen one of these with open knees?
Shlockwave
I don't have a problem with somebody wanting to buy two, one to display and one to keep in its box. It's the guy who monopolizes on EVERYTHING IN STOCK just so he can make like $5 more.