Friend site Cybertron.ca has confirmed that the new Netflix War For Cybertron Wave 2 Voyager is out at Canadian retail.
The highly anticipated Netflix War For Cybertron Soundwave (cassette player mode) with Ravage & Laserbeak has been spotted at Walmart stores in British Columbia. His wave partner Optimus Prime with Battle Masters Enerax & Sheeldron should be out too.
Happy hunting!
evenstaves
So two Netflix Soundwaves:
– one has QA on his mouthplate, a visible scratch
-one has QA on the gold trim of the tape deck "lid", looks like maybe a small "popped bubble" during paint app
I am thinking either swap heads, or swap "lids", and one will be perfect (other will have two QAs)
Removing the head: appears to be two pieces glued together, would have to snap open? I imagine people may have attempted this giving Siege Soundwave Soundblaster's red visor? (Anyone able to comment on this?)
Removing the tape deck lid: I feel this is the foolhardy choice, it's all clear plastic with two pins at the base to push out, and probably a spring mechanism that could get f*cked?
I haven't done much modding to figs, anyone able to advise?
Humpski
I missed getting this by 20 minutes today. My friend in another city missed getting it by less than 50. Why the f*** does Hasbro and Walmart think one or two of these is good enough for an entire city? And then they just fill the shelves with Hoist and Grapple that nobody wants. Can somebody please tell me how they make money with this model?
Lazerwave
I'm afraid so. The only tip I can offer is be there after they finish unloading truck or first thing in the morning.
Robogeek28
Isn't collecting fun?
I feel less and less stress every time a new figure I want turns out to be an exclusive….
Fafnir72
One per case?
Lazerwave
Same. My area is restocked with Siege figures. Honestly think we are going to buy old figures that most of us already have in order to get new stock?
Oniconvoy
They intentionally brought in a bunch of new Siege inventory to have something on shelves to sell this year. Covid seems to have prevented Earthrise from being at decent saturation still.
Subdurmal
I was looking today. Nothing. Only old siege deluxes showing up. Brunts, Six-guns and an Impactor is all I seen. They are on sale for half price. I think Walmart is cleaning out old inventory before they will put new stuff in stores
Lazerwave
From what I am hearing from the Canadian community is that many people are searching, but they only find Optimus in stores.
TFXProtector
You'd be surprised. It's Christmas, and they're pushing these big time.
Lazerwave
There is only one per case. I was there when the employee brought me the box and handed me Optimus instead and I told her I wanted the other one.
Humpski
I took the UPC that was provided earlier in this thread to my local Walmart and asked one of the employees if he could look it up on his little handheld device. He said they would be getting four of them in on December 1st but that's highly dubious to me because it's a very small Walmart and it usually doesn't get much of anything.
It didn't get wave one Netflix siege at all and for the regular siege and earthrise it only got wave one and that's it, nothing else.
I guess we'll see though. If they actually get four of them that would mean four boxes of wave one toys wouldn't it? I thought somebody said there's only one Soundwave per box. That seems for nuts for this Walmart.
Fafnir72
Yah! Soundwave, for his pricepoint is the best so far as technology/engineering allows. I'll double back to Siege Soundwave, who da ef thought it was a good idea to use yellow optics on him? Sure they could be wanking on nostalgia for his G1 toy but red visor should have been the norm. I heard here abouts that the Siege version "shelfwarmed" in certain area? Again, anecdotal as I can't verify its accuracy.
WatdaEf Hasbro?! Making Soundwave so hard to secure? (That rant is for those who haven't gotten one as I already have mine)
Despite being that good, Soundwave is so lacking in the other details. Being OCD, I just had to do this to the 'con who everybody despises:
Added the tiny head crest
Added the button details on the shoulders and hip
Added the label detail on his cod piece
Added the details on his knees to simulate his toy details
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TFXProtector
To a certain point.
Their own fault for overproducing some items, and underestimating others. A Prime without a trailer shouldn't be that big of a priority when he's shelfwarming in a lot of areas, now. Soundwave, on the other hand, is a big draw because he's the best CHUG Soundwave we've gotten. TR was too tall, Music Label was great but hard to obtain at a good price, this one is "Sunbow scale" approved. Everyone that's reviewed him has said he's excellent.
Somewhat. Though, I must say that not even in sarcasm should Walmart be considered a dependable retailer when it comes to this stuff. The only time they've ever done anything remotely right with exclusives are the Alien and Top Gun lines simply because no one expected them and no one really wanted them, so it's expected they're out there in plentiful numbers. Something they can't control, such as Transformers, will always be mishandled by them. Any suit that says "Okay, more to them!" is bordering on "stoopid". Even Amazon and Target have had a better track record of actually getting items to the public. Sure, wave 1 Netflix Transformers can be found, now, but they're pushing a year old this Spring and that's not too far off with the way the year's been moving. 2020 went by in a blur.
The whole thing is a mess. Why they'd make demanded items (that you can't get anywhere else and never came out in any other line) exclusive is beyond me. Soundwave is like printing money, so is Bumblebee. I could see Elita-1 being an exclusive because of what she is (heavily retooled Arcee), but all three of them? I'm hoping all of them come out in the mainline, even with battle damage, so they're easily obtainable because this is a mess. I just canceled Elita because someone here on the boards was able to help me get her and Walmart themselves couldn't even do it.
Fafnir72
Blame the beerbug for the distribution clusterfk?
Or their inordinate fear of having too much stock inventory?
Stoopid executives mucking up the decision to limit the mold release of a very popular character to a very "DEPENDABLE RETAILER"?
Behind the scenes or overt scenes of retailer exlusivity that (see previous post) lead to all of this?
TFXProtector
If that's true, that's a silly thing for HasTak to do. It's clearly in high demand and would be silly of them not to make it accessible. Unless…we're getting a mainline repaint of him, Elita, and Bumblebee we don't know about.
Lazerwave
I guess it's best to find one now than later.
Wh33l JcK
I saw some video review of this that said Soundwave is already getting scarce in Asia.
Lazerwave
Any preorder of Walmart exclusives have been screwed.