Paradise_loot over on Instagram posted today with a sweet new find relevant to us Transformers fans! Kingdom Wave 2 Deluxes were spotted at a Target in California. This wave consists of Beast Wars Airazor, Huffer, Ractonite and a repack of Earthrise Arcee.
With the discovery of this size class at retail all Wave 2 figures are officially out. Have you spotted any of these new figures in the wild? Sound off on the 2005 Boards!
michael mercado
i couldn't find huffer. but i did get jazz 1986. freaking lots and lots of arcees. cyberverse version. siege version. and now a kingdom version. lol
TFXProtector
Those employees gave you mostly correct info, but not quite. Kingdom is a new DPCI and doesn't pertain to any other line, but the point of the excess laying around is true. Buzzworthy is a Target exclusive, even if SS, so it shouldn't affect the others because it has its own DPCI set. SS and SS86 fall under the same DPCI, so they're the most accurate example of what the staff was telling you, but each line doesn't affect the other (nor should it) because they are registered as different products and different lines in the system. If they changed the Buzzworthy line to match up with regular SS/SS86, then they've made a terrible mistake and it's on Target to fix it.
all are dead
Every retailer does.
They get sent to stores as an assortment. Stores also dont control restocks, its automatic. So if they have tons of stuff already, they wont just get new stuff.
volatus
From talking with Target employees, it appears that at least Target seems to treat all figures of a given price point as, essentially, the same item. All $20 figures are just TRA GEN DLX. They won't automatically restock older TRA GEN DLX while they still have a bunch on the shelf. All those unpurchased Arcee, Warpath, Buzzworthy, and SS-86 Blurr peg warmers may in fact be preventing your store from restocking.
Ruminus
No, I meant when the movies came out, Walmart, Fry's, Target, TrU all over-bought and had tons of shelf warmers, so now they under-buy so they don't get stuck with a bunch of clearance stock.
michael mercado
that 1980s dinobot movies…that one is expensive!! 50 bucks!! yikes!
Venixion
Sweet! That means I've got a chance of getting one for me and my boyfriend.
Lord Mechatron
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Found 2 Huffers randomly at my local Target today. They never have anything.
michael mercado
that's crazy cause i saw these at my target…runabout and ramjet. didn't get the though sorry my friend
volatus
No kidding! I'm happy to have found all of them in the wild, though. It was a fun ride.
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Shin Densetsu
I wouldn’t worry yet as it’s still March. Trailbreaker by comparison was in a year-end wave and those waves are sometimes notoriously hard to find even for Hasbro’s other lines.
Last year in my area, I only saw remnants of wave 2 at Target/Walmart summer-fall, saw most at Aldi in November-December, sometimes Kroger Marketplace and most recently at Walgreens.
So long as stores keep ordering waves 1-2 between now and when waves 3-4(if there’s a 4th Kingdom wave, I haven’t kept up), we should be fine going towards the end of this year. Key word being “should” and YMMV depending on the order practices of your local stores. For example 1 of the Targets I’ve been to seems to either have a fan doing the toy orders and/or a very competent employee since they stock the newest stuff more frequently than others.
RickyLeeSTF
Both. Several cases of wave 2 deluxes and the Netflix wave 3 deluxes at Walmart. Core wave two and Deluxes at Target.
Just need to happen across a Magnus to call it a successfully expensive week.
michael mercado
you found it at target or walmart?? i'm hoping walmart carries them too.
T-Hybrid
Marshall and Chase, because kids love fire trucks and police cars.
Then its Rubble and Sky because kids love construction and wooshing stuff around.
Rocky and Zuma are just sorta there. Funny enough my son loves Zuma. But he's been growing out of it lately.
fanbase0000
off topic I know but which 2 Paw Patrol dogs are the most popular? Marshall and Chase? A couple years ago my young son was big into Paw Patrol and we watched many episodes together. Seems like he has moved on and I haven’t seen him watch any Paw Patrol episodes in over a year.
RickyLeeSTF
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Found Wave 2 Deluxes and Core this morning. Still looking for Magnus, Dinobot and Inferno.
michael mercado
been to 2 targets and called in a 3rd. nada lol
transmasterc
Scored Huffer at Target this morning.
michael mercado
wow i couldn't find trailbreaker at target for eternity. had to order it online. could hardly find any wave 1 for kingdom and now we're on wave 2??? the only thing i ever see is arcee smh . freaking this is horrible.
worldsgreatest
Right, I appreciate that. I'm only looking for Mr.T but I'm afraid that time has come and gone.