Thanks to 2005 Board member Spaceman for sharing in our forums his sighting of the new Transformers Rescue Bots Academy Rescan Wave 8 at US retail.
This wave consist of only one new mold Monster Truck Optimus Prime together with repacks of rock crawler Bumblebee, F1 Heatweave , cement mixer Salvage, VTOL Whirl, and helicopter Blades. These figures were spotted at Walmart in Vestal, New York. Great gifts for young Rescue Bots fans.
Happy hunting!
dCon
It looks like it was put back after removing him I saw that same wave & Optimus is in bot mode. And his face has been redesigned to look like the RBAcademy cartoon face. Not like the regular tractor trailer truck version (wished they switched the tooling to the other release, but I guess it's a year newer?). But I like it they just need to do one more revision and fix his chest. Yeah
Black Convoy
I kinda like that new Optimus Prime. Looks original and different.
Spaceman
I found these at the Vestal, NY Walmart. I picked up Salvage and Whirl as my son already has an Optimus Prime and I'm not too keen on the new one.