To our surprise, the new Kingdom Wave 3 Deluxe & Core have showed up in Singapore, giving us our first look at the packaging of these highly anticipated figures.
Kingdom Deluxe Tracks, Wingfinger, Scopornok and Wheeljack (Earthrise repack) and Core Class Soundwave and Dracodon (their wave partners are Starscream and Optimus Prime) are being sold via some specialty stores and online sellers in Singapore. Deluxes are offered mostly as a set of 4, but this means that these figures should be available at Singapore retail soon.
See the new images after the break and then share your impressions on the 2005 Board!
skunkobot
It’s also weird that, despite adding in a bunch of toy accurate details (e.g:the hollow spaces on his limbs, the pins on his shoulder wheels, the holes for the pegs on his leg wheels) they totally have his back wrong, missing his “hood” and having his wings on his back instead of his shoulders. It’s like somebody gave the artist all of his parts, but didn’t bother assembling him.
Subdurmal
Yup same here too.
Been loving it, got Cyclonus and Warpath wave 1, Inferno and Huffer wave 2 and next month Tracks, Galvatron and still on fence for Rodimus.
I'm glad the BW fans are finally getting their due, but the side effect of me needing so few figures per wave for my tastes is a great bonus. Especially since SS86 happened lol I got them all except Blurr!"
Nevermore
It's the new "instructions accidentally depicting the pretool head" from the 2010 Generations/Reveal the Shield days.
all are dead
So this, Hound with Hot Shot's head, and Earth Mode Sideswipe having Red Alert's head on it. Interesting.
weevil
It's an artistic error just like Hound with Hot Shot's head on his package?
Fc203
Looks like they used the roadrage for the tracks art
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GizmoTron
I like the BW stuff and appreciate the Fossilizers, but if the rumors are true about next year the line moving into the Unicron Trilogy and even revisiting Transformers: Prime, I think I'll also be in the same position (and I'm looking forward to it).
Nevermore
Same here…
quantumhawk
Yeah that’s what I thought too. Then I thought, well, we’ve never had a really good Airrazor, so maybe just her and then I’ll stop. Then I thought, well, she’s really awesome, maybe I’ll get Dinobot too. Then my kids remembered how much they liked an old Blackarachnia toy I used to have, and talked me into getting her. At that point I gave up and got all of the BW characters. Still not getting the Fossilizers, but I have a nice Beast Wars collection going again. And now I’m regretting getting rid of Generations Waspinator since he was so good and would’ve fit in well. At the time, I didn’t think I would be getting any other BW characters and he just didn’t fit in with the collection.
Slimaximus
Kingdom has been such a money saver as far as wave to wave purchases are concerned. The fossil and BW stuff have no place in my collection so it is nice only needing 1-3 figures per wave instead of needing them all lol
Dinocon93
No I got him back when he first released.
PolyWraith
I've not seen hide nor hair of wave 2 either here in Mississippi, except for Arcee. The Target near my house has steadily been restocking Primal and Cyclonus though, and of course, at all stores, Blackarachnia and Rattrap are keeping the shelves nice and warm.
Cute anecdote about your kid. I still do that when I find something I like in store. Sure hope waves 2 + 3 show up soon.
T-Hybrid
Studio has been a pretty steady stream of new figures as well. Not sure if that's because repacks are just the previous wave so it all bleeds together or what.
Like, I'm genuinely shocked at some of the guys who never got repacked. Stuff like Scrapmetal.
Nevermore
Also, this perception that "new waves" literally mean "nothing but new toys, no repeats ever" is based on one thing only: Combiner Wars. That's the first time Hasbro almost did it, if you ignore the repeat of Legends Blackjack, Voyager Motormaster and some others in later waves. But for the Deluxes, sure, Combiner Wars never had any repeats.
But the wave system that's still in use today was pioneered in 1995, the final year of Generation 2, and codified with Beast Wars. Guess what Beast Wars had? Lots of repeats. Guess what Beast Machines had? Lots of repeats. Guess what Robots in Disguise had? Lots of repeats. Guess what Armada had? Lots of repeats. And so on. But then Combiner Wars comes along and does things slightly differently one single time, and suddenly people assume that it's the the way it was always meant to be. Spoiler alert: NOPE.
Also, could we please stop using the term "repacks"? People keep using it for three different things ("re-release of the same unchanged toy in different packaging", "unchanged toy in unchanged packaging shipping in multiple waves of the same line", and "people buying a new toy, opening it, putting some old crap into the packaging and then returning it to the store and claiming their money back"), which irritates me.
Plain English not being what "ur" using, amirite?
GizmoTron
Pretty sure that any such language about "Subject to Availability" has been present on packaging for decades and is there to prevent some smart ass from finding a toy at a comic shop years later and attempting some kind of false advertisement lawsuit because a cross sale item pictured on the box is no longer available at stores.
T-Hybrid
Not counting Mark on stream? No.
DrTraveler
Have we seen that one out of package yet?
ScorponokIsHere
Every year I print a book. Each book is roughly the same shape and page count as the year before, but materials and labor and overseas shipping costs AND TARIFFS and COVID STUFFS fluctuate, so I actually get a different quote from my printer every year!
It trends UP!
RacerCheetor
You're welcome…
T-Hybrid
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