Once again, 2005 Boards member ZachimusPrime is giving us another Transformers Rise Of The Beasts Mainline sighting in the US. Now we can confirm that the Wave 1 Beast Alliance Beast Battle Masters are out at US retail.
Beast Battle Master Rhinox was spotted at a Target store in Plano, Texas. This wave also includes Cheetor and Skullcruncher.
Happy hunting!
Daimao
Does anyone know the dpci for these?
galvatran
One can only imagine the sign-off meeting when the design team presents the final design prototype to the execs.
Sixshot the six changer
Bet you these will go on sale and in the clearence bin when the other figures are released
Noideaforaname
I saw these at my local Target too (I'm in New Jersey). I must admit I didn't think to try to buy any, though. I think they were on $10 pegs…
Neko-bot77
It's nice to have some product in the "impulse buy" price range.
mrcreativename
Nice, thanks for confirming the price! Now I’ll publicly and shamelessly walk back what I said and pay $6 even though it’s a dollar more than I’m comfortable with, but man I need that little cheetah!
Vector Oracle
They’re $6. Somebody just put them on the wrong peg because their official release date is 4/10 and the tags probably haven’t been put out yet.
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mrcreativename
I totally hear ya, we each have our own way of wanting to display. I personally love my deluxe sized Beast Wars figures since pretty much the inception, but I would also love tiny versions of the main Maximals and Predacons to better scale with my vehicle based TFs. I know there’s no such thing as scale with TFs and all that, but if I squint really hard to pretend that my voyager Starscream scales with my deluxe Sunstreaker in vehicle mode, the rest of my collection, not counting Beast Wars, actually does a reasonable job of scaling. And the base bots I just have have to squint extra extra hard.
TF Hot Rod
Honestly both don’t bug me all the time as long as it’s accurate to the show. So Prowl as a normal sized bot I dig. Astrotrain for example is WAY out of scale. But at the same time I like the Maximals at normal sized.
Core Class should eventually have you covered.
MeGrimlock78
Yeah, giant Groove doesn't bug me nearly as much as giant animals. Go figure.
TF Hot Rod
True but at the same time, it’s also a transforming robot.
Scale in Transformers doesn’t really exist.
MeGrimlock78
For sure…but seeing, say, voyager Tigatron in beast mode next to voyager Springer just looks silly to me personally, knowing how big a real tiger SHOULD be.
Robogeek28
Still want these beasts repainted in better colors to be random Battlemasters for my bots.
Fenrys
Maximals and Predacons are the same size as Autobots and Decepticons more often than not in fiction (Robot Masters, RID01, Legends. Power of the Primes, IDW, Kingdom, Rise of the Beasts)
MeGrimlock78
Want these so bad! I like that they are beasts that scale well with Legacy figs…the Kingdom beasts were great, but HUGE compared to the other bots of the line.
At least the RotB characters ARE giant techno-organics, so they make sense.
mrcreativename
I am such a sucker for little robotic animals, and as much as I want these, if the $8.99 pricetag is correct for these guys, I'm out. I am happy to pay $4.99 at a maximum for these. I've been a lifelong Hasbro fan and always a vocal supporter, but their greed in pricing as of late has even me thinking twice about buying. If I recall correctly, they raised the price of mainline transformers dramatically around the time of Siege so that we could have beefier, less hollow figures with more weapons. That lasted a few waves before the price stayed the same and we went quickly went back to less accessories and increasingly hollow Transformers. What they're asking for retro O-ring joes these days is vile. I can't justify it to myself anymore. Really hope these are around $4.99.
linkinparkirony
Oh shit, nice!
TF Hot Rod
Apparently we are still getting them separate in the US. The mask is something yeah.
The Beast Battlers are for me the gimmick stuff I want (mainly Rhinox and Skullcruncher).
bagofshhh
Anyone have the DCPI handy and willing to share?
linkinparkirony
I like the deluxe Cheetor and Airazor, not really wanting to buy a whole three-pack for each. The Primal mask is also neat.