The official Transformers Instagram page has updated with two new categories for the Transformers Hall of Fame. This time around, we’re voting for Favorite Character from Transformers Legacy and in honor of the late, great, Derrick J. Wyatt, Favorite Character from Transformers Animated!
*cough* Sentinel Prime *cough*
Make sure to write in your votes HERE and then come back and discuss on the 2005 Boards!
2005 Board member Tarn31 has relayed some news from a Transformers Facebook group. Found at Target stores in California and Arizona are the second wave of deluxe figures in the Legacy line! Included in this wave are Prime Universe Knockout, Beast Wars Tarantulas, Elita-1 and the next limb for Menasor, Wild Rider!
Are you seeing this exciting new wave at your stores? Share in the thread after the jump!
Thanks again to 2005 Board member ApocalypseThruster for reporting another sighting of new Transformer toys at US retail. This time he’s found the latest wave of Core figures from the Legacy line at his local Target store in California. This wave includes Shockwave and G2 Megatron.
Check out there photographic proof after the jump and discuss on the 2005 Boards!
Great news for fans of robots that have appeared on the silver screen! 2005 Board member ApocalypseThruster has found the latest wave of Studio Series Deluxes at his local Target in California. This wave includes 86’ Arcee, Sideways from Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon Bumblebee.
Have you seen new Transformers at your local stores? Share them in our sightings forum!
Enter the dragon… and some cars and a tank! Thanks to Amazon.co.uk, we have some official images of Legacy wave 3’s deluxes and leader class figure. This includes deluxe figures Dead End, Crankcase, Skullgrin, Blanker (Pointblank) and leader class Beast Wars Dragon Megatron!
These images give us our first look at Crankcase in his vehicle mode! Check out the images after the jump.
Update: New images of Wave 3 Voyager Inferno, including our first look at his Beast mode, have been added to this story.
Summer continues to be relentless upon Transformer toy collectors’ wallets as we have another exciting sighting of new Transformers found at US retail. This time around we the new Core class figures of 86’ Wheelie and Ratchet. Both were found at a Target store in Van Nuys, California! A second sighting was also reported on Twitter in Idaho, also at a Target.
Add these two to your shopping list alongside the other new Buzzworthy exclusive figures at Target and share your sightings on the 2005 Boards!
Here’s a sighting out of left field for you! 2005 Board member Nope has shared with us a sighting of a Classic Heroes Team (Rescue Bots) Megatron! This marks the first Rescue Bots Megatron and only the 2nd villain in toy form. This adorable little tyrant transforms into a drill tank to sabotage any of those pesky rescue missions the Autobots may be trying to do!
check out the images after the break. Megatron here was found at a Walmart in Oklahoma.
Another vintage reissue has been found at US retail! This time around, courtesy of the Walmart Beast Wars vintage line, we have the release of the original Beast Wars Terrorsaur figure! Terrorsaur was found by 2005 board member worldsgreatest at his local Walmart in Hanover, PA.
Will you be picking up Terrorsaur to have a minty-crisp in-package version? Or will you be picking him up because you need to fill that hole in your collection? Sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Hot on the heels of our first retail sighting of the deluxe and leader figure in the new Walmart capsule line, The Velocitron Speedia 500, we have our first sighting of the voyager class. 2005 board member Robots78 located a Cybertron Universe Voyager Override at his Walmart in Iowa!
Happy Hunting!
3rd party group, Mastermind Creations, has announced the next release in their Reformatted line – Optus Nox. Optus Nox is a black version of the company’s very popular (and super articulated) Optus Pexus. But that’s not all! Optus Nox will include some new accessories including a cloth goods cape, an alternate head with a shattered faceplate and a sword with the matrix in the hilt.
No release date or price is provided in their social media update, but there are a lot of nice pictures to review in the meantime. Check those out after the jump.