According to leaked retailer listings, Swoop is on deck for some point this year. In preparation, Hasbro is doing new runs for Snarl and Slag, so you could, theory, buy all 5 Dinobots later this year without resorting to secondhand sellers.
I don't understand how they're doing "new" runs on Snarl since we have yet to see the first run right? I mean, I've had mine preordered at EE since he was announced.
BBTS still says pre-order. Same for rumble and frenzy.I got mine from BBTS back in October.
Yeah, the Core class Dinobots are Legacy toys. This is SS86.Edit: just realized your probably not talking about the same snarl. The legion one is still pre-order.
So weird. Well - glad some folks got 'im. Did anyone on here get him from EE?
Judging by prices on Ebay it must've been extremely limited quantities.
Probably, but between SG, Toxitron and Comic, Hasbro might not have had an “open slot” to rerun the SS86 flavor.Will they do a second run on Grimlock? Like, regular Grimlock, not the comic colors or whatever else? I didn't buy him because I wasn't sure if they'd do the rest of the Dinobots, but now that they are, I could go for one. I mean, I have the MP, but he doesn't exactly fit in.
I saw a coronation SS marked down to $50.I've seen Snarl once, at a GameStop, and never ever again since (and I didn't have the money for him at the time, so I missed out). That was last summer/autumn.
Meanwhile, retail stores are still filled to the brim with leftover Sludges and Coronation Starscreams that simpy won't go away.
I saw a coronation SS marked down to $50.
Walmart out here in Seffner still has Legacy deluxe wave 1 on the shelf. Just mark them down and get new product.
That would backfire. Retailers would see one wave as not worth their time.
It's a puzzle. Retailers want a line that lasts multiple waves so they know they'll have a while before they have to think about switching over to the next new thing, but they also want to consider those multiple waves as essentially the same thing. They don't care if Hasbro wants to move on to wave 7. Wave 1 is still just as good as ever.
It does make sense when you consider other toylines. Parents looking for Spider-Man don't know whether they're looking at a wave 1 or wave 2 toy, and will do absolutely everything in their power to refuse to notice a difference if their kid asked for a specific one. Parents and retailers agree, it's all just Spider-Man. Transformers just doesn't fit that retail model as neatly. Hasbro tried with Bumblebee, and retailers loved it, but we hated it.