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.
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 got mine from BBTS back in October.
I got mine from Pulse around the end of July.
BBTS still says pre-order. Same for rumble and frenzy.
Edit: just realized your probably not talking about the same snarl. The legion one is still pre-order.
Yeah, the Core class Dinobots are Legacy toys. This is SS86.
I almost never pre-order anything from EE anymore as it always feels they are the last to get anything.
Probably, but between SG, Toxitron and Comic, Hasbro might not have had an “open slot” to rerun the SS86 flavor.
I want to say he DID get a rerun before his repaint tour, but that’s been a few years at this point.
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.
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.
My nearest Walmart still has SS86 Kup and Blurr filling every Studio Series hook since 2(?) Christmases ago. I have to go 25 miles or more to see any new Studio Series figures.
On the other hand, when they had the Velocitron collection, I got Hauler and Override for like $10 or $12 each when they went to clearance. There is literally no rhyme or reason to what goes on clearance and what pegwarms here.
Perhaps has far as Walmart is concerned, it's all Studio Series, regardless of age. Same with Legacy. There's no need a clearance a perpetual toyline.
Yeah, I think they only ever really put things on clearance when the line itself changes name. They don't seem to recognize the difference between waves, so much.
That's been a wrinkle in Hasbro's retail strategy for some time. Big retailers can't be made to care about the wave system. Imagine what it would actually take for Walmart to manage that for all the stuff they sell.
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.
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.
Doesn't hurt that some retailers simply don't restock until the existing stuff is gone, and also cannot move the stuff they stocked because it's not the shit that people want. The walmarts up near me still have fairly thin toy aisles from christmas, but we're also a good two months away from a refresh because toys don't make money outside oct-dec.
Well, here is the question I want answered. Why not have Wave 1 be essentially waves 1,2, and 3 into one wave with one figure per box? I mean Target and Walmart always way over-order Wave 1, almost skip wave 2, put out some Wave 3, and maybe have a sighting or two of later waves after that.
I should state that shopping at retail has just got so difficult since the plague, that I just pre-order anything I want these days online. Any toys I get in store are usually just for the kids.