Amazon Prime Day and Combiner Wars Devastator reissue

[griffin]

Hasbro Australia have asked us to let our fellow fans know about this years Prime Day at Amazon Australia... because it will have at least one Transformers exclusive toy released here, just for Prime Day.

What is Prime Day?
Prime Day is a special sale period at the beginning of November (actual dates have not been released yet), that has exclusives and discount prices for registered Amazon Prime members. You must be registered as a Prime member, but you should be able to do it at the time of the sale, and then end your membership after the sale if you don't want to pay the monthly membership fee (about $7 per month, but only worth it if you buy a fair bit off Amazon to earn free shipping on a lot of items, or you want to utilise their wide range of digital audio-visual content).
American Transformers fans have been benefiting from their Prime Day for a few years now, and it looks like us in Australia will have something to look forward to as well this year.

What Transformers exclusives and deals will there be?
Unfortunately, we were going to make the big reveal this week, but have now been told that we have to wait until October 17th, because it hasn't been revealed yet by Hasbro America.
So for now, make a note in your calendar for October 17th for the toy reveal, and the first week of November if that exclusive toy is something you will be wanting, as there will only be 300 units coming to Australia for this sale.
Keep an eye on the Amazon info page for the announcement of when Prime Day will be - https://www.amazon.com.au/primeday
And until 3 weeks time (or as soon as Hasbro America reveal it), feel free to have a guess at what the exclusive toy might be, and then later we can see if anyone guessed it.


On a related, but different note...
Have you been feeling the desire recently to buy a Transformers combiner team but were not happy with the TakaraTomy (re)issue of the POTP Dinobot team with just a few minor changes?
Well, it seems as though Hasbro have come to the rescue, with their own reissue Prime Wars Trilogy combiner.
Hasbro Australia have let us know that the 2015 Combiner Wars Devastator (B0998) is being reissued, and we will see about 300 units on Amazon Australia some time in October-November (not related to the Amazon Prime Day sale, but could end up showing up on Amazon at around the same time).
Since it has the same product code as the 2015 release, the toy and packaging should be identical... it has apparently become an exclusive to Amazon globally for this reissue release.
This is a great second chance for collectors who are new since 2015, or couldn't find it or afford it the first time.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2020/092501.jpg

[Gehirn]

That's great news Griffin!
Sold my Devastator quite a while ago so will be pretty tempted to get it.

[DELTAprime]

I hope we can have more CW and UW reissues in the future. HasTak keeps doing Devastator, but there are others I need.

[griffin]

A "small" update...

Hasbro America was quick to contact Hasbro Australia over the weekend after our news about the reissue CW Devastator hit all the fansites... to say that it has been delayed to January (which the local branch didn't know at the time that they said it was okay to post up the news).

[DELTAprime]

So much for those hoping to get a CW Devastator this year.

[Fuzzy Barbarian]

If the Prime Day exclusive is Thrust, my butt is going to be so clenched trying to pre-order... I may have a WFC Seeker addiction.

[griffin]

Looks like Prime Day is October 13th and 14th... which is a lot earlier than what Hasbro Australia guessed, and 4 days before the date we are allowed to reveal what the Amazon Exclusive toy will be for Prime Day.
I'm going to have to ask what this is all about.

[Jaxius._]

I swear i saw an ad saying prime day was 13-14 of october?

Edit: should have read the post above mine

[nalops]

It is, yea. There's TV ads saying it but also people got emails with the date.

[griffin]

Word back from Hasbro Australia...

The "item" that I am not allowed to talk about until October 17th is NOT for Prime Day, but for Cyber (mon)Day (or whatever it is called, which is usually at the end of November.. so I'm even more puzzled, as this item is supposed to be for a promo in the first week of November, which would be 3 weeks before Cyber Monday.

So after all of that hyping up of the fandom that I did a couple weeks ago, I'm now left to disappoint everyone by saying that Prime Day in Australia doesn't look to have anything exclusive for Transformers, and the item that I can talk about on October 17th could be on Amazon in the first week of November OR the last week of November.

???

:(

[Sinnertwin]

Spectacular.

[Seraphim Prime]

Cyber Monday is usually the Monday after Black Friday, which in turn follows Thanksgiving.


I wouldn't take it too hard Griffin - you were working with the best information that Hasbro AU was giving you, and it appears that they're kept pretty out of the loop by Hasbro central, given the number of retractions and corrections that they've had to make over the past month.

[Paulbot]

So it's Prime Day tomorrow. Should we be looking for anything in particular?

I've just done a search for items from Amazon Prime and nothing there I don't already have ordered.

[beachcomber]

Hoping that deals pop up when the 'Day' starts. Keeping an eye out too.

[griffin]

So it's Prime Day tomorrow. Should we be looking for anything in particular?

I've just done a search for items from Amazon Prime and nothing there I don't already have ordered.

If they do have anything there for Transformers, it would probably just be some random discounts.

[nalops]

10% off at checkout for a few random Transformers, 20% off for My Little Prime. The thing that might save people money is free international delivery for orders over 1 cent for prime members.

[griffin]

10% off at checkout for a few random Transformers, 20% off for My Little Prime. The thing that might save people money is free international delivery for orders over 1 cent for prime members.

Looks like 14 Transformers items at 10% off, no exclusives.
SS Overload, Cliffjumper, Jeep Bumblebee, Scrapper, Grimlock.
GEN Voyager Megatron, Siege Reflector.
My Little Prime at 20% off.
And some older items from Cyberverse and the Botbots 16 pack.

Nothing I want...

[Bidoofdude]

Pretty disappointing Prime day. Nice if you need some extra Reflectors, but it seems like they’re just trying to clear stock with these deals.

[nalops]

Seems like more are coming tomorrow. Not sure if adding to or replacing existing deals but include SS Scavenger, Long Haul, Scrapmetal, Hightower and Blitzwing plus Siege Thundercracker, Optimus and Earthrise Allicon and Snapdragon. I imagine it'll be the same 10% off as today.

[Sinnertwin]

Bit of a flop as far as toys go.
I suppose I could buy that electronic gadget that I didn't even know I needed that I'm not entirely sure I even want.