DOTM wave 6 cancelled

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Originally Posted by Tallestblue

Remember how we were convinvced we'd never see those toys?

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Yeah, and now they're all just sitting there. Every time I go into Kmart I'm scanning them to see if they're on special yet. I'd pick up more Scourge's for my army of Sweeps if they were about 15 bucks each.

Actually, you raise an interesting point TB. We have received left-over / cancelled waves here before. Maybe there is hope for those wanting to complete their DOTM collection. The question is, do you pay the inflated prices of eBay today or wait to see what happens tomorrow.

As I've said before, given this (emphasis mine)

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The TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS DELUXE Assortment features Transformers characters and designs from throughout the history of the TRANSFORMERS brand.

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and given

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40+ figures in the Generations line in 2013

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All of these 'missing' Deluxes are highly likely candidates to be packaged on a Generations card with a "movie trilogy" subline.

I'm expecting Generations 2013 to be the same as Universe 2.0. It's the line where Hasbro can sell any Transformer toy they want to that isn't a Transformers Prime toy.

So glad I ordered my DOTM Soundwave last night before I heard this news... completely forgot about Leadfoot though :o

Too bad that we missed out on Wheeljack as well as Deluxe Leadfoot.

At least we have HA Leadfoot though :/

It looks like fans all over are slowly making their way through all the finer details of the Toyfair on the weekend.

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Originally Posted by Paul Agnew

There is still hope of a future release in the Movie Trilogy line, right?

Right?

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The Toyfair Media Event stated that the Movie Trilogy line will only be released in Asia (Hasbro HK I guess), which will see those late wave Movie toys released (Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Soundwave)... and only the Optimus w/ Trailer would see a Western release. Neither of which is likely to appear here though, based on how bad retailers here were burnt with movie toys last year.

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Originally Posted by liegeprime

Would you look at all the Angry Rants in that thread :p:D, ah well, looks like prices for these will be soaring for Jap markets...

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That they will. Get 'em while you can.
I was impulsively buying them last week, telling myself that I should really wait for their release to America or here, to bring down the prices. Lucky I didn't listen to the "voice of reason" telling me not to spend my money. :p

And once again, the Americans are crying about missing out on Wave 6 & 7... We missed out on wave 5 (Air Raid, Armor Topspin, Darksteel) and had very limited release of wave 4 (BB & Ratchet redecos). Same with the last waves of Voyagers, last three waves of HA basics, 2nd wave of big Human Alliance, wave 4 Legion, and a heap of the gimmick toys.
And it's not like the Americans are missing out on those character toys, as some have been released in Japan and Taiwan already, and the rest appear to be released in HK this year as well. They just have to resort to importing the toys they "need" :rolleyes: like most of us here, and the rest of the world do.

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Originally Posted by Paulbot

All of these 'missing' Deluxes are highly likely candidates to be packaged on a Generations card with a "movie trilogy" subline.

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Anything is always possible with Hasbro, as it's just their business to release product to make money - if someone there can coordinate releases and/or packaging to make sense, then it's a bonus.
The Autobot Alliance line had some Gen1 toys in it, which lead onto the Reveal The Shield line which was mostly Gen1... so we've had blending/bleeding of eras into the one packaging for convenience.
I just think that maybe it might be a while before they venture back to Movie toys for the western markets, or the on-screen characters (due to their more complicated licensing situation).

I also noticed in that TFW topic, that there are people there assuming that "Asian exclusive" means TakaraTomy (Japan)... when it refers to the non-Japanese Asian countries that Hasbro has jurisdiction (like HK, Taiwan, Singapore, China... and if our Marketting people here want these, Australia).
It doesn't make too much difference in the end, especially if you don't live in Asia and need to import anyway, but could make a difference in the expected price (Hasbro versions are about half of the JP versions on online stores).

So there never existed a US version of Deluxe Leadfoot with the sponsorship logos on it? Because I only remember the Takara ones on eBay

That's a shame but to be fair I'm yet to see anything past the Thundercracker wave of deluxes for DotM anyway so it's not really unexpected.

Managed to nab HA Soundwave for more or less retail price in Australia from eBay 10 minutes ago, shipping included - short of any Mirage/Dino toy (which I'm assuming will never happen, despite rumours to the contrary last year) that was the last thing I wanted to add to my meagre DotM collection. The line really has been a let down.

If you want it I'd get it now because I'm assuming all the sellers with theirs at around $50US will be shifting up to closer to $100.

I did enjoy this from TFW though

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we can only pray archer is struck by lighting...so hard it vaporizes him and someone who knows how to market a toy line can get in there and stopt he bait n cancel bs!

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Well I just bought a Deluxe Leadfoot, now to wait to pay for it...