POTP Wave 2 Deluxe news

Hi,

Recently reached out to Hasbro Australia Customer Service about Wave 2 Deluxe availability and this is the response I received...

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Thank you for your enquiry.

The following assortment was sold into Kmart, Target and Big W in early July and we have no stock left.

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We have a different assortment due in November that will also contain Snarl and Sludge.

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Not sure about what else is included in the new assortment, I picked up a Rippersnapper a few weeks back at Kings Comics and was mainly asking about the Dinobot availability.

I know they were sighted in some stores but I've been checking fairly regularly in my area since late June and haven't seen any sign of them, pegs are still full of Wave 1 deluxes and look to have been restocked at least once or twice in that time.

Not quite sure whether to just suck it up and pay the extra for the Takara online or hold off and hope for a wider release in November. Also hoping to complete Abominus when (if?) Wave 3 lands.

So depending on how much was sent out either we got a small shipment of wave 2 that's clogged behind a massive wave 1 stocking or we'll see them soon, I already got imports to load myself up with just because impatience but judging from that email could be worth waiting.

As for dinobot its only gonna be specialist stores at best, I know a store local to me would most likely sell him but at $400 or something stupid, I honestly doubt we'll see takara mp's on retail shelves anytime soon

Edit:But if you mean dinobot POTP avaibility (which I think you did) they're part of wave 2's stuff and supposedly a later revision wave so hang tight

Wow, hasbro really knows how to cap off a trilogy :rolleyes:

Personally I'm not affected (yet) I have two leaders on layby other than that I've been getting legends and prime masters but I can imagine the frustration that others might feel :(

Rippersnapper and Darkwind (and Slag) are part of wave 4 which is the final wave with new figures. I guess a wave 5 might be a repeat wave with Snarl and Sludge and I’d guess Swoop (Ideally red-brested Swoop!) and Dreadwind. Maybe the other wave 3 deluxes and one of the fembots as an assortment of 8 x 1 each

I'm glad I got my wave 2 needs (Dinobots, Rippersnapper) from BBTS. Saves the messing around - worth the extra $ to not have to worry and chase.

I was also fortunate enough to have a friend pick up Sinnertwin, Blot and Cutthroat for me while in Anaheim; so the next wave is sorted, too. Hopefully we get them here though; Blot & Sinnertwin are really well done (Cutthroat is disappointing, but I'm happy to have the set personally) and I'd hope everyone gets access.

When I got the news that there was a problem regarding America's demand for wave 2 my heart sank knowing that Hasbro would prioritise them over us. So I'm glad there's now progress on this issue.

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Originally Posted by dirge

I'm glad I got my wave 2 needs (Dinobots, Rippersnapper) from BBTS. Saves the messing around - worth the extra $ to not have to worry and chase.
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I ordered the wave 2 dinobots from BBTS as well. Should be here this week.

Don't stress they will turn up. I got them from kmart a few weeks ago, price matched to big w's sale of $24 a piece.

Haven't seen a single wave 2 deluxe figure anywhere. Sigh.

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Originally Posted by SoundwavePerth

Don't stress they will turn up. I got them from kmart a few weeks ago, price matched to big w's sale of $24 a piece.

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You're not the only one. Lirizen spotted wave 2 at Target in Victoria last month.

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Originally Posted by shockNwave

You're not the only one. Lirizen spotted wave 2 at Target in Victoria last month.

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Could of been a Mirage. :p

The only mirage i have heard about is in war for cybertron ;):p

At Big W, where I’ve seen a bit of wave 2, I often count how many POTP Deluxes are on the shelves and then take one to service and ask how many they have. If the discrepancy is large, I ask them to check out the back.

I had a strange experience with this at North Lakes. She happily helped by looking them up, but she did say that supposedly POTP deluxes are end-of-life and they won’t be getting any more. But inversely, Titans Return Deluxes WERE NOT end-of-life. So, take from that what you will. Maybe it just means that Wave 1 is end-of-life. That would be nice. But it could also mean that POTP is winding down before it finishes. That would not be nice.

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Originally Posted by Paulbot

Rippersnapper and Darkwind (and Slag) are part of wave 4 which is the final wave with new figures. I guess a wave 5 might be a repeat wave with Snarl and Sludge and I’d guess Swoop (Ideally red-brested Swoop!) and Dreadwind. Maybe the other wave 3 deluxes and one of the fembots as an assortment of 8 x 1 each

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According to a listing on Entertainment Earth, a wave that follows Novastar in wave 4, is being listed as a revision of wave 2 for December, that has two of each of Sludge, Snarl, Blackwing and Moonracer.
This could possibly be the November assortment noted by Hasbro Australia in the first post of this news topic... which they expect to get here, but obviously can't be guaranteed if retailers don't want any more by then.

So even though we had limited stock of wave 2 (as did most of the world), we could see the five wave 2 toys coming later... IF we get the next two cases of POTP Deluxes (a big IF, as retailers here will now be focusing on Movie toys for the rest of the year).

The waves, with new toys listed first...
Wave 1 - Jazz, Swoop, Slag/Slug, Dreadwing.
Wave 2 - Rippersnapper, Sludge, Snarl, Moonracer, Blackwing
Wave 3 - Sinnertwin, Cutthroat, Blot, Jazz
Wave 4 - Novastar, Rippersnapper, Slag/Slug, Blackwing
Wave 2r1 - Sludge, Snarl, Moonracer, Blackwing.

That would leave Swoop and Dreadwing not being re-released in the later waves... but apparently there might also be solid cases of each of those two (according to the Seibertron link), for any Retailers wanting the full POTP Deluxe range in store over Christmas. (unlikely to be here though)

Thanks for the update Griffin, Hopefully Australia will still receive the wave 5. Getting tired of running around to get Snarl and Sludge.

What actually annoys me most, isn't so much the stores, but Hasbro's ridiculous team-splitting. They first did this in wave 1 of the Combiner Wars series (3 Aerialbots and a lone Stunticon) but then fixed it for the later waves from memory - they even went on record as saying it was silly of them, and that they'd try not to do it again since they understood how frustrating it is for fans and kids.

Then here we are, with 2 teams spread over three waves? What the hell, such a stupid move.

And while we're at it, even more stupid that none of the combiners in this series are even advertised as combiners??? That's a really -brave- marketing decision right there.

I've got my Dinos and Terrorcons, but went online to get them - I'd much rather support bricks and mortar where possible, but they don't make it easy...

Next up, it'll be the 'trying to find Lockdown and Jazz' saga.

From what i read on the internet a possible reason why wave 1 of combiner wars had Dragstrip and not Air Raid was some sort of engineering/technical issue.

And another possible reason based on something else i read was that they would not release a similar mold at the same time (like they would not release potp Slug and potp Sludge or cw Skydive and cw Airraid at the same time)