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The latest wave of Rescue Bots "rescan" convertible bots have been found at American retail, which has the new jet Bumblebee, new dragon Heatwave, redeco t-rex Optimus and redeco raptor Bumblebee.
They were released on Amazon America a couple weeks ago, so they didn't take long to appear at retail there.
These should show up here eventually, but first we should get the previous wave with the new toy Brushguard (turns into an ATV).
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More wave 2 Movie toys are showing up around the world, with the Deluxes being found in Canada, and the Voyagers being found in Singapore with the US Target exclusive Reveal Your Shield Voyager Optimus.
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RID Warrior wave 3 for 2017 are now out in Asia, being found in Singapore. (Twinferno, Bludgeon, Thermidor)
And the Movie wave 2 Deluxe toys are also out in Asia, being found in Malaysia. (Drift, Slug, Sqweeks, Steelbane)
Meanwhile, the second wave of Movie Legions (Megatron, Drift, Crosshairs) is out in Canada.
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Looks like the first of the wave 3 Movie toys are being found in Asia, straight after wave 2 toys were being found.
The wave 1 Leaders were found in the Philippines, as well as a whole heap of wave 2 and 3 toys in Legion and 1-step size classes.
Legion - Megatron, Dragonstorm, Hound.
1-step - Scorn, Drift, Hound, Cogman, Megatron, Grimlock.
The wave 3 1-step toys have on the packaging, the Cyberfire gimmick, which notes that the toys have UV reactive paint on them, that the large size Dragonstorm toy can reveal. The first two waves also have reactive paint on them but didn't have this noted on the packaging because the Dragonstorm toy wasn't going to be out until the wave 3 1-step toys were released.
And Titan Changer Megatron has been found in America as well.
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The ToysRUs exclusive Mission to Cybertron Legion 2-packs have been found in America, for US$15. It's not as bad as our over-pricing, but it is still more than what two of their Legion sized toys cost (US$7 each over there). It's amazing to see that stores here are selling Legions for less than the converted amount of that size class in America. Based on other size class rates here, Legions should actually be AU$10-12 here.
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TRU exclusive Skullitron and Megatron stealthbomber have just been found in America.
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The Cybertron Planet (redeco Primus toy) is also now out in America, for US$150... which would mean at least AU$300 if it came here. It isn't expected here, but if these things shelfwarm around the world for being 3 times the price of the original version, we might see these offloaded here for cheap in a couple years time.
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New items in Hong Kong in the last week. (they had a big toy launch last Thursday, so a lot of new toys came out over a couple of days)
The Chaos on Cybertron boxset.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062501.jpg
The next wave of Titans Return toys (Trypticon, Overlord, Blitzwing, Octone, Twintwist, Windblade, Misfire, Seaspray, and Cosmos - and probably Ramhorn too), all have a release date of July 1st, and some stores already have some of them, but are not supposed to put them out until that day... so expect a heap of sightings of those toys from Asia in about 5 days time.
TF5 wave 2 Legion, Deluxe and Voyagers.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062502.jpg
TF5 Leader wave 1 and RC Sqweeks.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062503.jpg
MP Movie Bumblebee.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062504.jpg
TF5 AU Deluxe Hot Rod.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062505.jpg
TF5 MTC Deluxe Skullitron & Megatron.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062506.jpg
TF5 RTS Tiny Changer 3-pack, AU Legion Hot Rod, and MTC Optimus 2-pack.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062507.jpg
TF5 MTC Legion 2-packs, and behind them AU Legion 2-packs. (note that there is a price difference of HK$10 between the two... like there is a significant difference in the RRP of these in America - as such, I think these are on the wrong pegs, as the "Walmart" 2-packs are the cheaper ones in America)
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062508.jpg
TF5 RTS Voyager Optimus.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062509.jpg
TF5 MTC Cybertron Planet.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062510.jpg
TF5 wave 2 Turbo Changer/1-step.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062511.jpg
TF5 wave 2 Tiny Turbo Changers and Knight Armor. (and the Rubiks Optimus)
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062512.jpg
RID Warrior 2017 wave 3.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062513.jpg
RID wave 3 Activators and wave 2&3 Hyper Change.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062514.jpg
RID wave 3 Crash Combiner, Legion and 1-step. Plus Rescue Bots Flip Racers (for the Rescue Bots fans).
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062515.jpg
And Rescue Bots 2017 wave 1 & 2 Rescan, and Megabot Blades... yes, I know it's not on your archive... I'm just noting it here for anyone who might be interested while I'm posting up my HK toy photos.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2017/062516.jpg
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Found in USA, the RID Crash Combiner wave 3 (with Shocknado and Dragbreak), TF5 Voyager wave 2 (Megatron & Hound), and possibly Leader class Megatron and Optimus (just not at a major retailer yet).
And in Canada, which could mean the US soon as well, TF5 MP Bumblebee, wave 3 RID Crash Combiners and wave 3 RID Warriors (Bludgeon, Thermidor, Twinferno).
Also, since it is now past the first of July, the fifth wave of Titans Return toys are now allowed to be sold in Asia, including Trypticon, so expect to see sightings or shipping notices from Asian online stores, this week.
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Trypticon has appeared in the UK... before America, which is really unusual.
It is £149.99, which is about AU$260 - cheaper than our cheapest retailer's regular price.
And the TF5 Legion wave 2 were found in America.