Mid-year toy sale wrap-up

[griffin]

Just to make it a little easier to keep track of the mid-year toy sales.

KMART (June 20 - December 24)
Catalogue - News posting
No sale items
No Transformers in catalogue


KMART (June 27 - July 28)
Catalogue - News posting
Platinum Optimus - $69 (regular pricing) KMART EXCL
BotShots 5-pack - $20 (save $2) KMART EXCL


BIGW (June 27 - July 10) (online from June 19)
Catalogue - News posting
Platinum Omega Supreme - $98 (regular pricing) BIGW EXCL
TF3 Optimus Cyber Blaster - 30 (save $5) BIGW EXCL (not here before - in America Aug 2011)
Beast Hunters Ultimate Optimus - $68 (save $20)
Beast Hunters Vehicles - $34 (regular pricing) BIGW EXCL
Beast Hunters Deluxe - $25 (regular pricing)


TARGET (June 26 - July 17)
Catalogue - News posting
Platinum Ultra Magnus - $39 (save $40) TARGET EXCL
Ultimate Optimus Prime - $59 (save $20)
Ultimate Predaking - $59 (save $20)
TFPrime Weaponizer - $20 (save $22)


MYER (June 20 - July 28)
Catalogue - News posting
Assorted Deluxe figures (shows TF3 Scanning DLX) - $14.95 (save $15)
TF3 Leader Bumblebee (with bonus DLX Starscream) - $49 (save $50)
Beast Hunters Ultimate Predaking - $79 (save $20)
Beast Hunters Ultimate Optimus - $89 (save $30)

[griffin]

Added in Target and Myer details and links.

[UltraMarginal]

ILikeSoundwave has posted the second Kmart Catalogue.
there are transformers in it, but it's hardly worth looking at.

[JuzMel]

A little off-topic here, but what series are the Platinum Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme and Ultra Magnus from? Sorry but I haven't really been keeping up to date with TF news lately thought these 3 figures seem like nice additions. Thanks.

[Paulbot]

A little off-topic here, but what series are the Platinum Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme and Ultra Magnus from? Sorry but I haven't really been keeping up to date with TF news lately thought these 3 figures seem like nice additions. Thanks.

Originally, Optimus Prime and Omega Supreme are Energon toys and Ultra Magnus is a TF:Prime toy.

The Platnium series overall is it's own thing I guess, but most closely fits with the "Generations" toyline.

[Shirokaze]

Great price on Platinum Ultra Magnus! Glad I hadn't picked him up earlier

[Zommael]

A little off-topic here, but what series are the Platinum Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme and Ultra Magnus from? Sorry but I haven't really been keeping up to date with TF news lately thought these 3 figures seem like nice additions. Thanks.

The Platinum series is a line of repaints and remolds of various toys, most of which haven't had repaints before. As to which continuity each belongs to:

Omega Supreme is based on FOC Omega Supreme, so he belongs with Generations/WFC/FOC.

Optimus Prime combines with Omega but is a pretty generic OP. Since he combines with Omega best guess is he's an as yet unseen reformat of FOC/WFC OP.

Ultra Magnus is pretty clearly based on UM from Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, so he's Prime continuity.

We've not seen enough of Grimlock vs Bruticus to judge yet but they are the Generations molds, so FOC.

The other toys in the series are still just rumours at this stage.

I think Hasbro probably intends/thinks all these toys are part of the "Aligned" continuity, whatever that means, but since that's meant to encompass WFC, FOC, the novels, and Prime, all of which contradict each other, it's not entirely clear what that means.

The poster above me explained which series the repaints are taken from.

[griffin]

Added in the second Kmart catalogue, with just two items.

A rather disappointing year this year, with only Myer having a regular size-class on sale... and even that might be difficult to get price-matched to anything that doesn't have Movie packaging.

Myer and Target seem to have the best discounts though, with Leader Bumblebee for $49, Platinum Ultra Magnus for $39, and the Ultimate Optimus & Predaking for $59 each.

Everything else is pretty much just advertising current stuff at regular prices.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Great price on Platinum Ultra Magnus! Glad I hadn't picked him up earlier

Yeah thats awesome, might have to try and grab one!

[ILikeSoundwave]

Toys R Us have their catalogue but no TFs advertised.