POTP toys already out in America

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POTP toys have now been released in Canada, with Legends, Deluxe and Voyagers being found at a Walmart.

The Leaders are still yet to be found in America, but two lengthy video reviews of Rodimus has come from China.

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The Voyagers for wave 1 are now officially found in America at retail stores.

Leaders are the last left to be released in America.

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And in less than a week, the Leaders were found at retail in America... which means the entire first wave is out in America now.

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Now that the first wave is now out in America, the commercials are being released now as well.

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As we wait patiently for the POTP toys to show up in Australia (hopefully any day now), the Voyager Starscream has already undergone a running change, with a remoulded part on the back of the robot mode, that allows the wing kibble to plug in further, making the kibble backpack more stable.

For those who know where to look on the box for the production number, the new run of Starscreams have the number 73101. (but since the first wave of POTP stock has been in Australia for some time now, that newer number might not show up here until a little later).

I just got my Starscream yesterday from Amazon America, and it was the earlier production run, and I can see how this remould improves the back kibble a lot. Without the remould, the top tab just doesn't reach the hole to plug in properly, or at all sometimes.

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America sometimes get things first, before even Asia... and this time it is wave 2 of the POTP toyline, with Rodimus Unicronus (the black redeco Leader Rodimus), being found at a Walmart in Kansas.
The first wave of Leaders haven't even filtered through to most parts of the country, and wave 2 appears.
It was probably accidentally sent from the factory with a shipment of wave 1 Leaders, like the wave 2 Legends toys that showed up in Singapore a few weeks ago... because this toyline is supposed to be spaced out, with the four waves over the whole year, which should see about 3 months between each wave.

As people are noting, the purple (Shattered Glass) Autobot logo from the promotional images, has been replaced with a Decepticon symbol (which would be more for the benefit of the general public).

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Now the UK has gotten in on the action, with wave 2 Legends in stores over there (the ones that showed up in Singapore last month, just 10 days after our Product reveal in Sydney... which we were told that Hasbro America wanted to officially reveal them at the New York Toyfair in mid February).