Takara Tomy Mall Offers Surprise Netflix Soundblaster listing
Friday, October 9th, 2020 2:33AM CDT
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This came exactly out of nowhere. In a surprise move Takara Tomy Mall is taking pre-orders on a new Siege SG-EX Soundblaster based on his appearance in the Netflix animated series. While mostly similar to the Walmart exclusive 35th Anniversary figure it features less "battle damage" on his chest and a Mercenary faction symbol. There have been no leaks or rumors about a new Soundblaster release aside from speculation of a repaint of Netflix Soundwave retool figure due this month. As an EX figure it will be exclusive to Takara Tomy Mall within Japan. It should be pointed out that this is not being listed specifically as part of the mass retail Netflix line by Takara Tomy in Japan.
Original figure for reference:
Netflix appearance:
It's unknown if Hasbro will ever release this version of the figure which could make it a hard to find collectible for fans trying to complete their Netflix lineup and unwilling to settle for the original Walmart release. Takara Tomy Mall will also be the exclusive seller in Japan to including ER EX-20 Ratchet and Lifeline, ER EX-21 Bluestreak, ER EX-22 Centurion Drone, SG-EX Rainmakers. If you have any thoughts on this release feel free to post them in the Energon Pub forum!
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Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 9th, 2020 @ 5:47am CDT
As for the price of that Nemesis Prime, oof...
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 9th, 2020 @ 6:09am CDT
Posted by Master Farr 1 on October 9th, 2020 @ 6:49am CDT
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 9th, 2020 @ 9:30am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on October 9th, 2020 @ 9:41am CDT
Yeah, it's confusing. TakaraTomy Mall says it's a normal Siege figure while Hasbro Pulse says it's a Selects figure. It appears that Hasbro and Takara are treating this figure differently. Takara is selling it as part of their Siege line in Japan, while Hasbro instead puts it in their imports of Takara's Selects line.TF-fan kev777 wrote:According to Hasbro Pulse, Soundblaster is Selects and not Earthrise or Netflix, the 2 forums I've seen him posted in. I put the links to Pulse in the Selects thread.
Posted by o.supreme on October 9th, 2020 @ 10:20am CDT
Posted by Praxiusprime77 on October 9th, 2020 @ 2:03pm CDT
Posted by meanguns on October 9th, 2020 @ 2:53pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on October 9th, 2020 @ 3:39pm CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 9th, 2020 @ 3:40pm CDT
This is a redeco of the Earthrise deluxe class Wheeljack that saw release as part of Wave 1.
We have embedded the review below for your convenience:
What do you think of this deco for Wheeljack? Will you be getting it or will you be sticking with his Earthrise release? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Posted by Emerje on October 10th, 2020 @ 5:20am CDT
o.supreme wrote:RIP Brand Unification 2018-2019.
They did Voyager Nemesis Prime last year, also a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive, Soundblaster is just more of that. There's still a bunch of Selects and retail exclusives from Hasbro that haven't been released in Japan while Hasbro has only missed NP from Takara Tomy.
Emerje
Posted by Praxiusprime77 on October 10th, 2020 @ 5:41am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 10th, 2020 @ 12:27pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:RIP Brand Unification 2018-2019.
Sabrblade wrote:Yeah, it's confusing. TakaraTomy Mall says it's a normal Siege figure while Hasbro Pulse says it's a Selects figure. It appears that Hasbro and Takara are treating this figure differently. Takara is selling it as part of their Siege line in Japan, while Hasbro instead puts it in their imports of Takara's Selects line.TF-fan kev777 wrote:According to Hasbro Pulse, Soundblaster is Selects and not Earthrise or Netflix, the 2 forums I've seen him posted in. I put the links to Pulse in the Selects thread.
It is confusing for sure, but it does provide insight in how the brand unification is put into practice. True, the figures are still (mostly) untouched when imported into either region, but either company is still allowed their own projects and especially release scheme, even if there's overlap when it comes to characters like Nemesis Prime and now Soundblaster.
The main lines in the WFC Trilogy and the Netflix series are pretty much shared, Selects is split between Hasbro and TakaraTomy, and standalone exclusives are free-for-all if there's a way to make them fit. Unfortunately, Hasbro has no real place for Soundblaster as Siege has effectively ended here, so he gets chucked into Selects with all the other TakaraTomy imports.
Posted by aronjlove on October 14th, 2020 @ 4:44pm CDT
Posted by blackeyedprime on October 14th, 2020 @ 5:00pm CDT
Redwings white paint chipped on first transformation to trijet so I'm just leaving Hotlink alone to look shiny and scorchy.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 15th, 2020 @ 9:46am CDT
I have almost no hope of them actually shipping out on time. Wave 1 was delayed so far that I found everyone I wanted in stores and cancelled the pre-orders before they shipped. I'm expecting the same for wave 2.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 15th, 2020 @ 9:49am CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:So is it time to stat taking bets on when Walmart starts sending out delay notices on the next wave of Netflix figures? They are due to "arrive" in 2 days with the free 2 day shipping meaning they should be released/shipped today.
I have almost no hope of them actually shipping out on time. Wave 1 was delayed so far that I found everyone I wanted in stores and cancelled the pre-orders before they shipped. I'm expecting the same for wave 2.
Just before this, saw someone on Twitter get their Soundwave delayed to November 17
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 15th, 2020 @ 10:08am CDT
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:So is it time to stat taking bets on when Walmart starts sending out delay notices on the next wave of Netflix figures? They are due to "arrive" in 2 days with the free 2 day shipping meaning they should be released/shipped today.
I have almost no hope of them actually shipping out on time. Wave 1 was delayed so far that I found everyone I wanted in stores and cancelled the pre-orders before they shipped. I'm expecting the same for wave 2.
Just before this, saw someone on Twitter get their Soundwave delayed to November 17
I'll be curious to see whether my leader spoiler pack ships from Walmart or Pulse first. I ordered the Spoiler pack, Bee and Elita-1 from Walmart when they were first announced, but then ordered a second Spoiler pack from Pulse once we knew who was in there as I didn't want to chance things with Walmart.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 15th, 2020 @ 10:27am CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:So is it time to stat taking bets on when Walmart starts sending out delay notices on the next wave of Netflix figures? They are due to "arrive" in 2 days with the free 2 day shipping meaning they should be released/shipped today.
I have almost no hope of them actually shipping out on time. Wave 1 was delayed so far that I found everyone I wanted in stores and cancelled the pre-orders before they shipped. I'm expecting the same for wave 2.
Just before this, saw someone on Twitter get their Soundwave delayed to November 17
I'll be curious to see whether my leader spoiler pack ships from Walmart or Pulse first. I ordered the Spoiler pack, Bee and Elita-1 from Walmart when they were first announced, but then ordered a second Spoiler pack from Pulse once we knew who was in there as I didn't want to chance things with Walmart.
Impactors and red Alerts are now being cancelled outright, and more delays with the other deluxes and voyagers noted. No confirmed leader delays yet
Posted by o.supreme on October 15th, 2020 @ 3:01pm CDT
Amazon, for all the pains of delays are at least frequent with their notices. Target was a huge Pain, not doing that again, now I guess it's Walmarts turn to mess things up for me, though from what I've read, they've messed over plenty of fans already.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 16th, 2020 @ 7:45am CDT
Posted by o.supreme on October 16th, 2020 @ 1:39pm CDT
Posted by aronjlove on October 16th, 2020 @ 2:06pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:Well, just got my email, Nemesis is delayed until 11/12/20 Booo!
Walmart or Pulse?
Posted by o.supreme on October 16th, 2020 @ 2:06pm CDT
aronjlove wrote:o.supreme wrote:Well, just got my email, Nemesis is delayed until 11/12/20 Booo!
Walmart or Pulse?
Walmart
Posted by Emerje on October 17th, 2020 @ 6:20am CDT
Emerje
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 17th, 2020 @ 6:57am CDT
Emerje wrote:Got bombarded with emails this morning from Walmart. Three had the same message telling me that Nemesis Prime, Optimus Prime and Elita-1 were delayed to 11/12. A fourth told me that Elita-1 (again), Red Alert, Wheeljack, and Impactor have been delayed to an unknown date "due to high demand" (I wasn't able to order Soundwave and Bumblebee). Walmart sure is doing a great job of continuing to screw up their pre-orders. I pre-pay for my pre-orders using PayPal, you'd think that would make my orders a priority since they already have my money, but I guess Walmart only cares about the money, not the service.
Emerje
Wasn't it great then that Walmart got even more Exclusives to sell?
Posted by AcademyofDrX on October 17th, 2020 @ 7:49am CDT
On the plus side, even when they completely botch pre-order fulfillment like with Netflix wave 1, there's still plenty of stock at retail later. Put another way, I'm annoyed I'm not getting them yet and don't know when I will, but I'm confident I'll get them in my hands when they come out.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 17th, 2020 @ 12:08pm CDT
AcademyofDrX wrote:Has anyone actually had their others fulfilled? I ordered in the first minutes of availability and also got the "high demand" email. If they don't have the stock for distribution and don't know when they'll get it, then I don't know what else people expect to happen.
On the plus side, even when they completely botch pre-order fulfillment like with Netflix wave 1, there's still plenty of stock at retail later. Put another way, I'm annoyed I'm not getting them yet and don't know when I will, but I'm confident I'll get them in my hands when they come out.
^This. After wave 1, I really had zero expectation that Walmart would actually deliver before I found them in stores. It would have been a pleasant surprise, but I definitely wasn't counting on it.
I have a back-up plan order for the spoiler pack on Pulse, now I'm wondering who will come through first and who will end up canceled.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 17th, 2020 @ 12:11pm CDT
Emerje wrote:I pre-pay for my pre-orders using PayPal, you'd think that would make my orders a priority since they already have my money, but I guess Walmart only cares about the money, not the service.
Emerje
Wow, after the trails and tribulations you had with the wave 1 spoiler pack, really hope for your sanity it doesn't repeat itself this wave.
Posted by o.supreme on October 17th, 2020 @ 3:26pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on October 18th, 2020 @ 1:44am CDT
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Emerje wrote:I pre-pay for my pre-orders using PayPal, you'd think that would make my orders a priority since they already have my money, but I guess Walmart only cares about the money, not the service.
Emerje
Wow, after the trails and tribulations you had with the wave 1 spoiler pack, really hope for your sanity it doesn't repeat itself this wave.
Actually, the spoiler pack was the only thing that didn't give me trouble, it was literally everything else that they managed to screw up one way or another. Ended up having to buy everything at retail which was its own headache when PayPal screwed up the refund. Delays I can deal with, I just hope they don't have any more of those computer errors that a lot of had last time where orders were frozen in their system without ever being shipped after supposedly being packed and ready to go.
Seriously, now do these multi-billion dollar stores like Walmart and Target still use such terrible technology?
Emerje
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 19th, 2020 @ 5:50pm CDT
-Soundwave and the cassette retools with him were originally planned for mainline Earthrise, but there weren't enough slots for them and they had too much retooling for a Selects, so they got dumped here
-Elita and Bee replaced 2 originally planned and less desirable repaints, one of which wasn't specified and the other allegedly being a "flesh-colored" Ironhide repaint with green eyes and windows (no idea what that's supposed to be, maybe one of the Sparkless from the show or something from the next season?)
-Elita was going to be a Selects release that got moved to fill a spot
-Bee was a very last-minute addition due to how long it took to get the license from VW, if they couldn't license him he would have required a completely new alt mode and I guess they weren't intending to make that
-Some of the development budget for Bee had to get spent on the licensing, which is why Bee didn't get new accessories, otherwise he was supposed to have his gun that ended up getting shunted to the weapon pack
-Licensing is 100% the reason for Selects Bug Bite using Cliffjumper's alt mode, they would have had to spend money that isn't in the Selects budget to try to license him and even then VW could have just said no, so they didn't try
Posted by Overcracker on October 19th, 2020 @ 5:54pm CDT
Not sure what this is:
Aaaaaand there he is:
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 19th, 2020 @ 6:12pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Not sure what this is:
It is basically some playdoh that is hiding some energon cubes, so you can mine them.
Posted by Overcracker on October 19th, 2020 @ 6:27pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on October 20th, 2020 @ 6:38am CDT
If you wonder why it matters if I buy them online or in store, it's because I used PayPal Credit to buy them which gave me 6 months to pay for them interest free. Having to buy them out of pocket in store is really going to eat into my winter budget which isn't nearly as high as it is the rest of the year thanks to Christmas, heating and other extra winter expenses.
Emerje
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 20th, 2020 @ 7:53am CDT
Emerje wrote:Welp, Walmart canceled my Deluxe pre-orders "due to high demand". Again I feel like ordering these shortly after they went up and paid for them in full that same day should have made my order a priority, but I guess they don't see things that way.
If you wonder why it matters if I buy them online or in store, it's because I used PayPal Credit to buy them which gave me 6 months to pay for them interest free. Having to buy them out of pocket in store is really going to eat into my winter budget which isn't nearly as high as it is the rest of the year thanks to Christmas, heating and other extra winter expenses.
Emerje
I'm not sure how soon any of us ordered matters, I think everyone is getting cancelled because Walmart is flat out incompetent, yet keeps getting exclusives.
Posted by Overcracker on October 20th, 2020 @ 11:08am CDT
Love the G2 style head with the bright blue mouth plate and red eyes.
Definitely much better than I was expecting.
Posted by Sabrblade on October 20th, 2020 @ 11:12am CDT
G2 style head?Overcracker wrote:Love the G2 style head with the bright blue mouth plate and red eyes.
Posted by Overcracker on October 20th, 2020 @ 11:38am CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on October 20th, 2020 @ 1:11pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Welp, Walmart canceled my Deluxe pre-orders "due to high demand". Again I feel like ordering these shortly after they went up and paid for them in full that same day should have made my order a priority, but I guess they don't see things that way.
If you wonder why it matters if I buy them online or in store, it's because I used PayPal Credit to buy them which gave me 6 months to pay for them interest free. Having to buy them out of pocket in store is really going to eat into my winter budget which isn't nearly as high as it is the rest of the year thanks to Christmas, heating and other extra winter expenses.
Emerje
I feel ya dog. Even though they have issues packing their items I use Amazon all the time so I can pay with gift cards and not spend cash.
Posted by Overcracker on October 20th, 2020 @ 1:31pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 20th, 2020 @ 2:27pm CDT
Posted by o.supreme on October 20th, 2020 @ 2:35pm CDT
Posted by aronjlove on October 20th, 2020 @ 2:48pm CDT
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 20th, 2020 @ 3:27pm CDT
aronjlove wrote:When I saw the Nemesis spoiler pack was on Pulse I ordered it there. Who knows when I'll get it but Pulse hasn't cancelled an order yet.
I have a pre-order from each. Just waiting to see who ships first so I can cancel the other.
Posted by o.supreme on October 20th, 2020 @ 3:33pm CDT
Amazon is #1 always (if they have it). #2 would be Walmart (just because I have a credit card and can pay it off at my leisure, though that does leave me open for terrible customer service, I understand), then #3-all other online retailers, because while they may be the most dependable, as we have seen, they are often subject to delays as well, and are often more expensive than some of the other outlets.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on October 21st, 2020 @ 8:46am CDT
For pre-orders, I go Amazon first, then Pulse, as neither of them have let me down with a cancellation yet. Then Target next with Walmart last of the main 4 before moving onto BBTS, TF Source etc. I really wish Amazon carried selects (themselves, not 3rd party sellers).
Posted by PrimeTime on October 23rd, 2020 @ 1:26pm CDT
Posted by SGMLordMirage on October 23rd, 2020 @ 10:03pm CDT