Walmart’s holiday Transformers bundles pair two Legacy or Studio Series deluxes for about $12.50 each, and the crew calls them perfect for Toys for Tots.

The Reactivate two-packs go up for order on Transformers Tuesday, November 14.

A first look at the Year of the Dragon figure shows a red retool of Steelbane, and a HasLab Deathsaurus test shot surfaces.

Diecast is back from racing school, and Don’s discovery of Ross senior discount Tuesday gives the episode its title.

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Transformers Fanstream Announced for November 14

Transformers Tuesday lands on November 14, when the Reactivate two-packs should go up for order. One host expects no stream, just a social media push. Another will snatch up the Optimus Prime set as soon as he sees it. The crew expects the packs to sell mostly online rather than on store shelves. One host likes that the designs come from an older, pre-War for Cybertron design era. [Source: TFW2005]

Walmart Holiday Transformers Deluxe Bundles Listed

Walmart’s holiday bundles are the regular retail deluxes, sold two to a pack. The deal works out to about $12.50 per deluxe. One host calls them Walmart’s own Elf on a Shelf Warmer and perfect for donation boxes. Another rediscovered his Studio Series 86 Perceptor in a purge and says everyone should own one. One host suspects the bundles are Hasbro’s way of clearing Walmart’s excess inventory. Another notes that parents buying them could grow interest in the brand. Two unidentified Studio Series bundles spark guesses about what is inside. [Source: Walmart]

Possible First Look at the Dragon Year Transformers Toy

The Year of the Dragon figure will be revealed at a show in Singapore in early December. One host says it is a red retool of Premier Edition Steelbane from The Last Knight, with the wings removed and a shield added. Another would consider it at a fair price, though he is leaning toward collecting vintage only. The crew admits they have to set their own endpoint. [Source: TFW2005]

Transformers HasLab Deathsaurus Prototype Image

A Deathsaurus test shot surfaces, and one host calls it one of the most boring test shots in a while. Backers want only a tracking number and good quality-control reports. Talk turns to the next Transformers HasLab, promised for 2024. Guesses range from Devastator to Metroplex, and one host does not want an Animated Omega Supreme HasLab. [Source: TFW2005]

Vintage Transformers Activity Center Cardboard Playset

Rogue Toys is selling a Warren Transformers Activity Center cardboard playset for about $170. It looks unused. One host says it reads more like a G.I. Joe playset with an Autobot logo. Another calls these artifacts rare, especially complete, and is glad it is documented somewhere. [Source: Rogue Toys]

Five Faces of Darkness Part 1 With Ted Schwartz’s Original Rodimus Prime Dialogue

A video restores Ted Schwartz’s original Rodimus Prime dialogue to Five Faces of Darkness Part 1. One host suspects it came from an audio reel he bid on and lost. Another says Schwartz sounds more like Hot Rod. He thinks Dick Gautier better captured Rodimus Prime as the put-upon, reluctant leader. [Source: YouTube]

What We Got This Week

Don

Don’s Transformers this week include his first-ever BotBots, found at Ross for about $4 a pack. He picked up Studio Series Mirage and a second G2 deluxe from Ross. He also got the Walmart retro reissue Perceptor and Threezero’s MDLX Rodimus. From third parties, he got Fans Toys Variator, their take on Gears, and Fans Hobby’s Power Master Buster.

Diecast

Diecast got Fans Toys Diverge, a Swerve homage, and calls it one of the simplest Fans Toys figures to transform in years. At TFCon he bought the exclusives, including the Ocular Max black lion cassette and the Fans Hobby Predator jet. He also got a Joker-styled figure built from IDW Chromedome and a blue Batman-styled Ratbat. In the dealer room, he found the Walmart reissue Devastator for about $60. At Walmart, he added two more Crashbars.

Rob

Rob’s pickups this week were not Transformers.

Chris

Chris found BotBots eight-packs at Ross, including a house cat and a mallard. His big news is a Starlink satellite internet kit, which made this episode’s recording much smoother.

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