Hasbro Toy Shop Siege Deluxes Blowout and Promo Code!

william-james88 wrote:

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

Which is disappointing. Not exactly unexpected because of them being Micromasters, but still. I think the G1 cassettes are basically the right size compared to Generations figures going by the cartoon: Smaller than minibots but not by too much.

On the other hand, with them being smaller you would probably be able to stick at least 2 in TR Soundwave's chest because it was designed for toys larger than the G1 cassettes.

Everything was sold out other than the micromasters, but was able to get them with the promo code and free shipping, so was still worth getting them.

The "HASFAM18" code also works for the same discount and it works on everything, not just new stuff. Got all three Micro Master sets and tossed in PotP Tailgate for $8 each.

Emerje

Man, HTS was raided faster than I could imagine. I was able to pick up one of the micromaster sets, but every deluxe sold out as I was trying to purchase them. This was one heck of a deal, which makes me question wether or not this was intentional. If it was, Hasbro seems to be heavily in the holliday spirit, if not, someone isn't going to have a job at Hasbro much longer.

It probably was intentional, but it's so shocking that I can hardly believe it. What a steal.

starrhero wrote:Man, HTS was raided faster than I could imagine. I was able to pick up one of the micromaster sets, but every deluxe sold out as I was trying to purchase them. This was one heck of a deal, which makes me question wether or not this was intentional. If it was, Hasbro seems to be heavily in the holliday spirit, if not, someone isn't going to have a job at Hasbro much longer.

It probably was intentional, but it's so shocking that I can hardly believe it. What a steal.

Yeah, I'm a little skeptical to.

I was just on TFW2005 bashing HTS for being so slow when it came to releasing new figures. And how I rarely even shopped there anymore then a half hour latter BAM!

Someone posted news that HTS had them and the dlx's were only $9.99, $7.99 with the promo and free shipping. I manage to get Prime, Meg, Sideswipe and Tread. Which were the main ones I wanted anyway (along with Shockwave).

Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Eh, it happens. I dreamed there was a Combiner Wars Armada Sideways once. Out of curiosity, what did your dream come up with for them, mold and member-wise?

In other news, while I personally did not do anything about that deal, I feel I can fairly confidently say I'm getting Skytread and Hound for Christmas because of this, having passed the info on before everything sold out.

I nabbed three of the deluxes with no problem! I am thankful for the local tip I got about them.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Eh, it happens. I dreamed there was a Combiner Wars Armada Sideways once. Out of curiosity, what did your dream come up with for them, mold and member-wise?

It was mostly matching the rumors - Siege Sideswipe mold repainted in G2 colors, Skytread repainted for Slamdance. Don't know if my brain came up with anything for the Battlemaster though.

A lot of people seem to be quite pleased with Siege Hound right now, so I thought I'd share some of my own opinions of the figure. He does look VERY cool. I had originally intended to pass on him, sticking with my Autobot Specialists Hound (redecoed Universe 2008/Classics 2.0/Henkei mold). When I saw him in store, though, I couldn't resist.

Siege Hound is a solid figure. There isn't a lot of obvious gapping in the robot mode, which is quite refreshing. He sports a very dark green this time around, a bit darker than I think we're used too, but the same too can be said of the red used on Siege Sideswipe. Maybe this is part of how Hasbro conveys the "darker and grittier" direction they're going with in Transformers: SIEGE, along with the painted on "battle damage" details. Hound's accessories are great too. He's got his shoulder cannon/holo-emitter, a rifle, and an ammo clip. The three can be arranged in several different configurations. I do wish that, instead of the ammo clip, the shoulder cannon had a missile or something to put in it. It looks kinda "empty" as is, and putting his gun in there leaves him without a handheld weapon.

Hound's Transformation is fun and mostly intuitive. I got hung up on figuring out where to put his arms in alt mode for a while, though. I don't use the instructions unless I absolutely have to. After studying some pictures of Hound in "Jeep" mode for a while, I figured out home the arms work. It's a little sad that they just kind of contort a bit and lazily lay under everything else in vehicle mode. At least they do tab in, but I feel like they could have used some empty space in there a little more creatively. I also have some issue with how the legs fold out and back in during transformation. There's definitely a bit of clearance issue getting them past the roll cage. It's not horrible, and there are a few joints that can help, but you still end up having to "bend" some plastic around other plastic just a bit to get things where they need to go (unless I'm missing something really big).

I'm not sure yet if Siege Hound will be my "display" Hound in the future. I'm sticking with the Autobot Specialist version for now. I did give him the Siege version's gun, though. There is a lot to like about Siege Hound, but I feel, for me at least, the Specialist version has such a good grasp on both the G1 cartoon silhouette, colors, and details that it's hard to really surpass it, especially when Siege Hound skews more G1 toy accurate with the bronze stripe detailing and the stars on the shoulders. I'll post some comparison pics later tonight of Siege, Autobot Specialist, and Unite Warriors Hound.

I'm so over hts having things on sale but never in stock. I was excited when I saw this but lost it when I saw where

I got messaged at work by a member in a Line chat saying the deluxes were at HTS at $9.99. I didn't believe him, went to look at HTS as I was ending my lunch break, saw it was true with the 20% off coupon on top of it, and jumped.

I was going to wait to find them in stores, but at $8 a deluxe and a total of $33.89, when the total would be around $85, I couldn't say no to $50 off.

so now, just to keep an eye on Leaders, battlemasters, and micromasters in stores. Wasn't concerned about getting the micromasters online yet, they can wait for the store.

That moment when you spent all day searching for Siege deluxes just to have them pop up and sell out in the span of driving home... I could punch a kitten right now. Ten kittens!!!

Cheetron wrote:I'm so over hts having things on sale but never in stock. I was excited when I saw this but lost it when I saw where

It's a problem whenever an online store has something on sale - big runs on the inventory are unrestrained by proximity, physically going through the aisles, and checkout lines.

Normally I'm all over this stuff - but I missed this until it was too late. All out of stock except Micros. Bummer....

Damn it. I never see these articles in time to take advantage of them.

I learned something fun today while at one of my local Targets. Turns out, there is a reason inventory trackers aren't working to locate these figures remotely. Target is blocking tracking from all external sources. The associate showed me that the items are even blocked from displaying on Target's website, unless you're accessing it from an employee's device. This was all done to make it so you must go into a Target store to look up an item. Want to guess why the change was made? Scalpers, everyone's best friends! Manufacturers of items like the NES Classic were getting pissed that their products were being scalped so easily, and put pressure on retailers to take measures against it.
Now, I have only the associate's word to go off of here, but if he made all this up, he has one hell of an imagination. So, I'm taking this on as fact. As if we needed another reason to hate scalpers...

Lore Keeper wrote:I learned something fun today while at one of my local Targets. Turns out, there is a reason inventory trackers aren't working to locate these figures remotely. Target is blocking tracking from all external sources. The associate showed me that the items are even blocked from displaying on Target's website, unless you're accessing it from an employee's device. This was all done to make it so you must go into a Target store to look up an item. Want to guess why the change was made? Scalpers, everyone's best friends! Manufacturers of items like the NES Classic were getting pissed that their products were being scalped so easily, and put pressure on retailers to take measures against it.
Now, I have only the associate's word to go off of here, but if he made all this up, he has one hell of an imagination. So, I'm taking this on as fact. As if we needed another reason to hate scalpers...

I have been checking inventory checkers and they have shown nothing but have been getting in the micros, weapons and even today the deluxes. Brickseek said they had nothing in stock so there might be some truth to this.

Lore Keeper wrote:That moment when you spent all day searching for Siege deluxes just to have them pop up and sell out in the span of driving home... I could punch a kitten right now. Ten kittens!!!

I am totally stealing that line.

sold out

i bet it was accidental anyways

poop.

Here are some comparison shots of various Deluxe Class Hounds we've gotten over the past 10 years. I know Seibertron has some great comparison shots of Siege Hound along with the Universe 2008/Classics 2.0 version and the Combiner Wars version already. However, I've got those two molds in their different decos, one for a joint Takara/Hasbro Asia release and the other from Takara's Unite Warriors. Siege Hound is definitely the shortest, with Universe 2008 Hound being about a millimeter or two taller. Combiner Wars Hound is easily the tallest and bulkiest, but the difference isn't quite as drastic as I first thought from earlier pictures. They all look good in their own way, honestly, but THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE (on my display shelf)!

Autobot Specialists Hound and Siege Hound


Siege Hound and Unite Warriors Hound


All Three, Ready for Battle!

I agree with your assessment in your previous post 100% - had same difficulties with the arms and found the clearance issue annoying. However he is a great figure and most of my classics collection is in storage so the siege figures will be my display line for the time being. Though the original generations hound is great (and ravage was an awesome extra), his transformation had more issues due to it being a bit fiddly and his legs kept popping off no matter how careful I was. I skipped the CW autobot ARK figures as had too many repaints already...

love the universe hound so the siege one is an easy pass

Siege Hounds Legs are ugly and too boxy, I'm coming round to liking the vehicle mode but as a nod to the action master attack cruiser. just needs a new head on him so he's not pretending to be Hound and can be used alongside the classics as it's own thing. I can see it being a Roadbuster repaint as an exclusive later on rather then Detritus who may be a little bit too obscure, but looking forward to what ever repaints it may get.

Wolfman Jake wrote:All Three, Ready for Battle!

I can see now that if Siege Hound had a proper neck like the other two there would be even less of a height discrepancy between the three. As it is the difference in height is pretty minor.

Emerje

Got my shipping notice from HTS. I'll have Hound and Sideswipe tomorrow. I love how fast their shipping is.

Yep, I got my shipping notice too. I bought Prime and Megs separately. Then I bought the deluxes.

"pretending to be hound"
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blackeyedprime, you're talking out your exhaust port. Behold:





If any figure can be said to be "pretending to be Hound", it's the Combiner Wars/Unite Wars toy since that's Hound's head on Swindle's body. But the Siege toy? Hound all the way.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"pretending to be hound"
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blackeyedprime, you're talking out your exhaust port. Behold:





If any figure can be said to be "pretending to be Hound", it's the Combiner Wars/Unite Wars toy since that's Hound's head on Swindle's body. But the Siege toy? Hound all the way.

Woah! Your G1 Hound has more battle damage details than the Siege toy!
In all fairness, that's how all of my G1 figures look that aren't some sort of reissue.

This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

Use Reprolabels.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

Use Reprolabels.

Do they make replacement stickers? I thought they just did customization.

That G1 Hound isn't mine at all, it's most likely Seibertron's. In case you couldn't tell, those photos are from the site gallery. Actually, I think there's at least 2 diffent G1 Hounds there because the one in Jeep mode from his individual gallery and the one from the Siege comparison pic have little to know chrome or paint wear compared to the solo robot mode pic. The fresh stickers could be Reprolabels, but that doesn't explain the difference in the chrome.

My G1 Hound for the record is really beat up: Missing both mirrors and one headlight (I lost it when taking some of his supposed-to-be-chrome parts - they were just bare ivory-color plastic - out to spraypaint them silver. Not chrome but it seemed better than bare) and IIRC one tire. His spare tire is made from a painted piece of dowel with a home-printed decal glued on, his jerry can is a gas can cut off from a rack of three fused together that were about the right size that I glued a peg to and then painted, and the stand for his machine gun (my only weapon for him) is a plasticard bodge substitute.

Lore Keeper wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

Use Reprolabels.

Do they make replacement stickers? I thought they just did customization.

They also make replacement sticker sheets, reproductions of the originals in the case of G1 Transformers and enhanced reproductions of the Japanese sticker sets in the case of Power Rangers (though there have been some notable goofs there, one of which still hasn't been fixed last I saw). It's where their name comes from: Reproduction Labels. Now, they don't make simple replacement stickers for modern TFs at this time (although I think they should start doing so what with stickers having returned in a big way). But if you're dealing with a G1 toy or reissue thereof, you're good. At least unless you want Sunstreaker's headlights grumble grumble.

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

That sucks, you could always write to Hasbro directly and see what they say, you never know.

Ad yeah, reprolabels doesnt have the same stickers (they do for G1 toys but not for these), instead its different stickers for customizing.

william-james88 wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

That sucks, you could always write to Hasbro directly and see what they say, you never know.

Ad yeah, reprolabels doesnt have the same stickers (they do for G1 toys but not for these), instead its different stickers for customizing.

Will, he said that he bought the reissue Devastator. So Reprolabels does have replacement stickers, because that's a G1 toy.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:"pretending to be hound"
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blackeyedprime, you're talking out your exhaust port. Behold:

If any figure can be said to be "pretending to be Hound", it's the Combiner Wars/Unite Wars toy since that's Hound's head on Swindle's body. But the Siege toy? Hound all the way.

Admittedly its no way near as bad as the combiner wars Hound but his lega are way too blocky that it has to stand legs spread (whare as the G1 suffers from only being to have his legs close together from blockiness...) but both wheels on each leg for the siege and the bulk for the extra weapons ports compromises the figure some what. Vehicle mode it aint hound, below the waist it aint hound, and thats the important part because thats the bit that contains the exhaust port... I'ts just not for me, other than to use as an additional background bot or left in vehicle mode (with wishful thinking that titan master or micromasters could be seated in it).

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:This makes me think. Hasbro should allow some sort of service to provide replacement sticker sheets for people that want to make their old toys shiny and new. I recently bought the reissue Devastator and screwed up one of his stickers beyond repair. I don't want to scam Walmart by returning it for a replacement, but I don't want to drop another 75 bucks on a new toy.

That sucks, you could always write to Hasbro directly and see what they say, you never know.

Ad yeah, reprolabels doesnt have the same stickers (they do for G1 toys but not for these), instead its different stickers for customizing.

Will, he said that he bought the reissue Devastator. So Reprolabels does have replacement stickers, because that's a G1 toy.

Ah dammit, since he said no to reprolabels before i thought he was referring to Titan Devy.

Yes, yes, since thats G1 toy then reprolabels definitely has you covered.

The ridiculous amount of toys being released is getting the better of me.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:Got my shipping notice from HTS. I'll have Hound and Sideswipe tomorrow. I love how fast their shipping is.

Well yeah it helps when you are much closer to the source. . Mine wont arrive until next Tuesday.

*Also for US residents*, keep in mind there will be no postal mail TODAY Wednesday December 5th, so anything you are expecting *may* be delayed by an extra day.

"below the waist it ain't hound" By that logic nobody with a changed leg setup is the same character so I guess you would say Siege and Universe Sideswipe aren't Sideswipe, Universe Prowl isn't Prowl, and so on. Even if effort is put into shared details.

"vehicle mode it ain't hound"

Oh, really?

Also, fantasy nothing, he can seat Titan Masters:

Lore Keeper wrote:Do they make replacement stickers? I thought they just did customization.

Just to clarify. Heck yes they do! That's how they started. Repro, as in reproduction. They are all about renovating/restoring the old toys. It wasn't until later that they got into all the fun cutom stuff, but they still produce the G1 stickers.

Where does the middle barrel come from on Chromias cannon?? The muzzle is from the sight on her machine gun but not sure where the rest comes from

the vehicle modes next to each other just proves my point, ones a pear and ones an apple in my eyes. Or ones a jeep and ones not quite jeep, not quite apc, not quite cybertronian, not quite Roadbuster, not quite Hound, not quite attack cruiser.

The titan master seated in it reminds me of the car in Bad Taste, so thats actually another win for the vehicle mode, just needs a sticker to go behind the clear plastic.

blackeyedprime wrote:the vehicle modes next to each other just proves my point, ones a pear and ones an apple in my eyes. Or ones a jeep and ones not quite jeep, not quite apc, not quite cybertronian, not quite Roadbuster, not quite Hound, not quite attack cruiser.

If you don't think those vehicle modes look similar, with one being a Cybertronian/futuristic analog of the other...
I..
I just don't even know what to tell you.

How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

I dont think it matters though, I am suprised the alt mode is even being put to question in a line where the intent is that the alt modes are new and not supposed to be G1 while the robot modes remain very imbedded within the traditional G1 design.

william-james88 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

I dont think it matters though, I am suprised the alt mode is even being put to question in a line where the intent is that the alt modes are new and not supposed to be G1 while the robot modes remain very imbedded within the traditional G1 design.

Not to mention the fact that literally everything about the toy just screams “Hound”!

Green? Check
Rugged? Check
Wheels with tires? Check
Big engine block? Check

Now if the alt-mode had been, say, some sort of flying disc, I’d understand.

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

Well, it's not like it should, since there wouldn't have been Jeeps on Cybertron four million years before they were invented on Earth.

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

Well, it's not like it should, since there wouldn't have been Jeeps on Cybertron four million years before they were invented on Earth.

I was kinda thinking that the white stars are way too Earth military for a Cybertronian. Those emblems would have been something he picked up after scanning the Jeep he scanned.

Soundwave has light piping? Has light piping returned!?!? If so, color me extremely happy. Light piping is one of the coolest features of Transformers toys in my opinion.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:How exactly does Siege Hound NOT look like a jeep!?

I dont think it matters though, I am suprised the alt mode is even being put to question in a line where the intent is that the alt modes are new and not supposed to be G1 while the robot modes remain very imbedded within the traditional G1 design.

Not to mention the fact that literally everything about the toy just screams “Hound”!

Green? Check
Rugged? Check
Wheels with tires? Check
Big engine block? Check

Now if the alt-mode had been, say, some sort of flying disc, I’d understand.

Also:
Splashers? Check
The front splashers protrude from the hood? Check
Mirrors on the front splashers? Check
Windshield? Check
Turret-mounted gun? Check
Supplemental fuel vessel on the rear? Check