Transformers Earthspark Spin Changers and Tacticons found in US + Video Reviews

Well, that's one way to give TFs intended for younger kids in-scale human figures that won't just instantly get lost.

Broken, mutilated, scuffed up, and possibly chewed on, yes, but not immediately.

morganprime wrote:Found these guys earlier today but unfortunately a huge pass on these. They are charging $24.99 and the quality is that of Cyberverse or 5 Below figures. They look so cheap in hand but the price is steep. All the Megatrons had that swirly look on the silver plastic and he is TINY. Not a good look for this line at that price point I say hold off for inevitable clearance on these.

Everything you write makes sense, these arent targetted towards you (or us) in general. A small megatron won't speak to anyone who cares about scale, but to a parent, getting the main bad guy for $25 instead of $35 for a voyager, that speaks to them and their wallets. I did get all the deluxes, to do reviews, and while I don't recommend the megatron to anyone, I feel I get as much for my money with Twitch and Bumblebee as I do with Legacy Skids or Skullgrin. It's a different look and feel for sure, but those two had an enjoyable and novel transformation. I expected Bumblebee to be a bore, but that figure surprised me and the alt mode won me over. It felt like an improved version of the original deluxe generations/IDW design.

As for clearance, that could be inevitable in the US since these toys missed the 2022 holiday window but in Canada the deluxes are almost completely sold out at the Walmarts I go. They sold well for the holidays.

Also, as far as money goes, these are cheaper in Canada, so there's that too affecting my thoughts on value. They are $30CAD/$22 USD here. It's not a huge difference from $25, but that slightly lower price point makes them feel like they are in a seperate class from the Legacy toys.

Wasn't the MSRP listed at $20 for Deluxes like Cyberverse? What happened there?

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Wasn't the MSRP listed at $20 for Deluxes like Cyberverse? What happened there?

Emerje

Hasbro confirmed that was a mistake

Apologies, yes, the correct price for the figures would be $24.99. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

Well, ostensibly, not a lot of people watched Cyberverse on TV, either (the Sunday morning 6am time slot sure did it no favors), yet that show had a huge toyline whose presence continues to linger on the shelves and pegs to this day.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

It's lesser suscribed but it's also not an exclusive show. It's on Nickelodeon as well, so that means it's both on network and on a streaming service, so double the potential that other series like Prime had.

But anyways, the biggest correlation with toy sales is not with advertising or shows, it's the time of year. You won't find much interest here on the boards since the toyline isn't targetted at us.

But the toyline had a great interest in Canada simply for having affordable Transformers toys on shelves during the holidays as can be seen in this before and after pic of my local standee showing that 77% sold within just one month (that being the month of december).

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Wasn't the MSRP listed at $20 for Deluxes like Cyberverse? What happened there?

Emerje

Hasbro confirmed that was a mistake

Apologies, yes, the correct price for the figures would be $24.99. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Ironically, Pulse just yesterday listed the deluxes as back in stock, and they were $19.99 instead of the preorder $24.99. I ordered all 3, saved $15 from any preorder I would have made

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Just a thought, Since Earthspark is on Paramount+, one of the lesser subscribed streaming services, could it be possible that not a lot of people are watching it, and thus, there's no interest in the toy line?

Well, ostensibly, not a lot of people watched Cyberverse on TV, either (the Sunday morning 6am time slot sure did it no favors), yet that show had a huge toyline whose presence continues to linger on the shelves and pegs to this day.

Ahhh, but Cyberverse was available to watch on your cable provider's On Demand channel, that's how I watched it until the last couple of specials that were exclusive to Netflix. Nickelodeon hasn't added more episodes of Earthspark to their On Demand channel yet and might not at all.

So I scooped up the deluxes from Pulse at $19.99, and they arrived yesterday. I am loving them so far.

Megatron is definitely my favorite, as I was sort of expecting based on how much I love his character. i think he is a real fun toy. He is small, and definitely deserves a much bigger toy. But he is pretty awesome, and captures the look the Earthspark design pretty well. I love the shape of the cannon, and I love the shoulder design too. Legs are pretty nice, and I like swooshing his tiltrotor mode around. He is fun.

Bee is my 2nd favorite, I like him, he is pretty nice, and I promise the yellow in the pictures is far exaggerated compared to in-hand in terms of shading differences. I like the head sculpt a lot, and he has some nice presence. I kinda wish his legs had some more shape to them, but he's still good. The alt mode rocks too. "mid-life crisis" alt mode is right!

Twitch is my 3rd favorite. This isn't a slight on her, they are all 3 pretty close to me, it's just the other 2 are a bit more fun while Twitch is a little too fluid in a couple spots for my liking. I adore her head sculpt, and the shoulder rotors are awesome. I wish her legs were a little tighter in terms of joints, but she's still good.

By all means resist! It's my favorite part.

I got 1 step Wheeljack tonight. He is amazingly addictive.

See here for a video: https://twitter.com/D_Maximus_Prime/sta ... 73/video/2

This is extremely addicting

I really wish Bee had a waist swivel, and that his door were back mounted instead of shoulder mounted. I love his alt mode and his colors, but I think Cyberverse is still the better "evergreen" deluxe Bee

Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

Yeah, I too, am looking forward to fingering some transformers...

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I'll see myself out.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Has anyone found the finger banger one-step changers at retail? They're not even listed on Amazon yet.

Target's the only place that has any EarthSpark toys, and all they seem to have so far are the Deluxes, Warriors, and the Spin Changers.

Honestly, if this Elita's head would have rotated, I would have thought her perfect for her size class. Even so, she is a lot of fun, and I love this design for Elita.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Honestly, if this Elita's head would have rotated, I would have thought her perfect for her size class. Even so, she is a lot of fun, and I love this design for Elita.

The only thing that I don't like about that Elita appart the hollow bits and the lack of articulation and the lack of paint (all part of the obligatory package of that class) It's those two kibbletastic on top of the bot mode, she's basically superior to the Legacy deluxe.

In case anyone wanted to see how Cybertron Hardtop looked with the rest of the crew

Amazon has canceled two of the three Flip-Changers I had on Pre-order, Optimus Prime, and Wheeljack. Bumblebee has no expected ship date so I'm expecting that to be canceled as well. As of now, they still don't have the Tacticons listed for sale. In store, all I've seen are the deluxes, the Warriors minus Megatron, and the Spin Changers. Not sure if my Target isn't stocking them or if I just keep missing them.

As of right now my only experience with the flip changers are these from wave 2

A little weird that they'd cancel those pre-orders of all things. Maybe that just shows how popular simplified toys for little kids really are. I only ever see a bunch of Wheeljacks on the pegs.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:A little weird that they'd cancel those pre-orders of all things. Maybe that just shows how popular simplified toys for little kids really are. I only ever see a bunch of Wheeljacks on the pegs.

Emerje

I tend to believe they're not stocking them, something is really going on with this line and I'd love to know what.

After the joy that is Wheeljack's auto-transformation, I can't wait to get Swindle and Soundwave.

Thanks to Chuckdawg1999, we have a review for the latest Earthspark figures, One Step Soundwave and Swindle.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Flip Changers is a bit of a misnomer, I think tap and change describes better the technique needed to transform these figures. Swindle borrows a few design cues from its Combiner Wars figure with a softer pastel color pallet. Soundwave's design borrows more from the 2015 RID cartoon and the Prime-era Stealth Jet. As with previous one-step changes these make for great desk toys, but please, don't throw them in the air.

No one is going to buy Swindle for his charism:"the dude who fought over an empty truck".Because he fought instead of emptying it?No!It was practically empty,one of the two weirdest episode with the one where arachnamechs loose to wood stick.

Sharing this over here too for those that only visit this thread, to showcase the deluxe Bumblebee, here he is with the Kid Appeal crew

I love that pic

Just an update, my flip change Bumblebee, the only one NOT canceled by Amazon when I POd them has been pushed back to later in April, also no sign of Warrior Megatron although to be fair it was available briefly when the toys first dropped. I haven't seen any of the flip changers of finger bangers in stores by me and the finger bangers haven't shown up on Amazon yet. Very interesting.

I've now seen the finger-bangers at all of my local walmarts and targets, though at target they are on a shelf by themselves by the Jurassic toys for some reason

Anyone who is in Laval, Quebec, Canada, can come to the local Toys R Us to finger some transformers.
No idea of the price tho.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've now seen the finger-bangers at all of my local walmarts and targets, though at target they are on a shelf by themselves by the Jurassic toys for some reason

Good to know, I'll have to look next time I'm there. I guess someone monitors my complaining because Bumblebee got pushed up to tomorrow, same day as I'm getting the Prime and Primal Weaponizer two packs. Guess what I'll open first?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've now seen the finger-bangers at all of my local walmarts and targets, though at target they are on a shelf by themselves by the Jurassic toys for some reason

I noticed that too the other day. They were on the weird half shelf that juts out of the toy aisle for featured figures (as opposed to the full size endcap) with the JP stuff.

Emerje

Somebody was really listening, Warrior Megatron is up for order on Amazon.

Emerje wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've now seen the finger-bangers at all of my local walmarts and targets, though at target they are on a shelf by themselves by the Jurassic toys for some reason

I noticed that too the other day. They were on the weird half shelf that juts out of the toy aisle for featured figures (as opposed to the full size endcap) with the JP stuff.

Emerje

That is known as a "focal"

Yay?

So i found the one step Soundwave and Swindle in a Walmart this week, and what joys they are. I am giddy with excitement messing with them.

I only got Wheeljack from wave 1, but I think Swindle shares a transformation sequence with Optimus, and I like it. I love pulling the roof back to transform him, and i adore how he does a hop to transform back to truck mode once you push him over. And his truck mode is nice, and I like his robot mode too. He is an adorable little guy.

Soundwave is all new, and is super sleek. He feels like one of those things that you put on your fingers with 4 spots and if you moved your fingers around you could see different displays on the inside with the way he transforms. You swish the wings back for robot mode, and then he seamlessly slides into jet mode, it is nice. He is the sleekest of the 3 I own.

So in terms of the 3 I own, Swindle does the cute hop, Wheeljack is the fun one to flick, and Soundwave is the one that just glides between modes. all 3 are great, now i need to get my Cybertron Hardtop set up beside Swindle for a pic

i ended up getting the warrior Megatron in this week, and he is a joy. To be honest, if he had head movement, he would be superior to the deluxe. He has a waist, more foot articulation, the chest cockpit is real, and he just looks nicer with the paint. Again, I really wish his head moved, otherwise he's nigh perfect for a $15 toy.

It's been quiet on the Earthrise front ever since the line was launched all at once. Well, we are now in the year's second quarter and wave 2 is rolling out. Thanks to TF fans Nicholas, we now know that the wave 2 deluxes are out in the US. Optimus Prime and Shockwave were fund at a Walmart in the East Coast, the sighting was posted on the Botposing Facebook page along with an in hand image from Darren. Unlike wave 1, these are not fully new molds. Optimus Prime is a partial of Cyberverse Optimus while Shockwave is a straight redeco. Luckily though, Shockwave is not essential for the build a figure since he comes with an alternate robot arm.

A shame we’re not getting a screen accurate Shockwave, his design in the show is so sleek and fits his character perfectly.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:A shame we’re not getting a screen accurate Shockwave, his design in the show is so sleek and fits his character perfectly.

I'm hoping for a Warrior class figure to make up for this.

Emerje

Available to order now on Amazon, still using a placeholder name. Credit to TFWiki for posting the link.

Transformers TRA Terran Warrior Steve https://a.co/d/dsTPONz

Just ordered deluxe Prime thanks to Pulse, and I am ordering that Thrash now, thanks for the link

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Just ordered deluxe Prime thanks to Pulse, and I am ordering that Thrash now, thanks for the link

I knew those toys were garbage.

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I'll be going now.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Quick correction to something I missed. This figure is really far better than it should be.

Mine should be here sometime this week, excited to have him to put with his sister.

Got my Steve Thrash from Amazon Monday, he's pretty neat for a Warrior. Sure he lacks some articulation points (bicep and thigh swivels mainly) and his bike mode isn't perfect (his arm placement could be better in bike mode), but he sure is fun! He has really stiff joints, a slight ratchet in the knees, a clever transformation and the sidecar weapon mode is really cool, like I'm surprised this is the figure they chose to pull this gem out for. Colors and sculpt are top notch, too. This figure is just a few points of articulation away from being a Deluxe and I like him a lot more than Legacy Arcee et al for sure.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Got my Steve Thrash from Amazon Monday, he's pretty neat for a Warrior. Sure he lacks some articulation points (bicep and thigh swivels mainly) and his bike mode isn't perfect (his arm placement could be better in bike mode), but he sure is fun! He has really stiff joints, a slight ratchet in the knees, a clever transformation and the sidecar weapon mode is really cool, like I'm surprised this is the figure they chose to pull this gem out for. Colors and sculpt are top notch, too. This figure is just a few points of articulation away from being a Deluxe and I like him a lot more than Legacy Arcee et al for sure.
Emerje

I was impressed with everything you mentioned too, especially the tight joints. He's good enough that I don't think they're planning to redo him in Deluxe, and though I haven't posed them together yet, I think he'll be a great complement to Twitch.

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Emerje wrote:Got my Steve Thrash from Amazon Monday, he's pretty neat for a Warrior. Sure he lacks some articulation points (bicep and thigh swivels mainly) and his bike mode isn't perfect (his arm placement could be better in bike mode), but he sure is fun! He has really stiff joints, a slight ratchet in the knees, a clever transformation and the sidecar weapon mode is really cool, like I'm surprised this is the figure they chose to pull this gem out for. Colors and sculpt are top notch, too. This figure is just a few points of articulation away from being a Deluxe and I like him a lot more than Legacy Arcee et al for sure.
I was impressed with everything you mentioned too, especially the tight joints. He's good enough that I don't think they're planning to redo him in Deluxe, and though I haven't posed them together yet, I think he'll be a great complement to Twitch.
Emerje

What were you quoting? There's no text?

I too got my Thrash in as well. I tell you what, he is pretty neat. I enjoy him. His bike mode is pretty sweet too. He makes a good companion to Twitch.

Now, bring on the next 3 siblings!