Is this out in NZ retailers yet or has anyone got the inside word on when?

Much appreciated. Cheers

Look here bro.. near the bottom of ZIPPO's first post

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8767

if OMEGAPRIME pulls out u can ask ZIPPO if u can go next in line for him...

Cheaper than the stores if i've done my homework properly

Its sold
And slightly more expensive than the stores.

I wouldn't get to excited, he's not nearly as cohesive as HA BB. Has a huge car parts backpack, more so than the deluxe. . I'll wait for a sale personally.

im a sucker for not waiting but i realy wanted that toy and long haul we are seeing new legends classes so the new deluxes shouldnt be to far away i guess with in the next 2 weeks and sideswipe will be to ( probly going to be cased with more bumbleebees and not skids ..)

there is one listed here: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Ac ... 670278.htm

Cheers soundblaster. Looks like omegaprime has nabbed him.

Yeah i've seen on the reviews the dudes sporting an impressive backpack but I'm digging the scale of the HA line. Bumblebee next to leader prime is a good time. Barricade will be the holy Grail of this line! And maybe leader starscream if the rumours are true.

theres one on trademe and what is going on with the HA line here in New Zealand this is almost crazy

There's nothing "going on". No one is buying the HA line. Stores won't restock with new figures if old figures aren't selling. I don't see how this isn't simple to understand?

I assume they're just waiting for the Skids/Sideswipe case next year, so we don't get swamped with more Bumblebees. The pricing's to blame. Shame, Bumblebee's an absolutely fantastic toy, just not $80 worth of fantastic by any means.

that would make sense hasbro should try and get many diffrent toys into a wave and not so many repaints and maybe we wont have so many of these problems and maybe they should tell wearhouse poeple dont get in 33 devastators almost per store well east gate and south city in chch have that many each.............

Firstly, Hasbro NZ gets no say in what comes in a case. That's decided by Hasbro US. Secondly, if you were selling product you wouldn't tell a store 'don't buy too much of this product' would you? They want, hell they NEED to sell product so of course they're going to give stores whatever they ask for, even if it is 33 Devastators.

Though I have to admit i'm surprised you actually spelt Devastator correctly. Albeit without a capital D.

If memory serves, Hasbro NZ have indeed had some say into case ratios in the past. We were the only country to get the Alternators Prime/Prime/Ricochet/Rollbar case as far as I'm aware, but that was likely an exception.

They do have a history of avoiding cases that contain too many shelfwarmers and not enough new figures. Take, say, the Energon and Cybertron figures we missed out on in the Mega range - the likes of Dreadwing and Evac - both of whom shipped with figures already clogging shelves.

Makes sense to me!