I dunno, he did shelfwarm pretty badly for a while.
It's hard to call anything a "shelf warmer" of any degree in an era that gave us Inferno, Scavenger, Transquito and Injector
Shelves had to be made out of asbestos to resist bursting into flames sporadically.
Unfortunately, not even the fire wanted Transquito or Injector while Inferno was fire-proof.
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Ah yes, I remember the Great Transquito Infestation of the late 1990's.
I remember actually finding a BWII Blackarachnia at TRU amongst the wall of Transquitos and Beast Machines Mega Megatrons.
I remember actually finding a BWII Blackarachnia at TRU amongst the wall of Transquitos and Beast Machines Mega Megatrons.
I remember seeing Transquitoes as late as 2002. Maybe later. TRUs cleared out of the gigantic BM Cheetors before they completely cleared out of them.
Yeah, just don't go inside . . . they're all gonna get out of their boxes eventually.
Don't they all break eventually? IIRC it has some form of GPS
Mine wasn't GPS broken. One of the wings snapped at the hinge, while the bug face's spring-loaded pins broke out of their slots, disconnecting the face parts from the body. All the gold plastic parts are still intact.
Looking it up, it appears that it's the Japanese release, Bigmos, who spontaneously crumbles. That's probably what I half-remembered.
They're out there.
Now I'm flashing back to my local TRU having a Supreme Cheetor drifting around the store for more than ten years after it was supposed to clearance out. Just the one, always the same figure. I stopped seeing it after a while, but I'm reasonably sure it's still there in the building, lurking behind the five pallets of Skylanders, waiting to see the light of day once more.
This particular store had two Supreme Cheetors and sold both of them. Yet Transquito remained.
The Mega pricepoint is cursed
Not if your name is "Polar Claw", "Scorponok", "Optimus Primal", "Megatron", "Blackarachnia", or "Cybershark".
Mega Tankor is still fantastic.