Our very own "MegaPrime80" has grabbed an eyeful of the Transformers Animated Blitzwing figure in a Wal-Mart off Park and Tollway, near Plano Texas. While he has already ripped the little guy out of the package, he has graciously provided us a personal picture as proof of the sighting, which you may see in the full article. Happy hunting! Have you seen this guy too? Post in this thread to let us know!
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*packs bags, leaves for Texas*

Mine shipped from HasbroToyShop on the 11th. With shipping and everything it was just under $25. I figure $5 is less than I'd spend driving to Texas.

~Matt Booker

Picked up one at the Wal-Mart on Midway and 635. The box was beat to hell but the figure inside was okay.

who else is in this wave? Any reviews on this guy yet?

Lol last week I was at Wal-Mart and all the leaders had holes in their boxes. near the bottom.



I think I'll wait 'till He comes to stores here before I buy him. I have mods planing time yes(?).



Look on Youtube. Theres a bunch. I recommend Vangelus's though.

I dont do video reviews. They are unfailingly and and mostly full of

Yea, I don't very often watch them either, but Vangelus Is very most of the time.

I usually don't like video reviews. Poor camera work, no scripting, no editing, and way too long seem to be the norm for youtube transformer reviews.

And then the people don't take advice on how to improve them, because too many people say "good job!" in the face of a 20 minute review. (Seriously people, how can you have a 5 minute segment of the camera pointed at a blank shelf while you mutter nonsensically as you try to transform the figure off camera, and then think you did a good job? Editing is your friend!)

That being said, I like Peaugh's reviews. Usually at 5 or 6 minutes, he transforms them and not only manages to stay ON CAMERA while he does it, he gets his hands out of the way and mentions each step.

He mentions a couple things of note for each mode, transforms it, does a few quick size comparisons and that's it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ49RvA-o1g

Give it a look, Hunter.

~Matt Booker

on my youtube acc most people i subscribe to are reviwes like sean long and peaugh. http://www.youtube.com/user/transformersfan100

I have a feeling I won't see this guy for a while. Most stores I visit are packed with Bulkhead and Megatron voyagers...I doubt they'll be any room on the shelves for new stuff even if stores get it!

Found one in northern Illinois this morning.

ugh come the cinci area!!!!!! *goes to call walmart for the third time in 3 days* UPDATE: I just called walmart looking for blitzwing and i talked to a guy saying that they are taking old toys off the shelves and putting out new ones! so blitzwing in a few days here i come!

I've seen him at Wal-mart here too, along with Universe Galvatron and Acid Storm. Saw Universe Powerglide and Onslaught too

wow at walmart for galv and acid? i found them at tru a while back but now walmart that makes 3 stores that have them tru,kohls and walmart.

I'm iffy on the figure, but BlitzWing has always been a favorite of mine, so most likely I'll get him when I see him.

Do you like him?
Why is everyone posting - "i saw him" with out opening it and saying " i did/did not like him"??

His awesomeness is just assumed.

Seriously, though. How is he?

~Matt Booker

Why are some people going crazy for this figure? The idea is great (triple changer, triple heads, triple personality), but the toy is awful in my opinion. The plane mode is squat with very noticeable parts of his tank mode on display (even his cartoon model manages to look sleeker than the toy). The tank is squashed up too.

Seriously, I can understand why some people like the Animated design but my point here is that Blitzwing seems to fail to live up to the cartoon model.

More importantly, are we ever going to get these in Japan?!

*plans on picking up a swag when in Australia in September anyway*

SCORE!!! Got'em this morning...

Walmart had him for $19.96...used my $5.00 off McD coupon ($19.99 or more...they took it!). Final price, plus tax = $16.16!

To the naysayers...keep talking yourself outta liking this figure...more for the Blitz-fans! That would actually help out a lot as scarce as this figure is right now!

Sh1t. I spotted him here in SC, (so ha ha)and I had the money to get him, but I didn't bring ma wallet. I'll have to get him When I get Bulkhead next time.



I shlap myself now.

Quote For Truth.

~Matt Booker

Lol I got Blitzwing a week ago here in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He's hit here in full force. Great toy. Just a great toy

Got mine from HTS today. He has his faults, but I can't help thinking he's great. His jet mode has some issues with gaps (that they could've fixed with a slide joint or two.) I also think his treads could've been made smaller to let them mesh with the jet mode better. (This would've made his treads rectangle shaped [give or take] instead of triangle shaped. ) They also don't lock in very well during jet mode and not at all during tank mode (but that's an advantage, I think. Sort of like shocks on tires, they're movable to adjust a bit for rough terrain.)

The jet mode issues I can accept because of Blitzwing's insanity. As in, "It flies, but it doesn't look so pretty."

Galactic Power and Abilities sounds like a list of positive things, but on Blitzwing they're listed as faults. (No doubt flawed on purpose to handicap the raw of Blitzwing.)

The tank mode is made of win. (G.I. Joe fans will recognize a definite HISS feeling from it.) There's a gap issue where the wings fold together, but I quickly stopped noticing it. Could've been fixed by adding a couple of latching pieces on the wing edges.

The helmet should've been a solid piece of plastic instead of the flexible rubber material.

Also, the head consists of a center post on which the helmet sits, and just below the helmet the faces are mounted on the post as a separately turnable piece. The problem comes in when you find out that the center post itself is turnable, and that different positions give it slightly different angles.

Perhaps this was so the head could lean one way or the other, since it's not on a balljoint?

Either way, it's a dumb idea. The post is near impossible to turn precisely unless you take off his head. You'll get it in just the right position so it lines up good in jet mode, and then during transformation it turns slightly on you, causing the post to sit at an angle.

(I think I'm going to have a go at it with some super glue to stop the center post from moving.)

It would've been nice for the cannons to fold down over his shoulders in alt-mode, and it looks like there's the shape of a hinge molded in, but it's just the shape of one. Looks like it was tossed out so the cannons can fire the projectiles.

The last thing I should mention is the wings get in the way of the arm articulation, but I'm thinking of a way to fix that.

Sorry this review is kind of rambling, but it's not so much a review as a few words because Hunter complained that people haven't said much about Blitzwing after they get Blitzwing.

It's 5ish a.m. here and I haven't been to bed yet because of video games and almost (but not quite) too much tequila. Jose Quervo and pepsi. Woo, spellcheck!

Oh, and here's a picture from earlier in the day when I wasn't so wobbly.



Captioned either, "You missed! Hahahahahahaha!"

or

"Mr. Socko says my othzer hand iz lonely. Let me see your head!"

~Matt Booker

Thanks Matt!

Urgh, no problem. And no more tequila for me.

(That's the best one to describe a headache right now.)

Also, a quick correction to the post above.



For a while there, I thought Blitzwing's head was mounted at a wrong angle, till I was brave enough to just pull the helmet off and got a clear view of how the head works.


Oh, and something from the action pose thread that I've seen a lot of people on the internets wondering about.



It took me a while (and a lot of poking around and removing pieces) to figure out but they aren't there to give volume to his arms in robot mode like some people have suggested. (They would care about his arms being slightly flatter about as much as they cared about huge treads on the jet mode.)

Rather, they give volume to his arms in one mode, and lack of it in the other.

In jet mode, his wings have to stay level with the shape of the plane, cause, well, planes do that. But because of the way they designed the them (and that awful gapped area), the tank turrent needs the pieces that the wings are attached to to sort of decompress a bit or the turret won't sit level with the tank.

So in jet mode they are helping the wings to stay level, and in tank mode they compress to let the turret fit properly.

You can tell by removing one of the wing pieces in both modes, as well as observing how the shoulder pieces sit at the front of the jet mode and the back of tank mode.

I'm working on a way to alter the joints where the wings sit. More on that when I figure out the best way for that. (I'm also working on giving Leader Bulkhead a wrecking ball and individually articulated claws, but that's halfway done and I jump around on projects sometimes.)



So, anyone have a preferable caption to that picture?

It's not 'Slag with Bulkhead's decapitated head', but I was amused. Especially with the altered facial expression of the Headmaster \ puppet.

~Matt Booker

The hands are perfect for crossing his arms and looking rather annoyed.

~Matt Booker

Looking annoyed is the best way to look busy and right now Blitz looks really busy.

I am so behind with this line it hurts.

Definitely want a Blitzwing but my sights right now are on V Prime, Soundwave and LC Megatron.

Than maybe I'll get Blitzwing.

Blitzwing is worth it! (But then again, I don't like Voyager Prime and already have Soundwave.)

His wings are a tad annoying unless you mod them like I did. In that pose they'd be sticking straight out at the camera, because they moved with the arms.

And he's great fun with Activators Bumblebee.

Yeah, I know I already posted that in the action pose thread, but not everybody looks at that.

~Matt Booker

wow, I guess I got lucky. I picked him up in woodstock GA back on the 7th.

*still hasn't found him*

this was funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMTCWEyrdo

booker, what did you do to modify Blitz's wings?

Still nothing around here

They are held in place by some plastic ridges. If you carve those off the wings can rotate. There are a couple of other places to carve, but mostly for aesthetics and to increase rotation by a little more.

I'd post pictures, but he's 8 hours away. Give me a couple days and I'll do a how-to guide in the workbench section of the customs garage.

It does not affect transformation, either.

~Matt Booker

i think this thread is a hoax, cause ive been looking for 3 weeks now and nothing no blitz no galvatron no acid storm WTF

I've seen Galvatron more frequently at both Target and Walmart. Only seen Acid Storm at Walmart, though. In Central California for reference

I checked hasbrotoyshop.com every day for a few weeks, so nyah.

If you see him, get him. If you end up not liking him, you can always endcap him. I'm looking for a spare to use for modding parts and I've got tasty alternators or a mint but loose Armada Unicron.

~Matt Booker

Here's a quick guide.

http://forums.TFormers.com/talk/index.php?showtopic=98620

~Matt Booker

I just bought Animated Blitzwing and Movie Big Daddy!

Wal-Mart in Pasadena, Texas on Fairmont has them all as well.

They had three of each left along with all of the new exclusives.