I'm normally not all for orange and blue mixing, but dion has become a bit of a fan favorite of mine as of late. Even went out and got the botcon version.
the real reason iirc was because Ariel has been made her own character in continuity that does not become Elita, while Erial is still supposed to turn into Elita. So basically there were two characters named Ariel, this change was to make them distinct.
@@yashbalaji3262 Except this set is not based on things that happened more recently in the comics but what happened back in season 2 of the G1 cartoon so that wouldn't make sense. I think the OP is correct but also a Disney licensing thing is probably also true.
i think for the packaging issue maybe switch to packing stuff in vehicle modes. packing most characters in the vehicle mode could save packaging materials like smaller boxes and inserts, theres some like the dino bots where robot mode might be better but vast majority vehicle packaging would be a space saver. as for distribution in canada its super wonky i can goto local walmarts and evolution (as of april 29th) just wasn't there checking 2 walmarts but gamestop is ahead of the game like the SS gamer, rotb, and evolution is all there
The last nisb transformers I got were Armada way back when, and they were packaged in vehicle mode. The boxes had little wasted space, and that made sense to me as a kid. Imagine my surprise when the first nisb transformer I got since then (Netflix WFC Soundwave) was packed in robot mode. So much empty space.
Already sold out!😭😭 Here's hoping this gets a general wider release later on, or maybe a single figure reissue like the Seekers. UPDATE: I bit the bullet and paid over $100 to an eBay scalper. But at least I got them.
This 2 pack was such a shock because it got found during a whole week of leaks and then they just appeared out of nowhere, wasn't even in any of the leaks either
I had an idea based on Bumblebee being B-147 or whatever. Dion can be D-ION or D-10N and Orion can be OR-ION. Like they are similar product lines. Anyway just thought I would share.
Ariel is a pass for me, I already own 3 versions of the Arcee mold and I don't like it enough to get a fourth (at least not in one solid colour, I WOULD consider an "Uprising Universe Transmutate" however, hint hint, Hasbro) But Dion looks amazing. Hopefully since Hasbro makes Kups pretty regularly, he'll go into the mix as a potential repaint in the future, as well. I don't think I can justify getting a 2-pack for one figure (I've done that with Lightning Collection and the spares always end up going into storage) but I'm excited for the potential future uses of these characters. Hasbro considers them viable trademarks to use, and they're popular enough to sell out quickly--and that's great news! It means we might start getting more of them in future lines.
Yeah, for real. I mean the set with Alpha Trion and Orion Pax was mainly available at Hasbro Pulse. I thought this set would be available there by now.
tbh, i thought that your waist joint AND the shoulder piece you have to transform on Dion were going to be so tight that it actually gave the figure stress marks... hmmmmmm. it almost sounds like my Kup figure was to tight in those areas that it scares me whenever i have to use it. yea my kup had that problem.
You got the good Dion. I just opened mine and his limbs are all loose and I have a hinge issue with the bed panels that flip down into his fists. I'm noticing very slight stress marks forming on the hinge prongs.
Oh god, I really wanted the Kup mold and finally got this pairing…and immediately realized why people don’t like it. Dion’s left arm might as well have never attached in the first place. I need to figure out a solution because as of right now this dude is permanently posed on my shelf out of fear of one of his limbs flying off at the slightest touch
Trash, absolute trash. The fact that there is so much hype surrounding this absolute embarrassment of a release left me very disappointed in our community. These companies think we're idiots!
Distribution is so awful that I haven't even seen Wave 1 of SS Rotb, didn't see wave 3 of legacy until April,and Wave 4 of legacy (except Scraphook) here in the US
I agree hasbro distribution is ridiculous. I live in the biggest city in KY and we have never gotten Titans at big box but other smaller cities in our state get them every wave.. same with other waves of figures.
Great review! I'm very much looking forward to this set- I do wanna say that these were officially revealed by Hasbro in our last Fan First stream which is where they stated it would be an SDCC exclusive. Why it's at Canadian GameStop I have no clue
Ugh! Yeah Hasbro's distribution sucks! In the US these apparently sold at SDCC and didn't even appear on Pulse...which is where I thought it was supposed to sell after SDCC so in the end, I had to order this from a dealer up there in Canada. XD
I like having these characters in my collection, but good lord both of the ones I got have some pretty terrible QC issues. Dion seems to be suffering from serious degradation, as he literally could not keep any of his limbs attached at all before I used copious amounts of kiki on them, and Ariel's torso is floppy as heck due to the transformation joint, to a degree where no amount of kiki seems to make much of a difference. I'm considering just using superglue and turning her into a non-transforming action figure, since I was planning on putting these in a diorama together with Orion Pax and Alpha Trion. Lately whenever I pick up anything mainline it serves as a reminder why I mostly stopped collecting it and switched to third party figures.😢 Makes me miss the Siege days when 70-80 percent of all releases were amazing, to the point where I wondered if the MP scene was just going to be obsolete in a few years due to the engineering advances seen in mainline Transformers. Of course a few years later many of those amazing Siege figures were yellowing pretty badly, but we didn't know that at the time.
My Snarl is still in waiting. Yes August is when he is due out just like legacy Dirge. Also Hasbro sells the Disney toys so I don't think they have anything to worry about there.
After not being able to find stuff(siege jetfire) in stores I send an e-mail to Hasbro Netherlands. They replied saying they don't know where he's for sale either........lmao So yes Hasbro makes zero sense, they did tell me they were in a reorganization. After a some searching I found out they don't sell a lot in the Benelux hence the reorganization. But yea not weird HASBRO doesn't sell.....if the most loyal customers can't find your product and you won't help them even after contact lmao.
That 2 pack is seriously overpiced for what it is. Both I think are still on Amazon US. The distro model seems to skew towards fulfilling online retail first and then physical stores at least IMOE. Further out here in the less populated areas there is more floot inventory stock at the local Walmarts
@@sparkshiftjjg9757 From my understanding, retailers request exclusives from Hasbro. Or in some cases even demand that they make exclusives for their stores to entice consumers to make purchases at their store. My understanding is that the exclusives exist to appease stores that well…sell their product. I’m guessing if they don’t, chains could basically say “find some place else that’ll sell your toys for you then.”
No complaints from me for Erial, she's fine. My Dion could barely keep one of his arms on, and in vehicle mode it seemed they're MEANT to pop off, and just hold on to pegs underneath with the fists, effectively just storage. The swivel bits in the shoulders were VERY stiff, I had to carefully lever them out with a screwdriver Yours seems to have slightly more blue paint; some areas are blue on yours where mine is unpainted orange. Maybe they fixed stuff through the run. Anyway he looks good but I don’t think I'll want to repose him very often. Maybe not really worth the $75 Australian that I paid for the pair.
i hope they can unfuck the distribution on these two, they’re much more appealing to me than the orion pax set. but also, gamestop canada is trying to claim the msrp is 100cad, not for two deluxes it fucking isnt
For the record, this war dawn 2-pack is a SDCC exclusive. San Diego Comic Con is occurring July 19th. That is why there has been no pre-order anywhere. Game Stop screwed up big-time selling this at all. Game Stop is now out of business, right? Hasbro Pulse will have first right selling it as a preorder. Paid members get first chance in the first hour of release and then 2nd hour+ is available for preorder CTO the public. This 2-pack might not even make it to public preorder becuz it should probably sellout quick. I ain’t paying an xtra 50 bucks membership to get this, so I’m crossing my fingers it’s still available for the public.
I don’t think Hasbro is in charge of distribution. That literally goes to…. The distributor. So Wal-Mart, Target, GameStop, Amazon and so on. This is a bigger issue than that.
Dion is ultra magnus. Prove me wrong. I am just kidding it could either be magnus not ultra magnus or dion I mean personally it's magnus sadly I mean magnus is WAY to similar to magnus. In my au dion is magnus and in turn is ultra magnus and am aware magnus and dion are 2 different people
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They had Energon goodies back in the Golden Age of Cybertron!
I don't understand how this didn't come with a couple of Energon Cube Accessories.
That would have been perfect!
Energon costs money lol
I'm normally not all for orange and blue mixing, but dion has become a bit of a fan favorite of mine as of late. Even went out and got the botcon version.
A lot of people commenting that the spelling of Eriel is to avoid the wrath of Disney. I think it was a decision to tie her closer to Elita 1.
the real reason iirc was because Ariel has been made her own character in continuity that does not become Elita, while Erial is still supposed to turn into Elita. So basically there were two characters named Ariel, this change was to make them distinct.
@@yashbalaji3262 Except this set is not based on things that happened more recently in the comics but what happened back in season 2 of the G1 cartoon so that wouldn't make sense. I think the OP is correct but also a Disney licensing thing is probably also true.
@@straker454 Makes sense
i think for the packaging issue maybe switch to packing stuff in vehicle modes. packing most characters in the vehicle mode could save packaging materials like smaller boxes and inserts, theres some like the dino bots where robot mode might be better but vast majority vehicle packaging would be a space saver.
as for distribution in canada its super wonky i can goto local walmarts and evolution (as of april 29th) just wasn't there checking 2 walmarts but gamestop is ahead of the game like the SS gamer, rotb, and evolution is all there
The last nisb transformers I got were Armada way back when, and they were packaged in vehicle mode. The boxes had little wasted space, and that made sense to me as a kid.
Imagine my surprise when the first nisb transformer I got since then (Netflix WFC Soundwave) was packed in robot mode. So much empty space.
I agree with storing them in vehicle mode, because it would also make them less likely for pieces to be warped out of shape.
Already sold out!😭😭
Here's hoping this gets a general wider release later on, or maybe a single figure reissue like the Seekers.
UPDATE: I bit the bullet and paid over $100 to an eBay scalper. But at least I got them.
Single figure reissues would be nice!
The distribution of figures has been very ass in recent times. Cosmos never came to my stores and they're just barely stocking up studio series stuff
This 2 pack was such a shock because it got found during a whole week of leaks and then they just appeared out of nowhere, wasn't even in any of the leaks either
I had an idea based on Bumblebee being B-147 or whatever.
Dion can be D-ION or D-10N and Orion can be OR-ION.
Like they are similar product lines. Anyway just thought I would share.
I just found this on Amazon for a limited $25 deal
Ariel is a pass for me, I already own 3 versions of the Arcee mold and I don't like it enough to get a fourth (at least not in one solid colour, I WOULD consider an "Uprising Universe Transmutate" however, hint hint, Hasbro)
But Dion looks amazing. Hopefully since Hasbro makes Kups pretty regularly, he'll go into the mix as a potential repaint in the future, as well.
I don't think I can justify getting a 2-pack for one figure (I've done that with Lightning Collection and the spares always end up going into storage) but I'm excited for the potential future uses of these characters. Hasbro considers them viable trademarks to use, and they're popular enough to sell out quickly--and that's great news! It means we might start getting more of them in future lines.
I already have one arcee mold and it's arcee herself and I don't want anymore!
I'm a big fan of how the faces of a lot of G1 bots resemble the paintless greek statues.
YES!
Hasbro needs a new Superion to complete the set.
I can’t even watch this right now but you get an automatic upvote for the title.
I have been wanting a figure of Dion for a while and a retooll of 86 cup was not what I was expecting
Well damn! When is this suppose to be released into the U.S., officially??
Yeah, for real. I mean the set with Alpha Trion and Orion Pax was mainly available at Hasbro Pulse. I thought this set would be available there by now.
@@sidearmsalpha Yeah, really.
The food thingy is an Energon goody dispensor.
And nice review 👍
Is this the first dion figure? Besides convention exclusives which ill never get
What the hell is going on with Ariel’s head
do you also feel its a ugly head?
@@jessicarie-tp6ti yes it’s way too small for the body
Mixing a Legacy mold with the other SS figures was a Mistake 😭
It does makes sense.
'Merica gets everything, everywhere else gets whats they gets.
Deal with it.
Joehasbro hates it's customers.
The purple decepticon armies that appeared in the episode are called Dropkick
tbh, i thought that your waist joint AND the shoulder piece you have to transform on Dion were going to be so tight that it actually gave the figure stress marks... hmmmmmm. it almost sounds like my Kup figure was to tight in those areas that it scares me whenever i have to use it. yea my kup had that problem.
You got the good Dion. I just opened mine and his limbs are all loose and I have a hinge issue with the bed panels that flip down into his fists. I'm noticing very slight stress marks forming on the hinge prongs.
1:24 it’s pronounced Die-on not Dee-on
Just grabbed my copy today from gamestop. Fun little set. Closer and closer we are almost done finishing season 2 cast of transformers
Oh god, I really wanted the Kup mold and finally got this pairing…and immediately realized why people don’t like it. Dion’s left arm might as well have never attached in the first place. I need to figure out a solution because as of right now this dude is permanently posed on my shelf out of fear of one of his limbs flying off at the slightest touch
For my dion figure I had to switch around the shoulder joints and unfortunately the limbs didn't like staying in.
Trash, absolute trash.
The fact that there is so much hype surrounding this absolute embarrassment of a release left me very disappointed in our community.
These companies think we're idiots!
Distribution is so awful that I haven't even seen Wave 1 of SS Rotb, didn't see wave 3 of legacy until April,and Wave 4 of legacy (except Scraphook) here in the US
I agree hasbro distribution is ridiculous. I live in the biggest city in KY and we have never gotten Titans at big box but other smaller cities in our state get them every wave.. same with other waves of figures.
Great review! I'm very much looking forward to this set- I do wanna say that these were officially revealed by Hasbro in our last Fan First stream which is where they stated it would be an SDCC exclusive. Why it's at Canadian GameStop I have no clue
I just want to say that whenever I try to click on your discord link, it says expired. Also keep up the good work
Ugh! Yeah Hasbro's distribution sucks! In the US these apparently sold at SDCC and didn't even appear on Pulse...which is where I thought it was supposed to sell after SDCC so in the end, I had to order this from a dealer up there in Canada. XD
First the toy guy make the best vid what day does he upload
Where can you preorder Australia
I like having these characters in my collection, but good lord both of the ones I got have some pretty terrible QC issues. Dion seems to be suffering from serious degradation, as he literally could not keep any of his limbs attached at all before I used copious amounts of kiki on them, and Ariel's torso is floppy as heck due to the transformation joint, to a degree where no amount of kiki seems to make much of a difference. I'm considering just using superglue and turning her into a non-transforming action figure, since I was planning on putting these in a diorama together with Orion Pax and Alpha Trion.
Lately whenever I pick up anything mainline it serves as a reminder why I mostly stopped collecting it and switched to third party figures.😢 Makes me miss the Siege days when 70-80 percent of all releases were amazing, to the point where I wondered if the MP scene was just going to be obsolete in a few years due to the engineering advances seen in mainline Transformers.
Of course a few years later many of those amazing Siege figures were yellowing pretty badly, but we didn't know that at the time.
My Snarl is still in waiting. Yes August is when he is due out just like legacy Dirge. Also Hasbro sells the Disney toys so I don't think they have anything to worry about there.
make dion's blue a darker blue and keep the orange as is and sell it by itself and maybe i will get it.
"Dion" is pronounced "Die on" and not '"Dee on" :zany_face:
Dions name is pronounced D"eye"-on, not DeeOn
My Dion's arms keep falling off and my Ariel's knees give out and her body won't attack to her hips.
After not being able to find stuff(siege jetfire) in stores I send an e-mail to Hasbro Netherlands. They replied saying they don't know where he's for sale either........lmao
So yes Hasbro makes zero sense, they did tell me they were in a reorganization. After a some searching I found out they don't sell a lot in the Benelux hence the reorganization. But yea not weird HASBRO doesn't sell.....if the most loyal customers can't find your product and you won't help them even after contact lmao.
Amazon has it back in stock right now and with a discount for prime members. 1/18/23 3:12am
You guys get new figures?
Why can't they make legacy ransack from cybertron using the arcee mold like it is good
Heck knows IF or when the UK will get these.
For a dion toy that looks like the original they’re improving now all they need to do is ad the original alt mode
Looks cool. But i wonder if they ever going to re-do Beast machines
Everything will be redone in time.
There is a screw there
On the aerial figure
Hasbro's distribution has been terrible for decades. Good luck trying to find and collect all the main line toys here in UK stores.
That 2 pack is seriously overpiced for what it is. Both I think are still on Amazon US. The distro model seems to skew towards fulfilling online retail first and then physical stores at least IMOE. Further out here in the less populated areas there is more floot inventory stock at the local Walmarts
I’m pretty sure the intro music is used by Letsgameitout and I love that
Don't worry, Hasbro distribution doesn't make sense in the US, either.
@@Seeker-ou6vn No offense, but considering that Norway is much smaller than the US both geographically and in terms of population, I'm not surprised.
Die-on, not Dee-on
I'm soooo sick of exclusives
Why not just release them everywhere!?!? I just....don't understand
@@sparkshiftjjg9757 From my understanding, retailers request exclusives from Hasbro. Or in some cases even demand that they make exclusives for their stores to entice consumers to make purchases at their store.
My understanding is that the exclusives exist to appease stores that well…sell their product. I’m guessing if they don’t, chains could basically say “find some place else that’ll sell your toys for you then.”
They should've called her Aerial. More believable as a transformer name, but maybe thats just me.
No complaints from me for Erial, she's fine.
My Dion could barely keep one of his arms on, and in vehicle mode it seemed they're MEANT to pop off, and just hold on to pegs underneath with the fists, effectively just storage.
The swivel bits in the shoulders were VERY stiff, I had to carefully lever them out with a screwdriver
Yours seems to have slightly more blue paint; some areas are blue on yours where mine is unpainted orange.
Maybe they fixed stuff through the run.
Anyway he looks good but I don’t think I'll want to repose him very often.
Maybe not really worth the $75 Australian that I paid for the pair.
Can u remove the wheels on Ariel's feet?
My version of the legacy Prime arcee came with two right arms, so I can’t bend one of her elbows…
Mine’s right hand seems to have an extra mushroom peg on the wrist, so it sticks out further than the left
If that is TLC I shudder to think the 3rd degree🤣
i hope they can unfuck the distribution on these two, they’re much more appealing to me than the orion pax set. but also, gamestop canada is trying to claim the msrp is 100cad, not for two deluxes it fucking isnt
The back part is the same as every version of the mold
Dion is kup repaint?
For the record, this war dawn 2-pack is a SDCC exclusive. San Diego Comic Con is occurring July 19th. That is why there has been no pre-order anywhere. Game Stop screwed up big-time selling this at all. Game Stop is now out of business, right?
Hasbro Pulse will have first right selling it as a preorder. Paid members get first chance in the first hour of release and then 2nd hour+ is available for preorder CTO the public. This 2-pack might not even make it to public preorder becuz it should probably sellout quick. I ain’t paying an xtra 50 bucks membership to get this, so I’m crossing my fingers it’s still available for the public.
GameStop never went out of business. If it did I wouldn't be able to buy things from them (like this two pack)
I got it at JB Hi-Fi (in Australia).
@@ThatToyGuy Same here.
I don’t get why they have guns given that they could barely defend themselves in that episode
It's super funny atleast to me that my name is Paxton I am going to be the next prime
To me they'd make great generic Autobot soldiers in the background of a display
Dropkick would be so cool also dropkick is the purple dude
Sometimes it feels like Hasbro is run by scalpers.
No, just your average modern day degenerates.
Man I really need this set, but can't find it for shit
Is it just me or do these two bots look almost human ?
Love tis guy (i mean that toy guy❤)
I remember this episode.
Yup I’m still going to get them
Actually snarl releases in June
I would have bought it too expensive almost 80 bucks that's too much
When dion is reformatted who will he be known as
A corpse
I want dion but not ariel
I don’t think Hasbro is in charge of distribution. That literally goes to…. The distributor. So Wal-Mart, Target, GameStop, Amazon and so on. This is a bigger issue than that.
This set went on clearance and at one point was 30 bucks
Bruh, why you gotta pronounce "Dion" like that?
First! Nice vid
Dion is pronounced Die-on
DIO??
🔥🔥🔥
All these pink female bots ugh, Hasbro pls there are other colours
Nice video❤
Dion is ultra magnus. Prove me wrong. I am just kidding it could either be magnus not ultra magnus or dion I mean personally it's magnus sadly I mean magnus is WAY to similar to magnus. In my au dion is magnus and in turn is ultra magnus and am aware magnus and dion are 2 different people
Huffer
You must review your dog.
wow another cup retool
oopsie daisy
It DIE-ON not DEE-ON you scrapper.
hi
SMASH
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@@kacperszarek4223 I subbed to you.
Hasbro's distribution plan makes as much sense as God's plan.