Talk:Transformers: The Last Knight (toyline)

Further information with be added soon, it's just a start.

Valvotron

I maintain that Valvotron, as an official third party product, should not be lumped together with Hasbro-produced exclusives in the same way the Simba Dickie RID vehicles shouldn't be lumped together with the Hasbro RID figures.--Nevermore (talk) 09:16, 27 June 2017 (EDT)

Tiny Turbo Changer Order?

Should the Tiny Turbo Changers be put in alphabetical order? -west james/notirishman (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2017 (EDT)

Well I did it anyway. west james/notirishman (talk) 10:17, 5 November 2017 (EST)

Perhaps if you paid more attention to the wiki, then you would notice that our current policy, as laid out by the admins, is that multiple toys in a column are listed by alphabetical order of name, not by number or whatever. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 10:23, 5 November 2017 (EST)

TLK EX

I have a spacing issue between the TRU exclusives. Can someone fix it? 'Cause I honestly don't know how to fix this stuff yet.

Also should we include the TLK-EX stuff (Transformers Tribute in Japan)? Because they use Transformers The Last Knight for their product name, so I was thinking we should add it. -west james/notirishman (talk) 16:04, 24 September 2017 (EDT)

Oh hey User:MistaTee fixed the spacing, thanks! I still need an answer on the TLK EX stuff though. -west james/notirishman (talk) 15:39, 25 September 2017 (EDT)

Okay, I added it anyway.west james/notirishman (talk) 10:18, 5 November 2017 (EST)

Exclusives

Because of the amazing clusterfuck that happened with this toyline, the exclusives are massively messed up. Right now, this page is still operating under the principle that everything should be sorted by the United States venue, with everything else being treated as an afterthought, even though based on actual availability, it almost seems the other way around. Just some examples:

• Most of the "Autobots Unite" subline still hasn't been available at US Walmart stores despite having been out internationally for months. Only the Flip & Change figures have actually seen a brick and mortar retail release in the US. The Legion 2-packs and the 1Step Turbo Changer 2-pack are still completely AWOL (there are placeholder listings for the Legion 2-packs on the Walmart website that still have no photos, and those placeholder listings have recently been reverted to an even more imcomplete state where the character names have been replaced with generic "TF5 Leg" abbreviations), while Legion and Deluxe Hot Rod have eventually appeared in stock online but have never been found in stores. Most of the figures have been available in Asia, and the entire subline has been available as Asda exclusives in the United Kingdom months ago. There are listings by various retailers in other European countries too, but usuallyonly for some figures or sets, never for the entire subline.
• The nominally Target exclusive "Reveal the Shield" subline has lost its Voyager Class Optimus Prime figure to Toys"R"Us as far as the US market is concerned. On top of that, the Asian and US releases of Voyager Prime are lacking the "Reveal the Shield" logo from their packaging (despite still featuring the "Reveal hidden images" call-out). In the United Kingdom, the entire subline (including the role-play masks which have never been reported for the US and haven't been listed online anywhere either) has been available as Argos exclusives and is listed on Argos's website, with Voyager Prime's packaging retaining the "Reveal the Shield" logo. In France, the role-play masks and the 1-Step Turbo Changer 6-pack are listed as exclusives in the Christmas catalog of retailer Carrefour. What does the Wiki do? Lump Voyager Prime together with the TRU exclusive "Mission to Cybertron" subline, which is less than optimal.
• The only exclusive subline that has followed the classic pattern of "released as exclusives in Asia first, then in the US shortly afterwards, with European markets following later" was Mission to Cybertron, and that's only because TRU has branches in all of these countries.

This is a far cry from twenty years ago, when exclusives simply did not exist outside the US, and even from ten years ago, when the only exclusives you'd see outside the US were typically TRU exclusives. Because of the increasingly frustrating distribution situation in the United States, the rise of the Asian market, international releases of exclusive figures and sets becoming more and more prevalent, and US releases of announced exclusives sometimes simply not happening, I'd say we should rethink how we handle this, because it's only going to get worse rather than better, and simply continuing to pretend that everything released in the US is the "default" and everything else is an "also available" becomes outright ridiculous when a figure sees a wide release internationally while being extremely hard to find, or never even seeing a release at all in the US.--Nevermore (talk) 03:22, 28 October 2017 (EDT)