Transformers Combiner Wars Wave 3

Back in April, I was able to preorder the 3rd Wave of Hasbro's Transformers Combiner Wars, the focus of this wave being the combiner Defensor. Unlike the first two waves, Defensor (made up of the Voyager Hot Spot, the Deluxes First Aid, Blades, Street Wise and Rook and Legends Groove) were all available at the same time and made the decision to import everything that much easier, as local stores have not yet received anything past Wave 1.

From my childhood days, I had one member of the Protectobots - First Aid and was looking forward to the upgrade. While the Generation One version of the character was made up of 5 transformers, this new Combiner Wars is actually made up of 6 toys with Groove (the motorcycle) being moved from being an arm or a leg to being the chest plate/shield.

Included in the order, were the other figures from Wave 3 - part of Hasbro's requirement to reuse existing toys in an effort to spread out the cost of creating new toys. Aside from Viper, these extra toys were not added to the collection.

As a awesome bonus, Hasbro Hong Kong produced a sticker sheet for the first two Combiner characters (Superion and Menasor) which is a fantastic throwback to the sticker sheets included with the original G1 Transformers.