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Lol, I thought I remembered Hasbro having said they weren't making toys of those Original Thirteen designs. Oh well, it was fun to hope, even just for a while!

Megazarak wrote:

SwindleBot462 wrote:Alright, ya caught me. The only fakes on here are Voyager Soundwave, Leader Alpha Trion, and Apelinq. Skyhammer (not the same guy on these boards) told me that if this was ever proven to be fake that everyone should not be angry at me, but have a good laugh about this and actually, get someone here to send an Email to HasTak and tell them why they should make these figs. Please don't ban me or whatever. We should try to be civil about this. And who knows? Maybe there ARE some plans about what to do with these characters....


I am in no part involved with HasTak, so please take that last remark with a grain of salt.

Isn't it nice to tell the truth. Something seemed fishy from the top, but I won't dwell on it. However, this is kind of a speculation thread so doing so is perfectly fine, but when you choose to deem things as fact to mislead others, that should not be done.

On another note, what did you mean by "The only fakes on here are Voyager Soundwave, Leader Alpha Trion, and Apelinq." though? Are you saying that some of the list is fake? And if you were, and this Skyhammer who isn't the same one from these boards told you this, when it is the Skyhammer from these boards that reported the list, why would you believe him.

What I am saying is that Voyager Bulkhead is the Animated one, Ratchet, Starscream, Arcee, Optimus, and Megatron are ROTF, and Bumblebee and "two pack twin" are the Reissued Classics one and the Rumble/Frenzy Pack.

Also, the Skyhammer on these boards had absolutely NO involvement whatsoever. Another person named Skyhammer did this.

SwindleBot462 wrote:What I am saying is that Voyager Bulkhead is the Animated one

A one-toy Animated wave seems a little ...odd.

SwindleBot462 wrote:What I am saying is that Voyager Bulkhead is the Animated one, Ratchet, Starscream, Arcee, Optimus, and Megatron are ROTF, and Bumblebee and "two pack twin" are the Reissued Classics one and the Rumble/Frenzy Pack.

Also, the Skyhammer on these boards had absolutely NO involvement whatsoever. Another person named Skyhammer did this.

So basically the info you had on those Trion, SW and Ape were false, but for some reason what you know about the others is sound?

To say that Bulkhead is Animated seems highly unlikely, as, though we've seen a repaint of him, if they were going to release another Animated figure it would be one that people haven't had a chance to get, like Wingblade Prime or Hydrodive Bee.

Then there's the fact that those are all from RotF. We already have 2 versions of Leader Optimus and Megatron each, so I don't think they're going to go for a third. Why make another Arcee if no one wanted the first one? Ratchet's Voyager mold was just repainted and his deluxe mold is also getting a repaint. Starscream just got a leader mold and his voyager mold was recently used in a 2-pack with Mudflap.

Bumblebee could happen, if he were in RtS or Generations. But as for Rumble and Frenzy, wasn't it just established that they would be sold at a Voyager price? Similar to Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm?

Moral of the story, everything on this topic should be taken as speculation until information is confirmed.

I think we're reading a lot into nothing. With a new movie coming out, and thus a new toyline, it would make the most sense for these to be for the new movie. Movies sell Leader class toys, Alpha Trion leader class toy. Check. Soundwave is in the movies, and there's a new Soundwave coming out. Check. Apelinq...well, the movies aren't made using all retread characters. Maybe he's in the movie or movie-verse. Check.

I'm not going to read any more into this until someone can tell me where it says that these are Prime or Classics toys. Past evidence would indicate that DotM toys will be pretty much the only line sold for the year around the movie. I have a feeling we've pretty much run through the entirety of the Generations/classics-esque figures for the current lines.

Megazarak wrote:To say that Bulkhead is Animated seems highly unlikely, as, though we've seen a repaint of him, if they were going to release another Animated figure it would be one that people haven't had a chance to get, like Wingblade Prime or Hydrodive Bee.

Then there's the fact that those are all from RotF. We already have 2 versions of Leader Optimus and Megatron each, so I don't think they're going to go for a third. Why make another Arcee if no one wanted the first one? Ratchet's Voyager mold was just repainted and his deluxe mold is also getting a repaint. Starscream just got a leader mold and his voyager mold was recently used in a 2-pack with Mudflap.

Bumblebee could happen, if he were in RtS or Generations. .

Didn't they already announce BB was going to be re-released for RTS?

Everything on here (besides BB and F/R Pack) has already been released. There is no plans for re-releasing these figures.

This is freaking stupid. Now I have to go around the Transformers community and do damage control. I've had enough of this ****.

Seibertron.com wishes to apologize to all those that fell for this story. It has since been retracted.

If it is confirmed that false news was intentionally reported, I will advocate for an IP ban of the person who misled the boards on this.