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News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:42 am

I wonder if the '6th Beatle' will form the back of the main torso of Superion or some sort of body armour or weapons system perhaps? :???:

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:57 am

robotmel wrote::-?
I wonder if the '6th Beatle' will form the back of the main torso of Superion or some sort of body armour or weapons system perhaps?

Yeah I think they could get away with that. Pretty sure that they are damaging their pre-orders by not showing the whole combiner upfront though. It would be really cool if the sixth were a parts former that somehow stowed the hands, feet, and breastplate.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:39 am

Banjo-Tron wrote:Yeah I think they could get away with that. Pretty sure that they are damaging their pre-orders by not showing the whole combiner upfront though. It would be really cool if the sixth were a parts former that somehow stowed the hands, feet, and breastplate.

I've lost hope that the 6th is a kibble holder when they said it was 6 bots. I don't know how kibble parts would turn into a legitimate bot.

by **Aerialbots** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:58 pm

Aerialbots wrote:Now that I've had time to digest this information and see the posts reguarding this project....

We simply just don't know at this point what the outcome is going to be. Look at the facts, and therefore likely senarios.

The first two pieces we have been shown, clearly represent "Air Raid" and "Fireflight". We have been shown coloring, or what will be close to final coloring, which further prove what they are intended to be. Also, we have been shown what part they play in the larger combined figure, Air Raid left leg, Fireflight right arm. This is right on so far. This would suggest that this will at least somewhat resemble "Superion".

Now comes the news that there will be 6 figures and there is a form of the next character.

6 figures throws us all for a loop how, where, what, etc... we just don't know. The form is clearly a SR-71, there was no such Aerialbot character, who is this? The robot form suggests Silverbolt could be a possiblity given its stance. It was more likely thought it was Silverbolt before the confirmation of 6 figures, which would make sense, but if there is 6, it very well may not be. In the TFC Toys facebook page, when looking at the SR-71 form, it looked to me like a wing shape underneath the plane itself. Could this be a chest shield? Another character? It's all speculation with the latest information. Tell you what, TFC Toys is keeping everyone wondering. Is it genius?

Well, looks like I was on the right track. TF Source is reporting that the 6th member comes with the 5th member, and that it is the chest shield. The 5th member "Silverbolt", will be larger then the others, and somewhat more expensive.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:06 pm

c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:08 pm

daimchoc wrote:c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

I was literally just about to post this as well..I think a collective sigh of relief can be heard through out the fandom now. I told ya guys..just relax

Nice work Daimchoc! :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:29 pm

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:56 pm

daimchoc wrote:c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:27 am

daimchoc wrote:

It all makes sense now.... :-?

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:33 am

I don't get it, whining because it might have six figures, but not because
The Concorde is being replaced by a SR?

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:01 am

RodimalToyota wrote:I don't get it, whining because it might have six figures, but not because
The Concorde is being replaced by a SR?

I personally don't care that Silverbolt isn't a Concorde for this.

While this will most likely end up as a definitive version of Superion in the combined mode, I think it's plenty fair for TFC to give their interpretations a facelift. They pulled off Devastator so I think they know what they're doing here. My confidence was restored when the 6th bot is basically nothing more than a Mario power mushroom.

I will reserve final judgement after I see a prototype of Silverbolt as well as size comparison photos.

I am curious as to how they plan to handle the coloring of Silverbolt since SR-71's tend to be black in color. I'm wondering if they will stick to that or change the color for the sake of Silverbolt.

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:26 am

Maybe they'll go for a black plane with a white undercarriage? That way the robot can still be white (depending on the transformation, of course) That would work on Universe Silverbolt because the plane is kind of bolted on to the robot.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:09 am

And a bit of vindication there.

Glad I kept my preorders. Now let's see more!

by **CADimusPrimus** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:21 am

I'm glad the sixth bot is a kibble bot. Also glad i kept my pre-orders. "Silverbolt" being a SR-71 could work. The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:42 am

CADimusPrimus wrote:The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

That was what I was thinking. I could do a silver version-actually makes more sense with his name.

I'm still waiting to see more before I consider pre-ordering any of these again.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:19 am

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:29 am

CADimusPrimus wrote:I'm glad the sixth bot is a kibble bot. Also glad i kept my pre-orders. "Silverbolt" being a SR-71 could work. The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

I think the change of Silverbolt to a SR-71/A-12 Avenger makes sense since all the other jets are combat planes and the Concorde was more of a passenger plane. Either way I think this set will turn out well considering TFC's work on Hercules.

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:43 am

daimchoc wrote:

Looking nice, I hope we can get some spy shots of the others soon.
I really hate to pre-order before knowing the whole package.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:49 pm

Is it not possible that the SR-71 is the sixth kibble bot that also transforms into an aircraft? Just seems odd that they'd go so much for toy accuracy then change things around like that.

TFC had me with Hercules from the word go, but with Uranus I think I'm going to have to wait to see the complete picture first.

by **Mekatron** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:35 pm

First... considering the SR-71's nickname is "Blackbird", I can't imagine it's going to be anything besides black...

Second... where's this A-12 Avenger talk coming from? I'm no aviation expert, but the two look nothing alike.

Third... isn't an SR-71 bigger than these other planes? I doubt it's the "kibble bot".

by **CADimusPrimus** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:45 pm

I meant YF-12 not the A-12. And i could have swore i saw pics of it in aluminum finish(unpainted)(i know it used other metal alloys). The XF-108 would also be a good alternate had they not picked an alt mode yet.

by **Mekatron** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:31 pm

CADimusPrimus wrote:I meant YF-12 not the A-12. And i could have swore i saw pics of it in aluminum finish(unpainted)(i know it used other metal alloys). The XF-108 would also be a good alternate had they not picked an alt mode yet.

I've seen a few things around like that... but it all seems to be just fanart. The XF-108 is about 20 feet shorter than the SR-71... however, the Concorde was another 100 feet beyond that at over 200 feet in length. They SHOULD have just left it as a Concorde... as Silverbolt's character was based around him being a transport unlike the others... but I'm sure TFC is just scared of getting shut-down if they don't stray a bit from G1.

These aren't Transformers... as much as they're trying to appeal to Transformers fans... you can only ask for so much... and they're already pushing the boundaries. Only ask for it to be a major kick-ass transforming toy that pays homage to your childhood Transformers fantasies & you'll ALL be happy... granted you can afford it, unlike myself.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:45 am

gotta say, whilst I am liking what I'm seeing, am not liking it enough for the prices I'm expecting

by **Rated X** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:40 am

I still wanna see more. Personally, I think they should have went with the Concorde. But Im happy the 6th member is just parts.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:08 am

Mekatron wrote:First... considering the SR-71's nickname is "Blackbird", I can't imagine it's going to be anything besides black...

Second... where's this A-12 Avenger talk coming from? I'm no aviation expert, but the two look nothing alike.

Third... isn't an SR-71 bigger than these other planes? I doubt it's the "kibble bot".

I think you are thinking of the McDonnell-Douglas A-12 Avenger. The use of the name "Avenger" in previous posts is unfortunate. Indeed, there was a Lockheed A-12and a Lockheed YF-12 before the SR-71 Blackbird. It appears that the A-12 spawned both the YF-12 and the Blackbird. But all three look remarkably alike. And indeed, there exists pictures of the A-12 that are not all black.

Thanks, guys. I haven't had a chance to geek out about aircraft like this in a while.

Back to the topic at hand. I have the FP Superion add-on. It looks great! I love it in both separated plane modes and in full combined Superion glory. But, man, these are looking great! I have Herc and am impressed with it. If it wasn't for the Microsoft Surface I will be buying soon (job-related) I would be all over this. I am very tempted, indeed.