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[El Duque]

Not that crazy about the new head that the Generations Swerve sports? Renderform revealed a new upgrade set for the figure at Metrocon over the weekend. This set features a head closer to Swerves appearance in Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Ongoing and comes with his rivet gun from issue #6.

Update from the man himself:

Sorry, but this was a quick and rough custom I made for fun to show off at a local meetup. Its not planned for release. But if I do, the head needs lots of revising, since it was "sculpted" in less than 30 minutes.

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[El Duque]

Seibertron.com member daimchoc brings us an update on iGear's upcoming Mini Warriors Hench and UFO. Below we have final product and images and a September release date.

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September release - c/o iGear's Facebook page

Hench:




UFO:

[El Duque]

MasterMind Creations will be releasing an exclusive preview set of their upcoming Knight Morpher Airborne Squad titled "Awakening" at a yet to be disclosed toy show and online. The preview set will be a limited production, details regarding this release coming soon.

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Upcoming: a preview edition for the Knight Morper Airborne Squad. It will be very limited and exclusive to toy show and online. Details are to be advised.

[El Duque]

TFC Toys have released official images of their upcoming Reflector homage, Photron. Images mirrored below.

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[Blurrz]

TFCToys Uranus - Fireflight and Air Raid Colored Alt Modes

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[El Duque]

Seibertron.com member daimchoc brings us images of TFC Toys Hercules in the popular Shatter Glass universe colors. The images include the recently released Rage of Hercules set in matching colors. It appears this set bears the name "Perses". Image mirrored from ACToys below.

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(So much milkkkk) - Blurrz)

[El Duque]

New courtesy of Seibertron.com Mkall:

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Behold! Pictures and description!

The Awakening edition portrays the Airborne Squad obtaining their earth form and recovering from the hibernation mode. Product wise, it is made to resemble the feeling of a prototype, with the quality of a finished product. Pre-orders will be taken at San Jose Super Toy Show dated August 18 (the coming weekend). Online store Ages Three and Up will be taking orders for the remainders (if any) one day after the toy show. Product release date is August 30, Price US$100.00. Collectors will expect to receive their pre-orders by September 15.

[El Duque]

Thanks to a cross sell packaged with iGear's recently released PP05 we get a look at three of their upcoming Mini Warriors.

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• Duneraker aka Beachcomber
• Bushwacker aka Outback
• Cogz aka Gears
• Veer aka Swerve

Image courtesy of ACToys.

[El Duque]

TFC Toys have now confirmed that their upcoming Project Uranus will indeed be comprised of six team members. How the sixth member will be incorporated into the combined robot remains a mystery, or perhaps it won't part of the combiner at all. We already know this team if very much a G1 homage based on what we've seen of Phantom, Eagle, and the Silverbolt silhouette. As others have pointed out the Aerialbots have had additional team members in the past, most recently IDW's version featured the short-lived Barrel Roll.

Discussion of the sixth man:
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[El Duque]

Seibertron.com member Agamemnon has received his Impossible Toys TRNS-03 Alicon, and he's been kind enough to share a nice pictorial review showing off the new figure. Check out his review below.

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Today I received my Impossible Toys TRNS-03 Alicon (Transitional Robot Neural Soldiers), the alligator shaped creatures/sharkticons? from the 1986 Transformers movie. My first impression is that it’s big; far larger than I was expecting. This is almost more in scale with the Masterpiece line than deluxe/voyager. Here are the images I took, including some comparisons:


On Quintessa… (Kup and FP Protector Rodimus, with Impossible Toys Quintessons in the back.)


Bah weep grah nah weep ninny bong… (Kup and Rodimus right side by side)


Yes master? (The two Impossible Toys Quints, lit.)


Front quarter.


I wouldn’t scratch, even if you think he might like it….


Rear quarter. Nice tail! Hmmmmmm… <_< >_>


Part way through transformation. Do you see those two spikes in front of him? Those are from the shoulder and must be removed in order to transform him. I’m not terribly impressed with that…


Spikes in place. If you see, the shoulders fit in the “belly” area, and the spikes would prevent them from fitting together. I did try some other possible orientations to no avail. The picture on the box seems to confirm this reality. (No instruction sheet with the figure, so no official documentation of this that I know of.)


Almost a Danny DeVito look. The torso is tremendously long and the legs tremendously short. He comes with two spears.


Front quarter.


Rear quarter


Kup and Rodimus in front. (Can I use the universal greeting twice?)


Rodimus side by side with Alicon


Just to show the size with a Voyager, I grabbed Classics Jetfire

Okay, that’s it. I’m glad he’s as big as he is for $90. However, I think I would have preferred about a 20-30% downgrade in size and a drop in price (troop building is out except for the most monetarily gifted of us). The detailing is not horrible. The transformation is simple enough (so, no real need for instructions). He feels pretty solid, though in robot mode, he is a bit back heavy. I might suggest leaving his tail on the ground to support the weight, except the joints don’t really make this feasible. The removal of two spikes is a little disappointing for such an expensive piece.

Overall, I think I might give him a 7.5 out of 10. Positives: simple transformation, feels pretty solid, no real alternative that I know about. Negatives: back heavy in robot mode, simple transformation (and removal of spikes), price, size (too big unless placing with masterpieces, then perhaps too small).

He’ll fit in my Quintessa shelf. Here’s hoping a Gnaw can come out that’s similar in size...