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Predaking's robot mode reminds me of the 1970's japanese robot anime. The robots with the round shins and feet. angular wings on the back.

That purple thing-a-ma-bob would have killed my mood had I been excited for this guy, but I'm not, so I don't care. Thanks Hasbro, but I'll wait for the Leader figure before I make my final decision.

that's TF Prime Predaking? somebody has been watching too many Godzilla movies. hey BW Megs, who's the mom?

What's the book? I'd pass it off as instructions or the product promo book thing, but the whole "chapter 5" thing throws me off. Did I miss hearing what the that is? Are they going back to having mini-comics in the toys again like with the Unicron Trilogy?

Autobot Megatron wrote:What's the book? I'd pass it off as instructions or the product promo book thing, but the whole "chapter 5" thing throws me off. Did I miss hearing what the that is? Are they going back to having mini-comics in the toys again like with the Unicron Trilogy?

It's supposed to be ministories. Each set of instructions comes with a chapter.

Autobot Megatron wrote:What's the book? I'd pass it off as instructions or the product promo book thing, but the whole "chapter 5" thing throws me off. Did I miss hearing what the that is? Are they going back to having mini-comics in the toys again like with the Unicron Trilogy?

Those are the instructions. Since the bios on the cards have been reduced to a single sentence, probably due to package size reduction, each figure's instructions now has a chapter focusing on that character which forms part of a larger overall story. You have to collect all the toys to get the whole story. Here's Bumblebee's, for example, shown at NYCC.

Then you get Soundwave, Lazerback, and Wheeljack in that order for the rest of the story.

That Bot wrote:

Autobot Megatron wrote:What's the book? I'd pass it off as instructions or the product promo book thing, but the whole "chapter 5" thing throws me off. Did I miss hearing what the that is? Are they going back to having mini-comics in the toys again like with the Unicron Trilogy?

Those are the instructions. Since the bios on the cards have been reduced to a single sentence, probably due to package size reduction, each figure's instructions now has a chapter focusing on that character which forms part of a larger overall story. You have to collect all the toys to get the whole story. Here's Bumblebee's, for example, shown at NYCC.

Then you get Soundwave, Lazerback, and Wheeljack in that order for the rest of the story.

Interesting, not a bad concept.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:It's kinda hard for me to not want this. It looks good, I like it, but there's a bigger version of it coming out. Of course, the bigger version of it might be complete crap.

I'm inclined to agree. The weaponizers are a good example of increasing size and poorness at the same time.

Mykltron wrote:I'm inclined to agree. The weaponizers are a good example of increasing size and poorness at the same time.

We don't know what the larger Predaking is. Predaking is part of an unknown size class!

People are instantly dissing the figure because they think it's a Weaponizer. We've already got our Weaponizers for Beast Hunters: Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ultra Magnus. Nothing about Predaking there, and knowing Hasbro, they're probably not going to make more. Predaking could be the return of Supreme Class.

I like it. Lots of poseability. Sorely lacking in paint apps. Lots of wasted potential there.

In my opinion a solid enough release.