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Posted by Super Megatron on July 21st, 2014 @ 11:15pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2014 @ 11:19pm CDT
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on July 21st, 2014 @ 11:28pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2014 @ 11:34pm CDT
But that was Takara's doing, and for a Masterpiece.Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Hasbro should really look into adding more personality to their figures. Like having Grimlock come with a serving trey and an apron? While funny, doesn't work.
Posted by Rated X on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:16am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:17am CDT
It's meant to scratch this itch:Rated X wrote:Very weird looking. I think Fansproject nails Hasbro's characters better than Hasbro. The only things Hasbro got right in robot mode is the faceplate.
Not this itch:
Posted by RhA on July 22nd, 2014 @ 2:16am CDT
Posted by frogbat on July 22nd, 2014 @ 3:49am CDT
Think that what really made me like the original toy and why he featured in many of my battles was besides his very sleek jet mode and fun transformation, he was extremely posable and had lots of points of articulation when compared to his contemporaries.
Even tho 3rd parties are doing a great job I'd still go for official product (if money were no issue i'd get them all ), I'd also hate to get a 3rd party thinking hasbro would never introduce a certain figure only for them to do so a couple of years later.
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on July 22nd, 2014 @ 4:24am CDT
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on July 22nd, 2014 @ 4:24am CDT
Posted by fenrir72 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 5:05am CDT
Posted by reluctantyouth on July 22nd, 2014 @ 8:17am CDT
The Generations are being engulfed by the movie crap. I speculate for every 12-13 cases of movie crap coming in there might be 0-1 case of Generations if the planets are aligned and all that good stuff.
I have seen Rhinox, Whirl, and Double Dealer but that is it. The deluxe Generations shelf warmers all but disappeared when Wally World dropped the price of deluxes back down to $9.97...there has been nothing to replace them.
Then of course there is not one DAMN new pre-order on Hasbrotoyshop.com either. SDCC is next week...August will be here before you know it...where the hell are all the preorders once again Hasbro? I would buy all of the following if you just put up a preorder
(2) Jetfire
(2) Rattrap
(2) Arcee
(2) Chromia
(2) Brainstorm
(2) Windblade
Can you count Hasbro? That's a sale of 12 figures ($240 give or take guaranteed)and I'm sure I'm not alone...get off your lazy asses. The brick and mortars are dead and it's your poor distribution habits fault. Tell the East and West coast distributors to stop sending us the leftover crap. How many times do I have to post this rant?...no one is listening anyway. The letters I send Hasbro usually go unanswered or I get a coupon for crap.
~reluctantyouth~
PS~ Hasbro not putting out preorders guarantees a good chance of future figure waves being canceled...this is beyond stupid. It continues year after year after horrible year.
Posted by fenrir72 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 8:41am CDT
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 9:14am CDT
reluctantyouth wrote: ....Hasbro thanks to your ridiculous distributing habits and shoving every piece of crap you have down Wal-Mart's throat I alas will probably not find this figure anywhere.
You should know that the retail companies order the Transformers toys from Hasbro. The retail companies do the distributing work, not Hasbro. Also, if you can't find it at Kmart, Target, Wal-Mart, etc. go to Toys"R"Us. The store is dedicated to toys.
Posted by Down_Shift on July 22nd, 2014 @ 9:18am CDT
reluctantyouth wrote::-x ....Hasbro thanks to your ridiculous distributing habits and shoving every piece of crap you have down Wal-Mart's throat I alas will probably not find this figure anywhere.
The Generations are being engulfed by the movie crap. I speculate for every 12-13 cases of movie crap coming in there might be 0-1 case of Generations if the planets are aligned and all that good stuff.
I have seen Rhinox, Whirl, and Double Dealer but that is it. The deluxe Generations shelf warmers all but disappeared when Wally World dropped the price of deluxes back down to $9.97...there has been nothing to replace them.
Then of course there is not one DAMN new pre-order on Hasbrotoyshop.com either. SDCC is next week...August will be here before you know it...where the hell are all the preorders once again Hasbro? I would buy all of the following if you just put up a preorder
(2) Jetfire
(2) Rattrap
(2) Arcee
(2) Chromia
(2) Brainstorm
(2) Windblade
Can you count Hasbro? That's a sale of 12 figures ($240 give or take guaranteed)and I'm sure I'm not alone...get off your lazy asses. The brick and mortars are dead and it's your poor distribution habits fault. Tell the East and West coast distributors to stop sending us the leftover crap. How many times do I have to post this rant?...no one is listening anyway. The letters I send Hasbro usually go unanswered or I get a coupon for crap.
~reluctantyouth~
PS~ Hasbro not putting out preorders guarantees a good chance of future figure waves being canceled...this is beyond stupid. It continues year after year after horrible year.
Give it time. Hasbro is doing A La Cart orders now, so you will get them eventually. They really shouldn't be that hard to get a hold of.
Posted by reluctantyouth on July 22nd, 2014 @ 9:24am CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Seeing these photos, I'm disgusted at the dull, light blue color, the lack of detail, and the thin body. All of the Generations Voyager Class toys have been nothing but anorexic Transformers (except for Whirl, Springer, and Sky-Byte). This toy is based on the IDW design and he doesn't look like he has an eating disorder. Seeing the simplified treatment happening to the Generations figures wants me to draw a tear from my eye.reluctantyouth wrote: ....Hasbro thanks to your ridiculous distributing habits and shoving every piece of crap you have down Wal-Mart's throat I alas will probably not find this figure anywhere.
You should know that the retail companies order the Transformers toys from Hasbro. The retail companies do the distributing work, not Hasbro. Also, if you can't find it at Kmart, Target, Wal-Mart, etc. go to Toys"R"Us. The store is dedicated to toys.
I agree wholeheartedly in some respects, but that would mean that Hasbro actually pitched all of their products appropriately, gave set in stone deadlines for product availability, and shipped orders out promptly to distributors...even in a perfect world Hasbro would be unable to do that. So when I say it's Hasbro's fault...it really is when you get down to bare bones logistics.
Posted by Ballistic90 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 11:23am CDT
Posted by Peridot on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:48pm CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Seeing these photos, I'm disgusted at the dull, light blue color, the lack of detail, and the thin body. All of the Generations Voyager Class toys have been nothing but anorexic Transformers (except for Whirl, Springer, and Sky-Byte). This toy is based on the IDW design and he doesn't look like he has an eating disorder. Seeing the simplified treatment happening to the Generations figures wants me to draw a tear from my eye.
All of those "flaws" you point out are comic-accurate, except for the lack of detail. And even then, that varies from artist to artist.
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:57pm CDT
Posted by Skywarp64 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:14pm CDT
Posted by fenrir72 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:37pm CDT
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Seeing these photos, I'm disgusted at the dull, light blue color, the lack of detail, and the thin body. All of the Generations Voyager Class toys have been nothing but anorexic Transformers (except for Whirl, Springer, and Sky-Byte). This toy is based on the IDW design and he doesn't look like he has an eating disorder. Seeing the simplified treatment happening to the Generations figures wants me to draw a tear from my eye.reluctantyouth wrote: ....Hasbro thanks to your ridiculous distributing habits and shoving every piece of crap you have down Wal-Mart's throat I alas will probably not find this figure anywhere.
You should know that the retail companies order the Transformers toys from Hasbro. The retail companies do the distributing work, not Hasbro. Also, if you can't find it at Kmart, Target, Wal-Mart, etc. go to Toys"R"Us. The store is dedicated to toys.
I wouldn't be too hard on the fig based on the pics. There is a phenomena where the color on the monitor screen isn't the actual color of the figure. depends on the camera used.
As for the skinny design, ever wonder if the figure was actually in the works already and IDW just incorporated the fig into the story? That used to be the case in the 1980/90s.
The skinny aesthetic may be due to the Bayformers "skinny" alienesque/insect like appearance.
Posted by Downbeat on July 23rd, 2014 @ 1:50am CDT
Posted by robotmel on July 23rd, 2014 @ 9:15am CDT
Has anyone heard any news on the recently announced (Generations?) Voyager Optimus Prime aka Sloth from The Goonies?
Has he gone back to the drawing board taking his ugly buddy Voyager Megatron aka Lurch from The Adams Family with him?
Just in case anyone has forgotten about these, let me help you with that...
Posted by Ravage XK on July 23rd, 2014 @ 9:22am CDT
Posted by robotmel on July 23rd, 2014 @ 9:32am CDT
Ravage XK wrote:Prime bashing I can understand, his head is too small and his torso looks like its been over inflated but Megatron is probably as close to G1 look as we will get from a tank, whats wrong with him?
Those legs look awful to me. Perhaps its the angle but it really seems like theyve sacrificed the bot mode in favour of a fairly decent looking tank mode, but lets face it, these days you cant really smeg up a tank alt mode!
Posted by mooncake623 on July 23rd, 2014 @ 10:33am CDT
reluctantyouth wrote::-x ....Hasbro thanks to your ridiculous distributing habits and shoving every piece of crap you have down Wal-Mart's throat I alas will probably not find this figure anywhere.
The Generations are being engulfed by the movie crap. I speculate for every 12-13 cases of movie crap coming in there might be 0-1 case of Generations if the planets are aligned and all that good stuff.
I have seen Rhinox, Whirl, and Double Dealer but that is it. The deluxe Generations shelf warmers all but disappeared when Wally World dropped the price of deluxes back down to $9.97...there has been nothing to replace them.
Then of course there is not one DAMN new pre-order on Hasbrotoyshop.com either. SDCC is next week...August will be here before you know it...where the hell are all the preorders once again Hasbro? I would buy all of the following if you just put up a preorder
(2) Jetfire
(2) Rattrap
(2) Arcee
(2) Chromia
(2) Brainstorm
(2) Windblade
Can you count Hasbro? That's a sale of 12 figures ($240 give or take guaranteed)and I'm sure I'm not alone...get off your lazy asses. The brick and mortars are dead and it's your poor distribution habits fault. Tell the East and West coast distributors to stop sending us the leftover crap. How many times do I have to post this rant?...no one is listening anyway. The letters I send Hasbro usually go unanswered or I get a coupon for crap.
~reluctantyouth~
PS~ Hasbro not putting out preorders guarantees a good chance of future figure waves being canceled...this is beyond stupid. It continues year after year after horrible year.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I have zero trouble getting any generations stuff. Not that I get it from brick and mortars, I just preorder at a site sponsor! It is what? a few dollars more? I can never get why people refuse to do this and rather rant on how bad Hasbro disputation is instead.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on July 23rd, 2014 @ 5:12pm CDT
robotmel wrote:Ravage XK wrote:Prime bashing I can understand, his head is too small and his torso looks like its been over inflated but Megatron is probably as close to G1 look as we will get from a tank, whats wrong with him?
Those legs look awful to me. Perhaps its the angle but it really seems like theyve sacrificed the bot mode in favour of a fairly decent looking tank mode, but lets face it, these days you cant really smeg up a tank alt mode!
Optimus is indeed derpy looking. However, that megatron is perfect in every single ways. You're being a bit picky.
Posted by Down_Shift on July 23rd, 2014 @ 5:32pm CDT
Posted by Ravage XK on July 23rd, 2014 @ 5:36pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on July 23rd, 2014 @ 5:41pm CDT
Down_Shift wrote:The problems with Megatron start at the knees. Which on this figure begin mid thigh. Then we can go onto how big his head looks compared to the rest of the body. It reminds me of a novelty head that you might find on top of a shampoo bottle. The arms reminds me a lot of Titanium GI Joe Megatron, and that's not a good sign. The cannon, well I think the cannon is just backwards, but it's still too small to be Megatrons signature Fusion Cannon, ya know?
I find no problems with the head or arms, but I concede the canon and the legs. The canon is a perfect tank canon, but the bot mode need a 3rd party upgrade kit. I'm pretty sure some are already devloping a new canon for Megs. As for the legs, yeah, tiny tighs syndrome. Still, it's a classic TF trope so what can we do?
Posted by Sabrblade on July 23rd, 2014 @ 11:26pm CDT
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:38am CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:Down_Shift wrote:The problems with Megatron start at the knees. Which on this figure begin mid thigh. Then we can go onto how big his head looks compared to the rest of the body. It reminds me of a novelty head that you might find on top of a shampoo bottle. The arms reminds me a lot of Titanium GI Joe Megatron, and that's not a good sign. The cannon, well I think the cannon is just backwards, but it's still too small to be Megatrons signature Fusion Cannon, ya know?
I find no problems with the head or arms, but I concede the canon and the legs. The canon is a perfect tank canon, but the bot mode need a 3rd party upgrade kit. I'm pretty sure some are already devloping a new canon for Megs. As for the legs, yeah, tiny tighs syndrome. Still, it's a classic TF trope so what can we do?
I think his feet are a little too small, honestly.
That said, Hasbro's stock photos are notoriously bad (usually mistransformed or badly posed), so I'll keep an open mind until in-hand pics start surfacing.
Posted by robotmel on July 24th, 2014 @ 2:58am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:I wonder if there's any relation between the design of Leader Megatron and this Legends game design
That tank Megatron is supposed to be Leader scale? If so that just makes matters worse! Perhaps some new designers have done this Megs but if we where to compare designs with Leader Jetfire, that Megs just seems a little lame to me.
As far as sales go, Im sure these two will sell ok because they are two of the biggest characters/money spinners in the Transformers universe.
Posted by mooncake623 on July 24th, 2014 @ 10:38am CDT
Posted by fonziechavez on July 24th, 2014 @ 10:48am CDT
Posted by Peridot on July 24th, 2014 @ 10:51am CDT
Edit: Huh. Just Googled the Elite Guard badge. It's very similar, but not quite the same. The Elite Guard logo has three chevron-thingies that sit at an upwards angle, but the insignia on Blades only has two, and they're straight.
Posted by Noideaforaname on July 24th, 2014 @ 10:57am CDT
And the box art is lying about Blades' "hands."
They really should've done more to distinguish these from earlier uses of these molds. The 3-pack in particular still looks just like Ratchet, Prowl, and Arcee. Simply using the alternate heads for First Aid and Hot Spot would've worked wonders.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:01am CDT
Since I don't see TF4 or Age of Extinction anywhere, it's safe to assume they're like the blank 2010 line toys: they can fit in anywhere.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:16am CDT
LOLwut?mooncake623 wrote:Beast Hunters Prowl as Streetwisesmart
ROTF Blazemaster.mooncake623 wrote:RotF Evac as Blades
I'm thinking these mutli-packs might be the catalyst that forces TFWiki to change its "Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)" page to a "Transformers (2014 toyline) page.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Since I don't see TF4 or Age of Extinction anywhere, it's safe to assume they're like the blank 2010 line toys: they can fit in anywhere.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:19am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:I'm thinking these mutli-packs might be the catalyst that forces TFWiki to change its "Transformers: Age of Extinction (toyline)" page to a "Transformers (2014 toyline) page.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Since I don't see TF4 or Age of Extinction anywhere, it's safe to assume they're like the blank 2010 line toys: they can fit in anywhere.
And the Legends Optimus Prime, Starscream and Bumblebee re-re-releases haven't done so already? If I were you I'd wait a little while longer until we get package shots of the Generations 2015 toys. If they match in style we get 2010 all over again.
Posted by Mindmaster on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:21am CDT
That Hot Spot/Blades set though... Had they used Hot Spot's GDO head and the Inferno version of the mold, it'd be a little better. But as it stands, no thanks.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:44am CDT
But then it would just be GDO Hot Spot in red. It'd look more like Fire Chief instead. At least with the crane arm we get something evocative of a ladder.Mindmaster wrote:That Hot Spot/Blades set though... Had they used Hot Spot's GDO head and the Inferno version of the mold, it'd be a little better. But as it stands, no thanks.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:50am CDT
Oh my goodness, you guys! Blades has the color scheme of Fly-Up!
And Hot Spot being red makes him look a bit like Fire Chief!
Sadly, though, the other three don't look that much like Safety, Sparkride, or Streetstar. We could have had updated versions of all of the Guard City dudes.
Posted by mcfmullen on July 24th, 2014 @ 11:56am CDT
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:06pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Wait a sec!
Oh my goodness, you guys! Blades has the color scheme of Fly-Up!
And Hot Spot being red makes him look a bit like Fire Chief!
Aaaaaaaaaaaand That made me like these even less, thanks sabrblade
Posted by Sabrblade on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:06pm CDT
Who said they were trying to be show-accurate? In fact, none of these bodies are show-accurate anyway, so how could they ever be show-accurate?mcfmullen wrote:The colors are all wrong. Not accurate to the show at all.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:16pm CDT
mcfmullen wrote:The colors are all wrong. Not accurate to the show at all.
They weren't really supposed to. We already have a color accurate Hot Spot:
RotF Evac comes close enough to Blades, just switch out the orange for red:
Plus, using the original G1 colors would have resulted in near carbon copies of Prime Ratchet and Prowl.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:27pm CDT
As is, it's a good match for the deco of Rescue Bots Blades.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:RotF Evac comes close enough to Blades, just switch out the orange for red:
Posted by Noideaforaname on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:54pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Plus, using the original G1 colors would have resulted in near carbon copies of Prime Ratchet and Prowl.
Because they aren't now?
Posted by Flashwave on July 24th, 2014 @ 12:58pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:As is, it's a good match for the deco of Rescue Bots Blades.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:RotF Evac comes close enough to Blades, just switch out the orange for red:
Yes. Yes it does. And Universe Bonecrusher, with a little black paint, and some yellow stripes, is a hop, skip, and jump from being Boulder. Need a good Chase though. Using RID Prowl right now, and I glued a lego stud to DOTM Spec. Ratchet so I could mount a Ladder to him for Heatwave, although this might get subbed in.
I want to get GDO Hit Spot even more now, and use the Guard City names for the fire truck and helicopter, and one day Heatwave is going to get a long-lost distress call from Rescue Team Alpha-1.
Also, I love that Groove comes with two guns. (on package) And that I used the same guns for the same setup on Arcee.