New Robots in Disguise Minicons images including in package images

These look so awesome. I love me some little energon critters.

It dawned on me, they're totally going for a Beyblade thing aren't they?

NuclearConvoy wrote:

Cobotron wrote:These look so awesome. I love me some little energon critters.

It dawned on me, they're totally going for a Beyblade thing aren't they?

How much are these pretties supposed to retail for?

I'm gonna guess $9.99. I know your up Nort, so same as a Legends, but thats just a guess. I hope they're a little cheaper.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:These look so awesome. I love me some little energon critters.

It dawned on me, they're totally going for a Beyblade thing aren't they?

I think it's more like bacugan due to the one step transformation from a basic geometric shape.

Or indeed the redesigned casseticons from Fall of Cybertron:

Emerje wrote:They had said before that the Energon animals were an unadvertised feature so we'll probably have to wait for one of us to buy them all and figure it out I guess.

Emerje

Do you have a quote? Because those animals were shown at the toyfair during the presentation.

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Sandsting? Why not Scorponok!

Scorpinok could be a future main character perhaps.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:They had said before that the Energon animals were an unadvertised feature so we'll probably have to wait for one of us to buy them all and figure it out I guess.

Emerje

Do you have a quote? Because those animals were shown at the toyfair during the presentation.

Unfortunately they weren't shown there either. They told us about that feature on the show floor and laughed about how they forgot to really bring that up anywhere else

william-james88 wrote:Thanks Scotty, I thought they were shown based on the written presentation feed, my mistake. I know you and Ryan were laughing while saying that they will probably not be in the instructions either. Do you guys think that will actually be the case?

Wouldn't surprise me, I think they view it as more of an Easter Egg than an actual selling point.

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Thanks Scotty, I thought they were shown based on the written presentation feed, my mistake. I know you and Ryan were laughing while saying that they will probably not be in the instructions either. Do you guys think that will actually be the case?

Wouldn't surprise me, I think they view it as more of an Easter Egg than an actual selling point.

Too bad, I love this kind of stuff and if hardcore collectors knew of this it might encourage them to get them all for the extra figure. Akin to the Marvel build a figure waves which I know Jon thought should be implemented in the Transformers line.

It'd be neat if they could do an actual transforming Collect-and-build figure.

I guess it's that time of year where we get all the minicon news. Following yesterday's pictures, we now have a few more showing for the first time how the main Deployer figure (in this case Drift) can use the clear weapons reserved for the minicon. We also see how the minicon can plug into the deployer while still wearing the clear gear. This also gives us a great comparison to the Warrior Drift figure. The photos were found on autobase aichi's blog site Snakas.

I'm cautiously excited about these...