New ROTF figure pictures

MKall you beat me to it by a few seconds!

Oh well it's supposed to be my week off anyway

Well, given thought/speculation that Transformers have been on Earth for a VERY LONG TIME, the biplane could be from a 'flashback montage' in the movie where we see historical vehicles and machines transforming... as our heroes learn the full scope of Cybertronian influence upon our culture.

Depth charge has always had an alt mode that had to td something with water first he was a stingray and now hes a boat

is that a biplane? awesome, just awesome! im going to get that one. if theyare cheap and not tacky looking i'll get the repaints too and collect that one like it was a seeker.

I love these new things. Nice efforts.

I'll be a believer when we see that Ransack's robot mode in clearer detail. Looks kind of strange to me in that blurry shot.

Shouldnt the biplane be named Barnstorm instead of Ransack? Ransack doesnt seem to fit to me.

Senor Hugo wrote:Looks like Ransack and Depthcharge are the two bot's names.

How can you tell?

Dead Metal wrote:

Senor Hugo wrote:Looks like Ransack and Depthcharge are the two bot's names.

How can you tell?

From the text BIO above the robots. They are blurry. But just enough can be made out to say its Depthcharge and Ransack.

Overcracker wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:

Senor Hugo wrote:Looks like Ransack and Depthcharge are the two bot's names.

How can you tell?

From the text BIO above the robots. They are blurry. But just enough can be made out to say its Depthcharge and Ransack.

I'm trying but all I can make out is a bit bold R for the Biplane and two bold De for the boat. Perhaps your right but I'll wait till we have better images of them.

The boat is cool, but comeon there pushin it with the biplane that looks retardid ! No one even uses those anymore. But to complete the scout set just like the set of Target only scouts I guess ill have to get it.

Cant wait to see how they justify a bi-plane. The boat guy looks good but i fear for the plane. Would've been a good idea for some spin off toy line but for the movie i dont know. Dont get me wrong it looks ok but just in the wrong continuity. Cant believe that hasbro is canning the Universe line for this crappy movie and animated.

i found the names!!! : http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... ck-166544/

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Cant wait to see how they justify a bi-plane. The boat guy looks good but i fear for the plane. Would've been a good idea for some spin off toy line but for the movie i dont know. Dont get me wrong it looks ok but just in the wrong continuity. Cant believe that hasbro is canning the Universe line for this crappy movie and animated.

I agree except for core characters. I'm gonna get as many of the 25th universe toys as i can afford. The only real problem i had with the univers line was how crappy the 25th prime remake was.

first i want to say who the crap tales these picture dont these poeple know the word focus.

and 2nd i like biplane figure but the biplane should nt even remotlty be introduced into the film if they can introduce the biplane they cna introduce the dinbots, dinobots & biplanes are extinct, second whta dumb transformer would pick a slow moving vehical like that when it comes to air combat thats a bad disguise when fighting in the air.

i proaably get these figures but ill be sorley dissapointed if the biplane is introduced somehow in the film its just not possible or ligical

dragons wrote:first i want to say who the crap tales these picture dont these poeple know the word focus.

and 2nd i like biplane figure but the biplane should nt even remotlty be introduced into the film if they can introduce the biplane they cna introduce the dinbots, dinobots & biplanes are extinct, second whta dumb transformer would pick a slow moving vehical like that when it comes to air combat thats a bad disguise when fighting in the air.

i proaably get these figures but ill be sorley dissapointed if the biplane is introduced somehow in the film its just not possible or ligical

yes why a biplane and no dinobots

I think this biplane character is part of the scene that was filmed at the Smithsonian(?)... I don't know what aircrafts they have in there, but if Jetfire is supposed to be in that scene hiding as a Blackbird, why not have more Transformers disguised as historic airplanes or machines? Just my two cents...
Or could be the case of the first movie, where many military and civilian vehicles were turned by Hasbro into TF characters, and this biplane, again, is part of the museum sequence.

MYoung23 wrote:Shouldnt the biplane be named Barnstorm instead of Ransack? Ransack doesnt seem to fit to me.

The G1 Ransack was a locust, G2 Ransask was a old prop airplane (specifically a Chance Vought F4U Corsair), Armada Ransack was a truck, Universe Ransack was a backhoe, Cybertron Ransack was a motorcycle. Seems like this guy is a homage to G2 if anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransack_(Transformers)

As for them working it into the plot, I see no reason he can't have found his alt mode in a museam or an airshow. I'd love it if a Transformer landed at the Henry Ford Museam and scanned something vintage. There are some sweet vehicles on display there.

Not every Transformer must turn into a 2009 vehicle. Heck, it's more likely that some alien landing at random in on earth would bump into something vintage than the latest showroom models and prototypes like we saw in the movie.

Scaleface wrote:

MYoung23 wrote:Shouldnt the biplane be named Barnstorm instead of Ransack? Ransack doesnt seem to fit to me.

The G1 Ransack was a locust, G2 Ransask was a old prop airplane (specifically a Chance Vought F4U Corsair), Armada Ransack was a truck, Universe Ransack was a backhoe, Cybertron Ransack was a motorcycle. Seems like this guy is a homage to G2 if anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransack_(Transformers)

As for them working it into the plot, I see no reason he can't have found his alt mode in a museam or an airshow. I'd love it if a Transformer landed at the Henry Ford Museam and scanned something vintage. There are some sweet vehicles on display there.

Not every Transformer must turn into a 2009 vehicle. Heck, it's more likely that some alien landing at random in on earth would bump into something vintage than the latest showroom models and prototypes like we saw in the movie.

LOL A Model T Bot.

Well I will have to see a clearer picture to see if I like this new character. But if he is in the movie I have to question why he would choose such a old school vechicle mode ??? Will he change form later on in the movie as we saw with Bumblebee from muscle car to concept car ???

The boat guy looks cool, and I might pick up the bi-plane for the sheer uniqueness of the alt mode. I think it's a really cool idea!

kirbenvost wrote:The boat guy looks cool, and I might pick up the bi-plane for the sheer uniqueness of the alt mode. I think it's a really cool idea!

biplane face remides me of the tin man mixed with the iron monger head..LOL

nemesis-prime wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:The boat guy looks cool, and I might pick up the bi-plane for the sheer uniqueness of the alt mode. I think it's a really cool idea!

biplane face remides me of the tin man mixed with the iron monger head..LOL

Reminds me of Blurr mixed with a little Blurr.

kirbenvost wrote:The boat guy looks cool, and I might pick up the bi-plane for the sheer uniqueness of the alt mode. I think it's a really cool idea!

I totally agree. Transformers toys should be all about cool, interesting alternate modes transforming into robot toys instead of the same thing over and over and over. Read: Seeker jets.

AntBot wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:The boat guy looks cool, and I might pick up the bi-plane for the sheer uniqueness of the alt mode. I think it's a really cool idea!

I totally agree. Transformers toys should be all about cool, interesting alternate modes transforming into robot toys instead of the same thing over and over and over. Read: Seeker jets.

LOL nothing cool about a biplane sorry.

it would be funny if someone called ransack a dickhead cause look at ransacks head it looks like a freakin wiener.

a bi-plane that's a new one I'll pass

A Biplane?!? I'll be buying that one

That BiPlane is awesome!

But seriously, why the blurry pictures?

GetterDragun wrote:That BiPlane is awesome!

But seriously, why the blurry pictures?

Agreed on both. I want clear pictures of that awesome BiPlane!

I can't wait to see the custom artists turn it into the HOS seekers.

that biplane is mine! any ways a biplane the character must have ben pissed when he scaned that shippym veichle

i like the boat one and i like the concept of a biplane but i dont know if i would get him

Good to see some under-used alt modes getting a look in. Consider both of these bought purely because they don't transform into another bloody car/jet.

im liking both of these from what ive seen.. and that biplane mold im so picking up.. might even repaint it as a red baron type of character

GetterDragun wrote:That BiPlane is awesome!

But seriously, why the blurry pictures?

I'm assumming these were prolly from a camera phone and someone took them quickly befor being spotted. 007 transformers move.

nemesis-prime wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:That BiPlane is awesome!

But seriously, why the blurry pictures?

I'm assumming these were prolly from a camera phone and someone took them quickly befor being spotted. 007 transformers move.

But it almost looks intentionally blurry. Even the crappiest phones don't look like that.

First: The reason why ALL first pics are so blurry is because they are taken quickly by people who work in the factory. They don't have time to make sure everything is in the frame and it will be in focus, they want to get the news out to us fans while keeping their jobs.

Second thing is: If the bi-plane isn't a toy-only or game figure, could it be that "senile bot" Bay was talking about when news of the movie came out?

I'm really liking these new alt modes like everyone is talking about, but heres food for thought wasn't one of the combaticons a biplane too in starscreams brigade?? Anyway, both are very kool and hopefully and release date for the new ROFT figures will come soon!

Overcracker wrote:Interesting. Looks like the Bi-Plane's name is Ransack.

Be careful. It might just be Bunnies Suck.

So who's the kitbasher stepping up and doing a Hearts of Steel style rework of the bi-plane?

I don't like them at all. Especially Ransack.

But the little bastard may actually be in the movie, so we'll see how that goes. They gotta fill that 40+ robots quota some how!

80sgeek wrote:First: The reason why ALL first pics are so blurry is because they are taken quickly by people who work in the factory. They don't have time to make sure everything is in the frame and it will be in focus, they want to get the news out to us fans while keeping their jobs.

Wow. Way off their. First They don't care about the fans, the only thing they care about is selling a stolen figure for $200. The reason that they most likely keep them blurry is they know there is higher demand when someone is buying something as a collector that no one has seen before. This is the same thing that happened with the Sound wave prototype. Don't say that they took the time to take photos of it in every position possible, but didn't take the time to focus it.

It's a frickin Bi-Plane! That's hilariously awesome, I'm gonna be forced to buy it just for the alt mode.

And if the boat really is named Depth Charge than I will be forced to buy him as well.

Stockade wrote:I'm really liking these new alt modes like everyone is talking about, but heres food for thought wasn't one of the combaticons a biplane too in starscreams brigade?? Anyway, both are very kool and hopefully and release date for the new ROFT figures will come soon!

Nope, IIRC all the Combaticons were World War II machines before Starscream added the personality componants.

EDIT: The two aircraft - what looks like a P-51 Mustang and some form of small bomber - become Vortex and Blastoff, respectively.

This is getting awesome =D

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Here's G2 Ransack....

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If they make the scout class vehicles into actual movie characters, then we will see these in the movie, however, the scouts from the first movie, weren't toys; they were just used in the comic book continuum outside of the movie.

And they've already kinda blown the identity of the geriatric robot by previously posting the jetfire bio, where it says he's an older decepticon that joins the autobots... if i remember correctly...

Overcracker wrote:Interesting. Looks like the Bi-Plane's name is Ransack

Makes sense. It would make him a G1 & G2 homage. G1 for name, G2 for the Rotorforce biplane was named Ransack as well.

Wow, these ROTF Scouts are looking really good - That bi plane is cool.

Meantime is the only movie figure I EVER bought.
I never liked these movie figures at all, doing my best to ignore them, though they glut the toy aisles.

But really. I really hope these two figures are just photoshopped "gag" disinformation that Bay referenced he'd be engaging in way back.