ROTF Megatron, Skids, and Chromia in package images

I'm awaiting the kitbashes of these, Megatron would make perfect BM Tankor, and Chromia would make a good Thrust.

Ugh another wheelformer, i'll pass those just look horrid and how on earth can you pose them?

I'm going to buy Megatron and then be really pissed when the shiney Premium one comes out in a year...

They're getting really lazy with the transformations, Megatron is in the fetal position with one hand behind is back ... its like Optimal Optimus all over again

I don't like these.

I don't think I'm going to be able to support this toy line.

We should be thankful for these! If the prequel comic is any indication, we are going to, at some point soon, be blessed with the ever elusive "ice cream" truck as an Autobot. I'm already staking out my spot on a fairly clean brick wall so I'll have plenty of space to beat my head against it.
If this new movie is supposed to be so much darker than the first, why do I get the feeling that I will be laughing my way through 2+ hours of an obviously one-sided slaughterfest.

While I support the designers as far as making the toys look less humanoid (after all, they are alien robots and the arrogant 1950's mentality that aliens should look like us is just absurd) I am having a hard time with what the writers are giving us in the way of Autobot troops in general. The 'Bots biggest warrior is an aged stealth jet with rear facing guns. Almost every other Autobots most outstanding feature is awsome gas mileage. The fate of the planet is in the hands of motor-cycles, sub-compacts, a soft-serve wagon in desperate need of a bath, an R/C truck and a '94 Peterbilt. Earth is soooo screwed!

I'm I bit confused about Chromia

In the Wal-Mart promo video for ROTF and according to Wikipedia, Arcee is a combination of 3 bikes, one pink, one purple, one blue. If the blue one is indeed Chromia (an individual character), then the pink one could be Elita-One and the purple one could be Arcee herself and all 3 fembots can combine into a larger robot like the Constructicons do when combining to form Devastator.

So that would be the fail wave im guessing. I love bikeformers but im going to pass on that one. Looks way to simple (and not in a good way) and just looks like crap. At least Thrust had hidden feet. I said it from the start the theme of this movie is wheeled feet.

To me this is the transformer side show. This toy line is plain ugly so far. I'm thankful to be able to rest my wallet.

T-Macksimus wrote:With the stand that comes with Chromia, I could see a 2nd stand working well as feet for a larger bot but that would leave the 3rd motorcycle having to be bigger than Dlx class Arcee

Not necessarily. Given the bizarre articulation we've seen in Chromia, I'd expect their merging to be completely unique, and involve a lot more 'mixing' together than you see in most of the TF gestalts - more like the Beast Wars gestalts than the Scramble Cityor Energon Gestalts, or even the RID Build Team.

Actually, the three RID locomotives were all approximately the same size, right? And yet they made a decent combined form.

Counterpunch wrote:I don't think I'm going to be able to support this toy line.

Some of the Decepticons (for whom I don't mind a sort of deformed look) like Rampage may win me over, but I may also get the bikes if they're in the same size range as TF1 Arcee and TFA Prowl (i.e. roughly GIJoe sized).

I've been generally surprised that so few of the scout class figures have caught my fancy. The armored Red Bull truck and the funky futuristic car just come off as too Happy Meal. The biplane (uniqueness & historical interest), the boat (decent robot mode), and the fork-lift (funny) may make it on to my desk though.