Rumors - More Upcoming Transformers Titans Return Products: Monsterbots, Nightbeat, Shockwave, More

We've known about Triggerhappy for months - and it was even seen on the back of packaging at an official con - and the duocons were in the last leak.

Pretty sure we knew about Cloudraker and Fastlane from a podcast leak too. And I think Searchlight was already rumoured but it might have been Chase; the throttlebots always blend into each to me. Can never tell them apart.

[quote="Autobot N"]Found something interesting on TFW2005. Take with many grains of salt.[code][/code]

Yeah, I saw that. But this one has really no tangible source. I still wouldnt be surprised if they all happen though and i will have a ton of fun right now breaking it down to see how they could all be issued within next year in the model we currently have.

Deluxes
•Getaway
•Hot Rod
•Doublecross
•Triggerhappy
•Quake
•Croc
•Topspin
•Kup
•Perceptor
•Crosshairs
•Slugslinger
•Misfire
•Needlenose
•Nightbeat

Only 14 out of 16 possible, it could be that those I listed in the titan master section would be here instead.

Legends
•Sharkticon
•Cliffjumper
•Beachcomber
•Huffer
•Seaspray
•Cosmos
•Hubcap
•Chase
•Freeway
•Searchlight

Voyagers
•Megatron
•Optimus
•Broadside
•Bliztwing
•Octane
•Snapdragon
•Apeface

If there is any chance for another voyager, it would be in a boxset unless Snapdragon and Apeface are not voyagers, which would suck. It could be battletrap and flywheels instead but that would mean 3 mainline relases of the Blitzwing voyager mold, which strikes me as odd (but not unheard of, CW rleasd the Optimus voyager mold 3 times that year)

Leaders
•Sixshot ¸
•Sky Shadow
•Overlord
•Deathasaurus

If this is how it plays out, this could be the best yearfor Leaders since ROTF.

Boxsets (2 sets)
•Fastlane
•Cloudraker
•Tidal Wave
•Pounce
•Wingspan
•Quickswitch
•Godbomber
•Nautica
•Tidalwave

Two titan masters, A blue redeco of the Magnus/PMOP mold and a redeco of the Voyager Optimus mold would be here as well.

Titan Master
•Ptero
•Sawback
•Fanrgy
•Overboard
•Grotusque
•Ranger
•Hosehead
•Arcee
•Battletrap
•Repugnus
•Shuffler
•Toraizer
•Optimus Prime

Only 13 out of possible 16


Titan Class
•Trypticon

Really Not Sure Where
•Flywheels
•Shockwave
•Abominus

This would be pretty awesome.

If this is legit, then it's going to be a busy year...!

Shockwave could be the Galvatron mold reuse.

Kurona wrote:We've known about Triggerhappy for months - and it was even seen on the back of packaging at an official con - and the duocons were in the last leak.

Pretty sure we knew about Cloudraker and Fastlane from a podcast leak too. And I think Searchlight was already rumoured but it might have been Chase; the throttlebots always blend into each to me. Can never tell them apart.

Yeah,but this is just an extra source reiterating those so it adds validity. Just like this second mention of Predaking adds validity.

All I need from this line is a deluxe or larger, well executed pair of Horrorcons. That's all. I'm really hoping that their names here mean that my wish will come true.

It's kind of weird how it's seems like everything the fans have been asking for is coming out according to these rumors. Except the Dinobots of course. But please let the Leader rumors be true.

The Nightbeat and Flywheels rumors are interesting, since we've already gotten both as Titan Masters.

I wonder if the full Nightbeat will come with a comic-inspired head, so that you can switch between the two depending on personal inclination?

SureShot18 wrote:It's kind of weird how it's seems like everything the fans have been asking for is coming out according to these rumors. Except the Dinobots of course. But please let the Leader rumors be true.

The leaders are true and the only one unconfirmed is SkyShadow although I am 100% certain he will be coming out since we have his product code. Any other leader is pure speculation (on my part) though and not a rumour.

Flywheels would make some sense as a Blitzwing repaint (or very slight remould) [well a new head at least].

Hoping for Shockwave to be either a Voyager or a Leader-class. Leaning more towards Leader due to the recent releases of Starscream and Soundwave.

Wow...I'm gonna have to get a job.

william-james88 wrote:Leaders
•Overlord
•Deathsaurus

Together?



(I know, doesn't quite fit the reference but close enough maybe?)

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Leaders
•Overlord
•Deathsaurus

Together?



(I know, doesn't quite fit the reference but close enough maybe?)

Choom choom.

This smells of beryllium baloney

Dr Va'al wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Leaders
•Overlord
•Deathsaurus

Together?



(I know, doesn't quite fit the reference but close enough maybe?)

Choom choom.

Overlord's next tech spec motto: "Choom Choom de party starter!"

RAR wrote:Flywheels would make some sense as a Blitzwing repaint (or very slight remould) [well a new head at least].

That would make sense given the homage to him in the Platinum Triple Changers set.

steals_your_goats wrote:Shockwave could be the Galvatron mold reuse.

I said the same thing a few months ago. Basically where Galvatron's legs connect during transformation could be the barrel of Shockwave's gun mode. Galvatron's mold could also make a decent Straxus/Darkmount figure as well.

Normally I usually see any year where there's a Bay-formers movie releasing as a wash for decent CHUGS figures but next year could end up being the best year out of the last 3 (we'll likely have to get most of them online though).

Logan79 wrote:Alpha Trion as Razorclaw^^

Me likey this. Gives me hope.

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Leaders
•Overlord
•Deathsaurus

Together?



(I know, doesn't quite fit the reference but close enough maybe?)

Close enough. choom choom choom

It Is Him wrote:This smells of beryllium baloney

I'm having a hard time believing a lot of this as well. If this were true, that means in September of 2016 we would know almost every Generations Transformer coming out in 2017.

I'm keeping a very wary eye on this list.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm having a hard time believing a lot of this as well. If this were true, that means in September of 2016 we would know almost every Generations Transformer coming out in 2017.

We knew everything coming out in 2016 at around the end of 2015, things just snowballed. We still have no official confirmation nor images or anything. Thats a big difference from last year where offically, we had already seen everything coming out for half of next year plus the G2 sets and VIctorion by this time. But this year, we still havent even seen the complete set of deluxes coming out in January 2017.

EDIT: I went to check and we knew of Soundwave in July 2015:

July 2nd, 2015, episode 114

1. There will be a new Soundwave figure that will work with the Legends Buzzsaw we saw Hasbro reveal.

So yeah, it was even earlier than that last year.

Tyrannacon wrote:Hoping for Shockwave to be either a Voyager or a Leader-class. Leaning more towards Leader due to the recent releases of Starscream and Soundwave.

that would be awesome

I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

Wave 2 deluxes came in the post today, if you are in UK and want the Wave 2 deluxes, order them from The Entertainer, though I think some are out of stock! I am not incredibly impressed with Highbrow, his head is not very secure, just turning it causes it to pop right out of the port, and I don't know how to keep it this way, and can also get a bit of a bobblehead. Aside from this, they are all great!

The really strange thing about this new rumor is the fact that all the leader class figures are Decepticons. I'd expect at least one of them to be an Autobot. What ever happened to the rumor of Sixshot being remolded/redecoed into Greatshot?

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

william-james88 wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:It's kind of weird how it's seems like everything the fans have been asking for is coming out according to these rumors. Except the Dinobots of course. But please let the Leader rumors be true.

The leaders are true and the only one unconfirmed is SkyShadow although I am 100% certain he will be coming out since we have his product code. Any other leader is pure speculation (on my part) though and not a rumour.

I was referring to Va'al's bolding which he stated to be indicative of figures we didn't know about before.

SillySpringer wrote:

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

Then again, that's essentially what Chainclaw's rumors were, and look where we are now.

Railbomb wrote:The really strange thing about this new rumor is the fact that all the leader class figures are Decepticons. I'd expect at least one of them to be an Autobot. What ever happened to the rumor of Sixshot being remolded/redecoed into Greatshot?

Turned out to be part of a boxset alongside Nautica, the Autobot Clones and a voyager. (Which I'm still super angry about)

Autobot N wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

Then again, that's essentially what Chainclaw's rumors were, and look where we are now.

Yeah well the worst is when someone says they have inside information and then say something that we researchers already know.

SillySpringer wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

Then again, that's essentially what Chainclaw's rumors were, and look where we are now.

Yeah well the worst is when someone says they have inside information and then say something that we researchers already know.

I don't think that pertains to this situation at all.

steals_your_goats wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

Then again, that's essentially what Chainclaw's rumors were, and look where we are now.

Yeah well the worst is when someone says they have inside information and then say something that we researchers already know.

I don't think that pertains to this situation at all.

No, but it's something I thought I'd bring up since I've been dealing those people a lot on other sites lately.

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:It's kind of weird how it's seems like everything the fans have been asking for is coming out according to these rumors. Except the Dinobots of course. But please let the Leader rumors be true.

The leaders are true and the only one unconfirmed is SkyShadow although I am 100% certain he will be coming out since we have his product code. Any other leader is pure speculation (on my part) though and not a rumour.

I was referring to Va'al's bolding which he stated to be indicative of figures we didn't know about before.

But his bolding didnt reffer to a size class so I dont know which Leader rumours you could be talking about. Nothing in the article about new toys states the class.

Kurona wrote:

Railbomb wrote:The really strange thing about this new rumor is the fact that all the leader class figures are Decepticons. I'd expect at least one of them to be an Autobot. What ever happened to the rumor of Sixshot being remolded/redecoed into Greatshot?

Turned out to be part of a boxset alongside Nautica, the Autobot Clones and a voyager. (Which I'm still super angry about)

Thats a different charcter.
Greatshot being a redeco was never an actual rumour, just a fan wish (unless you ca show me otherwise). The current rumour is that Quickswith will be a redeco of Sixshot and be avalable in a box set.

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SureShot18 wrote:It's kind of weird how it's seems like everything the fans have been asking for is coming out according to these rumors. Except the Dinobots of course. But please let the Leader rumors be true.

The leaders are true and the only one unconfirmed is SkyShadow although I am 100% certain he will be coming out since we have his product code. Any other leader is pure speculation (on my part) though and not a rumour.

I was referring to Va'al's bolding which he stated to be indicative of figures we didn't know about before.

But his bolding didnt reffer to a size class so I dont know which Leader rumours you could be talking about. Nothing in the article about new toys states the class.

Woooooooow I messed up really bad there.

I meant to reply to your post replying to my post saying we already knew about cloudraker, battletrap etc.

Autobot N wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

leokearon wrote:I hate rumours with "my friend works at "insert company" and got me this" they always sound fake. I'll just wait for official announcements or possible prototype images. Just a list isn't much good

I feelya. I don't pay attention to those rumors.

Then again, that's essentially what Chainclaw's rumors were, and look where we are now.

Aye whatever happened to Chainclaw? coz some of his rumors did pan out....like Broadside ect.

william-james88 wrote:The current rumour is that Quickswith will be a redeco of Sixshot and be avalable in a box set.

WHAT? aww that's p1$h! so that means that we can't get him sigularly then?

& who else is in this box set?(Sixshot i take it?)

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:The current rumour is that Quickswith will be a redeco of Sixshot and be avalable in a box set.

WHAT? aww that's p1$h! so that means that we can't get him sigularly then?

& who else is in this box set?(Sixshot i take it?)

Nautica, the Autobot Clones (Fastlane & Cloudraker) and a Voyager who I think is an Optimus repaint.

And believe me I'm also as angry. These characters have piss all to do with each other, and chances are if you care particularly about any one character in the boxset you don't care about any of the others. I just want a Nautica and I'm expected to pay 100 quid just to get her and a Leader I don't care about and isn't in any fiction with her (hell, he's barely in any fiction period), the Autobot Clones who I also don't care about and aren't in any fiction with her, and another Optimus who despite being in the same fiction as her has not yet shared a scene with her. The whole thing's absolute bollocks; if you're going to do a boxset at least have the characters have something to do with each other rather than packaging a bunch of randoms together.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:The current rumour is that Quickswith will be a redeco of Sixshot and be avalable in a box set.

WHAT? aww that's p1$h! so that means that we can't get him sigularly then?

& who else is in this box set?(Sixshot i take it?)

Quickswitch will be in the speed set with Nautica, fastlane, cloudraker, some Voyager and titan master Thunderclap. Why would two of the same leader mold be in the same box set? Plus we already know that Sixshot is wave 3's leader class figure.

I think the voyager in the box set will probably be some sort of Nemesis Prime. Either that or maybe an Albino Prime, but that doesn't make much sense at all.

SillySpringer wrote:I think the voyager in the box set will probably be some sort of Nemesis Prime. Either that or maybe an Albino Prime, but that doesn't make much sense at all.

That's probably where a Scourge repaint would come in, actually.
He has nothing to do with the other characters in the boxset but that doesn't stop Nautica from being packaged with Quickswitch

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I think the voyager in the box set will probably be some sort of Nemesis Prime. Either that or maybe an Albino Prime, but that doesn't make much sense at all.

That's probably where a Scourge repaint would come in, actually.

I was really hoping we would get a Scourge in a box set with an RiD 2001 colored Fort Max, but I guess that probably won't happen.

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I think the voyager in the box set will probably be some sort of Nemesis Prime. Either that or maybe an Albino Prime, but that doesn't make much sense at all.

That's probably where a Scourge repaint would come in, actually.

I was really hoping we would get a Scourge in a box set with an RiD 2001 colored Fort Max, but I guess that probably won't happen.

Well, we didn't get the really obvious repaints of the last two titans. It seems Titan repaints are relegated purely to SDCC 'premium' versions. (Read: pointless chroming and half-hearted 'show-accurate' decos)

I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Same here.

SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Same here.

At the least, these had better be better than just some bodies with new heads. If they are going to do this, there had better be some nice remolding with this.

I don't really mind it, but I suppose it's because I'd be in for a Quickswitch and clones.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Aye, if they were really gonna do a boxset they should've packaged characters with relevance to each other.
Like, you could put Nautica with Nightbeat, Getaway, Overlord and a MTMTE-styled Hot Rod with a new head (I know they all have individual retail releases; just as an example if this was gonna be the only way you could get them). It'd still be really annoying if you only want one of them, but at the very least you're more than likely to want all of those at some point - maybe not all at once, but most people would want them for MTMTE collections.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Its been happening for years with Botcon toys though, and even platinum sets, and SDCC and Scrounge. But I agreem, it blows.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Same here.

At the least, these had better be better than just some bodies with new heads. If they are going to do this, there had better be some nice remolding with this.

I doubt it. Most Boxsets are just redecos, many dont even have new heads.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Same here.

At the least, these had better be better than just some bodies with new heads. If they are going to do this, there had better be some nice remolding with this.

I doubt it. Most Boxsets are just redecos, many dont even have new heads.

Well the rumors already said that Nautica will be remolded from blurr, so there's that.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm still a bit annoyed at this idea of the box sets. Such things like that seem a bit ridiculous and aggravating for those who want only 1 of those characters (for me and K: Nautica)

Its been happening for years with Botcon toys though, and even platinum sets, and SDCC and Scrounge. But I agreem, it blows.

Man, you must be upset if you're agreeming with everyone

I agree though, these are nothing new, but they tend to be really cool, and almost all tend to feature better than average deco's and end up being worth it, but these sound pretty pricey though, maybe they're reviving the ol' tradition of Christmas-season-store-exclusives, something I've sorely missed in the years since Animated