Titan Class Tidal Wave Revealed at Cybertron Fest 2023 in Singapore

My wife signed off on this purchase when she watched me fight him in the PS2 game years ago.

I'm anxious to see him in a line up though.

Interesting. The base mode doesn't look that good but I'm glad it has it. If wizardry can be worked into toys then no reason it shouldn't be at this size and price. Liking all the other modes but hoping that they have some kind of play gimmick with smaller bots (like the landing ships seats and the lift on the old toy). It could still be a case of the old toy being better but the size has me on this alone where as I skipped omega from the old toy doing a lot more.


Looks like I was right (a rarity haha) on it including parts to add to megatron, not sure it includes enough parts though. I still don't want to buy that megatron so I'll have to see if they can add on to original armada megatron. Would be nice if the parts turned into a bot weaponiser style.

If they release a ram jet for tidal wave that will be a definite buy for me as long as it isn't just a repaint of core rotb guy in power suit (which might work well enough for it)

And here I was hoping for an "affordable" Unicron with a "good transformation"...

Am I missing something, or is this just simply a scaled up version of armada tidal wave?

I am missing innovation.
Like many legacy figures, especially in the armada line, I don't see how this improves on the original.

blackeyedprime wrote:Looks like I was right (a rarity haha) on it including parts to add to megatron, not sure it includes enough parts though. I still don't want to buy that megatron so I'll have to see if they can add on to original armada megatron. Would be nice if the parts turned into a bot weaponiser style.

I didn't notice this before, but apparently Ben Custom Toys had more of the Hasbro video posted. This was on TFW2005 and that sure is an awful lot of moving parts for simple snap on armor. Could they really be including a smaller Tidal Wave in this set that scales taller than Leader Megatron? The part on his back that forms the legs takes up Megatron's entire back and then some. The part to the right would form the arms it's pretty massive and the part to the left would be the torso which is a little flat, but seems rather wide. Looks like Hasbro is still saving some secrets for later but that's one heck of a bonus!

Sculyblast wrote:Am I missing something, or is this just simply a scaled up version of armada tidal wave?

I am missing innovation.
Like many legacy figures, especially in the armada line, I don't see how this improves on the original.

For starters it has knees...

(BTW, changed the topic title because I was tired and kinda goofed by posting the news to this thread instead of the Legacy thread so this'll be the official thread for Titan Tidal Wave similar to what we do with most Masterpiece figures. Thankfully we had talked a little about a potential Tidal Wave in this thread previously.)

Emerje

noctorro wrote:Called it 2 years ago.

Next prediction:
- Titan Overlord
- Titan Fortress Maximus (not a retool)

This Tidalwave looks amazing! Glad he has a wonky base mode, I love basemodes!
Just a great character for a Titan.
<3 to the Playstation 2 game, still great!

Is there some story where Overlord would make sense at that size? I feel like he has a lot of Commander class potential, but is too simple for a Titan.

Emerje

So, there’s a secondary smaller Tidal-Wave inside hus torso. No doubt thus is the one that actually combines with Megatron.

Still sad there’s mo Ramjet though.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Overcracker wrote:So, there’s a secondary smaller Tidal-Wave inside hus torso. No doubt thus is the one that actually combines with Megatron.

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Still sad there’s mo Ramjet though.

I suggested in the other thread they could have made Ramjet instead of this smaller TW and have that combine with Megatron. It wouldn't have been exactly like the original but it would have made more sense.

Good idea.

Overcracker wrote:So, there’s a secondary smaller Tidal-Wave inside hus torso. No doubt thus is the one that actually combines with Megatron.

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Still sad there’s mo Ramjet though.

See my post above. It's the same one and the other parts are hidden in other areas of the figure and does seem to form a full smaller bot. Personally I prefer this to including Ramjet for a few reasons. First and foremost it would be a pretty large Mini-con to make sense with him, but also there's no reason why they can't make one later like they've done with nearly all of the other Titans' extra partners. Since they aren't likely to make a second smaller Tidal Wave on his own any time soon I think it was smart to include him like this.

It does make me question why they had to remove the Mini-Con from Cybertron Metroplex because it wasn't in the budget if they could include a second entire Tidal Wave with this one. I guess he got a bigger budget.

Emerje

I'm proud of Hastak. He looks great! Tital Wave deserved a toy of this size.

Day 1440 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.