Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Minimus Ambus Prototype Shots (from Leader Ultra Magnus)

Posted by Va'al Mar 7, 2015 at 5:41pm CST 40,976 views

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A piece of potentially actual news from the Transformers exhibit at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis concerns the bot within the bot that is Ultra Magnus, according to the IDW characterisation: Minimus Ambus! Site owner Seibertron was able to take a couple of images of the tiny loadbearer's prototype shots in both robot and vehicle mode, plus the transformation sequence - check them out below!

Transformers News: Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Minimus Ambus Prototype Shots (from Leader Ultra Magnus)

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Comment by Burn Mar 7, 2015

awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold. :SICK:

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Comment by Nemesis Maximo Mar 7, 2015

Awesom!

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Comment by Nemesis Maximo Mar 7, 2015

Burn wrote:awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold.

Why does that thought make you sick?
Wheelie could be kinda slick;
The irony of be'ng a hulk
When Wheelie gets some added bulk.

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Comment by Burn Mar 7, 2015

You're so on the list now. >:oP

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Comment by Black Bumblebee Mar 7, 2015

Awwe, he's got a little Hot Rod wing in the back of his car mode.Forget Wheelie, he could be redone as Hot Rodimus for Star Convoy!

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Comment by OptimalOptimus2 Mar 7, 2015

Burn wrote:awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold.

Black Bumblebee wrote:Awwe, he's got a little Hot Rod wing in the back of his car mode.Forget Wheelie, he could be redone as Hot Rodimus for Star Convoy!

Or a Bumblebee. His vehicle mode does remind me of the RID Bumblebee.

Another thing too, I'm getting a Cybertron Safeguard vibe from this figure. :BANG_HEAD:

Is it normal?

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Comment by MightyMagnus78 Mar 8, 2015

This just makes me want Magnus even more!

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Comment by ZeroWolf Mar 8, 2015

Thing is, I would of bought ambus on his own :lol:

I would also be open to a star Convoy repaint Takara

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Comment by fenrir72 Mar 8, 2015

UM getting better and better. He's on my most wanted Christmas list.

Too bad character wise in the IDW comics, he's long gone. From what I hear, the latest is just as good (the way he tortured Tailgate with history :lol:

) but will the "original" ever return? Sure it's now just a suit but, I'm kind of attached to the original "old friend" of Optimus.

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Comment by LegendaryAntiHero Mar 8, 2015

I'm hoping to get leader Megatron soon. I like how he's in scale with MP10 Megatron

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Comment by Triptykon Mar 8, 2015

Dino=me

Saw an associate put out Armada and G1 Megatron in Burlington Wi, Wal-Mart this morning. So hopefully you guys on the hunt for him get a chance to snatch him up. He's an out standing looking figure and looks great next to my MP's and Leader Jetfire. Very, very pleased with this figure.

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Comment by Emerje Mar 8, 2015

Burn wrote:awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold.

I don't think there's too much chance of that happening. From what people were saying at Toy Fair he's pretty tiny, like a Micromaster or Minicon. They wouldn't be able to sell the Minimus mold on its own as Wheelie. If/when they do another Wheelie I'm sure it'll be a Legends figure.

Emerje

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Comment by shajaki Mar 8, 2015

Emerje wrote:
Burn wrote:awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold.
I don't think there's too much chance of that happening. From what people were saying at Toy Fair he's pretty tiny, like a Micromaster or Minicon. They wouldn't be able to sell the Minimus mold on its own as Wheelie. If/when they do another Wheelie I'm sure it'll be a Legends figure.

Emerje

I wonder how much hate I would get if I admitted... i would totally buy a minimus wheelie retool...

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Comment by PrymeStriker Mar 9, 2015

shajaki wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Burn wrote:awwww he's so awesome looking!

...shame though there's such a potential there for a Wheelie remold.
I don't think there's too much chance of that happening. From what people were saying at Toy Fair he's pretty tiny, like a Micromaster or Minicon. They wouldn't be able to sell the Minimus mold on its own as Wheelie. If/when they do another Wheelie I'm sure it'll be a Legends figure.

Emerje
I wonder how much hate I would get if I admitted... i would totally buy a minimus wheelie retool...

A thousand years on the moon with you. Go. :-x

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Comment by MrBlack Mar 9, 2015

fenrir72 wrote:UM getting better and better. He's on my most wanted Christmas list.

Too bad character wise in the IDW comics, he's long gone. From what I hear, the latest is just as good (the way he tortured Tailgate with history ) but will the "original" ever return? Sure it's now just a suit but, I'm kind of attached to the original "old friend" of Optimus.

I really like what James Roberts has done with Ultra Magnus. It's a nice spin on the "robot inside another robot" thing that UM has always had going, and which the original cartoon and comic saw fit to ignore.

Although the original Ultra Magnus is apparently long dead, the current UM still fulfills the original's role. He may not be the same Magnus that knew Optimus in the early days of the war, but from all accounts he has been playing the role longer than anyone else. So, Minimus Ambus is still the "Ultra Magnus" that Optimus has known the longest.

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Comment by LegendaryAntiHero Mar 9, 2015

I wonder if Optimus even knows they're not the same Ultra Magnus

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Comment by TimothyR Mar 10, 2015

why are the ratchet joints on these new figures so terrible?

i mean.. leader prime, grimlock, megatron.. voyager brainstorm, silverbolt.. etc.

you either need to pose the arms (sometimes) and legs (sometimes) unnaturally close to the body, or unnaturally away from the body.

i don't understand it. why do they insist on ruining already cheapened figures with these joints? maybe they figured.. "okay, the molds themselves LOOK pretty good.. lets make it so that you can't pose them naturally".. it just doesn't make any sense to me. how is something like this missed? consistently.

well, i guess they don't care, especially considering they're still giving gorilla arms to figures.

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Comment by ZeroWolf Mar 10, 2015

I think in case of the combiner wars figures, I figure the joints are like that for stability. It's also figure economy, basic resource prices go up but they can't raise prices too high too quick, so in order to keep their profit margin, they change what the figures are designed and their materials, so they cost less.

We may not like it but hasbro are a corporate entity, profit is their end goal.

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Comment by Va'al Mar 11, 2015

Via weibo user 板凳上的飞机, we have a small selection of images showing off a comparison between the upcoming Generations Combiner Wars Leader class Thundercracker versus its predecessor Legends class figure. As a reminder, this a retool and redeco of the first Generations Leader figure Jetfire - check out below how it turned out!