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by **MINDVVIPE** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:35 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'm keeping my pre-orders up for at least these two. Even separate they look pretty awesome to me.

Despite the fact that I am not plannin to buy this set, and the fact that it might have another member, it looks amazing. The jet modes and especially the robot modes are insane. The price doesn't seem anything new (as in, if I wanted it bad enough, I would shell the cash and feel it be accurate for the trend of how expensive 3rd party stuff is). The bot modes look nothing short of masterpieces. Way better than the Herc figures so far, imo.

But with Broadside, Menasor, Hexatron and the Fallen in the mix, I will definitely be passing.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:38 pm

Yeah, there's a lot of good stuff all around. I might be passing on the Fallen, so there's money for these guys for me.

And no pre-orders for the Stunticons or Broadside as of yet.

by **Rated X** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:34 pm

The 6th member is a really crappy idea. Using an SR-71 over the Concorde is an even crappier idea. Especially when the other 4 known members are going to match their respective G1 aircraft. Nobody wants a white SR-71 Blackbird and nobody wants a black torso on Superion. Something has to give. I encourage everybody to bash the stupid 6th member idea while it's still in design stage. Maybe if the fan sites turn up enough heat, they might re-consider. They decided to break down and do a torso for the army Brigade, didnt they ?

Also, I wonder how the four known team members would look with Henkei Silverbolt ??? No combiner, but I bet they would scale well together...

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:53 pm

How do we know that the Blackbird isn't the theoretical 6th member?

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:52 am

I'm more put off by 6 bots forming Superion...but whatevs, $600 less I need to worry about rounding up and Fansbro's Derperion can just keep his spot on the shelf.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:42 am

I wonder if the '6th Beatle' will form the back of the main torso of Superion or some sort of body armour or weapons system perhaps? :???:

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:57 am

robotmel wrote::-?
I wonder if the '6th Beatle' will form the back of the main torso of Superion or some sort of body armour or weapons system perhaps?

Yeah I think they could get away with that. Pretty sure that they are damaging their pre-orders by not showing the whole combiner upfront though. It would be really cool if the sixth were a parts former that somehow stowed the hands, feet, and breastplate.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:39 am

Banjo-Tron wrote:Yeah I think they could get away with that. Pretty sure that they are damaging their pre-orders by not showing the whole combiner upfront though. It would be really cool if the sixth were a parts former that somehow stowed the hands, feet, and breastplate.

I've lost hope that the 6th is a kibble holder when they said it was 6 bots. I don't know how kibble parts would turn into a legitimate bot.

by **Aerialbots** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:58 pm

Aerialbots wrote:Now that I've had time to digest this information and see the posts reguarding this project....

We simply just don't know at this point what the outcome is going to be. Look at the facts, and therefore likely senarios.

The first two pieces we have been shown, clearly represent "Air Raid" and "Fireflight". We have been shown coloring, or what will be close to final coloring, which further prove what they are intended to be. Also, we have been shown what part they play in the larger combined figure, Air Raid left leg, Fireflight right arm. This is right on so far. This would suggest that this will at least somewhat resemble "Superion".

Now comes the news that there will be 6 figures and there is a form of the next character.

6 figures throws us all for a loop how, where, what, etc... we just don't know. The form is clearly a SR-71, there was no such Aerialbot character, who is this? The robot form suggests Silverbolt could be a possiblity given its stance. It was more likely thought it was Silverbolt before the confirmation of 6 figures, which would make sense, but if there is 6, it very well may not be. In the TFC Toys facebook page, when looking at the SR-71 form, it looked to me like a wing shape underneath the plane itself. Could this be a chest shield? Another character? It's all speculation with the latest information. Tell you what, TFC Toys is keeping everyone wondering. Is it genius?

Well, looks like I was on the right track. TF Source is reporting that the 6th member comes with the 5th member, and that it is the chest shield. The 5th member "Silverbolt", will be larger then the others, and somewhat more expensive.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:06 pm

c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:08 pm

daimchoc wrote:c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

I was literally just about to post this as well..I think a collective sigh of relief can be heard through out the fandom now. I told ya guys..just relax

Nice work Daimchoc! :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:29 pm

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:56 pm

daimchoc wrote:c/o TFSource Facebook page:

TFC Toys has provided an update on the 6th figure of Project Uranos! The 5th figure, will include a 6th figure, that transforms into his chest piece! The 5th figure will have a higher price, and much larger packaging to accommodate both figures! The first two project Uranos figures are up for preorder @TFsource so preorder yours here: http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/5060/

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:27 am

daimchoc wrote:

It all makes sense now.... :-?

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:33 am

I don't get it, whining because it might have six figures, but not because
The Concorde is being replaced by a SR?

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:01 am

RodimalToyota wrote:I don't get it, whining because it might have six figures, but not because
The Concorde is being replaced by a SR?

I personally don't care that Silverbolt isn't a Concorde for this.

While this will most likely end up as a definitive version of Superion in the combined mode, I think it's plenty fair for TFC to give their interpretations a facelift. They pulled off Devastator so I think they know what they're doing here. My confidence was restored when the 6th bot is basically nothing more than a Mario power mushroom.

I will reserve final judgement after I see a prototype of Silverbolt as well as size comparison photos.

I am curious as to how they plan to handle the coloring of Silverbolt since SR-71's tend to be black in color. I'm wondering if they will stick to that or change the color for the sake of Silverbolt.

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:26 am

Maybe they'll go for a black plane with a white undercarriage? That way the robot can still be white (depending on the transformation, of course) That would work on Universe Silverbolt because the plane is kind of bolted on to the robot.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:09 am

And a bit of vindication there.

Glad I kept my preorders. Now let's see more!

by **CADimusPrimus** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:21 am

I'm glad the sixth bot is a kibble bot. Also glad i kept my pre-orders. "Silverbolt" being a SR-71 could work. The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:42 am

CADimusPrimus wrote:The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

That was what I was thinking. I could do a silver version-actually makes more sense with his name.

I'm still waiting to see more before I consider pre-ordering any of these again.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:19 am

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:29 am

CADimusPrimus wrote:I'm glad the sixth bot is a kibble bot. Also glad i kept my pre-orders. "Silverbolt" being a SR-71 could work. The SR-71's prototype was called the A-12 Avenger and was a whiteish silver color.

I think the change of Silverbolt to a SR-71/A-12 Avenger makes sense since all the other jets are combat planes and the Concorde was more of a passenger plane. Either way I think this set will turn out well considering TFC's work on Hercules.

News Credits: 5 · by **RodimalToyota** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:43 am

daimchoc wrote:

Looking nice, I hope we can get some spy shots of the others soon.
I really hate to pre-order before knowing the whole package.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:49 pm

Is it not possible that the SR-71 is the sixth kibble bot that also transforms into an aircraft? Just seems odd that they'd go so much for toy accuracy then change things around like that.

TFC had me with Hercules from the word go, but with Uranus I think I'm going to have to wait to see the complete picture first.

by **Mekatron** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 5:35 pm

First... considering the SR-71's nickname is "Blackbird", I can't imagine it's going to be anything besides black...

Second... where's this A-12 Avenger talk coming from? I'm no aviation expert, but the two look nothing alike.

Third... isn't an SR-71 bigger than these other planes? I doubt it's the "kibble bot".