Toy Fair 2009: Official Product images now available!

Chaoslock wrote:

Bumblethumper wrote:

NotEnoughKibble wrote:For anyone's wallet that was starting to sweat, this should pump some life back into it: According to an article on the allspark website, the big ass combining Devy is Voltron-like...without individual transforming bots. There will be separate individual transforming toys for the constucticons as well, but they won't combine.

Translation: Friggin' lame! Pass. Move on, nothing to see here. Sorry gestalt fans, better luck next time.

Uber-Fail


I hate to use the F word, but I'm really sick of Hasbro's defeatist attitude when it comes to gestalts. "We can't do it".

That just kills virtually all interest I had in Devastator. What's wrong with them. They're even lame enough to blame it on the economy. Sorry Hasbro, excuses are for losers.

This should've been the one kick-ass toy to rule them all. If they'd actually gone for it and pulled it off, it'd be just the thing to make everyone forget about the whole stupid financiapocolypse.

I dunno, maybe I'm overreacting, but considering it's their most expensive combiner ever you don't expect them to take the cop-out route.

Tformers even has pictures of the two devastators, the lame stand-up version and the 2-feet "Voltron" version, as well as some of the constructicons:
http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=album&a ... 83&start=0

The difference between the non-transforming Rampage (brrr.... that's not a constructicon name...) and the transforming one is clear.

Both versions are the lame version. There's the expensive lame version that could've been cool and the even lamer version that was always intended to be lame.

For all the compromises in $100 devestator, neither bot nor alt modes are good.

At any rate, there's gotta be some consolation. Maybe there'll be legends Constructicons. And if the voyager and deluxe transforming constructicons don't combine, I'm sure kit-bashers will find a way to make it work.

Supreme Convoy wrote:

Never saw the resemblance of Battlestar Galactica's Vipers until now

If someone could make a handheld weapon that became a vertical tail fin for the jet mode, that would be sweet.

Well, that confirms that Josh Nizzi's Long Haul concept will be in the movie.

Hell-Friggin'-Yeah!

FINALLY we have a true Arcee...granted its TFU but hey we never got a G1 version

Frac we must get Soundwave again in order to get Ratbat

My verdict:

I'm generally pleased about the closeness of the figures to their CG models (the ones we've seen so far...). I'm still excited for new Optimus Prime Leader-Class...

Devastator ver. 2:

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This represents a conflict of interest for me. While I like the toy design for Devastator and even some of the names (save for "Hightower/Hook" and "Rampage/Bonecrusher" [3 guesses as to which name I'll be calling them...]), the fact that I'll have to buy SEPERATE Voyager-class toys for individual robot modes is nothing short of stupid and insulting. Reps from Hasbro are quoted (from AllSpark) as saying that:

"Large toys aren't cost effective in today's economy, so if they do them they have to be strongly integrated into the fiction."

"Strongly integrated into the fiction" huh? Who fits that bill? Hm... Oh, I know:

DEVASTATOR!!!

If Hasbro wanted to make Devastator, they should've bit the bullet and made Devy w/ individual Robot modes. It would save us some greenbacks and make us happy simultaneously. Seriously, who's runnin Hasbro these days?

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TFA Arcee:
IT'S ABOUT TIME... 'Nuff said.

To wrap it up:

- Leader-class OP still @ the top of my "must buy" list.
- Need soul searching to buy Devy...
- TFA Arcee is long overdue and should get the same treatment as Armada Unicron...

2009 won't be a bad year for our beloved Transformers.

ARCEE... SWORDS! SOUNDBLASTER... RATBAT?

The official Transformers Collectors' Club website has been updated with new images of new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen figures.

Be sure to click on the "Transformers Main Movie line" or "Products for Younger Fans" to see the first images of some new ROTF toys in-packaging (including Demolisher & Rampage) as well as all-new Robot Heroes (including voice-changers, gravity-bots, and a "Battle for the Allspark" Multipack, showcasing the climactic action sequence from the end of the first film)

See them all by clicking here.

Let me say these are fantastic photos!

Seibertron's > all.

Found this in the club email, which is how I went over there before hitting Seibertron today.

Thoughts based on what I see in the movie gallery there:

Demolishor: Likely pass for me. Great vehicle mode, but right now I'm pretty much "WTF?" about that robot mode. The problem I'm having is that he's pretty much going to stand on what should be his arms in robot mode, if I wanted to display him that way. Don't really like that much.

Breakaway: Pass only if this mold doesn't get a repaint somewhere down the line (which, knowing Hasbro, is likely). One of those figures where a good, solid-looking mold gets murdered by it's own deco to begin with, but gets fixed simply by falling victim to Hasbro's tendency to repaint.

Sideswipe: The difference between this figure and Breakaway is that while Sideswipe really should have been red to begin with, the deco isn't so god awful that I'd pass in the hope of the repaint I'd bet will come anyway.

Soundwave: Reminds me a bit of movie Megatron. Happy he's a triple-changer for the movie: not a big fan of him just having the satellite alt mode.

Rollbar: This is what Payload should have been.

I really like Zordastator. I usually display my gestalts combined anyway, so while it's nice to have all the components with separate bot modes, it's really not a deal breaker to me. As long as the combined mode looks the way it should. I'm happy.

Breakaway rules, likin' all the deluxes really. A shame about Skids and Mudflap though, bot modes=win, faces=supermegafail.

Gonna grab some of those Gravity Bots for my son, he'll love those. And I love the new Robot Heroes.

Why do those crappy Robot Replicas still exist? They're hideous, and they were shelfwarmers the last go around. Big ol' pass for me.

Animated Arcee and Soundblaster=MEGAWIN!

Gonna be an expensive summer.