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News Credits: 198 · Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:44 pm

Site sponsor BigBadToyStore.com has posted images and a preorder for one of the next Transformers Stealth Force releases. This deluxe class, monster truck, aptly named BIG HOSS, has a cool, flamed out paint job and "transforms" to reveal multiple front cannons, side exhaust guns, and rear mortars extending from the bed. There's no word yet on the origin of the name, although UrbanDictionary.com defines Big Hoss as, "describing a person, place, event, or action that is done greatly, strongly, manly, and sometimes even beastly" which certainly fits here. One could also speculate that the name is a nod to the show Pawn Stars that recently featured an episode with a massive Transformers collection. Corey aka "Big Hoss" is the manager of the pawn shop on the show.

Big Hoss is listed as part of Hasbro's Stealth Force deluxe wave 2 and is expected in January.

To view the preorder, click HERE.

Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:54 pm

Hmm...interesting. Looks cool, though.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:56 pm

Let the crazy speculation begin as to whether this is a new bot in DOTM, an upcoming expanded Bayniverse character with no media appearances, someone from TF Prime, a nonsentient vehicle designed to combat TFs, or just a one-off toy for a character we'll never see in robot mode, created solely because kids who frequent the Hot-Wheels aisle devoted to boring cars that don't DO anything just love them bigfoot trucks!

Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:51 pm

However it is, we all know his one weakness... standard garden shears. five imaginary dollars to whoever gets the reference.

Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:34 pm

Bumblevivisector wrote:Let the crazy speculation begin as to whether this is a new bot in DOTM, an upcoming expanded Bayniverse character with no media appearances, someone from TF Prime, a nonsentient vehicle designed to combat TFs, or just a one-off toy for a character we'll never see in robot mode, created solely because kids who frequent the Hot-Wheels aisle devoted to boring cars that don't DO anything just love them bigfoot trucks!

I vote for none of the above. My guess is somewhere along the way Hasbro lost the license to the name Big Daddy within the last two years. Wanting to still evoke the macho majesty of such a classic name (yes, I'm snickering as well, people), some executive who watched too much "Bonanza" as a child stepped in to save the day.

Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:34 pm

Bumblevivisector wrote:Let the crazy speculation begin as to whether this is a new bot in DOTM, an upcoming expanded Bayniverse character with no media appearances, someone from TF Prime, a nonsentient vehicle designed to combat TFs, or just a one-off toy for a character we'll never see in robot mode, created solely because kids who frequent the Hot-Wheels aisle devoted to boring cars that don't DO anything just love them bigfoot trucks!

I vote for none of the above. My guess is somewhere along the way Hasbro lost the license to the name Big Daddy within the last two years. Wanting to still evoke the macho majesty of such a classic name (yes, I'm snickering as well, people), some executive who watched too much "Bonanza" as a child stepped in to save the day.

Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:49 am

LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

News Credits: 2 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:37 am

i just realized that the reason bays got the 2 stunticons/bots with all the guns and stuff is to push this line :BANG_HEAD:

Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:47 am

Rodimus723 wrote:However it is, we all know his one weakness... standard garden shears. five imaginary dollars to whoever gets the reference.

Zombieland.

News Credits: 9 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:56 am

I steered clear (no pun intended) of MASK cos I thought it was a TF rip-off. I'm steering clear of Stealth Force cos I think it's a MASK rip-off. And cos it's lame.

Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:50 am

Zordon wrote:i just realized that the reason bays got the 2 stunticons/bots with all the guns and stuff is to push this line

Actually those Nascar gunner bots are autobots, and more specifically the WRECKERS!!!!

Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:06 am

these things are hardcore shelf warmers.

News Credits: 19 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:25 am

I like the ones based on the movie characters but I think they're far too expensive. I do feel compelled to press the buttons on them all when I'm in Toys R Us though even (or maybe because) it annoyed a particular staff member there.

News Credits: 12 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:07 am

Does the existence of this toy imply that there is going to be a similar transforming (Deluxe?) figure? Hasn't every other Stealth Force vehicle been based on an existing transforming figure?

News Credits: 21 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:39 am

let it be in movie i always wanted to see transfromer monster truck one from trasnfromers cybertron i think its dirtboss maybe i didnt like how he looked

Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:47 am

Isnt "Big Hoss" the nickname of the fat guy in history channel's "Pawn Stars" ???

News Credits: 1082 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:00 am

These toys are actually really fun. I own a few of them and my 1 1/2 year old son and I play with them a lot!

Not all have other toy representations that do robot modes.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:24 am

Well, nothing says "Stealth" like a monster truck, right? :lol:

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:35 am

Marcdachamp wrote:Well, nothing says "Stealth" like a monster truck, right?

Hey, he's stealthier than Megatron at least.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:02 pm

The Stealthforce line always seems like Hasbro is missing the point. No Robot = Not a Transformer. I don't care if weapons pop out of a car, lots of toy lines and cartoons do that.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:01 pm

I kind of like the Soundwave one, but that's just because I'm a freak for Transformers Animated.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:04 pm

whacko wrote:The Stealthforce line always seems like Hasbro is missing the point. No Robot = Not a Transformer. I don't care if weapons pop out of a car, lots of toy lines and cartoons do that.

As lame as I too find this line, and as much as I want to agree with you...my favorite TF of all time is Slamdance, a gestalt composed of two Autobots who only had cassette and vehicle modes. They were indeed Transformers. Guns 'n stuff popping out doesn't really count as a transformation to a different vehicle, so it's not quite the same thing, but I just feel compelled to stick up for those two.

Like I said, I don't want to negate your point. Defending Stealth Force hurts almost as bad as admitting the good points of Beast Machines, and-waitaminute! Transforming from one vehicle to almost the same vehicle...the Stealth Force isn't M.A.S.K.; these things are descendants of the friggin' Beast Riders! The plague of the organic-core is still upon us! Scuttle the line! Burn it! Send it to Hell! Let Matchbox keep their stupid shelfspace! Sweet Primus, I can hear the Animorphs sniffing around my back door! Cover me Jhiaxus...

News Credits: 19 · Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:54 am

I actually wish there was new M.A.S.K. I'd quite like some new toys of that series with today's tech. That's part of the reason I love the Human Alliance figures cos with those I can have a lil person to put in the drivers seat like the old M.A.S.K. stuff. I'd be quite happy with a new version of Matt Trakker's car still being able to have a lil figure in it but with this stealth force kind of motorised transformation stuff. Hasbro did release a GI Joe figure of Trakker recently so wondering if they own all the rights now and could potentially release a few new proper M.A.S.K. toys.