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News Credits: 26 · by **TCracker** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:34 am

Yahoo Japan recently listed a new Cyberverse figure that we have no prior knowledge about. This was not debuted in any toy fair in recent memory.

Judging from its looks, probably an animal transformer that turns into a jet! But we can't really tell due to the angle of the figure placed in the box.

As we know, it is a Decepticon and will it be appearing in the movie?

Let the speculation begin!

The full listing can be seen here

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b121726665

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblevivisector** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:59 am

Not crazy about his design, but love the concept! Since so many Bayniverse TFs have had such ungainly, misshapen humanoid modes, it's about time some more just made robot mode an indistinct animal mode.

I'm a little confused about the name though: I'm guessing this guy won't actually be in the third movie, and therefore won't be named in anything other than his packaging. If that's the case, why was Hasbro so in love with the name "Hatchet" that they stuck with it despite trademark problems preventing them from using it without "Decepticon" attached? It's one thing to do that for established names, but here you'd think they'd have just called him something else. Or has there been a guy named Hatchet before?

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:20 am

As cool as it looks I think I'll wait to see if they repaint it to look like Sky Lynx.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:39 am

This looks pretty cool. I dunno about the color scheme or who I'd use it as, but still looks interesting.

News Credits: 128 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:43 am

Nope.

It makes me feel old not to be on board with this new stuff, like I'm getting left behind or that I'm being closed minded.

Where is the line that separates those things? I really try to look objectively at new designs and toys, but I can't help but look at this and think (like many other upcoming toys) that Transformers has maybe gone a step too far out of the norm.

I know...I know...Transformers change with time and series. But don't forget that change has at times been rejected. Beast Machines is the strongest example of that. While it was a good show, the vast majority of fans did not like where it took the overall franchise. The course correction was RiD and Armada in place of Transtech. When the movies are through, will we see that again?

by **Downbeat** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:56 am

Love it. Scout Commander sized jet Decepticon that turns into what looks like a winged and upgraded Ravage? Fantastic.

There is no previous use of Hatchet according to the TFWiki, anyway, so Hasbro must really have wanted to use the name if they were willing to add the Decepticon prefix. Maybe the name's gonna be used on Transformers Prime, who knows?

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:22 am

Looks pretty decent. I like it.

Counterpunch wrote:Where is the line that separates those things? I really try to look objectively at new designs and toys, but I can't help but look at this and think (like many other upcoming toys) that Transformers has maybe gone a step too far out of the norm.

I dunno. I like to see new and interesting designs that don't always just stick to the overused humanoid form and try something different. The Movie stuff in particular certainly got me more interested in Transformers than I ever was even when I had all them G1 toys as a kid. Without the movie stuff I certainly can't imagine myself ever having bought Transformers as an adult as the relatively simplistic blocky designs of other TF lines just don't do it for me at all (oh and I hate, HATE human-like faces on TF's these days. Fine if it's a nostalgic upgrade of a G1 character but I find it too overdone and ridiculously stupid looking in some of the IDW comics and crud like Animated)

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:54 am

That's pretty cool. NIce to see clearer images at some time.

CP, you're just old. But I have to agree there are certain aesthetics that belong with certain toy brands...there's a Gundam design, an EVO (or whatever eats called I'm not a watcher as one can imagine), a Robotech/Macross look, and there WAS definitely a TF look, until Beast Machines, and then again, in the movie, and then again with Animated.

Looks like the latter more than the former CP. AS in it will keep morphing, and not going back to the G1/Armada/RID aesthetic (if there is such a thing).

News Credits: 1 · by **Lord Onixprime** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:57 am

Freaking awesome. Reminds me of a version of Laserbeak I once drew when I was in middle school where he transformed into a fighter jet.

Now, make a white, blue and red space shuttle that turns into a dragon! Hatchet vs Skylinx.

I'm loving the cyberverse stuff.

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:06 am

I hate to say this but I like it! I usually don't like beast mode anything but this doesn't look too bad. Zoids fans will flip when they see this.

Hatchet appears to be, to Ravage, what Buzzsaw is to Laserbeak

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:32 am

I like it, and I like that scout class sorry, Commander class, is getting a lot of love these days.

I like that size, and it is a great size in which to play with odd designs like this.

I am mostly a Classics/etc. collector these days, and I can find ways to mingle a figure like this into my Classics stuff, or even toss it into the MP/Alt display.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:45 am

An interesting concept. I'll need to see more pics before I'm sold though.

News Credits: 3 · by **ArmadaPrime** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:02 pm

ooohhh
maybe this is the dragon we saw in the trailer and laserbeak will be less ugly and smallr and go with soundwave and hatchet will weild a hatchet.
[/random speculations]
edit:just noticed it says cybervverse

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:03 pm

Whatever it is, I like it! I wonder what the beast mode is supposed to be. The front legs/arms seem to very long and the back legs look like they're very short. Could it be a movie-verse Apeface?

by **Rated X** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:40 pm

Interesting. I kinda like him.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:02 pm

How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?

News Credits: 1 · by **Lord Onixprime** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:16 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?

Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:22 pm

Lord Onixprime wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?

Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.

Details, details. It can all be worked out.

News Credits: 2 · by **Twitchythe3rd** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:49 pm

Well, here's one to add to the DOTM pick-up list, along with the Wreckers and DeLorean 'Bee.

News Credits: 1 · by **Lord Onixprime** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:51 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Lord Onixprime wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?

Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.

Details, details. It can all be worked out.

lol

by **MINDVVIPE** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:12 pm

Yea, looks like a pretty cool concept. I don't know about him being ravage though, but it looks like a cool TF all on its own.

News Credits: 3615 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:28 pm

Completely unexpected and extremely awesome at the same time. Looking forward to seeing more pics of this, and hoping that there are more like this. Animal Transformers that turn into vehicles would be a welcome return ... especially with how few there have been over the years.

by **OptiMagnus** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:14 pm

Hmm...intriguing...I hope he's in the movie.

News Credits: 1 · by **Relic Dinobot** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:20 pm

As happy as I am to have finally found at least one toy I really, REALLY need to buy in this line, I'm oddly left wondering if this mold is going to get repainted as a Sky Lynx or Steeljaw in the future. :-?

That, and has anybody else noticed the 'Series 1 - 007' marking on the back of the card, near the top? Does this mean Hatchet is like the seventh Cyberverse Commander figure? And hey, where's the 'series 2' stuff now.

News Credits: 1 · by **adamassc** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:51 pm

Down_Shift wrote:I hate to say this but I like it! I usually don't like beast mode anything but this doesn't look too bad. Zoids fans will flip when they see this.

You got that right. I started as a zoider, then became a transfan when RiD came out. This guy makes me super happy. He looks like Valkyrie Ceaser with a jet alt mode, Either a muscular Lion or a griffin.