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News Credits: 23 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:54 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:Does seem kinda obvious in hindsight.

Wonder if we'll get a Stunticon out of him too.

*cough*SUNSTORM*cough*

News Credits: 4 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:59 pm

Nice, I already liked this mold in white. I'm sure it will look just as good in blue.

And the news post said they tooled up new weapons also. I assume this means that Blurr will include guns or some other type of weapons instead of the 3 swords Drift will come with.

Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:08 pm

You see a Blurr in that!?
Pffft, yeah right! :lol:

*Goes to read AHM.*
FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffff-! I hate April Fools. :-x

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:31 pm

JesWal wrote: I've not heard of anyone wanting a Blurr repaint of Drift. It's a rather strange choice for a joke.

Clearly you haven't been around actively lately. Drift's aesthetics are very similar to Blurr's in the IDW-verse. I've called the Blurr repaint when Drift was in talks in April 2009. I've foreseen this repaint since the dawn of Drift's existence.

Hell, I guess I'm so fast that I can foresee the future..

Vicalliose wrote:You see a Blurr in that!?
Pffft, yeah right!
*Goes to read AHM.*
FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffff-! I hate April Fools.

Unlikely to be April Fools.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:32 pm

I fear this may be an April fools prank, that said, if it is true... :KREMZEEK:

I love the look of the Drift mould, but hate the entire basis of the character, so if they repaint it into a 'real' character such as Blurr, it becomes a must-have.

I would have thought the logical remould/repaint would be into Wheeljack, but maybe two white robots from the same mould is a bit much.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:36 pm

kirbenvost wrote:This HAS to be an April Fool's joke. Hasbro never answers questions this succinctly unless it's a resounding 'no'. So I refuse to believe it at this point.

Pics or it ain't happening!!

But yeah, it would be mighty cool if it's true...

No no, these people love transformers too. They wouldn't pull something that horrible on us would they?

...Would they?

Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:47 pm

Blurrz wrote:
JesWal wrote: I've not heard of anyone wanting a Blurr repaint of Drift. It's a rather strange choice for a joke.

Clearly you haven't been around actively lately. Drift's aesthetics are very similar to Blurr's in the IDW-verse. I've called the Blurr repaint when Drift was in talks in April 2009. I've foreseen this repaint since the dawn of Drift's existence.

Hell, I guess I'm so fast that I can foresee the future..

Vicalliose wrote:You see a Blurr in that!?
Pffft, yeah right!
*Goes to read AHM.*
FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffff-! I hate April Fools.

Unlikely to be April Fools.

Is that some hopeful thinking I hear? :lol:

Still, even if they do look quite similar in the comic, you gotta admit that it's a big coincidence for them to show it today of all days, along with it being kinda soon. Don't they usually wait to see how well a figure sells to do that?
Not that I wouldn't love to have an awesome Blurr repaint of this. It'd give me that excuse I was looking for to get two of these. =P~

News Credits: 6 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:52 pm

Quick, someone do the obvious thing that should've been done by now and post a mocked up pic of Drift in blue!

Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:54 pm

Dread_Wing wrote:I fear this may be an April fools prank, that said, if it is true...

I love the look of the Drift mould, but hate the entire basis of the character, so if they repaint it into a 'real' character such as Blurr, it becomes a must-have.

I have to agree. Drift looks very cool, but I'm not a fan of him in the comics. I'm glad there's a new G1 character and all, but I really just don't care for Drift as a person. Sunstorm was the opposite for me, I loved Sunstorm from the right away.
All that being said, I like the look of the toy, and will hopefully end up getting both Drift and Blurr. I think it'd be cool if the Blurr redo came with another Targetmaster like Cyclonus did. Not sure how feasible that's going to be for the mold, but hat's my hope at least.

News Credits: 767 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 2:59 pm

Vicalliose wrote:
Blurrz wrote:
JesWal wrote: I've not heard of anyone wanting a Blurr repaint of Drift. It's a rather strange choice for a joke.

Clearly you haven't been around actively lately. Drift's aesthetics are very similar to Blurr's in the IDW-verse. I've called the Blurr repaint when Drift was in talks in April 2009. I've foreseen this repaint since the dawn of Drift's existence.

Hell, I guess I'm so fast that I can foresee the future..

Vicalliose wrote:You see a Blurr in that!?
Pffft, yeah right!
*Goes to read AHM.*
FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffff-! I hate April Fools.

Unlikely to be April Fools.

Is that some hopeful thinking I hear?
Still, even if they do look quite similar in the comic, you gotta admit that it's a big coincidence for them to show it today of all days, along with it being kinda soon. Don't they usually wait to see how well a figure sells to do that?
Not that I wouldn't love to have an awesome Blurr repaint of this. It'd give me that excuse I was looking for to get two of these.

It was posted yesterday, why would that site pull an april fools prank a day before 1. April and ruin their own Q&A answers?
Besides this wouldn't be the first time Hasbro decided to do a re-mold repaint while working on a mold, remember Universe Sideswipe and Sunstreaker?

Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:04 pm

This seems legit... which I hope it is. About time Blurr got a new toy.

News Credits: 88 · Aug. 7 - Aug. 12, 2012

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:This seems legit... which I hope it is. About time Blurr got a new toy.

Blurr just got a new toy in Animated

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News Credits: 226 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:17 pm

Disappointing that a character that's nearly 25 years old and has been a big part of the mythology is reduced to being nothing more than a repaint of a character that's nothing but over-hyped fanwank.

But at least he's getting a new head so that should differntiate them.

Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:27 pm

Dead Metal wrote:It was posted yesterday, why would that site pull an april fools prank a day before 1. April and ruin their own Q&A answers?

Because the joke lasts longer? Iunno, I've gone several years in a row where April fools pranks were played just before fools' day only to reveal the truth on the 2nd.

Dead Metal wrote:Besides this wouldn't be the first time Hasbro decided to do a re-mold repaint while working on a mold, remember Universe Sideswipe and Sunstreaker?

Admittedly yes, but the plans for the brothers were simultaneous, thus we knew well ahead of time that we were getting them both.

With all that in mind though, I more or less expected someone to make a custom IDW Blurr out of the Drift mold if Hasbro didn't do it themselves, so... meh.

News Credits: 17 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:54 pm

i WAS gonna make transformers discussion called : a hint for hasbro (maybe blurrz). where it would have had a photoshopped pictures of drift mean to look like blurr

but i guess thats out of the question :lol:

i'm really looking forward to this generations line

Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:02 pm

DavidT wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:This seems legit... which I hope it is. About time Blurr got a new toy.

Blurr just got a new toy in Animated

.

About time G1 Blurr got a new toy. :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 104 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:07 pm

Looking at the pix of the actual Drift toy..
Maybe it is just me but I cannot see it.. Too much kibble, Blurr was streamline with not much kibble. The animated Blurr hits his essence right on the head.

My opinion of course.

Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:08 pm

DavidT wrote:WOW!... that was the most straight-forward, non-confusing, friendly answer we've ever gotten from Hasbro.... Someone must of got some nookie last night LOL!

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LMAO!!!

News Credits: 88 · Aug. 7 - Aug. 12, 2012

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looking at the pix of the actual Drift toy..
Maybe it is just me but I cannot see it.. Too much kibble, Blurr was streamline with not much kibble. The animated Blurr hits his essence right on the head.

My opinion of course.

I agree with you... I can see the Classics Rodimus looking closer to being a blurr more than Drift. Give Rodimus a new head and slight remold of his wings and paint him blue LOL... but I'm not complaining. I hope it turns out sweet!

.

News Credits: 335 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:29 pm

April Fools Day indeed. I'm surprised we front paged this :lol:

Besides, we know the repaint will just be black and green - "Decepticon Deadlock"

Or Downshift.

Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:49 pm

I can't wait to get my hands on the Drift toy. Blurr would be such an added bonus!

Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:14 pm

Blurr??!!??

SaWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!

News Credits: 8 · Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:39 pm

Prime Evil wrote:
Doubledealer25 wrote:HOLY CRAP!!!!!! I MUST HAVE IT!!!! THE CLASSICS IS MY FAVORITE TOY LINE!!!!!

I know!! Me too. I've pretty much stopped all other stuff and if anything, kinda wanna sell a lot of my TF stuff that doesn't fit into my classics/neo classics stuff. I wanna streamline my collection because of how awesome this line is.

*I include my botcon sets as part of classics too*

Well if you do start selling let me know of any Megatrons or Galvatrons, i'm always looking for more. Also, i'm collecting Beast Wars, II, Neo, & Machines right now. :-B

Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:52 pm

Blurrz wrote:
JesWal wrote: I've not heard of anyone wanting a Blurr repaint of Drift. It's a rather strange choice for a joke.

Clearly you haven't been around actively lately. Drift's aesthetics are very similar to Blurr's in the IDW-verse. I've called the Blurr repaint when Drift was in talks in April 2009. I've foreseen this repaint since the dawn of Drift's existence.

Hell, I guess I'm so fast that I can foresee the future..

Aye, you're right about that. Its been waaaaaaaaay to long since I posted, let alone followed any Transformers news lately.

As for the comics, I've pretty much stopped reading them. Even as early as April of last year. Too pricey to keep up with. Occasionally I'll pick up a Spotlight collection, but I've had to set aside comic money for other things, such as appliances for the new apartment, furniture, etc. I thought about starting again with Ongoing but I've heard so many terrible things about it. And despite how awesome I hear LSotW is, I just haven't gotten around to it...

I don't want to get embroiled in any long story arcs right now anyway, so LSotW seems like a good idea, but I don't know. Kind of off-topic, but what do you guys think?