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I'm not against Combiner Wreckgar and I'm definitely going to try to get one, but given the choice I'd have gone with Override just because I need a Triggerbot to go up against all the Triggercons we got from the club and Adventures Override isn't big enough.

Emerje

I've not gotten a notice on my Blast Off figure from Amazon yet, but Nemesis Prime will finally be delivered to me this Thursday!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:The other question that constantly pops into my mind now is:
How would the Takara "Unite Warriors" nicer-paint-app version look if it existed

Like all TakaraTomy PotP toys: the same as the Hasbro ones He will be released there alongside Nemesis Prime as numbers PP-41 and PP-42.

I think he was speaking hypothetically, as in "What if Takara was still doing Unite Warriors as they were without the brand unification thing currently in place, and how might a UW Wreck-Gar deco look in that scenario?"

Wolfman Jake wrote:I've not gotten a notice on my Blast Off figure from Amazon yet, but Nemesis Prime will finally be delivered to me this Thursday!

I got Nemesis arriving tomorrow and blast off the next day.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:The other question that constantly pops into my mind now is:
How would the Takara "Unite Warriors" nicer-paint-app version look if it existed

Like all TakaraTomy PotP toys: the same as the Hasbro ones He will be released there alongside Nemesis Prime as numbers PP-41 and PP-42.

I think he was speaking hypothetically, as in "What if Takara was still doing Unite Warriors as they were without the brand unification thing currently in place, and how might a UW Wreck-Gar deco look in that scenario?"

Pretty sure ur correct. I think the "if it existed" was the giveaway.

Got an email saying my Blastoff should ship out here in the next week!

Can never have too many Junkions.

Now if only there was a way to turn that Prime Armor into a side car for bike mode.

TheAmazingBrave wrote:Now if only there was a way to turn that Prime Armor into a side car for bike mode.

Seems that it's used to attach the pipe axe to the bike in vehicle mode:

Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Unnnnngghhhhhh...

Madeus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Unnnnngghhhhhh...

Hasbro's eager to switch from Potpie to Siege sooner than later.

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Unnnnngghhhhhh...

Hasbro's eager to switch from Potpie to Siege sooner than later.

Yeah what can you do, still I wish we had a few more combiner limbs to go with dreadwind and darkwing like make some seeker combiner limbs for starscream
And maybe some more for inferno

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Unnnnngghhhhhh...

Hasbro's eager to switch from Potpie to Siege sooner than later.

I really have to wonder why they were in such a rush to get "War for Cybertron" going. Did Hasbro literally get bored with "Prime Wars?" I think they left a lot of money on the table not letting "Power of the Primes" go on for another few waves before declaring another "reboot." Imagine a wave 4 with four new figures instead of just one. If the line went on for 6 waves like "Titans Return" did, we might have gotten enough bot limbs that people were clamoring for to fill out Megascream, Elita Inf1nite, and Firestormer. The rest of the Alpha Trion Female Autobots, Sideswipe, Thundercracker and Skywarp: these would have been slam dunks! Maybe for the latter waves, change things up a bit by returning to the Headmaster gimmick and give us the missing Autobot Targetmaster trio as well as Apeface and Snapdragon Voyagers instead of more random "torsos." Finish it off with Leader Star Saber and the rest of the 1987 Minibots for the Legends class, not to mention pretender shells for the rest of the Prime Masters, and people would have been over the moon for the wrap up of this trilogy.

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Wolfman Jake wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Forgive me but I've not been keeping up with the rumors for POTP, but I'm guessing there hasn't been any rumors of Onyx Prime getting an individual release, has there?

As far as we know, everything that has already been officially revealed about the POTP line is all that we're getting from it.

Unnnnngghhhhhh...

Hasbro's eager to switch from Potpie to Siege sooner than later.

I really have to wonder why they were in such a rush to get "War for Cybertron" going. Did Hasbro literally get bored with "Prime Wars?" I think they left a lot of money on the table not letting "Power of the Primes" go on for another few waves before declaring another "reboot." Imagine a wave 4 with four new figures instead of just one. If the line went on for 6 waves like "Titans Return" did, we might have gotten enough bot limbs that people were clamoring for to fill out Megascream, Elita Inf1nite, and Firestormer. The rest of the Alpha Trion Female Autobots, Sideswipe, Thundercracker and Skywarp: these would have been slam dunks! Maybe for the latter waves, change things up a bit by returning to the Headmaster gimmick and give us the missing Autobot Targetmaster trio as well as Apeface and Snapdragon Voyagers instead of more random "torsos." Finish it off with Leader Star Saber and the rest of the 1987 Minibots for the Legends class, not to mention pretender shells for the rest of the Prime Masters, and people would have been over the moon for the wrap up of this trilogy.

Maybe we might see some of these guys in other lines like blue frenzy/rumble in the bumble bee line which came as a surprise
So there might be hope still

Wolfman Jake wrote:I really have to wonder why they were in such a rush to get "War for Cybertron" going. Did Hasbro literally get bored with "Prime Wars?" I think they left a lot of money on the table not letting "Power of the Primes" go on for another few waves before declaring another "reboot." Imagine a wave 4 with four new figures instead of just one. If the line went on for 6 waves like "Titans Return" did, we might have gotten enough bot limbs that people were clamoring for to fill out Megascream, Elita Inf1nite, and Firestormer. The rest of the Alpha Trion Female Autobots, Sideswipe, Thundercracker and Skywarp: these would have been slam dunks! Maybe for the latter waves, change things up a bit by returning to the Headmaster gimmick and give us the missing Autobot Targetmaster trio as well as Apeface and Snapdragon Voyagers instead of more random "torsos." Finish it off with Leader Star Saber and the rest of the 1987 Minibots for the Legends class, not to mention pretender shells for the rest of the Prime Masters, and people would have been over the moon for the wrap up of this trilogy.

While this is what we as collectors see as a surefire thing, these decisions are made at a corporate level. Basically, it sounds like there was a mandate to bring things "back to basics".

A LOT went wrong for Hasbro (and Transformers) in the last year. TRU going under tanked sales significantly. And TLK was a failure compared to the preceding movies. My guess is the TLK toyline also suffered. And I hear the comics aren't doing fantastic, revenue-wise (though I bet better than most comics these days).

Unfortunately these things happen when corporations do something drastic to "right the ship".

To the bean counters, what characters sell? The original Autobots and some of the Decepticons.

This is really just the fallout of a tough year for Transformers.

I am with you though, quite disappointed about several missing characters from G1. However, I think they are coming. Warden seems interesting in completing the G1 line. So I think Pretender Monsters, Seacons, Horrorcons, Targetmasters, are all coming. Heck, they may special release the remaining Pretender shells at some point too.

Let's all not forget that there is one more show (NYCC) this year. I believe NYCC was when Grotusque was revealed and put up for sale. I think we have one more surprise coming for NYCC.

mordhelm wrote:A LOT went wrong for Hasbro (and Transformers) in the last year. TRU going under tanked sales significantly. And TLK was a failure compared to the preceding movies. My guess is the TLK toyline also suffered. And I hear the comics aren't doing fantastic, revenue-wise (though I bet better than most comics these days).

From what I'm aware, Transformers has done very well in the past year, with the exception of the Last Knight movie. Even the toys sold well, but that's because it was a very scaled back toy line.

I've heard similar things about the comics, but Transformers comics have never been big sellers, not since 2002's Dreamwave Transformers #1.

mordhelm wrote:Unfortunately these things happen when corporations do something drastic to "right the ship".

To the bean counters, what characters sell? The original Autobots and some of the Decepticons.

This is really just the fallout of a tough year for Transformers.

War for Cybertron was in the works long before the failures of last year. In the absence of a working crystal ball, these decisions were all under way long before 2017 happened.

mordhelm wrote:I am with you though, quite disappointed about several missing characters from G1. However, I think they are coming. Warden seems interesting in completing the G1 line. So I think Pretender Monsters, Seacons, Horrorcons, Targetmasters, are all coming. Heck, they may special release the remaining Pretender shells at some point too.

There are different ways to bring out the "missing characters" without doing it in the way in which we think it should be done. Who knows where and when other characters will show up. Hasbro knows what they're doing. I have great faith in their plans, though I have waited very patiently for the 84 and 85 characters to finally get finished up like Cliffjumper, a proper Huffer, the Deluxe Insecticons, Astrotain done right, Reflector, Hoist and Trailbreaker done right, and so on. Hopefully we'll get those gaps filled in soon!

mordhelm wrote:Let's all not forget that there is one more show (NYCC) this year. I believe NYCC was when Grotusque was revealed and put up for sale. I think we have one more surprise coming for NYCC.

Not to mention other shows around the world which may give Hasbro other opportunities to unveil other new products. They haven't really done that in the past but considering the onslaught of new products unveiled at SDCC last week, I have great hopes that there is more just waiting right around the corner.

Beginning on Amazon's Prime Day this year, Nemesis Prime became the first of the retail giant's exclusive Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy figures to begin shipping. Some lucky people even got the Leader Class figure before Prime Day. While the Deluxe Class figures have sporadically shown up to preorder, the actual delivery dates have been up in the air for Blast Off, while Repugnus and Punch-Counterpunch previously got release dates of August 3rd and September 19th, respectively

Well, thanks to Seibertron.com fan Marcelo, and yours truly, we now have confirmation that any Blast Off figures that were able to be ordered will be shipping as early as next week. Currently, only Nemesis Prime is in stock, though you must be an Amazon Prime member to purchase him. Additionally, Repugnus and Punch-Counterpunch are available for preorder; there's no word on when/if Blast Off will be available to order again.

Check out the photos below, and click on any of them to be taken to that figure's order page, and let us know if you received a shipping notice for any of these exclusives.

That's not entirely accurate. My blastoff is arriving today (along with Nemesis).

nycPrime wrote:That's not entirely accurate. My blastoff is arriving today (along with Nemesis).

Great! Be sure to send us a tip like that next time you have one.

Bounti76 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:That's not entirely accurate. My blastoff is arriving today (along with Nemesis).

Great! Be sure to send us a tip like that next time you have one.

LoL I didn't think it was news. Also I may dabble in another transformers forum and there has been non-stop chatter about when people's blastoff are arriving. I was getting a little tired of it. But then again, I may have contributed to that conversation

My Blast Off hasn't shipped yet (still waiting for a date) and I ordered on the 17th like everyone else did.

Emerje

I just checked my E-mails and I have a notice from Amazon that Blast Off should be coming to me some time next week.

VERY happy to wake up to find that the shipping date was changed to TODAY! (Nemesis will be arriving today, too). I don't get the emails or anything since it is my wife's Amazon account.

Plus. Actual picture of me reading the news: