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News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:39 pm

We've talked about this quite a bit in the titans return thread, Predaking and Abominus are rumored to be coming next year. Most likely as box sets.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:45 pm

Cyberpath wrote:Speaking about new releases, what about the animal combiners? HasTak has totally skipped those.

It's not so much 'skipped' as 'don't have the molds to do'.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:49 pm

I see nothing stopping TT from releasing the liokaiser set. They've released all the other 'unique' head sculpt figures - even ratchet. The question though now becomes: will they paint it like Liokaiser? They have a running fiction that could certainly legitimize it. And if they don't which characters could pull off the new headsculpts? They seem oddly specific...

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:52 pm

So Megaempress is a female supremacist who wants women to be in charge of everything (excluding Autobot women because they're the "wrong sort of woman")? Sweet baby Primus, it's Anita Sarkeesian in robot form! Quick, get Computron- everybody knows radfems' greatest weakness is logic! :lol:

News Credits: 4844 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:21 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote: They've released all the other 'unique' head sculpt figures

You sure about that?

Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Strafe Gallery

And Takara has already given us a ton of headsculpts Hasbro never has, so I dont see why both companies cant have their own unique headsculpts.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:49 pm

Battle Core Prime, CW Strafe and the Liokaiser components are the only unique toolings Takara hasn't used yet aside from Botcon/TFCC, to my knowledge. So that gives them a fun little assortment to play with.

by **Gearslide** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 1:55 pm

So are we just gonna glaze over the fact that Moonheart uses her charms to get the Autobot Combiner team "excited" and then CUTS OFF THEIR "PEGS" AND LICKS THEM AFTER!?

WTF JAPAN.

by **RiddlerJ** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:19 pm

If it was Liokaiser, shouldn't one of the silhouettes look like Sky Lynx. They all look humanoid (though I guess that's a matter of interpretation)?

News Credits: 4844 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:21 pm

RiddlerJ wrote:If it was Liokaiser, shouldn't one of the silhouettes look like Sky Lynx. They all look humanoid (though I guess that's a matter of interpretation)?

Thats why we know its not Liokaiser. Plus, since when does Liokaiser have ties with Unicron?

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:24 pm

william-james88 wrote:
RiddlerJ wrote:If it was Liokaiser, shouldn't one of the silhouettes look like Sky Lynx. They all look humanoid (though I guess that's a matter of interpretation)?

Thats why we know its not Liokaiser. Plus, since when does Liokaiser have ties with Unicron?

Since they justified it in the comic, wouldn't be the weirdest thing to happen in the series |:|

william-james88 wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote: They've released all the other 'unique' head sculpt figures

You sure about that?

Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Strafe Gallery

And Takara has already given us a ton of headsculpts Hasbro never has, so I dont see why both companies cant have their own unique headsculpts.

No need for snark, you know what I mean - and the time delay between the hasbro release and any eventual tt release would still allow for tt to use that mold >:oP

They went to the trouble to use rook, offroad, hound, and cylconus and every other new head sculpt (even 3 we didn't get at retail - seeker, conehead, ratchet), why wouldn't they use the liokaiser molds? And they can still release the cw strafe with another combiner, it's not impossible

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:39 pm

Who's to say this new combiner doesn't use Strafe? :-P

In any case, it's not Liokaiser. Unless they're going completely bizarre by turning Rook into a truck and making Deathcobra.
... actually, I'd like the new combiner to have Deathcobra. That way when they get around to Liokaiser, we can have a Deathcobra without any trouble. I think it'd be a cool way to get around the issue and also a cool idea to use the misellaneous combiner limbs.

Also yeah, essentially anyone can be connected to Unicron. Just destroy a random alternate universe no-one ever heard of before and pick literally any character from the entire Transformers mythos to be a herald. That's why I think it's pretty obvious this combiner will be made up of G1 Vroom, TFP Kup, Energon Slugslinger, Rescue Bots Blurr and IDW Springarm.

News Credits: 4844 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:44 pm

Sorry for the snark. I just dont find any of this evidence pointing in one way or another.

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:25 pm

Gearslide wrote:So are we just gonna glaze over the fact that Moonheart uses her charms to get the Autobot Combiner team "excited" and then CUTS OFF THEIR "PEGS" AND LICKS THEM AFTER!?

WTF JAPAN.

Man, Micheal Bay's turning Winston Churchill's house into Nazi HQ and Hayato Sakamoto is doing... this. I think I need a break from Transformers for a little while...

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:28 pm

Noideaforaname wrote:
Gearslide wrote:So are we just gonna glaze over the fact that Moonheart uses her charms to get the Autobot Combiner team "excited" and then CUTS OFF THEIR "PEGS" AND LICKS THEM AFTER!?

WTF JAPAN.

Man, Micheal Bay's turning Winston Churchill's house into Nazi HQ and Hayato Sakamoto is doing... this. I think I need a break from Transformers for a little while...

I hear RiD 2015 is nice this time of year...

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:30 pm

william-james88 wrote:Sorry for the snark. I just dont find any of this evidence pointing in one way or another.

It's cool, it is a discussion board :-P

But really, it took them almost a year I think to release offroad, and they even released the seeker/coneheads and ratchet, I'd say they'll try to use as many new heads/molds as possible, maybe it'll be demolisher, and the liokaiser gang :lol:

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:31 pm

Kurona wrote:
Noideaforaname wrote:
Gearslide wrote:So are we just gonna glaze over the fact that Moonheart uses her charms to get the Autobot Combiner team "excited" and then CUTS OFF THEIR "PEGS" AND LICKS THEM AFTER!?

WTF JAPAN.

Man, Micheal Bay's turning Winston Churchill's house into Nazi HQ and Hayato Sakamoto is doing... this. I think I need a break from Transformers for a little while...

I hear RiD 2015 is nice this time of year...

eh, the figures seem great, but the show is decidedly middling in my opinion, but not without some glorious moments/episodes ;)^

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:53 pm

Gearslide wrote:So are we just gonna glaze over the fact that Moonheart uses her charms to get the Autobot Combiner team "excited" and then CUTS OFF THEIR "PEGS" AND LICKS THEM AFTER!?

WTF JAPAN.

Based Sakamoto cares not for your suffering. :-D

News Credits: 42 · by **Autobot N** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:57 pm

Black Hat wrote:So Megaempress is a female supremacist who wants women to be in charge of everything (excluding Autobot women because they're the "wrong sort of woman")? Sweet baby Primus, it's Anita Sarkeesian in robot form! Quick, get Computron- everybody knows radfems' greatest weakness is logic!

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:04 pm

Cyberpath wrote:
Manga updated with more pages:

http://takaratomymall.jp/img/goods/4904 ... /comic.pdf

I hate to admit it, but I actually want her more than Victorion. Megatronia is just bugpoop insane!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:13 pm

Wasn't it that Moonheart was the one with power over ice, and Megaempress was the one with seduction? I think someone got a bit mixed up.

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:17 pm

Kurona wrote:Wasn't it that Moonheart was the one with power over ice, and Megaempress was the one with seduction? I think someone got a bit mixed up.

...? How so?

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:18 pm

Sigma Magnus wrote:
Kurona wrote:Wasn't it that Moonheart was the one with power over ice, and Megaempress was the one with seduction? I think someone got a bit mixed up.

...? How so?

That's what it said in the original bios released... I think a few weeks ago? Yet in this comic, Moonheart's shown using seduction on the Lynxmaster components.

News Credits: 4844 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:22 pm

Sigma Magnus wrote:
Kurona wrote:Wasn't it that Moonheart was the one with power over ice, and Megaempress was the one with seduction? I think someone got a bit mixed up.

...? How so?

because Moonheart is the seductress here

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:23 pm

Kurona wrote:
Sigma Magnus wrote:
Kurona wrote:Wasn't it that Moonheart was the one with power over ice, and Megaempress was the one with seduction? I think someone got a bit mixed up.

...? How so?

That's what it said in the original bios released... I think a few weeks ago? Yet in this comic, Moonheart's shown using seduction on the Lynxmaster components.

Not quite. Moonheart used to be a medic, and the wiki summary says she used some sort of 'healing pheromone'...
...in other words, she drugged them.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:32 pm

I'm really hoping for a UW Liokaiser that uses the Scattorshot mold for the torso instead of Skylynx, so we can get his proper robot and jet modes. In fact, might just make a digibash of that...