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kirbenvost wrote:I have to say I'm a bit relieved. The past several years have been great for collecting but not for my bank account. Not being a Beast Wars fan, I'll be glad to save a bit of money for awhile.

Agreed. It’s disappointing the trilogy finishes this way, but it will be nice to save a bunch of money. Hopefully we’ll see Blaster and his minions sometime soon, maybe at the tail end of Earthrise.

I am surprised there are so many people that think they’ll save lots of money when Kingdom comes. I bet many will surprise themselves and may even accept Beast alt modes.....as a G1er and new fan of BW/BM, I am definitely all in!

bodrock wrote:I am surprised there are so many people that think they’ll save lots of money when Kingdom comes. I bet many will surprise themselves and may even accept Beast alt modes.....as a G1er and new fan of BW/BM, I am definitely all in!

I'm a lot more interested in seeing new takes on BW figures than slightly altered G1 characters yet again.

Barricade.it wrote:Time to save some money, at least! I hate the BW line

I wouldn't say I hate it, but I'm definitely not at all interested... I mean I really couldn't care less... BW might as well be BeyBlades in my eyes.

But yeah, definitely interested in saving some cashola!
With this being official, who knows; if the leader class spoiler figure isn't Galvatron, I may end up getting ER Smokescreen afterall.

Looking forward to seeing how the BW characters are incorporated into the story.

I wonder if this will be just a toy line inspired by the original BW series, or if it will get its own supporting media, be it a show or comics. And will it last long enough to incorporate Beast Machines?

adamage1 wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:I have to say I'm a bit relieved. The past several years have been great for collecting but not for my bank account. Not being a Beast Wars fan, I'll be glad to save a bit of money for awhile.

Agreed. It’s disappointing the trilogy finishes this way, but it will be nice to save a bunch of money. Hopefully we’ll see Blaster and his minions sometime soon, maybe at the tail end of Earthrise.

It should be noted that according to the leaks Kingdom won't be entirely Beast Wars, there will still be some G1 characters.

adamage1 wrote:Hopefully we’ll see Blaster and his minions sometime soon, maybe at the tail end of Earthrise.

Man, I hope this happens soon. There aren't too many more Siege-style figures of G1 characters that I need, and I'm already getting two of my most wanted in the SS86 line (Jazz and Grimlock). Getting a new Blaster too would be the icing on the cake, and would check off all of the big names save Star Saber.

Hopefully Blaster is better than Soundwave and has a chest compartment that can also fit G1 cassettes, because the Micromaster "cassettes" are too tiny. And, in some cases, crud.

Pretty dang excited for this, I am happy to see Beasts finally making the comeback.

NVM

At first, this whole Kingdom thing kinda threw me for a loop. I need a good fiction to keep me interested. The reason I got into collecting when I did is due to IDW Transformers 1.0 universe and the fact that the previous Trilogy sorta catered to those fans.

My biggest thing with Kingdom, was the logic of it. Would the Maximals/Predacons be stuck on Earth until the Autobots/Decepticons woke up? Would the G1 folks wake up early? Is it gonna be time travel shenanigans? its always time travel shenanigans

But now that it has been confirmed that the third season of the Netflix show is Kingdom I am going to trust there is a logical evolution of the story that gives us Beast Wars characters with G1 characters. So with that out of mind, my thoughts go to the figures themselves. My bro and I are ten years apart and we got to watch Beast Wars together. Definitely happy to get some Beast Wars figures with current engineering, materials, and processes. But certain things about this line so far have me... Concerned. Scale has been kind of important, so will the Beast replace the Micromasters? I know there has been a leak about Deluxe Cheetor, so does that mean scale will only play along the same lines: G1 scales with other G1 while Beast Wars scale with other Beast Wars and then they match so the deluxes and voyagers are all the same?

Personally, I hope the fiction brings the Beast Wars characters to the "future", as Megatron's attempt to turn every Cybertronian into a Decepticon would change the timeline and erase their existence.

aronjlove wrote:Scale has been kind of important, so will the Beast replace the Micromasters? I know there has been a leak about Deluxe Cheetor, so does that mean scale will only play along the same lines: G1 scales with other G1 while Beast Wars scale with other Beast Wars and then they match so the deluxes and voyagers are all the same?

The leak detailing a few of the Kingdom figures from last week suggests that the Beast Wars cast will be spread across the little, Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader size classes, so yes they most likely will scale with one another but not with the G1 cast.

Munkky wrote:

aronjlove wrote:Scale has been kind of important, so will the Beast replace the Micromasters? I know there has been a leak about Deluxe Cheetor, so does that mean scale will only play along the same lines: G1 scales with other G1 while Beast Wars scale with other Beast Wars and then they match so the deluxes and voyagers are all the same?

The leak detailing a few of the Kingdom figures from last week suggests that the Beast Wars cast will be spread across the little, Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader size classes, so yes they most likely will scale with one another but not with the G1 cast.

Cool, that should make the next part of the trilogy rather interesting. I also found this online:
Magnaboss would be my first Commander Class and Blackarachnia is a definite buy as well.

aronjlove wrote:

Munkky wrote:

aronjlove wrote:Scale has been kind of important, so will the Beast replace the Micromasters? I know there has been a leak about Deluxe Cheetor, so does that mean scale will only play along the same lines: G1 scales with other G1 while Beast Wars scale with other Beast Wars and then they match so the deluxes and voyagers are all the same?

The leak detailing a few of the Kingdom figures from last week suggests that the Beast Wars cast will be spread across the little, Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader size classes, so yes they most likely will scale with one another but not with the G1 cast.

Cool, that should make the next part of the trilogy rather interesting. I also found this online:

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Magnaboss would be my first Commander Class and Blackarachnia is a definite buy as well.

Runabout has an ER number, so that's probably not real. Plus, the leaker said that neither the Commander nor the Titan are BW.

Autobot N wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Munkky wrote:

aronjlove wrote:Scale has been kind of important, so will the Beast replace the Micromasters? I know there has been a leak about Deluxe Cheetor, so does that mean scale will only play along the same lines: G1 scales with other G1 while Beast Wars scale with other Beast Wars and then they match so the deluxes and voyagers are all the same?

The leak detailing a few of the Kingdom figures from last week suggests that the Beast Wars cast will be spread across the little, Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader size classes, so yes they most likely will scale with one another but not with the G1 cast.

Cool, that should make the next part of the trilogy rather interesting. I also found this online:

110314473_209918517022418_8492725843736187795_n.jpg

Magnaboss would be my first Commander Class and Blackarachnia is a definite buy as well.

Runabout has an ER number, so that's probably not real. Plus, the leaker said that neither the Commander nor the Titan are BW.

And Tidal Wave is 2 words. If it was officially released, I would think they would get that much right.

Welp, there goes my hopes for Road Rage and Blackarachnia... Although Blackarachnia might still get made?

aronjlove wrote:Welp, there goes my hopes for Road Rage and Blackarachnia... Although Blackarachnia might still get made?

Considering she's 1 of the most popular characters, I don't think ANY BW line would be complete without her.

Isn’t she one of the most prominent characters on the poster?

Autobot N wrote:Isn’t she one of the most prominent characters on the poster?

It took me about five minutes of staring at this pic and I finally see her head at 1 o'clock above the ball thingie between Beast Megs and Beast Scorponok.

aronjlove wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Isn’t she one of the most prominent characters on the poster?

It took me about five minutes of staring at this pic and I finally see her head at 1 o'clock above the ball thingie between Beast Megs and Beast Scorponok.

That's the Golden Disk(sic), it's a real world thing and McGuffin in Beast Wars.

That's G1 Megatron's/Galvatron's head, not Beast Megatron.

Every time I look at that poster I'm confident the bird is Airazor since Tigatron is right there, but convinced it's Silverbolt the more I look at it since it looks more like a bald eagle instead of a hawk.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Isn’t she one of the most prominent characters on the poster?

It took me about five minutes of staring at this pic and I finally see her head at 1 o'clock above the ball thingie between Beast Megs and Beast Scorponok.

That's the Golden Disk(sic), it's a real world thing and McGuffin in Beast Wars.

That's G1 Megatron's/Galvatron's head, not Beast Megatron.

Every time I look at that poster I'm confident the bird is Airazor since Tigatron is right there, but convinced it's Silverbolt the more I look at it since it looks more like a bald eagle instead of a hawk.

Emerje

Oh yeah, I remember that. Dinobot was worried about the future being changeable when the disc was destroyed. And I remember it being a MacGuffin in Star Trek The Motion Picture too. That golden disc gets around.

The disk itself wasn't the McGuffin in Star Trek: TMP. Rather, the probe carrying it was.

I will be glad if that list turns out to be fake (which seems likely). I mean, a lot of the stuff looked good but I do not want to picture Blackarachnia as a current-day Deluxe.

If the more reliable leaker says that the Commander is not BW.. I wonder if that means my hoped-for Commander-Class Magnus (SIEGE is great and all, but a Generations Leader hasn't got a prayer of carrying 4 Deluxe-class cars and the 3P slackers still haven't made a larger trailer for him) will come true.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if this will be just a toy line inspired by the original BW series, or if it will get its own supporting media, be it a show or comics. And will it last long enough to incorporate Beast Machines?

Well, considering that the source of this news came from Netflix...

And considering that Kingdom is Part 3 of the War For Cybertron Trilogy, which is to have its own Netflix show for all three parts of said trilogy...

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if this will be just a toy line inspired by the original BW series, or if it will get its own supporting media, be it a show or comics. And will it last long enough to incorporate Beast Machines?

Well, considering that the source of this news came from Netflix...

And considering that Kingdom is Part 3 of the War For Cybertron Trilogy, which is to have its own Netflix show for all three parts of said trilogy...

Since it has been confirmed only by Netflix and not yet Hasbro, that would be horrible if Hasbro and Netflix aren't seeing eye to eye on Part 3 and both are doing something different. I highly doubt it but I've seen it happen with other media.