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Sabrblade wrote:Thundercracker looks incredible! Nice to see such wonderful treatment given to the guy who has essentailly become the G1 equivalent of Beast Wars Dinobot!

megatronus wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:16 Deluxes... 4 combiners. I'm betting a portion of those will be redecos/remolds. Yay.

3rd party to the rescue!

Well yea, except one of the voyagers is Optimus... so 3 combiners, plus Optimus Super Mode?

I wonder who the 4th Voyager will be.

But we're getting 6 Voyagers.

Actually, I pulled the 6 out of thin air 5 is the minimum, with Optimus as an "extra". And we have no reason to speculate Optimus will get a team of his own.

16 Deluxes and 7-11 Legends have been confirmed to appear tho. And Huffer is a must-get

Huffer!? That's a surprise. And seems like he doesn't have a mini partner. So is he going to be packed individually and be cheaper?

paul053 wrote:Huffer!? That's a surprise. And seems like he doesn't have a mini partner. So is he going to be packed individually and be cheaper?

The cheaper bit is yet to be determined. What we do know is that the 2015 Legends have no partners at all, on the account of the new mold releases becoming accessories for the Combiners. Those include

- Powerglide (gun for Superion)
- Blackjack (based on G1 Motormaster's car, becomes chest plate)
- Bombshell (not yet determined)

The repaints have no partners, they include:

- Huffer (from Optimus Prime)
- Thundercracker (from Starscream)
- Windcharger (from Tailgate)

That Thundercracker looks bad ass!

for everyone wondering "why thundercracker first?" i bet its just marketing strategy. he's probably the least desired of the original seeker trio, being the first is better for sales. theyve done it before (titanium). also ad its already been said, SS isnt first cause the colors are too close to jetfire.

he looks good. but damn thatll be one giant set of seekers...

shajaki wrote:for everyone wondering "why thundercracker first?" i bet its just marketing strategy. he's probably the least desired of the original seeker trio, being the first is better for sales. theyve done it before (titanium). also ad its already been said, SS isnt first cause the colors are too close to jetfire.

he looks good. but damn thatll be one giant set of seekers...

That, or it's because of how great a character he's been in IDW, what with this also being modeled after his IDW body.

shajaki wrote:he looks good. but damn thatll be one giant set of seekers...

The funny thing is that if you put him next to a deluxe car Transformer (which are usually fairly consistent in size, even between lines) he actually scales perfectly in vehicle mode. Jets are big things, and a jetformer would definitely be bigger than a carformer.

(I do have a headcanon that jetformers aren't actually much bigger than carformers in robot mode, but in vehicle mode they "puff out" by decompressing their compacted robot modes, creating a jet mode which is the "correct" size but is mostly hollow, which also reduces its overall density and allows for better flying. Obviously this can't be replicated in toy form very well, but oh well.)

I will get them both. Is that a retool of jetfire? Kinda big..but yeah. wants them.

Prime does look better...but it's still lacking. all that silver on his belly. It should be red. I collect primes, so I'll pick this up but I've been waiting on a perfect g1 incarnation to come out (that isn't a masterpiece or third party) and it looks like that just isn't going to happen. Oh well, still looks good. Motormaster looks amazing.

EDIT: didnt mean to post right after the other. sorry. didnt think.

I'm down for the combiners but I'm not really down for Prime or Thuindercracker. I still like the old original Classics Seeker mould, even if it is too small. Leader class is too big for my collection. I'd have been down for a voyager, though.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

paul053 wrote:Huffer!? That's a surprise. And seems like he doesn't have a mini partner. So is he going to be packed individually and be cheaper?

The cheaper bit is yet to be determined. What we do know is that the 2015 Legends have no partners at all, on the account of the new mold releases becoming accessories for the Combiners. Those include

- Powerglide (gun for Superion)
- Blackjack (based on G1 Motormaster's car, becomes chest plate)
- Bombshell (not yet determined)

The repaints have no partners, they include:

- Huffer (from Optimus Prime)
- Thundercracker (from Starscream)
- Windcharger (from Tailgate)

Thanks for bring this up. I never look at the list as a whole.

Funny they don't need partners now because they are partners for the future combiners. Look back at the list, I really want Powerglide and Bombshell and so don't care about them being accessories or not. Hasbro should do Kickback too so I can complete the Generations legend Insecticons. Strongly consider Huffer, too.

Thundercracker is the least desired for most but most desired for me out of all the seekers. I understand the appeal of Starscream but never for Skywarp. He's pretty much a dum-dum guido from Jersey Shore.

damn delta... it must be hell living inside your head

im aware how things scale in real life if coarse. and even though i care about scales sometimes, its usually just for bot modes. ive never cared much about alt mode scales.

i figure, between the two modes of any given TF, only one will completely be accurate and to scale. id prefer it to be the bot mode.

Siger wrote:Thundercracker is the least desired for most but most desired for me out of all the seekers. I understand the appeal of Starscream but never for Skywarp. He's pretty much a dum-dum guido from Jersey Shore.

But, but, but, he's purple!!

For the combiner Optimus, what if, instead of repaints of Jazz, Mirage and crew from that episode when they pretended to be stunticons, instead, these Stunticons get repainted as...THROTTLEBOTS? I mean, you got the vehicle types to make a few of them.

Hasbro please stop with the simplified Transformers.

Seriously they don't just look bad, but they defeat the purpose why i buy Trasnformers.

I don't like what i am seeing here.

I think it's great that Hasbro is finally making combiners, but why do they have to half ass them. Third parties are going above and beyond and then Hasbro comes with this?

Sorry for this negativity but i am seriously disappointed in their lack of creative design.

So we're getting a legends Thundercracker AND a Leader version? Also according to the press release all the legends become an add on for the combined figures so does that mean Huffer, Thundercracker, and Windcharger are going to be slightly remolded to do something else?

Autobot032 wrote:NYCC is in full swing and Seibertron.com's troops are on the ground getting you the best shots of the hottest and newest Transformers, and we've already reported on Hasbro's display at NYCC, which you can read here, and now we have official images from Hasbro, courtesy of their Facebook page, which you can see here.

Since these are remolds and redecos, we know you'll want to see the originals these figures are based off of, and you can see the origin molds in all their glory in our galleries, located here for Jetfire (Thundercracker) and Optimus (Huffer).

We've mirrored the images below:









Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Thundercracker is now a buy, he will go to the wall of thunder with his other incarnations.

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:for everyone wondering "why thundercracker first?" i bet its just marketing strategy. he's probably the least desired of the original seeker trio, being the first is better for sales. theyve done it before (titanium). also ad its already been said, SS isnt first cause the colors are too close to jetfire.

he looks good. but damn thatll be one giant set of seekers...

That, or it's because of how great a character he's been in IDW, what with this also being modeled after his IDW body.

Thanks for saying what I wanted to first. Thundercracker gets pretty good representation in the IDW comics, although I think the screen play plot/joke is going too far for any Decepticon who has been slaying Autobots for millions of years.

I like Thundercracker and all, he was the 2nd TF I ever had in G1 (Megatron was 1st) but as a leader size? WTF.

Obviously they were gonna redeco JF into someone else, and it was pretty good odds they'd do a con, but one of the seekers? That's just weird. Weirder still they didn't do it as Starscream (not a complaint, just he's usually first).

I guess that means no Pipes.

I mean, they can repaint that Huffer into Pipes but he's gonna look a lot like Overload.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Overload_%28G1%29

Optimum Supreme wrote:Obviously they were gonna redeco JF into someone else, and it was pretty good odds they'd do a con, but one of the seekers? That's just weird.

i thought that at first too. but im warming up to it. they did a great job with all that extensive retooling. just goes to show ya, hasbro can still pull a fast one and wow you!

Agamemnon wrote:

Siger wrote:Thundercracker is the least desired for most but most desired for me out of all the seekers. I understand the appeal of Starscream but never for Skywarp. He's pretty much a dum-dum guido from Jersey Shore.

But, but, but, he's purple!!

LOL, Ok... I suppose that's a reason.

Wasn't interested in Thundercracker, until I thought about how he (and Starscream and Skywarp) would look next to Masterpiece Soundwave. Now I'm kind of bummed out.