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Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:...the list of Titans Return stuff I'll get, which is really everything except the spare heads, excluding Loudmouth, who I'll in case they reveal new bodies for them with the other heads (Loudmouth with eyes and Nightbeat with sunglasses), as I like the sunglasses look better.

To each his own, I guess. For me, the extra head guy worth owning is Crashbash with his nifty beast body and clever dino mode integration.

Autobot tap out wrote:is it me or does the train mode look like it has taken some cues from Energon Omega Supreme ?

Possibly, but it is identical to the astrotrain design in the stormbringer graphic novel, same transformation scheme and all.

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Prowl4 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:what I can't accept and don't like is changing galvatron who in idw specifically states he hates headmasters, being made as an actual headmaster. It's like having johnny storm be played by Michaelsame Jordan, it shouldn't have happened.

See, this is the reasonable counterpoint to Galvatron being a Headmaster. I disagree and look forward to the toy, it doesn't bug me, but your reason here for being bugged by it makes sense.

I know people like it and of course it all comes down to personal opinion. I'm just disappointed that galvatron is being done this way. I see that toys and fiction intertwine. I didn't and wouldn't buy a combiner cyclonus for the same reason. Just a pity in my own personal opinion.

Not just IDW. G1 cartoon Galvatron wasn't super impressed with Headmasters and Targetmasters either. But I'd rather have a decent, larger-than-deluxe Galvatron get released with a gimmick that doesn't compromise the toy, rather than not get him at all just because he doesn't fit the current aesthetic.

Galvatron shares my view so lol. I'm truly disappointed that galvatron and sentinel prime are headmasters, two figures I really wanted. Hopefully takara do their own thing and make them complete robots with their own heads.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:...the list of Titans Return stuff I'll get, which is really everything except the spare heads, excluding Loudmouth, who I'll in case they reveal new bodies for them with the other heads (Loudmouth with eyes and Nightbeat with sunglasses), as I like the sunglasses look better.

To each his own, I guess. For me, the extra head guy worth owning is Crashbash with his nifty beast body and clever dino mode integration.

Well, while I don't fancy having the extra heads stand alone (the only reason I'd buy him is if they made a version of him with a non-sunglasses head), I do think that the engineering on Crashbash is unbelievable.

I like it and will probably get it. I'm hoping we'll see a nice Rodimus Prime at some point to go with Galvatron.

Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:This I like. Sentinel Prime (along with his inevitable Astrotrain retool) has been added to the list of Titans Return stuff I'll get, which is really everything except the spare heads, excluding Loudmouth, who I'll in case they reveal new bodies for them with the other heads (Loudmouth with eyes and Nightbeat with sunglasses), as I like the sunglasses look better.

Wait a daggum minute here.

The image says wave 1 2016.

Does this mean what I think it means?

Yes, it means exactly what it says. This is the first wave of Generations Titan Returns of 2016. So right after wave 2 of combiner wars 2016, around the summer.

Autobot tap out wrote:is it me or does the train mode look like it has taken some cues from Energon Omega Supreme ?

Thats the fist thing that came to mind when I saw it.

I can get behind stuff like this. I can't really deal with taking established characters like Blaster or Galvatron and making them into headmasters, but Sentinel Prime really doesn't have anything worth mentioning to prevent this. And that design works. Please, Hasbro, bring on some more original headmaster characters, or make some headless bodies that I can fit Kirk, Loafer, Trizer et al. into.

Is there more coverage of the full panel (both slide pics and text reports of all that was said) still forthcoming?

Man! Look at all that sculpted detail. It's cool, like Cybertron/GF COOL!
And, check out the cow catcher boot tips! OUCH! Them's tuff.

So headmasters? Easy pass on all of these.

Pretty much everything is on my want list, everything looks amazing! But...is it me or does Galvatron NOT have bicep swivels???.

Pretty much everything is on my want list, everything looks amazing! But...is it me or does Galvatron NOT have bicep swivels???.

Sabrblade wrote:Is there more coverage of the full panel (both slide pics and text reports of all that was said) still forthcoming?

http://www.seibertron.com/events/gallery.php?event_id=439

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Is there more coverage of the full panel (both slide pics and text reports of all that was said) still forthcoming?

http://www.seibertron.com/events/gallery.php?event_id=439

Very good (though, this gallery has yet to be news'd).

And what of a textual report describing all of the announcements and Q&A that were given at the panel? Is that on its way as well?

Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Ebonyleopard wrote:Sentinel Prime? Cook. But, behold, our future Broadside.

Future Astrotrain

future both!

im starting to get a little antsy on what else they will reveal especially Fortress maximus

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

Well one of them has to be Chromedome, there is literally no way no one at hasbro didn't have the foresight to include Chromedome. There's this little thing called More than Meets the Eye that hasbro can't ignore.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

Well one of them has to be Chromedome, there is literally no way no one at hasbro didn't have the foresight to include Chromedome. There's this little thing called More than Meets the Eye that hasbro can't ignore.

Sure they can, just look at the way they're treating BW anniversary

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

Well one of them has to be Chromedome, there is literally no way no one at hasbro didn't have the foresight to include Chromedome. There's this little thing called More than Meets the Eye that hasbro can't ignore.

Sure they can, just look at the way they're treating BW anniversary

Okay so here's the thing about beast wars, and I love beast wars, however with the exception of airrazor and terrorsaur, maybe one or two other, the original figures are close to perfect. Especially considering the fact they based the show models off of the toys. Also Chromedome does this thing called be a headmaster, which is what the generations toys are doing right now. And also rewind. Super **** IDW rewind.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

Well one of them has to be Chromedome, there is literally no way no one at hasbro didn't have the foresight to include Chromedome. There's this little thing called More than Meets the Eye that hasbro can't ignore.

Sure they can, just look at the way they're treating BW anniversary

Okay so here's the thing about beast wars, and I love beast wars, however with the exception of airrazor and terrorsaur, maybe one or two other, the original figures are close to perfect. Especially considering the fact they based the show models off of the toys. Also Chromedome does this thing called be a headmaster, which is what the generations toys are doing right now. And also rewind. Super **** IDW rewind.

Perhaps, but they could've released modified op and megatron in an anniversary box or something, I mean, come on

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Looking at the gallery, does anyone have a clue who the other 2 deluxe titanmasters are?

Well one of them has to be Chromedome, there is literally no way no one at hasbro didn't have the foresight to include Chromedome. There's this little thing called More than Meets the Eye that hasbro can't ignore.

I hope one is Domey. I want a Domey so badly

Galvatron-better size but worse alt. Mode than generations
Blaster-don't like as boom box/base & they probably won't release all the cassettes just like they did with all other blaster/soundwave molds
Skullcrusher & hard head - very good
Sentinel prime - colors & mold could fit as omega supreme better...and omega has been in comics awhile. And sentinel was white and then became nemesis so I don't understand the colors.

Hasbro is trying to match g1 molds but then make characters that aren't headmasters into headmasters. Or combiners out of characters that weren't g1 combiners.
Now IDW will be writing comics to fit toys which may not be a good idea.
G1 started to have bad toy molds and ideas, and scale was crazy. ACTIONMASTERS?..a transformer that could not transform. Point is the generations/classics line was started as a good line with nice robot & alt moulds. Now hasbro is starting to remake characters that were already released, and choosing iffy molds that have lots of repaints to churn out a lot of toys.
For a collector, which a lot of these toys are made for, I don't need multiple primes, bumblebees, soundwave etc...THERE ARE LOTS OF CHARACTERS...make molds for new characters...there are still more females, if hasbro is making masters, make them all..not a few then jump to another idea.

And the mass shifting to explain poor scale was a stupid explanation. The enigma of combination was a good idea but seemed like IDW is retconning its own storyline. Which may continue to happen if they try to match hasbro's semi-Parr toy machine.

I'm super stoked for this! I think Sentinal looks awesome! Galvatron too! I suuuuuuuper hate Headmasters, personally, but for the most part, it's worth it to have such beautiful figures. I'll kind of treat it like Minimus Ambus and pretend it doesn't exist.

However, I hope for the sake of consistency with the other recent Triple Changers, that the inevitable Astrotrain is NOT a headmaster... I just realllly hope that I can get the original six Triple Changers in a consistent style (in other words, Voyagers and not Headmatsers).