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News Credits: 20 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:34 am

Hm, interesting. Need to see a better picture, but I like the G1 rout they're going with Dinobot repaints I'll never get.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:10 am

Wait! Look at that second pic of Grimlock! Next to him are redecos of the Generations Legends Targetmasters. A black Roller, a red Blazemaster, a blue/yellow Waspinator, and a blue/gray Chop Shop.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:14 am

Sabrblade wrote:Wait! Look at that second pic of Grimlock! Next to him are redecos of the Generations Legends Targetmasters. A black Roller, a red Blazemaster, a blue/yellow Waspinator, and a blue/gray Chop Shop.

I wrote a line about those, and it forgot to save. Let me go re-add it.

Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:20 am

A red Blazemaster? I really hope that means we're getting a Hot Shot out of Legends Bumblebee... :PRAY:

News Credits: 5 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:12 am

You know the movie generations toys being marketed to collectors seems suspicious so far. The stuff that Takara is doing is homaging differing elements of the franchise from the past e.g. Dispensor, G1 Grimlock, stuff that younger fans might not know about. Meanwhile Hasbro's toys are no different than what we've been having for a long time. Does anyone think that Hasbro is just saying that the toys are marketed to collectors, meanwhile knowing that most kids are just going to buy them anyway. I mean is we hadn't been told that it was marketed towards collectors that wouldn't have been anywhere close to my first reaction. Really makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes.

Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:23 pm

courtesy of Hasbro's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

In celebration of Earth Day, we’ve partnered with Waste Management to bring you an exclusive reveal of a new toy based on a character from Transformers: Age of Extinction — Junkheap. Power Battler Junkheap features a crushing attack claw that when activated can turn Autobots into scrap! Look for this figure on shelves this fall.

News Credits: 33 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:45 pm

Found this on Facebook ,

https://www.facebook.com/transformers?fref=photo

In celebration of Earth Day, we’ve partnered with Waste Management to bring you an exclusive reveal of a new toy based on a character from Transformers: Age of Extinction — Junkheap. Power Battler Junkheap features a crushing attack claw that when activated can turn Autobots into scrap! Look for this figure on shelves this fall.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:51 pm

Pretty cool novelty, but why'd they have to use one of the gimmicky lines? Bah...

News Credits: 4 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:05 pm

I like the colours. What was a Power Battler again?

News Credits: 5749 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:07 pm

To coincide with Earth Day, the official Transformers Facebook page has revealed Transformers: Age of Extinction Power Battler Junkheap, a Decepticon garbage truck is a collaboration with Waste Management. Fans will remember one the Decepticon soldier in Transformers: Dark of the Moon scanned a garbage truck during the final battle in Chicago. A similar garbage truck was during the filming of Transformers: Age of Extinction, but has yet to be revealed as an actual Transformer. Check out the image mirrored below:

In celebration of Earth Day, we’ve partnered with Waste Management to bring you an exclusive reveal of a new toy based on a character from Transformers: Age of Extinction — Junkheap. Power Battler Junkheap features a crushing attack claw that when activated can turn Autobots into scrap! Look for this figure on shelves this fall.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:07 pm

That's cool, but I wish it were a normal figure, not a gimmick figure.

Also, as a civilian service vehicle, it seems like this should be an Autobot.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:10 pm

It's another of Galvatron's posse:

News Credits: 7 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:15 pm

He just HAD to be one of those one-step gimmicky figures...

You'd think he'd have just been a reshell of one of the various Long Hauls, given that he's basically him.

News Credits: 33 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:30 pm

Might as well merge this thread , i should have put it in the AOE thread but i wasn't sure about it .

I hope this gets a Voyager i've been wanting one since DOTM .

News Credits: 33 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:34 pm

craggy wrote:I like the colours. What was a Power Battler again?

I think it's just like a fast action battler ?

News Credits: 656 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:37 pm

Autobot Genocide wrote:
craggy wrote:I like the colours. What was a Power Battler again?

I think it's just like a fast action battler ?

Basically that, yep. Although I'd expect to see way more of these out than Generations movie stuff, since the simpler stuff seems to be more of their focus.

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

I've always wanted a garbage truck TF. But I don't want garbage TFs. I may hold out hope for a deluxe version of this guy somewhere down the line.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:45 pm

Mkall wrote:I've always wanted a garbage truck TF.

What about Animated Wreck-Gar?

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Sabrblade wrote:
Mkall wrote:I've always wanted a garbage truck TF.
What about Animated Wreck-Gar?

Doesn't fit my collecting style. At least these new movie figs are close to the aesthetics I like.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:56 pm

Maybe it's just the recent GoBot DVD news, but since the action feature is apparently the rear CHOMPing, it really seems like this guy should be called Flytrap.

Only other garbage truck TF is Animated Wreck Gar, but a few years prior, when all those KOs of Armada bendy-Prime with different trailers hit Big Lots shortly before the Big-Crackdown, the only one I bothered with as the yellow garbage truck with a sticker proclaiming, "Super Truck-tor" on the sides. Since then, I've wanted an official TF with that alt in every universe. This guy should do well with anyone enamored with the flying garbage truck in the Lego Movie finale.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 3:56 pm

I'm pretty sure we'll get a proper figure soon. Perhaps they're releasing all the simpler stuff first so they have more time to work on the more complex figures and make sure they're up to scratch.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 4:25 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:I'm pretty sure we'll get a proper figure soon. Perhaps they're releasing all the simpler stuff first so they have more time to work on the more complex figures and make sure they're up to scratch.

you can't imagine how I have hope on that, so far all this toys already released are nothing but kid's toys. I will wait as well for real collection figures like they always bring to us.

Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:18 pm

Looking at the truck upside down, it does appear as if his head is identical to Long Haul's. His does look a little more long and sharp in appearance though.

If we don't get him in the Generations line, I'll probably pick this up.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Apr 22, 2014 5:27 pm

BERSEKAEL wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:I'm pretty sure we'll get a proper figure soon. Perhaps they're releasing all the simpler stuff first so they have more time to work on the more complex figures and make sure they're up to scratch.

you can't imagine how I have hope on that, so far all this toys already released are nothing but kid's toys. I will wait as well for real collection figures like they always bring to us.

As far as we know, Generations Grimlock, High Octane Bumblebee, Crosshairs, Scorn and Slug are all the more 'complex' figures. As opposed to the Flip and Change, Smash and Change, One Step and the such.