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I was hoping the 2 Micromasters would be Holi and the first official toy of Clipper. The minor tweaks to Hyperdrive would be far easier than whole new molds for Boater and Pipo.

For that matter, Riker could be an easy remold of Swindler/Blackjack...

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:sorry but that base mode is a joke and not a funny one. sigh.

But an accurate one

"Quick do the splits to form the base!"
It was stupid with Powermaster Prime too. If you're going to add a base mode, put some effort into it.

Years ago somebody on the site made a joke, If spreading its legs turns PM Prime into a base then Paris Hilton must turn into the Pentagon.

Hasbro has updated their Haslab Victory Saber page to have many more images of the painted grey model representing the final colour layout. Here we see shots of all possible modes, including the airship mode for Victory Leo and how great he looks in lion mod with that big canon. Speaking of the canon, we need just a little over 1300 more backers (or pre ordered copies) to get it. At this point, we do not know if the Japanese numbers were even counted, so we'll see. These images also show us the colour of the bloosh effects, which would be unique to this release (so far).

So here are the images, along with some we already posted before, but please remember that this shows fully painted grey plastic while the finished toy would be a mix of coloured plastic and paint applications, as is always the case.

Here is the main crowdfunding page: https://hasbropulse.com/collections/has ... tory-saber

















































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I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

I mean, I'm not expecting any of that paint to stay. Maybe the red, white, and blue, but the gold's probably not

Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

Shield looks good, hope we get it, won't lose sleep if we don't.

King Kuuga wrote:Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

It's more of a weapons platform/turret than a battle station.

Sabrblade wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

It's more of a weapons platform/turret than a battle station.

You can call it what you want, it's still just Star Saber doing the splits.

Does the sword not look a bit small?

King Kuuga wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

It's more of a weapons platform/turret than a battle station.

You can call it what you want, it's still just Star Saber doing the splits.

Does it matter though? I think there is no one out there going “I was gonna back this, but now that I see the base mode looks like it did on the G1 toy, I won’t anymore”

william-james88 wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

It's more of a weapons platform/turret than a battle station.

You can call it what you want, it's still just Star Saber doing the splits.

Does it matter though? I think there is no one out there going “I was gonna back this, but now that I see the base mode looks like it did on the G1 toy, I won’t anymore”

It's not a deterrent but it's funny that they're pushing it, even just as a bonus feature.

These sold it for me. The colors are great, vibrant, and just really nicely done. Looking at it now, I can't believe buy in for this is only 180USD. This is essentially a 5 figure set so even with that price, considering what it is and is being included, this is a decent value. I'm honesetly not as familiar with the Japanese series, but I just love how this figure looks and the nice diversity of modes.

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

I do too but I what I think is that since it will just be molded plastic, it will look better and more detailed than the shot they put there which is just dabbed in blue paint.

King Kuuga wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

King Kuuga wrote:Base mode is a joke, I don't care if it's accurate to the original toy or not.

It's more of a weapons platform/turret than a battle station.

You can call it what you want, it's still just Star Saber doing the splits.

Does it matter though? I think there is no one out there going “I was gonna back this, but now that I see the base mode looks like it did on the G1 toy, I won’t anymore”

It's not a deterrent but it's funny that they're pushing it, even just as a bonus feature.

Since it's not a deterrent and rather easy to ignore, there is only a possibility of gain by showing all the features this toy has. There's always gonna be a fan that goes "but the G1 toy did that, can this toy do this too?" And yes, it can, here's some extra images about it. Plus I think the real goal here is to show how much the shield adds to this, making the stretch goal even more desired than it may have been before.

william-james88 wrote:Plus I think the real goal here is to show how much the shield adds to this, making the stretch goal even more desired than it may have been before.

Alright that's fair, I'll drink to that.

Finally took the plunge. I had always intended to, it's not just cause it's fully backed now, it's just I needed the motivation to create a Hasbropulse account. They look great, and I'm really looking forward to forgetting how much I had to spend to get them . Total backing as of my purchase was 12,803, still a ways to go before the tiers, so I hope there are some people who are in the same boat as I was and find the motivation before the end of the week.

"Let's-a-go?"

"No, Let's say go!"

base mode reminds me of one of those riot control barriers

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

isnt this just the painted prototype and not the final product
theres still a chance

Man, I hope those overseas orders are enough to get us all the tiers. I won't be fatally disappointed, but it will feel like a waste.

sol magnus wrote:Man, I hope those overseas orders are enough to get us all the tiers. I won't be fatally disappointed, but it will feel like a waste.

The V-Lock has to be guaranteed at this point IMO, not sure about the others

Looking damn good so far!

Let's hope all 3 stretch goals will be unlocked by the end.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

I mean, I'm not expecting any of that paint to stay. Maybe the red, white, and blue, but the gold's probably not

I imagine that we wont even get three colors on it when the final product hits. We already know Haslab will cheap out on the final product even though they make massive amounts of cash from the preorders.

These colour photos look awesome. I just backed it myself. The whole time I was leaning towards backing, for one I didnt back Unicron and still regret it, also the whole package is sweet. For years I have wanted an awesome Star Saber and Overlord. Like a few others already mentioned, I hope we gets at least the first stretch goal though from orders not added yet.

Since we know *some* 3rd party retailers, and TT Mall backings haven't been included yet, we don't know how much it will account for in the end.

Other than the infamous Cookie Monster that didn't fund at all, were there any other Haslab's that didn't meet all their stretch goals? Unfortunately Hasbro's information on past Haslabs is limited. They don't even want to acknowledge their one failure.

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

I mean, I'm not expecting any of that paint to stay. Maybe the red, white, and blue, but the gold's probably not

I imagine that we wont even get three colors on it when the final product hits. We already know Haslab will cheap out on the final product even though they make massive amounts of cash from the preorders.

I'd be shocked if we didn't get at least three cause the arms can be molded in white, the main body can be molded in red, and the faceplate is molded in a third plastic color, presumably blue for the visor, and the Brainmaster's head is attached to the faceplate. I was just meaning that I'm expecting Titans Return level of paint where details are sculpted, but not highlighted

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I do wish they'd found a way to paint the Brain's face. I know it's so tiny, but still.

I mean, I'm not expecting any of that paint to stay. Maybe the red, white, and blue, but the gold's probably not

I imagine that we wont even get three colors on it when the final product hits. We already know Haslab will cheap out on the final product even though they make massive amounts of cash from the preorders.

I'd be shocked if we didn't get at least three cause the arms can be molded in white, the main body can be molded in red, and the faceplate is molded in a third plastic color, presumably blue for the visor, and the Brainmaster's head is attached to the faceplate. I was just meaning that I'm expecting Titans Return level of paint where details are sculpted, but not highlighted

I'm going on how Hasbro did most of the headmasters, the robot mode at any rate. Most were just two colors of plastic and maybe a little paint on the face. The arms and legs will probably be molded in the same color here.