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News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 5:01 pm

I.ll wait for clearer official images before passing any judgements.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 5:46 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The tapes look to be all in one. That would be nice.

I just see a peg between Ravage's missiles (and tail). And I don't see how LazerSaw's guns can fold into his body. Not in tape mode (there should be a shadow or something). So I think they're sort of partsformery.

Kind of acceptable for LazerSaw, but I kinda hate it when there's a tail as part of the package.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Sep 16, 2025 10:10 pm

Gauntlet0000 wrote:If they make Soundblaster I wonder who'll be packed with him. ANOTHER Ratbat and Ravage? At last, an official Autoscout? No. No, never that one.

We really need an official Enemy. And Ratbat is coming with Perceptor, so my bet would be Wingthing with Soundblaster.

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:57 am

Looks good. The only thing about Soundwave that irks me is the prongs on his concussion blaster are horizontal, rather than vertical, but I can deal with that. Ravage looks bloody awful though!

~ Grim

by **Till-all-R1** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 12:39 pm

I like Soundwave so far, it does have that smoother surface G1 aesthetic.

As for the tapes, while Ravage looks improved upon from the Legacy mold I'm still not quite sure about it since I don't have it in hand and you can only tell so much from one image. Currently using the MP Ravage as a stand in so I really don't think anything will match that one.

Laserbeak's mold on the other hand doesn't look like the wings are accurate, I don't remember them boing pointy and straight out from the sides. They have always been more angular. So I'd like to see more in depth images before I preorder, but I'd ultimately be ordering it purely for Soundwave anyway.

Honestly I was hoping for totally different tapes being that Buzzsaw was technically released not long ago leaving only Laserbeak, but now it's a totally new mold. lol
I guess it's fine being that both Rumble and Frenzy got one so now they're all on new molds basically. But really those core 4-5 have gotten kind of old/stale at this point and I've been looking forward to some of the alt decos of the more obscure characters.
I'm now wondering if or how they'll address updated version of Eject and Rewind being that their current mold is out of date next to Rumble/Frenzy, we kind of do need a new mold for those two now but I don't have it in me to buy yet another Blaster just for a tape update.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 1:19 pm

O.k, so new Leader class is $60 bucks. Oof.

Anyway, Pre-orders available at your favorite online outlet.

Amazon:
Leader Soundwave: https://amzn.to/46a6THx
Leader Nemesis: https://amzn.to/4mrQrHn
Voyager TFONE Alpha Trion: https://amzn.to/4nFDJGa
Deluxe TFONE Airachnid: https://amzn.to/3VZZl3T
Deluxe TLK Barricade: https://amzn.to/4n7Feg7

Will have to bite the bullet and get Soundwave, since I don't have any of the siege retools sooo....

Barricade looks pretty good. Also pre-ordering.

Amazon Gift cards for the win here. covered both pre-orders.

by **Till-all-R1** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 1:44 pm

Ha, funny that right in the middle of trying to add Soundwave to me cart on Pulse it was hit with an error, then went sold out. So had to venture over to Amazon to preorder. Once again Pulse Premium doesn't seem to be doing jack crap for me especially since i can't even place orders unless I use their PayPal method...

As for TF:One Alpha Trion being $43 that's a big nope! I'm sorry but that figure doesn't not look like $40 worth of sculpting, TBH it looks very much like one of those kid toy version you'd see for $20 line and I'm not digging the color scheme at all, I thought the CGI model looked very different and I remember when watching the movie thinking I'd like an action figure of this character. Frankly at $43 I'm probably done with Voyagers anyway because to me they always felt like an overpriced DLX.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:10 pm

All Voyagers are getting bumped up to $42.99 in price.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:47 pm

Sabrblade wrote:All Voyagers are getting bumped up to $42.99 in price.

With $59.99 leaders and 27.99 deluxes, yeah, it may be time to get out of collecting once I have all 13 primes from AotP and the rest of Bruticus. I have good enough versions of everyone I want/need from G1 aside from the rare bot that hasn't had a toy yet. the TF One bots have been meh at best so far and I'm already skipping most of them. Bayverse SS may tempt me for the 2-3 characters per year that they do now. 2026 is looking to be the year I really scale back on pre-ordering and rely on luck and clearance for anyone I don't already have a good enough version. Definitely no more collecting the entire line, just not worth it anymore.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 2:53 pm

Sabrblade wrote:All Voyagers are getting bumped up to $42.99 in price.

I can see Thundercracker / New Seeker Mold being worth that, but Alpha Trion sadly, is not.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Wed Sep 17, 2025 3:57 pm

Ended up preordering Soundwave. I really like how he ended up, even if I dislike the journey of how we got there.

Seekers are still a maybe venturing on no. I have to put away most of my collection for a long while and they're six friggin' guys, ultimately. I'll stare hard at them and see if I can spot any yellowing on the mains.