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News Credits: 108 · by **s250** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:52 am

http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=433

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:04 am

Thanks for the heads up s250!

Looks like we got another wheelformer.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:18 am

Does this suggest that these figures will be part of the first wave?

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:32 am

I'm awaiting the kitbashes of these, Megatron would make perfect BM Tankor, and Chromia would make a good Thrust.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:38 am

I'm willing to wager that when this stuff gets released, the stores will have such a mountain of toys stocked up that waves 1 and 2 will come pouring out in one huge blurr. Many areas had already recieved wave 2 during the first Movies go-around of toys by the time wave 1 was due to release. "Opening day" for the movie toys was a collectors dream and nightmare rolled into one. I drove 20 miles out of my way to get the Protoform releases when they came out and 35 miles to get my first regular movie toy. And I've got a Wal-Mart that's a fifteen minute walk from my house. I'm anticipating the same wave-mix and chaos for this round of toys too. Thankfully, Wal-Mart is open 24 hrs. and the stock team knows me.

Website · by **DMSL** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:38 am

Ugh another wheelformer, i'll pass those just look horrid and how on earth can you pose them?

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:43 am

Well, it looks like Chromia and Arcee are, in fact, two totally different characters. There's nothing on her card that mentions anything about combining (from what I can tell.) Something of that nature is usually a selling point, so....

News Credits: 4 · by **typh0id** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:59 am

I'm going to buy Megatron and then be really pissed when the shiney Premium one comes out in a year...

by **Doubledealer93** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:09 pm

oh thank god that thing on chromia is detachable, it looked like a motorcycle mixed with a mini tank. it looks like crap with it on. and why does skids and mudflaps faces look like a pile of crap :sad:

no five year old in their right mind would buy them, but i will

by **syphonn** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:32 pm

They're getting really lazy with the transformations, Megatron is in the fetal position with one hand behind is back ... its like Optimal Optimus all over again

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblebeast** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:01 pm

What the hell is wrong with the designers ?

None of them is a complete bot. Skids lacks a decent head. Megatron lacks an arm. Chromia lacks feet FFS.

It's like they decided to remake The Wizard of Oz, and send them all to the Fallen in order to get the parts they lack, only to realize that they didn't need them all the way.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:01 pm

I don't like these.

I don't think I'm going to be able to support this toy line.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:04 pm

Not feeling these. Megatron is a maybe, Chromia is a meh, and Skids is a hell no.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:43 pm

We should be thankful for these! If the prequel comic is any indication, we are going to, at some point soon, be blessed with the ever elusive "ice cream" truck as an Autobot. I'm already staking out my spot on a fairly clean brick wall so I'll have plenty of space to beat my head against it.
If this new movie is supposed to be so much darker than the first, why do I get the feeling that I will be laughing my way through 2+ hours of an obviously one-sided slaughterfest.

While I support the designers as far as making the toys look less humanoid (after all, they are alien robots and the arrogant 1950's mentality that aliens should look like us is just absurd) I am having a hard time with what the writers are giving us in the way of Autobot troops in general. The 'Bots biggest warrior is an aged stealth jet with rear facing guns. Almost every other Autobots most outstanding feature is awsome gas mileage. The fate of the planet is in the hands of motor-cycles, sub-compacts, a soft-serve wagon in desperate need of a bath, an R/C truck and a '94 Peterbilt. Earth is soooo screwed!

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:44 pm

I think Sideswipe and Prime might be the only things I buy from the new toyline. I honestly don't want these.

by **OmarJT82** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:54 pm

I'm I bit confused about Chromia

In the Wal-Mart promo video for ROTF and according to Wikipedia, Arcee is a combination of 3 bikes, one pink, one purple, one blue. If the blue one is indeed Chromia (an individual character), then the pink one could be Elita-One and the purple one could be Arcee herself and all 3 fembots can combine into a larger robot like the Constructicons do when combining to form Devastator.

News Credits: 88 · by **DavidT** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:59 pm

Megatron looks badass except for his mini-arm. Reminds me of the butler in Scary Movie 2 :grin:

"Let me use my strong hand!"

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News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:20 pm

So that would be the fail wave im guessing. I love bikeformers but im going to pass on that one. Looks way to simple (and not in a good way) and just looks like crap. At least Thrust had hidden feet. I said it from the start the theme of this movie is wheeled feet.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:22 pm

OmarJT82 wrote:I'm I bit confused about Chromia

In the Wal-Mart promo video for ROTF and according to Wikipedia, Arcee is a combination of 3 bikes, one pink, one purple, one blue. If the blue one is indeed Chromia (an individual character), then the pink one could be Elita-One and the purple one could be Arcee herself and all 3 fembots can combine into a larger robot like the Constructicons do when combining to form Devastator.

Wiki isn't to be trusted and unless the Wal-Mart promo actually showed the 3 of them combined AND seperate (which I haven't seen the vid. so I have no clue as to it's content) I'm kind of wondering about whether we actually will have our bike combiner. With the stand that comes with Chromia, I could see a 2nd stand working well as feet for a larger bot but that would leave the 3rd motorcycle having to be bigger than Dlx class Arcee from the first Movies toyline and that would look lame next to the other 2 bikes. I think they should have released all 3 bikes at once in a set but then they would have had less chance of raping our wallets if they had done that.

by **Maximus_Blade** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:44 pm

To me this is the transformer side show. This toy line is plain ugly so far. I'm thankful to be able to rest my wallet.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:18 pm

So far I like the Leader class stuff, even wonky-arms Megatron.

I'm hoping the bike-bots combine, That may make me interested. If they are just doing the wheeled warrior thing I may be skipping them.

I like the Vette, and even the BB with the pop out guns, but I'm not digging the fugly brothers.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:37 pm

T-Macksimus wrote:With the stand that comes with Chromia, I could see a 2nd stand working well as feet for a larger bot but that would leave the 3rd motorcycle having to be bigger than Dlx class Arcee

Not necessarily. Given the bizarre articulation we've seen in Chromia, I'd expect their merging to be completely unique, and involve a lot more 'mixing' together than you see in most of the TF gestalts - more like the Beast Wars gestalts than the Scramble Cityor Energon Gestalts, or even the RID Build Team.

Actually, the three RID locomotives were all approximately the same size, right? And yet they made a decent combined form.

Counterpunch wrote:I don't think I'm going to be able to support this toy line.

Some of the Decepticons (for whom I don't mind a sort of deformed look) like Rampage may win me over, but I may also get the bikes if they're in the same size range as TF1 Arcee and TFA Prowl (i.e. roughly GIJoe sized).

I've been generally surprised that so few of the scout class figures have caught my fancy. The armored Red Bull truck and the funky futuristic car just come off as too Happy Meal. The biplane (uniqueness & historical interest), the boat (decent robot mode), and the fork-lift (funny) may make it on to my desk though.

by **Prime Riblet** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:23 pm

I'm with Counterpunch on this line-I can't support it. These are some very ugly designs.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:30 pm

Having the small deluxe toys in such large empty packaging does not make me want this line more. I'm not going to bother with the line myslef, but all that empty space might put off parents and new collectors, why pay $30 for a tiny little transforemer figure, when for $30 they can get two Ben 10 figures?

Perhaps it would it be a better idea to cover up some of the empty bubble with some cardboard identifiers or something, so as to reduce the empty space?

The bikes had all better come out in one wave, so that they can be combined as soon as they are opened, there is no way they can be posed while being wheel-footed bots.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 10:14 pm

Caelus wrote:... Given the bizarre articulation we've seen in Chromia, I'd expect their merging to be completely unique, and involve a lot more 'mixing' together than you see in most of the TF gestalts - more like the Beast Wars gestalts than the Scramble Cityor Energon Gestalts, or even the RID Build Team.

Actually, the three RID locomotives were all approximately the same size, right? And yet they made a decent combined form.

I keep forgetting about the rail-bots. They did a great job of keeping those all standardized. I had figured that worst case scenario would be that we would end up with deluxe size versions of the Armada Mini-Cons that merged into Perceptor or some close approximation to that. Not bad conceptually once you actually got past the whole goofy mini-con idea to begin with and for the size of the toys they actually did an o.k. job. (I purposely left out the issues with the mini-con alt modes. That's a whole other disaster for another time) I figure that the deluxe size motorcycles would have to be better than that and anything would be an improvement over the RID Constructicons. Those were just a pain in the butt. Once I got mine merged they STAYED merged and didn't get moved off the display shelf until I packed up my apt. to move out.