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News Credits: 905 · by **Mach** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:41 am

Yizhi521 of tf08 has showed us the toy image of upcoming Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen Voyager Class Mindwipe.
This latest image shows Mindwipe in Alternate mode. ROTF Voyager Mindwipe is scheduled to be released in 2010.

by **OptimusShr** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:55 am

Wasn't this a G2 toy? Or am I mistaking him for a similar toy?

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:22 am

Think you're mixing him up with Cybertron Soundwave. I love the F117 and relish any time that plane is used. I'm really looking forward to Mindwipe :-)

by **justynnbailey** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:23 am

OptimusShr wrote:Wasn't this a G2 toy? Or am I mistaking him for a similar toy?

Are you thinking of G2 Dreadwing? He kinna looks like that in alt mode but the colors are different.

by **Starscream6** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:30 am

the colors remind me of animated skywarp

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:46 am

I like the purple highlights

But I'm probably going to remove the Cybertronian symbols on his wings

News Credits: 609 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:35 am

The the purple, but I wish the canopy matched. Other than that, looking good.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:28 pm

Looking really nice. The Cybertronian tattoos are not really my liking, but other than that he looks exceedingly cool.

From this angle its really hard to tell there's a robot in there, which is always a good thing.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:59 pm

Okay, this tease is bad. Usually when Yizhi takes one picture of a figure, we never see a complete gallery till a few months later. Damnit. Hopefully we can get images of the other March 2010 release... Human Alliance Barricade and Brawn most importantly.

For Mindwipe, I don't really know, it looks to be a decent figure. The purple is a bit weird, didn't expect to see that there. I think the Robot mode will sell me though.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:13 pm

Alt mode look good. The colors used are pretty cool. Any idea on how the combination is going to work? Is it going to be alt mode only like Dreadwind & Darkwing or will they form a robot mode when combined like the Grimlock & swoop we had a few years ago?

News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:45 pm

I really like this! his alt mode and his bot mode is totally awesome. cant wait to see him and skystalker combine or dock with each other. Always, been a fan of mindwipe, but didnt like the G1 Bat mode of his, which i have still. Oh, anothing thing, at least hasbro didnt use the Silverbolt mode and some black and purple paint to make him!!

Oh yeah they did, he's called Darkwind.

News Credits: 609 · by **Razorclaw0000** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:21 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:Alt mode look good. The colors used are pretty cool. Any idea on how the combination is going to work? Is it going to be alt mode only like Dreadwind & Darkwing or will they form a robot mode when combined like the Grimlock & swoop we had a few years ago?

As far as I know, it's just vehicle to vehicle. Although it would be awesome in Skystalker makes some armor for Mindwipe in bot mode.

by **OptimusShr** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:27 pm

Think you're mixing him up with Cybertron Soundwave.

Are you thinking of G2 Dreadwing? He kinna looks like that in alt mode but the colors are different.

I think it's a little of both. Thank you for clearing that up.

As for the tpy, I'll wait for some robot mode and combined mode pics. The vehicle mode looks good though.

by **Rated X** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:14 pm

The toy looks great !!! Ill definitally be getting him. But a few questions...

1. Why dont they cut the chase and just name him Whisper ??? He clearly is a homage to this G1 Micromaster character...

2. Why cant Hasbro stop putting these annoying Chinese letters on the toys. It is so unrealistic...

3. Why didnt the guy who took this unofficial picture take the time to transform him to robot mode for us to see ???

Just curious...

News Credits: 2 · by **Convotron** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:21 pm

I love the look of the alt mode and the colours look good to me. I can't wait to see the bot mode and see how it looks. I hate looking at the promo photos of figures because the colours will never show up in the same way on the actual production figures.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:35 pm

I never quite know until something like this actually comes out, but it looks like it has promise.

by **Desslok** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:27 pm

Let's see... We've got the Fallen, and going back to War Within Dark Ages #1, the three Decepticons which freed him in that storyline were Bludgeon, Mindwipe, and Bugly. We've got three of the four so far, so should we be expecting a pretender in classics 3.0? I doubt it, but I can hope...

News Credits: 1 · by **guardianprime** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:39 pm

eeehh uEEHHHH.

Its soo tempting but ive had sooo much dissapointment with voyager and ultra. jets in the past.

does anyone know if he interacts with skystalker any more than just docking?

News Credits: 4 · by **freaky777** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:41 pm

Rated X wrote:2. Why cant Hasbro stop putting these annoying Chinese letters on the toys. It is so unrealistic...

FYI those are not Chinese letters/characters. These are the things Sam had in his head in ROTF, they are the cybertron languague symbols thingy.. You can see them on the first ROTF Starscream too..

by **newbe_collector** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:02 pm

Rated X wrote:The toy looks great !!! Ill definitally be getting him. But a few questions...

1. Why dont they cut the chase and just name him Whisper ??? He clearly is a homage to this G1 Micromaster character...

2. Why cant Hasbro stop putting these annoying Chinese letters on the toys. It is so unrealistic...

3. Why didnt the guy who took this unofficial picture take the time to transform him to robot mode for us to see ???

Just curious...

I don't think he's supposed to be a throwback to whisper. G1 mindwipe transformed into a bat, and seeing as how there's no animal forms in the movieverse (other then ravage of course) then what better plane to help pull off the "bat" image then the F117 Stealth?

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:33 pm

Rated X wrote:The toy looks great !!! Ill definitally be getting him. But a few questions...

1. Why dont they cut the chase and just name him Whisper ??? He clearly is a homage to this G1 Micromaster character...

2. Why cant Hasbro stop putting these annoying Chinese letters on the toys. It is so unrealistic...

3. Why didnt the guy who took this unofficial picture take the time to transform him to robot mode for us to see ???

I don't think it's a very good throwback to Whisper. War Within Mindwipe was a sonic fighter jet that looks like this jet, only it had more G1 colors on it. Letters are movie related tie ins for ROTF toys. You don't see them on Universe or Animated. Lastly, those are quick pictures taken in an area where you're not suppose to be taking pictures. One snap is all he or she can get away with.

Personally I love the look of this guy. Can't wait.

by **TFGnome** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:31 pm

=/

looks ok
give me a weird Skywarp and BB had some sort of offspring feeling
8-}

by **TFGnome** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 2:31 pm

double post >.<

by **Rated X** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:20 pm

I see you guys got good points about the Bat mode. although in my eyes there are really 2 "movie" lines. You have characters that are actually in the movie and you have new characters, homages, and repaints that are added to keep the movie line going for profit. This guy probally will never see the big screen. As far as the asian lettering, it may be "Cybertronian" but by the shapes and styles you can see it is roughly based on asian text most likely Chinese because Japanese has more straight lines and boxes in its lettering. But I feel the whole point of transforming into an earth vechicle is to camoflauge. That is why many of the first movie line vechicles didnt even have Autobot or Decepticon symbols. It just looks more real. For 25 years we have never really seen excessive Cybertronian writing in any storyline...why all of a sudden does every character need tattoos now ??? Was this Michael Bay's idea or Hasbro's ??? Throwing it on Starscream in the movie to give him a "rebel" look was kind of cool but every character need not have them all over their body...

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 5:25 pm

Rated X wrote:I see you guys got good points about the Bat mode. although in my eyes there are really 2 "movie" lines. You have characters that are actually in the movie and you have new characters, homages, and repaints that are added to keep the movie line going for profit. This guy probally will never see the big screen. As far as the asian lettering, it may be "Cybertronian" but by the shapes and styles you can see it is roughly based on asian text most likely Chinese because Japanese has more straight lines and boxes in its lettering. But I feel the whole point of transforming into an earth vechicle is to camoflauge. That is why many of the first movie line vechicles didnt even have Autobot or Decepticon symbols. It just looks more real. For 25 years we have never really seen excessive Cybertronian writing in any storyline...why all of a sudden does every character need tattoos now ??? Was this Michael Bay's idea or Hasbro's ??? Throwing it on Starscream in the movie to give him a "rebel" look was kind of cool but every character need not have them all over their body...

I'd await Nebular Starscream's bio for the answer to that, as those Cyberglyphs aren't mere decorations, they give some ancient power. And the only Chinese I've seen on any toy is on Voyager Prime. Those Cyberglphs don't come close to that.