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william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Liege Maximo would be compatible with Combiner Wars? And he looks like a voyager based on the packaging.

Liege Maximo is not compatible with anything.

Nexus Prime is said to be compatible with the new frame combiners

Fuk, I mixed up the names.

Official reveal by Mark Maher of Nexus Prime and his Combiner mode:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUOa17xD9xC/

Looks cool

Sabrblade wrote:Official reveal by Mark Maher of Nexus Prime and his Combiner mode:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUOa17xD9xC/

Brownie points for using the layout shown here within limitations:


Shame we may not get redecos of those parts...

I get why they did that, but the difference in style of the skeletons just makes the legs look weird. Now, a Superion leg and a Menasor leg would make more sense. Then use a Bruticus arm and a (future possible) Defensor arm or vice versa, assuming Defensor will share the Bruticus skeleton design.

Of course, the beauty of this figure is that we can mix and match any way we like. Combiner Wars lives again!

Rodimus Prime wrote:I get why they did that, but the difference in style of the skeletons just makes the legs look weird. Now, a Superion leg and a Menasor leg would make more sense. Then use a Bruticus arm and a (future possible) Defensor arm or vice versa, assuming Defensor will share the Bruticus skeleton design.

Of course, the beauty of this figure is that we can mix and match any way we like. Combiner Wars lives again!

I'm sure DNA Design or some other 3P smart-ass will come up with a 200$ "upgrade kit" to complete Nexus Prime.

Noticed this this morning but didn't have a chance to post it. It's kinda pointless now but I'll post it anyway.



Anyway, he's really grown on me, but I don't think the combined form is going to be any good. The torso is lacking the bulk that the other combiners have. Getting serious Fall of Cybertron Onslaught vibes.

I'm hoping there's a proper box set coming later that's a little closer to the original Fun Pub design. Maybe retool Powerglide into a combiner compatible leg for Skyfall. This is the second time we've been cheated out of a proper Nexus Prime update.

Emerje

Can someone please decipher the cybertron gibberish on Nexus Prime's box. Has something to do with the Matrix given it is captioned beneath it?
Thanks.

megatran wrote:Can someone please decipher the cybertron gibberish on Nexus Prime's box. Has something to do with the Matrix given it is captioned beneath it?
Thanks.

It's a not a Matrix. It's the Enigma of Combination.

Sabrblade wrote:

megatran wrote:Can someone please decipher the cybertron gibberish on Nexus Prime's box. Has something to do with the Matrix given it is captioned beneath it?
Thanks.

It's a not a Matrix. It's the Enigma of Combination.

Well my bad. It's an enigma to me too.

Nexus is such a huge letdown, I am so disappointed. He and Onyx are my favorite Primes, and seeing him so bland is sad. TFone did him real dirty, and they used that weak sauce here.

And calling that a torso mode is pretty sad too. If you look at it, he needs someone else's frame, so you would need to buy a commander just to give him a body, but insert him into the frame and rotate the waist 180, and he looks really cheap sitting in there.

And , JTPrime has said that this is all we are getting of Nexus, no dedicated limbs or frame of his own.

I own the OG Nexus, they had the spirit right there, it just needed updates. And now here we are, and for the 2nd time, we have a pretty weak ass Nexus, where calling him a combiner is stretching it really far.

At least Liege looks AMAZING.

I feel sorry for the box artist that was given a shoebox with stubby wings and a tacked-on cockpit and had to make it "look cool".

And does anyone else find it hilarious that Nexus Prime, the first combiner and one of the Thirteen, transforms into a torso and none of the other twelve can form limbs?!

Does the Nexus alt-mode look like an upsized cassette-bot to anyone else?

Kyleor wrote:Does the Nexus alt-mode look like an upsized cassette-bot to anyone else?

Yet another botched unofficial attempt at Slamdance that went for a second combination in cassette mode, yes, agreed.

Maybe that's another reason I'm just assuming multiple third parties will pick up the dropped ball on this one.

And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

Bumblevivisector wrote:And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

Out of every piece of published artwork depicting the Liege Maximo in his original G2 design, this is probably the one that give the most clear look at his arm cannon:

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Kyleor wrote:Does the Nexus alt-mode look like an upsized cassette-bot to anyone else?

Yet another botched unofficial attempt at Slamdance that went for a second combination in cassette mode, yes, agreed.

Maybe that's another reason I'm just assuming multiple third parties will pick up the dropped ball on this one.

And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

I'm sure DNA Design is already working on all of these very expensive upgrade kits.
Meanwhile, there will be 3D printed things from China, like that Maximo arm cannon.

The whole wave is now up at all the normal spots, Powerglide sold out on Pulse already but it looks like Walmart has them all for last year's prices still. Saw a post that said they were gonna do a fanstream for these today, but I can't find any official video about these guys anywhere so far.

Preordered CJ, Ratchet, Smokescreen, Swerve, and Nexus with Walmart for the lower prices, wasn't gonna get Swerve and/or Nexus at full price. Still not totally happy about how Nexus combines or how his alt mode looks, but I actually really like his bot mode way more than I thought I would? Liege isn't for me though, that G2 design reads way too demonic/organic for me to reasonably see it as a Transformer. Kinda neat to see that Powerglide has two different one-episode-references with the chest heart and the mask, curious to see how that'll impact his potential future repaints.

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblevivisector wrote:And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

Out of every piece of published artwork depicting the Liege Maximo in his original G2 design, this is probably the one that give the most clear look at his arm cannon:

His product description actually says he has "a hand that rotates to become a blaster", I think that red chunk in his left arm is the cannon and it's just optional.

After a preview with Liege Maximo and Nexus Prime we now have a full set of stock photos as pre-orders launch for the next run of Age of the Primes figures. This collection includes the following figures (Update: Amazon pre-orders are now listed below):

Deluxe Wave 5
- G1 Powerglide (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- G1 Swerve (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- Animated Ratchet (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- Prime Smokescreen (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- Prime Cliffjumper (from Target Legacy: United 4-pack) (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)

Voyager Wave 5
- Nexus Prime (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- Armada Sideways (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)

Leader Wave 4
- Liege Maximo (Amazon, Pulse, BBTS, EE)
- Big Convoy (repack from wave 3) (Amazon)

All of these are expected to be released around May and June. Let us know what you think and what you'll be picking up in the Seibertron Energon Pub forums!

Can we take a moment to appreciate that they gave Smokescreen the phase shifter?

Also, I think Liege may be my most anticipated of the wave?

Pre-orders are up on Amazon. Snatched Powerglide, Smokescreen, Cliffjumper and yes, I picked up Nexus.

Liege does not really call to me, if they retool him into the Unicorn tank from Cybertron somehow, then I'd pick it up.

Still debating on Swerve and Ratchet.

Might break down and get Sideways now.

Also of note, is that team have confirmed that Nexus will be getting his own limbs in 2027.
It also appears he is only compatible with Silverbolt's frame, and that they are not allowed to reference features that make use of items released in previous years on the boxes of the new items. Which explains why Nexus has no mention of his combination ability on the box.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblevivisector wrote:And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

Out of every piece of published artwork depicting the Liege Maximo in his original G2 design, this is probably the one that give the most clear look at his arm cannon:

His product description actually says he has "a hand that rotates to become a blaster", I think that red chunk in his left arm is the cannon and it's just optional.

Ah yes, didn't notice that until the official pics. In the final G2 splash page, it does just look like a smoldering wrist socket, but Alignment gives the idea that it was a more elongated weapon. I wonder if Geoff Senior drew it pointed directly at the reader on purpose because Simon hadn't finalized that detail of L.M.'s design, using foreshortening to leave it ambiguous.

Well, some older fans will still want the non-canon-cannon, just like some newer ones will want his new Earthspark head and cloak/shroud...I haven't seen the end yet, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers within reason. I foresee much 3P love for him.

Nemesis Primal wrote:The whole wave is now up at all the normal spots, Powerglide sold out on Pulse already but it looks like Walmart has them all for last year's prices still. Saw a post that said they were gonna do a fanstream for these today, but I can't find any official video about these guys anywhere so far.

Preordered CJ, Ratchet, Smokescreen, Swerve, and Nexus with Walmart for the lower prices, wasn't gonna get Swerve and/or Nexus at full price.

I actually double pre-ordered Nexus, Swerve and Powerglide (the 3 I want most) from Amazon and Walmart along with Ratchet and Smokescreen from Walmart only.

Walmart just screwed me on my SS86 Soundwave pre-order at the original $55 price and cancelled it Sunday despite me having ordered the very first day it was available, so I am NOT counting on them to deliver anything else at this point.

Overcracker wrote:

Three things (that haven't already been said) stood out to me in this video:

1. Liege Maximo was designed to be able to sit on the Decepticon throne that originally came with SS86 Starscream.

2. Mark confirms that he saw the Geoff Senior art of Liege Maximo from Alignment and misinterpreted the three ships flying around his hand as the Liegian Darts.

3. I've heard a lot of people mispronounce Jhiaxus's name before (it's a pun on "Gee, axe us"), but this is the first I've heard anyone (Mark, in this case) mispronounce it as "Unjaxus".

(double post sorry)

Sabrblade wrote:3. I've heard a lot of people mispronounce Jhiaxus's name before (it's a pun on "Gee, axe us"), but this is the first I've heard anyone (Mark, in this case) mispronounce it as "Unjaxus".

Happens to the best of us. I once mispronounced a lady's name. Her name was Letitia. Then there was this other lady Siobhan.

Back to Transformers, some of the Japanese Transformers names are mispronounced by Western folks.