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News Credits: 51 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:43 pm

Slap a coat of browns on that Hound and we've presumably got our Legacy Detritus.

Neither of these are for me, but I know they've been heavily asked after by the fandom as a whole, so good to see they exist.

News Credits: 332 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:03 pm

I hope that Hatchet holds together better than Crowbar. If that Hound looks half as good in hand I seriously doubt I'll buy another Masterpiece.

Thu Oct 13, 2022 7:13 pm

Don't care about the dread but Hound looks good, though I don't like how little molded detail is on it and how soft it is. Makes me scared that CHUG is going to go into the overly cartoony aesthetic that masterpiece went back in 2016.

Same with the colour they used for the thighs, abdomen, winch, neck and face instead of grey or silver.

I've been worried about this since the reveal of Legacy Kickback (Specifically the shape of his thighs) and noticed it with some of the Kingdom figures, and more recently some SS86 figures, namely Perceptor and the voyager van mold.

News Credits: 30 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:05 pm

I knew I skipped out on Siege Hound for a reason....

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:13 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:I'm kinda split on that Hound. The robot mode makes him look very simple, but the parts look like his Jeep mode will be good. At the same time, I really like Siege Hound.

While I get what you mean by being simple looking, it looks as I expected and what I assumed many wanted this release to look like.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:24 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:Slap a coat of browns on that Hound and we've presumably got our Legacy Detritus.

I wonder about that. They seem to be going modular with all of the Junkions in Legacy this time around so I have my doubts about Detritus being a Hound repaint, I think he's more likely to be a retool of Scraphook. Maybe we'll get the repaint in Selects.

Emerje

News Credits: 104 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:27 pm

OOOH.. I love that Hound.. It just might take the place of my generations Hound..

News Credits: 6 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:31 pm

EARTH MODE HOUND! UNEXPECTED AND ALSO UNEXPECTEDLY PERFECT!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:39 pm

Just me?

Probably.

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:51 pm

Emerje wrote:Just me?

Probably.

Emerje

I don't see it, BUT I have now noticed that Hatchet isn't a new mold. It's a retool if the same dreadbot mold we've gotten since TLK

News Credits: 51 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:03 pm

Emerje wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:Slap a coat of browns on that Hound and we've presumably got our Legacy Detritus.

I wonder about that. They seem to be going modular with all of the Junkions in Legacy this time around so I have my doubts about Detritus being a Hound repaint, I think he's more likely to be a retool of Scraphook. Maybe we'll get the repaint in Selects.

Emerje

I...don't understand this line of thinking, this goes against every precedent set up until now. For the entirety of WFC, the modular characters skipped a late wave (which would be when Detritus hits) and they didn't do repaints/retools in the retail lineups (unless you count Slammer sharing literally 2 parts with Ironworks, which doesn't seem like it should count), so far we don't actually know that every Junkion will be modular because of that Voyager listing, and it would just be an inaccurate Detritus for the sake of including a gimmick he never had, which the design team hasn't been doing with G1 characters since WFC started (except for the Powerdashers because otherwise why would they even get made). Isn't it more logical to assume that Detritus is going to actually look like Detritus?

News Credits: 9 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:25 pm

I’m getting that Hound for sure.

Another Siege figure I’m glad I skipped, & now my Henkei version will definitely remained sealed.
Even though I’m seeing hollow bits, it appears there have been some efforts made to make them smaller.

News Credits: 7 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 9:46 pm

Need more pics, but they are looking good!

Day 1017 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

News Credits: 101 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 10:06 pm

william-james88 wrote:

Those unsightly panels on his back ruins it. Like a dog carrying plywood sheets.

Hatchet deserved his own mold and to be at least a "voyager". This would have given him some extra transformation steps to make those panels disappear.

News Credits: 65 · Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:37 pm

william-james88 wrote:

I am so happy with this!

News Credits: 56 · Fri Oct 14, 2022 12:25 am

I don't have strong feelings on Hound as a character, but those pics make it look like a cheap Cyberverse toy instead of a Generations toy. Hopefully it will look better in person.

Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:51 am

Both Hatchet and Hound look great! Took 'em long enough, heh.

News Credits: 11 · Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:15 am

Hound looks good enough, I used to have the Netflix version of the Siege mould and didn't really like it much, but I could see this retool having a place on my G1 Autobot shelf. I may have been more excited for Hatchet if he came out three or four years ago, but it's nice to see more Baybots after 1986 and Bumblebee being so dominant in Studio Series for the last couple of years.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:00 am

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:Slap a coat of browns on that Hound and we've presumably got our Legacy Detritus.

I wonder about that. They seem to be going modular with all of the Junkions in Legacy this time around so I have my doubts about Detritus being a Hound repaint, I think he's more likely to be a retool of Scraphook. Maybe we'll get the repaint in Selects.

Emerje
I...don't understand this line of thinking, this goes against every precedent set up until now. For the entirety of WFC, the modular characters skipped a late wave (which would be when Detritus hits) and they didn't do repaints/retools in the retail lineups (unless you count Slammer sharing literally 2 parts with Ironworks, which doesn't seem like it should count), so far we don't actually know that every Junkion will be modular because of that Voyager listing, and it would just be an inaccurate Detritus for the sake of including a gimmick he never had, which the design team hasn't been doing with G1 characters since WFC started (except for the Powerdashers because otherwise why would they even get made). Isn't it more logical to assume that Detritus is going to actually look like Detritus?

In Siege the Modular figures were all Titan partners, in Earthrise they were all Micromaster bases, and in Kingdom they were all fossils. Since they've already established our first Deluxe Junkion to be modular and the poster shows multiple modular Junkions I don't think it's unreasonable to think that's the play pattern they've established for all Junkions. Maybe he won't be a Scraphook retool, but I doubt he'll be a Hound repaint in Legacy.

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:07 am

o.supreme wrote:I don't have strong feelings on Hound as a character, but those pics make it look like a cheap Cyberverse toy instead of a Generations toy. Hopefully it will look better in person.

It will be similar to Siege Hound. Did you ever get that toy?

News Credits: 42 · Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:11 am

william-james88 wrote:I don't see it, BUT I have now noticed that Hatchet isn't a new mold. It's a retool if the same dreamboat mold we've gotten since TLK

While I would always prefer a new mold, I'm actually impressed at how much mileage they are getting out of the same Chevy Suburban vehicle panels. This is almost the polar opposite of most retools in that they are keeping the vehicle shell the same, but retooling the inner bot and transformation.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 14, 2022 8:33 am

Everyone who is afraid that they look soft or cheap... You guys know that's a render, right? And Hasbro's renders are consistently terrible as product renders.