The Energon Pub

[Hero Alpha]

Dragstrip looks really sweet. I like that head and face a lot. Now I can't wait to see Dead End, he is the best of the Stunticon deluxes. Come on combiner wars!

[Evil Eye]

He looks pretty good, although I still think that hand module is way too big. They could have shrunk it a bit, removed the foot function (at the end of the day the team only needs 2 hands and 2 feet which can be swapped around between members depending on the configuration) and given it some finger articulation. Also they should have given it BIG HAND MODE funtionality in robot mode.

Still, good figure. I'm still leaning towards Intimidator but this is a cool Transformer regardless.

[Sabrblade]

He looks pretty good, although I still think that hand module is way too big. They could have shrunk it a bit, removed the foot function (at the end of the day the team only needs 2 hands and 2 feet which can be swapped around between members depending on the configuration)

Aw, you don't wanna play around with the combiner and give it a quadrupedal mode?

[Evil Eye]

That is a surprisingly cool idea. Honestly though I think the hands and feet could have been executed better in general (although Superion does it much better I will admit). I'm sure a 3P company or someone on ShapeWays will come up with replacements though.

[hinomars19]

Is it weird, that at 34, seeing this made the world feel a little brighter?
Collecting TFs has been rather...depressing of late. I mean, MPs at roughly 2 a year are nice, but I don't want everything I want to buy being expensive collector grade stuff. Combiner wars is finally bringing back good little toys that sit happily on a toy shelf and you can throw £15 at every so often or when you feel you can afford to, or even spot that one you've been after....

Oh, wait, generations don't come to my area! Best TRU ever did was the first and second wave of FOC. No thrilling 30 gen stuff is anywhere. Which is a shame. 'collecting' is a lot less fun ordering online, especially when P+P charges make you feel like buying in bulk. Gone are the days of hunting down that final limb. Man that was fun back in the day. Wish the UK would sort itself. I have a Tesco, Sainsburys, entertainer and a Smyths toys all within walking distance and they don't even have AOE generations. Just one step and shampoo bottles.

Combiner wars toys look like they'd be fun and perfectly easy for kids. Shame that it won't be on shelves here, or that marketing feels it has to have such a divide in products and demographic. Why can't PRID15 be these guys?

[noctorro]

I agree with hinomars19

I'm a little younger (29), but damn these 2 combiners make happy. So do the Masterpieces nowadays. And Arcee, joyfull stuff.

Dragstrip looks great, I love Stunticons. Very excited about the line.

[Evil Eye]

Yeah. Honestly I'd be happy with a normal layout and Nautilator as a legends sized targetmaster. I'd like it if a 3rd-party were to do a Piranacon with the "Scramble City Targetmaster" gimmick but quite frankly if HasTak even bother to do a Piranacon I'll be happy. He's easily my favourite G1 combiner and any recognition is better than none at all.

If they do make Seacons I actually kinda want them to make Tentakil a fembot. I dunno, it just...works.

[Optimum Supreme]

Is that 'con symbol a sticker? It doesn't look like a tampo.

I also note they only gave him 4 wheels. I understand why that was for the Mirage redeco, but g1 version having 6 wheels was just so weird that it somehow added to the character in some weird way. Not a complaint, mind you, just an observation.

[Down_Shift]

I think it's just an artistic choice. I don't think anyone has anything against a 6-wheel race car but they still target these at kids and probably want them as close to something kids can identify as possible. (which lends to why we have Off-Road instead of Wildrider)

[Shuttershock]

I think it's just an artistic choice. I don't think anyone has anything against a 6-wheel race car but they still target these at kids and probably want them as close to something kids can identify as possible. (which lends to why we have Off-Road instead of Wildrider)

I expect some kind of in-story justification to go along with Offroad also. RID#33 gave us the reason for Alpha Bravo taking Slingshot's place, so something along those lines.

[ZeroWolf]

Is that 'con symbol a sticker? It doesn't look like a tampo.

I also note they only gave him 4 wheels. I understand why that was for the Mirage redeco, but g1 version having 6 wheels was just so weird that it somehow added to the character in some weird way. Not a complaint, mind you, just an observation.

Don't all modern f-1 cars have four wheels? As has been said it's something kids will recognise.

[OptimalOptimus2]

The best Dragstrip since Transformers: Generation 1!

Which isn't saying much, considering how few toys Drag Strip has ever had.

But I would argue that the Universe "Special Edition" redeco of Classics Mirage was a better Drag Strip toy than G1 Drag Strip on account of the Classics Mirage mold being an awesome figure in and of itself.

I consider the repaint of Classics Mirage to Drag Strip a clever toy, but not the greatest since it's a repaint.

[Arctorro]

Did anybody notice on the Superion schematic the legs are reversed? The cockpits are supposed to be in the back for G1 accuracy.

You can probably still reverse them for an accurate figure. I kind of like having the cockpits in front, forming a knee spike and not getting in the way of the leg bend.

They are also more than likely designed to only have the knee bend in one direction. That would mean that turning them around to be more G1 accurate would also reverse the knee itself.

Dragstrip's head sculpt is delightfully sinister.

Gotta agree with that, the crying blood look is awesome!

[padfoo]

That is a surprisingly cool idea. Honestly though I think the hands and feet could have been executed better in general (although Superion does it much better I will admit). I'm sure a 3P company or someone on ShapeWays will come up with replacements though.

I so agree that the hands and feet could have been done better, but this where the Hasbro cost cutting comes in to make these toys so affordable. I would love the additional detail but Hasbro just can't do it and survive...

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Is that 'con symbol a sticker? It doesn't look like a tampo.

I also note they only gave him 4 wheels. I understand why that was for the Mirage redeco, but g1 version having 6 wheels was just so weird that it somehow added to the character in some weird way. Not a complaint, mind you, just an observation.

Don't all modern f-1 cars have four wheels? As has been said it's something kids will recognise.

G1 Drag Strip is based on a 6-wheel F1 racing car, the Tyrrell P34, which ran in the 70's. Experimental, for sure.

[prjkt]

That backpack makes him looks like he's got an epic Dracula style collar

[MGrotusque]

I like it!! Looks real good in all three modes. Well done Hasbro. That headsculpt is unique.

[Emerje]

He looks pretty good, although I still think that hand module is way too big. They could have shrunk it a bit, removed the foot function (at the end of the day the team only needs 2 hands and 2 feet which can be swapped around between members depending on the configuration)

Aw, you don't wanna play around with the combiner and give it a quadrupedal mode?

As much fun as that sounds (and now I HAVE to try it when I get them) you have to think of it from a kid's perspective. It would have been fine to make just two hands and two feet if they came with the torso figure like in G1, but they have to do something different when the hands/feet come with the limbs. What happens if the only four limb figures they get come with three hands and one foot? Kinda hard to combine them without all the parts. Personally I like the idea of making them the same part.

I don't think the hands look all that bad. Sure they're big, but the bulk of it is a big armor plate (effectively the top of the foot). If you can mentally strip that part off the hands aren't that big.

And yes, these are the international packages. They've said at SDCC and NYCC that the North American released Deluxe class figures will come with both the full size comic and the card while the other size classes come with a card as well. I'm very skeptical about North American releases coming any time soon since we haven't seen any sign of them in package be it official or leaked. Seems like if we were going to get them in December we'd have seen them by now.

Emerje

[Optimum Supreme]

Is that 'con symbol a sticker? It doesn't look like a tampo.

I also note they only gave him 4 wheels. I understand why that was for the Mirage redeco, but g1 version having 6 wheels was just so weird that it somehow added to the character in some weird way. Not a complaint, mind you, just an observation.

Don't all modern f-1 cars have four wheels? As has been said it's something kids will recognise.

Hell if I know. To me F1 is just the key between F2 and ESC,

I just remembered the original toy is all, and thought it would have been neato to keep that bit of uniqueness in the remake.

[Autobot032]

Fellow fan Eli Leyba has provided images of the upcoming Deluxe Class Alpha Bravo on the Transformers Addicts Facebook group.

Alpha Bravo is part of wave 1 of Combiner Wars, which includes Drag Strip which we've already reported on and you can see that here.

Check out the mirrored images below and then come to the forums to share your thoughts on the figure and the line as a whole!













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[Black Bumblebee]

I'm not Vortex... really... really, guys... buy me. There won't be a repaint of me coming down the line later, no sir-ee-bob...

[zemper]

am i the only one here to notice that dragstrip looks entirely different on the card art and the actual toy?

[ZeroWolf]

Alpha Bravo looks fantastic and I've only just realised that he's decorated in slingshots colours

[Shuttershock]

am i the only one here to notice that dragstrip looks entirely different on the card art and the actual toy?

Yeah, I think the art for the cards (at least the known characters) come from the Transformers Legends game app, so they're not necessarily identical to the final toy. Still, if it comes packed in anyway then money for old rope I guess.

[Shuttershock]

Alpha Bravo looks fantastic and I've only just realised that he's decorated in slingshots colours

That is a nice touch, considering he's Slingshot's replacement in-universe.