The Energon Pub

[william-james88]

Maybe Silverbolt

Um... Good luck with that one! I'd have thought he was the one member of the team essential in forming Superion!

I was just having some fun.

[Yotsuyasan]

I was just having some fun.

I know.

[Primeultimus]

On Transformers Facebook

Break-Neck (Wildrider) + Quickslinger (Slingshot) confirmed by Hasbro

https://scontent-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot ... e=5575E9DC



Slightly Modified pic with photoshop

[Sabrblade]

https://scontent-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot ... e=5575E9DC

[King Kuuga]

Smaller stores? WHAT smaller stores? There are none left. Walmart killed them all.

$18 huh?

Keep them ya crooks. You are not fooling me. Slingshot and Wildrider are DEAD.

Marshalls and Walgreens aren't dead yet.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

From the looks of it, straight redecos of Firefly and Dead End (with new heads of course).

[Yotsuyasan]

Not sure what the source of Sabrblade's pic is... But assuming it is real and not a Photoshop, it could be our first look at Wildrider, and at Slingshot's Hasbro deco if it is different from Takara's. So I tried my amateur best to brighten it up a bit:

[william-james88]

Following yesterday's news that Slingshot and Wildrider are coming soon under the guise of Quicksligner and Brake-Neck, the Official Transformers Facebook page has just released a teaser pic of these upcoming toys.
These appear to be straight redecos of Firefly and Dead End.

[Optimizzy]

awesome. even if just a redeco, Id get. Hey I like Alpha Bravo and Off Road but I still want these guys.

[MrBlack]

Because Alpha Bravo has ALWAYS BEEN AN AERIALBOT.

Funny. I just watched The Key to Vector Sigma last night, and I could swear there were five jets, including some guy named Slingshot who was kind of a jerk to Ironhide, and in fact the most prominent member of the team in their introductory episode aside from Silverbolt. And I didn't see any Alpha Bravo anywhere...

So, er, define "always," please. Because the way I understood the word, it was not a subjective word.

Lies. Alpha Bravo has ALWAYS BEEN AN AERIALBOT.

I know it's a Photoshop. I just find some of the venom directed at Alpha Bravo a little ridiculous, and the idea that he has retroactively been made a G1 Aerialbot to destroy the childhood of his naysayers strikes me as funny.

[sol magnus]

Following yesterday's news that Slingshot and Wildrider are coming soon under the guise of Quicksligner and Brake-Neck, the Official Transformers Facebook page has just released a teaser pic of these upcoming toys.
These appear to be straight redecos of Firefly and Dead End.

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite? If I were getting the Aerialbots I'd be preordering the Takara version...

[Sabrblade]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

[Yotsuyasan]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

Um... They are. Takara's versions are repaints. For Slingshot, at least, he also has a new head, and I think that will likely be true here, too. (You can't see the head in vehicle mode, after all.) Pretty sure Wildrider will, too, but unless I missed something somewhere we haven't seen his head, yet.

Here's Takara's Slingshot in robot mode, so you can see his head:



The main difference will probably be Hasbro's will have black hand/foot pieces.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

Exactly: UW Sling and Wildrider are simply Firefly and Dead End respectively, with new heads. Yes, amazingly, TakaraTomy took the cheap route for once.

[sol magnus]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

Exactly: UW Sling and Wildrider are simply Firefly and Dead End respectively, with new heads. Yes, amazingly, TakaraTomy took the cheap route for once.

Guess that's my bad for not paying attention to anything but Masterpiece (and Leader Ultra Magnus).

[Emerje]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

Exactly: UW Sling and Wildrider are simply Firefly and Dead End respectively, with new heads. Yes, amazingly, TakaraTomy took the cheap route for once.

Lately when it comes to a line they didn't created (unlike Q or Masterpiece), they always go cheap and just repaint Hasbro's stuff. Most likely the Slingshot and Wildrider heads were already part of the molds and not something Takara Tomy sculpted separately. Lately Takara Tomy doesn't seem interested in remolding figures themselves, let alone make new molds for lines started by Hasbro, except on rare occasions like the AOE Leader Optimus Prime upgrade.

Emerje

[Deadput]

I knew that Dead End suited for Wildrider better then Breakdown


Wild rider a lambo...what madness.



You could just simply repaint Breakdown into Oilpan in fact thats what I'm going to do and I'm going to have a Stunticon army of like 20 of them or something.



I'll repaint all the Stunticons multiple times and make as many homages as I can.

[Rodimus Prime]

Because Alpha Bravo has ALWAYS BEEN AN AERIALBOT.

Funny. I just watched The Key to Vector Sigma last night, and I could swear there were five jets, including some guy named Slingshot who was kind of a jerk to Ironhide, and in fact the most prominent member of the team in their introductory episode aside from Silverbolt. And I didn't see any Alpha Bravo anywhere...

So, er, define "always," please. Because the way I understood the word, it was not a subjective word.

Lies. Alpha Bravo has ALWAYS BEEN AN AERIALBOT.

Every time I see that statement in caps, I'm imagining you standing on your computer chair yelling at the screen.

Still doesn't make Alpha Bravo a member of The Aerialbots. He might be an aerialbot, but not a member of the group.

[Deadput]

Since Hasbro is making Slingshot I really hope we get s repaint as Barrel Roll the first real 6th Aerialbot.



Alpha Bravo can just be a chair for Barrel Roll


Barrel Roll can be the back and Alpha Bravo can become Sperion's "third leg"

[Jelze Bunnycat]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

Exactly: UW Sling and Wildrider are simply Firefly and Dead End respectively, with new heads. Yes, amazingly, TakaraTomy took the cheap route for once.

Lately when it comes to a line they didn't created (unlike Q or Masterpiece), they always go cheap and just repaint Hasbro's stuff. Most likely the Slingshot and Wildrider heads were already part of the molds and not something Takara Tomy sculpted separately. Lately Takara Tomy doesn't seem interested in remolding figures themselves, let alone make new molds for lines started by Hasbro, except on rare occasions like the AOE Leader Optimus Prime upgrade.

Emerje

I've actually taken that into consideration: two vehicle shells and three heads per mold. Look at Offroad and now Dead End.

*EDIT* Don't be surprised if Quickslinger and Brake-Neck are turned into new characters, possibly direct copies of their predecessors.

[Deadput]

Lies. Alpha Bravo has ALWAYS BEEN AN AERIALBOT.

Every time I see that statement in caps, I'm imagining you standing on your computer chair yelling at the screen.

Still doesn't make Alpha Bravo a member of The Aerialbots. He might be an aerialbot, but not a member of the group.[/quote]


Says who?



You?




Are you a God of Transformers?



What makes you think you can decide who is part of what?




How about you say that to Barrel Roll's face? http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Barrel_Roll

[Sabrblade]

Are you a God of Transformers?

Well, his post count is high enough.

[Deadput]

Are you a God of Transformers?

Well, his post count is high enough.

Well there was a reason I said that you know I'm not that oblivious

[Crosscheck]

While I have no dog in this fight, I'm not sure why Hasbro wouldn't release the actual Slingshot and Wildrider from Unite?

How are they not? These two use the same molds and essentially the same colors as the Unite Warriors versions (or what is estimated to be such, in Wildrider's case).

Exactly: UW Sling and Wildrider are simply Firefly and Dead End respectively, with new heads. Yes, amazingly, TakaraTomy took the cheap route for once.

Lately when it comes to a line they didn't created (unlike Q or Masterpiece), they always go cheap and just repaint Hasbro's stuff. Most likely the Slingshot and Wildrider heads were already part of the molds and not something Takara Tomy sculpted separately. Lately Takara Tomy doesn't seem interested in remolding figures themselves, let alone make new molds for lines started by Hasbro, except on rare occasions like the AOE Leader Optimus Prime upgrade.

Emerje

I've actually taken that into consideration: two vehicle shells and three heads per mold. Look at Offroad and now Dead End.

*EDIT* Don't be surprised if Quickslinger and Brake-Neck are turned into new characters, possibly direct copies of their predecessors.

That does look to be the case. The main body of Offroad/First Aid and Dead End/Streetwise are the same, but there is next to nothing shared in the shells. In the case of Air Raid/Skydive, the chest is different.

[MrBlack]

Lord, my joke post is being taken WAY too seriously...