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Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:01 am

Well I... Kinda like them?

I mean, they're good alright, but I don't really se myself trading off the possibility of having more variety in my combiner teams for geewun accuracy. (Also, I was born in '93, so my nostalgia is Beast Wars based)

If they somehow end up here in Brazil and if I have the spare cash at the time, I may get them. But I like Offroad and Alpha Bravo so much that I'm still doubtful.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:03 am

We might as well draw actual battle lines at this point over Slingshot/Alpha Bravo.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:06 am

Break-neck is such an awesome name, Why have they not used it before?. Quickslinger still a better name than Slingshot personally. I may get quickslinger to replace Airraid seeing as how stupidly hard to find Wave 2 is,

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:15 am

munkimus prime wrote:Break-neck is such an awesome name, Why have they not used it before?. Quickslinger still a better name than Slingshot personally. I may get quickslinger to replace Airraid seeing as how stupidly hard to find Wave 2 is,

I dont think Wave 2 has been spotted in the states yet. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:16 am

i have waited so long to have a wildrider that combines and even longer for good a good superion and menasor. i cant wait to get these

News Credits: 462 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:17 am

FWIW, I'm keeping my Takara Superion preorder.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:23 am

Sabrblade wrote:FWIW, I'm keeping my Takara Superion preorder.

Me too. I described elsewhere why before, but it has a lot to do with 2 things, the price and the deco.
I am so pissed off that Walmart and Toysrus are raising their prices yet again in Canada (especially walmart with these insane price hikes), that the takara preorder was just a few dollars of difference. So I voted with my wallet and chose to not give my money to the local stores.
So I only spent a few bucks more and got figures with superior deco. And that’s the second part, the deco changes may look subtle on Takara, but they make a world of difference. They really emphasise the transformation process of Superion’s chest and how it is completely different to Silverbolt’s chest. Hasbro kinda squandered that chance by making everything painted red with no distinction.

As you can see with both my reasons, none have to do with the new member being included or not.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:35 am

I also like Alpha Bravo ... just not as part of Superion.

I'll be putting him with CW Optimus.

News Credits: 22 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:36 am

Yotsuyasan wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:On a different note, I may have missed this, but if Groove isn't a part of Defensor anymore, who is replacing him?

Doesn't look like anyone answered this one, which is a bit of a surprise. Maybe they didn't notice the question tucked away at the end of your post?

Anyway, unlike the other two replaced bots, Groove is still a part of Defensor. He is just now a Legends class figure:

Meanwhile, since you can't have a Legends class limb, there is a new guy, named Rook, who becomes a SWAT vehicle:

And poor Groove has been downgraded from limb to chest plate:

Thank you. Unlike my problem with the one-that-shall-not-be-named being shoehorned into Superion, I actually like this. It makes sense that a bike wouldn't be the same size as full-size emergency vehicles, yet he's still part of the team and hasn't been straight up replaced. And Rook fits in well with the others, being a SWAT truck. And yeah, Defensor looks pretty awesome. My only gripe is that his feet are too small, but I'm sure a 3P company will step up, like they did with Superion. Barring any turn-offs once he's physically available to gawk at, I'm sold on this figure as well. Is Bruticus next?

News Credits: 65 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:39 am

prjkt wrote:What is this "G3?" The Generations line certainly isn't it.

To put it simply, "G3" is a fiction.

News Credits: 8 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:39 am

shockblast2 wrote:Who wants representations of two robots who were reduced to quivering piles of slag?

Brake Neck, Wildrider, whoop dee doo.......who cares? The only people who are picking these two up are the people who cried rivers of tears when they found out that they had been replaced due to death in G3 fiction. Crushing their dreams of shoehorning these next generation figures into their "geewun classics" collection, right next to their HFTD Seaspray and FOC Shockwave.

Do you enjoy being angry?

News Credits: 25 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:40 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Yotsuyasan wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:On a different note, I may have missed this, but if Groove isn't a part of Defensor anymore, who is replacing him?

Doesn't look like anyone answered this one, which is a bit of a surprise. Maybe they didn't notice the question tucked away at the end of your post?

Anyway, unlike the other two replaced bots, Groove is still a part of Defensor. He is just now a Legends class figure:

Meanwhile, since you can't have a Legends class limb, there is a new guy, named Rook, who becomes a SWAT vehicle:

And poor Groove has been downgraded from limb to chest plate:

Thank you. Unlike my problem with the one-that-shall-not-be-named being shoehorned into Superion, I actually like this. It makes sense that a bike wouldn't be the same size as full-size emergency vehicles, yet he's still part of the team and hasn't been straight up replaced. And Rook fits in well with the others, being a SWAT truck. And yeah, Defensor looks pretty awesome. My only gripe is that his feet are too small, but I'm sure a 3P company will step up, like they did with Superion. Barring any turn-offs once he's physically available to gawk at, I'm sold on this figure as well. Is Bruticus next?

Has to be. Hotspot looks more like an onslaught toy than a fire truck.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:41 am

Full comparison of G1 Slingshot's toy, G1 Slingshot's cartoon model, Unite Warriors Sling, and Generations Quickslinger:

Click for Full Size

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:42 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:Is Bruticus next?

No, next is Ultra Prime with Mirage, Ironhide, Prowl and Sunstreaker. And that will be it for 2015 (aside from Devastator of course).

News Credits: 8 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:44 am

Sabrblade wrote:Full comparison of G1 Slingshot's toy, G1 Slingshot's cartoon model, Unite Warriors Sling, and Generations Quickslinger:

Click for Full Size

While less cartoon accurate, I prefer the Hasbro version for the blue visor to give his face more differentiation.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:46 am

Sabrblade wrote:Full comparison of G1 Slingshot's toy, G1 Slingshot's cartoon model, Unite Warriors Sling, and Generations Quickslinger:

Click for Full Size

Oh man, I sometimes forget how Takara is such a BOSS!

News Credits: 241 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:46 am

william-james88 wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Is Bruticus next?

No, next is Ultra Prime with Mirage, Ironhide, Prowl and Sunstreaker. And that will be it for 2015 (aside from Devastator of course).

I thought the name of the repaint was "Optimus Maximus". Doesn't matter, and it's redecos and retools all around:

Mirage: Drag Strip
Ironhide: Offroad
Sunstreaker: Breakdown
Prowl: ???
Rodimus: Blackjack

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:49 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Is Bruticus next?

No, next is Ultra Prime with Mirage, Ironhide, Prowl and Sunstreaker. And that will be it for 2015 (aside from Devastator of course).

I thought the name of the repaint was "Optimus Maximus". Doesn't matter, and it's redecos and retools all around:

Mirage: Drag Strip
Ironhide: Offroad
Sunstreaker: Breakdown
Prowl: ???
Rodimus: Blackjack

The repaint is Optimus Maximus, but the combiner the limbs supposedly go with is Ultra Prime (Or so I thought). The pic is a combination of the two, I included it to show the new limbs. And Prowl can either be streetwise (which would be kind of lame) or Brake Down (which I would preffer as an homage to RID).

Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:52 am

cw onslaught and scattershot listings were already leaked for 2016

News Credits: 241 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:52 am

Prowl being a Streetwise retool would go to explain the latter's blue deco, which the G1 figure did not have... :-?

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:54 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Prowl being a Streetwise retool would go to explain the latter's blue deco, which the G1 figure did not have...

why would the deco on one figure come into play on another if the other is a redeco?

News Credits: 65 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:56 am

Sabrblade wrote:Full comparison of G1 Slingshot's toy, G1 Slingshot's cartoon model, Unite Warriors Sling, and Generations Quickslinger:

Click for Full Size

Nice pics, Sabre. Can you do the rest of the Aerialbots as well? Also, is it just me, or does the CW Fireflight mold work better as Slingshot anyway, especially in alt mode. I don't think Slingshot is the "lazy repaint", Fireflight is! He was just released first.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:59 am

william-james88 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Prowl being a Streetwise retool would go to explain the latter's blue deco, which the G1 figure did not have...

why would the deco on one figure come into play on another if the other is a redeco?

Prowl and Streetwise, being police cars, share the same basic colors of black and white. Making one blue and the other black goes a long way of differentiating them on first glance.

@Wolfman Jake: Fireflight and Dead End effectively "stole" the alt mode of the guys that have been replaced: the Harrier and the Ferrari respectively.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:01 am

Wolfman Jake wrote:Nice pics, Sabre. Can you do the rest of the Aerialbots as well?

I isn't mine. I merely found it. :oops:

But rest assured, Takara did indeed make all of the others more show-accurate as well.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:02 am

william-james88 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Prowl being a Streetwise retool would go to explain the latter's blue deco, which the G1 figure did not have...

why would the deco on one figure come into play on another if the other is a redeco?

I would imagine it would be so that Streetwise was a blue and white patrol car and Prowl was black and white patrol car. G1 Streetwise was black and white just like Prowl if I recall correctly. If they are the same mold this go round it would make sense to change them to different colors.