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Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:00 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

That's pretty cool, when was this figure released?

News Credits: 241 · Fri Jan 14, 2022 6:05 pm

Till-all-R1 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

That's pretty cool, when was this figure released?

That's Arcee, BotCon 2001. The box even has a little light-sensitive speaker with voice clips from Susan Blu, her original voice actress as well the Beast Wars voice director.

Transformers BotCon Exclusives Arcee Gallery

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Jan 15, 2022 6:21 pm

Just wanted to remind everyone that Galvatron II is an awesome figure

News Credits: 12 · Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:19 pm

Didn't get scorponok but I'll likely get Sandstorm. Loving the colors and headsculpt, and it's hard to pass on getting some more obscure BW characters, especially predacons.

A new apelinq at some point would be great
Probably won't happen but I hope they pull an agent Ravage on Voyager tigatron to give us a Wreckers Tigatron. That'd be pretty cool

News Credits: 65 · Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:13 pm

I’m hoping we get a repaint of Kingdom Primal in the Universe (2003) release of the original Beast Wars toy of Boss Bot.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:42 pm

Razorbeast88 wrote:Probably won't happen but I hope they pull an agent Ravage on Voyager tigatron to give us a Wreckers Tigatron. That'd be pretty cool

I'd love this too

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sun Jan 16, 2022 11:55 pm

I'd rather see us get a TM Optimus Primal before they worry about doing an Apelinq repaint. I have the Cybertron/anniversary body version from Botcon and it just doesn't feel like the iconic one.

I would like to see a Tigatron repaint of Agent Ravage, even if it does screw with his size.

I'd also like to see Voyager Tigatron done as Under-3/Unit-3, that mold would look good in black with orange stripes.

Emerje

News Credits: 56 · Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:00 pm

With all the toy shows canceled, I would expect very soon probably another round of TF Tuesday Selects reveals. I mean three leaked figures have full reviews online (Buzzsaw, BW Sandstorm, and Nightprowler) Plus leaked images of "SG Ironhide" (Black), and "SG Bluestreak" (Blue).

That is enough for five weeks right there, similar to what Hasbro did in Summer of 2020, with even more reveals in-between the weeks were not TF Tuesdays. IN total I think eight or nine selects toys were officially revealed and made available to pre-order in that 5 week span alone.

Although there were technically only three selects released in 2021, if you throw SG in there, that adds a five more as well.

News Credits: 51 · Mon Jan 24, 2022 2:51 pm

o.supreme wrote:With all the toy shows canceled, I would expect very soon probably another round of TF Tuesday Selects reveals. I mean three leaked figures have full reviews online (Buzzsaw, BW Sandstorm, and Nightprowler) Plus leaked images of "SG Ironhide" (Black), and "SG Bluestreak" (Blue).

That is enough for five weeks right there, similar to what Hasbro did in Summer of 2020, with even more reveals in-between the weeks were not TF Tuesdays. IN total I think eight or nine selects toys were officially revealed and made available to pre-order in that 5 week span alone.

Although there were technically only three selects released in 2021, if you throw SG in there, that adds a five more as well.

Only issue with this: currently, as far as we know, the black Ironhide is the only of the figures you've mentioned that is confirmed as a Selects figure. Silverstreak/Blue Bluestreak is supposedly a Target exclusive and we don't know the exact deal with the Beast Wars guys.

Also 2021 had 5 Selects: Deep Cover, G2 Ramjet, Transmutate, Artfire, & Toy Galvatron/Galvatron 2/whatever we're calling him.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:17 pm

Well you were right about the Black Ironhide being a selects at least

. Just revealed for TF Tuesday:

Available to pre-order on Pulse now

News Credits: 22 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:26 pm

Preordered! Is this supposed to be SG Ironhide as well?

News Credits: 101 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:42 pm

That's a great way to finally have the mold in decent colors. That SG Ratchet just didn't do it for me.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:44 pm

He shares the same deco as SG Ironhide, but doesn't have the "Evil Autobot" insignia, so technically no... However I think it would be kind of a poor decision on Hasbro's part to release the same exact toy (same paint and everything), and just swap out the insignia. So it's basically whatever you want it to be

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I know more SG is supposedly coming, I'm mot sure if Ironhide was supposed to be one of them.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:49 pm

Grabbed one.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:53 pm

I guess Hasbro figured the name "Ironhide Protect Black" might be problematic, and since it technically wasn't SG, they went with DK-2 (which I just found out was the name that Diaclone gave this toy when it was sold directly as Diaclone in the U.S. in 1983 before Hasbro licensed it for Transformers).

In fact, come to think of it, that may be something I've never seen before... I've seen some rare MIB Diaclone toys, but always in Japanese packaging, I've never seen any of the super rare North American releases with English packaging... :-?

News Credits: 51 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 1:59 pm

Ooh, glad to see a nice just-cause Selects reveal (nice prediction o.supreme). I'm still not certain I want this figure or not, but it looks solid. Interesting that it's full name is DK-2 Guard, I wonder if that means the Trailbreaker repaint will actually have a real boy name and not just DK-3.

Interesting that he's $2 more than what Hasbro currently considers to be regular Deluxe price, I guess that confirms all the speculation that the ER Ironhide/Ratchet tooling exists between size classes.

o.supreme wrote:I know more SG is supposedly coming, I'm mot sure if Ironhide was supposed to be one of them.

The SG figures in the pipeline that we know of are supposed to be Wheeljack, Soundwave, Blaster, & Magnus.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:19 pm

Wasn't that going to be named Lift Ticket?

News Credits: 51 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:23 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:Wasn't that going to be named Lift Ticket?

Lift-Ticket has already been up for preorder since October.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:45 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Wasn't that going to be named Lift Ticket?
Lift-Ticket has already been up for preorder since October.

Oh yeah that's the Hoist repaint. Trailbreaker is slightly different. My bad.

News Credits: 56 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:55 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:I wonder if that means the Trailbreaker repaint will actually have a real boy name and not just DK-3.

Unfortunately I don't think there was any other release of "Blue Trailbreaker" by Takara under any other name than DK-3, but it will interesting to see what Hasbro come sup with.

News Credits: 14 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:57 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:Wasn't that going to be named Lift Ticket?
Lift-Ticket has already been up for preorder since October.

Lift Ticket is the Red / Yellow repaint from Hoist.

DK-3 is the Blue repaint from Trailbreaker, separate from Lift Ticket.

DK-3 marks the completion of the DK / Diakrone Takara Diaclone tri-fecta. With Red Sunstreaker a.k.a Spin-Out a.k.a Dk-1 and Black Ironhide a.k.a Dk-2.

diakron1.jpeg

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Jan 25, 2022 6:29 pm

It's another Tuesday and Hasbro has revealed a new figure again. This time it's Generations Selects DK-2 Guard. This toy is not exclusive but the preorder link given by Hasbro brings us to Big Bad Toy Store's page, which has the info we inserted below. You can preorder him here.
This toy is based on the original Diaclone release labelled as DK-2 (image below)

Fans can take their Transformers figure collections to the next level with Generations Selects, a fan-dedicated line of figures featuring fan-favorite, special edition characters you can’t find in the main line.

The DK-2 Guard figure is based on the Diaclone Onebox Cherry Vanette toy, which was originally planned to have black deco. The black deco was changed to red for release as Ironhide in 1984. Now, the DK-2 Guard figure is released in the originally-planned deco scheme. This figure converts from robot to van mode in 22 steps. Figure comes with blaster and shield accessories.

Product Features
5.50-inch scale (14cm)
Made of plastic
Based on the Diaclone Onebox Cherry Vanette toy
Transforms from robot to van in 22 steps
Fully articulated
Instructions may or may not include English translation
Box Contents
Guard figure
Blaster
Shield
Instructions