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Emerje wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

Sounds like a great way to piss off the dedicated fans that were willing to pay way more than Titan price now. Limited should stay limited.

Emerje

That "new" clone 2 pack proves they could bot care less.

They might see the clone pack differently, saying that enough time had passed, so a gift set of King Posideon could come out in an equal time frame so maybe 2023ish. At the moment though we can only speculate. I'd imagine that a boxset release is probably the furthest thing from their minds currently as they try and plan the next few months in this bold new world.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

I would be very much in favor of that, yes. If the price hike wasn't outrageous.

I think they're planning just that, in the same style as the UW box sets. Which may means no Nautilator redeco and just the sword weapon, no guns or Targetmaster modes (not a big loss, really). That would bring the total price down a bit...

So what would happen to Nautilator? Would he be just totally omitted? Or released as a separate single figure?

Totally omitted. That's what the original BWII God Neptune set did

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

I would be very much in favor of that, yes. If the price hike wasn't outrageous.

I think they're planning just that, in the same style as the UW box sets. Which may means no Nautilator redeco and just the sword weapon, no guns or Targetmaster modes (not a big loss, really). That would bring the total price down a bit...

So what would happen to Nautilator? Would he be just totally omitted? Or released as a separate single figure?

Totally omitted. That's what the original BWII God Neptune set did

The real play would be to release nautilator as bw seaclamp

Hellscream9999 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

I would be very much in favor of that, yes. If the price hike wasn't outrageous.

I think they're planning just that, in the same style as the UW box sets. Which may means no Nautilator redeco and just the sword weapon, no guns or Targetmaster modes (not a big loss, really). That would bring the total price down a bit...

So what would happen to Nautilator? Would he be just totally omitted? Or released as a separate single figure?

Totally omitted. That's what the original BWII God Neptune set did

The real play would be to release nautilator as bw seaclamp

Or even better, BWII Gimlet complete with lobster marracas!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

I would be very much in favor of that, yes. If the price hike wasn't outrageous.

I think they're planning just that, in the same style as the UW box sets. Which may means no Nautilator redeco and just the sword weapon, no guns or Targetmaster modes (not a big loss, really). That would bring the total price down a bit...

So what would happen to Nautilator? Would he be just totally omitted? Or released as a separate single figure?

Totally omitted. That's what the original BWII God Neptune set did

The real play would be to release nautilator as bw seaclamp

Or even better, BWII Gimlet complete with lobster marracas!

I'm not picky, I'll take both

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

Sounds like a great way to piss off the dedicated fans that were willing to pay way more than Titan price now. Limited should stay limited.

Emerje

That "new" clone 2 pack proves they could bot care less.

I don't understand your point. Hasbro is asking $25 for them just like they sold for in Japan. They raised the price for two clones by $7 more than two clones sold for at Walgreens, $18. That's not comparable at all to charging $150 for a box set of something they sold themselves individually for a total of $235. Imagine the backlash if they did the same with Studio Series Devastator.

Emerje

I thought he was making more of a point about limited staying limited, basically saying that for the people who got the walgreens set M, they had to buy the limited edition boxes to get the other clones (or get the Takara ones).

Admittedly, I did get flashbacks to the whole Botcon Thundercracker debacle when you said limited should stay limited.

Age 3 and Up have preorders open for Super Megatron. So we Canadians can have it at the REASONABLE price of... 95$CAN plus taxes plus shipping.

https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/collectio ... -exclusive

I called it that it would be a 100$CAN+ figure.
Any Canucks going for it?

I just noticed that Super Megatron's legs still have the little Titanmaster pegs. It's a little strange that they remolded so much of the figure, but kept those

Rodimus Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hm... I wonder if it would be feasible for HasTak to reissue the Seacons as a single boxset at the Titan price point for Part 3 of WFC, as something of a bone thrown to those who couldn't get them during this first go-around.

I would be very much in favor of that, yes. If the price hike wasn't outrageous.

I think they're planning just that, in the same style as the UW box sets. Which may means no Nautilator redeco and just the sword weapon, no guns or Targetmaster modes (not a big loss, really). That would bring the total price down a bit...

So what would happen to Nautilator? Would he be just totally omitted? Or released as a separate single figure?

The Generations Selects manga hints at the Seacons getting BW2 redecos.

If I had to guess... I'd guess Sky Garry as an extensive Siege Shockwave retool (the vehicle mode is close including robot chest near the rear of the dropship) and Grandus as a Doubledealer retool (ER DD has a MM basemode) with some funky tabbing to allow the two to be towed by Star Convoy like the vintage toy.

In a more perfect world, IMHO, Star Convoy would have been a TR/Legends Ginrai retool with Godbomber retooled as Grandus. Sky Garry would remain a Siege Shockwave retool.

I would make Gilthor a heavy retool of the Siege Seeker body. It's articulated enough to pull off the transformations and was a form taken by Starscream.

I have to say, having the first 4 seacons, lobster-guy is easily my favorite of the them all; a great beast mode, and an amazing bot mode.


A massive pet peeve of mine is the awful juxtaposition of the zany g1 beast bots and the derpy, cop-shades-wearing bot mode heads, they just don't fit together for me, and I kinda really hate that look, honestly

Thanks to a Tweet from Takaratomy Mall, we have a pair of new images to show you this evening of the upcoming Transformers Selects Super Megatron.

These new images show the Super Megatron figure compared to his arch rival: Star Convoy. Star Convoy was released last year as the first Takara Selects figure, and Super Megatron himself was teased long before that, meaning that fans have had over a year of anticipation for this showdown in toy form at last.

The images show us that, as anticipated, Super Megatron is noticeably shorter than Star Convoy, but he definitely helps make up for that with some significant bulk and lots of pointy ends, meaning that he sort of still stands up to Star Convoy.

Super Megatron is set to be released this September, and will retail for around $60 US. Check out the images below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

For those of us who missed or skipped Stay Convoy, would you say Siege Galaxy Upgrade Prime is a good counterpart for Super Megatron?

aronjlove wrote:For those of us who missed or skipped Stay Convoy, would you say Siege Galaxy Upgrade Prime is a good counterpart for Super Megatron?

Height-wise, the Titans Return mass retail Voyager class Optimus works and is even colored like Star Convoy (save for his lack of a silver forehead crest).

Sabrblade wrote:

aronjlove wrote:For those of us who missed or skipped Stay Convoy, would you say Siege Galaxy Upgrade Prime is a good counterpart for Super Megatron?

Height-wise, the Titans Return mass retail Voyager class Optimus works and is even colored like Star Convoy (save for his lack of a silver forehead crest).

Nice! I was looking for a reason to go through my figures I boxed up anyways.

Ayup, this guys is totally going to be opposed to my TR Voyager Optimus. Also, man, he's got some serious MASS for a Voyager.

Next image, Super Megatron, Star Convoy, with their Siege counterparts. From the beginning to their final G1 evolution!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Next image, Super Megatron, Star Convoy, with their Siege counterparts. From the beginning to their final G1 evolution!

Thanks to the expanded G1 lore, Optimus's final G1 evolution is the ordinary-looking body he had at the end of the Legends manga Epilogue, when he and Megatron finally brokered peace together.

Megatron, however, does get his final form with this toy, that being Ultra Megatron Omega.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Next image, Super Megatron, Star Convoy, with their Siege counterparts. From the beginning to their final G1 evolution!

Thanks to the expanded G1 lore, Optimus's final G1 evolution is the ordinary-looking body he had at the end of the Legends manga Epilogue, when he and Megatron finally brokered peace together.

Megatron, however, does get his final form with this toy, that being Ultra Megatron Omega.

... way to spoil my fun

Skalor is back in stock on Pulse. Just purchased to use as a gun for Abominus.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Next image, Super Megatron, Star Convoy, with their Siege counterparts. From the beginning to their final G1 evolution!

Thanks to the expanded G1 lore, Optimus's final G1 evolution is the ordinary-looking body he had at the end of the Legends manga Epilogue, when he and Megatron finally brokered peace together.

Megatron, however, does get his final form with this toy, that being Ultra Megatron Omega.

... way to spoil my fun

If it's any consolation, the Takara Selects Manga takes place between the end of American G1 and Japanese Headmasters and has Optimus and Megatron become Star Convoy and Super/Ultra Megatron early so in terms of the Selects releases, these are their final (so far) G1 forms since this is a new JG1 continuity that splinters off at The Return of Optimus Prime.

It retains -- in theory -- prior differences like 2006 vs 2010 for Season 3 but is basically a reboot of Japanese continuity without all the detours.

Now... If you wanted to have a different Optimus who is contemporary to Ultra Megatron, Nucleon Quest Optimus immediately follows so you could use PM Optimus Prime's reprolabels on Primitive Optimus Prime.

RodimusRex wrote:If it's any consolation, the Takara Selects Manga takes place between the end of American G1 and Japanese Headmasters and has Optimus and Megatron become Star Convoy and Super/Ultra Megatron early so in terms of the Selects releases, these are their final (so far) G1 forms since this is a new JG1 continuity that splinters off at The Return of Optimus Prime.

It's the same JG1 continuity. It's just that Optimus and Megatron are their 2011 selves being given temporary new forms based on those that they will acquire decades later into their future after this current adventure of theirs is over and they return to their home time of 2011. And said adventure has currently displaced the two into the far distant past into a universe that existed before the Big Bang created the JG1 cartoon universe.

Everyone's talking about deep JG1 lore, meanwhile I'm over here just excited to see that Megatron's looking even better than I thought he'd look. I just hope that his ankles are tight enough to support his weight cause I was messing with my Galvatron figure the other day and the ankles were giving me some trouble

Seeing Megs next to star, the scale is a little disappointing. I like it when Megatron is bigger and maybe beefier then Prime, which has made it a shame that we haven't gotten a leader class Megatron in such a long time.