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blackeyedprime wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:That and having "FIRE STATION" printed upside-down... yeesh!

that's awesome!. But if they had time to give Rotorstorm a new head, I'm sure in the 4 and 1/2 months until Hothouse is released that Hasbro can fix that.

UK retailers are stating October release date for hot house though I doubt they will get him before Pulse does.

Why not? They got Studio Series Overload, Earthrise Sky Lynx and Scorponok in before anyone else

Greetings Seibertronians! Following on from the new
Photos, we now have an english video review of Transformers Generations Selects Deluxe Class Rotorstorm by YouTube toy reviewer Baltmatrix. This was shared with us by fellow Seibertron user, -Kanrabat-.

The toy is a redeco, with a new head, of Transformers Siege Deluxe Class Spinister.

Rotorstorm was a toy first introduced as part of the fan dubbed G1.5 toy line introduced in Europe and other parts of the world. He was then re-released under the Generation 2 label.

We have embedded the review below for your convenience:



What do you think of this toy? Have you preordered him? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

ZeroWolf wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:That and having "FIRE STATION" printed upside-down... yeesh!

that's awesome!. But if they had time to give Rotorstorm a new head, I'm sure in the 4 and 1/2 months until Hothouse is released that Hasbro can fix that.

UK retailers are stating October release date for hot house though I doubt they will get him before Pulse does.

Why not? They got Studio Series Overload, Earthrise Sky Lynx and Scorponok in before anyone else

Entertainment Earth is also saying October.

Have to say, I'm very disappointed with Hot House. He was the base I was looking forward to the most (still have the one from my childhood as well as Ironworks) and they really went the lazy way with a straight repaint. HATE the baby blue, it has no place on this figure. Should be dark blue and used sparingly, but I guess that's gang molding for you. Would have preferred the blue parts be orange and then the firehouse be painted dark blue so the front would be orange like the original. Why did they ever give this mold tracks if not to make a proper tank mode? There's got to be an official tank mode in this mold that they haven't shown us yet. The black guns should have been orange, too. And then I had to go and pay and extra $8 to get it off EE since Pulse sold out so quickly just to add insult to injury. So far this is my least favorite figure in the WFC lineup.

Emerje

As for pre-orders selling out, it seems like Pulse always gets more when the item comes in stock (I've been on the other side of the fence plenty of times). Even the Seacons were in stock (albeit limited), so there is still hope, and you can absolutely bet, if another retailer gets HotHouse before Pulse, I'll be cancelling my pre-order. In fact looking at the last 20 months since Pulse went online I've had 10 pre-orders cancelled, and only 3 actually ship...I'm surprised they haven't shut down my account.

Greetings Seibertronians! Following on from yesterday's announcement that we'd be getting new Transformers Generations Selects reveals every Tuesday, fellow Seibertron users, Immortal Starscream , Kaynowa and Thundertron, as well as site sponsor, Entertainment Earth, have let us know the identity of the first reveal.

Transformers Generations Selects Deluxe Class Hot House

















The listing is also live on Entertainment Earth.

Hot House is a redeco of Transformers Earthrise Wave 2 Deluxe Class Airwave and completes the four Micromaster Bases (Along with Earthrise Deluxe Class Iron Works, Airwave and Transformers Generations Selects Greasepit). Interestingly there appears to be an upside down printing of the words 'Fire Station' on the figure. This either hints at a yet unseen layout for base mode as speculated by fellow Seibertron user, Sabrblade, or an error.

What do you think of Hot House? Will you be adding him to your collection? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:Aside from it being sold out already on Hasbro (as others have predicted) I also love that they only showed of one item at 19.99 so you'd have to order other older items to get free shipping.

Not if you subscribed to Hasbro Pulse and have free shipping on all orders for the year

So out of curiosity assuming you have Pulse Plus, how many orders under $50 have you done this year?

Emerje wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:That and having "FIRE STATION" printed upside-down... yeesh!

that's awesome!. But if they had time to give Rotorstorm a new head, I'm sure in the 4 and 1/2 months until Hothouse is released that Hasbro can fix that.

UK retailers are stating October release date for hot house though I doubt they will get him before Pulse does.

Why not? They got Studio Series Overload, Earthrise Sky Lynx and Scorponok in before anyone else

Entertainment Earth is also saying October.

Have to say, I'm very disappointed with Hot House. He was the base I was looking forward to the most (still have the one from my childhood as well as Ironworks) and they really went the lazy way with a straight repaint. HATE the baby blue, it has no place on this figure. Should be dark blue and used sparingly, but I guess that's gang molding for you. Would have preferred the blue parts be orange and then the firehouse be painted dark blue so the front would be orange like the original. Why did they ever give this mold tracks if not to make a proper tank mode? There's got to be an official tank mode in this mold that they haven't shown us yet. The black guns should have been orange, too. And then I had to go and pay and extra $8 to get it off EE since Pulse sold out so quickly just to add insult to injury. So far this is my least favorite figure in the WFC lineup.

Emerje

It is disappointing about Hothouse just being a straight up Airwave repaint. At least Greasepit had some newly molded parts to differentiate him a bit more from Ironworks. ALL of these Micromaster bases could have used unique head sculpts too. It's not surprising that we only got two unique modular base molds, though. Siege only gave us three modular Deluxe Class molds, all Weaponizers. Each got a repaint as one of the Powerdashers, so that's six releases altogether. Earthrise is following the same trend. We're getting two modular figures that act as base modes for Micromasters, and a third as another Weaponizer, Fasttrack, as a companion accessory for Titan Class Scorponok. Ironworks has been repainted into Greasepit. Airwave has been repainted into Hothouse. And we know that Fasttrack will be repainted into Black Roritchi, the repaint of Fasttrack that came with the Japan-only Black Zarak, a retool/repaint of Scorponok from the Super God Masterforce portion of G1. That gives us six total modular Deluxe class figures again, with three unique molds, each one repainted exactly once.

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:Aside from it being sold out already on Hasbro (as others have predicted) I also love that they only showed of one item at 19.99 so you'd have to order other older items to get free shipping.

Not if you subscribed to Hasbro Pulse and have free shipping on all orders for the year

So out of curiosity assuming you have Pulse Plus, how many orders under $50 have you done this year?

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Well I can't say I'm disappointed because I wasn't looking forward to Hot House in the first place. I just don't care that much about the micromaster bases (I'm thinking about maybe getting Ironworks but none of the other guys). Still looking forward to the other reveals though. Hopefully the leaks are true and they include Bug Bite, Roritchi, and G2 Megatron. I'm only looking forward to the first two if that is the case, I've never really been into the G2 Megs look.

Got my pre-order in, excited to get all 4 bases. wish they had retooled some parts though, like they did with Greasepit.

This guy has a straight up Gundam head. Loving these colors better than any of the other versions of this mold for sure!

Huzzah! Another figure that, if we're even lucky, will make it to Australia in limited numbers and be priced more than regular release figures of the same size.

This is a wonderful time to be a collector from outside the US!

Well I am not one to be critical usually, BUT....

Should be called "Hot Mess." While I have nothing against "colorful" transformers, this looks like something my younger brother and I would've made out of his Basic Lego set when we were 7-10 years old. To me being colorful is ok as long as as they coordinate... This just looks like a hodge podge of colors thrown together, which makes the alt modes even more problematic.

Some people may like it, but for me it's an easy pass.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:Aside from it being sold out already on Hasbro (as others have predicted) I also love that they only showed of one item at 19.99 so you'd have to order other older items to get free shipping.

Not if you subscribed to Hasbro Pulse and have free shipping on all orders for the year

So out of curiosity assuming you have Pulse Plus, how many orders under $50 have you done this year?

4

Then it's been worth it for you. This would have been the only one for me, so in that case it wouldn't be worth it for me.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

zatara1701 wrote:Should be called "Hot Mess."

Blame the late 1980's early 1990's for that. Those were my teen years and EVERYONE wore bright fluo colors like these. Transformers didn't escape the trend.

Exactly. The original (pictured below) looked like that as well. I personally have no interest in this, But am happy for those that do. Its nice to see obscure characters that only have one toy get remade and modernized.

G2 Megs looks pretty good. Not exactly perfect (still hate that headsculpt), but it looks better than I expected

Sentinel_Primal wrote:G2 Megs looks pretty good. Not exactly perfect (still hate that headsculpt), but it looks better than I expected

What??? It's been a long week at work so I haven't been paying much attention but when was this revealed??? I freaking want this! I'm a sucker for funky-colored camo, and G2 Megs is some of the funkiest.

aronjlove wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:G2 Megs looks pretty good. Not exactly perfect (still hate that headsculpt), but it looks better than I expected

What??? It's been a long week at work so I haven't been paying much attention but when was this revealed??? I freaking want this! I'm a sucker for funky-colored camo, and G2 Megs is some of the funkiest.

As far as I'm aware it leaked today wth a YouTube video. Unfortunately the video was privated before I could actually watch it otherwise I'd link it

Sentinel_Primal wrote:As far as I'm aware it leaked today wth a YouTube video. Unfortunately the video was privated before I could actually watch it otherwise I'd link it

Oooohhhh, interesting. Maybe this will be next week's Transformer Tuesdays reveal from Entertainment Earth???

Yeesh. I'll give it this, it looks a little better than I expected. But personally I just don't like how G2 Megs looks (I'm not sure yet if I just don't like the look of camo or if its just garish camo like this). I was pretty sure this wasn't going to get me to buy earthrise Megatron, but at least now I know it for sure. Happy for anyone who likes this though.

From a TFW2005 post about this figure, it was the Kevin Liu YouTube channel and the figure's code is WFC-GS14.

Considering the timimg of the leak this will likely be next Tuesdays reveal