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News Credits: 11 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:21 pm

That may be the reveal that the Singapore Transformers group was hinting at for tomorrow.

Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:21 pm

I would absolutely buy Sandstorm! I am all for using Selects to produce more obscure characters and G2 versions. I still hold out hope, faint though it may be, that they'll go back to the Combiner Wars molds and make a G2 Defensor.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:23 pm

Bounti76 wrote:We have an interesting bit of news to share with you all today. Seibertronian Powermaster Ultra Prime alerted us to a post on TF-HK's Facebook page which seems to show off a computer screen with a redeco of the recently released Earthrise Ramjet mold in the colors of G2 Seeker Sandstorm's deco.

It's possible that this is just a well done digibash or custom, as G2 Sandstorm hasn't been rumored at all, but until we get any confirmation from Hasbro or Takara, there's no way to verify this.

What do you think? Are you excited for a possible rare/obscure character to get a release? Let us know what you think below, and stay tuned for all the latest Transformers news!

GRAAAAA! NOT THE G1 STYLE CLASSICS SANDSTORM I'VE BEEN HOPING FOR, HASBRO.

News Credits: 388 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 12:39 pm

WeatherManNX01 wrote:I would absolutely buy Sandstorm! I am all for using Selects to produce more obscure characters and G2 versions. I still hold out hope, faint though it may be, that they'll go back to the Combiner Wars molds and make a G2 Defensor.

YES.

They made G2 Menasor, who's just as obscure. Why didn't they make a boxset of G2 Defensor?? I'd even be fine buying them piece by piece if they offered them as Selects figures.

Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:15 pm

I thought Sandstorm was a triple changer Autobot? This doesn't look anything like him.

News Credits: 86 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:53 pm

I would love this if true.

News Credits: 388 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:15 pm

G1 Sandstorm- Triple Changer Autobot
G2 Sandstorm- desert camouflage redeco of G2 Ramjet's toy, but never released. Separate characters

News Credits: 8 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 2:27 pm

I am wondering if this is not gonna be the Hotlink for Earthrise?

Skeptical until we get an official announcement but I am always down for more Seekers

News Credits: 251 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:07 pm

More Seekers are always welcome in my residence. I’d kill for a Slipstream out of these.

News Credits: 54 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 3:13 pm

I will trek through a desert to obtain this specimen, Sandstorm is the absolute sandy dunes and will make a fine addition to the collection.

Provided this is a legit upcoming figure.

Bounti76 wrote:G1 Sandstorm- Triple Changer Autobot
G2 Sandstorm- desert camouflage redeco of G2 Ramjet's toy, but never released. Separate characters

While this is canon, my head canon for some universes is that Sandstorm actually started out as a Seeker (with addition to my head canon that the cone head was an alteration made to some Seekers as a punishment if they had committed an action that would be seen as a great shame such as notable failures or cowardice, etc) but at some point was able to regain his honor and had his body redesigned to the Triple Changer form we know him as, yes he would be a case of a Decepticon who joined the Autobots.

Just as a way to bridge the two characters together even with the notion that characters can share a name while being different individuals (much like how there are multiple Bobs or Peters, etc) with it possibly adding more depth to both characters.

News Credits: 1350 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:18 pm

Only problem there would be that Seeker Sandstorm is a G2 character

one head cannon way to resolve it is that its a Beast Machines Vehicon generals situation, a spark being put into a new body and brain washed

News Credits: 54 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:51 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:Only problem there would be that Seeker Sandstorm is a G2 character one head cannon way to resolve it is that its a Beast Machines Vehicon generals situation, a spark being put into a new body and brain washed

He was never released or used in story material, but yeah it could also work the other way around since I see the Seeker body type as a mass produced shell that individuals get placed into unless said otherwise.

News Credits: 10 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:58 pm

Deadput wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Only problem there would be that Seeker Sandstorm is a G2 character one head cannon way to resolve it is that its a Beast Machines Vehicon generals situation, a spark being put into a new body and brain washed

He was never released or used in story material, but yeah it could also work the other way around since I see the Seeker body type as a mass produced shell that individuals get placed into unless said otherwise.

I would just change his name to "Dusty" or "Rudat" if I was getting one. It's not like it would be denigrating a character that has any kind of actual history beyond just never getting released.

Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:59 pm

What we really need honestly, is Jhiaxus. A voyager selects G2 inspired Jhiaxus. I'd be all over that.

News Credits: 1350 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:14 pm

Starseeker wrote:What we really need honestly, is Jhiaxus. A voyager selects G2 inspired Jhiaxus. I'd be all over that.

Yes please! A toy that isn't just a new head on Starscreams body like the T30 release :lol:

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:30 pm

I might get sucked into another Seeker armada.

Seekers are great because even a G2 recolor can be repurposed into a genericon. Even though that's true of basically any TF when you get down to it the cartoon and the whole nature of war planes really lends itself well to army building.

News Credits: 174 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 5:45 pm

I am SO about this, been saying they needed to take advantage of all these weird seekers going all the way back to CW

News Credits: 462 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:12 pm

SciFi80sGameFan wrote:I thought Sandstorm was a triple changer Autobot? This doesn't look anything like him.

Lots of characters have been named "Sandstorm", such as...

...And more.

Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:15 pm

Mindmaster wrote:More Seekers are always welcome in my residence. I’d kill for a Slipstream out of these.

Yup, I'm seriously hoping for a Sunstorm before too long; his Dreamwave arc is one of my fave TF storylines.

If they're doing a G2 Sandstorm, the other color scheme for the G2 Ramjet is really[i] close to Slipstream; I often like to pretend my G2 Ramjet [i]is Slipstream. If they make a G2 Ramjet out of this, I imagine it'd be a really easy base to make a custom Slipstream out of. Heck, I bet ya could get the Cyberverse one and head swap it.

Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:48 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SciFi80sGameFan wrote:I thought Sandstorm was a triple changer Autobot? This doesn't look anything like him.
Lots of characters have been named "Sandstorm", such as...

...And more.

i think we need WFC sandstorm triple changer to compliment the springer we got in siege
also a new blitzwing too would be nice :-?

News Credits: 3644 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:31 pm

Thanks to our friends at Entertainment Earth, we have new official images of the just-revealed Generations Selects G2 Sandstorm along with the previously leaked G2 Megatron. Check out the official pics here: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... led/45153/

:G2CON:

News Credits: 226 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:45 pm

I honestly have no interest in these new (to figures) characters in the Selects (given they cost extra cause ... Selects) but that Sandstorm does look good.

News Credits: 101 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:46 pm

I NEED both that Sandstorm and Megatron!

Now to know who will sell them in Canada... But if they appear at Age 3 And Up, I'm preordering.

News Credits: 51 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:54 pm

...Pulse doesn't start shipping either of these until FEBRUARY, huh? Good thing I wasn't interested anyway...

What I AM interested in is what that means for the Transformers Tuesdays reveals though, as we all assumed G2 Megatron would be one of those remaining 3 reveals and we only have a few leaked figures left. :-?

News Credits: 54 · Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:55 pm

God is real after all.

Take that Sunstorm and Slipstream fans, clearly Sandstorm is the top dog of obscure Seekers now because why wouldn't he be, he has the best character story and motivations since G1 Sideswipe that has placed more kids in closets than the death of Optimus Prime.

All hail Sandstorm the superior Seeker (and Conehead for that matter since Jamjet is dumb, Dirge is incompetent and Thrust is a coward, traits that don't exist with Sandstorm the absolute Darude unit.)

But does he qualify as a Sandwich?