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Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:35 pm

Hasbro needs to freeze distribution on the Cyclonus set until they have a corrected sticker sheet ready.

Also, it's a shame they completely gave up trying on the gun Battle Masters after Misfire.. Especially with how much 3P are phonining it in ok that score.

News Credits: 8 · Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:22 am

SciFi80sGameFan wrote:Don't most of us already have "And His Armada" what with the Original G1, Combiner Wars, and Kingdom? This would be the 4th. As it is, we only need 2 Cyclonus' TOTAL. "And His Armada" consisted of just ONE. This, along with Cyclonus himself if I'm not mistaken equals a combine total of TWO. 1 + 1 = 2, Right? Do we need to have 4 Cyclonus'?

Hi. Was just doing this reading on TFWiki

The Movie only show us 1, but S3 of the cartoon shows potential of 4, and possibly one in Dirge Colors (blue body with yellow wings). Other shots show two or three of his Armada so potential of multiples.

The Marvel Comics show at least one panel where there are a whole scrap ton of the Armada and Sweeps descending upon a planet. At least a half dozen silhouettes of them.

So depending on your preferred media, yes you need more than two

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:23 am

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hasbro needs to freeze distribution on the Cyclonus set until they have a corrected sticker sheet ready.

Like I said, they listed that as foil labels but these are far to thick to be the case. Most likely they're just something they printed in the office to represent the finished stickers.

Emerje

News Credits: 149 · Wed Apr 27, 2022 5:42 am

SpaceEagle wrote:Got my pre-order in for this and decided this'll finally make me buy the toy-accurate Galvatron. I know the Sweep toy is supposed to more-or-less be Scourge's toy-accurate version...but now I honestly hope there's a version with toy-based stickers and perhaps even Fracas included!

I got me pre-order in ASAP. I now hope against hope for a Scourge with Fracasjust to round out the toy trio. I have Kingdom Galvatron and Cyclonus with Studios Series Scourge on my desk at the office and toy deco Galvatron at home, where this new Cyclonus will join him.

These moulds are, in my opinion, the definitive versions of these characters.

~ Grim

News Credits: 101 · Thu May 05, 2022 1:50 pm

I greatly enjoyed upgrading Zarak with the DNA kit.

More pictures and thoughts this weekend.

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News Credits: 462 · Thu May 05, 2022 1:58 pm

You're a brave man allowing your cat near your collection. Mine would be chewing on things and knocking them off shelves if I let them near my figures.

News Credits: 101 · Thu May 05, 2022 3:09 pm

Sabrblade wrote:You're a brave man allowing your cat near your collection. Mine would be chewing on things and knocking them off shelves if I let them near my figures.

It's too late for me. My collection is pretty much everywhere and this lil' bastard is a climber.

So many bots took a tumble and so many parts flew into the X-Zone.....

Regardless, I love that rascal!

News Credits: 56 · Thu May 05, 2022 6:50 pm

Fortunately my Titan shelf is "too full" for my kitty to jump up on (he did once when it was not as full), but he does take great joy in reaching up and knocking around the little micromasters, battlemesters etc... on the bottom. Little punk :-x

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News Credits: 462 · Thu May 05, 2022 11:22 pm

o.supreme wrote:Fortunately my Titan shelf is "too full" for my kitty to jump up on (he did once when it was not as full), but he does take great joy in reaching up and knocking around the little micromasters, battlemesters etc... on the bottom. Little punk ...

My cats don't care if there's no room on the shelves. They'll jump up there anyway and make room, no matter what has to fall off the shelf in the process.

News Credits: 65 · Thu May 05, 2022 11:37 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Fortunately my Titan shelf is "too full" for my kitty to jump up on (he did once when it was not as full), but he does take great joy in reaching up and knocking around the little micromasters, battlemesters etc... on the bottom. Little punk ...
My cats don't care if there's no room on the shelves. They'll jump up there anyway and make room, no matter what has to fall off the shelf in the process.

Your cats aren’t making room. They’re testing to make sure your collection’s gravity isn’t broken! :lol:

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 05, 2022 11:39 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Fortunately my Titan shelf is "too full" for my kitty to jump up on (he did once when it was not as full), but he does take great joy in reaching up and knocking around the little micromasters, battlemesters etc... on the bottom. Little punk ...
My cats don't care if there's no room on the shelves. They'll jump up there anyway and make room, no matter what has to fall off the shelf in the process.

Your cats aren’t making room. They’re testing to make sure your collection’s gravity isn’t broken!

HasLab Unicron's already doing a great job at keeping the room's gravity under control.

News Credits: 149 · Fri May 20, 2022 5:12 am

Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

News Credits: 10 · Fri May 20, 2022 7:37 am

Lookin' good! Can't wait to get him.

News Credits: 56 · Fri May 20, 2022 9:16 am

Big Grim wrote:
Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

Just curious where did you order from to get him so early? Pulse currently has an estimated shipping date of August.

News Credits: 149 · Fri May 20, 2022 11:02 am

o.supreme wrote:
Big Grim wrote:
Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

Just curious where did you order from to get him so early? Pulse currently has an estimated shipping date of August.

Oh! Sorry! Thought I mentioned. This is from Kapow Toys in the UK.

~ Grim

News Credits: 56 · Fri May 20, 2022 1:00 pm

Thanks. I'm glad you are enjoying him. I don't have a pre order, but if I happen to find one at GameStop (like I did Artfire). I may get it. I want to get it for the sake of still having a complete collection of Battle Masters, but Cyclonus himself was never a character I had much attachment to.

News Credits: 332 · Fri May 20, 2022 5:17 pm

Big Grim wrote:
Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

From this angle the figure looks to be the same colors as the Kingdom release.

News Credits: 22 · Sun May 22, 2022 11:25 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Big Grim wrote:
Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

From this angle the figure looks to be the same colors as the Kingdom release.

You can tell the head and lower torso are different. Maybe with better lighting the shade of purple will change as well.

News Credits: 149 · Mon May 23, 2022 7:38 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Big Grim wrote:
Cyclonus.jpg

So this guy arrived this morning, just as I was leaving for the office. Lookin' forward to the end of the day to have a play with it. Never had a "modern" Target Master before!

But god! Cyclonus' colours are bloomin' gorgeous in his proper toy deco!

~ Grim

From this angle the figure looks to be the same colors as the Kingdom release.

Blame bright light streaming in through me window in the morning and my being a crap photographer. I'll grab a better image tonight if I remember. I'm mildly surprised the site's news ain't picked it up as, according to my pre-order, we weren't expecting this figure until September!

Another thing I'll mention is that his shoulders and hips feel somewhat looser on this figure, which is annoying. He still holds a pose well, however.

~ Grim

News Credits: 149 · Mon May 23, 2022 1:54 pm

Comparison pictures:

Cyclonus 1.jpg

Cyclonus 2.jpg

Cyclonus 3.jpg

Cyclonus 4.jpg

Like I said, the shoulders are a bit loose, as are the hips but he holds his poses just as well. Loose joints on a figure this expensive is a bit of a shame though.

~ Grim

News Credits: 4877 · Mon May 23, 2022 10:42 pm

Fellow Seibertronian Big Grim got Transformers Selects Armada Cyclonus from Kapow Toys, and has taken images to show us how different the colours are. You can check them all below. YoU'll also see some pictures from Strafe28066 who posted on TFW2005. Purple looks very different on images depending on the lighting so we wanted to add some more.

News Credits: 6 · Tue May 24, 2022 9:20 am

Looks neat! I'm pre-ordering this since I never got a chance for Kingdom.

News Credits: 2 · Tue May 24, 2022 1:44 pm

I may need to get this one as I did have both the Universe and Henkei figures simply because of the image from the good old '86 movie.

Thu May 26, 2022 1:11 pm

But what are the people who have the original g1 and bought the Kingdom version supposed to do now? We thought just getting kingdom with our g1 would be enough to match the movie image of the two Cyclonus' in the "And his armada" scene. 2+1=3 figures NOT 2. This Selects one is the best out of the 3 and the colors match perfectly with the g1. Had I known this was going to come out, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT KINGDOM. If I get this (which I really want to because it's THE best looking and best packed accessories set) I'LL BE STUCK WITH AN ODDBALL OUT. WHAT DO WE DO? I really don't want the hastle of trying to sell my still sealed Kingdom Cyclonus on Ebay. I've never sold anything before and don't want to learn all the details on how to without getting burned by some buyer who might want to try to return it later for some dumb/weird reason and I'd have to figure out how much to sell it for to break even from buying at in store retail and not loose money in shipping or ebay fees or sales tax on ebay, and then worry about ebay sending me some kind of 1099 tax form next year to report the income and have extra work to file my dam taxes. What a hastle. Thanks.

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 26, 2022 1:14 pm

SciFi80sGameFan wrote:But what are the people who have the original g1 and bought the Kingdom version supposed to do now? We thought just getting kingdom with our g1 would be enough to match the movie image of the two Cyclonus' in the "And his armada" scene. 2+1=3 figures NOT 2. This Selects one is the best out of the 3 and the colors match perfectly with the g1. Had I known this was going to come out, I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT KINGDOM. If I get this (which I really want to because it's THE best looking and best packed accessories set) I'LL BE STUCK WITH AN ODDBALL OUT. WHAT DO WE DO? I really don't want the hastle of trying to sell my still sealed Kingdom Cyclonus on Ebay. I've never sold anything before and don't want to learn all the details on how to without getting burned by some buyer who might want to try to return it later for some dumb/weird reason and I'd have to figure out how much to sell it for to break even from buying at in store retail and not loose money in shipping or ebay fees or sales tax on ebay, and then worry about ebay sending me some kind of 1099 tax form next year to report the income and have extra work to file my dam taxes. What a hastle. Thanks.