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Man, that Jhiaxus is hideous... I LOVE IT!!!

Man, that Jhiaxus is hideous... I LOVE IT!!!

Rtron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:So here are my thoughts:

Tarantulas: Getting for sure, he is perfect for a mass market deluxe
Elita 1: I don't really have that much connection to the character but she looks great as a Transforming toy, will get.
Knockout: He looks like a good toy, headsculpt is good and I think he works best out of the attempts at merging Prime with the G1 style. But I don't care much for the mold and this isn't the knockout I want, he won't fit with the rest of my prime collection (no Knockout does still).
Wild rider: Glad they adressed how odd the back pack is, doesn't help that it's still a thing. Will get though because I want...
Motormaster: they knocked it out of the park. I have 0 connection to the character but this is some transformers toy. Reminds me of the Ultimate Prime toy from DOTM but done well and not like a freaken nightmare to transform.
Jihaxus: no connection but looks really neat, in both modes. Can anyone let me know which comic he first appeared? I feel like reading some jihaxus G2 comics.
Blitzwing: I'm not gonna spend that much money on a toy I don't care for so no thanks.

The original US G2 run is only 13 comics, 18 if you count the G.I. Joe arc that introduces Megatron's new body (G.I. Joe 138-142). Jhiaxus is the main villain through the whole 12 issue run, so it's hard to point at one specific issue, specially with such a short run. He literally first shows up in issue 1 of Generation 2.

Unfortunately, outside of the Hachette reprint series, these haven't seen print in two decades. I'm fortunate to have those Titan editions, but G2 is like the UK-only books in not getting much love from later publishers.

Some cool reveals, was surprised that Elita-1 was a new design and it looks really nice!

Pre-ordered Motormaster, Wild Rider, and Elita-1 from Amazon. Which also allowed me to deduct $20 worth of points from Motormaster's price!

Still waiting on Blitzwing to be listed though.

Wow, these all look absolutely fantastic. Motormaster and Menasor look incredible, Tarantulus and Knock Out are awesome, and Elita-1 and Jhiaxus are pleasant surprises. Hasbro are really knocking the Legacy brand out of the ballpark with these.

Target has two Target Circle deals going on right now. Spend $100 and save $25 and spend $50 and save $10. Both sales are for toys and you can use them multiple times each. Only Motormaster is up right now though. And Bluestreak if you haven't gotten one yet. Road Rage as well. There's a bunch of Marvel Legends preorders up as well in case you needed something to get Motormaster past $100. The Tiny Turbo Changers seem to be out of stock though as those were good to get when you needed to get to a certain price threshold. You can get an extra 5% off if you use a Target RedCard.

The only problem is that it's Target and they have a tendency to cancel preorders even when you answer the email to confirm you want to keep the preorder.

Also, as I don't think anyone noticed with all the shiny new toys to get, Golden Disk Terrorsaur is back up for order on Pulse.

motormaster looks to FINALLY give me a decent menasor to slap next to UW Superion so i'll deffo be picking the stunticons up. i agree with otheres that the knees look a bit wonky but all in all its a decent effort.

i was NOT expecting G2 Jhiaxus at all !

but i love that loon so he's a definete pick too.

i STILL hate the packaging of legacy, but theres figs in there i like.

Breakdown is another unimitigated, unwanted disaster from the "We Think Everything Should Be Geewun-ish" group. We have much better toy technology now so a more show-accurate Breakdown. In fact, to take a cue from another member here....


Day 1 of waiting for Transformers: Prime Masterpiece news.

Grahf_ wrote:Also, as I don't think anyone noticed with all the shiny new toys to get, Golden Disk Terrorsaur is back up for order on Pulse.

Thanks, made me check the site and I picked up some restocks so Hasbro managed to get some money out of me after all hahahah (price hiked Tyrano Sentry Ranger and Artillery Roadblock). I'm in no rush to preorder TFs at the mo.

As I expected. Big standalone skeleton to plug cars onto.

The apparent CW combiner pegs however, do make me feel a bit better. Though finding CW stunticons at this point is going to be a bit difficult.

I guess I'll pre-order him when he shows up. Looks like he may end up better than I anticipated. which means I'm not canceling Drastrip now.

Jhiaxus, Elita, and SG Magus are all preordered. Magnus is mainly for that movie ad that showed those alternate colors.

It's amazing to see G1 Elita getting so much love after so long. And, finally, a mold that's 100& hers and not a repaint of anybody else. At last!

Jhiaxus - I thought I was happy with the Armada SS version, but this one blows it out of the water. You can't compare the two. Now do Straxus at Voyager size!

If I see Tarantulus in stores I'll grab him. But he's low priority.

Menasor is still a pass, but I have to admit it's tempting. Maybe my will will break if he's CW compatible. But it's still a lot of money for a guy I already have in a "good enough" way.

Nothing to say about Wild Rider and Blitzwing.

I'll be honest, I laughed when I saw the return of Siege Soundwave. Hopefully this means that that's the mold the SG release will be using so he gets to have an altmode that can actually move.

Tarantulas and Jhiaxus both look perfect, I'll be snagging those for sure when I see them. I thought I was going to see Tarantulas and go "meh, I'll wait for his Transmetal design", but they got me. If Tarantulas looks this good, I cannot WAIT to see Inferno.

Maybe it's because his appearance in the Wreckers stuff gave him time for me to warm up to him already, maybe it's because I'm already on board with the Legacy Prime crew because I have Arcee and she's great, maybe I'm just biased, but Knock Out actually looks great to me. I'm SO glad that he has at least one of his weapons from the show by having the spear, having the tip of it be his Energon weapon makes sooo much sense, and they even went so far as to retool his forearms and thighs despite those not being visible in his reshelled alt mode. Instant get on sight.

Elita...sure is a Minerva pretool, down to the guns, but it kinda works for her. I have zero interest in or attachment to the character, so I'll be passing, but Minerva''s gonna look great. Glad they made the alt mode "head" a fake part, that means the port will already be there to give Minerva a lightbar.

Motormaster looks spectacular...as Motormaster, but they've still lost me on the combined mode, so I'm only gonna grab him if he goes on sale (which probably is unlikely). That base mode for the trailer is straight-up Thunderclash's turret setup though, maybe something will come of that in the future?

Not preordering any of these at Pulse's prices, I didn't have too much difficulty finding what I was looking for from Kingdom so I think I can take my chances with retail for these.

First-Aid wrote:Breakdown is another unimitigated, unwanted disaster from the "We Think Everything Should Be Geewun-ish" group. We have much better toy technology now so a more show-accurate Breakdown. In fact, to take a cue from another member here....


Day 1 of waiting for Transformers: Prime Masterpiece news.

...where do you see Breakdown?

First-Aid wrote:Breakdown is another unimitigated, unwanted disaster from the "We Think Everything Should Be Geewun-ish" group. We have much better toy technology now so a more show-accurate Breakdown. In fact, to take a cue from another member here....


Day 1 of waiting for Transformers: Prime Masterpiece news.

Breakdown...? Am I missing something...?

So just to be clear, Menasor's limbs are not interchangeable? Dragstrip can't be a leg or Wildrider an arm?

That G2 colored Core class megatron is adorable.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:It's amazing to see G1 Elita getting so much love after so long. And, finally, a mold that's 100& hers and not a repaint of anybody else. At last!

That mold isn't hers, it's Minerva's. That's why it isn't a cybertronian vehicle. It's the same as when Titans return Optimus Prime and Megatron came out first before Octane and Blitzwing.

Basically it's her own mold just as much as her POTP toy was her own mold.

Rtron wrote:The original US G2 run is only 13 comics, 18 if you count the G.I. Joe arc that introduces Megatron's new body (G.I. Joe 138-142). Jhiaxus is the main villain through the whole 12 issue run, so it's hard to point at one specific issue, specially with such a short run. He literally first shows up in issue 1 of Generation 2.

Cool, guess I'll have to hunt down the OG issues, they shouldn't be hard to find. Or I could read them online.

First-Aid wrote:Breakdown is another unimitigated, unwanted disaster from the "We Think Everything Should Be Geewun-ish" group. We have much better toy technology now so a more show-accurate Breakdown. In fact, to take a cue from another member here....

For those confused, First-Aid is referring to Knockout. Though I will say that it feels a bit like false outrage when you don't even know the name of the character you are outraged about.

william-james88 wrote:For those confused, First-Aid is referring to Knockout. Though I will say that it feels a bit like false outrage when you don't even know the name of the character you are outraged about.

Yeah, not to mention he's actually good for a retool. Can't wait to get him!

Prime Knockout looks really good.

Don't have SS-86 Jazz, but this looks like quite the retool. I'll get him for sure.

Tarantulas also a must buy. Though I'm expecting a BWB release with the regular / Black Arachnia head further down the line.

Elita 1 looks great in robot mode... kind of meh in car mode. But I understand its not really her alt mode. Just borrowing it.
Jiahxus Looks great, but have no attachment to him. I'll probably wait to find him on clearance ro deep discount like I did with ApeFace and Snap Dragon.

Will definitely pickup Soundwave since I missed the Netflix version. Though I puzzled if it has the tape deck mode, or is the unaltered original Siege mold?

The combination gimmick with Dragstrip is quite interesting. At least it looks really good when combined.

Overcracker wrote:Prime Knockout looks really good.

Don't have SS-86 Jazz, but this looks like quite the retool. I'll get him for sure.

Tarantulas also a must buy. Though I'm expecting a BWB release with the regular / Black Arachnia head further down the line.

Elita 1 looks great in robot mode... kind of meh in car mode. But I understand its not really her alt mode. Just borrowing it.
Jiahxus Looks great, but have no attachment to him. I'll probably wait to find him on clearance ro deep discount like I did with ApeFace and Snap Dragon.

Will definitely pickup Soundwave since I missed the Netflix version. Though I puzzled if it has the tape deck mode, or is the unaltered original Siege mold?

Siege

Overcracker wrote:Will definitely pickup Soundwave since I missed the Netflix version. Though I puzzled if it has the tape deck mode, or is the unaltered original Siege mold?

The Netflix version is the tape deck. This is Siege cleaned up. Maybe the tape deck is SG Soundwave?

Autobot N wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Prime Knockout looks really good.

Don't have SS-86 Jazz, but this looks like quite the retool. I'll get him for sure.

Tarantulas also a must buy. Though I'm expecting a BWB release with the regular / Black Arachnia head further down the line.

Elita 1 looks great in robot mode... kind of meh in car mode. But I understand its not really her alt mode. Just borrowing it.
Jiahxus Looks great, but have no attachment to him. I'll probably wait to find him on clearance ro deep discount like I did with ApeFace and Snap Dragon.

Will definitely pickup Soundwave since I missed the Netflix version. Though I puzzled if it has the tape deck mode, or is the unaltered original Siege mold?

Siege

Ahh, thanks. Well, that's a bit sad. Wonder why they are keeping the Netflix retool so exclusive. That's the one that should be re-released.

sol magnus wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Will definitely pickup Soundwave since I missed the Netflix version. Though I puzzled if it has the tape deck mode, or is the unaltered original Siege mold?

The Netflix version is the tape deck. This is Siege cleaned up. Maybe the tape deck is SG Soundwave?

Yeah, I know, that was the question. This looked like Siege since they showed him the weird spaceship mode. Guess I'll skip it then.

I really want the tape deck version.

They forgot the Minerva mold needed to be used for someone who wasn’t a headmaster, so they just carved a chunk out of the windshield. I think that’s hilarious.

Menasor looks even better than I expected. Wish we got the choice of front facing cars, and an alternate head, but as is, he's really neat.

Elita's good, looking forward to Minerva

Tarantulas is Season 1 Tarantulas. I might pick him up, but meh.

Jihaxus is pretty neat, but a maybe.

Knock Out looks better than I feared, but still shoulda been a new mold.

Tarantulas looks fantastic and is an instabuy. Only thing I'm confused about is why he was given his transmetal version's sawblade, but I can easily deal with having an extra accessory.

Honestly, not really digging anything else here. Was never a big Prime fan, and I am not really excited about updates on G1 characters AGAIN. Even the G2 stuff is more interesting to me at this point. Will probably be saving a lot of money on Transformers this year.