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News Credits: 51 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:48 pm

Hokutron wrote: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.

They didn't actually carve anything, that's not her actual head. It's fake kibble meant to look like her head is peeking out because Sunbow, Mark showed that it comes off in the stream.

Elita hat.jpg

News Credits: 11 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:52 pm

I love all of this except Elita 1. She looks awful in car mode, with lots of mismatched colour panels all over the place. I'm glad it's just a placeholder for Minerva. I'm also glad she's been released so many times recently, which gives me hope that the G1 triple changers will get a better version down the line. Minerva being released gives me hope under Nightbeat and the other Headmaster Juniors will get a release too.

Delta Magnus shows that a turd can actually be polished. I've got the TT version, plus KO FP armour, hate the original ER Magnus mold and I'm STILL interested in this.

If Soundwave gets re-released, sans cr@pple-damage, then maybe Soundblaster, Springer, etc will too?

News Credits: 9 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:57 pm

Doesn’t bother me because I’m not getting her, but Elita’s car mode is horrible because of the colors, & as Primalxconvoy just mentioned, that’s not a good break-up between panels…
That looks like a clown car…
And I’m sure it wasn’t possible, but that would probably look tons better if the form of the car was complimented with one main color (and then maybe a small accent here or there).
Her bot mode looks fine, although is a few photos her head looks so big, it makes it look like a kid version of her character.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:58 pm

Well, the Stunticons look great . . . as individuals. I'm not thrilled by Menasor. I'm a total sucker for the combiners, but this one may well be a pass.

(Still waiting for a Monstructor, btw.)

News Credits: 17 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:08 pm

I'm not going to force anyone to buy Elita-1 at gunpoint, but given that this franchise is based on garish toys from the '80s, I'm enthusiastic for a cartoon figure that looks like a garish toy from the '80s. I am more excited for the rumored Minerva, though, especially since I have the last two Elita-1s. (Elitas-1?)

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:13 pm

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Tarantulas is Season 1 Tarantulas.

Of course he is. He's meant to go with the rest of the Kingdom Predacons.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 5:24 pm

sol magnus wrote:
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!

Sorry. I've spent the entire day as a Darwinian Antagonist and it's been a strain. My brain is focused on CBCs, CMPs, ECGs, and colonoscopies right now...

Yes. Knockout. Sad that I had this brain fart...especially considering I'm in the middle of rewatching the series. I officially lose geek points...

News Credits: 30 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 6:49 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yup, it's been a little while

My pre order did get free shipping, but I think that’s because the minions have Pulse membership? Perhaps you now have to be in their little clubhouse before you’re allowed “free delivery”.

Still got charged taxes though. In life there are only two sure things: taxes and me!

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News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:21 pm

Sowndwave76 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:24 pm

Razorbeast88 wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

I thought it was a Pulse exclusive line in the US

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:30 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

I thought it was a Pulse exclusive line in the US

Yeah I think so too. Either way I already pre-ordered, along with Sandstorm. The rest I can wait for on amazon

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:36 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

I thought it was a Pulse exclusive line in the US

The entire SG line has been and still is Pulse-exclusive.

Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:08 pm

Glad I picked up a Terrorsaur before I mentioned it. They're sold out now and have been for a while apparently according to the news link for it.

I have a far out there idea about Chromia/Minerva. I'm one to link characters through past molds and they both technically share a previous mold. How crazy would it be if Hasbro does this mold as Cybertron Thunderblast as well to complete the mold trifecta. Granted that it's not technically Minerva and it's just Chromia/Thunderblast medic type but it's clearly based on Minerva. It's also quite the beautiful figure in hand. I got very luck on Facebook and someone was offloading one for super cheap.

Anyway though, with Thunderblast being an incredible example of a shellformer with only her lower legs being involved in the transformation, I would love to see Hasbro do another reshell of this mold into her. The lower legs on this mold become the back and sides of the vehicle mode. So it's not too much of a stretch to make it happen. Elita-One's lower arms are the only other parts that contribute to the vehicle mode so they could just keep the robot mode and just retool the backpack, lower legs and lower arms and done. A decent amount of the boat shell could fold into the legs so she wouldn't have huge wings.

I guess I just really want a new Thunderblast and looking at this new Elita-One mold made me think it was possible. I'd take a new one even if she's not a boat and was just a straight redeco. I wanted a new one so bad I went so far as to repaint my extra PotP Chromia into her and the mold looks so good in those colors. The accent colors lined up pretty damn well on the PotP mold to finish off the look too.

Hell, Studio Series 86 Scourge/Sweep could also work for her...

At least we're getting an Airachnid from APC Toys.

When we first seen the rumor for Jhiaxus as well as Armada Starscream and everyone thought they were going to be the same mold again, I thought SS 86 Scourge would've been a good base for him too. Glad to see he's getting what looks like his own mold. Better to see that it's this color scheme. Although I do want an orange Jhiaxus from Armada Starscream too.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:32 pm

william-james88 wrote:That arm transformation for menasor really impressed me. That's like a step higher for a combiner, integrating two components to then transform them together as one. They asked if that's a first for transformers and it is not, since Tidal Wave also had that. But it is hard to do and really cool.

That's a little different and I still think both qualify as their own unique things. Tidal Wave can be either turned into his big alt mode and then bot mode or start from the smaller ships and build Tidal Wave that way. Menasor requires connecting the cars to the arms before they can be transformed together, the cars can't be split otherwise unless you poke something into the holes ahead of time and that's just not fun.

Flashwave wrote:Elita is not be any means a perfect figure but this may be the first truly good G1 fembot in Generations now. With proper alt mode integration and a tolerable backpack. And it gives me hope now for the rumored Override.

If you're saying Override is being made from Elita 1, she's not. Minerva is being made from Elita, Override is being made from SS Hot Rod.

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:Honestly for me the best of the line falls to Tarantulus and Jhiaxus. Color me impressed that they didn't do Jhiaxus as a mold mate with armada Starscream again.

That will only be confirmed when they reveal armada Starscream later this year.
We'll see. In the stream, Mark mentioned how the last Jhiaxus they did back in Thrilling 30 was a "partial" of Armada Starscream, and did so to contrast how this mold is purely Jhiaxus on his own, as if to say that they didn't want to repeat the history of Jhiaxus and Armada Starscream as mold-mates. But it's possible that that was a bit of misdirection on his part to try to throw us off on expecting another Jhiaxus/Starscream shared mold.

I think he's simply saying this is the first time Jihaxus wasn't a repaint or a slight retool of a previous figure. But it's hard to ignore that all of his parts are basically in the same places as Armada Starscream's. Arms underneath, legs in back, cockpit folding out of the chest, small wings on the legs. I think Starscream will be unrecognizable, but will share the same transformation.

Emerje

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:43 pm

Emerje wrote:I think he's simply saying this is the first time Jihaxus wasn't a repaint or a slight retool of a previous figure. But it's hard to ignore that all of his parts are basically in the same places as Armada Starscream's. Arms underneath, legs in back, cockpit folding out of the chest, small wings on the legs. I think Starscream will be unrecognizable, but will share the same transformation.

Emerje

Now I've got this mental image of G1 cartoon Starscream constantly trying to overthrow Jhiaxus instead of Megatron, and adapting his body to reflect that. A sort of "Jhiaxus has fallen! I, Starscream, am the new leader of the Cybertronian Empire!" kind of body.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:48 pm

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Grahf_ for pointing out that there's currently a Target Circle deal going on for the rest of the week that will score you $10 off Legacy Commander Class Motor Master instantly, all you have to do is save the deal on the site or app. Better yet if you add more figures to your order and get the price over $100 you'll instantly save $25 on your pre-order!

Grahf_ wrote: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.

Of course Target does have a long history of canceling delayed pre-orders, but the risk is well worth the reward if yours is successfully fulfilled.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:03 pm

The advent of the new Legacy reveals have come with price hikes. For instance, leader class figures are now $55.99 USD. BUT Amazon has it up for $49.99, the price of old. This is the case for most if not all wave 2 figures that are now up for preorder on Amazon. We also have new stock photos of the toys in different poses, shown in 3d renders, and shots of them in their box showcasing the box art.

Knockout https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 287&sr=8-1

Wild Rider https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 92&sr=8-16

Elita-1 https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 92&sr=8-18

Tarantulas https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 92&sr=8-19

Jhiaxus https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 92&sr=8-17

Blitzwing https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... C97&sr=8-3

Motormaster https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Gen ... 114&sr=8-1

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:05 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:
Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

I thought it was a Pulse exclusive line in the US
The entire SG line has been and still is Pulse-exclusive.

Only in the US. In Canada, it is available at Gamestop but without the comic.

Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:24 pm

Elita looks like she should be Princess Toadstool's car in Mario Kart or something lol. Easy pass.

I have the 35th anniversary Soundblaster version of the Siege Soundwave mold and I'm good with it, so don't need this Soundwave.

Blitzwing is a hell no.

All the rest looks awesome and will definitely be getting them. I'm betting that we will be able to pose Menasor better than other combiners since the 4 deluxes aren't really forming the limbs, just attaching and filling them out. Motormaster looks awesome and I love the base mode. Can't wait to have him going head to head with Optimus like in the episode "Masquerade."

Jhiaxus is a boss and its about time we had a figure like this for him.

News Credits: 332 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:36 pm

Even if Motormaster is released earlier, it looks like the figure will be released before all the limb bots, no wonder only two are shown on the back of the box and only the third one is teased on the front. I called the auto morph transformation for the limbs, there's no way a child can separate Dragstrip without some tool.

Does Wildrider use Dragstrip's guns, they look similar.

Elita One is the Arcee we deserved.

If Knockout still uses clear plastic in all the spots Jazz does it'll probably break when you try to remove it from the packaging.

Now we wait and speculate.

News Credits: 42 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:07 pm

Starseeker wrote:Elita looks like she should be Princess Toadstool's car in Mario Kart or something lol. Easy pass.

You say that like it's a bad thing

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:33 pm

While I'm excited about the diversity of the cast, each of these toys is giving me a different feeling.

Knock Out: As a huge Prime fan, I was so excited about this toy. In practice, it's very meh. Not sure whether to get it or not.

Wildrider: Hard pass from me. I'm not a Menasor person, and that backpack just looks painful. I'll wait to see if Dead End and Breakdown are any good before making the final decision. (Besides, I can always swap in my CW Stunticons

)

Tarantulas: Weirdly enough, I don't like it. I love Tarantulas as a character, but there's something so fundamentally wrong to me about him being so similar to Blackarachnia. 30/70 shot I get it.

Elita-1: I have no idea what to think. On the one hand, this is the best Elita we've got. On the other, it's so clearly meant to be Minerva that it's painful. I'll have to see if I can get Minerva before pulling the trigger on Elita.

Jhiaxus: Not a character I have a personal connection to, but that is one fine-looking figure! Going to get him if my budget allows it.

Soundwave: ... :BANG_HEAD:

I wanted Prime Soundwave so bad it hurts. Anyway, I already have the Siege. Pass.

Blitzwing: I've kept out of the debate on Blitzboy so far, but here are my two cents: he looks like ass. The jet mode was completely sacrificed, the tank mode had to make major sacrifices, and the robot mode looks damn near perfect. If the prices weren't so high, I'd go for the Titans Return version.

Also, they completely squandered the opportunity to make this Animated Blitzwing.

Even the jet modes line up!

:SG-CONS:

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:51 pm

I wouldve loved an animated blitzwing done right
They could've even given different colored blast effects to mimic the fire and ice thing

News Credits: 7 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:01 pm

Knockout looks better than expected.
Tarantulas looks cool!
Jhiaxus looks pretty faithful to his comics desgin.
Elita One looks pretty fun!
Motormaster looks good and Menasor is fine,But I wouldn't want him to become the new standard for combiners.

First-Aid wrote:
Day 1 of waiting for Transformers: Prime Masterpiece news.

Never give up!

Armada first,though.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:08 pm

Razorbeast88 wrote:I wouldve loved an animated blitzwing done right
They could've even given different colored blast effects to mimic the fire and ice thing

There's always the red and blue ones that came with the Tricranius set.

And, are blast effects even a thing anymore in Legacy?