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News Credits: 18 · Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:47 pm

color me surprised. I honestly expected them to just re-use the arcee mold for prowl. not only that, but this is the another one that I really like how they worked it out. I like it.

News Credits: 6 · Sun Dec 18, 2022 8:51 pm

I actually gasped (in a good way) when I saw Prowl - he looks great! Now I'm excited to see which other characters end up in the line. Longarm Prime would be loads of fun... :saint:

I'm long overdue for a rewatch of the show.

Sun Dec 18, 2022 11:50 pm

These are gonna look so awesome rotting on the pegs at Walmart & Target with all the other garbage. Month after month seeing the same crap hanging on the pegs never selling. Patiently waiting for the inevitable clearance sales.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Dec 19, 2022 12:42 am

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:These are gonna look so awesome rotting on the pegs at Walmart & Target with all the other garbage. Month after month seeing the same crap hanging on the pegs never selling. Patiently waiting for the inevitable clearance sales.

My Walmarts keep selling and restocking wave 1, over and over, same with the exclusive Beast line. All this overstock on the top shelf (including stuff further to the left you can't see) from November is gone now.

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It's not that these aren't selling and are lingering on the shelves, it's that it's the only wave Walmart ordered (same story with Core class and SS Deluxe class).

Emerje

News Credits: 19 · Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:04 am

If they are going to try capitalising on beast bots in the live action they might revisit beast wars time lines and do prowl as Waspinator, ransack or reverb? Always kinda looked like him.

News Credits: 101 · Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:38 am

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:These are gonna look so awesome rotting on the pegs at Walmart & Target with all the other garbage. Month after month seeing the same crap hanging on the pegs never selling. Patiently waiting for the inevitable clearance sales.

As Emeje said, it not that they shelfwam. It's because they keep ordering wave 1 over and over for some reason. So I bet for the toys you hate, they will order that wave only ONE time, get instantly sold out, then never to be seen again.

I'm practically done bothering shopping anything in brick and mortar stores. I now preorder everything that I truly want and pay full price. For the less important stuff, those can wait an online sale.
Despite the fact that so many of the things I paid full price for end up being overstocked and on clearance even online, DOTM Guzzle traumatised me with an incurable case of FOMO.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:30 am

I like them. Don't know if I like them enough to spend money on them, but I like them.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:56 am

blackeyedprime wrote:If they are going to try capitalising on beast bots in the live action they might revisit beast wars time lines and do prowl as Waspinator, ransack or reverb? Always kinda looked like him.

I don't think that's impossible. We got a bit of that from PotP Optimus Primal and his space bus alt mode. Think Animated fans would prefer Waspinator (or Wasp) from the Cliffjumper mold (because it wouldn't be Bumblebee!) thought I think Runabout / Runamuck would be a better mold choice to keep him as a more average height Deluexe.

Emerje

News Credits: 4 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 2:12 pm

TM2 Megatron arrived. Holy **** this thing is amazing. I missed getting him as a kid so this is my childhood fulfilled. But better. He looks AMAZING in both modes and has great articulation. He's BIG. This is what a leader should be. I'll take ten of these over every triple changer with unnecessary extra parts or an Optimus Prime with a dinky trailer. More of THIS please Hasbro. This is how your get $55 out of me.

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Anyway here's my lineup of Legacy leaders. I tried to find Blitzwing 's fists of doom for the sake of completion but they must be buried somewhere.

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News Credits: 101 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 2:16 pm

At first glance, TM Dragon Megs looks like a bot with 2 bot modes and zero beast mode. But the transformation is much more complex that I expected once that incredible thing in hand.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:35 pm

I really REALLY hope we get a Cryotek eventually. As good as he looks in these colors, dark and light blue would look amazing on him.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 6:36 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:I really REALLY hope we get a Cryotek eventually. As good as he looks in these colors, dark and light blue would look amazing on him.

Someone digibash this...

News Credits: 101 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:04 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:I really REALLY hope we get a Cryotek eventually. As good as he looks in these colors, dark and light blue would look amazing on him.

We got T-Wrecks out of Beast Megs, not counting the JP X-Over. So a Cryotech Dragon Megs is pretty likely.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:12 pm

First-Aid wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:I really REALLY hope we get a Cryotek eventually. As good as he looks in these colors, dark and light blue would look amazing on him.

Someone digibash this...

How about multiple digibashes that several people have made?

Cryotek

Beast Machines Megs

RiD Megs/CR Gigatron (single dragon head instead of two):

And...

Drum roll, please...

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...

The Fallen!

News Credits: 101 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:

RiD Megs/CR Gigatron (single dragon head instead of two):

This one pleases me a lot! :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 2 · Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:49 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:

RiD Megs/CR Gigatron (single dragon head instead of two):

This one pleases me a lot!

Seconded. I never knew I needed this, but I do.

News Credits: 11 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:07 am

Hot Shot and Breakdown arrived today. While Hot Shot is pretty basic and doesn't do much to stand out, he's still a good solid figure and I'm happy enough with him, especially as I never had any toy of Hot Shot when I was a kid. With Breakdown, Menasor is now complete, and while I don't think the Combiner limbs have been handled very well and I don't like how Wildrider and Breakdown are on the back of the legs (I know it's cartoon accurate, but it still looks dumb), I've been having a lot more fun with the Legacy Stunticons and Menasor than I did with anything from Combiner Wars.

Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:03 pm

Cryotek, yes.
Beast Machines Megatron, sure okay.
Gigatron though, I'm not too sure about based on that specific digibash. There's others out there that are more accurate as they have more purple but still I'm not too sure. I just don't want Gigatron to be THAT neutered when it comes to alt modes.

Speaking of purple though, I'd still much rather see Beast Wars II Galvatron. Take the drill tank out and you have pretty much the same dragon as TM2 Megatron. It makes far more sense than Gigatron to me anyway.

Or maybe even Esmeral to go with Deathsaurus. She doesn't have an official color scheme yet as far as I know or is she just supposed to be the same colors as her husband? I really don't think Hasbro would go for making it the same colors as Deathsaurus. So maybe use the CW Deathsaurus colors for her? Or another color scheme entirely? Sure she's depicted as being very petite/feminine but I think it could work using TM2 Megs. The height different between the two would work in any event.

I also wouldn't want to see Predaking from this either. Maybe Dragonstorm even though it's supposed to be a triple headed dragon. It's just one knight that forms the dragon or something like Steelbane and Skullitron.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 4:29 pm

Did anyone ever mention an Animated Ratchet in any of the leaks or listings so far? I tried to look back over stuff, but there is so much and spread around. I really dig the Animated Prowl that was just showed off and was thinking of having him be an upgraded G1 Prowl for me(like at end of TFCC Machine Wars comic), although a repaint in the Elite Guard version would be better. Siege Ratchet just isnt doing it for me and I wanted a good Ratchet for a long while. I know the SS86 one is coming, but I think a G1-ified Animated Ratchet would be just what I would want, if it was as good as Prowl is. Ratchet was my fav character on Animated and the best Ratchet(neck and neck with IDW Ratchet).

News Credits: 56 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:38 pm

As others have observed, one of my local Walmarts just put the Velocitron Voyagers on clearance as well. Also they put the Legacy Deluxe Beast Assortment on clearance too. It puzzles me why they kept re ordering that wave (after it initially came and went) as opposed to the standard Deluxe wave 2 or 3 of Legacy.

I know there are many online options, but its still a little crazy to think that now, the only B&M option for U.S. fans to purchase Legacy Mainline Deluxe wave 2 and 3 is Target.

News Credits: 101 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:39 pm

Hero Alpha wrote:Did anyone ever mention an Animated Ratchet in any of the leaks or listings so far?

Yeas, Animated Ratchet is confirmed. It will, however, just be the SS86 with an "Animated" head. Click HERE to see the full report.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:48 pm

o.supreme wrote:I know there are many online options, but its still a little crazy to think that now, the only B&M option for U.S. fans to purchase Legacy Mainline Deluxe wave 2 and 3 is Target.

And that's IF Target even has them in stock.

News Credits: 332 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:08 pm

Munkky wrote:Hot Shot and Breakdown arrived today. While Hot Shot is pretty basic and doesn't do much to stand out, he's still a good solid figure and I'm happy enough with him, especially as I never had any toy of Hot Shot when I was a kid. With Breakdown, Menasor is now complete, and while I don't think the Combiner limbs have been handled very well and I don't like how Wildrider and Breakdown are on the back of the legs (I know it's cartoon accurate, but it still looks dumb), I've been having a lot more fun with the Legacy Stunticons and Menasor than I did with anything from Combiner Wars.

How did you get them now?

News Credits: 2 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 6:52 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Hero Alpha wrote:Did anyone ever mention an Animated Ratchet in any of the leaks or listings so far?

Yeas, Animated Ratchet is confirmed. It will, however, just be the SS86 with an "Animated" head. Click HERE to see the full report.

Is that the one he meant or is he talking about the crusty old bot from TF Animated?

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Dec 21, 2022 7:33 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Munkky wrote:Hot Shot and Breakdown arrived today. While Hot Shot is pretty basic and doesn't do much to stand out, he's still a good solid figure and I'm happy enough with him, especially as I never had any toy of Hot Shot when I was a kid. With Breakdown, Menasor is now complete, and while I don't think the Combiner limbs have been handled very well and I don't like how Wildrider and Breakdown are on the back of the legs (I know it's cartoon accurate, but it still looks dumb), I've been having a lot more fun with the Legacy Stunticons and Menasor than I did with anything from Combiner Wars.

How did you get them now?

They're available on Hasbro Pulse UK, and In Demand Toys I think