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by **YoungPrime** » Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:53 pm

Hopefully this means that they will start showing up at the US Walmart's in a week or two.

I just got Ferak not too long ago so all I really want now is Filch but Cannonball is starting to grow on me.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Fri Aug 09, 2024 6:56 pm

YoungPrime wrote:Hopefully this means that they will start showing up at the US Walmart's in a week or two.

I just got Ferak not too long ago so all I really want now is Filch but Cannonball is starting to grow on me.

I hope they show up to... because Walmart cancelled all my preorders except for lockdown and thundertron. sadly my Walmart is still massively overstocked on the g2 stuff.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:19 pm

Mark Maher, who designed the Star Raiders Legacy subline, took to Instagram to write about the lore behind the leader class multipack which includes Star Raiders Thundertron, Calcitron and Nightstrike. You can read it below. We also have a video review of the set right after. It has yet to be found in the US though the North Americans stock has come to shore and it has already been distributed throughout Canada.

A yo ho ho my bot family, allow me to present to you a very cool Walmart exclusive 3 pk, Thundertron, Calcitron, and Nightstrike! A fearsome cru that will take you on a trip to Sharkticon Jones’s locker, arrrr!
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Lemme break it down d-generation x style. Thunder Thunder Thundertron here is rocking his new og head design, he lost some finger digits so he is sporting a white pearled hook hand (5mm compatible of course), and a pumped up energon united color scheme. See the concept here was that Ol Thunder Sword here was lurking on a distant planet with his lil terror packed parrot bat Nightstrike (RID baby!) They come across some energon that apparently was alive, a being known as Calcitron (energon that fused together with a living unknown essence and merged into one fugly bad ass calcite eating mutterer) It would seem that Thundertron overpowered the creation and infused some of his energon to give him the ability to be empowered by armorizer might!!
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I found a concept board that I sometimes throw together to get on my story soap box during meetings. I’d assume that most are sick of me rambling about lores and stories but having the opportunity to create tales of astonishment and to rocknite excitement into the coworker crowd is somthing I’ll never stop doing.
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I’m really gitty over having a rocklord army, the armorizer build towards the end just shares the capabilities of creating your own rocknited characters. Oh also, yes that was a Ratbat mention who was going to be a dark blue redeco but I had a magic moment of remembering the alt head that was in that mold, I believe it was only released as a gen selects item. Any chance I can fit in a obscure character that doesn’t have a toy representation, Ima take it!!
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What to post about next ?

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:58 pm

Always interesting to see what Mark comes up with.

The rock dudes go so nicely with the Junkions, they would for sure be friends

I got Cannonball and Lockdown, leaving only Road Pig and Thundertron for me. Both are super nice. Lockdown certainly looks the part, and i intend to send him to the Cyberverse shelf to be with Clobber. Cannonball is a cool retool, they keep on making this Skids mold super interesting. And i love the hammer and claw

Also got the chance to have some fun with Tarn. I am so glad they made this version. And so glad his elbow is on a mushroom

I also got Vector Prime for $17, and got the SDCC set. Sorry Scotty, but even owning the OG Vector Prime, I have a pretty good appreciation for this retool. It is not perfect, but what they did made a pretty good Vector Prime. I actually really like him. It feels good to have bicep swivels and the backpack compressed. I still love the OG, but this is a case where it lives up to the OG by being different enough while still being fun.

As for Prime and Megs, I love the new Megs weapons, and Pax is really nice, great headsculpt. So glad i got this, this is the Pax I really wanted

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:07 pm

Oh, I also forgot: Wanna make something of it?

Now, where's a Fulcrum?

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:38 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Oh, I also forgot: Wanna make something of it?

Now, where's a Fulcrum?

I'm holding out in case we get a crankcase retool with an IDW head, like they did with Blurr.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Oh, I also forgot: Wanna make something of it?

Now, where's a Fulcrum?

I'm holding out in case we get a crankcase retool with an IDW head, like they did with Blurr.

That would certainly be awesome

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 10:25 am

Mark Maher, a lead designer at Hasbro, had posted an image showcasing the kind of combiner you could do with the Legacy Evolution Junkions called Junkasaurus. It was missing a figure for one of its arms though but now that Road Pig has come out, we can finally complete Junkasaurus. Below you’ll find a take on how to accomplish this combiner using five different Junkion mold releases.

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 4:28 pm

PvP has released his review of the upcoming Leader Class Soundwave.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 4:35 pm

Sowndwave76 wrote:PvP has released his review of the upcoming Leader Class Soundwave.

TlDr, not worth it if you already have the Netflix, and they could have made some efforts in remolding the defects like the Siege leftover parts.

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 4:50 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:PvP has released his review of the upcoming Leader Class Soundwave.

TlDr, not worth it if you already have the Netflix, and they could have made some efforts in remolding the defects like the Siege leftover parts.

And being reminded that this figure is going on 4 years old...
I really will be surprised and almost shocked if Hastak doesn't make a SS86 version, even if it's not until 2026.
Plus he needs to be bigger and better overall.

I would like to have Buzzsaw, so this is still on preorder... But we'll see.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 4:52 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:PvP has released his review of the upcoming Leader Class Soundwave.

TlDr, not worth it if you already have the Netflix, and they could have made some efforts in remolding the defects like the Siege leftover parts.

The siege leftover bits are a real bummer

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:09 pm

With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:16 pm

Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

Not at this time, no.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:18 pm

Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

I'm sure someone will come up with something.

So far, we have 3 cars, one copter, and two bikes. The bikes could serves as parts of the arms, or just be the arms like sword-hands. For the torso, a combo of the copter and the black car could do the job, finishing with the blue and white cars as the legs. That is, for a humanoid bot.

I'm sure we could also witch things around to make a beast.

For example, we can turn the copter into some sort of beetle.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:04 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

I'm sure someone will come up with something.

No doubt, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks like a combiner head like the other two had (Fosilizers had a few options).

Emerje

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:34 am

Emerje wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

I'm sure someone will come up with something.

No doubt, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks like a combiner head like the other two had (Fosilizers had a few options).

Emerje

Well, we could always go the Super Gobots route...

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 10:27 am

william-james88 wrote:Mark Maher, a lead designer at Hasbro, had posted an image showcasing the kind of combiner you could do with the Legacy Evolution Junkions called Junkasaurus. It was missing a figure for one of its arms though but now that Road Pig has come out, we can finally complete Junkasaurus. Below you’ll find a take on how to accomplish this combiner using five different Junkion mold releases.

Unfortunatley, if you are particular like I am, and like to have your combiners faction aligned, there's still a problem.

What we have now is STILL a heroic Junkasuarus with a missing arm (Scraphook, Crashbar, Trashmaster and Tow-Line). But on a more positive note, we are 3/5 of the way to a Evil Junkasauraus if you have Axelgrease in addition to the Star Raider Lockdown & Road Pig. Just need an evil Trashmaster repaint/retool, and another evil Crashbar or Road Pig repaint/retool.

*Also get us a Predacon Wingfinger while your at it Hasbro...Common cant let that tooling only have one use

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 12:13 pm

Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

A gravel pit

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 1:16 pm

Emerje wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Emerje wrote:With the Fossilizers and Junkions having semi-official and official combiner modes is there any indication of the rocks having a combined mode of some sort?

Emerje

I'm sure someone will come up with something.

No doubt, but I haven't seen anything yet that looks like a combiner head like the other two had (Fossilizers had a few options).

Emerje

I was hoping initially. It seemed like the first Armorizer was a heavy retool of the Scraphook mold. But upon actually having them in hand, other than the hood piece, they are completely different. Not sure if a combiner could be made, but it would be cool if they did. Ive only been getting the deluxes because thats all that was used in previous combinations (or bigger)

I still contest that Vertebreak and Dracodon weren't really fossilizers because they didn't have the pull-apart gimmick. At least the Core Rock creatures can be made into weapons. But I've refrained from getting them, unless at some point a practical use for them in a combined mode is revealed.

News Credits: 1 · by **Rtron** » Mon Aug 12, 2024 1:27 pm

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Mark Maher, a lead designer at Hasbro, had posted an image showcasing the kind of combiner you could do with the Legacy Evolution Junkions called Junkasaurus. It was missing a figure for one of its arms though but now that Road Pig has come out, we can finally complete Junkasaurus. Below you’ll find a take on how to accomplish this combiner using five different Junkion mold releases.

Unfortunatley, if you are particular like I am, and like to have your combiners faction aligned, there's still a problem.

What we have now is STILL a heroic Junkasuarus with a missing arm (Scraphook, Crashbar, Trashmaster and Tow-Line). But on a more positive note, we are 3/5 of the way to a Evil Junkasauraus if you have Axelgrease in addition to the Star Raider Lockdown & Road Pig. Just need an evil Trashmaster repaint/retool, and another evil Crashbar or Road Pig repaint/retool.

*Also get us a Predacon Wingfinger while your at it Hasbro...Common cant let that tooling only have one use

Translucent red /reddish violet Wingfinger please

News Credits: 12 · by **Razorbeast88** » Tue Aug 13, 2024 1:51 pm

william-james88 wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Oh, I also forgot: Wanna make something of it?

Now, where's a Fulcrum?

I'm holding out in case we get a crankcase retool with an IDW head, like they did with Blurr.

Same here!

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 8:58 am

Grab a power drill, some paint, and boom, IDW Crankcase :lol:

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Thu Aug 15, 2024 9:05 am

ScottyP wrote:Grab a power drill, some paint, and boom, IDW Crankcase

Actually, all you really need is an electric sander

by **Gearslide** » Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:31 pm

Was surprised to see that I got an email at 7 AM that Cannonball had been delivered from Walmart. Was even more surprised to open the door and actually FIND said delivery.

Checked my doorbell cam, and sure enough, almost 7 AM on the dot, someone from Walmart dropped it off. Didn't know they do that. Didn't even get an "Out for delivery" notification or email.

I'm so used to USPS or even UPS/Fed-Ex telling me something was delivered and not actually receiving it for another day.

Btw, for those storing the Hammer head and claw in Cannonball's legs as per the instructions, be careful with the hammer. If you put it in too far, it becomes REALLY hard to get back out.

Having him in hand now, I'm excited to see the Red Alert paint on him. It's a really solid mold. I like it WAY more than the Burn Out figure I have.

The ONLY complaint I could possibly have about him is that I wish his Cyber Key had been cast in or painted the purple plastic his windshield uses, instead of just solid black. Or better yet, in transparent Purple Plastic! It would have looked so much better.