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News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:24 am

With us being a month away from this year’s fourth quarter, the Legacy United wave 4 figures are starting to make some appearances. Notrab got his hands on them and took great photos. Though be aware that their photos are highly saturated. To show how different the colors can look, we also have official images from Takara for the same toys.

Below you will see images of Transformers Legacy united Motormaster, Quake, G1 Optimus Prime, Slipstream and Galvatron.

Website · by **Fires_Of_Inferno** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 3:50 pm

I probably missed when it was made known, but I'm a little disappointed that Slipstream is a windblade repaint. Would like to have seen her with her own design. Oh well.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 3:58 pm

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I probably missed when it was made known, but I'm a little disappointed that Slipstream is a windblade repaint. Would like to have seen her with her own design. Oh well.

Preach it! I've been saying that since she was first unveiled. That isn't Slipstream, it's Windblade cosplaying in Slipstrean's colors and wearing Starscream's male Seeker head.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:09 pm

Slipstream and Quake are such weak additions, it makes me sad.

Motormaster at least looks awesome!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:13 pm

The only highlight Slipstream has is her paint aps are nice. Otherwise I'm only buying her after a really big discount.

Emerje

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 4:50 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Slipstream and Quake are such weak additions, it makes me sad.

Motormaster at least looks awesome!

I agree 100%.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 8:35 pm

After finally getting Speedia Crasher, I have my Legacy GoBots complete! (I guess?)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 9:17 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:After finally getting Speedia Crasher, I have my Legacy GoBots complete! (I guess?)

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No Bug Bite or Road Ranger?

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Sep 06, 2024 10:07 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:After finally getting Speedia Crasher, I have my Legacy GoBots complete! (I guess?)

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No Bug Bite or Road Ranger?

Bug Bite is a GoBots? Appart the Super Gobots that is a yellow Beetle. Appart the name, Select Bug-Bite do not even try. (I still have to hunt him down regardless.)

As for Road Ranger, same thing. I do have him with my Huffer crew.

Hell, not even Pathfinder.

Small Foot makes a commandable effort, but half his colors are wrong.

Treds and Crasher are the closest compared to their Gobots counterparts.

I'm looking forward more Gobots Transformers, but they should go as close to the originals as they are allowed.
Speaking of which, I would love to see a Junkion-modulator deluxe bike repainted as Cy-Kill and maybe the Needlenose mold could work for Leader-1. :-?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:21 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:Bug Bite is a GoBots?

Always has been. He's right there with the original six from 2004:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Appart the Super Gobots that is a yellow Beetle. Appart the name, Select Bug-Bite do not even try. (I still have to hunt him down regardless.)

As for Road Ranger, same thing. I do have him with my Huffer crew.

Hell, not even Pathfinder.

All of their colors are wrong. Because they're supposed to be wrong. The original six-pack wasn't of the Guardians and Renegades in their original bodies, but in new Transformer-based bodies that let them masquerade as Autobots and Decepticons while hiding their true GoBot identities. Treds was even given the opposite faction insignia, posing as a Decepticon when he's actually a Guardian. In other words, these aren't the GoBots as GoBots, they're GoBots disguised as Transformers. That's what these updated versions are, too.

Their decos were all mostly based on prototype Mini-Bot decos seen only in early Japanese catalogs.

Hasbro stuck to these color schemes because they already owned them thanks to Takara having made them in the first place back in 2004, and Takara originally went with these colors way back then to avoid any and all legal issues that would have arisen from using the original color schemes that were made and owned by rival company Bandai.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Small Foot makes a commandable effort, but half his colors are wrong.

Small Foot is a girl.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:37 am

I see these are meant to be updates from the TRANSFORMERS G1 originals.

I had the BANDAI GoBots in mind. :CROW:

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:15 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:I see these are meant to be updates from the TRANSFORMERS G1 originals.

I had the BANDAI GoBots in mind.

The Bandai gobots would be my preference too as I have no interest in their Transformers bodies.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:39 pm

Simple question to start us off: Have you seen the Star Raiders line at your local US Walmart? I ask because the answers given to that question so far have been nothing but frustrating or confusing. While Walmart has gotten its stock for distribution, they've only used it so far to fulfill online orders. And there's a lot of stock online with both Road Pig and the Thundertron leader set still available for purchase.

That last bit is a rarity as Walmart will sell out of exclusives online, with the bulk of stock going to stores instead. However, these toys have been available and shipping from their website but they have yet to be found in stores... or have they?

With the toys shipping from the Walmart website, fans got excited to find these exclusives in stores. But that lead to frustration since the hunt resulted next to no sightings. What was found was confusing and has lead to some misinformation being spread by other news sites. The few toys from the Star Raiders capsule that were found were never found with casemates, but as single examples, and often times discounted too. Like the sighting below which just so happens to have the 2 products that have finally been shipping from Walmart.com.

It most likely means that these are returns and them being discounted is due to Walmart not having these skus on the planogram (no designated space on the shelf). We tend to see that with older releases which no longer have a designated space on the shelf, but it's the same cause regardless. And that is extra confusing and frustrating since it means that as of right now there is no plan to have these toys on shelves.

That also means that any sighting being shared online is not legitimate as it does not indicate that this line is being distributed to stores. It instead simply means that fans are returning toys they purchased online. So in the end, there is no concrete evidence that this line is being distributed to stores right now. We have no real sighting of this Star Raiders line in US Walmarts so far.

Let us know how your experience has been with this exclusive subline and if you have found it in a decent amount in your area (if you are in the US). Who knows, maybe one of you has a sighting of a non returned item to share.

Pictured above: returns and false hope
Photo by Red Snarl

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:29 pm

The image is broken.

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblevivisector** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:30 am

Sabrblade wrote:The image is broken.

Adding to the confusion.

Brilliant.

by **patahrak** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 3:09 am

So far, only saw Ferak in stores and picked him up. Just checked Walmart online and he's available on there as well as the Thundertron pack mentioned in the article.

News Credits: 4 · by **Quantum Surge** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 3:54 am

I couldn't find them at my local Walmart yet, so I instead got Ferak with Marvel Legends Venom online. I have a feeling the other exclusives won't be any easier to get apart from Thundertron and Road Pig.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:49 am

I'm not confused or frustrated. Never expect Walmart to do anything right to begin with and you can also avoid those emotions

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:45 am

Sabrblade wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I opened the "leader" 3 pack.

Thundertron is horrendous. The bot is great, sure, but the transformation is not fun for a wolf mode that is ugly all over.
He's a lion.

Hence why his original toy was redecoed (with no retooling) into Leo Prime.

Fans seemed real quick to correct my youtube review and say he's a liger.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:49 am

Bumblevivisector wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The image is broken.
Adding to the confusion.

Brilliant.

HA! And that's because TFW2005 removed their article sharing misinformation along with the thread which included images of returns.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:47 am

I think Walmart simply can't handle two exclusive lines at once. Right now they're focused on TFOne and its exclusives leaving nowhere to put another set of exclusives in an already crowded toy aisle. My local Walmart had a big display set up in the aisle, but a week later they've already taken it down and moved all the figures to the Transformers section packing what space there was. There simply isn't anywhere to put Star Raiders right now.

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:52 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I opened the "leader" 3 pack.

Thundertron is horrendous. The bot is great, sure, but the transformation is not fun for a wolf mode that is ugly all over.
He's a lion.

Hence why his original toy was redecoed (with no retooling) into Leo Prime.

Fans seemed real quick to correct my youtube review and say he's a liger.

Must've been a bunch of Zoids fans who think any big white and blue cat is a liger.

william-james88 wrote:
Bumblevivisector wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The image is broken.
Adding to the confusion.

Brilliant.

HA! And that's because TFW2005 removed their article sharing misinformation along with the thread which included images of returns.

You mean you were *gasp* "hotlinking" from a rival fan site?!!!! :shock:

News Credits: 1 · by **Cheetron** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:05 am

I know some associates who work for Walmart in the toy section. They have not heard of this line, have zero clue what it is. I've shown them pictures and articles and still nothing. I had to buy the 3 pack off of walmart.com. took a pic of the bar code. Their hand helds couldn't find the upc... that's very odd for a store exclusively you can buy online

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:14 am

Sooooo....yet another Walmart line we have to wait for Ross to get?

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:03 am

Got Lockdown and Roadpig shipped to me directly, i didn't think Id see them in stores. I do want Calcitron, but not wiling to fork over the funds for the whole set, then try to sell off the others. I've done that many times, and its fine when you have expendable funds. I'm in a bit of a crunch right now. so either I can get it cheap from someone selling individually on eBay, or not at all, which is fine.