Last listing update for the day: Voltrace found a Legacy Arcee listing, presumably for the Prime Arcee that the leakers have discussed previously.
william-james88 wrote:o.supreme wrote:Several of the names and sizes are puzzling for sure. Does TF7 Wheelie pretty much confirm he will be in Rise of the Beasts? Will it be a new character homaging annoying TFTM Wheelie, or Perverted Tom Kenney ( which I guess would be a Decepticon in the 90s?) Wheelie?
Also I agree with others with my bewilderment with Core Class. I mean Rattrap and the 2 skeleton Dino's (since they have no previous fiction), could work in continuity, and I get the OG characters are nice to have a more budget friendly version for parents to get for kids (that is out of continuity), but to start doing core class for SS86 is definitely a nonsensical decision to me.
Wouldnt SS 86 core class simply be a continuation of what we've seen in Kingdom with Optimus, Starscream, Megatron and Soudwave? More G1 characters in that scale.
And assuming that is the case, that makes Ratchet the perfect choice for the next Core release, regardless of the people complaining that he isn't a bigger new SS86 figure, since Ratchet has had a hand/role in every new piece of TF media since the 2007 movie. Of course Hasbro would want a character with that much recent presence in the mini-line of affordable big-name characters, even if the hardcore collectors would prefer otherwise.
Sowndwave76 wrote:Nemesis Reformatted wrote:Some of the guys over on TFW are thinking/hoping that SS86 Ratchet is a typo & it's actually Ratbat or Rewind to go with Rumble. I could definitely go for another Ratbat.
This makes more sense…
I could see Rewind to battle Rumble. & Blaster has pretty much been confirmed.
The leakers have said that Blaster comes with Eject, so I would be willing to believe that Rewind would then be more likely to come packaged with a Blaster repaint rather than as a separate release.
jtanimator wrote:Okay I’m just SO confused now. For YEARS I’ve heard countless fans hate on the combiner wars combining system. And to be honest, I kind of hated it myself. I mean it was a little fun while it lasted, but now I’m looking back to a bunch of characters that all transform in the same basic way, made with the same basic chest and a whole bunch of other cheap sacrifices to accommodate the combining system they went with. Not to mention that they didn’t even come together to make sturdy or very good looking combiners. So Why on EARTH is everyone here (seemingly out of nowhere) hoping so badly that these new ones use the same god forbidden system? Whereas they could likely create a WAY better one since the conception of SS and WFC and their superior engineering. not a bash on everyone, but I genuinely don’t get what everyone is thinking here?
Simple: People want a new Motormaster but don't want to have to also spend the money to buy all of the limbs again, especially if they end up not liking the look of the new limbs. I'm pretty sure 98% of all complaints with CW Menasor I've seen have just been that people hate Motormaster's torso mode, so having the new figure also be CW compatible is best case scenario for those individuals.
Also I've seen fans complain about individual CW/PotP figures, but not the combining system itself, that's news to me.
Nuclearxpotato wrote:My current theory is that "Energon Monsters" are Core class Weaponisers / Battlemasters / Armour. We know there's a Pretender homage in Legacy so this will probably that. I'm betting they'll be transparent "energon" figures of the Pretender shells that can be taken apart and put on Deluxe figures. There's also rumours of "Energon Hunters" which I'm guessing are the Autobot pretender shells.
If the Decepticon shells are relegated to Core class exclusivity while the Autobots get Deluxe+ I will be incredibly pissed. Autobot Pretenders are incredibly worse than Decepticon Pretenders.
...my only issue with this theory is that Apollux (the guy responsible for a lot of the early Kingdom leaks, as well as this Pretender rumor) was specific that there were only 2 Pretender homages and they were only in the smallest size class, so that would mean 2 Core Class Energon Monsters max and the Energon Hunters would have to all be bigger and be something completely different. It's possible, but I feel like a more likely Pretender homage would be them repainting Core Megatron into Bludgeon's inner bot, or something. Having Pretender armor Weaponizers does sound like a neat concept though, I'm cool with anything that could get me an updated transforming Octopunch with a bot mode based off his shell design.
Apollux also mentioned when they said about the Deluxe Class ones that all of these Energon Hunters/Monsters may have brightly-tinted see-through Energon weaponry, which is the other part that really screams "Energon Omnibots/Terrorcons" at me.