Yes, finally, the one true Inferno has arrived! The bulk of the ant mode kinda makes him look more like a carpenter ant than a fire ant, but him being that menacing in alt mode works for him. Having the butt-booster be a gun was admittedly off-putting at first, but having given it time to sit, the 4 barrels totally work for the functionality of what Inferno's guns did. Also, working mouths in both modes? Can't wait.
Screamer....I had already resolved myself to wait for the Thundercracker/Powerlinx Starscream version, but it's cool to get a look at the mold. I was seemingly right about doing the Minicon weapons
as Energon (As I was writing this, product descriptions surfaced calling Screamer's other sword out as Energon) based on the inclusion of the Star Saber, so I'm curious to see what happens with Megatron and Hot Shot. I think I'm okay with his sword not actually being the wing? The concept was cool but the asymmetry always bothered me in practice. Alt mode looks great. No Minicon is disappointing but not unexpected, hopefully he happens later down the line like what Mark said about Drill Bit.
Also, as always, since these are stock images and pre-product renders, I feel like it's good to throw out the reminder that there is no guarantee of these being the final paint apps and/or transformed correctly (Screamer's shoulders are blatantly mistransformed in that render on the box, at the very least).
Sabrblade wrote:Anyway, Antagony was brought up in
this rumor post along with many other leaked figures that have since come to fruition, but she was mentioned in a category of "Release venue unknown but they exist", meaning we have no idea if she'll be Selects, Amazon, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Hasbro Pulse, or some other form of exclusive.
Man, it is somewhat amusing to look back at that list and see how much of it was
mostly-correct.
Blurrz wrote:Sure there was Leader Megs and Deluxe SS that didn't include them but the former was a retool and the latter atleast had minicon ports.
Considering the Siege/ER Micromasters and that Legacy is still carrying forwards the everyone-gets-weapon-ports-galore "gimmick", I'm wondering if Hasbro is intending to just make the Minicons connect via 5 mm ports if/when they get around to doing them, since that removes the need for specifically molded posts and makes them compatible with the whole line.
Also I know this post is already long enough but I figure y'all might want to see JTPrime's most recent finding:
.
[ Click to attempt signal recovery... ]
