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Not sure how I feel about Slipstream at Deluxe, hopefully that Windblade mold ends up being good. Confirmed Filch makes me weirdly happy.

Emerje wrote:

Tra Gen Legacy Star Seekers Deluxe Roadpig
Product Number: G0232

Prowl repaint?

Could also be Crashbar due to the triple headlight chest and so they're not repainting a black bike into another black bike.

Emerje wrote:

Tra Gen Legacy Star Seekers Leader Thundertron
Product Number: G0236

Isn't Thundertron reported to be a new mold? I guess he's a Leo Prime retool now, but as a Leader? Wait and see I guess. Yeah, I know, we had Cosmos and Override, but this guy isn't them. That'll be a big cat unless they decide to scrap the lion mode all together.

Getting a new mold Voyager Thundertron out of nowhere was weird enough, getting that and also a Leader now is downright baffling at this point.

Emerje wrote:I'm guessing the two unnamed Deluxes will be Cannonball (Crankcase repaint?) and Maybe Axer which would be kinda funny since he's shared tools with both Roadpig and Lockdown.

Isn't there only one unnamed Deluxe, and then just the general assortment number?

Metalhawk didn't seem like much of a seller, I see him all the time and got mine during one of the Pulse sales.

Incidentally, Slipstream will definitely be a repaint of the leaked Legacy Cyberverse Windblade similar to what the Takara Tomy Legends line did.

I wonder if Quake will be a heavy retool of Kingdom Warpath, they still haven't reused that mold yet.

sol magnus wrote:I think Thundertron is going to be a retool of Tigerhawk, and I will get it if it is.

Wouldn't it be weird to repaint a blue and white tiger into... a blue and white tiger?

Emerje

Munkky wrote:Also, was there ever a credible leak of a Ramjet package refresh, or was that just speculation?

Ramjet PR was leaked for this year and then seemingly replaced with the Dirge PR we did get.

Emerje wrote:Wouldn't it be weird to repaint a blue and white tiger into... a blue and white tiger?

They could always remove the wings and replace them with those extra bits Thundertron has along his sides. In theory it could work.

Thundertron is a lion.

And his beast head becomes his robot torso. Tigerhawk's beast head becomes his right shoulder.

I'm not existed for Splitstream at all. There's high chance she'll be just a simple repaint or a pretool of something else, and she won't even look like herself or even look like a fembot.
However, if they go the Takara Legends route and make her as a pretool of Windblade, she could be good.

Ugh...Metalhawk is already keeping my local shelves pretty warm, (but not as bad as Jhaxis and Armada Starscream). Or maybe my area just got way too many cases of that wave.

--B-- wrote:Ugh...Metalhawk is already keeping my local shelves pretty warm, (but not as bad as Jhaxis and Armada Starscream). Or maybe my area just got way too many cases of that wave.

The last time I was at a large toy store, there were about four or five Metalhawks all together on the shelf, perhaps a solid case of them, but this was shortly after that wave came out so at the time it was too early to say whether or not it was shelf-warming. I might re-visit that store soon and I'll see how many Metalhawks there still are, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, I am surprised that it's getting a package refresh.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm not existed for Splitstream at all. There's high chance she'll be just a simple repaint or a pretool of something else, and she won't even look like herself or even look like a fembot.
However, if they go the Takara Legends route and make her as a pretool of Windblade, she could be good.

She'll likely be just a retool of the Windblade that's coming out before her.

Did I miss the reveal of Legacy Silverbolt and Tigerhawk?

There was the earlier reveal with Nova Prime and Bludgeon and now there is an announcement for yet another wave... I feel like they skipped one.

Sculyblast wrote:Did I miss the reveal of Legacy Silverbolt and Tigerhawk?

There was the earlier reveal with Nova Prime and Bludgeon and now there is an announcement for yet another wave... I feel like they skipped one.

Bludgeon's wave is supposed to be the last wave of this year. Silverbolt, Tigerhawk, and everything other retail listing leak is for next year's releases (some of which we'll probably see at Pulsecon).

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm not existed for Splitstream at all. There's high chance she'll be just a simple repaint or a pretool of something else, and she won't even look like herself or even look like a fembot.
However, if they go the Takara Legends route and make her as a pretool of Windblade, she could be good.

She'll likely be just a retool of the Windblade that's coming out before her.

It worked the the Legends version so it will be here as well. Let's hope that new Windblade will not be flimsy like the original.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm not existed for Splitstream at all. There's high chance she'll be just a simple repaint or a pretool of something else, and she won't even look like herself or even look like a fembot.
However, if they go the Takara Legends route and make her as a pretool of Windblade, she could be good.

She'll likely be just a retool of the Windblade that's coming out before her.

It worked the the Legends version so it will be here as well. Let's hope that new Windblade will not be flimsy like the original.

It's based on her Cyberverse look so it shouldn't bee that complex and fiddly.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:It's based on her Cyberverse look so it shouldn't bee that complex and fiddly.

Emerje

I just hope that the jet will not be just a girl doing the "superman" with a cape.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:It's based on her Cyberverse look so it shouldn't bee that complex and fiddly.

Emerje

I just hope that the jet will not be just a girl doing the "superman" with a cape.

If Shadow Striker is anything to go by, the figure could just have Cyberverse Slipstream's head and colors, while the body looks nothing like Slipstream's Cyberverse character model, detail-wise.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:It's based on her Cyberverse look so it shouldn't bee that complex and fiddly.

Emerje

I just hope that the jet will not be just a girl doing the "superman" with a cape.

If Shadow Striker is anything to go by, the figure could just have Cyberverse Slipstream's head and colors, while the body looks nothing like Slipstream's Cyberverse character model, detail-wise.

The listing doesn't have a universe attached to it, it doesn't necessarily have to be the Cyberverse version.

Emerje

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Interesting to think that the selection for Animated was a character that didn't actually make it into the show?

All because he's an easy head-swap redeco option for the Animated Optimus that's coming before him

Oh, I see. Still that would be really cool if the Legacy line did showcase other characters that never made it beyond concept art.

Motormaster and the Stunticons did make it past concept. They were BotCon exclusives in 2011. Their only (albeit major) flaw was that they didn't combine, all having been redecos of previously released figures.

So far all the Legacy attempts at Animated updates have been failures, yes even Prowl, I'm still looking forward to Motormaster. See if they added a combination function.

I wish in the wake of the Hound mold used for Data Clerk OP that the Powers
would use the mold again and give us Scorch AND another Shattered Glass figure Ravage!!!

Rodimus Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Interesting to think that the selection for Animated was a character that didn't actually make it into the show?

All because he's an easy head-swap redeco option for the Animated Optimus that's coming before him

Oh, I see. Still that would be really cool if the Legacy line did showcase other characters that never made it beyond concept art.

Motormaster and the Stunticons did make it past concept. They were BotCon exclusives in 2011. Their only (albeit major) flaw was that they didn't combine, all having been redecos of previously released figures.

So far all the Legacy attempts at Animated updates have been failures, yes even Prowl, I'm still looking forward to Motormaster. See if they added a combination function.

For a second I thought maybe they would make this a combiner…
But besides just getting Legacy Menasor completed within the last 6 months, there’s almost no way this could be a combiner torso at the voyager class.
That could’ve been really cool, but doesn’t seem realistic.

And let's face it. Many of the complaints about the Animated Stunticons not being a combiner came from people who wanted a new Classics-style Menasor and didn't really care about the Animated universe or its aesthetic. They just wanted a modern G1-ish Menasor and were mad that BotCon 2011 wasn't gonna give them one (as if they would have ever happened in 2011 regardless).

Sabrblade wrote:And let's face it. Many of the complaints about the Animated Stunticons not being a combiner came from people who wanted a new Classics-style Menasor and didn't really care about the Animated universe or its aesthetic. They just wanted a modern G1-ish Menasor and were mad that BotCon 2011 wasn't gonna give them one (as if they would have ever happened in 2011 regardless).

This is what bugs me about Geewunners. They are never, EVER happy. Unless it's exactly the same g1 figures EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME, they whine, wail, gnash teeth, and cry until the streets are flowing with saliva and tears. Each "new" line (and I have to put new because at this point HasTak has no damned originality and can't create but Geewun redux) the Geewunners complain that it's not, you know, G1 despite it still essentially being g1. You know what current toys have that G1 toys never had? Knees and elbows. Seriously they need to quit their crying and just accept that we aren't in G1 anymore and either move on or sulk and hide in a corner and STFU.


(panting as annoyed rage subsides)

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And let's face it. Many of the complaints about the Animated Stunticons not being a combiner came from people who wanted a new Classics-style Menasor and didn't really care about the Animated universe or its aesthetic. They just wanted a modern G1-ish Menasor and were mad that BotCon 2011 wasn't gonna give them one (as if they would have ever happened in 2011 regardless).

This is what bugs me about Geewunners. They are never, EVER happy. Unless it's exactly the same g1 figures EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME, they whine, wail, gnash teeth, and cry until the streets are flowing with saliva and tears. Each "new" line (and I have to put new because at this point HasTak has no damned originality and can't create but Geewun redux) the Geewunners complain that it's not, you know, G1 despite it still essentially being g1. You know what current toys have that G1 toys never had? Knees and elbows. Seriously they need to quit their crying and just accept that we aren't in G1 anymore and either move on or sulk and hide in a corner and STFU.


(panting as annoyed rage subsides)

Somebody needs to try decaf. By the way, shock treatments only sound scary.

I'm still very, VERY happy with Transformers since Studio Series and the Siege line.

We get mini G1 "masterpieces" over and over. We have characters made that never, ever had their proper toys before like so many IDW characters and comics character like Jhiaxus.
Plus, even though the Animated, Prime, and RiD hommages are not perfect, they are still made. Finally, the upcoming bots are very exiting as always.

Seriously, those who still manage to complain are like those fat kids in front of an all-you-can-eat buffet that complain "there's nothing to eat."

Some interesting listings for sure, but I'll wait until we start seeing stuff before thinking and looking into them too much. So far, the stuff in Legacy that I was most excited for have been more letdowns than actual joy. As a result, I have low expectations for any figure from 3 of my 4 favorite shows, with BW being the only one to be consistently good, where as Prime (with the exception of the Skyquake mold), Animated, and Cyberverse are extremely hit and miss.