Kurona wrote:King Kuuga wrote:For Pre-NYCC hype, this was said:Kurona wrote:We'll almost certainly see Predaking and the leaked Evergreen figures.
Kurona, you brought this up several other times as well. I'm curious why you were so convinced we would see Predaking fully unveiled at NYCC when previous titans have only been teased there and properly revealed at Toy Fair the year of their release.
Eh, that was a while back so it's difficult to remember. I think it was because we'd seen leaks of a prototype Predaking along with Evergreen Megatron on what looked like a show floor -- combine that with my thinking they needed some sort of big reveal...
NYCC has never been their big reveal con, as far as I can remember. We may have gotten a wave or two of the next toyline, except in 2013 where they just brought AOE Optimus and some Construct Bots. The full reveals of Metroplex, Stomp n Chomp Grimlock (the big toy of that year), Devastator, Fort Max, and Trypticon weren't until the Toy Fair or a related event the spring of their release. It just makes sense that Predaking would follow suit, although why they're playing so coy with what they have shown is beyond me. They got lucky the NYCC hosts weren't quite nostalgic enough to recognize Divebomb's wings on sight and blurt it out during the broadcast. I seem to remember they were at least honest about who Trypticon's leg belonged to.
And I'm not sure we were even supposed to see that test shot or whatever you call it from a few months back, that's the kind of thing they don't usually show until after the fact, like they did at Hascon when they showed the development process of Trypticon and Fort Max.
Side note to whoever: do not ever try to read 3800 posts (this entire thread) in 11 days. I'm just crazy.