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News Credits: 15 · Wed May 15, 2013 10:21 am

viruscarnage wrote:

Thanks, bro, that's the one.

And I agree, they look best together in Prime.

News Credits: 5749 · Wed May 15, 2013 2:21 pm

The Hub has shared a new promo image for this Friday's all new episode of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters, "Project Predacon". The image features Ultra Magnus and the newly upgrade Optimus Prime with the Forge of Solus Prime in the foreground. Be sure to tune into The Hub this Friday at 7:30 PM ET.

Wed May 15, 2013 3:40 pm

Looks like they're getting ready to use the forge again!...i wonder for what? :-?

Wed May 15, 2013 3:41 pm

Looks like they're getting ready to use the forge again!...i wonder for what? :-?

Wed May 15, 2013 3:42 pm

Looks like they're getting ready to use the forge again!...i wonder for what? :-?

Wed May 15, 2013 3:44 pm

Triple post... :-x

stupid phone browser

News Credits: 251 · Wed May 15, 2013 4:26 pm

DEMEXICONZ wrote:Looks like they're getting ready to use the forge again!...i wonder for what?

Well, since it has no power, I assume it's now a perfect banhammer battle hammer.

News Credits: 25 · Wed May 15, 2013 4:35 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
DEMEXICONZ wrote:Looks like they're getting ready to use the forge again!...i wonder for what?

Well, since it has no power, I assume it's now a perfect banhammer battle hammer.

Well it would be a good Ban hammer aswell

but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.

Wed May 15, 2013 4:47 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:I always loved the way Optimus & Ultra Magnus looked standing next to one another. Even in G1.

Project Predacon may be the first episode this season that I'm excited for, mostly cause of my hope for the addition of new Predacons (or the build up leading to) and Smokescreen's new deco.

I agree with your comment on Magnus and Optimus. I am so glad that Magnus made it in to this season of the show, and I'm like a kid in a candy store with all these Magnus figures too. Even though I prefer the PRID version of Magnus as a toy, the BH version in-show does look AWESOME.

I see in the preview that we get a look at Prime's new truck mode, so hopefully we also get a look at Magnus in truck mode (even though we know what to expect - I still want to see it in CGI!) Also very much looking forward to Smokescreens new deco in both modes.

News Credits: 462 · Wed May 15, 2013 4:59 pm

Autobot Strider wrote:I don't think that they will make Prowl in show look like that picture because it's that different. My opinion only, I could be very wrong. That is all I am trying to say.

Well, as far as the toys go, the Legion class Prowl (redeco of Smokescreen) based its deco on that image (or at least, it took its star design from it).

PrymeStriker wrote:Also, looks like the Autobots have some of their tech back (in the background, there's a computer)

Well, since their old base's equipment was human technology modified for Cybertronian use, it may be the same case here, with those new computers being provided by the government.

viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.

Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

News Credits: 25 · Wed May 15, 2013 5:20 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus

News Credits: 462 · Wed May 15, 2013 5:27 pm

viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus

First they gotta find the darn ship since it's always on the move and shielded from detection.

News Credits: 25 · Wed May 15, 2013 5:41 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus
First they gotta find the darn ship since it's always on the move and shielded from detection.

Isn't the ship at every major battle?

News Credits: 251 · Wed May 15, 2013 5:53 pm

viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus
First they gotta find the darn ship since it's always on the move and shielded from detection.

Isn't the ship at every major battle?

Not if the Decepticons lost a major advantage, and they're hiding from the Autobots' eyes in the sky so that they can recover from their loss.

News Credits: 462 · Wed May 15, 2013 5:54 pm

viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus
First they gotta find the darn ship since it's always on the move and shielded from detection.

Isn't the ship at every major battle?

And how often do said "major battles" occur?

If by "major battle" you mean "each episode's battle-of-the-week", then sadly no, it isn't.

News Credits: 25 · Wed May 15, 2013 6:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
viruscarnage wrote:but I would love to see Magnus with the Forge and Optimus with the Star Saber.
Seconded. Though, first they gotta get the Star Saber back from the Nemesis.

That should just take like 10 minutes for Optimus
First they gotta find the darn ship since it's always on the move and shielded from detection.

Isn't the ship at every major battle?
And how often do said "major battles" occur?

If by "major battle" you mean "each episode's battle-of-the-week", then sadly no, it isn't.

After I wrote that I realized that I was completely off it was really only there In Legacy, and Flying Mind lol

Thu May 16, 2013 9:45 am

Sabrblade wrote:Well, as far as the toys go, the Legion class Prowl (redeco of Smokescreen) based its deco on that image (or at least, it took its star design from it).

Yeah, but this is what I mean... the figure is a straight-up repaint of Smokescreen, incorporating the deco from the MMORPG image, right? I'm sure that the Deluxe Prowl toy will do likewise, and I'm theorizing that the in-show model will as well (with possibly a new head).

Note that the Cyberverse Prowl figure (as far as I can tell, don't own one) has the same head as the Smokescreen figure, and no missiles.

News Credits: 15 · Thu May 16, 2013 10:10 am

Autobot Strider wrote:Note that the Cyberverse Prowl figure (as far as I can tell, don't own one) has the same head as the Smokescreen figure, and no missiles.

Honest question...has there ever been a legion class with a retooled head? I mean, the only Cyberverse figures with retooled heads I can think of originate from the Ironhide mold, made into Trailcutter and Huffer, which is a bigger size than the legion.

And, where would the missiles go? Where could they possible fit on that little guy without having to remove them and set them to the side?

Sabrblade wrote:Well, as far as the toys go, the Legion class Prowl (redeco of Smokescreen) based its deco on that image (or at least, it took its star design from it).

The Cyberverse figure uses the entire vehicle mode design, not just the star or deco.

News Credits: 34 · Thu May 16, 2013 2:37 pm

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/transformers-prime-beast-hunters-season-3-episode-5-project-predacon-preview-clip-177479/

Ultra Magnus explains the new artifact, which Starscream mocks

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:15 pm

Ultra Magnus huh?

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:22 pm

There... there were Autobots... and Predacons... on Earth... during the War for Cybertron...

I do not like that. >:oP

I'm a continuity buff, and I take seriously what goes on in this cartoon, the games, the novels, and the tie-in comics, and this just stretches belief even further than necessary.

Also, this is the original source for the video:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/animated_features/news/?a=79697

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News Credits: 1 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:25 pm

Sabrblade wrote:There... there were Autobots... and Predacons... on Earth... during the War for Cybertron...

I do not like that.

I'm a continuity buff, and I take seriously what goes on in this cartoon, the games, the novels, and the tie-in comics, and this just stretches belief even further than necessary.

Also, this is the original source for the video:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/animated_features/news/?a=79697

YouTube embed:

Why?

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:31 pm

Oh and did those look like the terrorcons to anyone else ?

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:33 pm

njb902 wrote:Why?

Because the fiction covering the war strongly imply that Earth was relatively unknown to Cybertron, with Shockwave having just discovered it for the first time nearer to the war's end, which was at a point when long distance space travel had become nearly obsolete, thus nullifying any chance anyone of traveling from Cybertron to Earth before that point.

Now that we find out that Shockwave and Megatron knew about Earth all along and had sent a batch of "Predaclones" there, as well as there having been Autobots also there at that point in time, it opens up a can of continuity worms that provides more fuel for anti-Aligned Continuity fans to fuel their flames against it with.

News Credits: 1 · Thu May 16, 2013 3:39 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:Why?
Because the fiction covering the war strongly imply that Earth was relatively unknown to Cybertron, with Shockwave having just discovered it for the first time nearer to the war's end, which was at a point when long distance space travel had become nearly obsolete, thus nullifying any chance anyone of traveling from Cybertron to Earth before that point.

Now that we find out that Shockwave and Megatron knew about Earth all along and had sent a batch of "Predaclones" there, as well as there having been Autobots also there at that point in time, it opens up a can of continuity worms that provides more fuel for anti-Aligned Continuity fans to fuel their flames against it with.

I guess I just look at it like our own history, it's full of holes, lies, and personal interpretations.