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News Credits: 4877 · Fri Jun 17, 2022 1:41 pm

We have not one but two Transformers related reveal events coming next week and they may coincide. On the Thursday, we have a Pulse fanstream event which will include reveals and preorder info. there is also mention of franchise news which can be comics, VR, phone apps or whatever else that isn't toy reveals to spend time on.

The day after, Target will have news on new collab projects with Transformers. We did get a codename "Yellow" collab listing the other day and that could mean anything from the Beatles to Seinfeld's Bee movie, so we'll see.

News Credits: 11 · Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:13 pm

I'm guessing this stream will just be announcing the Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection, while Legacy wave 3 and Studio Series Fallen and (possibly) wave 4 are being saved for San Diego Comic-Con. I've decided I will be getting Blurr along with Override, so I look forward to pre-orders going up for them.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Jun 17, 2022 8:53 pm

I'm guessing Velocitron on the 23th and Buzzworthy Bumblebee on the 24th. "Collabs" (with a lowercase c) and the "yellow" clue doesn't scream Transformers Collaborative to me. Would be nice if we were finally getting Sundstorm.

If it is Collaborative then I don't know, Big Bird? Coldplay? Another J. Balvintron?

Emerje

News Credits: 30 · Sat Jun 18, 2022 4:37 pm

Let's see... Transformers reveal... code name "Yellow"...

I'm thinking another Bumblebee figure, probably another Bayverse remold.

News Credits: 1646 · Sun Jun 19, 2022 10:59 am

I am guessing Velocitron line on thursday and Red Cog preorders on Friday

News Credits: 19 · Mon Jun 20, 2022 11:50 am

Doubting it will be a transforming Godzilla as Playmates has beaten hasbro to it...kinda

and still better than Ectotron

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:38 pm

Holy ****, what the hell????!!!!

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:08 am

As usual, the event started with franchise news like Virtual Reality, the non floating collectible rubber duck type figures previously shown, the previously shown Lego Optimus Prime.

But then it went back to toys and we got a bunch of reveals such as:

The Walmart exclusive Velocitron Speedia 500 set, which is not available to purchase until July
It includes, Blurr, Clampdown, Black Convoy, Hauler, Cosmos, Override, Burnout and Roadrocket.

Important points, Clampdown has white plastic instead of red plastic in areas like the legs as a conscious decision to further differentiate him from Red Alert. Also, the panel confirmed that the Black Convoy in the set is meant to be RID SCOURGE, unlike what some fans had guessed (or hoped?).

We also got reveals of the RED figures found by a Taiwanese glamour model earlier today

And lastly, they revealed Shattered Glass Slicer, who is a redeco of Earthrise Wheeljack and comes with a weapons pack in the form of a red Fasttrack.

All images are below.

Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:40 am

Welp, gotta get Burnout out to use as SG Skids!

News Credits: 19 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:44 am

No musts for me. Maybe the RED stuff and I'd want the red fast track but not the wheeljack mold reuse

Roadrocket and a few others are maybes but not priorities. Cosmos is a pass though it's more g1 ish the TR one is perfectly fine and did more with the additional shuttle bot at a way lower price.

Easiest pass is the Skids repaint, as much as I really like diaclone colors legacy skids doesnt work for me. Maybe it would look better as a lada based character if there was one.

Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:50 am

Given its name and colours Burnout had written "Decepticon" all over it - shame witnessing it become yet another Autobot. Not entirely convinced by Cosmos, looks a little too much like a thrash bin; Roadrocket is a welcome surprise, as SG Wheeljack/Slicer.

News Credits: 30 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:15 pm

I like how solid Cosmos looks. Though that cap on top of the saucer is kind of tall. I see why they did it - the robot torso had to have some heft to it. Looks a bit odd though...

Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:21 pm

Oh wowza, I did not expected SG 'Jack, definitely nabbing that, especially to repurpose as Slicer (I'm sure that's going to be intended anyway much like how SG Magnus could be officially repurposed too). Road Rocket and Burnout both look really good, I'm definitely getting those. (Still waiting for a Flamewar retool too.)
I might get Clampdown to partner up with Cordon, too. (May need some reprolabels to look as slavish as Clampdown, though...)
Also hmm, still not sure about Black Convoy/Scourge. I'll wait to see if they actually might do a Toxitron redeco before considering it however.
Also hmm, the lighting makes that IDW Blurr look more presentable, I may at least get him as a crowd filler... (Still not a big fan of the design...)
But all in all these were pretty good reveals!

Edit: Wow I am a giddy goat, I meant to say that I did not expect Slicer and would be fun to repurpose as Jacky.
I guess I let excitement blur my brain a little!

News Credits: 8 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:26 pm

Yeah, those are all pretty much musts for me.

Cosmos is the one I am least drawn to, that chest needed to be collapsable for thr cockpit mode that flying trash can is just hideous, but I do like thr Bot and thr checkered flag is adorable.

I could probably pass on Burnout since I have the botcon set, but I did get Selects Lift Tucket and hell I have 66.7 billion Countachs already so whats a second version of the skids mold?

Road Rocket looks great.

Slicer is a must I love the way they incorporated the black into the v mode deco.

I love the beefier look that IDW Blurr has to his G1 version. I wish the tires touched the ground and turned but otherwise he is perfect.

Black Convoy I will get but I wish they hadn't gone with the only use of the black chest as the inspiration. He should had the gunmetal chest Luke he did in Car Robots, the US release as Scourge, the Generations release as Scourge, the Legacy headmaster, and the cartoon.

angtre wrote:Given its name and colours Burnout had written "Decepticon" all over it - shame witnessing it become yet another Autobot. Not entirely convinced by Cosmos, looks a little too much like a thrash bin; Roadrocket is a welcome surprise, as SG Wheeljack/Slicer.

Burnout was an Autobot before. Burnout and Liftticket were both Autobots by default in Botcon sets.

Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:20 pm

I don't follow the current SG story but let me get this straight. This Slicer is SG evil Autobot Wheeljack who went undercover as the heroic Decepticon Slicer? Or something like that? Doesn't matter either way, I already picked the set up. Got three actually. One Slicer will be standard Decepticon Slicer. One will be SG Wheeljack. I'll worry about what to do with the third Slicer later. I'll sell it as some point probably. I have until next year to figure it out. I love that it comes with two new guns. I don't recall them mentioning anything about them in the livestream.

I love how there's three female characters in the Speedia line. Not often you see that.

Road Rocket looks really good. Those colors just look amazing on that mold and in general. That is one nice looking shade of red. Might be because it's paired with black. Might be the hints of blue. Don't know but it looks good. The painted shuriken on the arm blades is pretty funny.

Cosmos looks awesome. I don't recall them mentioning anything about him being a partial but I can see how the leakers thought he was made from Warpath. There are some similar transformation elements in where the robot mode parts end up in the vehicle mode and how they get from one place to another but they don't look like they share anything at all so far. Some of the pieces on Cosmos look familiar, like the legs, but they don't line up with anything I'm thinking of like Origin Bumblebee, Kingdom Warpath or Earthrise Cliffjumper. It's just kind of odd for a store exclusive line to get two new molds that aren't retools of anything else so far.

Burn Out would indeed make for a cool Decepticon name but it's not entirely Hasbro's fault making her an Autobot. That honor goes to Funpub. Personally I'd love to have seen more of the Diaclone decos be Decepticons instead of Autobots. We have Exhaust and Loudpedal and that's it. DK-2 Guard (but I guess we kind of have that with the Deseeus Drone), red Skids/SG Skids (not Reboost as that's red Crosscut), red Mirage, Burn Out, Lift Ticket, Spin Out and whatever the names of the blue and yellow Trailbreaker and/or Hoist figures will be would make for some great Decepticons. Tigertrack, Crosscut, Road Rage, Clamp Down and Deep Cover have been named for so long though that I don't think it would go down easy to switch their allegiances now. Reboost and Cordon can stay Autobots. Blue Bluestreak could've been a Decepticon too lol. Not that I can't just put some new labels over their existing sigils myself though. Otherwise, I actually like the Skids mold. It's not amazing but it's not too bad.

The rest we've seen.

Scourge looks great but it's a shame about the colors with the name and the lack of paint on the translucent parts of the shoulders.

Override looks amazing. She may or may not be worth the voyager tag blah blah blah.

Clamp Down makes my custom Siege Clamp Down obsolete. Just like what happened with Deep Cover and Tigertrack.

Blurr looks good. Shame it's not a "pretool" of Pointblank as Armada/Cybertron Blurr. I don't really like the SS Blur mold overall.

Road Hauler is okay. He may or may not be Hauler. Screaming head is cool but should be extra and not the main head. Some people hate animation errors. Something something something Darksyde. Something something something complete.

Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:13 pm

Just saw hasbro's reveal stream today and it seemed all they talked about was the Walmart Velocitron line that they said would roll out in july. But why wouldn't they discuss the more immenant Target line that is comming TOMMOROW that was announced a couple of days ago?

How do we prepare 4 tommorow's target preorders if hasbro didn't talk about it today? Any info on the buzzworthy worlds collide Ransack 4 pack? Particularly,I need 2 know what that Goldbug is going 2 look like beforehand so I'll know if I'm going 2 Want 2 order it.Comon sense, right?

Thu Jun 23, 2022 2:27 pm

SciFi80sGameFan wrote:Just saw hasbro's reveal stream today and it seemed all they talked about was the Walmart Velocitron line that they said would roll out in july. But why wouldn't they discuss the more immenant Target line that is comming TOMMOROW that was announced a couple of days ago?

How do we prepare 4 tommorow's target preorders if hasbro didn't talk about it today? Any info on the buzzworthy worlds collide Ransack 4 pack? Particularly,I need 2 know what that Goldbug is going 2 look like beforehand so I'll know if I'm going 2 Want 2 order it.Comon sense, right?

Honestly I just assumed Goldbug would be the Cliffjumper mold w/ SG Goldbug's head in normal Goldbug colours.

News Credits: 19 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:01 pm

listing goes live tomoorow for the goldbug set in UK so there won't be much waiting for the photos. Tonton needs to step up his mergers and aquisitions for sneak reveals, sighs, the good old days of thievery.

News Credits: 4877 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:01 pm

blackeyedprime wrote:listing goes live tomoorow for the goldbug set in UK so there won't be much waiting for the photos. Tonton needs to step up his mergers and aquisitions for sneak reveals, sighs, the good old days of thievery.

Hahahahaha

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:31 pm

Cosmos' saucer mode is just bad. As for the rest, not really seeing anything that makes me want to part with gas money.

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:34 pm

Man, the stuff today was really good.

I decided I am getting all of the Velocitron figures. I'll talk about them in their thread.

Prime Optimus and Megatron give me fits. I like how they look! But the RED figures are such bad quality. I want to like them, but I didn't get Knockout because of Arcee's quality and I feel the same towards these 2.

SG Wheeljack is neat, I like the G1 Slicer action master component too

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:56 am

Thanks to preternia on twitter, we have our first look at the Target exclusive figures going up today as part of the Transformers section of the Target Summer Geek-Out event.

And talk about out of left field! The figures revealed include US releases of the Takara exclusive Street Fighter figures released years ago using Titans Return and Thrilling 30 figures. But the main attraction has to be the release of a Tonka x Hasbro collaborative Devastator, which is G1 Devastator decorated up as a set of Tonka construction vehicles, complete with Autobot symbols. This might be the rumored project: yellow figure as well, though we have no confirmation on that yet.

These figures should be going live on Target's website around 9 AM eastern time, though as we know, Target's systems could be finnicky and we might have to keep watch throughout the day to secure our orders.

Check out the image below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

News Credits: 19 · Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:24 am

Glad the x over quality is improving even if it has to use pre hasbro x overs to do it

as for the Tonka decy really cool but I'm pretty sure no one would attribute Tonka quality to g1 devy haha

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:51 am

I already have the Street Fighter figures so that's an easy pass. I do want the Tonka set, but I'm concerned about how much Hasbro will try to mark it up despite owning Tonka and refreshing the molds a few years ago.

Emerje

News Credits: 18 · Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:08 am

Emerje wrote:I already have the Street Fighter figures so that's an easy pass. I do want the Tonka set, but I'm concerned about how much Hasbro will try to mark it up despite owning Tonka and refreshing the molds a few years ago.

Emerje

To answer your question, $104.99.

the price is not too unfair imho, but still not worth the investment for me. I have the last Devy re-issue, and I literally just sold off my street fighters, so I'm good passing on all of these.