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Sabrblade wrote:For the record, the Japanese version of the new RID line will be called "Transformers: Adventure", explaining the "TAV" part of the ID numbers.

Speaking of which, what would HA stand for? There's a second line which contains the One-Step and Three-Steps, and an AoE Power Battler:

- HA01 Bumblebee (Three-Step)
- HA02 Grimlock (Three-Step)
- HA03 Sideswipe (One-Step)
- HA04 Prowl (AoE One-Step)
- HA05 Junkion (AoE Power Battler Junkheap)

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:For the record, the Japanese version of the new RID line will be called "Transformers: Adventure", explaining the "TAV" part of the ID numbers.

Speaking of which, what would HA stand for? There's a second line which contains the One-Step and Three-Steps, and an AoE Power Battler:

- HA01 Bumblebee (Three-Step)
- HA02 Grimlock (Three-Step)
- HA03 Sideswipe (One-Step)
- HA04 Prowl (AoE One-Step)
- HA05 Junkion (AoE Power Battler Junkheap)

That's a good question. My guess is that we might have another case like with Lost Age Series and Movie Advanced Series being two separate lines for the same feature presentation, only this time with the more advanced line (Adventure) being the primary line while the simpler line (HA) being the secondary, rather than vice-versa like it was with Lost Age.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:For the record, the Japanese version of the new RID line will be called "Transformers: Adventure", explaining the "TAV" part of the ID numbers.

Speaking of which, what would HA stand for? There's a second line which contains the One-Step and Three-Steps, and an AoE Power Battler:

- HA01 Bumblebee (Three-Step)
- HA02 Grimlock (Three-Step)
- HA03 Sideswipe (One-Step)
- HA04 Prowl (AoE One-Step)
- HA05 Junkion (AoE Power Battler Junkheap)

Human Alliance. I am just kidding, probably something along the lines of Hyperchange Action or something.

Could also be another case of using a Japanese word (like Henkei). Maybe it's Henshin (to change) Adventures since they're using 1-Step and 3-Step Changers.

Anyway, the Scoop figure would make a better Cybertron/Galaxy Force Landmine/Guardshell than Roadblock. Then they could pass off his Targetmaster partners for Minicons.

Emerje

We'll just have to wait and see what either the packaging for the simpler toys says or what TakaraTomy's website (when they update it to make a section for the Adventure toys) says.

Thanks to the Polish retailer Merlin, we get a small in-package image of the Transformers Robots in Disguise 3-step Hyperchange Optimus Prime. The image also reveals what Optimus looks like in his robot mode and gives you a peek as to what his transformation is like. Previously, Hyperchange Optimus Prime was only seen in his vehicle mode.

I almost looks like Drift is a retool of bumblebee.

Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

prjkt wrote:interesting... wouldn't the Scoop mould be out of style compared to the other RID figures?

He would be quite a bit. Then again, he won't be the first foreign mold for the line as we have:

- TAV09 Swoop (Animated mold predicted)
- TAV10 Snarl (Animated mold predicted)
- TAV11 Knock Out (Beast Hunters mold predicted, unreleased in Japan)
- TAV12 Dreadwing (Beast Hunters mold predicted, unreleased in Japan)

Eagerly awaiting the decos on all of them, especially for Knock Out.

Hmmm that Swoop may be a buy as well, if the colours are G1 enough for me to repurpose it...

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Well that's kind of disappointing if it's true. Especially if it somehow results in him being reborn again.

Shuttershock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Well that's kind of disappointing if it's true. Especially if it somehow results in him being reborn again.

It's Peter Cullen voicing him. You know how he feels about Optimus staying dead. He'll be back at some point as Optimus Supreme.

Shuttershock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Well that's kind of disappointing if it's true. Especially if it somehow results in him being reborn again.

This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Well that's kind of disappointing if it's true. Especially if it somehow results in him being reborn again.

It's Peter Cullen voicing him. You know how he feels about Optimus staying dead. He'll be back at some point as Optimus Supreme.

Well I didn't discount that Optimus would be back, I just figured they'd wait until a new show came along (new continuity that is). If the stated story of RID is to have Bee as a leader in his own right, then it would only discredit him to bring back Prime.

As always time will make prophets or fools of each of us speculators, but it's a curious thought to consider with this ostensibly new approach.

prjkt wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Decent amount of merchandise for a guy who's dead and at most will be acting as a blue Jedi spirit mentor.

He'll be having his own (most possibly onscreen) adventure in the afterlife.

Well that's kind of disappointing if it's true. Especially if it somehow results in him being reborn again.

This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

Yeah, Prime has died a lot, but usually only once per series/continuity. You can only pull that card so many times before it becomes cheap.

Having passed on, he could always be a mentor/Jedi spirit to future leaders a la Alpha Trion. I just think it would be a mistake for him to return in proper.

prjkt wrote:This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

When?

Shuttershock wrote:Well I didn't discount that Optimus would be back, I just figured they'd wait until a new show came along (new continuity that is). If the stated story of RID is to have Bee as a leader in his own right, then it would only discredit him to bring back Prime.

As always time will make prophets or fools of each of us speculators, but it's a curious thought to consider with this ostensibly new approach.

Don't forget that right before Optimus sacrificed himself he retired the title of Prime and essentially ended the age of Primes. So if he comes back, he's no longer got any real authority to take command from the leaders who'd be already in charge during his inevitable return. Just cuz he's Optimus Prime doesn't mean he's automatically made the boss.

Sabrblade wrote:

prjkt wrote:This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

When?

Ok, maybe not exactly "died" but according to the Covenent of Primus he took himself into the Well of Allsparks, basically sacrificing everything he was to be reborn as one of the new Cybertronians. Only regained his memory was he received the Matrix, centuries later.

prjkt wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

prjkt wrote:This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

When?

Ok, maybe not exactly "died" but according to the Covenent of Primus he took himself into the Well of Allsparks, basically sacrificing everything he was to be reborn as one of the new Cybertronians. Only regained his memory was he received the Matrix, centuries later.

Oh that. Right. Thought you meant something else.

Sabrblade wrote:

prjkt wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

prjkt wrote:This is the aligned continuity, he's already died and been reborn once before.

When?

Ok, maybe not exactly "died" but according to the Covenent of Primus he took himself into the Well of Allsparks, basically sacrificing everything he was to be reborn as one of the new Cybertronians. Only regained his memory was he received the Matrix, centuries later.

Oh that. Right. Thought you meant something else.

Yeah, reading that, I also thought it was a reference to the part right before the forge of Solus is used to turn Prime into Beast Hunters Prime.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:Thanks to the Polish retailer Merlin, we get a small in-package image of the Transformers Robots in Disguise 3-step Hyperchange Optimus Prime. The image also reveals what Optimus looks like in his robot mode and gives you a peek as to what his transformation is like. Previously, Hyperchange Optimus Prime was only seen in his vehicle mode.

The way his chest layers, it almost looks like Prime's wearing a mech-suit. Kinda like Cloud Brawn.

Thunderhoof looks pretty cool, if there's a Warrior Class figure for him I might get it. Are all the Decepticons going to be animals though? Probably means we'll see Spittor sometime soon.

crimsondeception wrote:Thunderhoof looks pretty cool, if there's a Warrior Class figure for him I might get it. Are all the Decepticons going to be animals though? Probably means we'll see Spittor sometime soon.

Well, so far all of them seem to be based on animals, though made humanoid. Yes, that would technically made them robotic furries... The Japanese releases of Knock Out and Dreadwing would fit kinda too, with their animal armor from the predicted Beast Hunters molds.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Well, so far all of them seem to be based on animals, though made humanoid. Yes, that would technically made them robotic furries... The Japanese releases of Knock Out and Dreadwing would fit kinda too, with their animal armor from the predicted Beast Hunters molds.

Excellent point, Jelze, I had not thought of that. That makes the current decepticons a certain evolved form of where the Prime toys were going.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Well, so far all of them seem to be based on animals, though made humanoid. Yes, that would technically made them robotic furries... The Japanese releases of Knock Out and Dreadwing would fit kinda too, with their animal armor from the predicted Beast Hunters molds.

Excellent point, Jelze, I had not thought of that. That makes the current decepticons a certain evolved form of where the Prime toys were going

Don't you mean devolved?