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News Credits: 11 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:40 pm

I like the blue Cockpit on Windylass and the bi more dark tone overall helps her look - It would be nice to have the option to duel wield swords too with the purchase of this figure in addition to the previous one - likewise she can have a couple of hairfan blades too. I do wish this mould had hinged wings that could flow down like a cape it might help her look cooler and also help here stand better - as she falls over more often than any other single figure I own due to the tiny feet spikes and all the weigh being in the top of her body and the knees are weak too.

However I appreciate and support the idea of battle mask faces - I hope Hasbro do something with the other bumblebee mould & other Grimlock mould - though i'd likely rather have a G2 purple or Tigerstripe coloured Grimlock than another Green one with a battlemask head.

I guess we will have to call this 2017 Windblade or Combiner Force Windblade to distinguish her from the previous one.

I will admit though I'm puzzled why not make some Sandy deco RID already ? They have been like that in the show more than once and yet not a single toy - all I've seen is a couple of prototype Legions in sandy deco that never came out.

It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

I Have to hope that TRU doesn't fall asleep just yet on the new Titans Returns and RID 2017 (funny isn't it a line that only some seem to much like is one of the longest lasting kids lines now).

But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.

Sun Jan 08, 2017 5:55 pm

all i can say is i enjoy watching the show

News Credits: 332 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:03 pm

RAR wrote:I like the blue Cockpit on Windylass and the bi more dark tone overall helps her look - It would be nice to have the option to duel wield swords too with the purchase of this figure in addition to the previous one - likewise she can have a couple of hairfan blades too. I do wish this mould had hinged wings that could flow down like a cape it might help her look cooler and also help here stand better - as she falls over more often than any other single figure I own due to the tiny feet spikes and all the weigh being in the top of her body and the knees are weak too.

However I appreciate and support the idea of battle mask faces - I hope Hasbro do something with the other bumblebee mould & other Grimlock mould - though i'd likely rather have a G2 purple or Tigerstripe coloured Grimlock than another Green one with a battlemask head.

I guess we will have to call this 2017 Windblade or Combiner Force Windblade to distinguish her from the previous one.

I will admit though I'm puzzled why not make some Sandy deco RID already ? They have been like that in the show more than once and yet not a single toy - all I've seen is a couple of prototype Legions in sandy deco that never came out.

It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

I Have to hope that TRU doesn't fall asleep just yet on the new Titans Returns and RID 2017 (funny isn't it a line that only some seem to much like is one of the longest lasting kids lines now).

But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.

It took forever to get Legends Groundpounder. I'd love to see something bigger. Maybe one of these new Activator type figures.

It does make me feel better that other people weren't able to find those Weaponized Minicons. Really surprised Hasbro dropped the ball that bad.

News Credits: 241 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:07 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:It does make me feel better that other people weren't able to find those Weaponized Minicons. Really surprised Hasbro dropped the ball that bad.

I think it's just the stores not feeling the need to order more stock. The first two waves just didn't sell...

Only Weaponizers I saw were two of the 4-packs, only then they were only at Target. I almost got one just for Autobot Dragonus.

News Credits: 19 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 6:15 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these
Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not

News Credits: 462 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 7:04 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these
Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not

Will's post was the front page news post containing the newsworthy contents of Bumblebee21's post.

News Credits: 23 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:30 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Some of the most anticipated figures in the Robots in Diguise line are Warrior Blurr and Soundwave, especially since Blurr seems to be an interpretation of his Recue Bot look.

We have video reviews of both coming from Chefatron who found them at Toysrus in the Phillipines.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Erm....didn't Bumblebee21 already post these
Not as a front page news post.

Well it seems kinda strange that his Titans Return post made front page news & this one didn't! but i guess that's up to Bumblebee21 to argue that point....if he chooses to do so....or not
Will's post was the front page news post containing the newsworthy contents of Bumblebee21's post.

yeah i was first. i dont really care as long as people know the reviews are up.

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:10 pm

This came out of nowhere (again). We are getting a new Windblade. It is a redeco of the previous Warrior Windblade mold with a battlemask. It was revealed at a Hasbro event in the Philippines. We do not know if that means it will be found on the show. What do you make of it? Would you double dip? Or would you buy this one over the other version?

News Credits: 191 · Sun Jan 08, 2017 10:14 pm

Honestly the colours are just so much better than the previous release; and the battle mask, whether it appears on the show or not is just friggin' cool. Could still do with a bit more colour, but since I can't see Takara releasing such a minor retool...

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:47 am

Wow. That looks good. We already knew what it looked liked from the back of the Titan Force box, but it looks better in person.

News Credits: 388 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:57 am

Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:27 am

Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Oh you mean- *aimed at by multiple firearms* nevermind.

And yeah, that does look evil.. SG Windblade anyone?

News Credits: 3644 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:31 am

RAR wrote:It is a shame that the RID 2017 toys are likely going to get buried in the build up to some rampant overstocking of the Last Knight toys in a few months time. as I certainly never see a sniff of Rescue Bots toys in the UK. They may as well be eBay exclusives to me.

That would explain why I sell so many Rescue Bots toys to the UK. Wasn't aware that Rescue Bots were hard to find across the pond. Rescue Bots continues to be one of the biggest regular sellers from the Seibertron.com store.

News Credits: 26 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:23 am

Holy crap, between the newer RiD toys AND most of Titans Return, the designers are REALLY upping their game, I'm very impressed! :APPLAUSE:

But sadly, I can't get the thought of how utterly astonishing these toys would've been if the budget was like it was before out of my head, imagine these new designs but with the mass and build quality of Cybertron toys and the paint detailing of the 2001 RiD figures and the parts count of ROTF...those would've been Masterpieces

Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:37 am

[quote="RAR] But the real joke is that most of that product is just Optimus/Strongarm/Bumblebee/Grimlock & Sideswipe over and over and over again. They didn't even think to make a 3 step Jazz or Groundpounder.[/quote]

Nah, the real joke is they keep making things cheaper and cheaper but we keep lapping it up.

News Credits: 11 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 5:41 am

TimothyR wrote:Nah, the real joke is they keep making things cheaper and cheaper but we keep lapping it up.

I notice how there was a lot of complaining about Off Road, Alpha Bravo and Rook ; but over time people seemed to kinda get on board with the idea.

The number of Characters we get now who are new is very small indeed. where as wizz back in time 30-32 years the majority of them are new - regardless of who is on the cartoon at the time.

It's like Hasbro is allergic to making new sub-groups or teams of original characters who sell just on the basis that they look cool and do cool stuff.

If they don't want to do "totally new" the compromise that usually comes to mind is to make proper toy versions of the Kre-O combiners - I would be really interested by that to see who people would react to a (almost) brand new beast combiner that isn't Monstructor or Predaking or Abominus.

But considering they often don't even make toys of Characters from their own TV shows - I remain sceptical that they will have a change of heart in that regard anytime soon.

But might people like original Characters over say pretender homages or a rest to zero again and zooming back to 2006 again in terms of the non-cartoon toyline.

Especially as modern toys are likely to be inferior to late 2000's ones in some respects.

Though I guess you could argue the toss on Hotrod. I'm still pondering that one myself.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:17 am

Panda Prime Productions has a review of the newly found Robots in Disguise Combiner Force figures. This video features the two sets currently available, Primestrong (which combines Strongarm with Optimus Prime) and Beeside (which combines Bumblebee and Sideswipe). You can see their individual robot modes, how the gimmick works and the combined form. Let us know what you think of them and if your kids would like them!

News Credits: 11 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:43 am

My 3 year old will love these. My 6 year old, who plays with Generations, Combiner Wars, and Titans Return characters, will not.

Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:26 am

Windblade's going to an Eyes Wide Shut party.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:40 am

Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

I've seen customizers saying they want to turn her into Maxima, also known as She Who Sings, the First Maximal, Daughter of the Founder of the Maximals Fortress Maximus, from the amazingly-written series Beast Wars: Uprising.

News Credits: 11 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:04 pm

Some more Chefatron reviews are up (see the Titans Returns thread for others) ; here are the RID-17 ones though :

Alpine Strike Drift Review :

Warrior Skywarp review :

Legion Springload Review :

Legion Blurr Review :

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:03 pm

Decepticon Stryker wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:Honestly, that headsculpt makes her look kind of evil. I can see customizers turning this into a Decepticon, or possibly Maxima, from The Web-Series-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named.

Oh you mean- *aimed at by multiple firearms* nevermind.

And yeah, that does look evil.. SG Windblade anyone?

SG windbladr already exists she doesn't where the battle mask at all rather she has an color that is an homage to a certain anime character....

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:10 pm

Seibertronian RAR has provided us with more reviews today, this time in the form of a pair of repaints along with a new legion class figure: Blurr! Warrior Alpine Strike Drift is a repaint of the warrior class figure in an homage to the IDW character of the same name. Skywarp is a repaint of the Warrior Starscream mold, looking very nice in his black and purple. And rounding out the crew is legion class Blurr, an all new mold and a potential piece of a Robots in Disguise/Rescue Bots toy crossover.

You can check out the reviews below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Alpine Strike Drift Review :

Warrior Skywarp review :

Legion Blurr Review :

News Credits: 11 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:17 pm

I just realised I don't know if Bisk is a 2017 Legion wave 1 or Legion wave 2 repack since he was skipped in the UK in the previous packaging style I hope he will get released in the new packaging either in wave 1 or 2 of Combiner Force Legions.

Maybe by the time he comes out I can actually find a Legion Ratchet that has two legs painted the same and not one thickly painted and one thinly painted - I've not seen such a common paint error since the Hasbro Asia Conehead 3 pack version of Thrust who had the same problem on his lift fans (I have two and they are both like that - but at least I can swap them now).

It would be great if they wrap Warrior Ratchet & Bisk back into a later wave too since both of those seem to have been skipped to - I remain a bit scared they might forget to do that though since Jazz was not reissued at all so far - where as Grimlock and Strongarm you can't escape from them.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jan 09, 2017 8:27 pm

Part of the new Combiner Force sub-line for Transformers: Robots in Disguise toys, the new class of Activators is appearing back in our plastic lives - many were first seen here - and thanks to fellow Seibertronian Bounti76, we have the first second US sighting in Centerville, Utah, and its Walmart store. As you can see pictured below, Strongarm and Trickout were available, and we're told the Bumblebee two-pack also was, as we reported a couple of weeks back- happy hunting!