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News Credits: 2 · Sun Apr 26, 2015 1:19 am

and garbage keep coming, HURRA Hasbro! :-x

News Credits: 2 · Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:41 am

anybody who is buying this stuff.... somebody really needs to sit you down and have serious words.

I liked robot heroes, and is support Hasbro in most endeavours, but this is utter dog youknowwhat

News Credits: 21 · Sun Apr 26, 2015 6:45 am

defnialty be made to be put int o happy meal toy for boy

News Credits: 293 · Sun Apr 26, 2015 11:29 am

Wow. I wonder if the internet existed back in 1984, would people have moaned about decoys too? >:oP

News Credits: 4880 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:09 am

Podcaster extraordinaire Scotty P has pointed us towards a new listing on Entertainment Earth for Wave 5 of the blind bagged Tiny Titans line. This Robots in Disguise line is made up of small plastic figures which reference mainly the Robots in Disguise show but also characters from the G1 era.

This wave consists of:

Optimus Prime
Steeljaw
Windblade
Chromia
Thunderhoof
Perceptor
Jazz
Strongarm
Blaster
Drift
"King" Starscream
Octopunch

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:11 am

If this is the only way for Octopunch to get a toy, then so be it.

News Credits: 4880 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:13 am

Sabrblade wrote:If this is the only way for Octopunch to get a toy, then so be it.

I think there will be other ways. Same for Filch and the shark (really want a warrior of that toy!).

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:19 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:If this is the only way for Octopunch to get a toy, then so be it.

I think there will be other ways. Same for Filch and the shark (really want a warrior of that toy!).

Unless you're referring to more nontransformable toys for Octopunch, I sincerely doubt any of Hasbro's assortments of transformable RID toys would be able to feasibly make a transforming Octopunch toy that both looked good and did the character design justice, considering how unorthodox Octopunch's design is:

News Credits: 656 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:08 am

Octopunch is my speculation that I sent to news crew for the thing in the lower left and not confirmed. RiD 2015 Octopunch is the only thing I could think of that remotely looks like that.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:16 am

ScottyP wrote:Octopunch is my speculation that I sent to news crew for the thing in the lower left and not confirmed. RiD 2015 Octopunch is the only thing I could think of that remotely looks like that.

It does look like him. I can make out four tentacles as feet and two as arms like Octopunch has.

Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:26 am

I keep hoping they do Grotusque, Swindle, Sunstreaker, Rodimus, and Arcee before this line ends. If only so I can get the RiD-stylized versions of these characters in card art.

Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:43 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:If this is the only way for Octopunch to get a toy, then so be it.

I think there will be other ways. Same for Filch and the shark (really want a warrior of that toy!).
Unless you're referring to more nontransformable toys for Octopunch, I sincerely doubt any of Hasbro's assortments of transformable RID toys would be able to feasibly make a transforming Octopunch toy that both looked good and did the character design justice, considering how unorthodox Octopunch's design is:

Given his speech patterns, I'd say Octopunch is VERY Orthodox. Hey-o!

News Credits: 4880 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:18 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Unless you're referring to more nontransformable toys for Octopunch, I sincerely doubt any of Hasbro's assortments of transformable RID toys would be able to feasibly make a transforming Octopunch toy that both looked good and did the character design justice

But I thought the same thing about Springload and the crab and they got transforming toys.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:35 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Unless you're referring to more nontransformable toys for Octopunch, I sincerely doubt any of Hasbro's assortments of transformable RID toys would be able to feasibly make a transforming Octopunch toy that both looked good and did the character design justice

But I thought the same thing about Springload and the crab and they got transforming toys.

Springload's toy got his altmode wrong and cheated on his hind legs, and Clampdown's toy doesn't have actual claws.

Not to mention that, unlike Octopunch, those two don't have gooey stretchy bodies, so they're more doable.

Notice the final sentence in my post that reads "and did the character design justice".

News Credits: 4880 · Fri Mar 18, 2016 9:32 pm

Fellow Seibertronian Survivefan23 has pointed us towards a new listing on Toy Wiz for Wave 6 of the blind bagged Tiny Titans line. This Robots in Disguise line is made up of small plastic figures which reference mainly the Robots in Disguise show but also characters from the G1 era and now even Beast Machines.

This wave consists of: Sky-Byte, Acid Storm, Beast Machines Cheetor, Minitron, Blurr, Alpha Trion/Thundertron/??, RID Optimus Prime with G1 Prime's gun, Unicron, G1 Grimlock, Crazybolt, Barrage and RID Bumblebee.

Barrage is a particular deep cut. Notice how I am completely unsure of the bearded one with the blue cape. It could be one of the Primes revealed in this season of Robots in Disguise (Alpha Trion?). If you have an idea of who that is, or if we made a mistake on any of these, please let us know in the comments.

News Credits: 79 · Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:31 pm

These seem like cheaper Robot Heroes...

News Credits: 462 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:40 am

The white and blue winged guy between IDW Blurr and RID Optimus is nagging me over who he is. I feel like I've seen him before, but not in that exact design. I honestly can't think of who he is.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:25 am

I prefer the Robot Heroes, I wish they would bring them back. I kinda liked them. The paint on these guys is horrible and bugs me a lot. :-(

News Credits: 5 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 9:53 am

Sabrblade wrote:The white and blue winged guy between IDW Blurr and RID Optimus is nagging me over who he is. I feel like I've seen him before, but not in that exact design. I honestly can't think of who he is.

I'm getting that feeling, but I think it's just a few elements reminding me of a Sweep. The claw feet don't fit that. Not Tigerhawk?

News Credits: 462 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:24 am

Mr O wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The white and blue winged guy between IDW Blurr and RID Optimus is nagging me over who he is. I feel like I've seen him before, but not in that exact design. I honestly can't think of who he is.

I'm getting that feeling, but I think it's just a few elements reminding me of a Sweep. The claw feet don't fit that. Not Tigerhawk?

It's gotta be someone with a big pointy helmet and wings/capes. If it's any of the Binder/Covenant designs, Liege Maximo might be a candidate, but the blue and white instead of green, and some of the toy's finer details, throw that off.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:52 pm

That unidentified Transformer reminds me of that one Prime toy which wasn't in the show but had that nice beard.

News Credits: 4880 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:57 pm

Rainmaker wrote:That unidentified Transformer reminds me of that one Prime toy which wasn't in the show but had that nice beard.

Yeah, Thundertron, he's mentioned in the news post.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:09 pm

Doesn't look like a beard to me at all, just a part of his chest that sticks up in the front. His head his turned to the left and you can see his mouth while the "beard" is still forward.

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It's possible One of the Decepticons have gotten an upgrade, not just Optimus. Stelljaw perhaps? That would explain why he looks familiar.

Emerje

News Credits: 9 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:21 pm

Remember that the paint is horrible, there might be a beard but it might not be painted

News Credits: 462 · Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:42 pm

Thundertron doesn't have wings or a gun or two normal feet (one of his is a peg-leg) or big horned helmet.

He did, however, have a very obvious lion head torso, which this figure doesn't have.