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Starsaber468 wrote:

Railbomb wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Railbomb wrote:

Emerje wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:To be completely fair, it is a prime after all plus Takara could have a say in it for obvious reasons

See, this is what I was thinking. Making Powermaster Optimus Prime out of Ultra Magnus is fine and all, but if there isn't at least a small regular Prime that fits inside the Japanese are going to angry. They're going to want both Ginrai and Super Ginrai in this, the later alone isn't enough. And don't even think of remolding Minimus Ambus into Ginrai.

Emerje

To be fair they did just release Ultra Magnus without a small prime cab AND Alpha Trion with fiction putting him inside Magnus. If they were making an MP Ginrai then they would be upset if the cab wasn't its own figure but this isn't a MP and cuts have to be taken somewhere.

Sure, but that was just them shoehorning it to the nth degree. The alternatives were to either leave the little figure out completely or try to explain who Minimus Ambus is. The whole thing was made by Hasbro's design from the comics where there isn't a white Prime inside. Takara Tomy themselves made MP Magnus without a Prime body so that was clearly acceptable for the Legends figure. On the flip side they've never made a Transforming Super Ginrai that couldn't stand alone as regular Ginrai as well. It'd be a lot harder to explain why human Ginrai's Transtector goes directly to Super Ginrai without regular Transtector Ginrai in between.

Emerje

Place it sometime after Super God Masterforce or Victory (sometime after the transector gets its own mind and the human Ginrai isn't needed) and have the human Ginrai placed in some situation where he has to fight the Decepticons again and he has a new transector made for him. bam. problem solved.

Yeah but in america we had Hi-Q so their not gonna get rid of the powermaster assuming this plus Ginrai still had the engine block attached to him after no longer being a transector

You do know I'm talking about the human Ginrai, the living person that controlled the Transtector, getting a new transtector, to justify use of a remold of Magnus keeping Minimus Ambus and the cockpit for the Japanese market, right? Hasbro would just tell IDW to figure it out. To be honest the original Powermaster gimmick wasn't really that great. The toys that used it were great but the whole "you need the engine to transform" thing wasn't. I'd just want them to come with some sort of partner so I'd have some toy version of those characters.

Hasbro would have saved themselves some bother if someone simply said "Yes we are making a Powermaster Prime but it's actually based on Powered Convoy too it just happens to have the companion like the Powermaster but not the same body as the Master toy of the 1980s"

Powered Convoy repaint with Minimus replaced by a engine block robot storable on the nose of the truck would be fine to me - possibly with a faceplate head of some sort - I'm up for that.

If the intention is to make a Proper homage to Super Ginrai then the best idea is "don't" it should be a Masterpiece instead.

But a Powered Convoy Homage I'm perfectly fine with that - if they go into Sandstorm extensive remoulding territory I'd have to judge it on an individual basis.

We'll just have to see what happens at comiccon!

I'm actually surprised no one has done a powered convoy redeco yet, even as a exclusive.

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm actually surprised no one has done a powered convoy redeco yet, even as a exclusive.

There was one done for the G1 toy as a Toy Festival 2001 exclusive.

So the Transmission's Podcast Deepthroating source was legit after all.

Nobody has shared the images and videos in this thread?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Nobody has shared the images and videos in this thread?

It's all in the various NYCC coverage threads.

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Nobody has shared the images and videos in this thread?

It's all in the various NYCC coverage threads.

For the sake of convenience, however, could someone post them here?

That way, we don't have to sift through 2-3 fairly long coverage posts.

Thanks.

CombaticonsCombine? wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Nobody has shared the images and videos in this thread?

It's all in the various NYCC coverage threads.

For the sake of convenience, however, could someone post them here?

That way, we don't have to sift through 2-3 fairly long coverage posts.

Thanks.

I'll make it even easier for ya. All of the pics have been put together in their own galleries in the NYCC 2015 Events section.

Sabrblade wrote:

CombaticonsCombine? wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Nobody has shared the images and videos in this thread?

It's all in the various NYCC coverage threads.

For the sake of convenience, however, could someone post them here?

That way, we don't have to sift through 2-3 fairly long coverage posts.

Thanks.

I'll make it even easier for ya. All of the pics have been put together in their own galleries in the NYCC 2015 Events section.

Oh, very nice.

I'm liking this.

Hey you know that other in-announced leader class figure?who do you think it is?

Neuron wrote:Hey you know that other in-announced leader class figure?who do you think it is?

Most believe it to be Powermaster Optimus Prime, possibly heavily retooled from Ultra Magnus.

Sabrblade wrote:

Neuron wrote:Hey you know that other in-announced leader class figure?who do you think it is?

Most believe it to be Powermaster Optimus Prime, possibly heavily retooled from Ultra Magnus.

Still wish it to be a new mold though!

If anything I think we'll get the next leader reveal before we get a fort max reveal

ZeroWolf wrote:If anything I think we'll get the next leader reveal before we get a fort max reveal

I agree. Fort Max won't be for a while most likely

Latest Rumour : Is that Titans Returns WeirdWolf might be called WireWolf instead.

Interesting change but not quite sure why if it's true of course...

Is weird wolf trademarked somewhere?

RAR wrote:Latest Rumour : Is that Titans Returns WeirdWolf might be called WireWolf instead.

The rumor I heard said "Wolfwire" instead.

No idea which is accurate I just thought I'd mention that there was a rumour of a name change and Weirdwolf might not be called his usual name and it looks like there is a pretty reasonable chance the same is also true of Skullcruncher too.

I just thought I'd mention it as so far characters having the correct name is almost becoming the exception than the rule with Titan's Returns the example that are believed to have the correct name including : Blaster, Galvatron, Sentinel Prime, Hardhead and Nighbeat.

And many of the others not having he name that represents who they most resemble. likewise the heads themselves are little muddled up identity wise too.

So Wolfwire Wirewolf or something like that ( I prefer Wired Wolf if they can't use Weird Wolf) seemed a legitimate sounding rumour worth mentioning especially after I'd just twigged Skullcruncher has the wrong name on the slide show.

I'm gonna need more shelves

SkyWarpt wrote::shock: I'm gonna need more shelves

Same. So glad I just picked some up, they were sorely needed

It's weird to see website politics in action. It seems a lot of TF related boards with connections to Hasbro are refusing to report the Transmissions podcast rumors, even though they have proven to be true, because they don't want to piss off Hasbro. Seems there are few boards who can report things independently any more.

BTW, here is a leaked image of Titans Return Deluxe Blurr and his Headmaster!

Scaleface wrote:BTW, here is a leaked image of Titans Return Deluxe Blurr and his Headmaster!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-first-look-at-transformers-titans-return-blurr/34488/