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News Credits: 4543 · by **william-james88** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:24 am

Randomhero wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:That is a cool design. Shame the toy lost the 2nd titan master and the beef, but it still came out good

Because it’s just an Overlord Design with no info given for what his gimmick was. We’ve seen this before with Galvatron and others by Emiliano Santalucia. He’s not told they’re gonna be headmasters/Titan masters just do an updated design of this character and they’ll take ques from it

Yeah, the best was his interpretation of Optimal Optimus. Hasbro just asked him for a design and didnt tell him about the gimmick. So he did the obvious and had both primals turn into gorillas. Hasbro showed these designs when it was first revealed and confuse the fandom to no end.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:25 am

william-james88 wrote:
Randomhero wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:That is a cool design. Shame the toy lost the 2nd titan master and the beef, but it still came out good

Because it’s just an Overlord Design with no info given for what his gimmick was. We’ve seen this before with Galvatron and others by Emiliano Santalucia. He’s not told they’re gonna be headmasters/Titan masters just do an updated design of this character and they’ll take ques from it

Yeah, the best was his interpretation of Optimal Optimus. Hasbro just asked him for a design and didnt tell him about the gimmick. So he did the obvious and had both primals turn into gorillas. Hasbro showed these designs when it was first revealed and confuse the fandom to no end.

That’s why I don’t get upset when we see these. Like the idea that Galvatron was not intended to be a titan masters and the “art proves it” no. He’s just given a name and told “we’re going to make a toy” that’s all he’s given. He’s not part of the engineering or prototype design phase. He’s a freelance artist that has a good relationship with hasbro. They take his work and apparently very lightly use the appearance cues.

I mean look at the art overlord. He’s just a highly detailed stylized version of the cartoon and original toy. He’s even got the base accessories.

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:30 am

I found a Chaos on Velocitron set on clearance at may local Walmart for about $65 considering exchange rates. How good a price is that?

Is the set worth it? The only mold I own from the set is the Blurr Mold as Blurr.

I really do want the die cast Rodimus Titanmaster. But not sure the rest of the set is worth that price.

News Credits: 12 · by **nycPrime** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:35 am

Overcracker wrote:I found a Chaos on Velocitron set on clearance at may local Walmart for $65. How good a price is that?

Is the set worth it? The only mold I own from the set is the Blurr Mold as Blurr.

I really do want the die cast Rodimus Titanmaster. But not sure the rest of the set is worth that price.

I hope you bought it because it retailed for $99 and goes for much more than that. Nautica alone was selling for close to $50+ at one point. But Walmart?! This was a TRU exclusive, no?

Taking out what you could get for the set in the open market, I wasn't a fan of the set. The only figure I liked was the clone.

News Credits: 1 · by **ExciKaiser** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:37 am

Quickswitch is on my opinion better than Sixshot, I love this grays Optimus but I'm not a good judge as I love this mold on all its repaints, and Nautica is awesome, way better than Hasbro's version of Blurr.

On my opinion, the set totally worth it, wathever price it is, but it's only me.

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:40 am

In the U.S and Canada it was a Toys R' Us Exclusive. In Mexico since there is no Toy's R' Us, it appears it was a Walmart Online Exclusive. Found it on their website here.

It was going for around $130 considering exchange rates, but has been put on clearance for about $65.

If it is worth $65, I'll order it now.

https://www.walmart.com.mx/juguetes/Fig ... 3050952414

News Credits: 12 · by **nycPrime** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:43 am

Overcracker wrote:In the U.S and Canada it was a Toys R' Us Exclusive. In Mexico since there is no Toy's R' Us, it appears it was a Walmart Online Exclusive. Found it on their website here.

It was going for around $130 considering exchange rates, but has been put on clearance for about $65.

If it is worth $65, I'll order it now.

https://www.walmart.com.mx/juguetes/Fig ... 3050952414

It's a great price. You can do what I did and eBay the figures you don't want. At $65 you'll more than make up the cost of the set.

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:50 am

Thanks. Just ordered it. Hopefully, I'll like them all. Bee wanting to play around with that Optimus Mold too for a while. I may just keep him. Not sure about Quickswitch, but I guess I can give him a chance.

If Nautica can make up for the price of the set, I may just sell her. No attachment to the character, and already have Blurr so...

We'll see. The set should be here in a few days.

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:08 pm

Chaos was a great set. Die cast Rodimus was really neat, I'm waiting on G2 Megs to give his little dragon drone to Rodimus to use, as he is currently riding in TR Hot Rods guns.

I love Nautica's character, so she was the main appeal.

Laser Prime is the best of the set, and a great mold and uses some great colors. He's on my Legendary Warriors shelf now, and he oh so good.

Quickswitch is a bit better than Sixshot, using tighter joints. He's pretty swell too, though he was the least wanted of the shelf as far as Ebay went.

The clones are OK, nothing spectacular, but they look good as a team

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:17 pm

Thanks. I looking forward to the set now.

News Credits: 12 · by **nycPrime** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:55 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Chaos was a great set. Die cast Rodimus was really neat, I'm waiting on G2 Megs to give his little dragon drone to Rodimus to use, as he is currently riding in TR Hot Rods guns.

I love Nautica's character, so she was the main appeal.

Laser Prime is the best of the set, and a great mold and uses some great colors. He's on my Legendary Warriors shelf now, and he oh so good.

Quickswitch is a bit better than Sixshot, using tighter joints. He's pretty swell too, though he was the least wanted of the shelf as far as Ebay went.

The clones are OK, nothing spectacular, but they look good as a team

Pretty funny how we're almost completely opposite on this. Rodimus was kind of cool but I had nowhere to stick the body. It looked weird on TR Hot Rod. I have no attachment to Nautica. I did think Laser Prime was cool, but the foil stickers were a bummer. I wasn't a huge fan of Sixshot so didn't even bother messing with Quickswitch. I'll agree with what you said about the clones. At the end of the day, I sold everything except for the clone.

News Credits: 4543 · by **william-james88** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:00 pm

The fall of Toysrus has left a few Transformers exclusive toys in limbo. One such toy was Grotusque who was supposed to be a shared exclusive between Toysrus and Hasbro Toy Shop. It was available online but the toy was never found in stores at Toysrus, until now. Several were found at a Toysrus in Columbus, Ohio, and we have an image below for proof. This was posted on the Cybertron Cafe Facebook page.

With the Toysrus website no longer active, this shows us that products are being moved from the warehouses for the online portion and into physical retail locations. This is good news for fans who were not able to purchase a Grotusque in time. Let us know if you find some in your respective sightings threads!

by **Skritz** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:01 pm

I hope I can find a Grotusque but I doubt he'll see release in Canadian TRU.

by **Skritz** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:22 pm

Oh goodies, more exclusives. That's great for us not in the US, btw. Really. >:oP

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:26 pm

Skritz wrote:Oh goodies, more exclusives. That's great for us not in the US, btw. Really.

This

by **Skritz** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 2:31 pm

I mean, not only are the prices higher and the taxes a pain in the ass in Canada but the distrubtion is erratic/messy, especially in the middle wave but I also have to deal with high shipping for anything that cannot be found in store. It's a good thing my only exclusive (TR Brainstorm) was one BBTS sold and it's a simple deluxe with no fancy box or anything, making it only about 10-ish bucks pricier.

Getting my hands on things like TR Arcee or Grotusque is genuinely a pain in the ass.

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:37 pm

It has arrived.

Was not expecting the box to be that big.

Took out the Rodimus Titanmaster first, and can barely feel the diecast.

Anyway, I'll take the rest out later.

So far quickswitch looks quite cool. Prime's chrome stickers are a bit messy from what I can tell.

: Chaos on Velocitron

by **Blitzwing is bae** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:04 pm

Wait, wasnt he a titans return figure and not a power or the primes figure? :-?

News Credits: 4543 · by **william-james88** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:33 pm

He isn't all diecast, just the face part.

News Credits: 5 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:02 pm

william-james88 wrote:He isn't all diecast, just the face part.

Yeah I know. But I had a hard time feeling it. The face is also kind of soft in the features.

Anyway. Quickswitch's knees are super loose, hard to keep him standing. Otherwise he's pretty decent in most modes.

Prime is very nice, but the lack of heels is an issue. Still I think I'll keep him.

Haven't taken Nautica or the clone out yet.

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Tue Apr 24, 2018 7:16 am

I finally could spare the change to get grotusque on the very day the website came down. no stores nearby with merchandise left. looks like im SoL on him. oh well

News Credits: 295 · by **WreckerJack** » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:54 pm

I doubt they will do it, but if they are using Velocitron as a set maybe just maybe can we have a figure of Knockout? He lived there in the IDW Windblade series.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Fri May 18, 2018 4:27 pm

I recently acquired Fortress Maximus, Hardhead, and Overlord. I realize I'm rather late to the party on that, but hey. I'm rather enjoying having them all, though Fort Max and Overlord do have their faults (and I have modifications planned accordingly). I have plans to scratchbuild my own sword and guns Fortress Maximus, with priority going to the sword since that's the accessory that takes the most advantage of the Titans Return version's articulation.

What I could use are the blade section lengths from either the SDCC/Hasbro Asia/Legends sword or the G1 sword, to give me a ballpark to work with.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Sun May 20, 2018 12:53 pm

Just remembered something I forgot to put in my last post, concerning a recurring subject throughout this thread.

My Wolfwire's canopy continues to remain intact thus far, even after frequent opening and closing and being carried around in my bag often

News Credits: 7 · by **Sjeng** » Mon May 21, 2018 1:28 am

Dunno if it's been mentioned, but Wreck-Gar deluxe is going to be a Walgreens exclusive, like Brainstorm was.

And Ollie's are selling Trypticons on the cheap. But that I'm sure you're aware of.

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