o.supreme wrote:I know many fans purchase the toys based on their personal preferences, but for me, integration has a large part in it for me. In CW I purchased zero leaders, although I heard great things about Ultra Magnus as a toy itself. In TR practically everything had cross pattern play, but I had to draw the line somewhere, so I purchased BOTH Titans, All Leaders (for base Modes), all the Legends class tablets (for integration with Blaster & Soundwave) and all the Titan Masters. I know many of the deluxes and Voyagers got praise, but like I said, I had to draw the line somewhere,
For PotP, I see a similar pattern as I'll probably get all the combining Voyagers and Deluxes (and Predaking of course), as well as all the Prime Masters. I'll skip on the Legends. Leaders, although they look cool, I'll probably skip, unless they have some as yet unrevealed cross play pattern with the combiners.
I'm really only looking forward to the Prime Masters and the Legends class figures. The Prime Master shells are essentially the new Targetmasters to me. And the Legends figures can directly interact with Titan and Prime Masters.
I actually have Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus but he stays in a box with my Ultra Magnus collection (all-time favorite character). Fiction be damned but Ultra Magnus would have worked better with the Titan Master play pattern versus the one-off tiny Minimus Ambus (and Alpha Trion) pilot in my opinion.
It looks like Deluxe and up will have pegs for Titan and Prime Masters to stand on but I don't see any actual piloting going on.
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Emerje wrote:Relic0037 wrote:Emerje wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:If anything, I think overall the leader class was the most successful class in this line
I agree, or at least I do when compared to Combiner Wars in the sense that it's the most improved class. In CW the only Leader I found worth buying was Ultra Magnus, the three jets and two Megatrons just weren't doing it for me at all. Then comes Titans Return and I want them all. Only two Leaders I'm missing from Titans Return is PM Optimus Prime (I want one, but they barely showed up in my area and the online prices are getting crazy) and Overlord (getting the Japanese version instead). I don't have SDCC Primitive Prime either if you count him. My buying habits for the other classes haven't changed at all between the two lines, I either buy everything I can get or buy the Takara Tomy version instead, but my Leader class buys have been a huge step up and that trend looks to be holding up in Power of the Primes, I want all of those Leaders, too.
Emerje
Something the Titans Return Leaders had going for them that the Combiner Wars Leaders didn't was that they were integrated into the series gimmick. You could swap their heads with Titan masters of any other class, whereas in CW, the Leaders were kind of off to an island onto themselves. TR also featured some Leader figures of characters we hadn't gotten in years (like Sixshot) or ever in the States (Overlord). CW had bots like Starscream & Skywarp who regularly get new figures every few years. These are some of the reasons (IMO) the TR Leader Class was better than the one in the previous series.
It is nice that they made them feel more a part of the series, but in all honesty I'm not a big fan of swapping heads around and it doesn't really matter to me if they're Titan Master compatible or not, I would have bought these figures anyway. This is especially true since most (all?) of the Leaders don't require the Titan Master to be removed to transform them. They're just such good figures and in great scale.
Emerje
I agree with many of these points. TR made the leader class interesting again, provided some great characters that don't get toys that much, and very few of them needed the titan master removed, so they worked with the gimmick while being somewhat independent.
Totally agreed when it comes to Titans Return Leaders > Combiner Wars Leaders.
Insurgent wrote:Also, so much agree with the comment about how easy TR makes it to customise figures.
Any third-party and/or Shapeways folks making guns that can seat Titan (and Prime) Masters? I ordered the LG-EX headmaster set and some of the LG legion-sized figures that come with an extra headmaster and I'm just looking for places to put them when they're not piloting a vehicle mode or being used as a head. Basically, I'm looking for a way to get say 10 copies of the Chromedome gun in various colors.