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Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:05 am

but, brainstorm is a jet?? the blurr mold is a car.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:23 am

Doubledealer93 wrote:but, brainstorm is a jet?? the blurr mold is a car.

I dunno, his vehicle mode is vaguely car shaped but I think it might be more of a hover vehicle. As Hellscream mentioned there's a lack of wheels.

Make the front end more pointy and slap wings on the shoulders and it's a Cybertronian jet.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:14 am

So there's a lot of chatter over this brainstorm, and a lot of it proves that hasbro can't put a foot right to some people. Though I bey if the picture was the top half there wouldn't be any talk of his alt mode.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Wed Feb 10, 2016 3:52 am

Even if the heads were compatible wouldn't Voyager Brainstorm's head be too big for the Deluxe? Pretty sure the Titan Masters are smaller which is why the larger figures require helmets.

You know, as much as I'd like to see more G1 remakes I'd really like to see some more tribute characters along the lines of Armada Starscream and the Beast Wars figures from Generations.

I mean, this guy...

...was a huge part of Armada and deserves to have another shot as a better figure.

And I'd love an Overload figure that combines CW Ultra Magnus' trailer with TR PM Prime's truck cab.

I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:33 am

Mr Skram wrote:
Ultra Markus wrote:im fine with Brainstorm being bigger than other headmasters but still they could have chose to use a handful of other characters to reuse that blur mold, but they choose brainstorm to make brainstorm a car are they going to make highbrow a car too? you dont see how ridiculous that is
what i dont get is they go and do many many characters that are inline with what they where originally or at least mostly what they where then they do something like this brainstorm i would rather they made nightbeat out of that mold, they wont get a comment about the size of brainstorm but they will when they make him a car

Doubt he's gonna be a car. Slap some wings on his upper arms, maybe tweak the transformation or remold a few pieces, and he'll be close enough to a semi-boxy spaceship like his G1 figure.

He wont be a car. Blurr isnt an earth car either. its not hard to imagine just adding wings to the side and turning blurr's alt mode into a cybertrnian flying vehicle.

News Credits: 19 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:04 am

I very much want a new Highbrow, I want to see all the Headmasters updated honestly

and I wouldn't say no to Obsidian either

& someone could always do a Highbrow repainted into Skyhammer. With the alt mode based on the mega shell, the robot mode a (non-human) inner shell, and the Titanmaster as the wee inner robot.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:06 am

Emerje wrote:Even if the heads were compatible wouldn't Voyager Brainstorm's head be too big for the Deluxe? Pretty sure the Titan Masters are smaller which is why the larger figures require helmets.

I think all heads/Titanmasters are the same size and this is the reason why the Leader class figures need helmets. Because otherwise the heads would look too small on them. And the difference between a Deluxe and a Voyager head does not have to be that big.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:34 am

Emerje wrote:Even if the heads were compatible wouldn't Voyager Brainstorm's head be too big for the Deluxe? Pretty sure the Titan Masters are smaller which is why the larger figures require helmets.

You know, as much as I'd like to see more G1 remakes I'd really like to see some more tribute characters along the lines of Armada Starscream and the Beast Wars figures from Generations.

I mean, this guy...

...was a huge part of Armada and deserves to have another shot as a better figure.

And I'd love an Overload figure that combines CW Ultra Magnus' trailer with TR PM Prime's truck cab.

I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

I like the idea of a new sideways, but I just can't see it...yet. If they did one I would want his allegiance to unicron kept, but I think that would only happen if they wanted to make unicron a threat. Now that could happen in the last part of this trilogy.

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:36 pm

Emerje wrote:
I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

See, I really really would like a Sunstreaker cause to me with the head pieces his design actually works incredibly well for a headmaster. But yes, doubtful, but I still want it

Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:16 pm

Megatron and prime I understand (tho 2 voyager combiner primes and a leader in the combiner wars might've been one two many), cyclonus and scourge - though I was very happy with the original figures I might understand the updates, one of the scourges will serve as a sweep.

Heck, jetfire I might understand too, as well as the seekers. Galvatron was a no brainier as it was truly awful. Astrotrain was one of the first generations figures and a size upgrade will be great.

Onslaught made perfect sense, as did silverbolt of course, power glide was a fun ultra and a more fun legends figure. Hope to see a legends seaspray.

Brainstorm. Nope. The voyager was a great g1 homage. A new incarnation just makes me think 'too soon'.
If it is indeed brainstorm. In a way it means I'll save on a figure.

Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:45 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Emerje wrote:
I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

See, I really really would like a Sunstreaker cause to me with the head pieces his design actually works incredibly well for a headmaster. But yes, doubtful, but I still want it

Plus they could call his Headmaster partner "Headhunter"!

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:52 pm

Shuttershock wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Emerje wrote:
I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

See, I really really would like a Sunstreaker cause to me with the head pieces his design actually works incredibly well for a headmaster. But yes, doubtful, but I still want it

Plus they could call his Headmaster partner "Headhunter"!

I love that name, it sounds cool and is an idw reference to boot :-)

I second this

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:52 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Emerje wrote:
I hope we do get an Arcee, but it seems unlikely we'll get Sunstreaker after he just got a CW figure.

Emerje

See, I really really would like a Sunstreaker cause to me with the head pieces his design actually works incredibly well for a headmaster. But yes, doubtful, but I still want it

Plus they could call his Headmaster partner "Headhunter"!

I love that name, it sounds cool and is an idw reference to boot I second this

I will third this! Headhunter needs to happen

News Credits: 19 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:56 pm

Probably makes you think of the Deaths Head character from the early g1 comics

or the Dreamcast/PS2 game of the same name >:oP

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:02 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:Probably makes you think of the Deaths Head character from the early g1 comics

or the Dreamcast/PS2 game of the same name

What's wrong stu,? Why so cynical?

Hunter o'nion (I think I spelt that right) will finally get immortalised in plastic to make up for what happened to him (anyone wants to retcon that can be my guest)

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:12 pm

Yesterday, the sneaky monkey known as Zmultiplier on weibo gave us the bottom half of what appeared to be Titans Return Brainstorm. The legs were very similar to Blurr's which had a lot of people wondering how you could turn Blurr, a cybertronian car, into Brainstorm, a cybertronian jet. Well, now this same weibo user has given us a full image, pinch yourselves, of Brainstorm's vehicle mode. Let us know if you think this retool works!

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:14 pm

I like this, it's a bit squat but works, for me at least.

Also I'm now positive that these leaks are on purpose by order of hasbro

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:15 pm

I'll still get him because ya know, Brainstorm, but it doesn't look too bad, but not perfect either. At least it is streamlined

News Credits: 104 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:15 pm

Another Brainstorm?? Really?? :roll:

News Credits: 19 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:24 pm

so lemme get this right! they're NOW retooling 3p figures! for the TW line?

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:26 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:so lemme get this right! they're NOW retooling 3p figures! for the TW line?

No this is a retool of TR Blurr, already shown off in the rumor mill

Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:30 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:so lemme get this right! they're NOW retooling 3p figures! for the TW line?

No this is a retool of TR Blurr, already shown off in the rumor mill

His confusion is not unfounded. These neuvo boxy G1 updates do remind me a lot of the style some 3P lines have been using.

News Credits: 19 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:31 pm

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:so lemme get this right! they're NOW retooling 3p figures! for the TW line?

No this is a retool of TR Blurr, already shown off in the rumor mill

well it looks dam close to that 3p figure!

it kinda now makes me wonder what mold they're gonna use for Trypticon? Diabolus Rex maybe?(Yes! OK! granted....i was being sarcastic! + that's not titan size).

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:35 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:so lemme get this right! they're NOW retooling 3p figures! for the TW line?

What 3p figure? Blurr is a Hasbro figure in the Titans Return line. Also, what's TW? Toy World?

Cyber Bishop wrote:Another Brainstorm?? Really??

Is to go with your other tarilbreaker

By the way guys, remember how the other pic had the front of the jet by his arm? I guess that means the end of the nosecone detaches. Thats an easy (but lazy) way to turn Blurr into Brainstorm.

News Credits: 3 · Wed Feb 10, 2016 2:39 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Another Brainstorm?? Really??

Is to go with your other tarilbreaker

By the way guys, remember how the other pic had the front of the jet by his arm? I guess that means the end of the nosecone detaches. Thats an easy (but lazy) way to turn Blurr into Brainstorm.

Why is that lame? I think it's clever especially they give him a shield blaster that way instead of kibble.