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SillySpringer wrote:I am not wondering if Hasbro changed Gort's name to Xort for the titan-master to Highbrow because of the "Gort" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Does that one have toys made by another company?

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I am not wondering if Hasbro changed Gort's name to Xort for the titan-master to Highbrow because of the "Gort" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Does that one have toys made by another company?

I don't think so, but you never know with Hasbro's logic on copyright stuff.

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I am not wondering if Hasbro changed Gort's name to Xort for the titan-master to Highbrow because of the "Gort" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Does that one have toys made by another company?

I don't think so, but you never know with Hasbro's logic on copyright stuff.

Trademark. If they couldn't Trademark the name for the toy category, somebody else must already be using it or a name similar enough to prevent Hasbro from using it. Or the name was too generic/non-specific to be Trademarkable.

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I am not wondering if Hasbro changed Gort's name to Xort for the titan-master to Highbrow because of the "Gort" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

Does that one have toys made by another company?

I don't think so, but you never know with Hasbro's logic on copyright stuff.

Trademark. If they couldn't Trademark the name for the toy category, somebody else must be using it or a name similar enough to prevent Hasbro from using it.

Very true.

I do so love CW Leader Megatron -- same with the CW Seeker Leaders. At $50 apiece, how could you lose?

That said, I'd prefer the MP versions, but if I must prioritize who I purchase as MPs, it'll be my MVPs!

My first Hot Rod will be from TR, honestly. It's just taken me that long to forgive him for getting Prime killed back in '86.

I kinda have to disagree a bit I think Leaders can be pretty poor value - they feel more like $30.00 toys to me dressed up as $50.00 ones.

That said they are showing some promise this comming year and will hopefully be a step up from the somewhat lacklustre CW Leader Seekers "Remoulds/repaints".

Peaugh, who gave us the reviews for the Titans Return Wave 3 Legends and Voyager figures, also took some images of these figures. He posed them on the TFW2005 boards and you can see them below. They give the best look so far at the titan master interactivity with Megatron, Bumblebee, Kickback and Gnaw.



























Peaugh also shows something that the instructions miss regarding how Optimus' legs are on a slide. Since the toy comes with the legs not placed at either end of the slide, the legs are loose, but that doesn't happen when they are fixed at an extremity of the slide.

still not getting optimus

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

Thats exactly what I am doing too. I am also not sure about Alpha Trion since I am already getting that mold as Lio Convoy. But I am getting Astrotrain for sure. I cant wait actually, since I want to see how different I can make him from Sentinel Prime. These toys off different configurations so that we can make redecos look unique in their own way.

One thing i am wondering though, can that canon bit that we can see in back of voyager megs be bent the other way? Because it looks really goofy by just sticking upé

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

Thats exactly what I am doing too. I am also not sure about Alpha Trion since I am already getting that mold as Lio Convoy. But I am getting Astrotrain for sure. I cant wait actually, since I want to see how different I can make him from Sentinel Prime. These toys off different configurations so that we can make redecos look unique in their own way.

One thing i am wondering though, can that canon bit that we can see in back of voyager megs be bent the other way? Because it looks really goofy by just sticking upé

im waiting for sentinel to massively discounted for me to buy him. i cant wait for astrotrain.
the turret does rotate and it is part of the turret unless the turret locks in place

I was wondering if the turret barrel sticking up is supposed to emulate OG Meg's gun barrel.

After watching those reviews, my thought was.. BRING IT ALL!

Only concern is those stickers. Can't wait to see what ToyHax gives us for Prime.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

If you want all the triple changers doesn't that mean you have to get Optimus?

Cobotron wrote:I was wondering if the turret barrel sticking up is supposed to emulate OG Meg's gun barrel.

After watching those reviews, my thought was.. BRING IT ALL!

Only concern is those stickers. Can't wait to see what ToyHax gives us for Prime.

And I cant wait to see waht they give us for megatron. I will be waiting till then to make my massive sticker order.

I am also really debating getting those Thunderclash Stickers. I can get a white CW Prime for only $10 but if (more like when) Hasbro released an actual Thunderclash, it will be all for nothing.

Kurona wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

If you want all the triple changers doesn't that mean you have to get Optimus?

Pretty sure he meant he wants all G1 Triple changers. So the triple changers who were triple changers in G1. That woudl eliminate. Optimus, Alpha Trion ect.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:I was wondering if the turret barrel sticking up is supposed to emulate OG Meg's gun barrel.

After watching those reviews, my thought was.. BRING IT ALL!

Only concern is those stickers. Can't wait to see what ToyHax gives us for Prime.

And I cant wait to see waht they give us for megatron. I will be waiting till then to make my massive sticker order.

I am also really debating getting those Thunderclash Stickers. I can get a white CW Prime for only $10 but if (more like when) Hasbro released an actual Thunderclash, it will be all for nothing.

Ya. I saw a BCP for 14 bux TJ Maxx, and thought real hard about it, but passed.

And yes, I bet Repros will do something really nice for Megs too.

Cobotron wrote:Ya. I saw a BCP for 14 bux TJ Maxx, and thought real hard about it, but passed.

And yes, I bet Repros will do something really nice for Megs too.

Thats what i needed, I will pass to then. The one thing that made me doubt getting them was that the most distinguishable part of Thunderclash is his own emblem on his chest. And toyhax modernizes it into looking like random geometric shapes instead. Was not a fan of that.

Actually, now that I think of it, Leader PMOP with a retooled chest would work better as Thunderclash (who also had a base mode). He would have the correct stature. I am of course hoping for a new mold instead of course (which Hasbro can then redeco once again as optimus, as they did the first time).

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

If you want all the triple changers doesn't that mean you have to get Optimus?

Pretty sure he meant he wants all G1 Triple changers. So the triple changers who were triple changers in G1. That woudl eliminate. Optimus, Alpha Trion ect.

yeah like that .but that wont stop me from getting some i want like galvatron, megatron and maybe alpha. its just some that dont fit that mold.i want all the ones that were originally triplechangers in the 80's.
if hasbro or someone could make a head for the seekers. i would buy three megatrons to make voyager seekers. that would be awesome

Bumblebee21 wrote:if hasbro or someone could make a head for the seekers. i would buy three megatrons to make voyager seekers. that would be awesome

I didnt think of that and it sounds very plausible, but would you be painting them all then?

Since the Seeker heads are all the same colour - from Screamer to Sunstorm to Slipstream - I'll be kind of surprised if Hasbro doesn't decide to make a Seeker head at some point. Whether through a Titan Master or on an actual Starscream figure.

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:if hasbro or someone could make a head for the seekers. i would buy three megatrons to make voyager seekers. that would be awesome

I didnt think of that and it sounds very plausible, but would you be painting them all then?

if hasbro didnt make them all then i would paint them. too bad we couldnt get conheads from this line or from the cw leader seekers. its time for new coneys

Kickback, Megatron, and Gnaw are on my must list.

Bumblebee I might for as well seeing how I don't own any Bumblebee's actually. I'm mostly Decepticon-centric in my collecting.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:if hasbro or someone could make a head for the seekers. i would buy three megatrons to make voyager seekers. that would be awesome

I didnt think of that and it sounds very plausible, but would you be painting them all then?

if hasbro didnt make them all then i would paint them. too bad we couldnt get conheads from this line or from the cw leader seekers. its time for new coneys

Yeah, they dont get much love on hasbro's side. Takara however is going all out on coneheads. Not only are all 3 getting MPs with little time between their releases BUT they also gave us a conehead headsculpt in Unite Warriors:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:still not getting optimus

Will you get Octane?

of course. i just don't feel the need for another optimus when the combiner wars one does the job
im still on the fence about alpha lion though
ill get megatron as well as blitzwing since i like megatron and i want all the triple changers

You are wh where I am. I keep talking myself oit of PMOP because I am quite happy with CW Prime, and dont really want to replace him.

However, I like the tanker mode , and am a pansy, so I will probably cave and get Prime just for the play vslue.

I like Megs, but I like the Leader Megs we got more. Scale be dipped.