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Caelus wrote:Personally, the idea of a given character having a spaceship alt and a beast alt doesn't in itself bother me. Perhaps the beast alt doesn't have tissues

tissues

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Caelus wrote:Personally, the idea of a given character having a spaceship alt and a beast alt doesn't in itself bother me. Perhaps the beast alt doesn't have tissues

tissues

SillySpringer wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Exactly sillyspringer, it's actually a throwback to the pretender line (now that was terminator for kids!) Which also gave birth to one of my favourite tf series super god masterforce. Speaking of which, how will takara handle powermaster prime? Will it be the return of super ginrai?

Possibly, Hasbro said they are wanting to do all of the different "Master" classes in this 3 series line. (Combiner Wars, Titans Return, and possibly another line later.)

The third one will be Titan Wars (confirmed at BotCon 2015)
I don't need more Targetmasters. Technically we already got them in the CW line with Powerglide, Viper and Shockwave. And are Pretenders "Masters"? What else do we have? Powermasters, ...

Brainmasters? Minicons?

Brainmasters. That totally passed me. Could you name one?
And Mini-Cons are a type of Masters?

The four main Brainmasters is what I was thinking. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brainmaster

And no, Minicons are not in the "masters" group, but they are a cool gimmick I want to come back that wouldn't be hard to integrate into one of these lines.

Starsaber should be a titan class figure while the others be leader classes.

But we already got new Mini-Cons with the new RID series and so the Titans Return Leader class figures are actually Brainmasters.

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Caelus wrote:Personally, the idea of a given character having a spaceship alt and a beast alt doesn't in itself bother me. Perhaps the beast alt doesn't have tissues

tissues

We don't bring that up around here what happens on the Axalon stays on the Axalon.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Exactly sillyspringer, it's actually a throwback to the pretender line (now that was terminator for kids!) Which also gave birth to one of my favourite tf series super god masterforce. Speaking of which, how will takara handle powermaster prime? Will it be the return of super ginrai?

Possibly, Hasbro said they are wanting to do all of the different "Master" classes in this 3 series line. (Combiner Wars, Titans Return, and possibly another line later.)

The third one will be Titan Wars (confirmed at BotCon 2015)
I don't need more Targetmasters. Technically we already got them in the CW line with Powerglide, Viper and Shockwave. And are Pretenders "Masters"? What else do we have? Powermasters, ...

Brainmasters? Minicons?

Brainmasters. That totally passed me. Could you name one?
And Mini-Cons are a type of Masters?

The four main Brainmasters is what I was thinking. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brainmaster

And no, Minicons are not in the "masters" group, but they are a cool gimmick I want to come back that wouldn't be hard to integrate into one of these lines.

Starsaber should be a titan class figure while the others be leader classes.

But we already got new Mini-Cons with the new RID series and so the Titans Return Leader class figures are actually Brainmasters.

Those are not the kind of minicons I came to know and love from the Armada line.

You are thinking of Headmasters probably, the Titans Return leaders are Headmasters. Brainmasters have the little bot inside of the chest instead of becoming the head.

Deadput wrote:YOU had no problem with them Transforming into organic animals.

But I do it's just disturbing to me especially with any Transformer that turns into an organic looking Spider and snake.

You know what I always found disturbing as hell? Animorphs . Those things looked like they were actually the official toy line of John Carpenter's The Thing or something

Back to the subject at hand;

I don't think I have ever been this impatient for photos from Toyfair before

Lunatic Prime wrote:But we already got new Mini-Cons with the new RID series and so the Titans Return Leader class figures are actually Brainmasters.

Star Saber was a Brainmaster. Well, Saber, anyway:





If we do get Star Saber in the Titan Masters line (or the next one) I hope he keeps this gimmick. On the other hand, I wonder if they would just release the MP as a Leader figure... (Might need some adjustments to make toy safe in US. Like rubber points, and a lack of small parts..>)

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Caelus wrote:Personally, the idea of a given character having a spaceship alt and a beast alt doesn't in itself bother me. Perhaps the beast alt doesn't have tissues

tissues

The other .1% can shelfwarm.

The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

Down_Shift wrote:The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

I thought Titans Return wasn't starting until September/October after all of the Combiner Wars box sets are out. Though I do hope the first wave comes out for late July/early August.

Munkky wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

I thought Titans Return wasn't starting until September/October after all of the Combiner Wars box sets are out. Though I do hope the first wave comes out for late July/early August.

If I recall, Hasbro confirmed that they would overlap and even share gimmicks. (Such as Soundwave being in Titans Return and Buzzsaw being from Combiner Wars.)

Munkky wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

I thought Titans Return wasn't starting until September/October after all of the Combiner Wars box sets are out. Though I do hope the first wave comes out for late July/early August.

The boxed sets aren't their own wave. They're extras released in addition to normal waves of Legends/Deluxes/Voyagers/Leaders, which will be Titans Returns figures since the Sky Reign team are the last regular wave of Combiner Wars toys.

SillySpringer wrote:

Munkky wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

I thought Titans Return wasn't starting until September/October after all of the Combiner Wars box sets are out. Though I do hope the first wave comes out for late July/early August.

If I recall, Hasbro confirmed that they would overlap and even share gimmicks. (Such as Soundwave being in Titans Return and Buzzsaw being from Combiner Wars.)

Ah, yes, I see. Every size-class for Combiner Wars had six waves, except the Leader-Class, which had 5. So it makes sense that the Leader Class figures would be the first figures from Titan Wars to start appearing on shelves. Even so, though, it doesn't seem like Soundwave will make it onto shelves before Buzzsaw is gone, so that seems very odd. I wonder why they chose to put Buzzsaw in the last two waves of Legends class Combiner Wars figures, instead of putting one of the Autobot cassettes in them?

I am not totally comfortable with Alpha Trion being a lion, but I am one of those old, lame grew up during G1 guys, lol. Although I love Beast Wars and other beastformers I had just hoped when we got an Alpha Trion figure it would be more "G1" with a metal cape and all.

This Chromedome as just a head has me really disappointed. I really hope he as a body, love my TFSS Chromedome but having him a headmaster like he should be is best. Mix between IDW and G1 in robot mode is just what I would want.

Caelus wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Munkky wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:The third part of the Prime saga hasn't been announced yet. The second part, Titans Returs, starts later this year. Should drop around April.

I thought Titans Return wasn't starting until September/October after all of the Combiner Wars box sets are out. Though I do hope the first wave comes out for late July/early August.

If I recall, Hasbro confirmed that they would overlap and even share gimmicks. (Such as Soundwave being in Titans Return and Buzzsaw being from Combiner Wars.)

Ah, yes, I see. Every size-class for Combiner Wars had six waves, except the Leader-Class, which had 5. So it makes sense that the Leader Class figures would be the first figures from Titan Wars to start appearing on shelves. Even so, though, it doesn't seem like Soundwave will make it onto shelves before Buzzsaw is gone, so that seems very odd. I wonder why they chose to put Buzzsaw in the last two waves of Legends class Combiner Wars figures, instead of putting one of the Autobot cassettes in them?

Yeah from a business standpoint, it doesn't make much sense, though I would prefer to get Laserbeak first though. Even though it doesn't effect or upset me much, I have no idea why Hasbro would do it.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Takara, please save this mold with some better paint apps!

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Takara, please save this mold with some better paint apps!

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I don't understand your point...isn't that just a inverted picture?

Moonshot wrote:I am not totally comfortable with Alpha Trion being a lion, but I am one of those old, lame grew up during G1 guys, lol. Although I love Beast Wars and other beastformers I had just hoped when we got an Alpha Trion figure it would be more "G1" with a metal cape and all.

This Chromedome as just a head has me really disappointed. I really hope he as a body, love my TFSS Chromedome but having him a headmaster like he should be is best. Mix between IDW and G1 in robot mode is just what I would want.

I'm fine with it as long as the robot mode is good since we never saw his alt mode in the G1 cartoon.

ZeroWolf wrote:I don't understand your point...isn't that just a inverted picture?

Nope!

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I don't understand your point...isn't that just a inverted picture?

Nope!

I wondered if that was a reference to G2 Soundwave.

Do we need another Soundwave figure? I'm pretty happy with my Masterpiece Soundwave

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:Do we need another Soundwave figure? I'm pretty happy with my Masterpiece Soundwave

Some people (like me) can't afford MP Soundwave and want a simpler, cheaper rendition of him.

Yeah, that's true

Hopefully this Alpha Trion won't be redone as Lio Convoy. I just wouldn't be able to adjust to both shoulders having lion heads.

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:Do we need another Soundwave figure? I'm pretty happy with my Masterpiece Soundwave

So you think we don't need any more Soundwaves? EVER.