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News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:18 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:well.....here he is!
rsz_rgmoe6z.jpg

Fortorion Maximus!

or is it Victorion Maximus? or maybe Fortress Victorion? aww anyway, you pick a name!

Why? Why would someone do this? This boggles my mind

i think it's a photoshop! it's not really happening

It's Peritus Maximus (Formerly known by the fandom as "Christmas Maximus"):

Lunatic Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Deadput wrote:They can't use the name Hot Rod so it's just Rodimus without the prime name.
They got the Hot Rod name back with the Platinum Edition "Planet of Junk Clash" set labeling the Classics Rodimus redeco as "Autobot Hot Rod".

It wouldn't make sense to bring out a new version of the olf mold and just a new TR Hot Rod. So, besides that, it's really time to bring out a new Rodimus Prime (besides the MP version). And they could remold PMOP for that.

They're bringing out a new TR Deluxe class Scourge while also bringing out the old Generations Deluxe class Scourge in the Platinum Edition "Armada of Cyclonus" set.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:22 pm

Is he off a toon then sabrblade?

@stu my reaction still stands as someone took the time to photoshop him.

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Lunatic Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Deadput wrote:They can't use the name Hot Rod so it's just Rodimus without the prime name.
They got the Hot Rod name back with the Platinum Edition "Planet of Junk Clash" set labeling the Classics Rodimus redeco as "Autobot Hot Rod".

It wouldn't make sense to bring out a new version of the olf mold and just a new TR Hot Rod. So, besides that, it's really time to bring out a new Rodimus Prime (besides the MP version). And they could remold PMOP for that.
They bringing out a new TR Deluxe class Scourge while also bringing out the old Generations Deluxe class Scourge in the Platinum Edition "Armada of Cyclonus" set.

Uh...yeah, that's true. Damn it. :BOOM:

I want a new Rodimus Prime. :roll:

And it's the Prime Wars. Gimme every Prime you have :-(

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:24 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:Is he off a toon then sabrblade?

Click the link.

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:39 pm

I didnt see this pic yet. Itsof the back of PMOP. The Apex head they show us looks like G1 Orion Pax (which was a redeco of Kup)

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:I didnt see this pic yet. Itsof the back of PMOP. The Apex head they show us looks like G1 Orion Pax (which was a redeco of Kup)

Can anybody decrypt what the bio says?

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:I didnt see this pic yet. Itsof the back of PMOP. The Apex head they show us looks like G1 Orion Pax (which was a redeco of Kup)

Wait, so the small head looks like Orion Pax, then a helmet comes up over the small head for the larger head complete with face guard?

GENIUS, Hasbro! ;)^

But, now I wonder where that head goes in alt mode. Logic would say the same place Ultra Magnus's head goes, but I thought the Titan Master would be able to sit in the truck cab in truck mode.

Unless I am missing something here... :-?

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:45 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:well.....here he is!
rsz_rgmoe6z.jpg

Fortorion Maximus!

or is it Victorion Maximus? or maybe Fortress Victorion? aww anyway, you pick a name!

Why? Why would someone do this? This boggles my mind

i think it's a photoshop! it's not really happening
It's Peritus Maximus (Formerly known by the fandom as "Christmas Maximus"):

.

oh right, then i apologise, i didn't know this actually existed!

mind you the colour scheme with this & Victorion are strikingly similar.

so who knows....maybe it will happen at some point, by some company.

god alone knows?

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:47 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I didnt see this pic yet. Itsof the back of PMOP. The Apex head they show us looks like G1 Orion Pax (which was a redeco of Kup)

Wait, so the small head looks like Orion Pax, then a helmet comes up over the small head for the larger head complete with face guard?

GENIUS, Hasbro!

But, now I wonder where that head goes in alt mode. Logic would say the same place Ultra Magnus's head goes, but I thought the Titan Master would be able to sit in the truck cab in truck mode.

Unless I am missing something here...

You can see on the package that the Headmaster CAN sit in the cab. But I'm wondering, too. Maybe the helmet stores behind the cab or under the rig.

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:53 pm

Lunatic Prime wrote:You can see on the package that the Headmaster CAN sit in the cab. But I'm wondering, too. Maybe the helmet stores behind the cab or under the rig.

pretty sure inside the cab is the only designated place for the titan master

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 4:59 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Lunatic Prime wrote:You can see on the package that the Headmaster CAN sit in the cab. But I'm wondering, too. Maybe the helmet stores behind the cab or under the rig.

pretty sure inside the cab is the only designated place for the titan master

Maybe somebody can tell something from this pic:
http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=444&size=2&image=138 (Here it's a bit bigger)

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:01 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:check this out! IDToys have Blaster & PMOP up for preorder of around £60

http://www.idtoys.co.uk/generations-titans-return/

And this is in that listing:

March/April 2016
thats a hell o an early 2016 Q3

lol your telling me, but that's what the thing says.

mind you £60 for a Leader Class in the UK is a bit steep! seeing as the CW Leaders go for around the £45 mark.

While there's probably a bit of a markup there it is in line with price increases.

Also stu since I figured your post earlier about getting characters we already had was in response to me allow me to retort.

I already said I could see the club doing arcee like that but I would hope that hasbro has more sense to avoid it like the plague. The mold is not suited for arcee in the slightest, they would have to retool it significantly to make it feminine.

back in 87 Hasbro painted up a G1 Chromedome in pink and white that they considered selling as a HM Arcee. But it didn't go further than a prototype back then.

News Credits: 10 · by **JazZeke** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:04 pm

As much fun as a MTMTE-inspired Hot/Rod/imus toy would be (I'd buy it even though I already have the Classics Rodimus), I would be more jazzed to see a toy version of E.J. Su's Viper body from the -Ations series. That design was sweet.

Wishful thinking, I know.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:07 pm

william-james88 wrote:I didnt see this pic yet. Itsof the back of PMOP. The Apex head they show us looks like G1 Orion Pax (which was a redeco of Kup)
[image]

TR Kup confirmed. 8-)

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:19 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:check this out! IDToys have Blaster & PMOP up for preorder of around £60

http://www.idtoys.co.uk/generations-titans-return/

And this is in that listing:

March/April 2016
thats a hell o an early 2016 Q3

lol your telling me, but that's what the thing says.

mind you £60 for a Leader Class in the UK is a bit steep! seeing as the CW Leaders go for around the £45 mark.

While there's probably a bit of a markup there it is in line with price increases.

Also stu since I figured your post earlier about getting characters we already had was in response to me allow me to retort.

I already said I could see the club doing arcee like that but I would hope that hasbro has more sense to avoid it like the plague. The mold is not suited for arcee in the slightest, they would have to retool it significantly to make it feminine.

back in 87 Hasbro painted up a G1 Chromedome in pink and white that they considered selling as a HM Arcee. But it didn't go further than a prototype back then.

Oh I know that but that was the hasbro of 87 this is the hasbro of 2016, I think they have gotten smarter ;-)

still I'll be surprised if they did that.

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:27 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
back in 87 Hasbro painted up a G1 Chromedome in pink and white that they considered selling as a HM Arcee. But it didn't go further than a prototype back then.

Oh I know that but that was the hasbro of 87 this is the hasbro of 2016, I think they have gotten smarter still I'll be surprised if they did that.

I dont know. You are comparing a Hasbro which issues a Metroplex that was totally different from Fortres Maximus compared to a Hasbro where one is a retool of the other.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:31 pm

Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.

Though wasn't there something in one of the interviews that we are now less likely to see so many repaints/retools? OTOH, Blurr ==> Brainwave.... 8-}

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:32 pm

Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.

Siren is Loudmouth.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:38 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.
Siren is Loudmouth.

Who is the Hasbro Minerva? :oops:

*checks TFWiki*

Oh, she was Nightbeat in mold in the US, but no direct Hasbro counterpart for her... :-?

News Credits: 4836 · by **william-james88** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:41 pm

Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.

Though wasn't there something in one of the interviews that we are now less likely to see so many repaints/retools? OTOH, Blurr ==> Brainwave....

As Sabr pointed out, they are already giving us a Siren head and they said those will just be heads (no bodies, I think).

And yes there was a definite mention that retools and redecos will only be used when appropriate. I guess they felt Brainstorm was appropriate and to be fair, both the robot and vehcle mode look the part. Its not like Brinstorm is not getting a fair deal by being a Blurr retool.

And also, Blaster and Soundwave have been doomed to forever be redecos of oneanother so that wasnt much of a surprise. I do hopw that we get another new mold for the leader class.

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:43 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.
Siren is Loudmouth.

Who is the Hasbro Minerva?

*checks TFWiki*

Oh, she was Nightbeat in mold in the US, but no direct Hasbro counterpart for her...

Uh, that's why IDW Nightbeat's license plate has "M1N3RV4" written on it.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.

Though wasn't there something in one of the interviews that we are now less likely to see so many repaints/retools? OTOH, Blurr ==> Brainwave....

As Sabr pointed out, they are already giving us a Siren head and they said those will just be heads (no bodies, I think).

And yes there was a definite mention that retools and redecos will only be used when appropriate. I guess they felt Brainstorm was appropriate and to be fair, both the robot and vehcle mode look the part. Its not like Brinstorm is not getting a fair deal by being a Blurr retool.

And also, Blaster and Soundwave have been doomed to forever be redecos of oneanother so that wasnt much of a surprise. I do hopw that we get another new mold for the leader class.

Don't forget Powermaster Prime.

I personally would love to see some sort of retool of Arcee in this line. She is one of those figures that would be awesome for multiple fembots. Maybe Moonracer or Elita-1?

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:45 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Does anybody thing we'll get a Minerva/Siren? I'd bet an Arcee repaint from that.

Though wasn't there something in one of the interviews that we are now less likely to see so many repaints/retools? OTOH, Blurr ==> Brainwave....

As Sabr pointed out, they are already giving us a Siren head and they said those will just be heads (no bodies, I think).

And yes there was a definite mention that retools and redecos will only be used when appropriate. I guess they felt Brainstorm was appropriate and to be fair, both the robot and vehcle mode look the part. Its not like Brinstorm is not getting a fair deal by being a Blurr retool.

And also, Blaster and Soundwave have been doomed to forever be redecos of oneanother so that wasnt much of a surprise. I do hopw that we get another new mold for the leader class.

And those are just 2 repaints and one of each. Not like CW Dead End and Alpha Bravo.

I'm still hoping for Leader Broadside or at least a Voyager version. :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:47 pm

I can't really see the Chromedome mold working for Rodimus without at least a moderate amount of retooling. If we do get a new Rodimus, I hope it's a good one, and not just Chromedome in Rodimus colors with a new head.

News Credits: 3 · by **Lunatic Prime** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:49 pm

Stuartmaximus wrote:I can't really see the Chromedome mold working for Rodimus without at least a moderate amount of retooling. If we do get a new Rodimus, I hope it's a good one, and not just Chromedome in Rodimus colors with a new head.

Why do you assume that (besides both being cars)? Rodimus is a sports and not a muscle car by the way.