The Energon Pub

Kurona wrote:If you want a jet-to-plane triple changer you could always buy TR Voyager Optimus, cover his tanker with your hands and pretend he's a weirdly shaped car.

Counterpunch wrote:Courtesy of Maz...

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I was hoping to get the Hasbro version, but the Takara head is so much better.

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

If anything, he might actually be the most likely one due to character re-use - he and his japanese counterpart Cab have no deco differences at all unlike Nightbeat/Minerva and Siren/Goshooter... plus, they could always re-use him for Heatwave. I do remember something about Generations Rescue Bots being asked about at Botcon...
Probably a bit of a stretch though.

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

If anything, he might actually be the most likely one due to character re-use - he and his japanese counterpart Cab have no deco differences at all unlike Nightbeat/Minerva and Siren/Goshooter... plus, they could always re-use him for Heatwave. I do remember something about Generations Rescue Bots being asked about at Botcon...
Probably a bit of a stretch though.

We then turned to the Titans Return line, looking first at Alpha Trion. As noted previously, he was not originally planned for that line, and as such was not originally designed as either a Headmaster or a Triple Changer. Emiliano’s original design showed a robot mode very similar to the final toy, inspired by Cybertron Vector Prime, but equipped with an extra spiked sceptre weapon and a cloak, whilst the lion mode was significantly more sleek and organic, with a Transmetal 2-style cyborg look.

Emiliano also worked on the beast modes for Skullsmasher, Mindwipe and Wolfwire, with Takara then designing robot modes out of them. Wolfwire’s intial design was very close to the final toy, whilst Skullsmasher was originally planned to have his cockpit in his crocodile head before having it moved to his torso due to space limitations. Mindwipe’s design art was most different from the final figure, having a far more realistic bat silhouette, and a more snub-nosed bat head. The final toy’s ‘robot legs to bat wings’ transformation scheme was also absent, with the robot legs forming the bat torso instead.

Next was wave 1 of the single-packed Titan Masters and their drone vehicles/beast. Interestingly, Emiliano noted that these were originally designed as brand-new characters, explaining why their robot modes didn’t appear to be based on anything in particular. Their original head modes had very cool, unusual designs, with features like large cylinders and chunky faceplates, before being replaced with those of existing characters.

Galvatron was another figure Emiliano worked on, and like Alpha Trion, was not designed as a Headmaster. He noted that his earliest sketches were approved very quickly. Interestingly, these early designs sported a cartoon-style ‘crown’ rather than the IDW-style helmet seen recently on test shots.

Next up was Powermaster Optimus Prime, for which Emiliano had to search up pictures of Leader Class Ultra Magnus online to identify the figure’s transformation scheme! The initial concepts were mostly similar to the final toy, but unfortunately new parts to close up the front of Prime’s vehicle trailer didn’t make it onto the figure. Also lost from the original design art were several extra paint applications, including blue fists, detailing on the shins, and extra black and white details on the chest plate’s faux Hi-Q.

Finally for Titans Return, we saw the design art for the Soundwave retool of Leader Class Blaster. Emiliano was specifically asked to give him a modern sound bar alternate mode. Two pieces of tooling that didn’t make it to the final toy were Soundwave’s traditional rifle, and a mounted microphone which would have replaced Blaster’s boombox handle and transformed into Soundwave’s shoulder cannon for robot mode.

Tyrannacon wrote:That interview posted William was pretty interesting. Has nothing made it out of the original head planned for Galvatron from then I take it? I mean we have the original rendered shots with the different different looking-crown. I just wonder how much different it was. The gap is also starting to drive me nuts a bit on mine, but I'm making do with it at least.

Dr Va'al wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:That interview posted William was pretty interesting. Has nothing made it out of the original head planned for Galvatron from then I take it? I mean we have the original rendered shots with the different different looking-crown. I just wonder how much different it was. The gap is also starting to drive me nuts a bit on mine, but I'm making do with it at least.

There was no gap, the head was fully part of the design, and it looked quite similar to the Guidi IDW version of things. Emiliano said at the panel how his designs were still following the IDW-trend that Hasbro was doing with Generations, just as they switched over to the new G1 updates (without really telling their freelance artists, of course).

Next was wave 1 of the single-packed Titan Masters and their drone vehicles/beast. Interestingly, Emiliano noted that these were originally designed as brand-new characters, explaining why their robot modes didn’t appear to be based on anything in particular. Their original head modes had very cool, unusual designs, with features like large cylinders and chunky faceplates, before being replaced with those of existing characters.

Bumblebee21 wrote:so we could have had a perfect galvatron

Agamemnon wrote:Suddenly, it appears that BBTS has received some TR Wave 2 as I received an email notification with them in stock (in some respects) and taking preorders on singles and cases. Here are links to the sets:

Wave 2 Deluxes, set of 4 Highbrow, Chromedome, Mindwipe, Wolfwire

Wave 2 Voyager, set of 2 Alpha Trion and Astrotrain

Funny, I hadn't seen preorders before now, and was wondering about them....

Bumblebee21 wrote:so we could have had a perfect galvatron

LE0KING wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:so we could have had a perfect galvatron

Yep, it's been fairly obvious since the beginning that it wasn't intended to be a Titan master. every time I look at it I shed a single manly tear for what was lost.

LE0KING wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:so we could have had a perfect galvatron

Yep, it's been fairly obvious since the beginning that it wasn't intended to be a Titan master. every time I look at it I shed a single manly tear for what was lost.