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TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

nycPrime wrote:HTS has a Labor Day sale until the 6th: $10 off $50. I hope they get the wave 2 deluxes and their more popular stuff from wave 1 in stock during this sale. I need Wheelie!

Knew this sale was coming. Problem is, the stuff I want is not in stock nor have I seen it in stock yet, that being blaster and the wave 2 titan masters

Blaster and the wave 2 titan masters are up on HTS. Hurry and use the code before they sell out.

The listing is there but some items are OOS,including Blaster.

jogunwarrior wrote:I'm so excited to get these guys in! Just waiting on that dumb UW Computron to come into BBTS so I can my pile of loot shipped to me!

Me too, I just added Soundwave to my POL. Hurry it up Comps!

This is my first time ordering with BBTS. Can anyone tell me how the shipping charges work? I think I had to select a shipping method for Computron, and I had to pay for shipping on Soundwave today. When Comps comes in, do they re-figure the combined shipping?

Kurona wrote:Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the rumours did say Krok and Quake were redecoes. And even if they were highbrow-level retools, how would the rumour guys be able to tell?

No bubble burst here, Kurona! I know it's a long shot. Just having some fun speculating based on the rumors and the comment JelZe made about the pretool/shared engineering thing. I saw the possibility in the engineering of Mindwipe and thought I'd share.

Don't worry, I have no such theories about Quake. I'm far less acquainted with that character.



Anyway, is anyone else hoping for more of a breather between waves 2 and 3 than there was between 1 and 2? Don't think I can handle such rapid fire releases. It's kind of what drove me to stop playing MTG, I just couldn't keep up. Then again I do want Hot Rod, Triggerhappy, and Kickback immediately...

This needs to happen:



[digibash by me]

Only if Takara (whom I expect more than anyone to do such a redeco) colors his chest's fake windows correctly.

Sabrblade wrote:Only if Takara (whom I expect more than anyone to do such a redeco) colors his chest's fake windows correctly.

I really hope we get a Nemesis Prime/Scourge with Broadside rather than a re-released Galvatron. That just makes sense.

I can easily see Takara doing this instead of releasing that mould as normal optimus.

I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Of late, yes. Black Convoy was a Tokyo Toy Show exclusive, and Grand Scourge was from e-HOBBY.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Of late, yes. Black Convoy was a con exclusive, and Grand Scourge was from e-HOBBY.

What about all the scourge decos in the tav line? I don't think any of those were exclusive

steals_your_goats wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Of late, yes. Black Convoy was a con exclusive, and Grand Scourge was from e-HOBBY.

What about all the scourge decos in the tav line? I don't think any of those were exclusive

To be fair, those are Nemesis Primes.

But I think the real difference might be that we're talking of the Generations-based Japanese releases of past evil/black Optimus-type characters rather than the contemporary Adventure character releases.

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

Nope. The Adventure Nemesis Prime toys are normal retail.

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

Nope. The Adventure Nemesis Prime toys are normal retail.

It just seems to me that Hasbro not only made this mold for Octane, but for Nemesis Prime. It just works too well. It would be great to finally break the habit of Nemesis Primes and Scourges being Takara figures.

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

Nope. The Adventure Nemesis Prime toys are normal retail.

It just seems to me that Hasbro not only made this mold for Octane, but for Nemesis Prime. It just works too well. It would be great to finally break the habit of Nemesis Primes and Scourges being Takara figures.

Yeah, but when's the last time Hasbro did a Nemesis Prime-type figure that wasn't an exclusive? The little Generations Legends class mold?

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

Nope. The Adventure Nemesis Prime toys are normal retail.

It just seems to me that Hasbro not only made this mold for Octane, but for Nemesis Prime. It just works too well. It would be great to finally break the habit of Nemesis Primes and Scourges being Takara figures.

Yeah, but when's the last time Hasbro did a Nemesis Prime-type figure that wasn't an exclusive?

I'd certainly love and welcome a Nemesis/Scourge redeco of this toy by Hasbro with open arms, but I can't really say I expect it. Especially when they're limited to two voyagers per wave at most. I mean we've got Broadside, Tidal Wave, Octane, Blitzwing and Vector Prime from the rumours; if they do do a Nemesis/Scourge I doubt it'd be mainline.

Kurona wrote:I'd certainly love and welcome a Nemesis/Scourge redeco of this toy by Hasbro with open arms, but I can't really say I expect it. Especially when they're limited to two voyagers per wave at most. I mean we've got Broadside, Tidal Wave, Octane, Blitzwing and Vector Prime from the rumours; if they do do a Nemesis/Scourge I doubt it'd be mainline.

Where did this stinkin Tidal-Wave rumor come from?! I thought we were still missing a con for Broadside's wave. People were saying that they would probably rerelease Galvatron for that wave. I think if they replaced him with Scourge it would OH so sweet.

Nemesis Prime seems like a more obvious choice to me that Tidal Wave. Just sayin.

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'd certainly love and welcome a Nemesis/Scourge redeco of this toy by Hasbro with open arms, but I can't really say I expect it. Especially when they're limited to two voyagers per wave at most. I mean we've got Broadside, Tidal Wave, Octane, Blitzwing and Vector Prime from the rumours; if they do do a Nemesis/Scourge I doubt it'd be mainline.

Where did this stinkin Tidal-Wave rumor come from?! I thought we were still missing a con for Broadside's wave. People were saying that they would probably rerelease Galvatron for that wave. I think if they replaced him with Scourge it would OH so sweet.

Nemesis Prime seems like a more obvious choice to me that Tidal Wave. Just sayin.

The Tidal Wave rumour came from the same place all the other rumours came from - the podcasts, which have correctly predicted every single release in the line so far. It's the single reason people started thinking the recently leaked Broadside had a Tidal Wave head.

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'd certainly love and welcome a Nemesis/Scourge redeco of this toy by Hasbro with open arms, but I can't really say I expect it. Especially when they're limited to two voyagers per wave at most. I mean we've got Broadside, Tidal Wave, Octane, Blitzwing and Vector Prime from the rumours; if they do do a Nemesis/Scourge I doubt it'd be mainline.

Where did this stinkin Tidal-Wave rumor come from?! I thought we were still missing a con for Broadside's wave. People were saying that they would probably rerelease Galvatron for that wave. I think if they replaced him with Scourge it would OH so sweet.

Nemesis Prime seems like a more obvious choice to me that Tidal Wave. Just sayin.

The Tidal Wave rumour came from the same place all the other rumours came from - the podcasts, which have correctly predicted every single release in the line so far. It's the single reason people started thinking the recently leaked Broadside had a Tidal Wave head.

Hopefully that's not a main-line release if it's true, because I want a Nemesis Prime way more.

Thinking about it, the whole Nemesis Prime thing seemed more like a product of the old brand team led by Archer, as I don't think there's been any Nemesis Primes released by the current team led by Warden.

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Only if Takara (whom I expect more than anyone to do such a redeco) colors his chest's fake windows correctly.

I really hope we get a Nemesis Prime/Scourge with Broadside rather than a re-released Galvatron. That just makes sense.

Re releasing Galvatron is just speculation which now holds less water since Galvaton is getting rereleased in Wave 2 later this year:

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... =HSB7769B1

So I was both right and wrong: Galvatron is getting rereleased, but earlier than predicted. Meaning that I dont know who will be next to Braodside, but one thing is sure, it will be either a rereleased toy or nothing at all, as the listing says.

steals_your_goats wrote:I can easily see Takara doing this instead of releasing that mould as normal optimus.

I can see that too. Its not liek they relaese everything Hasbro does (ex Sentinel). BUt it can go either way since all the past onces outside of the TAV line were exclusives (even that Beast Hunters one).

SillySpringer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:I expect Takara will release the Octane version of the mold in the normal retail line, and later release the Optimus version of the mold in Nemesis/Scourge colours as an exclusive. Much like Grand Scourge and Motormaster; I think all Scourge decos have been exclusives in takara lines so far.

Was TaV Nemesis/Scourge an exclusive?

Nope. The Adventure Nemesis Prime toys are normal retail.

It just seems to me that Hasbro not only made this mold for Octane, but for Nemesis Prime. It just works too well. It would be great to finally break the habit of Nemesis Primes and Scourges being Takara figures.

I can tell you are a young one. Of course it works well since RID Scourge (who you call Nemesis Prime), is a redeco of Lazer Prime,the toy who this mold is based on.


Transformers Robots In Disguise Scourge (Black Convoy) Gallery

So, Hasbro made him in mind to be the original toy. That original toy, also happens to have a redeco, but the main hommage with this mold is G2 Lazer Prime:

cool got both of them couple of days ago

Seeing that side-by-side comparison of G2 Laser Prime with TR Laser Prime is just delicious.

Something great I also realised about this Optimus is that it's the first time in a while - in Generations at least - that we've got an Optimus that has a trailer. I think it might be the first time in CHUG he's had a trailer actually, unless I'm missing something.

Kurona wrote:Seeing that side-by-side comparison of G2 Laser Prime with TR Laser Prime is just delicious.

Something great I also realised about this Optimus is that it's the first time in a while - in Generations at least - that we've got an Optimus that has a trailer. I think it might be the first time in CHUG he's had a trailer actually, unless I'm missing something.

Something else I noticed about the side-by-side comparison is that, while the mold is sculpted in homage of G2 Laser OP, its robot mode deco looks a lot more like that of Star Convoy.

Ironic, considering the Star Convoy-based Titan Master that was planned to come with the figure as an extra ultimately doesn't seem to be coming with it.