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News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:30 pm

o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

But yeah Siege...

At least it's not "Rouge One".

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:57 pm

I think these will be the Transformers I will introduce to my son. I'll be getting that Car Robots/G1 Ultra Magnus for myself, though. That joint is :michaelbay:

News Credits: 56 · by **o.supreme** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:12 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

But yeah Siege...
At least it's not "Rouge One".

Yeah I never understood that misspelling, but I guess it's because I've seen Rogue spelled in print so often.

But I can understand the other, especially since the name of this site is based the Romanization of the Japanese spelling of Cybertron

.

Also just curious, Don't most browsers spell check before posting in this forum? I know when I post from here using Explorer or Chrome it does...Of course it would not catch grammatically if you misspelled one word for another. Also I guess I'm not accounting for tablets or phones, which I almost never use when looking on this site.

News Credits: 5 · by **REMINATOR** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:18 pm

Since the revelation of the WFC Siege armor UM was first shown, my excitement and rational thinking hasn't stop. I am so full of exuberant and still can't believe that after all these 32 years, it finally happens. Hasbro finally deliver an armor UM before Takara-Tomy who failed me with the Masterpiece Line/MP22 (love the figure, but lack of a white Magnus, agrr). While we are waiting WFC UM to get release, here's a reminder for all the Armor UM fans:

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:18 pm

o.supreme wrote:Also just curious, Don't most browsers spell check before posting in this forum? I know when I post from here using Explorer or Chrome it does...Of course it would not catch grammatically if you misspelled one word for another. Also I guess I'm not accounting for tablets or phones, which I almost never use when looking on this site.

You give AI too much credit. The computer can spell words "correctly" but it will NEVER care about the context. Unless you run the text through a quality expensive software, you will only get auto-corrected randomly.

BTW, when I post from my phone, which is set in FRENCH, the auto-correct keep trolling me.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:27 pm

o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:As a friendly reminder to everyone in this thread, I before E except for C.

Eighty feisty, ableit dreich, reigning sovereign sheikhs' heirs, deifing society, inveigled a weird foreign leisurely scientist's fanciest eight rottweilers to forfeit sufficient obeisance, veiling a heinous seismic gneiss vein heist, wherein they abseiled heights of neighboring ancient lithofacies, heigh-ho-ing their weighty freight with beige greige skeins, later efficiently surfeiting on stupefacient codeine.

But yeah Siege...

Read that in a parody Scots Accent. Totally worth it

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:30 pm

That Chromia is an easy pass for me, especially if she indeed has no combiner functionality. The "greebling" on her is just extreme. Ultra Magnus is pretty bad in that regard too. They both look like they soaked too long in the tub and are pruning really badly. The rest of the bots look fine, with just the right amount of tech detailing in their sculpts without it looking ridiculous. Someone just went overboard when sculpting poor Chromia.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:37 pm

REMINATOR wrote:Since the revelation of the WFC Siege armor UM was first shown, my excitement and rational thinking hasn't stop. I am so full of exuberant and still can't believe that after all these 32 years, it finally happens. Hasbro finally deliver an armor UM before Takara-Tomy who failed me with the Masterpiece Line/MP22 (love the figure, but lack of a white Magnus, agrr). While we are waiting WFC UM to get release, here's a reminder for all the Armor UM fans:

First off, love the animated picture, kudos to whoever the artist is.

Secondly, by the time masterpiece um came around, couldn't that be seen as the start of animation first? I mean it is animation accurate isn't it? White prime is toy only.

Now I'll echo sentiments about the combined forms of the micromasters. The military patrol are the clear winners here, followed by the rescue patrol. As for the street patrol...may just have to head canon them into shields and place them accordingly...or just not combine them.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:45 pm

Wow, looking at Chroma's speeder mode from the back, that's just lazy. Like the designers just gave up halfway through. Sad.

News Credits: 8 · by **Mr.MicroMaster** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:55 pm

I know a lot of people have said this (including myself) but where are the Decepticons

. Does anybody have any ideas or answers on where they are.

by **shocksound96** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 5:29 pm

looks like i'm going to decommission my Universe Ironhide from my shelf :-?

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:08 pm

Mr.MicroMaster wrote:I know a lot of people have said this (including myself) but where are the Decepticons . Does anybody have any ideas or answers on where they are.

Part of me hopes that they haven't shown any Cons yet because the reveals are going to be super surprising and unexpected, like new characters or updates to non-G1 characters who have historically had Cybertronian-looking alt modes like, I dunno, um...like BM Vehicons, or something, but since we all know Warden refuses to admit characters that aren't from G1/named after someone from G1 exist, it really probably just means that they wanted to show the Autobots first because they're the good guys, and everyone is supposed to love them, and the Cons either aren't finalized yet or are going to get a Con-only reveal like this one at a later juncture, like NYCC.

Or maybe they just forgot, I dunno. I just want to see the Cons too, at this point.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:09 pm

I'm mixed so far. Really psyched about some stuff (proper micromasters!), confused about others (G1 Mag with RID truck?), and upset about some (Chromia specifically NOT a combiner limb).

News Credits: 101 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:30 pm

shajaki wrote:I'm mixed so far. Really psyched about some stuff (proper micromasters!), confused about others (G1 Mag with RID truck?), and upset about some (Chromia specifically NOT a combiner limb).

Ditto exept for Magnus. I think it's a BRILLIANT move to mix G1 Magnus while hommaging the RID vehicle. This is one leader that I think I will NOT wait for a sale to happen before buying.

As for any

reveals, Apeface and Snapdragon should be obvious at this point. Even if the headmasters would be Micromaster sized. In fact, it would be just PERFECT. Plus the horrorcons do have "cybertronian" vehicle modes.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:45 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:As for any reveals,

I was going to mention.... who exactly are they at siege with? I don't see anyone but Autobots. Maybe this is what it should be called :lol:

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 6:54 pm

I'd almost guarantee Tetra Jets are coming.

FOR YOU!!!!

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 7:14 pm

Cobotron wrote:I'd almost guarantee Tetra Jets are coming.

FOR YOU!!!!

At some point you figure they gotta give us those..I've wanted those since I first saw them in animation...but, I've gotten used to disappointment. 8-}

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 7:26 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:At some point you figure they gotta give us those..I've wanted those since I first saw them in animation...but, I've gotten used to disappointment.

Yeah, the closest we've gotten to them were the Titanium releases of the seekers back in the day.

The more I think about it, the more I'm looking forward to getting that Magnus. As far as I can tell, the combined robot mode is spot on.

I also think the lack of

only serves to get us worked up for them. This could backfire on Hasbro if the

figures turn out to be garbage.

Since there are so many chickbots, would it be much of a stretch to get one retooled as Nightbird? Even though IIRC she was never on Cybertron before they came to Earth.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 7:45 pm

The titaniums were ok..but not what I wanted.

I'm hoping we will get a wheeljack from the ironhide mold

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:01 pm

I get where people are coming from with Chromia, but it makes sense why Hasbro are going that way.

This is an all new "trilogy". The previous one started with Combiner Wars and carried through the subsequent two lines. It's had it's run.

This is a new start, so new (rehashed) gimmicks are called for.

I only want to know two things, story line wise is this connected to G1/Prime Wars (I'm hoping it is set post Prime Wars) and where the heck are the 'Cons?

Setting it post Prime Wars and having Optimal Optimus fail as a leader works for me, and the lack of 'Cons may be because whoever has Cybertron under siege is in fact an entirely new party with only a handful of 'Cons (the core group - Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream etc) getting figures.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:11 pm

After listening to what John Warden talks about in this video,

I think the storyline the Hasbro team is going for is the war at home on Cybertron, before they left for Earth.
Just like the video game. Warden talks a lot about evoking the feeling of the '84 pilot episode.

Hence why I suspect they will do the Tetra Jet style Seekers.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 8:19 pm

Cobotron wrote:After listening to what John Warden talks about in this video,

I think the storyline the Hasbro team is going for is the war at home on Cybertron, before they left for Earth.
Just like the video game. Warden talks a lot about evoking the feeling of the '84 pilot episode.

Hence why I suspect they will do the Tetra Jet style Seekers.

One of the stills in the video shows tetra jets..I'm assuming the 30 + year wait is coming to an end

News Credits: 8 · by **Mr.MicroMaster** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:23 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Mr.MicroMaster wrote:I know a lot of people have said this (including myself) but where are the Decepticons . Does anybody have any ideas or answers on where they are.

Part of me hopes that they haven't shown any Cons yet because the reveals are going to be super surprising and unexpected, like new characters or updates to non-G1 characters who have historically had Cybertronian-looking alt modes like, I dunno, um...like BM Vehicons, or something, but since we all know Warden refuses to admit characters that aren't from G1/named after someone from G1 exist, it really probably just means that they wanted to show the Autobots first because they're the good guys, and everyone is supposed to love them, and the Cons either aren't finalized yet or are going to get a Con-only reveal like this one at a later juncture, like NYCC.

Or maybe they just forgot, I dunno. I just want to see the Cons too, at this point.

BM Vehicons would be cool,but you are probably right about them wanting to show the Autobots first. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

by **Ultra Markus** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:48 pm

Mr.MicroMaster wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:
Mr.MicroMaster wrote:I know a lot of people have said this (including myself) but where are the Decepticons . Does anybody have any ideas or answers on where they are.

Part of me hopes that they haven't shown any Cons yet because the reveals are going to be super surprising and unexpected, like new characters or updates to non-G1 characters who have historically had Cybertronian-looking alt modes like, I dunno, um...like BM Vehicons, or something, but since we all know Warden refuses to admit characters that aren't from G1/named after someone from G1 exist, it really probably just means that they wanted to show the Autobots first because they're the good guys, and everyone is supposed to love them, and the Cons either aren't finalized yet or are going to get a Con-only reveal like this one at a later juncture, like NYCC.

Or maybe they just forgot, I dunno. I just want to see the Cons too, at this point.

BM Vehicons would be cool,but you are probably right about them wanting to show the Autobots first. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

i wonder what the titan class character will be this time? im thinking Omega Supreme he would fit right in as one of the original guardians but still i wish for Scorponok too :-?