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News Credits: 2 · Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:31 pm

Oh man those were sweet pics of Shockwave...thank you! :BOWDOWN:

So in the wake of these great deals from HTS can someone explain why 2 deluxe figures from Siege cost me $21 each?? :shock:

I clearly missed the memo. I had to stop my wallet from jumping out of my pocket and running out the damn store. :VEHI:

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:36 pm

Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh man those were sweet pics of Shockwave...thank you!

So in the wake of these great deals from HTS can someone explain why 2 deluxe figures from Siege cost me $21 each?? I clearly missed the memo. I had to stop my wallet from jumping out of my pocket and running out the damn store.

The retail for the Siege deluxes is $19.99. HTS has them erroneously listed at $9.99, that is the reason the price is so vastly different.

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:34 am

Having some fun converting with the backwards compatibility of some figures:

News Credits: 2 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:35 am

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh man those were sweet pics of Shockwave...thank you!

So in the wake of these great deals from HTS can someone explain why 2 deluxe figures from Siege cost me $21 each?? I clearly missed the memo. I had to stop my wallet from jumping out of my pocket and running out the damn store.

The retail for the Siege deluxes is $19.99. HTS has them erroneously listed at $9.99, that is the reason the price is so vastly different.

Okay point but why are Siege deluxe figures are more than POTP deluxe figures, why? Is it simple economics or something else and please don't say it's the damn packaging that has added to the cost. :-P

News Credits: 65 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:41 am

Nemesis Destron wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Nemesis Destron wrote:Oh man those were sweet pics of Shockwave...thank you!

So in the wake of these great deals from HTS can someone explain why 2 deluxe figures from Siege cost me $21 each?? I clearly missed the memo. I had to stop my wallet from jumping out of my pocket and running out the damn store.

The retail for the Siege deluxes is $19.99. HTS has them erroneously listed at $9.99, that is the reason the price is so vastly different.

Okay point but why are Siege deluxe figures are more than POTP deluxe figures, why? Is it simple economics or something else and please don't say it's the damn packaging that has added to the cost.

More paint used, higher parts count, more complex transformations (higher R&D costs), plus the general rising cost of Transformers toys to meet inflation. Studio Series figures are already $19.99 for Deluxes. Generations was just lagging behind a bit.

News Credits: 171 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:42 am

Thanks to sponsor sites such as Big Bad Toy Store and TFSource, we have Hasbro stock photos of the Siege: War for Cybertron Trilogy Wave 2 figures! This included Battle Masters Aimless and Pteraxadon, Micromasters Red Heat, Stakeout, Ravage, and Laserbeak, Deluxe Class Ironhide, Chromia, Six-Gun, and Prowl, and finally, Voyager Class Starscream and Soundwave. These stock photos nicely show these upcoming toys for next year! Big Bad Toy Store also has the names of all the weapons included, and accessories.

So, do these stock photos make you like these toys more, or less? Tell us in the Pub forums below!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:16 am

Autobot Roadburn wrote:So what I'm now curious about is where did the blue bumper butt go in this picture?

Pretty sure it just pops off and snaps back on, though.

Really not feeling Chromia's VHS (visible head syndrome). I'm sure her head is turned the wrong way, but it isn't very well hidden.

Emerje

News Credits: 8 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:47 am

Emerje wrote:
Autobot Roadburn wrote:So what I'm now curious about is where did the blue bumper butt go in this picture?

Pretty sure it just pops off and snaps back on, though.

Really not feeling Chromia's VHS (visible head syndrome). I'm sure her head is turned the wrong way, but it isn't very well hidden.

Emerje

Well that's just awesome! I must've missed that picture. This actually makes me want Magnus a lot more now. Shockwave is still the leader I want first but I'll probably get Magnus or the Optimus retool/repaint of him.

News Credits: 12 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:47 am

Soundwave's gonna be the firt figure in this line that I try to mess with removing battle damage from, simply because of his chest compartment. That's the only area I have issue with because it just looks... Weird, seeing Soundwave with that much damage when some of the Bots I'd expect to be in more battles like Megs have such minimal battle damage that it's that not too bad unless you're looking. I hope he gets the Magnus treatment with the amount being toned down before release, but I doubt that's happening because these look final and ready to ship

News Credits: 101 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:49 am

Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:57 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

It's because they didn't think it would make sense for him to literally turn into a cassette player given the whole "pre-Earth" thing for this line, and they didn't think "Cybertronian lamp post" would be a compelling official alternate mode to people that aren't aware of the source of that.

Basically, he transforms into the lamp post, but because they felt they needed something more "exciting" for the general audience and kids, they reconfigured it a bit into a "spaceship".

News Credits: 18 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:11 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

I think one of the Hasbro guys said it's a Cybertron patrol Ship. Why they didn't make him a truck like the War + Fall games is beyond me.

News Credits: 101 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:15 am

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Basically, he transforms into the lamp post, but because they felt they needed something more "exciting" for the general audience and kids, they reconfigured it a bit into a "spaceship".

I can poop a better looking spaceship than that. Now we are back at the movieverse "Cybertronian" random crap. The most shocking is Sixgun, Starscream, and Shockwave are Cybertronian spaceships and they ROCK their altmodes.

Soundwave could have taken a clue from an alternate universe. that same bot mode could easily have been a square tank of some sort. Way more appropriate for the character. And a genius designer would have squeezed in a "secret" tape-deck "fan-mode".

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:15 am

Soundwave's alt mode is what most spacecraft look like in the (technically) Siege comic. I'm guessing they did that to make Soundwave stand out less.

Emerje

News Credits: 51 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:26 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

To be fair, the Soundwave in this pic is mistransformed, his legs/waist are the wrong way around. There's a cockpit on the other side of his waist, and panels on the legs that fold out and hide the fact that they're legs a bit more. So credit where credit's due, you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Same with the Chromia pics, she's mistransformed in both modes even. When they initially showed her off at Con her head wasn't visible at all in alt mode.

News Credits: 101 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:33 am

Nemesis Primal wrote: you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Hmmmm….

In that case, I'll wait for someone competent and not lazy to transform that Soundwave properly so that we see what he really look like. Because having Ravage and Lazerbeak in a convenient two-pack is a pretty good incentive.

Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:48 am

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hasbro's stock photographers couldn't be trusted to reliably transform a Jumpstarter

News Credits: 27 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:54 am

Im a bit curious of what they will do to Grand Slam and Raindance on the SIEGE line but im a bit concern to them if they dont have cassette(?) modes

and im not sure if theyre going to use Skytread as a mold but it needs a reverse engineering method (Tank = Torso, Jet = legs)

We have Sixgun, i doubt there is a possible Slammer by now.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:27 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote: you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Hmmmm….
In that case, I'll wait for someone competent and not lazy to transform that Soundwave properly so that we see what he really look like. Because having Ravage and Lazerbeak in a convenient two-pack is a pretty good incentive.

But Chromia has the other VHS, visible hand syndrome, when transformed properly. And unlike her PotP counterparts there's no extra part to hide them.

Emerje

News Credits: 101 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:33 am

Ah. Okay, it's not perfect, but at least Soundwave try to be something here. I may buy on sale.

News Credits: 27 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:00 am

Emerje wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote: you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Hmmmm….
In that case, I'll wait for someone competent and not lazy to transform that Soundwave properly so that we see what he really look like. Because having Ravage and Lazerbeak in a convenient two-pack is a pretty good incentive.

Emerje

I wonder if the Boombox mode would be compatible on this?

Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:07 am

Looking at the knees it probably is

News Credits: 174 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:30 am

Oh my god, you can literally see through ironhide :HEADHURTS:

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:48 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:Oh my god, you can literally see through ironhide

Camera trick, the lines you're seeing aren't on the window.

Emerje

News Credits: 174 · Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:54 am

Emerje wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:Oh my god, you can literally see through ironhide

Camera trick, the lines you're seeing aren't on the window.

Emerje

I'm talking about the hole in his body everyone hates, it lets you see through him cuz his windshield is clear; in the official shot you can see the white background, and in your pic, you can see the white of magnus' leg through him