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Ok, been thinking about the toys for a bit now, and am expecting Ryan's galleries to show up soon too.

I am really intrigued by all the dinoknights. Voyager Grimlock is the least appealing, but.
But.

Scorn looks pretty good, Slug is actually pretty fun - will be very interesting to see Strafe and Slash in their Generations version rather than the simplified versions!

(Curse you, plastic crack.)

Va'al wrote:Ok, been thinking about the toys for a bit now, and am expecting Ryan's galleries to show up soon too.

I am really intrigued by all the dinoknights. Voyager Grimlock is the least appealing, but.
But.

Scorn looks pretty good, Slug is actually pretty fun - will be very interesting to see Strafe and Slash in their Generations version rather than the simplified versions!

(Curse you, plastic crack.)

I have a pet theory that it's easier to tolerate the simplified designs of a deluxe when it's a beastformer, where the kibble can be integrated in interesting ways (Grimlock's shoulder pauldrons, Scorn's "wings"). And these Dinobots do look like the strongest aspect of the line.

I'm planning on matching them up against Beast Hunters Predacons for an all new 'beast wars'...

Henry921 wrote:

Va'al wrote:Ok, been thinking about the toys for a bit now, and am expecting Ryan's galleries to show up soon too.

I am really intrigued by all the dinoknights. Voyager Grimlock is the least appealing, but.
But.

Scorn looks pretty good, Slug is actually pretty fun - will be very interesting to see Strafe and Slash in their Generations version rather than the simplified versions!

(Curse you, plastic crack.)

I have a pet theory that it's easier to tolerate the simplified designs of a deluxe when it's a beastformer, where the kibble can be integrated in interesting ways (Grimlock's shoulder pauldrons, Scorn's "wings"). And these Dinobots do look like the strongest aspect of the line.

I'm planning on matching them up against Beast Hunters Predacons for an all new 'beast wars'...

Yeah, beast shelf it is. As I said. Curses.

I mean, they look so good together already!

Va'al wrote:I am really intrigued by all the dinoknights.

Henry921 wrote:I'm planning on matching them up against Beast Hunters Predacons for an all new 'beast wars'...

Like this?







NOTE: Not my pics.

Source of those amazing beasty battles?

(And I'm not sure I read your image reactions correctly, care to clarify please? )

Va'al wrote:Source of those amazing beasty battles?

The Photobucket of a guy on another site.

Va'al wrote:(And I'm not sure I read your image reactions correctly, care to clarify please? )

Your use of the term "Dino Knights".

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:I am really intrigued by all the dinoknights.

Henry921 wrote:I'm planning on matching them up against Beast Hunters Predacons for an all new 'beast wars'...

Like this?







NOTE: Not my pics.

i'm sorry, but that's one big TERRIBLY colored mess.

funny.. the ridiculously inaccurately colored beast hunters figures didn't sell.. so now they're doing the same thing with the movie line.. GENIUS.. well, by definition.. it's insanity.

I like them...

TimothyR wrote:funny.. the ridiculously inaccurately colored beast hunters figures didn't sell.. so now they're doing the same thing with the movie line.. GENIUS.. well, by definition.. it's insanity.

What are you talking about? Which Beast Hunters toys were inaccurately colored? In fact, which ones actually appeared in the show to even be considered "inaccurately colored"?

The Seibertron.com staff have spotted an interesting lot of sales on electronic marketplace eBay, namely from Taiwan based seller megalopolitan. They appear to have prepared a whole bunch of listings of upcoming Kre-O play sets from the Transformers: Age of Extinction movie, which include: Cell Block Breakout with Bumblebee, Evasion Mode Optimus and Vehicons, Dinobot Charge with Drift and Vehicons, Galvatron Factory Battle with Bumblebee, Optimus, Galvatron, and human scientists, Grimlock Street Attack with Gold Knight Optimus Prime and Vehicons, Lockdown Air Raid with Lockdown, Hound and Sideswipe, Optimus Prime Dino Hauler with Ratchet and Vehicons, and Scorn Street Chase with Crosshairs and Vehicons. Will some of these scenes be featured in the movie itself? Only time will tell - in the meantime, check out the images mirrored below!

Did they just take the Galvatron set picture from this site's (or another fan site's) Toy Fair coverage? You can see the actual toy in front of the box -- Bumblebee in the claw, Megatron's(?) disembodied head in a jar, those schematic screens...


If these sets go like the other Kre-O sets did, might as well wait for Black Friday or some other big sale.

I like that Super Saiyan Optimus figure

Yeah, I'm getting something like 90% of these.

Spleenzorio wrote:

I like that Super Saiyan Optimus figure

Every time I see that, I know the bridge like thing is suppose to be like what Grimlock crashes through, but when I saw a pick of it open and closed, and seeing guns on him, while OP rides him. I think Dyno-riders.....which I still have some, few I gave to my daughter.

http://www.dinoridersworld.com/Toys/Dinosaurs/InfoPic%28Large%29-Deinonychus%28Rulon%29.jpg

Those weapons on Grimlock Kre-o set, automatically I've remembered this game:

even the Kreons aren't all that this time around.

these are not for me

Are these Kre-O sets the first and only time that we're seeing Sideswipe as part of the AOE line? I'm very curious because not only is he red, but it appears like the print on his body is a movie style. And aside from being red, he doesn't look very much like G1 Sideswipe so it's not as if he were some add on figure to the set like they did the original ones.

Or did someone screw up and call Stinger Sideswipe?

"Sideswipe" is actually Leadfoot, the chubby Wrecker from DotM.

Youtube user Transformers and Power Rangers Toy Reviews gives us a look at Flip and Change Grimlock and Smash and Change Optimus. Kinda underwhelming really. Optimus sort of looks like a knock-off, and Grimlock just sucks. Good for kids though!

Courtesy of Youtube user Transformers and Power Rangers Toy Reviews, via a tip from fellow Seibertron.com user Fires_Of_Inferno we get a look at two of the simplified Robots in Disguise line from the upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction movie. Check out below the embedded videos for Flip and Change Grimlock and Smash and Change Optimus Prime, clearly designed for increased rough play value and endurance rather than transformation or variation in poses.

I still hold out that if this was the kind of toy aimed at us as kids we'd be on a website called Gaobotron.com

craggy wrote:I still hold out that if this was the kind of toy aimed at us as kids we'd be on a website called Gaobotron.com

What's a Gaobot? Some sort of beast thing?

well, I typed Gobotron, then realised that's probably already a site. Since we use the Japanese spelling of Cybertron, and I was too lazy to look up if there was a Japanese translation of the Gobots' homeworld, I winged it.

craggy wrote:well, I typed Gobotron, then realised that's probably already a site. Since we use the Japanese spelling of Cybertron, and I was too lazy to look up if there was a Japanese translation of the Gobots' homeworld, I winged it.

I wonder if there even is a Japanese name for it, lol.