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Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:17 pm
by SpikeyTigertron
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just picked up Ultra Magnus today, and he's awesome. If I could change one thing about him though, it'd be to add a pair of 5mm ports onto the blue bumper so you could add the missiles to Cabnus. As he is though, it's a very nice representation of Magnus. Still trying to decide how I'll display him though. I love the armored mode, but Cabnus and Prime look SO good together

I actually like keeping him in his beefiest of vehicle modes, with cog riding on top of his carrier section


Better yet, use Cog to weaponize the trailer.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 10:30 pm
by Hellscream9999
SpikeyTigertron wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just picked up Ultra Magnus today, and he's awesome. If I could change one thing about him though, it'd be to add a pair of 5mm ports onto the blue bumper so you could add the missiles to Cabnus. As he is though, it's a very nice representation of Magnus. Still trying to decide how I'll display him though. I love the armored mode, but Cabnus and Prime look SO good together

I actually like keeping him in his beefiest of vehicle modes, with cog riding on top of his carrier section


Better yet, use Cog to weaponize the trailer.

I would not wanna be near magnus' bumper when he gets turbo-boosted by cogs' jet boosters :shock:

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:13 pm
by Skritz
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SpikeyTigertron wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just picked up Ultra Magnus today, and he's awesome. If I could change one thing about him though, it'd be to add a pair of 5mm ports onto the blue bumper so you could add the missiles to Cabnus. As he is though, it's a very nice representation of Magnus. Still trying to decide how I'll display him though. I love the armored mode, but Cabnus and Prime look SO good together

I actually like keeping him in his beefiest of vehicle modes, with cog riding on top of his carrier section


Better yet, use Cog to weaponize the trailer.

I would not wanna be near magnus' bumper when he gets turbo-boosted by cogs' jet boosters :shock:


I wouldn't want to be Magnus either because that 'trailer' can't turn. Say hello to the dragster armored car carrier from HELL.
:michaelbay:

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 3:31 pm
by Jeddostotle7
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SpikeyTigertron wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just picked up Ultra Magnus today, and he's awesome. If I could change one thing about him though, it'd be to add a pair of 5mm ports onto the blue bumper so you could add the missiles to Cabnus. As he is though, it's a very nice representation of Magnus. Still trying to decide how I'll display him though. I love the armored mode, but Cabnus and Prime look SO good together

I actually like keeping him in his beefiest of vehicle modes, with cog riding on top of his carrier section


Better yet, use Cog to weaponize the trailer.

I would not wanna be near magnus' bumper when he gets turbo-boosted by cogs' jet boosters :shock:


Well, to be fair, if it was coming your way, you wouldn't really be near it for very long. Technically speaking, you wouldn't be at all, afterwards.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:05 pm
by D-Maximal_Primal
Skritz wrote:Say hello to the dragster armored car carrier from HELL.
:michaelbay:

This right here is basically a summation of Siege and everything you can do with it and it is awesome

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:33 pm
by SpikeyTigertron
Whether one has made peace with the “new” deluxe sizes..... or not.... i’m Loving the scale of everything

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:48 pm
by SpikeyTigertron
Curious if Springer will be a “larger” voyager

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:50 pm
by Skritz
SpikeyTigertron wrote:Whether one has made peace with the “new” deluxe sizes..... or not.... i’m Loving the scale of everything


I mean, are they really that small? I got Skythread who is basically a 'deluxe minus' for that line and he's mostly in scale with CW deluxes and a smidge smaller than TR deluxes.

Interview about Siege Omega Supreme with new Image of Details and Gimmicks

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:51 pm
by william-james88
Hasbro Pulse released an interview with John Warden about Omega Supreme, read it below and check out the detailed images of the mold.

Welcome to the first edition of Hasbro Pulse: Behind the Design, where we talk to the product designers behind some of your favorite toys and collectibles. We sat down with the Transformers Senior Design Manager, John W., to get the scoop on the recently revealed War for Cybertron: Siege – Omega Supreme figure.

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Hasbro Pulse: 
This figure…pretty darn big. Exactly how big is this Omega Supreme?

John: 
He’s approximately 2 feet tall. You really have to look at this character – a lot of people judge the height of the character by the head. For some fans, it will be up for debate, but we’re saying he’s about 2 feet tall and is the largest in the Siege toy line. What’s interesting about a character like this is that not only is he big, but he has a solid feel to him, too. We’ve been listening to the fans and we’re trying to eliminate some of those plastic voids.

Hasbro Pulse: 
Before we go any further, I have to ask, does this Omega Supreme figure have waist articulation?

John: 
He does, he definitely does. We get that question a lot! “He’s cool, but does he have waist articulation?” It’s funny how much the G1 toy design has influenced people’s opinion. I remember as a kid this guy really throwing down in the cartoon, and he would bend at his waist, and could do all this different cool stuff. I remember playing with the G1 toy as a kid, and thinking to myself, “Wow…not only is it smaller than the cartoon, but it’s definitely not moving like the cartoon.” Fans of Siege know there’s a lot of articulation we built into these figures, and we wanted to make sure that the Titan Class character also had the same level of articulation.

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Hasbro Pulse:

I imagine with a figure so large, you’re dealing with challenges you wouldn’t otherwise see on smaller figures. What would you say was your biggest challenge when designing this figure?

John: 
Like all Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege toys, we partner with Takara Tomy – they are really the legends of converting from robot to vehicle or beast or whatever it is that these characters convert into. The experts at Takara Tomy presented a bunch of big challenges out of the gate. Our job at Hasbro is to carry that vision and communicate, “Here are some of the big things that we want out of the character,” and give Takara Tomy a list of priorities. I think probably the biggest challenge out of the gate was we had a pretty darn big wish list for this character. Trying to get everything into a character this scale was a challenge. The hardest thing of all is really when you have a big character, like all Titan Class characters, you’re dealing with the weight of the character and the physics of it – how do you retain poses and how do you allow the thing to convert? In the case of Omega Supreme, part of his conversion is that he (to use the parlance of Transformers fandom) is a parts-Transformer, so he actually breaks apart into a couple different pieces, like the 80s version did. Having the pieces connect in a robust way that still allows him to articulate to retain those cool poses was a huge challenge. So, in summary, we asked for the moon and we got a space station.

Hasbro Pulse: 
You talked about this figure as a parts-Transformer and how he breaks into all these different parts. Can you walk us through all the parts that make up Omega Supreme?

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John: 
First there is his robot mode that features a lot of G1 cues, like his movable hand that’s so classic to Omega Supreme. He also has Fire Blasts – these little clear effects parts that we’ve been including across the line. Omega Supreme has special ones that compound onto each other and can be posed out in his hands or across his body by way of the 3mm port system to give a frozen-in-the-moment-of-battle effect for the big robot. When you break him down into his vehicle/base mode, he has a rocket base station with a track. We’ve elevated the track so it’s more like a perimeter defense wall. And then, he of course has a tank that can fit on this track. It’s not motorized, but we have allowed it to connect to that track and move around on it in a cool way, like a monorail does, hanging off the side a little bit.

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Then we have this huge rocket. The rocket is really, really impressive. When you see it in person, it’s a nice, fully detailed, very realistic-looking space-themed vehicle with an awesome cockpit up at the top. You can open that up and find all sorts of cool little sensor details on the inside and it perfectly fits the Micromaster Autobot Countdown figure. Omega Supreme is the only place you can get this Micromaster character. This is actually more of a throwback to the rocket base Micromaster set from the late 80s. Not to totally geek out on it, but the original Omega Supreme didn’t come with a Micromaster, so this is a way for us to bring Micromasters into the whole experience of the Titan Class. This is what we usually do with our toy lines; we try to let the Titan Class guy epitomize whatever the ecosystem is for the year, like when we did Predaking. We put the Prime Master Onyx Prime figure in there just because it was part of the ecosystem of the Power of the Primes. And for Omega Supreme, the ecosystem is about weaponizing and armoring up with a combat system. It’s also about these Micromasters so we’re hoping fans are satisfied by being able to get not just a cool G1 character, but also something that becomes the pinnacle of their whole collection.

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Hasbro Pulse: 
What was your favorite part about this figure? Is there anything that you hope fans notice? Is there anything that you’re like, THIS is the coolest part right here, this is it?

John: 
I could geek out for a long time on this thing, but between Hasui-san at Takara Tomy and I, we really built in all sorts of little Easter eggs into this figure. I don’t want to spoil them all here, but one of my favorite things about this figure is outside of the little canopy inside of the rocket for the Countdown figure, there are little hidden places to put your Micromaster figures across the whole thing. One of the challenges we faced by making this come apart into two different components to form the rocket base was that you got a lot of really unusual geometry in the rocket base part. You have these voids, you have a half cylinder piece going through the whole thing, and also a section where the tank fits inside of it. Even back in the 80s, this gantry tower kind of thing that came with Omega Supreme was kind of an afterthought.

Once you start to play with Omega Supreme, and you start to unfold all the pieces, you’ll find that there are a lot of little details designed in the figure, and I’m only going to give away one secret: In the 80s, the tracks on the outside were in this round circle that went around the rocket base. We designed the track elements to connect in different ways, so if you were lucky enough to have multiple guardian robots, you could connect the tracks together and create a highway of sorts. The connection system that we’re using on there is the same connection system we’ve used in the past on Fortress Maximus and I think even some of the Titans Return characters had them. So, if you’re one of those people who has a huge collection of base-forming robots, you can start to connect them together.

 

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:01 pm
by SGMLordMirage
:BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN:

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:34 pm
by Sentinel_Primal
Oh god, I'm really excited for him. But there is an issue... Those claws worry me. Clear plastic is fine, but those are joints that'll be used a lot and I'm worried about them breaking

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:48 pm
by Flashwave
I cant seem to get myself to spring for Cog, but I would love to see if someone could build somethi g suitably like the Blue Bolts gun from RID Mags out of his pieces
Skritz wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SpikeyTigertron wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just picked up Ultra Magnus today, and he's awesome. If I could change one thing about him though, it'd be to add a pair of 5mm ports onto the blue bumper so you could add the missiles to Cabnus. As he is though, it's a very nice representation of Magnus. Still trying to decide how I'll display him though. I love the armored mode, but Cabnus and Prime look SO good together

I actually like keeping him in his beefiest of vehicle modes, with cog riding on top of his carrier section


Better yet, use Cog to weaponize the trailer.

I would not wanna be near magnus' bumper when he gets turbo-boosted by cogs' jet boosters :shock:


I wouldn't want to be Magnus either because that 'trailer' can't turn. Say hello to the dragster armored car carrier from HELL.
:michaelbay:

That Steamroll card posted last weekend seems awfully fitting. *THWAM!*

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:57 pm
by SpikeyTigertron
“there are little hidden places to put your Micromaster figures across the whole thing.“. So I bet his calves do open up and there are play features in there.

Wonder if the comment about “multiple guardians” means we’ll see the Omega Sentinel on Pulse/SDCC?

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:59 pm
by padfoo
This version of Omega is simply amazing and is one of the best in this entire line.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:43 pm
by SciFi80sGameFan
Big disapointment. Not motorized. Gonna look real foolish for us 40 year olds (because we're the only ones that can afford this - NOT kids) to look like 5 year olds pushing a tank around a track. CHOO-CHOO, anyone? Please, Major Pass!

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:57 pm
by Cobotron
I'm 43 and I have absolutely no problem pushing the tank around the track. Sounds like a hoot, actually.
If I were concerned about "looking foolish" playing with my toys, I would have dropped out of collecting when I was 12.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:01 pm
by D-Maximal_Primal
Cobotron wrote:I'm 43 and I have absolutely no problem pushing the tank around the track. Sounds like a hoot, actually.
If I were concerned about "looking foolish" playing with my toys, I would have dropped out of collecting when I was 12.

D-Max likes this ;)^

My apartment has somewhere around 720 Transformers proudly displayed in the main living room, I take a different one to work every day. I have no problems with playing with my toys and having the fun with them that they deserve.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:09 pm
by SGMLordMirage
D-max, that would be an awesome pic to see of your living room. I guess for the sake of showing off ages and having a little fun with our transformers, I will be 48 in June. :). Any consolation, I rotate what I have with me here in Virginia in my one display case and at work.
Back to Omega Supreme, I know if i could afford it, i would almost buy two of these, just to display in both modes. I know my future transformers room back home, won’t have room for that!

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:13 pm
by Ironhidensh
So, anybody actually planning on paying full price for Omega? I can't wait for him to hit the discount sales.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:15 pm
by Randomhero
SciFi80sGameFan wrote:Big disapointment. Not motorized. Gonna look real foolish for us 40 year olds (because we're the only ones that can afford this - NOT kids) to look like 5 year olds pushing a tank around a track. CHOO-CHOO, anyone? Please, Major Pass!



This post just gave me AIDS

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:23 pm
by steals_your_goats
I will be buying Omega as soon as possible, he looks awesome and definitely worth the money.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:21 pm
by Hellscream9999
steals_your_goats wrote:I will be buying Omega as soon as possible, he looks awesome and definitely worth the money.

I'll probably try and get him on a black friday sale, I don't feel safe waiting on the titans to go on clearance, since they're not being made/sold at higher volumes anymore and he definitely looks worth at least $120 to me

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:43 pm
by chuckdawg1999
Is it just me or does anyone else think the rocket uses more than the two arms? It just looks a lot taller than the two arm sections split in half. I wanna say that part of the legs make up the rocket too but I can't be sure.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:45 pm
by Burn
Cobotron wrote:I'm 43 and I have absolutely no problem pushing the tank around the track. Sounds like a hoot, actually.

Video or it didn't happen.

Re: Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Discussion Thread

PostPosted: Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:13 am
by Sabrblade
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is it just me or does anyone else think the rocket uses more than the two arms? It just looks a lot taller than the two arm sections split in half. I wanna say that part of the legs make up the rocket too but I can't be sure.
The rocket is made up of everything starting from the left hand going up the left arm into the left shoulder through the torso to inside the right shoulder to the right arm and down to the right hand. It's all one big removable rocket that detaches from the back of the torso.