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The Classics Toy Section grows by 4 tonight with the addition of Wave 2 of the Transformers Classics Heroes. Each figure has over 50 pictures showing off everything the figure has to offer.

So feast your optics on these 4 new galleries and be sure t post what you think of them!

Bumblebee
Whirl
Menasor
Jetfire

Awesome

Legends of Classics.
None of these figures particularly remind me of their namesakes, though. I see a lot of wasted potential in the LoC line. If they made new moulds, moulds of characters other than ones from Cybertron/Galaxy Force, this line could be a winner for sure.

Are these out in stores yet?

They do have a few new LoC moulds for the Movie line. Megatron looks like a throwing star. Prime looks alright though.

83457W422102 wrote:Legends of Classics.

I'm still confused by their names... are they still known as Legends of Cybertron or did they name it to Heroe's or something like that?

Anywyas only a few of the molds are pretty good. Starscream is amazing and Leobreaker is better then his bigger version (more articulated).

Down_Shift wrote:They do have a few new LoC moulds for the Movie line. Megatron looks like a throwing star. Prime looks alright though.

You're right, I forgot about those. Okay, scratch that 'potential' part...

I dubbed these "Legends of Classics," but that most likely is not their official name.

ugly
ugly
ugly. Im happy some of you like them but I really don't.
Spider man 3 may 4 2007. Wooooooooooooooo.

bumblezzz wrote:ugly
ugly
ugly. Im happy some of you like them but I really don't.
Spider man 3 may 4 2007. Wooooooooooooooo.

I find it kind of funny that you don't like the ugliness of these figures yet are enthusiastic about Spider-Man 3. Guess you didn't see pictures of Venom, Black-Suited Spidey, or 'New Goblin' yet.

The "Legends" series seems to move through the various lines. It had Cybertron, Universe (The Botcon Ramjet and SDCC Skywarp seemed to be Universe, not Cybertron), Classic, Beast Wars (Leo Prime) then soon we'll have movie figures.

I like it as it lets me collect mini-versions of some larger figures I wouldn't normally pick up.

I do like Bumblebee as a Chrysler ME 412, Whirl as a Aerospatiale SA 365 Dauphin and Jetfire as a Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker. All great molds. They arn't in scale to each other, but the sizes do work out well for the characters. Bumblebee would stand about 15 feet tall (mini-bot size), Whirl about 23 feet tall (Autobot size), and Jetfire about 54 feet tall (gestalt size!)

Here's a survey though. If they made the Classic Legends in full sized toys, which would you buy? I think I'd get them all so far.

I meant LoC moulds. Besides for the upcoming movie line, all the LoCs so far have been Galaxy Force/Cybertron moulds repainted ad nauseum.

Oddly, there are obvious repaints they still could do.

Optimus Prime mold - Ultra Magnus, Thunderclash

Vector Prime mold - Alpha Trion, Galaxy Force Vector Prime.

Soundwave mold - Soundblaster, Blaster

Thundercracker mold - Cybertron Skywarp

Starscream mold - G1 Thundercracker

Scourge mold - Sky Lynx (as the Japanese exclusive)

Red Alert - Timelines Megatron

I've buy em all!

Bumblebee's ok, but the rest do nothing for me, especially Jetfire. Compared to his bigger brother, LoC Jetfire (using Thundercracker's mold) leaves a lot to be desired.

Did Hasbro lose the rights to the name, Motormaster?

I'm just gonna say that I really dig the Jetfire repaint of Thundercracker, I think it came out really well, and I'll definitely get one if I ever see one.

Stormrider wrote:Did Hasbro lose the rights to the name, Motormaster?

Something like that.

When they almost released a Universe Motormaster (a repaint of G2 Thunderclash) they had to call him Menasor too. I think hasbro won't barely even make a transformer any more that they can't get a Trademark or Copyright on.

I think when they were rumored to make Spychanger Stunticons they couldn't use the names Motormaster or Dragstrip any more. I always guess that Decepticharge was their new name for Dragstrip.

Scaleface wrote:I always guess that Decepticharge was their new name for Dragstrip.

I had finally gotten that terrible name out of my head when you come along and...
Wasn't the Takara release Dragstrip?

83457W422102 wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Did Hasbro lose the rights to the name, Motormaster?

Something like that.

I guess they also lost the rights to the name Skyfire too.

Megatron_Wolf wrote:

83457W422102 wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Did Hasbro lose the rights to the name, Motormaster?

Something like that.

I guess they also lost the rights to the name Skyfire too.

Yeah. That's why in Energon the Omnicon was named Skyblast, or something like that. I think Mattel has the rights to the 'Skyfire' name now. Gah!