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Site sponsor Kapow Toys comes through with another nice bit of news. Check out the list of new Transformers Prime figures below, which includes Revealers (Deluxe) Rumble and Ironhide and Voyagers Dreadwing and Bulkhead (new mold). Pre-orders are expected to go up later today.

Voyager Dreadwing
Voyager Bulkhead New mold
Revealers Airachnid
Revealers Rumble
Revealers Hotshot
Revealers Ironhide
Commander Ultra Magnus

Additionally Toys and Gamez has listed pre-orders for a few other previously known figures:

Revealers Dead End
Cybervers Legions Flamewar, Tailgate, and Fallback

More figures of Dreadwind and Ironhide? Looks like they might make it onto the show afterall.

It's about time we got conformation on Airachnid.

Thank god there's a new Bulkhead coming out, as I missed out the first time.

Rumble? I have a feeling that's going to be a retool of the RID Cliffjumper mold, like Hot Shot is a retool of Bumblebee

Ultra Magnus isn't worth a title bar mention? Poor bot hasn't had a toy out in America since Animated.

Hmm, Commander Ultra Magnus makes it sound like a Cyberverse toy.

Rumble eh? Wouldn't it be a sick joke if it was the HFTD scout mold and they just packaged and sold it as a deluxe?

Actually, that should be "Dreadwing," who is scheduled to appear in Season 2 of Transformers: Prime.

Ironhide, however, is not expected to make an appearance anytime soon, according to showrunner Jeff Kline:

http://tformers.com/transformers-botcon ... /news.html

Alas, I fear Bulkhead's new mold will be as underwhelming inferior as all the other "Powerizers" in this "Robots in Disguise" line.

Thank god for Takara's First Edition releases!

Wonder if "Arachnid" is a typo or a result of Hasbro not being able to obtain the "Airachnid" trademark.

I'm game, most sound like they'll be darned interesting.

I assume Ironhide will be a Ratchet repaint/redeco?

kirbenvost wrote:Rumble eh? Wouldn't it be a sick joke if it was the HFTD scout mold and they just packaged and sold it as a deluxe?

Actually that would be awesome; it would be nice to be able to get that mold for less than eight times the American retail price for a Scout.

At the rate we're going, Deluxes will be about the size of Scouts in a year or two anyway:

Luscanun wrote:I assume Ironhide will be a Ratchet repaint/redeco?

Not if it matches the Cyberverse version:

Airachnid better have ridiculously long spider legs, or be given a bigger toy later.

As for the name discrepancies, that's how they were presented to me so that's how I'm reporting them.

Prime is not a good enough show to warrant getting American first edition, Japanese color first edition, Japanese regular edition, and RiD versions of the characters. (especially Cliffjumper - he dies in the first episode!)
And FE toys have seriously become more trouble than they are worth.
I don't understand why a flagship line like this has had such a difficult time coming together and why (nearly) all the FE's are being re-molded. It is frustrating and detrimental to the product name.
Speaking for myself, Prime will be not much more than a footnote in my collection, represented only the few per-ordered RiD toy's I paid for back in November, or any bot's I happen to catch on clearance.

loving all this "news" but pre-orders are mostly worthless without seeing what the toys are actually like.

Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Gotta get the more iconic characters out first.

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Are we sure that the powers-hat-be haven't decided to rename him "Dreadwing"? Or "Dreadwind"? I mean, it's not like we've seen them all together in a room at the same time....

(I also wonder when "Darkwing" is going to join the party? )

metaphorge wrote:

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Are we sure that the powers-hat-be haven't decided to rename him "Dreadwing"? Or "Dreadwind"? I mean, it's not like we've seen them all together in a room at the same time....

(I also wonder when "Darkwing" is going to join the party? )

Nonsense. Skyquake was in the cartoon, voiced by Richard Green.



And we've seen the prototype.



Dreadwing, however, has not appeared yet, being confirmed for season 2, and to be voiced by Tony Todd.

maybe Skyquake was a first edition prototype, that they're only going to show you pictures of once, and never release!

craggy wrote:maybe Skyquake was a first edition prototype, that they're only going to show you pictures of once, and never release!

We saw him alongside the proto of Voyager Starscream, who has Powerizer aspects built into him. Since skyquake was seen along with him, it makes since for Skyquake to also be a Powerizer.

yeah, I noticed what appear to be clear parts on Skyquake's arms there. I hope they're pink, and that they make his sword light up. That'd actually be pretty badass and fitting with his original toy.

Sabrblade wrote:

metaphorge wrote:

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Are we sure that the powers-hat-be haven't decided to rename him "Dreadwing"? Or "Dreadwind"? I mean, it's not like we've seen them all together in a room at the same time....

(I also wonder when "Darkwing" is going to join the party? )

Nonsense. Skyquake was in the cartoon, voiced by Richard Green.

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/4/4f/SkyquakePrime.jpg

And we've seen the prototype.

http://www.seibertron.com/images/events/189/r_sdcc-2011-hasbro-panel-035.jpg

Dreadwing, however, has not appeared yet, being confirmed for season 2, and to be voiced by Tony Todd.

You are assuming, of course, that Prime is going to stick to its "no reuse/recolors of character models" pledge and that Dreadwin$ will not be a prepaint of Skyquake's mold.

It seems strange that we haven't seen any solicits for a Voyager jet mold (that is not Starscream) that we've seen as a nearly-complete proto and have gotten solicits for another Voyager jet mold (that is also not Starscream), though stranger things have happened.

metaphorge wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

metaphorge wrote:

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to Voyager Skyquake?

Are we sure that the powers-hat-be haven't decided to rename him "Dreadwing"? Or "Dreadwind"? I mean, it's not like we've seen them all together in a room at the same time....

(I also wonder when "Darkwing" is going to join the party? )

Nonsense. Skyquake was in the cartoon, voiced by Richard Green.

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/4/4f/SkyquakePrime.jpg

And we've seen the prototype.

http://www.seibertron.com/images/events/189/r_sdcc-2011-hasbro-panel-035.jpg

Dreadwing, however, has not appeared yet, being confirmed for season 2, and to be voiced by Tony Todd.

You are assuming, of course, that Prime is going to stick to its "no reuse/recolors of character models" pledge and that Dreadwin$ will not be a prepaint of Skyquake's mold.

It seems strange that we haven't seen any solicits for a Voyager jet mold (that is not Starscream) that we've seen as a nearly-complete proto and have gotten solicits for another Voyager jet mold (that is also not Starscream), though stranger things have happened.

You were suggesting that Skyquake's toy got a name change, which is what I was refuting.

Sabrblade wrote:You were suggesting that Skyquake's toy got a name change, which is what I was refuting.

I was suggesting that perhaps the Voyager prototype we saw referred to as "Skyquake" will see release as "Darkwing" (or "Darkwind," dependant upon whether Kapow or BBTS made the typo on their preorders), which is a similar, but not identical, statement.

Perhaps we will see a relative downpour of different Decepticon Voyager jets in the Prime line, but that doesn't line up with Hasbro's modus operandi in the past (If you'll remember, the reason Universe Galvatron is a Deluxe was to avoid having too many similarly-sized Decpticon tanks on the market all at once); I'm having trouble remembering the last time we saw more than one Voyager jet on the market simultaneously.

In any case I'll be thrilled to be incorrect. ;D

I guess it wasn't exactly simultaneous, but Animated had two Voyager jets: Starscream & Blitzwing.

I'm pretty sure Skyquake is going to be a Powerizer, because you can see the transparent plastic in his arms. It's just integrated a lot better than Prime& Starscream's.

metaphorge wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:Rumble eh? Wouldn't it be a sick joke if it was the HFTD scout mold and they just packaged and sold it as a deluxe?

Actually that would be awesome; it would be nice to be able to get that mold for less than eight times the American retail price for a Scout.

At the rate we're going, Deluxes will be about the size of Scouts in a year or two anyway:

Haha, yeah probably. It would be nice, I'd still be kinda miffed to be paying deluxe price for a scout, but at least it's better than not having it at all, which is my current situation.

metaphorge wrote:

Luscanun wrote:I assume Ironhide will be a Ratchet repaint/redeco?

Not if it matches the Cyberverse version:

Nice, I'd love a bigger version of that!

Edit: Waitaminute...I'm seeing similarities with movie Ironhide there. I really hope he's more of a G1 homage. If they want to give him the character of Bayverse 'Hide, okay, just as long as he's red.

Aside from the realy dumb ways Hasbro is handling it, this is still shaping up to be a really great line. The only ones I'm really unimpressed by so far are Powerizer Prime & Revealer Ratchet. I don't know where I'm going to find the space to display them all!