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No no the report is just misleading, TLS site has all the exclusives and Red alert and Sideswipe are both getting their own vinyls

Meantoy wrote:Since when was Sideswipe a Red Alert clone.....

Since the beginning of time!
actually its red alert that's the clone since sideswipe came first back in the G1 series

So are these for sale at Gamestop or are part of some kind of pre-order or something?

insanityzmaster wrote:So are these for sale at Gamestop or are part of some kind of pre-order or something?

They're set to ship out on Friday if ordered on their website. Not sure if they'll be in stores.

The Loyal Subjects have posted on their Facebook page, an official image of the entirety of wave 3 of their blind box Transformers Vinyl figures. Wave 3 includes Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble, Frenzy, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. That's 14 more characters to fill out your Autobot and Decepticon ranks.

Those look nice. Especially the contructicons.

Besides FIRRIB, (repaint sometime?) these are really cool looking. Too bad I can never find them anywhere.

Besides FIRRIB, (repaint sometime?) these are really cool looking. Too bad I can never find them anywhere.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:The Loyal Subjects have posted on their Facebook page, an official image of the entirety of wave 3 of their blind box Transformers Vinyl figures. Wave 3 includes Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble, Frenzy, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. That's 14 more characters to fill out your Autobot and Decepticon ranks.

These all look amazing, I just have no room anymore for a new collection.

yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

That rustled my jimmies

RIBFIR forevah!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Mr O wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Oh boy.... For gods sake, RIBFIR!

Either way, these guys are super cute, wish I could find them.

I picked up Red Alert, Optimus Prime (nighttime edition), and Sideswipe (nighttime edition) from my local Gamestop this week. They look awesome! Excited for Wave 3 and hoping they will make an 8" Devastator to go along with the Constructicons.

Madeus Prime wrote:

Mr O wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Oh boy.... For gods sake, RIBFIR!

Either way, these guys are super cute, wish I could find them.

Well technically in the Japanese version of the cartoon, Frenzy was the blue guy and Rumble was the red guy (thus resulting in Rumble barely showing up and Frenzy being the main humanoid cassette).

Honestly although the overwhelming evidence in canon points towards FIBRIR I prefer FIRRIB, simply because that was how I remember them (I only ever saw the cartoon on videotape in the early 2000s, long after G1 was a thing- and because I never saw the RID cartoon nor did I know it existed, I always thought it was weird how the cartoon Transformers had absolutely no relation to the toys- thus beginning my history of assigning "home grown" personalities to my TFs). Also, it just seems to suit them better.

Now if only someone would make a Frenzy, Rumble and Ravage for Cybertron Soundwave so I can have a Soundwave with decent, non-floppy minions that doesn't turn into a goddamn tape deck...

On topic, these look kinda cool. I'm worried about how well they'll age though- isn't vinyl very squishy and prone to drying out (and also the paint flaking)?

At The Loyal Subjects booth at Toy Fair 2015 we get to see a wide variety of current and past products including previous waves and the boxed Game Stop exclusives. On display is the latest wave 3 featuring Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble (red), Frenzy (blue), Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. ScottyP informs us that the chase figures are Sunstreaker 1/24, Hound 1/48, Frenzy (the blue one for them) 1/96. Wheeljack has light up blinking ears with a demonstration video coming later. The large black figures are customs.

Ok man there's a lot of transformers that have odd portends and can't transform but its grown on us i just have to say that amd this message is pretty random

I wonder how they would do a Devastator in this line, since they're making the Constructicons. They could just reuse one of the larger-scale molds, although it would require tons of retooling to make it look Devastator-ish.

so buzzsaw and frenzy are chase figs... damnit D:

This wave has me hook, line and sinker. Hound and a light up wheeljack, yes please!

When these first came out, I managed to hold myself back from getting into them so I missed wave 1 but with wave 2, just like the kreos, something about these little guys just screamed "buy me!"

We are bringing out the second to last Toy Fair US 2015 galleries. This round has us looking at The Loyal Subjects Vinyl Figures. Check out these fun little guys as The Loyal Subjects display past waves and the current wave 3. Click on any of the images to view the entire gallery.

just so gosh darn cute

One of the key 1984 characters is a 1 out of 96 chase figure. Another is 1 out of 48.

I'm not buying damn master cases and selling them. That's work. I really, really don't like this business model when the chase figures aren't things like the Sunstorms and variants of other characters like they were in the past. Not that I'm uber completionist on these, quite the contrary, I only get a handful of them on impulse and the characters that I like. Were they not blind boxed/chase figure BS land residents, then maybe that'd be different. They also cost too much.

Basically, this weekend I learned that the vinyl figure collecting thing which has overlapped with Transformers on these and Hikari or whatever is just not a scene I enjoy in the slightest.

Though, I will still buy that Wheeljack because it's cool.

I'll wait till I see one of these in person. I'm still not convinced they've fixed the ridiculous balls joints.