Crystal Paleotrex looks cool, and the Sparkless looks better than I expected, but I dunno that I need either of these based on first impression alone. Hopefully the rest of the wave leaks though, I would love to get to see Netflix Cheetor sooner rather than later to see if I like it better than his retail deco.
Also worth noting: all of the leakers who have said that this Spoiler Pack contains the Megatron mold have also made it clear that they have not SEEN said Megatron, meaning that we don't know how unique of a repaint it'll be, for all we know it could still be at Nemesis-level of unique rather than Dead Magnus-level by being mid-reformat into Galvatron, or BW Megatron (with Paleotrex being the fossil he scans), or a Megatron-X deco or something (depending on just how the Kingdom story is gonna play out, which right now has options).
Or maybe it'll just be another Sparkless, who knows.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:william-james88 wrote:Shouldn't selects SG use the leader galvatron mold?
Nope, leakers explicitly said SG would be ER repaint, which helps account for the massive dumb sword/gun thing on the ER mold: homage to Energon Megatron's tank weapon that SG Megatron used as well.
It also aligns with how they treated SG Ratchet, with Hasbro just slapping the SG color scheme on the existing WFC ER Ratchet rather than repainting a mold that was more accurate to his actual appearance in SG (which, for SG Ratchet, would have been Grapple, since he used Energon Roadblock as a base).
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:...but don't get too excited yet, one of the leaks called for a SG Commander Jetfire, which I have extreme doubts that they would do a Selects Commander repaint and have it just be SG, and I saw this as a SG fan.
Counterpoint, the leaker who accurately leaked about 2/3's of Earthrise via clues prior to it's NYCC reveal (including the title being Earthrise even) did say a month or 2 ago that we would be getting a subline-exclusive Commander repaint this year, well before this leak actually happened...