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[Zephyrr]

It's not like Windblade is starving for a new figure. I mean, she's had how many new toys of her own since debut? And across Generations Thrilling 30, Legends, SDCC, RID 2015, Titans Return, and Cyberverse?

Yes, but how many good ones? The TR one is OK but it's a Headmaster (not everyone's cup of tea) and kinda overly bulky, her OG toy is pretty lackluster, the RID one is probably the best but has a weird face and no wrists, and I don't think Cyberverse has given her a good figure yet.

True, she has had a lot of figures, but as Black Hat said, none of them have been all that great. T30 was a floppy mess, RID was hollow and had a lot of kibble, Titan's Return is imo the best but it's still lacking in a lot of ways and was kinda shoehorned into the line's gimmick.

Though that's not really the problem for me. The problem is that outside of some of the Japanese releases and the Combiner Hunter version I have them all and I crave more

[-WonkoTheSane-]

For those concerned about the repercussions of these being leaked (why nobody cared when most of Earthrise was leaked I dunno)

It's only because of offsite drama that wasn't the case before, most people aren't really going to have any empathy for whoever got fired mostly because they broke rules in the first place by leaking them.

Sucks for them that they got fired but they brought that upon themselves.

Exactly, if you're going to play the game, you need to learn how to play it. If the leakers had kept quiet in the first places then they would have worried over their job.

Seconded.

[Munkky]

It's not like Windblade is starving for a new figure. I mean, she's had how many new toys of her own since debut? And across Generations Thrilling 30, Legends, SDCC, RID 2015, Titans Return, and Cyberverse?

You know I was just thinking about this the other day. After the initial burst of toys and media appearances when she was first created, Windblade now seems to be appearing less and less in new toylines and fiction. She went from being one of the main characters in season 1 of Cyberverse to spending a large portion of season 3 effectively in a coma. Not to metion neither the "Power of the Spark" nor the "Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures" rebrandings of the Cyberverse toyline had any Windblade toys, not even repaints. In fact the only notable Windlade product since 2018 has been that Furai Model kit that made Twitter angry. She went from being the main character of Machinima's Prime Wars Trilogy to (possibly) not appearing at all in the War for Cybertron Trilogy. The only place you still see her nowadays is the rebooted IDW comics, and even then, she's not as major a character as she was in the original continuity.
It feels as if ever since the Till All Are One comic book was cancelled and Mairghread Scott effectively walked away from Transformers (all she's done since is write one episode of Cyberverse), Windblade has been gradually becoming less and less prominent. I never liked Windblade very much anyway so this doesn't particularly bother me, I just find it interesting.

[AcademyofDrX]

Windblade had a prominent role in the first post-reboot IDW story. I don't think Hasbro is done with her, though she used to be one of a handful of female Transformers, while Cyberverse, IDW, and Netflix WfC have all had much more expansive casts than comparable media from a decade ago.

[-WonkoTheSane-]

This image has leaked on 4chan, Claiming to be of Blackarachnia's spider mode.

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(Ps to news staff, I sent the links for this in as news, And posted just the image here.)

[Deadput]

That's the same background as the Cheetor pics right?

[-WonkoTheSane-]

That's the same background as the Cheetor pics right?

I believe so, Yes.

[Emerje]

For those concerned about the repercussions of these being leaked (why nobody cared when most of Earthrise was leaked I dunno), it's partially Hasbro's fault. Normally we would have gotten our first preview at SDCC, but with the event canceled and Hasbro still not doing a proper replacement online this stuff was bound to get out as we come ever closer to their release date which is now around 4 months away! If Hasbro did Comic-Con@Home or their own even in August they could have gotten ahead of the leaks (the visual ones anyway).

Even if they had done a SDCC panel, they wouldn't have shown off any Kingdom stuff since they don't do next-line reveals until NYCC or Toy Fair. An SDCC panel would have just been more Earthrise, Netflix, Selects, and maybe more Studio Series or Cyberverse if we were lucky.

They've been doing December Generations releases (which Kingdom is) at SDCC for years, NYCC (October) is normally too close to the release date to reveal new lines. They did reveal Earthrise officially at NYCC 2019, but only because ER got pushed back several months. If Siege wasn't extended then SDCC 2019 would have been the ER reveal. Don't remember the last time Toy Fair debuted a new Generations line, it was certainly before the Trilogies.

SDCC 2019: Siege wave 5 (which took the original planned release window for Earthrise).
SDCC 2018: First official look at Siege.
SDCC 2017: First official look at PotP.
NYCC 2015: First official Look at Titans Return
Botcon 2014: First official look at Combiner Wars.

No new Generations lines were revealed in 2016 since CW and TR split that year in half.

For some reason, I don't remember about the earthrise leaks. From what I remember, they did a good job keeping things close to the chest. I know the first time we saw the quintesson, arcee, shuttle micromasters, scorponok and allicon were at their designated reveal events.

Initially, yes, but then things like our first complete look at Scorponok and the still rumored Sky Lynx happened and it's all been downhill from there.

Emerje

[ZeroWolf]

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron users, Kaynowa and -WonkoTheSane-, have let us know that an image has surfaced on the web giving us our first possible look at Blackarachnia's alt mode!



The image is only small and the watermark helps obscure some details but we can get an idea of how she'll transform.

The image was shared over at TFW2005 by one of the users of its board, Paladin. Though the image seems to originate on the popular image board 4chan.

What do you think of this? Like the style they're going for? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

[william-james88]

For some reason, I don't remember about the earthrise leaks. From what I remember, they did a good job keeping things close to the chest. I know the first time we saw the quintesson, arcee, shuttle micromasters, scorponok and allicon were at their designated reveal events.

Initially, yes, but then things like our first complete look at Scorponok and the still rumored Sky Lynx happened and it's all been downhill from there.

Emerje

Do we know what the entirety of wave 3/4 earthrise is?

[TF-fan kev777]

For some reason, I don't remember about the earthrise leaks. From what I remember, they did a good job keeping things close to the chest. I know the first time we saw the quintesson, arcee, shuttle micromasters, scorponok and allicon were at their designated reveal events.

Initially, yes, but then things like our first complete look at Scorponok and the still rumored Sky Lynx happened and it's all been downhill from there.

Emerje

Do we know what the entirety of wave 3/4 earthrise is?

Pretty much, we know wave 3, and looks like wave 4 isn't happening.
Battle Masters are the new Doublecrosser with repacks of Soundbarrier and Slitherfang.
Micros are re-release of Direct Hit and Power Punch packed with wave 1 re-packs.
Deluxe is Runamuck, Fasttrack, Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker
Voyager is Megatron and Quitesson
No new leader, so likely re-packs of waves 1 and 2.

WFC-E numberwise, Runabout's number would put him in wave 4 without any new micro or battle masters for that wave, but he could also be an exclusive if there is no wave 4 as the leakers have been indicating.

[Immortal Starscream]

Looking at this and her bot mode we saw earlier, there are some definite ques from the masterpiece blackarachnia.

[Wolfman Jake]

Kingdom Blackarachnia's black spider legs aren't too surprising, especially considering the alterations to Rattrap's beast mode to look more like an actual rat. Most black widow spiders have black legs to match their black head and abdomen. Occasionally, they may also include some dark brown pigmentation on part of the legs, but that's a far cry from solid brown. I can appreciate the focus on making the beast modes more true to their source material: actual animals.

[blackeyedprime]

Kingdom Blackarachnia's black spider legs aren't too surprising, especially considering the alterations to Rattrap's beast mode to look more like an actual rat. Most black widow spiders have black legs to match their black head and abdomen. Occasionally, they may also include some dark brown pigmentation on part of the legs, but that's a far cry from solid brown. I can appreciate the focus on making the beast modes more true to their source material: actual animals.

With the source material theoretically being pre-historic animals that may have *had any coloring and not be feathered...screen or toy accurate colors should be the priority but as long as it's a good toy that's the important thing.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

[Sabrblade]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

[Sabrblade]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

[blackeyedprime]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

How does a non tail dragging/non erect Jurrasic Park Trex sleep?

How ever it wants to

Wakkawakkawakka

Agreed on non feathered but turns out I'm in favor of tail draggers.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

This is actually entertaining and somewhat cool to me

[Sentinel_Primal]

Personally, I'd rather no feathers on Dinobot and Megatron (and according to some of the leakers before everything caught fire and they had to lay low, they won't have feathers), but I'd be fine with a potential GS Grimlock from Dinobot that had the raptor head retooled a bit to be sorta like a mix between JP3 "feathered" Raptors and the "Indominus Rex" spines.

Not the perfectly accurate Raptor mode that some would want, but a decent enough compromise without having to reshell the whole thing, plus it would result in Dinobot and Grimlock looking different in beast mode, but still recognizably looking like the "theme park monsters" some people love

[PerfectVision]

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

This is actually entertaining and somewhat cool to me

I like dinosaurs as giant birds.It look hard to accept for some people.

Dinosoid in TUROK are basically the reptilian aliens.And in other fiction...

[Deadput]

If we were getting Beast War characters all the time I think feathers would be a welcome sight for a toy or two

BUT

Since we don't I think it's best that Dinobot doesn't have feathers since it's been a long time since his last figure.

[Rtron]

Yeah, for this go around I want show accuracy to be paramount, so no feathers or anatomical accuracy on Megatron or Dinobot please. After that? Bring on the feathered dinos, I love those. I'm still waiting on a trilobite transformer. A cambrian explosion beast warrior, like an opabinia transformer, is something that will never happen but I'd love.

But for now, the fact that they're giving us almost the whole BW season 1 cast is crazy enough.

[Sabrblade]

If they wanna do feathered dino Transformers, either make all new characters or give us the Raptoricons.