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News Credits: 905 · by **Mach** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:19 am

Two legend class figures possibly from the Transformers Dark Of The Moon toy line has appeared over at Chinese auction website - Taobao.com.

One of the vehicle is Nascar racing car and the other one is black colour SUV.

If you wish to view the toy images, head over to the auction by clicking here: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=8986886991#

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News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:30 am

Nice! but gonna pass on all Bayformers this year, unless Shockwave turns out to be badass or something.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:33 am

The NASCAR bot has a mullet! :lol:

by **Hal7300** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:25 am

Stockade wrote:Nice! but gonna pass on all Bayformers this year, unless Shockwave turns out to be badass or something.

Here's your brother...

by **Soundwave1979** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:05 am

Personally i'm not even convinced that's a DOTM character...i think it's just some random bot that probably only got sold out there...

by **KIERANW** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:19 am

they look okay i guess.
The black one looks alot like one of the decepticon SUV's that were spotted on the TF3 set
and the other one looks like one of the wreckers.
very interesting :-?

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:20 am

Soundwave1979 wrote:Personally i'm not even convinced that's a DOTM character...i think it's just some random bot that probably only got sold out there...

I'm inclined to agree with you. The Nascar bot appears to have similar "hair" as the bot that everyone made so much fuss over in the trailer, yet it has none of the heavy weapons/armor that the "leaked" pics of the 3 race cars showed. I'm more of the opinion that this and the SUV are something conjured up by a KO manufacturer looking to make quick money off the hype.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:39 am

Bastard child of Weird Al and Straxus?

by **Valandar** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:42 am

zodconvoy wrote:The NASCAR bot has a mullet!

Billy Ray Cybertron?

by **r3devi7** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:16 pm

The picture showing actual nascar, and a caption... bet its "This is what silly americans do." lol

News Credits: 1 · by **jlogano20** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:30 pm

cant wait for the deluxe nascars (im guessing deluxe)
too bad it missing the guns and stuff but it is a legends now anyone see mirage in the nascar though MB doesnt care about g1 at all

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:31 pm

Stockade wrote:Nice! but gonna pass on all Bayformers this year, unless Shockwave turns out to be badass or something.

Agreed. I'm only eyeballin a few select bots this year. The wreckers( if their in deluxe forom or higher) Shockwave and maybe that megatron. Other than that Fansproject is gonna bank on me this year..

by **Malevolus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:38 pm

Not to nitpick, but it's incorrect to say "a NASCAR" or "the NASCAR" when referring to a vehicle. NASCAR is an acronym that stands for "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing." So it's actually correct to say "a NASCAR car."

by **OlivusPrime** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:35 pm

jlogano20 wrote:now anyone see mirage in the nascar though MB doesnt care about g1 at all

Good point, I can see a little Mirage in the design. Mirage would be awesome, but like you say, Michael doesn't particularly focus on G1. Makes me wonder whether we'll get other G1 Autobot cars as the NASCAR cars (eg Wheeljack, Smokescreen etc). Is it just me or is this Legend Wrecker different in colouration to any of the rally cars on set? Maybe it's just the lack of weapons/metal stuff/awesomeness.

Anyway, not too fond on the NASCAR bot, will probably be better as a Deluxe. The SUV looks great though (maybe it's one of the "Dreads" seen in filming?).

EDIT - My mistake, the car is the same.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:04 pm

Well, for one, this kinda proves that the now-known "Wreckers" are indeed Autobots. As for the Decepti-SUV... either Stockade reborn or Soundwave. And what a coin-key-dink, they both start with an S! :lol:

News Credits: 1 · by **jlogano20** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:20 pm

Malevolus wrote:Not to nitpick, but it's incorrect to say "a NASCAR" or "the NASCAR" when referring to a vehicle. NASCAR is an acronym that stands for "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing." So it's actually correct to say "a NASCAR car."

i know im a huge nascar fan but its easier to say nascar than nascar car

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:38 pm

Interesting how the got the "real" logos on the NASCAR... car.

The SUV Con has a Blackout/Grindor vibe to it. I wonder if any/all other SUV Cons will just be duplicates or if they'll each get unique robot modes. It'd be interesting to see the same vehicle transform in totally different ways.

by **griftimus prime** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:16 pm

shelf warmers

News Credits: 387 · by **Bounti76** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:18 pm

Okay...gotta say this, and I'm gonna be polite about it, because there's no need to be negative about it. G1 is over. The cartoon ended in the late 80s. The toyline ended 20 or more years ago. I grew up with the cartoon and the toys and the comic books, too. I still have several G1 toys and even the first 40 or so issues of the comic book. I got a few seasons of the cartoon on DVD, and frankly, I don't see how it appeals to anyone but kids now, but I understand how it's a part of many Seibertronians childhoods, as it is mine.

But I don't quite understand absolute G1 purists. Sure, Devastator isn't green and purple and now looks like he's made up of actual construction vehicles instead of random blocks of green metal. Okay, Elita-1 is a purple motorcycle rather than a pink boat-thing. Soundwave turns into a futuristic satellite rather than a small, anachronistic blue tape deck with a cannon on his shoulder and turns into a 20 foot tall robot. It's okay! Things don't need to be exactly like the G1 cartoon series to be good.

Personally, I find the movieverse aesthetic really great. It's nice to see vehicles that don't change size and robot modes that actually look robotic and alien, or like they were actually formed from the parts of their alternate mode. That's what got me interested in the franchise again as an adult. It was a world I enjoyed as a kid, re-imagined as a more realistic looking movie and toys. So what if Ironhide isn't red? Would purists rather see him as a red minivan like he was in G1? What kid nowdays is gonna root for a minivan? Their personalities are still fairly similar (save for Ratchet's), their functions (Ironhide as field general/weapons specialist, Ratchet as medic, Starscream as groveling sycophant, Megatron as a calculating tyrant) are still the same. Just because they have a different, MORE REALISTIC, vehicle/alternate mode and are a different color than their counterparts of more than two decades ago, it doesn't make them horrible.

by **Optimum Supreme** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:38 pm

I always thought of Ironhide as a full sized van. If Ironhide's a rockin, don't come a knockin.

by **OptiMagnus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:25 pm

Yes! They got the NASCAR and Lowe's licenses for the stock cars. The Jimmie Johnson car looks very good for a legends class, and it's shockingly accurate to the actual Chevy Impala NASCAR body. The Dread drone looks interesting too. I can't tell if it's a licensed Chevy Suburban though.
Hopefully we'll see deluxe NASCARs and a deluxe Dread soon.

by **OptiMagnus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:33 pm

jlogano20 wrote:
Malevolus wrote:Not to nitpick, but it's incorrect to say "a NASCAR" or "the NASCAR" when referring to a vehicle. NASCAR is an acronym that stands for "National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing." So it's actually correct to say "a NASCAR car."

i know im a huge nascar fan but its easier to say nascar than nascar car

I'm the same way, because NASCAR car is too much...car...at one time. I prefer "NASCAR stock car" or "NASCAR race car" sometimes.
I am also an obsessed NASCAR fan, who still roots for that one guy we all know that stopped winning in '08 with the flames on the car. I even root for Danica.
By the way if they give these NASCAR bots a certain stereotype I'm going to kill the writer that did it. People call me a "redneck" for liking stock car racing enough...

by **Period** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:26 pm

Has anyone else noticed the protruding spot on his chest? What's with the hole? Also, there's a hole on his back. Possible for some type of combiner mode between the other cars or possible that some weapons are missing from this one that could attach to these spots??

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:49 pm

z-span wrote:Has anyone else noticed the protruding spot on his chest? What's with the hole? Also, there's a hole on his back. Possible for some type of combiner mode between the other cars or possible that some weapons are missing from this one that could attach to these spots??

It's quite possible, allowing that these are legit TF:DotM products, that the ports are keeping in line with the "gimmick" of the rest of the DotM toys and we will be able to interchange/combine certain weapons. Considering that the only ones we have seen so far are for the larger class toys, these weapons will be quite laughable if placed on anything less than a deluxe class toy.

I'm also going to stick my neck out there and do a 180 on my previous opinion of the race car. I'll definitely be picking up one of these if only for the sake of doing a complete repaint and making him into the old #2 Rusty Wallace MGD car. Shrinking the logo small enough and printing it legibly onto a clear sticker is going to be a pain but I think it will be worth taking on the challenge.

by **Catalyst_Prime** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:45 pm

I really think these things are an excellent indication of what's to come. The wrecker/mirage NASCAR car is awesome even for a legends figure and I like the dreadlock-mullet hair (hopefully bay doesn't go for a stereotypical southerner like the way he went with skids and mudflap which ruined the character) the other black suburban looks sweet too. It looks like they're going for some sort of drone character for them as it has a pseudo blackout face and as seen on the set there are two of them so I'm excited and extremely hopeful for these new figures :KREMZEEK: