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News Credits: 4 · Thu Feb 03, 2022 1:41 pm

yeah, My Terrosaur arrived yesterday. I still have my gripes about him, (too small, undesirable transformation scheme) but as a representation of the character in figure form, he will do. At least he's not as short as Waspinator and Scorponok.

Thu Feb 03, 2022 1:43 pm

Slashercon wrote:yeah, My Terrosaur arrived yesterday. I still have my gripes about him, (too small, undesirable transformation scheme) but as a representation of the character in figure form, he will do. At least he's not as short as Waspinator and Scorponok.

That's why I stuck with the old Generations Waspinator.

News Credits: 14 · Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:58 pm

Unexpected arrival. Was not expecting regular Tigatron until later this month or early March, but Hey! here he is.
Will open him later and add him to the Maximal crew shelf.

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News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 03, 2022 5:46 pm

Got my Terrorsaur this afternoon too. Received notice of his shipping a few days ago, so no huge surprise.

Is the gun a new mold, or recycled from somewhere?

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:54 pm

I got my Mutant tigatron. The green is a little flat, but overall he looks pretty neat. I like him.

By the way, Ark is still awesome

Baby Megatron is also still really awesome.

Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:11 pm

I'm supposed to get mine today by 10pm. It's now 8pm and even though it said it was shipping, it's not on a vehicle yet and I already got an Amazon delivery today. I wonder if this is going to be four days late like Legends Arceus was.

Like a few others I'm not too pleased by what they ended up doing. I was hoping for two things. One was something along the lines of Pipes from Huffer in that the backpack could spin around. Kind of like that upcoming Transart Transmetal Rattrap. The other was that they would try to utilize Airazor's "third mode". They already have the chest piece anyway so why not make it longer so that it connected to the pelvis with the torso extended for beast mode to keep it all steady for that weird taller robot mode hybrid thing that Airazor does. The arms would be a little too short but they could've made them longer by a little bit and still have them wrap around either the back of figure like the original BW Airazor or have them double up and in under the chest.

I've been playing around with Airazor and Skywarp and there's just enough room to have longer arms and have the arms still fold up and in with the fists going into the chest cavity in front of the robot head while the forearm bend going to the spot where the fists would normally go. The only thing is you have to cut away that tab under the fists to make it work. Which would've meant another two pieces to have been retooled for Terrorsaur to make fists that don't have those tabs.

I need to get a 3D printer and learn how to design things myself. I'd make the bicep extenders for this mold as well as some sort of chest pieces to get the extended torso to hold steadily in robot mode.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 03, 2022 9:01 pm

Grahf_ wrote:I'm supposed to get mine today by 10pm. It's now 8pm and even though it said it was shipping, it's not on a vehicle yet and I already got an Amazon delivery today. I wonder if this is going to be four days late like Legends Arceus was.

Same boat as you was supposed to get by 10pm tonight not shipped or anything. Amazon Associate says it not being in stock is the reason for the delay.

Had to reapprove my Amazon Order and the will email me with a new ship date for Terrorsaur when they get stock

News Credits: 42 · Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:31 pm

My Terrorsaur arrived yesterday after a small delay that was related to the massive snowstorm. Mine has the same loose wing issue that other have reported.

Mine also makes me hate Hasbro for brining back ball joints, especially for ankles. Maybe I'm just weird, but I prefer my figures to be able to stand without falling over. Airazor is fine, but Skywarp and Terrorsaur have to be balanced perfectly to stay upright and are severely limited on their poses.

News Credits: 332 · Fri Feb 04, 2022 5:56 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:My Terrorsaur arrived yesterday after a small delay that was related to the massive snowstorm. Mine has the same loose wing issue that other have reported.

Mine also makes me hate Hasbro for brining back ball joints, especially for ankles. Maybe I'm just weird, but I prefer my figures to be able to stand without falling over. Airazor is fine, but Skywarp and Terrorsaur have to be balanced perfectly to stay upright and are severely limited on their poses.

Universal joints should be the only joints used on load-bearing limbs.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Feb 04, 2022 9:34 pm

Autobot_Benz wrote:
Grahf_ wrote:I'm supposed to get mine today by 10pm. It's now 8pm and even though it said it was shipping, it's not on a vehicle yet and I already got an Amazon delivery today. I wonder if this is going to be four days late like Legends Arceus was.

Same boat as you was supposed to get by 10pm tonight not shipped or anything. Amazon Associate says it not being in stock is the reason for the delay.

Had to reapprove my Amazon Order and the will email me with a new ship date for Terrorsaur when they get stock

Same, but I got an email last night saying it was delayed as late as 2/15. My SS86 Sweep did show up yesterday (left in the rain by USPS...) and I was a little disappointed that he was alone. I would love to know how they "ship" something before they even put it in a box. I mean I get it, they're just scanning codes that the computer spits out at them and sometimes the code is for a product that's supposed to be on a shelf but isn't, but it's just strange for inventory to not be there when the system thinks it should be and goes so far as to tell the customer that it is.

Emerje

Sat Feb 05, 2022 3:06 am

Another one of those pre-orders that sold out before I got to view the pre-order page.
Hope they do a re-run.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:18 pm

Supposedly, mine was going to arrive today, but it has yet to be shipped. I tried talking with a customer service representative, and they suggested I go to another seller...even though there is no other seller, nor do I want to. After they were told that I am tired of that reply whenever something hasn't arrived, they are curiously silent so far.

News Credits: 4877 · Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:29 am

optimeow wrote::(

Another one of those pre-orders that sold out before I got to view the pre-order page.
Hope they do a re-run.

They are, but it will be a slightly different deco.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:12 pm

As a complete surprise, Amazon sent me Terrorsaur yesterday. As soon as I took him out of the box, parts immediately started falling off. But I for 1 like the transformation and after getting him in proper robot mode, he's 1 if the better Kingdom figures IMO. Now my beast line is complete, I'm just waiting on Tarantulas and Inferno.

News Credits: 4 · Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:16 pm

Yeah I noticed Terrorsaur felt a little cheaper than the norm with the other Beasties.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:40 pm

Quantum Surge wrote:Yeah I noticed Terrorsaur felt a little cheaper than the norm with the other Beasties.

Yes, he does feel cheaper, it's that darn really light plastic.

Not impressed with the toy but I knew I wouldn't be. Still feels like a placeholder while many of the Kingdom beast gang feel definitive.

Also, just a heads up, someone claims they found a Red Alert in store at Walgreens but...

1. That person only has 3 posts on TFW
2. They photographed the box but not the receipt
3. Said it was the only one on the shelf so could have been a return or an excuse not to have a pic of the shelf.

So yeah, could be legit, but i'll wait till we have more reports.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:43 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Quantum Surge wrote:Yeah I noticed Terrorsaur felt a little cheaper than the norm with the other Beasties.

Yes, he does feel cheaper, it's that darn really light plastic.

Not impressed with the toy but I knew I wouldn't be. Still feels like a placeholder while many of the Kingdom beast gang feel definitive.

Also, just a heads up, someone claims they found a Red Alert in store at Walgreens but...

1. That person only has 3 posts on TFW
2. They photographed the box but not the receipt
3. Said it was the only one on the shelf so could have been a return or an excuse not to have a pic of the shelf.

So yeah, could be legit, but i'll wait till we have more reports.

The store around the corner from my house has a tag for Red Alert, but I've never seen the Red Alert. I try to get in there once a week.

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:10 pm

I've been enjoying my mutant kitties lately, they are nice little additions to the beast ranks

News Credits: 14 · Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:07 pm

Terrorsaur finally arrived aaaanddd... yeah he's a bit of a let down. Not as solid as Skywarp 2 and somehow not as pleasant to handle. Also, one of his ankle ball joints is super loose, making him a bit hard to stand.

He obviously can't hold the golden disk other than in his beak.

However, neither Megatron nor Dinobot which would be the one bot I'd like to have hold it can very well. Megatron's Dino jaw can hold it, but not very tightly, and Dinobot simply cannot pinch the disk in any way. His claws don't close that far, so it's just sitting in his hand basically and any movement will knock it off.

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News Credits: 462 · Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:11 pm

It's basically the same Golden Disk as the one of two that came with the Titan class Ark.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:20 pm

Sabrblade wrote:It's basically the same Golden Disk as the one of two that came with the Titan class Ark.

Don’t have the ark, so… uhh, this is my first interaction with the disc. :???:

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:41 pm

Overcracker wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:It's basically the same Golden Disk as the one of two that came with the Titan class Ark.

Don’t have the ark, so… uhh, this is my first interaction with the disc.

You should get the Ark. really fun toy

Thu Feb 10, 2022 5:09 am

Well, letdown or not, Terrycloth still looks pretty darn appealing to me. One of the more appealing Kingdom Beasts, in fact.

I'm very much enjoying Cyclonus. Very sleek and put-together in altmode, and a joy to transform. Easily the best toy/mold G1 Cyclonus has ever had, nothing particularly questionable about him. Unlike G1 (freaking detachable arms... Seriously, which idiot's idea even was that?), Universe (good effort and Nightstick is cool - wish I had him - but that altmode aft is a mess), and Combiner Wars (30th anniversary coming up or not, why was Cyclonus prioritized over Scattershot to be Silverbolt's moldmate?).

Photographed him with Apeface because they both have jet/starfighter modes with rear-mounted forward-swept wings.

News Credits: 42 · Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:52 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Combiner Wars (30th anniversary coming up or not, why was Cyclonus prioritized over Scattershot to be Silverbolt's moldmate?).

My guess is to simply balance out bots and cons. Scattorshot came eventually, so any "priority" was really just on the order of design/release. For regular release you had 6 autobot voyager torsos and only 3 cons, with Red OP, Cyclonus and Scattorshot not having dedicated limbs or as "free agent" torsos. Those were the only 3 that didn't have to be released with their limbs. Red OP was always going to be a wave 1 release as the big name, and I don't think they would want to release a 2 con case when there are only 3 for the whole line. So that basically made Cyclonus need to be in wave 3 or 4. Scattorshot was easier to fit around this than Cyclonus was is my best guess.

Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:35 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Combiner Wars (30th anniversary coming up or not, why was Cyclonus prioritized over Scattershot to be Silverbolt's moldmate?).

My guess is to simply balance out bots and cons. Scattorshot came eventually, so any "priority" was really just on the order of design/release. For regular release you had 6 autobot voyager torsos and only 3 cons, with Red OP, Cyclonus and Scattorshot not having dedicated limbs or as "free agent" torsos. Those were the only 3 that didn't have to be released with their limbs. Red OP was always going to be a wave 1 release as the big name, and I don't think they would want to release a 2 con case when there are only 3 for the whole line. So that basically made Cyclonus need to be in wave 3 or 4. Scattorshot was easier to fit around this than Cyclonus was is my best guess.

Well, it still rankles that Cyclonus got favored not only as first pick but also with a full set of alternate parts including for torso mode, whereas Scattershot got stuck recycling the Superion combiner parts.

Red Op is another case of priority at the design level lol. That mold reeeally feels like it was devoloped mainly as an Optimus Prime toy and the torso mode just phoned in. Resulting in Menasor sucking. And of course, Legacy Menasor is going to be crap in whole new ways instead of "CW Menasor as he should have been"...