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RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I want my damn Rodimus Prime. Who's with me?!

I want mine too! At least Galvatron just shipped from Amazon for me. I should have him Saturday.

Picked up Galvatron in store today, but I can't tell if his shoulders are correct or not -

From what I can tell it's the bad shoulders.

Yep. It's the bad shoulders. Tools to fix are en route.

There have been lots of fake images floating around but just in case this is real, we wanted to share this one with you. it is a boxset of Covert Agent Ravage from the Beast Wars Season 2 finale. This has all the markings of an exclusive War for Cybertron boxset. What makes this most likely real is all the details on the box. This set seems to also come with G1 Ravage which is fun since in the actual show, Ravage did keep his original alt mode. This image popped up on the Vector Sigma facebook page.

You'll let us know what you think!

william-james88 wrote:There have been lots of fake images floating around but just in case this is real, we wanted to share this one with you. it is a boxset of Covert Agent Ravage from the Beast Wars Season 2 finale. This has all the markings of an exclusive War for Cybertron boxset. What makes this most likely real is all the details on the box. This set seems to also come with G1 Ravage which is fun since in the actual show, Ravage did keep his original alt mode. This image popped up on the Vector Sigma facebook page.

You'll let us know what you think!

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All of the leakers are vouching for it, seems like this one is real

Oh, be still my beating heart!

That looks way more show-accurate than the original mold.

EDIT: Wait, does this thing look like it can even transform at all?

Sabrblade wrote:
EDIT: Wait, does this thing look like it can even transform at all?

It does. The transformation takes cues from the Cheetor mold, you can see he has the same styled legs where the cat legs are folded up. So it's being accurate to the original toy by being based on cheetor.

EDIT: Or maybe this is based on the Tigatron mold we have yet to see which may also have the same leg transformation as Cheetor.

william-james88 wrote:So it's being accurate to the original toy by being based on cheetor.

The cartoon model was always based on Cheetor. Ravage was just a modified Transmetal Cheetor with Tigatron's beast head for his robot head, among other tweaks to the CG model.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:
EDIT: Wait, does this thing look like it can even transform at all?

It does. The transformation takes cues from the Cheetor mold, you can see he has the same styled legs where the cat legs are folded up. So it's being accurate to the original toy by being based on cheetor.

EDIT: Or maybe this is based on the Tigatron mold we have yet to see which may also have the same leg transformation as Cheetor.

I think you are right on Tigratron. The legs look like the same transformation as Cheetor, but the arms and chest are different, not sure how much though only seeing the front. This looks just a little too tall to be a deluxe when compared to the length of the G1 cassette, but admittedly the perspective could also be off.

The other thing that stands out to me is the packaging. That is a whole lot of plastic at a time they are trying to reduce. This level of plastic in the packaging is similar to Throne of Primes and Pit of Judgement sets, makes me think it might be something for SDCC. Wasn't there a leaked item Listing somewhere with just generic SDCC 1 or something like that?

Amazing guitar riff sold separately. Consider me sold on this box set, just hope it ain’t a SDCC or PulseCon exclusive, which it probably is…

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:
EDIT: Wait, does this thing look like it can even transform at all?

It does. The transformation takes cues from the Cheetor mold, you can see he has the same styled legs where the cat legs are folded up. So it's being accurate to the original toy by being based on cheetor.

EDIT: Or maybe this is based on the Tigatron mold we have yet to see which may also have the same leg transformation as Cheetor.

I think you are right on Tigratron. The legs look like the same transformation as Cheetor, but the arms and chest are different, not sure how much though only seeing the front. This looks just a little too tall to be a deluxe when compared to the length of the G1 cassette, but admittedly the perspective could also be off.

The other thing that stands out to me is the packaging. That is a whole lot of plastic at a time they are trying to reduce. This level of plastic in the packaging is similar to Throne of Primes and Pit of Judgement sets, makes me think it might be something for SDCC. Wasn't there a leaked item Listing somewhere with just generic SDCC 1 or something like that?

It's his year's Pulsecon exclusive, so the amount of plastic makes sense, they give exception to non mainline toys.

They better do multiple production runs because this is so going to sell out faster than last year's Quintesson Pit of Judgement.

Hoping that this is readily available because that is an AMAZING Ravage figure. Not exactly perfect, but honestly the figure itself will be really nice to see, especially to see what the beast mode is. Hopefully it'll be clean enough, but anything would be better than the original Transmetal Ravage figure

Tonight is rather interesting, this Buzzworthy 4pack is floating around and it is clearly Kingdom influenced.

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The Ravage box looks cool. I hope the Buzzworthy one is fake, nothing even remotely interesting about it, except Fangry.

o.supreme wrote:The Ravage box looks cool. I hope the Buzzworthy one is fake, nothing even remotely interesting about it, except Fangry.

The buzzworthy pack, I like all except Bumbleebee. I would rather they'd done a red VW bug version like the G! toys did, rather then the yellow cliffjumper with BumbleeBee's head.

Does the G1 ravage in the box transform? It looks pretty solid to be. I don't see any of the marks for transformation on it.

Rodimus Knight wrote:Does the G1 ravage in the box transform? It looks pretty solid to be. I don't see any of the marks for transformation on it.

Its legs and feet are visible.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Knight wrote:Does the G1 ravage in the box transform? It looks pretty solid to be. I don't see any of the marks for transformation on it.

Its legs and feet are visible.

Yes I can see that they are there, but are they transformable. It could literally be a slug, and remain in permanent cassette mode. I see the legs, but I don't see the groove that would show the legs are separate from the body.

If the main figure transforms fully from beast to bot (accurately), then I'll be glad I didn't bother with that partsforming 3P effort.

william-james88 wrote:

I NEED IT!

Let's hope that if the thing is an exclusive, it will be one that is easy to get.

Ravage almost looks like the original toy, was that ever released in the US? That Buzzworthy set is just, no. We already have a yellow Cliffjumper mold, but I can understand why they used it, Evergreen design. Fangry doesn't even come with any of the blasters that were part of the tooling of that mold, which actually completes beast mode to some extent.

If that ravage ends up being reused as a transmetal wreckers tigatron for that golden disk Tigatron we have yet to see I will die of excitement

Wow, Ravage has made up for some of the other beast wars bots being lackluster and then some. Instant buy. Plus the possibility of more transmetals is back on the cards (if it even was ever removed to begin with), so that's always good - if they can compare to the original figures.

Buzz worthy set looks like it's going to be expensive just to get a fangry but I have thing for titans return headmasters.
The bee is dissapointment but that's been the same for every reuse of Cliffjumper
Primal doesn't look nemessy enough in bot mod, Looks a bit better in alt mode. Can kinda fill in for a mind controlled/virus prime.
Blackarachnia, doubting it's possible to arachnid leg swap with the Kingdom bot. I should like the colors and the figure but it's just kinda there in the set.
I'm down for Kingdom beast repaints tho as its cheaper than getting variant MPs.

What version is Black Arachnia meant to be? Why didn't they release Primal in his clear red or clear white colours? Why is Bumblebee included in this set?

It's obvious that the only figure of worth here is Fangry, and it seems the same half-wits at Hasblo that failed to sell all those sought-after clear purple fossilizers in a multi-pack with either near-identical Siege Megatron decided again to kill any potential sales for Fangry too.

I'm all up for Fangry, but not in that DOA, lame-duck multi-pack.

o.supreme wrote:I hope the Buzzworthy one is fake, nothing even remotely interesting about it, except Fangry.

For that reason I hope it's real. I would like that Fangry, as i don't think we have had a deluxe Fangry figure since G1, unless I missed it. All we got was a Titan master 4 years ago. I'm also kind of interested in that Blackarachnia, is that supposed to be her Maximal version from season 3?

And yeah, that Ravage is an instabuy, hopefully he can be ordered on Pulse.