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-Kanrabat- wrote:Unlike those who wish for black magic to exist that will allow this Ravage to morph into the G1 cassette with a deluxe+ budget, I'm really exited for this set and that "natural" animal altmode. Hasbro really have knocked it out of the park to give use the cleanest bot AND panther modes.

Fingers crossed that this thing will be available everywhere and will not be 100$ or something at MSRP.

Nobody wished for that, though? I've only seen excitement in this thread.

Changewinds wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:What a time to be alive as a beast wars fan! Of course we'll see if im singing the same tune once we know pricing and availability but man am I excited! His forearms are a little scrawny but he's great!

I love that the reviewer got excited about the upper body transformation (if I interpreted that correctly) and that he added "Wakanda forever" haha especially because I like to make other teams out of transformers characters and ravage would definitely be my Black Panther. And maybe shadow panther as Shuri

I’m excited by the upper body transformation too!
Watching the review, I’m liking the way the arms fold in to fill the gap, the way the head has the extra piece to fill out the neck, the nice waist swivel, and just the overall aesthetic. It’s quite obvious that the head is a Tigertron repaint from the review so it’s interesting that we’ll see the “repaint” version before the actual version.

The head isn't Tigatron's as Tigatron is a Voyager in this line, more likely they've taken his transformation scheme and applied it to the cheetor retool

william-james88 wrote:

I know it's just cardboard with a print and a little flap, but this is amazing. I can't get this set soon enough.

This is so glorious, who could have ever guessed we would get a Beast Wars ravage that wasn’t just a simple repaint? I’m also in love with the fact that it includes the actual G1 Ravage, and not his WFC counterpart. My only complaint is that he’s missing his Decepticon insignia on the other shoulder! A small price to pay for this badass bitch

Stormshot_Prime wrote:This is so glorious, who could have ever guessed we would get a Beast Wars ravage that wasn’t just a simple repaint? I’m also in love with the fact that it includes the actual G1 Ravage, and not his WFC counterpart. My only complaint is that he’s missing his Decepticon insignia on the other shoulder! A small price to pay for this badass bitch

While I'm surprised how extensive this is, I had hoped something like this would come along, I believe both hasbro and funpub were abundantly aware of how badly large parts of the fandom wanted a reissue of metals ravage, if I'm not mistaken the question came up at multiple botcons or something.

wow! i didn't expect ravage to look as Good as he does! a show accurate robot mode, and a decent panther mode? when he was first announced i thought he was either going to be a straight repaint or just some recycled BW mold.

Kind of odd he comes with a original reissue cassette Ravage, I thought he might come with a slight redeco of "Micromaster" Ravage from WFC, since he is technically part of the WFC line.

o.supreme wrote:Kind of odd he comes with a original reissue cassette Ravage, I thought he might come with a slight redeco of "Micromaster" Ravage from WFC, since he is technically part of the WFC line.

He's gangmolded with Laserbeak, which may be the problem.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Kind of odd he comes with a original reissue cassette Ravage, I thought he might come with a slight redeco of "Micromaster" Ravage from WFC, since he is technically part of the WFC line.

He's gangmolded with Laserbeak, which may be the problem.

*cough*thenusethatasanexcusetomakeaBuzzsaw*cough*

Sorry. Allergies are really killing me.

Flashwave wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Kind of odd he comes with a original reissue cassette Ravage, I thought he might come with a slight redeco of "Micromaster" Ravage from WFC, since he is technically part of the WFC line.

He's gangmolded with Laserbeak, which may be the problem.

*cough*thenusethatasanexcusetomakeaBuzzsaw*cough*

Sorry. Allergies are really killing me.

That... Actually would have been the perfect excuse. Like, maybe do a second set (I know, but hear me out) where it has a Marvel Comics inspired Netflix Soundwave and Buzzsaw is included there, so that both sets don't break theme

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Kind of odd he comes with a original reissue cassette Ravage, I thought he might come with a slight redeco of "Micromaster" Ravage from WFC, since he is technically part of the WFC line.

He's gangmolded with Laserbeak, which may be the problem.

*cough*thenusethatasanexcusetomakeaBuzzsaw*cough*

Sorry. Allergies are really killing me.

That... Actually would have been the perfect excuse. Like, maybe do a second set (I know, but hear me out) where it has a Marvel Comics inspired Netflix Soundwave and Buzzsaw is included there, so that both sets don't break theme

Or boombox soundblaster

I've been seeing in-hand images of battle Across Time BW Grimlock on instagram and it's looking like the feaux dino eyes in robot mode will be painted green and thats greatttttttt news because holy cow it was bothering me so much. Definitely not a perfect representation of the character and I was happily looking over the imperfections but the lack of paint on the chest was killing me. I had my fingers crossed for toyhax to come out with a set so I could fix it

Ravage looks great. I don't understand how he looks skinnier in beastmode than Cheetor and in robotmode he looks way more beefy.

Transformers toy magic I guess.

Now that Hasbro fully goes Beast Wars (very happy for the Beast Wars fans), I hope Hasbro will do a Unicron Trilogy remake next. Maybe in 1... what should you call it, season?
Or they pickup the War for Cybertron Games, that would be awesome. Those TF designs were great but the toy technology wasn't there yet. Fall of Cybertron line had the plastic budget dilemma back then.

Great stuff people, a lot for every fan these days

noctorro wrote:Ravage looks great. I don't understand how he looks skinnier in beastmode than Cheetor and in robotmode he looks way more beefy.

Transformers toy magic I guess.

Now that Hasbro fully goes Beast Wars (very happy for the Beast Wars fans), I hope Hasbro will do a Unicron Trilogy remake next. Maybe in 1... what should you call it, season?
Or they pickup the War for Cybertron Games, that would be awesome. Those TF designs were great but the toy technology wasn't there yet. Fall of Cybertron line had the plastic budget dilemma back then.

Great stuff people, a lot for every fan these days

According to the rumour mill, Hasbro abandoned plans to update UT in the next line... instead opting to update Prime. Y'know the series that started a decade later and still has decently engineered figures for the most part.

I liked Prime because it was probably one of the few times Transformers felt like an actual show, but the lack of UT is a gut punch. I was really looking forward to some UT updates (specifically Demolisher, Hot Shot, Thrust, and Megatron + Optimus).

On the bright side, as long as this approach works, they will do the UT Trilogy at some point. Though I would love to know why the decision to change the 'legacy' series

Third parties starting on armada MPs so there is that and it will be nice to pick up some Prime stuff as long as they dont miss out characters and make them the size they shoud be (Hardshell for one). No gaurantees any figures wil be as good as the old though for any line.

I'm looking for a decent Prime Optimus Prime (not the easiest thing for ebay search results) now I've got Hades Megatron so I guess I can wait for the new line. next line will probably have a bit of everything in it even if its only a few bots here and there or just homages

Love that they did, this, it looks great, happy for all the beast wars fans as well as g1 fans

blackeyedprime wrote:Third parties starting on armada MPs so there is that and it will be nice to pick up some Prime stuff as long as they dont miss out characters and make them the size they shoud be (Hardshell for one). No gaurantees any figures wil be as good as the old though for any line.

I'm looking for a decent Prime Optimus Prime (not the easiest thing for ebay search results) now I've got Hades Megatron so I guess I can wait for the new line. next line will probably have a bit of everything in it even if its only a few bots here and there or just homages

Knockout, Arcee, and Bulkhead who shares his tooling with Optimus... somehow are the supposed Prime Characters coming first. No mentions of Hardshell or Airrachnid redos.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:No mentions of Hardshell or Airrachnid redos.

Those are the ones who DESPERATELY needs to be updated.
Hardshell as a proper big voyager.
Airrachnid must be a small voyager like SS86 Rodimus so that she can be a proper triple-changer and be show accurate.

I was just giving some more consideration to the Buzzworthy Worlds Collide set. It is odd how a little change in marketing can make something more/less desirable to some.

I have to say in truth, this set is is many ways similar to the Two box sets that Hasbro released for Titans Return, with a variety of characters from different continuities. However for some reason I just found those two sets far more appealing, even though they were arguably just as *random* as this set. But for some reason the Buzzworthy set just feels cheap to me, and none of the characters except Fangry even remotely interest me.

Ravage looks fantastic and manages to make Cheetor look out of place in his own mold (not that he needed help). It's almost like this mold was made for him first and they shoehorned Cheetor in later.

I've been seriously tempted to pick up a Cheetor reissue to replace the Kingdom version.

Looks like T-Wrecks is available for pre-order now for Redcard holders. Due August 1st.

https://www.target.com/p/transformers-g ... A-81892813

Also, it might be worth it to use Target's app if you do a fair amount of purchasing there. I just ordered T-Wrecks on a sweet deal I put together specifically for his pre-order. A couple weeks ago, I got an offer from Target's app to make two $70 purchases in the next 14 days and receive a $35 reward. That happened to be the day I found Galvatron and Rhinox in store, so it was perfect, I was 1/2 way there already. Groceries and toiletries easily made up the second $70 purchase, and I just cashed in this morning, getting T-Wrecks for about $15 as a result.

Way to go Hasbro. Pack three nonsense repaints no one in their right mind has any interest in with one figure that people may actually want. Great.

cruizerdave wrote:Way to go Hasbro. Pack three nonsense repaints no one in their right mind has any interest in with one figure that people may actually want. Great.

If you are talking about the Buzzworthy Bee set, then by your measure most of us on the thread aren't in our right minds, because Bee is the only one that most people don't seem to care for.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Looks like T-Wrecks is available for pre-order now for Redcard holders. Due August 1st.

https://www.target.com/p/transformers-g ... A-81892813

Also, it might be worth it to use Target's app if you do a fair amount of purchasing there. I just ordered T-Wrecks on a sweet deal I put together specifically for his pre-order. A couple weeks ago, I got an offer from Target's app to make two $70 purchases in the next 14 days and receive a $35 reward. That happened to be the day I found Galvatron and Rhinox in store, so it was perfect, I was 1/2 way there already. Groceries and toiletries easily made up the second $70 purchase, and I just cashed in this morning, getting T-Wrecks for about $15 as a result.

I got a Red Card debit card but I'm waiting until I see this in hand. I have no attachment to the character's fiction even if he possibly might be a maximal form of Grimlock. And with the chance to see it in-store, there's no FOMO for once