Amazon Preorders for Legacy Wave 2 Toys Have Cheaper Prices and New Stock Photos

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:Soooooo hasbro pulse got rid of the free shipping?

Yeah... I don't know that I'll ever order from them just because of that.
I'll take my chances with Amazon, GameStop, and hunting in-store.

Will Amazon have the SG Magnus though?

I thought it was a Pulse exclusive line in the US

The entire SG line has been and still is Pulse-exclusive.

Only in the US. In Canada, it is available at Gamestop but without the comic.

Elita looks like she should be Princess Toadstool's car in Mario Kart or something lol. Easy pass.

I have the 35th anniversary Soundblaster version of the Siege Soundwave mold and I'm good with it, so don't need this Soundwave.

Blitzwing is a hell no.

All the rest looks awesome and will definitely be getting them. I'm betting that we will be able to pose Menasor better than other combiners since the 4 deluxes aren't really forming the limbs, just attaching and filling them out. Motormaster looks awesome and I love the base mode. Can't wait to have him going head to head with Optimus like in the episode "Masquerade."

Jhiaxus is a boss and its about time we had a figure like this for him.

Even if Motormaster is released earlier, it looks like the figure will be released before all the limb bots, no wonder only two are shown on the back of the box and only the third one is teased on the front. I called the auto morph transformation for the limbs, there's no way a child can separate Dragstrip without some tool.

Does Wildrider use Dragstrip's guns, they look similar.

Elita One is the Arcee we deserved.

If Knockout still uses clear plastic in all the spots Jazz does it'll probably break when you try to remove it from the packaging.

Now we wait and speculate.

Starseeker wrote:Elita looks like she should be Princess Toadstool's car in Mario Kart or something lol. Easy pass.

You say that like it's a bad thing

While I'm excited about the diversity of the cast, each of these toys is giving me a different feeling.

Knock Out: As a huge Prime fan, I was so excited about this toy. In practice, it's very meh. Not sure whether to get it or not.

Wildrider: Hard pass from me. I'm not a Menasor person, and that backpack just looks painful. I'll wait to see if Dead End and Breakdown are any good before making the final decision. (Besides, I can always swap in my CW Stunticons )

Tarantulas: Weirdly enough, I don't like it. I love Tarantulas as a character, but there's something so fundamentally wrong to me about him being so similar to Blackarachnia. 30/70 shot I get it.

Elita-1: I have no idea what to think. On the one hand, this is the best Elita we've got. On the other, it's so clearly meant to be Minerva that it's painful. I'll have to see if I can get Minerva before pulling the trigger on Elita.

Jhiaxus: Not a character I have a personal connection to, but that is one fine-looking figure! Going to get him if my budget allows it.

Soundwave: ... I wanted Prime Soundwave so bad it hurts. Anyway, I already have the Siege. Pass.

Blitzwing: I've kept out of the debate on Blitzboy so far, but here are my two cents: he looks like ass. The jet mode was completely sacrificed, the tank mode had to make major sacrifices, and the robot mode looks damn near perfect. If the prices weren't so high, I'd go for the Titans Return version.

Also, they completely squandered the opportunity to make this Animated Blitzwing.


Even the jet modes line up!

I wouldve loved an animated blitzwing done right
They could've even given different colored blast effects to mimic the fire and ice thing

Knockout looks better than expected.
Tarantulas looks cool!
Jhiaxus looks pretty faithful to his comics desgin.
Elita One looks pretty fun!
Motormaster looks good and Menasor is fine,But I wouldn't want him to become the new standard for combiners.

First-Aid wrote:
Day 1 of waiting for Transformers: Prime Masterpiece news.

Never give up!

Armada first,though.

Razorbeast88 wrote:I wouldve loved an animated blitzwing done right
They could've even given different colored blast effects to mimic the fire and ice thing

There's always the red and blue ones that came with the Tricranius set.

And, are blast effects even a thing anymore in Legacy?

Sabrblade wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I wouldve loved an animated blitzwing done right
They could've even given different colored blast effects to mimic the fire and ice thing

There's always the red and blue ones that came with the Tricranius set.

And, are blast effects even a thing anymore in Legacy?

Very true, but no three faces or double turret tank. Closest thing would be if an upgrade kit comes out but even then

Good point, I'm not sure that they are. The rereleases will still be bloosh compatible as emgo would say, but im not sure about the rest

Got to see the Jiaxus pictures and I gotta ask.

Is this weirdness his very own thing, or is he a "pretool" of some other character like so many Legacy figures are?

Rtron wrote:I'm really liking Tarantulas, although his proportions seem a tad off. What surprised me is that he's an entirely new mold! I fully expected him to be just a Blackarachnia retool. They're taking the whole "realistic altmodes" thing quite seriously, love it.

I thought Tarantulas looked a little off proportion-wise but after looking at some screenshots, he’s not that far off. The mold does a pretty good job of covering the robot parts. He’s the only one I’m considering getting. Just not interested in the rest.

Tigerhawk7109 wrote: (Besides, I can always swap in my CW Stunticons )

Only for the legs, it seems. And this whole CW compatibility is just a guess/assumption. We can't know for sure if it's the exact same peg sizes. Could be like an Airlock situation where Hasbro uses different dimension for a similar system making the Earthrise bases incompatible with the TR bases.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Got to see the Jiaxus pictures and I gotta ask.

Is this weirdness his very own thing, or is he a "pretool" of some other character like so many Legacy figures are?

The jet mode is very much his own thing. They could reuse the engineering for something else but I wager a lot of this figure will remain unique to him.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Got to see the Jiaxus pictures and I gotta ask.

Is this weirdness his very own thing, or is he a "pretool" of some other character like so many Legacy figures are?

The jet mode is very much his own thing. They could reuse the engineering for something else but I wager a lot of this figure will remain unique to him.

The jet mode is SCREAMING to me remold as Armada Thrust, the red nose lines up well with the dimensions of Thrusts noggin and the sides look an awful lot like how AT's feet flanked the jet cockpit, but this IS meant to be Jhaxius

Is Knock-Out just a retool of Jazz??? I thought he was a new mold but he looks like a retool to me. Such a waste of a cool character

ShadowGinrai wrote:Is Knock-Out just a retool of Jazz??? I thought he was a new mold but he looks like a retool to me. Such a waste of a cool character

It was confirmed as a retool of Jazz during the stream.

Jhiaxus retooled into Armada Thrust, I can actually see that, but would they make a Voyager Thrust?

Emerje

Sowndwave76 wrote:Doesn’t bother me because I’m not getting her, but Elita’s car mode is horrible because of the colors, & as Primalxconvoy just mentioned, that’s not a good break-up between panels…
That looks like a clown car…
And I’m sure it wasn’t possible, but that would probably look tons better if the form of the car was complimented with one main color (and then maybe a small accent here or there).
Her bot mode looks fine, although is a few photos her head looks so big, it makes it look like a kid version of her character.

I honestly laughed out loud when I saw the vehicle mode, as the colours are so very, very p*ss-poor. It was interesting that the Hasbro bloke gushed that this was the first "genuine" mold designed for Elita, even though it's a remold of Minerva that's been released first (a premold).

Flashwave wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Got to see the Jiaxus pictures and I gotta ask.

Is this weirdness his very own thing, or is he a "pretool" of some other character like so many Legacy figures are?

The jet mode is very much his own thing. They could reuse the engineering for something else but I wager a lot of this figure will remain unique to him.

The jet mode is SCREAMING to me remold as Armada Thrust, the red nose lines up well with the dimensions of Thrusts noggin and the sides look an awful lot like how AT's feet flanked the jet cockpit, but this IS meant to be Jhaxius

Jiaxus is so weird and UNIQUE that I must get him.

Sowndwave76 wrote:Elita’s car mode (...)
That looks like a clown car…

Goddammit, now I can't unsee it!

Let's hope Minerva turn out better.

ShadowGinrai wrote:Is Knock-Out just a retool of Jazz??? I thought he was a new mold but he looks like a retool to me. Such a waste of a cool character

The car shell is new (and rather beautiful) but he reuses Jazz' transformation and many robot mode parts which make them end up looking rather similar in robot mode, which we knew would happen from his comic look.

Honestly, the Jazz mold was never one of my favourites, it's just ok. Same with SS 86 Blurr. I think of all the SS 86 deluxes, Kup is the best.

Anyways, here is a look at Jazz and Knockout.

Emerje wrote:Jhiaxus retooled into Armada Thrust, I can actually see that, but would they make a Voyager Thrust?

Emerje

Thrust is usually a voyager, as are seekers, these days. Him not being a voyager would be more odd for me.

I have to admit, I think I let myself be overexcited by the very Elita robot mode parts and the fake head on the roof of the car.

I think I still want it, though.

I don't understand the complaints about Elita 1 having multi colors in her car mode when people gush over other cars doing the same thing. It's not like the the two tones follow the individual parts, they follow an actual pattern they built into the figure. For example the two tone front fender is not where a red part and a pink part come together, it's a single part intentionally colored in two tones. This isn't like the Siege ER Lambos that had those black PLA parts on the sides that couldn't be painted over.




Personally I think she looks good two toned because that's how all of the past G1 Elita's have been, why would they stop now? I don't think she looks like a clown car at all.






I really hope when she's tooled into Minerva she stays a Headmaster. Also I'm going to save the shoulder pilon gimmick for Minerva, I'm going to keep them folded away like we were shown on the stream for Elita. I imagine some of the car parts for Minerva will be altered as well, maybe rounder in the front like the original, a lot of the bot parts will need to be changed as well since the upside down T is part of Elita's design.

Emerje