Beast Hunters Voyager Shockwave Toy Image, Plus Beast Hunters Guide Book Scans
Friday, February 8th, 2013 2:45AM CST
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Front cover:
Kreo combiners:
Optimus and Bumblebee role play masks: (Optimus doesn't have a face plate, seems his face *is* being redesigned.)
Cyberverse Prowl:
Deluxe Riplclaw:
Voyagers Predaking and Shockwave:
Shockwave:
Abominus line art:
Back cover:
So, now we have our first image of Shockwave, and much like Smokescreen, his "armor" is removable leaving you with a rather show accurate figure.
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Posted by CBratetron on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:03am CST
Posted by Megatron Wolf on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:06am CST
Posted by Arctorro on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:07am CST
Will wait for a better image, but what is shown doesn't look promising.
Posted by xyl360 on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:13am CST
I noticed something interesting about Abominus. He seems to have proper feet that attach at the bottom of the leg limb-bots. That should improve the looks of him substantially.
Posted by Autobot032 on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:14am CST
Posted by dedcat on February 8th, 2013 @ 3:51am CST
At any rate, I'm sure all that orange kibble comes off, similar to Smokescreen's beast armor (or whatever its called)
Abominus... where are your hands and feet? Do we get nothing but dangling heads and limbs instead of actual appendages?
And why is Hun-Gurrr (yup, 3 r's) your foot? Come to think of it... no one is where they are supposed to be. Ah well - new continuity, new combination, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed you can 'scramble' all the limbs around.
Final thought - repaint/retool deluxe Smokescreen to match that cyberverse Prowl, please
Posted by Trikeboy on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:04am CST
Posted by Henry921 on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:10am CST
I'm a bit disappointed, but I suspect I'll get over it when I have the figure in hand.
Posted by King Kuuga on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:27am CST
As for the contents of the book itself, some interesting insights:
- The Predacons appear to all be cloned from VNA, basically a la Jurassic Park
- A couple new Predacons listed: Grim Wing, Skystalker (previously seen in the Battle Net Bumblebee Kreo set), and Scourge (shares Lazerback's body form, but their tail weapons are on opposite sides and he has a new beast head)
- Continuing the Jurassic Park concept, the Predacon clones seem by and large to have gone rogue, with most hating both 'bots and 'cons equally
- Varying capacities for intelligence
- Abominus is a mindless killing machine
- Two-headed beasts were an attempt at making them more intelligent
- Grim Wing has a mysterious partner called Blackbeak who is "cannot be trusted"
There's probably more information to be garnered but it's 5:30 AM as I'm typing this. I'll analyze more tomorrow, if nobody else has.
Posted by Mykltron on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:34am CST
Posted by Rushie on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:40am CST
I noticed something interesting about Abominus. He seems to have proper feet that attach at the bottom of the leg limb-bots. That should improve the looks of him substantially.
Seems more like he's standing on a round platform. I doubt the figure set will come with that. Perhaps a cardboard insert.
Can't quite tell if Shockwave is some kind of animal on all four's (slight resemblance to movie-verse Ravage) or a quad tank (similar to his TF Animated alt mode.)
The text is hard to make out, but reads Cybertronian Tank. So indeed a H tank similar to Animated Shocky and DotM Thunderhead. The orange beast armor sure looks like a fanged cat's face though.
And why is Hun-Gurrr (yup, 3 r's) your foot? Come to think of it... no one is where they are supposed to be. Ah well - new continuity, new combination, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed you can 'scramble' all the limbs around.
He's not an arm, Twinstrike is. The parts are mislabeled. This drawing matches the lay-out as seen on the previous picture. Perhaps the limbs can be swapped for a G1 lay-out.
The Predacons appear to all be cloned from VNA, basically a la Jurassic Park
A very interesting potential for the series storyline. Can't wait to see this play out in the show.
Posted by xyl360 on February 8th, 2013 @ 4:44am CST
Ah, right you are. I took a second (closer) look at it. Too bad, those bits would have made cool feet . Oh well, I'm still getting him/them.Rushie wrote:I noticed something interesting about Abominus. He seems to have proper feet that attach at the bottom of the leg limb-bots. That should improve the looks of him substantially.
Seems more like he's standing on a round platform. I doubt the figure set will come with that. Perhaps a cardboard insert.
Posted by Henry921 on February 8th, 2013 @ 5:23am CST
That Bot wrote:Well, Shockwave looks like he'll be a dead ringer for his show model once the orange bits are removed. I'll hold out for some better pictures, in the meantime.
As for the contents of the book itself, some interesting insights:
- The Predacons appear to all be cloned from VNA, basically a la Jurassic Park
- A couple new Predacons listed: Grim Wing, Skystalker (previously seen in the Battle Net Bumblebee Kreo set), and Scourge (shares Lazerback's body form, but their tail weapons are on opposite sides and he has a new beast head)
- Continuing the Jurassic Park concept, the Predacon clones seem by and large to have gone rogue, with most hating both 'bots and 'cons equally
- Varying capacities for intelligence
- Abominus is a mindless killing machine
- Two-headed beasts were an attempt at making them more intelligent
- Grim Wing has a mysterious partner called Blackbeak who is "cannot be trusted"
There's probably more information to be garnered but it's 5:30 AM as I'm typing this. I'll analyze more tomorrow, if nobody else has.
Even money that we get a redeco of Lazerback as Scourge somewhere down the line.
I get the sense that with the exception of Predaking, Hasbro's hedging their bets by making redecos/retools of their Predacons in a rainbow of colors.
Posted by King Kuuga on February 8th, 2013 @ 5:48am CST
Henry921 wrote:Even money that we get a redeco of Lazerback as Scourge somewhere down the line.
Hopefully a retool/redeco, because that new head has a cool underbite going on, but yeah, it seems like a pretty safe bet. Redecoes are becoming more prominent. This suggests that development costs are going up, so they need to really capitalize on their existing molds as much as possible, and to facilitate that they're deliberately establishing multiple characters with the same body shape at the outset. This prevents more cases like what we got in 2012 where there were non-show redecoes and several show characters without toys.
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on February 8th, 2013 @ 5:49am CST
I just hope he's large enough to scale in with the rest of my MP Decepticons, because he's going to be my neo-G1 Shockwave.
Posted by Mindmaster on February 8th, 2013 @ 6:06am CST
Posted by griftimus prime on February 8th, 2013 @ 6:10am CST
Posted by RAcast on February 8th, 2013 @ 6:27am CST
Posted by bluecatcinema on February 8th, 2013 @ 7:03am CST
Posted by Cyber Bishop on February 8th, 2013 @ 7:41am CST
Posted by GuyIncognito on February 8th, 2013 @ 7:54am CST
Cyber Bishop wrote:Shock who??? I was more excited about seeing Abominus...
Same here! I'll withhold judgement on Shocky until we see some better pictures, but at first glance it looks disappointing. But Abominus looks really cool.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on February 8th, 2013 @ 7:58am CST
Posted by Banjo-Tron on February 8th, 2013 @ 7:58am CST
The contents of this catalogue will crush 3rd parties for sure.
Posted by mooncake623 on February 8th, 2013 @ 8:04am CST
Posted by #Sideways# on February 8th, 2013 @ 8:12am CST
Jurassic Park 4 will be with Transformerssss
I just hope that they don't mess it up. The redesigns for the characters look... Okay, they don't look the best, but I think I can get used to them. But if they just make it some random gimmick phase the show has to go through (ala the powerlinx portion of the Armada cartoon) I will be deeply disappointed. The first couple of seasons were fantastic, and I really hope that they do not take a dump on the whole thing.
Here's hoping that Shockwave's armor comes off. Gawsh that looks terrible with those orange chunky bits.
Posted by STngAR on February 8th, 2013 @ 8:34am CST
Posted by starwarrior1227 on February 8th, 2013 @ 8:41am CST
ALL HAIL DEMONLORD SHOCKWAVE!!!!
Posted by Doubledealer93 on February 8th, 2013 @ 8:47am CST
Posted by Bullycon on February 8th, 2013 @ 9:04am CST
Posted by kirbenvost on February 8th, 2013 @ 9:06am CST
Posted by PrymeStriker on February 8th, 2013 @ 9:12am CST
I didn't expect any less from Prowl. But I won't be buying him.
And I'm really surprised nobody in the later comments wondering if the armor comes off are able to read the text right next to Shockwave's photo: "Snap-on Beast Armor"
Posted by RAcast on February 8th, 2013 @ 9:32am CST
PrymeStriker wrote:I'm impressed with Shockwave. I'm also impressed Hasbro's satisfying both ends of the field with the characters we never got; removable armor so you can have a Beast Hunters toy or a clean, normal toy. Instant buy from me.
I didn't expect any less from Prowl. But I won't be buying him.
And I'm really surprised nobody in the later comments wondering if the armor comes off are able to read the text right next to Shockwave's photo: "Snap-on Battle Armor"
Nobody reads when there are pictures involved, this is the internet!
I for one am curious how his armor attaches and if I can give it to something else instead of just having to sit it off to the side somewhere.
Posted by Rhinox23 on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:25am CST
RAcast wrote:I for one am curious how his armor attaches and if I can give it to something else instead of just having to sit it off to the side somewhere.
That's my main concern at this point as well. I really hope he has a place to store the "beast armor" if you decide not to use it but it may not happen.
My initial reaction was slight disappointment, but I'll wait for better images to really pass judgment. He looks pretty good though and I do plan on keeping my preorder. I'm somewhat color blind and at first glance I thought he was University of FL colors because he looked blue and orange to me. Glad I looked closer.
Is this book from Toy Fair? If so, I bet we'll see him out on display tomorrow and can get a better look at him.
Posted by rpetras on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:26am CST
Banjo-Tron wrote:BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
The contents of this catalogue will crush 3rd parties for sure.
You mean that ironically, right?
All in all Shockwave should be OK without the armor, and I'm pretty interested in Abominus, at that size he should fit with some of the better PCC combinations.
We'll know more at NYCC, though.
Posted by RAcast on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:32am CST
Rhinox23 wrote:RAcast wrote:I for one am curious how his armor attaches and if I can give it to something else instead of just having to sit it off to the side somewhere.
That's my main concern at this point as well. I really hope he has a place to store the "beast armor" if you decide not to use it but it may not happen.
My initial reaction was slight disappointment, but I'll wait for better images to really pass judgment. He looks pretty good though and I do plan on keeping my preorder. I'm somewhat color blind and at first glance I thought he was University of FL colors because he looked blue and orange to me. Glad I looked closer.
Is this book from Toy Fair? If so, I bet we'll see him out on display tomorrow and can get a better look at him.
I'm hoping for some 5 or 3 mm pegs perhaps? I could toss them on -something- at least.
Posted by DarkStar on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:41am CST
I think, it really fitting for him
Posted by Varia31 on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:42am CST
I plan on purchasing. I love Prime Shockwave.
Posted by dragons on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:46am CST
Posted by Banjo-Tron on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:47am CST
rpetras wrote:You mean that ironically, right?
But of course. What worries me most though is that in 5 years time we will look back on this period as being 'the good old days' because the deluxe size class will have become kinder egg-sized.
Posted by Flakmaster on February 8th, 2013 @ 10:57am CST
I am thankful that the orange armor of ultimate tastelessness shall removable.
I'm not enthused by what appear to be clunky (and probably hollow) limbs though.
Posted by Blitz6Sic6 on February 8th, 2013 @ 11:10am CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:You guys all remind me of the 外人四こま (gaijin 4-koma) meme, just in reverse.
Also; Bahahaha very true
Posted by leokearon on February 8th, 2013 @ 11:50am CST
Alos I hope this means all the Terrorcons/Predacons will be get general retail release
Posted by PrymeStriker on February 8th, 2013 @ 12:00pm CST
leokearon wrote:Alos I hope this means all the Terrorcons/Predacons will be get general retail release
I hope so as well.
I've also dubbed the Terrorcon Predacons "Terrorpreds"
Posted by Evil Eye on February 8th, 2013 @ 12:07pm CST
Not into Cyberverse, but the Abominus is pretty cool. I do wish people would stop moaning about him not having normal hands and feet-he's an utterly inhuman fighting machine bred for war. He doesn't NEED hands. Also, "proper" hands and feet would mean combiner kibble with nowhere to go in the separate modes, which I hate.
Also, I don't get the bitching about "ZOMG ITS HOLLOW!!!!". The more hollow it is, the lighter it is, thereby decreasing likelihood of toppling over or wearing out joints from heavy limbs.
Posted by gothsaurus on February 8th, 2013 @ 1:17pm CST
But yes, buying Shockwave and Prowl... and hiding away their weaponry in a box that locks.
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on February 8th, 2013 @ 1:26pm CST
I like the idea of Kreon micro-combiners. But Devs only has FOUR component pieces?
The more I see the Terrorcons, the more I want them. Just wish they were deluxe.
And Shockwave! Super exciting. I am getting an Energon Shockblast vibe. And his vehicle mode kinda looks like the Bat from Dark Knight Rises to me.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on February 8th, 2013 @ 1:31pm CST
Nemesis Maximo wrote:I hope we see Prowl in the show, and I hope he gets a deluxe release.
If the Legion version is any indication, he'll be a retool of Smokescreen, like some fans have been guessing from his Animation Model
Posted by Evil Eye on February 8th, 2013 @ 1:32pm CST
Nemesis Maximo wrote:I like the idea of Kreon micro-combiners. But Devs only has FOUR component pieces? .
Not everything has to be slavishly accurate to G1 you know.
Posted by Manterax Prime on February 8th, 2013 @ 1:34pm CST
I'll definitely be getting Shockwave, that is, once the stores in my area decide to stock the new waves.
Hasbro, Y U TAKE SO LONG TO SHIP TO U.S STORES????