Crasher and Shadow Striker Listings found for Wave 2 of Transformers Velocitron line
Saturday, June 25th, 2022 1:32am CDT
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Velocitron listings
Tra Gen legacy Velocitron deluxe Crasher
Product number: F8050
EAN: 5010994186609
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron Deluxe Shadow S
Product Number: F8049
EAN: 5010994186586
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron Voyager Hot Rod
Product Number: F8054
EAN: 5010994186593
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron LDR 2
Product Number: F8052
EAN: 5010994186616
The Leader is not known and it is unknown if this is the extent of the listings, it probably is not.

Credit(s): Walmart
This article was last modified on Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 11:39am CDT
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Posted by blackeyedprime on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:42am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 25th, 2022 @ 2:55am CDT

Posted by Emerje on June 25th, 2022 @ 3:14am CDT

Wild speculation:
Crasher will be a retooled Wheeljack (closest thing we've had to her original Gobots alt mode, but watch it be Mirage again). Shadow Striker as a heavy Siege Chromia retool (their bot modes have very similar back and arm kibble).


Hot Rod needs to be the cartoon colors, bonus points if he comes with Daniel on a hoverboard.
The Leader slot is a mystery, wouldn't surprise me if it were Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime in the black and red colors of the original repaint. That would actually make me happy and it would make sense for a firetruck to be here, to say nothing of the Velocitron theme.

Some things I'd like to see in this line, be it wave 2 or a possible third wave if this goes the way of the Netflix line.
-Transmetal Tigatron (from the recent Ravage figure, not sure what price point that would fit)
-Sunstreaker (with proper matching yellow and red shoulders)
-Glyph or Tap-out (kinda crazy they haven't done these obvious and long requested repaints yet, but we got Roadranger and Puffer somehow)
-Nightracer (it's in her name and this line loves its female racers, maybe a repaint of Knock Out?)
Emerje
Posted by Munkky on June 25th, 2022 @ 4:06am CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on June 25th, 2022 @ 6:18am CDT

I can accept 2 or 4 exclusives. But there's a WHOLE LINE of 30 something transformers with many characters that are 100% original that will be absolutely impossible to get anywhere. My Walmart never have transformers and Walmart.ca suck so much ass, I just have to stick my butt on my screen to get a thorough enema.



Posted by AcademyofDrX on June 25th, 2022 @ 9:51am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:At another site someone joked that hot rod could be a retool of override
That might not be a joke. The original rumors said that Override was a retool of Hot Rod, and there was precedent in the 3P scene where I think MMC used a shared design for those two. If it's an IDW Hot Rod, as with Legacy IDW Blurr, that would arguably be a better base.
I certainly don't think it's likely, but it's at least plausible.
Posted by sol magnus on June 25th, 2022 @ 9:55am CDT
AcademyofDrX wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:At another site someone joked that hot rod could be a retool of override
That might not be a joke. The original rumors said that Override was a retool of Hot Rod, and there was precedent in the 3P scene where I think MMC used a shared design for those two. If it's an IDW Hot Rod, as with Legacy IDW Blurr, that would arguably be a better base.
I certainly don't think it's likely, but it's at least plausible.
You never know anymore. As of this minute, I wouldn't want a different Hot Rod, but I'll reserve judgement until I see it. I'm all in on the deluxes, though.
Posted by SpaceEagle on June 25th, 2022 @ 10:59am CDT
Unless they pull a quick one on us.
Posted by william-james88 on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:18pm CDT
The character this was supposed to be was not specified when he got the task. The only specification regarding the deco was that the trailer should be silver. As you can read below, the designer was guided by the material of the mold. So, with Laser Prime (who is the main use of this mold), both the alt mode windows and robot mode chest windows are made of clear plastic which is a departure from the original toy. Since the clear plastic for "Scourge" is pink, that means the entire robot mode torso would also be pink clear plastic. This mold was designed so that the torso clear plastic would match the alt mode clear plastic. So, when it came time to decide the colour of the torso, black was chosen for the torso to match the alt mode accordingly.
So there you go, it seems to all come back from a lack of unified direction for the deco and character at the beginning as well as limitations from the way the Legacy Laser Prime mold is constructed.
The designer does conclude that despite all that (limitations and lack of clarity) he went with the best looking deco he could think of. On that point, it is hard to fault him. While the deco doesn't look like Scourge, it is still striking and well done, as many fans have already said on message boards and social media across the web.
Let us knw what you think of both the reasoning and the toy.


Posted by sol magnus on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:24pm CDT
I'm kind of using a different more head-canon-esque explanation for the character in my collection, anyway.
Posted by Tuned Agent on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:33pm CDT
AcademyofDrX wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:At another site someone joked that hot rod could be a retool of override
That might not be a joke. The original rumors said that Override was a retool of Hot Rod, and there was precedent in the 3P scene where I think MMC used a shared design for those two. If it's an IDW Hot Rod, as with Legacy IDW Blurr, that would arguably be a better base.
I certainly don't think it's likely, but it's at least plausible.
It would be easier IMO to retool 86 Rod into IDW Rod than Override. With the 86 mold, the chest and shins could be swapped out very easily, and the tall shoulders could also be done if they don't mind sacrificing articulation. I'm not even sure how IDW Rod's shoulders could even work with Override's transformation scheme, and the chest would be more complicated to retool. Not that Override couldn't work, it would just take more extensive retooling.
Not to mention, IIRC it was clarified that the wave 2 voyager assortment was going to be 2 Hot Rods and 1 Override, so it would be a bit odd having the whole wave be the same mold.
Posted by grimdragon2001 on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:35pm CDT
Posted by Till-all-R1 on June 25th, 2022 @ 1:38pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Hot Rod needs to be the cartoon colors, bonus points if he comes with Daniel on a hoverboard.
Some things I'd like to see in this line, be it wave 2 or a possible third wave if this goes the way of the Netflix line.
-Sunstreaker (with proper matching yellow and red shoulders)
Emerje
I'd definitely buy another Hot Rod if it came with Danial and Hoverbaord!
Also want a Sunstreaker do over!
Posted by Immortal Starscream on June 25th, 2022 @ 2:17pm CDT

Posted by Nemesis Primal on June 25th, 2022 @ 2:29pm CDT
Additional options:Emerje wrote:Wild speculation:
Crasher will be a retooled Wheeljack (closest thing we've had to her original Gobots alt mode, but watch it be Mirage again). Shadow Striker as a heavy Siege Chromia retool (their bot modes have very similar back and arm kibble).
-Crasher from Drag Strip, if they're actually going for accuracy to the original design (assuming they can cuz rights weirdness)? The new head would fill in the seat area of the alt mode, she'd just have some extra wheels (and would get to be a secret extra Stunticon cuz why not)
-I've seen a digibash floating around of Shadow Striker from that Elita/Minerva mold, since the shoulder pylon kibble can be folded back into the backpack I think that could work also Siege Chromia mold sucks please don't bring it back
OOH, that is an interesting possibility, I hadn't even considered that. It'd definitely make more sense than anything else I had thought of.Emerje wrote:The Leader slot is a mystery, wouldn't surprise me if it were Galaxy Upgrade Optimus Prime in the black and red colors of the original repaint. That would actually make me happy and it would make sense for a firetruck to be here, to say nothing of the Velocitron theme.
I'm starting to wonder if the only reason this hasn't happened yet is because they are actually trying to get the VW Bug tooling for Glyph, considering we're only just now seeing it get a second use.Emerje wrote:-Glyph or Tap-out (kinda crazy they haven't done these obvious and long requested repaints yet, but we got Roadranger and Puffer somehow)
Posted by SpaceEagle on June 25th, 2022 @ 3:03pm CDT

(I can definitely understand the disappointment, though!)
Posted by Overcracker on June 25th, 2022 @ 6:41pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:We had big reveals lately but there's one part I forgot was coming and that is all the listings for the next year which we get at the half year mark. Thanks to fellow Seibertronian JTprime17 and TF fan HyperShauta, we have listings of the second wave of the Velocitron line. As with the previous line, it has characters from all sorts of Transformers or Trasformers ajacent worlds together, like Crasher from GoBots, Shadow Striker from Cyberverse and voyager Hot Rod from some aspect of G1 (maybe a movie inspired redeco, purely speculation). These listings come from Walmart, which is the exclusive outlet for these toys.
Velocitron listings
Tra Gen legacy Velocitron deluxe Crasher
Product number: F8050
EAN: 5010994186609
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron Deluxe Shadow Striker
Product Number: F8049
EAN: 5010994186586
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron Voyager Hot Rod
Product Number: F8054
EAN: 5010994186593
Tra Gen Legacy Velocitron LDR 2
Product Number: F8052
EAN: 5010994186616
The Leader is not known and it is unknown if this is the extent of the listings, it probably is not.
Interesting list.
Crasher might be a buy if they ive her a good alt mode. , But Shadow Striker is more interesting. Might mean we get a R.I.D SideBurn repaint out of that, which is one step closer to updating the R.I.D Car Robots.
Wonder what the
Posted by Sabrblade on June 25th, 2022 @ 6:45pm CDT
It's more likely this Shadow Striker, the one who's been in recent mainstream media:Overcracker wrote:But Shadow Striker is more interesting. Might mean we get a R.I.D SideBurn repaint out of that, which is one step closer to updating the R.I.D Car Robots.

Posted by chuckdawg1999 on June 25th, 2022 @ 6:45pm CDT
Nemesis Primal wrote:Clampdown comes with both the rifle and the shoulder rocket, both were shown on the stream (not to mention the leaked in-hand copy earlier).chuckdawg1999 wrote:Haven't we seen Clampdown with Red Alert's rifle? Aren't we passed the nickel and diming over this mold?
Thank you my friend, I don't watch the streams and those early leaks sometimes come with accessories the main releases don't.
Posted by Overcracker on June 25th, 2022 @ 7:02pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:It's more likely this Shadow Striker, the one whose been in recent mainstream media:Overcracker wrote:But Shadow Striker is more interesting. Might mean we get a R.I.D SideBurn repaint out of that, which is one step closer to updating the R.I.D Car Robots.
Still a sleek sports car with a thin robot body, works for SideBurn, even if it doesn’t get the engine chest.