Hasbro Reveals 4 New Target Exclusives for Transformers Tuesday

So is Red Cog meant to be the Cog that pairs with Grand Max?

Gearslide wrote:So is Red Cog meant to be the Cog that pairs with Grand Max?

The deco on it appears to actually be lifted wholesale from a generic from the Netflix WFC shows, but there's nothing stopping anyone from repurposing it as the Grand Max Cog.

I LOVE the new extra guns Cog comes with! Will defiantly pick him up on set, and honestly toy deco Terrorsor looks a bit better to my eye than the previous release

I hope they don't bump Red Cog up a price class for those extra weapons. I like three of each Weaponizer style or troopbuilder figure normally but in this case, I think I want more due to the extra weapons. Being priced as a voyager wouldn't be ideal.

It looks like the five blasters are:
1: One standard Cog gun.
2: One standard Cog gun? A second one wasn't shown in the pictures but can be presumed.
3: One Ultra Magnus looking gun.
4: One Chromia looking gun.
5: One Cyberverse Arcee looking gun.

The seven interchangeable barrels/components are:
1. One Chromia looking silencer.
2. One Ultra Magnus looking barrel extension as seen with some 3D printed upgrade sets.
3. One half of a bomb?
4. One half of a bomb? Looks kind of like the Omnitrix when combined.
5. One CW Streetwise/Prowl looking triple barrel shotgun extension.
6. One TMNT Mutagen canister looking extension.
7. One kind of Brunt looking cannon barrel with extra pieces attached to it. This has a 5mm peg on the underside. Maybe it's the fifth blaster instead of the second standard Cog gun. But then what would the last barrel/component be?

They look like the original guns from the other figures but are different. Chromia's blaster doesn't have a 5mm port in front for instance. It normally has a 3mm post instead. Chromia's silencer has the small tab under it whereas this new one doesn't. Also, the Ultra Magnus blaster seems to be quite a bit smaller.

It would've been more interesting to me if those extra pieces where somehow designed to help facilitate combined forms between the Weaponizers/Modulators/Fossilizers. Sometimes all you need is a double ended 5mm port or peg piece or a port to peg to get everything to connect together better. If anything it would be nice if the Powerdashers could have something designed to get them an actual combined mode. Some of those pieces just don't like to play well with the others when combining them. I think it's Zetar's fault for having been made from a Decepticon mold. Maybe in a three pack reissue as some of them are difficult to get a hold of now.

Grahf_ wrote:I hope they don't bump Red Cog up a price class for those extra weapons.

He's a weapons accessory pack like Deluxe Centurion Drone and Tricranius.

Sabrblade wrote:

Grahf_ wrote:I hope they don't bump Red Cog up a price class for those extra weapons.

He's a weapons accessory pack like Deluxe Centurion Drone and Tricranius.

Damn.

Grahf_ wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Grahf_ wrote:I hope they don't bump Red Cog up a price class for those extra weapons.

He's a weapons accessory pack like Deluxe Centurion Drone and Tricranius.

Damn.

Now with even fewer weapons.

Grahf_ wrote:I hope they don't bump Red Cog up a price class for those extra weapons. I like three of each Weaponizer style or troopbuilder figure normally but in this case, I think I want more due to the extra weapons. Being priced as a voyager wouldn't be ideal.

It looks like the five blasters are:
1: One standard Cog gun.
2: One standard Cog gun? A second one wasn't shown in the pictures but can be presumed.
3: One Ultra Magnus looking gun.
4: One Chromia looking gun.
5: One Cyberverse Arcee looking gun.

The seven interchangeable barrels/components are:
1. One Chromia looking silencer.
2. One Ultra Magnus looking barrel extension as seen with some 3D printed upgrade sets.
3. One half of a bomb?
4. One half of a bomb? Looks kind of like the Omnitrix when combined.
5. One CW Streetwise/Prowl looking triple barrel shotgun extension.
6. One TMNT Mutagen canister looking extension.
7. One kind of Brunt looking cannon barrel with extra pieces attached to it. This has a 5mm peg on the underside. Maybe it's the fifth blaster instead of the second standard Cog gun. But then what would the last barrel/component be?

They look like the original guns from the other figures but are different. Chromia's blaster doesn't have a 5mm port in front for instance. It normally has a 3mm post instead. Chromia's silencer has the small tab under it whereas this new one doesn't. Also, the Ultra Magnus blaster seems to be quite a bit smaller.

It would've been more interesting to me if those extra pieces where somehow designed to help facilitate combined forms between the Weaponizers/Modulators/Fossilizers. Sometimes all you need is a double ended 5mm port or peg piece or a port to peg to get everything to connect together better. If anything it would be nice if the Powerdashers could have something designed to get them an actual combined mode. Some of those pieces just don't like to play well with the others when combining them. I think it's Zetar's fault for having been made from a Decepticon mold. Maybe in a three pack reissue as some of them are difficult to get a hold of now.

There's one gun that's meant to be used as a connector for Earthrise Arcee to wear a Cog weapon pack.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:There's one gun that's meant to be used as a connector for Earthrise Arcee to wear a Cog weapon pack.

Yep.

Don't know if anyone else mentioned this, but the big rifle for Red Cog looks like Elita 1's invented rifle from the show.

I will admit the photoshop job for the bomb halves on that third Cog picture looks outright hilarious!

SpaceEagle wrote:I will admit the photoshop job for the bomb halves on that third Cog picture looks outright hilarious!

That's a really strange thing to do, I guess someone forgot to take a picture of that and thought nobody would notice. They're clearly the exact same image copy and pasted on both sides and larger than they should be, the vehicle pic has them pegged in properly.

They really couldn't have come up with a better name than "Red Cog"? Feels lazy. I like the included weapons, though I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with all of them (Will pointed out what to do with one of them). At least he has a new head.

Not going to kill myself to get Dinobot and Terrorsaur, If they end up being hard to get then so be it.

Blackout is a must, though I still haven't opened Starscream and Ratchet yet...

Emerje

Emerje wrote:They really couldn't have come up with a better name than "Red Cog"?

This is the same Hasbro that gave us "Red Swoop".

But don't worry, he has a name. It's "Security Officer".

I think there's a missed opportunity of the Terrorsaur and Dinobot molds being used for a crossover with the new Jurassic World movie.

Emerje wrote:

SpaceEagle wrote:I will admit the photoshop job for the bomb halves on that third Cog picture looks outright hilarious!

That's a really strange thing to do, I guess someone forgot to take a picture of that and thought nobody would notice. They're clearly the exact same image copy and pasted on both sides and larger than they should be, the vehicle pic has them pegged in properly.

They really couldn't have come up with a better name than "Red Cog"? Feels lazy. I like the included weapons, though I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with all of them (Will pointed out what to do with one of them). At least he has a new head.

Emerje

I'm guessing after the photoshoot they saw the pictures and went "crap, we forgot to show the storage in robot mode!" then scrambled to photoshop them on there, hoping nobody would notice, lol.

Also new head? Looks like the same Cog head to me - I thought it'd be cool if they gave it a new head more resembling Cog's G1 toy than Cerebros's cartoon face.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I think there's a missed opportunity of the Terrorsaur and Dinobot molds being used for a crossover with the new Jurassic World movie.

Maybe the first set didn't sell well enough.

Is that Grimlock's head on the raw chicken colored Dinobot?

Rodimus Knight wrote:Is that Grimlock's head on the raw chicken colored Dinobot?

That it is. Although you could argue they gave Grimlock Dinobot's toy-accurate head and his head was a premold for this dinobot

Rodimus Knight wrote:Is that Grimlock's head on the raw chicken colored Dinobot?

Yes, Grimlock used the toy head while Dinobot originally used the animation head. And now Dinobot gets to have his toy head

....'nuff said!