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In Package Pictures of Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Battle Masters Including Blowpipe

Posted by ZeroWolf Sep 15, 2018 at 5:20pm CDT 23,395 views
Ready! Aim! Fire! Thanks to toy wholesaler website NDA-Toys, we now have in-package pictures of the Battle Master class from the forthcoming Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege toyline. Nestled within these pictures though is a bigger surprise, Decepticon Blowpipe! This marks the first Decepticon we have seen for this line. Like his fellow Battle Masters, he transforms into a weapon (in his case a gun) and comes with a yellow blast effect. Together with Firedrive and Lionizer, the three are the first wave of Battle Masters. We have mirrored the in-package pictures for your convenience below.

Transformers News: In Package Pictures of Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Battle Masters Including Blowpipe

Transformers News: In Package Pictures of Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Battle Masters Including Blowpipe

Transformers News: In Package Pictures of Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Battle Masters Including Blowpipe

If you would like to see more pictures of Firedrive and Lionizer then please click here.

What do you think of the first Decepticon for the Siege line? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

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Comment by Sentinel_Primal Sep 15, 2018
It's nice seeing more pictures of the Targetmasters, but I'm still only planning to pick up Lionizer. It's nice to see that Hasbro is releasing the Targetmasters that go with the Targetmasters from Titans Return
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Comment by AcademyofDrX Sep 15, 2018
Disappointed that Blowpipe only comes with one Fire Blast. Based on the SDCC promotion, they're not just a fun play feature, they can also be used for dynamic displays. If they don't repeat the same fire blast effects in future waves, I may have to pick up some doubles.

The effect from Blowpipe looks like it will work well for targets, rather than the weapons. Ironhide and Sideswipe both have pegs on their torsos that would make it appear that they had been shot when Bliwpipe's Fire Blast is applied.
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Comment by Skritz Sep 15, 2018
Well it is indeed quite nice to see we are getting the partners for the Targetmasters two toylines later. Better late than never, I suppose! And it's quite neat because Triggerhappy was my favorite deluxe from TR. :-D
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Sep 15, 2018
I am so happy the little guys are awesome, I will be picking up lots of them!
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Comment by What's Crackin'? Sep 15, 2018
These are some of the coolest boxes I've ever seen for Transformers. I love the G1 boxes, but holy crap are these awesome.
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Comment by ZeldaTheSwordsman Sep 15, 2018
I kinda wish Ultra Magnus' altmode was more G1, and I wonder how hard it would be to mod him to make that happen. But he's still "Shut up and take my money!" The one real complaint I have about him is the gun. Not the color (I kinda expected this might happen. Do bear in mind the toyfair displays are generally handpainted samples), but the fact that it isn't dual-pegged like the original so that it can be held differently by the cab robot. It has a faux-handle on top, but that's about as useful as the decorative handle on the G1 Optimus Prime toy's gun.

Looking forward to Sideswipe because Universe Sideswipe is rarespensive on eBay.

Also looking forward to Cog, going to be nice to have him to go with Fort Max.

Optimus is cool and desirable and is kinda making me wish I hadn't splurged on CW Optimus when I finally found a tolerable price.

Firedrive.., I'm half-hoping he'll get pushed back to a later wave so that they can fix him because they completely screwed up his weapon mode because they were looking at the stupid also-botched Legends toy instead of how he's supposed to look. :-x But it's probably more realistic to hope that correcting him by modding won't be too difficult....
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Comment by Sabrblade Sep 15, 2018
"Transformers: Siege - War for Cybertron Trilogy"
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Comment by ZeroWolf Sep 16, 2018
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I kinda wish Ultra Magnus' altmode was more G1, and I wonder how hard it would be to mod him to make that happen. But he's still "Shut up and take my money!" The one real complaint I have about him is the gun. Not the color (I kinda expected this might happen. Do bear in mind the toyfair displays are generally handpainted samples), but the fact that it isn't dual-pegged like the original so that it can be held differently by the cab robot. It has a faux-handle on top, but that's about as useful as the decorative handle on the G1 Optimus Prime toy's gun.

Looking forward to Sideswipe because Universe Sideswipe is rarespensive on eBay.

Also looking forward to Cog, going to be nice to have him to go with Fort Max.

Optimus is cool and desirable and is kinda making me wish I hadn't splurged on CW Optimus when I finally found a tolerable price.

Firedrive.., I'm half-hoping he'll get pushed back to a later wave so that they can fix him because they completely screwed up his weapon mode because they were looking at the stupid also-botched Legends toy instead of how he's supposed to look. :-x But it's probably more realistic to hope that correcting him by modding won't be too difficult....

Whats wrong with Firedrive exactly? He looks pretty good to me :D
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Comment by ZeldaTheSwordsman Sep 16, 2018
ZeroWolf wrote:
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I kinda wish Ultra Magnus' altmode was more G1, and I wonder how hard it would be to mod him to make that happen. But he's still "Shut up and take my money!" The one real complaint I have about him is the gun. Not the color (I kinda expected this might happen. Do bear in mind the toyfair displays are generally handpainted samples), but the fact that it isn't dual-pegged like the original so that it can be held differently by the cab robot. It has a faux-handle on top, but that's about as useful as the decorative handle on the G1 Optimus Prime toy's gun.

Looking forward to Sideswipe because Universe Sideswipe is rarespensive on eBay.

Also looking forward to Cog, going to be nice to have him to go with Fort Max.

Optimus is cool and desirable and is kinda making me wish I hadn't splurged on CW Optimus when I finally found a tolerable price.

Firedrive.., I'm half-hoping he'll get pushed back to a later wave so that they can fix him because they completely screwed up his weapon mode because they were looking at the stupid also-botched Legends toy instead of how he's supposed to look. :-x But it's probably more realistic to hope that correcting him by modding won't be too difficult....

Whats wrong with Firedrive exactly? He looks pretty good to me :D

His weapon mode is all wrong because of where the barrels end up. On the original Firebolt, the barrels were attached to the back of the legs:
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And the weapon mode looked liked this:
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Compared to that, the Siege version has been turned around backwards and then had the barrels sawn off and remounted behind the head.
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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Sep 16, 2018
Interesting that the Hasbro packaging features full ID codes:

Firedrive: WFC-S1
Lionizer: WFC-S2
Blowpipe: WFC-S3

Note: they are NOT the TakaraTomy codes, nor do they line up in number.
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Comment by datguy86 Sep 16, 2018
Apparently new factions too? Unless that was pointed out. Right above the names.
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Comment by fenrir72 Sep 16, 2018
datguy86 wrote:Apparently new factions too? Unless that was pointed out. Right above the names.


"Battlemasters" because the word "targetmasters" is too gun specific. Battlemasters can be a generic "weapon" designation.
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Comment by datguy86 Sep 16, 2018
Blowpipe's is different from the others, which made me curious. Thanks for the heads up though.
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Comment by Skritz Sep 16, 2018
datguy86 wrote:Blowpipe's is different from the others, which made me curious. Thanks for the heads up though.


I think the :BOT: and :CON: battlemasters have their own logo.
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Comment by ZeroWolf Sep 17, 2018
Actually they are part of the established factions, they are just before the name... And in blowpipes case because of the angle you can't make out the con sigil but you can make out the con purple (god bless hasbro for colour coding the factions)
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Comment by Emerje Sep 17, 2018
I wonder if instead of a faction symbol that could be a symbol that indicates what part of Cybertron they're from? Firedrive and Lionizer could be Iacon (usually represented as domes and towers) while Blowpipe is Kaon (usually a large pit or pool with something sticking out of the middle). We'll have a better idea when we see more packaging and what type of images show up next to the names.

Emerje
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Comment by Sabrblade Sep 17, 2018
ZeroWolf wrote:Actually they are part of the established factions, they are just before the name... And in blowpipes case because of the angle you can't make out the con sigil but you can make out the con purple (god bless hasbro for colour coding the factions)
They mean the new symbols above the names, not the :BOT: / :CON: ones below the names.
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Comment by ZeroWolf Sep 17, 2018
Emerje wrote:I wonder if instead of a faction symbol that could be a symbol that indicates what part of Cybertron they're from? Firedrive and Lionizer could be Iacon (usually represented as domes and towers) while Blowpipe is Kaon (usually a large pit or pool with something sticking out of the middle). We'll have a better idea when we see more packaging and what type of images show up next to the names.

Emerje

That's a nice theory, and would be quite cool if true
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Comment by chuckdawg1999 Sep 19, 2018
I just had a thought, Hasbro had said that figures won't have gimmicks unless the original toy had one. Targetmaster didn't exist until long after Cybertronians came to earth, so these figures are out of place, no?
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