Listing Found for Next Transformers Collaborative Project Figure

Intriguing. I have the feeling it won’t be Star Wars, since we’ve already gotten so many crossovers in that area. Starship Troopers would be interesting. No vehicles from that franchise immediately jump out as popular/iconic, but perhaps a Bug-former?

I forget what the code was for the Jurassic Park set (was it just "Jurassic"?), but knowing Hasbro's love for codes then "troop" can be anything as on the nose as a Stormtrooper (or a Darktrooper droid!) or as less obvious as Robocop's car (police trooper). Can't wait to see where they go with this.

Emerje

autobot00 wrote:I dont know why they haven't decided to do G.I. Joe, its not hard to do. They got the molds for it and I made it work.

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Technically... G.I. Joe Transformers do exist. The first one that comes to mind is/was Energon Snowcat, who was based off the G.I. Joe vehicle of the same name. Then there is also Viper from Combiner Wars, who even sports a hybrid Cobra/Decepticon logo. He was based off and inspired by the G.I. Joe vehicle 'Rattler'. Then the third is Serpent O.R. who is based off the G.I. Joe villain 'Serpentor'.

I believe these are the only three, I do not recall any other G.I. Joe inspired Transformers that have been released. At least ones that can Transform.

USCM TROOP carriER?

MaximalNui wrote:Of all the possible franchises, which ones have a milestone anniversary or a future release coming up. Because I might be wrong, but I think the Collaborative usually tends to match one of those, so it might narrow down our guesses.

You're not wrong. The pattern has been a bit skewed by delays and such (e..g., Top Gun and X-Men '97), but the intention to tie-in to something like that has generally been clear.

Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" was released in 1983, so we're near 40th anniversary.

The film adaptation of Starship Troopers was 1997, so we're at the 25th anniversary.

Aliens was 1986, so we're really not near a sensible time for that, unless they tie marketing into the Alien series that's supposedly coming out.

MaximalNui wrote:And Star Wars has made it a habit of premiering something almost every year, so it's a constant possibility.

I'd dismiss the Iron Maiden one since it's a music label, but then I remember J. Balvintron exists.

Iron Maiden wouldn't have occurred to me, but we actually got Heroclix based on their songs some years ago. It didn't make any sense, but they did it anyway, so...

Grahf_ wrote:From out of nowhere it's going to be a VR Troopers crossover.

TROOPER TRANSFORM!!!!

I wonder how Toei will feel about that, licensing 3 shows at the same time

I’m calling it now; it’s based on the band Trooper and transforms into a drumkit and features soundbites of “Raise a Little Hell.”

Unless that AF just means "Action Figure"... I'm leaning towards G.I. Joe

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is that in US dollars? If yes, I expect something big like the Jurassic Park set.

But if the current inflation trend keeps going, I bet it's just a "voyager +" with an absurd marks-up and Canadians will be priced 200$ for it because reasons.

The Jurassic Park set was $104 USD if I remember right. It's probably pointless to read too much into the prices since they're so inconsistent. Deluxe Draculus was $32, Maverick was $50 and Leader Ultimate Ex-Panse was nearly $70 so this price doesn't match a single Leader or a Leader/Deluxe two pack like the JP set. A Deluxe and a Voyager with a little padding from inflation would equal $90.


Emerje

No matter what, Canadians will still get screwed in the end by being charged around 50% more than Americans. It will be the "waiting for clearance" game or "import it from Amazon.jp" when on sale.

I got my Draculus and JP set at the same normal American price with no shipping costs because they where on clearance. As for the Maverick, I imported it form Japan for only 3300JPY (plus shipping but I ordered other things to go with it.)

There's no point for me to ever preorder a X-Over toy. It will be so overpriced that only some few hardcores will buy. There will still be plenty of stock to go on sale and clearance down the line.

Now if only the Afterlife Ectotron could go down at being 60$can like the first version... It will be hard because Toys R Us kept increasing it's price to absurd level and is now a whopping 110$can! If they ever make a sale, I bet it will only go back to the initial 80$can and no less.