More Transformers Combiner Wars Packaging Art by Christiansen & Matere

That’s Blast Off’s packaging art with Firefly’s head.

We have been betrayed.

MagicDeath wrote:That’s Blast Off’s packaging art with Firefly’s head.

We have been betrayed.

But... but... why?!

If Blast Off had used the Firefly head, he'd have been the first of only two straight redecos in general retail (next to Smokescreen, with Quickslinger as an exclusive instead); the rest all had switched out parts, I guess that played a slight part. Good to know that head was at least considered...

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

MagicDeath wrote:That’s Blast Off’s packaging art with Firefly’s head.

We have been betrayed.

But... but... why?!

If Blast Off had used the Firefly head, he'd have been the first of only two straight redecos in general retail (next to Smokescreen, with Quickslinger as an exclusive instead); the rest all had switched out parts, I guess that played a slight part. Good to know that head was at least considered...

How was Votex different from Alpha Bravo?

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

MagicDeath wrote:That’s Blast Off’s packaging art with Firefly’s head.

We have been betrayed.

But... but... why?!

If Blast Off had used the Firefly head, he'd have been the first of only two straight redecos in general retail (next to Smokescreen, with Quickslinger as an exclusive instead); the rest all had switched out parts, I guess that played a slight part. Good to know that head was at least considered...

How was Votex different from Alpha Bravo?

OK, first, shared with Votrex, of three. In my defense, I didn't consider Alpha Bravo because he isn't a Classic Aerialbot member.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In my defense, I didn't consider Alpha Bravo because he isn't a Classic Aerialbot member.

Its been 3 years, lets not start that again

I guess I just know that a lot of people would’ve preferred the Firefly head. The perfect one for Blast Off would’ve been Slingshot’s with a faceplate.

And let’s be honest, Alpha Bravo was a Vortex redeco.

By the by, the Galvatronus image was originally posted under "Maelstrom". What's up with that?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the by, the Galvatronus image was originally posted under "Maelstrom". What's up with that?

Preliminary name, perhaps?

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In my defense, I didn't consider Alpha Bravo because he isn't a Classic Aerialbot member.

Its been 3 years, lets not start that again

ALPHA BRAVO HAS BEEN HERE FOR THREE YEARS?!?!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the by, the Galvatronus image was originally posted under "Maelstrom". What's up with that?

It's a cool ass name though, better than Galvatronus

Can anyone find me the picture of all THREE Scattershot repaints?
Hasbro C.W. boxed set + Hasbro seperate C.W. Scattershot + Takara? TY!

Sjeng wrote:Can anyone find me the picture of all THREE Scattershot repaints?
Hasbro C.W. boxed set + Hasbro seperate C.W. Scattershot + Takara? TY!

In these galleries:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/generations-combiner-wars/scattershot/4188/1/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/unite-warriors/scattershot/4195/1/

From l to r: CW, CW Box Set, UW



From l to r: CW, UW, CW Box Set

The UW one features the toy-accurate retooling, while both CW ones keep the Silverbolt detailing.

I have both UW-08 and the CW Computron. Originally I felt there would never be a need to get the stand alone CW Scattershot release, until this:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Modulus

o.supreme wrote:I have both UW-08 and the CW Computron. Originally I felt there would never be a need to get the stand alone CW Scattershot release, until this:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Modulus

You have both a Medix and a Ratchet?!!!

william-james88 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I have both UW-08 and the CW Computron. Originally I felt there would never be a need to get the stand alone CW Scattershot release, until this:

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Modulus

You have both a Medix and a Ratchet?!!!

Uh...no... (Pssst...look at my wish list), a guy can dream though right?

O yeah, UW Scattershot comes with newly tooled weapons as well, instead of Silverbolt's gun.

I hope Hasbro sees fit to release the new toolings....

Sabrblade wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Can anyone find me the picture of all THREE Scattershot repaints?
Hasbro C.W. boxed set + Hasbro seperate C.W. Scattershot + Takara? TY!

In these galleries:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/generations-combiner-wars/scattershot/4188/1/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/unite-warriors/scattershot/4195/1/

I should have been more clear. I saw all those images, but strangely enough, NONE of them show all three in Torso mode... I want to see the differences in torso mode.

Sjeng wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Sjeng wrote:Can anyone find me the picture of all THREE Scattershot repaints?
Hasbro C.W. boxed set + Hasbro seperate C.W. Scattershot + Takara? TY!

In these galleries:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/generations-combiner-wars/scattershot/4188/1/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/unite-warriors/scattershot/4195/1/

I should have been more clear. I saw all those images, but strangely enough, NONE of them show all three in Torso mode... I want to see the differences in torso mode.

Does this help? The one on the right is wearing the Perfect Effect add-on kit, which replaced the head and chest pieces, but should otherwise be a good comparison. First image shows PE Kit without faceplate, second with. The original head is on the ground in front of him.



Now, if you want me to tell you which is which...I'm not sure....

I wiah they hadn't included the PE kit, but thanks!

Left is the Takara UW one, middle is the seperately sold C.W. Scattershot, right must be the Hasbro Computron boxed set Scattershot.

This does make me happy I got the UW set. I saw the middle one for sale for €10,- locally, and wondered if he was different enough to grab. He seems to have the Superion head, and is sometimes used to form Betatron. Meh. Not sure. He may be nice to combine with random deluxes, such as Jazz. We'll see what PotP further brings us.

Sjeng wrote:I wiah they hadn't included the PE kit, but thanks!

Here`s another then

Sjeng wrote:I wiah they hadn't included the PE kit, but thanks!

That was me...

I had posted that a long time ago in the 3P thread to show off the kit. It was the only pic I had from back then. (Dern Photobucket... )

Thanks guys! That helps. imo the seperate C.W. Scattershot is the least interesting one. He resembles Superion too much. At least the boxed set one has nice stickers on the shield and a coloured head, even though it's still the Superion sculpt.

Yeah, until Fun Pub came up with Modulus, I had no interest in the Hasbro retail CW Scattershot because of how "wrong" he looked compared to the other two versions.

But since Modulus would be considered an all new combiner with his own look, the retail one now has that appeal to me.

Though, since I don't own a Medix, whenever I get around to making my own Modulus, I'm gonna replace the absent Medix with a second stickered version of TFSS Bluestreak (my first, non-stickered one will stay with Wreckage).

Okay, holy shelfwarmers, or more likely holy warehouse warmers. Anyone who missed out on any CW limbs might want to check out your local TRU. Today I saw 1 each of CW Offroad, Sunstreaker, Prowl and Ironhide.

I hunt that store often and can definitely say these have not been on the shelf for the past 8 months and only appeared recently. No idea if these were from lost cases in the distribution warehouse or in this particular TRU store, but all 4 packages were in great condition, meaning they definitely have not been hanging on pegs for all this time.

And the double shocker was that they were only priced for $6.97. TRU is notoriously late to clearance TF's in my experience, and were selling CW lmibs for about $22-$24 during TR. I'm considering picking them up for future ebay selling, but I already have too much TF stuff in my basement.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay, holy shelfwarmers, or more likely holy warehouse warmers. Anyone who missed out on any CW limbs might want to check out your local TRU. Today I saw 1 each of CW Offroad, Sunstreaker, Prowl and Ironhide.

I hunt that store often and can definitely say these have not been on the shelf for the past 8 months and only appeared recently. No idea if these were from lost cases in the distribution warehouse or in this particular TRU store, but all 4 packages were in great condition, meaning they definitely have not been hanging on pegs for all this time.

And the double shocker was that they were only priced for $6.97. TRU is notoriously late to clearance TF's in my experience, and were selling CW lmibs for about $22-$24 during TR. I'm considering picking them up for future ebay selling, but I already have too much TF stuff in my basement.

Canada or US? I needs me some Stunticons and Combaticons.

It's probably a one off, but there are probably a few stores out there. I know of a specialty toy-store in my local mall that still have a Voyager Onslaught. Its been there for a long time...and priced at $30, I doubt it will be going anywhere, anytime soon.

I saw a Leader Armada Megatorn in the fall when I visited a wal mart in Utah last september

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay, holy shelfwarmers, or more likely holy warehouse warmers. Anyone who missed out on any CW limbs might want to check out your local TRU. Today I saw 1 each of CW Offroad, Sunstreaker, Prowl and Ironhide.

I hunt that store often and can definitely say these have not been on the shelf for the past 8 months and only appeared recently. No idea if these were from lost cases in the distribution warehouse or in this particular TRU store, but all 4 packages were in great condition, meaning they definitely have not been hanging on pegs for all this time.

And the double shocker was that they were only priced for $6.97. TRU is notoriously late to clearance TF's in my experience, and were selling CW lmibs for about $22-$24 during TR. I'm considering picking them up for future ebay selling, but I already have too much TF stuff in my basement.

Canada or US? I needs me some Stunticons and Combaticons.

US, Chicago area to be precise.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay, holy shelfwarmers, or more likely holy warehouse warmers. Anyone who missed out on any CW limbs might want to check out your local TRU. Today I saw 1 each of CW Offroad, Sunstreaker, Prowl and Ironhide.

I hunt that store often and can definitely say these have not been on the shelf for the past 8 months and only appeared recently. No idea if these were from lost cases in the distribution warehouse or in this particular TRU store, but all 4 packages were in great condition, meaning they definitely have not been hanging on pegs for all this time.

And the double shocker was that they were only priced for $6.97. TRU is notoriously late to clearance TF's in my experience, and were selling CW lmibs for about $22-$24 during TR. I'm considering picking them up for future ebay selling, but I already have too much TF stuff in my basement.

Canada or US? I needs me some Stunticons and Combaticons.

US, Chicago area to be precise.

Final question: comic or card?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay, holy shelfwarmers, or more likely holy warehouse warmers. Anyone who missed out on any CW limbs might want to check out your local TRU. Today I saw 1 each of CW Offroad, Sunstreaker, Prowl and Ironhide.

I hunt that store often and can definitely say these have not been on the shelf for the past 8 months and only appeared recently. No idea if these were from lost cases in the distribution warehouse or in this particular TRU store, but all 4 packages were in great condition, meaning they definitely have not been hanging on pegs for all this time.

And the double shocker was that they were only priced for $6.97. TRU is notoriously late to clearance TF's in my experience, and were selling CW lmibs for about $22-$24 during TR. I'm considering picking them up for future ebay selling, but I already have too much TF stuff in my basement.

Canada or US? I needs me some Stunticons and Combaticons.

US, Chicago area to be precise.

Final question: comic or card?

Comic

We have some more image from packaging art linework, courtesy of regular IDW and Hasbro artist Marcelo Matere and his Facebook page, focusing predominantly on the first part of the Prime Wars Trilogy: Combiner Wars!

The images mirrored below feature an assortment of combiners - plus the odd one out in Armada Megatron, the leader class retool of regular Megatron in a later wave, and a callback to Matere's first work in Transformers apparently - including the likes of Autobots Sky Lynx and the newly combiner form Sky Reign, plus Stunticon gestalt Menasor. Check it all out below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

The art of Armada Megatron looks a lot better than the actual figure. The tiny head just kills it for me. You gotta emphasise those glorious horns!

Huh, the Combiners' sketches contain a few things that are interesting to note:

- Sky Reign aka Lynx King already has Smokescreen instead of Ratchet at this stage. Either Smokescreen is not a "replacement member", or including Ratchet was a TakaraTomy idea.
- Blackjack seems to be missing his shield/axe.
- Mismatched HFG's on both giants, and Menasor has his limbs in a different configuration.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Sky Reign aka Lynx King already has Smokescreen instead of Ratchet at this stage. Either Smokescreen is not a "replacement member", or including Ratchet was a TakaraTomy idea.

I thought the latter was a given when we first learned that Fun Pub did Ratchet for BotCon 2016 because Hasbro told them to release Ratchet for that con since Hasbro themselves weren't going to release the Ratchet tooling otherwise.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Sky Reign aka Lynx King already has Smokescreen instead of Ratchet at this stage. Either Smokescreen is not a "replacement member", or including Ratchet was a TakaraTomy idea.

I thought the latter was a given when we first learned that Fun Pub did Ratchet for BotCon 2016 because Hasbro told them to release Ratchet for that con since Hasbro themselves weren't going to release the Ratchet tooling otherwise.

Doesn't mean they were at least considering it, given it was already built-in.

Oh how it warms my heart to still see line art used to produce finished artwork for modern-day toy packaging. I'd seriously buy a book of this stuff.

We have some more art updates for those of you interested in what type of work goes into toy packaging, and this time we're combining (heh) posts on Facebook from two artists: Marcelo Matere and Ken Christiansen! Now that both have received permission from Hasbro to show the lineart, there's pretty much a steady stream of Transformers Combiner Wars designs coming through on their feeds - and the latest are below.

From Matere, we have Computron, G2 Superion (with an added Cybertron behind him), and the poster that came with Menasor and the Stunticons G2 box set. From Christiansen, on the other hand, we have Technobot leader Scattershot, plus Decepticon Cyclonus and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus). Check them all out!

From Matere, we have Computron, G2 Computron (with an added Cybertron behind him), and the poster that came with Menasor and the Stunticons G2 box set. From Christiansen, on the other hand, we have Technobot leader Scattershot, plus Decepticon Cyclonus and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus). Check them all out!

Quick! Someone alert Tfwiki that G2 Computron would have traded in all of his normal alt modes for jets!

Lore Keeper wrote:

From Matere, we have Computron, G2 Computron (with an added Cybertron behind him), and the poster that came with Menasor and the Stunticons G2 box set. From Christiansen, on the other hand, we have Technobot leader Scattershot, plus Decepticon Cyclonus and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus). Check them all out!

Quick! Someone alert Tfwiki that G2 Computron would have traded in all of his normal alt modes for jets!

Computron. Superion. Who's really keeping track?

Emerje

Va'al wrote:and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus).

And totally not wearing Star Convoy's pointy hat.

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus).

And totally not wearing Star Convoy's pointy hat.

And totally not a Monopoly piece.



No, but seriously, why would Hasbro choose that over a Monopoly piece of vanilla Optimus?

Emerje

Something odd about the Superion (cut him some slack, guys) and Menasor art: the Menasor one was indeed used for the poster in regular colors, and it uses Offroad instead of Wildrider, while Superion's was used for the box art and card instead.

Emerje wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:

From Matere, we have Computron, G2 Computron (with an added Cybertron behind him), and the poster that came with Menasor and the Stunticons G2 box set. From Christiansen, on the other hand, we have Technobot leader Scattershot, plus Decepticon Cyclonus and the CW creation of Battle Core Optimus Prime (who is totally not an inner Magnus). Check them all out!

Quick! Someone alert Tfwiki that G2 Computron would have traded in all of his normal alt modes for jets!

Computron. Superion. Who's really keeping track?

Emerje

All Transformers are cars anyway.

(Edited, thanks!)

Battle core Prime reminds me of Nova Prime more then anyone else really.

While we’re here, is there a way to make Sky Lynx’s head secure in torso mode?

MagicDeath wrote:While we’re here, is there a way to make Sky Lynx’s head secure in torso mode?

You mean the shuttle nose/"beast" head? I don't think so. I just let it swing like the tail of a happy little kitten.

I cant recall if The instructions say to have it up or down however, while its not tabbed/locked into a position, it does stay fairly stable in either position.

Thanks once again to Ken Christiansen's Facebook page, we have a look at some cool line art he did for the SDCC 2015 Combiner Hunters box set of Chromia, Arcee and Windblade. While not responsible for the toys' decos, Ken did get to draw all three fembots for their box art, and the series of images below and on his page shows them off, and also gives us a glimpse at their full body poses that were cropped for the final product, as well as something of the challenge he had in drawing three separate figures as well as making all three drawings look natural as a group.

Back view of the SDCC Combiner Hunters box...the trick to these was that I needed to fit all three into a closeup shot for the front, and still not have them floating, or standing on each other's feet when you pull back to see the full figures.

This is a pretty cool glimpse into what goes into making the art for toy packaging. Let us know what you think below!

very pretty art

That is some gorgeous art. A shame that the attention paid to the body detail was not also paid to giving Optimus/Motormaster's torso mode secure shoulder sockets (bigger tabs or better yet mushroom pegs would make all the difference in the world. That's all it would take.)

Gods I'm hoping the CW limbs get reissued. Also Optimus Prime.