More Transformers Power of the Primes #Hascon Teasers

Or it could be Rippersnapper!


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Va'al wrote:We have yet another teaser via the official Hasbro Transformers social media channels, for toys to be revealed or announced at Hascon from tomorrow until Sunday - check out the image mirrored below, showing yet another Dinobot, and what looks to be Beachcomber!

That is definitely Rippersnapper.

Emerje wrote:Just by them now seemingly covering all of the combiner pegs in bot mode is enough to rekindle my interest in CW. Imagine how awesome Prowl, Smokescreen, and Bluestreak would have been if they had shared engineering with Jazz instead of Dead End.

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That could go either way. Prowl and his mold mates, along with Dead End and his mold mates all had their pegs covered in bot mode by the fake car hood chest. What made most people tire of those molds was the 10-20 uses between CW, UW and funpub. I suspect if they were all based off the Jazz mode instead, there would still be some apathy toward the Jazz mode then. Basically give us 6+ uses of the same mold, and people will get tired of it.

I think the key is limiting the re-uses of any mold with only a head and deco swap, in favor of more shared engineering and minor retooling.

I think the Dinobot is Slug/Slag.

Dinobot is definitely Snarl, it has spikes on it's tail.

im either thinking that moonracer will be a dragstrip retool

steals_your_goats wrote:Dinobot is definitely Snarl, it has spikes on it's tail.

Nope, take a look at the images avaiable for both Snarl and Slag. The feet and tail match Slag. There are no Pentagon shaped spikes on the tail to match the Stegosaurus design of Snarl. Plus the overall coloring is a match to Slag for the leg. Note that Snarl has gold feet, and Slag has Gray feet.

And the right side of the image is definitely of Rippersnapper as well. The leg design and color matches Rippersnapper's toy. Plus, Hasbro has yet to show off a toy that they previously officially revealed as part of the teasers. They would have just shown the whole picture of Beachcomber.

Yeah, I got the blue and white mixed up, and only spotted the blue leg hanging off the leg later - thanks for the pointer, everyone!

steals_your_goats wrote:Dinobot is definitely Snarl, it has spikes on it's tail.

Yeah, but they're the wrong shape and there's no thagomizer.

You're overthinking the tail. It's not Snarl because there's no thagomizer.

[EDIT]: Dangit, a minute too late.

I'm just wondering, does it really matter that we are right on who exactly is in these preview images? We know the terrorcons, dinobots and fembots will be present at the con tomorrow.

william-james88 wrote:I'm just wondering, does it really matter that we are right on who exactly is in these preview images? We know the terrorcons, dinobots and fembots will be present at the con tomorrow.

Not necessarily, but (to quote Springer) believe it or not, this is the fun part. I, for one, am enjoying analyzing the details of the individual bots teaser reveals to figure out which one it is, and to put my two cents in.

The sparks coming off of the feet make me wonder if it's someone else entirely

I doubt it's Fizzle, even though the leg and chest kinda look like his. The blue part on the lower leg seems to point to Rippersnapper. And that Dinobot is definitely Slag, the spikes are way too small to be Snarl's. Unless Hasbro filed them down due to safety/engineering reasons.

Personally, I would love to see a retool of that Power of the Primes Starscream into a proper LeoZack. Heck even throw in a Hound/Swindle recolor as Jaruga. Though I doubt they would show that this weekend...

If I know my dinobots by parts, that new pictures would be Slag (or Slug or whatever they call him now) on the Left...

william-james88 wrote:I'm just wondering, does it really matter that we are right on who exactly is in these preview images? We know the terrorcons, dinobots and fembots will be present at the con tomorrow.

I swear, I don't mean this the way I'm worried it may come across, especially to you, Will. But I'm not sure what the issue of this kind of speculation is. If, in the case of the Titan Predaking mock up from the weekend, we're supposed to be glad that Hasbro is "trusting" us or whatever with peeks at what's coming soon, why should we not be feeling more or less the same with these images? If we're talking about arguing which Dinobot this foot and tail belongs to, I can totally agree that it's mostly pointless, since you're right, we do know that we're getting Dinobots, and we can reasonably surmise that we'll see them over the weekend. But don't we know we're getting Dinobots either from that Powerpoint of images from the summer that was pulled from the boards because Hasbro was upset that it leaked, or from the 4chan leak that was decried as fake because Hasbro hadn't confirmed the info? So basically, through a combo of leaks that we're supposed to reject or accept based mostly on brand loyalty, we know that these images are of the DinobotS, as in not just a Grimlock or a Slag, but the whole team. We heard about Titan Predaking through the 4chan leak, and got a picture last weekend. We heard about Dinos and Terrorcons through both leaks, and now are getting official teaser images of them.

So, what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to get hyped at leaked news, or disregard it and wait for the official news that, when it leaks out like these images, we are then not serving any purpose in speculating over? While I realize it's fun to guess Dinobot feet, I don't care enough to join in, because I know we're getting Dinobots, because that 4chan leak told us that. At least the Terrorcons all look different, and we're not just counting toes or looking for thagomizers, a word I only know because of Dinobots. I'm finding the Terrorcon images exciting, because they seem like they're going to look like the Terrorcons, and not just some rando monster things called Terrorcons, the way the AoE Dinobots ended up being not really the kind of Dinobots that I had interest in.

I mean, we're fans. You know how fans are. A half second image of a finger in a movie trailer and we're off to the races trying to identify who it belongs to. There's no real harm in it, especially when we already know what's coming, again, from the 4chan leak and that Powerpoint.

But that's totally Rippersnapper. No way it's Fizzle.

Also, partly because that leak was pulled so quickly and partly because not every fan follows every single leak; this is news to a fair amount of people. Probably not a majority of our posters, but still to some of them.

william-james88 wrote:I'm just wondering, does it really matter that we are right on who exactly is in these preview images? We know the terrorcons, dinobots and fembots will be present at the con tomorrow.

I'm reminded of the bit about baseball in Blast from the Past.

"Because he must!"

I'm already seeing Air Raid in Rippersnapper and I'm assuming Sludge and Hungurr will be retools of each other. Gah, Hasbro's becoming more and more predictable.