New Galleries: Transformers Titans Return Titanmasters; Apeface, Brawn, Skytread, and Clobber

Apeface...I should be angry about how they turned Apeface into a glorified accessory...but I'm not. He looks legitimately cool. Well done Hasbro. Well done.

Skytread is using the quad-tank mold so I naturally love him, and the colours look great. That said I would have preferred an Armada Demolisher homage out of that mold (complete with Demolisher nogginmaster) but Flywheels is cool too.

Clobber looks cool. That said, I'd only buy him if I had Crashbash too so I could swap the purple parts onto the yellow body and have a Cindersaur. I have seen a picture of it done on 4chan but alas I didn't save it like the ninny I am.

Brawn has a nice facesculpt (albeit one ruined by the blocky rear of his head). That's it. The Headmaster mode doesn't really work because of the afforementioned blockiness, and the vehicle thing...what the hell? The tracked jeep mode is cool but the alternate mode is...well, let's say William James is gonna need to revise his incomprehensible alt modes list. What is that? A train? A snowmobile? A boat?

One complaint I have with all of these is the unpainted faces on the Headmaster robot modes. Yes yes, budget blah blah blah, but it still seems kinda cheap and lazy. We got painted faces on bloody Mini-Cons from Armada, and their faces were miniscule (and occasionally inhuman). Come on, Hasbro.

Delta Magnus wrote:One complaint I have with all of these is the unpainted faces on the Headmaster robot modes. Yes yes, budget blah blah blah, but it still seems kinda cheap and lazy. We got painted faces on bloody Mini-Cons from Armada, and their faces were miniscule (and occasionally inhuman). Come on, Hasbro.

Might be because the friction from slotting the Titan Master in would scrape the paint off. Then again, it didn't stop them from painting Twincast and Infinitus's heads.

Well, those Brawn -with- Brawn faceswaps are nightmarish.

Still need to decide on Horri-Bull or Flywheels. I like the colors on one but the Headmaster face on the other...

Delta Magnus wrote:Brawn has a nice facesculpt (albeit one ruined by the blocky rear of his head). That's it. The Headmaster mode doesn't really work because of the afforementioned blockiness, and the vehicle thing...what the hell? The tracked jeep mode is cool but the alternate mode is...well, let's say William James is gonna need to revise his incomprehensible alt modes list. What is that? A train? A snowmobile? A boat?

It's a gun.

I love how they gave the titan master Brawn's old toy face. It's clever.

Delta Magnus wrote:One complaint I have with all of these is the unpainted faces on the Headmaster robot modes. Yes yes, budget blah blah blah, but it still seems kinda cheap and lazy. We got painted faces on bloody Mini-Cons from Armada, and their faces were miniscule (and occasionally inhuman). Come on, Hasbro.

Not every Armada Mini-Con had their face painted.

And you're also talking about a line whose figures were predominately barely-articulated bricks with much more simplistic engineering overall.

Delta Magnus wrote:
One complaint I have with all of these is the unpainted faces on the Headmaster robot modes. Yes yes, budget blah blah blah, but it still seems kinda cheap and lazy. We got painted faces on bloody Mini-Cons from Armada, and their faces were miniscule (and occasionally inhuman). Come on, Hasbro.

That was years ago when paint was not an issue and when most molds were really simply and lacked articulation.



It only started to get really good with the Cybertron toys (Hardtop will always be my fave action figure ever)

Sabrblade wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:One complaint I have with all of these is the unpainted faces on the Headmaster robot modes. Yes yes, budget blah blah blah, but it still seems kinda cheap and lazy. We got painted faces on bloody Mini-Cons from Armada, and their faces were miniscule (and occasionally inhuman). Come on, Hasbro.

Not every Armada Mini-Con had their face painted.

Fair enough, though the Mini-con range was quite diverse in terms of engineering and molding. Save for the molded detail, every Headmaster in the TR line is engineered exactly the same.

And you're also talking about a line whose figures were predominately barely-articulated bricks with much more simplistic engineering overall.

I said Armada, not RID 2015.

In seriousness though, whilst I do agree that on the whole the engineering of Armada was a step backwards, aesthetically a lot of them were pretty good- very little hollowness, thick plastic, nice character designs and lots of paint. Armada was hardly the high point of toy design but it wasn't the absolute nadir either. I'd argue that the Generations FoC line wins the "crappiest line overall" award with its reduced parts count and appallingly bad plastic, whilst RID 2015 takes a comfortable second place- hollow parts everywhere, very little paint, and the bricks of the line- one steps and the like- aren't even particularly successful as bricks go. They aren't particularly sturdy and they look like arse. Whilst Armada largely consisted of bricks, they were nearly all very tough and with a few exceptions they were at the very least nice LOOKING bricks, with impressive sculpts and fairly lavish paint schemes.

Maybe I'm just overly nostalgic towards it due to childhood-toyline syndrome though.

Microraptor wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Brawn has a nice facesculpt (albeit one ruined by the blocky rear of his head). That's it. The Headmaster mode doesn't really work because of the afforementioned blockiness, and the vehicle thing...what the hell? The tracked jeep mode is cool but the alternate mode is...well, let's say William James is gonna need to revise his incomprehensible alt modes list. What is that? A train? A snowmobile? A boat?

It's a gun.

It's not a gun, the gun mode is shown in Hardhead's hand (with the back portion folded in). All of these things have land, air, and weapon modes so the long thing would be an air mode like a speeder bike or something.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Microraptor wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:Brawn has a nice facesculpt (albeit one ruined by the blocky rear of his head). That's it. The Headmaster mode doesn't really work because of the afforementioned blockiness, and the vehicle thing...what the hell? The tracked jeep mode is cool but the alternate mode is...well, let's say William James is gonna need to revise his incomprehensible alt modes list. What is that? A train? A snowmobile? A boat?

It's a gun.

It's not a gun, the gun mode is shown in Hardhead's hand (with the back portion folded in). All of these things have land, air, and weapon modes so the long thing would be an air mode like a speeder bike or something.

Emerje

Yeah, a speeder bike of some type. Something between Rey's Speeder from Force Awakens and The Dark Knights Bat Pod without wheels. In green.

If you look closely you can just make out landing skids on the bottom of the front part.

Gotta say--Sentinel Prime's body + Skytread in head mode = A pretty good Autobot version of Astrotrain.

Gah, I need those titan masters!

It may still be Sunday, but we're getting a head start on the working week here at Seibertron.com, with our new addition to the numerous toy galleries on our site! Coinciding with the release of IDW Publishing's The Transformers #56 (out this Wednesday), we present you the voyager class Titans Return triple changing figure for Alpha Trion, along with its (space)ship mode, lion mode, robot mode and Titan Master Sovereign. As an added bonus, and for the purpose of comparisons, site owner Seibertron is also having some fun with older versions of the character - click on any of the images below to find out more in the galleries!

Titans Return Alpha Trion (151 images) - Voyager Class














Titans Return Sovereign (32 images) - Titan Masters, Voyager Class

Can we just...


Alpha Tryin'

He looks pretty good. The robot mode kicks arse and the battleship mode is cool too- makes me think of a combination of Space Battleship Yamato and the SDF-1 Macross. The lion mode is a bit iffy though.

This guy is just so awesome

Great gallery as always!

I feel like this Alpha Trion doesn't have as good as a beard game as he should though. He kind of was like the epic beard of the Autobots at least. Oh well.

Titanium Saint which came out in 2014 is the best Alpha Trion plus his alt mode is pretty much the same as the voyager Alpha Trion...hmmm

It still amazes me just how much red this figure uses when compared to the two BotCon figures. Looking at the cartoon (and that cartoon-based non-transformable figure), Alpha Trion originally had about an even amount of red and white/light gray, whilst having slightly more purple by comparison. Of the three transforming toys, I feel like the BotCon 2007 figure got the color distributions of the red, the purple, and the white/light gray the closest to being just about right. Though, that toy ended up representing the evil Alpha Trion in the long run, so make of that what you will.

Also, tis unfortunate to see no comparison pics between Sovereign and Beta Maxx (BotCon '07 A3's Mini-Con), what with Sovereign's robot mode being molded in homage to the Cybertron Safeguard mold.

Sabrblade wrote:Also, tis unfortunate to see no comparison pics between Sovereign and Beta Maxx (BotCon '07 A3's Mini-Con), what with Sovereign's robot mode being molded in homage to the Cybertron Safeguard mold.

Discovered the missing images while working on Astrotrain's gallery this morning. Those images were accidentally put in his folder instead of Alpha Trion's. Images have been moved to the correct folder and comparison pics are now up!


Transformers Titans Return Sovereign Gallery

Thanks for pointing this out, Sabrblade!

After the latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries (which you can find again over here) we have another Voyager triple changer from the Transformers Titans Return toyline ready for you to start the week in style: Astrotrain, with his Titan Master Darkmoon! Using the same mold as Sentinel Prime, Astrotrain has his space train, space ship, and space robot modes but with the traditional grey and purple deco, with dabs of red and yellow. Check out the images below, click on any to view the full galleries, and see what you think of this new version of a simple triple changer from 1985 - by letting us know in the Energon Pub!

Titans Return Astrotrain (167 images) - Voyager Class














Titans Return Darkmoon (34 images) - Titan Masters, Voyager Class

Am I the only one who just realized that he more grey than white?

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who just realized that he more grey than white?

He's not white at all. He should be gray. The Takara "NASA" version was white and black instead of gray and purple, as were the subsequent reissues, and the Classics Astrotrain. The Henkei, e-Hobby, Generations, and G1 prototype versions of Astrotrain sported the darker gray (instead of light gray) and purple.

And for those of you following the comics, I updated Alpha Trion's gallery per the request of some of the Seibertron.com staff:


Transformers Titans Return Alpha Trion Gallery

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who just realized that he more grey than white?

I didn't think he was white.

I really look forward to Astrotrain. The whole of wave 2 is a gold mine for me

Since the upcoming TR Megatron is my favourite figure of him (in terms of looks) so far I was going to use him as my classics Megatron. This did create a dilemma for me though since TR Blitzwing is, obviously, going to be a slight retool of him and hence they'd look too alike next to each other.

Soooo I was considering Thrilling 30 Blitzwing instead but I was swithering on it due to the bad things I'd heard and wasn't sure on how he looks. But seeing him here next to Astrotrain really sells it for me; they look so good with each other and I think I'm all on board now

Kurona wrote:Since the upcoming TR Megatron is my favourite figure of him (in terms of looks) so far I was going to use him as my classics Megatron. This did create a dilemma for me though since TR Blitzwing is, obviously, going to be a slight retool of him and hence they'd look too alike next to each other.

Soooo I was considering Thrilling 30 Blitzwing instead but I was swithering on it due to the bad things I'd heard and wasn't sure on how he looks. But seeing him here next to Astrotrain really sells it for me; they look so good with each other and I think I'm all on board now

As an owner of said Blitzwing, it is a good figure. Yes it has its flaws, but I like it and it will be my Blitzwing.

If you follow the instructions you can find online to fix Blitzwing, he holds together amazingly well. I made the fixes to him when I first got him and have never had a problem with him since.

I've heard differing things about the fixes; some people get em to work perfectly, for others it doesn't work out at all. In any case if it's just used for display purposes it shouldn't be too bad.

Kurona wrote:I've heard differing things about the fixes; some people get em to work perfectly, for others it doesn't work out at all. In any case if it's just used for display purposes it shouldn't be too bad.

Yeah, he's not one I fiddle with a lot, and I am nervous about making modifications, so I really never have save for some sharpie on AoE figures

Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

steals_your_goats wrote:Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

Indeed, I was going to point this out too. The galleries look so awesome, and I know they are a lot of work, so I didn't know how to gently suggest this. (Must be either my Minnesota nice or Catholic guilt coming out... )

[edit] Looks like it was missed on Sentinel too.


One of the reasons I wanted the SDCC version was the painted gold (yellow) on all sets of wheels...

steals_your_goats wrote:Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

OOps! Thanks for letting me know.

Agamemnon wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

Indeed, I was going to point this out too. The galleries look so awesome, and I know they are a lot of work, so I didn't know how to gently suggest this. (Must be either my Minnesota nice or Catholic guilt coming out... )

[edit] Looks like it was missed on Sentinel too.


One of the reasons I wanted the SDCC version was the painted gold (yellow) on all sets of wheels...

Wish someone had said that about Sentinel Prime last month. That's alright, I'll get it right on the SDCC version hopefully!


Transformers Titans Return Sentinel Prime Gallery

I had not noticed it then since I only aquired the figure after the galleries were up.

Great gallery as always!

Also I held off on thrilling 30 Blitzwing because of the issues with him and being selective also. Since stopping my Jurassic Park collecting as the JW line was poor quality I might try to get Blitz and this new Astrotrain. Definitely liking the photos with them together.

Astrotrain's stand alone train mode pics have been fixed. I left the comparison mode pics as were. In order to see the new pics, you might have to force a refresh in your browser.


Transformers Titans Return Astrotrain Gallery

And per Hellscream's request, pics of Astrotrain with Apeface's head have been added, which can be viewed toward the end of the gallery by clicking on the image below.


Transformers Titans Return Astrotrain Gallery

And this just goes to show how much Ryan rocks!!

Oh wow Apeface looks gorgeous on Astrotrain. I'm also getting the Meagtron version of the mold and hopefully at some point getting the Thrilling 30 Blitzwing. That's my plan anyway.

How does Clobber look on Astrotrain?


I'm thinking of doing a digibash by changing the purple on Astro to Grimlock yellow/gold.

Kind of amazed to see so many people also going with my thrilling 30 Blitzwing plan lmao. You made him look really good in this Seibs

Kurona wrote:Kind of amazed to see so many people also going with my thrilling 30 Blitzwing plan lmao. You made him look really good in this Seibs

Thanks!

I really like Generations Blitzwing. The only complaint I've ever had about him, once I fixed his shoulders, was the roundness of his face to accommodate the facial gimmick, but it's a minor complaint honestly and I think he looks great. I'm probably one of the few people that liked him better than Springer, who I thought was too tall or too skinny. It looks like a great Springer, but I'd love to see something a little stockier.

Agamemnon wrote:And this just goes to show how much Ryan rocks!!

Thanks! Just trying to keep all of you happy.

This line is tough to photograph because there are so many customizations. I'll do my best to do some of the more obvious head swaps but won't be able to do them all. Trying to get through galleries of Deluxe Class Wave 2 who I've had since last Tuesday.

Kurona wrote:Kind of amazed to see so many people also going with my thrilling 30 Blitzwing plan lmao. You made him look really good in this Seibs

He looks a bit thin/.scrawny to me in my opinion I prefer the Double Dealer version.


If Megatron gets remade into Blitzwing then I will use that version since he looks more buffed up and fits the original Blitzwing blocky look better.

Any chance you can add some other Astrotrain comparisons when you get a chance?

Apeface looks awesome on astrotrain there, can't wait to make that happen

Did you guys know that using the shuttle noses for the Sentinel/Astrotrain mold's train mode gives it a sort of bullet train-esque look?

How does Galvatron's head look on him?

I wasn't too impressed with Astrotrain at first, but the more I see of him, the more I really want him. I probably won't order him online, but he's definitely one I will be on the lookout for in stores.

The time has come. All 4 of the original Autobot Headmasters who weren't city sized have now been released and collected, and it is time to show off a huge gallery!

Seibertron.com presents our latest gallery, that of Titans Return Chromedome, Highbrow, Titan Force Brainstorm, and Legends Hardhead! Chromedome is a brand new mold that perfectly encompasses the leader of the 4 headmasters coupled with a little bit of IDW spice, and includes his partner Stylor. Highbrow is also a new mold that shares some engineering with the wave 1 Titans Return Scourge and includes his partner Xort. Brainstorm is a retool of the wave 1 Blurr figure and includes his partner Teslor, or as we all know him as, Arcana. Finally, we have legends Hardhead, who is the Takara version of the Hasbro release featuring a new face that includes a mouth. This version of the character would not normally have a named headmaster partner normally since in Japan the little heads were the actual characters and the larger bodies were simply extensions of the smaller figures, but the toy name in Japan for Duros was Ros, so that is what is labelled here. He also comes with a cute little tank/jet drone named Tankette to accompany him, which originally came with Terri-bull.

Check out the headmaster quartet below, now labelled as Titan Masters (well, all except this Hardhead) and let us know what you think of this first modern realization of the quartet!

You can find these Titans Return products and other items on TFsource.com.


Transformers Legends Hardhead (138 images) - Deluxe Class, Headmasters












Transformers Legends Ros (47 images) - Headmasters










Titans Return Chromedome (155 images) - Deluxe Class














Titans Return Stylor (40 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters








Titans Return Highbrow (134 images) - Deluxe Class










Titans Return Xort (41 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters








Comic-Con Exclusives Brainstorm (123 images) - Deluxe Class










Comic-Con Exclusives Teslor (53 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

I love this one