New Images and Details for upcoming Amalgamous Prime figure from Age of the Primes

I can't wait to see how creative/wild people get with 2-3 (or more) Amalgamous Primes. Imagine getting enough copies to build an Amalgamous Titan.

Who's ready to bug out?

adamage1 wrote:I will also say those complaining about the skeleton/frame system are frankly nuts if you think the Combiner Wars system was better. You can actually pose these combiners which are far sturdier and present a much better silhouette.

I like to mix and match my combiners.

adamage1 wrote:I will also say those complaining about the skeleton/frame system are frankly nuts if you think the Combiner Wars system was better. You can actually pose these combiners which are far sturdier and present a much better silhouette.

Spoken like someone who's only handled Menasor. Menasor sucked, because the CW Optimus Prime mold was clearly designed as Optimus Prime first and a combiner torso second.

But the only weakness of the Combiner Wars/PotP system was the lack of ratcheting hips in the limb robots, and even that wasn't really too bad in most cases. Most CW/PotP combiners are perfectly poseable, thanks, and do have good silhouettes. And anything without the Optimus mold as a torso is plenty sturdy.

Volcanicus and Abominus weren't the problem children when setting up this photo.

The skeleton/frame system brings ratcheted elbows, but at the cost of the modernized Scramble City functionality - characters are now locked into being either an arm or a leg, and unless skeleton connectors are shared they can't swap between combiners either. It only even exists because Hasbro were going off Menasor being badly drawn 90% of the time in the cartoon, to the point where the Stunticons were clipped on like Armada Mini-Cons to generic blocky limbs
It's a tolerable tradeoff in Menasor's case because of just how HOPELESS the Combiner Wars Optimus mold was as a torso, but disappointing to see it foisted on the guys whose limb members were actually drawn as the limbs and whose CW versions functioned fine. It hurts Superion's look.
Frankly, the main appealing thing about the AotP Aerialbots IMO is that the limb robots no longer suffer from severe IDW1-itis.

Interesting that the Combaticon limbs are being designed to be less dependent on the skeleton and not have it painfully visible. Maybe they'll even actually be able to swap between being arms and legs. They better be, considering. They also better not try too hard to avoid representing the combiner kibble feet.

I'm frustrated that we haven't seen anything of the Armada Jetfire that was mentioned in the leaked listings from a while back (from before "Age of the Primes" dropped as a name). Or any more of that Brave Maximus we've had a tease of.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Or any more of that Brave Maximus we've had a tease of.

What Brave Maximus?

I'm guessing the Cerebros that came with Omega Prime? I'd love to have a full Brave Max in Selects, but after they reissued Fort Max I lost hope in that happening.

Emerje

Takara Tomy has started a new batch of Transformers pre-orders in Japan today for upcoming Age of the Primes and Studio Series figures as well as MPG Soundwave. Aside from Soundwave and Airachnid these are all figures that Hasbro has announced but still hasn't taken pre-orders on so they're getting the jump on the rest of us this time. Hopefully Hasbro will catch up in the coming weeks.

Here's up for order:

Movie ST-14 Deluxe Airachnid
Movie ST-15 Deluxe Windcharger
AOTP-23 Deluxe Quintus Prime
AOTP-24 Deluxe Blast Off
AOTP-25 Deluxe Sureshot
AOTP-26 Deluxe Quickstrike
AOTP-27 Deluxe Jalopy
AOTP-28 Deluxe Cybertron Sideways (no pictures below, he's already released by Hasbro)
MPG-19 Soundwave & Laserbeak

We are in fall convention season so we should be seeing Hasbro putting these on display soon and hopefully follow up with pre-orders. Let us know in the Energon Pub forums what you're looking forward to.

Man, Pulse Nemesis Prime is up for order, if you have a premium membership. The rest of us have to wait a MONTH to order, November 3. And they're charging full Commander price at $90! I really just want the Mini-cons, but not for that price.

https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/tra ... /G11005L00

Emerje

Star Convoy is the ultimate form of Optimus Prime, with his full power of the 13th Prime returned. But what was his form at his origins? Meaning before he has chosen to lock up his powers and devolve into Orion Pax?

I supposed he would have looked like his SS Gamer self?