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New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet

Transformers News: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet

Monday, March 28th, 2011 8:38AM CDT

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Yahoo Japan recently listed a new Cyberverse figure that we have no prior knowledge about. This was not debuted in any toy fair in recent memory.

Judging from its looks, probably an animal transformer that turns into a jet ala Sky Lynx!

As we know, it is a Decepticon and will it be appearing in the movie?

Let the speculation begin!

The full listing can be seen HERE

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Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201100)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on March 28th, 2011 @ 8:59am CDT
Not crazy about his design, but love the concept! Since so many Bayniverse TFs have had such ungainly, misshapen humanoid modes, it's about time some more just made robot mode an indistinct animal mode.

I'm a little confused about the name though: I'm guessing this guy won't actually be in the third movie, and therefore won't be named in anything other than his packaging. If that's the case, why was Hasbro so in love with the name "Hatchet" that they stuck with it despite trademark problems preventing them from using it without "Decepticon" attached? It's one thing to do that for established names, but here you'd think they'd have just called him something else. Or has there been a guy named Hatchet before?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201117)
Posted by zodconvoy on March 28th, 2011 @ 9:20am CDT
As cool as it looks I think I'll wait to see if they repaint it to look like Sky Lynx.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201126)
Posted by kirbenvost on March 28th, 2011 @ 9:39am CDT
This looks pretty cool. I dunno about the color scheme or who I'd use it as, but still looks interesting.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201130)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 28th, 2011 @ 9:43am CDT
Nope.

It makes me feel old not to be on board with this new stuff, like I'm getting left behind or that I'm being closed minded.

Where is the line that separates those things? I really try to look objectively at new designs and toys, but I can't help but look at this and think (like many other upcoming toys) that Transformers has maybe gone a step too far out of the norm.

I know...I know...Transformers change with time and series. But don't forget that change has at times been rejected. Beast Machines is the strongest example of that. While it was a good show, the vast majority of fans did not like where it took the overall franchise. The course correction was RiD and Armada in place of Transtech. When the movies are through, will we see that again?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201144)
Posted by Downbeat on March 28th, 2011 @ 9:56am CDT
Love it. Scout Commander sized jet Decepticon that turns into what looks like a winged and upgraded Ravage? Fantastic.

There is no previous use of Hatchet according to the TFWiki, anyway, so Hasbro must really have wanted to use the name if they were willing to add the Decepticon prefix. Maybe the name's gonna be used on Transformers Prime, who knows?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201162)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on March 28th, 2011 @ 10:22am CDT
Looks pretty decent. I like it.

Counterpunch wrote:Where is the line that separates those things? I really try to look objectively at new designs and toys, but I can't help but look at this and think (like many other upcoming toys) that Transformers has maybe gone a step too far out of the norm.


I dunno. I like to see new and interesting designs that don't always just stick to the overused humanoid form and try something different. The Movie stuff in particular certainly got me more interested in Transformers than I ever was even when I had all them G1 toys as a kid. Without the movie stuff I certainly can't imagine myself ever having bought Transformers as an adult as the relatively simplistic blocky designs of other TF lines just don't do it for me at all (oh and I hate, HATE human-like faces on TF's these days. Fine if it's a nostalgic upgrade of a G1 character but I find it too overdone and ridiculously stupid looking in some of the IDW comics and crud like Animated)
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201178)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 28th, 2011 @ 10:54am CDT
That's pretty cool. NIce to see clearer images at some time.

CP, you're just old. But I have to agree there are certain aesthetics that belong with certain toy brands...there's a Gundam design, an EVO (or whatever eats called I'm not a watcher as one can imagine), a Robotech/Macross look, and there WAS definitely a TF look, until Beast Machines, and then again, in the movie, and then again with Animated.

Looks like the latter more than the former CP. AS in it will keep morphing, and not going back to the G1/Armada/RID aesthetic (if there is such a thing).
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201183)
Posted by Lord Onixprime on March 28th, 2011 @ 10:57am CDT
Freaking awesome. Reminds me of a version of Laserbeak I once drew when I was in middle school where he transformed into a fighter jet.

Now, make a white, blue and red space shuttle that turns into a dragon! Hatchet vs Skylinx.

I'm loving the cyberverse stuff.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201191)
Posted by Down_Shift on March 28th, 2011 @ 11:06am CDT
I hate to say this but I like it! I usually don't like beast mode anything but this doesn't look too bad. Zoids fans will flip when they see this.


Hatchet appears to be, to Ravage, what Buzzsaw is to Laserbeak
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201220)
Posted by rpetras on March 28th, 2011 @ 11:32am CDT
I like it, and I like that scout class sorry, Commander class, is getting a lot of love these days.

I like that size, and it is a great size in which to play with odd designs like this.

I am mostly a Classics/etc. collector these days, and I can find ways to mingle a figure like this into my Classics stuff, or even toss it into the MP/Alt display.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201233)
Posted by Mkall on March 28th, 2011 @ 11:45am CDT
An interesting concept. I'll need to see more pics before I'm sold though.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201248)
Posted by ArmadaPrime on March 28th, 2011 @ 12:02pm CDT
ooohhh
maybe this is the dragon we saw in the trailer and laserbeak will be less ugly and smallr and go with soundwave and hatchet will weild a hatchet.
[/random speculations]
edit:just noticed it says cybervverse
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201249)
Posted by UltraPrimal on March 28th, 2011 @ 12:03pm CDT
Whatever it is, I like it! I wonder what the beast mode is supposed to be. The front legs/arms seem to very long and the back legs look like they're very short. Could it be a movie-verse Apeface?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201278)
Posted by Rated X on March 28th, 2011 @ 12:40pm CDT
Interesting. I kinda like him.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201319)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on March 28th, 2011 @ 2:02pm CDT
How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201327)
Posted by Lord Onixprime on March 28th, 2011 @ 2:16pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?


Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201332)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on March 28th, 2011 @ 2:22pm CDT
Lord Onixprime wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?


Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.


Details, details. It can all be worked out.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201341)
Posted by Twitchythe3rd on March 28th, 2011 @ 2:49pm CDT
Well, here's one to add to the DOTM pick-up list, along with the Wreckers and DeLorean 'Bee.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201344)
Posted by Lord Onixprime on March 28th, 2011 @ 2:51pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Lord Onixprime wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:How about Hatchet is to Ravage what Grindor was to Blackout? They're releasing the toy under a different name to keep the characters return a surprise?


Except Ravage was stripped from his spine likes beads from a string.


Details, details. It can all be worked out.


lol
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201359)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on March 28th, 2011 @ 3:12pm CDT
Yea, looks like a pretty cool concept. I don't know about him being ravage though, but it looks like a cool TF all on its own.
:CON:
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201466)
Posted by Seibertron on March 28th, 2011 @ 5:28pm CDT
Completely unexpected and extremely awesome at the same time. Looking forward to seeing more pics of this, and hoping that there are more like this. Animal Transformers that turn into vehicles would be a welcome return ... especially with how few there have been over the years.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201492)
Posted by OptiMagnus on March 28th, 2011 @ 6:14pm CDT
Hmm...intriguing...I hope he's in the movie.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201531)
Posted by Relic Dinobot on March 28th, 2011 @ 7:20pm CDT
As happy as I am to have finally found at least one toy I really, REALLY need to buy in this line, I'm oddly left wondering if this mold is going to get repainted as a Sky Lynx or Steeljaw in the future. :-?

That, and has anybody else noticed the 'Series 1 - 007' marking on the back of the card, near the top? Does this mean Hatchet is like the seventh Cyberverse Commander figure? And hey, where's the 'series 2' stuff now. ;)
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201540)
Posted by adamassc on March 28th, 2011 @ 7:51pm CDT
Down_Shift wrote:I hate to say this but I like it! I usually don't like beast mode anything but this doesn't look too bad. Zoids fans will flip when they see this.


You got that right. I started as a zoider, then became a transfan when RiD came out. This guy makes me super happy. He looks like Valkyrie Ceaser with a jet alt mode, Either a muscular Lion or a griffin.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201547)
Posted by Noideaforaname on March 28th, 2011 @ 7:56pm CDT
Future 2-pack: Hatchet VS Ratchet!
They sold me on "monstrous," but he also appears to have a little drone! A not-quite-Scout figure with a drone, neato!


Cyberverse is seriously going to be the only DotM stuff I buy this year. :x The Ark, figs with drones, mini-bases, trailer-jetpacks...
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201570)
Posted by T-Macksimus on March 28th, 2011 @ 8:38pm CDT
Picking up 5 of 'em and painting 4 of them red, blue, green and yellow and making a combiner out of them. Voltron could use an update. Although I could swear that I've seen this thing before. Is Bandai maybe missing a Power Ranger toy?
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1201571)
Posted by DISCHARGE on March 28th, 2011 @ 8:42pm CDT
T-Macksimus wrote:Picking up 5 of 'em and painting 4 of them red, blue, green and yellow and making a combiner out of them. Voltron could use an update. Although I could swear that I've seen this thing before. Is Bandai maybe missing a Power Ranger toy?



It reminds me of those Mega-block Dragons toys. I'm planning on picking up several myself.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1202222)
Posted by Pr1meSuspect on March 29th, 2011 @ 7:00pm CDT
Sure looks strange to me. I dont know about legends though, kinda iffy on them. I bet if there was an accurate Skylinx repaint of this guy though, Id have to break down and get one cause Skylinx is like the weirdest Transformer ever and we all love and respect him for that.
Re: New Pics of DOTM Cyberverse Decepticon Hatchet (1202777)
Posted by Noideaforaname on March 30th, 2011 @ 9:51pm CDT
I feel slow, I just noticed that auction link had a pic of the back, with bio and a second look at alt/robot modes.
Image

A bit like Mindwipe from the NEST line, with the 'docking' drones. Though no bot modes for Hatchet's pair (though I have a sudden urge to name those drones anyway).

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