New Pictures of Earthrise Cyclonus Test Shot, Earthrise Thrust and Possible Earthrise Soundwave

Why does that Earthrise Megatron have the Siege battle damage on his legs....

Something seems fishy here

As te french say "Le DOPE!"

Maverick will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.

Holy crap! A seemingly licensed, Transforming F-14?! Sign me up!

Thrusts legs in jet mode yeuck not sure what the gun barrel*type thing photo bombing the pic is, could be a Blitzwing not that one is needed. * prob megatron, photo looked purplish on my TV.

Cyclonus might be studio series, that or the final earthrise toy will have ten holes drilled into him and greebling added. I think the wings look a bit too stubby/off but cyclonus is one of those toys where having fifty variants of him is okay. Def going to be out of scale with magnus but hey ho.

Topgun... Where as I give less than a flying duck for Topgun it's going to be cool to have a transforming tomcat and hopefully it's actually a decent toy on par with VFs *ungly hinge lumps on the top of jet mode might not bode well. Don't think I need another jetfire but it would be hard to say no if there is a repaint.
I'm all for a days of thunder transforming nascar and obviously maximum overdrive stuff.

That Maverick is HUGE.

And awesome.

Every time I think I'm out, Hasbro reels me back in!

These look great!

I guess I'm glad thy aren't stringing us along with the Seekers. Give me all the main ones.

Cyclonus has been a top pick for me for a long time. It's times like this that I miss a different paintjob from Takara so I could have one be him and another be his clone, but it's fine.

I don't normally do crossovers, but I'm a sucker for planes.

Soundwave - Shoulda never bought Siege Soundwave. Or Siege Megatron.

The box art makes it look like Maverick is based on Classics Jetfire, but given how sleek the jet mode looks. . . Could it be based on the T30 Jetfire mold?

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:The box art makes it look like Maverick is based on Classics Jetfire, but given how sleek the jet mode looks. . . Could it be based on the T30 Jetfire mold?

Well Ectotron was based of CW Hot spot (with heavy retool img of course so anything is possible)

TFW you wanted a updated Armada Cyclonus...

I don't think that's Earthrise Soundwave or a retool, I think it's a straight redeco of Siege Soundwave, and corresponds to that Walmart listing before. The "red" stands for "red eyes."

You can clearly see the Siege landing gear on his arm, I don't know why they would keep that in a retool. I'm guessing it's basically another wave of the 35th anniversary redecoes, just without the cel shading the leaders had.

Cyclonus is buy on sight, I’ve been meaning to sell my battle in space Rodimus so that makes it easier to sell the complete set Soundwave looks good, I gave my siege one away for sound blaster so that worked out.

I absolutely need that Maverick figure to be real. I just love model jets. He’ll make a nice modern Leader-1 too

Cyclonus looks promising, 50/50 on ThrustWave, but the Maverick looks cool! Still need Ectotron though.

Looks like a repainted wfc soundwave. I would have hoped they’d release an earth mode version for earth rise...

Cyclonus looks good. The g1 and generations versions are amongst my favourite figures. Never picked up the cw version,

Thrust.. will be nice to see how he looks in robot mode. Odd re the decepticon insignia being so small and not on the red parts of the wings.

The top gun cross over is cool. Not into top gun, tho the f14 was awesome etc... maybe this might one of a few interesting mix of 80s franchise crossovers After ghostbusters. Air wolf next perhaps...? Knight rider... back to the future...

I don't give a rat's ass about any and all of those upcoming "classics".

I'm all for that insane and original TOP GUN X-Over guy!
It would be totally awesome if it's a line of it's own, where they X-Over iconic vehicles from classic movies and series.

I would love an A-Team van and a Knight-Riders Kitt 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am.

Okay, Cyclonus looks to be a fine upgrade to the venerable Classics figure. Is he going to be a Voyager class?

Also, Thrust is looking decent. Probably my favorite Seeker, Conehead or Otherwise, because of his whack VTOL fans.

And if that Maverick thing turns out to be real, well...color me interested.

Thrust looks great! Hope we see the other two. Cyclonus is... Interesting. I would like a new Cyclonus, but at the same time I'm reserving judgement until we see the paint and how that looks. Right now it looks decent enough. And part of me thinks maybe Soundwave does have some retooling, specifically around the chest. But I don't really need a new Soundwave

Who is the green and yellow figure next to Soundwave?

NemesisBee wrote:Who is the green and yellow figure next to Soundwave?

Cyberverse Thunderhowl

Beachjezus wrote:Why does that Earthrise Megatron have the Siege battle damage on his legs....

Something seems fishy here

That's looming large on my mind too. Seems very odd. The legs are the ONLY part with apparent "battle damage" paint apps too. Did some wires get crossed at the factory?

Cyclonus looks like an updated version of the Universe mold. Hopefully this means having two working hands. Depending on Soundwave's vehicle mode, I might get him. As of right now he's a pass like Megatron unless I can get them at a discount. Thrust looks okay, he's exactly how I thought he would look. Nothing special there.

Anyone else think Cylclonus' gun looks similar to one of Hot Rod's?

Ah sweet, that Soundwave looks much better than the Seige version, but it would be a shame if it's not a retool with a different alt mode, I was never a fan of that Star Wars Landspeeder thing the Seige version turns into. It would be awesome if this Soundwave was a set that came with Micromaster Laserbeak and Ravage too, just so I don't have to buy those two for an inflated price on Ebay.

Leaked picture of the rumored Hubcap. Not sure if it should be here or Selects, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum

Yeah... I won't be buying a Maverick Transformer. Tom Cruise was an utter nightmare to my friends on the TR and servicemembers stationed on land. To makes matters even worse, the Navy covered for him so as not to injure his fragile little ego. So, thanks but no thanks.

AcademyofDrX wrote:I don't think that's Earthrise Soundwave or a retool, I think it's a straight redeco of Siege Soundwave, and corresponds to that Walmart listing before. The "red" stands for "red eyes."

You can clearly see the Siege landing gear on his arm, I don't know why they would keep that in a retool. I'm guessing it's basically another wave of the 35th anniversary redecoes, just without the cel shading the leaders had.

remolded chest and legs as well

skycutter wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:I don't think that's Earthrise Soundwave or a retool, I think it's a straight redeco of Siege Soundwave, and corresponds to that Walmart listing before. The "red" stands for "red eyes."

You can clearly see the Siege landing gear on his arm, I don't know why they would keep that in a retool. I'm guessing it's basically another wave of the 35th anniversary redecoes, just without the cel shading the leaders had.

remolded chest and legs as well

And it looks like the back was remolded considering how flatly it's laying in the picture

I am begining to wonder if maybe this cyclonus, and the sleep mode Optimus may not be part of earthrise, but instead maybe part of the 86 movie studio series?

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Beachjezus wrote:Why does that Earthrise Megatron have the Siege battle damage on his legs....

Something seems fishy here

That's looming large on my mind too. Seems very odd. The legs are the ONLY part with apparent "battle damage" paint apps too. Did some wires get crossed at the factory?

It’s not the same damage and Earthrise Megatron’s alt mode is covered in weathering. His treads front and back have been shown to have weathering effects

Scorpinok looks amazing!

Lore Keeper wrote:Yeah... I won't be buying a Maverick Transformer. Tom Cruise was an utter nightmare to my friends on the TR and servicemembers stationed on land. To makes matters even worse, the Navy covered for him so as not to injure his fragile little ego. So, thanks but no thanks.

Cool story bro.

Shia Lebouf steals others peoples works and tries to claim them as his own and when caught argues it should be his right to do so. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna stop collecting studio series.

Damn. Universe 2.0 Cyclonus is one of my favorite CHUG figures of all time... and I still find myself tempted by this new one. It looks so good! (Assuming the face doesn't wind up actually being that color.)

Okay, these look great. Cyclonus might finally dethrone the RTS 2-pack one I’ve had all these years, and Thrust basically confirms the other two Coneheads are coming. Soundwave looks great, but I don’t mind the Siege one so much, so unless the alt mode on this one really is that good, I’m just going to stick with him. After all, with the way things are seeming to line up, looks like I’m already going to have to offload the Siege Datsuns and Ironhide/Ratchet. Optimus I found a spot for since getting the Earthrise Leader and discovering the backwards compatibility of the Siege axe, and I’ve found spots for the tetrajet mode original Seekers, but it’s really annoying how some of the Siege stuff is already getting swept under the rug because Earthrise is clearly the ones people are gunna want.

Maverick looks killer, I’ll definitely get myself one. Unlikely as it is, but now I long for the day when I get a Fury x Transformers crossover Sherman tank with the slicked back high-and-tight Brad Pitt had in it, with .50 cal in one hand and cigar in the other.

skycutter wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:I don't think that's Earthrise Soundwave or a retool, I think it's a straight redeco of Siege Soundwave, and corresponds to that Walmart listing before. The "red" stands for "red eyes."

You can clearly see the Siege landing gear on his arm, I don't know why they would keep that in a retool. I'm guessing it's basically another wave of the 35th anniversary redecoes, just without the cel shading the leaders had.

remolded chest and legs as well

Maybe I'm missing something, I don't see any evidence of remolding on the chest, just new paint. The front of the legs look identical to me, even down to the 3mm pegs. Maybe the outer leg panels have been modified?

I'm not sure there's any change to the backpack, because you can see he's not laying flat.

Edit: I see it now, the lower part of the chest is as wide as the upper part, so there's definitely a change, and I'm guessing the arms and shoulders aren't on the same hinge.

If we really are getting Cyclonus, does this mean that we'll soon get an actual, proper Galvatron?

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Leaked picture of the rumored Hubcap. Not sure if it should be here or Selects, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum

Interesting I wonder if there was a raid at the factory
Where did you get this picture from?

ZeroWolf wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Leaked picture of the rumored Hubcap. Not sure if it should be here or Selects, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum

Interesting I wonder if there was a raid at the factory
Where did you get this picture from?

I got it off Twitter, but it's also floating around TFW. Supposedly it came from the same Discord chat from the other leaks. I can't verify any of that though because of a mix of people giving similar enough, but different stories, and not actually knowing why it's from a Discord chat, and not just a leaker leaking it to a news site like the others

Edit: I will say, this could just be a good custom though because the head and paints look just enough off for me to be suspicious, so I probably should have said "Possible leaked picture". I know yellow paint is trickier to color match, but the head has a sort of "fuzzy" quality

Hmm what's interesting is the fact there's a second one just to the left. I'll have to have a dig around. Thanks!

ZeroWolf wrote:Hmm what's interesting is the fact there's a second one just to the left. I'll have to have a dig around. Thanks!

It's just the underside of vehicle mode. Some people are saying it's Bumblebee because the head looks different, but it just looks slightly off because of all the yellow. I can post a picture that shows both if you want?

Edit to include the picture:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:If we really are getting Cyclonus, does this mean that we'll soon get an actual, proper Galvatron?

Seeing as there's a little picture of Galvatron floating in space on the side of every Earthrise figure's packaging, I'd say a new Galvatron is definitely on the way.

I kinda thought it was a reference to the tiny galvatron coming with unicron... might be a new galvatron tho I really liked the tr versions besides the way they went about the head

Randomhero wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:Yeah... I won't be buying a Maverick Transformer. Tom Cruise was an utter nightmare to my friends on the TR and servicemembers stationed on land. To makes matters even worse, the Navy covered for him so as not to injure his fragile little ego. So, thanks but no thanks.

Cool story bro.

Shia Lebouf steals others peoples works and tries to claim them as his own and when caught argues it should be his right to do so. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna stop collecting studio series.

No need to be so condescending... bro. You do whatever you want with your money, and I shall do what I want with mine.

Lore Keeper wrote:Yeah... I won't be buying a Maverick Transformer. Tom Cruise was an utter nightmare to my friends on the TR and servicemembers stationed on land. To makes matters even worse, the Navy covered for him so as not to injure his fragile little ego. So, thanks but no thanks.

I don't see why Tom Cruise should impact the figure, why not just see it as just a jet Transformer, it's not like Ectotron where it looks explicitly themed?

It's not like you would be handing cash to him directly.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Hmm what's interesting is the fact there's a second one just to the left. I'll have to have a dig around. Thanks!

It's just the underside of vehicle mode. Some people are saying it's Bumblebee because the head looks different, but it just looks slightly off because of all the yellow. I can post a picture that shows both if you want?

Edit to include the picture:

Thanks! I'd say that looks like the back of bee's head as I think I can make out the little horns. I think.

Aw man, that cyclonus is looking so good already, I can't wait to grab him; thrust is looking to have a fake cone head?

Hellscream9999 wrote:Aw man, that cyclonus is looking so good already, I can't wait to grab him; thrust is looking to have a fake cone head?

Very likely, though I'd say it's for the better. That way the jet and robot mode can look better proportioned. Sorta like how Optimus has a fake grill section to improve both modes proportions

frogbat wrote:I kinda thought it was a reference to the tiny galvatron coming with unicron... might be a new galvatron tho I really liked the tr versions besides the way they went about the head

The head was pretty bad yeah. For me it was a little more than that, his proportions just didn't seem like Galvatron, specifically the upper body. But given the big G1 focus going on in WFC, I have hope that they'll take care to make the proportions on point. Not that TR Galvs is a totally bad toy, it was great to finally get a good representation of his character. No spaceship mode please this time.

Let's hope a new Scourge is on its way too

Deadput wrote:

Lore Keeper wrote:Yeah... I won't be buying a Maverick Transformer. Tom Cruise was an utter nightmare to my friends on the TR and servicemembers stationed on land. To makes matters even worse, the Navy covered for him so as not to injure his fragile little ego. So, thanks but no thanks.

I don't see why Tom Cruise should impact the figure, why not just see it as just a jet Transformer, it's not like Ectotron where it looks explicitly themed?

It's not like you would be handing cash to him directly.

You're right, and I'm not abstaining from buying this as some sort of protest. It's just the fact that this is basically a toy of his character, and the thought of the guy just raises my blood pressure. Between the way he treats people and his zealous support of a cult that scams its followers and launches coordinated attacks against anyone that dare speak out against them, it would feel wrong for me to put this in my house.

Thrust was one of the best, just because of those VTOL turbines. Glad there's going to be an Earthrise version. Windblade was just a copycat of Thrust .

I guess this means we'll be seeing versions of Dirge and Ramjet using this mold. No way Hasbro is going to pass up THAT opportunity.

DeathReviews wrote:Thrust was one of the best, just because of those VTOL turbines. Glad there's going to be an Earthrise version. Windblade was just a copycat of Thrust .

I guess this means we'll be seeing versions of Dirge and Ramjet using this mold. No way Hasbro is going to pass up THAT opportunity.

Weirdly, I was just thinking of how great it would be to get a Windblade from this mold. I don't think it'd be too hard, just retool the torso and maybe feet and it'd be perfect in my opinion

That Cyclonus looks like he needs to lay off the cheeseburgers for awhile.

Top Gun jet looks awesome, looking forward to Kou Uraki as a Transformer!

Now I want a Days of Thunder collaboration release. Or five.