Next Pulse Livestream Event will show Colored Sample of Haslab Deathsaurus

o.supreme wrote:Is this Haslab any "less sharp" than the original Victory toy from 1989?


In any event, I guess there will be a special Pulse Livestream next Tuesday Nov 29th. They will show off the actual colored sample of Deathsaurus. This is impeccable timing if ( as predicted) another jump of pre orders will occur next Monday, and the funding goal will have been met. They will also probably announce that VS is shipping ( since the cut off date for address verification is the 28th)

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This is such a well written post that it's going on the front page.

Just a bit more that 500 backers needed to get things started. 19 days to go. Deathy will be backed, that's a no brainer.

Now, will it reach the 17K needed to unlock everything? If wouldn't had "nerfed" their shipping policy, that number would have been more easily attained.

Tier 1 I'd say is almost a certainty with TT Mall orders not being added until about a week left in the campaign, those should be good for at least 2K. But yeah Tier 2 is not a guarantee at this point.

Early this morning DS was about 225 away from.its funding Goal. The Monday Bump has been added however, so it blew past the goal, and is sitting just short of 12,300 ( well on our way to Tier 1). The bump added just about 1500 to the total. As opposed to the bumps of the last 2 weeks (2000 on 11/14, and 800 on 11/21).

Next Monday 12/5 hopefully TT Mall totals will be added. If the first tier can be reached before then,TT Mal orders alone should push us past the 2nd tier, I hope.

Funded! Wooo!

Personally, there's nothing at the highest tier that appeals to me, but here's hoping we get there nonetheless!

Early this morning Deathsaurus was about 225 away from its funding goal of 11000. The Monday bump has been added however, so it blew past the goal, and is sitting just short of 12300 ( well on our way to Tier 1). The bump added just about 1500 to the total. There are still 14 days to go and it is assumed the Japan numbers have not been added yet, so the 17000 mark for all tiers is well within reach.

In other Haslab news, fellow Seibertronian bvzxa got a response from Hasbro when he asked to ship his Victrory Saber. He documented the response in this video below, where the shipping date is said to be December 5th from Pulse.

bvzxa wrote:Shipping date for the US is 12/05/22

If Hasbro ships VS on 12/5 most fans in the continental U.S. and Canada will probably receive them before the deadline. ( Not sure how Pulse works in Europe).

Unfortunately where I live in Northern CA. The shipping for FeDex ground from Pawtucket or Atlanta ( depending on where they ship from) takes anywhere between 7-10 days. So it's not a guarantee for me. But having VS in hand won't be a determining factor for me to back DS.

Very excited to see Deathsaurus has fully funded. And we are well on our way to the tiers. I'm confident we will get them. So stoked for the kaiju dude

So, I just watched the Pulse livestream. The fully colored render of Deathsaurus and the weapons/throne definitely look good. While they didn't confirm an exact date for shipping Victory Saber, they said "early December", which seems to correlate with the December 5th date, and again they emphasized "hoping most fans will have VS" (not a promise that all fans would have him by the time the Deathsaurus campaign ends).

Also, they confirmed the large jumps that occur on Mondays are a combination of orders from ALL international retailers, including . So while there wont be a "massive dump" towards the end as I and others expected, we can still expect pretty good jumps probably for the next 2 Mondays that the campaign is still going, hopefully enough to get us past the tiers.

Currently at just over 12,500 Tier 1 is a little less than 1,500 away! Tier 2 is 4,500 away 13 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes. Lets say GO!

Here's the stream:

Hasbro had a short pulse livestream today to show fans the new painted model of Haslab Deathsarurus that they received. This being a painted model means that some of the painted areas will be in coloured plastic on the final model but it will be the same colour placement, be it plastic or paint. We also got confirmation that there will be vac metal on the finished figure in the chest area and the robot helmet.

Speaking of the chest area, the gimmick was shown where both animal partners can integrate into Deathsaurus' chest as well as what it looks like when none of them are attached. We also saw that there is a storage area for the mace (the mace itself is not yet funded). There were other fun tidbits as well. Evan made a comment regarding how freeing the design/engineering process was for Deathsaurus since none of the molding had to be shared with any other bot, which shows us how that's a big part of planning for mainline toys and accounts for the decisions made. We also got a confirmation that the backing numbers you see for Deathsaurus count ALL orders, so that means the Japan numbers as well. Another tidbit, while there will be another Haslab project after this one, it will likely not be a character from the Victory series. It was stated that the next Haslab project would be to coincide with the 40th anniversary to the Transformers line as a whole.

They're also already teasing the next HasLab figure. We already know it wont be Optimus from previous comments, but they also said it wont be gun Megatron and wont be another Victory character, but did imply that it might be another Japanese character (sounds like they're winning over the higher ups with these HasLab order numbers).

Looks like Victory Saber is taller than Deathsaurus now, does that solve some of the scale complaints?

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Looks like Victory Saber is taller than Deathsaurus now, does that solve some of the scale complaints?

No, he is just ever so slightly taller.

Emerje wrote:They're also already teasing the next HasLab figure. We already know it wont be Optimus from previous comments, but they also said it wont be gun Megatron and wont be another Victory character, but did imply that it might be another Japanese character (sounds like they're winning over the higher ups with these HasLab order numbers).

Looks like Victory Saber is taller than Deathsaurus now, does that solve some of the scale complaints?

Emerje

Liokaiser redux? I'd back that in a heartbeat.

I mean I'd prefer it to be six retail deluxe/voyager figures but that's a tall order.



By the way, a few weeks ago someone posted a chart showing the funding over time for Deathsaurus compared to Victory Saber and Unicron. Does anyone have an updated version of that? I feel like we're ahead of the curve compared to the others as VS didn't cross the minimum backers line until the last week.... but they're also adding international orders throughout the campaign instead of all at once.

Well, looks like I'll cancel my order.
Victory Saber will be enough in my collection. I have no money, and no room for Deathy. Especially because, like for Victory Saber, I'll want to hunt down the G1 original and that ain't happening.

Maybe the next project will be Overlord.

They also hinted at the next HasLab being something to celebrate the Transformers brand's 40th anniversary, so it'd have to be something extra super special (also not an Optimus, not Gun Megatron, and not a Victory character).

Dark Nova-to-Star Giant or a Majin Zarak would be amazing, but I don't see either of those being 40th anniversary-worthy.

God Ginrai would be appropriate, but he could be considered too close to an Optimus, and he might feel a little too soon after the Legends figure. Same for Dai Atlas having likewise gotten a good Legends figure.

I still want Primus from the Kingdom Rodimus Prime mold, but I'm sure a straight redeco as a HasLab figure would feel like a ripoff to a lot of people.

A character that have never, ever being done before could be a nice HasLab. Something iconic, of course.
But WHO would be worthy of such an honor and would it sell?

-Kanrabat- wrote:A character that have never, ever being done before could be a nice HasLab. Something iconic, of course.
But WHO would be worthy of such an honor and would it sell?

A proper Last Autobot would be interesting, but we did just get that Ark with a head inspired by him.

Is there anyone else from either the Marvel comics or the Sunbow cartoon who never got a toy, and was reasonably big enough to require a HasLab release?

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:A character that have never, ever being done before could be a nice HasLab. Something iconic, of course.
But WHO would be worthy of such an honor and would it sell?

A proper Last Autobot would be interesting, but we did just get that Ark with a head inspired by him.

Is there anyone else from either the Marvel comics or the Sunbow cartoon who never got a toy, and was reasonably big enough to require a HasLab release?

Well, there is Cybertron itself. Make it exactly as it appears in the G1 cartoon, huge hole with lighting features and all.

Then, make it transformable with a unique, never before seen robot mode that will be featured in the fiction of the current Generations line.