Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed

Wednesday, June 12th, 2019 8:57PM CDT

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Thanks to our very own Sabrblade and Twitter user gadepon we have our very first images of the upcoming King Poseidon combiner figure!

After all the questions surrounding whether Selects Turtler would come with his entire team to form the legendary King Poseidon, we have confirmation that indeed, we will be getting the King. The new images show us the prototypes for Turtler in all 3 modes as well as his first limb, Gulf! Gulf appears to be an extensive retool of one of the Terrorcon deluxe Blot, which is also what we were expecting.

We are only getting a look at Turtler and one limb, so we have yet to be told whether or not all 5 limbs are coming or if we will just get 4, and if we get 5 limbs if they will be targetmaster capable.

You can check out Turtler, Gulf, and King Poseidon with one leg below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Credit(s): Gadebon on Twitter

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Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024302)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 12th, 2019 @ 8:58pm CDT

Told you guys to have faith!

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024303)
Posted by Whifflefire on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:08pm CDT

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024304)
Posted by Stargrave on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:09pm CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Told you guys to have faith!

Yesss thanks DMax! You are, thee max.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024306)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:12pm CDT

The silhouette shows Lobclaw to be an arm, so he's not getting omitted. Guess this means Overbite gets to be the gun.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024307)
Posted by Stargrave on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:13pm CDT

Me: Kids’ College fund don’t we mean “kids’ college fund”? I mean how fluid is that term?

Wife: ......

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024308)
Posted by WeatherManNX01 on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:21pm CDT

I waunt it. I waunt it now.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024309)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:26pm CDT

A few things to note here:

- Gulf/Skalor is a direct retool of PotP Blot, meaning only a few parts are changed; the Monster Mode head, Robot Mode head and the lower arms. I can't quite tell how they did the tail tho.
- It looks like King Poseidon/Piranacon will follow the PotP formula for the hands and feet, as evident in the lower right corner:

Upon closer inspection, the hands have individual fingers! :shock:

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024310)
Posted by Bounti76 on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:27pm CDT

Forgive me if I just haven't seen it somewhere, but is it confirmed, announced, etc. that this set will be Generations Selects only for Japan?

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024312)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:33pm CDT

Bounti76 wrote:Forgive me if I just haven't seen it somewhere, but is it confirmed, announced, etc. that this set will be Generations Selects only for Japan?

The name plates say "TakaraTomy Mall" in Katakana and "Generation Select" in Latin script. But, since Star Convoy will be on Hasbro Pulse as a direct import instead of a proper Hasbro release, King Poseidon may as well.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024313)
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:36pm CDT

Bounti76 wrote:Forgive me if I just haven't seen it somewhere, but is it confirmed, announced, etc. that this set will be Generations Selects only for Japan?

I don't know about confirmed, but this set will likely be available through Hasbro Pulse, like with Star Convoy

I'd pay 150-200$ for this set, considering it has new accessories and combiner parts (don't think I missed those new feet!)

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024315)
Posted by Bounti76 on June 12th, 2019 @ 9:39pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:Forgive me if I just haven't seen it somewhere, but is it confirmed, announced, etc. that this set will be Generations Selects only for Japan?
The name plates say "TakaraTomy Mall" in Katakana and "Generation Select" in Latin script. But, since Star Convoy will be on Hasbro Pulse as a direct import instead of a proper Hasbro release, King Poseidon may as well.

Excellent, thanks! I don't know why Hasbro wouldn't just release it directly in Selects, but as long as I can get it either way, I'm good.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024316)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on June 12th, 2019 @ 10:04pm CDT

Those arm silhouettes absolutely appear to be Lobclaw and Kraken, so Overbite is probably the missing one. The same Twitter that provided the other pictures also provided a close-up of the combiner hands and feet:

Poseidon hand.jpg

Also it looks like from the separate tags that they are in fact selling them one component at a time, and I think Gulf's tail just kinda plugs into his back in bot mode? You can see it hanging down between his legs.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024318)
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on June 12th, 2019 @ 10:08pm CDT

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Also of note, would the 6,500 be the price for Turtler? It sort of fits how Takara priced their voyagers in the legends line. Cause if so, then we're looking at $60 for Turtler alone... I mean I'm still gonna get them all, but it's gonna hurt :lol:

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024320)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on June 12th, 2019 @ 10:11pm CDT

Sentinel_Primal wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:

Also of note, would the 6,500 be the price for Turtler? It sort of fits how Takara priced their voyagers in the legends line. Cause if so, then we're looking at $60 for Turtler alone... I mean I'm still gonna get them all, but it's gonna hurt

Well that is the tag in front of Turtler, so I guess it is? Yikes...I still want them, but yikes.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024323)
Posted by Wireless_Phantom on June 12th, 2019 @ 10:30pm CDT

If that price is for Turtler...Oooh man this one is going to hurt. If he comes with those new, actually good looking hands and feet then it might be a bit more justified but man it's going to be a hard hit to take. I'm glad they are being sold as individuals, since that will make it easier than buying all of them at once (and easier on the wallet, since it will be several smaller purchases)

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024328)
Posted by william-james88 on June 12th, 2019 @ 11:17pm CDT

Just so people know straight up front, these are the prices in USD (and yes, Hasbro Pulse is charging the Japanese MSRP on imports):

Each Limb will be $35
The Torso will be $60

So at minimum (if he only has 4 limb bots) that will make this combiner $200 USD + tax.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024330)
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on June 12th, 2019 @ 11:26pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:Just so people know straight up front, these are the prices in USD (and yes, Hasbro Pulse is charging the Japanese MSRP on imports):

Each Limb will be $35
The Torso will be $60

So at minimum (if he only has 4 limb bots) that will make this combiner $200 USD + tax.

Well... It's better than my initial calculation of prices... I thought the limbs would be $40. Still not ideal, but for Piranacon/King Poseidon I'm willing to pay that considering the only alternative is a 3rd party figure that costs almost double that per part.

Also, I was wondering: What other combiners would you guys hope Takara might make for the Selects line? Personally, I hope we get a Road Caesar and maybe a new Leokaiser with Leozack and Jallguar wot go with him.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024333)
Posted by Ultra Markus on June 12th, 2019 @ 11:57pm CDT

are we going to get all 6 members because in g1 all limbs can be a gun or a limb and theres always a fifth member as a gun or will they just leave one out

b88bb3bb-94f5-4f10-afea-bb0327dc95bf.jpg

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024336)
Posted by DecepticonFinishline on June 13th, 2019 @ 12:49am CDT

I'm not saying it's definitive one way or the other. But to me, this picture looks to be holding a sixth member rather than a standard weapon, but I can't be sure.

Piran02.jpg

Also, the same account has a picture of an MP-19+ that I was previously unaware of.

MP19+.jpg

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024337)
Posted by Emerje on June 13th, 2019 @ 12:49am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Upon closer inspection, the hands have individual fingers!

There's also a hole in the back which makes me wonder if they could double as stand bases.

Not sure what the wrist joint is like, it's just an empty space where it should be.

Where does Gulf/Skalor's sword come from? And why does he have a sword in the first place? I do see he has a hole under his alt mode jaw like the original so that confirms a gun mode.

Emerje

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024338)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 13th, 2019 @ 12:50am CDT

Ultra Markus wrote:are we going to get all 6 members because in g1 all limbs can be a gun or a limb and theres always a fifth member as a gun or will they just leave one out
b88bb3bb-94f5-4f10-afea-bb0327dc95bf.jpg

We will get all 6 members in some shape or form, I guarantee it. I do spot one caveat: the weapon modes seem to have been omitted. I don't see a 5mm post anywhere on Skalor/Gulf...

:EDIT:... unless Overbite is the one only with one.

Thank you for posting a different view of the silhouette, Finishline. I can clearly see the molds used for the right side:

Skalor/Gulf: Blot
Nautilator/Lobclaw: Shuttle Blast Off, or any jet with fold-away wings. My money's on Dreadwind.
Overbite: Rippersnapper (back to front compared to the G1 toy)

And as a bonus:

Seawing/Kraken: Cutthroat (judging by the shape of his legs)

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024339)
Posted by Emerje on June 13th, 2019 @ 12:59am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I do spot one caveat: the weapon modes seem to have been omitted. I don't see a 5mm post anywhere on Skalor/Gulf.

Not sure if you saw my last post since we posted about the same time. Gulf has the proper hole in his bottom jaw and peg in his combined gun for a gun mode. It's entirely possible that they'll simply be held by their combiner peg, the hand looks big enough. Maybe they'll use the Prime Armor hole in the middle for stability.

Emerje

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024340)
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 13th, 2019 @ 2:20am CDT

I'm so in for the seacons *looks at the price*... I'm so in at looking at the free pictures of the seacons T_T I don't think I can stretch my budget that much...oh well.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024343)
Posted by frogbat on June 13th, 2019 @ 6:35am CDT

Definitely looking good and am definitely curious to see the final product - might skip as never been a huge fan of the seacons. Have the G1 reissue... and find them a bit meh. Then again I thought the same thing of the terror cons and ended up getting them too.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024346)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 13th, 2019 @ 7:23am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm so in for the seacons *looks at the price*... I'm so in at looking at the free pictures of the seacons T_T I don't think I can stretch my budget that much...oh well.

Hasbro: "We're gonna make a super expensive Studio Series Devastator that people will have to buy its individual components over time in order to complete!"

TakaraTomy: "Hold my beer."

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024347)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on June 13th, 2019 @ 7:34am CDT

Snaptrap looks like he has a lot of added mass, so next to LC siege Shockwave, $60 is more than I'd like to spend, but not *horribly* over-priced. $35 for deluxe class limbs, though, ouch. Still, I want Piranacon so much I may have to sacrifice getting Omega Supreme (though I never planned on paying full price for him).

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024348)
Posted by Cobotron on June 13th, 2019 @ 7:53am CDT

Emerje wrote:Where does Gulf/Skalor's sword come from? And why does he have a sword in the first place? Emerje

Maybe the sword doubles as the stem of a stand? Or, maybe it combines with other weapons as the tine of a giant trident?!!! Just spit balling.

Oh! And this is all pretty awesome news. I felt pretty confident when we saw Turtler, that the rest of the team would follow suit.
Exciting stuff, for sure!

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024349)
Posted by Brokebot on June 13th, 2019 @ 8:15am CDT

Awesome, the last combiner I've been waiting for is probably going to cost me a f@#%ing mortgage payment.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024350)
Posted by Immortal Starscream on June 13th, 2019 @ 8:15am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:A few things to note here:

- Gulf/Skalor is a direct retool of PotP Blot, meaning only a few parts are changed; the Monster Mode head, Robot Mode head and the lower arms. I can't quite tell how they did the tail tho.
- It looks like King Poseidon/Piranacon will follow the PotP formula for the hands and feet, as evident in the lower right corner:

Upon closer inspection, the hands have individual fingers!

What a lot of people may not realize, is that Blot himself is a retool of rippersnapper. or is it the other way around. with that in mind I think the tail is done with retooled rippersnapper legs. at least thats how it looks to me in the pics. regardless, this is a must have for me.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024358)
Posted by joevill on June 13th, 2019 @ 9:11am CDT

how exciting! ;)^

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024361)
Posted by william-james88 on June 13th, 2019 @ 9:26am CDT

Brokebot wrote:Awesome, the last combiner I've been waiting for is probably going to cost me a f@#%ing mortgage payment.

$250 is a pretty cheap mortgage payment

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024372)
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 13th, 2019 @ 9:52am CDT

william-james88 wrote:
Brokebot wrote:Awesome, the last combiner I've been waiting for is probably going to cost me a f@#%ing mortgage payment.

$250 is a pretty cheap mortgage payment

To be fair, he might be including delivery charges. Hmm I wonder if kapow have their prices up.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024403)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 13th, 2019 @ 12:58pm CDT

Immortal Starscream wrote:What a lot of people may not realize, is that Blot himself is a retool of rippersnapper. or is it the other way around. with that in mind I think the tail is done with retooled rippersnapper legs. at least thats how it looks to me in the pics. regardless, this is a must have for me.

Blot and Rippersnapper are a pretool pair; designed and sculpted in the same time frame.

A lot of Blot's parts have been kept (so much so it feels like TT is taking the UW Technobots approach for them), including the hinges in the back: that's probably where the fins attach.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024440)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on June 13th, 2019 @ 4:08pm CDT

Amazing, I just hope turtler doesn't inherit hungurr's awful shoulder ratchets :BANG_HEAD:

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024463)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 13th, 2019 @ 6:26pm CDT

Honestly, even though King Poseidon will be expensive, he's gonna be OK.

Like SS Devastator, he's gonna be spread out, so you can spread out the costs like a loan payment but without the taxes for time spent paying it off.

And he is so much beefier looking, he has inherited some heavier plastic and aesthetic to justify part of the price increase.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024483)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on June 13th, 2019 @ 7:28pm CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Honestly, even though King Poseidon will be expensive, he's gonna be OK.

Like SS Devastator, he's gonna be spread out, so you can spread out the costs like a loan payment but without the taxes for time spent paying it off.

And he is so much beefier looking, he has inherited some heavier plastic and aesthetic to justify part of the price increase.

I hope his combined thigh joints are up to it, hungurr certainly wasn't >:oP

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024486)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 13th, 2019 @ 7:40pm CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Honestly, even though King Poseidon will be expensive, he's gonna be OK.

Like SS Devastator, he's gonna be spread out, so you can spread out the costs like a loan payment but without the taxes for time spent paying it off.

And he is so much beefier looking, he has inherited some heavier plastic and aesthetic to justify part of the price increase.

I hope his combined thigh joints are up to it, hungurr certainly wasn't

We can both agree on that.

In fact, I'd be willing to say that Inferno is the only PotP torso with good combined mode hip joints. the others were pretty weak. So let's hope Turtler's are much better

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024493)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on June 13th, 2019 @ 8:11pm CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Honestly, even though King Poseidon will be expensive, he's gonna be OK.

Like SS Devastator, he's gonna be spread out, so you can spread out the costs like a loan payment but without the taxes for time spent paying it off.

And he is so much beefier looking, he has inherited some heavier plastic and aesthetic to justify part of the price increase.

I hope his combined thigh joints are up to it, hungurr certainly wasn't

We can both agree on that.

In fact, I'd be willing to say that Inferno is the only PotP torso with good combined mode hip joints. the others were pretty weak. So let's hope Turtler's are much better

Yeah, inferno was noticeably well put together, and can hold a decent amount of poses with the ankle tilts; for all the money I'm gonna be pouring into king posiedon, they had better give him good plastic where it counts [-(

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024500)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on June 13th, 2019 @ 8:37pm CDT

I'm not feeling good about the Seacons, the Terrorcon limbs that were retools were floppy and couldn't hold together, cutthroat was the worst. Hun-Guff still suffered from the combiner lean that ALL the other CW torsos did. Piranhaking is going to be a floppy fiddly mess.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024514)
Posted by Seibertron on June 13th, 2019 @ 9:56pm CDT

I don't see how Piranacon could hold a deluxe class figure in gun mode. I hope we get all six figures, but I don't foresee Targetmaster modes for these figures in a manner that Piranacon could hold them like a gun. You would need some pretty strong "clicky" leg joints in order to make that happen, and I don't think they would redesign the leg/hip joints from previous Combiner Wars-like figures.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024517)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 13th, 2019 @ 10:14pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:I don't see how Piranacon could hold a deluxe class figure in gun mode. I hope we get all six figures, but I don't foresee Targetmaster modes for this figures in a manner that Piranacon could hold them like a gun. You would need some pretty strong "clicky" leg joints in order to make that happen, and I don't think they would redesign the leg/hip joints from previous Combiner Wars-like figures.

Legends Class figures were already too heavy for some arms, Deluxe would be downright murder. In the silhouette, all 6 members are present, with Overbite (Rippersnapper retool) as the gun, so weapon modes are definitely possible. Maybe they're expecting us to have some stands ready? I know companies sell clear supports for oversized anime/manga weaponry.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024539)
Posted by Aimless Misfire on June 14th, 2019 @ 5:06am CDT

Hasbro couldn't make this affordable in the states? This figure should not be a Japanese exclusive. Everybody that collected Combiner Wars & Power Of The Primes needs this figure to complete their collections. WTF is their problem??? I'm not really buying Transformers anymore because I can no longer afford them & this is the last straw. This is just plain wrong!

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024572)
Posted by Skritz on June 14th, 2019 @ 2:41pm CDT

Aimless Misfire wrote:Hasbro couldn't make this affordable in the states? This figure should not be a Japanese exclusive. Everybody that collected Combiner Wars & Power Of The Primes needs this figure to complete their collections. WTF is their problem??? I'm not really buying Transformers anymore because I can no longer afford them & this is the last straw. This is just plain wrong!

I'm pretty sure Piranacon just wasn't high on Hasbro's list of 'combiners-to-remake' and there are only so many molds they can do at one time. I will say that POTP should have probably skipped Volcanicus and the Elita gals in favor of the Seacon, however. That said, given the slapdash nature of the Hasbro Computron I think the post-Scramble City combiners ain't selling so well or at least are deemed as such. Its also worth noting Seacon never appeared in the toon.

However in Japan they did. Which is probably why this is a Takara initiative.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024575)
Posted by Seibertron on June 14th, 2019 @ 2:49pm CDT

Aimless Misfire wrote:Hasbro couldn't make this affordable in the states? This figure should not be a Japanese exclusive. Everybody that collected Combiner Wars & Power Of The Primes needs this figure to complete their collections. WTF is their problem??? I'm not really buying Transformers anymore because I can no longer afford them & this is the last straw. This is just plain wrong!

SDCC is right around the corner. Patience young padawans!

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024584)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on June 14th, 2019 @ 3:23pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
Aimless Misfire wrote:Hasbro couldn't make this affordable in the states? This figure should not be a Japanese exclusive. Everybody that collected Combiner Wars & Power Of The Primes needs this figure to complete their collections. WTF is their problem??? I'm not really buying Transformers anymore because I can no longer afford them & this is the last straw. This is just plain wrong!

SDCC is right around the corner. Patience young padawans!

Is there a reason this can't come to pulse? Or do you mean that Hasbro would probably announce him at sdcc? Cuz it looks like they've only gotten 2 to the prototype level so far :-?

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024595)
Posted by Aimless Misfire on June 14th, 2019 @ 4:11pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:SDCC is right around the corner. Patience young padawans!

Dude! I said "AFFORDABLE" lol

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024609)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on June 14th, 2019 @ 9:21pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:I don't see how Piranacon could hold a deluxe class figure in gun mode. I hope we get all six figures, but I don't foresee Targetmaster modes for these figures in a manner that Piranacon could hold them like a gun. You would need some pretty strong "clicky" leg joints in order to make that happen, and I don't think they would redesign the leg/hip joints from previous Combiner Wars-like figures.

This times one hundred. After Superion and Menasor the hip joints just couldn't support the weight of their own weapons, let alone Legends Class figures.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024611)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 14th, 2019 @ 9:45pm CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Aimless Misfire wrote:Hasbro couldn't make this affordable in the states? This figure should not be a Japanese exclusive. Everybody that collected Combiner Wars & Power Of The Primes needs this figure to complete their collections. WTF is their problem??? I'm not really buying Transformers anymore because I can no longer afford them & this is the last straw. This is just plain wrong!

SDCC is right around the corner. Patience young padawans!

Is there a reason this can't come to pulse? Or do you mean that Hasbro would probably announce him at sdcc? Cuz it looks like they've only gotten 2 to the prototype level so far

Hasbro might say something about the possibility of importing it, but don't count on any official announcements until the whole team has been revealed. Also note that if released state-side, they may keep their Japanese names like Star Convoy did.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024711)
Posted by Skritz on June 15th, 2019 @ 7:58pm CDT

By the way is anyone wondering if Super Megatron (if he does manifest past the prototype stage) is a headmaster still or if they just retooled him to fit the head inside the torso cavity (which iirc can be done with TR Galvatron)?

I skipped on Star Convoy (admittedly to my regret...) but I'm really curious about Super Megatron, in part because I'm like the only guy who ever thought TR Galvatron isn't an absolute pile of shit.

Re: Takara Transformers Generations Selects Gulf, King Poseidon Revealed (2024719)
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on June 15th, 2019 @ 9:32pm CDT

Skritz wrote:By the way is anyone wondering if Super Megatron (if he does manifest past the prototype stage) is a headmaster still or if they just retooled him to fit the head inside the torso cavity (which iirc can be done with TR Galvatron)?

I skipped on Star Convoy (admittedly to my regret...) but I'm really curious about Super Megatron, in part because I'm like the only guy who ever thought TR Galvatron isn't an absolute pile of ****.

More than likely they'd retool it. The chest cavity is big enough and the way Super Megatron's head is designed, it'd make sense to remove the headmaster gimmick and just use a normal head

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