Transformers Cyberverse Spark Armor Toys Revealed

I gotts say, Battleship Bumblebee and Ark Prime have grabbed by attention

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I gotts say, Battleship Bumblebee and Ark Prime have grabbed by attention

At first, I was like whoa, but now I'm curious about the sizes. The wave with Prowl and Jetfire seems to be Scout/Legends class like those RID armor figures.

I think everyone is gonna buy an Ark Prime just for the Ark. I really like these. Not enough to buy them but if I were younger, i would be all over these.

Also, some of the armors look like homages to stuff. For example, the jet armor on Prime reminds me of one of the G2 dudes.

Jetfire's armor is Armada Demolishor. Prowl has Triggerhappy, Megatron has Rotorstorm and (the smaller) Optimus is...uh...wearing the corpse of Leader-1?

these toys look superior to the warrior class we have been getting
better bot modes and better vehicles

This actually look pretty good. Might have to pick them up.

I love the dichotomy between the alt modes of the bulks and the drones. Terranean with aerial/aquatic, subaquatic with subterranean, aerial with terranean.

Good looking figures with a decent, non-intrusive, fun gimmick. More like this please!

I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

Bumblebee's battleship reminds me of the arms of the SDF-1.

Hey, the Cyberverse toys are getting better!

Those armor thingy get my interest. Especially that new classic looking Jetfire that will be a sure buy for my shrine.

I think some of these are more clever and attractive than anything from Seige.

More Sky Byte is always welcome.

I want to put the Ark armor on Rewind. Look it up.

I also feel like there's a Broadside waiting to be built using Prime and Bee's plane and ship drone parts. Bee has the arms and torso, Prime the head and legs? Curious if that's a doable thing with multiple sets.

Madeus Prime wrote:My thoughts on this.

I literally just watched this episode.

Also, great to see some Skybyte love!

these have caught my attention. I like the battleship that comes with bee I might get these but will still wait for reviews before buying unless I find it first.

We've got some more Transformers: Cyberverse fun coming at you, Seibertronians! Thanks to our old pal, Chuck, we've got a pair of nice video reviews of Transformers: Cyberverse 1-Step Changers Optimus Prime and Prowl! Chuck, a.k.a. chuckdawg1999, gives us an overview of Optimus Prime and Prowl in vehicle and robot modes, shows off their transformations, and demonstrates their new "Action Attack" features! Action attacks are being incorporated into the Cyberverse 1-Step Changer toys beginning with Wave 3, in which you can also find Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Hot Rod, and Megatron. As a bonus, Chuck also gives us a comparison with the previous 1-Step Changer Optimus Prime from Wave 2 and the new Warrior Class version of Prowl. Give these videos a watch below!







Are you enjoying the very G1-inspired Transformers: Cyberverse series and toyline so far? Will you be picking up 1-Step Changer Optimus Prime or Prowl for your collection, or perhaps as a gift for a younger Transformers fan in your life? Let us know in the comments below, and keep tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest news on all things Transformers!

I just love how there is no theming or commonality between most of those Spark Armor figures. We have a scout who converts into a sports car with a freakin' battleship, a warrior poet who turns into a shark with a drill tank thing, and an armada commander who transforms into a fighter jet with a construction vehicle. These closest matchup that I see with some common ground is Megatron (a tank) and his assault helicopter. Otherwise, these matchups seem completely random.

Even though I don’t collect these, and I don’t fall into the target demographic, it’s impossible for me to deny how cool and fun these look. Between these and siege, I love a lot of the decisions that Has/Tak is making. If I were a kid, or a teen, I’d be all over these the same way I was with Bionicle, when those came out. I love the idea that the armor upgrades transform into such cool looking vehicles, and various homages to other TF series.

Also that Skybyte is just adorable.

Wow, cyberverse figures that are nice. Jetfires drone may be the slammer to compiement scamper to finish metroplex off.

Liking the armor premise and even if it makes some look like SD Gundams thats only a good thing.

Nexus Knight wrote:these matchups seem completely random.

I non-ironically like it for that reason. It IS completely random and crazy, with the usual SCALE BE DAMNED of the Transformers universe. All of these are "why, because we can and don't give a f..."

I'm looking forward the video reviews of these. To see if the quality hold up and what articulations they actually have.

Oh my. That Sky-byte looks nice.

Alpha Weltall wrote:Good looking figures with a decent, non-intrusive, fun gimmick. More like this please!

I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

If there is some cross-compatibility between the armours I'd expect it to be within the same size class. Even if limited, cross-compatibility is always good.

ScottyP wrote:I also feel like there's a Broadside waiting to be built using Prime and Bee's plane and ship drone parts. Bee has the arms and torso, Prime the head and legs? Curious if that's a doable thing with multiple sets.

If you can cobble together a leg mode from Prime's armour, I'm all for a drone Broadside.

While I'll only plan on picking u SkyByte because it's frickin' SkyByte, I like how the Jet Power Optimus is somewhat an homage to his combination with Jetfire in RoTF. Also what is this? An entire wave of cyberverse toys that all look decent? I'm just happy the show is getting better products. SkyByte to me is till the only must have.

These things are really great looking! The only one I find a little questionable is Megatron, his tank mode is garbage, but all of the others look worth getting. Not so sure about Starscream with purple wing stripes.

ScottyP wrote:I also feel like there's a Broadside waiting to be built using Prime and Bee's plane and ship drone parts. Bee has the arms and torso, Prime the head and legs? Curious if that's a doable thing with multiple sets.

That would be neat, kinda like the Minicon armors from Prime. Megatron's armor looks like it could form the top of another bot. The larger Optimus looks like he could form a large portion of a bot with those big feet.

As for Bumblebee.




Joking aside, this is better looking than the last time Bumblebee had boat armor.



Emerje

These figures are GREAT! I hope they'll arrive here in Italy... Starscream, Jetfire and the jet-armor Optimus are my favourite!

I like these. If they weren't the kidified toys I'd buy them. I still might get that prime with the Arc. I would have liked to see Arcee though.

Now those are cyberverse figures that pique my interest. Also, it seems like the armor bits attach via 3.5 pegholes. If that is indeed the case, we might be able to use them to armor up siege figures.

These look like some really fun toys, for the kids. If I were 8, I'd be all over this stuff.
Neat character designs, and this armor up/Weaponize gimmick is always fun.

Sky Byte?!?!? RAD!

I really don't like the show, or the toyline so far. Buuuuuuut, I'm a sucker for a *good* combination/add-on gimmick. Can't wait to see how the final retail versions look.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nexus Knight wrote:these matchups seem completely random.

I non-ironically like it for that reason. It IS completely random and crazy, with the usual SCALE BE DAMNED of the Transformers universe. All of these are "why, because we can and don't give a f..."

100% agree w/ this statement. The possibilities for future figures (if this particular part of the line continues) are limitless! Windblade w/ submarine! Grimlock w/ an armored car! Shockwave w/ a spider tank! (Oh, wait...)

Prowl looks like he has a great idea!

I think I want half of two sets from this line; Jetfire to hang out with legend class figures, and the battleship to cannibalize for custom fodder.

Nice stuff. Sky-Byte especially looks great.

Just a few random thoughts:

Something tells me these are going to be smaller than we expect. That Prime with the ark will probably be comparable to the Ultra Class but double the money. When that happens I'll just sit back and watch the world burn.

Having looked at larger pics I don't think the armor will be swappable, the chest and shoulder/helmet armor looks to be connected by a hinge and the helmets are sculpted to fit the robot heads.

This actually look pretty good. Might have to pick them up.

I was wondering if I’d ever bring myself to buy even a single Cyberverse toy, but holy crap that Sky Byte is a beautiful little effer. That Megatron isn’t too shabby either, looks better than every other version of him in the line so far.

Also if I’m not mistaken, isn’t Megatron’s armor an homage to his Machine Wars toy?

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Also if I’m not mistaken, isn’t Megatron’s armor an homage to his Machine Wars toy?

Some think it looks more like Machine Wars Starscream, while others think its being a helicopter is reminiscent of Animated Megatron.

I haven't been too impressed with the Cyberverse line (too many hair-trigger spring-loaded gimmicks interfering with articulation for my taste), but my kids seem to like it well enough. These, however, look like they might entertain us all. I love a good add-on armor.

Glarryg

Those new ones look great! That'll be must buys for me

Alpha Weltall wrote:I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

As far as I can tell, the smaller Battle Class armors from Jetfire, Prowl, Starscream and Sky-Byte are completely interchangeable. Notice how the core figures have peg holes in roughly the same locations, and not all used with the armors they come with. Most notably, most attach to the arms, but Starscream's attaches to the legs instead.

The larger Elite Class armor may be interchangeable as well, but the "helmeted heads" inside the armors may indicate they're not supposed to in-fiction.

In short, within the same Size Class, feel free to mix!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

As far as I can tell, the smaller Battle Class armors from Jetfire, Prowl, Starscream and Sky-Byte are completely interchangeable. Notice how the core figures have peg holes in roughly the same locations, and not all used with the armors they come with. Most notably, most attach to the arms, but Starscream's attaches to the legs instead.

The larger Elite Class armor may be interchangeable as well, but the "helmeted heads" inside the armors may indicate they're not supposed to in-fiction.

In short, within the same Size Class, feel free to mix!

That's music to my ears! Good observation

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

As far as I can tell, the smaller Battle Class armors from Jetfire, Prowl, Starscream and Sky-Byte are completely interchangeable. Notice how the core figures have peg holes in roughly the same locations, and not all used with the armors they come with. Most notably, most attach to the arms, but Starscream's attaches to the legs instead.

Er, the peg holes might be compatible, but the way they connect to the chest is different on each figure. Some connect at the abs, some in the center of the chest and so on. They even went out of their way to make the connection different shaped on each figure. For example Prowl's connects to the rectangle on the front of his car bumper while Bumblebee's connects to a slit just above his waist and Starscream's is in the center of his chest.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I just wonder how cross compatible those body armor parts are between size classes. They almost look like they're tailor made for the bots they go with. Some would probably have to be. If so, it would limit some of the fun with them sadly.

As far as I can tell, the smaller Battle Class armors from Jetfire, Prowl, Starscream and Sky-Byte are completely interchangeable. Notice how the core figures have peg holes in roughly the same locations, and not all used with the armors they come with. Most notably, most attach to the arms, but Starscream's attaches to the legs instead.

Er, the peg holes might be compatible, but the way they connect to the chest is different on each figure. Some connect at the abs, some in the center of the chest and so on. They even went out of their way to make the connection different shaped on each figure. For example Prowl's connects to the rectangle on the front of his car bumper while Bumblebee's connects to a slit just above his waist and Starscream's is in the center of his chest.

Emerje

I said within the same size class for a reason. For the record:

Battle Class
Jetfire
Prowl
Starscream
Sky-Byte

Elite Class
Bumblebee
Megatron
Optimus Prime

I will give you the different slots in the chest for the Battle Class, but it remains to be seen if they match the pegs on the armors.

Omg Prowl's face is chubby!

I love these! They look so amazingly better than normal Cyberverse.

Want all of them!!!! So cool!!!

They look like a lot of fun!

Cute G1 transformers, going to have to safe up big time. Want everything Siege, that good looking Slipstream and now all these.

Oh yes and the Ultra Optimus.

Beeftank Megatron is still so cool.

Cheetor looks awesome in s2 trailer (on IGN) but more allspark nonsense (as much as I love BW/Bmachines is part of the added fiction I can live with out)

https://uk.ign.com/videos/2019/02/14/tr ... -2-trailer

blackeyedprime wrote:Cheetor looks awesome in s2 trailer (on IGN) but more allspark nonsense (as much as I love BW/Bmachines is part of the added fiction I can live with out)

https://uk.ign.com/videos/2019/02/14/tr ... -2-trailer

This looks AWESOME and I love the cameos. But, Lugnut is not a girl, why did they have to gender swap him???

EDIT: Whoops! This is the toy thread not the cartoon.

Flashwave wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Cheetor looks awesome in s2 trailer (on IGN) but more allspark nonsense (as much as I love BW/Bmachines is part of the added fiction I can live with out)

https://uk.ign.com/videos/2019/02/14/tr ... -2-trailer

This looks AWESOME and I love the cameos. But, Lugnut is not a girl, why did they have to gender swap him???

EDIT: Whoops! This is the toy thread not the cartoon.

Maybe he is a trans-trans? O.O

The cartoon trailer does show the spark armor toys are linked into the plot rather than them just being solely a toy gimmick and gives more potential characters that maybe coming from other transformers series (like the Skybite toy). More than G1 is getting some love, thats for sure

blackeyedprime wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Cheetor looks awesome in s2 trailer (on IGN) but more allspark nonsense (as much as I love BW/Bmachines is part of the added fiction I can live with out)

https://uk.ign.com/videos/2019/02/14/tr ... -2-trailer

This looks AWESOME and I love the cameos. But, Lugnut is not a girl, why did they have to gender swap him???

EDIT: Whoops! This is the toy thread not the cartoon.

Maybe he is a trans-trans? O.O

The cartoon trailer does show the spark armor toys are linked into the plot rather than them just being solely a toy gimmick and gives more potential characters that maybe coming from other transformers series (like the Skybite toy). More than G1 is getting some love, thats for sure

Trailer news here.

I'm sort of hoping the show design for the 'spark armors' on Optimus and Megatron get released later on, as they are different enough from the current toy designs revealed and Optimus especially looks like he's some insane mashup of his Beast Hunter self and Star Saber, whereas the toy design seems like he's cosplaying G2 Dreadwing.

Coming to us from the official Transformer Facebook page, we have stock images of some upcoming toys that will be shown at Toy Fair later today! It seems whoever put up the post was a little early, as Toy Fair has yet to start:

A litany of new Cyberverse figures were just revealed at New York Toy Fair! Who's got you the most excited?

But onto the figures! While we've seen the Spark Armor figures, these new 2019 Action Attack are completely new! We have:

Scout Class:
Optimus Prime (retool of Wave 2, with mouth and battle axe, which is orange instead of blue)
Scraplet (the first toy of a Scraplet, based of Prime design)

1-Step:
Shockwave
Skybyte

Warrior Class:
Gnaw (based heavily on Titans Return toy)
Deadlock

Ultra Class:
Alpha Trion

Ultimate Class:
Grimlock (has the faceplate from the episode Eruption)

So thought's on these? Tell us in the Pub forums down below, and be sure to stay tuned for coverage of NY Toy Fair 2019!

Gnaw is clearly the Prime Wars Legends Class figure, which is fine, that’s a great toy.

Scraplet is TOTES ADORBS!!! I want it and I’ll name it Scrappy!

Hopefully Alpha Trion in Cybercrrse is a sign that he may receive another figure in the Generations line soon-ish.