Transformers Generations Selects Guardian Robot Revealed

I was hoping for the season 3 purple and gray guardian robots remolded to have fat guts. This new redeco isn’t accurate to the source material either. No sale unless a 3rd party manufactures a sumo upgrade.

That Select version can't hold a candle to the original Omega, but I'm pleased to see one of the best Titan (or THE best Titan) ever to be re-released again.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

1984forever wrote:I was hoping for the season 3 purple and gray guardian robots remolded to have fat guts. This new redeco isn’t accurate to the source material either. No sale unless a 3rd party manufactures a sumo upgrade.

I would have preferred the purple version as well, but hasbro wasn't going to make brand new parts for an obscure character when they had a ready to go mold, especially 1 of that size.

Depends on what they used as sources really. The deco is indeed from War Dawn, but the concept of a blue G1 Omega Supreme dates back to 2008's e-Hobby GADEP:



The purple ones are considered distinct by TFWiki, as in contrast to the Autobot/Decepticon-led Guardian Robots, the so-called Dark Guardians were employed by the Quintessons.

Why does blue have to be my favorite color...

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/tra ... unar-tread


Perhaps they learned a thing or to from Black Zarak. I mean I know that required more extensive work, but the pre-order was almost a year in advance (10 months to wait), whereas this is just a little over a month.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:UPDATE: According to a combination of info some other guy got from a Chinese retailer and corroboration from JTPrime, "G1 Headmaster" is mostly likely short for "G1 Headmasters Universe Pointblank", and it's Pointblank with the head design from Headmasters/his original toy instead of his Sunbow/Rebirth head, not an actual figure/character who is a Headmaster.

Is its class specified?

Because it would be nice if it's the proper voyager Pointblank, the one the designers wanted to make from the start.

It's a deluxe

Seriously? We just got a Pointblank! I get it that he has some issues, but why bother releasing that one if a proper version is also on the way? Is Hasbro really that blatantly greedy?

Some fans were upset by the headsculpt we got with the original pointblank, and now Hasbro is releasing a version to answer that need. It's the same toy but with deco and head to match the Headmasters cartoon version, hence the name of the listing. Also, I thought wave 3 deluxes were hard to obtain, no?

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Looks pretty good, even if it's got a bit too much white on it. I thought it would be blue and gray. But the mold still holds up.

All that white is accurate:

I wasn't disputing accuracy, I was commenting on my dislike of the deco.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Looks pretty good, even if it's got a bit too much white on it. I thought it would be blue and gray. But the mold still holds up.

All that white is accurate:

But not the body type. Thicc guardians FTW.

Sabrblade wrote:

1984forever wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Looks pretty good, even if it's got a bit too much white on it. I thought it would be blue and gray. But the mold still holds up.

All that white is accurate:

But not the body type. Thicc guardians FTW.

Well, if you really want cartoon-accuracy, you should be asking for 2-foot-tall Action Masters since the Guardian Robots were built by the Quintessons as the Dark Guardians, and thus predated the art of transformation, and thus couldn't transform.

Omega Supreme was the only one who was able to, and look at how much his body had to go through to make that possible.

You’re right. I’m actually not opposed to the idea of Action Masters for characters that never transformed in the cartoon. I would buy Trans-Organics, Deceptitran, Quints, Dark Guardians/Guardian robots etc., and double dip on the figs I already purchased in 3D if they were made into plastic.

lol no thanks. im good with the previous omega

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Some fans were upset by the headsculpt we got with the original pointblank, and now Hasbro is releasing a version to answer that need. It's the same toy but with deco and head to match the Headmasters cartoon version, hence the name of the listing.

The 1st Pointblank has been out long enough for them to acknowledge the negative response and implement the desired changes in such a short time? I just thought with all the steps a production usually requires, they had this version in the pipeline before the 1st got even released.

I don't think this one exists explicitly as a result of what fans asked, and I didn't mean it as such. I just meant that some fans wanted a different point blank and this one will answer that want/need. There will be 2 point blanks just like there are 2 cyclonuses, that's how I see it.

I mean heck I remember Studio Series Grindor being a minor redeco of Blackout but used the opportunity to retool the hands, this doesn't really seem that wild to get a new Pointblank soon that'll address the articulation issue. I personally didn't find it that bad but, hey, if they wanna make an update on that mold and are confident it'll sell, why not? Maybe the price point might even chuck in the engine gun as originally planned too.