Transformers Legacy Twincast Review

While I don't place any premium on which instruction booklet I got, it was the Evolution version. I picked up Breakdown on Pulse pre-order.

william-james88 wrote:The pat few years changed pretty much everything distribution wise. We've gotten to a point where local distribution is just one of the many issues between a toy and you and there are bigger global distribution issues at play and issues with unloading at ports.

There's also the trucker shortage which cause issues with getting items from the ports to the actual warehouses for shipments to each store. It's definitely a weird and tough time for retail in terms of regular shipments and I'm actually surprised that they can keep shelves as full as they do.

Boy I'm tellin ya what, if I got to targèt this weekend and see both those Leader's sitting on shelf ..

M. Spector wrote:Boy I'm tellin ya what, if I got to targèt this weekend and see both those Leader's sitting on shelf ..

That would be the first sighting of that Megatron at us retail store

Transformers Legacy Evolution Prime Universe Skyquake is being found at collectible retailers and if you want a good look at what this leader class figure has to offer, we have a video review for you below. We also have images of Skyquake compared to his original mold from the Prime line, in the form of Dreadwing, and many other Prime figures. You'll let us know if he looks too big or not.

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Big dude is big. A modern release of a figure that is actually larger than the original. I realize they are different size classes but even then OG Skyquake was chunky boo

I am excited for this

Not bad. I don't like the deco so I'll wait for the Dreadwing repaint.

At first I didn't understand why they made Skyquake so big when he and his twin brother Dreadwing weren't nearly so big in Prime.

And then I remembered how tall G1 Skyquake was.

Sabrblade wrote:At first I didn't understand why they made Skyquake so big when he and his twin brother Dreadwing weren't nearly so big in Prime.

And then I remembered how tall G1 Skyquake was.

Yes, due to the size, this Prime Skyquake release feels like one of those "pre-decos", like Titans Return Sentinel Prime.

The Legacy line is going to be WILD next year. Hasbro is going all out with this line's mission to pull from a bunch of lines like Animated, Rescue Bots, Cyberverse, Japan's Beast Wars II and good ol' G1. Many fans were asking when Gears would show up and here he is, as a deluxe class. These listings for the 2024 line are all we have to go on at the moment, and we thank JTPrime17 for finding them.

The "Rock" listings seem to be that line's gimmick, like the Junkions in Legacy Evolution.

Tra Gen Legacy UNI Core Rock 1
Product Number: F8516
EAN: 5010996194992

Tra Gen Legacy UNI Core Energon Megatron
Product Number: F8517
EAN: 5010996195098

Tra Gen Legacy UNI Core BW Tazmanian Kid
Product Number: F8518
EAN: 5010996195104

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX Animated Bumblebee
Product Number: F8524
EAN: 5010996195951

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX Rescue Bot Chase
Product Number: F8525
EAN: 5010996195845

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX Rock 1
Product Number: F8526
EAN: 5010996195968

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX CYB Windblade
Product Number: F8528
EAN: 5010996195944

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX G1 Gears
Product Number: F8530
EAN: 5010996195999

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX G1 Sureshot
Product Number: F8531
EAN: 5010996195975

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX Rock 2
Product Number: F8529
EAN: 5010996196002

Tra Gen Legacy UNI DLX CYB Chromia
Product Number: F8532
EAN: 5010996195982

I'd laugh if those two unknown "Rock" ones turned out to be Rock Lords.

william-james88 wrote:The "Rock" listings seem to be that line's gimmick, like the Junkions in Legacy Evolution.

Meaning the gimmick is that Hasbro's finally going to somehow make use of the Rock Lords I.P. they got when they bought out Tonka, miniscule though it surely is?

They already put the name Boulder to good use over the past decade, even bought a media company of the same name. Will Aligned Continuity just barely live on through Rescue Bots: Geo-Geneology-Quest?

Or maybe next year's Core class will turn into musical instruments for a Knights of Unicron revival?

I think we're all missing what the gimmick will be

Finally, Gears gets some love. He barely saw a new figure at retail in 2014, and before then, it was 1984.

And I'm glad we're finally completing the Autobot Targetmaster team. Why we got all the Decepticon Targetmasters in ONE line sold in the same calendar year, and the Autobot crew is spread out over 6 years and (basically) three lines (Siege, Legacy, Legacy Part III).

This will be Sureshot's first figure in thirty-seven years, and second over all..... don't even get me started on Pointblank's Targetmaster partner having twice as many toys as Pointblank.

If Gears can live, so can Polarclaw

Sentinel_Primal wrote:If Gears can live, so can Polarclaw

God I hope so. He's such a badass character and I'd love to get him along with other characters that came out in The Gathering comic. Especially if they make him beefy looking similar to how they got skyquake to look, albeit limited because he'd likely be voyager class. But a chonky polar claw would be great

I hope the rock gimmicks turn out cool lol

I'm most excited for Tazmanian Kid. I don't know enough about how he was in the cartoon, I just had the comic he came out in as Snarl- but there's like 75 bots named snarl so TK will do nicely. Very cool invisibility power, awesome alt mode, and cool design overall. Can't wait to have him with Leo Prime and Maximal Grimlock

I'm curious to see how the animated Bumblebee design will look with the generatiocation. I might pick him up or wait and hope they do a generations styled Prime universe Bee or even live action Bee. Headsculpt will likely be the deciding factor for me

Windblade hell yeahhhh very cool character

Chromia's cyberverse design is awesome too

Sureshot has a pretty dope alt mode, might wait and see with him too

I'm somehow not surprised at all that we're getting Sureshot since we got Crosshairs back in Siege, and then Pointblank more recently.
But I am still glad we're getting more of the lesser used Targetmasters!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Not bad. I don't like the deco so I'll wait for the Dreadwing repaint.

Almost the same here.
But instead, I'll wait for the Machine Wars Starscream repaint.

Wow, they keep remaking my favourite toys from when I was a kid! First BW Grimlock, who didn't come out all that good, and now Snarl! What's next, Manterror and Drill Bit?

I never got any toys of the original cast as while Beast Wars was still current, only some very rancid knock offs I found around 2004 or so, and even then it was just Optimus Primal, Cheetor and Megatron. So I remember using non-show characters as surrogates while playing. Grimlock was Dinobot, Manterror was Waspinator, and Snarl was Rattrap. Point is, I wouldn't be surprised if Tasmanian Kid ends up being a partial or maybe even just a straight up redeco of Rattrap. And if things go that way, it feels like it'd sort of vindicate child me's choice of surrogate for Rattrap.

It's a shame he probably won't have his arse missile, though.