Transformers Robots in Disguise 3 Step Changer Thunderhoof revealed
Thursday, July 16th, 2015 11:09PM CDT
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What is very interesting about this release is that this is the very first Thunderhoof figure where his antlers in robot mode actually become the rake in vehicle mode as the original design and animation model intended. This gives me hope that the upcoming Warrior Class will also go this route. Images of the previous versions are available below for comparisons.
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Posted by Rated X on July 16th, 2015 @ 11:23pm CDT
Posted by Hellscream9999 on July 16th, 2015 @ 11:28pm CDT
Rated X wrote:Three dumbed down kiddie figures but no standard deluxe figure yet for the character ? RID has been a total failure. The only decepticon to get a serious figure was steeljaw. All the rest have been legends, one steppers, three steppers, shampoo bottles, etc.
I gotta agree with this on the whole, piss and moan all you want about these 'being for kids', but it is kind of insulting, not to mention redundant to get almost every figure in both a 1-step and a 3-step, etc. Legends class Underbite and fixit were really nice (that does not mean that I don't still want a deluxe/voyager Underbite), so I'll discount legends from this; but as far as 'aimed at kids' lines go, the foreign simplified line has these beat by miles
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 16th, 2015 @ 11:34pm CDT
Posted by Hellscream9999 on July 16th, 2015 @ 11:38pm CDT
Posted by Lockdownhunter on July 17th, 2015 @ 12:17am CDT
Posted by Hellscream9999 on July 17th, 2015 @ 12:23am CDT
Lockdownhunter wrote:Well,it looks nice but I have to say that the legion is better.That being said,how about more warrior class s ?
That would be nice, after the trouble they went through to make each one a unique, colorful and memorable character, the least they could do would be to release them in a size class that isn't garbage (legion class still excluded) I mean, it's not like Prime, where they had a limited number of characters from the show, the first season of rid'15 had a new decepticon in almost every episode, and they were so interesting, and memorable (I stress this, because people buy what is either cool, or characters they know/remember and like)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on July 17th, 2015 @ 3:05am CDT
Woah, really nice that the rake become the antlers without fake ones. However, these fake arms-windows would have been forgivable if they werent starring in your face so obviously in vehicle mode. Close, but no buy.
Also, I usually frown at the Rated X type complains about "waaaah toys for kids!". However, I find this very disapointing and baffling that such a series with so many amazing only have ONE of them in the "serious" warrior class. Come on Hasbro. Everyone, including kids, love the bad guys too. What all tose will do without any to fight? Sit in a corner and fap?
Posted by durroth on July 17th, 2015 @ 3:47am CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Woah, really nice that the rake become the antlers without fake ones. However, these fake arms-windows would have been forgivable if they werent starring in your face so obviously in vehicle mode. Close, but no buy.
Also, I usually frown at the Rated X type complains about "waaaah toys for kids!". However, I find this very disapointing and baffling that such a series with so many amazing only have ONE of them in the "serious" warrior class. Come on Hasbro. Everyone, including kids, love the bad guys too. What all tose will do without any to fight? Sit in a corner and fap?
don't forget this is an official image, so it's likely they mistransformed it and those windows have a more reasonable place to be to blend in... in other news, Hasbro needs new photographers if they can't even transform a three step figure correctly.
Posted by Lockdownhunter on July 17th, 2015 @ 4:15am CDT
BTW,I wonder whether this is mistransformed.Hopefully it is.
Posted by Va'al on July 17th, 2015 @ 5:15am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 17th, 2015 @ 8:06am CDT
Lockdownhunter wrote:That is why the Legion class version is better.No faux windows hanging around in alt mode.
BTW,I wonder whether this is mistransformed.Hopefully it is.
I find fake rake worse than fake windows for this particular toy. I find a Fake rake undermines the creativity of the character's design.
Posted by ScottyP on July 17th, 2015 @ 8:37am CDT
Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
Posted by RhA on July 17th, 2015 @ 9:19am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 17th, 2015 @ 10:42am CDT
ScottyP wrote:Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
Wait what?! They do that?!
Posted by ScottyP on July 17th, 2015 @ 10:48am CDT
They have done that in the past, though not with RiD toys specifically, but that is enough for me to avoid itwilliam-james88 wrote:ScottyP wrote:Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
Wait what?! They do that?!
Also a sign this is a premature listing: the scan code on him is not recognized by the app.
Posted by william-james88 on July 17th, 2015 @ 11:08am CDT
ScottyP wrote:They have done that in the past, though not with RiD toys specifically, but that is enough for me to avoid itwilliam-james88 wrote:ScottyP wrote:Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
Wait what?! They do that?!
Also a sign this is a premature listing: the scan code on him is not recognized by the app.
Well that is an odd thing that I didnt mention in the article: this 3 step Thunderhoof wasn't/isn't in the app. I believe that is the very first revealed RID toy since the app came live that didnt first appear there (which makes sense since the whole deal is that every toy would be scan-able). He also wasnt on any preorder listings. He really is out of the blue.
Posted by Cobotron on July 17th, 2015 @ 11:19am CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 17th, 2015 @ 10:07pm CDT
ScottyP wrote:Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
This happened to me. Not with this toy but during HFTD. Basically they have the store staff filling orders and they just grab whatever is on the shelf. Customer Service is a pain too.
Posted by Fox Thiagarajan on July 17th, 2015 @ 10:50pm CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:ScottyP wrote:Yeah I pondered it but then remembered that they probably don't actually have it, just the listing, and I'd end up getting another Bumblebee or something.chuckdawg1999 wrote:I did good? I can haz cookie? Seriously though it looks like this figure transforms the same way as the one-step changer. Also as a reminder, DO NOT ORDER FROM KMART! That is all.
This happened to me. Not with this toy but during HFTD. Basically they have the store staff filling orders and they just grab whatever is on the shelf. Customer Service is a pain too.
I had a similar experience trying to order Generations figures on their website in 2011. They basically tried to fill my order with shelf warming figures at the time. Thankfully I was able to get a full refund. However, I will still find my way to the actual brick and mortar stores to try my luck at what I may find.
Posted by Fox Thiagarajan on July 17th, 2015 @ 10:55pm CDT
Posted by Stuartmaximus on July 18th, 2015 @ 11:18am CDT
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
Posted by william-james88 on July 18th, 2015 @ 12:41pm CDT
Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
I dont find it weird, I think it adds variety.
Posted by Stuartmaximus on July 18th, 2015 @ 1:19pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
I dont find it weird, I think it adds variety.
Aye true
Posted by Lockdownhunter on July 19th, 2015 @ 9:08am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:He did in Japan.Lockdownhunter wrote:All these and not another new ? Steeljaw does not even get a repaint.
Phantomjaw
I can confirm that he is awesome!
Well,he looks weird.
Posted by ScottyP on July 19th, 2015 @ 10:38am CDT
Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
Posted by Va'al on July 19th, 2015 @ 10:51am CDT
ScottyP wrote:Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
I can, as you imagine, very much sympathise with you. But from the CW side of things.
Posted by Stuartmaximus on July 19th, 2015 @ 11:38am CDT
ScottyP wrote:Man, US distribution on this stuff is just not like it is elsewhere. We get no Kre-o (aside from a trickle into discount women's clothing stores), no sign of the TRU exclusives yet, no deployers yet, one wave behind the UK on Warriors, and barely any Minicons out and about. They should rename the line "Transformers: Hey US fans, this is what we always put the UK fans through. Fun, right?"Stuartmaximus wrote:Argos website have the minicon deployers....Drift & Fracture! as well as mega Optimus Prime(Smyths Toys have those on their website too).
Weird thing is....the Fracture deployer is his Cybertronian cycle form....While the one step is his earth form
From the video reviews of those Deployers I've seen...they're not getting great reviews....so I wouldn't get too disheartened
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 19th, 2015 @ 6:01pm CDT
Still, NEED WARRIOR THUNDERHOOF!!!
That is all
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 19th, 2015 @ 6:21pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 19th, 2015 @ 10:45pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...
Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 20th, 2015 @ 7:54am CDT
We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...
Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.
Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2015 @ 7:58am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...
Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.
But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?
Posted by Sabrblade on July 20th, 2015 @ 8:01am CDT
We know they're releasing the Hasbro versions for the Japanese release of "Clash of the Transformers", but the Supreme Mode and Battle Mode toys are something else in the main TAV line. For instance, Optimus we know is getting a retool of his large figure to resemble his finale upgrade, which is a separate release of the smaller CotTFs Warrior figure. So Japan is getting what the West is getting plus their own stuff that we're not getting.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...
Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.
But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on July 20th, 2015 @ 9:47am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:We know they're releasing the Hasbro versions for the Japanese release of "Clash of the Transformers", but the Supreme Mode and Battle Mode toys are something else in the main TAV line. For instance, Optimus we know is getting a retool of his large figure to resemble his finale upgrade, which is a separate release of the smaller CotTFs Warrior figure. So Japan is getting what the West is getting plus their own stuff that we're not getting.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:We can only hope that Takara makes proper versions of Bee/Swipe/Strongarm with their Supreme Mode and Battle Mode figures in the Adventure line.william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Also, cause I just caught this: Op, Sides and Bee look pretty cool with the season finale armor. Now if only they had done a slight bit of retooling...
Yeah, especially since they spent some extra dollars (quite a bit I would assume) on retooling the 3 steps. That feels like such a waste to me. I dont mind 3 steps, but I dont feel the target audience would take notice of these changes.
But dont we already know that they are just using the sideswipe and bumblebee Hasbro toys for those? Or do you suppose they will make another attempt at the concept?
All I really want is to see them get the proper retooling to go with the paint job, plus Strongarm (they seem to be forgetting her....) I personally loved the Hunter armor upgrade, so I wants
Posted by no-one on July 20th, 2015 @ 8:27pm CDT
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Posted by No One on July 20th, 2015 @ 10:12pm CDT
Posted by Lockdownhunter on July 20th, 2015 @ 10:25pm CDT
Posted by RhA on July 21st, 2015 @ 2:30am CDT
Posted by ScottyP on July 21st, 2015 @ 7:49pm CDT
Posted by no-one on July 21st, 2015 @ 8:34pm CDT
ScottyP wrote:Hope his head isn't in a perpetual state of looking downwards. Bee is plagued by that and Mega Optimus is finicky.
I did try and push it back up, but it wouldn't go. I didn't know it was an epidemic, I just assumed it was just a bum figure. Probably safe to assume Sideswipe is just perpetually down in the dumps then.
Posted by LegendaryAntiHero on July 21st, 2015 @ 9:58pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 22nd, 2015 @ 11:47am CDT
LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I'm looking forward to the fully articulated voyager/leader Optimus Takara is going to make
Me too! And he looks to be at least leader size, which is fun. He will be coming out at the end of this month
Posted by william-james88 on July 22nd, 2015 @ 11:49am CDT
LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I'm looking forward to the fully articulated voyager/leader Optimus Takara is going to make
Me too! And he looks to be at least leader size, which is fun. He will be coming out at the end of this month
Posted by william-james88 on July 22nd, 2015 @ 11:58am CDT
This come from Entertainment Earth.
From SDCC 2015
Posted by william-james88 on July 28th, 2015 @ 10:09pm CDT
These have yet to be found in the US.
Posted by Fox Thiagarajan on July 28th, 2015 @ 10:14pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on July 28th, 2015 @ 10:20pm CDT
Posted by Nemesis Destron on July 28th, 2015 @ 10:39pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on July 28th, 2015 @ 10:43pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:So, Will, how about the Sideswipe arm/shoulder problem thingy? Was it fixed on that one or is it the same?
Same, its pretty terrible. However, his arms are stopped by his chest unless you do it on purpose to pull them out. So not the intended peg, but he can still do some neat poses.
Posted by Puhonix on July 29th, 2015 @ 8:12am CDT