Upcoming Transformers Collaborative Projects Found with One Possibly Hinting at Ninja Turtles

Would LOVE it if code name Knight was finally an official transformer Batmobile

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Would LOVE it if code name Knight was finally an official transformer Batmobile

Agreed. Was the only Batmobile with a proper 'bot mode in The Brave and The Bold toyline?

Awww KITT, come on now!

KITT and the TMNT Party Wagon / Turtle Van would be definite buys for me. For Tails, it has a different ID number from a lot of the other crossovers which start with F so this might be something a little different. Looking closer the Japanese crossovers (like Lunar Cruiser Prime and the Canon cameras) start with G so this might be a Japanese one. As an anime fan when I think tails I think foxes and my mind actually went directly to a Naruto bot that turns into a 9-tailed fox. That G code makes me wonder if I was right...

Could still be Sonic related, though.

Emerje

TMNT and the Batmobile are must haves for me. Especially if it were the Burton Batmobile. Even though all the licensing arguments against it sound convincing. KITT would be fine by me, though.

I'm long out of my Naruto phase. But anything and everything with a tail is fair game. I heard someone speculate about the wolfman, which would track. Someone else who wants the same things as me speculated on the Thundertank, also would track.

Hasbro and Mattel are still sharing IPs, right? Maybe I'll get another dream crossover and get Beast Wars Battle Cat (has a tail). The Tigatron mold is still right there to use. And they're doing a TMNT crossover so maybe they have an appetite for crossovers right now.

Though I know it is the least likely option, I would love a Tumbler as a crossover. KITT would also be fantastic, though I would also like a KARR from the newer series, always have.

Hmm, I don't get a lot of these, but I'll admit, a Ninja Turtles Party Wagon would get me VERY interested.

KITT or Batmobile, I am there, but Hasbro has the Marvel toyline, not DC, so I wouldn't get my hopes up TOO high for that one.

Tails has to be Godzilla since it was rumored for a while. deathsaurus as mecha Godzilla might work :p

C'mon K/I.T.T. I would totally be in for K.I.T.T.

Though I wonder who they could use as a basis?
Ectotron used Combiner Wars Onslaught.
Gigawatt used Sideswipe.

The Stranger Things van got a practically new mold.

The Datsun mold may work. I certainly hope they don't use the Tracks mold. It's pretty bad.

Maybe the Sunstreaker / Wheeljack mold would work better.

Or an entirely new mold is not out of the question. Wonder If they'll incorporate a Super Pursuit mode.

blackeyedprime wrote:Tails has to be Godzilla since it was rumored for a while. deathsaurus as mecha Godzilla might work :p

Here's another alternative. We've gotten two Universal Movies monsters...Dracula and Frankenstein. Are we potentially getting Lon Cheney, Jr.'s most famous role?

First-Aid wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Tails has to be Godzilla since it was rumored for a while. deathsaurus as mecha Godzilla might work :p

Here's another alternative. We've gotten two Universal Movies monsters...Dracula and Frankenstein. Are we potentially getting Lon Cheney, Jr.'s most famous role?

I like this

Overcracker wrote:C'mon K/I.T.T. I would totally be in for K.I.T.T.

Though I wonder who they could use as a basis?
Ectotron used Combiner Wars Onslaught.
Gigawatt used Sideswipe.

The Stranger Things van got a practically new mold.

The Datsun mold may work. I certainly hope they don't use the Tracks mold. It's pretty bad.

Maybe the Sunstreaker / Wheeljack mold would work better.

Or an entirely new mold is not out of the question. Wonder If they'll incorporate a Super Pursuit mode.

Well if it's a deluxe my immediate thought is a retooled ER Runabout. Same color, same base car model. Just need some details. Doesn't even need a new head, but would be nice.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Overcracker wrote:C'mon K/I.T.T. I would totally be in for K.I.T.T.

Though I wonder who they could use as a basis?
Ectotron used Combiner Wars Onslaught.
Gigawatt used Sideswipe.

The Stranger Things van got a practically new mold.

The Datsun mold may work. I certainly hope they don't use the Tracks mold. It's pretty bad.

Maybe the Sunstreaker / Wheeljack mold would work better.

Or an entirely new mold is not out of the question. Wonder If they'll incorporate a Super Pursuit mode.

Well if it's a deluxe my immediate thought is a retooled ER Runabout. Same color, same base car model. Just need some details. Doesn't even need a new head, but would be nice.

Runabout would make a decent mold. They'd still need to remold the front. It no doubt would have to be a licensed Pontiac Firebird with the show mods done to it.

Keep in mind that the Draculus and Frankentron were licensed by Universal and their Wolf Man doesn't have a tail.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Hasbro and Mattel are still sharing IPs, right? Maybe I'll get another dream crossover and get Beast Wars Battle Cat (has a tail). The Tigatron mold is still right there to use. And they're doing a TMNT crossover so maybe they have an appetite for crossovers right now.

Maybe, and I would buy that, but I can't picture Mattel sharing MOTU with them for anything other than Monopoly like they did Barbie. Not with their biggest boys toys competitor.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Keep in mind that the Draculus and Frankentron were licensed by Universal and their Wolf Man doesn't have a tail.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Hasbro and Mattel are still sharing IPs, right? Maybe I'll get another dream crossover and get Beast Wars Battle Cat (has a tail). The Tigatron mold is still right there to use. And they're doing a TMNT crossover so maybe they have an appetite for crossovers right now.

Maybe, and I would buy that, but I can't picture Mattel sharing MOTU with them for anything other than Monopoly like they did Barbie. Not with their biggest boys toys competitor.

Emerje

Has ANYTHING come out of that partnership other than a few games? Wasn't the entire point how surprising it was?

If Hasbro's doing nothing but a Monopoly game I gotta say it's the most wasted potential I've ever seen.

On wolfman not having a tail:
Bear in mind Maverick was project bird and Code Red was Waffles. These names don't have to be that literal.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:On wolfman not having a tail:
Bear in mind Maverick was project bird and Code Red was Waffles. These names don't have to be that literal.

Waffles is pretty literal. They were prominant in the show while a tail isn’t prominent in the Wolfman since he doesn’t have one.

william-james88 wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:On wolfman not having a tail:
Bear in mind Maverick was project bird and Code Red was Waffles. These names don't have to be that literal.

Waffles is pretty literal. They were prominant in the show while a tail isn’t prominent in the Wolfman since he doesn’t have one.

I wouldn't have guessed the pizza truck from Stager Things from a name like waffles. I wouldn't count that as one of their more literal names. Project Bat or Trooper, sure. Waffles, not really.

TBH, though, I kinda think "thinks with tails" is barking up the wrong tree. I mean, really, no matter what we're talking about they only have ONE tail. Unless the Naruto or Gidorah guessers are right.

Tales from the Crypt?

I don't suppose it could relate to some other Hasbro brand, somehow. It'd be wild if they actually did a Power Rangers crossover (multiple animals = multiple tails).

At this point the collab series has some pretty solid subthemes emerging.

Universal Monsters is an explicit subtheme. A wolfman and a gillman from TR Wolfwire and Skullsmasher still seem obvious, though who knows what they might actually do.

G.I.Joe is obviously an explicit theme, with 3 releases and a fourth inbound.

Jurassic Park has had two releases despite rocky sales on the first, which makes me feel like they were/are planning more. I kind of have a feeling they'd planned to move onto Jurassic World and retool the unrevealed Core Class Dinobot as Blue.

Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, Top Gun, and Stranger Things all take place roughly at the same time as the G1 toyline was hitting shelves. To me they form a theme, despite not being overtly related.

KITT fits the implicit 80s theme well, but Burton Batman and Toon Turtles are pushing that line, but are strong maybes.

As much as I want a transforming Seaduck, Tailspin wouldn't slot into any of those themes. Neither would an Assassin's Creed II inspired Davinci Transformer, despite how awesome that would be.

Tails...

Seems really unlikely, but a Jurassic Park II set with the Mercedes and a Stegosaurus? The scene with them swinging around their tails was pretty great.

Edit: Okay, this is a long shot but...

"TAILS" = Jaws.

Jaws was 1975, instead of 1985, but had multiple sequels in the eighties. It's also a monster movie, made by Universal and Spielberg, so it hews close to lots of other collabs that have been released. The shark itself would be a great Decepticon, and the Orca is the logical Autobot counterpart to it. (Or a dolphin if you go the Jaws 3D route.)

90s X-men and Jurassic Park figures are another generational thing and we had a "modern" Ghostbusters repaint. Since repaints/retools and revisits are on the table maybe they're thinking jet tails and are going with another Top Gun figure (technically they've done two, but I don't count the second one as a new release), maybe repaint Maverick for Goose. Even then, the choice of plural tails seems deliberate.

Going back to the idea of it being something from Japan, "twin tails" (double ponytails) are very popular there. Maybe it's another stab at a transforming Miku Hatsune. I mean she's already been a train pilot (from Takara Tomy), a custom car and a toy horse.





Emerje

Emerje wrote:For Tails, it has a different ID number from a lot of the other crossovers which start with F so this might be something a little different. Looking closer the Japanese crossovers (like Lunar Cruiser Prime and the Canon cameras) start with G so this might be a Japanese one. As an anime fan when I think tails I think foxes and my mind actually went directly to a Naruto bot that turns into a 9-tailed fox. That G code makes me wonder if I was right...

Emerje

God, I hope you're right. I'd go crazy for a Naruto Transformer

Another highly unlikely possibilty but one I would pee myself for:

Knight is one of the Junkion molds made up as the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The detachable limbs...


"Your arm's off!"
"No, it isn't."

First-Aid wrote:Another highly unlikely possibilty but one I would pee myself for:

Knight is one of the Junkion molds made up as the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The detachable limbs...


"Your arm's off!"
"No, it isn't."

Damnit, now I want that.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Another highly unlikely possibilty but one I would pee myself for:

Knight is one of the Junkion molds made up as the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The detachable limbs...


"Your arm's off!"
"No, it isn't."

Damnit, now I want that.

As do I

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Another highly unlikely possibilty but one I would pee myself for:

Knight is one of the Junkion molds made up as the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The detachable limbs...


"Your arm's off!"
"No, it isn't."

Damnit, now I want that.

As do I

You bastard. Now I want it.

Brokebot wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Another highly unlikely possibilty but one I would pee myself for:

Knight is one of the Junkion molds made up as the Black Knight from Monty Pythons Holy Grail. The detachable limbs...


"Your arm's off!"
"No, it isn't."

Damnit, now I want that.

As do I

You bastard. Now I want it.

A final use of the Kup mold would be even better. Those limbs leave a bit of a stump for each one.

While we were pretty sure that "project renaissance" was a reference to an upcoming Ninja Turtles Transformers figure, we now have a full listing name of the product which confirms it to be so. Better yet, we know the kind of vehicle it will be, the Party Wagon. We also have more news relating to the Amazon exclusive Mayhem two packs which shows that this is how we will get Windsweeper, who was originally supposed to be a selects release. This is great news to fans who were worries Windsweeper was cancelled. These come to us from JTPrime17.


TRA GEN COLLAB PROJECT RENNAISSANCE TMNT PARTY WAGON
Product Number: F9656

Mayhem:

TRA GEN MAYHEM VOY Bludgeon & DLX Ruckus
Product Number: G0182

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Chopshop & DLX Barrage
Product Number: G0201

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Knockout & DLX Windsweeper
Product Number: G0203

The Party Wagon is one of my top most-wanted TF crossovers. I loved TMNT as a kid. And as an adult too, really.

After this becomes a smash hit they need to make a titan-class transforming Technodrome. Do it, cowards!

Going to go out on a limb and guess it turns into Metalhead. Though previous figures would suggest it's an entirely new character.

Emerje

Technodrome when?

TRA GEN MAYHEM VOY Bludgeon & DLX Ruckus
Product Number: G0182

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Chopshop & DLX Barrage
Product Number: G0201

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Knockout & DLX Windsweeper
Product Number: G0203

So does that mean if we want Windsweeper and Ruckus we have to buy two figures we already have, because I'm not to keen on that.

I'm kinda hoping its robot mode is like that gobot car carrier truck where the cab is the head :p would kinda like it if it was done gi joe crossover style and could fit at least reaction figures in it

Kowabunga and roll out, dudes!

Gauntlet101010 wrote:After this becomes a smash hit they need to make a titan-class transforming Technodrome. Do it, cowards!

A transforming titan-class Technodrome with a Krang android suit headmaster would be amazing.

Keep in mind the listing says Party Wagon, in the show it was called the Turtle Van. This tells me it will be based on the toy, not the cartoon.

This will accent the Stranger Things crossover quite well. Kowabunga!

RiddlerJ wrote:TRA GEN MAYHEM VOY Bludgeon & DLX Ruckus
Product Number: G0182

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Chopshop & DLX Barrage
Product Number: G0201

TRA GEN MAYHEM DLX Knockout & DLX Windsweeper
Product Number: G0203

So does that mean if we want Windsweeper and Ruckus we have to buy two figures we already have, because I'm not to keen on that.

Yes, that's exactly what it means and there's no doubt Hasbro did that on purpose to sell more figures. I'm surprised they didn't find a way to split up Chopshop and Barrage as well, but they already made us buy three other figures to get Ransack and there's no telling what's up with Venom so I guess they decided to go easy on us there.

Emerje

We finally have a look at the TMNT/Transformers crossover figure and it turns out that it doesn't turn into any specific turtle, but into whichever one you want. The turtle van turns into a generic Ninja Turtle and then there are visor/bandana head accessories to make it either Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo or Michaelangelo. There are also the specific weapons for each of those turtles and the letter on the belt can be changed.

The toy itself is not that complex, as is the case with most of these crossover figures, and includes parts forming for the front of the van. But all weapons can be stored in either mode.

This will not be a retailer exclusive but will most likely only be found online in most parts of the world (including the US). So if you want this toy, you should order it online rather than waiting to see it in a store. Preorders should be up soon. The images come from a now taken down Amazon listing.

Party Wallop looks great.
An expensive proposition to get all 4 turtles.

Also, someone will have to 3d print some better weapons. Those Sai for Raph look positively dinky and Donny's bo staff is just silly.

Otherwise, pretty nice. Seems to be a completely new mold. Surprised he wasn't a Bulkhead retool.

Still a "half-shell" former.....

O.k, I'll let my self out now.

I'm curious how the belt changes. I didn't catch them mentioning any sort of belt gimmick, but the one in package has an R on the belt while the one out of package is blank. Perhaps stickers?

Part of me wants four of these, but at the same time I don't need four Party Wagons. I really hope a third party comes out with a Metalhead head replacement.

Emerje

It took me a second to realize this isn’t a 4-pack. It’s gonna be hella difficult for everyone to get all four! Regardless, they look fantastic, lots of potential for mold reuse, and the transformation looks fun.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:It’s gonna be hella difficult for everyone to get all four!

I thought the opposite. This being an online toy, and any one pack allows you to make any turtle, then it's just a question about having the money to buy it 4 times.

I'm glad you think the transformation looks fun, but sadly i don't share that optimism. To me it looks like this is going back to the really old and uninspired days of a shellformer.

Four? I think I'll take four. I love the TMNT.

I kinda hope that the bandanna comes off as shown, but I also wonder if that isn't prototype garbage.

I do have some quibbles about the deign. 4 fingers = someone didn't check their renders in time. It also looks to be on the small side (the Party Wagon is a largish vehicle). But the turtles themselves are short guys, so ... fine?

But, quibbles aside, COWABUNGA! Sign me up. A 3P weapons pack too, sure.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Four? I think I'll take four. I love the TMNT.

I kinda hope that the bandanna comes off as shown, but I also wonder if that isn't prototype garbage.

I do have some quibbles about the deign. 4 fingers = someone didn't check their renders in time. It also looks to be on the small side (the Party Wagon is a largish vehicle). But the turtles themselves are short guys, so ... fine?

But, quibbles aside, COWABUNGA! Sign me up. A 3P weapons pack too, sure.

It was specifically pointed out in the stream. The set comes with 4 skullcaps / bandana sections to make any turtle.
It's assumed though not specifically called out, it also comes with 4 belt buckles with the initial for each turtle.

TFW states it's a rotating belt buckle. Maybe you press it in and the center rotates.

A very fun idea. I think I'll stick with one and mostly keep it as the regular turtle bot, but I like that it can become the four brothers.

Perceptor1996 wrote:A very fun idea. I think I'll stick with one and mostly keep it as the regular turtle bot, but I like that it can become the four brothers.

That'd make some cool lore. It's just the regular turtle-bot that can power-up with the weapons, stats and fighting styles of each of the 4 brothers as required.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:TFW states it's a rotating belt buckle. Maybe you press it in and the center rotates.

I don't see any space for it to rotate in the buckle. Maybe from behind it, you pull it out and then change it.

In a word, BOOYAKASHA!

What's his name? Did I miss it?