First Look at Transformers Legacy Commander Class Motormaster and More

william-james88 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

AcademyofDrX wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:I picked up Bulkhead last night and I was surprised that all the Bulkhead figures and the Buzz Silversteaks had NO plastic in their cut out windows!

I was out on this one but I wish the nimrod that decided this can get a nice slap to the back of their gourd. Like people are NOT going to reach in now and fiddle and touch these figures with no doubt unclean fingers ...I call BS 'nuff said!

This is going to be the new standard. I don't have the same concern, but you may want to start ordering online or regularly disinfecting toys with light cleaning. If it's any consolation, handling toys is a relatively low-risk illness vector compared to food or airborne viruses.

And it's not like it's totally new; Cyberverse has been doing that for the larger toys, and Rescue Bots are also out in the open air. They do say exposure helps with building immunity and prevent allergies

Yeah well its a lame ass standard....I'm looking at you / .

It's just that great feeling that you bought something new....MISP knowing that you and only you had first touch besides those at the factory. Then the Eggheads go and pull this new standard with other peoples finger prints all over the exposed figure damnation!!!

So just buy leaders and commanders then, show your dislike by not buying the others.

Nah I will buy them of course but I don't have to like this!

I tried converting my Legacy Skids to car mode again, trying to follow some advice I read here, but I still couldn't get the roof to tab in properly in the back. It might just be a small tolerance issue on a tab or in a slot on my copy. I'm not going to sweat it, though, and certainly am not going to force it into place. All of that transparent plastic is scary enough to be manipulating for the steps that do tab together correctly.

Seriously, though, I think Skids came out quite well, despite some of the flaws, whether objective or subjective, associated with the figure. Given how much of the car shell is transparent plastic, there is a ton of paint lavished on the figure. The transformation is pretty simple, but has some nice surprises, like compacting the hips to get him into car mode. Getting the front wheels and robot arms in place for car mode can be a little fiddly, but once you get everything situated correctly, the arms make a nice satisfying "click" into place that you wouldn't have guessed it would. It's nice to have a Generations style G1 Skids at last. The Thrilling 30 figure was great for its time, but the "Classics" era of modernized updates has come and gone.

It's interesting how we got two different, yet very much media-blended versions of Skids in the past year. The Masterpiece version was very accurate to the real-world Honda City in vehicle mode, but blended some toy details into a mostly cartoon-accurate color layout. Now we have a G1 Generations styled Skids in Legacy that has a more cartoon accurate car mode, but with a robot mode that prefers different toy specific deco choices and details blended with an otherwise very faithful recreation of the cartoon character model.

So if the packaging art is anything to go by, the jet cockpit jutting really far out of the front of Blitzwing's tank mode wasn't a mistransformation. What a shame, I mean I know it's cartoon accurate but it still doesn't look very good. That being said I'll probably still pick one up. I'm still undecided on the Stunticons, but it looks like Motormaster has turned out well enough, at least in truck mode.

I would want these Legacy Stunticons, simply to replace the CW versions. CW Menasor was a mess of disproportionate floppy-ness. I'm reasonably confident that the Legacy Menasor will turn out much better. I think it will be mostly the truck trailer turning into the Menasor skeleton with the other figures plugging into it, but that's fine with me. After all - that is how it looked in the G1 cartoon. And anything would be an improvement over that silly CW Menasor pelvis with it's flimsy codpiece...

Rodimus Prime wrote:From what I can see, looks like they nailed Motormaster's alt mode. Looks perfect. I won't care if the cab becomes the robot like in Combiner Wars, as long as it looks like it should, fake parts or not. Just don't make it obvious like they did with Blitzwing.

I'm gonna guess that Motormaster will be just like Rodimus was, a voyager robot plus the trailer add up to the commander figure, except the trailer will be actually worth the extra money this time around. Can't wait to see if they also got Menasor right, or at least right-enough.

And I wonder if Hasbro truly homages the G1 figure and this base mode of the trailer can be hooked up to Titan Trypticon much like the G1 figures did. And if so, does that mean we will be getting a new Onslaught/Bruticus down the line? We should.

I agree with you on both points. It shouldn't be too difficult to get the cab to transform so his robot mode looks like his cartoon counterpart. And as I've said before, a show-accurate Bruticus would be nice.

Well at least motormaster looks worth half retail sugested price unlike rodimus. Dragstrips vehicle mode was pretty bad so splitting it and sticking it somewhere isn't going to look that good either. For me Menasor might have to be posed hiding one of his arms.

blackeyedprime wrote:Well at least motormaster looks worth half retail sugested price unlike rodimus. Dragstrips vehicle mode was pretty bad so splitting it and sticking it somewhere isn't going to look that good either. For me Menasor might have to be posed hiding one of his arms.

I couldn't possibly disagree with you any more. Dragstrip looks incredible in vehicle mode, and I'm very much welcoming the return to cartoon accurate Stunticons. If they follow it up with the Aerialbots next, I would be beyond ecstatic. I remember getting the G1 Aerialbots giftset as a kid, and I always wished it looked more like the cartoon. I skipped buying the CW Stunticons (though I did get the Aerialbots), and I'm so glad I did. Legacy Dragstrip is nearly perfect, and Motormaster's truck mode is amazing looking as well!

daedalus25 wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Well at least motormaster looks worth half retail sugested price unlike rodimus. Dragstrips vehicle mode was pretty bad so splitting it and sticking it somewhere isn't going to look that good either. For me Menasor might have to be posed hiding one of his arms.

I couldn't possibly disagree with you any more. Dragstrip looks incredible in vehicle mode, and I'm very much welcoming the return to cartoon accurate Stunticons. If they follow it up with the Aerialbots next, I would be beyond ecstatic. I remember getting the G1 Aerialbots giftset as a kid, and I always wished it looked more like the cartoon. I skipped buying the CW Stunticons (though I did get the Aerialbots), and I'm so glad I did. Legacy Dragstrip is nearly perfect, and Motormaster's truck mode is amazing looking as well!

I thought the Aerialbots were good, the only thing subpar was Silverbolts's jet mode. Unlike Motormaster who suffered from the terrible torso, the Silverbolt mold actually served that purpose well. So if we do get new Aerialbots, I'd be hard-pressed to buy them, unless everything about them is top-notch. The CW Aerialbots turned out well and I own the set.

Courtesy of Chefatron:

Razorbeast88 wrote:Chefatron put up a review of a Legacy Terrorsaur with toy accurate colors

That one's supposed to release through Buzzworthy like Silverstreak is, according to the store listing we have, so I'm gonna go drop pics in that thread.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, or seen yet, but via KoreanNet, here are some images of Legacy Blitzwing's box