More Sightings of Transformers Titans Return Voyager Broadside at US Retail

As much as I like aircraft carrier mode...space dolphin just doesn't do it for me.

They're probably saving apeface and snapdragon for a beasts line

It Is Him wrote:They're probably saving apeface and snapdragon for a beasts line

wave 6 voyagers

im trying not buy any voyager autobots.
so far so good.

william-james88 wrote:

It Is Him wrote:They're probably saving apeface and snapdragon for a beasts line

But titans return has a bunch of beasts already. There will be no such thing as a beasts line.

Remember who the boss monkey is next year... and where he's from (in comic terms)

Kurona wrote:

RAR wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

It Is Him wrote:They're probably saving apeface and snapdragon for a beasts line

But titans return has a bunch of beasts already. There will be no such thing as a beasts line.

Remember who the boss monkey is next year... and where he's from (in comic terms)

The vote was only just held a few months ago and the line should be coming out this very year. I highly doubt they have enough time to change the entire direction of the line based on that vote.

No But you will likely get a mix of japanese Characters, beasts, and heck maybe fembots or what ever is a touch point to the options offered then they will adjust once they get to later waves in 2018 I think it's fair to see it as a 2018 line even if it might ship in last quarter 2017 - just as everyone ignores that Beast Wars actually came out in 1995 and not 1996. and that is assuming they don't actually release it in March 2018 and then use the extension of Titans Return to sell more Movie toys and perhaps release Titan Scorponok as Prime War II not Prime Wars 3 (if they wanted too).

I expect they likely realise they can claim mechanical animals are either beast related or just normal Decepticons depending on how the vote came out - like if Megatron had won you could still do Apeface Or the Terrorcons with no issues.

Heck they can easily make a 7th or even 8th Wave is they want to of TR and still end around the same sort of time.

I think we are assuming the line ends at wave 6 - But I've heard no solid confirmation of that yet.

Heck i'd much rather get two more TR waves and fill some of the important gaps in than jump tracks to early.

I don't think Prime Wars will be just Beasts - I just think it will have a fair few Beasts in it - especially if they end TR at wave 6.

I also expect some Japanese Zone/Victory Characters too.

Kurona wrote:Oh yeah, I'll totally be surprised if there aren't any beasts aside from Primal; I just really don't think it'll be centered around beasts.

Much as it pains me there's just too many clues that TR's gonna end at Wave 6. The Movie toys which Hasbro'll want to focus on are starting to be released, as are the Boxsets which, while we only have a single line's precedence of, seems to indicate that the actual waves of a line are starting to end.

I mean hell, we could get a Wave 7; certainly wouldn't mind, but it's not something I'm expecting.

No need for clues, hasbro confirmed at toy fair that it ends at wave 6 with potp starting jan 2018.

Kurona wrote:Still, Takara will almost certainly bring out the mold in the cartoon-accurate colours; so it shouldn't be a question for much longer. ... well, I mean, they're holding off Legends until August, so you'll have to wait for quite a bit. But still.

I am sure it could get a more cartoon accurate deco but it wont help, just like Springer's more cartoon acurrate deco doesnt help make it more "season 3"-ish. The chest for Gen Kup is much closer to anything resembling Kup. This TR one does something really off with that chest and those headlights. That top half is all wrong with the way the shoulders are and the overly angular arms which remind me of CW Breakdown.

All in all, this mold doesnt scream kup in robot mode, at least not the Kup I have in my head. I look forward to seeing him decod as a different character. Any really, I am actually warmer towards reuse of molds for characters I dont know since it becomes all new to me.

Kurona wrote:While we're on the subject though; how hilarious would it be if Wave 6 did have two new triple changer Voyagers that share a mold... and they're G1-accurate versions of Springer and Sandstorm instead of Apeface and Snapdragon?

Oh, don't even joke! (Though actually if I'm being honest, I would be quite curious to see how that would look...)


As to Will's question also, I actually don't particularly like either of them as Kup to be honest. I don't actually have TR Kup yet so I can't give much of a personally-informed opinion on the figure itself, but I'm pretty turned off by the color-scheme and weird face (won't stop me from buying him as soon as I see him though! Seems like a great mold if not a great Kup). I've never had Gen Kup either, but I do have GDO Swerve, so I can say that I find that mold to be a bit too finicky and kibbly for my tastes. Bottom line, I honestly can't see Kup very much in either of his two Generations molds (nor his PRiD one either, which is my current all-purposes Kup figure). At this point it seems to me that Kup is in pretty much the same boat as Ironhide: perpetually getting toys that almost work but fall just short enough that I'm always disappointed by the end result.

Heh, that didn't actually answer your question at all did it? For what it's worth TR Kup will be my Generations Kup once I get him; mostly because I don't find either version better than the other, and it's a heck of a lot easier to just buy a toy off a shelf than to hunt for a well-priced good-condition secondhand one on eBay.

Black Hat wrote:Kup looks like a fun toy, but my Kup needs are already filled by the Prime figure, which I actually quite like even with its issues. If they retooled/redecoed it though I'd buy it for sure- the question is who they'd do him as. It could work as a decent Ironhide IMO.

I could see that Ironhide, Black Hat!

I was pleased with the reinvigorated (?) version of him for CW, but that Kup config would suit him better.

Love the aircraft carrier mode. Other modes...well...