New Galleries: Adventure Series TAV16 Bombshell, TAV17 Shrapnel, TAV19 Powerglide and TAV20 Cosmos

They all look pretty sweet, just as sweet as their hasbro counterparts

Sigma Magnus wrote:Is it just me, or does Powerglide look depressed in his boxart?

Yes he does.

Also, I want to point something out that may not be known by all. A BIG difference between the TAV insecticons and the Hasbro generations ones is that Takara molded circles in their chests to acomodate the stickers.

Transformers fan wrote:I think they were deigned with Transformers G1 in mind, but why add them to the Transformers Adventure lineup

Nice to see a fellow whovian.

Well, Takara is simply considering the TAV line a catch all line to issue a bunch of figures. There's animated redecos, older generations figures and these here. I agree that they should be more for the legends line but Takara is marketting for kids here with the interactivity so I guess they think that market is more lucrative for these figures.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Transformers fan wrote:I think they were deigned with Transformers G1 in mind, but why add them to the Transformers Adventure lineup

Nice to see a fellow whovian.

Well, Takara is simply considering the TAV line a catch all line to issue a bunch of figures. There's animated redecos, older generations figures and these here.

Though, the bios given to each Adventure toy peg them as characters native to Adventure's continuity. Adventure Lockdown, for instance, isn't the same guy as Animated Lockdown.

Yes, definitely but for fans picking these toys up, I dont think they are stopping from buying these because the bios dictate that these insecticons are different characters an thus cant be on their shelves with their other classics toys.

I feel the bio is more of a way to incorporate these toys within the app/continuity rather than the toys being mae to be part of this app/continuity. Similarly to how they did their Legends line. Sure, there is a legends universe where they all fit together, but that's just a cute side extra for fun rather than be a fully developped universe created inorder to sell these toys. What I am saying here is that in both cases, the toys come before the fiction rather than being a product of it.

Hellscream9999 wrote:I think the question is: why not release them under the Legends line? They are obviously 'G1' enough for it, and TT released other continuity figures under that banner too (primal, slipstream, etc.)

I guess Takara, for some reason, doesn't want the Legends line to have any figures smaller than Deluxe class anymore. Maybe the Swerve & Tailgate 2-pack didn't do so hot or something.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I think the question is: why not release them under the Legends line? They are obviously 'G1' enough for it, and TT released other continuity figures under that banner too (primal, slipstream, etc.)

I guess Takara, for some reason, doesn't want the Legends line to have any figures smaller than Deluxe class anymore. Maybe the Swerve & Tailgate 2-pack didn't do so hot or something.

Well, TakaraTomy did say they wanted to change directions with the Legends line, maybe that's part of it? Or maybe singles are logistically easier to plan releases for?

At any rate, given that the Legends-sized figure come in twos, how would you have paired them? We have:

Bombshell
Shrapnel
Powerglide
Cosmos/Adams
Blackjack/Runabout
Groove/Override

I'd have either done three VS packs of one Bot and one Con each, or one Insectrons set, one Minibots set, and one VS pack of the Blackjack/Runabout mold vs. the Groove/Override mold.

While we have already covered Wave 3 of the Transformers Robots in Disguise Mini-Cons, we have yet to give you galleries of the Wave 2 offering. This wave consisted of Ratbat, Beastbox, Velocirazor, and Sandsting. Collecting all four gave you the necessary pieces to put together a cool energon shark figure. This is the last wave to give such a bonus and it is surprising that this feature was not shown in the instructions when it seems well thought out and well executed. These minicons work with either Deployers Drift or Fracture depending on the shape.

Transformers: Robots In Disguise Ratbat










Transformers: Robots In Disguise Sandsting










Transformers: Robots In Disguise Velocirazor










Transformers: Robots In Disguise Beastbox

Sandsting reminds me of Nautilator!

RiddlerJ wrote:I almost bought Ratbat but held off. The fact that you couldn't spread his wings was a huge turn off. He looks like a simian, not a bat.

Yeah, the non-existent articulation has lowered this entire line to the level of a pitiful joke for me

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I think the question is: why not release them under the Legends line? They are obviously 'G1' enough for it, and TT released other continuity figures under that banner too (primal, slipstream, etc.)

I guess Takara, for some reason, doesn't want the Legends line to have any figures smaller than Deluxe class anymore. Maybe the Swerve & Tailgate 2-pack didn't do so hot or something.

That is ironic that they don't want the legends line to have legends anymore...

Well, now they seem to have changed their mind about that since the Legends line will be getting Legends class Titans Returns molds in it.