New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb
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It was almost two years ago now, images of three Scout class figures surfaced as a part of the original Transformers movie line. For those who are new, all of the Scout class toys were sold as Target exclusives, unlike now with Revenge of the Fallen where Scout class figures were available at most retail outlets. At the time, the then new Allspark Power sub-line was out and in it's prime, with Transformers Animated soon to follow. Reverb, Gunbarrel and Backtrack never appeared in stores which suggested they were canceled releases.
Time has passed since then, and we are still unsure they were canceled, but thanks to a batch of production samples coming from China, Seibertron.com now presents to you the Transformers "that never were". You can view the galleries for the previously unreleased Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb. These figures were meant to be the last wave of Target Exclusive Movie Scouts. Apparently these are overstock intended for the Mexican marketplace and have recently become available.
Backtrack:
Gunbarrel:
Reverb:
Time has passed since then, and we are still unsure they were canceled, but thanks to a batch of production samples coming from China, Seibertron.com now presents to you the Transformers "that never were". You can view the galleries for the previously unreleased Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb. These figures were meant to be the last wave of Target Exclusive Movie Scouts. Apparently these are overstock intended for the Mexican marketplace and have recently become available.
Backtrack:
Gunbarrel:
Reverb:
Credit(s): Nekoman
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Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072049)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:24pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:24pm CDT
Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked! 
Nice to see galleries of figures that never were, keep up the good work
Nice to see galleries of figures that never were, keep up the good work
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072051)
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:27pm CDT
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:27pm CDT
If you ask me, Gunbarrel is the best out of the three. The tank is my favorite mold out of the combiner limbs, and this is an excellent color scheme.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072052)
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:30pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:30pm CDT
Cool. Great galleries. Kind of dissapointed there are no pics of Gunbarrel and Reverb combined with any version of Onslaught though. Just to see how the colors mesh.
Anyway great galleries.
Anyway great galleries.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072054)
Posted by originaldave77 on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:46pm CDT
Posted by originaldave77 on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:46pm CDT
It's amazing (at least to me) that Hasbro would cancel figures at all - due to the cost of designing figures, making prototypes, and making production molds. You would think they'd carefully decide what gets green-lit before a single mold is made.
These three don't look very movie-ish to me. Maybe we might see them in Generations or Power Combiners?
These three don't look very movie-ish to me. Maybe we might see them in Generations or Power Combiners?
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072056)
Posted by Seibertron on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:49pm CDT
There'll be some shots of them with the "Combaticon" molds soon enough. I just wanted to get these galleries up ASAP since I've been working on the galleries for these, the rest of the movie scouts, the tfu/rotf Superion and Bruticus sets since April 23rd. Here's a teaser of things to come ...
Basically, these three figures gave me reason to do 32 other galleries that I hadn't planned on doing for quite some time. It's funny how things work out like this.
I wonder what will give me reason to do the rest of the Real Gear galleries one day???
Posted by Seibertron on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:49pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Cool. Great galleries. Kind of dissapointed there are no pics of Gunbarrel and Reverb combined with any version of Onslaught though. Just to see how the colors mesh.
Anyway great galleries.
There'll be some shots of them with the "Combaticon" molds soon enough. I just wanted to get these galleries up ASAP since I've been working on the galleries for these, the rest of the movie scouts, the tfu/rotf Superion and Bruticus sets since April 23rd. Here's a teaser of things to come ...
Basically, these three figures gave me reason to do 32 other galleries that I hadn't planned on doing for quite some time. It's funny how things work out like this.
I wonder what will give me reason to do the rest of the Real Gear galleries one day???
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072059)
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:55pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:55pm CDT
Ooh, awesome Ryan. Great stuff. Can't wait to see them.
These are not new molds, and they are not movie molds. They are in fact and were already when they were supposed to be released, old molds. They come from the Energon/Superlink line.
They are 2 of the Bruticus Combiner parts.
Besides the molds where eventually released again for ROTF, in the form of the ROTF Bruticus gift set.
originaldave77 wrote:It's amazing (at least to me) that Hasbro would cancel figures at all - due to the cost of designing figures, making prototypes, and making production molds. You would think they'd carefully decide what gets green-lit before a single mold is made.
These three don't look very movie-ish to me. Maybe we might see them in Generations or Power Combiners?
These are not new molds, and they are not movie molds. They are in fact and were already when they were supposed to be released, old molds. They come from the Energon/Superlink line.
They are 2 of the Bruticus Combiner parts.
Besides the molds where eventually released again for ROTF, in the form of the ROTF Bruticus gift set.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072062)
Posted by Seibertron on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:59pm CDT
Posted by Seibertron on May 7th, 2010 @ 1:59pm CDT
I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072078)
Posted by kirbenvost on May 7th, 2010 @ 2:12pm CDT
Posted by kirbenvost on May 7th, 2010 @ 2:12pm CDT
Interesting, too bad these were never released. I really like the colors for Reverb, but unfortunately the "Allspark Blue" is a little too intrusive on the others.
But that is some great silver plastic on Backtrack! Why can't Hasbro stick with a formula they've done before, one they know looks good? It's so weird to me how the silver varies so much from figure to figure, some are almost white, others are kind of brownish, some even almost blue.
Looking forward to the rest of the combiner galleries!
But that is some great silver plastic on Backtrack! Why can't Hasbro stick with a formula they've done before, one they know looks good? It's so weird to me how the silver varies so much from figure to figure, some are almost white, others are kind of brownish, some even almost blue.
Looking forward to the rest of the combiner galleries!
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072086)
Posted by Dagon on May 7th, 2010 @ 2:21pm CDT
Yeah, and then Barracade as a Deluxe torso part, and we'd have gotten a mix matched combiner? That;s just what my thought was, but we probably had these guys cancelled when Superion and Bruticus were decided to be rereleased.
Posted by Dagon on May 7th, 2010 @ 2:21pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.
Yeah, and then Barracade as a Deluxe torso part, and we'd have gotten a mix matched combiner? That;s just what my thought was, but we probably had these guys cancelled when Superion and Bruticus were decided to be rereleased.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072111)
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:24pm CDT
They probably wanted give us a really mixed combiner for the Allspark Line.
It would have been interesting to get these 2 molds from Bruticus, the 2 planes from Superion, and then just to mix it up the core from Constructicon Maximus/Devastator.
That would have been an interesting set, in completely random color schemes.
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:24pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.
They probably wanted give us a really mixed combiner for the Allspark Line.
It would have been interesting to get these 2 molds from Bruticus, the 2 planes from Superion, and then just to mix it up the core from Constructicon Maximus/Devastator.
That would have been an interesting set, in completely random color schemes.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072114)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:30pm CDT
One problem though: no instructions?
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:30pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Seibertron wrote:I'd like to know what was planned next. I'm sure that there had to be some plans for the Aerialbot scouts in another possible wave. Seems like if you're doing Gunbarrel and Reverb, that you'd do the other two Energon scouts as well.
They probably wanted give us a really mixed combiner for the Allspark Line.
It would have been interesting to get these 2 molds from Bruticus, the 2 planes from Superion, and then just to mix it up the core from Constructicon Maximus/Devastator.
That would have been an interesting set, in completely random color schemes.
One problem though: no instructions?
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072116)
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:35pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:35pm CDT
Maybe they where going to include them with the Torso.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072118)
Posted by Rated X on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:40pm CDT
Posted by Rated X on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:40pm CDT
Im happy somebody finally had the guts to take them out of the package !!!
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072120)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:43pm CDT
Where would the deluxe-sized torso end up though?
Anybody remember how some Energon limbs and torsos were re-released in Universe (1.0) for discount chains? No mention of any combining ability what-so-ever.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 7th, 2010 @ 3:43pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Maybe they where going to include them with the Torso.
Where would the deluxe-sized torso end up though?
Anybody remember how some Energon limbs and torsos were re-released in Universe (1.0) for discount chains? No mention of any combining ability what-so-ever.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072131)
Posted by Counterpunch on May 7th, 2010 @ 4:06pm CDT
Posted by Counterpunch on May 7th, 2010 @ 4:06pm CDT
I opened mine up.
Ballin' son.
Ballin.
Ballin' son.
Ballin.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072240)
Posted by Jetstorm92210 on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:22am CDT
Posted by Jetstorm92210 on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:22am CDT
I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072311)
Posted by Duke of Luns on May 8th, 2010 @ 8:16am CDT
Posted by Duke of Luns on May 8th, 2010 @ 8:16am CDT
[quote="JelZe GoldRabbit"]Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked! /quote]
D'oh
. I'm liking these GoBot homages. Wish they would have released it, but then again I may not have been into the homages at the time, and might not have bought it. Moot point now though.
/quote]D'oh
. I'm liking these GoBot homages. Wish they would have released it, but then again I may not have been into the homages at the time, and might not have bought it. Moot point now though.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072313)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 8th, 2010 @ 8:43am CDT
Yeah, the Gobots need a bit more love. Me thinks there's a Gobot enthusiast on the Hasbro design team, would he please step forward?
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 8th, 2010 @ 8:43am CDT
Duke of Luns wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Well, the MR-37 seals it: Backtrack is a homage to Gobots Night Ranger, whose Machine Robo original "Harley Robo" had the designation MR-37! Wicked!
D'oh
Yeah, the Gobots need a bit more love. Me thinks there's a Gobot enthusiast on the Hasbro design team, would he please step forward?
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072373)
Posted by Overcracker on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:07pm CDT
As far as I know they weren't released anywhere.
But I have seen the ROTF Superion, and Bruticus gift sets in Mexico. Mainly "Sears" though at really high markups. $1000.00 pesos if I'm not mistaken for whatever reason. (for those playing along in English that's about $80 US)
So you can get the tank and helicopter molds. The Bike mold haven't seen one since Cybertron anywhere sorry.
Posted by Overcracker on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:07pm CDT
Jetstorm9221 wrote:I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?
As far as I know they weren't released anywhere.
But I have seen the ROTF Superion, and Bruticus gift sets in Mexico. Mainly "Sears" though at really high markups. $1000.00 pesos if I'm not mistaken for whatever reason. (for those playing along in English that's about $80 US)
So you can get the tank and helicopter molds. The Bike mold haven't seen one since Cybertron anywhere sorry.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072384)
Posted by Jetstorm92210 on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:48pm CDT
Thank you, so far, I've only seen the Superion gift set (at 20% discount $800.00) but nothing about the Bruticus gift set, was it released at the same time as the Superion one or later?
Posted by Jetstorm92210 on May 8th, 2010 @ 1:48pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Jetstorm9221 wrote:I'm mexican and I would like to ask if these guys were ever released in Mexico or were just intended?
As far as I know they weren't released anywhere.
But I have seen the ROTF Superion, and Bruticus gift sets in Mexico. Mainly "Sears" though at really high markups. $1000.00 pesos if I'm not mistaken for whatever reason. (for those playing along in English that's about $80 US)
So you can get the tank and helicopter molds. The Bike mold haven't seen one since Cybertron anywhere sorry.
Thank you, so far, I've only seen the Superion gift set (at 20% discount $800.00) but nothing about the Bruticus gift set, was it released at the same time as the Superion one or later?
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072389)
Posted by Overcracker on May 8th, 2010 @ 2:05pm CDT
Posted by Overcracker on May 8th, 2010 @ 2:05pm CDT
I think they were released somewhat close to each other.
Re: New Galleries for Unreleased Movie Scouts - Backtrack, Gunbarrel, and Reverb (1072412)
Posted by Flux Convoy on May 8th, 2010 @ 3:44pm CDT
Posted by Flux Convoy on May 8th, 2010 @ 3:44pm CDT
I'm really diggin those combiner limbs! Reverb is probably mt favorite of the group. The blue bits are a nice color. I'd definitely be curious to see what color and figure combos we could have gotten for an allspark combiner.
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