New Galleries: Titans Return Voyager Alpha Trion with Sovereign

He looks pretty good. The robot mode kicks arse and the battleship mode is cool too- makes me think of a combination of Space Battleship Yamato and the SDF-1 Macross. The lion mode is a bit iffy though.

Great gallery as always!

I feel like this Alpha Trion doesn't have as good as a beard game as he should though. He kind of was like the epic beard of the Autobots at least. Oh well.

It still amazes me just how much red this figure uses when compared to the two BotCon figures. Looking at the cartoon (and that cartoon-based non-transformable figure), Alpha Trion originally had about an even amount of red and white/light gray, whilst having slightly more purple by comparison. Of the three transforming toys, I feel like the BotCon 2007 figure got the color distributions of the red, the purple, and the white/light gray the closest to being just about right. Though, that toy ended up representing the evil Alpha Trion in the long run, so make of that what you will.

Also, tis unfortunate to see no comparison pics between Sovereign and Beta Maxx (BotCon '07 A3's Mini-Con), what with Sovereign's robot mode being molded in homage to the Cybertron Safeguard mold.

After the latest addition to the Seibertron.com toy galleries (which you can find again over here) we have another Voyager triple changer from the Transformers Titans Return toyline ready for you to start the week in style: Astrotrain, with his Titan Master Darkmoon! Using the same mold as Sentinel Prime, Astrotrain has his space train, space ship, and space robot modes but with the traditional grey and purple deco, with dabs of red and yellow. Check out the images below, click on any to view the full galleries, and see what you think of this new version of a simple triple changer from 1985 - by letting us know in the Energon Pub!

Titans Return Astrotrain (167 images) - Voyager Class














Titans Return Darkmoon (34 images) - Titan Masters, Voyager Class

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who just realized that he more grey than white?

He's not white at all. He should be gray. The Takara "NASA" version was white and black instead of gray and purple, as were the subsequent reissues, and the Classics Astrotrain. The Henkei, e-Hobby, Generations, and G1 prototype versions of Astrotrain sported the darker gray (instead of light gray) and purple.

And for those of you following the comics, I updated Alpha Trion's gallery per the request of some of the Seibertron.com staff:


Transformers Titans Return Alpha Trion Gallery

I really look forward to Astrotrain. The whole of wave 2 is a gold mine for me

Kurona wrote:Since the upcoming TR Megatron is my favourite figure of him (in terms of looks) so far I was going to use him as my classics Megatron. This did create a dilemma for me though since TR Blitzwing is, obviously, going to be a slight retool of him and hence they'd look too alike next to each other.

Soooo I was considering Thrilling 30 Blitzwing instead but I was swithering on it due to the bad things I'd heard and wasn't sure on how he looks. But seeing him here next to Astrotrain really sells it for me; they look so good with each other and I think I'm all on board now

As an owner of said Blitzwing, it is a good figure. Yes it has its flaws, but I like it and it will be my Blitzwing.

I've heard differing things about the fixes; some people get em to work perfectly, for others it doesn't work out at all. In any case if it's just used for display purposes it shouldn't be too bad.

Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

steals_your_goats wrote:Those purple panels near the front and back of the train mode should be flipped down. They have sculpted train wheels on them.

OOps! Thanks for letting me know.