New In-Hand Images of Transformers War for Cybertron Trilogy Tricranius Blast Power

preordered it the day of pulsecon. bit disappointing he's a maximal, maybe was hoping for a Fallen reference, but that can be fixed with a bit of nail polish remover lol

cant wait to combine him with my ractonites, gonna be rad

-Kanrabat- wrote:I dig this Bonefire. Like a fat uncle that ate too many chilli.

I feel attacked

I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

aronjlove wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

Big oof
Well on the bright side I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tigatron together when wave 4 is released

Razorbeast88 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

Big oof
Well on the bright side I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tigatron together when wave 4 is released

I haven't seen any stress marks on my copy's wings at all. Must have gotten lucky then if it's a common issue, but my copy of Dinobot does have stress marks on his left foot from where they put the pin in

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

Big oof
Well on the bright side I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tigatron together when wave 4 is released

I haven't seen any stress marks on my copy's wings at all. Must have gotten lucky then if it's a common issue, but my copy of Dinobot does have stress marks on his left foot from where they put the pin in

If it happens, it seems to happen the first time you fold the wings back or upwards, depending on the orientation of the figure.

He's got red butt! I dub thee B'Bones.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

Big oof
Well on the bright side I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tigatron together when wave 4 is released

I haven't seen any stress marks on my copy's wings at all. Must have gotten lucky then if it's a common issue, but my copy of Dinobot does have stress marks on his left foot from where they put the pin in

I wanna say my Dinobot has a problem with one of his feet as well, it's very loose. He still stands just fine but the front part of the foot flops around if I lift him up

aronjlove wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:I got kingdom megatron and airrazor from pulse today
The smell of megs rubber reminded me of my Zurg from back in the day with his water gun arm

Fiddling with airrazors wings I already got a stress mark no more backbending of the wings to make them more compact

From my own experience and what I've read on Twitter, this is a common occurrence.

Big oof
Well on the bright side I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tigatron together when wave 4 is released

I haven't seen any stress marks on my copy's wings at all. Must have gotten lucky then if it's a common issue, but my copy of Dinobot does have stress marks on his left foot from where they put the pin in

If it happens, it seems to happen the first time you fold the wings back or upwards, depending on the orientation of the figure.

I think so as well, one of my copy's wings was wedged weirdly in the package and ended up getting put in a position that put a lot of stress on it when trying to bend it back to normal. She's fine now and the stress mark hasn't grown since the original incident. I'm very cautious handling figures after my Lifeline lost some panelage, however.

Oof that's unfortunate, I'm still really looking forward to her, I always loved the design and am stoked to see it in plastic. I think my Dinobot has a stress mark on one of the thighs, it doesn't seem to want to close all the way either. C'est la QC sometimes.

All of my Beast Wars figures from Kingdom are still in the package/on the card. I should open them to see they didn't get any of these...issues.

It was a nice surprise to get the Powerdashers as repaints of the Siege Weaponizers a few years ago. I assumed that we would see some other oft-forgotten G1 toy-only characters in Earthrise and/or Kingdom, but nothing as yet. I'd love to get the Omnibots at least. It might take some more extensive retooling to get the looks right, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to make a new Camshaft, Downshift, and Overdrive from some of the existing or upcoming War for Cybertron Trilogy molds. Earthrise Wheeljack for Camshaft, Kingdom Tracks for Downshift, and Earthrise Bluestreak for Overdrive, perhaps? I would still like the other Autobot Targetmasters too, Pointblank and Sureshot. We've been waiting a long time for those. At least we have an official Crosshairs from Siege.

Well we did get the Micromaster Stations with Robot Modes in ER, (Modulators) so that was pretty cool. But yeah, definitely the Omnibots, and some more obscure characters with modern updates would be nice. I still want to see late Original Series Combiners, but that will most likely appear in selects if ever.

To add my own testimonial to the BW QC talk, just so there aren't only negative examples: I've gotten my hands on all the show cast released so far minus Cheetor (waiting to find the Netflix one), and the only issues I've had are that one tab breaking on Blackarachnia the night I got her, and one of the leathery panels on Megatron's tail-arm fighting with me occasionally when going from T-rex to bot mode, nothing figure-ruining and no stress marks on Airazor's wings.

Wolfman Jake wrote:It was a nice surprise to get the Powerdashers as repaints of the Siege Weaponizers a few years ago. I assumed that we would see some other oft-forgotten G1 toy-only characters in Earthrise and/or Kingdom, but nothing as yet. I'd love to get the Omnibots at least. It might take some more extensive retooling to get the looks right, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to make a new Camshaft, Downshift, and Overdrive from some of the existing or upcoming War for Cybertron Trilogy molds. Earthrise Wheeljack for Camshaft, Kingdom Tracks for Downshift, and Earthrise Bluestreak for Overdrive, perhaps?

Remember how confident everyone was at the beginning of Earthrise that we'd definitely get the Omnibots as that line's Powerdasher equivalents? Fun times. Still, if they got made and they looked good, I'd bite, but I've got no attachment to them to motivate me otherwise.

Gimme that Tricranius and his BURNING JUSTICE! Although... the translucent plastic is something to be cautious about.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Gimme that Tricranius and his BURNING JUSTICE! Although... the translucent plastic is something to be cautious about.

Considering his rear end is burning red, mebbe some Preparation H is needed...

I want to show off something. When i looked at the 2 cheetors in my store before i bought mine and one of them had a noticeable bright spot on the on the very edge on one of the shoulderpads... as if it was weakened.
Has anyone spotted this issue right before opening the box.

You sure it's not paint bleed?

I just sumbmitted this to news, Amazon UK listing Hasbro TRA GEN K Deluxe Mirage & Grimlock

Is this the rumored Earth-mode Mirage?

aronjlove wrote:I just sumbmitted this to news, Amazon UK listing Hasbro TRA GEN K Deluxe Mirage & Grimlock

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Is this the rumored Earth-mode Mirage?

In the description, it mentions "Battle Across Time" as the name of these 2-packs, in place of Galactic Odyssey from the Earthrise.

aronjlove wrote:I just sumbmitted this to news, Amazon UK listing Hasbro TRA GEN K Deluxe Mirage & Grimlock

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Is this the rumored Earth-mode Mirage?

I guess Skywarp got the boot, then. Ah well, better to lose him than Grimlock

Autobot N wrote:

aronjlove wrote:I just sumbmitted this to news, Amazon UK listing Hasbro TRA GEN K Deluxe Mirage & Grimlock

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Is this the rumored Earth-mode Mirage?

I guess Skywarp got the boot, then. Ah well, better to lose him than Grimlock

He could be in another 2 pack

Ok so one listing but lots to go through. The new listing in question is Hasbro TRA GEN K Deluxe Mirage & Grimlock found on Amazon uk. We thank fellow Seibertronian aronjlove for letting us know of it. The listing specifically states that this is part of a subline within Kingdom called the Battle Across Time Collection where "fans can recreate the duel between G1 and Beast Wars and form teams from Maximals and Autobots". It is 100% certain that the Grimlock here is a redeco of Kingdom Dinobot since the listing specifically calls out Beast Wars Grimlock's look in the Uprising comic, and details that he turns into a velociraptor. Mirage is the same Mirage we got in Siege since he comes with the same accessories listed and we were told of this in the initial rumours. The differences are rumoured to be the deco which would not have the Cybertronian text. The other two pack rumoured to come out in this line would be Sideswipe and a redeco of Airazor as Beast Wars II Skywarp.

This is the second exclusive subline within Kingdom, since we already know of the Golden Disk collection. This happened in Earthrise as well where you had the "Villains" subline and the Amazon exclusive Galactic Odyssey collection.


Transformers Beast Wars Grimlock Gallery

I think if Mirage isn’t totally different from his Siege counterpart than I think I can live with the Siege version. I’m sure I can get something off ToyHax if I really wanted to to make him blend in better with the current stuff, and he’s already Earth-like in appearance anyway. Grimlock I could care less for, though interesting that it lists he comes with two swords. Perhaps a misinterpretation of Dinobot’s sword/tail combo?

Releasing Siege Mirage for a 4th time???

Does Hasbro know that hardly anybody was able to find Titans Return Windblade, Misfire or Twin Twist? I mean those 3 figures just barely got released 1 time. I know a lot of fans never saw them in stores at all, myself included.

What's so special about the Siege Mirage mold to make it deserving of 4 releases? Am I missing something here? Is it related to BW Grimlock in some way?

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:Releasing Siege Mirage for a 4th time???

Does Hasbro know that hardly anybody was able to find Titans Return Windblade, Misfire or Twin Twist? I mean those 3 figures just barely got released 1 time. I know a lot of fans never saw them in stores at all, myself included.

What's so special about the Siege Mirage mold to make it deserving of 4 releases? Am I missing something here? Is it related to BW Grimlock in some way?

Earth version, presumably this time he'll have actual English writing on him instead of Cybertronian, maybe fully opaque plastic instead of having translucent legs, and given the listing has him with 20 steps while the Siege release has 19 he might even be somewhat remolded instead of just redecoed as previously indicated

At least all four versions of Mirage will have distinctly different aesthetics. Cybertronian, "invisible", Decepticon, and now Earth mode. Sure can't say that about the three slightly different versions of Impactor.

Emerje

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:Releasing Siege Mirage for a 4th time???

Does Hasbro know that hardly anybody was able to find Titans Return Windblade, Misfire or Twin Twist? I mean those 3 figures just barely got released 1 time. I know a lot of fans never saw them in stores at all, myself included.

I remember my hobby store nexus had at least 2 Windblade figures. But i purchased Weirdwolf, Hardhead, Hot-Rod and Kup during that era. I never was interested in Windblade since she was new and not so rooted in memories of a character i was familiar with. (Both RID and Cyberverse were shown infrequently on cartoon network.) WFC Arcee was a different story. Transformers G1 season 3-4 was the only G1 dvd set i ever bought.

This image is getting passed around as a leak of Grimlock and it looks like complete bull to me. But I dunno, everyone else seems to be believing it

The plastic looks wrong (and inconsistent) and the spots look edited.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

This image is getting passed around as a leak of Grimlock and it looks like complete bull to me. But I dunno, everyone else seems to be believing it

The plastic looks wrong (and inconsistent) and the spots look edited.

The head also looks too big. Looking at my Dinobot now I think it's safe to say this is edited. At least it gives us an approximation of what the figure will probably look like.

aronjlove wrote:Amazon UK listing

Oh so these will be available on Amazon UK, while the Earthrise twin-packs and Galactic Odyssey Collection never were...

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

This image is getting passed around as a leak of Grimlock and it looks like complete bull to me. But I dunno, everyone else seems to be believing it

The plastic looks wrong (and inconsistent) and the spots look edited.

That does look pretty fake but I do appreciate the 101 Dalmatians hashtag

william-james88 wrote:The other two pack rumoured to come out in this line would be Sideswipe and a redeco of Airazor as Beast Wars II Skywarp.

Slight correction: the original leaks were for Sideswipe and Grimlock, along with Mirage and Skywarp. Now it's Sideswipe and Nightprowler, along with Mirage and Grimlock. Guess they shuffled things around.

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:Releasing Siege Mirage for a 4th time???

Does Hasbro know that hardly anybody was able to find Titans Return Windblade, Misfire or Twin Twist? I mean those 3 figures just barely got released 1 time. I know a lot of fans never saw them in stores at all, myself included.

What's so special about the Siege Mirage mold to make it deserving of 4 releases? Am I missing something here? Is it related to BW Grimlock in some way?

I have no idea where the the concept art come from but theirs a wiki page for a BW Mirage that is unrelated to the G1 Mirage. https://beastwarstransformers.fandom.co ... Mirage_(BW)
I personally think it would be awesome to get a brand new beast wars figure based an a new animal form. I doubt it will happen as we'll prob just get a sige repaint, but I'll hope for a new mold.

Stealth Claw wrote:

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:Releasing Siege Mirage for a 4th time???

Does Hasbro know that hardly anybody was able to find Titans Return Windblade, Misfire or Twin Twist? I mean those 3 figures just barely got released 1 time. I know a lot of fans never saw them in stores at all, myself included.

What's so special about the Siege Mirage mold to make it deserving of 4 releases? Am I missing something here? Is it related to BW Grimlock in some way?

I have no idea where the the concept art come from but theirs a wiki page for a BW Mirage that is unrelated to the G1 Mirage. https://beastwarstransformers.fandom.co ... Mirage_(BW)
I personally think it would be awesome to get a brand new beast wars figure based an a new animal form. I doubt it will happen as we'll prob just get a sige repaint, but I'll hope for a new mold.

Dont know why BW mirage is being brought up, the listing clearly states it is a G1 mirage, hence the battle across time moniker.

Stealth Claw wrote:I have no idea where the the concept art come from but theirs a wiki page for a BW Mirage that is unrelated to the G1 Mirage. https://beastwarstransformers.fandom.co ... Mirage_(BW)

That's fan art for a fanmade character.

I am very very content with my Decpticon graffiti Mirage and Dinobot with a Grimlock style head would be neat? The issue I have is the base mold, the weirdly derpy raptor mode just .. kills the vibe for me For those who enjoy him power to ya tho! And if you missed any of the other Mirage's this is a great chance to experience a pretty dynamite figure!

Apparently, there's a leaked/digibashed photo of Grimlock here:

- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... on&paipv=0

primalxconvoy wrote:Apparently, there's a leaked/digibashed photo of Grimlock here:

- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... on&paipv=0

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Scroll up ten posts up the page.

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Apparently, there's a leaked/digibashed photo of Grimlock here:

- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... on&paipv=0

178662636_10158199509522291_3359848731743634196_n.jpg

Scroll up ten posts up the page.

Thanks, sorry. Oh well, at least this new one is rotated correctly, for our viewing pleasure...

hoping they go all in on the earthmodes nstead of minor retools. If there is a red alert give him his shoulder wheels too tho anything to replace majority of siege molds works for me.

primalxconvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Apparently, there's a leaked/digibashed photo of Grimlock here:

- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... on&paipv=0

178662636_10158199509522291_3359848731743634196_n.jpg

Scroll up ten posts up the page.

Thanks, sorry. Oh well, at least this new one is rotated correctly, for our viewing pleasure...

It's also suspected to be fake.

I agree. I'm glad I didn't get Seige Sideswipe and Red Alert now (due to the cr@pple damage paint). It always pays to hold off on buying TFs you're not happy with, as another version will usually come out again later.

Edit:

- Grimlock's pic is confirmed as fake:

- https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... t-19068108

primalxconvoy wrote:It always pays to hold off on buying TFs you're not happy with, as another version will usually come out again later.

Ermmmmm, that's kind of what I thought the one time I saw TR Misfire, Twin Twist, and Perceptor on store pegs, and passed because their paint jobs weren't quite up to snuff. The gaps in that "usually" usually lead to $100 markups on ebay. The moral is, in a world where nothing is what it seems, ya' never know, so if you want it, buy it now and consider selling it later.

If I don't like the Mirage my Kingdom Grimlock comes with, he might just go my 3rd cousins like Netflix Hound did.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:It always pays to hold off on buying TFs you're not happy with, as another version will usually come out again later.

Ermmmmm, that's kind of what I thought the one time I saw TR Misfire, Twin Twist, and Perceptor on store pegs, and passed because their paint jobs weren't quite up to snuff. The gaps in that "usually" usually lead to $100 markups on ebay. The moral is, in a world where nothing is what it seems, ya' never know, so if you want it, buy it now and consider selling it later.

If I don't like the Mirage my Kingdom Grimlock comes with, he might just go my 3rd cousins like Netflix Hound did.

Word.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:It always pays to hold off on buying TFs you're not happy with, as another version will usually come out again later.

Ermmmmm, that's kind of what I thought the one time I saw TR Misfire, Twin Twist, and Perceptor on store pegs, and passed because their paint jobs weren't quite up to snuff. The gaps in that "usually" usually lead to $100 markups on ebay. The moral is, in a world where nothing is what it seems, ya' never know, so if you want it, buy it now and consider selling it later.

If I don't like the Mirage my Kingdom Grimlock comes with, he might just go my 3rd cousins like Netflix Hound did.

Not really. Perceptor has had two fairly "recent" CHUG offerings and I'm sure the other characters you mentioned will get new versions in the future too. In fact, at the time, they're were the TT versions that you could have got. Patience is a virtue, especially in this hobby.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

This image is getting passed around as a leak of Grimlock and it looks like complete bull to me. But I dunno, everyone else seems to be believing it

The plastic looks wrong (and inconsistent) and the spots look edited.

Plastic looks wrong cause it's a fake pic. Here's the original
https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... t-19068108

william-james88 wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

This image is getting passed around as a leak of Grimlock and it looks like complete bull to me. But I dunno, everyone else seems to be believing it

The plastic looks wrong (and inconsistent) and the spots look edited.

Plastic looks wrong cause it's a fake pic. Here's the original
https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/ ... t-19068108

That's what I was getting at, hence the "complete bull" statement. I use a Photoshop-adjacent program frequently so the colours immediately looks like a bad colourise job.

Plus the spots look like they're "floating" on the surface, rather than "seeped" into the cracks of the skin texture, right?