Rumoured Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG64 Seaspray, Targetmaster LG65 Twin Twist & LG66 Topspin

Ha! Lione! I didn't think we'd see him in the Legends line. Neato!

Kurona wrote:Talking of the line; I'm pretty sure that's everything from Titans Return done now, isn't it? Barring any re-uses like G2 Megatron they want to do.

Seems like it. Though they never released Wilder (Fangry) as a Headmaster (his animal partner is getting packed with G2 Megatron). Which is odd because he appeared in the comics.

Ptero and his animal partner were never released, and I'm guessing the Lione that comes with Seaspray is the head. If that's the case the lion partner hasn't seen a release yet either.

Then there are retools of existing Headmasters (not talking about any vehicles or animals) that weren't released and likely won't be (Krok, Getaway, Shuffler Headmaster, Black Shadow, etc).

Randy

Stuartmaximus wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I would've said maybe a Nemesis Rodimus...but that's never gonna happen!

*cough cough*

O....k...i had a senior moment there

thanks

BTW why Unicronus? shouldn't it be Dark Rodimus or something?

SG Rodimus?

Sodan-1 wrote:With Takara seemingly shoe-horning the Targetmaster partners into whichever release they can, and their appearance in this latest comic, what are the chances of us actually getting Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot as figures, even if they are Takara exclusives?

I feel like it's possible that the autobot targetmasters might be part of the "Power of the Primes" line. So it's possible that Takara's preemptively releasing the target masters to be paired with later figures.

Lione, Spoil and Peaceman. The gang's almost complete

Albatross250 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Talking of the line; I'm pretty sure that's everything from Titans Return done now, isn't it? Barring any re-uses like G2 Megatron they want to do.

Aren't we forgetting someone?
No it's not Getaway, but i'm still waiting for LG-Lightfoot

Maybe as a special release, but for the main line? Nope. Head swaps have it hard in the Japanese market you know...

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:With Takara seemingly shoe-horning the Targetmaster partners into whichever release they can, and their appearance in this latest comic, what are the chances of us actually getting Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot as figures, even if they are Takara exclusives?

I feel like it's possible that the autobot targetmasters might be part of the "Power of the Primes" line. So it's possible that Takara's preemptively releasing the target masters to be paired with later figures.

Possibly as retools, but not as new figures. Also, the first 4 waves of PotP has been leaked, but the Autobot TM's are not part of them. They'd have to combine anyway, so...

Sodan-1 wrote:With Takara seemingly shoe-horning the Targetmaster partners into whichever release they can, and their appearance in this latest comic, what are the chances of us actually getting Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot as figures, even if they are Takara exclusives?

Well, considering that Crosshairs, Pointblank, and Sureshot's appearance in the comic basically had them go "Yeah, we're not going with the rest of you guys to the Legends World, we're staying behind on purpose"...

Sabrblade wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:With Takara seemingly shoe-horning the Targetmaster partners into whichever release they can, and their appearance in this latest comic, what are the chances of us actually getting Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot as figures, even if they are Takara exclusives?

Well, considering that Crosshairs, Pointblank, and Sureshot's appearance in the comic basically had them go "Yeah, we're not going with the rest of you guys to the Legends World, we're staying behind on purpose"...

At the same time, they also still took on Headmaster forms and they could eventually get bodies for a future situation. This just explains why their Targetmaster partners are purchasable without them.

Also I really want different umbrella terms to separate Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot from Peacemaker, Spoilsport and Pinpointer. Having to specify which 'Targetmasters' I'm talking about is getting really frustrating.

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:With Takara seemingly shoe-horning the Targetmaster partners into whichever release they can, and their appearance in this latest comic, what are the chances of us actually getting Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot as figures, even if they are Takara exclusives?

Well, considering that Crosshairs, Pointblank, and Sureshot's appearance in the comic basically had them go "Yeah, we're not going with the rest of you guys to the Legends World, we're staying behind on purpose"...

At the same time, they also still took on Headmaster forms and they could eventually get bodies for a future situation. This just explains why their Targetmaster partners are purchasable without them.

Also I really want different umbrella terms to separate Crosshairs, Pointblank and Sureshot from Peacemaker, Spoilsport and Pinpointer. Having to specify which 'Targetmasters' I'm talking about is getting really frustrating.

And we can't abbreviate either of them down to TM either, 'cause that adds a third layer of confusion with Titan Masters, who'd also probably be involved! I don't know if there's any really good way of solving that (outside of another officially-sanctioned designation, like the split between Headmasters - the main guys - and Titan Masters - the partners). If you'd like a suggestion for a substitute term though, you could always call Peacemaker/Spoilsport/Pinpointer "the shooty-men".


Personally I don't think it's likely that we'll see TT-only renditions of the C/P/S-type Targetmasters; if they were planning to release them soon, why then release their partners with other random figures? The Targetmaster partners are a non-line-specific extra on top of TR's gimmick anyway, so even if C/P/S weren't going to be part of the TR-section of Legends, that shouldn't stop them from being packed with their gun-people. To me, that (pin)points to C/P/S not being in the plans for Takara at the moment - they've done some crazy retool/new-mold stuff before in the last two years, but it doesn't seem too likely this time around IMO.

Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian chuckdawg1999, we have a video review of the very recently revealed Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG46 Targetmaster Kup - in comparison with the Titans Return Hasbro version of the figure, and featuring the Targetmaster Recoil too! Check it out below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub.

Once again Takara steps up and goes above and beyond Hasbro giving us the best Kup to date outside of a theoretical Masterpiece. The inclusion of Recoil a new mold update to the G1 Targetmaster is the cherry on the sundae. Highest possible recommendation.

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Albatross250, and with the previous image found on Loopaza MegaStore's Facebook page, we have confirmation of those Takara Tomy Transformers Legends figures reported here.

Specifically, we're looking at March 2018 releases of LG64 Seaspray and Lione (Sawback), LG65 Target master Twin Twist, LG66 Target Master Top Spin! Still no image available, but we do have price points in Yen of 2000 and 4000 respectively, meaning 17 USD and 35 USD at the time of writing. (Also included in the image appear to be reissues of MPM-3 Bumblebee and TLK-25 Nitro Zeus.)