Second Tier Announced for HasLab Transformers Victory Saber

william-james88 wrote:
As for me, it's not that I am hoping to make bank, just that it would be a way to lower my cost on my personal purchase.

Me too. Ideally, I will have a "free" HASLAB Victory Saber in the end by selling my spare.

I'm hoping that final tier is worthwhile, a flight stand is nice but that's not really a draw. The cannons are a good starting bonus, but really the flight stand should've been tier 1 with the V-Locks being Tier 2.

That being said, does he have unique blast effects in these images? They're similar in shape to the Jetfire ones but they have a more "petal"-y design from the looks of things. Though that could easily just be them being opaque and making them look different.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:That being said, does he have unique blast effects in these images? They're similar in shape to the Jetfire ones but they have a more "petal"-y design from the looks of things. Though that could easily just be them being opaque and making them look different.

I think they are the same ones, they just look more detailed or petal-y due to the grey coloring showing every individual line that gets lost when they are clear

Some things were fixed on Unicron by fan's demands. So I don't see why such a simple thing won't be if enough people ask for it.

griftimus prime wrote:a stand... how lame. how about more weapons or another transformer or something? how about showing a paint job or something? does this thing require stickers? i do not want to place stickers on it.

Weapons? All of Star Saber and Victory Leo's iconic weapons have already been shown. What more do you want? Some random blaster neither have ever had before?

As for the paint job, this is just an early mock-up. The colors come when the project is greenlit.

o.supreme wrote:Well not sure what the reasoning was (did anyone get an email about the Tier 2 reveal?), but there seems to have been a little boost today, Up about 200 backers so far, as opposed to being very stagnant, less than 100 backers growth in the last 2-3 days. I still say it is probably more to due with good timing and people getting paid (some folks in the U.S. are getting that sweet sweet gubmment' stimulus that we will likely pay back in taxes) than the actual tier 2 reveal itself. But whatever the reason, I cant wait to see what the number of backers is by the end of the weekend. If by some miracle this can fund without backers from Japan, we can just have them push us all the way through the stretch goals .

I have been checking the numbers daily, I can say they had already gone up before this news dropped, at least here anyway. Given that they are already showing the second stretch goal so far from the funding numbers tells me they have already seen the foreign sales numbers and we are already there. Pure speculation mind you, but a reasonable one. Still underwhelmed by the stretch goals this far, but realistically there's really not a whole lot else that Victory Saber needs. I mentioned Jan and Holi a few posts back, given it's his adopted son and all, but what else could there really be? maybe an operation table you can strap T.R. Power Master Prime to to recreate his death and rebirth as Victory Leo? Or maybe an alternate bigger Saber head so you can have the "unmasked" star saber and not have a cartoonishly tiny head (looking at you mp Star Saber)

For the third tier, best not to get your hopes up...I mean ge doesn't have his shield yet...

As always expect the worse then you can be surprised if something good does happen.

o.supreme wrote:I would expect the last one to *hopefuly* be some sort of Micromaster(s). But I mentioned a while back; I know it is odd, but I'd defintely take a CW Deathcobra. They have the helicopter mold already, just a new head tool is needed, which wouldn't be much.

In an ideal world where Liokaiser was our Haslab, Deathcobra would've been the final tier. But currently it seems like the final tier will be his shield, which kinda shows that the designers thought of two Bonuses and just shoved a stand in to fill the gap.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I would expect the last one to *hopefuly* be some sort of Micromaster(s). But I mentioned a while back; I know it is odd, but I'd defintely take a CW Deathcobra. They have the helicopter mold already, just a new head tool is needed, which wouldn't be much.

In an ideal world where Liokaiser was our Haslab, Deathcobra would've been the final tier. But currently it seems like the final tier will be his shield, which kinda shows that the designers thought of two Bonuses and just shoved a stand in to fill the gap.

Regardless, a flight stand for the spaceship mode is pretty neat. And if it help the full bot mode be in fancy poses, the better it will be.

while I still feel underwhelmed with this reveal, I do really dig that the stand is the victory logo. would be nice to see that in color as well

william-james88 wrote:I'll be dead honest, it's not like I need any tiers beyond that canon. Everything truly is a bonus to me beyond that.

And I don't even need the cannon, I'm perfectly happy with the base package. So I'm not gonna be upset about any of the stretch goals, since it's all just free addons for me