Titans Return Arcee & Ultra Magnus Titan Master revealed as Hascon early access

I'll trade anyone my Takara Legends Arcee for this. This one looks so, so, SO much better

Kurona wrote:Following the leak of Titans Return cards for a Deluxe Arcee and a Titan Master Ultra Magnus, rumours were abound on how they would be released if at all. Well, the wait's finally over as io9 has revealed they're an exclusive for the upcoming Hascon! Listed specifically as 'early access' at 30$, see the official image and what io9 has to say about them below and tell us what you think in the forums!

UPDATE: It has been brought to this foolish news poster's attention exactly what 'early access' means -- it's highly likely that Arcee and Ultra Magnus are not exclusives at Hascon, but will be there first before being distributed to normal retail afterwards.

io9 wrote:Joining Rex in early access at the con is a new $30 Titans Return figure set for Arcee. Inspired by the retro generation 1 designs, the Deluxe-Class figure includes a “Titan Master” minifigure for Ultra Magnus, which can transform into an alternate heads for other Titans Returns figures:

Damn. If this and the Optimus Prime power bank were SDCC exclusives, I would have bought more stuff at Comic-Con.

I like the dual guns on the front.

Is there a name for Arcee's Titan Master?

Kurona wrote:I'll trade anyone my Takara Legends Arcee for this. This one looks so, so, SO much better

Totally agreed. This Arcee looks way better than the Generations mold, super G1 Arcee just ends up looking odd to me. Makes me wish Nautica got more retooling.

YoungPrime wrote:

Rysquad wrote:Is there a name for Arcee's Titan Master?

Spikes annoying son?

Ah. Leinad the healer.

Do we know if the Ultra Magnus titan master will get a retail release? I don't have any of the titan masters yet, but that Magnus is pretty cool looking.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Oh dear. That looks bad. Can appreciate the retooled parts to attempt to make it look more like Arcee but it just doesn't work for me at all. The Generations figure blows this away even with it's backpack. This is pretty horrible.

Yeah I'll be skipping Blurrcee here thank you.

Agree 100%
By the way, Deadput, your soul is worth $30 and includes an extra head!

Just looking at it some more cos wondering what they could have done to improve it... the arms end up far too kibbly. The front kibble things were bad enough on Blurr's forearms (one of the things I least like about the figure) but they look far worse ona a robot form representing a female character more usually depicted as being quite slender and nimble looking. There's no way they could have redesigned the arms completely to have those front bits end up on the shoulders somehow and negate the need for extra shoulder kibble while providing slimmer forearms? Maybe just cheat like the front of the car and had that forearm kibble actually part of the hood rather that connected to the arms at all, that way when she wears the shield on her back like Blurr can, those parts would end up on her back like G1 accurate and not attached to her shoulders like this extra kibble does. They could be attached to the hood by pivots so they could have rotated around so that the headlight bits face up when the shield is on her back. They could have then resculpted the kibble-less forearms to be much rounder and slimmer and just needing to slot under into those parts now connected to the hood.

Gen Arcee still looks great stood next to Blurr and not looking anything like Blurr.


Anyways that's all I have to say on the subject. Peace!