Video Review for Transformers Generations Legends Class Chop Shop

is noone doing a Titan Wars Legends Class thread? since Charles A Emanuele(Chuck) has done a YouTube vid of Titans Return Legends Buzzsaw(& according to him they are in stock now at Hasbro Toyshop)

Stuartmaximus wrote:is noone doing a Titan Wars Legends Class thread? since Charles A Emanuele(Chuck) has done a YouTube vid of Titans Return Legends Buzzsaw(& according to him they are in stock now at Hasbro Toyshop)

That's been mentioned here already, and news'ed. Since this is generations legends it encompasses all sublines...

My estimated delivery has been bumped from today to Saturday also.

Why? Because...

A little classic Andy to pass the time while we wait.

william-james88 wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:I would say we should be seeing wave 1 of the regular Titan Wars stuff drop shortly into the new year, maybe Feb or March. (at least after toy fair)

What about the wave 2 2016 combiner wars stuff (sky reign and wreck gar)?

Combiner Wars will run along side Titans Returns at the start. At least, that's what they told us in the second session in the Google Hangout w/ Hasbro. Ryan was in the first, maybe he can confirm that. (I'm at work and don't have my notes in front of me )

Early 2016 seems far too optimistic. Don't forget that there was that info sheet that one store showed that said the line would launch with Fortress Maximus and we still haven't officially seen that figure yet and probably wont until Toy Fair. Mid 2016, around June/July, seems far more likely.

Any overlapping will simply be old stock mingling with new stock, I can't see them releasing cases from both lines at the same time to stores. However I think Hasbro has learned a few things from our complaining when transitioning between lines this time. They typically change directions in the Generations line at the end of the year leading to tail end waves being understocked in favor of the next line as well as the entire franchise being understocked thanks to the post holiday glut when stores reset their aisles and clearance out old stuff. A mid year release would avoid that glut and if they have the timing down they can avoid CW 2016 wave 2 from being understocked in favor of TR wave 1.

But I don't really have a lot of hope for stores right now anyway. At least in my area they're really lagging behind everyone else. I've only just seen Ultra Magnus and Thundercracker in stores and the Protectobots are only just now being stocked even though I've seen the Autobot cars for at least a month now so they probably wont be stocked for long. Hopefully they get their act together next year.

Emerje

Flashwave wrote: Between Pipes being what, the 5th use of the Prime mold

I thought he was fourth:

Prime, Nemesis, Huffer and Pipes. Am I missing someone? What I find sucks about pipes and others is that my subconscious keeps bringing up that the very same mold sold for the same price last year and actually had a targetaster triplechanger with it.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Flashwave wrote: Between Pipes being what, the 5th use of the Prime mold

I thought he was fourth:

Prime, Nemesis, Huffer and Pipes. Am I missing someone?

Japanese Generations Prime.

Thats not another use of the mold, thats still prime just Takara's version. Since when have we counted that?

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Flashwave wrote: Between Pipes being what, the 5th use of the Prime mold

I thought he was fourth:

Prime, Nemesis, Huffer and Pipes. Am I missing someone?

Japanese Generations Prime.

Thats not another use of the mold, thats still prime just Takara's version. Since when have we counted that?

Since its deco is different from all the others?

So you would also count every japanese release of combiner wars molds for the same characters another use of the mold?

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Flashwave wrote: Between Pipes being what, the 5th use of the Prime mold

I thought he was fourth:

Prime, Nemesis, Huffer and Pipes. Am I missing someone?

Japanese Generations Prime.

Thats not another use of the mold, thats still prime just Takara's version. Since when have we counted that?

Since its deco is different from all the others?

So you would also count every japanese release of combiner wars molds for the same characters another use of the mold?

Well, people count the G2 redecoed versions of the same characters as well, so yes?

Unless you're only strictly speaking of Hasbro releases.

But arent the G2 characters different characters from the G1 characters even if they have the same names?

I a mainly using the mold use definition from tfwiki. For instance, lets look at animated ratchet:

The sprues for this mold included heads for both Ratchet and Ironhide, a later release in a new deco. It was later retooled to make the BotCon 2011-exclusive Fisitron and Autotrooper toys.

That line doesnt mention Takara Ironhide as another use of the mold even though the deco for that figure (which I can attest to) is similar to the difference between the generations takara optimus toy ou brought up compared to optimus.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:But arent the G2 characters different characters from the G1 characters even if they have the same names?

Not sure where you got that idea from, frankly.

Hold the phone. So G2 Optimus Prime (Laser Prime) is the same character from G1 Optimus Prime?

G2 Sideswipe is different from G1 Sideswipe. SO I just figured these were characters from that same G2 universe.