Video Review of Walmart Exclusive Thundertron, Calcitron and Nightstrike

That is easily one of the Transformers molds to disappoint me the most and seeing Lockdown with it is the most upset I've felt about a new TF toy.

Did something go wrong with Legacy United Tigerhawk? I’ve never seen it at retail. It’s sold out everywhere on line, and even scalper inventories are limited. It was supposed to be refreshed with wave 2 and Sandstorm, but nothing. Sandstorm has arrived, several weeks ago now, but still no new inventory of Tigerhawk. I know the supply chain is still broken, but how can it still be this bad?

Wake me up when they do a proper TFA-style Lockdown remake...

I don't think we've had a video review of Cybertron Hot Shot yet, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AINPGQCDDQs

As much as upset as I am by the lack of Safeguard or those leftover ankle hinges from the previous tooling the more I see of this Victor Prime the more I like. His colors just pop so well and I like all the different ways he can store his key.

It may also help that Cybertron was my first ever TF series and I liked Vector Prime a lot back in the day.

Vector looks as good as I can hope for nowadays. Then I saw his opening hands. Man, I hate those. I've never had a toy with that type of hands that held a weapon good at all. And he's known for his sword.....

Really need an upgrade kit for VP, even just something to make those vestigial leg hinges look better and maybe extend his alt mode somehow would be good. Looking forward to what Toyhax comes up with, too.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Cheetron wrote:Vector looks as good as I can hope for nowadays. Then I saw his opening hands. Man, I hate those. I've never had a toy with that type of hands that held a weapon good at all. And he's known for his sword.....

They are the exact same hands as Jhiaxus, who holds his guns just fine. I'm not too worried at all.

Similar to Leader Prime's as well and they're perfectly fine.

Emerje

Looking at these pics, it only just now hit me that Vector Prime's Critias Gate is now located at the nose of his vehicle mode inside of behind the cockpit where it was on the original toy. His Cyber Key still being in that spot threw me off before now. The Critias Gate being at the very front nose portion of the vehicle mode is really not a good look for the whole vehicle mode.

The alt mode is mistransformed except for in the first picture

Thanks to a pair of eBay auctions we have our first look at Treds, a rumored Selects figure. For those not familiar with the character of Treds, a brief history lesson. Gobots were a competitor of the Transformers line in the early 80s. Through mergers and acquisitions beyond that, Takara and Hasbro ended up with the rights to use the names of the Gobots characters, which is how we got the name Leader-1 as an Armada character, how Classics Mirage was redecoed into a very suspiciously Crasher-like color scheme and character, and why in 2003, Takara and Ehobby released a set of redecos/retools of some G1 minibots as Gobots characters Pathfinder (Cosmos mold), Bad Boy (Powerglide mold), Small Foot (Gears mold), Bug Bite (Bumblebee mold), Road Ranger (Huffer mold) and Treds (Warpath mold). We've already seen a modern release of Bugbite in Selects, Road Ranger in the WFC Golden Disk collection, and we're rumored to be getting a 3-pack of Small Foot, Pathfinder, and Treds in Selects this year (from Legacy Gears, Velocitron 500 Cosmos, and Kingdom Warpath, respectively).



History lesson over, here are the pictures, from an ebay listing by sellers transmimi and ytsetron, respectively.

















What do you think, Seibertronians? Excited to see some more obscure characters with modern updates? Sound off in the forums below!