Videos Showing Trasformations of Voyager Hound and Megatron Toys from Transformers: The Last Knight

I wonder if that Megatron could be an engineering inspiration to a new Voyager Jetfire toy at all ?

I don't know if this has been reviewed or not but it just popped up on my suggestions feed with new next to it : Dlx TF5 Barricade review.

Fellow Seibertronian and news staff member william-james88 has discovered a video that gives us an up close look at Shadow Spark Optimus Prime. From the video we can see the front and back of the figure in robot mode as well as what it will look like in vehicle mode. If you would prefer to see still images of this figure please check out this article.

Hellscream9999 wrote:I know the movie figures have always been clever, but, does anyone else feel like has/tak are stepping up their design game lately? Like, with cheetor, inferno, megs, the movie hound, megs and leader megs, they all seem to have really started pushing boundaries with their respective designs, they're amazing to see.

The movie designs this time around, or at least the new ones, are definitely a step up, as are the other hastak lines at the moment in my opinion

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I know the movie figures have always been clever, but, does anyone else feel like has/tak are stepping up their design game lately? Like, with cheetor, inferno, megs, the movie hound, megs and leader megs, they all seem to have really started pushing boundaries with their respective designs, they're amazing to see.

The movie designs this time around, or at least the new ones, are definitely a step up, as are the other hastak lines at the moment in my opinion

MP's, movie line and rid, yes, I've seen nothing that stands out as a step-up in the tr line

Triggerhappy and some other recent deluxes have been big step ups to me.

But the movie line seems to be benefiting teh most

Being fair, I think TR's lack of intuition isn't so much a lack of talent on the designer's side; but more that the leading design ethos is basically G1 but also they can do more than move their shoulders now. That doesn't mean there can't be some fantastic design despite that, and we have seen quite a few examples - Triggerhappy, Megatron, Topspin - but it is a huge inhibition. God I miss Thrilling 30.

Regardless, yeah, outside of extreme adherence to G1, there's been some huge steps forward in design recently that don't fail to amaze me and make me step back and wonder how did they do that?

Kurona wrote:Being fair, I think TR's lack of intuition isn't so much a lack of talent on the designer's side; but more that the leading design ethos is basically G1 but also they can do more than move their shoulders now. That doesn't mean there can't be some fantastic design despite that, and we have seen quite a few examples - Triggerhappy, Megatron, Topspin - but it is a huge inhibition. God I miss Thrilling 30.

I think its the total opposite to that. The only thing great about thrilling 30 was that the designs were varied but there was no imaginitive transformations like we see here, aside from Skybyte (and as we know, a great transformation can get totally ignored when the rest of the toy isnt great). Quite a few toys in thrilling 30 suffered from the same problem of recreating G1 like Scoop who is as plain as you can get. Jetfire also is pretty much his G1 toy with a similar transformation (less of a bad thing in that case). And you also had the simplest deluxe of the past 5 years: tankor.

But now with the Titans Return line they are giving us characters we know in totally new transformation schemes. Topspin is a perfect example. There is nothing homaging the G1 transformation, its a totally new way to interpret that toy. Kup is the same way too, with the best leg transformation I have ever seen. Blaster too is super cool by reinventing that whole leg area and reinventing the casettes too. Its really cool to see another attempt at other castte bots who share the same alt mode but have completely different transformatons and it works great for the birds and Rewind/Rumble. You also have sharkticon who is nothing like his G1 self. I was even amazed at Kickback who has this whole new abdomen part making him more organic and also hiding the arms in locust mode.

Its just the original headmasters who end up similar to their G1 selves and even then thats not the case for all of em.

All in all, there are far more ingenious transformations in the Titans Return line than there were in the Thrilling 30 line and I am so glad we have that cheap plastic and small deluxe size behind us.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:..and then you look at the difference between Age of Extinction and The Last Knight. So much better really. Finally got Hound right, much better Transformations, and what appears to be a superior leader mold!

I thought they had plenty of clever ideas for the dinobots (no the leader one's though) and hound turning inside out to transform was plenty cool, but these new ones are leagues beyond everything right now

Our resident reviewer Chuckdawg1999 has sent us a new review to check out, this time for the new legion class Barricade! Barricade is a repaint of the Prime Smokescreen mold, and will be available along with Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Grimlock in the wave 1 legion figures. Check out the review below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:It'a new movie time, and with a new movie comes a plethora of new toys, so of course, the first figure I review is a repaint from the Transformers Prime series. Legion Barricade is a repaint of Legion Class Prowl from TF: Prime, who in turn was a repaint/retool of the previous legion figure Smokescreen. I feel the choice of molds is a wink/nod to the TFCC subscription service Barricade figure who was made from the Deluxe Prime Smokescreen mold. If you never experienced the mold it's definitely worth a pick up as the transformation is fun.

Deadput wrote:Oh hey a Transformers Prime Barricade that isn't a club exclusive!

Good point there.