*advance request for Universe Dinobot image* :) :)

Rodimus what?

 

Legends?

 

 

blargh

 

 

 

Yeah legends. And from the description I got. Aside from colors and head. He looks more like G1 Smokescreen

Let me guess, Legends Hot Shot repaint

Heard Device!

 

Okay, after getting caught up on this thread, some anonymously sent PM of pix would be something akin to :awsum

While we await official pics of these guys

 

Here is what descriptions I got from the guys at tfw2005

 

Dinobot looks cool. Though he's kind of spindly like Cheetor so some people will dig it, but others won't... best part is that he's got a show accurate head though. He seems to be a little mistransformed though and there's no sign of his weapons. (listed as Deluxe Class Wave 2)

 

Hot Shot looks like A Hot Shot with a better design and more articulation... no pics of Jolt though. I'm curious to see what the little guy looks like. (listed as Deluxe Class Wave 3)

 

Interestingly... Smokescreen's robot mode pic seems to be an online exclusive as there are no pics of him in robot mode in the magazine. Just his alt mode on the cover...

 

Some other stuff... legends Cosmos, Warpath (he looks f-ing sweet... should have been a deluxe darn it! Though his alternate mod is also an H-Tank so I could see us getting a possible Animated Shockwave or Armada Megatron Legends out of him), Wheelie (sad that he looks better than his original toy) & Rodimus.

 

Mighty Muggs shows off Bumblebee and Soundwave.

 

Robot Heroes shows off Perceptor Vs. Hardshell (already seen it), Slag (Snarl) Vs. Sharkticon (already seen it) and Prowl Vs. Laserbeak... which looks cool. Prowl has this goofy little grin and Laserbeak looks like one of those overexagerated angry birds you'd see in a cartoon with his mouth open like something was just thrown at him or something... oh, and RID Prime and Megs are only shown on the front cover.

When asked to elaborate on Dinobot

 

Let's see... his Raptor mode looks more like a real world Raptor model (actually, if you were to ask me it looks closer to a Dynanycus -sp?-). From the one angle I've got of his dino-mode... it doesn't appear that his tail can detach. It actually looks like it's on a hinge that makes it swing up and into the main body in robot modes somehow (sorry, I've only got like two pics of the guy so I'm having to guess a little at all this). His upper thighs from raptor form seem to swing down to bulk up his lower legs in robot mode (though they appear mistransformed in the images as they're just hanging off to the side of the robot mode and there is a couple of what appears to be flip out pannelswith more of the bone design). Speaking of the bone design... even though they folded the head into his chest... the lower portion of his stomach has managed to work the bones into the design (based on his show model). My only major gripe is that he's not colored like his animation model at all... seems to be a grayish green with some tan on various parts... though his face is purple. Also, he appears to have normal hands with peg holes instead of his traditional claws... though they homage this by having the clase around his hands... another interesting thing is that his robot mode arms and hands seem to do what the old toys robot mode legs and feet did... stick out of his Raptor mode's chest like a sore thumb... maybe even worse with the claws designed into the outside of the fists on this one.

 

Again, he seems to be mistransformed to a certain extent, but I really can't say as to how much.

 

About Legends Wheelie

 

Colors are spot on... his head in robot mode looks spot on as well. Interestingly... he seems to look similar in vehicle mode to Bumblebee/Cliffjumper's Deluxe Classics versions (which makes me wonder if we might see a Deluxe Wheelie retooled from that mold later in the line, but that's just me speculating) so no sci-fi bubble cockpit weirdness in vehicle form. His robot mode looks different, yet still keeps a lot of the similarities so that you could see him and go 'oh, hey, it's wheelie'.

 

 

Legends Rodimus/Hot Rod

 

it looks like the mold was designed to be used for Smokescreen. Basically looks nothing like Roddy's futuristic design and more like a stock race car. Closest thing I could describe him to being is Cybertron Crosswise mixed with G1 Smokescreen. Robot mode even looks kind of questionable as to weather this is Rodimus or not... I mean, shy of the head and the flame chest... I wouldn't know it just by looking at it... and even the head looks kind of generic bot head than Rodimus head. Could be just me though. Though the car hood does go straight down in robot mode so I guess that helps.

 

 

Tidbits from the interview with Bill Rawley (head designer for Universe)

 

He droped a few tidbits here and there, but really wouldn't give any concrete details on the future of the line itself. A couple things of note where that:

 

* They currently have no plans for Masterforce or Headmasters characters and that Victory will be recieving a 'little' tribute late in 2009.

* Bludgeon was apparently on the table, but has been put off indefinently for now because the line is 'too tank heavy' already... still not sure that I buy this reasoning... I mean, if they're talking about Transformers in general yeah, but Universe is the line and we've only got, like, two that I can think of...

* He also mentioned that when a design has potential for multiple characters they've been trying to work out a new head from the begining with Takara (so, I'm guessing retools for this line are thought out in advance). Though he did mention that iconic characters like Cyclonus they couldn't do this with as they really are just that... so any repaint of the character will probably be a 'themed' repaint... whatever that means.

 

I am saddened by the Bludgeon news but it sounds more like he's been postponed than canceled.

Also, he appears to have normal hands with peg holes instead of his traditional claws.

 

:fail :fail :fail and :fail

I guess Themed repaint means stuff like Shadow Blade megatron, Bandit lock down etc so they are the same character in new "super mode" colours

From the description of Dinobot's color scheme, I really hope it was a test shot done up with whatever colors of plastic were on hand. Or the lighting for the picture was really bad.

 

Could Hot Rod be based on his IDW Dodge Viper design?

Guess I'm waiting on a black and red "shadow" Cyclonus repaint. Those are the only two colors I could think of that would fit that figure.

 

 

 

I just had a horrible thought, what if they painted him in Armada Cyclonus colors? :puke