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  1. I REALLY don't want another one of those shitty Earthrise trailers. I hope this is the last time we ever see that thing again. It is the biggest waste of money ever put in Transformers box to boost the cost. At least with SS86 Grimlock's Wheelie and SS86 Slag's Daniel, those were there to "inflation proof" those figures. They had a little extra budget left and included them while the budget allowed for it. Future releases don't and most likely never will have those pieces as has already been seen in every Grimlock release after so far. And is also most likely the reason for Grimlock being a "package refresh" next year. They're 100% dropping Wheelie from the release and that's why they'll have to update the packaging. And the most likely blue but hopefully teal rumored G2 Grimlock won't have Wheelie either. And Siege Ravage for Bullseye? Seriously? That sucks. At least use Lionizer. I don't know how well Target would've taken their mascot turning into a sword but since they were retooling the head anyway, the tail sword is on that same sprue and could also have been retooled into something a little more family friendly for their mascot. I can't think of what right now but it could've been something. A tape dispenser? A scanning device? I don't know. I just know Siege Ravage sucks. But I guess that missing Ravage from the Takara Decepticon multipack had to go somewhere right? I'm digging the Cybertron Galaxy Force/Animated Elite Guard looking color scheme for G2 Optimus though. I'm just glad it's not the VNR mold again. That mold just isn't really all that good honestly. It's not bad, it's just not as fun as the G2 mold is. But still; no Roller, no energon axe, no extra Ion rifle. Nothing. At this rate, they could've added the whole Centurion drone upgrade kit for free with how much they're saving using both of these molds again. And the Ravage too for that matter.
  2. BaCon did it to me again. Added new stuff while I was typing lol. Looks like he does still have the flip out swords. Sweet. The gun isn't so much the cannon the legends and supreme class figures had but looks to instead be the missile launching gun from the voyager figure done all as a single piece of translucent plastic. Actually no, it looks like the gun from Galaxy Meteor with the front looking like the missile from the voyager. Confirmed about the lack of motion for the nipple cannons. Is that...a cyber key I see? On the back of the box in a small pic in the upper right corner there looks to be a translucent purple cyber key where the key goes into on the voyager and supreme figures. Looks like it maybe connects to the gun too. It looks so good. Just a nice update without anything crazy going on. Hasbro missed out on so much hype not showing this and Silverbolt a while back. I know they're doing very well with the Transformers brand when compared to other brands but the marketing team and/or whoever tells them what and when they can and can't talk about upcoming products needs to reevaluate their relevance to the company at this point. They drop the ball so hard with the Transformers brand. Product reveals for things like this should be done beforehand for the adult collectors. Yes they're kids toys but when you're main line is all about updating older designs, you're specifically trying to target collectors. So you might as well get that same audience hyped in advance. Theoretically it should hype us up and get us to start planning how we're going to afford them and where we're going to put them. For me, I like to know what's coming out as it does do just those things. I can plan ahead about anything. Shadow drops are cool but not for the main lines that are targeting collectors. Those should be for exclusives only or maybe also for the more child centric lines or at least the toys that are within those lines. Knowing what the Cyberverse deluxe figures ahead of time would be nice. The warrior class or the others I'm fine with not knowing ahead of time. I don't know what I'm saying anymore. I just know something is wrong with how Hasbro markets their lines. They wait until leaks happen, Takara announces them or they're already on shelves somewhere before they themselves announce them.
  3. When the limitations of core class end up producing a better overall alt mode than the voyager. Like, I get what the voyager was going for but damn did that not come through well. This guy here looks an awful lot like Cyberverse Battle Call and Cybertronian Warrior Starscream figures with the legs that go up and over top. Which kind of works for me because; I like having Starscreams with the "same" designs done at multiple sizes. Especially lately, they're getting made at multiple sizes. Just wish Energon Starscream got some love. He only has the one figure. G1, Cybertron, Armada, movie, Cybertronian movie and a few other designs all have figures at several sizes. It makes for a nice display. Just need a deluxe sized Cybertron version. Original legends, Legacy voyager, original voyager, Galaxy Meteor and Supreme. Well, maybe another one between Galaxy Meteor and the Supreme figures would be nice too. Otherwise it'll be nice to have them all lined up. If only Fans Hobby Armada Starscream wasn't compromised by adding in Energon Starscream elements.
  4. That Galaxy Force/Cybertron Starscream looks great. Now give me all the colors. Voyager Cybertron American colors, voyager Dirge colors and then every single color used on the smaller Legends of Cybertron figure. SDCC Skywarp, "WFC" Starscream, "Movie" Starscream, G1 Ramjet, Universe Ramjet, Sunstorm and Thrust. Oh and let's not forget the ACTUAL Shattered Glass Starscream. Hopefully it won't yellow like the one Hasbro released from the Siege mold. I'm still trying to get another Senator Shockwave for cheap to move his light grey pieces onto SG Starscream to get rid of the yellowed ones. I had fun with all my Megatrons and swapped the yellowed parts around to the G2 versions since the green on them makes the yellowed plastics not look so bad. Combat Hero G2 Megatron in particular looks real good with the yellowed plastic since it's almost the same shade as his standard grey color. I took his black parts and moved them to Miner Megatron. I like the look of both of them more now since the black parts look good on Miner Megatron as he has a bunch of black on him already and again, the yellowed plastic matches Combat Hero Megatron near perfectly. G2 Megatron's grey plastic is actual grey but the yellowed plastic when moved to him doesn't look bad because he's mostly green and it balances out the yellowed plastic visually. Is it just me or does the left shoulder look like it's on a butterfly joint? It looks as though it's brought in a bit. That would be awesome if they managed to get a butterfly in there. Looks to have a waist swivel like the Maketoys version which is great. The wing binders look to be on a standard 5mm peg and port system. Which is both cool and a bit of a dissapointment. Cool in that they can be moved around but disappointing in that they're not on that hinge system the Maketoys figure is but that would require this to either be smaller or be moved up a size class. And I certainly don't want this to be a small figure. I hope he's as big and beefy as it looks in this cropped picture with nothing else to compare it to. I also noticed that there doesn't seem to be any swing around weapons. It looks like the cannon is there across his back and will maybe tab onto the little turrets on the wing binders. It just means that there will be quite a few options to "upgrade" this. A matching cannon and a pair of swords. The detachable wing binders is going to be fun when these start showing up in junk lots on Ebay without them. Just like the Supreme class figure. Double jointed elbows, ankle pivots, waist swivel, possible butterfly joints in the chest. Yeah, this is going to be a good figure. I'm not sure though if the nipple cannons can move. They both do and don't look like they can move.
  5. So uh...that certainly doesn't look like Knockout. Breakdown from Bulkhead..........I'm not really sure how I feel about that. The Wrecker hammer makes sense now though as it was designed like Breakdown's hammer. And now here is a Breakdown utilizing it. It's just that this mold is even less Breakdown than it was Bulkhead. There's not many other options available though. Given Breakdown's fate, maybe Trashmaster would've been more appropriate. But really, that's the only other mold they could've even tried using for this. So Windsweeper does come with the Targetmasters. That's a shame. I was hoping for some cool new guns or something. Maybe even if they put yet another set of Minerva's guns in or something. Like maybe put a set of the same guns in this box then the other two of the same can be in the other. It would've been even better had they decoed these to match Spinister like I theorized back when the Mayhem Attack Squad was first leaked to be getting new figures. Poor Ransack only got a new head yet here's Barrage and Chopshop with more than just new heads. They also got new "beast mode heads", to simplify the wording, as well as new beast mode legs. Barrage even got a new transformation even if it is just a Universe 2.0 Sideswipe/Sunstreaker thing. At least he gains butterfly joints as a result though. So I really think Venom will be using Kickback now and just have new legs to go with the new head/s. It's not like all these Insecticons even have six legs as it is so it wouldn't be out of place for Venom not to have six legs either. Bombshell and Barrage don't have six legs. Shrapnel has either four or six depending on what you count while Chopshop has six or eight depending on what you count. If you count six legs for Shrapnel then that means Chopshop has eight. I guess Barrage has six legs but he can't utilize that other pair of legs as legs though which is why they're being used to bulk up the gun instead. But it's not as though Kickback's new Venom legs couldn't have another set of little legs on them so he has the full six though. Only time will tell as I'm just doing my usual rambling. This being Breakdown instead of Knockout makes me wonder about the Bludgeon listing now. Or even the leader Thundertron listing for the Star Seekers. I was thinking about that the other day if it was just a Thundertron colored Tigerhawk. Wouldn't that just be toy colors Tigerhawk though? lol White and blue instead of white, brown and purple. Again, only time will tell. Oh and while it's nice to see Smashdown finally get another use, I don't think this was the place for it. And damn did that Insecticon set sell out fast. Didn't even have a chance. Got the email at 1:08, read it and went to Pulse at 1:17 and it was already sold out. I had a chance at the other set at that point but I figured since I had to wait on Amazon for the one set, might as well get both there. Jackie! One more thing. I read the listing for them on Pulse (and here) and it's claiming that those Double Targetmasters have arm and leg articulation. Someone better change that or someone's going to try and cause a stink about it. You know someone will. It's low hanging fruit.
  6. I'd like to put something into perspective about this set which is further strengthened by the recent leaks. First: This is TARGET's fault this happened, not Hasbro's. Why? Because they're the ones who cancelled the single release to begin with. Just like Walmart cancelled "pink" Hot Rod in the Velocitron line. Second: If Hasbro didn't do some sort of multipack for this, Hound wouldn't have been able to come out at all until possibly late 2025. How do I know this? The recent leaks that show that Crasher, Cosmos, Galaxy Shuttle and possibly Shadowstrip and the aforementioned Hot Rod (and hopefully Sideswipe, Mirage, Jazz and Dead End from Toxitron as well) as all being reissued sometime in 2025. It would've taken another year and a half to two years for Hasbro to try and course correct since that's about how far they plan in advance. If Hasbro not done this five pack then the earliest we would've been able to get Hound was 2025. I don't think the crybabies would've been able to wait that long. There's already people crying about having to wait that long for SS Hatchet as it is. That's the quickest they could've course corrected for the main lines. That is however what Generations Selects is for but I would imagine it couldn't have happened any earlier than this due to the licensing issues or whatever's going on that prevents Hasbro from using and/or reissuing new toolings and decos from store exclusives sooner. So there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on with this set. Or rather, Hound in particular. However and as others have pointed out over the internet, this didn't need to be a five pack. In all honesty, five packs are a bit much. Even four packs like the Buzzworthy ones were a bit much. Three packs should be where most multipacks should top out at provided there's no actually reason for four or five to be in a set like if they're a team or combiner or something. This should've been two-three packs by adding in Sideswipe as he also has translucent plastic. Then go from there with more. Bumblebee, Prowl, Bluestreak, Red Alert, Smokescreen, Hoist and so on can join these five, Sideswipe and Buzzworthy Cliffjumper in the blue painted window crew. I'm not saying we should suck the dick of the great and powerful Hasbro for this or anything as it could've and should've been done better, I'm just saying that it's a lose/lose situation for them and that the vast majority of the hate should be directed at Target...and ultimately the fans for not having bought the previous Buzzworthy sets. However whoever designed some of them should get a lot of the blame too as some of them where badly timed, even if I do own all of them and wanted to own them. Terrorsaur did need to be reissued, Dinobot not so much even in toy colors for both. Tow-Line was a horrible mold reuse and the poor sales showed it. Origins Jazz was great. Bumblebee, maybe not quite as much. The four packs were great as well. But then that was counterbalanced by the horrible Cyberverse 1:1 reissues that had their Cyberverse counterparts also clogging shelves at the same time but hey, at least there's different packaging. It's just that there were big hits and big misses and barely anything in the middle. Had Hound and Hatchet gone through as planned, I would expect them to have sold poorly honestly. The only reason why people seem to be clamoring for them now is that they're two years late at this point and one is still another two years away. Were there people excited for them? Sure. However there seemed to be more who couldn't care less. And I'm sure that would've been reflected in the sales. So Target was right for cancelling them even if their shitty stocking and listing practices caused most of the wild sales discrepancies of the Buzzworthy Bumblebee line as a whole. But yeah, I see a lot of GoBots here lol.
  7. Just thought about it a bit more. Or rather, I was really tired last night when I typed this and just woke up clear headed and something popped into my head. That's pretty much the entirety of 2025 right? We also know pretty much everything coming this year too right? Where the fuck is Armada Jetfire and/or Overload? THIS is why Omega Prime would've been horrible at retail, especially as two retail level commanders. We get Armada Prime in 2023. No leaks for Jetfire or Overload for 2024. Now no leaks for either in 2025 either. Meaning we'll have to wait to complete them until 2026 barring any surprises or a double pack or something. Maybe both together as a commander class but that would be weirder than the thought of Hook and Long Haul together as a commander. Imagine waiting for three years to complete Omega Prime. They would never release them both in the same year. They wouldn't even be released in consecutive years if we're being honest. So it would be just as long to HOPE that they don't cancel Ultra Magnus that we're waiting now hoping to complete Magna Jet Convoy. The Armada boys even have several deco options too (quite a few more than the RiD boys anyway) so it's not like they can't recoup some of the costs of the molds. Hell, Jetfire even has retool potential...not that they'd do another Galaxy Shuttle ever again especially with this package refresh but GoBots Spay-C is an option. I WILL have that Spay-C update lololololololol. Going back to the idea of them being released as a commander together though as I thought more about it while typing. Maybe they could work in another combined mode between the two. Use Overload as the torso and arms and Jetfire obviously as the legs. It's something I always wanted to have done with the originals and it was almost possible too but the connectors just didn't line up between them. It would almost be a throwback to G1 Jetfire and the Valkyrie armor in a way. I doubt that will ever happen though. Just trying to give myself some hope to getting them both sooner than 2026.
  8. The hits just keep on coming. And there's still more as there's been no core or commander class leaks yet. Crasher package refresh. Cool I guess. Got three from Ross so I'm not looking for one anymore. Still think this should've used the Dragstrip mold and that Slicks should use the Mirage mold. Also, the Kingdom Mirage mold sucks but the Siege molds is great. Aerialbots are cool but there's not really much to say other than that. Swindle. Not much to go on with no universe descriptor or other Combaticons leaked. Oh wait, it will be Armada Swindle lol. Deluxe is a bit large for for a Minicon for a voyager figure but hey, why not right. Wasp is Wasp. Nice to see him but not much to say really. Venom. Now we're getting somewhere. I wonder if he'll be a slight retool of Kickback, a redeco with a new head of Kickback or a new mold entirely with another use lined up. I'm going to go with a slight retool of Kickback. They're not going to go nuts with this since they didn't for Ransack. Meaning that it's going to look inaccurate intentionally (like the Gobots I would imagine) to look like the standard Insecticons. So a new mold would need to look like them as well which wouldn't really lend itself to anything else. So a retool along the lines of Shrapnel to Bombshell should work. Change around half the figure kind of thing. Would be nice to see the two "missing" deluxe Insecticons too. The Barrage retool and the ladybug. G1 Saberhorn and Glowstrike? Damn, that works actually. Voyager Armada Red Alert. Cool. There's plenty of redeco potential with that mold. Orange Alert (Powerlinx), Blue Alert (Prowl) and Actually Red Red Alert (Inferno). If they're feeling frisky with the retools, maybe even Animated Red Alert and Flashpoint? Voyager Sky-Byte. That's him! It's about time he got another big toy. Edit add in: Voyager RESCUE BOTS Heatwave. It's a voyager so we know it won't be a Mirage Retool or a Sludge retool. I mean, it could be a three headed dragon but I want my three headed dragons to be commander class retools of each other (Prime Predaking, SS Dragonstorm and Cybertron Scourge). So YAY, another red fire truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not salty or anything, just poking a little fun. HOWEVER...I'm really curious as to what's going to happen with Nexus Prime now. I speculated that the appearance of the Aerialbots and maybe Combaticons were going to lead to Nexus Prime but that might not be the case. Why you ask? Because the torso for Nexus Prime that used the Energon Barricade mold which was based on Onslaught is also named Heatwave. So will there be TWO Heatwave's in this new 13 Primes line/trilogy? They could get away with the second so long as Nexus Prime is released as a box set. That way they won't have two Heatwaves at retail. Maybe Nexus will be the titan for the third year. That should give them enough time to get both Superion and the potential Bruticus out before doing Nexus from their parts. Silverbolt being the first year's commander and Onslaught being the second year's. The third year's could be a real Last Autobot instead of the ark I mentioned earlier but read down below since this is all being typed after the fact. Nevermind, he would be a Vector Prime retool and they won't be doing Vector Prime at commander I would imagine if both Onyx and Megatronus are leaders. So leader at most for Vector prime but also with Safeguard included. EDIT AGAIN: Vector Prime is coming this year isn't he lol. So there goes that idea of him being a leader WITH Safeguard as he's a voyager without. So it seems he was both a Legacy character and an clue to the next line. Kinda like CW Buzzsaw way back when now. But that again opens up the possibility of the Last Autobot being a commander. Flatline? Wow, okay. But uh, why not in Studio Series? At least two characters named Flatline should be released in Studio Series for multiple reasons. Could be a new character based on one of the three versions that barely exist. Kinda like the Fossilizers and Junkions and whatnot. G2 Grimlock. Blue or teal? There's three G2 Grimlocks and we have the yellow one already. So we know it's not that one. But will it be the blue that most people know or the teal that those who are in the know, know. Most likely blue as most people don't even realize that the blue and the teal are different. They look distinctly different but most would need to see them side by side to realize that the one they had as a kid was different to the one everyone else had. On to the Primes. What this next line is seemingly named after. Somewhat of a return to PotP. The original 13 all done as either deluxe, voyager or leader figures. Do they have a gimmick like the Junkions (even if Trashmaster barely had the gimmick)? Calling it now though, Megatronus will be a retool of SS86 Megatron or Galvatron. Nevermind, it's a reuse of CW Megatron lol. He's next to me right now. Just move the treads into the Armada Megatron position and there's your Megatronus. Just like that one black KO of the mold lol. Looking forward to Onyx Prime. A centaur is going to be a cool looking figure. You know what, I wonder if they're even going to transform. The 13 aren't always shown having alt modes. I wonder how they'll handle Nexus Prime. Is that why we're getting Superion and seemingly Bruticus? And poor Logos Prime got kicked out of the 13 so no new Cybertron Soundwave mold incoming lol. We technically already have one though. The Ark. The Last Autobot was in the same 13 that Logos Prime was in. Maybe they'll do all 20 13 Primes lol.
  9. Hey Core Dinobot and Deluxe Sureshot are still coming out. Good. G2 Breakdown and Armada Wheeljack are new though. I'm not too worried about Armada Wheeljack's listing not having Whisper included as Sureshot's listing doesn't have Spoilsport in it but will most likely be included if Pointblank is any indication. Sucks about the rest of the G2 Stunticons not having new names though. It also sucks I never found Sideswipe or Dead End too. I imagine they'll be at Ross soon enough. I do want another Cosmos just for the gun. I never found one at Ross. Not that I went to more than one store to check though lol. The whole shit with signing up for their credit card bummed me out. They wouldn't let me use it that same day like every other store does when you sign up in store. I had to wait two weeks for the card to come in. It took two days just for them to email me the temp code to use in store the same day. Like seriously? How do you not know how this shit is supposed to work but I digress. Couldn't care less about Ramjet and Tarn as I have them already. I do want more Galaxy Shuttle though. I got the one but was a bit tight on money at the time so didn't push it to get the other two I wanted. Again, I never found one at Ross. I just really wish they came plain black and white with both heads and had two decal sheets. One to turn it into Galaxy Shuttle and the other into Takara's G1 Astrotrain. The third I wanted will be made into Spay-C. Based more on her Super Gobots toy than her standard one. Shame the robot mode is mostly white as a fourth could've been used for Loco. Not that the black paints I have don't work well on Transformers. I just haven't felt up to doing any more customs these past few years. Work takes a lot out of me mentally. Not that I dwell on it or anything, it just takes me out of things. Anyway, Overcharge is both nice to see and bad to see. I did my part of getting two Blitzwings to try and move things along. I kind of did some mods to my first one I wanted to go back on and the reissue was like $25 so why not pick up a new one right? Hopefully Overcharge will go on sale quickly. I'll pick up a few to bolster out my Quintesson army. It's quite sizable now and will only get better with some Overcharge drones. I should pick up some more Sparkless Seekers to add them to the army as well. I already have three but they're so cheap now so it wouldn't hurt too much to get some more to help clean up digital shelves.
  10. Preemptive comment: Leader SS86 Galvatron. I don't know what to say about this. I'm not 100% happy with Kingdom Galvatron and I love Galvatron so I'm down for another take. Assuming it's a brand new take that is. Leader SS86 Megatron. A few months ago after the last major set of leaks I gave up on something like this. I just kind of thought that Siege Megatron was the best we were going to get. Earthrise Megatron still sucks though. I got a bunch of upgrade kits for all my Siege base mold Megatrons, got the BPF OSKO Siege Megatron and just got in a Takara Legends Megatron with the DX9 upgrade kit just to try and calm my Megatron urge. So these two, the also rumored SS86 Optimus and SS86 Ultra Magnus all beg a question. That being are these all going to be a new scale or are they going to stick to the current scale. I mean, SS86 Ultra Magnus isn't in scale but I don't mind that as he should be super mode sized as he's combining with his trailer. What I did mind though was that Kingdom Galvatron was also out of scale. Which is what prompted me to get some of those upgrade kits for my Megatrons and the OSKO in the first place. So are these three "new" figures going to be in scale with Kingdom rodimus Prime and the rest of current Generations or are they going to scale to the out of scale SS86 Magnus making them around the height of Kingdom Galvatron anyway. I would imagine that this doesn't bother people that much and normally it wouldn't bother me either but Megatron, Galvatron, Optimus and Rodimus are supposed to be the same size and I just can't get away from that in my head. So having one bigger than the others is really bugging me but this can be fixed by a new, shorter, Galvatron mold. I don't want another leader Galvatron the same size as Kingdom Galvatron. I would want him, as well as Optimus and Megatron, to all be the same height as Kingdom Rodimus. This way more of the budget can go into the parts count and toolings to really get them to hide and tuck intrusive kibble out of the way to make them as accurate as possible (what does that even mean for SS86 Megatron's alt mode now though). We seen what happens when making a larger leader Galvatron already. So making him shorter should allow for the designers to mitigate the tread kibble on the backs of the arms or to compress the cannon rear down more and design it to be more accurate and to change a few other things. I really hope SS86 Galvatron isn't just a redeco along the lines of SS86 Cliffjumper though. That was an exclusive so it's somewhat questionable if it even really truly counts as a SS86 figure but it does exist. I would just be so disappointed with this if they do go that route instead of a new mold. Like Earthrise Optimus and Kingdom Ultra Magnus, Kingdom Galvatron just doesn't compare to Kingdom Rodimus, SS86 Hot Rod and SS86 Magnus. The extra budgets for them really shown though despite what some naysayers would claim. So I'd love an Optimus, Megatron and Galvatron to go right along with them. More elaborate transformations. More transformation "tricks". More and better articulation. More and better paint apps. Little to no kibble at all really as Rodimus, Hot Rod and Magnus are almost entirely kibble free and super clean in robot mode and have beautifully streamlined alt modes. Higher parts count be it for transformation parts or just more weapons. I can do without blast effects or things like Matrix chains though but at least Optimus will have blast effects and Galvatron will have the Matrix chain. I'm all about swords, axes, flails, guns, beam sabers, jet packs or whatever else the toys had or they used on the show and movie. No basketballs though lol. For Optimus that would also include BOTH mobile drones (Roller and that other one he had from time to time made from the rear trailer wheels it seemed) and a really good "repair" drone thing. I might be hyping myself up too much though. It's really too early to tell how these will turn out. And SS86 Galvatron will come out about four years after Kingdom Galvatron first did. That's not too bad really. Sure it seems like he JUST came out but we're at the halfway point. By the time he does actually hit shelves, people will want a new Galvatron. It's also why I think it will be a new mold too. If it were just a redeco or even a slight retool, it could've been pushed up into this year or put out as some sort of exclusive like some of the Buzzworthy Studio Series redecos. But it's coming out in 2025 with Megatron supposedly. So that really does give me hope for a new mold. We used to get new mold updates for many characters year after year for a while there from OG Generations (Optimus and Megs) to FoC (Optimus) to T30 (Optimus, Orion and 2 Megs) to CW (Optimus and Megs) to TR (2 Optimus and Megs) to PotP (Optimus/Orion) to Siege (Optimus and Megs) to Earthrise (Optimus and Megs) to Kingdom (Optimus and Megs) to Legacy 1 (Optimus). Not including, redecos of older toys still being released in market 6 stores, exclusives like VNR, Japanese releases, mostly non-G1/2 versions or any of the Starscreams that were also being released alongside them. Waiting four years for a new mold of a character is not going to be an actual issue. It's G1 Galvatron, he should have more toys than he actually does. It's crazy how few figures he actually gets compared to his contemporaries. G1, Universe 2.0, Titans Return and Kingdom. That's it. That's all the Galvatron molds. Dude can get another.
  11. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA If there's been ANY retail figure over the past two decades that could legitimately be confused for an actual McDonald's toy it would be this one. What's better is that this person is actually in a McDonald's too. That just makes it so much better. This is better than the Chromia pics on a painting table. Don't get me wrong though, I don't think it looks bad. It's just the colors of the figure makes me think of the old Happy Meal BM Cheetor from way back when in the year 2000. In fact, I dare say the yellow used on that figure back then looks better than the yellow used on this one. It's just a cute little kitty cat. Looking a bit like Go-Bots Cheetor from 2002...who was based on Beast Machines Cheetor so it just swings back around lol. Really hoping that Dinobot 2 doesn't get actually cancelled like is rumored. I want all the larger Beast Era characters done in core class now. Just a bunch of deformed little chibi animals and shit.
  12. Thanks. At least someone enjoys my ramblings lol. Surprisingly The Transformers brand has been doing well for Hasbro still. But that doesn't mean that the company as a whole isn't making quick and/or rash decisions like pushing things back as that's indeed happening. It's even more apparent that they don't know how to "read a room" with this most recent leak. A reissue of SS86 Jazz and Perceptor. Like what? So not only is SS86 Jazz STILL on physical and digital selves, he's getting a slightly modified version in the five pack as well as he just had that Buzzworthy mold that looks mostly the same in robot mode. But hey, why not ANOTHER run of a figure badly shelf warming for two years now that has other options at the same time right? And Perceptor? He's still on shelves too. SS86 Grimlock is nice to see. I got one the first time around but I keep hearing people still need him. DotM Shockwave!!!!! Finally!!!!!! I got the most recent KO recently but it just didn't fill the void of not having the real thing. Especially when they changed the colors and it felt kind of cheap. I'll get this for sure this time. I was going to get the redo from that same company as supposedly it's now going to be in the original colors but like I said, I didn't really enjoy the first. And I still need to get the oversized KO. WFC Thundercracker and Skywarp are cool. Just makes me wish we get both the Hasbro and Takara decos for Skywarp though. I like having both on the original deluxe figures. The Takara one is either Air Warrior or Hotlink. WFC voyager Ironhide sound cool. Hope it looks good. I never got around to getting the Planet X version so I'll be looking forward to this. It may even make me want to go back and get those Planet X figures too. I grabbed all the Dinobots, Megatron and Starscream but flaked out on the rest for some reason. TF7 Optimus...that's Rise of the Beasts right? That's sure to please a lot of people. Hasbro let Target drop the ball majorly with that one. I had my preorder in a day before it was newsed anywhere and they still cancelled my order and I never seen it in stores. This is a hobby, it shouldn't feel like a fucking job just to get something. Sure it's been "reissued" several times on Pulse but the scalpers get them within seconds. Even when I'm on top of it within a few minutes of it going live. I have a preorder down for one of the KOs with upgrades built in but it's taking forever for it to come out. It's nice I have a REAL chance to pick up the original now. TF4 leader Optimus? Age of Extinction? Don't they mean DotM? That's been the only SS leader Optimus and I know people want a reissue of it. DERP EDIT: It just hit me they never actually made an AoE Optimus yet. For some reason I read this as another package refresh. I was just thinking the other day about picking up an AoE Optimus since he doesn't have an update yet and I skipped out on them back in the day as I wasn't entirely sold on the figures they made, especially that First Edition figure. Leader Apelinq. About time. I'm still getting the DNA upgrade kit for Takara's Primal. The more the merrier. The upgraded Takara figure can be Hyperlinq or something. Primal Prime or whatever, I'll think of something as it's going to looks so different to Hasbro's Apelinq and Primal anyway. Voyager Sentinel Prime from ONE. Cool. That's about all anyone can say about it now though as we have nothing else. Widow Maker? A "female" Stinger? Interesting. Que. About time. ONE Starscream is a deluxe? That's a bit of a shame. I thought we moved past deluxe Starscreams. Wait and see I guess. Hey look, Hatchet get's a standard release. Double Punch? A redeco of Scorponok? In an even MORE colorful deco? Damn. That's going to be one colorful boy. Some more troop builders sound nice. Looks like a WFC Autobot this time. Cool. Hope it's not weird like Barricade/Decepticon Soldier. Bumblebee is Bumblebee regardless of which movie. But the listing for ONE B-127 could be interesting depending on the design. MV6 is Bumblebee movie. Wouldn't that just be a PR or reissue or something? Unless it's one of those SS86 mixups. I never got BB Bumblebee though. So at least there's that. DEV Optimus? Deluxe? There's been a leak for a deluxe SS Optimus before so this is probably just that. Not that we know what any of that means though. At least the other A Level figure is ONE B-127 so we at least know where it's from. But what's DEV? Okay, time to talk about the gestalt in the room. Studio Series 86 Constructicons. Deluxe arms and voyager legs it looks like. So they're moving some of the leg bulk to the leg bots like CW Devastator. Hopefully it will help poor Long Haul this time around. Also hopefully they won't end up like PotP Tantrum and Headstrong. It'll all be up to how they do Long Haul and Hook. I wonder how they'll be doing the forearms and hands. Separate pieces with a "leader" Hook or something? They have to have the extra pieces since this is going to be SS86 and not IDW. A deluxe coming with these pieces would suck as it would hamper the figures. It'll be nice to have a legit Devastator at the "standard" size. The undersized KO of CW Devastator is cool and all but they didn't do a single upgrade, not even the Takara ones. Which is odd given how long after that KO was made. You'd think it would've come with some kind of upgrade. Thinking a bit more. Maybe the arms should've been voyagers as well to come with the extra pieces. That way Long Haul and Hook could be unburdened and have the full budget of whatever size class they'll end up being put fully into the figures themselves instead of having part of the budget allocated to combiner kibble that could've/should've come with the figures they go to.It all remains to be seen still though as listings really aren't much to go on. Yet I somehow am able to ramble on for quite a while. At least the people at work actually think I'm working right now lol. Not that they'd say anything to me though. I think that's it. That's it right? For now that is. Watch more go up while I was typing this. BaCon has done that to me before lol.
  13. I don't disagree for the most part about Armada Starscream's alt mode. It feels a little unfinished in a way. However, that's what Armada Starscream is. Nothing more, nothing less. If you're doing Armada Starscream, focus on doing Armada Starscream as it is. If you want to change something up then change up the whole thing like those Predaking and Volcanicus combiners. Don't do some half hearted attempt to keep it looking the same while changing too much about it to actually look the same. The whole silhouette is different. It might as well just be Energon Starscream at this point as you buried the Armada design under it. Say they do make an Energon Starscream mold after this, will they change that now? Where do they go from here changing Armada SS to look like Energon SS when the rest of their Armada and Energon homages have been accurate to the originals. How do they justify this compared to the rest of what they've done so far?
  14. Chopshop and Barrage. Windsweeper. Ruckus and Bludgeon. I mean, it was fairly easy to narrow everything down with so many beast modes amongst the different versions of the Mayhem Attack Squad. There's only so many that would make sense given available molds as it was likely they wouldn't do new molds and were barely going to retool anything. My previous ramblings were more wishful thinking than actual picks. Then there's Knock Out. I avoided him just like everyone else seemed to with his last figure. You know, that one that's still on shelves and will be all over Amazon for $12.50 or less even when this version goes up for sale. What else can they do for him outside of a different or new mold? At least Bludgeon has other options. His current figure is a blending of his shell and inner figure. You can go full on either way deco wise (add green and remove orange or add orange and remove green) for another. Maybe even use another mold like a Megatron mold too without it looking weird. Not that we NEED another Siege Megatron mold usage. Oh wait, they can use RiD 2001 Bludgeon's deco. The bright yellow one. See? Bludgeon has options. It won't be the real G1 Knockout as he was half a Micromaster combiner. It won't be Armada Knock Out as he's a Minicon. It won't be Energon Knock Out as he's also a Minicon technically but is the small component to Energon Ultra Magnus. It won't be Speed Stars Knock Out. It won't be Battle Masters Knockout. It could be RotF Knock Out though. But does anybody really want another Prime Arcee redeco? I kinda like that mold and I sure don't. I mean, they could shoehorn it onto Prowl just like they're doing for Chromia which would make sense in a way as Chromia and RotF Knock Out would've made great retools of each other otherwise as they share the split wheel over the shoulders look. Damn, this is going to be RotF Knock Out from Prime Arcee isn't it? I can totally see that happening now lol. At least it would be better than another Knock Out colored Knock Out. Just like all those Impactor colored Impactors we got. One mold, four similar but different decos, three similar but different heads, two different chests and two different cannons. Or the Jazz colored Jazz we're most likely getting in that five pack. Like, what else are they going to do with that Jazz other than change the translucent plastic to opaque like the rest of the figures seen so far? Oh, is that what this Knock Out is going to be? Just an excuse to release him without the translucent plastic. I haven't had any problems with that mold but people claim they're all prone to breaking. So maybe that's it. Just Knock Out without translucent plastic. I just don't like being right about Venom though. It should've been Venom with Windsweeper instead of Knockout. Or you know any of the other deluxe figures I mentioned that were last released five or more years ago like Spinister, Flywheels and even Battletrap or Slugslinger. Went to click "submit replay" until I realized I never even mentioned the Party Wagon. I might just get more than one of that. I hope that it's a big figure too. It doesn't need to scale with anything so they can make it however big it needs to be in order to work into some of the more popular features. I really hope they don't drop the ball on this one.
  15. Okay, now I'm confused. Does this switch from Armada Starscream to Energon Starscream or movie Starscream? I mean, why is it also an approximation of an F-22 Raptor? I mean I thought something was off from the first picture as the front end looked off and now I know why. It has the intakes? on the sides for it to look like the F-22. Then the whole back end looks like the F-22 as well. Such an odd choice. But it just goes to show I was kind of right to be skeptical. You had ONE job. Make ARMADA Starscream. You failed so far. Hopefully they'll show more once they move on from the butter model phase.
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