Transformers general thread - Toy Robot men based on giant robots based on previously mentioned toys about said robots

[The Doom Slayer]

One of the insiders posted a list of exclusives, seems like the Guardian Robot is actually happening.

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[Marissa Moira]

One of the insiders posted a list of exclusives, seems like the Guardian Robot is actually happening.

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Holy shit Fractyl, Packrat, Antagony, and other Beast Wars Botcon dudes.

Not only that but Hauler and some Throttlebots.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Holy shit Fractyl, Packrat, Antagony, and other Beast Wars Botcon dudes.

Not only that but Hauler and some Throttlebots.

I want to see the Wrecker legends. Tailspin and Twintwist could be good. Legacy Springer and a Bulkhead deco could be good recolours. Also looking forward to the Armada Cyclonus which I think will be Bulkhead retool. We already know about the Lift Ticket. Orion Pax and Alpha Trion could be decent as well depending on what they're using. Orion Pax is probably a reuse of the Kup mold. Not sure what Alpha Trion could be. DK3 maybe the Diaclone blue Hoist figure. Leadfoot is a welcome addition even though it'll just be a slight retool of of Mirage. I feel sorry for the people who customized their Mirages already.

We're also finally getting a Minerva over here. I hope it's a new mold or at least one that can be used for Nightbeat. Buzzworthy multipack could be good too. Toy colour Terrorsaur looks bad so that I'll probably skip that depending on if I can get multiple Terrorsaurs for repaints or not. I'll probably avoid Clampdown. That mold must be a floppy mess by now. I do want that Cosmos though.

Also Road Rocket is from G2. I hope he's still the same sort of vehicle.

Guard is also probably the Decepticon guards that were old school drones. I'm guessing they'll repaint Slammer.

Oh, and Saltman refers to the dark blue and yellow colors the Jumpstarters had. The other one was Robot-Man Z which was a charcoal black green and yellow repaint. Robot-Man Z also has a red and light grey colour one out there too. You can also find what looks like the black green colour and orange for Salt-Man and a red white version too.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I want to see the Wrecker legends. Tailspin and Twintwist could be good. Legacy Springer and a Bulkhead deco could be good recolours. Also looking forward to the Armada Cyclonus which I think will be Bulkhead retool. We already know about the Lift Ticket. Orion Pax and Alpha Trion could be decent as well depending on what they're using. Orion Pax is probably a reuse of the Kup mold. Not sure what Alpha Trion could be. DK3 maybe the Diaclone blue Hoist figure. Leadfoot is a welcome addition even though it'll just be a slight retool of of Mirage. I feel sorry for the people who customized their Mirages already.

We're also finally getting a Minerva over here. I hope it's a new mold or at least one that can be used for Nightbeat. Buzzworthy multipack could be good too. Toy colour Terrorsaur looks bad so that I'll probably skip that depending on if I can get multiple Terrorsaurs for repaints or not. I'll probably avoid Clampdown. That mold must be a floppy mess by now. I do want that Cosmos though.

Also Road Rocket is from G2. I hope he's still the same sort of vehicle.

Guard is also probably the Decepticon guards that were old school drones. I'm guessing they'll repaint Slammer.

Oh, and Saltman refers to the dark blue and yellow colors the Jumpstarters had. The other one was Robot-Man Z which was a charcoal black green and yellow repaint. Robot-Man Z also has a red and light grey colour one out there too. You can also find what looks like the black green colour and orange for Salt-Man and a red white version too.

I think Alpha Trion might be Studio Series 86 Scourge retooled.

His Cyberverse version was some weird boatship, scourge already has a cape and retooling Scourge's head would give it enough of a difference in vehicle profile to make it unique.

Some people were saying that Bulkhead's real mold was Sentinel Prime, but if they go with the animated reference and give him a plow, he's going to look like Pretender Roadblock.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I think Alpha Trion might be Studio Series 86 Scourge retooled.

His Cyberverse version was some weird boatship, scourge already has a cape and retooling Scourge's head would give it enough of a difference in vehicle profile to make it unique.

Some people were saying that Bulkhead's real mold was Sentinel Prime, but if they go with the animated reference and give him a plow, he's going to look like Pretender Roadblock.

I was thinking that too since he's often depicted as having a similar robot mode to a Sweep.

 

[Kup]

So who’s gonna army-build Omega Sentinels?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

So who’s gonna army-build Omega Sentinels?

I'll probably get two or three for myself and one for my son

 

[Kup]

I'll probably get two or three for myself and one for my son

I’m in a position where I might actually be able to get two, all this BW, UT and Prime stuff are easy skips.

Do we know what “Guard” is? My wish would be a animation-accurate Baliff.

Leadfoot is actually exciting, G2, Wrecker and Regeneration One all in one guy.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I’m in a position where I might actually be able to get two, all this BW, UT and Prime stuff are easy skips.

Do we know what “Guard” is? My wish would be a animation-accurate Baliff.

Leadfoot is actually exciting, G2, Wrecker and Regeneration One all in one guy.
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I think guard refers to the drone Decepticon Guards. If so, I'll get five of them as that should be a decent amount of guards. I'd like some generic Seekers though to repaint.

Some people think it's the blue Silverstreak figure which is a huge let down if true as that means we get two more recolours of old mold in those waves, maybe three. At least the Hoist and Inferno molds haven't been used that much.

 

[Kup]

I think guard refers to the drone Decepticon Guards. If so, I'll get five of them as that should be a decent amount of guards. I'd like some generic Seekers though to repaint.

Some people think it's the blue Silverstreak figure which is a huge let down if true as that means we get two more recolours of old mold in those waves, maybe three. At least the Hoist and Inferno molds haven't been used that much.

They’ve been on-par with their generics as of late. Would kill for some Marvel Unicron Cultists.

Still surprised we haven’t got Grapple in Constructicon colours.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

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They’ve been on-par with their generics as of late. Would kill for some Marvel Unicron Cultists.

Still surprised we haven’t got Grapple in Constructicon colours.

That's Road Hauler/ Hauler in that list.

 

[Kup]

That's Road Hauler/ Hauler in that list.

My bad, I thought he was named Longarm for some reason.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

My bad, I thought he was named Longarm for some reason.

That's a minicon and later a movie verse toy that turned into a tow truck Would be nice if they could finish off all of the minicons from G1 but they could be waiting to finish those for a later toyline to use as powerlink figures.

 

[Kup]

That's a minicon and later a movie verse toy that turned into a tow truck Would be nice if they could finish off all of the minicons from G1 but they could be waiting to finish those for a later toyline to use as powerlink figures.

It’s honestly astounding, they could easily do say, Glit and Buzzsaw thrown in with Marvel Soundwave. Boom, three birds one stone.

Doubt Blaster’s crew is gonna be completed, we’ll get Rewind with the inevitable Twincast.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I actually prefer the cube bots that Bumblebee Soundwave uses. They should just go that route. How many kids know what a cassette is? Just use data cubes.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Well I found Siege Rung in a store and I heard he had a slightly different color scheme than Earthrise. So I figured why not and got him for a few bucks.

They're very hard to tell apart unless you're under a real bright light but the arms for Earthrise are a noticeable different shade of orange, but it's just very slight.

In comparison the two versions of Titans Returns Ramhorn are easier to tell apart.

 

[The Lawgiver]

yesterday I saw a fuckload of studio series gnaws in a target, scanned the price to check if they were on discount or not out of boredom and it was just full price but said "out of stock." I've mentioned before what's happened every other time I've scanned something and that's happened. I go the next day to the place and everything's been wiped like it was never there. Now, as far as I know this hasn't happened yet this time but I haven't gotten a chance to check the store again yet. I was going to buy one but they all had weird minor paint issues and i've been thinking of saving my money to spend on some more of those low production run roboforce figures before the guy that makes them has to legally destroy them due to the contract of him selling off the rights for the characters to some bigger company since I fond out THAT was a thing the whole time and I really dig the modular nature of the things. Mutilated one of the ones I ordered a while back and mingled it with the spare interchangable parts from the others, which resulted in an unholy creation I dare not photograph. And by "dare not" I mean I'm too lazy. Just know the thing is a beefy ass robot with tank legs and murder fists. Organized scalpers get gnaw instead of me? Sucks shit but there's always a chance he might get re-released. The 26 dollar modular robots with transforming legs? no chance in hell they're gonna be restocked after the 31st. If I had the cash I'd buy like 2 or 3 of each just so I could make shit. Sucks I missed out on the $15 unpainted ones and ebay scalpers are now charging $40 or $50 for them.

Well I found Siege Rung in a store and I heard he had a slightly different color scheme than Earthrise. So I figured why not and got him for a few bucks.

They're very hard to tell apart unless you're under a real bright light but the arms for Earthrise are a noticeable different shade of orange, but it's just very slight.

In comparison the two versions of Titans Returns Ramhorn are easier to tell apart.

It's less a different color scheme and more for some reason they used 1 more shade of orange on the earthrise one's plastic. I don't know why or how that even works. shits about as baffling as the "4shades of purple plastic" on a lot of transformers that use the color these days.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

yesterday I saw a fuckload of studio series gnaws in a target, scanned the price to check if they were on discount or not out of boredom and it was just full price but said "out of stock." I've mentioned before what's happened every other time I've scanned something and that's happened. I go the next day to the place and everything's been wiped like it was never there. Now, as far as I know this hasn't happened yet this time but I haven't gotten a chance to check the store again yet. I was going to buy one but they all had weird minor paint issues and i've been thinking of saving my money to spend on some more of those low production run roboforce figures before the guy that makes them has to legally destroy them due to the contract of him selling off the rights for the characters to some bigger company since I fond out THAT was a thing the whole time and I really dig the modular nature of the things. Mutilated one of the ones I ordered a while back and mingled it with the spare interchangable parts from the others, which resulted in an unholy creation I dare not photograph. And by "dare not" I mean I'm too lazy. Just know the thing is a beefy ass robot with tank legs and murder fists. Organized scalpers get gnaw instead of me? Sucks shit but there's always a chance he might get re-released. The 26 dollar modular robots with transforming legs? no chance in hell they're gonna be restocked after the 31st. If I had the cash I'd buy like 2 or 3 of each just so I could make shit. Sucks I missed out on the $15 unpainted ones and ebay scalpers are now charging $40 or $50 for them.


It's less a different color scheme and more for some reason they used 1 more shade of orange on the earthrise one's plastic. I don't know why or how that even works. shits about as baffling as the "4shades of purple plastic" on a lot of transformers that use the color these days.

We have that issue with Walmart's here and Toy's R'Us. I don't mind the toy grind though as I can at least visit other stores for books and games. We never seem to get the Gamestop exclusives though for any line.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Newage Shean (Mirage) is looking good. I don't normally pick up recolours unless I want to do some custom paint jobs but each of these look really good.

I rather like the clear black one and the red one. I don't know how I feel about the metalic blue on. Usually I don't like metalics unless they also weather them but I like that teal shade. I'd probably get a few of the clear black ones and do a little custom work to make them Decepticon spy drones. I'll probably get a second red one and paint that up as Sticks. The head should work out well for him. Maybe a third to paint it up like F-1 Robo.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I've taken a few photos of the robots I got recently but they all came out like shit. With flash the colors distort and without flash the colors turn piss yellow, this house has shit lighting despite having a window on literally every wall somehow and it's never stopped confounding me. There was also the task of jamming them all into frame with a standard deluxe transformer for size comparison.

Not pictured is the weird massive one I made via butchering an offscreen robot and mashing it with the spare parts of the others. The 2 in the middle are sold out but the best ones (hun-dred on the right and sentinel, who is not in this photo) are surprisingly still in stock. I'll take a pic of sentinel later, he doesn't come like what the stock image on the site shows, he's got a lot more shit going on with him. There's an ebay scalper right now that's got maxx listed at $50 and judging by how I've noticed the behavior of him and others it's like they list one and then sell and relist at like 5 dollars higher till it's insano price, but sometimes they astart at ridiculously inflated prices like this maxx zero. I missed out on the blanks and he's been selling the fucking things the last week or so so I'm guessing that's where a chunk of that stock went. No idea how people can just sit on these things at such ludicrous upmarks but that's how it is.

Genuinely glad i got to experience this revival of the cool robot figures that were originally killed by having to compete with transformers, even if it was just at the end. From what I've seen of the prototypes put out by the company that bought the rights off the guy but it doesn't capture that specific signature vibe the originals had.

Can't remember if I sent this image earlier or not and I'm too lazy to check but still damn this looks less like 60s-80s robot more like 90s-2000s cgi render. not that it's "bad" neccesarily it just doesn't capture the character's specific vibe. Their marketing is apperently "oh the feet have suction cups like the originals now therefore better than the other remake line!" but they're piddly little things instead of hulking plunger-thrusters that form the base of the robot. The legs thing is something added by the lot production run remake line that's ending due to the rights getting transferred over to the company that's making the wacky cgi render looking ones. They also seemed to fail to realize the appeal of the legs was it was an optional transformation gimmick. With nothing but suction cups to run on this big budget reboot is more than likely going to be doomed from day 1 unless they hire godlike writers. Sculpt looks cool though and I'm probably going to buy it if it's not expensive as fuck for what it is.

Now I just gotta figure out what others of this final wave I'm going to get before the 31st when the killswitch on the stock activates due to legal bullshit.