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

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Newage H34Y Hephaestus in G2 colours. While it comes with some new accessories. It doesn't seem to come with the new parts that were made for it to make it look better whether pre-installed or not.

Going to need to make some custom Tonka decals for it.

Legacy Cosmos is nearly perfect for the budget.

 

[Victory Leo]

I don't care for those weird hip guards on cosmos, or the completely hollowed out arms, but he doesn't look terrible besides that.
Hopefully they do a Pathfinder out of him.

 

[Wraith]

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

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Interesting power pose.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Is it bad I actually enjoyed Bayformers? At least the first three movies?

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Going to really need an alternative head.

Also, new GI Joe Classified vehicle from Haslab is a HISS Tank. I can't see myself spending $300usd for it when it's a hollowed out piece of plastic with little detail and paint apps. You could literally just print this off yourself. I swear, you're spending an additional $150 on the LED lights. At least it has functioning treads.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Looks like Snarl is being made for Studio Series so we just need a Swoop. Considering how easy his transformation is I hope he comes with the Dinobots melee weapons and blast effects.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Looks like Snarl is being made for Studio Series so we just need a Swoop. Considering how easy his transformation is I hope he comes with the Dinobots melee weapons and blast effects.

I think he's going to come with a flight stand of some sort. The Studio Series Dinobots are worthy of being displayed in Dino mode just due to how big they are. I already have the Combiner Wars ones in individual robot mode and the Takara Tomy version transformed as Volcanus. My only complaint is that I wish Slag had more of a neck for his Triceratops mode.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I think he's going to come with a flight stand of some sort. The Studio Series Dinobots are worthy of being displayed in Dino mode just due to how big they are. I already have the Combiner Wars ones in individual robot mode and the Takara Tomy version transformed as Volcanus. My only complaint is that I wish Slag had more of a neck for his Triceratops mode.

Sludge was supposed to have his feet fold so that he could hide them better. While they are good, there's just some tiny issues with the design that's all based on budget. Snarl will probably have some minor flaw with it as will Swoop.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Not a fan of this Inferno. I was expecting more for a voyager.

Head sculpt is good though.
Voyager Metalhawk listing was found too. I have some hope of that being good. Though it could just be Voyager Starcream with a new head and paint job.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Looks like Snarl is being made for Studio Series so we just need a Swoop. Considering how easy his transformation is I hope he comes with the Dinobots melee weapons and blast effects.

Thanks to the shitty ass distribution I never found nor saw ANY of the dinobots save for ONE grimlock a year or so ago when I didn't have money for it.

Not a fan of this Inferno. I was expecting more for a voyager.
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Head sculpt is good though.
Voyager Metalhawk listing was found too. I have some hope of that being good. Though it could just be Voyager Starcream with a new head and paint job.

This nightmare level thick bug legs and antennae shit continues to confuse the fuck out of me, he looks great aside from that recent plagueupon any non-spidertype bughasbro has put out these last 2 lines.
Ans like clockwork,I check ebay and the prices on the original begin spiking like what happened with thrilling 30 rhinox. after kingdom rhinox's reveal. Not quite to the insanity levels yet that fucker reached to the point I ended up buying a fucking ACTUALLY RARE TEST SHOT PROTOTYPE of the thing off a guy because it was cheaper than the standard hasbro t30 rhinox at the time which shot from $20 dollars used to $160 thanks to current year price speculator cancer. I think he's gone back down in price to $50 but Fuck that shit I'm fine with my weird crystalline ghost rhino.

 

[The Dude]

My MegaTank Monocrat arrived a couple weeks ago finally. Pre-ordered it back in October and they kept pushing the ship date back. Really amazing figure. Highly detailed, incredible paint, solidly built. I don't tend to like the Bay-verse inspired designs, but I really like this one. The light-up eyes and fusion cannon are a nice touch. I got it to go with my Civil Warrior General Grant/War Within Optimus since I feel like their styling compliment each other. I kinda dig how the alt-mode looks kinda like a Cybertronian Metal Slug tank. I'll try to get some photos for you guys when I get the chance.

I also added Legacy Bulkhead, Laser Optimus, Blaster, and Sudio Series 86 Perceptor, and SS86 Slag/Slug to my collection. I really lucked out on Perceptor since he just happened to be at my local Walmart for $23 and they just had the one left. For the past couple months I've only seen him available at inflated "collector's" prices. I pre-ordered the Matrix Workshop upgrade kit for Laser Optimus that turns his tanker trailer into a missile launcher, but they haven't shipped out yet, and now DNA has announced a similar upgrade kit that does the same thing, but is much nicer quality and has more accessories with it, so I'll probably order it as well and just use the Matrix Workshop kit until the DNA kit releases.

I'm kinda slowing down on collecting Transformers though. I've got more important things to take care of now, and I've started getting into Hot Wheels and their Track Builder kits because it's something I can do with both my boys that's more affordable than Transformers, yet is something the three of us can do together to have fun at home and bond over. My youngest son is still too young for Transformers, so I felt that my oldest son and I were kind of leaving him out of the fun. Both my boys enjoy Hot Wheels and we have been having a lot of fun building custom tracks to see what crazy designs we can think up and successfully get the cars to run. I need to get some of the battery powered boosters so we can make some really big tracks without the cars losing momentum partway through. I've got the first three figures that make up Legacy Menasor on pre-order, and I'll get the other two once they become available for pre-order, and then that will likely be it for me for a long while as far as Transformers go. I might get a figure here and there if anything especially interesting gets released, but I won't be actively collecting like I have been.

 

[Victory Leo]

Thanks to the shitty ass distribution I never found nor saw ANY of the dinobots save for ONE grimlock a year or so ago when I didn't have money for it.

This nightmare level thick bug legs and antennae shit continues to confuse the fuck out of me, he looks great aside from that recent plagueupon any non-spidertype bughasbro has put out these last 2 lines.
Ans like clockwork,I check ebay and the prices on the original begin spiking like what happened with thrilling 30 rhinox. after kingdom rhinox's reveal. Not quite to the insanity levels yet that fucker reached to the point I ended up buying a fucking ACTUALLY RARE TEST SHOT PROTOTYPE of the thing off a guy because it was cheaper than the standard hasbro t30 rhinox at the time which shot from $20 dollars used to $160 thanks to current year price speculator cancer. I think he's gone back down in price to $50 but Fuck that shit I'm fine with my weird crystalline ghost rhino.

The original Inferno was always pretty expensive and not because hes good or better than this new one, because he's ridiculously fragile and honestly just fucking awful. I had two and the forarms are made out of such thin spindly clear plastic they literally broke and fell off the ball joint after just sitting on a shelf for a few months with no pressure added to them, the rest of him isnt any better, the mold is just kind of cancers in general.
now Scavanger, that's a fantastic toy, and my forever go-to inferno. sure it isnt show accurate but it perfectly captures the spirit of the character and has a great ant mode, a fantastic robot mode and even one of the better transmetal vehicle modes.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Straxus apparently will get a Leader class figure. I was thinking a remold of Jhiaxus but he's a Voyager, unless they go for some addons for him to offset the cost.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I found out Jhiaxus is apperently out now months ahead of when they said he'd be out in october. Thisis also true of other things in gi joe classified and transformers but it's all overseas with US release weirdly still may or june of next year for some insane reason. I know him and blitzwing have been out for months in some countries and I saw ONE blitzwing in a store once here in the US when I had no money for him but online it stills ays he's coming in october/november.

Might order him but I got a feeling this is gonna be like overlord or beast wars ravage where it was a majorly hyped character people wanted that for some reason was readily available online for a good while (and I still missed out on overlord)

 

[Marissa Moira]

Leader Class Blitzwing looks nice. Between that, titans return bliztwing, and thrilling 30 blizwing you can display each in every mode now.

But people seem upset at the sheer amount of G1 stuff, they seemed to be under the impression that legacy was going to cover Unicron Trilogy. But Unicron Trilogy was basically just new versions of G1 guys to start.

I love the variety that they've been giving for everything but my one complaint is that again the releases seem all over the place and we can't seem to be able to finish full teams.

Straxus apparently will get a Leader class figure. I was thinking a remold of Jhiaxus but he's a Voyager, unless they go for some addons for him to offset the cost.

This may be an error and this could be referring to Dragon Megatron. But Dragon Megatron is almost for certain going to be Cryotek.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Leader Class Blitzwing looks nice. Between that, titans return bliztwing, and thrilling 30 blizwing you can display each in every mode now.

But people seem upset at the sheer amount of G1 stuff, they seemed to be under the impression that legacy was going to cover Unicron Trilogy. But Unicron Trilogy was basically just new versions of G1 guys to start.

I love the variety that they've been giving for everything but my one complaint is that again the releases seem all over the place and we can't seem to be able to finish full teams.


This may be an error and this could be referring to Dragon Megatron. But Dragon Megatron is almost for certain going to be Cryotek.

I think it might be a "mislabel" but Straxus is still coming out. After all Hasbro has to use that name again for Trademark reasons. So Amazon just jumped the gun when it comes to putting stuff into their servers.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I think it might be a "mislabel" but Straxus is still coming out. After all Hasbro has to use that name again for Trademark reasons. So Amazon just jumped the gun when it comes to putting stuff into their servers.

Do you think he's going to get an original mold or do you think he's just going to be a retool of a more popular character? I mean we've had things like Sky Shadow and Overlord sharing a mold before despite none of them being all that well known. Maybe if he's a new mold we'll get something similar.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Mastermind Creations Reformatted R-48SG Optus Prominon or Shatter Glass Optimus Prime will be a TFCon exclusive. Looks okay in the colours but it needed a better purple I think

Do you think he's going to get an original mold or do you think he's just going to be a retool of a more popular character? I mean we've had things like Sky Shadow and Overlord sharing a mold before despite none of them being all that well known. Maybe if he's a new mold we'll get something similar.

I think a retool with some added bits to make it a leader class. I hope he'll be an original mold though because you can do a lot with him.

Could be something like "Straxus w/ Darkmount." to keep both trademarks.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Studio Series core class Rumble sounds like it may be a retool of the micromaster version and be coming with extra accessories to bulk out the package. Kingdom/Legacy Eject has 8 steps which they really stretched out so if Rumble is coming with weapons that would probably fill in the added steps.

I really want them to get to the cassette combiners and Slugfest and Overkill. Releasing Siege Soundwave makes me think that we will have more cassettes.