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

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oh shit he's shorter than the fallen, his helmets just bigger which makes him out of scale but still, really cool. The arm wafflings still weird, though. His gray could have been a little lighter or more blue though.
 
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It's to invoke the gun mode without doing it. The figure looks more like a devastation megs to me, even the tank looks similar.
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Devastation was combiner wars megatron with g1 model proportions. The game in general was like an interesting mix of the g1 designs and the then current modernized designs they had reworked into the g1 artstyle. Motormaster's a really good example of that design philosophy they had going on for the game.
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Combiner wars design but with the g1 proportions, really creates a cool visual.


This new megatron also transforms differently but clearly takes some inspiration from that megatron in bot mode. The scalpers that used the devastation stock art as their thing before the figure got revealed made the connection too. The shoulders on devastation megs were a little different in a way I kind of wish this megatron went with instead of putting waffling on the shoulders and weird fusion cannon tumor that serves no purpose.

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EDIT: I did something insane and ordered a kinda short third party figure with some gift money tonight. he will be the manlet to lead my armies.
 
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Someone finally posted an image of SS86 Megatron in natural lighting, I wish more people would use that instead of studio lights on a pure white background which screws up the colors a lot of the time.
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Pre-orders for the next studio series wave will go up soon, walmart has placeholder pages up already.
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Hope Eradicated said:
Someone finally posted an image of SS86 Megatron in natural lighting, I wish more people would use that instead of studio lights on a pure white background which screws up the colors a lot of the time.
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The more I see of this thing the more I like it. 2024-5 seems to be shaping up on the one few small positives to be the "several really good looking megatrons" year. there have been enough renditions of this grey and/or silver guy for people to probably get tired of it but I'm not really finding any of them boring or tiresome.
 
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hold on to your butts, buttholders
 
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More listings got leaked. My thoughts on each listing are in parenthesis below each listing.
Age of the Primes:

TRA GEN PRIME VOY SWINDLE
^ (I'm not sure why swindle is a voyager considering he should be about as complicated as Breakdown/Wildrider.)
TRA GEN PRIME VOY VECTOR PRIME
^ (It's a redeco, not much to say here.)
TRA GEN PRIME DLX JALOPY
^ (No clue who this is, doesn't even show up in TFWiki's search function. EDIT: might be an 86 Jazz repaint, image attached below. EDIT 2: Might also be Ricochet/Stepper renamed for copyright reasons.)
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TRA GEN PRIME DLX JOYRIDE
^ (It's interesting that we're getting new versions of the Powermasters now.)
TRA GEN PRIME DLX TAILGATE
^ (It'll be Windcharger with a new head.)
TRA GEN PRIME DLX POINTBLANK
^ (Hopefully a new figure, since the Legacy version sucks. If it isn't, lmao.)
TRA GEN PRIME DLX FANGRY
^ (This is good for all the people who didn't get the multipack, hopefully the tolerances get fixed.)
TRA GEN PRIME LDR ARMADA MEGATRON
^ (Rerelease)
TRA GEN PRIME LDR UNICRON SOLDIER
^ (This could be anything, maybe a troop builder repaint?)
TRA GEN PRIME LDR LIEGE MAXIMO
^ (I really hope this is based off of the G2 comic design.)
TRA GEN PRIMES CMDR 1 (Onslaught)
^ (The front of the truck will turn into the core robot, the trailer will turn into the frame.)
TRA GEN PRIMES CMDR 2
^ (???)

Exclusives:

TRA GEN RETRO WHEELIE
^ (Lmao, they waited so long to release this that Core Class got discontinued.)
TRA GEN RETRO OUTBACK
^ (It's odd it took this long to get an Outback from the 86 Brawn mold.)
TRA GEN SELECTS COMBINER
^ (Maybe G2 Motormaster?)
TRA GEN SELECTS MULTIPACK
^ (Could be anything.)
TRA GEN TIMELINES OPTIMUS AND STARSCREAM
^ (???)
TRA GEN DTC TIMELINES 4
^ (Probably Megatron and Bumblebee, theme for the year is unknown.)
TRA GEN SKY
^ (G1 toy-deco prime Skyquake? That's my best guess.)
TRA GEN SDCC 1
^ (Unknown for now.)
TRA GEN AOTP SENTINEL ARTIFACT PACK
^ (Possibly an accessory pack.)
TRA GEN DTC PRO PACK
^ (???)
TRA GEN BW PREDACON MULTIPACK
^ (Maybe a multipack of toy-deco repaints?)
TRA GEN RED ALERT MINICON PACK
^ (Probably the Voyager Red Alert with a couple Minicons sold for Leader price.)
TRA GEN AOTP ENERGON 4
^ (???)

Studio series:

TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES TITAN
^ (We know that WFC/FOC got put on the backburner, maybe 86 Unicron?)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES ROLEPLAY
^ (Probably an 86 Matrix of Leadership.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR 86 BLITZWING
^ (It'll probably have the same deco as the Dramatic Capture Series version.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR TF7 SCOURGE
^ (Hopefully a heavy retool/new figure, since the original RotB Scourge sucks.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES VOY 86 CYCLONUS
^ (It'll be the Kingdom figure with a slightly different color scheme, that hopefully won't yellow.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES VOY TF4 OPTIMUS EV
^ (It'll be interesting to see how the transformation on this figure works, will be Voyager size but complex.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES DLX 86 WHEELJACK
^ (Hopefully a new mold and not an ER repaint.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES DLX TF4 BUMBLEBEE
^ (Hopefully this won't suck ass.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES DLX TF ONE SOUNDWAVE
^ (It'll turn into the same Cybertronian nothing as the Bumblebee version.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR 86 SWOOP
^ (Rerelease)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR COMICS FORT MAX
^ (Could be either Marvel G1, or IDW. I'm leaning towards Marvel G1 since we're also getting a Marvel Soundwave. EDIT: Could be the IDW version as a retool of Armada Megatron.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR COMICS SOUNDWAVE
^ (Probably the 86 Soundwave in purple.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR TF5 HOUND
^ (Will probably be Voyager size, but more complex and with a shit-ton of guns.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR 86 OPTIMUS SLP MODE
^ (I don't know why dead Prime is being released at retail as opposed to Gen Selects.)
TRA GEN STUDIO SERIES LDR TF5 MEGATRON
^ (This will probably be one of the best figures released in 2027.)
TRA GEN SS ANNY LDR 86 MEGATRON
^ (Premium Finish/Cell Shaded/Battle-damaged 86 Megatron.)
 
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Space Police said:
Comics are the purview of Studio Series now? I guess they'll do anything to keep that line from dying.
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John Warden mentioned that tv shows would also appear in Studio Series, the idea is that AotP/Its replacement is for stylized version of characters, whereas Studio Series is for screen/comic accurate figures.

Edit for clarification, this is how it functioned for a while, the movie line would be screen accurate, and Classics/Henkai/Universe/Generations would be modernized versions of G1 characters.
 
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Hope Eradicated said:
John Warden mentioned that tv shows would also appear in Studio Series, the idea is that AotP/Its replacement is for stylized version of characters, whereas Studio Series is for screen/comic accurate figures.
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Studio Series are some of my favourite figures because of that extra detail, but this is purely an exercise in redundancy. Studio Series should have died after SS86 wrapped up in 2021/2022, and the detail and accuracy should have become a regular part of Generations. It's not like Generations is aimed at kids moreso than Studio Series.
 
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Hope Eradicated said:
TRA GEN PRIME LDR LIEGE MAXIMO
^ (I really hope this is based off of the G2 comic design.)
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He should have been the titan, not optimus. Going by the box art statues he's the g2 design which makes him not being a titan even more absurd. I mean I'll be able to afford him but he's not gonna be in scale lmao.

It's surreal how every time something happens it's like "AH YES SO THIS WILL BE COMING A YEAR OR 2 LATER PREORDER NOW", lifes been stagnant and this practice is even further fucking with my time perception to begin with because everythings so fast and slow at the same fucking time.

Hope Eradicated said:
John Warden mentioned that tv shows would also appear in Studio Series, the idea is that AotP/Its replacement is for stylized version of characters, whereas Studio Series is for screen/comic accurate figures.
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They should have throught twice about that before making age of the primes entirely about making figures of the primes. We've got a pretty much 1 to 1 Dreamwave fallen and a greebled up g1 gladiator prima witht he IDW star saber for some reason.

Hope Eradicated said:
this is how it functioned for a while, the movie line would be screen accurate, and Classics/Henkai/Universe/Generations would be modernized versions of G1 characters.
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See, that's not exactly the same. The movie lines came out at the time of the movie. There was occasional weird overlap between the movie lines and chug, but it was either making a chug or unicron trilogy guy styled like the movie as a repaint or the other way around. This current thing? They spent the last several years making updated or series accurate attempt things in generations and changed the movie toys to studio series, but then instead of making the toys for the movies they started jamming everything into gimmick lines and bizarre shit that's like dollar store quality sold at the same price as everything else because of fucking course. Stuff like studio series starscream and galvatron are literally just repaints and not altered in any way to be more screen accurate beyond mild color differences.

I'll go get my less than 2 hours of sleep now, bleugh.
 
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Jeez only one, maybe two more Primes next year? That's barely half of the entire roster for two years. Since these are usually three year chunks for each "trilogy", are they going to drop the rest of them through 2027?
 
King Of Braves said:
Jeez only one, maybe two more Primes next year? That's barely half of the entire roster for two years. Since these are usually three year chunks for each "trilogy", are they going to drop the rest of them through 2027?
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These are just the missing listings for 2026, we're also getting: Deluxe Quintus Prime, Voyager Amalgamous Prime, and Voyager Nexus Prime next year.

Edit: Micronus & Onyx prime are coming out in wave 3 this year as well.
 
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King Of Braves said:
Jeez only one, maybe two more Primes next year? That's barely half of the entire roster for two years. Since these are usually three year chunks for each "trilogy", are they going to drop the rest of them through 2027?
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It's weird because they framed this year as THE YEAR for primes. And now it's time gated tot he next 2 years, sespite us having visuals of the designs. This isn't like earthrise where they's hide incredibly cryptic clues about future releases or have an easter egg like a tiny kingdom galvatron barreling through space on some boxes, we have like full reference for some of these guys, the figures are visible and ready going by the leaked copies of 86 megatron floating around the aether, these are clearly being stocked somewhere, what's the fucking hold up?
 
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