A Transformers Thread

ARRRRRRRGGGGHHH, me cyber-hearties!

Be you ready for the mighty adventures of the Star Raiders?! (Formerly known as the Star Seekers?!)

For we got leaked previews of four of the space-faring scoundrels!

• Cannonball, extensive remold of the Crankcase mold with a new head, new shoulders, a new claw hand, and a Cyber-Key?
• Lockdown, from Axlegrease with a new head!
• Filch, from Studio Series Airazor, with new hawk and robot heads, new wings!
• Ferak, from Kingdom Cyclonus with a new head and new wings (or new missiles)?

Expect to see more Star Seekers Raiders very soon!

Not gonna lie those retools look sick as hell.

Heck yeah Cannonball! I love the old one, but he's getting very loose.

Studio series Blaster looking fine

I really can't get over how nice Cybertron Starscream looks, especially compared to the very recent Gamer Edition FOC Starscream which has the same basic idea except it looks like complete garbage.

So funny how two figures can take the same basic design so close together and come out entirely differently.

Stream came out. Not much revealed we didnt know. No surprise reveal for Omega Prime (7 days left) other than confirmation that the weaponizer's weapon will be white as in the original.

New video from Chris Mc Feely, this time on Sparks.

Edit: And now I've finished Earthspark as well. Got a bit dark in the end, though not incredibly so, just compared to what had happened before, and this was a series dealing with the aftermath of war, fantastic racism towards cybertronians, PTSD from the war, and attempted genocide of an entire species.

I'm wondering where the show will go from here. News on the next season is pretty quiet.

Edited by HandsomeRob on Mar 9th 2024 at 5:58:29 AM

Pirates all look good. Definitely will pick up all of them. Curious to see what the new Bludgeon in the Bludgeon Ruckus 2 pack will look like. Maybe like the first IDW continuity where he didn't have a lower jaw and was green grey.

Right? So glad I preordered him via Pulse. Guy sold out quick apparently.

Anyway, more in-hand images of Legacy United Voyager Cybertron/Galaxy Force Starscream!

Part 1 (out of the box)

Part 2 (front and back)

Part 3 (articulation)

Part 4 (more articulation, aka Starscream not skipping Leg Day)

Part 5 (spaceship mode)

Part 6 (comparison shots with Armada SS and Armada Megatron)

Part 7 (More articulation, plus random experimenting)

Takeaways:

• His signature giant shoulder wings are on 5mm pegs, probably for QOL? Helps you get real creative, I guess?
• He comes with a Cyber Key, but you don't need it to activate his signature arm swords. They're manually operated. Plus, you can stick the key onto his rifle!
• Butterfly shoulder joints!
• His back has a 3mm port, which becomes a great way to display him in jet mode because the back ends up in the bottom.
• No hollow plastic!
• Insane leg articulation!
• Double-hinged shoulder pads!
• Double-jointed arms!
• Waist articulation! (Can only go 45 degrees.)

Man, this guy's going to be a trip!

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Apr 1st 2024 at 11:09:30 AM

How wild is it that this is the most hyped I've been for a TF in a while and it's from a show I haven't seen?

It just looks awesome.

Kinda wish the swords were a bit longer, in their default mode they don't seem to protrude enough past the arms, which was a problem with some of the past versions of Cybertron Starscream.

Seriously, if he had articulated little turrets he'd be comically perfect.

Omega Prime entering its final two days if you've not yet ordered it. Sitting at 19K orders

Yeah, the lack of rotating turrets is disappointing. Funnily enough it's accurate to the toy this is a remake of as well. Only the Giant Starscream had rotating turrets, the voyager scale one did not.

Also, new Skybound issue. Real nice way to end the arc. Made me dig out my United Constructicons from storage.

Yeah. I wouldn't even say I'm disappointed in the lack of articulated turrets since I wouldn't expect it. Just that it would've been better if it had it.

Takara's channel added a bunch of full episodes of Transformers Car Robots (in Japanese) for free, presumably to tie in with the God Fire Convoy hasbro pulse thing ending tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/@TAKARATOMYHOBBY

Speaking of Omega Prime, he's passed 21K backers.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 13th 2024 at 7:35:59 AM

Haslab Omega Prime's campaign closed with 28,230 backers.

This puts it ahead of Deathsaurus who closed at 27,442 and was the previously most successful transformer Haslab project. It's only behind Galactus as the most succesful haslab ever.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 15th 2024 at 1:07:56 PM

New video from Rodimus Primal, on the friendly Maintanence Bot and would be actor, Hoist!

Link provided here, because embedding is still going out of it's way to spite us.

Forgot to back Omega Prime.

I'm... pretty okay with this. Based on how much I'm not stressed about this, I think my bad memory saved me from my innate FOMO.

The idea of dropping 1/4 of a grand on any one toy purchase is kinda frightening, especially since the single best part of this (RID Optimus) is already something I already own and this version of RID Optimus is only incrementally better.

Deathsaurus, at least, is simplistic enough that I genuinely do play with him a lot. I don't think I'd be fiddling with Omega Prime much. He'd go into super mode and stay in my cabinet.

Ron Friedman, the writer for the 86 movie, has cancer. His wife set up a go fund me to help pay the medical bills

Shakedown, breakdown, in town

Chris Mc Feely has another video

Breakdown, comes to, THE BASICS!

So it took me a while to catch it, but Breakdown is essentially the Swindle of the Stunticons. That member who managed to break out on his own....or should I say break down barriers?

TMNT Van looking pretty awesome

Appreciate the alternate heads, buckles and weapons to customize to each turtle.

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 28th 2024 at 1:28:07 PM

Dead End was the Stunticon that had the most focus on other than Motormaster in G1.

Edited by neoamon on Mar 28th 2024 at 7:58:09 PM

Yeah, the Turtles Van looks exceptionally good. Like, I was absolutely not expecting weapons from all 4 turtles or the interchangeable masks.

And hey! It hits me that if you do get 4 copies to represent the 4 turtles, you can go all Mirage and slap the red mask on all of them! (Probably not something they intended, but hooray for deep cuts!)

Speaking of deep cuts, the next Target multipack got revealed!

Life's not easy when your name is Cliffjumper. But it would appear that one Cliffjumper variant got himself a second chance at life after a particularly grisly end thanks to multiverse shenanigans! And he's gonna spend that chance the most Cliff way possible: by giving multiversal 'Cons the horns!

It's Prime Cliffjumper (retooled from Rescue Bots Chase) vs. Beast Wars Tarantulas (new head with a deco based on the Tarantulas prototype toy from the earliest BW commercials), G1 Squeezeplay (an extensive retool of TR Mindwipe where the robot mode legs become giant creature claws, whoa), and Cyberverse Tarn (a redeco of Legacy Tarn with a deco based on the Tarn from the Cyberverse cartoon, with a dope looking sword)!

Can Cliff pull through this time? Or is he slagged again? (And seriously, he has my attention way more than Rescue Bots Chase ever did…like he's looking really boss! )

Speaking even further of deep cuts, the next Masterpiece got leaked! It's Ginrai (aka that guy who looks a lot like Optimus Prime, but isn't really)!

Speculation has it that the deco is based on the original toy (ergo red eyes), and the inevitable Super Ginrai (plus God Ginrai?) from MPG will have anime-accurate colors. Only time will tell!

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 28th 2024 at 7:55:14 AM

You know, masterpiece Powermaster Optimus Prime (well, Ginrai) seems like an obvious choice in retrospect given how distinct he is from the first Optimus + having starred in a cartoon.

...except they nixed the thing that most sets him apart physically, at least for this first release. I would hope the trailer is coming at some point.

Edited by Chortleous on Mar 28th 2024 at 9:21:44 AM

A) If he does not come with the trailer for super ginrai from the get go, what is even the point.

B) There's several 3P God Ginrai so this will need to work super hard to win its niche.

Well! It's a good thing I spoke too soon!

MASTERFORCE! TRANSFORM! GOD ON! DOUBLE ON!

MPG-09 WILL BE SUPER GINRAI!!!

• Yes, he has the trailer!
• Yes, he has the anime-accurate colors!
• And yes, he has toy deco stickers, so if you buy MP-60, he can combine with the trailer to have full toy-accuracy!
• Coming December 2024, just like MP-60!

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Mar 29th 2024 at 8:54:38 AM