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I'd definitely be more interested in the toy deco - generally speaking I prefer the cartoon one, but this is literally supposed to be the original toy with a bit of modernisation.

The biggest issue with Megatron for the Japanese market is probably more that putting joints in that mold is *hard*. There's only so much you can do with the hip clearance and it would look very awkward.

Prime already had knees tbf, it's hip articulation that was lacking. This is kinda fun, will depend on how expensive it is, but I don't think there's really scope for a whole line of these. Prime works because he needs quite modest tweaking to modernise - by virtue of his transformation he was...

They're (very minor) characters from the IDW continuity.

But of a shame his lightbar is painted plastic, but other than that he's great. They nailed the headsculpt too. I am pretty happy with the SS86 toys.

The cab doesn't do anything, it transforms into him. You can see the sides of it on the back shot. It's like the MP version. (I am fine with this approach, it's a Studio Series toy. The white cab was never in the film.)

Shattered Glass Sideswipe is the cancelled repaint of Armada Sideswipe into G2 Drench. Dammit. That Galaxy Prime mold feels so cheap and bad but an official Nova is kinda tempting. Kaskade and Javelin look nice, and they're really weird deep cuts. But the most weird thing is how Javelin is...

So, SDCC reveals - Core Novakane (Freezer with a new hat) Core ROTB Exo suit (I like it! Nice drone mode) Core 86 Frenzy (Red) (Not a surprise but solid) Deluxe ROTB Nightbird (ehhh, this looks worse than the mainline version to me but maybe better pictures will help) Voyager Ratchet...

Yeah, Unicron was definitely my limit for a single item I think, and even that was on the basis of it effectively been a once in a lifetime thing. This looks fantastic, but that price is not aimed at me. But fair play, it is as good an implementation of this as I think you could plausibly have...

The TFW2005 frontpage story has a bunch of screencaps from the video if that's what you're after.

Star Convoy feels like a bit of a waste of a Haslab slot tbh. There's no way they won't do a Commander Star Convoy at some point.

Sky Garry or Grandus from those hints. If it's either of those could we finish off some more Micromaster teams please Hasbro.

Really? Hasbro UK haven't been able to give the things away at 65% discount until the last few weeks when they've finally started to try up.

Quick takes - I genuinely guffawed when they called Shadowstriker sleek. She looks pretty awful proportions wise in both modes and is stuck with a massive kibble shield. While Snarl is probably one of the better ones, the combined Dinobot looks a utter mess. The legs are just... Easy pass...

Void Rivals was nice but it definitely felt like a Saga spin off book that just happened to have a Transformer in it for a few pages.

Still not sure the seeker is purple enough, but to be fair it also looks pretty like a dubious Photoshop job than an actual product photo. I don't think Rook would fit the troop builder theme. Let's just have a separate Rook.

Wow those nasty painted baby blue windows make Prowl and Ironhide look awful. Awful. Battle damage seems naff too, and I really think people would have preferred a straight reissue of these. I feel sorry for people who were not able to get Prowl the first time. The four pack looks great though...

Yeah, I would just say that was Jetfire really. I guess I was wrong about this one - perhaps Hasbro's lawyers didn't consider the deal large enough to be market sensitive information. Still, nice to see new books. Hopefully we get the older IDW content reissued by Skybound in short order.

Depends on if the Combiner Wars mould is still usable/financially viable I guess. Might be for a subline. Is HFTD Tomahawk considered a "modern" tooling at this point?

If only Crasher's head actually looked like that.