New "Wildocking" Animal Limb Combiners from TakaraTomy

[CoffeeHorse]

I'm impressed. Reusing the same body could have been really lame but they're making it work.

 

[Donocropolis]

Revealed:
"Autobots"
Light Long - Lightning
Hydrophant - Water
Ignite Bite - Fire
Drill Horn - Earth

"Decepticons"
Captain Volka - Fire
Leafback - Grass
Thunder Beak - Lightning
Spirituan - Earth

Unrevealed:
Abyss Rain - Likely the Decepticon/Dinosaur water elemental. Would love for this to be a plesiosaur of some type.

Lavamuleta - This one is confusing, because both sides already have a fire and an earth elemental, which seem to be the most likely alignments of someone with "lava" in their name. Maybe indicating that there are more than one of each element available to each side?

Frost Saber - A saber toothed tiger? Maybe with a new "Ice" element? If it is a saber tooth, maybe it could fit into either team? It would be a mammal, but also a prehistoric animal. Complete speculation, though.

Sky Report - Probably the Autobot aligned flyer to counter Thunder Beak. "Grass" is the only element that is missing from the Autobot team, unless like I mentioned earlier, there are some more elements yet to be revealed.

EDIT:
I'm seeing elsewhere that rumors are that Lavamuleta is a bull that transforms into a shield and Frost Saber becomes a sword. These would be packed with the Nemesis Prime and Shadow Megatron repaints. If so, that makes sense. Sky Report would be a grass-elemental "Autobot", giving each team 5 members, with Lavamuleta and Frost Saber being seperate weapons instead of directly forming limbs/wings (they may still be able to be limbs, but it wouldn't be their primary purpose.)

EDIT PART 2: Electric Edi-loo
Ok, apparently two of the unrevealed animals are a bull and a stegosaurus as shown in these to teeny-tiny pics:

I'd wager Abyss Rain is gonna be a blue stegosaurus as the Decepticon water-elemental.

 

[Sabrblade]

^ Of note, a number of those names are either preliminary names ("Ignite Bite" instead of "Ignite Leo") or the result of Loopaza Mega Store misinterpreting the Katakana in their leak listings ("Drill Horn" instead of "Drillnohorn").

 

[lastmaximal]

I'm digging all of these, although some less than others -- that Spino is a bit weaker, but that pterodactyl is wow. But I love the colors on all of them.

If they indeed make a stego (and they might as well, the triceratops shows that body type can be fudged from the base) I will get it on principle.

I wish there could be other combiner main bots too, but I'm already going to get Nemesis Prime so I'll at least have one. Wonder if the Megs redeco will be interesting too.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'm still not sold on the aesthetic mismatch. I would like to see some torsos that actually fit these limbs, or some limbs that fit these torsos. Individually these parts are good and getting better but for me they just don't come together.

 

[Donocropolis]

I wish there could be other combiner main bots too, but I'm already going to get Nemesis Prime so I'll at least have one. Wonder if the Megs redeco will be interesting too.

I'm still not sold on the aesthetic mismatch. I would like to see some torsos that actually fit these limbs, or some limbs that fit these torsos. Individually these parts are good and getting better but for me they just don't come together.

If this line stays just an extremely limited thing, I understand why they're only doing two torso molds. A little odd that they'd do Nemesis Prime and also a "Shadow" Megatron, so there will be 3 evil torsos and only one good one, but other than a Shattered Glass type Megatron, I don't know what they'd redeco him into that would be a "Good" character.

If the line continues, I'd love to see a couple more torso bots. Give me some new characters, maybe a brachiosaur for the dino limbs and a bear for the modern animals or something.