Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++

[Steevy Maximus]

What hat?

The original Tigerhawk toy had a helmet-thing that could come down on his beast mode head, That didn’t make onto the show model, which turned it into a crest/crown thing. AotP Razorclaw features some different tooling on beast mode which gives him something closer to that full helmet look In beast mode.

Edit: I might be looking at it wrong. It might be the same sculpt as United Tigerhawk with the head fully painted to replicate that helmet look rather than any alternate tooling.

 

[Sabrblade]

It's the same tiger head. There is no bird beak helmet.

 

[CrockAlley]

I'm in a lot of the modern game for the redecos. Sadly after the apparent heyday of Selects we're down to a bit less than before (and most of it in an exclusive capsule or another), but sometimes we still get the occasional Razorclaw (yay). It's just enough drip-fed hope to get me to still wonder about a possible Cryotek. Or Glyph. Or Tap-Out. Etc.

If this gets us a new mass market (or close enough) Blue Big Convoy or Ultra Mammoth (or an all-new color scheme on Slammoth), hoo boy.

I guess I'll be happy that none of the repaints had cartoon appearances, so they stand a chance of having better alt-mode colors if they ever make new toys of them. (I understand why cartoons have to simplify designs, I just don't love when they turn around and make toys of the simplified designs.)

 

[Exatron]

I'm still loving all the Primes. Looking forward to messing with Amalgamous. I'm a bit surprised that Quintus doesn't seem to take anything from Earthspark. Looks good though.

It'll be nice to finally get a Big Convoy. I had the Universe Nemesis redeco, but never the regular one. Also looking forward to putting Razorclaw in the Unicron display along with Galvatron, Sideways, and RotB Scourge. Really, the Junkions are the only new AotP toys I don't want.

Also really looking forward to seeing Jetfire. I always loved him, both in the show and especially his toy. As a Commander, I'm really hoping they can manage to make him both a solid figure in his own right AND an actually functional pair of pants. I hope they do a new Overload at some point too.

 

[lastmaximal]

Now I'm wondering if they'll also do Jetfire as a "figure with frame" situation, or something like Armada Op as well where the jetpants legs are in a "trailer" and not the main robot.

Like the front half of the shuttle, maybe with its own shorter wings, turns into the main robot while the rear half turns into the legs (the main robot can fold up and lock into it as a low backpack or, uh, fanny pack). This seems like it could work because Jetfire's transformation was by necessity fairly simple -- pull out arms, fold shuttle nose down, separate back half into legs, flip up wings. Could do that with the front half of the shuttle, with the rear just being jetpants (can even still have the opening bay at the top).