Transformers: Cyberworld, Elita-1, the Crime SOLVING Boat!

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Confucius supposedly ran like that.

Yes, really.

His foes found it very Confucing.

 

[Haywire]

But I agree, 5mm weapons sold as cheap bundles in blind boxes (that last part begrudgingly, from the guy who was at one point stuck with 3 Blokees vehicles he didn't want or need) would work. Make them only sorta blind, like Botbots or even the Fortnite weapons crates that had codes, and they'd be a great impulse buy to arm Cyberworld stuff and, even better, decades worth of toys.

Being an unashamed Targetmaster fan, what I would love to see is basic 2-piece Targetmasters like what came with Legacy Pointblank or Quake, Needlenose, and Spinister, redecoed in various colors, and packed with 1 or 2 blindpacked 5mm weapons as a battle pack or somesuch.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

I got Bull-atron while on Vacation a couple weeks ago. He was ok. Fun to fiddle with but doesn't quite pull off the bull mode as much as you want him to.

I just got snarl, and despite transforming exactly the same way he pulls it off much better. The Dino mode just feels much more like a legit mode than the bull. He's a nice basic-y figure.

-ZacWilliam, I wish there was a slightly better way to store his tail weapon in robot mode but it's a small nitpick.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I agree that packing weapons and such with each character makes perfect sense for this line and story. They could do something like what Spin Master's 4 inch DC stuff does, with iirc blind-packed extra weapons with each figure.

This clearly hasn't been how they've launchrd, but I wonder if we'll see Bunch Of Accessories as a pack-in thing later on. Optimus Prime refresh or redeco with a crate of 3-5 weapons, and so on. Maybe at the Armored Cyber Changers price point. Or a battle pack with two figures and a bigger handful of weapons between them. Hasbro seems to tend to prefer that approach rather than selling the accessory kit by itself, at least over the last couple of decades.

But I agree, 5mm weapons sold as cheap bundles in blind boxes (that last part begrudgingly, from the guy who was at one point stuck with 3 Blokees vehicles he didn't want or need) would work. Make them only sorta blind, like Botbots or even the Fortnite weapons crates that had codes, and they'd be a great impulse buy to arm Cyberworld stuff and, even better, decades worth of toys.

@Hasbro are you listening? Do this. Generations can't have all the fun with accessory sets. Cyberworld was made for it.

 

[Sabrblade]

@Hasbro are you listening? Do this. Generations can't have all the fun with accessory sets. Cyberworld was made for it.

Hasbro: "...What is this 'Cyberworld' you speak of?"

 

[Agent X]

I hate how much that man is correct.

 

[LordGigaIce]

I agree that packing weapons and such with each character makes perfect sense for this line and story. They could do something like what Spin Master's 4 inch DC stuff does, with iirc blind-packed extra weapons with each figure.

This. 100x this. SpinMaster's DC weapons pack in were a highlight of the line, and it can't be that costly to replicate it with CyberWorld.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Hasbro's done it with Star Wars. They used to throw in a cheap cardboard box containing an absolute pile of extra weapons.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

Cyberworld Episode 4 (& 3)

 

[Sabrblade]

First, Cyberverse Sky-Byte was Skeletor, and now, Cyberworld Sky-Byte is Darkonda.

 

[lastmaximal]

This show continues to be fun and charming. I'm really liking the... energy of it all. While the fights still tend to feel like padding sometimes (even in a show that's about these competitions and clashes), they tend to do that in every show anyway, and these are well-paced for what they are. And the interactions and little gags, like Elita fumbling with signs of camaraderie (Bee's fist bump and the no-sold hug offer to Optimus), or Bee falling off the rock as Optimus brings him up to Elita as reassurance, and "Bee."/"Elita-1." already make this more enjoyable than most. The drip-feeding of backstory is also surprisingly not annoying for how long it's been going on; there's a good balance of known and unknown, and fun possibilities. The short runtime is not something that works with every kind of story, but it does pretty well for this one.

The other thing is that dang, this is REALLY doing a great job of selling these toys. Like I know they'll never be quite as active as they are onscreen, but the designs in both modes just keep looking so fun and cool.

 

[Sabrblade]

The drip-feeding of backstory is also surprisingly not annoying for how long it's been going on;

Twenty minutes?

 

[lastmaximal]

To be fair, that's true, and I'm sure if i watched the four in one go my impression (already favorable, as mentioned) will yet improve.

But this being a weekly release rather than a one-shot bingeable, that's part of the experience. And even then, the way new aspects of the world and backstory pop up each time keeps the interest. Nice way to worldbuild.

 

[Sabrblade]

I'm reminded of the mystery in season 1 of Beast Machines, in which the Maximals had to regain their lost memories and figure out what happened in the time between their departure from the Beast Wars and their reawakening with amnesia on Cybertron. This mystery was fully wrapped up with all its unanswered questions filled in by the end of episode 9.