Transformers Legacy toyline

[LordGigaIce]

Like I've lowkey been getting into Battle Beasts lately and I've personal canon'd the Monsterbots as Transtectors for White Leo, Platinum Tiger, and Hedgehog to command after getting Cybertronian enhancements. So the idea of more alien options who have their own distinct feel is 100% welcome,

 

[Platypus Prime]

In my own mind the Fossilizers were Maximals and Predacons after a run-in with D'Compose. I could see the rock guys as linked.

 

[Sabrblade]

Like I've lowkey been getting into Battle Beasts lately and I've personal canon'd the Monsterbots as Transtectors for White Leo, Platinum Tiger, and Hedgehog to command after getting Cybertronian enhancements.

That's almost exactly how it was in the Legends manga.

 

[Dake]

First and most importantly, I've preordered both Armorizers because I dig the idea and want to support them continuing to try new stuff. But I will admit I'm of two (or three) minds on them. On the one hand, I really want to see straight up Rock Lords revisited. I've always loved the idea of toys that turn into rocks which you can throw at your friends! I have a handful of them.

That being said, they were also the flailing attempt at reenergizing a dying toyline that clearly didn't really work.

This is an interesting take on it. I'd love for them to have gone even further with the vehicle design though. I'd like to see even less-identifiable vehicle parts: make the wheels rolling boulders (or someone mentioned the Flintstones' car and that'd work too) and just slits for the windshield.

 

[LordGigaIce]

I've always loved the idea of toys that turn into rocks which you can throw at your friends! I have a handful of them.

tbf I never needed my toys to transform into rocks to have an excuse to throw them around. My sister's ponies and Barbies know of the carnage wrought

 

[DefaultOption]

tbf I never needed my toys to transform into rocks to have an excuse to throw them around. My sister's ponies and Barbies know of the carnage wrought

You laugh, but my G1 Optimus Prime had his leg broken off that way in a fit of anger at my sister.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

I’m sure someone will correct me, but isn’t United Wave 1 the first time in years (at least since the whole Themed year thing) that G1 has had NO representation across the ENTIRE product range of a given wave?
Core, Deluxe, Voyager, Leader, there are NO G1, or G1-adjacent (like comic iterations) characters on tap.

That just kind of stood out to me.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Non-Geewunners, we made it!

 

[Sabrblade]

Windblade, technically, would be "G1-adjacent", since she's just her normal design with nothing particularly Cyberverse-y about her to really differentiate her from her G1 self.

But even then, she's not 1980s G1, just modern G1. So, eat that, 1980s G1!

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I mean, these rock guys look way cooler than i thought they would. I like them.

Go ahead, it's okay. You can say it.

Spoiler

"They rock."

 

[Cybersnark]

I've already worked Rock Lords into my continuity, so I guess I can parse these guys as representing the first generation of Cybertronians to land on Quartex, who haven't yet fully adapted.

So it would go Armorizers (Cybertronians wearing armour) -> Rock Lords (built to use native rock as insulation) -> RiD-style Minicons (built with hardened systems and energy shielding).

 

[Sabrblade]

RiD-style Minicons (built with hardened systems and energy shielding).

Would that also include Fixit? The show said he and his look-alikes were Mini-Cons, too.

 

[Cybersnark]

No, I see Fixit as something else. Maybe some kind of possibly-sparked ancestor of the Diagnostic Drone.

 

[Sabrblade]

No, I see Fixit as something else. Maybe some kind of possibly-sparked ancestor of the Diagnostic Drone.

Which RID Mini-Con types, specifically, does it apply to? There were six types: Buzzsaws, Torpedoes, Cyclones, Caretakers (which you've excluded), Weaponizers, and Activators.

 

[Cybersnark]

Mainly the Buzzsaws, Torpedoes, and Cyclones; the ones that transform into inanimate objects (and which appear to be nigh-invulnerable when transformed).

The Weaponizers and Activators are more similar to the classic Armada-style Minicons, so I don't feel any real need to justify them (though some of the Weaponizers could easily be more advanced versions of Ferak's little pets --as could the melee-based Battle Masters like Lionizer, Smashdown, or Pteraxadon).

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Transformers Legacy United Animated Optimus Prime Behind the Scenes

We had a bunch of reveals at Pulsecon and you know what that means. Mark Maher is sharing

www.allspark.com

 

[ZacDeath]

I was really hyped up for this wave, but after seeing pictures I am disappointed in all of these. I was hoping for a better beast mode for Tigerhawk, but this one looks just as awkward as the original. The hawk feet are also missing the back toes which looks strange.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'm not an Animated fan. I'm someone who still just can't get into the aesthetic. The designs are brilliant. The transformations have as much personality as the two (or three) modes. I'm impressed. I want to love them. I just can't get over the funhouse mirror filter. It's just too far. It's not even trying not to be too far. It embraces being too far. It's not for me.

This Optimus is for me. This is the best looking of the Animated redos so far. By a mile. It's not just an Animated head Frankenstein'd onto a blocky body. It's a blend, but a much more successful blend than Prowl. They just gave the design enough angles and straight lines to fit outside an Animated collection, without overthinking it, and without destroying the things that made me wish I could love the design in the first place.

 

[Dake]

See for me, the Prime still looks way too Animated to fit in with the Legacy aesthetic. And it kind of has to be, otherwise it'd mostly just be another Prime but without a face plate. It's not a bad thing; I honestly wish they'd done all the Animated updates like this vs the weird head on a G1'ish body.

That being said, I probably wouldn't buy those either because I still have my whole Animated collection. It'd be a nice chance for people that came along later to build one though.

 

[Sciflyer]

I liked the Animated show. I thought that some of the characters were well thought-out, and the actual stories were good. However, I really didn't warm up to the designs and as a result, did not seek out the toys. It's cool that they are referencing this period in TF history for the new line, but I am not in a hurry to buy updates of toys that I didn't like to begin with.