Transformers Legacy toyline

[Undead Scottsman]

Regarding Straxus:

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Hasbro planned to center the storyline of Transformers: Legacy around Straxus as the main villain. To this goal, a Leader Class Straxus toy was solicited for the first year of the toyline, and art was produced for his eventual design in the franchise. Anna Malkova created the design featured in the 2019 IDW comics as a stepping stone toward this purpose, along with an "after 'accident'" design closer to the Legacy art and homaging the character's fate in the UK comics of being a head in a jar. When Netflix declined to pick up the planned three-season Legacy series, those plans were dropped—the second design for Straxus never appeared in the comics and the toy was replaced with Transmetal II Megatron.

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Regarding the person above Bulkhead, it's Blaster.

 

[Superomegaprime]

When did Straxus start wearing skulls, chains, and a poncho?

Far as I'm aware, he never did, but I guess with the original plan of him being the main villian for whatever would of followed on from WFC trilogy, he would likely be living in the wastelands of Cybertron and wears it to keep the harsh environment effects at bay and to hide his idenity until he decides to reveal it, likely in front of Megatron, I would expect he would be extremely pissed at Megatron, prehaps the place that Shockwave was recomending to shutdown was wear he worked and when Megatron betrayed the Decepticons in his optics, he became vengenful as everything they fought for, became worthless in a single moment and if the story had carried on, I expect Tarn would of made his animation debut, seeking to bring Megatron to justice for similar reasons!

 

[unluckiness]

When did Straxus start wearing skulls, chains, and a poncho?

He went to a Mexican death metal concert once.

 

[Princess Viola]

i know that was an early design and all that but is that the ******* impact font lol

 

[unluckiness]

Yes. Everyone knows Comic Sans is the font of cultured individuals.

 

[Donocropolis]

Yes. Everyone knows Comic Sans is the font of cultured individuals.

 

[Agent X]

 

[Rhinox]

Watched Emgo's video on Tidal Wave. Gotta be honest, I am not happy about some of the decisions made. I'm still going to get him, but honestly, I really just wanted the original toy with knees.

Like, the mini dark fleet is, to me, just dumb. I never cared for that 'combining' gimmick back in Armada. Here it feels tacked on and stupid. The concessions made to the toy to accommodate that feature hinder it more than I thought it would.
I didn't think that being unable to get from one mode to the other without taking him apart would be a big deal to me, but the more I watched, the more I wished that was possible.
The back being open so you can see the mini fleet just stuck there looks horrid. Were you able to flip that panel up and hide that, I think it would look better.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood tonight (absolutely true) but I wish some things were done different.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I agree about the transformation. This is one of the most annoying cases of partsforming I've ever seen, because it's a design that worked in the first place. They took something that already worked and found a new way to make it not work. The new proportions are beautiful, but if they made it impossible to keep the original transformation then I'm not sure they're worth it.

The loss of all the original gimmicks also really sucks. I always considered them part of what made Tidal Wave such a seemingly good fit for Titan Class. At this size Ramjet wouldn't even need to fold up to fit in the elevator. Instead it's all just gone. Even if they do release a Ramjet separately, what's the point?

It's big, beautiful, but boring.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

It's big, beautiful, but boring.

A perfect summation of the current state of mass retail toy collecting.

 

[Sabrblade]

A perfect summation of the current state of mass retail toy collecting.

We're finally getting characters from all across the brand's 40 years of history. This is way better than just a few years ago when it was predominately nothing but 1984-86 characters all the time.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Watched Emgo's video on Tidal Wave. Gotta be honest, I am not happy about some of the decisions made. I'm still going to get him, but honestly, I really just wanted the original toy with knees.

Like, the mini dark fleet is, to me, just dumb. I never cared for that 'combining' gimmick back in Armada. Here it feels tacked on and stupid. The concessions made to the toy to accommodate that feature hinder it more than I thought it would.
I didn't think that being unable to get from one mode to the other without taking him apart would be a big deal to me, but the more I watched, the more I wished that was possible.
The back being open so you can see the mini fleet just stuck there looks horrid. Were you able to flip that panel up and hide that, I think it would look better.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood tonight (absolutely true) but I wish some things were done different.

I felt that way about Notroplex. They included much better articulation at the cost of an alt-mode with less features and no mini-con.

And where the bloody hell ARE all the missing minicons, eh? Why haven't they released them together as a boxed set, hopefully along with the missing members from the previously released Micromaster teams? If they can release popular figures in boxed sets with two other duds, went not release multipacks of wanted mini-bots are general retail?

 

[unluckiness]

I don’t actually mind partsforming on characters who completely disassemble and frankly, it’s a benefit on Titan figures. I lift twice or thrice a week and Scorponok is still a pain to handle. The Megatron supermode parts are dumb but I get why they’re there and are more or less ignorable. Losing features sucks but eh, Tifal Wave’s minicon gimmick was lame and you can do it manually anyway.

 

[Princess Viola]

And where the bloody hell ARE all the missing minicons, eh? Why haven't they released them together as a boxes set, hopefully along with the missing members from the previously released Micromaster teams? If they can release popular figures in boxed sets with two other duds, went not release multipacks of wanted mini-bots are general retail?

They're not doing that because the WFC Micromasters flopped at retail.

Hasbro does a lot of stuff to cater to the fans but why would they release multi-packs of the Mini-Cons for the Legacy Armada guys and the rest of the Micromaster team members at general retail when they already know that these types of figure are poor sellers and most customers aren't interested in them?

 

[Steadfast]

I agree about the transformation. This is one of the most annoying cases of partsforming I've ever seen, because it's a design that worked in the first place. They took something that already worked and found a new way to make it not work. The new proportions are beautiful, but if they made it impossible to keep the original transformation then I'm not sure they're worth it.

The loss of all the original gimmicks also really sucks. I always considered them part of what made Tidal Wave such a seemingly good fit for Titan Class. At this size Ramjet wouldn't even need to fold up to fit in the elevator. Instead it's all just gone. Even if they do release a Ramjet separately, what's the point?

It's big, beautiful, but boring.

The loss of all the original gimmicks also really sucks.

See also Legacy Armada Megatron. Slightly smaller, lost all its gimmicks- including Mini-Con hardpoints (and therefore 90% of its play value), but has knees.

Disappointing.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

See also Legacy Armada Megatron. Slightly smaller, lost all its gimmicks- including Mini-Con hardpoints (and therefore 90% of its play value), but has knees.

Disappointing.

It also lost significant shoulder articulation too.

 

[Rhinox]

I would love to see DNA do a kit that gives us a new arm part and a Ramjet so we could have that feature back.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

You'll get some gap fillers, articulated fingers, and foot platforms to make him taller.

 

[Superomegaprime]

It also lost significant shoulder articulation too.

Similar happened with the G2 OP legacy mold, they really messed up on the shoulders to create a more complex transformation than the desgin actually needed, there was nothing wrong with the massive shoulder pads but I think whoever approved of that also approved of what they did to Legacy Armada Megatron/Galvatron mold (we all know Galvatron is just going to be a straight repaint with no changes to the mold!

For a DNA kit for Tidalwave, his minicon would likely get made along with some useless stuff, likely, thou I hope they make something to cover up the back of the robot mode and hide the Mini Dark Fleet piece stored there, but then, I'm not sure exactly what they were thinking, when they desgined the rear, I mean that butt flap is, kind of pointless and cannot even be used as a cover for the back as it won't do the full 180!

 

[Rhinox]

Similar happened with the G2 OP legacy mold, they really messed up on the shoulders to create a more complex transformation than the desgin actually needed, there was nothing wrong with the massive shoulder pads but I think whoever approved of that also approved of what they did to Legacy Armada Megatron/Galvatron mold (we all know Galvatron is just going to be a straight repaint with no changes to the mold!

For a DNA kit for Tidalwave, his minicon would likely get made along with some useless stuff, likely, thou I hope they make something to cover up the back of the robot mode and hide the Mini Dark Fleet piece stored there, but then, I'm not sure exactly what they were thinking, when they desgined the rear, I mean that butt flap is, kind of pointless and cannot even be used as a cover for the back as it won't do the full 180!

I'm almost certain a DNA kit will address that.
I honestly can't believe that's just left open like that with no way of moving that plate to cover the gaping hole. That's just the oddest design choice.