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[Superomegaprime]

From the sprues of Jhiaxus comes....Vector Prime!

Legacy United Voyager Cybertron Vector Prime First Look

Just in is our first look at Legacy United Voyager Cyberton Vector Prime in both modes. This appears to be a heavy retool of Jhiaxus. Stay tuned as we'll hopefully be seeing the official reveal tomorrow.

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I feel the original had more "presence" given the kibble it had. This one is fine, though clearly a slimmer interpretation due to the legacy of the Jhiaxus base.

Holy S*** that one looks very much like the original toy including the planet key, well, the Galaxy force verison as the Hasbro verison used a different paint job, but I never imagined we would get a updated Vector Prime from the Jhiaxus mold, they clearly did their best to get Vector Prime from the mold, but the only thing lacking, is the sword in the paint department!

 

[Donocropolis]

Huh. That came out a lot better than I would have thought. The spaceship mode is a little stumpy, but I don't hate that robot mode. I love the ancient clockwork automaton version as his original form. This looks almost like a "reborn" and rejuvenated version

 

[Donocropolis]

I've never played Devastation, so I had to look up the Grey Seeker and Ground Soldier. Blue Runamuck is ok, but that seeker is the real star of the show.

Though I do wish we were getting repaints of Dirge and Thrust to go with all the Ramjets.

 

[lastmaximal]

From the sprues of Jhiaxus comes....Vector Prime!

Legacy United Voyager Cybertron Vector Prime First Look

Just in is our first look at Legacy United Voyager Cyberton Vector Prime in both modes. This appears to be a heavy retool of Jhiaxus. Stay tuned as we'll hopefully be seeing the official reveal tomorrow.

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I feel the original had more "presence" given the kibble it had. This one is fine, though clearly a slimmer interpretation due to the legacy of the Jhiaxus base.

For this I can comfortably hold on to the original. It's a respectable effort but it was always going to be hard to take such a distinctive design and steer it toward another distinctive design; at that point just use a new-tooling slot. This would be one to keep in robot mode if ever.

 

[lastmaximal]

I've never played Devastation, so I had to look up the Grey Seeker and Ground Soldier. Blue Runamuck is ok, but that seeker is the real star of the show.

Though I do wish we were getting repaints of Dirge and Thrust to go with all the Ramjets.

These look nice but idk if I'll track these down. They ARE nice new looks and ripe for repurposing (that Bluestreaky Seeker is neat and the shade of color on Runablue gives Boss vibes), so it'll be tempting.

But agreed on those coneheads. I do wish they'd at least crank out the canceled G2 Jungle Starscream.

Hmm. Takara's making a Super Starscream again (I look like Thundercracker), neat.

So Collab Blue is a Sonic 2pack... Is Collab Black a Shadow redeco? I have not been keeping up.

Is this Bullseye still the Target mascot? The name is all over the Perceptor and cassettes pack. I don't really need Perceptor again, especially since the first SS86 one was already what one would expect (maybe they'll do an opaque chest), but we'll see. I wish it were a Gen Prime so they could at least make it a Microchangey one, just have SOME difference.

The capsules seem super fun. I'm all over that Ironfist/Carnivac one, and curious about what they'll do with Spinister. I do wish it had been Topspin and not Twin Twist again, so my interest is lower there too.

Maybe the Retro capsule is a chance to get that toy colors Hot Rod out. I'd love that in the Retro packaging, but only if it's Headmasters/old toy style and not the recent Movie reissue style.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Is this Bullseye still the Target mascot? The name is all over the Perceptor and cassettes pack. I don't really need Perceptor again, especially since the first SS86 one was already what one would expect (maybe they'll do an opaque chest), but we'll see. I wish it were a Gen Prime so they could at least make it a Microchangey one, just have SOME difference.


Maybe the Retro capsule is a chance to get that toy colors Hot Rod out. I'd love that in the Retro packaging, but only if it's Headmasters/old toy style and not the recent Movie reissue style.

I'm inclined to say that the "Bullseye" terminology is just for internal sorting purposes. "Buzzworthy" seems to have run its course, so someone at Hasbro is using "Bullseye" to sort Target exclusives, since Target doesn't appear as big into the "micro line" concepts Amazon and Walmart do.

I'm hoping "Retro Inspired" are the "modern toys in classic packaging" that I'm shocked we aren't getting this year.


And Hasbro's new stuff keeps leaking, this time with "Nucleous". A retool of Magneous as a rocket car in white and gold

Legacy United Deluxe Armorizer Nucleous First Look

And following up on Vector Prime earlier in the night, we also now have our first look at Legacy United Deluxe Armorizer Nucleous, a retool of Magneous, in both its robot and alt modes as well as packaging pics via @TheGDPod on X/Twitter! Stay tuned as like Vector Prime, we will likely be...

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Seems new preorders are likely going up tomorrow, given the leaks we're seeing.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

Nucleous, looks rad as hell IMO. I'll definitely pick him up (I was trying to avoid grabbing the armorizers, but the Shard looked great, so I grabbed the other two, though one of my orders got canceled)

Vector Prime is good enough for my purposes, but man those legs being completely untouched feels so cheap, especially when you can see the the slots where Jhiaxius' wings tabbed in.

Vehicle mode looks a little stubby and I wish the detailing on his arms was a little more like his older version as it gave him a more knightly look.

Those legs though, man. I can't believe they didn't even modify them to get rid of the wing connectors.

 

[unluckiness]

Lol we have rock Battlechargers now

 

[Exatron]

I like Vector Prime well enough as a new release of the Cybertron character. As a presumable preview of what to expect of the original 13 being the focus of the line the next couple years, he's a bit underwhelming. It suggests the 13 are just going to be normal Transformers, with nothing special about them. Which isn't necessarily bad, but is still a bit of a letdown.

The multipacks made of one desirable character packed with redecos are getting old. I'd like Ramhorn. I already have a good Perceptor and Ratbat. I'm betting the other multipack will have a must-buy Horri-Bull, maybe one other interesting character, and a couple others I have no interest in.

Excellion's cool. The other Cybertron updates I really want are Soundwave, Scourge, and Evac.

If they're re-releasing Spinister in a multipack, I hope they give him Targetmasters in line with Needlenose's, assuming the upcoming Quake will do the same. It would be yet another case of buying a multipack for one or two toys, but I'd really love to have those three and their partners all in a cohesive style.

Carnivac's cool, and at least he's only in a two-pack. I could live with getting a subline of such packs for the rest of the Pretender Beasts.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

One of my favourte moments in the show, is where Megatron has just been "Upgraded" AKA repaint to Galvatron, to present the fact he more powerful, he is kicking the Autobots butts, singling handly, after he got a thrashing from Metroplex and its his desire for more power that leads to the upgrade, which in my view, made more sense than having the Minicons repair and recolour you (Armada) or taking a energon bath (Energon) as it fitted right in with Megatron as a character, he lusts for more power and could not stand that another bot as even more power, power enough to beat him down!!

I love that part, too.

 

[Agent X]

Well, the Legacy Vector Prime looks like a younger Vector Prime. Good for some timey-wimey shenanigans.

Reading comments elsewhere about the walmart Cybertron Skywarp: they're calling it a recolor of the LG CYB Starscream, granted there is precedent for that, but "Cybertron" Skywarp to me is always the Thundercracker mold in that "Lisa Frank" purple.

So what I'm Pie-in-the-sky-ing is the Earthrise mold in the Cybertron Deluxe mold colors, without the null rays but with missile racks (that plugs into the wings where the null rays go) and a new rail-gun piece to plug into an arm, that can be underslung on the jet mode. (Can the wings stay down on the mold? I don't have one on hand to try)

Then re-use all that for a hypo Cybertron Thundercracker.

 

[Shadewing]

While I would prefer the purple Jet; unfortunately this exists:

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

 

[Steamed Hams]

I'll buy the Takara versions.

 

[Sabrblade]

For comparison:

 

[lastmaximal]

While I would prefer the purple Jet; unfortunately this exists:

This, and a Voyager mold just waiting for a redeco (as opposed to the suggested more extensive retool).

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

I have wanted to like these, especially with the great robot modes and that lovely color scheme on Shard. But something about the aesthetic is keeping me from enjoying it. For Shard in particular, it might be how uniform the shards are in size and pattern. Robot mode limbs look like stacked blast effects and the altmode looks like... tempura? But dang, I love that color combination.

Or maybe it's that they're vehicles. I'd probably be all over these if they were rock beasts. Although that might be too similar to the Fossilizers.

I would have been more interested in both these and the fossilisers of they had come with any decent storyline behind them. As they stand, they're just wonky, ko TF/Rocklord/BW wannabes in my book.

 

[Donocropolis]

A Rock. Et. Man.


The Infernac armorizers were already crazy rock vehicles. Now this one is a NASA themed rocket rockmobile rockmonster. It's a whole new level of insanity and I love it.

 

[Shadewing]

This, and a Voyager mold just waiting for a redeco (as opposed to the suggested more extensive retool).

Nah, there are PLENTY redecos for that mold without needing Skywarp who has a better/more interesting version:

Such as Dirge and Not-Thrust here:

The only Skywarp I'd want from this mold would be this one:

 

[Donocropolis]

honestly, I'm down for pretty much any deco that they want to put on him. Hell, give me Action Master Thundercracker colors, I'll buy it.