Transformers Legacy toyline

[PrimalxConvoy]

I can only say the following things contain nuts:

- https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lugnut_(TF_2010)

- https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lugnutz

- https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Drill_Nuts

And, of course, these two chaps.

 

[unluckiness]

Walmart Exclusive Transformers Legacy Star Raider Leader Thundertron Multipack Official Stock Images

It took some time, but the Walmart listing of the new Legacy Star Raider Leader Thundertron Multipack have been updated with official stock images. While we had already seen in-hand images of this pack, which consists of a Thundertron (retool and redeco of the first Legacy mold), Calcitron...

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More images of the Thundertron multi-pack. Thundertron definitely has his Prime toy colors. Nightstrike and Calcitron are look about the same but the wish the color on rock guy were a more stony blue rather than the arctic vibes he currently has. Very much prefer the more monstrous head though.

 

[Sabrblade]

Thundertron definitely has his Prime toy colors.

And the correct robot mode head. Though, strangely, the stock photos with the white background still use the old mass-retail head instead.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

"I keep telling you, I've never been to Mars!"

 

[unluckiness]

And the correct robot mode head. Though, strangely, the stock photos with the white background still use the old mass-retail head instead.

The white background pics straight up use stock images of the general release Thundertron toy so I guess it was just an error. He shouldn’t even be able to hold the sword on the right because exclusive Thundy has a hook there.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

The white background pics straight up use stock images of the general release Thundertron toy so I guess it was just an error. He shouldn’t even be able to hold the sword on the right because exclusive Thundy has a hook there.

And also, Thundertron is always looking for booty and hos...

(I'll get my coat)

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

It seems to be missing the pirate logo on the front of the bike mode, and possibly some other details on the official pics, but some on-hand images do show the logo.

 

[LordGigaIce]

And the correct robot mode head. Though, strangely, the stock photos with the white background still use the old mass-retail head instead.

I like to think of the two versions being a younger and older take

He starts out, his beard is shorter and trim, dark rich colours...

Over time he loses a hand, his colours fade a bit.... his beard grows to epic old man pirate proportions.

If someone wanted to represent Thundertron's past and present.... his two Legacy figures do a good job at reflecting that, I think.

 

[Blot]

That is far more thought or effort I will ever commit to Thundertron.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

I like Thundertron. He's a fun concept with a ton of potential. It'd be nice to someday get a story that did something with him.

-ZacWilliam, here's the part where I wish all the capsule lines got the treatment Velocitron did in Japan with a couple page web comic to bring it to life. I would love even a brief story about the Toxitron line and the Star Seekers.

 

[Swerve]

I like Thundertron. He's a fun concept with a ton of potential. It'd be nice to someday get a story that did something with him.

-ZacWilliam, here's the part where I wish all the capsule lines got the treatment Velocitron did in Japan with a couple page web comic to bring it to life. I would love even a brief story about the Toxitron line and the Star Seekers.

We really have been missing good fiction for Legacy. The Velocitron comics are great....and motivated me to get the whole collection when they showed up at Ross...just need Galaxy Shuttle.

 

[LordGigaIce]

That is far more thought or effort I will ever commit to Thundertron.

I like the IDEA of Thundertron, in fairness.
Just like... there's nothing there fiction wise.

 

[Sabrblade]

I'd bring up the novels, but...

Exiles was... so bad (and kept him a mystery 'til the very end, a mystery no one cared about since the payoff was some rando no one had ever heard of before), while Retribution just got him out of the way early on, to make room for the Quintessons.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

And it was still better than the Hardwired trilogy. Granted, they're both terrible.

 

[Sabrblade]

And it was still better than the Hardwired trilogy. Granted, they're both terrible.

I've actually softened up on that trilogy just a bit. Granted, it's still not good, but in light of the live-action movies adding so much edgy grimdark uber-violence to the brand (even towards humans, like DOTM showing Decepticons blasting hundreds of humans into flaming skulls, and AOE turning Lucas into a flaming corpse that it shows up-close and personal, and then lingers on for too long afterward), those books no longer stand out as anomalous in how graphic they were.

If anything, I still find the character of Allister Greaves and ideas of the Followers and the Augments to be interesting concepts that never really got a chance to be developed in anything better written.

 

[LordGigaIce]

I'd bring up the novels, but...

Exiles was... so bad (and kept him a mystery 'til the very end, a mystery no one cared about since the payoff was some rando no one had ever heard of before), while Retribution just got him out of the way early on, to make room for the Quintessons.

I went into Exodus with high expectations and it just.... fell so flat. Disappointingly so. Like... RotF levels of disappointment. Made me not even want to bother with Exiles and Retribution.

 

[Platypus Prime]

I got as far as "And now I will show everyone how to store his accessories in alt-mode....THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDERTRON! STOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!"

-and then realized I don't have any version of this character or a youtube channel. Oh, well.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

We really have been missing good fiction for Legacy. The Velocitron comics are great....and motivated me to get the whole collection when they showed up at Ross...just need Galaxy Shuttle.

It's shocking that little or no fiction was made for the Fossilisers or Not-Lords...

"Stones and Bones"?

 

[Confuzor]

"Not lords"? Are you 10?!

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

It's a bit more succinct than "We-Aren't-Sure-If-WB-Will-Let-Us-Call-Them-Rock-Lords-And-Anyway-The-Inferniac-Universe-Is-Not-A-Gargent-Stream"....