It's kind of weird how there are two separate "evil versions" of the Laser Optimus mold. Especially when divorced from their original stories.
Clearly Jazz and Grimlock, soon to be joined by others, have been granted elemental powers (most likely in the form of rings) that they will use to summon a hero who can take Toxitron's pollution down to zero.
Now we just need the Laser Magnus repaint for an even 2-on-2 battle.
Jazz, Grimlock and the others are probably unvoluntarily altered by the toxic goo. Cloudcover and the 2 Stunticons willingly recieve the power up.
Less Captain Planet and more Toxic Crusaders
TOXIC CLONES, or it could be the remains of experiements by Shockwave, Wheeljack and every other mad scientist on Cybertron, where they dump their failures so not to gog up their labs!
Well, how do you think those toxic swamps came to be in the first place?
Transformers is finally embracing the environmental message of the Nineties. Remember G.I. Joe's eco-warriors?
They should have repainted the CW/PotP molds so we could have Captimus Planetron
Who plays the part of Mati, I wonder...
Went ahead and pre-ordered Cloudcover on Walmart. The comments here about their pre-order history has me leery, but they give me free shipping and didn't feel like paying $7 shipping on a $35 on Pulse. So, will take my chances.
It'd be cool to know what some of the thinking/discussions were about all of these cancelled G2 designs. I always wonder if they were intended to come out at roughly the same time as (or instead of) the other G1 mold re-uses, and got thrown out for being too 'out there', or if they were intended for later down the road, and then thrown out when they decided to shift to doing new molds instead. There does seem to be a mix of approaches - some guys are nearly the same as their originals (Optimus, Inferno, silver Dinobots), other guys have similar but subtly different decoes (Jazz, Starscream), some guys have the same deco with one major color shift (Constructions, second wave Dinobots), then there are some guys with wildly different color schemes (Ramjet, Aerialbots, Combaticons).
It'd be cool to know what some of the thinking/discussions were about all of these cancelled G2 designs. I always wonder if they were intended to come out at roughly the same time as (or instead of) the other G1 mold re-uses, and got thrown out for being too 'out there', or if they were intended for later down the road, and then thrown out when they decided to shift to doing new molds instead. There does seem to be a mix of approaches - some guys are nearly the same as their originals (Optimus, Inferno, silver Dinobots), other guys have similar but subtly different decoes (Jazz, Starscream), some guys have the same deco with one major color shift (Constructions, second wave Dinobots), then there are some guys with wildly different color schemes (Ramjet, Aerialbots, Combaticons).
I had an elita-1 get canceled on me (Netflix version) but I got lucky and it came back in stock.. though the Legacy one is better, admittedly. I even got Cosmos and Galaxy Shuttle successfully.
But I seem to be on the luckier end of that spectrum.
But I seem to be on the luckier end of that spectrum.
Our powers combined, we are Captimus Planetron, GO PLANETTRON!!!!
Autobots & Decepticons "REALLY?"
My thought is that the G1 re-uses were just place holders until the new figures could be made.
Got a notice today that Shrapnel is getting ready to ship from Pulse. That typically means he’ll be going out in the next week.
Either this Legacy stuff is hitting fast, or I’ve just gotten used to a jacked up distribution where we get, like, 3 waves in the back 5 months of the year.
Btw, still haven’t got notification about Metalhawk, despite him shipping from some retailers.
Either this Legacy stuff is hitting fast, or I’ve just gotten used to a jacked up distribution where we get, like, 3 waves in the back 5 months of the year.
Btw, still haven’t got notification about Metalhawk, despite him shipping from some retailers.
I've also gotten word about Prowl and Crashbar, plus Skyquake a couple days ago. Still no shipping notice for my Omega Sentinel, alas.
I bet they are having a hard job waking the sentinel up from its billion year slumber!
Got a notice that my Metalhawk and SS Rumble are shipping from Amazon. A little more notice would have been better since I wanted to switch them over to a gift card but still cool.
-ZacWilliam, much as I'm looking forward to Crashbar and Sheappnel I hope I have a little time before Amazon gets to them...
-ZacWilliam, much as I'm looking forward to Crashbar and Sheappnel I hope I have a little time before Amazon gets to them...