Also been notified about the Nemesis. Awesome.
Amazon Transformers delivery today. It was, indeed, the Miner Megatron and Senator Ratbat set. I guess I get to wait a month for the Orion Pax and Shockwave set.
And since we're discussing preorders, Axelgrease is waiting in my PoL at BBTS for more goodies to come in.
And since we're discussing preorders, Axelgrease is waiting in my PoL at BBTS for more goodies to come in.
I went ahead and cancelled my Nemesis preorder. It's just not a good time for me financially and I think I may be able to pick her up a bit cheaper in the near future.
Looking forward to Armada Prime, though.
Axelgrease was supposed to be delivered today but UPS fucked up and put her on the wrong truck so now she's delayed till end of the week. Thanks a bunch, UPS.
Looking forward to Armada Prime, though.
Axelgrease was supposed to be delivered today but UPS fucked up and put her on the wrong truck so now she's delayed till end of the week. Thanks a bunch, UPS.
My Devcon came from Amazon. He's great. So weird to have a toy of this show only cool cartoon character from when I was 9.
-ZacWilliam, I hope we get more Never had a toy dudes Cartoon and Comic in the future.
-ZacWilliam, I hope we get more Never had a toy dudes Cartoon and Comic in the future.
I'm kinda shocked we haven't gotten an Emirate Xaaron by now. Not even a Botcon exclusive.
Signal Lancer, pretty please? He'd easily be shoehorned into being part of the Velocitron subline.
I think maybe the time has come and gone; he'd be great as a Battle Master (~$5) figure, as long as he could be used as a club (or better still, gun) in alt mode. I suppose a fair Core class figure could work, but few places even bother to carry Core class anymore.
Maybe if they do a GF/Cybertron Ransack from Animated Prowl (or someone), they could justify putting in a very simple "targetmaster" Signal Lancer figure.
Hmm... with Ark and now Nemesis in the bag, I wonder if we'll wind up seeing toys of the Axalon and Darksyde?
And if we do, would they be scaled to the Ark and Nemesis? Or the same general Titan Class size?
And if we do, would they be scaled to the Ark and Nemesis? Or the same general Titan Class size?
The Mockery of Physics.
I'm still stunned we never got a Titan Master Sari.
I'm not even asking for a full body; just a carded head and a mini-vehicle (maybe a tricycle/jet, to reference the Animated OP). Anything.
I guess she just wasn't Geewun enough for Titans Return.
Good question.
I wouldn't mind Titan pricepoint Beast Wars ships; whereas the Ark and Nemesis are in scale with "nanofigures" (ugh), I think you could do an Axalon or Darksyde with an opening bridge that could fit, say, Micromaster-scale versions of the Beast Figures. (They'd be out of scale, but not that out of scale.)
For me it's a question of what they'd transform into. Would the Darksyde be a triple changer... ship/dragon/robot? I don't know if I want the Axalon to have an elephant (or whale) alt mode.
If it was up to me, I think I'd fight for a Broadside figure - Aircraft Carrier/"Giant Spaceship"/Robot, with a slightl "G1ified" Tidalwave retool (new head mostly. I'd rather have one GOOD Decepticon Aircraft carrier than a mediocre fleet of ships with no good repaints.)
Maybe they could do the BW2 Aircraft Carrier monster instead.... but I really want a chunky slab I can rest my Core Class Seekers on... although, let's be honest, I'd probably just stick to my Legends Scale figures; they really knocked it out of the park with that small Starscream mold.
I absolutely want Orcanoch and Arachnid. I keep meaning to get the originals but just never get around to it.
I'm not sure where the best fit for this is, but I'm going with this one.
One of my favorite scenes in all of the Unicron Trilogy has to be this, when we first see Armada Megatron and Optimus Prime in their Cybertronian forms. Unfortunately, they've only ever gotten one toy each, and they're really hard to find.
And I was just thinking about how cool it might be to have them featured in this line. Or another line, Studio Series? I dunno.
But short of making all-new toys, I was thinking about how it could be done cost-effectively. We don't see the vehicle mode for either, leaving them open to interpretation, so that's a plus.
I'm thinking Armada Megatron would be an easy remold of... well, himself. A lot of the features line up, only they're changed slightly -- no serration on the horns, but the horns are still there, for example.
Optimus feels like he'd be a bit trickier, though, since his form feels like a hybrid of Armada Optimus, RiD Optimus, and G1 Optimus. And I got to thinking... would a remolded Earthrise Optimus potentially work here? Maybe find a way to swap the legs with Armada Optimus, but above the waist, it mostly feels like G1, with the grill abs (instead of the full chest), window pecs, and smokestack shoulders. The biggest difference would be the blasters on the forearms.
Buuuuuuut, I don't have Earthrise Op, or any variation thereof. I'm not sure how viable this would be.
But then again, you look at some of the stuff they're doing with molds these days, like Cyclonus to Metalhawk and Siege Seekers to Senator Shockwave, and... maybe?
One of my favorite scenes in all of the Unicron Trilogy has to be this, when we first see Armada Megatron and Optimus Prime in their Cybertronian forms. Unfortunately, they've only ever gotten one toy each, and they're really hard to find.
And I was just thinking about how cool it might be to have them featured in this line. Or another line, Studio Series? I dunno.
But short of making all-new toys, I was thinking about how it could be done cost-effectively. We don't see the vehicle mode for either, leaving them open to interpretation, so that's a plus.
I'm thinking Armada Megatron would be an easy remold of... well, himself. A lot of the features line up, only they're changed slightly -- no serration on the horns, but the horns are still there, for example.
Optimus feels like he'd be a bit trickier, though, since his form feels like a hybrid of Armada Optimus, RiD Optimus, and G1 Optimus. And I got to thinking... would a remolded Earthrise Optimus potentially work here? Maybe find a way to swap the legs with Armada Optimus, but above the waist, it mostly feels like G1, with the grill abs (instead of the full chest), window pecs, and smokestack shoulders. The biggest difference would be the blasters on the forearms.
Buuuuuuut, I don't have Earthrise Op, or any variation thereof. I'm not sure how viable this would be.
But then again, you look at some of the stuff they're doing with molds these days, like Cyclonus to Metalhawk and Siege Seekers to Senator Shockwave, and... maybe?
Optimus's pre-Earth body is just his Armada body with no wheels, a different chest (window pecs and grill abs instead of a one big grill covering his whole torso), a flattened backpack (in lieu of the truck cab roof and windshield) a new waistplate (which he loses on his Earth body) and different colors.
All that would need retooling on his Commander class toy's smaller robot mode would be his chestplate, backpack, waist front, shoulders, and the outsides of his shins.