Nuremberg Toy Fair Transformers Details

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Mechafire, Jan 31, 2016.

  1. knoted

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    G1 Chromedome never was 'just a boring brown car'.

    From the start, his car mode has always been a sort futuristic tech car
    with protruding tech bits. Sort of like a Back to the Future 2 Delorean on steriods, but in 70's color scheme.

    Visually, he's almost a Technobot.
     
  2. grindcore138

    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    True, but if his TR toy looks that much like Dead End that people are saying he might be a heavy retool/remould/whatever in alt-mode then he doesn't even have that 80's-futuristic thing going on.
    Now, if he's actually a reshell/retool of TR Blurr, that I'd be fine with. I just don't want him to be a generic sports car.
     
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    Honestly.... I really do not believe that Dead End repaint rumor.

    Afteral, in both the Sunbow cartoon and various other media, the season 4 headmasters were roughly the same size : Brainstorm, Chromedome and Hardhead on Autobot side - Skullcruncher, Mindwipe and Weirdwolf on Decepticon side.

    We already know TR Hardhead and Skullcruncher to be of similar size. The Mindwipe leaked pic seems to indicate he's in line with them too.

    So.....why would Hasbro choose to do Chromedome in a pesky little CW mold ?
     
  4. WishfulThinking

    WishfulThinking The world has moved on...we've always said.

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    I'd be more willing to believe that Hasbro is using a SIMILAR mold style than that exact mold. Similar to G2 Smokescreen and Energon Starscream both share a similar style and Transformation but are totally different toys.
     
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    You mean to say they might simply "copy" CW Dead End's design and scale it up to TR size context ?
     
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    *this*

    I could see them upscaling a CW mold if need be to fit into the new Titans play pattern.
     
  7. WishfulThinking

    WishfulThinking The world has moved on...we've always said.

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    That's my thought.
     
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    Matrix_holder The chosen one.

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    Leaked image of deluxe Brainstorm alt mode, heavy retool of Blurr.
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    I definantly prefer the Thrilling 30 figure's vehicle mode over this figure.
     
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    Matrix_holder The chosen one.

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    The titan returns alt mode is actually closer to the japanese headmaster series model than the voyager brainstorm which is based on the MTMTE brainstorm. the titan returns line is more of a season 4 redux or re imaging of G1 figures for their new story line, The figures are very faithful to the G1 designs.
     
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    So's that mean Brainstorm has a mouth or is it still faceplated like the toy? Takara Headmasters accurate Brainstorm actually sounds great to me (even though I love the earlier Generations figure.)
     
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    Why would they make another Brainstorm when they just made one like Last yr or two yrs ago at the latest
     
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    It's Hasbro so he will have a faceplate.

    They made this new brainstorm because the voyager one is now out of scale with the new headmasters in the line. Hard head, blurr, chromedome, skull cruncher will be deluxes and you can't have brainstorm tower over them
    , plus the voyagers headmaster would not be compatible with the other headmasters in the line and this line is all about titan master compatibility. The titan masters are quote a bit smaller than voyagers brainstorms headmaster.
     
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    Well the last one we got didn't really make to retail and the figure had some problems.
     
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    He never made it to canadian retail at all, only collectors shops got him in or at toy shows.
     
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    There was the fixed run of him which is the ONLY version I ever saw while regularly checking Target. Did Brainstorm just have a small overall production run? Also HTS I thought generally had him just like any other poorly distributed figures in the line.