If we're lucky, Hasbro's reveals will be Friday or Saturday so we can at least *see* all the cool new Transformers we'll all miss out on when the meteor hits.

 

It's a wonder people don't realise this. They expect every character, regardless of significance, to all get equal recognition all the time.

It's like budgetary concerns don't exist, or are only the product of evil corperate greed. (said greed being less about money and more about deliberately angering fans it seems)

I.e., reality.

 

Have you SEEN Computron in color? You're never going to believe what Nosecone looks like NOW!

 

If a teaser left you with no clue what you're looking at...it wouldn't be a teaser.

 

That's not his point.

His point is there shouldn't even be a teaser for this because we already know what it looks like. It's giving us no new information.

 

Split I wish I could sig this whole post.

 

Just guessing... but if Takara's Groove comes to the states, I bet you it will be retooled as Afterburner.

 

I'm referring to the guy he was quoting.

 

....and now i need three boxsets.....one for regular computron, one for double up-enning!!!

 

I'm frankly surprised that Defensor came out before Bruticus. Menasor and Superion are safe bets because "buncha jets" and "buncha cars" is a good foundation for future figures. Bruticus is the famous Scramble City Combiner that everyone knows, you'd think he'd be first up after that.

 

Well, seeing as you're posting in a thread that's discussing a picture of an upcoming Hasbro Computron that has the Groove mold used as Afterburner (as seen in this very image), I'd say that's a safe guess.

 

I think it makes sense; to an extent. Seeing as FOC Bruticus was a bit recent and Defensor hasn't gotten a real update since the original (not counting the Micromaster) it kinda makes sense to do him. It also gave them the convenience to make Onslaught from Hot Spot (which, while I do feel there are certain things that carry over poorly like the light bars and the thigh positions, overall works because of how similarly the originals transformed.)
I'm still more baffled by the fact that they didn't give Bruticus a new fill in member and mirrored Defensor. It feels like with more time they could've made a new mold. I almost wonder if they could've made a Strafe mold, done it up as a new Combaticon (even though it'd break the otherwise realistic alt modes), then reshell that as Blastoff.
In either case I still feel they should've done a Legends Blastoff and made him a chest minion.

 

Yeah I've always wondered that too.

 

I really hope it's a retool of Breakdown and not another Deadend.

 

Looks still like the Silverbolt repaint.

 

He didn't complain about UW Bruticus. That's the only thing he hasn't complained about. He was actually really happy about it, to my surprise.

 

That's because UW Bruticus is from Takara. They gave it a new arm and some paint, and magically all of the problems from the Hasbro version just disappeared.

Just watch, if next year Takara announces Computron with a new combiner head, this will suddenly change from "utter crap" to "another great collectible from the company that cares about it's fans".

 

I'm hoping Takara does just that.

 

looks cool but I heard that this is a rumor

 

It is, but at this point it would have to be a highly elaborate hoax to be a haoax at all.