Power of the Primes Terrorcons at NYCC

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  1. payres

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    It was a blue Swoop they brought to Hascon and a blue Swoop they brought to NYCC.

    The only place the red one has been seen is the renders, which were used in the previously seen leaks, we've not seen a red Swoop in the plastic.

    Allspark Interview with Hasbro Brand Team on Power of the Primes
    If you want a red one, start telling Hasbro that as loudly as possible.
    The Diaclone Dinobots are varying shades

    Grimlock ティラノサウルス Blue
    Slag トリケラトプス Blue
    Sludge ブロントザウルス Red
    Snarl ステゴザウルス Black
    Swoop プテラノドン Blue

    I've not seen variant colour Dinobots mentioned in any of the interviews or panels from Hascon and NYCC and believe it to be little more than fan speculation based on them changing Swoops colour.

    If anyone knows different, provide a link and tag me so I see it.
     
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    it just like dead end and chrome dome same engineering different figures
     
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    No they have not.
    True.
    The current design team has gotten better at retooling, and they do a like more that what they use to do. During BW is was mostly a new head and some new beast alt mode parts, and that is how it was until CW, but a retool is still a toy that shares parts with another. As for how many part need to be shared between to toys is debatable, but for me I thin is the share parts and transform into at least one more the same they are retools.
     
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    "Retool" means that toys share at least a few unchanged parts. The term is a bit of a misnomer, as it implies that extant tooling is modified in some way to make new parts, in which case yes you could conceivably alter every single part on a toy and still have a retool. But what it really means is that a toy is a mix of new tooling and old tooling carried over from prior toys. With something like Sandstorm or the extensive retools seen in TR, this means one or two of the steel molds responsible for producing a sprue of parts is carried over from a prior toy and new tooling is cut to create the new parts that complete the figure.

    For something like TR Chromedome or PotP Hun-Grr, although the engineering and even proportions are a lifted from a prior figure, all of the details are different, necessitating that every single steel mold used to make it be newly cut. Ergo, not a retool.

    Like I said, "retool" really isn't an accurate word for it, but it's the term of art used in the industry so here we are.
     
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    Where does that put Chromedome and Blurr? They have the same thighs, gun and Titan Master?
     
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    Chromedome shares at least one sprue of parts with Blurr covering most of the Titanmaster, the thin gun, the knees & upper legs. Other parts may also be identical - the bar between body and arm at the shoulder for example.

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    I forgot about that. Technically it makes Chromedome a retool of Blurr. Still not a retool of Dead End, though. ;) 
     
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    Yes technically chromedome is a retool of blur, but they only share about 10% of their parts I'm not sure that really counts as a retool...
     
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    Black Rodimus looks like George Michael (may he rest in peace).
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    He actually looks good - and a definite purchase if you ask me.
     
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    Hasbro just shoehorned the triplechanger gimmick in headmasters line for no good reason.
     
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    Blitzwing would disagree...
     
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    Can we have these in transparent plez Takara!
     
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    You spotted that's one not shown before today? Waverider.
     
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    Because that's his pre-puberty form of course. :D 
     
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    I really hope we get some of these after power of the primes as other Pretenders. I would love to get a pretender Bumblebee with the in a robot turning into a Bumblebee toy style head.
     
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    DEFINITELY. I'm onboard for that!
     
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    But that is wrong. They had a good reason several in fact. They were trying to redo all the remaining triple changers (plus Blitzwing due to the terrible T30 mold) as well as many of the TFTM characters (that started in CW) and which all got caught up in their effort to redo the headmaster gimmick. Confronted with multiple competing objectives they decided to make compromises to get all of them done.
     
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    Not sure if this is earth shattering news but on unicorns.com they have a potential look at Takaras first Primemaster for Potp

    Who it is is unknown for the moment

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    It looks like Ironfist, sorta
     
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