SDCC 2012 Coverage- Fall of Cybertron/Generations Updated Hasbro Display

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by An Army of Bees, Jul 12, 2012.

  1. Jazzfan0217

    Jazzfan0217 Resident couch potato

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    Wonder if we're gonna get a full set of Dinobots.
     
  2. Thundershot

    Thundershot Ratchet Fanatic

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    The only way I can see that is if Sludge, Snarl, and Slag share core body parts and have different remolded heads and tails ( and robot kibble). Not sure how cost efficient it is, but it would only require one mold to be engineered. Then Swoop.
     
  3. autobotsrollout

    autobotsrollout Well-Known Member

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    They can definitely do it... They can do Swoop as a deluxe or small voyager along with Sludge as a voyager... then use slag/slug and Snarl in the Prime line. ... I mean they do many new molds every year for both lines, if they dont want 5 new molds for dinobots in chug, then break it up and use some in Prime... its supposed to be the same alignment.
     
  4. ABH1979

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    If I was the modding type (if I had any idea how), I'd totally buy Whirl, for the head, and the new Springer, for the body, and make one awesome Whirl figure.

    Though I have no doubts someone here will do just that.
     
  5. Transfotaku

    Transfotaku Transformer Otaku

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    Classic Prime is Voyager. Prime has two, in FE and regular line. We got enough Primes in that size for now. Let the size be filled with other characters we need.
     
  6. Roadblock1977

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    Hmm... As far as Blaster goes, do I see a Twincast in the works?
     
  7. cylor

    cylor Well-Known Member

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    Well, it's even the right color if you look at the IDW continuity:

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  8. Onslaught24

    Onslaught24 Ayo Fryman. That uh, that's highly illogical. Moderator News Staff

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    *facepalm*

    how many times must i say this

    FOC is NOT in the same aligned continuity as Prime. FOC is supposed to tie into ALL TF continuities as the starting point. it is tied to Prime, but it is loosely tied. just like it is with the rest of the continuities
     
  9. Thundershot

    Thundershot Ratchet Fanatic

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    Not all. Just anything going forward. (which seems to include G1)

    FOC obviously won't fit in at all with Animated, RID, Movie, or the Unicron Trilogy
     
  10. Chris McFeely

    Chris McFeely Well-Known Member

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    You can keep saying it, but it doesn't make you right. Hasbro intends the games to the backstory of their new Aligned continuity, which comprises the majority of new fiction going forward, predominantly Prime and Rescue Bots.
     
  11. Kaijumaster

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    It's more inverted than accurate, I'd love someone to Photoshop the picture and flip the orange and purple
     
  12. cylor

    cylor Well-Known Member

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    It's pretty accurate I'd say, apart from head and chest and... come on, we're talking about a character Hasbro didn't give a s**t for some 26 years :)  I know Straxus got a toy, but he's more the exception than the rule...
     
  13. Scrapmaker

    Scrapmaker Hadar Sen Olmen

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    On the continuity subject, Hasbro should really just consider a "Continuity Family" rather than trying to shove them all into one continuity. Makes more sense that way, and reduces plot holes. But doing that would be a logical course of action, and I don't think Hasbro is very logical...

    As for the actual subject, the Wreckers are getting figures too, hm?
    I predict at least one of them will be repainted as Bulkhead (either officially or by fans). Then again, do any of those molds really fit as Bulky?
     
  14. Scrapper6

    Scrapper6 Lord of Constructicons

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    Blaster and Grimlock? Ah, how fun, and here I thought I'd be letting Hasbro products languish in eternity before picking them up. Then they surprise me again. Soundwave I could care less about, though if his Legionized Minions are any where near as good as the ones in those images of Blaster's Data-Bots I'll definitely be picking them up.

    Does Blaster come with Sunder due to gang molding or is Eject the one that is included with him? Either way, pretty cool they're giving us a previously Takara only figure as part of the line, even if it is a Kiss Play Cassette. I wonder if they'll do Garboil, Howlback, Rosanna, Flipsides and Glit too.
     
  15. orangeitis

    orangeitis All orange, all the time. Looks infectious.

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    Neither, Steeljaw(Ravage repaint) comes with Blaster.
     
  16. Autobot Burnout

    Autobot Burnout ...and I'll whisper "No."

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    Most of them are just repaints of Soundwave's minions, I think (I know Sundor is).
     
  17. orangeitis

    orangeitis All orange, all the time. Looks infectious.

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    Repaints/redecos or slight retools, yes. Only Ratbat and Ramhorn are unique among the two factions.

    And the idea of FoC Kiss players 'cassettes' is very lulzy and somehow very awesome.
     
  18. Anguirus

    Anguirus Well-Known Member

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    I think it's pretty misleading to use "repaint" instead of "retool" when it's actually the latter.

    Eject and Rewind are retools of Rumble and Frenzy (which of course are redecos of each other).
    Buzzsaw/Laserbeak/Sundor are redecos, while Ratbat is a retool of them.
    And Steeljaw is a retool of Ravage, he's got juuuust a little mane action on.
     
  19. theestampede

    theestampede Wandering Artist

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    if 'bee ends up mute then its only tied to a handful of contiuitites. movie and prime, both of which are negatively affected by the character status.
     
  20. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    Hopefully Rossanna and Glit are comming in the near future.