New Combiner Wars Commercial

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  1. Shatterpoint

    Shatterpoint Neato

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  2. bumblebeej8

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    Cool commercial!
     
  3. AnonymousDwell

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    Man. I freaking L O V E these old fashioned commercials they've been churning out for Combiner Wars.
     
  4. Neko-bot77

    Neko-bot77 Face it, we're doomed.

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    Cute. But i have to point out that this is another example of only advertising the Voyager and Deluxes as being 'official' combiners. Legends gets shafted again. The only way to know the legends figures combine is from their packaging and instructions.

    Has anyone found scans of Wreck-Gar's instructions yet? I have legends Groove and all the Sky Reign parts except WG, but i can not figure how WG is supposed to combine....
     
  5. Smitty.1981

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    Could the voice over guy sound less enthusiastic?
     
  6. bumblebeej8

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    I'm not sure if that is possible. That is what the Hasbro guy always sounds.
     
  7. ma70er

    ma70er HasTak/3P TF Collector, Gamer

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    Both the Defensor and Superion commercials feature their Legends components and even blurb "connect 6 CW figures to build even bigger robots" during both ads.

    Superion
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s2LPZjSJzY

    Defensor
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sIFeSXtGs

    Let's not be so quick to praise this one. The new commercial is both weak and lazy, and pales in quality to the previous two: Superion and Defensor's both had specific CGI for the combiners (featuring all 6 members no less) in the opening and ending!
     
  8. Robogeek28

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    Yup, I much prefer the first two commercials thanks to their animation.


    This one isn't even trying.
     
  9. Autobot Burnout

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

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    Except it's not universal - all the voyagers and deluxes can combine, but only certain Legends can, and even then the only "true" universal figures that work with all combiners are Powerglide and Viper (and Shockwave, come to think of it).

    Otherwise, the torsos that use chestplates can only swap them with other torsos that retain the same connection points, and since there's only two "chesplate" Legends molds officially, it's just swapping repaints with repaints of the same molds.
     
  10. T-Hybrid

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    Same. It's one of the things I miss most about there not being dedicated Saturday morning cartoons, as those were always how I kept up with the latest happenings in kids toys these days.

    The last I heard, people in Asia were finding Wreck-Gar in stores. But the one guy who posted here didn't open his so we never heard back.

    The weird thing was, though, the one pic we had of Wreck-Gar in package showed his card sharing the color bar with Sky Reign's team, but the bubble didn't include the "COMBINE TO FORM..." sticker the legends have always had before.
     
  11. Golobulus

    Golobulus heh heh heh

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    he sounds like he is just seconds away from slitting his wrists

    "Transformers Combiner Wars. Sky Reign faces off against the evil.....oh what's the point... none of this matters. We're all doomed to die anyway"
     
  12. Novaburnhilde

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    Pretty nice.

    Its unfortunate they didn't make an intro with Sky Lynx, though. Then it would have been the best commercial.
     
  13. MrByatis

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    Sky-Lynx deserves his own combination sequence.
     
  14. Novaburnhilde

    Novaburnhilde Destron Enforcer

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    Yeah!
     
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    So...Dead End is the commercial narrator/
     
  16. T-Hybrid

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    It's good to know Nihilistic Arby's found a second job.

    And speak of the devil, there was apparently an English-language Wreck-Gar review posted yesterday and it makes no mention of combining with Sky Reign.

    So, there it is.
     
  17. Esquilax79

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    Wow.. The length of that was about cut in half.

    Loving Sky Lynx - at first I didn't like his size but then realized he's to scale with the Legends figures and 3rd party Legends figures - including not-Ultra Magnus and not-Devastator!!

    That being said, I still hope they come out with a leader class Sky Lynx (or bigger... not Titan though)
     
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    Wreckgar doesn't work with Skylynx / Sky Reign. That's why the package doesn't have the "combine to form" tag like Powerglide and Blackjack does. He's just another Legends class fig to replace Groove as Defensor's chest or try to shoehorn as Skyreign's crotchplate.

    [​IMG]20160126_015558 by Rye Saldivar, on Flickr

    [​IMG]20160126_015543 by Rye Saldivar, on Flickr
     
  19. Neko-bot77

    Neko-bot77 Face it, we're doomed.

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    I agree, my point though is that those specific combiner-capable legends are vastly under-advertised in their combining ability. Look at any Voyager or Deluxe box. They advertise the 4 deluxes and 1 voyager, but do not mention the corresponding legend figure. The only way to know the legends are any part of the combiner is to look at their pakaging/ instructions.

    Also, yes, sorry, I forgot about those other commercials.... I concede in them, they got the 6-part combiner correct.
     
  20. T-Hybrid

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    I understand that he doesn't work. The mystery is why Hasbro originally displayed him as being part of the team.

    I can believe there was something planned, but perhaps it ended up testing poorly or they couldn't quite get it to work and scrapped plans. But there was *something* they had in mind.
     

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