New Transformers Prime & BotShots Saturday Hasbro Display Images

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by DESTRO, Apr 28, 2012.

  1. Raiju

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    Really wish they stuck with a red on black color scheme for Dead End, instead of another blech-tastic Quickstrike homage a la DOTM Dark Steel. And disappointed that Stealth Bee isn't black, but is instead a matte gray. I was hoping to at least repaint the damn thing as Prime Barricade a la a Radicons custom here on TFW, since I preordered the 3-pack of him, Dead End, and Airachnid on BBTS.

    Airachnid herself looks passable. I just hope Dr. Wu or some other 3P can make some decent add-ons for her, especially some more poseable and show accurate legs/rotors.
     
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    jeez, airachnid looks like aaaaaaaaaaaaass. Is that the deluxe? Seriously? She looks like a legends figure. Please tell me that's not the deluxe.
     
  3. butz

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    Yeah, I thought Airachnid was Cyberverse at first glance... then I realized she is standing next to deluxe Ratchet :( 
     
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    i don't think airachnid's arms will have any less movement than wheeljack's arms.

    her upper back is what i'm displeased with....could just be mistransformed to all hell. people might still be dissatisfied with Knockout but the bot mode people have found for him is a lot better than what was seen at the previous cons and promo shots.
     
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    What Game is Kickback from ?

    And it does not change that the alt mode on it is substandard and i still don't care about it.

    Comics in general are pretty Niche Transformers comics even more so as the Comic fans actively avoid them so they are only selling to people who a) have access to comics b) care to download them if they are digital or c) can still stomach IDW after All Hail Megatron.

    Even if they were doing OK comics I still wouldn't care anymore simply as I'd not want to encourage IDW any more than I'd want to cheerlead Funpub It's best I ignore them or they only make me enraged, and neither of them are worth the stress any more than Bay is.

    So I don't hate IDW any more than I hate Bay it's just an irrelevance to my fan experience i'd rather consume something that enhances my fandom experience than diminish it.

    IDW suck all the joy out of everything they touch to me - so no I'm not going to be white knighting them. I'll be happy to do a little happy dance when the finally get fired though as well as 80% of the people who work for them. Transformers comics are one huge car crash to me and I'd rather see non at all than bad ones that just drag the franchise off in further bizzarro directions out of keeping with the core brand ideals as they appear to me. The only thing IDW does as a benefit is make the 80's cartoon look less dumb by comparison.

    I'm just perplex where the demand for an obscure insect came from if it's not an IDW one that makes it another layer of even more obscure to me. and whereever it came from it's still half a toy an "OK" robot and a nowheresville Alt mode.
     
  6. CelticMutt

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    Considering how often you go out of your way to bash the comics, I'd say you do in fact hate them. Extreme hatred from the looks of it. Being happy about someone getting fired? That's just pathetic.
     
  7. RedAlert Rescue

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    Nope all those muppets in creative control at IDW want hanging up naked in snow storm ; me saying firing instead is just me being polite. I also think less of any artist who works for them - and as for Furman I wrote him off years ago his inability to write decent dialogue and a total lack of understanding of most of the characters he write as well as his desire to kill everything that moves just got got tragic and tedious and pretentious.

    If I was an active hater I'd be stalking comic boards, and I don't ; as I don't care I maintain a happy contempt and level of disgust that's for sure and I feel great disappointment and sadness that a Transformers comic book sub-franchise gathers more ire from me than the Bay universe does ; It does just make me really feel rather sad and disappointed - that never should have happened I feel. Transformers Comics should not be less Transformery than the Movies and they shouldn't be even more death happy than them either.

    I do however care if their 'garbage' designs infects the main toyline to much - just as a lot of people were rather put out to have 6+ years of movie toys.

    If a design does not embarass itself to much I can happily accept it (so Drift is OK design wise) but Trailbreaker or Skids makes my skin crawl. That's not what I wanted to see at all.
     
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    Except for the kibble, I dunno what's so bad. Plus, looking like Prime Cyberverse wouldn't be a bad thing.
     
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    dead end looks horrid.

    Airrachnid...Jeeesh...I was expecting a little better, the purple blades...

    Magnus looks great.

    Thanks for the reports guys! great job!
     
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    Are you even paying attention to what you write? These last two post are filled with pure hatred. That is active hate. You don't have to go around stalking comic boards to be an active hater. You just have to do what you're already doing. And boy is it sad.
     
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    are the last pictures insecticon prime figure with energon cube? looks that way to me arachnid i can see to have somewhat of spidermode with only three legs or maybe someone can come up upgrade for her to have 4 legs.

    &^% blasted sucks about bruticus set that peeves me off
     
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    Yes sad is the word - I feel sad that IDW are allowed to be a flag carrier for any franchise - they made me vexated with Gi Joe and after they helped ruined that franchise they then go and publish a bunch of comics that are so far removed from most Transformers media that they make Kissplayers look rational.

    I can put up with Aaron Archers vanity project, and slighty dippy Novels and a TV show that is bordering on being dull of late. But it's not a happy feeling to have all of that at the same time and then still have a 4th Movie to look forward too.

    So ignoring them is good for my health or I might actually be a hater and IDW isn't worth a raised blood pressure.

    So long as they stay in their own little tiny box I can ignore them but I still feel scarred by what they did to GI Joe so I don't want to be fooled again with them.

    Thinking about them actually makes me shudder Thinking about them is like being licked by Legion.

    I can stay calm then and just roll my eyes when Hasbro does something stupid ; if I was a regular consumer of IDW's wears and had the Movies to deal with and the frasnkly odd behaviour of the Prime writers lately - I would just be a ball of ire.

    Removing myself from the IDW sphere of influence is best for everyone - it means you don't often have to suffer my hate bombing them (unless i'm in a bad mood).

    And my feeling are much as they are with regard to the Movies - as a self contained thing - those who wish to consume it can do so in happy isolation. But as soon as it starts to leak into the other parts of the franchise I can't but help notice the bad smell.

    Don't read what I say like a screaming grand pad telling the kids to get off his lawn - think of it more of "Kids Today.... Tut" kind of way to look at it.

    Or as the saying goes "I'm not angry; I'm disappointed" I'm not explicitly a hator i'm just very tetchy about the comics from time to time when they pass my gaze and reawaken the disillusionment & negativity in me once more; Especially since All Hail Megatron. I don't "Want" to feel like that but as long as IDW continue to make me want to knock myself out by banging me head on a desk - I may continue to feel much the same.
     
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    Cyberverse Ultra Magnus, Deluxe Deadend and Airrachnid = bought.
     
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    I quite like Dead End's Quickstrike colouring but seeing his head up close I'm almost convinced he's a Terrorcon.

    I'd have been happier with a separate grey and then another separate black & Yellow Bumblebee though at some later stage. as a non-yellow grey one would look like the 'Urbana' then and it might have made a nice 2nd use for the Hotshot head.

    A Black Bumblebee would have then matched the Legion toy.

    That Kickback looks not a lot like this :

    http://www.bwtf.com/comicbook-images/idw/ironhide2/insecticon.jpg

    Neither does it scream Classics update.

    So I suppose it's meant to be this then ?

    http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/_...ers/images/9/90/Foc-Jazz-game-insecticons.jpg

    Odd choice But if they make a Grimlock toy it gives you something to feed to him I suppose.

    I prefer these little beetles that are chasing swoop though ;

    http://cloud.videogamewriters.com/w...rs-FOC-Swoop-flying-away-from-Insecticons.jpg

    Maybe they'd be better suited to a deluxe.

    I wonder if a Weaponizer Grimlock is out of the question ? as it would be odd indeed if they make Grimmy and the Insecticon the same size.
     
  15. xanthax

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    So that Dead End turned out looking WAY better than I thought. That pose is f'n ace. There are some excellent bot shots coming down the tube too. Not sure about Arachnid though, she looks off. Like more than just mistransformed off.
     
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    im not really going into botshots but airacnid looks cool
     
  17. Prime Jetscream

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    Wait, is that an Insecticon?!

    WOOT
     
  18. Stepper

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    Another neon colour figure,suck
     
  19. Optimus1138

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    I really hope we get a Voyager release of that Prime Ultra Magnus. Airachnid looks great. Love that helicopter mode. Dead End looks kind of cool, but I don't feel like spending the money on him. The Bumblebee repaint looks surprisingly good, but I have no interest in it.
     
  20. MonaLazaBeak

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    Ok, 12 hours later and I have to ask - where are the pics of the other cases?!

    Was there just deluxes on display after the panel? This site, Seibertron and Tformers are just showing the deluxes.

    What gives?

    Edit: I know mp-10 and a few others were on display. I want to know about the Prime Voyagers.
     
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