New Transformers Animated and Universe Listings On Wal*Mart.com

Shadow Blade Megatron - nope, not interested, already gonna blow 40 bucks on the show accurate one.

Roadbuster Ultra Magnus - no, might be cool, but can't afford

Cyber Speed Bumblebee - no, read below comment

Street Patrol Bumblebee - who thought these were a good idea?

Universe Voyager Overload - if it's a repaint/ re-release of the armada mold, bought. never owned it, always wanted it. anything else, highly depends.

Universe Vector Prime - most likely not, already owned and sold off this mold off. maybe they'll surprise us with something new and worthwhile though...

Universe Leo Prime - bought no matter what. release of BW2 figure? cool. repaint of leobreaker? sweet something new? awesome

Ok cool but when will they be released?

in my experience with Wal-Mart listings, often the farthest out ones are about 8 months when they show up in computers.

That would be the BEST!!!!! Magnus always gets the repaint its time for prime!!! HA!......ok I guess I got too over excited on that one...

Only repaint I'd be interested out of those, would be Leobreaker as Leo Prime.

OTOH, Inferno is SO bought.

-airfox

If Leo Prime is the Lio Convoy mold than its a definite buy!

Getting Shadow Blade Megatron. I'm really rather enamoured by the color scheme and I love the original. Honestly, if I only got one TF for the rest of the year, this would be it. Heck, I wish it was out sooner.

As for the rest, almost undoubtedly pass on the rest, save for perhaps Vector Prime if he's a good color scheme.

Shadowblade Megs is the Black repaint we've already seen thanks to SDCC.

Roadbuster Ultra Magnus is a Camo repaint of TFA Magnus, Not colored like Roadbuster.

Cyber Speed and Street Patrol BB are Cyberstompers

Universe Overload, (Armada Overload) Vector Prime, (Cybertron VP) and Leo Prime (Cybertron Leobreaker) are all repaints of existing molds. The only new modes in the Universe Line will be those of the Classics Subline.

Attractive camo or sick bag included with every purcahse camo?

I don't think Camo paint could really make this figure look good, It's hard to see it with camo paint but I guess you could call it passable...of the sick bag kind.

Mostly flat green with dark green/brown camo patches.

Are 25th anniversary figs not Universe? I was under the impression that they were.

Hmm, doesn't sound very tempting. Guess I'll just grab the show colours one.

Their Universe entries But each one will be id'ed with A 25 anni tag of some sort

Galvatron is a Classics figure that has a Tampoed 25 on the turrent in tank mode.
The same can be said for one or 2 others as for Cheetor and Hotshot im not sure if there is anything tampoed on the figures themselves atm.

So Overload is "Armada Series" and Vector Prime "Cybertron Series"? Not repaints of those molds in the Classics Universe subline?

Sounds kind of neat. It can't be worse than movie divebombs russian mig camo. any word on how vector prime will be painted? I'm kind of hopeing for more than just a re-release.

So, with these repaints... any idea at all what the Overload and Vector Prime repaints look like?

I seem to recall you claiming Overload was gonna be repainted as The Fallen.

lol, i remember that. he only hinted at it, i was the first to say it. if this is that, well done, i'm glad you didn't hype me up for nothing.

I'm just wondering where the info came from that only Classics figs would be getting new molds (in Universe). Obviously there are also new molds in the 25th Anniversary line, and Animated (in the Legends). So isn't there still a chance some of those others aren't straight redecos?

He's making this "inside information" up. I'd wait to see what it looks like before deciding.

i hope so i don't think camo would look good on megnus but never know till you see it

Yea Im making everything up... but 99% of everything I have said thus far from my friend has been confirmed, so why do you put up your so called sources or shut up.

ohhh snap!

Your information has been proven inaccurate time and time again. Your "source" is questionable at best, if not completely made-up or simply a fan with a lot of creativity. I find it surprising that if your source does exist, they allow you to spew out this information so freely as if their job itself is not at stake. I mean, we're talking MASSIVE NDA BREACH, which would result in immediate termination if not a form of legal action afterwards.

Do not harass members of this board who disagree and claim your information is inaccurate, especially when they are 100% correct in their claim.

Thanks.

It's also interesting that a lot of the information he has given us has been correct.

I believe everything he says. Thats my opinion.

I have no idea what his track record is like.

Sometimes people get news/rumours but things end up a bit differently. OH HI THERE ARMADA.

Generalizations that come true aren't necessarily "omg he was right!" confirmations. Stating "Hasbro is interested in doing the Alternators again" isn't inside information, that was rhetoric Hasbro has been stating since 2007, when the line officially ended along with Titanium.

Just for fun, his original Alternators statement was:

"Hasbro has *BIG* plans for Alternators in 2009!"

Yes. Big plans, including "Nothing until probably 2010 at best, if we bring back the line, which we're interested in doing, but not until after Movie 2".

His "sources" then told him "Hasbro is really considering bringing back Alternators", which he claims he posted BEFORE SDCC ... which is nice, considering Hasbro told us that at BotCon 2007 and BotCon 2008, both of which took place before SDCC 2008.

Do you really think I'd be giving this guy a hard time if he WAS correct and he DID have a source?

Which Kyde (former AllSpark poster and former Hasbro intern, now full-time Hasbro designer on the exclusives line, at least, at the start of the year) stated at the AllSpark was actually accurate, but the focus shifted and that storyline ended up going to the "Universe" brand which then tied in with OTFCC, both of which would eventually fail as we know.

If the best you can do is throw something back at me from 7 years ago, you've disappointed me, llama

Of course not. But nobody can be 100% sure that he doesn't have one either.

The problem with that is the only way to debunk it is to either state what *IS* coming out, or that something *IS NOT* coming out, which then also breaks the NDA.

Someone can say "That's not coming out", and the first question is "Prove it then".

I remember when everyone (back in the Transfandom days, before Armada was showcased at Toy Fair) was all excited because someone claiming to be a Toy Fair photographer said he took pictures of a Mini-Con that transformed in to the Matrix, and was describing Optimus Prime, and this guy named "Orson" was making posts saying "That's not accurate" and "That's not right at all" and "He actually transforms in to a car, not the Matrix", and he was chastized and was told he was an idiot and that he needed proof.

Oops. Turned out he was Aaron Archer, and he's now in charge of all things GI Joe and Transformers. And the guy that claimed to be a photographer?

Never posted again.

Remember that time you porked the chubby? That was only like 5 years ago, but still.

BURNNNNNN

He recently stated that the Prowl and Optimus Prime Legends toys were going to be G1 versions, now pictures are up of the Animate dLegends Optimus and Prowl in Universe packaging. He's already wrong there. He's also wrong about a couple of other things he's posted, as will become quite apparent. Mark my words. And when's that Armada Overload redecoed as the Fallen going to be showing up?

Of course, he'll just claim that "plans must have changed." No, he's just making shit up. Anything he's been "right" about were guesses that weren't that hard to make in the first place.

That is because plans always will change.

An idea will usually never end up being a final concept and companys such as Hasbro will have many ideas and early concepts that were dropped for one reason or another; such as the Overload repdeco as The Fallen.

Well let's keep track of his "predictions" and we'll see how many are right.... keeping in mind that some are too obvious to count as being of any real substance (Robot Heroes "SHARKT"):

Roadbuster Ultra Magnus is a Camo repaint of TFA Magnus, Not colored like Roadbuster. Mostly flat green with dark green/brown camo patches.

Universe Overload (Armada Overload)
Vector Prime (Cybertron VP)
Leo Prime (Cybertron Leobreaker)

Alternators returning, specifically a Megatron Alternator.

G1 Legends of Prowl, Optimus Prime, Warpath, and Wheelie as new molds, with Legends Rodimus as Legends Cyb. Hotshot repaint.

Clear Plastic "Ghost" Deluxe Starscream.

Robot Heroes:
SNARL VS SHARKTICON
CHEETOR VS TANKOR
PERCEPTOR VS LONG HAUL
TIGATRON VS INFERNO
RICOCHET VS PREDACON RAMPAGE
SUPER OP VS RID MEGATRON
PROWL VS LASERBEAK
BM OPTIMUS VS JETSTORM
VICTORY SABER (STARSABER/VICTORY LEO) VS MAGMATRON (OVERLORD)

Universe Ultra Scourge from Energon Mirage.

Armada Overload into The Fallen - The Fallen will be the replacement for Nemesis Prime of the new Universe line with his own faction.

Either they are unused ideas or are still to come. Thats what I think anyway.

Some of them could be excused for being wrong that way, but his guesses as to who the Robot Heroes are are based on store computer information, which is much less likely to have been affected by a "change" in the development process.

And an Ultra Scourge out of Energon Mirage? Mirage was a Voyager...

You know. This one is very funny given that Energon Mirage was released at the Mega price point (now called Voyager) so I don't see how they're going to make an Ultra out of it.

Besides, they already did Energon Mirage in those colors... they called it Energon Dreadwing.

Oh, sorry, were you saying something? I got a little distracted by a transforming Matrix. Darn you! Another thing to add to my wish list of things I'd buy if they EXISTED


Seriously though, the burden of proof falls on the guy making the claims. Don't get angry because they didn't give you the benefit of the doubt. If plans keep changing, that still doesn't help here. While it's interesting to know what they thought about doing, but canceled, it's much more useful to know what's actually going to be released.

Roadbuster Ultra Magnus is actualy Ultra Magnus in old school Disney colors and sunglasses.

I know because I'm... uhh... Archer's wife, yeah, totally his wife.

Shroobmaster is very pretty.

This one has essentially been proven false, due to the fact that the Mirage mold is only a Voyager class figure, not an Ultra.

I'll believe in Kickback's little hints before I trust anything he ever says. I've never seen any one of Kickback's hints turn out to be false.

Edit: Personally, I'm hoping that Leo Prime turns out to be a new mold based off of this specific design:

http://images.wikia.com/transformers..._gathering.jpg

Or if he is indeed just a repaint of Leobreaker, I hope that they give him a new head.

Assuming you meant "molds" here... yeah-huh. Except for the already officially revealed Cheetor and Hot Shot. And, I'm guessing, Dinobot.

Nuh-uh! They'll just put Mirage in the Magic Mold Size-Changing Machine™. You know, the one they use for all those "remolds" that are a completely different size from the purported originals.

I'm going to make a wild guess here and suggest that the name of your alleged "source" starts with "Body" and ends with "Count". Does that sound about right?

You mean the KO Machine? Always wondered how they got those things into magically different sizes!

Still curious.

100% agree. The Cybertronian form or Lio Convoy would be amazing