TFW2005 boards member SideSwipe75 has come to us tonight with a very interesting observation from the newly-updated Transformers brand app, from the Fan Built Combiner options to choose from the body and weapon, possibly giving us our first look at the heavily-rumored Combiner Wars Protectobots Hot Spot and Groove!
Check it out after the break, and stay tuned to TFW as we bring you all the news leading up to Toy Fair where all of the Protectobots and Defensor himself will hopefully be revealed!
Basilisk
Hot Spot look great, kind of a shame we aren't getting a Deluxe Groove but I'll get over it.
CodeXCDM
Honestly, it's a good compromise for Groove. Granted, it's not like the scales match up, even with Groove as a Legends class… but it's better than a Motorcycle being as large as an Ambulance, Helicopter, and Police car.
Then again… we have an A10 being a Legends class… and smaller than other jets in an team full of other Jets…
BTW, are there any discussion threads regarding the Takara G1 Superion set? I dig Alpha Bravo's mold, and will likely get a version of that figure, but eh… as a Superion member, it's iffy IMHO.
Hm… interesting. I'd be unfortunate if Onslaught weren't heavily retooled, however. Now that you mention both Sentinel and Pyro, I can easily see the would-be Hotspot repurposed to both characters at a later time for Comicon or TFCC/Botcon.
Cast
That is exactly what I was thinking they would when I started saying they could share a mold when combiner was first announced.
Dinobot Slug
I hope for at least two new limb figures for Defensor.Preferably First Aid,Streetwise or Rook.(One can hope for three)
TFTheoretician
Hot Spot´s alt mode seems to be close to a Carmichael Cobra airport crash truck, like G1 Pyro (or a Rosenbauer truck like DOTM Sentinel Prime):
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Now consider a HEMTT truck. Military vehicle, similar in shape to the above fire truck:
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It totally makes sense. Both bots are gonna rock, big time!
Personally, I like the idea that Hot Spot and Onslaught share the same mold, as they thematically are like reflections of each other; one protects, one destroys…
Now show us robot modes already!
PredaconElder
He is probably a reused Stunticon with police lights.
Bogatan
My own hope is that each combiner has at least 2 deluxe moulds designed primarily for it.
Superion got 2,
Menasor 2 or 3. It's possible one was developed as Streetwise and then remoulded as a stunticon
Bruticus in my mind has Offroad as Swindle, Rook as Brawl
AB presumably was developed as Blades, Blast off or Vortex, or likely all 3, but I cant decide which if any was the initial design
That leaves Defensor which is going to use the AB mould I'm sure because I cant see them making 2 helicopter moulds and Rook has surely got to be a reuse of Brawl or is a repaint/remould of a First Aid mould, Ambulance to Troop Transport is possible I guess. So depending on how you define Blades that should allow at for at least one of Streetwise and First Aid as new moulds.
GreyRouge
I voted Truck and Cycle for torso and weapon/armor, truck arm, car arm, jet leg, helicopter leg.
Fort Max
Fair enough, we'll probably have to wait till toyfair for that.
peaces
http://i.imgur.com/WAv1zOb.jpg
way better than the actual toy
Cal
Did anyone stop to notice that Groove is nowhere to be seen on that cover? If he's not a Legends class chest piece, I wonder what was the point of featuring him on those CW app renders.
OCProwl
Right, I have seen that image, but that's art – I meant an actual physical prototype. Even the IDW art for Menasor looks much better than the actual toy.
Fort Max
It'll probably look like this.
peaces
i agree. superions torso is much better than menasors.
OCProwl
And thus the true meaning behind "Combiner Wars" is realized. It was never about Autobots vs. Decepticons, it's Transformers Fans vs. Transformers Fans. Anyone who's been following the first War in the 3P forums has had a taste of it.
Before voting I wish we could see at least an actual prototype of the Onslaught/Hot Spot truck, especially combined or at least in torso mode. I find Superion's torso mode vastly better than the Motormaster torso mode. On what end of the spectrum will the 3rd Voyager be? What if it's a mess? I'm afraid it will win just because "OMG Bruticus and Defensor" but what if we've all been deceived by the excitement of it? (Full disclosure: it's what I voted for – I hope I'm not let down!)
EDIT: 2,000th post!
David Hingtgen
Dead End was mentioned as being the likely mold, but Breakdown is a much better fit, based on G1 car modes.
Autovolt 127
as Rhinox once said.
It's called Irony Sport.
I would so love a Fire Convoy from Hot Spot. I love reference homages like that.
Matt_M
Yo, that Hot Spot could make a really easy Wheel Blaze redeco.
Wheel Blaze – Transformers Wiki
orangeitis
I didn't get an Offroad vibe from that description. *shrug*
Ravenxl7
Oh, those? I don't think that axe plus "combat vehicle" means that First Aid is definitely a repaint/retool of Offroad. If anything, Rook's "armored truck" alt-mode makes me think of Offroad.
As for Streetwise, I think he's likely going to be a repaint/retool of one of the Stunticons. Probably Dead End, so the deco would be more of a difference. Though I would prefer the Breakdown mold.