The official Transformers Facebook page has just posted something many fans will be delighted to see – following up on our news from yesterday, they’ve now teased the rumored and highly-anticipated Combiner Wars Quickslinger and Brake-Neck, who are the renamed Slingshot and Wildrider.
The photo that’s been posted reads “The rumors are true.” They also say “Yes, they’re coming. You know the names: Brake-Neck and Quickslinger. Want to see the faces?” This also gives us a peak at the figures’ packaging.
A few TFW2005 boards members – artiepants and Shin-Gouki – also put the image into Photoshop, giving us a small glimpse of their vehicle modes. As many had been expecting, it looks as though Quickslinger will be a redeco of Firefly, with Brake-Neck being a redeco of Dead End. You can see for yourself after the break!
Keep an eye out, as it looks like we may be getting a full reveal soon!
Update: Aaand that was fast – they’ve now been fully revealed, confirming our previous speculation:
“Ask, and you shall receive. Here are the Generations Combiner Wars Quickslinger and Brake-Neck. They’ll be joining the battle and hitting online retailers in May!”
Mark your calendars for May, folks! It also sounds like they may be online exclusives – we’ll keep you updated as to which retailers will be carrying them if so!
Thundershot
They'll probably go up on May 1st.
T-Hybrid
Okay. Hopefully that means there are more places that will be getting them than the few that are already "Sold Out". Not sure why HTS and TRU/Amazon/BBTS couldn't figure something out like we've seen with previous "Exclusives".
Smashs
Indeed. Going to be fairly pissed if I can't get my hands on these guys.
PoweredConvoy
Preorders went up too early.
Randy
T-Hybrid
I wasn't sure where to ask this, but did the Pre-Orders get pulled down for these two because they were early or are they already closed? I was able to find a few other things cheaper than expected so now have room in the budget for these guys.
Sidecutter
It would depend on what shipping method you chose. All the options are presented before payment of course
BidoofdudeofOz
What's the total cost of both figures with shipping to Australia? I'm not in a position to buy at the moment, but a pricerange would be cool.
GR1ML0CK
Haha!! I bought and paid for slingshot a week ago on captured prey!!
Sidecutter
You just need to know where to look if you're still wanting to get these secured.
Sidecutter
Apologies folks, I've had to temporarily disable the listings for Quickslinger and Brakeneck, as they apparently aren't meant to be listed online yet (they didn't tell us this when we were given the info). If you'd like to order them, please contact us through the contact link on the site.
Basketball Jones
One of the weird things about Offroad is that he doesn't seem to really mesh with the Stunticon ethos according to his bio. The other four limbs all have severe personal problems- Breakdown is a paranoid schizophrenic, Drag Strip is a narcissistic jerk, Dead End is severely depressed, and Wildrider has uncontrollable violent impulses. Offroad's "untrustworthy" trait doesn't match. Breakdown obviously won't trust anyone, and why does it matter if Wildrider trusts you? It would be neat if Offroad had his own personality problems.
Still buying him anyway because we need more Cons, but I'm glad we have a real Wildrider.
Wh33l JcK
Looking at the Takara versions, wish they could have found a way give Wildrider gray legs instead of red.
Robogeek28
Preordered both, thanks Sidecutter!
Sidecutter
Yikes! And they're down again, just added more. I will be checking on them periodically until they seem to slow down significantly, so if they show as sold out at any point, make sure to check back a bit later.
Mightion
Signed up with Captured Prey just now just to make sure I don't miss out on these two. might be "awkward" if BBTS does put out a preorder for them….
transmasterc
Used CapturedPrey and pre ordered Break neck and Quickshot. Thanks for the heads up.
Doc Wheeljack
Thanks sidecutter…. Just grabbed both of them.
jcru
Oh, excellent. Thank you, I grabbed a brakeneck this time around.
Sidecutter
Pretty much with any place that isn't a big box store. They're exclusive to what Hasbro calls "emerging" channels, so online stores and comic shops, pretty much. At least, so says the info so far.
Yeah, that was WAY fast, just a couple hours or so…but more are up, there's not a top limit just yet so I've "restocked" the preorder. I'll try to keep an eye on them to make sure they stay available as best I can.