Our sponsor’s Big Bad Toy Store’s preorder listings for Dark of the Moon have revealed a pair of new Transformers! Both are in the Human Alliance series. In the larger main Human Alliance Series we have Roadbuster! Roadbuster is going to be a part of Human Alliance Series 2 with Bumblebee. His human partner is “Sergeant Recon”. Whether this is the basic series trend of creating human partners for the robots spreading to the main series, or a method to obscure the true identity of a movie human character is unclear right now. Human Alliance Roadbuster looks to continue the style of the Human Alliance series offering the car based Transformers at larger scale with increased detail though, so he is sure to be a welcome addition to the series.
The other new toy revealed is a part of Human Alliance Basic Series 2. Joining the helicopter who we can now confirm as Whirl not Windmill is Tailpipe. Tailpipe is a motorcycle who comes with both a human partner and a Mini-Con style robot companion. He is partnered with a human named Sergeant Noble.
Both listings are accompanied by official images. Click on the links, or the title of this story, to see them.
Maetel
charge as they ship
wildfly
You're right. They'll leave us hanging on HA Leadfoot, finally announce it as a new mold, and then it will turn out to be a repaint of the one of the other two.
Waverider
I never pre-ordered from HTS before. Do they charge you up front or do they charge you when the item ships?
exomega255
yeah, its on the coupons page: DISC10
muffinhunter
10% discount? Is there a coupon code?
Scourge_151
I think Roadbuster would look a lot closer to the 'armed' version of the car we've seen photos of if the front wings in vehicle mode could fold back towards the windscreen.
exomega255
its got a 10% discount, so I went ahead and ordered from HTS.
Prowl 2009
Meh, pass.
HA figures have just never really done it for me, with the exception of Jazz.
muffinhunter
HA Roadbuster is on HTS now.
Thundershot
Okay, based on how much I like the preview Optimus Prime, I'll be getting the first four Cyberverse playsets (I love Micromaster Transports). I'll also get Tailpipe to see if I like these HA Basics. They really should have used something like this as a GI Joe crossover…
madman1366
Don't underestimate the sometimes sadistic side of Hasbro.
Look how they teased us over the years with updated g1 seekers. Even now they take up every last second, making people pant more and more to get Thundercracker and be done…but NOOOOOO. Still gotta wait. And search. And wait. And search…then, maybe some of us will start finding them!
The obvious Mudflap debacle, made worse by still seeing 100 HA Skids figures at every TRU I go to.
Too many figures over the past few years we saw, drooled over, only never to see anywhere at all (Animated, and whatever RTS figs never see the light of day) and who knows how many figures that may happen to down the line with Generations or the new movie line.
…and that's just the most recent history.
Insane Galvatron
I was really looking forward to a Human Alliance Roadbuster, but this will be a pass from me. I wanted a clean NASCAR so I could customize it into other drivers.
Quixote_Prime
This looks better than the deluxe. As others have stated, it would be nice for the alt mode to be less gun-y by choice. Pop out weapons are cool. Pop in weapons are cooler.
Shizuka
Probably because their feet are swimming in Bumblebees
ZING!!!!
We've only gotten 1 Cliffjumper right? At least give us a Goldbug repaint.
Evil’Con
Good, I will buy every wrecker version (cv, deluxe, ha).
Anguirus
How are you drawing that conclusion just from wave 1 & 2? How many waves were there of RotF again?
Also, Deluxe Roadbuster is in alt mode, HA Roadbuster is in Stealth Force mode. Easy. Neither of them is inaccurate (necessarily). I wouldn't be surprised if the HA could partially convert into a cleaner-looking car (wouldn't expect perfection though).
Waverider
Actually, I'll do that at Target since they will share the same DCPI code. But who knows, they could make improvements to the mold and I'll end up keeping it.
Deadend
I'm really digging the motorcycle. It's a shame it's not larger for GI Joe sized figures.
There was no proof of the rumored leader starscream either… Yet there he was on shelves almost a year after the fact. So have a little faith.
Wheeljack_Prime
"Return" it to Walmart in exchange for a later HA?
x BlackMagnus x
Fire?