I'd say if they gave us good quality beast wars toys to look forward to we'd be a far happier bunch!

As long as I don't see rhinox painted bright red and flouro yellow and called 'horny heavy'(as much sense as 'rust dust') to shoe horn in a 'fembot' angle I'm good.

As fembots go, I don't think anyone is going to be fondly remembering victorion and any of her bots in 20 years time...

 

It's only released as a set. And we knew it was going to be repaints. We voted on which molds to repaint.

 

At no point was there ever any indication that Victorion would be aaaaaaanything other than repaints of previous CW molds. It's been known since the voting began.

 

i am going to replace the G1 autobot symbols on victorion with G2. she just screams early 90's neon

 

No shit, and they all have retooling and new heads. I really like the creative re-use of molds in this line. Look at Bruticus. He is awesome.

 

Well, Fuck, that was a pointless poll if anything. Had male combiner win, it might have look exactly the same.

I mean, they could have tried to make the central part bot look a bit like Strika, come on! That one was easy to do.

They don't need to all look super female looking but at least put some effort into it. The whole point of voting for a Female Scramble-city type Combiner team was to see some new and interesting engineering, just like we got with Windblade. To see something way more different than what we already got. Instead, they clearly decided to not even try. They said, were are going to take some male bots, call them female and be done with it.

Here is an advice to those who are thing this look is okay. It's your right it's okay, but just take some of the CW figure you already have and decide they are female. Here is your Victorion and you just saved yourself $100

No need to thank me.

 

No G1 nostalgia + ugly colored defensor repaint mold = an easy pass on Victorion for me. Disappointed this figure did not turn out better.

 

My only complaint about Victorian is the fact that we have two Copter characters. Why couldn't they have gone with one of the jets as another limb? Or at least altered the pattern of one of them more than just mirroring it.

 

Seems about right, assuming they don't decide to knock it up because of the weapons and rarity. Four 15$ deluxes, one 25$ voyager, and one 10$ scout. Well guess I'll ask for Amazon gift cards for my birthday or Christmas.

Because a bunch of people voted Copter for right arm and a bunch of people voted copter for left arm, and Hasbro didn't realize that most of them only wanted a copter for one arm, and the runner up for the other.

I really want to know why Hasbro picked those colors though, and that bright. Remember next time vote Black and White. Harder to mess that colorscheme up. Then again when do the versions we get actually have the paintjob from the versions we see at the conventions?

Just noticed. Pyra Magna has a face design molded on her chest. Well maybe not intentionally, but when the light hits in right from the right angle it looks like eyes, mouth and nose.

 

Glad so many people hate Victorion.

That'll make her that much easier to get  

 

Ugh. Why are there so many Alpha Bravo remolds? The brochure said there'd only be a FEW Alpha Bravo remolds!

 

as with everyone else I am thumbs up on the retools and the combined weapon.

colors... I don't get it... such large patches of such a loud orangey red and bold light teal... give me something like a deeper red bordering on crimson and either lighten that blue to a sky blue or better yet darken it to a midnight blue... would look more appropriate, I didn't realize that rust was carrot colored. I won't give them the benefit of "it's a hand painted proto", they put a ton of effort into painting details, you're telling me they couldn't have used some neutral tones like white, black, silver or gray to create some better differentiation and detailing? or just break up some of the big chunks? I get the sneaky feeling that this is the planned schemed on the end product.

Double copter arms? I can deal with it. Double rotor shoulders makes me think dairugger which is fine by me. the twin thing? lazy lazy excuse to use less effort in differentiating the two. you wanna do twins? give me to very similar looking bots with different alt modes, you know what I'm talking about fandom.

also thinking they went lazy on the fire engine alt mode, why not adapt the onslaught retool? that thing was damn sweet looking. instead we get a fire engine with stylized minecraft pick axe sticking off the ladder... what? do we worry about things burning in the sea? are rusty things flammable? again, coulda used the onslaught retool and the axey looking thing begs on top of the cannons as some sort of giant spread shot energy ballista.

ok I give up, gonna try to just swallow my irritation except for one last comment...

does anyone else think that orange chin piece makes Victorion look like she has a goattee? I can dig it cuz a super neon bearded robot lady definitely belongs in the transformers freakshow.

 

That's not how the voting was set up. We voted for each individual limb and two of the winners were the helicopter mold. To Hasbro there's no other way to interpret the results.

 

>sees garish colours
>insta boner

 

G2 Superion: no thank you!

Victorion: interesting color choices--wish it was toned down since these 'bots are from the Sea of Rust, like the idea of the opposite twins, amazing weapons

New hands and feet with ankle tilts definite improvement but the feet are still too small width-wise.

 

And here we see the splendid Joke fly gracefully over someones unsuspecting head.

 

After years of watching people rip their hair out over lack of paint, smaller toys, gimmick lines, etc. and just sitting back and enjoying what turned out great, I can honestly say I've officially lost faith in Hasbro. It's like they designed Combiner Wars to look fantastic only to crush everyone's hopes. The way everything's going it really feels like Hasbro's standards have dropped massively as of this year, way more than when DOTM came out with less paint and smaller toys.

I can't even get into Victorion. Normally I'd be all over it but there's just so much they could have done to differentiate it from the retools. Betatron is just a spit in the face. I never had any attachment to the Combiners besides Bruticus, but Superion and Menasor and Defensor really got me into them. If they put work into Computron it could easily have been one of my favorites, just going off of how the colors look on Betatron here.

 

Can't say I like the redeco's molds for Victorion, much less the crazy colors. What I do like about it are the new head sculpts, the new combiner feet, and the very cool weapons combining into that giant gestalt sword.

 

Ankle tilts are fine and all, but can we get a few more ratchet detents in the hips? Otherwise, she'll be standing upright on my shelf, just like all of my other CW figures - rendering the ankle tilt moot.

 

Wait, it WASN'T required that I buy the lifetime purchase plan for transformers? DAMMIT!

lol