With Windblade, the Japanese thing apparently was only done to make her look "cool" or something, or maybe some weird justification of the fact the toy's hair fan is actually a removable weapon, I dunno. But there really isn't anything that made her have to be so outrageously Japanese in theme to the point of not letting the fans even choose if they wanted it in the first place, so it feels too much like Drift all over again. Now, for those other guys? Bludgeon kind of gets the nostalgia free pass due to the original Pretender shell, partly because of how ironic a guy named after an action of using blunt objects is usually associated with the warriors with curved swords, though he also must be a Samurai zombie/skeleton or have the motif of an undead warrior at the very least. Plus he got a katana at long last with the ROTF toy which I think everybody liked for the most part. Yoketron wasn't so much overtly Japanese as he was just the martial arts mentor archtype guy - Prowl himself actually isn't that much themed in that way by himself beyond the throwing stars, only when he has the armor sidecar accessory does he look like a Samurai. And nobody can talk shit about Prowl's deluxe - that thing was perfection in terms of everything you could want from a $12.99 toy. Probably because all the suck was funneled into the useless traffic light thing he came with.
I defiantly appreciate these new figures...my wallet on the other hand I think is hiding in another room. Galvantron, Hardhead and Skullcrunch..err smasher.... yes please. The Sentinel Prime is interesting. I'm not too familiar with the character outside the movie or Animated but that figure looks fantastic I'll be interested to see the price point of each of these, especially the extra heads
Maybe it's just me, but Windblade's face makes me think of Nijika: Which also seems to be influenced by kabuki.
I never cared for Bludgeon (or pretenders in general), dunno who Yoketron is, and didn't pay attention to Animated outside of getting Rodimus. I have, however, always been more of a comic fan.
If the 'early reveals' were it, I'm kind of disappointed. I thought we'd at least see an actual titan for Titans Wars.
I understand that they don't want to reveal everything planned for the year just yet, but the little taste they gave us just makes me want more.
It probably also makes sense that two of the things people are most excited about from Titans Return-- Fort Max and Powermaster Optimus -- are the things they are holding back. Biggest for last.
I thought this early preview meant that they would at least show something more this weekend. Maybe at least one cool figure each of the last two nights. Don't think they will do something on sunday night, will they?
I suspect they're holding off on announcing another Titan class set yet because Devy is still selling (and they have to be cognizant some will import the Takara version later this year as well, though I'm not sure how much that consideration factors in, if at all.) If I had to guess, I'd say we'd learn about PMOP before FortMax or whatever the Titan ends up being.
That's called doing smart marketing. You drive interest and hold people's attention for longer by doing it this way. Frustrates the consumers, but they know and we know we'll still be waiting with bated breath.
This is the most reveals we have ever gotten in the history of toy events in terms of toys coming out in at least 8 months from now. So I dont get the dissapointment. And while Fort Max will probably get a full reveal at the Toy Show early next year (like Devastator did), they did at least reveal/confirm that we would be getting him. That is incredible news. That's darkLiger for you, standing Defiant before the haters. I am also curious about the price point. We have had both triple changers and headmasters as voyager class TFs in the generations line before but never on the same toy. So I highly doubt these will be standard voyager class prices. I am expecting a pretty rough price hike where these will be at least 30$ each.
So I hear that Hasbro is consolidating the fiction and toy lines tighter together. I also noticed the current story coming from the TFCC on their Facebook pages set in Axiom Nexus is that different universal clusters are going dark. Is this confirmation that Hasbro is limiting the stories the TFCC can make to ones that tie into the current fiction? From not on we can only expect TFCC fiction that supports the world of the Combiners Wars and Titan Returns toy line?