Toy Fair 2018 - Power of the Primes Official Images

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, Feb 17, 2018.

  1. scottywan82

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    Also Amalgamous. And now I am worried they won’t see retail releases.
     
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    Alright I missed everything but I'll sum my thoughts:
    1) Really sad Firestar's just a Moonracer repaint. Still on the fence about getting either.
    2) Primal looks okay but I'd still pick the 3rd party version despite its faults. Then again I'm not interested in Beast Wars toy-wise so it's not like i was gonna pick up either to begin with.
    3) Abominus, congrats. You went from "maybe" to "must have".
    4) I'm not surprised Predaking is bad. I called out CW Devy for being bad for hollow plastic, subpar articulation, and huge gaps in paint apps. Visually it was serviceable but engineering wise it made the average CW gestalt look like gold. If both Devy and Predaking didn't have the executives going "make it bigger for larger profits" they might have had combiners that could have been rivals to the 3rd parties. In reality the only advantage they have is being affordable. A definite pass. I'd rather sell my kidneys and buy Feral Rex then consider the official one
     
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  4. deathzero23

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    Novastar = Moonracer? 
    Hmmmmmm..... :( 
     
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    Optimal Optimus Primal looks pretty darn good. I would have wished for a gorilla mode for the small Optimus component, even if it was as minimal as hunching the posture and swapping the heads, but I can work with big Optimal being the main show of the toy.

    Novastar looks nice to me, even if the changes from Moonracer are minimal. Gotta build up that Girlbot Squad!

    Predaking ... well... There's something off IMO, as if it's a more generic robot wearing a skin. Proportions feel off and it looks bland and boxy even compared the G1 toy or cartoon. I'll be interested to know how that waist area transforms, as I think it would go a long way if that midriff bit was shortened. Definitely needs a big sword and knuckle spikes. Regardless, I'll be happy to check it out and learn more once the set is released. Things like Feral Rex might look better, but that's also an idiosyncratic pain to actually deal with, and if CW Devastator is anything to go by, Predaking will at least be accessible.
     
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  6. Sy-Rein

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    Predaking's crotch is Divebomb's bird "tail", with the centre section of DB's backpack forming the abdomen and waist of PK.
     
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    I own nothing beastwars (and even passed on this original figure a few times at the thrift), but the stock photos of Optimus Primal actually have me somewhat interested. That may fade in a few days.
     
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    Primal makes me sad. The mold is great but damn is it lacking paint. All that grey plastic on the robot mode chest looks so lame. They even molded his rifle in grey instead of orange.

    This could be such a great figure if it wasn't for the lack of painted detail. Fuck man, the one time we get a Leader class BW-figure and it needs paint Takara decides to not give a fuck anymore. What a waste. I'm surprised how much I like the Deluxe Primal though considering he turns into a box, but the robot mode is great.

    All in all a pretty depressing Toy Fair. Turns out I don't really care anymore when I know that this is all I will get, overpriced Hasbro-stuff I have to import, instead of a properly done version from Takara.
     
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    Optimus Primal looks good and fun!
     
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    :lol 
    Why would you type that in blue text.
    Of course that's exactly what it is:
    Warden felt Elita one needed a dedicated weapon.
     
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    So excited with all this G1 stuff coming no matter what others say im really happy to see it coming and getting it for my collection. The fembots look awesome and i can't to get those for sure.
     
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    For many years I've bought figures for my "CHUG" collection. Like many of us here, the goal was to have nice updated incarnations of Transformer characters I have loved since I was a little kid, and even some newer characters.
    I think that goal is actually really close to completed.

    Although I do like a lot of these new upcoming figures, I already have a good enough or better version of most of these characters, mostly by Hasbro, but some 3rd party ones too. Now I'm seeing these cool new versions of them and have no interest in buying many of them. It's kind of satisfying to see a collecting goal I've had for so long actually getting close to completed.

    If most of the new figures coming out were better quality and designs than older releases I'd stay stuck replacing my weaker old versions with even better ones, but we seem to get more simplified and cheaper looking versions for the most part.

    I can't wait to get Abominus, and I hope a good Seacons set comes later down the road too. Then my CHUG combiners will be complete too!

    All those years of assaulting my own bank account hunting down and buying so many figures a year, and now I will only be getting the occasional figure here and there, less and less often.

    I'm thankful to Hasbro and 3rd Party companies for making it possible to get to this point, and happy they keep making more cool versions of the characters for others to collect!
     
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    Hope Optimal Optimus can be a full figure without the Primal Backpack. What does the smaller Primal turn into?

    Oh and Warlord will not be getting replaced anytime soon. Even the boots are better than these and with how cheap Warlord is right now... Not to mention a much better size.
     
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    The beast mode can, robot mode is impossible since the Optimal Optimus head is inside the backpack of the Deluxe Primal.

    A spaceshuttle. Basically just a box with a cockpit.
     
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    I know this is just a CG render, not a picture of an actual toy, but holy moley does he look tremendous. WOW. If the actual figure looks this good, I could not ask for more.
     
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  16. Bass X0

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    His legs and arms are the same in both modes. That sucks. Its true to the original, yes, but the original had two more modes which fully transformed.
     
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    Well, I said I couldn't ask for more. A lot of people can and do always ask for more.
     
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    Now, to be fair, the tank mode was just the jet mode with the arms folded forward. We've seen on the prototype that his toy is able to achieve the jet mode anyway, so if anything it'll only be said tank "mode" that we may miss out on and only because this toy may lack wheels.
     
  19. Bass X0

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    Its not me asking for more, its a case of you settling for less of what we should have gotten. Granted the original didn't have a Optimus Primal figure, but it shouldn't have have lost two modes. It's not a 6" Titanium toy after all.

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    We have pictures of the actual toy though.