San Diego Comic Con 2018 - Transformers Generations Images

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Onslaught24, Jul 18, 2018.

  1. G1Prowl

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    I was thinking more from an OCD perspective, nekkid Magnus looking identical to Prime, and a potential Delta Magnus/Magna Convoy release.
     
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    I think Ironhide's a deluxe, so he'll probably be head and shoulders shorter than Generations Springer. Then again, there have been some tall deluxes.
     
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    That could very likely be the case, judging by that slight gap between the windshields and those hinges on the sides. Then again, that could just be where the head goes.

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    something else to note, the truck mode has slightly matrix shaped panel behind the windshield, bot mode doesnt. [​IMG]
     
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    Oh yeah, I've been speculating this since we saw them at SDCC. :lol 
    Oh wow, didn't see that before. Nice! REALLY hope he has a Matrix. If not, I bet a 3rd Party will rectify that. :lol 
     
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    only oother thing is, its most likely the neck plate, nowhere else for it to go otherwise. looking forward to this series
     
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    Is it at all possible that Optimus' head flips back into the torso for vehicle mode, similar to Classics Voyager Optimus Prime?
     
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    as the panel behind the windows is consistently seen in vehicle mode ond not robot mode, im guessing the chest hinges and space are for transformation. would be cool if he did somehow get a matrix
     
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    That gray panel must be the neck plate, but someone on this forum quoted a rep saying the opening chest was for the head to fold inside. Both can't be true...right? The neck does not appear to be sitting on a gray chunk.
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    Okay I figured it out!

    The false grill is the reason for the backpack, it folds over the top of the truck, windows open. The gray piece is part of the double hinge.
    In Bot mode the false grill compacts into his backpack with the hinge.

    I was wondering where that false grill goes.
     
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    most likely but you'd also would need to replace the legs
     
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    They completely reworked her torso to remove the combiner parts. So no, parts swapping is more than likely impossible.
     
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    I have no understanding why hasbro would gut chromia, the engineering was done and ready, it was right there, there is no reason to spend extra money in removing that functionality, if you are going to have half of a female combiner, why not make the other half?! This could of been the most unified combiner with all of the limbs the same, it was so easy, maybe that's why hasbro didn't do it, because it was too easy, too cost efficient. I just makes no sense, it boggles the mind.
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    So have we SEEN in hand pics of Chromia to see that she was reengineered to take out the combiner portion? That seems like a LOT of work and money for no gain.
     
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    In-hand no but the production version would have to be pretty radically different from the protos seen at SDCC to accommodate one, her backpack folds up much tighter to her back with a very telling gap, it seems she also transforms a bit differently.
    She lacks the double waist twists of Moonracer/Novastar as well as the front torso transformation hinge for head stowing. Nor does it appear that her feet form the car hood/front like the POTP Fembots (in fact I'm a little puzzled as to how it is formed because it looks like a solid piece on the proto), and it seems her leg wheel pods can rotate 180 for car mode.
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    Plus there's no fist/foot port on the front of that car mode.
    And if, as I suspect from how close to the G1 cartoon vehicle mode her longcar mode is (both Moonracer & Novastar's are quite different to their 'toon car models), she was originally going to be another limb for Elita-1 in POTP before it's curtailment then this could show less expense than you think being based on design work already done like a lot of the more economical engineering re-uses we're seeing currently in generations lines.
     
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    So I think we're looking at shared engineering more than an actual remold then. Wouldn't be the first time. I'm not as invested as I had no intention of combining them anyway, but this does indeed suck for all those who DID want to combine them.







    Wait...



    How different in color is Takara Moonracer to Hasbro Moonracer? If the heads attach the same way, we may have found an out.
     
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    Just did some comparisons with the gallery here and the above pics, there doesn't appear to be ANY part of Chromia that matches 100% with any part of Moonracer. Either they remolded every square inch of this thing or it is simply shared engineering.
     
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    Yeah, it's definitely not 100% shared engineering as removing the combining gimmick has put less demands on the transformation and simplified it.
    Plus in line with Warden's stated ethos for WFC her articulation has been upped, she's got pinned elbows over the POTP Fems' balljoint elbows and looks to have actual bicep rotation that they lack, her ankles seem to have proper articulation rather than as an artefact of being transformation joints, and judging by the screws in her forearms possibly an upped parts count.
     
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    agreed and its what people that actually saw it at sdcc have been saying, but ya know how people on the boards are, everything is a remold :rolleyes: