Not soon enough.  

 

Well, the G1 has connector ports in the fists, for exactly that reason. Perhaps we'll get new molds for the hands? Maybe trading articulated thumb/fingers in exchange to have enough room for a combiner peg without being ridiculously huge? (Piranacon does have larger fists than all other scramble-City teams, but they still look fine, proportion-wise)

 

If Star Convoy was modeled after Action Master Optimus Prime, it might have looked something like this.

 

Pretty much.

 

If you want to go bold, Alpha Bravo would make a perfect Overbite if reshelled properly.

 

You're a mad man (and correct)

 

As long as we can get them at Hasbropulse at acceptable prices, I am OK with this.
Combat Hero Megs for 30$ was perfectly OK. Ectotron for 60$ is... So-so. He has a Slimer and is a major retool plus new box, so I am forgiving. Star Convoy for 80$ though? That is just pushing it

 

Humm... Turn Cutthroat around so the robot legs are the manta's head,and use the robot arms as the manta legs, and I can see how it would work now!
I think if Nautilator is a Legends, they would rather use a mold that was made to turn into a gun, aka Bombshell

 

ectotron was initially $40 and then went to $50 once gamestop put it up, its never been $60. star convoy is also $80 because it is an import, not a domestic hasbro release, and that is takaras price for it. notice everywhere else has it for $95

 

That's why I'm telling people to be ready for $200+ if they are in fact doing the full Seacon team. There's a lot of new tooling and accessories that'll likely come with them, on top of a 6th member.

 

My prediction is between $150 and $200. This set will have a lot of retooling.

It’ll be interesting to see how well this set does because I’m betting if it does really well, it’ll open the door to Dinoking, a new Liokaiser and if you really wanna get crazy... Raiden.

I keep saying that Takara/Hasbro have been very unpredictable (in a good way) and anything is possible at this point. We’ll see...!

 

Seeing the new core Optimus mold now this would've been a great way to give us an Ultra Magnus that's retooled from POTP Optimus/Legends Star Convoy. All you really have to do is to repaint the Star Convoy core robot white then retool the trailer and boom you got yourself a good POTP styled Ultra Magnus. Yeah it wouldn't happen now with Siege Ultra Magnus out but still.

 

Siege Magnus was likely based on whatever PotP Magnus would have looked like had he won the poll.

 

True but still it would've been cool to see an Ultra Magnus that's retooled from the POTP Optimus mold all the same.

 

Based on UW sets in the past, 16,200 yen was Megatronia, which is the same regular price as the reissue Superion. If there’s another deluxe added in and a bunch of retooling, it’s gonna be around 200 minimum.

 

Can’t wait to see this full set in that glorious 1988 pink, green glory!

And like someone said earlier, yes please bring on Raiden, Road Ceasar and Dinoking!

 

I know I should be excited because I love the Seacons, but I am just tired of the same transformation for the torso (yes, I know the molds are different). I looked on my combiner war shelf and I've got 14 versions of the same mold. I mean I know it's first world problems and all....

1.) JuJiang Silverbolt
2.) CW Silverbolt
3.) UW Silverbolt
4.) G2 Silverbolt
5.) CW Cyclonus
6.) UW Cyclonus
7.) CW Scattershot - single release
8.) CW Scattershot - gift set release
9.) UW Scattershot
10.) PW Hun-grr
11.) Botcon Sea Clamp
12.) Botcon Silverbolt- ie CW Silverbolt with some stickers
13.) Testshot of Sea Clamp
14.) Testshot of Scattershot

 

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From the latest Figure King, Star Convoy was originally developed / originally considered for one of the final products of Legends. Says that each company is independently developing mail order figures that are jointly being made available in Generations Selects.

A-Convoy (the Armada Convoy figures shown previously) is also being considered for Generations Selects.

 

It also mentions they’re not exactly sure how Turtler will be released (I imagine via box set with the other Seacons or individually).

 

Of those 14, more than *half* were your decision to buy the same thing twice. Including stuff that "fell off the truck" or isn't even an official Hasbro product.

Clean that list up:

1.) Silverbolt
2.) Cyclonus
3.) Scattershot
4.) Hun-Grr
5.) Sea Clamp

Much better. And that's even giving you the argument that Hun-Gurr and Snaptrap are "retools" of the Silverbolt mold. Which is laughable considering, at best, it has similar bot arms and legs. And Snaptrap is even further removed from the jet mold.

So in the long run, four uses of the same jet mold (even with minor tooling) is nothing. Especially when people still routinely drool over the prospect of buying the same Seeker mold three times over.

Road Ceaser seems like a great candidate for a boxed set since that torso bot would need to be bigger than a Voyager but not a Leader to pull off that torso + arms mode. I was hoping Takara Godbomber having CW ports at his knees was a hint they were experimenting with that type of figure.

Who knows, maybe the Seacons are testing the waters. If a combiner team based on retools sells well enough as part of the Selects line, maybe they'll be more willing to tackle the work it'd be to make a true Liokaiser or RoadCeasar torso.