Siege Springer & Thundercracker and Studio Series Dropkick, Drift & Hightower in packging

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by payres, May 3, 2019.

  1. Jerrimus

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    At least thundercracker is packaged with the arms properly stretched out. Starscream’s already odd proportions were made to look much worse with the arms looking too short in the package. It’s the main reason I kept passing on him to be honest. It wasn’t helping his argument, with lots of folks being split on their thoughts of him to begin with.
     
  2. SG Unicron

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    I like the shades of blue on these guys.
     
  3. [Wing_Saber-X]

    [Wing_Saber-X] Takara Fanboy Collector

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    Wait. Is Drift\'s copter mode horribly mistransformed again as per the normal Hasbro standards? Lmao. 
     
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  4. JockerStudio

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    Wait, where is the highter's tail placed in the package? I didn't see it.
     
  5. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    I'm feeling a mighty need for 'Cracker now I've got 'Scream. This could be the first Seeker Trio I actually want to complete since MP3/6/7.
     
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    Lazerwave My Most Prized Treasure

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    I think I can see the hole where scrapmetal's peg is suppose to go.
     
  8. Jtprime17

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    You can see it poking out right under the Takara Logo.
     
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  9. SunSwipe5

    SunSwipe5 Twin Hellion Masters Of Jet Judo

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    I have Springer and TC preordered at HasPulse.
    Pulse has Springer as a July release and TC as a December release o_O 
     
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  10. Ravage101

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    Pretty excited about my pre-purchase order of Springer. I can see where there might be some issues in comparison to the generations version. Honestly, for now the Gen-Springer still looks more superior to me. Siege Springer does not seem really clean in his alt modes. The way the designers handled the sword looks pretty clumsy. Cool that we get two swords out of the deal but the storage for these weapons in car mode is like; "what?!" Siege Springer does not appear to be a solid action figure like Gen-Springer. However, because the new siege figures have some impressive engineering I am expecting that Siege Springer will be a hell of a lot easier to transform, and more fun to transform, hopefully with out all of the headaches of Siege Springer.
     
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  11. payres

    payres Well-Known Member

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    There is some considerable confusion in this matter. Robotkingdom is where I first saw them in separate waves.

    Generations 2019 Siege of cybertron Voyager Wave 3 set of 2 (STARSCREAM, SPRINGER). Preorder. Start Shipping on 1st July 2019.

    Generations 2019 Siege of cybertron Voyager Wave 4 set of 2 (MEGATRON, THUNDERCRAKER). Preorder. Start Shipping on 1st October 2019.

    EE now shows the case with them in together as cancelled.

    Transformers Generations Siege Voyager Wave 3 Case - Entertainment Earth

    and lists them separately

    July Transformers Generations Siege Voyager Wave 3 Revision 1 - Entertainment Earth

    July Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Springer - Entertainment Earth

    October Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Thundercracker - Entertainment Earth

    BBTS list Thundercracker for May Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Thundercracker

    and Springer for June

    Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Springer

    If it helps, the original prediction/rumours for this year said FOUR Voyager cases
     
  12. Nevermore

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    TFSource lists Springer for June and Thundercracker for July:

    Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Class Springer

    Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Voyager Class Thundercracker

    ToyWiz lists Springer for July and Thundercracker for August:

    Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Springer Voyager Action Figure WFC-S38 (Pre-Order ships July)

    Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Thundercracker Voyager Action Figure WFC-S39 (Pre-Order ships August)
     
  13. Capperclawed

    Capperclawed I'll clean ur pool

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    Holy cow and i thought that the way they folded Rampages' head in his box looked funny, man is High tower an absolute mess, dude looks like a car crash got boxed.

    BUT

    With how high quality the engineering of the studio series line is, that investment has to go somewhere. Im happy that Hightower looks like a total mess, and alone i would never be intersted in this dude, but to me the messy look tells me that the combiner is going to be just incredible. Hightower is a part of Devestator, thats his defining character trait. Sort of like how Roadtrap and Battleslash were great little robots, but their main thing was the Battletrap duocon. Hightower is just a part of a big dude who also has a robot mode.

    If anything, I'm loving how monster-y all the individual bot modes for these guys are. With the variable sizes and and designs this crew is going to make for some great group shots. very few of them have a humanoid design (Looking at you, Scrapper), I'm getting an almost Abominus vibe from the bot modes.

    I dont know, im just really excited.
     
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  14. BidoofdudeofOz

    BidoofdudeofOz The Stench of Discovery

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    Typically it is an external photographer who is not a part of the design team taking the shots. They will be given the figure, no instructions and just kind of have to work it out themselves. Much better than it used to be in Universe, early Generations now though.
     
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  15. Sportimus

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    Is Drift the same mold as AOE drift and is Dropkick a repaint of Shatter?
     
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    No. Drift is the same as Helecopter Dropkick and Dropkick is a new mold
     
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    Both of these guys look great. I prepurchased Springer from Pulse so hopefully they\'ll send him out at a decent time. It\'s weird that they gave Thundercracker the shit-eating grin instead of Starscream. I\'ll probably switch the heads like a lot of other folks. This will also be the first time I try to get a full group of Seekers.
     
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  18. Nevermore

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    AOE helicopter Drift was a Voyager (2011 Voyager size, to be precise) and a retool of DOTM Skyhammer. Unless Hasbro actually perfected mass displacement, there's no way they could release him as a Deluxe in 2019. :) 
     
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  19. Aigis

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    I want all of these :drool: 
     
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  20. kwanzaabot

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    I feel like TC should have a dog.

    Battlemaster with puggle altmode when, Hasbro?
     
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