War For Cybertron: Earthrise Speculation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Vector Oracle, Oct 1, 2019.

  1. Windsweeper II

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    Not teal enough.
    But I'd love to see it.
     
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    Optimus Prime's countless corpses...
    maybe into g1-ified movie bonecrusher
     
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    Cybertron Brushguard?
    Cybertron_Brushguard_toy.jpg
    Here's someone who badly needs a new toy.
    And he's teal :D 
     
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    oh shit my childhood boy! I love brushguard hell yea! him and overhaul! fun fact cybertron overhaul was gonna be trailbreaker....yea I'm glad he wasn't mr forcefield
     
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    Will the Throttlebots still be cute without their chibi proportions?
     
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    I'm just realizing, ER prime is a combination of Siege and SS 38 Prime, the wheels and grill end up in the same place as SS 38. ALw5srA.jpg nycc-2019-transformers-earthrise (126)__scaled_800.jpeg

    The only parts coming from Siege are the feet, knee and outer Leg. The extra joint I noted may be just used to stabilize the new calf
     
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    It almost feels like for the first time since I can remember when, Hasbro is actually building from their past engineering of figures. Instead of starting at ground zero every time they do a figure, they are now looking at the previous iteration and taking clever ideas or smart techniques and incorporating them into the new figure. This has the benefit of saving them engineering money and time while simultaneously offering the opportunity to refine and improve something that worked well the first time.
    Why this hadn't been done before now is anyone's guess.
     
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    Yeah it’s almost as if they are taking a incremental research approach to things, which is a good thing if you ask me.
     
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    I would like an ER needle nose. His jet isn't too cybertrony so he would fit in the line
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    or you could make him super earthy why do the seekers have to be the only jetformers in every line huh? there's other jetformers that exist hastak >:[
     
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  10. orangeitis

    orangeitis All orange, all the time. Looks infectious.

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    I personally think it's the perfect chance. They have the same two-wheels-per-foot design that Runamuck has, and since Runamuck will be in Earthrise with that same design, it'd make sense to release characters that can share Runamuck's engineering.
     
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    But how do you retool a dump truck and a Jeep from a car huh >:[ take that orange man
    Couldn’t chase/freeway be an easy runamuck retool since they are both “generic car” while goldbug and searchlight could be retools?
     
  12. Nickster563

    Nickster563 Anymore questions you wanna ask?

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    And you don't necessarily need to get rid of the previous iterations like siege prime because its an earlier version of him on cybertron
     
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    I didn't say "retool", I said "shared engineering". They'd almost necessarily have to be new molds. If they're of similar size to Runamuck, maybe they can even share some parts. But they probably wouldn't be retools.
     
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    Doesn't matter if they're retools or share some engineering, as long as we get all of themn that's what truly matters;) 
     
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    Hopefully they have one in the works, from the proposed vs. pack. Also hoping they do a proper Quake update while they're at it.

    Uh, there's an Apeface figure coming up.. and we just got Siege Jetfire, and Whisper and Stormcloud, and half of Skytread is a jet.. PotP had Darkwing and Dreadwind, TR had the earlier Targemaster jets, Blitzwing, Sky Shadow, there were Aerialbots in the line before that, etc.
    I agree that the others don't get nearly as much attention as they should, but suggesting that we only get the Seekers for jets in each line is misleading.
     
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    I think they could still make him cybertronian since the line technically takes place in space and for earth decepticon jets they could bring in the predators maybe?
     
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    But I really really like that jet and I want more non seeker jet representation >:[ all we got was sky fire and sky in sky tread. We need more cons to back up starscream! We need them all!

    What’s wrong with g1 beast machines quake hybrid? Can we get a real beast machines quake someday?
     
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    I don’t know if it’s speculation or just what I’m hoping for but......

    battle masters:
    More the original target masters

    deluxe:
    Backstreet.....just so we can say.....
    sureshot
    Pointblank

    Voyager:
    Snapdragon
     
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  19. Windsweeper II

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    I am in total support of this.
    Needlenose is such a nice guy.
    G1-toy_Needlenose.jpg
    He totally saved Spinister even though he was terrified of the Autobots.
    And he would have saved Windsweeper if Thunderwing had let him.
    And he gave a big speech to rally support for the Decepticon cause. He's such a nice guy.
    He looks great too.
    Such an awesome F-16 alt mode. I'd love a new toy of him.
     
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  20. Joseph Joestar

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    What if Needlenose gets retooled from siege starscream mold? I mean it looks right on him. I even saw a custom like that, one time.