War For Cybertron: Earthrise Speculation Thread

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

  1. Iruini

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    I dunno, I feel like that wouldn't happen. also It's just kinda boring for me. but hey if you believe that's how it works more power to ya. I just want my post 87 guys to be finished along with a new perceptor and blaster along with a couple others. I dun care how I get em, just that I get em
     
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    Don't worry Erik, I'll save you! You can send that yucky ol Perceptor to me. ;)  :p 
     
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    There is a little bit of precedent. Hasbro released a bunch of Jabba stuff (desert skiff, palace playset, and a number of guard figures) right around the time the sail barge came out. I could see them doing something similar for Unicron.
     
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    You have great ideas!
    We really do need an actual Fracas instead of an easy repaint.
    Don't forget that a real Fracas would be an easy repaint that would actually be accurate for the partner to Artfire, who is certainly coming if Grapple is retooled into Inferno.
     
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    They can improve, but they shouldn't always do it when its not necessary.
    What we need most are toys for the rest of the Powermasters, Targetmasters and Headmasters.

    We still have Pointblank, Sureshot, Slapdash, Joyride, Doubledealer, Quake, Needlenose, Scoop, Quickmix, Landfill, Fangry, Horribull, Squeezeplay, Siren, Hosehead and Nightbeat who are without a WFC toy.
    They have priority over characters who already have a practically perfect toy.
     
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  6. Iruini

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    How do you do the powermaster gimmick in the 21st century? do you actually do the whole "slot a rectangle man into a boob and now the robot's spine unlocks" or do you do what the primemasters did and just have it be imaginary? I want the powermasters and thier tiny retanglemen but I kinda would rather have them take the prime master approach so the toy isn't just fucked without retangleman. also the retanglemen would probably be sold separately as "cassetes 2.0" probably right?


    I mean what we got as "fracas" is just nightstick, that's nightstick, concluding that he was packed with skywarp because skywarp is cyclonus
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    I could see power/god masters working fine without the actual person but would still add to the figure. I wonder if they could tweak the Titan masters by making them look almost the same but the legs do a split? Have the engine be on the back of the legs like Apeface but split then complete the engine with the back. Is that too many moving parts?

    There can be a slot and have a flap to cover the hole if you dont use it. Mixing and matching would be fun too.
     
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    I want the rectanglemen too, but having them necessary to unlock the transformation is just going to be annoying. Beter to have it be imaginary.

    That's not Nightstick either. He doesn't have a stick. It's just Firebolt in a different deco
     
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  9. orangeitis

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    IMHO, it would make more sense if they were Battlemaster-sized. First of all, they'd scale better with other WFC figures(remember, Rumble & Frenzy are about human size), and the Battlemaster price point would be able to afford more joints anyway. Just a thought.
     
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    At this point it's clear Hasbro/Takara can release a MP level voyager Optimus but choose not to.

    Hasbo: "There must be kibble!"
     
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    How do you figure? It would've been too expensive for them to put the ER mold at the Voyager price point.
     
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    With the news of the Mercenary Faction & the possibly rumors of upcoming figure. I wanted to try and make an updated list of possible figures. (I based some of choices for mercenary from the TFCG)

    Wave 2

    Deluxe: Sunstreaker, Lockdown, Alicon, Greasepit

    Voyager: Blaster, Skywarp

    Leader: Megatron, Double Dealer

    Wave 3

    Deluxe: Devcon, Deathlock, Bumblebee, Runamuck, Hot House

    Voyager: Quintessa, Inferno

    Leader: Octone

    Wave 4

    Deluxe: Tracks, Shrapnel, Needlenose, Airwave.

    Voyager: Quintesson, Straxus

    Leader: Mudflap

    Wave 5

    Deluxe: Trailbreaker, Jazz

    Voyager: Thundercraker, Sandstorm

    Leader: Blitzwing
     
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    An Octane leader could come with a converting tanker add on but as a Leader Class, what add on would Blitzwing come with?
     
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    An effects part football & scoreboard with 5mm posts from the episode "Triple Takeover". =3

    Edit: Also a 5cm tall coach human figure.
     
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    I might be late here but did anyone watch the Tonton review on YouTube of the Earthrise optimus prime figure review. Watched it the other day but was just checking to see if anyone seen it or hadn't which ever came first.
     
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    This is interesting. Still, we have credible sourcing for a deluxe TFTM character other than Hot Rod and some reasonable basis to guess Hot Rod is also an Earthrise deluxe. The generally accurate source described two TFTM characters done in Titans Return who were getting re-dos and specified one as not Hot Rod.

    All things considered, I lean towards Kup and Hot Rod. Excluding Legends Kup, Kup has never had a terribly animation accurate western release and is starting to feature in the IDW book.

    Hot Rod is prominent in the Earthrise cards, featuring not just a card of his own but appearing on 3 other cards by my count with a consistent new design.

    I think Hot Rod and Kup make sense as a duo to introduce chronologically before a full TFTM homage as they’re kind of a close knit pair in a lot of the prior lore and a solid cross sell to older collectors with the Quintesson.

    There’s also a good chance that their engineering will be used elsewhere if not released as straight redecos.

    I think Lockdown can and will be a Hot Rod retool. Kup is trickier given where we’re at but I think Dion is the way to go there as a Selects release. I believe Dion may have been based on Floro Dery’s very early preliminary Kup designs as Orion Pax was based on scrapped Ultra Magnus concept art.

    I’ll go one weirder and suggest maybe that in a unified continuity, Sentinel Major (Sentinel Prime from Animated) could be Dion.
     
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    I can see 2021(which is the time the Haslab Unicron will be released) being super heavy with some 86 movie figures.
    We need a new Galvatron, Rodimus Prime, Cyclonus, Wreck Gar, Kup, Arcee, Blurr, Gnaw, and Scourge that will fit into the War of Cybertron line.

    Plus it’s the 35th Anniversary of the movie too
     
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  18. KickCounterkick

    KickCounterkick Where's Legacy Ricochet at? Poor guy needs a break

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    Didn't catz hint at us getting an 86 character for Earthrise too? One that was done in Titans Return.
     
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    Skywarp, Thundercracker, Trailbreaker and Inferno would better be released as exclusives or GS's to make room for other molds in the mainline. But that's at least a moderately more interesting list than what we got in Siege save the last wave.
     
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    Umm I guess? I don’t know who or what is Catz