Generations Selects Star Convoy, Super Megatron & Snaptrap figures

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Paladin, Apr 4, 2019.

  1. WishfulThinking

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    I seriously doubt it but would never say never.

    But Star Convoy is still Optimus Prime. Super Megatron is still Megatron. Most people would say "who?" to a Grandus, followed with "pass".
     
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    To make you feel better I was supposed to fly back home during easter break to pick up all the Seacons, a bunch of Studio Series toys (i.e jet Shatter). Thanks to the Coronavirus I'm now stuck in my boarding school in Australia and I can't pick them up. I'm currently stuck with Turtler and Gulf.
     
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  3. G.B. Blackrock

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    .01% (One in 10,000) sound extremely generous to me.

    But, yes, nothing's totally impossible.

    Still, this is so close to a zero chance that I wouldn't be correcting anyone who said it WAS impossible.
     
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    Yea, the only engineering upscales from hasbro/Takara I can think of are
    Hasbro:
    Prime beast hunters abominus limb deluxes that can’t combine
    Prime beast hunters voyager Optimus v2
    Prime beast hunters voyager predaking v2

    takara:
    Movie legendary Optimus prime

    I would include earthrise starscream, but there are semi significant differences in how he transforms

    engineering upscaled are the exception not the rule
     
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    Can't believe we are getting Super Megatron. Just ordered Star Convoy through TF Express. This was the only reason I didn't get Star Convoy earlier, no Super Megatron.
     
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  7. WishfulThinking

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    Might also include Cybertron Supreme Starscream - although we don't really know if he was upscaled by Hasbro or downscaled by Takara.

    Universe 2.0 Galvatron was also downscaled from the original concept, although I'm not certain if that counts.

    It happens enough to not expect it but also not have one's mind blown when it DOES happen. Let's just say I'll be happily surprised if he is upscaled but not expecting it at all.
     
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    So if this is Super Megatron, what kind of superpowers does he have? Or is this a Super Shredder situation, where he gets mutated?
     
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    Galvatron is an interesting case. Whether or not it "counts" depends, of course, on what criteria one uses. For myself, I would say that the fact that the TR Galvatron mold already exists tips it over into the "less likely" column. It doesn't cost all that much to change plans before molds are actually made (as seems to have been the case with Universe 2.0 Galvatron).

    In fact, while there is presumably some savings in upscaling the engineering of a mold (vs. just making an all-new mold), I'd half-expect Super Megatron to be an all-new mold before I would have expected an upscaled TR Galvatron. The fact that TR Galvatron is being used at all argues against upscaling, to my mind.

    But, again, there's JUST enough precedent that it can legitimately be said to be possible. But definitely not enough that anyone should expect to see it happen on anything specific like this.
     
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    I know it's unlikely, but I am gonna be bummed if Super Megatron isn't upscaled from Galvatron. Being stumpy against Star Convoy would be so disappointing.

    Pretty sure when we got the semi-official romanization, it was stated or at least implied that you're still supposed to pronounce it with a hard "t". But of course romanizing and pronouncing fake Japanese names for English that usually reference other things is an inexact science at best.
     
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    There would either be two ways: Either they don't care (which IMO is a worse case scenario), or they have a clumsy way to buff up his height like telling you not to fold down his back feet for LG Overlord (the additional height was supposed to make him more in scale with Ginrai at the cost of stability). I don't think we've seen an upsacle of a mold in LG.
     
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    I've never actually had a problem having Overlord on high heels, and I'm cool with him being at eyeline with Super Ginrai. And yeah, I know an upscale is unlikely. tigatron2002 listed the few that have existed. For me it is a dealbreaker, that's why I'm hoping even if its futile.
     
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    I know that much, but I'm simply saying that Takara should continue releasing figures that they've revealed.
     
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    I’m glad we’re getting a super megatron figure and all but am I the only one who’s bothered by the scale difference with star convoy? I mean if he is a extensive remould of TR Galvatron he’s essentially a voyager class

    But then again I don’t know Jack shit about battle-stars so what the hell do I know ammiright?
     
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    Super Megatron being a remold is currently based on speculation. Plus he never really was seen squaring off against Star Convoy in any official The Battlestars artwork. Which is why I am not worrying since not everything has to be the same scale, and we have yet to hear anything about Ultra Megatron. :2c: 
     
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    it’s not speculation. We know he’s from TR Galvatron. The silhouette isn’t a concept of what it could look like. It is what it looks like. Like how Turtler’s silhouette was exactly how Turtler turned out and every time Takara has ever done a tease like this all the way back to the teases for every combiner for UW
     
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    Yeah, it is a TR Galvatron remold, personally I think they are gonna OS their design, they've done it before. (Evasion mode Optimus Prime from BB movie if your curios)
     
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    So is everyone gonna throw a fit when he’s voyager size and he not over sized? Because he’s not going to be. Megatron and Optimus are not required to be the same height. The entire Unicron trilogy, animated, the movie verse, even by the end of Prime. they were technically different heights but whoever was shorter held their own. Shoot it’s not like even God Ginrai could be as big as Overlord SGMF. Still held his own well.

    plus Star convoy’s core robot is well scaled and had to power up in his trailer to fight to get an edge. Certainly sounds like something from Japan to me.
     
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