Pre-ordered Cyclonus. He looks great and I'm looking forward to seeing more movie stuff. Scourge seems perfect so we're already 2/3 there as far as I'm concerned with the Decepticons, only Galvatron needs to deliver now.

 

I preordered Rattrap and Blackarachnia. Hoping we see Silverbolt in a year.

Will likely pick up Megs and Primal, but will wait for reviews of those two first.

 

I finally thought of what Vertebreak’s face reminds me of..

 

Yikes. Now I want it.

 

Reminds me of the old BW Basics. Love it

 

Just want to post and say I totally called it with Blackarachnia not having an all black “alternate head”—that part is definitely a pre tool piece for some other repaint, not a bonus part.

 

pretty much everything looks awesome   cyclonus will be a unicron trilogy custom for me. not sure exactly who but someone.

 

Vertebreak is a Dracorex! Cool!

 

Fossilizers attached as bony horrorshow armor and limbs on mechanical dudes is the dumbest shit.

I absolutely love it.

 

I went ahead and put in pre-orders for almost all of Kingdom wave 1 except for Core Optimus Prime. I went ahead and pre-ordered Warpath but I'm still on the fence on him since the red card Generations release is still a pretty good figure. But this way I'll end up having on on pre-order in case he was to sell out later on.

But I was pretty happy with all of the Kingdom figures that were officially revealed. The only little thing I have a small complaint about is the sculpted hair detail on Primal might be a bit too detailed it's not a deal breaker in the end. What I'm actually looking forward to the most are the Fossilizers. I never would have thought of transforming dino-skeletons so it's a nice change. I know Dinozaurs did something similar but I was not much into toys at that time when they were in stores so I was not as familiar with them. From my point of view, they remind me of the 80s Bone Age line and I loved every single one of those releases.

 

Haha yeah they're correct in those ones. Was referring to this shot

 

I don’t really buy mainline transformers since switching to MP...have been tempted a few times, but damn...Polar Claw might bring me back for one! He was unexpected!

 

Who is the critter Megatron has on a chain? Digging the aesthetic.

-A.S.

 

Son of a.... I actually passed on him because of those fists and his knees... didn’t see better pics until now and just..... well fine. Guess I’ll wait for a mainline release.

-A.S.

 

Dunno.... honestly I think it would be surprising if it DIDN’T transform... like maybe that’s one concept the Bay movies added that made a lot of sense: everything transforms in some way.... it’s just sort of how it is and nobody thinks twice about it. Oh, your lawn chair transforms into a lawnmower? That’s efficient and practical. Coffee pot transforms into a blender? Got your morning joe and your afternoon smoothie/margarita covered. Space ship turns into a big robot? Why not? It doesn’t stop at little vehicles / robots, right? And to be fair, the idea of the Ark transforming into a robot is a GREAT idea that came from Transformers Animated - sure, he was Omega Supreme in that one, but even as a new character, I really enjoy the idea and play value of having a big space ship that converts to a massive robot. All around, it’s a win. I just hope they don’t go all “chibified” or “balloon” proportions for the ship mode like you used to get in the late 80s/90s action figure vehicles...

-A.S.

 

I think the ark should have been either a titan playset or a haslab exclusive massive playset

 

Who is Apollux, and why are they credible (not being snarky! I don’t know them and don’t know their relationship to Hasbro.)

-A.S.

 

Not gonna lie I was kinda hoping the Ark wouldn\'t transform into a giant robot and that we could just get a nice Ark ship with all the budget put into gimmicks and details and paint. Ah well. Still gonna buy it.

 

Vertebreak? As in RiD15 Vertebreak?