IGN Reveals Kingdom Ark, Galvatron and Scorponok!

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  1. Chefprime

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    I think the OG scorp looks better. To bad. I had high hopes. Still will get it
     
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    Scorponok's looking good, I think I'll wait to see if he gets a repaint as Sandstorm or Killer Punch though (if Puffer and Nightprowler have a chance, so do these repaints...)
     
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    I’m not too crazy about the Ark... am I the only one who sees orange Tidal Wave?

    But that Teletraan is really good and I do like the vehicle mode... this might be one that I get just for vehicle mode!

    I’m all in on Skorponok and Galvatron. I wasn’t sure on Galvy because the pics I saw had his legs looking a bit stumpy, but I’m in.
     
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    It is telatraan it says so in the press release.

    "The Autobot Ark is the largest of the three newly announced figures, coming it at an astonishing 19-inches tall and includes an Optimus Prime microfigure that fits inside. The Autobot Ark has a "G1-inspired Sky Spy accessory," and its chest piece is removable and converts into the "Autobot computer, TELETRAAN-1."
     
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    I heard preorders are live?
     
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    Teletraan screens would have looked so much better in blueprint.
     
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    I finally figured out why Scorponok feels so off to me. In the show, he was closed to a blue. However, this figure is more purple
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    I also find he's a little tubby. The original CG model had him taper much more at the waist, but this guy sorta just goes straight down, like a rectangle.

    Mind you, none of these are complaints. Just observations. I love this figure and I'm definitely getting him
     
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    I think it looks terrible. It looks like a really cheap toy. It does look like worthy a collectors shelf. Plasticness can be hidden in a vehicle shape because of the geometric lines, but animal altmodes, the gaps just scream at you, and to enable movement in animal altmode, the gaps get worse. The glossy red paint looks cheap, and do much detail not painted. I'll admit I've never dug beast wars at all, but this is objective, looking at it as a transformer. It's just not appealing. With beast wars, the robot is often just the animal mode made vertical or flipped on its side. It's not interesting....., we've now got to suffer, 2 more years of beast wars????

    Funny. How his legs aren't articulated just like titan scorpinok/black zaraks legs...., i guess scorpions legs don't bend???
     
  9. eliot

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    I'm sure repro labels are already working on it
     
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    Scorponok is cool... I might consider it even if I'm not a BW collector.

    Galvatron looks a bit better here than the pictures leaked but still not a must-have for me.

    The Ark... that emptyness on that top little thing looks just so cheap... it takes a lot out of the quality perception of this thing... and then the "wings" being completely empty gaps when very simple panels would have make it look 10x better... it's a case of "seriously Hasbro???".

    *sigh*... on well, I look forward to a proper video review, but as it is now, it's a pass and it will be hard to change my mind I think.

    I knew that they were going with giant robot, but still, it should have been considered to make it a proper playset for at least the new "core" class figures.
     
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    You're right, it's definitely not
     
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    Not till Friday.
     
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    But how does Teletraan-1 scale with Chip Chase?
     
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    It is a great hope that he eventually gets retooled (rather than just simply repainted) into one.
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    where's tracks? o_O 
     
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    You know its bad when Hasbro is getting scooped by itself.
     
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    At the listed 19" the ark is smaller then other titans, and those gaps in Ship mode are glaring.

    I was already not likely to pick it up, and it need to be super wow to change my mind. At $250CDN retail ..... just doesn't feel worth the money. I'm not sure on a TRU 20-25% sale I'd even bite.
     
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    I understand it says that in the press release. But LOOK at the toy then tell me how the chest looks any different than the bridge section of Alt mode. It wouldn't be the first time Hasbro attached the wrong product details to a press release.
     
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    Galvy's face sculpt in these new shots looks just phenomenal. Also, love that the cannon mode is blinged out with the matrix. :lol 
     
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    5pm est, right?