Transformers Haslab Victory Saber Revealed! Crowdfunding Campaign Live!

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Smokie, Aug 27, 2021.

  1. DocSeth81

    DocSeth81 Well-Known Member

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    that’s a great idea
     
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  2. DubV

    DubV Lighten up, Francis.

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    Hell, I’d pick up the commander and cores both so my DS doesn’t have a bare chest and I still get to display the critters
     
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  3. WishfulThinking

    WishfulThinking The world has moved on...we've always said.

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    I wouldn't want them any larger than Core Class. Honestly, I'd be fine with Siege cassette "Micromaster" sized, TBH and just toss them in with a Commander Class release.
     
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    I think building off this idea it should be like this. Given we're getting Star Saber as a proper Brainmaster, they should use this opportunity to redo Road Caesar. Blacker can be a Leader class figure coming with Pipo and Boater (finally finishing the Victory Micromaster Rescue Team), along with his own Brainmaster and weapons. Then we can have Braver and Laster at Voyager price point like SS86 Hot Rod and come with extra parts to fill out the price point.
     
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  5. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    I like the way you think.

    I really hope VS is a gateway into Japanese G1 updates. It's a well of opportunities without drifting very far at all from the traditional style.
     
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  6. Robomaster726

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    Agreed. We're getting Minerva (which I won't be surprised if it's a retool of Elita frankly, but kind of hope it isn't so we get Nightbeat too)
     
  7. PloverNutter

    PloverNutter TFW2005: We're buying them but we don't like them.

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    Based on leaks Elita was a pretool of Minerva. The bot mode definitely looks more like Minerva to me but hopefully they rework the alt mode to look more like a real car and not a futuristic dune buggy.
     
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  8. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    Yeah, Minerva is definitely coming from Elita given Elita's bot and alt mode really don't resemble her G1 design but do look a lot like Minerva's.
     
  9. Rodimus Prime

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    I'd like that just to get the motovators.
     
  10. Bob Schoonover

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    I feel like the brain master in this set will set the size for the BMs if they do Road Caesar. I wouldn't expect any of the three to be appreciably larger than Saber in robot mode, even if they end up bulkier to be larger in combined mode
     
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    Honestly I think Blacker would have to be a bit larger, but not by a whole lot given that he's going to make the torso and arms without it looking too oddly proportioned. That, or somehow his accessories consist of something he merges with to become much of the torso skeleton akin to how they're doing Menasor in Legacy. But that could possibly bump him up to Commander price point. And somehow I think that'd piss off people more than Rodimus being Voyager sized figure with an accessory to fill out the price point.
     
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    Blacker would definitely have to be bigger, mostly because the size of the Road Ceasar's component bots can't possibly make an accurate Combined bot if they're the same size. He's one of those bots that nobody will ever be happy with because his design defies the laws of physics and needs to compromise somewhere to exist. Based on the design, they're gonna have to do something inaccurate with Blacker to get a proper Road Ceasar, though it's hard to say what direction they'd take it in...
     
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  13. orangeitis

    orangeitis All orange, all the time. Looks infectious.

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    Because I don't want them to be accessories. I want them to be full figures that just -happen- to interact with Deathsaurus' breastmaster gimmick.

    Just like how I want every "-master" small figure to be done.
     
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    idk how you could really do it with titan masters
     
  15. orangeitis

    orangeitis All orange, all the time. Looks infectious.

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    Just enlarge them to Battlemaster size, stripe their Headmaster functionality, give them articulation and weapons/accessories, and the human & Nebulan likenesses of the characters they represent from the Sunbow cartoon and Marvel comics. Basically separate figures than the ones that come with their Cybertronian partners. I'd do it in a line that has other human characters though so they wouldn't be that out of place.

    Sorta like the style of these:

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  16. Dragonclaw

    Dragonclaw Briefly the owner of KB Toys

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    I ordered 2...so likely 1 set as the individual robots with them combined behind them...unless prices start going super crazy...
     
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  17. Rodimus Prime

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    Same with every other figure. I will transform some each time I dust
     
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  18. G.B. Blackrock

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    In other words, take away the functions that made them interesting in the first place, in favor of functions they never had.

    That would be a "no" from me.
     
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  19. WishfulThinking

    WishfulThinking The world has moved on...we've always said.

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    Yeah, I think I'm going to have to break away from that line of thought as well. I want my Headmasters to turn into heads, Targetmasters to turn into weapons, Powermasters to turn into engines, Brainmasters to reveal faces, etc. If Hasbro wants to revisit the Titanmaster single packs again, though, I wouldn't complain. I thought they were kind of neat.

    In a way, I think Pretenders might benefit from this approach more. Release a larger figure in the vein of Igaunus where the shell transforms into an alt mode. But create a cavity in each figure in which a Core Class robot of the same name can fold up into. That would allow for Hasbro to keep price points down on a riskier gimmick.
     
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  20. pegasusprime

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    hey guys no one have one left that wants to change it for the mp and other figures?