Toy Fair 2012 Hasbro Event Live

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Tony_Bacala, Feb 11, 2012.

  1. Karhukjnsi

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    So is Sinnertwin with his objection, you with yours, and me with mine. It doesn't warrant being brought up as if it was unknown.
     
  2. mirarage

    mirarage Agent of Primus

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    All three are 'not' prime toys.
    While they are being released under same cyberverse banner,
    all three are missing the word prime on the package.
    All prime & non-prime cyberverse figs will be released together from now on.
     
  3. Anguirus

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    Well I'm going from buying five Deluxe/Voyager Autobots to zero. Maybe one on a whim. You know, some of us like sets of things.

    I also wish I'd known that Leadfoot was a dead release or I probably wouldn't have bought Roadbuster, maybe not even Topspin. Next time Hasbro releases two of a thing and announces the third, I'll consider that a lesson learned.

    Can't wait for the false analogy someone will now make between stuff that has been announced and stuff that's pure speculation. Any minute now...
     
  4. Yubarules77

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    still... whats the reason for different molds on FE bulkhead, cliff, and others...????
     
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    That's exactly what I was getting at.

    There's no reason to think a Movie Soundwave is meant to be Prime when there's two other Movie toys in the set.
     
  6. Anguirus

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    ^ Not everyone has seen the packaging pics, and even if they have, it's a very subtle difference.

    And considering that the Legion Soundwave repaint is in Prime colors, it's still reasonable to think that he's meant to tide people over till a proper Prime Cyberverse Soundwave comes out. Whenever that will be.
     
  7. Methos

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    Well you have to keep in mind that the 40 gen will be across the deluxe,voyager,and cyberverse lines in addition to repaints of new and old molds from other lines..........mostly older molds.
     
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    I thought he was supposed to match the colours of the previous 2 Blue satellite Soundwave Deluxes... I also would have thought that if not for cancellation they'd have made a Blue Deluxe car too after they'd done the black one - possibly as a boxed set.
    But then I've been a little surprised there's no alt colour WFC Soundwave toys as yet.

    I'm still wondering if their will even be FOC Voyagers - as much as it would make sense for Grimlock to be one... if they were going to do it wouldn't Optimus, Megatron and Onslaught be Voyagers too ?

    I'm not sure they count Cyberverses as part of any Generations count even if they did issue something similar to the RTS Legends in 2012/2013 and so far Cyberverse toys only include Movie & Prime themes.

    I would imagine up to a quarter or a third of that 40 count might be repaints/reissues though - I'll agree with that.. and that might not be a bad thing if they want to use those moulds that have an as yet unused alternative head some more (like Kup). I'm sceptical that G2 Optimus as Scourge/Nemesis Prime or Warpath as a Decepticon character will ever get made though.
     
  9. Methos

    Methos ...Hail Megatron

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    Yeh they are kinda crappy at times when it comes to mold choices for repaints.

    I said the Cyberverse line because it would be the most fitting for some of the smaller bot/con figures to release to with the Scout class now gone.



    As for Voyagers in the Cybertron line,it's not surprising the lack of a voyager figure. Though if they did come out with Dinobots the voyagers would be the best scale to release in.


    As for the future in Prime they did say a combinder team of constructicons would be a the show at some point this year I think,so we mite get a figures of them.
     
  10. Tikin

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    Blue is far from exclusive to Prime Soundwave, esp. considering it's more of a G1 dark blue instead of Prime's lighter blue.

    I didn't even bring up the packaging, the sheer fact that there are two other movie toys in the set that you accept as the movie guys means there's no reason to assume that because there's a repainted Movie Soundwave in the set Hasbro's trying to pass him off as the Prime version.
     
  11. Anguirus

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    ^ Is passing Movie Soundwave off as Prime Soundwave better, or worse, than no Soundwave at all?

    You know as well as I do that Hasbro's not going to have two Soundwaves in one assortment, so quit being obtuse. Putting Soundwave into the Prime assortment even though he is not labeled as Prime is a pretty clear message that we are going to have to wait a bit. He's not just around the corner, they didn't forget to show him off, this is what we're getting for now. Complete with a Vehicon gun reuse.