Listings for 2023 Legacy and Velocitron Wave 2!

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Jtprime17, Jun 24, 2022.

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    I mean Hasbro hinted that the muscle car Junkion will be made into Lockdown or at least will be inspired by him in a way. It only makes sense for the car to be the Voyager Junkion.

    Also, unrelated but Axelgrease is probably a new mold since modular figures don't get retools released in the same mainline.
     
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    Dirge is short packed
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    That’s just for case assortments. Most online places will get solid cases. No worries. People should still preorder as soon as it goes up.
     
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    I'm immediately preordering Dirge. Thrust needs his friends
     
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    Eh. I've got Pulse Premium. I'll be fine.
     
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    Leader Dreadwing, oh boy. And Bludgeon finally.  
     
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    Curious to see how Bludgeon will turn out since he is a retool of Tarn, who already has several design elements from Bludgeon.
     
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    Only 1 SS86 Dinobot this year? Crazy!
     
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    I'm holding out hope for an SS86 Swoop in 2024.
     
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    What\'s PR? 
     
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    It means "package refresh".
    Meaning that a figure from one of the previous lines is getting repackaged for a current line, sometimes with slight deco changes (like Legacy Soundwave).

    In this case it's Dirge recieving a PR because it was so hard for many of us to find him and Ramjet during Earthrise, same with Thrust. Ramjet has a PR coming someday (not specified yet). Currently Thrust is the only one who has not received a listing for a PR.
     
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    During the stream when Axelgrease was mentioned during the pipeline segment one of the guys (I think Ben) said to have fun guessing what he is and then Mark said “or who he is?” with some emphasis on “who”. Probably safe to say Axelgrease is the musclecar and a Lockdown mold as we know that they keep up with some of these threads now and see the predictions. Mark has also been giving hints towards stuff in the future with this line so either this was his way of letting us know Axelgrease = Lockdown, or he has decided to just mess with us now.
     
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    Ehh... Hasbro cares about scale nowadays so it's likely that Axlegrease isn't Lockdown since Lockdown is very tall. Unless Lockdown is based on the Earth Wars design it's unlikely that the muscle car will be Lockdown.

    It could also just be that (if Axelgrease is indeed the muscle car) Axelgrease's design was inspired by Lockdown. I think it's very unlikely for Hasbro to size a Lockdown down.
     
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    I'd be happy to be wrong, but I'm thinking Strongarm will be the Elita/Minerva retool, as:
    * Minerva being an exclusive, it would (might) be the first mass-retail rework of the mold.
    * The light-bar parts are already included, thanks to Minerva.
    * The legs, especially the boxy shins and slipper-shaped feet, already look similar to RID Strongarm, more so than it ever looked like the original designs of Elita-1 or Minerva.
     
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    The chances of Strongarm and Shadowstriker being new molds are very high now, since they are in Wave 4 and the alleged redeco figure is Detritus from Buzzworthy Hound.
     
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    Nothing said yet no.
     
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    Seems like this is one wave right? Only one voyager and 5 deluxe in the first wave matches Velocitron. 2 leaders is surprising if it’s one wave but who knows?

    I really hope we get some details on the Amazon exclusives for this year and some more concrete info on Buzzworthy stuff for the year.

    @Jtprime17 do you have an estimated date for Medix in Selects.
     
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    Surprised RoTB Primal's gonna be leader class. I wonder if that means a voyager+ or a regular big boi...
     
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    Armada Megatron I am going to guess will be really good or really mediocre. Given how the modern line has been, I am most anticipating seeing how that turns out. My gauntlet for last year was 86 Ironhide to see how they could pull it off. I was mostly impressed. Armada Megs is the it-bot (or it-con) for me this year.

    Blitzwing package refresh? Hmph. Would have thought he didn't sell that well. Was hoping to see him on clearance, honestly. I'd consider that a low-point of the modern wave. I'd rather they work on a TFA Blitzwing sooner and forget this one.


    100%.
    I am definitely curious if these will be new molds or repaints or what. I would hope Strongarm gets to be a female bot made of car parts, rather than another waifu bot scrunched up inside a shell.

    Curious to see also how they do Brawn. Not a character I particularly care about. But IMHO Bad Cube and FansToys have set a really high standard for what is possible. HasTak has upped the ante on some of these in the 86 line. Arms folded, eyebrow raised from me.

    Gotta wait so long to see Ratchet? Hmph.

    No Thundercracker repaint for Armada SS? Sad. Dreadwing and Dirge are maybe enough blue jets this year?

    And I gotta say… why Dirge? Of the three coneheads, Thrust was always the coolest one with the vertical lift. But never had one ever in the day. Never saw one during the Target exclusive days. I know there are these store exclusives. Why not, dunno, paint the mold purple with a different head and call it "Throost?" Or even better, make a Slipstream from it?