Witness the mighty Hollowback Gorilla in his natural habitat Jokes aside, it's a decent looking figure. I'm still bummed about the lack of paint in some areas but at least they didn't slap too many foil stickers on him.
You can see Outback (one of the three leaked but officially unrevealed POTP toys) bottom left in the Predaking illustration. But who's the bot bottom right?
Also looks like there is a blue and yellow Jazz maybe the counterpunch we have been hearing about? Edit-or it’s just jazz
I'm pretty sure he does, as it was showcased before and you really just have to lay him down, flip the cockpit up, collapse the legs and that's it. I assume that they don't advertise it because they don't care.
Hasbro all but confirmed that what we know about from the leak is it, game over :-( They're making noises about it being planned, but to my eye there's far too many uncompleted sets in POTP for that to have been the original intention. Decepticon Jets, Fembots, Autobot cars. But the Primemasters are the most obvious ones: You don't make a big fuss about there being 12 Primes and then only release 8 of them to standard retail. Yes I know they're *probably* coming as exclusives but .... And that final wave.... You don't introduce TWO new toolings, starting another original G1 set (the small Pretenders) and seriously unbalancing the factions on the shells (3 Autobots vs 5 cons) when there's a money saving retool of an existing mould (Waverider from Cloudburst) out there which would complete the 88 first wave/Japan Pretenders and give a 4/4 faction balance (B&W version of the comparison image really brings out the moulded detail that Grand was Waverider recoloured) For my money the line's been sawn off early. Interestingly the leak said Predaking came with a Matrix and Enigma - so that detail has changed between leak and now, with him being packaged with, what looks like a decoy suit less, Solus Onyx Primal.
I'll be honest, Inferno, Cindersaur and Outback not showing up at Toyfair worries me. Yes I know we've seen the files for Inferno's box (Packaging Images And Bios For Transformers Power Of The Primes Elita-1, Inferno, Hun-Gurrr, Moonracer And Blast Off - Transformers News - TFW2005) but not the actual toy and we've seen nothing of the last two Legends since the leak.
They're being super slow with the toy reveals on purpose because most of the size classes only go up to wave 3. They didn't even officially announce most of the wave 2 toys until they were already out.
"Nova"star is the real story here, with her cardback showing EXACTLY all 3 wave 3 prime masters. Not 1 or 2 wave 3 with some throwbacks to an older wave, but ALL 3. It could mean Hasbro decided putting Jazz in the wave 3 Terrorcon lineup was stupid and bumped her into that wave. And since when has toyfair shown the entire year's worth of any toyline? With CW we knew previously about Superion and Menasor and toyfair only revealed wave 3: Defensor. This. I'm sure we will AT LEAST get the remaining toys from the leak. And with Predaking coming with the special Onyx Prime 'master, we're only missing 3 PMs, which could easily be a 4th wave.
On a more positive note the detachable chest guns sorts out one of my quibbles, despite Surfboard-Not-Munky mini-alt I am now a step closer to maybe picking this chap up than the "Not for Me" feeling I've had up until now.
