Transformers Generations: War for Cybertron Earthrise

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Jtprime17, Oct 1, 2019.

  1. BlaminisPrime

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    There is a remarkable jump in quality even just between prime wars and war for cybertron he clearly meana WFC trilogy by "The Line"
     
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    Yep, pretty much exactly like that
     
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    SO after the new TakaraTomy pics today, how bad is that Earthrise Megatron :lol 
    I mean, I guess it's passable, I know some people will get it, but wow, just a low-level, pretty lackluster effort IMHO
    Head is horrible for one, as has been said over and over, and after looking at these pics again,
    really can't figure why they didn't paint his rib area red, even SIEGE had those paint apps,
    guess Hasbro figured this was their chance to really try to milk the fans with a subpar repaint
    with minimal paint apps... seeing as it's probably 60% reused from SIEGE, they should have
    tried harder to go all out.

    Also, that peg-on cake server on his arm is so dumb, really just an all around waste.
     
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    Wait till you see the amount of partsforming this guy has!
     

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    I'm betting there'll be a silver repaint, likely with the sides of the abs/ribs and the entirety of the lower bicep red, announced juuust after this hits stores. Even with those improvements, though, it'll probably still have the lackluster headsculpt.
     
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    Yeah... it's weird to me too: with all the shared engineering/scaling down of MP's that they're doing for Earthrise (Bumblebee, Wheeljack-to a lesser extent, Sideswipe...)
    seems like the obvious solution would have been to just shrink the MP version's head and put that on this guy, too. Not sure why they "attempted" to redo it...
     
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    If the R.E.D. Series Megatron ends up being the same size as Siege/Earthrise Megatron, I might try and see if I can swap the heads.
     
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    You misunderstand me, I'm not looking at using Meg's barrel as a handle, I'm saying it will peg onto the bottom orange peg of the Fasttrack spear's handle as a lower extension that gives the spear mode a larger version of the smaller mass secondary spearhead at the bottom of the shaft that the original G1 design had. I'm purporting it will serve as a "second half" much like the G1 had.
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    EDIT: And now I see @Fenrys got the explanation in first, I blame morning brain. Cheers, bud! :thumb 
     
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    It's all good. That's what the community does, explain it so that we can better understand. I went back on the thread and I remember seeing this when Fasttrack and Megatron were first revealed and for some reason I forgot about it. :) 
     
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    Something like

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    Something like it, yes. I suspect it won't peg on quite so far up the orange cannon/peg, maybe more like by about how much the first upper orange peg pegs into the lower arm segment.
     
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    I agree. Does anyone else feel as if Earthrise is more like simply another later wave of Siege, reminiscent of the early CHUG lines where by wave 4-5 you got one new figure and 3 that either had new paint or just a new head. Almost half of ER is a rework of Siege characters that share the same parts and transformation engineering or are old figures blown up a class size. It’s a little disconcerting if this is the new direction Hasbro is taking.
     
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    That's something you can do thanks to the 5mm system but it doesn't look intended, the colors clash and it doesn't have a cohesive look to it. I don't think this is neccessary nor intended by Hasbro as the complete look for the Tyrant Spear, just my opinion
     
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    The whole thing is the Generations/chug line extended.
    No new tricks here.
     
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    I have a feeling the whole Tyrant Spear Mode for Fasttrack is completed through some hidden part on Scorponok. For those who have Scorponok, is there any part on him that feels like there is no use for the part?
     
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    You probably meant a later stage of War for Cybertron Trilogy...
     
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    Oh, I see. Thank you for the clarification, all of you. I'm so glad I, so far, don't have to buy a figure I really, really don't want. The Netflix one, is superior, in my mind.
     
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    When you awkwardly tower over your friends in group pictures.

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