Second wave Hero Mashers

[griffin]

From the Columbian Facebook page comes images of more of the Heroes Mashers (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-toys-products-30/transformers-hero-mashers-new-figure-images-179990/), which are likely to be second wave (first wave is still not out yet).

The three shown off are...
Rodimus - Gen1
Jetfire - Gen1 ish
Heatwave - Collector Club 2009 Membership figure?

If that third one is indeed based on the Collector Club Mirrorverse Deluxe toy, it is a strange, obscure character to pick for this line, which has so far been a small select range of Gen1 and Movie characters.

[MayzaPrime]

TFCC Heatwave is totally random

I could understand if it was Rescue Bots Heatwave, but this is a very interesting character selection.

It might be one of the ones I pick up :p

[BigTransformerTrev]

I might go Rodimus and maybe Jetfire from Wave 2. The first wave just showed up on shelves in the states. Even though they are mostly G1 based I'll probably skip'em all except for Springer.

The pics of Wave 1 have some of the characters with an extra arm included -Optimus with Ultra Magnus, Megatron with Skywarp, Bulkhead with Cliffjumper and saying on the box "Mash up with (insert name)!" Anyone know what thats about?

[griffin]

We actually had the Hero Mashers sighted here before America... by about a day. That still counts as world first. :p

There are four size classes...

Figures (which are singles) - a single figure with all the parts being their own parts.

Battle Upgrade - a single figure with a handful of extra parts that are from someone else. (you can't create the entire "bonus" figure, as the boxes only hold some of their limbs)

Double Up (2-pack) - two full single figures.

Electronic - a single figure with a greater number of add-on parts with one or two being electronic/light-up.

[Omega Metro]

I really don't understand these. Why would anyone want to add arms and legs from one character and add them to another so that it does not match?:confused:

[tinyJazz]

I really don't understand these. Why would anyone want to add arms and legs from one character and add them to another so that it does not match?:confused:

They might be post modern exquisite corpse aficionados?

[Zommael]

I really don't understand these. Why would anyone want to add arms and legs from one character and add them to another so that it does not match?:confused:

Because these are toys for children designed to encourage imagination and creativity, maybe?

Or, you know, to make Spider-Hulk. That's the other reason, at least with the Marvel ones.

[BigTransformerTrev]

We actually had the Hero Mashers sighted here before America... by about a day. That still counts as world first. :p


Which shops? Going to Melb tomorrow for a wedding so may get a chance to do some TF shopping :D




Battle Upgrade - a single figure with a handful of extra parts that are from someone else. (you can't create the entire "bonus" figure, as the boxes only hold some of their limbs)



So is it a case of if you buy different figures you get different parts? (e.g, Ultra Magnus' arm with Optimus, his torso with someone else etc) Or is a matter that they just put in a random part of another character? (you can get Skywarps arm with Megatron but the rest of him is non-existent)

[griffin]

Which shops? Going to Melb tomorrow for a wedding so may get a chance to do some TF shopping :D


Pssst.... check the First Sightings topic for new stuff (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=3191) (third last post). ;)



So is it a case of if you buy different figures you get different parts? (e.g, Ultra Magnus' arm with Optimus, his torso with someone else etc) Or is a matter that they just put in a random part of another character? (you can get Skywarps arm with Megatron but the rest of him is non-existent)They should be the same part in every pack. I don't think too many people would be too impressed if they needed to buy 6 Megatrons just to make one Skywarp. At least other build-up figures come packed in with different toys, so that you don't have to buy duplicates... just character toys you may not have originally intended to buy.

[BigTransformerTrev]

They should be the same part in every pack. I don't think too many people would be too impressed if they needed to buy 6 Megatrons just to make one Skywarp. At least other build-up figures come packed in with different toys, so that you don't have to buy duplicates... just character toys you may not have originally intended to buy.

No, I get that every Megatron will come with only a skywarps arm. what I meant was that I could see you could get Ultra Magnus' arm with Optimus, Skywarps arm with Megatron and Cliffjumpers arm with Bulkhead, but I saw no other characters that had say, Cliffjumpers torso or Ultra Magnus' head. So I was wondering if eventually these other parts will be released too (you have to buy say maybe Optimus, Sandstorm, Kup, Guzzle and Roadbuster and each has a different part of Ultra Magnus - a bit like Transmutate with the Beast Wars Anniversary Toys) or whether they are just random appendages and there is no toy to complete? So

[griffin]

No, I get that every Megatron will come with only a skywarps arm. what I meant was that I could see you could get Ultra Magnus' arm with Optimus, Skywarps arm with Megatron and Cliffjumpers arm with Bulkhead, but I saw no other characters that had say, Cliffjumpers torso or Ultra Magnus' head. So I was wondering if eventually these other parts will be released too (you have to buy say maybe Optimus, Sandstorm, Kup, Guzzle and Roadbuster and each has a different part of Ultra Magnus - a bit like Transmutate with the Beast Wars Anniversary Toys) or whether they are just random appendages and there is no toy to complete? So

Okay... um, that would be a better idea if all of Skywarp, Cliffjumper or Ultra Magnus was released eventually, but I have a feeling that it isn't. And I just can't see that happening as they'd need the line to be really successful line... as you'd need 9 or 18 figures in the "Upgrade" class (if it is one or two parts per pack), and I can't see the line lasting long enough for that with the way most of our gimmick lines die off within a year.
Imagine if they did try to release all of those three characters and the line was axed before the last pieces could be released. And there hasn't been enough hype for this series to expect it will last beyond Wave 1.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Okay... um, that would be a better idea if all of Skywarp, Cliffjumper or Ultra Magnus was released eventually, but I have a feeling that it isn't. And I just can't see that happening as they'd need the line to be really successful line... as you'd need 9 or 18 figures in the "Upgrade" class (if it is one or two parts per pack), and I can't see the line lasting long enough for that with the way most of our gimmick lines die off within a year.
Imagine if they did try to release all of those three characters and the line was axed before the last pieces could be released. And there hasn't been enough hype for this series to expect it will last beyond Wave 1.

Ah, I had no idea it was so many pieces in these things - I thought it was about 6 - 2 arms, legs, a head and torso

[griffin]

Nah, there looks to be about 6 pieces to each toy, so since there are three characters, it would take 18 to collect them all if they were just one per pack, or 9 if there are two per pack.
I just cant tell for sure how many of the extra parts are from the bonus character, and parts that are just accessories for the main toy in the pack.

[BigTransformerTrev]

They just released pics of Hero Mashers Slug and Soundwave:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/official-images-onestep-giftset-hero-mashers-titan-bumblebee-and-more/30561/


It's a decent G1 representation of Soundwave, but Slug looks freakin awesome! Definetly worth getting if a G1 Dinobot fan :D