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Another US Target Redcard member exclusive has been found, listed as a Legacy exclusive but no name... just a price that suggests it is a Voyager.
Given how hard Target and Walgreens exclusives can be to get in Australia I really hope this unnamed exclusive is something I don't want like a non-cartoon BW character.
I know this is getting super hopeful, but if it is a red Cog then they might bump up to the voyager price point by also including a POTP pretender shell and some random accessories. Then it could serve as a partner for Takara's Grand Max. Yeah, I'm dreaming... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Just read a lego rumour…
https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-tra...bGO8plOzPN5XzsQuote:
There’s a new rumor coming out of left field of a possible LEGO Transformers Optimus Prime set coming this summer. Promobricks is reporting that the set will have set number 10302 and will have 1,508 pieces. It is also presumed that Optimus Prime could be based on the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts movie that is also coming out this year and it will have him with a jetpack and his rifle blaster along with an information plaque.
This is interesting news because Hasbro/KRE-O had the license for Transformers building sets for a long time. If it did expire and LEGO has acquired the license, it’ll be the first time that there will be LEGO Transformers sets. This piece of news is so random that I have a hard time believing it but LEGO has been making surprising moves this year so it’s not totally out of the realm of possibility. I wouldn’t hold my breath and get your hopes up on this rumor until there’s some concrete information.
https://www.promobricks.de/lego-1030...ormers/138529/
I just saw that on tfw too... and if true, I think it would have been Hasbro wanting this partnership to happen, as it is more free advertising for their Movie toyline and the Movie itself (which would have been out at this time).
I believe that the only reason why Hasbro did their own thing through Kre-O at a time when Lego was expanding its themed/licensed range, was because Lego tested out the boardgame concept (only for a few years though from 2009 to 2013, which is weird, because they were so popular) and it went better than expected, costing Hasbro many millions of dollars, as Hasbro was currently the major player in the boardgame market. As such, gossip at the time from the Hasbro end (2010), was that they felt targeted by Lego, so in response they would then target Lego in 2011 with Kre-O... which obviously didn't turn out as well as they had hoped (mostly because most of the toylines that Hasbro had the action-figure license for, they couldn't do construction toys due to Lego already owning the licenses, leaving Hasbro with just their own Brands, and any minor Brand that Lego or Mega Blocks didn't already have the license to).
So if this is indeed real, it took 11 years for Hasbro and Lego to bury the hatchet and work together.
The additional info being claimed from tfw is like with Hasbro's movie toyline, this was planned a couple years ahead of release so that it would be in stores a month before the Movie, but with the last-minute delay of the movie for a year, Lego might still end up releasing it a year early as well... but notes that it could be held back a year (which Lego would be better able to do for a single item than Hasbro holding back an entire toyline).
I'm really hoping this is true. A few years ago I bought instructions from a creator and built my own g1 Optimus out of Lego. A new version would go well with him. A number of the ko brick brands have released various iterations of prime bumblebee and even sound wave over the years. Would be interesting to see LEGOs take.
I am concerned with the transforms without needing to be disassembled talk.
It sounds good to me. Or is that the issue - sounds too good to be true?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thurmus
If a bootleg Lego version of Optimus Prime can do it, why can't a professional company like LEGO do it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thurmus
https://static.seibertron.com/images...604_YM361X.JPG
If it's G1 Optimus Prime transformation is really quite basic (even a cake can do it*) but it's a Movie design?!
The Lego Voltron set need a bit of partforming (Well parts removal technically) on the black lion but otherwise converted and combined as you'd expect.
(*For some reason that cake was going around on Twitter a lot over the weekend, even though it's from 7 years ago - the birthday boy is a teenager now.)
My understanding is it's based on ROTB Prime, which from what we've seen so far is basically Geewun. So it could have a fairly simple transformation - flip the back of the truck/legs down, pull arms out of the back of the cab, flip up the head and you're good. I know SS BumblePrime made it more complicated than that but I don't expect a Lego to be on that level. It could work is what I'm saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Did you see the mechanisms they are doing now? The Popup book was amazing and smoothQuote:
Originally Posted by Thurmus
It certainly could - I made a lego Optimus Prime any number of times as a kid way back when, and the technic stuff I had wasn't anywhere near as fancy as the bits you can get now :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom
*hi five* So did I. :D I used this part from a train set for the chest.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJJ
https://i.ibb.co/s6FRRn8/19186.jpg
Hasbro should have let Lego make Transformers based sets since all the way back in the days when Built to Rule was a thing.
I once made a G1 Prime out of cardboard, tape & those little gold pins you'd push through and split the pin down the middle to act as swivels.
I was bored at work.
Lego should do this with their eyes closed.
I recently watched a clip of Prime’s transformation when he arrives in the city at the end of the first movie. That’s what I had in my mind. The more recent design I can see is easier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom
https://i.imgur.com/orXeN1d.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Handsprime
Will be interesting to see the jetpack in the new movie. You would think it has to be just a backpack without wings like Bumblebees.
Collaborative Transformers are so infrequent, it has been a while since one was revealed, so this is a definite rumour... a "Project Trooper" toy has been found in a US Gamestop computer, for us$90 for 2023.
Project names were given to each of the previous Collaborative Transformers, so if this one is true, it is just a matter of working out what concept or series this one is from.
The price point is also pretty expensive, at about the price point of a Commander class Generations toy.
(Gamestop is the parent of EBGames here, but that doesn't guarantee that they will have the exclusive here if it comes here)
Following on from the Project Trooper listing, the update is that this is for a TF x GI Joe HISS Tank Megatron & Baroness set!
I was never a GI Joe fan, but always liked the HISS design, and i had a Takara boxed HISS tank. I hope this rumour is true.
An image and details of what could be a licensed Micro Machines Transformers playset, of Movie Camaro Bumblebee that opens up, with a micro Barricade.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Said to be out in Autumn our time, for us$35.
TFW have watermarked the official image and not disclosed the source website for the information, which is poor form doing it on official images, probably to prevent other fansites from posting up the news with a clean image.
Well apparently that's not enough, because now there are Playset and Vehicle packs as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
I was just looking at that... and wasting a fair bit of time scrolling through the replies to see if anyone had actually bought it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Handsprime
Unfortunately it doesn't let us know if all six sets are Transformers themed, or if it is a mixture of non-themed sets with the packaging on each one teasing us to think that it could be Transformers themed.
This is why I hate blind-bag concepts, especially if it is for a mixture of themes, because at least if it was all Transformers themed, you have a bit of a better chance offloading them or trading them with other fans. Otherwise, you could end up with fifteen duplicates just to secure the Transformers ones, and have no collector market interested in the spares you just paid a lot of money on.
At least these are licensed toys, and not Hasbro toys, so I'm not as interested in these, and just hope they end up being expensive poor-quality rubbish that dies off fairly quickly.
Finally, some more details on those Transformers Micro Machine Playsets.
Apparently there's 6 playsets in total, but each playset comes with 1 of 2 vehicles, with 2 of them having a 100% of picking up a Transformer (meaning you have to buy the set again), 2 of them having a 50% chance of getting a Transformer, and 2 of them not containing any Transformers at all.
Also there are codes, so you don't have to worry about buying 12 of these sets just to get that 1 figure you're after:
1A 01 (Adventure Racing Truck)
IA 02 (Cliffjumper)
1B 01 (Prime)
1B 02 (ROTF Megatron)
2A 01 (Food Truck)
2A 02 (19 BMW M6)
2B 01 (Nemesis Prime)
2B 02 (Sideswipe)
3A 01 (Private Jet)
3A 02 (Starscream)
3B 01 (19 BMW M6 again)
3B 02 (Bugatti)
What could be another two GEN Selects toys for Legacy this year - Voyager Override (from the Cybertron cartoon/toyline), and Voyager Road Hauler (probably a green Grapple to homage the Japanese green Hauler toy from about 15 years ago).
Road Hauler was originally an odd toy, as it was given a back story of being a Constructicon (hence the green colour), but its name was meant to homage Grapple's nickname (Hauler) in the original cartoon episode More Than Meets The Eye... but is not the right colour. (if it was going to be an accurate homage to Hauler, it would be the same colour as Grapple... which we already have from this mould).
Meanwhile, from one of the regular recent sources of unreleased toys, a couple of toys that appear to be for the Rise of the Beasts movie, but could end up being released in Cyberverse towards the end of the year, as one of them looks very similar to one that was officially revealed for Cyberverse in October.
These two new toys are Optimus Prime (as the transport truck we already saw coming in Cyberverse packaging), and Optimus Primal (as the classic Beast Wars gorilla).
Optimus Primal appears to be packed with a Targetmaster type of mini-figure, that is a white tiger (maybe as Tigatron) that converts to a weapon.
It is difficult to tell the exact size of them, but the limited articulation and sculpting suggests somewhere between Core class and Deluxe Class. (I'd be hoping they are smaller/cheaper than deluxe class).
If they are Movie toys, then they probably the ones that we would have seen out in stores next month... if the Movie hadn't been delayed by a year. (which is why Hasbro must have decided to still release them this year, but create all new packaging that fits in with the recent toyline that retailers are familiar with)
Bit odd for Override to be a Voyager... maybe some accessories? Maybe Hot Rod style complex engineering. There's not many voyager class female toys though (three come to mind and two of those are repaints of the same male bot) so that's nice.
Road Hauler would be a pass, if I'm buying a green voyager truck in Legacy it will be Bulkhead.
All the leakers say that it is in fact a re-tool (no real info on how much re-tooling) of Hot Rod.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Cybertron/Galaxy Force had some great designs, if Override comes out, I could easily bite. Plus I've been loving me some space cars recently. I wonder if Japan will Call hi Nitro Convoy.
A Legacy Vector Prime would be cool too.
Well, we did have Optimus from Cybertron in Siege, so Override (and any other planned Unicron Trilogy homages) will display well with that.
Some more Legacy listings on retailers system somewhere in America, has a prefix of "Velocitron" on each of them (as did the Voyager Override toy a few posts above)... which doesn't seem to apply to these ones here that are obviously Gen1 characters (toys), so maybe there is a subline in play here, like the Golden Disk set or Galactic Odyssey set, in which a set of toys are going to be released in packaging that has a planet (from Cybertron series) named on it... for a future cartoon or comic plot device.
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- Tra Gen legacy velocitron deluxe Road Rocket
EAN: 5010994115456- Tra Gen legacy velocitron deluxe Burnout
EAN: 5010994115449- Tra Gen legacy velocitron deluxe Clampdown
EAN: 5010994115432- Tra Gen legacy velocitron deluxe Cosmos
EAN: 5010994115425- Tra Gen legacy velocitron deluxe Blurr
EAN: 5010994115418
The competition between leakers is getting more intense, as one of the other regulars has also obtained the Optimus Primal toy, showing it with some recent Voyagers and Deluxe toys to show it's size (somewhere between those two size classes, but it is intended to be a simpler gimmick toy).Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Talk about leakers..........supposed Blitzwing and another Bee.
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These are being claimed to be wave 4 Legacy Deluxe and Voyager (I'm not even sure what wave 2 and 3 are meant to be).
They say that these would be for January 2023... which is a long way off to be reliable. (and the product numbers are very different to each other, when they should be quite close to each other if they were being released at the same time)Quote:
Tra Gen Legacy ev Deluxe Cheetor Pr
Product number: F3516
Tra Gen Legacy ev Deluxe Wheeljack Pr
Product Number: F3307
Tra Gen legacy ev Deluxe Stunticon Breakdown
Product Number: F3036
Tra Gen legacy ev voyager Twincast
Product Number: F3059
Product numbers could be off due to Cheetor being a Kingdom toy repack and Wheeljack being an Earthrise toy repack (enough of him!!)? The new figure's numbers aren't far off each other.
If they are going to repack toys, how about repacking figures like ER Dirge and Ramjet or Selects Centurion Drone that they didn't produce enough of in the first place!
Not usually. Looking at the last time Earthrise Wheeljack was reused - in Kingdom packaging last year, it was consecutive numbering:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
F0677 - Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: K Deluxe Scorponok Action Figur
F0678 - Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: K Deluxe Wheeljack Pr Action Figur
F0679 - Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: K Deluxe New Bone (Wingfinger) Action Figur
F0680 - Hasbro Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: K Deluxe Tracks Action Figur