There is a female combiner, the fan voted one. None of these characters make her up thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozgardian
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There is a female combiner, the fan voted one. None of these characters make her up thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Ozgardian
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to see HasTak focus on pumping out the remaining G1 gestalts before focusing any more on new gestalt characters. Although in Hasbro's defence, the "new" ones are just redecos of existing moulds, so there's relatively little cost being put into R&Ding them, and of course, they help to reduce the price of the existing traditional G1 character gestalts that we're getting. So while I personally have no interest in them, I don't begrudge Hasbro for making them. :)
Anyway, here's a list of G1 gestalts and whether they have CW toys made or in the works for them...
- Gestalt: ABOMINUS / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: BATTLE GAIA / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: BRUTICUS / CW Toy Status: Upcoming
- Gestalt: COMPUTRON / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: DEFENSOR / CW Toy Status: Released
- Gestalt: DEVASTATOR / CW Toy Status: Released
- Gestalt: DINOKING / CW Toy Status: See Monstructor
- Gestalt: GUARD CITY / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: KING POSEIDON / CW Toy Status: See Piranacon
- Gestalt: LANDCROSS / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: LIO KAISER / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: MENASOR / CW Toy Status: Released
- Gestalt: MONSTRUCTOR / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: PIRANACON / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: PREDAKING / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: RAIDEN / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: ROAD CAESAR / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SIXBUILDER / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SIXLINER / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SIXTRAIN / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SIXTURBO / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SIXWING / CW Toy Status: Nil
- Gestalt: SUPERION / CW Toy Status: Released
Note: This is not meant to be any kind of criticism towards Hasbro. I'm super chuffed that they're doing Combiner Wars and I don't expect them to wave a magic wand and release all of these gestalts at once (my wallet couldn't handle it!). But there's certainly enough G1 gestalts there to keep Hasbro pumping out CW for the next couple of years. And I'll be right there, waiting to throw my money at them! :D
I think Guard City & Battle Gaia could easily be done by TFCC I would rather Hasbro release the G2 giftset versions of Defensor and Bruticus.
is victorion an exclusive? and if so where to?
I don't think we know yet how it will be released. I'd say there is at least a chance of local release, but it might end up being that Victorion, G2 Superion, and G2 Menasor are next year's toy sale exclusives, so we might get them some time after the US. (I would love it if they were Big W, Target, and Kmart, but think that is unlikely given Kmart doesn't have toy sales anymore, and it's more likely they will go to Myer and TRU)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaxius._
Hasbro has re-registered the trademarks for Predacons and Terrorcons so fingers crossed :)
But doesn't Combiner Wars end next year? After that we roll into Titan Wars. If they have only just registered trademarks then the toys may not be anything more than sketches right now. If that is the case, we're looking at atleast 18 months until release.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
Unless they have already prototyped the toys and chase the name after the fact?
It's possible they might still do some combiner teams as part of Titan Wars, albeit as less of the 'main focus' of the line.
I'm more concerned about Hasbro saying there were no plans for non-vehicle team combiners (or the Technobots) at BotCon (IIRC) a while back. Here's hoping that was wrong, or that they've changed their minds...
^ Yes. There can easily be mold re-tinkering in beast combiners Hasbro!!
They might have Titan Wars alongside Combiner Wars as Generations subsets. You'd probably have half as much from each than normal (unless they expand the reach of the line), but it might help them get more on the shelf, stores seemingly wanting new and 'different' lines.
Dunno - could be they were always going to re-register 'Predacons' anyway since it's such a big name in TF's now, though it and 'Terrorcons' being done at the same time seems to tip the scales in favor of some Combiners down the line, unless the Terrorcons are going to be zombies in RID like they were in TFPrimeQuote:
Originally Posted by Trent
Maybe a zombie combiner? That would be SO COOL!:eek:
Zombiner?
Well we've already had in fiction the Necrotitan, so yeah that could work.
I think Hasbro are just trying to keep their IP current by re-registering those names... Both were used in the Prie series, but hopefully we get combiners out of it.
IDW's Monstructor is possibly the nearest thing we currently have to a zombie gestalt. IDW's Devastator was partially zombie for a while when they combined with a dead Scrapper as the right leg! (which of course, didn't work well, hence Prowlstator ;)).
Isnt TFCC Nexus Prime also a zombie combiner... Skyfall was killed by SG Alpha Trion :p
I just got my replacement UW Menasor in the mail from HLJ. This Motormaster has the correct ratchets in both hips thankfully. I'm just wondering in gestalt mode where should one store the limb-bots robot mode weapons. Also I think it's cool Breakdown can store his foot/hand on his back, that's going to look real good on Sunstreaker.
I put Dead End and Wild Rider's weapons in Motor Master's hands as exhaust stacks, MM's weapons combined in Menasor's right hand, Breakdown's gun in the top of Menasor's left hand, and Drag Strip's blade in the bottom of Menasor's left hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
You know what's getting on my nerves with CW? The number of different shades of white used for the characters.
Basically, there are two shades: a really bright almost pearlescent white, and an off-white. The pearlescent white is used for Firefly, Alpha Bravo, Blades, Rook, and First aid limb-wise, while the off-white is used for Streetwise and Breakdown.
What's irritating is that the off-white is used not only for the two limbs it is, it's also used for Silverbolt, so you have this combiner who has really bright white limbs with a slightly off torso. It's also irritating that Streetwise has it when the other three members of his team don't, even if it is Geewun accurate - I'd rather have matching limbs, thanks.
I guess the thing to do is purchase Battlecore Prime and make a combiner out of all four bright white characters, but is Battlecore itself bright white or off-white? ARGH!
Wonder how the CW line is fairing with the kids?
Really curious as many characters are arguably G1 based and not sure of how familiar the kiddies are
In saying that they seem to be selling well at least in my area. Im assuming the combining aspect and the fact the dont look like the AOE trash is probably helping them along. They look great on shelf i must say
Just a thought. Im on board as a collector and my son was initially quite keen until minecraft took over his world that is :P
Hoping its turning a profit
Motormaster and OP's hands are a great place to put weapons when in combined mode for some additional over-the-shoulder firepower.Quote:
Originally Posted by prjkt
For my part, I have Skywarp as the chest piece since the jets hold better and look just as nice as the official cars when used as chest pieces. I have Skywarp's weapons in Motormaster's hands as over-the-shoulder blasters. I then have Breakdown's gun in the port on Skywarp's front (so in the middle of the chest of the combiner) as a blaster, but I have also placed Dead End's pipe there and it looks just as good. I have the axe from Offroad in the top of the left hand, and the blade from Drag Strip in the bottom, making it look like a single enormous polearm that Menasor is holding in the centre. Finally, Motormaster's weapons combined into the big sword in the right hand. I just stick Dead End's pipe out of the way on the side of Offroad.
If you don't want to use Skywarp as the chest piece, I'd recommend sticking Breakdown's weapon in one of the MM hands. Dead End's pipe looks odd there but it's better than nothing. My only problem with Prjkt's suggestion is that while Dead End's weapon doesn't look like a gun, Breakdown's weapon doesn't look like a smokestack. C'est la vie.
I guess they want to avoid looking like Botcon 2012 boxset - which looks like FunPub just got a good deal on navy plastic :confused:;)
I know there will always be some fans who say things like "what, was white plastic cheap that week or something" when they see a uniform colour scheme, but I prefer it, especially for combiners. To me it makes it look like from many to one than a random jumble of different parts. Victorion's colour scheme might be garish but the uniformity, to me anyway, is appealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
On a completely unrelated note, it's just occurred to me that with one exception, the primary colours for the wave 4 characters actually do match the drones of Energon Optimus:
Copter-2 (white) - Prowl (white)
Digger-3 (yellow) - Sunstreaker (yellow)
Submarine-4 (blue) - Mirage (blue)
The one exception is Ironhide, who is red, against Fire-1's orange. But Fire-1 arguably should have been red in the first place, and is red in the Platinum Edition release of the toy (though none of the other colours match).
I can't help but think that, given the chest sculpt for Optimus Maximus/Ultra Prime, this must have been intentional.
I know exactly what you mean. When I was small I always played with Fireflight less because he didn't have the same uniformity that the other limbs had. Though I never had the Technobots, I always thought they were super cool in their strange designs and colour scheme.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zommael
Hard to dismiss when they've already brought out Armada Megatron/Starscream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zommael
What's the names of the new teams? Prime's team?, Skylynx's team?, etc.
Prime's team is named 'Optimus Maximus' after the Gestalt they combine into.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozgardian
Dunno Skylynx's teams name.
Sky Reign is the name of the combiner.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
I haven't heard of any team names yet for 2015 Wave 4 or Sky Lynx's team... only the combiner names so far.
they might not have team names... at least in the fiction the W4 bots + Prime were kind of just thrown together...
RepaintobotsQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin
It says in the character bios on the back of the comics with the wave 4 figures 'Subgroup : Optimus Maximus'Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Some are calling it Grand Convoy Prime, others Convoy Grand Prime, but whichever way you slice it looks like I guessed right. TakTom's "official" combination even has Ironhide and Prowl as the arms, which matches the usual layout of SL Grand Convoy's limbs since only the helicopter and fire engine drones had proper hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
ETA: to finish it off, though, they still really need to redeco Blackjack/Rodimus as Armada Sparkplug.
HeheQuote:
Originally Posted by Jaxius._
I just had a look... and damn that's lame. And doesn't make much sense either in a sentence like, "This toy is a Protectobot". Try substituting Optimus Maximus into that.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
I guess you'd have to say "a member of Optimus Maximus". Hmmm. It is a decent name for a band, but I probably shouldn't give Hasbro any ideas...Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
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Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
Squeeeeeeeeeeee!
The real deco actually looks better than the touched up product images.
Always count on Takara to get it rightQuote:
Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime
Except when they don't, which seems to be happening with increasing frequencyQuote:
Originally Posted by STL