Upcoming Generations Figures 2013-2014

[i_amtrunks]

MtMtE inspired G1 characters and two of the best BW toys all at once?

Hasbro you clever buggers. You'll be taking a fair whack of my money over the next 18 months and be welcome to it. I even like the Doubledealer repaint of Blitzwing.

Like many others, I hope these get a general releases here, otherwise rk or similar will be seeing my money instead. I foresee Rhinox being one of the tower ones to make sure I get my hands on, such an iconic character and such a great looking toy.

[AJ_Prime]

I never really got into Beast Wars, watched a few eps but it didn't really do it for me. Might go back to it one day. I usually don't like organic type transformers either, but having said that both Rhinox and Waspinator from this line both look like marvels of engineering and I'd be very interested in adding them to the collection. If they make more BW figures (which they probably will), and if they are done as well as these two appear to be, then I may have to start going for them...

[Trailer Park Ninja]

Holy crap! Loving these, even may end up getting Waspinator and I don't like Beast Wars figures.

[GoktimusPrime]

I really hope Hasbro Australia releases these babies here!!

I hope Hasbro fixes the issues with Blitzwing's shoulders on Doubledealer, otherwise I'm passing that one up unless it gets a local release and I find it on sale. (-_-)

I'm really impressed that they've invested so much into the Beast Wars moulds, considering that it's unlikely that they will get to do another repaint with either unless you count the Fox Kids editions.

They could easily repaint/retool Waspinator as Buzz Saw (wouldn't surprise me if they've already designed the alternate head). Rhinox doesn't have any immediately obvious redeco potentials I can think of -- but I'm sure Hasbro can think something up. I would never have thought that Blitzwing could be done as Doubledealer either. Perhaps they could repaint him as a new Maximal called Landmine (see what I did there? )

Can anyone give me a rough idea of size, as it's been a while since I bought a Transformers toy

Rhinox is a Voyager and Waspinator is a Deluxe. Deluxes I'm familiar with - unless they've changed since the original BW days. But what is a Voyager? Are they akin to a Mega or Ultra from the old days?

And what sort of price are we looking at for these respective size classes?

Voyager is pretty much what a Mega was in BW. In terms of prices, at standard RRP you're looking at about $30 for a Deluxe and $50 for a Voyager. We haven't seen Ultras for some time, but they cost $70 now.

[kup]

I was already excited by some of the beast hunters line, the masterpiece line and the platinum line

Masterpiece, yeah. The rest meh.

I particularly excited about Rhinox, Waspinator and the IDW inspired toys. The molds also look exceptionally good unlike the FOC stuff.

Certainly worth paying the premium for the Tomy releases with nicer paint jobs. It would be cool if they do Rhinox with metallic green paint like the show.

[1orion2many]

At last more Beast Wars love for me to buy and add to my collection, Inferno and Silverbolt would be some nice figures to retool, Maybe even Tigatron to show how a cat TF should be done

[i_amtrunks]

Rhinox could always be recommissioned as headstrong or even Cybertron/Galaxy Force Backstop/Saidos...

I'd actually love for the Waspinator figure to be reprinted in all the G1 seeker colours, but that's most likely just me.

[kup]

Emiliano has just updated his blog. He was the designer for Rhinox, Waspinator, Cosmos and Skyhigh.

http://santalux.blogspot.it/2013/06/...nd-cosmos.html

[Ravagecat]

Rhinox and Waspinator are definitely looking good...I hope they are planning on doing more...Air-razor and Blackarachnia would be nice (we could do with some cartoon/comic accurate fembots IMO) Skids and Dreadwing are looking good to me too...can't wait till these start getting released

[SuspectimusPrime]

They could easily repaint/retool Waspinator as Buzz Saw (wouldn't surprise me if they've already designed the alternate head). Rhinox doesn't have any immediately obvious redeco potentials I can think of -- but I'm sure Hasbro can think something up. I would never have thought that Blitzwing could be done as Doubledealer either. Perhaps they could repaint him as a new Maximal called Landmine (see what I did there? )

I was never sold by Buzz Saw or Laserbeak for that matter. However if this new mould is nice enough, I could buy into that (for that same reason, I find it hard to buy into Thundercracker despite really liking the character).

A bit off topic now, but I can't wait to have Deluxe Waspinator armed with Targetmaster Waspinator! *mind blown*