Fan-Fest April 9th official images and info

[DELTAprime]

Here's the quote from the TFW page.

lol. The only ones I agree with are Blaster, the Dinobots and Buzzsaw.

Also, I hate it when people ignore anything post-season 2.

[JJJ]

I hate it when they ignore the Deluxe Insecticons. Come oooooooon Hasbro, make them!

Also, why is Blitzwing on that list without Octane?

Other than that, yep, would love to see that list turned out as modern deluxes and voyagers over the next couple of years.

[Paulbot]

That list is the remaining pre-movie characters from the cartoon, and Octane wasn't in the cartoon before the movie, and the deluxe Insecticons weren't in the cartoon ever.

I think some that list ignores that all of those characters were released in Generations form, and most of them in the Prime Wars trilogy, so there are options 'for the shelf' at the moment - although your scale and cartoon accuracy mileage may vary.

I'd like to see all of the deluxe Insecticons too, outside of the Chop Shop version of Shrapnel, the other three are the never "CHUG'd" orphans of the 1984-85 lines.

(And yeah the Omnibots too but mailaways sort of exist over to the side there)

[DELTAprime]

(And yeah the Omnibots too but mailaways sort of exist over to the side there)

We got the Powerdashers, so Omnibots isn't impossible to see Hasbro doing.

[griffin]

Just note that it was just one fan's wish-list... it wasn't anything objective or "accurate" to many others, depending on how far back you go.

[griffin]

Tricranius in-hand, showing us some more angles of this redeco, which doesn't come out until October.

[griffin]

Some more official images have surfaced online, showing us the packaging for the Autobot Ark and what looks to be a third mode for the Teletraan-1 bot (a command centre for the tiny Optimus figurine).
There are also a number of 360 turnaround videos for the 3rd wave toys on youtube as well.

[griffin]

Tricranius in-hand, showing us some more angles of this redeco, which doesn't come out until October.

Tricranius is now out in Australia, at least at some EB Games stores.

Some photos I took, which also shows the packaging (which the "stolen" toy from April didn't have)...

NOTE - for anone like me who didn't notice it before, Tricranius is not just a straight redeco of Ractonite... there is one part that is different, which is the bone plate at the top of the dino skull - Tricranius is a Triceratops with two horns at the bottom, while Ractonite is apparently a Styracosaurus with two horns at the top.

(try to ignore the front legs of Ractonite in most of the photos, as I didn't notice they were the wrong way around until I got to the last photo... a problem we wouldn't have if it wasn't a parts-former)

And yes, the blast parts were wrapped up in tissue paper inside the box, which felt really cheap. The parts that came with Centurion Drone were in a plastic bag inside that box. Even if they are trying to cut back on plastic, that would have been quite negligible compared to the amount of plastic in the toy itself.