Pulse Con 2022 reveals

[DELTAprime]

The first wave on Transformers Legacy Evolution has been revealed. We have Core Class Dinobots with both Slug and Sludge coming in Wave 1. It is confirmed there will be 6 Core Dinobots that will form Volcanius. Plus a very nice-looking Core Soundblaster is in Wave 1.

Deluxe Breakdown looks to be the last of the year one Legacy line coming out but will be in Evolution cases. Needlenose and his Target Masters have been confirmed after earlier rumours. Scraphook is a new character based on the Junkions. Apparently, he will come apart like weaponizer to combine with future Junkions. And for AEC fans, Armada Hotshot is getting a new figure.

There is a Voyager Leo Prime that I'm not a fan of because they tried to make it look "realistic".

And for original IDW fans, Voyager Tarn looks pretty good.

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...em-more/47254/

[Handsprime]

Armada Optimus Prime in the background, looks like they have found a line to put that prototype they showed back in 2019.

OK apparently a few other things I have noticed:
*The core dinobots will turn into a combiner, making it the next combiner in the Legacy toy series, and the first time ever we have gotten a core class combiner (Battletrap doesn't count).
*There will be 6 dinobots (Swoop, Grimlock, Snarl, and a 6th one, which the leaks say will be Skar)
*If the leaks are true, then the various Junkion figures we are getting will be gettting new Weaponizers in the form of the Junkions. Also apparently they can transform without partsforming
*Crosscut, more insecticons are coming as well (according to the poster)

[JJJ]

Mmmmmm.

I like most of Needlenose (I mean, it looks like Needlenose!), but those targetmasters are just rubbish (and I'm not keen on the dangler...). They'll never see any other than gun mode for me. Also, I see some large similarities with the new Armada Starscream - is this a shared design with some heavy changes? It's the elbows that really gave it away for me.

Hot Shot looks like Hot Shot, so yay, but I really dislike the way they have made the legs unable to bend at the knee. Yes, it has perfectly working knees, but it also has huge kibble hanging off the back of the foot which entirely impedes the knee. Not a good sign if they cannot find ways these days to avoid Armada toys being bricks... What they do with the lower legs appears to be clever, I'll give them that, but not clever enough. Still, I reckon it'll make its way to my new shelf.

Scraphook is just fascinating - but maybe that's just my inner Ork surfacing for a bit

Tarn... Well, that's Tarn all right. Looks good (and is an insta-buy), but my attention then goes to the obvious DJD questions that arise

[Dimi194]

I have the FansHobby Naval Commander, but you bet I'll be buying the Armada Prime remake (if it is that one from 2019).

Hot shot and Tarn look great, and Needlenose is interesting - shame about the targetmasters, but if they weren't selling solo, that's what you got to do (and queue the complaints if they'd bumped him to Voyager to include more detailed TM)...

Although this only having 3 waves a year thing - is that the new normal going forward? Not a big fan - although it doesn't matter as much in Legacy given how mixed up it all is, for the more thematically consistent lines it feels a bit short...

[JJJ]

Not sure about the number of waves. This year was supposed to have 4, but the last one was bumped to next year for reasons as yet unknown (but probably due to COVID-related logistics problems - Vietnam, where Hasbro manufactures the majority of its Transformers toys, had a gigantic COVID spike 6 months ago, and is generally having a bad time outside that spike, and I reckon that'll have been perfectly timed to screw up this part of the year for delivery).

The there's that strange statement from last month about how Hasbro produced and delivered its waves - still don't know just what it meant, but it could see the waves changed to officially trickling out whenever.

But also we've got the capsules as well, so maybe as they ramp up the standard retail waves will be adjusted a little.

[JJJ]

Well, I have no interest in core class Dinobots.

But a core class Dinoforce... Because these do seem to be pre-tools for just that. 6 of them, so far following the Dinoking body layout. If Skar is an ankylosaur then we everyting except an explicit announcement.

And, entirely co-incidentally I'm sure , the featured article over on TFWiki is Dinoking...

Now, if this is how Hasbro plan to do Dinoking, does it give any indication of Landcross being done with cores? It kinda makes sense once I start thinking about it...

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Oooooh - in that poster for the line, I see all 7 Insecticons, both standard and Deluxe! Happy happy joy joy!