AUS Toyfair 2008 TFs report, part 1 of 3 (Universe).

[griffin]

Also corrected the Minicon name Blockrock (from Blackrock), after some American fans said I got it wrong (and they were correct, when I checked the full-size copy of the photo). Pity about that, as I thought it was a real neat homage, like Leader-1 or Sparkplug in Armada.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Wow. All very cool.

The ratchet Blaster I've actually seen for sale here in an import shop.

[STL]

Sweet stuff. The Classics look great. Even Blaster. I'm surprised!

A pity we didn't get toy pics of Silverbolt. Were you able to get pictures of Silverbolt's box at the back? Those new boxes look awesome for Classics 2.0. It's a pity that they're not consistent w/ 1.0 but ultimately gimme those toys first, packaging second.

The displays seemed very poorly done though compared to Botcon, SDCC ones. All the stuff isnt' very strategically positioned.

[Burn]

Silverbolt is a pleasant surprise! And he looks like he's going to be a great figure.

Another repaint of the Cybertron Legends Thundercracker, this time into Starscream? ugh .... pass. Why not a Cybertron Legends Starscream into Thundercracker?

Thanks Griff and Co!

[i_amtrunks]

Silverbolt is a little bit of a surprise, wonder if it means we will be getting Menasor and HotSpot later on to have all the torso's from the Scramble city combiners?

thanks for the pics!

[kup]

Silverbolt in that mock up does look pretty good, specially if the robot looks similar to the art work. Is he a repaint of something?

Blaster on the other hand looks like crap and so does Powerglide.

Its funny how many of these toy convention organizers have such a hard time properly transforming the figures for display

[Pipesqueak]

I'm super-excited about Silverbolt, but disappointed that Prowl still has the plain white missiles and the 'Sideswipe mode' looks a bit lame compared to Sunstreaker.

Thanks for the pics!

[Robzy]

Wow... that's an interesting transformation idea for Sunstreaker/Sideswipe! (Hope they give him a new head tho... unlike Classics Cliffjumper )

Silverbolt looks great!