United Voyager 2 pack Frenzy and Rumble, Kup and Wheeljack?

[GoktimusPrime]

Can finally be relieved to the fact that wheeljack is officially confirmed, not only that but- what?? RUMBLE AND FRENZY?

I wonder what these 2 guys are going to be? cassettes? or something else?

MP3 files.

I personally hope they will be done in the vein of Universe Ravage- piledrivers and all- but judging from that information- the 2 will be sold as a voyager class- so they might be 2 scout sized figs?

Rumble and Frenzy will most likely be repaints of the same mould, so if they did have piledrivers they'd both probably come with them. But I'd personally be happy if only Rumble came with the piledrivers and Frenzy came with something else (like woofer-hands (like the ones he used in G2)). That would be a really great way for the toy designers to acknowledge the fact that Frenzy and Rumble were originally NOT meant to be just clones of each other; and that only Rumble was the one who could produce earthquakes and Frenzy's power was to produce destructive audio waves. If the woofers are too obscure for newer fans, then perhaps AHM-style drillhands? (or for something kinky, drillnuts )

...I highly doubt HasTak would do that... Frenzy and Rumble will most likely be repaints of the same mould. Oh well... I can dream.

Who's Lugnut? Everyone else is G1.

Technically Drift isn't G1 (not original G1 anyway) and he's being released in Japan under United. Also aren't they releasing a CHUGUR version of G2 Laser Prime under United? And isn't United meant to be a continuation of Henkei? If so, then there were already non-G1 characters in Henkei anyway.

[kup]

Technically Drift isn't G1 (not original G1 anyway) and he's being released in Japan under United. Also aren't they releasing a CHUGUR version of G2 Laser Prime under United? And isn't United meant to be a continuation of Henkei? If so, then there were already non-G1 characters in Henkei anyway.

There has been a somewhat push of placing none originally G1 characters into neo-G1. Examples include Skybyte, Hotshot, etc.

[Golden Phoenix]

And isn't United meant to be a continuation of Henkei?

Sorta. Only in the idea that they are the Japanese version of the Hasbro stuff. From the pictures, although shopped, don't seem to have chrome but instead have the shiny Animated treatment.

[griffin]

Who's Lugnut? Everyone else is G1.

Lugnut is like Lockdown - a movie version of an Animated toy. (while Blackout was an Animated version of a Movie toy...)

[MV75]

I'm not excited yet, why would there be such a blatent mistake in the spellings?

[GoktimusPrime]

why would there be such a blatent mistake in the spellings?

Because originally the list would have been written in Japanese, and at some point someone transliterated them to English - probably by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language (which is far more tolerable than seeing native speakers freequently screw upp speeling grammer adn ).

Keep in mind that in Japanese phonetics "a" is pronounced as in the English word 'father', thus "Ramble" sounds like "Rumble". Japanese doesn't have the /æ/ sound that English has. Japanese also lacks /ə/, so "er" is transliterated the same as "ar", thus to a Japanese speaker "Wreck Ger" is the same as "Wreck Gar." English speakers also do the same thing with phonetics that don't exist in English (e.g. pronounce "tsunami" with a silent "t", whereas in Japanese the "t" is pronounced).

[fatbot]

I think Wheeljack is a retooled Tracks.

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[GoktimusPrime]

Wheeljack is an engineer, not a scientist. *gramble*

[jaydisc]

Lugnut is like Lockdown - a movie version of an Animated toy. (while Blackout was an Animated version of a Movie toy...)

Thanks. Seems a weird choice for the line.

[fatbot]

More detailed (& commented) pics of Tracks
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...review-170718/