Combiner Wars wave 1 toys official images

[Verno]

Quiet optimism, I love it. Thanks again, Griff.

I'll let the discussion return to the Combiner Wars toys, and the evolution of the Scramble City design.

[Bidoofdude]

If combiner wars proves successful (which it looks to be headed that way), we could possibly see some other gimmicks come to fruition as Generations toys. Nothing for certain, but I think it would let Hasbro test the waters a bit more.

[griffin]

More images from what looks like the Singapore event mentioned a few posts ago.
This time focussing on the four Legends toys - Windcharger, Powerglide, Thundercracker, Bombshell.

It looks like all the Legends toys have been designed to combine with the combiners in some way, as two photos show Windcharger and Thundercracker as alternate chest-pieces. With Powerglide turning into a gun, Bombshell possibly turns into a gun too.

It might look a bit weird having a whole car just sitting on the front of the combined mode, but the original Menasor had that.

[Bidoofdude]

I would love Bomshell to turn into a grenade.

[griffin]

That'd be funny... like that suicide bomb Decepticon from IDW (I think it was).

[BigTransformerTrev]

2016 will be the Beast Wars 20th Anniversary. Do you see a small number of new Generation-style Beast Wars toys fitting into Hasbro's current mode of operation? Is it likely on its own? Or does it require a tie-in with an IDW Comic miniseries, much like the Combiner Wars toys coming in 2015? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

For the 10th anniversary of BW they rereleased some of the BW figures, some recoloured to be more show accurate (I picked up a Waspinator) and if you got them all you could make a Transmutate. It's possible they may do something similar. I reckon the 20th Anniversary will be acknowledged in some fashion. Personally as someone who doesn't like organic looking alt-modes I'm hoping for some Transmetal figures

I am currently a teenager (15) and I was mainly fed on the G1 cartoon, so I have just as much nostalgia as any adult fan, but most my age would have watched Energon/Cybertron. The Masterpiece toys aren't all that difficult for me and I'm sure even the least competent would be able to transform them and enjoy them, if they're a fan of that stuff.

For most preteens (around 12, 13 years old), it suddenly becomes uncool to like anything really that isn't 'grown up'. It starts to wear off around 14, from my experience. Then everyone's on the train.

Dude - you are only 15!?! Had no idea. You come across way more mature than that, which I totally mean as a compliment

[Bidoofdude]

Dude - you are only 15!?! Had no idea. You come across way more mature than that, which I totally mean as a compliment

Thanks a bunch. Still don't have the cleanest record...

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Hot damn @Griffin...those are some really-well-thought-out posts there. Really wish I'd had the chance to meet you while you were here.

On-topic: interesting to see the Legends-Combiner cross-playability factor. I wonder if that was planned from the start, or if it was a relatively recent retool? If the former, maybe the Minicon-style Targetmaster partners will be compatible in some way too.
Also, so want a Kickback to complete the Legends Insecticon trio.

[Sinnertwin]

Hasbro/TT doing something for Beast Wars for 2016? Oh, you may get the odd bug here and there, maybe a cheetah or two... an elephant...perhaps a donkey if we're lucky.
We all know how the Thrilling 32 turned out as a homage to the 30th anniversary of the entire franchise, so I can't see them doing something earth shattering as a tribute to BW.

[Bidoofdude]

Hot damn @Griffin...those are some really-well-thought-out posts there. Really wish I'd had the chance to meet you while you were here.

On-topic: interesting to see the Legends-Combiner cross-playability factor. I wonder if that was planned from the start, or if it was a relatively recent retool? If the former, maybe the Minicon-style Targetmaster partners will be compatible in some way too.
Also, so want a Kickback to complete the Legends Insecticon trio.

In the panel at NYCC (was it?) they answered that they won't disappoint with Kickback, or something along those lines.