The Random Transformers Thoughts Thread

[Dimi194]

Wrong allegiance boxes for Titans Return toys...

Tober mentioned this to me a few months back (Broadside being in a Decepticon box), but now that I've seen it for myself, it is more prolific than what he led me to believe.

Today at ToysRUs, I saw that the Astrotrain and Optimus Voyager toys were in the wrong allegiances boxes. The boxes are correct, with the right names and images... they just have the wrong allegiance on the top and side of the box... and at the moment it just seems to only be with the Voyager class (Optimus, Astrotrain and Broadside).
Has anyone seen any others like this?


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(Broadside photo by Tober)


Maybe the wrong allegiances are due to the boxes sharing a template with their redecos (Astrotrain/Sentinel, Optimus/Octone) and the person who was doing the boxes forgot to "copy and paste" the other allegiances on them. But if that is the reason, it would suggest that there is (or was) a redeco of Broadside for regular retail who was a Decepticon.
We know about Tidalwave, but since it is in a box set, was it originally planned to be a regular release toy and it had packaging done up, or... is there another Decepticon redeco of Broadside to come. And if so, who could it be?

From what I noticed of the TR stuff, all the voyagers from W 1+2 had autobot logos on the box, so I assumed it just just them giving the decepticions a go for the next few waves?

[Sinnertwin]

From what I noticed of the TR stuff, all the voyagers from W 1+2 had autobot logos on the box, so I assumed it just just them giving the decepticions a go for the next few waves?

Yep, as Dimi said, they're just starting to mix it up now.
Combiner Wars Leader Class Megatron, Starscream and Skywarp, Voyagers Onslaught, Motormaster, Çyclonus all have Autobot symbols on their boxes. Titans Return Galvatron & Soundwave? They're both Autobots too.

[CaminusPrime]

I think the box faction symbols are based on year of release. Everything last year had autobot symbols, everything Ive seen as 2017 wave has had deception symbols. Kinda just wish it represented the character, would be more appropriate