Transformers Fan First Friday OCT 16th

[Paulbot]

Windstorm and Stingracer (redeco of Earthrise Trip-Up and Daddy-O - not sure which is which but both are said to be homages to MASK toys Hurricane and Venom.

Windstorm should be the blue one (MASK Hurricane homage)
Stingracer should be the orange one (MASK Stinger homage)

[DELTAprime]

For those wondering...

Barricade (YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!) is the blue one. Motorhead is the yellow car.

Wheelblaze and is partner Roadburner are the MM Combiners. (Not to be confused with the other type of MM Combiner.

And as Paul mentioned Stingray and Windstorm are the others.

[DELTAprime]

Got my MM pack on order from Amazon US and Thrust on order at RK.

Hopefully Amazon AU will list the MM pack so I can move my order over.

Also given the rarity of the Coneheads I feel I got a good deal on Thrust. Pretty much cost the same as Voyager at retail plus shipping.

[griffin]

More official images of the 4 Walmart Headmaster reissues, giving us a good look at the retro styled boxes.

[kovert]

Looks like the Headmaster faces on the box art have been altered to match the faces found on each relevant toy. A number of those G1-style boxes will sadly end up with bent flaps.

[Paulbot]

Looks like the Headmaster faces on the box art have been altered to match the faces found on each relevant toy. A number of those G1-style boxes will sadly end up with bent flaps.

Well yeah, you're right; Hardhead's practically a whole different head! The faces and the Nebulon's legs added and some other minor details. Doesn't look like any of the rest of the body has been altered though.

I googled up some images of the Japanese releases ibut those had the same artwork as the Hasbro ones (thanks Heroic_Decepticon where ever you are)

[kovert]

Yep, the artwork on the vintage Hasbro and Takara boxes appear to be identical.

On closer inspection, it seems the Walmart Headmasters feature the Legends heads on Titans Return (TR) toy bodies. They feature TR colours and tampo printed 'stickers'.

[Tha_Phantom]

I hope a 3P company does a crane piece for "Roadburner" as that cannon just kills it. I checked on my Siege Power Punch last night and that cannon piece can pop out, so should be an easy swap if someone does an upgrade.

[griffin]

I don't like Hotrod being a Voyager, despite Kup and Blurr being Deluxe toys, and Hotrod should be smaller (being the young Autobot), so should at the very least, be the same size or smaller than those two Deluxe toys.
I can understand Grimlock being packaged as a Leader with Wheelie... but Wheelie is not transformable? That's so stupid. How difficult would it be to make him fold in half and be a non-earthen vehicle. Shrinking toy sizes and bumping up size classes to take advantage of collectors is not good... but if these are toys that have no (or minimal) redeco potential, it would explain the motives (like the more expensive recent Masterpiece toys that have limited re-use of the moulds, so have to cost more to make money).

Windstorm should be the blue one (MASK Hurricane homage)
Stingracer should be the orange one (MASK Stinger homage)

I wasn't sure which was which, but Stingracer as a Stinger homage makes sense.
I was surprised that they were doing MASK homages, since there are still so many *Transformers* Micromasters still left to be able to homage (even if the alt-modes were a little off, it hasn't stopped them before if the colours matched)... which are now unlikely, as this looks likely to be the last WFC Micromasters toys.

With Thrust and Runabout being US Target exclusives, I will be having words with Hasbro about it... as I was not happy with us not getting previous Target and Amazon (conehead) exclusives that us dedicate collectors wanted (the two Cyberverse sets coming here were not a priority to serious collectors).

[High_Q]

I don't like Hotrod being a Voyager, despite Kup and Blurr being Deluxe toys, and Hotrod should be smaller (being the young Autobot), so should at the very least, be the same size or smaller than those two Deluxe toys.

The production samples mirrored by TFW2005 show Hot Rod to be of similar height to Kup and Blurr, certainly not the 2 inch height difference expected if the official size classes apply to these figures.