Generations Combiner Wars Legends Class Buzzsaw, Pipes, Chop Shop and Shockwave Sighted at US Retail

steals_your_goats wrote:I didn't realise that people haven't seen these out in the wild yet. My local Wal-Mart has had these guys for about a month now and they even have the wave 6 deluxe figures. No Voyagers unfortunately

Katarn84 wrote:The world would be headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
I mean Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff!
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes!
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Katarn84 wrote:The world would be headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
I mean Old Testament, real wrath-of-God type stuff!
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes!
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

why are you quoting Ghostbusters?

DeathReviews wrote:Reviewing Buzzsaw soon - preview warning to any who get this: The stickers which make up the display 'screen' of the tablet mode can get scraped and damaged by the transformation very easily....

Randomhero wrote: but Buzzsaw is way too big and kinda just...meh. Maybe my opinion will change when Soundwave is out.

Randomhero wrote:I found the wave about 2 weeks ago in Des Moines Iowa and picked up the whole set. I have to say this is a first for me but they were all extremely bland. I've been looking for shockwave forever and finally got him and the only one out of the set that 'wowed' me was pipes and he's just a recolor of Huffer. I like shockwave and chop shop but Buzzsaw is way too big and kinda just...meh. Maybe my opinion will change when Soundwave is out.

Amelie wrote:I hate to say this - all the cassetticons shown thus far for Titan\Combiner Wars so far have been awful. The original Microchange figures managed to get some rather sleek, nice animal and robot modes from a much thinner design - would it really have been so hard to do something similar that was a phone?

william-james88 wrote:I completly agree. I dont get how hings could be so off course. But the Rumble/Rewind robot is fine, no? Its more the animals that suffer.

He looked ok... but then I went back to the original G1.

So we have this... phone... tank... guy

and this... cassette... guy..


and in all honesty - G1 Rumble still wins this hands down for me. The alt-mode looks like its supposed to and the the robot mode doesn't have alt-mode stuff getting in the way (like on Titan Wars' fists, for example).

Making the tiny rectangle a triple-changer was a total mistake, IMO. The phone\block doesn't really look much like anything and the tank itself only scrapes a pass and the whole process has meant the robot mode now lacks anything really resembling a forearm.

Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example

Amelie wrote:Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example[/color]

william-james88 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I found the wave about 2 weeks ago in Des Moines Iowa and picked up the whole set. I have to say this is a first for me but they were all extremely bland. I've been looking for shockwave forever and finally got him and the only one out of the set that 'wowed' me was pipes and he's just a recolor of Huffer. I like shockwave and chop shop but Buzzsaw is way too big and kinda just...meh. Maybe my opinion will change when Soundwave is out.

Would you mind elaborating on why you find Pipes fun and are not wowed by Shockwave? I love opinions which clash with what I heard pervious and since i dont have either (they didnt apepar in canada yet), I am really curious to know what you think of these.

Amelie wrote:I hate to say this - all the cassetticons shown thus far for Titan\Combiner Wars so far have been awful. The original Microchange figures managed to get some rather sleek, nice animal and robot modes from a much thinner design - would it really have been so hard to do something similar that was a phone?

I completly agree. I dont get how hings could be so off course. But the Rumble/Rewind robot is fine, no? Its more the animals that suffer.

kurthy wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Reviewing Buzzsaw soon - preview warning to any who get this: The stickers which make up the display 'screen' of the tablet mode can get scraped and damaged by the transformation very easily....

Death, I think you might be overselling the quality of the sticker. I know mine is already looking ragged on the edges after transforming it a couple of times. It probably wasn't a good idea to have three stickers that need to be lined up correctly and smooth to make one of the modes look good.

Amelie wrote:the whole process has meant the robot mode now lacks anything really resembling a forearm.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Amelie wrote:the whole process has meant the robot mode now lacks anything really resembling a forearm.

Well that doesn't stop people from loving energon rodimus

william-james88 wrote:

Amelie wrote:Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example[/color]

I feel that was about Sky lynx as well. Not sure about Fortress Maximus, but the fact that him beinga remold gets in the way fo him having his standard alt mode works against him in my book.

MR Optimus Prime wrote:You know what would have been cool? A lawn mower handle for Buzzsaw's ground mode, that's what!

Delta Magnus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Amelie wrote:the whole process has meant the robot mode now lacks anything really resembling a forearm.

Well that doesn't stop people from loving energon rodimus

People love that toy? I mean, don't get me wrong, the vehicle mode kicks arse and I'd love to see the toy get a modern update, but he looks really weird in robot mode, probably due to having to form half a combiner.

william-james88 wrote:

Amelie wrote:Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example[/color]

I feel that was about Sky lynx as well. Not sure about Fortress Maximus, but the fact that him beinga remold gets in the way fo him having his standard alt mode works against him in my book.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:You know what would have been cool? A lawn mower handle for Buzzsaw's ground mode, that's what!

Naw man, he's a skateboard!!

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Amelie wrote:Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example[/color]

I feel that was about Sky lynx as well. Not sure about Fortress Maximus, but the fact that him beinga remold gets in the way fo him having his standard alt mode works against him in my book.

i dunno about that, coz most or nearly all versions of Fort Max(G1, Kabaya, KO, Infinitor) can form that weird city mode + the only reason(apart from the metroplex mold not allowing for it to turn into the standard city mode) was coz that weird city mode was featured in some old transformers toy catalogue. And remember! Infinitor has a weird alt city mode too!(which comes as standard & is featured in the instructions & on the box).

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:You know what would have been cool? A lawn mower handle for Buzzsaw's ground mode, that's what!

Naw man, he's a skateboard!!

A skateboard with a wheelie bar

That Bot wrote:Firstly, I, like most everybody else, have seen this wave in stores already. Not to sound unappreciative, but I guess nobody remembered to report the initial sighting and we all just assumed someone else had, because these have been out for a few weeks, bordering on a month.

william-james88 wrote:

That Bot wrote:Firstly, I, like most everybody else, have seen this wave in stores already. Not to sound unappreciative, but I guess nobody remembered to report the initial sighting and we all just assumed someone else had, because these have been out for a few weeks, bordering on a month.

Thanks That Bot, I myself was thinking thats exactly what happened. They were available online at hasbro toy shop with the discount and a bunch of US fans got them there. There were pics taken of people finally getting them and opinions were discussed. So when they appeared at retail, there wasn't a hoopla.

william-james88 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Amelie wrote:Its very rare I look at new figures and think "the G1 is objectively better", but this is one such example[/color]

I feel that was about Sky lynx as well. Not sure about Fortress Maximus, but the fact that him beinga remold gets in the way fo him having his standard alt mode works against him in my book.

i dunno about that, coz most or nearly all versions of Fort Max(G1, Kabaya, KO, Infinitor) can form that weird city mode + the only reason(apart from the metroplex mold not allowing for it to turn into the standard city mode) was coz that weird city mode was featured in some old transformers toy catalogue. And remember! Infinitor has a weird alt city mode too!(which comes as standard & is featured in the instructions & on the box).

So you think we will be able to give Fort Max his actual city mold?

Stuartmaximus wrote:as for ramps(the one's on his arms) dunno if they'll be removable or not yet?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:as for ramps(the one's on his arms) dunno if they'll be removable or not yet?

The small red ones? those are the ones you connect to the other base mode figures, they look like they just clip onto his arm, so I guess you're good to go if you wanna yank 'em off

Autobot N wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:as for ramps(the one's on his arms) dunno if they'll be removable or not yet?

The small red ones? those are the ones you connect to the other base mode figures, they look like they just clip onto his arm, so I guess you're good to go if you wanna yank 'em off

I'm pretty sure Stu's talking about the giant ramps on the back of Fort's arms.

Randomhero wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:You know what would have been cool? A lawn mower handle for Buzzsaw's ground mode, that's what!

Naw man, he's a skateboard!!

A skateboard with a wheelie bar

Leave the wheels on and it's a hover board for tailgate

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:You know what would have been cool? A lawn mower handle for Buzzsaw's ground mode, that's what!

Naw man, he's a skateboard!!

A skateboard with a wheelie bar

Leave the wheels on and it's a hover board for tailgate

I think that had been brought up before. I think Cobs even colored Buzzsaw pink so we could see the image. Taser-pink-hoverboard for the win!

Cobotron wrote: Hooooooray for youheidx videos!!
Why do I love them so much?

MaverickPrime wrote:Wait...they JUST got released in the US??? Holy crap, we got them in mexico over a week ago!!! WE GOT THEM BEFORE YOU DID?????
well, other mexicans, when I heard and went to walmart, they had already sold off all the Shockwaves, damn scalpers

carytheone wrote:So, what do you think?