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News Credits: 1 · by **0ctane** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:08 pm

oooooooooooooo Octane =P~

that just looks sooooooo awesome...

I really like the classics sideswipe too :grin:

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:09 pm

Soundwave is the coolest thing ever.

There.

I said it.

News Credits: 25 · by **Glyph** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:13 pm

Oh wow... Classics Sideswipe and Octane look fantastic. Would've liked a little more differentiation with Sunstreaker, but can't really complain.

And, as many have pointed out, the Soundwave-as-axe-hero gets the lulz!

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:13 pm

I have no idea why, but i burst into giggles thinking of Starscream...I want it so bad... LOL

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:16 pm

So i'm confused.

People bitched and whined about the ugly heads and general bad shape of the movie toys.

Yet nearly everyone seems to be excited about the dis-proportioned animated toys? :???:

Sorry, but I like my TF's to be aesthetically pleasing, like the new Classics. Animated is far from aethetically pleasing to me.

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:17 pm

Love those Classics 2.0 designs! Not sold on TF Animated yet, but who knows? I wasn't sold on the movie either....

by **THORTHEGOD** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:17 pm

i say everthing butthe animated figures is good.Ithink they look to much like a normal action figure and not enough like a robot

News Credits: 1 · by **spiritofcat** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:20 pm

Burn wrote:So i'm confused.

People bitched and whined about the ugly heads and general bad shape of the movie toys.

Yet nearly everyone seems to be excited about the dis-proportioned animated toys?

Sorry, but I like my TF's to be aesthetically pleasing, like the new Classics. Animated is far from aethetically pleasing to me.

These new Animated toys are smooooth. I think what a lot of people disliked about the idea of the Movie bots was how jagged they were. They seemed like they were made up of tiny shards of a shattered alt mode.
Sure, the toys didn't turn out like that, but that's part of the problem. The movie toys don't match the movie itself very well. Sure, they try to match the alt and bot modes, but the transformations are nothing like they are in the movie.

With Animated, the toys actually seem to match the animation very well.

News Credits: 1 · by **Craven Knight** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:23 pm

Wow - I love seeing new figures! :grin:

Movie line - I think Landmine and Ininerator look brilliant and I'll be buying those, however Evac is the ugliest repaint... maybe ever?
And how 'bout the '08 BB repaint, damn that's lazy.

Classics 2.0 - Love the look of Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, the fact that Sideswipe a retool and not just a red ersion means I'll get both.

Octaine look excellent, can't wait to see pics of the real thing... a shame Blitzwing isn't getting the classics treatment.

Animated - Eww

They are not my cup of tea, and Starscreams huge chin, WTF?

I don't like their shiny, rubbery look either.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:29 pm

spiritofcat wrote:With Animated, the toys actually seem to match the animation very well.

Maybe so, but I still find the dis-proportioned look un-aesthetically pleasing.

Once I see them in the shops however, my mind may change. But after seeing these pics and the video, my expectations for this new cartoon are still very low.

by **Vile MK III** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:52 pm

Awwww man, a g1 movie Prime. =( Right after I bought Robo-Vsion Prime. As for Animated, I'll just pick up Bumble, I luv the lil dude.

by **Quaternion** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:57 pm

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe resemble Cybertron Crosswise/Smokescreen in alt mode.

Either way, hooray for classics 2.0 and the new movie figures! I'm not so excited about the animated figures but the show looks cool.

by **Sloptank** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 6:57 pm

Sweet stuff!

by **Cloudraker_Fastlane** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:00 pm

Wow the new animated toy line looks really good!I MUST have them all, I dont think there is a mold I dont like.I've got high hopes for the new series the music is very G1!Too bad I live in the UK wont get my hands on these probably until Xmas 2008

. And dont even get me started on Classics 2.0!I must get the Twins. Ocatane looks kinda cool too.Wonder what Classics Prowl will look like. All in all good job Hasbro!

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:31 pm

Not digging Landmine, Stockade, Evac (looks awful), Nightwatch Prime, nor Incinerator. Cliffy looks good (safe for the head) but I don't think I'll want to buy that mould twice (even though it looks great). G1 Voyager Prime looks fantastic but I hate the robot mode chest. Leader Brawl shouldn't have the blue.

I can't wait for more G1 Robot Heroes, and I hope the Beast Wars ones aren't too bad.

Swipes and Sunny look great. A little too similar, but I love how Swipe's got his rocket and Sun's got his chrome backpack. Holy crap, Octane's never looked better! I just hope the plane and truck modes don't conflict like they do on Astrotrain, especially since they're different colours. I hope they look good in plastic!

As for the Animated, I don't like either of the Primes, nor Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Prowl, Ratchet, the Dinobots, what I assume to be Megatron, BruceCampbellscream (or is that Thundercracker?), Lugnut, Lockdown, Blackarachnia (major WTF), nor Soundwave (sweet Raptor Jesus, NO). Blitzwing shows promise, though I'd rather they make a Classic of him (he turns into a HISS tank??). Overall, this 'Animated' line looks terrible.

News Credits: 1 · by **Craven Knight** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:42 pm

I look forward to seeing Soundwave rock out on his flying V guitar

- dumb pimped out SUV alt mode though, what is he ment to be a drug dealer or a rapstar or something?

I just spotted lugnut's toy design, I like that one - the retro bomber style cockpit windows look nice - again, reminiscent of Advance Wars.

by **microclone** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:59 pm

re the animated toys, you dont like, then no buy, so good bye!!

These are fresh and fun, complainers stick to ebay.

by **Nemesis Cyberplex** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:00 pm

Movie G1 Prime: Yes, yes, yes, yes hell yes!!! That thing is beautiful & looks so much better than the flame design.

Animated: interesting....some are okay, some aren't too great. Character development might change my mind on a few.

Love Megatron's arm cannon. BAY TAKE NOTE!!! ARM CANNON = BADASS.

Classics look pretty spiffy, too.

Man I sure hope I have more disposable income by next year. All these bills I have right now are getting me behind on my collecting.......

News Credits: 1 · by **Blozor** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:07 pm

Octane is the most badass figure of all of them. His Transformation is unfathomable, however I have a sneaking suspicion that his plane mode is going to lack. Notice they showed us a prototype of the truck mode, a drawing of the robot mode, and a stock photo of a jet. If they pull him off nearly as well as Astrotrain, I'll be sold, though. The truck mode looks sweet and the robot mode ungodly.

My only gripe is that we have to wait until the end of next year for more Classics. Hasbro needs to get on the ball and make these yearly instead of once every two years, or make more than a handful when they do make them.

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:08 pm

I love everything except the crappy photography.

The Best:
-Classics(ofcourse), but would have liked to see more than the same stuff at BotCon.
-Dinobots
-Blitzwing! :DANCE:

-Soundwave. The guitar is so funny. I wonder if he'll use that axe as an axe.

The Worst:
-Cliffjumper. While I do like it, I've been think about this for the past few days, and I would have liked to see the colors reversed. Black with red stripes. A little teal on the bot. Like an evil Nemesis Bumblebee. Hey, he's a spy. And you saw how fast he changed his alt mode in the mode. So why not change his colors and go undercover as a Decepticon?
-Evac. Bad colors. Change the orange to red and drop the blue. Then he's be wicked.
-Movie Primes repaints. While I like the G1 voyager repaint, I already have the robo-vision one and I don't like the mold that much. I want to get Leader Prime, but if that Night Attack one is an exclusive, I'll by passing him completely until another repaint comes along.
-Starscream. While he looks great, the blue on him doesn't leave much room for a Thundercracker repaint. Just like how Takara screwed us over with MP Screamers blue color scheme.
-Everything else. While I do like everything else, most of it looks pass-able.

by **microclone** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:17 pm

the classics toys are definitive for sure, genuine awesome updates for kids and fans.

The animation toys, well to my mind they look cool on their own merits and thats what is important. They remind me of that 1980's generic mecha model series 'magaro zamac' which were basic, clunky and colourful, rather like basic gundam stuff. They have character for sure, the upcoming movie toys whilst not dreadful (and the BB repaint in red is sweet) are pushed into the abyss by these.

I never watched the TF gen 1 cartoon as I was 'too old' back then, but from my virgin eyes the cartoon looks pretty darn good, and for a TF fan i am an old sod.

THink about it, since the release of the original cartoon shot the response has become more and more positive, if those rather dull (but still OK) movie toys are sold out!! then these should do really well come spring 2008.

Classics (all you want, pure TF), movie (real vehicles and new bot ideas) and animated (fun for the kids but cool anyway), anybody whos still a crying needs to seriously loosen up. 2008 is possibly the best year for TF since way back. So for all those fans using the argument from incredulity 'they cannot possibly make transforming toys that look like that' (because you simply cannot imagine it)eat you words and try to broaden your narrow minds.

by **ChromedomeMK2** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:20 pm

I knew it, the new Animated Toys sucks big time, they really look like preschooler's cartoon .
I want the Classics

Classics Line=AWESOME!
New TF Movie toys=AWESOME!
Animated show toys+not so much.

by **microclone** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:22 pm

Craven Knight wrote:
I don't like their shiny, rubbery look either.

that shiny look could be the testshot (or whatever they are called) mock up colours so not representative, i previous post said they were supposed to be very matt.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nemesis Hacker** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:24 pm

I WILL HAVE VOYAGR INCINERATOR,

i only collect decpticons but even if he is a autobot I WILL BUY THAT FIGURE!!!!!!

by **Night~GONE** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:32 pm

Well the animated toy are awsome. So im going to stop buying anything till they some out. Also kinda odd how people are trying to whine about how these look kinda kiddie and they do thats what makes em great. People like robot heros VERY kiddie and people dont complain about them. I cant wait to see sound wave and megatron in color.I wont but cybertronian mode deluxe optimus ill buy his awsome voyager or leaderclass one. Love all of them even blackarachnia.To bad they didnt have a toy pic of blitzwing just lugnutz witch looks awsome aswell.