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[Tyrannacon]

Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.

[SW's SilverHammer]

Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!

Toy fair starts this Saturday, it goes on until the following Tuesday.

[Cobotron]

Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.

Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.
Did you notice the prices for voyagers at TRU? $29.99! I saw this, came home and ordered both first wave CW voyagers form BBTS for $49.99. Who does TRU think theys is?

[Va'al]

Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!

Toy fair starts this Saturday, it goes on until the following Tuesday.

Though Saturday/Sunday are the biggest moments for news.


Just stay tuned.
(As I get little to no sleep, scream at my modem, boss staff around and fall asleep Monday morning during my lecture.)

[Tyrannacon]

Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.

Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.
Did you notice the prices for voyagers at TRU? $29.99! I saw this, came home and ordered both first wave CW voyagers form BBTS for $49.99. Who does TRU think theys is?

I did when I bought AoE Galvatron back a couple months ago actually. It's why I ordered CW Voyager Optimus Prime online on Amazon to sorta wet my appetite for my Leader G1 Megatron that's coming. With the range of articulation Megs has, based on the reviews, I might do an action pose with him "holding" Prime above his head on my shelf. Then when I get the limbs for Ultra Prime I might put them in a fighting pose of some sort.

[Cobotron]

Hey Seibertron! When does your flight leave? I'm getting Antsy!

Toy fair starts this Saturday, it goes on until the following Tuesday.

Though Saturday/Sunday are the biggest moments for news.


Just stay tuned.
(As I get little to no sleep, scream at my modem, boss staff around and fall asleep Monday morning during my lecture.)

I CAN'T WAIT! I'M SO EXCITED!

[Rated X]

So what exactly is "G3" anyways ?

Inquiring minds want to know ?

Every current offering from the Generations line starting with the IDW release wave containing Pax, Bumblebee, Trailcutter, and Megatron almost two years back. Its is the current incarnation of the transformers in the toyline. Just like G2 before it.

Maybe from a comic reading standpoint that would make sense. But truth be told Generations, Thrilling 30, Combiner Wars, or whatever they call it in 2016 is just a random medley of homages from older continuities. IDW throws together whatever homages Hasbro makes that year and writes a comic. Thats why we call it CHUG. It's an ongoing line of homages that gets a new name every year. Not everybody reads comics, also.

[SW's SilverHammer]

Yo, the Club Magazine's arriving with a preview of warpath. A friend just told me about him; and yes yes, he got it from tfw. Warpath appears to a a slight redeco and retool of the Generations Legends Megatron toy. The colors and head are G1 Warpath, but he lacks the classic barrel.

[Sabrblade]

Yo, the Club Magazine's arriving with a preview of warpath. A friend told me about him. Warpath appears to a a slight redeco and retool of the Generations Legends Megatron toy. The colors and head are G1 Warpath, but he lacks the classic barrel chest due to the mold choice.

Drat! I was afraid Hasbro was gonna do that.

Now if we want a proper Treds redeco to go with other hypothetical Generations Legends GoBots, Generations Deluxe Warpath is too big and Universe Legends Warpath is too small.

[Break]

Combiner Wars Optimus Prime and Silverbolt arrived at the Clarksville, Indiana Wal-Mart last night.

I bought Prime, and am having a hard time getting him to fit right into his truck mode. Haven't tried transforming him into Omega yet.

EDIT: I paid $24.99 for it.

[Peridot]

True on G2. I guess we have to go with it though because it was officially branded as such.

I don't think you can classify Classics, RTS, and Universe with Generations. The former was straight up recreations of G1 characters and was advertised as such, whereas Generations has become its own entity with the comics driving the fiction, which is entirely separate from G1. The first year of Geneerations was like Classics, but after FOC took over it changed.

So the recent Generations Leaders Jetfire and Megatron are not reinterpretations of the G1 characters as were the initial universe/classic releases of Jetfire and Megatron? Or are they testament that the generations line has rebooted what the classics line began? What about Arcee and Chromia? I do see how the line changed with FOC. But releases like Nightbeat and Roadbuster and the others mentioned above really feel like a continuation of the notion that the initial classics line had. Would you agree?

I can see why one would think that for some of the figures, like Roadbuster, Whirl, and Arcee. But ultimately I view them as a stand alone. The fact that Jhaxis, Waspinator, and Rhinox, among others, didn't even exist in G1 solidifies this for me. Which is great, because you can have new additions, like Alpha and Offroad, and totally disregard prior fiction that would have made his inclusion illogical.

I have been on both sides in my time with transformers. And I find the Classics style collecting very constraining. You have a set of rules and ideologies you have to conform to. With the new line, its all open. Anyone can exist in this continuity, or not, like in the case of Wildrider.

I don't quite get your argument. You say the difference between Classics and Generations is that Classics is reimagined G1 while Generations is fiction driven. Except:

-The IDW fiction is a reimagining of the G1 Universe, so you can say the corresponding Generations figures (particularly the IDW-styled ones) are similarly G1 updates

-The standalones you mention are all G1 in one form or another; Jhiaxus is in the original Marvel comics, while Whirl and Roadbuster were G1 toys

-As WJ mentioned, Beast Wars is technically within the G1 timeline, so once again, figures like Rhinox, Rattrap, and Waspinator can be viewed as updates to that timeline


All of these characters are being reintegrated into a new storyline/continuity, but they're mostly G1 homages, with the nice addition of some new characters to cut our teeth on. This obsession you have with framing the argument as your openness to new-ness vs. others' hard and set ideology (seriously - you think we have an ideology???) does a real disservice to the complexities of what the Generations line can be to different people, and how the IDW comics have managed to breathe new life into this old brand.

^This x1000000! @Shockblast- You are not the welcoming, open-minded Transformers messiah you seem to think you are, as is clear from your dismissive, argumentative attitude, and everybody else is not a shut-in, whiny, 1984-obsessed group of collectors. By immediately dismissing other's arguments and reducing them to "NO IT'S NOT GEEWUN ENOUGH!1! ", you effectively shut down any possible opportunity for honest, open discussion and debate.

[Optimum Supreme]

BTW, I didn't know G2 had a cartoon? If the user meant because of the Japanese cartoons that came after G1, that is irrelevant to us living in the 90's in the US. Because they never aired here. So technically G2 had no cartoon driving it.

It was the original cartoon with crappy CGI bookends. It still counts.

LOL...I guess. The point is I don't recall it being aired in the US, and I was 12 or so at the time. If it did I don't remember it.

It definitely aired in the US. Maybe your area didn't have a station that carried it.

[kirbenvost]

Slightly weird shoulders aside, MAN Megatron looks good. If only he was big enough to stand a bit taller than MP-10. Oh well, he will stand awkwardly tall in a place of honor with my classics. And while it's doubtful, if he manages to get released up here before the Takara version I would be more than happy to get the Hasbro one instead.

[Sabrblade]

BTW, I didn't know G2 had a cartoon? If the user meant because of the Japanese cartoons that came after G1, that is irrelevant to us living in the 90's in the US. Because they never aired here. So technically G2 had no cartoon driving it.

It was the original cartoon with crappy CGI bookends. It still counts.

LOL...I guess. The point is I don't recall it being aired in the US, and I was 12 or so at the time. If it did I don't remember it.

It definitely aired in the US. Maybe your area didn't have a station that carried it.

Here's a list of all the broadcast networks that aired Transformers cartoons in the U.S. G2's cartoon included.

[Railbomb]

Is there any word on if Blackjack's ax thing can form Menasor's sword hilt yet? Sorry if this has already been answered, just a little bit curious and didn't feel like going through over 100 pages of this to find out.

[Sabrblade]

Is there any word on if Blackjack's ax thing can form Menasor's sword hilt yet? Sorry if this has already been answered, just a little bit curious and didn't feel like going through over 100 pages of this to find out.

It can't.

[Solrac333]

He is a maybe. He looks alright. But, sorry, I cannot stand bad guys being bigger than the good guys. I like that Optimus and Megatron are equal in power and size.

[SkyWarpt]

Must be a different part of TX, all my stores have peg warmed Tankor, the rodent, and TF4 one step changers

Scrap...Personally, I think Tankor looks like a McD's toy with great paint apps, but somewhere on these boards someone said they purchased Tankor based on his backstory, so there I go reading. Now I kinda want one, even though I did notice I was right; he was a happy meal toy in 2000.

[CrankyOldTruck]

Just to show I'm not as inflexible and pig headed as other grouchy loudmouths on this site *cough T-macksimus cough* I'll back pedal and say that I was wrong about my past remarks on this figure. I still stand by my dislike of the shiny but the detail on this Megatron is friggin amazing.
I'm still a bit bent out of shape that he's Leader class. I think that if they were going to give Prime the combiner treatment they should have figured a way to do the same to Megatron. After all, he did combine with the Constructicons a few times so if they aren't going to make Prowl a part of the set then they should have put Megs on the same scale as Prime and added him to the Titan class figure in some way or done SOMETHING to keep things even. Meh, it is what it is.
Cool figure. Too big, too shiny but damn it has some nice detail to it. I'll display it alongside my MP Prime if nothing else.

[Va'al]

Is there any word on if Blackjack's ax thing can form Menasor's sword hilt yet? Sorry if this has already been answered, just a little bit curious and didn't feel like going through over 100 pages of this to find out.

It can't.

I choose to believe it *could*, just doesn't want to.

[KnightAero]

Made a run to Toys R Us and Target today to mostly see what they had and there were no Combiner Wars here in my part of Ohio. Target had room for 'em, but it was an empty shelf. Slow going here in north east Ohio where I'm at. They did have RiD toys at TRU though. Something tells me it might be a while before they reach saturation here. I saw they had a lot of AoE stuff left over.

Same over here on the west side of the middle. Nebraska is a waste land. And so are the retailers.
Did you notice the prices for voyagers at TRU? $29.99! I saw this, came home and ordered both first wave CW voyagers form BBTS for $49.99. Who does TRU think theys is?

They want you to open their credit card... I think its 15% off first purchase. And then 10% after that... Still not any where near what other retailers get down to... I prefer Amazon, but you have to be quick as they go real fast on their... (At least the more in-demand ones.)

[Autobot032]

From Weibo user GRAVE模攝工作室, the fandom has their first in-hand look at the production/retail version of Leader Class Thundercracker. This is a rather extensive retool of the Jetfire mold, carrying all of his accessories minus the fastpack and the chrome. This Thundercracker is a Combiner Wars/Generations release and is due out sometime this Spring. As soon as we receive out of package images, we'll share them with you, so keep checking back for updates!





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[steve2275]

SWEEEEET

[slidgehamma]

I wish they could do the same for menasor, bruticus, computron, abominus and defensor.

[Sabrblade]

Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian, fenrir72, we were directed to the link of Amiami's higher resolution and non-watermarked copies of the previously seen promotional photos for the upcoming TakaraTomy Unite Warriors Aerialbots set. The updated images feature Slingshot in better detail as well, and as expected, all of the figures feature different decos from their Hasbro counterparts including their weapons and combiner weapons/appendages.

Wait, why is this in the Combiner Wars thread instead of the Unite Warriors thread?