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As teased in previous days, as by our report here, officially licensed company Super7 has announced its New York Comic Con 2018 Transformers exclusives, continuing the decoy and Super Cyborg lines we saw first at San Diego Comic Con 2018.
The Keshi Surprise, so far shown off with Optimus Prime and Megatron in blue and purple respectively, will featured Decepticon and Autobot blind boxes, each priced at $4.
Transformers Autobot Keshi Surprise 1.75" Figure Blind Box. Each box contains a random figure (Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Jazz, Ironhide, or Wheeljack) and an exclusive foil sticker of that character. NYCC Debut. $4 per blind box.
Transformers Decepticons Keshi Surprise 1.75" Figure Blind Box. Each box contains a random figure (Megatron, Starscream, Shrapnel, Soundwave, Laserbeak, or Shockwave) and an exclusive foil sticker of that character. NYCC Debut. $4 per blind box.
Whereas in the Super Cyborg line, we have an exclusive redeco of the Optimus Prime figure seen previously, but in the grey, 'dead' mode from the 1986 feature length cartoon.
Transformers - Super Cyborg "Dead" Optimus Prime 12" Figure with removable chest plate (Grayscale figure and packaging). NYCC Exclusive Limited Edition. $75 each.
As always, fellow Seibertron user, #Sideways# (who pointed us in the direction of this reveals) shares his thoughts on the card effects and what effect (if any) it'll have on the game.
#Sideways# wrote:Chromia is -- oddly -- the leader of the FemmeCycle archetype and the last femme we're going to be seeing from the game until next wave. She, unsurprisingly, is a Motorcycle Specialist, which is slightly unnerving given that we don't have much in the ways of exclusive Specialist support or Motorcycle support, but one great part about her innate abilities is that she is a Leader, which means she can take advantage of the Matrix of Leadership. Any deck where you can play that card to its fullest potential doesn't just have my attention -- it has my curiosity.
She has some interesting abilities, chief of which is the ability to return white-pipped cards from your discard pile to your hand. You can use this to find Actions you have already played or even better, return used Force Fields from the discard pile to play. This alone makes her formidable and a necessity to the fragile Motorcycle archetype.
Her robot mode is also great as it allows you to draw two cards more or less every time you attack with her. Despite her draw power, attacking in this mode is a risk -- she has zero defense, and if you don't have a Force Field on you already, you're going to have a bad time.
All in all, she's a good card that definitely has a place in the Motorcycle archetype. But outside of that, I wonder what other interesting combinations one might have to capitalize on her potential not just as a defensive character but as an offensive one. Perhaps, even, ironically playing her with Shockwave, constantly reusing and abusing System Reboot to deal indirect damage.
Roll Out
#Sideways# wrote:This card is really, really great.
I don't think you understand just how great this card is. This doesn't just transform one character like Rapid Conversion does; this transforms ALL of them. Sure, it's only from Bot to Vehicle mode and sometimes you want to keep someone in their robot mode, but either way, this card is utterly fantastic for decks like Insecticons or Motorcycles that play a large amount of characters that will all be transformed to Robot mode one by one.
But here's the kicker.
This allows you to use all of their effects at once. Most Transformers have an effect when you transform them to their vehicle mode, and this transforms EVERYONE. But to make matters even better, this is the only other card we know of that has both blue and orange pips on it -- so in other words, there's almost no downside to play this card.
Of course, not every deck wants to play this card -- but believe me when I say that most will.
The person who designed this card, Matt Smith (no not the one you are thinking of) also put his thoughts down about his creation.
Matt Smith wrote:"What would you think of an Action card that grabbed a weapon from your scrap pile then gave your character pierce 2 and Bold 1 until end of turn? How about one that bounced all of a character’s upgrades, repaired all of your characters for 1 then drew a card?! I was hoping you’d do all that and more when I designed ROLL OUT!"
Cybertonium Bow
Shock Absorbers
#Sideways wrote:These cards are very healthy cards. They reward building decks with both blue and orange cards instead of a few rogue ideas of playing nothing but orange and white. Naturally, they have to get the exact same amount of blue and orange pips for their effect to work, which brings me to my second point.
One of these cards is strictly not good.
I know what you're thinking. "B-but Sideways, what the scrap is your problem, these function on the same principle! Are you crazy?" And you'd be right. But you'd be wrong about them being the same. Cybertonium Bow is a Weapon, whereas Shock Absorbers is an Armor.
The weapons we have seen outclass Cybertonium Bow in almost every way. Grenade Launcher adds more consistent, more powerful damage, Power Sword gives you the much better Bold effect to deal potentially more damage and frankly, milling your deck is better for you than you might think. There are more examples of better weapons, but let's be honest, you're not going to read them all.
Cybertonium Bow is inconsistent and relies on a lot of luck to pull off. It would be one thing if it just said, "count blue pips as orange pips", but it says that you have to flip the exact number of blue pips as orange pips. It doesn't even give you bold to help with this goal. Almost any other weapon is better.
But Shock Absorbers are the second best Armor we've seen, period. Nothing will dethrone Force Field as Armor King, but looking at the other Armor cards, do you notice something? They all only give +1 Armor or Tough 1. Which is why Shock Absorbers is a great Armor card -- it gives +1 Armor, but has the potential to add so much more.
If there were better armor cards, sure, then Shock Absorbers might fall into disuse, but until then, this is the second best armor we have.
The Official Transformers Trading Card Game is realised on September 28th
What do you make of these reveals? Stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.
Fellow Seibertron user #Sideways# has shared his thoughts with us about Grimlock and about his interaction with the rest of the Dinobots.
#Sideways# wrote:Life, uh... Found a way.
So Grimlock is naturally very great for the Dinobot Archetype. You use his vehicle mode to add on to the already massive amounts of Bold given to your Dinobots through Jaws of Steel, Power Sword and Dino-Chomp! and give them Bold 13. This means you will be flipping a rough estimate of 17 cards off the top of your deck when you attack with a fully upgraded Dinobot.
These damage numbers give me diabetes.
His Robot mode is also fantastic, as he has Trample -- the ability to still use overkill damage. When you're flipping an ungodly amount of cards from the top of your deck, you're going to overkill something sometime, and this makes good use of that. Especially when your opponents have access to low HP characters, like Cars or Insecticons.
Sludge also adds to his survivability, which brings me to my second point: You can play a team of Dinobots. Grimlock is 10 points, and with Sludge at 8 and Snarl at 7, you come in with the best all-around Dinobot team at exactly 25 points. It even has draw power.
Mark my words, Dinobots will be one of the major meta-defining archetypes coming out of this first set. Even if it does require setup time.
Here is the first of the two action cards revealed:
Equipment Enthusiast
#Sideways# wrote:This card is insane. It's an instant staple in almost every deck, except for certain decks that play only a handful of upgrades. But this is one of the few cards that, interestingly enough, give you more cards in your hand. Almost every card that draws cards ends up essentially replacing itself. Take, for instance, Inspiring Leadership.
Inspiring Leadership draws three cards and discards two from your hand. But Inspiring Leadership itself is a card that discards from your hand, leaving you at a stagnant hand size. This card can draw you a massive amount of cards, raw drawing three, four, five, or even more cards.
Enthusiast is really a great card that gets better over the course of the game. Not great at all at the start, but late in the game can really pack a punch.
Photon Bomb
As side from #Sideways# musings about this card, card designer, Scott Van Essen has spoken about this action card through the Facebook page.
#Sideways# wrote:Photon Bomb is the spicy, tattooed punk sister of Plasma Burst. Thus, I, being a fan of those, am very interested in this card. But even better, this makes playing Tall just a little more playable. If your opponent has four Characters in play, you're essentially doing eight damage without even attacking for the turn. Of course, you're taking damage too, but if you're playing Tall (two characters), you're taking minimal damage. If you, yourself, are using a Wide setup with three or more Transformers in play... Well, might want to rethink putting this card in your deck.
Another thing that this card does is allows you to set up damage on your characters for cards like Energon Axe or Swoop's ability, both of which requiring you to have damage on you already to properly use them. Naturally, this is a double-edged sword -- but what tortoise ever got anywhere without sticking its neck out first?
Scott Van Essen wrote:"Getting overrun by motorcycles? Swarmed by Insecticons? Want to blow up all the things? Photon Bomb’s the answer to so many questions you have yet to ask.
You might be surprised to see no battle icons on a card with a symmetrical effect. Believe me when I say that this notionally “fair” effect can be used in very unfair ways. To begin with, it is quite powerful in a “Go Tall” vs “Go Wide” matchup.
Photon Bomb is more subtly strong in low-armor, high-health vs. high-armor, low-health matchups, and can be situationally very impactful when you use it to unexpectedly KO one (or more!!) of your opponent’s heavily damaged characters.
Photon Bomb is the kind of card that designers love. It’s exciting to read, you know immediately what it does, and it has a major impact on the board. Yet, as you play with it, you discover depths of nuance and strategy that are not initially apparent."
We're getting closer and closer to this games release, will you be playing it? Let us know in the comments and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.
The next Happy Meal theme in the US was said to be the Transformers: Bumblebee movie, at least for the "boys" toys. As it turns out, fellow Seibertronian xRotorstormx has found these Happy Meal toys today and it turns out these are not specifically for the Bumblebee movie. They are instead Cyberverse themed toys, the same previously found elsewhere in th world. However, for their distribution in th US, McDonalds chose to rebrand them under the Bumblebee movie.
Here are some images below alog with a video (mute it for the sake of your eardrums).
Enjoy!
Here is the line up
Optimus Prime
Bumblebee (in vehicle and robot mode)
Starscream
Windblade
Megatron
Grimlock
Shockwave
Not really part of the upcoming toyline for the animated show Transformers: Cyberverse, we do however have some information on the McDonald's Russia promotion of the superdeformed figures that will accompany their menu during the May-June period!
The various figures showing up include the generally known players in the Transformers stable, with the new show's designs (using the Evergreen concepts) Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Windblade, Megatron, Starscream, Shockwave, and Grimlock. You can check them all out below, with some machine translation of the features, and the promotional clip uploaded to YouTube!
Bumblebee with rocket launcher: Autobot-scout loyal to Optimus Prime. Insert the projectile into the rocket launcher, press the red button and hit any target!
Windblade with rotating turbines: Autobot warrior. Click on the red button on the back of Windblade and start rotating turbines that allow her to fly.
Walking Megatron: Leader of Decepticons. Wind-up the mechanism built into the Megatron helmet and attack any opponent.
Grimlock with burning fire: Dinobot-Autobot is a friend of Bumblebee. Click on the red button in the shape of the Autobot logo and activate the fire flame of Grimlock.
Optimus Prime with a sword: Leader of the Autobots. Attack enemies by clicking on the blue button on the back of Optimus.
Bumblebee Racer: Autobot scout. In his mode, Bumblebee transforms into a racing car. Pull back the car and let go.
Starscream fighting aircraft: Decepticon faithful to Megatron. Click on the launch button and you will see Starscream attacking the enemies.
Shockwave with rockets: Decepticon scientist and subordinate of Megatron. When the missile system is guided to the enemy, the flight mode is activated.
Updating our stories about the latest wave of Transformers: The Last Knight Tiny Turbo Changers, which had yet to be seen anywhere at retail or in photography, we have a whole slew of in-hand images of the wee critters below!
We've also re-included the package codes for each figure if you're only after select characters, and Seibertron notes the following for those interested:
Bumblebee is the same as previous releases, based off his Age of Extinction appearance. The red figures are all the exact shade of red. The blue figures are all different shades. Barricade is his Transformers (2007) version and is my personal favorite from this wave, though Ironhide is a really, really close 2nd. Speaking of which, Ironhide shares transformation with Grimlock. Drift is AOE blue versus previous red The Last Knight version. Silver Knight Optimus Prime is obviously recolor of previous version. Ratchet is an obnoxious yellowish neon green color, very different from digital product images. Phantom Strike Lockdown is the same, just translucent. Sky Rage Starscream is a red recolor of previous Starscream figures. Dino is a red recolor of Series 2 Hot Rod.
Series 3 E 80051 Bumblebee
Series 3 A 80051 Ratchet
Series 3 B 80051 Slug
Series 3 C 80051 Phantom Strike Lockdown
Series 3 J 80051 Sky Rage Starscream
Series 3 F 80051 Evac
Series 3 I 80051 Silver Knight Optimus Prime
Series 3 N 80051 Drift
Series 3 P 80051 Barricade
Series 3 D 80051 Sentinel Prime
Series 3 H 80051 Ironhide
Series 3 G 80051 Dino
Fellow Seibertronian xRotorstormx has alerted us to the recent availability in Hobby Lobby stores of a large wooden sign, prominently featuring a Generation 1-style image of Optimus Prime! The sign measures in at roughly 1x2 feet in size ( 15 1/2" by 23 13/16" to be precise), and while the price in physical stores is currently unknown, it's also available online from Hobby Lobby's website for a rather thrifty $17.49.
Why is the price so low on that, you may well ask? The answer ties into our second piece of news - it appears that Hobby Lobby is currently running some form of sale on a couple of their Transformers-themed items. Both this sign, and an also-available metal sign featuring six iconic characters (Optimus, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Megatron, Starscream and Soundwave), are reduced to 50% of their usual price - that's why the usually-$35 wooden sign is down to a little over 17 dollars. The sale is described as "Select Group of Home Accents Always 50% off the Marked Price*" (there's no matching asterisk elsewhere on the page) so it's a little unclear when or if the sale will end, or even whether the same applies in actual stores.
Check out the sighting image below as well as images of the two currently-on-sale items from Hobby Lobby's website! If you were looking for more Transformers-themed items from them, the website is also still stocking the embossed tin Optimus Prime and Bumblebee signs, previously reported on here, and which can be found with a search for "Transformers" on their website. Share your thoughts below in the Energon Pub, and as always, stay tuned to Seibertron.com for any Transformers news, collectable or otherwise!
We return to the Javits Center in New York City to bring you more images from the showroom floor, as megatronus and Seibertron are roaming the area to cover more licensed products featuring Transformers!
This post collects the products on display at the KidRobot area of the Toy Fair showroom, which predominantly includes the Tom Scioli Transformers vs GI Joe figures and merchandise we had been made aware of back here, with a bigger Megatron series (with Grimlock hand), and the smaller blind box series of figures, with Optimus, Bumblebee, Blue Grimlock, and Megatron on display. We also have a list of prices in the images, hinting at enamel pins and keychains too.
We return to the Javits Center in New York City to bring you more images from the showroom floor, as megatronus and Seibertron are roaming the area to cover more licensed products featuring Transformers!
This post collects the range of products available from Super7, a company making superdeformed and more classic-styled Transformers vinyl figures, both on the small and the large size, and an array of merchandise, all Transformers themed, with a definite G1 aesthetic:
12" Super Cyborgs: Optimus Prime and Megatron
Super Deformed Keychains
1.75" Blind Box figures - both including Wheeljack, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Shockwave, Soundwave and more
Enamel Pins: packaging, Soundwave, Grimlock, Optimus Prime
Drinking Glasses: Megatron, Optimus, Grimlock, Soundwave
T-Shirts: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Dinobots
Check out the images below, and join the discussion in the Energon Pub!
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