Age of Extinction Legion Figures Spotted in Canadian Retail

Noideaforaname wrote:Definitely want to grab that Grimlock. Not as Grimmy himself, but as an addition to the Terrorcon troops. I'd love to have 2 or 3 Abominuses.

LeL wrote:hope the weapon attaches to his face.

Wasp-shot23 wrote:This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.

T-Macksimus wrote:What I find highly irritating about this line, Or at least one of many points) is that they lump the movie crap in with Generations yet they are still running a specific "Generations" line with separate packaging... for the moment. The stores are keeping both lines separate and jacking up the prices on the movie line yet the listing above suggests that the figures are the same line (MV4 GEN) and this is just basically giving either Hasbro or the retailers an opportunity to screw us.
No, don't bother to try to break it down and "explain it" to me. I don't want to hear it, it's bullsh** plain and simple and utterly stupid. As far as I'm concerned they are two very distinct lines and the only thing that they have in common is that Hasbro is doing a stellar job of screwing them both up.

And as far as this Hot Shot character goes... it's a re-paint, I'll bet money on it. It's wave 3, we still don't have full listings of cast and toys and Hasbro is in their "We don't give a sh**" mode and looking to fleece parents and youngsters for every last red cent so of course we are going to get myriad repaints and cheap filler so they can drag this line out as long as possible with just teases of "new" characters. Marketing 101 folks, plain and simple. Don't think for one second that there is an ounce of loyalty or any respect for continuity or regard for fans. Whatever you have your hopes and dreams set on for figures... think again. Y'all are basing your speculations around past releases or on what Hasbro may or may not have said and not a one of you is thinking from a greed/profit standpoint and therein lies your error.

Megatron Wolf wrote:damn $7 for a legion thats harsh, but i have no interest in these im waiting for the beast war repaints.

Wasp-shot23 wrote:This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.

No offense intended but if you think this is a golden age i feel bad for you

T-Macksimus wrote:What I find highly irritating about this line, Or at least one of many points) is that they lump the movie crap in with Generations yet they are still running a specific "Generations" line with separate packaging... for the moment. The stores are keeping both lines separate and jacking up the prices on the movie line yet the listing above suggests that the figures are the same line (MV4 GEN) and this is just basically giving either Hasbro or the retailers an opportunity to screw us.
No, don't bother to try to break it down and "explain it" to me. I don't want to hear it, it's bullsh** plain and simple and utterly stupid. As far as I'm concerned they are two very distinct lines and the only thing that they have in common is that Hasbro is doing a stellar job of screwing them both up.

And as far as this Hot Shot character goes... it's a re-paint, I'll bet money on it. It's wave 3, we still don't have full listings of cast and toys and Hasbro is in their "We don't give a sh**" mode and looking to fleece parents and youngsters for every last red cent so of course we are going to get myriad repaints and cheap filler so they can drag this line out as long as possible with just teases of "new" characters. Marketing 101 folks, plain and simple. Don't think for one second that there is an ounce of loyalty or any respect for continuity or regard for fans. Whatever you have your hopes and dreams set on for figures... think again. Y'all are basing your speculations around past releases or on what Hasbro may or may not have said and not a one of you is thinking from a greed/profit standpoint and therein lies your error.

its refreshing to see someone else who actually gets it, to bad theres so few of us to actually make an impact. But i have to agree its way to early for a new character to show up especially when all the bots & "cons" havent been revealed yet. Now if wave 3 shows up around or after the movies release then theres a very slim possibility that its a new mold but my money is on a repaint of a DOTM mold or TFP.

Megatron Wolf wrote:damn $7 for a legion thats harsh, but i have no interest in these im waiting for the beast war repaints.

Wasp-shot23 wrote:This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.

No offense intended but if you thdesink this is a golden age i feel bad for you

T-Macksimus wrote:What I find highly irritating about this line, Or at least one of many points) is that they lump the movie crap in with Generations yet they are still running a specific "Generations" line with separate packaging... for the moment. The stores are keeping both lines separate and jacking up the prices on the movie line yet the listing above suggests that the figures are the same line (MV4 GEN) and this is just basically giving either Hasbro or the retailers an opportunity to screw us.
No, don't bother to try to break it down and "explain it" to me. I don't want to hear it, it's bullsh** plain and simple and utterly stupid. As far as I'm concerned they are two very distinct lines and the only thing that they have in common is that Hasbro is doing a stellar job of screwing them both up.

And as far as this Hot Shot character goes... it's a re-paint, I'll bet money on it. It's wave 3, we still don't have full listings of cast and toys and Hasbro is in their "We don't give a sh**" mode and looking to fleece parents and youngsters for every last red cent so of course we are going to get myriad repaints and cheap filler so they can drag this line out as long as possible with just teases of "new" characters. Marketing 101 folks, plain and simple. Don't think for one second that there is an ounce of loyalty or any respect for continuity or regard for fans. Whatever you have your hopes and dreams set on for figures... think again. Y'all are basing your speculations around past releases or on what Hasbro may or may not have said and not a one of you is thinking from a greed/profit standpoint and therein lies your error.

its refreshing to see someone else who actually gets it, to bad theres so few of us to actually make an impact. But i have to agree its way to early for a new character to show up especially when all the bots & "cons" havent been revealed yet. Now if wave 3 shows up around or after the movies release then theres a very slim possibility that its a new mold but my money is on a repaint of a DOTM mold or TFP.

Noideaforaname wrote:Definitely want to grab that Grimlock. Not as Grimmy himself, but as an addition to the Terrorcon troops. I'd love to have 2 or 3 Abominuses.

LeL wrote:hope the weapon attaches to his face.

Metro Prime wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that the rally car would make an excellent Earth mode for Evac from Transformers: The Ride?

Wasp-shot23 wrote:My trousers are now in orbit.

Finally, a toyline with more than one possible iteration of Hot Shot! Think of the potential "Then and Now" 2 packs or original faithful repaints or one-step changers...
I'll just slip into a coma cos my wildest wish for the AOE line has just been fulfilled.

This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.



Just, please, for the love of god, don't die horribly in the film cos I might start weeping in the cinema.

Madeus Prime wrote:

Wasp-shot23 wrote:My trousers are now in orbit.

Finally, a toyline with more than one possible iteration of Hot Shot! Think of the potential "Then and Now" 2 packs or original faithful repaints or one-step changers...
I'll just slip into a coma cos my wildest wish for the AOE line has just been fulfilled.

This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.



Just, please, for the love of god, don't die horribly in the film cos I might start weeping in the cinema.

*Blink*



*Blink*


I don't mean to be rude here, but your theory about this being a Golden age?

This isn't a golden age:



This is a GOLDEN AGE:

Autobot tap out wrote:Both me and fanboy David Willis would be really happy if it was a five pack with RID hot shot , Armada hot shot with jolt energon hot shot Cybertron hot shot and
AOE hot shot and maybe animated

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Both me and fanboy David Willis would be really happy if it was a five pack with RID hot shot , Armada hot shot with jolt energon hot shot Cybertron hot shot and
AOE hot shot and maybe animated

Universe Hot Shot and the speculated AOE Hot Shot would be a buy for me, and it would make the most sense to me. To be honest though I don't expect it to happen. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Both me and fanboy David Willis would be really happy if it was a five pack with RID hot shot , Armada hot shot with jolt energon hot shot Cybertron hot shot and
AOE hot shot and maybe animated

Universe Hot Shot and the speculated AOE Hot Shot would be a buy for me, and it would make the most sense to me. To be honest though I don't expect it to happen. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

Given the size of the toys they're using for the Evolutions deluxe packs, it'd probably have to be either RID Spychanger Hot Shot or Cybertron Legends-sized Hot Shot.

And did Animated Hot Shot's toy even make it to the point where it was anywhere near ready for mass-production before they ended Animated?

The Thuggernaut wrote:Hot Shot only got to the point of a resin prototype, I doubt they would be able to finish it off and market it though

Nemesis Primal wrote:

The Thuggernaut wrote:Hot Shot only got to the point of a resin prototype, I doubt they would be able to finish it off and market it though

That's what I thought. Damn shame, really.

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Both me and fanboy David Willis would be really happy if it was a five pack with RID hot shot , Armada hot shot with jolt energon hot shot Cybertron hot shot and
AOE hot shot and maybe animated

Universe Hot Shot and the speculated AOE Hot Shot would be a buy for me, and it would make the most sense to me. To be honest though I don't expect it to happen. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

Given the size of the toys they're using for the Evolutions deluxe packs, it'd probably have to be either RID Spychanger Hot Shot or Cybertron Legends-sized Hot Shot.

And did Animated Hot Shot's toy even make it to the point where it was anywhere near ready for mass-production before they ended Animated?

Hot Shot only got to the point of a resin prototype, I doubt they would be able to finish it off and market it though

the Thuggernaught wrote:Given the size of the toys they're using for the Evolutions deluxe packs, it'd probably have to be either RID Spychanger Hot Shot or Cybertron Legends-sized Hot Shot.

Autobot tap out wrote:

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

The Thuggernaut wrote:

Autobot tap out wrote:Both me and fanboy David Willis would be really happy if it was a five pack with RID hot shot , Armada hot shot with jolt energon hot shot Cybertron hot shot and
AOE hot shot and maybe animated

Universe Hot Shot and the speculated AOE Hot Shot would be a buy for me, and it would make the most sense to me. To be honest though I don't expect it to happen. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does.

Given the size of the toys they're using for the Evolutions deluxe packs, it'd probably have to be either RID Spychanger Hot Shot or Cybertron Legends-sized Hot Shot.

And did Animated Hot Shot's toy even make it to the point where it was anywhere near ready for mass-production before they ended Animated?

Hot Shot only got to the point of a resin prototype, I doubt they would be able to finish it off and market it though

the Thuggernaught wrote:Given the size of the toys they're using for the Evolutions deluxe packs, it'd probably have to be either RID Spychanger Hot Shot or Cybertron Legends-sized Hot Shot.

well what i was talikng about is what they did for Bumblebee for the first movies toy linethat they used classics, movie , and animated deluxe class figures but doing it in a five pack for Hot Shot

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:Definitely want to grab that Grimlock. Not as Grimmy himself, but as an addition to the Terrorcon troops. I'd love to have 2 or 3 Abominuses.

I still say they should have recolored Rippersnapper into Scorn rather than Grimlock, but whatevs. Might pick this one anways, I like the Prime Predacons. (Predaking better be back at some point in RID, BTW.)

LeL wrote:hope the weapon attaches to his face.

I'll settle for a hook.

Madeus Prime wrote:

Wasp-shot23 wrote:My trousers are now in orbit.

Finally, a toyline with more than one possible iteration of Hot Shot! Think of the potential "Then and Now" 2 packs or original faithful repaints or one-step changers...
I'll just slip into a coma cos my wildest wish for the AOE line has just been fulfilled.

This is truly the big time. A golden age.

What a time to be alive.



Just, please, for the love of god, don't die horribly in the film cos I might start weeping in the cinema.

*Blink*



*Blink*


I don't mean to be rude here, but your theory about this being a Golden age?

This isn't a golden age:



This is a GOLDEN AGE:

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh actually abominus and the horrorcons/terrorcons were never prime predacons, they belong to transformers GO, just wrong package, and came in G1 colors as a teaser, just like happened before many times... hasbro doen't pay much attention on packing

Nemesis Primal wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh actually abominus and the horrorcons/terrorcons were never prime predacons, they belong to transformers GO, just wrong package, and came in G1 colors as a teaser, just like happened before many times... hasbro doen't pay much attention on packing

It took me a minute to realize you were trolling.

BERSEKAEL wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh actually abominus and the horrorcons/terrorcons were never prime predacons, they belong to transformers GO, just wrong package, and came in G1 colors as a teaser, just like happened before many times... hasbro doen't pay much attention on packing

It took me a minute to realize you were trolling.

sorry my bad, I mean this abominus from transformers GO and his teaser in G1 colors, packed as PRIME series

Sabrblade wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh actually abominus and the horrorcons/terrorcons were never prime predacons, they belong to transformers GO, just wrong package, and came in G1 colors as a teaser, just like happened before many times... hasbro doen't pay much attention on packing

It took me a minute to realize you were trolling.

sorry my bad, I mean this abominus from transformers GO and his teaser in G1 colors, packed as PRIME series

We know what toy molds you were talking about, but... surely you don't believe they were made for Go! first and then later redecoed into G1-style decos for Prime later, right?

Cuz it was totally the other way around with Hasbro making these guys as Prime Abominus first and then Takara redecoing them into Go! Goradora afterward. They were made for Prime as Prime Predacons before Takara ever got their mitts on them in the Go! line.

BERSEKAEL wrote:Thats a little bit improvised, don't you think? building a 3d animation (story, characters, modeling, rigging, the render itself, post composition, etc) takes a little while, sometimes a long time, besides planing the toy production from hasbro side, is always a rush, if they show something, is always upcoming on schedule ... and packed on the current design.

BERSEKAEL wrote:Remember them? Universe MMO... that is still on schedule

Sabrblade wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:Thats a little bit improvised, don't you think? building a 3d animation (story, characters, modeling, rigging, the render itself, post composition, etc) takes a little while, sometimes a long time, besides planing the toy production from hasbro side, is always a rush, if they show something, is always upcoming on schedule ... and packed on the current design.

Dude, Takara developed the toy molds for Hasbro. They had time to come up with the Goradora redeco because they already knew what the molds we're gonna look like. But the molds were design for Abominus before having Goradora's colors slapped onto them many months later.

Go! was nothing big in the animation department. A mere 10 episodes running 12 minutes long using cheap animation is hardly as expensive to produce as, say, 65 TF: Prime episodes.

Abominus came first, in Spring-Summer 2013. Goradora came second, in Fall 2013. Hasbro came up with the designs, and whose colors were worked on by Joe Kyde.

Takara merely recycled the existing designs for the Jaki in Go!.

BERSEKAEL wrote:Remember them? Universe MMO... that is still on schedule

What do those have to do with anything? None of those have been connected to the MMO (which is now a MOTA, btw). And Ironhide's design came from the Binder of Revelation.

BTW, that game is no longer tied to Prime.

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh, tied to Prime ?... that is the point, everything in transformers is associated, a crossover, inspired from different transformer sources (Binder of Revelation, used internally by hasbro developers to help them to keep track on their mess)... Perhaps each source is revealed later, as a comic/movie/game/line, and most of the time takara is the last one showing his official work in the right environment, rather than hasbro rushing and mixing up everything.

BERSEKAEL wrote:and yes now is a tactical game, and is still in develop process, perhaps Hasbro packed its toys years ago together with movie verse and so. I wonder if this Abominus will ever show up in Prime show, along with Evac.

Sabrblade wrote:

BERSEKAEL wrote:... eeeh, tied to Prime ?... that is the point, everything in transformers is associated, a crossover, inspired from different transformer sources (Binder of Revelation, used internally by hasbro developers to help them to keep track on their mess)... Perhaps each source is revealed later, as a comic/movie/game/line, and most of the time takara is the last one showing his official work in the right environment, rather than hasbro rushing and mixing up everything.

The Binder of Revelation is only affiliated with stuff Hasbro made for the Aligned continuity. Neither Takara nor the movies nor IDW's G1 comics are beholden to it.

BERSEKAEL wrote:and yes now is a tactical game, and is still in develop process, perhaps Hasbro packed its toys years ago together with movie verse and so. I wonder if this Abominus will ever show up in Prime show, along with Evac.

Evac was made for the Universal Studios ride, which is based off the movies.

And what do you mean "show up in Prime show"? The Prime show is done, over, finished, dead, ever since last Fall. No more new episodes. 65 was it, plus the Predacons Rising movie.

dreadwing95 wrote:its technically not dead. its got a sequel in the works which is in the same continuity. so they could show up in that

chuckdawg1999 wrote:While not as fun as One Step Drift the Flip and Change version of the new Samurai warrior has its own unique charm that young, but not too young fans would enjoy. Just be careful not to smack yourself in the face with it!

Metro Prime wrote:The Flip and Change Lockdown would work really well with Leader Class Optimus (in robot mode, that is), if his legs could just move.
Plus, none of the simplified figures have weapons.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Metro Prime wrote:The Flip and Change Lockdown would work really well with Leader Class Optimus (in robot mode, that is), if his legs could just move.
Plus, none of the simplified figures have weapons.

Interestingly enough Prime comes with a sword, maybe because it's Prime?