First sightings for Transformers Robots in Disguise Minicons and First Images for exclusive 3 Steps

TransFormers: Adventures "Phantom Jaw"
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MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:TransFormers: Adventures "Phantom Jaw"
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Sorry, wrong thread man, that is a TAV toy :http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/takara-tomy-transformers-adventure-line-tav-ted-misc--t102946.php (also, your link doesnt work)

You would think Hasbro would have talked about these toys at Botcon.

That Bot wrote:You would think Hasbro would have talked about these toys at Botcon.

Yeah, especially when their RID display had nothing new.

william-james88 wrote:

That Bot wrote:You would think Hasbro would have talked about these toys at Botcon.

Yeah, especially when their RID display had nothing new.

Maybe they were afraid of spoiling the season 1 finale.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

That Bot wrote:You would think Hasbro would have talked about these toys at Botcon.

Yeah, especially when their RID display had nothing new.

Maybe they were afraid of spoiling the season 1 finale.

They could have shown them all except for toys pertaining to spoilers.

Those Mini-Cons are bricks? Really disappointed.

Haven't they always been? They look to have about as much articulation as the deployers themselves, which is the really sad part, but they at least are equitable, interesting, and that shark is awesome

Hellscream9999 wrote:Haven't they always been? They look to have about as much articulation as the deployers themselves, which is the really sad part, but they at least are equitable, interesting, and that shark is awesome

I find the shark awesome too, high five!



And yeah, I also thought they were always bricks, so that they can get that one step transformation.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Haven't they always been? They look to have about as much articulation as the deployers themselves, which is the really sad part, but they at least are equitable, interesting, and that shark is awesome

I find the shark awesome too, high five!



And yeah, I also thought they were always bricks, so that they can get that one step transformation.

Well the mini-cons of old were mostly bricks due to various limitations, and these ones seem to be bricks due to being assemble-able (which if they aren't even detached from the sprue would probably explain the low price-point)


But yeah, that shark is soooo awesome looking

Dare I saw that Shark is... Jawsome?

TRozok21 wrote:Dare I saw that Shark is... Jawsome?

TRozok21 wrote:Dare I saw that Shark is... Jawsome?

Ah, Street Sharks, now there's some history.

Sabrblade wrote:

TRozok21 wrote:Dare I saw that Shark is... Jawsome?

Ah, Street Sharks, now there's some history.

Yeah, I watched it again after a couple of decades, so it came back to me

I'm really enjoying this line so good to see new product making its way out. Now to wait a month for the TRUs here to stock it.

ScottyP wrote:I'm really enjoying this line so good to see new product making its way out. Now to wait a month for the TRUs here to stock it.

Which of those are you thinking of buying Scotty?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those Mini-Cons are bricks? Really disappointed.

Well, they need to be due to the playability. they need to launch. and they're pretty small. But the energon add-ons look so amazing. That Shark is "Jawsome" as was mentioned

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I'm really enjoying this line so good to see new product making its way out. Now to wait a month for the TRUs here to stock it.

Which of those are you thinking of buying Scotty?

I don't know about him, But I may (very big may) get the deployers drift and Slipstream and Jetstorm (mainly so I have both minicons to go with a drift)

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I'm really enjoying this line so good to see new product making its way out. Now to wait a month for the TRUs here to stock it.

Which of those are you thinking of buying Scotty?

I don't know about him, But I may (very big may) get the deployers drift and Slipstream and Jetstorm (mainly so I have both minicons to go with a drift)

So you want every minicon? Nice! I will only get the 8 you need to make the extra figures. And even though they are tru exclusives, I will not be getting those 3 steps.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:I'm really enjoying this line so good to see new product making its way out. Now to wait a month for the TRUs here to stock it.

Which of those are you thinking of buying Scotty?

I don't know about him, But I may (very big may) get the deployers drift and Slipstream and Jetstorm (mainly so I have both minicons to go with a drift)

So you want every minicon? Nice! I will only get the 8 you need to make the extra figures. And even though they are tru exclusives, I will not be getting those 3 steps.

I do want every minicon, but my wallet and my Mother will not let me If I get ANY, it would be the 2 from the show though. those guys are funny

Really want that 5 step Megatronus. Also, I really want a Nightstrike figure of some kind for this line.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those Mini-Cons are bricks? Really disappointed.

Well, they need to be due to the playability. they need to launch. and they're pretty small. But the energon add-ons look so amazing. That Shark is "Jawsome" as was mentioned

Yeah but the arms can't even move on the robot ones? Kinda makes having weapons pointless.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those Mini-Cons are bricks? Really disappointed.

Well, they need to be due to the playability. they need to launch. and they're pretty small. But the energon add-ons look so amazing. That Shark is "Jawsome" as was mentioned

Yeah but the arms can't even move on the robot ones? Kinda makes having weapons pointless.

Not entirely sure. If there was 0 articulation, that gorilla one couldnt hold the pose.

With Toysrus Exclusive 5 Step Megatronus recently found at retail, it was a matter of time before we had some in hand images of this figure. Griffin from Ozformers was the man for the job and he has a slew of in hand images showing how big this toy is. It appears to be Leader size just like the Mega One Step Optimus which interacts with minicons (they are pictured side by side below). He also gave a few tips after handling the toy:

It comes with two accessories - a spear and turret barrel (attaches to forearm).

Packaging shows the spear on the tank turret, but it looks too stupid up there... and even looks stupid on the treads, so I now prefer to not have it plugged into the vehicle mode at all.

If you get this, be careful with transforming it. There seems to be a lot of internal gears like the old Movie Auto-morph toys, and after an unusual loud cracking noise while transforming it, I'm now having trouble transforming it back to tank mode.

Why did Hasbro go with Megatronus as the villain in RID. Why did Hasbro go Megatronus name at all, even in TFPrime? Is it a trademark thing, is their Megatron trade mark about to expire? You could say that it's better story, but it doesn't have to be that name. I mean in ROTF we established that the Fallen was the first Decepticon, so they have that lore just sitting on the shelf. It has to be some legal shortcut. Or perhaps their focus groups have been saying that Megatron as an Autobot was received much better and therefore Megatron is going to be a "hero" in the near future in most future Tf lore.

Design wise Megatronus is very similar to Megatron. Fusion cannon, helmet, tank, even black and purple styling from IDW stealth bomber megs.

It's odd. I like Megatronus, I think he was neat in the cartoon. But why is the question? What are they after with this name direction?

Once again, how much did that big 5 steps Megatronus cost?

budmaloney wrote:Why did Hasbro go with Megatronus as the villain in RID. Why did Hasbro go Megatronus name at all, even in TFPrime? Is it a trademark thing, is their Megatron trade mark about to expire? You could say that it's better story, but it doesn't have to be that name. I mean in ROTF we established that the Fallen was the first Decepticon, so they have that lore just sitting on the shelf. It has to be some legal shortcut. Or perhaps their focus groups have been saying that Megatron as an Autobot was received much better and therefore Megatron is going to be a "hero" in the near future in most future Tf lore.

Megatronus =/= Megatron

The Fallen's name before it was taken from him was Megatronus

Megatronus' headsculpt alone looks more like a Pokemon. He's interesting enough, but he's an easy pass; primarily, his hollow legs scared me away.

prjkt wrote:Megatronus =/= Megatron

The Fallen's name before it was taken from him was Megatronus

How many more times should we have to repeat that?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

prjkt wrote:Megatronus =/= Megatron

The Fallen's name before it was taken from him was Megatronus

How many more times should we have to repeat that?

The Fallen's full name was Megatronus Prime, shortened to Megatronus. It's the short form that Megatron used as inspiration for his name. And it's no trademark thing at all, as Generations Leader Megatron can attest.

Since I was asked by william-james88 for a couple of better shots of Clash of the Transformers Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, got closeups of the front and back of the packaging of these two






Also regarding Megatronus, watch the season finale of RID if you can, clear things up

It's fine for you to show more pics and all.

BUT Y U NO SHOW PRICES?!

I don't know about anyone else, but I need that legion mini Megatronus in my life.

I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Megatron has a soulpatch? Well at least now he can strum the same three chords on his acoustic guitar

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

I get that. I was asking (poorly worded) if someone knew what wave he was included with. A little more digging and I found him. Part of a two pack that hasn't made it to the US.

carytheone wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

I get that. I was asking (poorly worded) if someone knew what wave he was included with. A little more digging and I found him. Part of a two pack that hasn't made it to the US.

Yup, looks like Megatronus will only be available in Clash of the Transformers, and not in the main line.

I think the legions figure actually looks better than this.

And to help out Kanrabat: My guess is about $20-25 American dollars. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I think the legions figure actually looks better than this.

And to help out Kanrabat: My guess is about $20-25 American dollars. Correct me if I'm wrong!

That'd be nice, but Mega 5-Step Optimus Prime has an MSRP of US$29.99 so Mega 5-Step Megatronus will probably be a little more than that at TRU pricing. In their defense they are 11" figures, Hasbro could have been a lot more greedy.

Emerje

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

Not to burst any bubbles, but odds are that megatronus is more like 40-50$ cdn

william-james88 wrote:Not to burst any bubbles, but odds are that megatronus is more like 40-50$ cdn

So yet another reason to not get them; man has/tak should just scrub the 1 3 5 easy crap bricks and bring back machine wars styled deluxes, auto morph one way, a simple transformation the other, and they were good figures, not hollow bricks

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:



That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

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That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I've long since known about megazords and their aposeable ilk (even if they don't even bother with transforming now). I always figured that kids wanted them b/c they looked cool, or b/c they related to them via a fiction. Now, maybe I was spoiled, growing up with BW and such, you can only go so far with that as it dropped off after rid2000 with armada; but these easy-crap things shelfwarm so hard in the cities 'round me, I always wondered if it was b/c they yielded such unsatisfactory robot modes - when compared to any other action figure they just look like garbage; my point remains that they can do simple figures, that are still good.

th... that turret turns around right? please tell me it is not stuck like that. If it's stuck like that, then yeah, it's kind of terrible. If the turret rotates, it's pretty obvious the instructions have the whole turret ass backwards for some reason.

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

05.jpg

That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I think the thing that confuses me the most about this, besides what the hell the theme of the individual giant robots is supposed to be, is how the wolf is such a completely unnecessary part of the megazord. It's not even its own individual limb, it has to combine with the rear of the train zord that forms the rest of the waist and legs. And what is that the torso turns into a dump truck? Yes it is. It is a dump truck. what the hell. We have a ninja, a wolf, a dragon, a dump truck and a train? who was in charge of the mecha for this? I don't even. I just don't even. It's like they got drunk and threw darts at a board full of "things that could be mecha"

durroth wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

05.jpg

That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I think the thing that confuses me the most about this, besides what the hell the theme of the individual giant robots is supposed to be, is how the wolf is such a completely unnecessary part of the megazord. It's not even its own individual limb, it has to combine with the rear of the train zord that forms the rest of the waist and legs. And what is that the torso turns into a dump truck? Yes it is. It is a dump truck. what the hell. We have a ninja, a wolf, a dragon, a dump truck and a train? who was in charge of the mecha for this? I don't even. I just don't even. It's like they got drunk and threw darts at a board full of "things that could be mecha"

Yes, I believe super sentai (or whatever) has officailly, now and forever, jumped the shark. They are partsforming, theme-less, gibberish. But because its 'super sentai' people in japan and wherever will continue to support it.

To prevent this thread from going off-topic:

Seibetron Henshin! Tokusatsu Thread

durroth wrote:th... that turret turns around right? please tell me it is not stuck like that. If it's stuck like that, then yeah, it's kind of terrible. If the turret rotates, it's pretty obvious the instructions have the whole turret ass backwards for some reason.

It does rotate for the transformation, look at the Instruction on the back of the box. However, it's locked in place in vehicle mode by pressing it down.

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