More Images of Upcoming Generations Wheeljack, Shockwave and Grimlock Redecos

So these will be officially Selects releases, available online only?

Rodimus Prime wrote:So these will be officially Selects releases, available online only?

Only wheeljack will be selects.

Take my money and GIMME!

I'm diggin' that Wheeljack.
Anxious to get a look at the others we haven't seen photos of yet.
Especially Sunstreaker and Hound (to see the actual, final version).

I also think these comic-themed figures look great.
I won't get either, but I definitely see the appeal.
That Grimlock looks incredibly cool.

I hate those giant painted windows. Meanwhile the rest of the car looks naked. Oh well, at least now I will have a donor Wheeljack for the other half of the Reprolabels set for wheeljack and smokescreen

I'm happy to see that Wheeljack comes with a blaster. Hopefully, this means Sunstreaker will come with one too. We're encouraging people to buy the stolen figures off eBay now?

Smoke free home Wheeljack FTW

I can't stand those painted windows. Makes it cheap.

Looking at the comic-deco Grimlock and Shockwave - the attempt at comic book 'shading' just isn't doing it for me. Those are meant to be lines which represent the falling of light and shadow, to depict metallic glossiness and reflections. And static black ink lines just can't do that. Using paint applications to merely simulate the creation of shading, which would normally be the natural result of an external light source, it just seems gauche to me...

That Wheeljack is ugly as sin. It is painful to see.

Shockwave is KING and will be mine.

As for Grimlock, he look great but will be an easy pass from me.

That's a nice d**k move / giving this latest Wheeljack a hand pistola when he should have had from the very first figure!!!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm happy to see that Wheeljack comes with a blaster. Hopefully, this means Sunstreaker will come with one too. We're encouraging people to buy the stolen figures off eBay now?

Well, The last use of that blaster was for Medix and they also gave him the other blaster from Elita-1 too, so I'd say there is a reasonable chance Sunstreaker gets the other one since they would be on the same mold.

There’s no great place to post this thought, but I wish Hastak had a better, more scheduled set of announcements/reveals for the year.
I understand things in terms of production can be thrown off for multiple reasons.
And sure, surprises can sometimes be nice or “fun”, but I know the vast majority of collectors who try and stay on the pulse would really appreciate officially knowing what’s being released during the year.
Think about how much we randomly get from leakers. Which is fine.
And sure, Hastak may not care and can even claim there are advantages to unofficial news.
I just don’t get why or how it would be a negative to publicize which figures are being released, through which retailers, accompanied by photos or even official renders. And they obvsly know the release schedule…. It’s not requiring anyone do a bunch of legwork.
No, I’m not sitting here pissed or upset; more just thinking “out loud”. Not to mention, thinking about the TF budget for the year and wishing it wasn’t quite so up in the air.

Shockwave is just awesome. I need the new version of the ray gun though. I'll buy this cause he's my favorite. That transformers comic when he resurrected and destroyed the automotive and decepticons Will forever be a classic and had Optimus primes head on probes lol.

Transformers Generations Selects Legacy United Autobots Stand United 5-Pack

https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-generations-selects-legacy-united-autobots-stand-united-5-pack





More pics in the order link.

Trailbreaker looks best of the bunch. also looks like they have borrowed yellow matching skills from Takara Tomy Yay!

the lack of cthru plastic on all of these just highlights how bad these look compared to car bots of the yester year. with only 3 deluxes I'd be wanting out the set I would have to wait for sales on this. That or pick up ss86 jazz and try finding hound and sunstreaker seperately.

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the page for this pack on Pulse? Either I’ve done something wrong or they’ve taken it down because someone gooded?

RotorstormNZ wrote:Is anyone else having trouble accessing the page for this pack on Pulse? Either I’ve done something wrong or they’ve taken it down because someone gooded?

Yeah, it got taken down. Luckily, BBTS still works: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/268319

We've seen leaks, we've seen rumors, but now we finally have an official reveal (and preorders available!) For the *take a deep breath* Transformers Generations Selects Legacy United Autobots Stand United 5-pack!

This set will be released in the Generations Selects line, meaning that preorders should be available at all the usual online retailers. It consists of five Deluxe figures, all in cartoon decos, and in the case of four of them, no longer including translucent plastic, which should help durability. All five figures are of previously released molds. The five figures are Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, and Trailbreaker, first released in the Earthrise line on 2020; Jazz, released in Studio Series 86 in 2020; and the long rumored and anticipated Hound, in his Earth mode, first released as Detritus in Legacy Evolution in 2023.

This set is scheduled to start shipping in July, with a retail cost around $110 USD, which works out to a cost of $22 USD per figure, less than the current retail cost of a Deluxe. Photos are below.

Let us know what you think of this new set. Did you miss out on Trailbreaker and Sunstreaker when they were first released? Picking it up to finally get a modern Earth-mode Hound in your collection? Sound off in the forums!

Man, Elita One's guns are really being used well. First her, then Medix, now for Wheeljack and Sunstreaker.

blackeyedprime wrote:Trailbreaker looks best of the bunch. also looks like they have borrowed yellow matching skills from Takara Tomy Yay!

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Not really, its just that the entire car is now cast in the same yellow plastic, and they don't ned to paint translucent plastic in yellow, which is what causes the mismatched tones of Yellow in the original release.


All in all, the set looks fairly nice.
Wonder if it will be available outside of Hasbro Pulse in any way for those outside the countries served by it.

Overcracker wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Trailbreaker looks best of the bunch. also looks like they have borrowed yellow matching skills from Takara Tomy Yay!

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Not really, its just that the entire car is now cast in the same yellow plastic, and they don't ned to paint translucent plastic in yellow, which is what causes the mismatched tones of Yellow in the original release.


All in all, the set looks fairly nice.
Wonder if it will be available outside of Hasbro Pulse in any way for those outside the countries served by it.

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

Those who had missed them out before and the clearOphobes, rejoice!

Stuff like this irritates me. We’ve waited for a proper Earthmode Hound for years and at first chance, they waste it on a peg warmer named Detrius. Now we have to rebuy four other characters many of us already have, or by some miracle, wait for a SS86 release in order to get him.

Why these aren’t two-packs, I don’t know. I just can’t justify paying for a set just to get one character mold I don’t have and four I already have.

And Hound is the only one in that set I need.

Roadbuster wrote:Stuff like this irritates me. We’ve waited for a proper Earthmode Hound for years and at first chance, they waste it on a peg warmer named Detrius. Now we have to rebuy four other characters many of us already have, or by some miracle, wait for a SS86 release in order to get him.

Why these aren’t two-packs, I don’t know. I just can’t justify paying for a set just to get one character mold I don’t have and four I already have.

This.

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Trailbreaker looks best of the bunch. also looks like they have borrowed yellow matching skills from Takara Tomy Yay!

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Not really, its just that the entire car is now cast in the same yellow plastic, and they don't ned to paint translucent plastic in yellow, which is what causes the mismatched tones of Yellow in the original release.


All in all, the set looks fairly nice.
Wonder if it will be available outside of Hasbro Pulse in any way for those outside the countries served by it.

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

Ahh, thanks. We'll see if I can pick one up from BBTS.

Fortunately, I'll only need to rotate out and sell ONE figure in order for all these to be unique additions to my G1 Autobot collection. It was a bit of a scare when the pre-order pages listed them as "SOLD OUT" in the first 10 minutes. Then the page itself vanished after the first hour. But it came back, and the figures are still available as of this moment.

First impression of Hound is that his grey plastic looks 'dirty' somehow, like it caught the light wrong and has some green reflected onto it. I hope that's fixed for the final release and that it's normal grey.

And I knew that Trailbreaker wouldn't be the pale grey in the leaked photos, the lighting looked bad in those early shots. Everything else looks good, and I look forward to reviewing the lot, even though they're all essentially re-releases.

Roadbuster wrote:Stuff like this irritates me. We’ve waited for a proper Earthmode Hound for years and at first chance, they waste it on a peg warmer named Detrius. Now we have to rebuy four other characters many of us already have, or by some miracle, wait for a SS86 release in order to get him.

Why these aren’t two-packs, I don’t know. I just can’t justify paying for a set just to get one character mold I don’t have and four I already have.

Only 1 reason: $$$

I wonder if this release will cause the original Sunstreaker to go down in price on the 2ndary market.

It's finally showing the page for me, but already shows as sold out. Did I miss it? Or is the page just still wonky?

Spider5800 wrote:It's finally showing the page for me, but already shows as sold out. Did I miss it? Or is the page just still wonky?

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

These figures look really, really good. I'm happy they went the extra mile and gave Wheeljack and Sunstreaker proper guns. I just hope this doesn't backfire and nobody buys it since that might mean hard-to-find figures will stay hard to find. It would be funny if in June Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, and Sunstreaker all of a sudden showed up at Ollies or Ross. I think that this also explains how the recent G2 Jazz had Hound's weapons.

Roadbuster wrote:Stuff like this irritates me. We’ve waited for a proper Earthmode Hound for years and at first chance, they waste it on a peg warmer named Detrius. Now we have to rebuy four other characters many of us already have, or by some miracle, wait for a SS86 release in order to get him.

Why these aren’t two-packs, I don’t know. I just can’t justify paying for a set just to get one character mold I don’t have and four I already have.

The Detritus mold is garbage anyway.

Sooner or later, they will make a proper "SS86" Hound with his own, brand new mold.

True to form this sells out on Pulse before I even aware of it. lol
Which is a good thing since I'm not tempted to buy just for one figure that I'd probably just be disappointed in anyways. The long wait for Hound only to see it turn out this way really does feel like a gut punch.

Now I guess I'll have to pin my hopes of a new Powerglide to wrap up my collection.

Till-all-R1 wrote:True to form this sells out on Pulse before I even aware of it. lol

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

I don't find this set to be anything impressive, but because I do want to have Sunstreaker and Hound in my collection, I've got a preorder placed.
I actually don't like the extra stripes on Jazz, but oh well. The other three that were previously released do look better imo; and I'm happy that the front lower legs of Sunstreaker are solid pieces of plastic and not waffled. Hound is alright, but I'm assuming this is the best version of that character we'll see for a long, long time. I'm sure some think Wheeljack is too bland, but I really like this look for him. And Trailbreaker is definitely icing. Both Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker were figures I never saw and wasn't willing to spend extra money for on the aftermarket.
Imo, the only downside to this set is Jazz having more deco than I think he needs.

Sabrblade wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:True to form this sells out on Pulse before I even aware of it. lol

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

True, but I have become accustomed to Pulse with their more timely ETA's and free shipping.

I may give EE a shot since it's free on order over $79 but they sure do know how to drag preorders out... I'm still waiting on a couple things I preordered a whole year ago.

Till-all-R1 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:True to form this sells out on Pulse before I even aware of it. lol

It isn't a Pulse exclusive. It's on BBTS, EE, and TFSource right now, too.

True, but I have become accustomed to Pulse with their more timely ETA's and free shipping.

I may give EE a shot since it's free on order over $79 but they sure do know how to drag preorders out... I'm still waiting on a couple things I preordered a whole year ago.

Gamestop also has them and free shipping.

I really just want hound T.T

It's gonna be interesting when these figures get broken up and sold individually to see which are the most wanted. For me it's SStreaker which looks great and I will be adding the ER version to my POL to part ways with. I really wish would have done right and added that patch of Orange-ish paint like they did before.

And unlike most I'm content with Siege Hound, he's a great modern version in my Neo G1 crew...'nuff said!

The punchline will be when they do an individual release for Hound a year from now.

Glad for those who finally get the set, but I am content with the 5 versions I already have

Nemesis Destron wrote:





It's gonna be interesting when these figures get broken up and sold individually to see which are the most wanted. For me it's SStreaker which looks great and I will be adding the ER version to my POL to part ways with. I really wish would have done right and added that patch of Orange-ish paint like they did before.

And unlike most I'm content with Siege Hound, he's a great modern version in my Neo G1 crew...'nuff said!

Whenever I see anyone say “I’ll wait for this -insert whatever goes through their brain- from hasbro and takara” I’m always reminded of those folks who said “pass! I’ll wait for takaras unite warriors LioKaiser”


…I wonder if anyone has checked on those folks in that corner. It’s only been 8 years…

Nemesis Destron wrote:





It's gonna be interesting when these figures get broken up and sold individually to see which are the most wanted. For me it's SStreaker which looks great and I will be adding the ER version to my POL to part ways with. I really wish would have done right and added that patch of Orange-ish paint like they did before.

And unlike most I'm content with Siege Hound, he's a great modern version in my Neo G1 crew...'nuff said!

Mostly same. We're going to be swapping out the original releases for the ones from this set. Specially SS86 Jazz, went to transform him after a few months of not touching him at all and his roof section has a crack line running the entire legnth. When handling Trailbreaker it always felt like we were going to just snap the entire section off.

Gonna keep Siege Hound tho. He'll fit right into an IDW line-up.

Colour-wise, it's nothing a bit of paint [remover] can't fix here.

That said, we're not "anti-clear plastic", they usually look good. We'd just prefer not to have figures snap and crumble from them just existing on a shelf. It's a decision we make figure to figure.

holy bleep they look great

Blackstreak wrote:And Hound is the only one in that set I need.

Same, but as much as I want to want this figure, it just doesn't impress me. It just looks cheap.

I waited and searched and scored Eartrise Sunstreaker of of Marktplaats a few months ago for 20 euro's sealed (seller didn't know how terribly rare it had gotten).

And I payed 3 times the price for Trailbreaker which isn't too bad. However they are both in this pack.

Now I am perfectly happy with my Siege Hound so no hyperfocus on getting him earthmode.

I do think he will be sold seperately in the future in some subline or whatever. So guys getting their midlife crisis now is a bit unneccesary I think. Just wait or do get the whole pack.

My Autobots pack arrived Saturday. Solid set, really like the yellow they used for Sunstreaker.

I messed with my Antagony some more recently, this new Inferno mold is pretty dang neat. I wish one set of bug legs ended up in the robot mode legs though.

She also looks great with Fox Cheetor, giving us Cataclysm as her fellow Herald! Now we really need a new Rampage for a new Shockaract