New Gallery: SDCC 2015 Transformers Combiner Wars G2 Superion

But wait....should I be worried about Slingshot?

Metroplex79 wrote:But wait....should I be worried about Slingshot?

He looks more brown than gold this time around.

G2 Slingshot's looking mighty Blast-Off-y

I'm surprised at how much I dislike this.

I like what I see very much... EXCEPT Bruticus' black head.

Looks good, but personally, I prefer the G1 deco on Superion.
Also...guys, look at the mold flash on Slingshot's shoulder...that looks like GPS
I think I know what is going on, Hasbro made him like that so that he'll inevitably crumble and they'll soon announce an exclusive G2 Alpha Bravo to replace him
I admit the bag of gold dust was funny, but this would be downright cruel

So I was on the wiki trying to see just how similar in colors G1 and G2 Fireflight are and they had a link to the Giant Purple Griffin page.

Now I want a Giant Purple Griffin retool of Skylynx. I'd settle for just a repaint. Either way I want one and I want one now. We need a toy of the Giant Purple Griffin and Skylynx would work pretty damn well as one.

ScottyP wrote:Legends Shockwave looks like a must-get. Shame that's not a deluxe.

Shame that's not a leader.

Although, it's neat that his gun mode is the size where most toys will be able to utilize him, which is probably why he got the shrinky dink treatment in the first place.

I'm not too crazy about all the apparent clear plastic on him. I realize the original had some, but not that much and it was mainly there to serve as part of his electronics gimmick.

Alpha Weltall wrote:So I was on the wiki trying to see just how similar in colors G1 and G2 Fireflight are and they had a link to the Giant Purple Griffin page.

Now I want a Giant Purple Griffin retool of Skylynx. I'd settle for just a repaint. Either way I want one and I want one now. We need a toy of the Giant Purple Griffin and Skylynx would work pretty damn well as one.

Oooh, then his combined form would be "Purple Reign!"

We have more news from San Diego Comic Con 2015 via site owner Seibertron! During the Hasbro Breakfast Press event, attendees were given, for free four types of Pez sweet dispensers - you know, from way back when Pez dispensers were a thing! Check out some images from the gallery below.

In slightly more up to date news, we also have a full new gallery of Transformers Robots in Disguise products on display at the Hasbro booth, featuring the usual suspects... and Megatronus in his new Legion class incarnation, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their powered up modes, and a couple more interesting tidbots - check them out below, and click on any image for the full gallery!

CW G2 Superion!

Also, digging Victorion, looks good.

YAY PEZ! I've always wondered what energon tasted like

Thanks again to Seibertron, live from San Diego Comic Con, we can bring you all the updates revealed at the Hasbro Transformers panel at the event - of which we already saw a glimpse with the Breakfast Press event and Preview Night stories. Read on below to see what's in store for giant transforming robot fans!

Transformers Combiner Wars
Hasbro showed a general Combiner Wars trailer that used clips from Devastation game and IDW motion comics.

Combiner Wars idea originated with FOC Bruticus.
Devastator being released in DeNA Battle Tactics

Transformers Devastation to be released on October 6th, 2015.

Something starts to "cyberform" parts of Earth, humans don't like that, Autobots head to city to investigate cyberforming, points to Megatron. Hasbro stressed the importance of having character arc, Optimus Prime has emotional struggle in game, lots of easter eggs for fans!
Peter Cullen as Optimus, Frank Welker as Megatron, Greg Berger as Grimlock. Greg showed up on panel and did some Grimlock voices, too.

Combiner Wars Products
One pack sets .... COMBINER WARS SERIES PACK
G2 SUPERION - As we have already seen earlier.
G2 MENASOR
Victorion - Also seen earlier, right here.
Also revealed was Scattershot, who forms torso for Betatron - another name change from Hasbro, unfortunately.

Exclusives

Platinum Blaster and Perceptor set - Exclusive to Target
Platinum Trypticon - Exclusive to Target

Masterpiece Bluestreak - Exclusive to TRU
Masterpiece Starscream - Exclusive to TRU, available 10/1


No plans for Beast combiners yet, nor are there any for Dinobots.

And what about Deluxe Groove, you might ask? A clear, non-committal 'we'll see'.

Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for presentation images arriving shortly, too!

Whatever happened to Hasbro's MP Sideswipe that was announced two BotCons ago?

no technobots, vicky looks like hot garbage, just so much disappointment.

And in case a written summary isn't enough for you, Seibertron has also provided a full gallery of the presentation slides used by Hasbro on the Transformers panel at San Diego Comic Con 2015! Check out below a small sample, click on any of them to find the full gallery, and refer back to this post for the details in the specifics!

Sabrblade wrote:Whatever happened to Hasbro's MP Sideswipe that was announced two BotCons ago?

Presumably vaporware at this point. Speculation: perhaps a licensing issue?

I think a lot of this news is cool, but not mind blowing. Scattershot is bad, I'm not ok with a low effort retool on that one.

Excellent news about the G1 reissue availability though. Would love more detail on MP Starscream's deco.

Finally, after this panel, I really do now think the "Titan Wars" backdrop seen at Botcon was a massive screw up on someone's part, and it wasn't supposed to be seen yet, or even worse, was leftover from a canceled concept.

It's a shame that nothing was said about Titan Wars, not even a silhouette of an upcoming figure. All they've revealed are three box-sets of bad-looking repaints and one bad-looking retool. It looks like Hasbro really did reveal all the good stuff at BotCon...

So people are aware, Seibertron is currently back taking photos at the Hasbro booth area.
There may be more, better images of products coming soon!

While it's awesome that Generation 2 Combiners sets are happening, it's not for me. More money saved for Bruticus!

Computron's happening! Just... not the way I envisioned it. With the overall theme of the line is massive retoolings, kinda expected Scattorshot to be a Silverbolt retool, but... did they not retool Superion's head to better match Computron's? Really? Also, I totally get not having the name to a character anymore and having to give them a different name, but surely they could've done better than "Betatron"?

Also, no Technobot limbs? Surely they're being made as well? If not... incredibly massive missed opportunity.

Masterpiece Starscream, yay! I'd be more excited for this had I not already gotten the Hasbro Asia release exactly a year ago. Is there any confirmation about him coming with coronation gear?

As I said in Victorion's thread, I'm kinda into her, but not really. I'm going to get her, but it's going to be for that kickass sword for this custom idea I have, and as a display buddy for Windblade.

And with that said... what ever happened to Titan Wars?

Sabrblade wrote:Whatever happened to Hasbro's MP Sideswipe that was announced two BotCons ago?

That's what I want to know!

I'm genuinely confused-why is 'Betatron' Scattershot and the 4 autobots that make Optimus Maximus??

Where are the other technobots? And why is every combiner re-tools? I get they need to get mileage out of these molds, but they took it too far fast! Blast-Off and Scattershot deserve new molds-and they have to have made enough money to achieve this by now. Something really awesome has gone bad fast, I feel...

Ok, I finally have something bad to say about Victorion. Those individual bot names are pretty bad and very awkward to say. Luckily I don't care about things like that and will call them whatever I want when I get them. I wonder though, do they have a group name yet? Are they the Victoribots or the Toribots or perhaps the Vicibots maybe even the Fandobots?

I think we just need to wait a bit before we all start going too crazy about the rest of the Technobots not being shown yet. Hasbro has a habit of showing what the toys can do rather than be 100% accurate as to what it's "supposed" to look like. Remember how Superion had Dragstrip in the early photo's and how Ultra Prime did as well. Oh no! Betatron is being shown with what we know of as Optimus Maximus' team. So what? They still have time to make the rest. Maybe they'll be in wave three of next year and they don't have anything to show for that far in advance. Since they didn't want to have just one voyager per wave, maybe they're releasing Scattorshot earlier than the rest of the Technobots. Wave two of the voyagers and deluxes should be the Combaticons with either Sky Lynx or Scattorshot as the other voyager or maybe even both versions of Onslaught packed together. Wave 3 is really only starting to show up in stores now so we have almost a full year before they reveal what the third wave of deluxes will be for next year.

hinomars19 wrote:I'm genuinely confused-why is 'Betatron' Scattershot and the 4 autobots that make Optimus Maximus??

Where are the other technobots? And why is every combiner re-tools? I get they need to get mileage out of these molds, but they took it too far fast! Blast-Off and Scattershot deserve new molds-and they have to have made enough money to achieve this by now. Something really awesome has gone bad fast, I feel...

Guys, don't forget: with Victorion confirmed as a set, we possibly still have two waves after the Sky Reign bots. No way will Hasbro cheap out on this, especially with TakaraTomy wanting to release its own version!

Alpha Weltall wrote:Ok, I finally have something bad to say about Victorion. Those individual bot names are pretty bad and very awkward to say. Luckily I don't care about things like that and will call them whatever I want when I get them. I wonder though, do they have a group name yet? Are they the Victoribots or the Toribots or perhaps the Vicibots maybe even the Fandobots?

Funny thing, in Combiner War the Team Names are never mentioned and are probably trivial at this point, when everyone can possibly combine.

Well this SDCC has been a huge disappointment. Just a big pile of repaints and no real new announcements. Victorion will probably look better in molded plastic rather than thick, glossy paint. The G2 repaints are nice, but I'm guessing they'll be exclusives somewhere. Scattershot is total garbage and appears to be all alone just like Cyclonus.

What's more disappointing is what they aren't doing. No beasts, no mention of Titan Wars, no new MPs (will try to get Starscream, though), and no Groove.

At least we had a good showing at BotCon.

Emerje

But does Scattorshot still have the ability to be mistransformed hilariously? If you don't know what I'm talking about, use google.

Also, Bruticus, Sky Lynx and G2 Superion all look amazing.

Genericon #378 wrote:But does Scattorshot still have the ability to be mistransformed hilariously? If you don't know what I'm talking about, use google.

No, the nosecone flips upwards for Scattershot, but since the Silverbolt mold makes a 180 when in torso mode...

O grow up

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:But does Scattorshot still have the ability to be mistransformed hilariously? If you don't know what I'm talking about, use google.

No, the nosecone flips upwards for Scattershot, but since the Silverbolt mold makes a 180 when in torso mode...

O grow up

It probably deends on how the gun attaches to the nosecone. My guess is tht it uses the molded in wheel on the shield anx not an attached kickstand for thevfron landing gear, and without that, you cant attach the gun to the landing gear to "position". You might be able to do it by partially folding the nosedown, but then he's as long out the back as he is the out the front... yeah I'm gonna leave it at that.

Could someone pst the Victorion names? I'm on a phone and flipping through the gallery is not easy.

And I really want a G2 Defensor now for that dark blue Blades.

I think that betatron is hasbro's way of teasing computron before the technobot limbs show up. I mean the limbs they showcased are already in a different combiner, it would make no sense!

Flashwave wrote:Could someone pst the Victorion names? I'm on a phone and flipping through the gallery is not easy.

leader hotspot retool = pyra magma
helicopter sisters = storm clash and skyburst
breakdown retool = jumpstream
dead end retool = dust-up
groove retool = rust dust

Hope this helps

I'm fast losing faith in Combiner Wars, I have to be honest.

Delta Magnus wrote:I'm fast losing faith in Combiner Wars, I have to be honest.

aw c'mon, lets lighten up. I posted in another thread that this is the way it was revealed last year, superion and menasor super early, and the third reveal wasn't until the NY toy fair of this year and the fourth reveal wasn't until botcon of this year. If victorion really isn't a standard release, that leaves two waves left. we should expect to see them revealed at ny toy fair next year and botcon of next year; lets all just CALM DOWN you're getting your G2 boxsets, we got to see victorion, if you don't like it, that's your problem, not ours

im gonna laugh when Hasbro randomly drops the ball and confirms Nexus Prime using Heat wave from Onslaught , Skyfall and breakaway from from one of the arialbots, Land quake from Brawl , and top spin from the glorious Alpha Brave i'd pay for a combiner that is something different from the Norm

Victorion looks awful in my opinion, that colour scheme is a real eyesore. Smart move by hasbro making it a set because they'll probably lose a substantial amount of money from it from looking at forums its staunch supporters are even saying "ew".

So by "G2" do they just mean repaints or is there anything physically different for the molds, for example "G2 Menasor"?

jay5 wrote:So by "G2" do they just mean repaints or is there anything physically different for the molds, for example "G2 Menasor"?

The original G2 toys were just straight redecos of the G2 toys, so it stands to reason that same applies here.

Scattershot? Damn. The original G1 toy was one of my faves. This is just a another half-hearted retool. Heh, when I was a kid I used to tease one of my friends for his Masters of the Universe figures constantly re-using the same body parts over and over and over and over but that was kind of acceptable back then as action figures were still a 'new' thing. It's 2015 now and Hasbro are just churning out constant unimaginative boring junk using the same pieces over and over with the increasingly rare pleasant surprise such as Sky-Lynx (though still messed up slightly by forcing him into the Combine Wars gimmick).

Sabrblade wrote:

jay5 wrote:So by "G2" do they just mean repaints or is there anything physically different for the molds, for example "G2 Menasor"?

The original G2 toys were just straight redecos of the G2 toys, so it stands to reason that same applies here.

Cool, I might pick up a few Stunticon cars if they look good.


Any news of an MP Mirage?

jay5 wrote:So by "G2" do they just mean repaints or is there anything physically different for the molds, for example "G2 Menasor"?

Generation 2 started out as bright-colored redeco of G1 molds (with some tweaks done to incorporate new features like sound packs and G.I. Joe guns), so physically there's nothing different:


Transformers Generation 2 Superion Gallery

Delta Magnus wrote:I'm fast losing faith in Combiner Wars, I have to be honest.

I agree. It seems to have just declined into stagnation at this point. Personally I have my fingers crossed that wave 6 (Sky Lynx, Hound, Smokescreen etc.) will be the last full wave in the Combiner Wars assortment and they'll move on to Titan Wars (I NEED that sexy Astrotrain-looking thing in my life) starting from next Summer. Of course I don't think this will actually happen because Victorion is coming out in the middle of 2016 and I really don't think the other Technobots will go unmade, but one can dream.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Scattershot? Damn. The original G1 toy was one of my faves. This is just a another half-hearted retool. Heh, when I was a kid I used to tease one of my friends for his Masters of the Universe figures constantly re-using the same body parts over and over and over and over but that was kind of acceptable back then as action figures were still a 'new' thing. It's 2015 now and Hasbro are just churning out constant unimaginative boring junk using the same pieces over and over with the increasingly rare pleasant surprise such as Sky-Lynx (though still messed up slightly by forcing him into the Combine Wars gimmick).

Life sucks, you should probably accept it

I'm not actually that fussed about Scattorshot being on his own. As others have said, Drag Strip was part of both Superion and Ultra Prime in wave 1, and I remember hearing it was stated in the panel that Betatron is the "Beta" version of a future Combiner, so it's safe to assume the other Technobots are coming.

My guess would be that they will pad their pockets with "G2" repaints of the existing set of four CW gestalts (Superion, Menasor, Defensor, Devastator, plus the fan-made which they planned to be almost entirely a repaint of existing molds) while simultaneously developing the next set of four gestalts with new molds (Computron, Bruticus, Predaking, pick a fourth [Liokaiser,etc]). Though if Bruticus and some of the other limbs from the next set are partial retools of existing molds, that works to their benefit.

This enables them to maintain a strong cashflow while producing a whole new set of gestalts. At least that's what my business sense tells me.

Wait...

I understand Hasbro's using "Betatron" to give Scattorshot a use until/if they make the Deluxe Technobots...

But why does Betatron (and potentially Computron) LITERALLY have Superion's head, in the exact same paint scheme? Black helmet, gold pipes, red visor, and silver mouthplate? That's not even close to Computron.

Maybe it's a prototype and they haven't used the proper paint apps yet/created the Combiner head?

So much negativity...

I think Victorion in molded plastic colors is going to look amazing. New feet and hands? Hasbro is listening.

The G2 redecos are sweet and something desirable for collectors.

I'm not even a staunch Combiner Wars advocate and I think they did a great job.

(Except Scattershot...that could have gone better. I do think the limbs are forthcoming though. I just hope they are club exclusives because your collective rage is delicious.)

By the by, anybody who "G2" Powerglide and Blackjack are based on? Neither Powerglide or Runabout/Blackjack were released in G2, so I'm wondering where their colors came from.

Autobot tap out wrote:im gonna laugh when Hasbro randomly drops the ball and confirms Nexus Prime using Heat wave from Onslaught , Skyfall and breakaway from from one of the arialbots, Land quake from Brawl , and top spin from the glorious Alpha Brave i'd pay for a combiner that is something different from the Norm

That's FunPub's playground. I'd expect that for Pasadena in 2017, maybe.

Heatwave from Hotspot
Breakaway from Air Raid
Landquake from Brawl
Topspin from Alpha Bravo
???? from Rook (Chase would fit)
Skyfall from Powerglide

I was actually expecting to see the G2 Menasor from the club. Maybe G2 Animated, then. Given they try to 1UP each year, make them COMBINE!!!!! Just sayin'.
As far as next year's Botcon, they need to center around a Beast Wars theme for the 20th Anniversary. Would love to see them finish the Beast Wars arc they opened up at the end of Animated's run in 2009.

Ranting over. You may now return to SDCC coverage already in progress.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the by, anybody who "G2" Powerglide and Blackjack are based on? Neither Powerglide or Runabout/Blackjack were released in G2, so I'm wondering where their colors came from.

The closest thing I thought of with Powerglide, is that he's either in a deco inspired by the 2008 Universe toy, OR he's based on Bad Boy, but with all the blue turned red (Like, he's nearly spot on in resemblance if you switch the colors).

Blackjack just seems to be based on the Purple car accessory that was going to come with the original G2 Menasor toy (with bonus details to prevent him from looking bland).

We return after that short post-Hasbro panel break with a new Seibertron.com gallery, directly from San Diego Comic Con 2015! The Hasbro booth was populated with more products than earlier today, and we get a much better look at the Combiner Victorion, with the six Torchbearers each taking a little of the spotlight too - check out below Pyra Magna (the torso), Jumpstream & Dustup (arms), Stormclash & Skyburst (legs) and Rust Dust (chest piece)!

Here's another thought on the Computron/betatron thing. Maybe the plan is to only do Scattershot, so there will be no Computron proper. I really can't see Takara doing all 4 limbs just to put out Computron. Unite Warriors may just not have an Abominus or Computron