Rumour: First Image of Titan Wars Blaster, Including Base Mode

If real, it's definitely interesting. I wonder what size class he is though. Is this source reputable?

That looks like so much fun. Baseformers/playsets are sorely lacking, been on a drought since that nice run with Dark of the Moon Cyberverse and Metroplex. Also, this is one step closer to my pipe dream of Ten's Lost Light playset being realized.

looks pretty consistent with those line drawings and looks like a heck of a lot of trouble to fake

i'm guessing he's about the size of ultra magnus, conjecture based on the the hypothesis that the recently announced buzzsaw might somehow fit in blaster's chest.

which wold in turn, lead me to speculate regarding the possibility of a repurposing of the mould for a generations soundwave (who lets face it, is the biggest g1 character not to have a proper update)

frogbat wrote:looks pretty consistent with those line drawings and looks like a heck of a lot of trouble to fake

i'm guessing he's about the size of ultra magnus, conjecture based on the the hypothesis that the recently announced buzzsaw might somehow fit in blaster's chest.

which wold in turn, lead me to speculate regarding the possibility of a repurposing of the mould for a generations soundwave (who lets face it, is the biggest g1 character not to have a proper update)

Recently announced buzzsaw? Did I miss something?

That's mildly intersting, but where do the speakers go in bot mode? It doesn't look like they split, and they don't appear to be on either the outside, or inside of the legs...

I don't CW to end until Galvatronus gets his limbs and the Technobots see justice and when will we see the Predacons?

ZeroWolf wrote:If real, it's definitely interesting. I wonder what size class he is though. Is this source reputable?

I will shrug very loudly and slowly at that. I hope it answers the question.

ZeroWolf wrote:

frogbat wrote:looks pretty consistent with those line drawings and looks like a heck of a lot of trouble to fake

i'm guessing he's about the size of ultra magnus, conjecture based on the the hypothesis that the recently announced buzzsaw might somehow fit in blaster's chest.

which wold in turn, lead me to speculate regarding the possibility of a repurposing of the mould for a generations soundwave (who lets face it, is the biggest g1 character not to have a proper update)

Recently announced buzzsaw? Did I miss something?

this chap...

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:CWLegendsBuzzsaw.jpg

i hope its true, ive always wanted blaster but have had terrible luck trying to get one. This would fill the void rather nicely. Just for the love of god dont be an over priced new class or leader, voyager or deluxe would be great.

frogbat wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

frogbat wrote:looks pretty consistent with those line drawings and looks like a heck of a lot of trouble to fake

i'm guessing he's about the size of ultra magnus, conjecture based on the the hypothesis that the recently announced buzzsaw might somehow fit in blaster's chest.

which wold in turn, lead me to speculate regarding the possibility of a repurposing of the mould for a generations soundwave (who lets face it, is the biggest g1 character not to have a proper update)

Recently announced buzzsaw? Did I miss something?

this chap...

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:CWLegendsBuzzsaw.jpg

Ah so I did miss something then! Thanks for that

Megatron Wolf wrote:i hope its true, ive always wanted blaster but have had terrible luck trying to get one. This would fill the void rather nicely. Just for the love of god dont be an over priced new class or leader, voyager or deluxe would be great.

There's no way it will be smaller than leader class. Too much going on and it's probably going to work with the new legends cassettes.

Megatron Wolf wrote:i hope its true, ive always wanted blaster but have had terrible luck trying to get one. This would fill the void rather nicely. Just for the love of god dont be an over priced new class or leader, voyager or deluxe would be great.

I feel like Soundwave is going to be coming out 2016 then Blaster 2017. If they can hold the cassettes or onyx tablets or whatever they are now they'd have to be leader class, there's just no way to get a legends class figure to fit inside a voyager or deluxe.

ZeroWolf wrote:If real, it's definitely interesting. I wonder what size class he is though. Is this source reputable?

Daim Choc is about as reputable as you can get.

Hellscream9999 wrote:That's mildly intersting, but where do the speakers go in bot mode? It doesn't look like they split, and they don't appear to be on either the outside, or inside of the legs...

There on side of his legs in bot mode not front but outside side look closley

Hellscream9999 wrote:That's mildly intersting, but where do the speakers go in bot mode? It doesn't look like they split, and they don't appear to be on either the outside, or inside of the legs...

The speakers do seem to become the legs, take a look at the outside edge of his leg there's a small black trapezium shape on there that matches the bottom of the speakers.

I would agree that the speakers fold and tuck to form his legs, especially after checking out the line art.

It does appear that a square thing is designed to plug into his chest.

Probably leader sized, but I'd rather voyager class.

TAKE MY MONEY!!! ALL OF IT!!!

Sir Soundwave42 wrote:I don't CW to end until Galvatronus gets his limbs and the Technobots see justice and when will we see the Predacons?

While the Technobots is obscure, Hasbro confirmed that they are not working on any beast combiners. But that makes sense since Predaking isn' scramble city and is more likely to be a titan class figure down the line. Hasbro did comfirm that they are making 1 titan class figure per year from here on out and that it probably when they will release Pradaking. He isn't part of Combiner Wars.

Also, Galvatronus will never have his own limbs, that was made pretty clear with what the toy is meant to be, even to the point of giving him a fiction that he can mind control other parts to become his limbs.

It's odd how the speakers on his legs in robot mode aren't used as the speakers in boombox mode.

I know they are not identical, but Blaster's base mode gives me a real Powermaster Optimus Prime vibe:



Anyway, cool looking toy. I may have to think about retiring the repurposed FOC Blaster I currently use in my collection. I just hope that he gets a corresponding Stealjaw, Ramhorn, Rewind, and Eject to go with him.

Yotsuyasan wrote:Eject

Yes please and thank you.

Yotsuyasan wrote:I may have to think about retiring the repurposed FOC Blaster I currently use in my collection. I just hope that he gets a corresponding Stealjaw, Ramhorn, Rewind, and Eject to go with him.

I recently got FoC Blaster just cos I loved the character in the Marvel Comics and that was so far the best and most posable official toy of him (when I ignore the fact it's yet another Soundwave retool) but the robot mode on this looks so much better and less fat. Hopefully Steeljaw and Ramhorn will be good (hate the Steeljaw included in the FoC figure) and not bulky like that new Buzzsaw figure (least aerodynamic wings I've seen in ages) Couldn't care less about Rewind and Eject. Always found them boring.

Well, I spy little head dudes that look like the head dude with Brainstorm. So I think there is a very good chance for Blaster to be a big Voyager.I suspect Buzzsaw does SOMETHING, but I dont think he's cassette sized. Maybe he plugs into the grey thing above Blaster?

Blaster is good for G1ness, but do I want a boombox figure? Not really. Will that stop me from buying this? Probably not.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I recently got FoC Blaster just cos I loved the character in the Marvel Comics and that was so far the best and most posable official toy of him (when I ignore the fact it's yet another Soundwave retool) but the robot mode on this looks so much better and less fat. Hopefully Steeljaw and Ramhorn will be good (hate the Steeljaw included in the FoC figure) and not bulky like that new Buzzsaw figure (least aerodynamic wings I've seen in ages) Couldn't care less about Rewind and Eject. Always found them boring.

Yeah, that Steeljaw does suck. The FOC Ramhorn isn't bad, though. FOC Rewind and Eject are kind of meh. Nor bad, but not amazing, either. You may find 'em boring, but to me, I'd need them to complete the collection. On the other hand, the orange bird whose name I can't recall and I am too lazy to look up at the moment, he I couldn't care less about as he has no G1 equivalent from back in the day. I have the FOC version simply because he came in a two-pack. If a hypothetical new version was sold individually, he'd be a pass for me.

Boombox mode looks kind of derpy, but I'm just hella glad that there's a Blaster on the way that isn't a retool of a Soundwave.

Yotsuyasan wrote:
Yeah, that Steeljaw does suck. The FOC Ramhorn isn't bad, though. FOC Rewind and Eject are kind of meh. Nor bad, but not amazing, either. You may find 'em boring, but to me, I'd need them to complete the collection. On the other hand, the orange bird whose name I can't recall and I am too lazy to look up at the moment, he I couldn't care less about as he has no G1 equivalent from back in the day. I have the FOC version simply because he came in a two-pack. If a hypothetical new version was sold individually, he'd be a pass for me.

Yeah I mainly got FoC Blaster cos he was cheap in a sale but it turned out I liked him more than I thought I would but would happily sell it on if this one came out. Don't care for the boombox mode here though (even FoC Blaster makes a better unofficial boombox) but I just really like that robot mode for him. I hope he's a Voyager class as that's again one of the reasons I bought the FoC. I'm building up my own version of the Wreckers in mostly Voyager scale with Springer, Sandstorm, Hot Rod (in progress custom of Springer), DotM Ironhide (it's a G1/movie multiversal group ) with Deluxes like AoE Bee and 2007Movie Arcee as 'scouts'. Leader class would be too big for Blaster. I know the old G1 figure was pretty tall but always looked silly when you had him fight Soundwave who was only about two thirds that size if that.

Is Sunder the name of the bird they added to Blaster just to reuse Buzzsaw/Laserbeak? Man, I miss the days where Autobots and Decepticons never shared molds with the opposite faction.

That gun-slab thing on top of 'base-mode', could that be a legends cassette?

william-james88 wrote:While the Technobots is obscure, Hasbro confirmed that they are not working on any beast combiners. But that makes sense since Predaking isn' scramble city and is more likely to be a titan class figure down the line. Hasbro did comfirm that they are making 1 titan class figure per year from here on out and that it probably when they will release Pradaking. He isn't part of Combiner Wars.

As much as I'd like a new Predaking I think if that Titan Wars line art is a preview of what's to come in 2017 Fort Max will be the titan for that year.That really brings into question who next years titan will be. There really isn't any other contenders for a larger combiner like that. What? Are they going to do Raiden? Maybe a G2 repaint of Devy? I'm seriously surprised that they are't doing any beast combiners with next year being Beast Wars 20th anniversary. Unless they're lying to us which is entirely possible but unlikely.

I never cared much for Blaster, but if this is no bigger than a Voyager, I may just get him.

william-james88 wrote:

Sir Soundwave42 wrote:I don't CW to end until Galvatronus gets his limbs and the Technobots see justice and when will we see the Predacons?

While the Technobots is obscure, Hasbro confirmed that they are not working on any beast combiners. But that makes sense since Predaking isn' scramble city and is more likely to be a titan class figure down the line. Hasbro did comfirm that they are making 1 titan class figure per year from here on out and that it probably when they will release Pradaking. He isn't part of Combiner Wars.

Next Titan will almost certainly be Titan Wars Fortress Maximus from the same line art as Blaster. Maybe we'll see Predaking in 2017, but no sooner than that if he's a Titan unless Takara Tomy decides to make one.

BTW, if you look closely at Blaster's base mode you can see what looks like small robots on him. I really don't want him to be a Headmaster, but he might be, there's a little robot the same color as him manning the gun in his left arm in base mode. With the chest door open there's no obvious place for a head to be tucked inside his body and there's that suspicious looking protrusion where his neck should be. That shuttle figure from the line art was also a Headmaster along with Fort Max so it's possible that Titan Wars is an entire Headmaster line.

I was trying to figure out where the big gun on top of the base mode came from attached to the handle, but then realized it probably folds into a tape.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sir Soundwave42 wrote:I don't CW to end until Galvatronus gets his limbs and the Technobots see justice and when will we see the Predacons?

While the Technobots is obscure, Hasbro confirmed that they are not working on any beast combiners. But that makes sense since Predaking isn' scramble city and is more likely to be a titan class figure down the line. Hasbro did comfirm that they are making 1 titan class figure per year from here on out and that it probably when they will release Pradaking. He isn't part of Combiner Wars.

Next Titan will almost certainly be Titan Wars Fortress Maximus from the same line art as Blaster. Maybe we'll see Predaking in 2017, but no sooner than that if he's a Titan unless Takara Tomy decides to make one.

BTW, if you look closely at Blaster's base mode you can see what looks like small robots on him. I really don't want him to be a Headmaster, but he might be, there's a little robot the same color as him manning the gun in his left arm in base mode. With the chest door open there's no obvious place for a head to be tucked inside his body and there's that suspicious looking protrusion where his neck should be. That shuttle figure from the line art was also a Headmaster along with Fort Max so it's possible that Titan Wars is an entire Headmaster line.

I was trying to figure out where the big gun on top of the base mode came from attached to the handle, but then realized it probably folds into a tape.

Emerje

I am going to have to start calling you Eagle Eyes Emerje!

Wow! If this is where TFs are heading, I'm so going along for the ride.
Headmasters, and little dudes, and base modes...can't wait!

Hmm, well it's not a combiner, it doesn't look very cool, I never cared much for blaster (cassetticons on the other hand...) probably going to be jumping back off the collecting train for a while after cw gets over.

Might strive to Fort max if he is coming up soon, but only if he is affordable through hasbro. Might get anyone else that looks cool, that astrotrain piqued my interest, but I so seriously love the classic steam engine the evila star has going

The art does show a Headmaster with Blaster detailing so I'm pretty sure that's happening.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Hmm, well it's not a combiner, it doesn't look very cool, I never cared much for blaster (cassetticons on the other hand...) probably going to be jumping back off the collecting train for a while after cw gets over.

Might strive to Fort max if he is coming up soon, but only if he is affordable through hasbro. Might get anyone else that looks cool, that astrotrain piqued my interest, but I so seriously love the classic steam engine the evila star has going

I love Train transformers, so I bought Evilastar and will certainly purchase whatever Hasbro gives us for Astrotrain

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Hmm, well it's not a combiner, it doesn't look very cool, I never cared much for blaster (cassetticons on the other hand...) probably going to be jumping back off the collecting train for a while after cw gets over.

Might strive to Fort max if he is coming up soon, but only if he is affordable through hasbro. Might get anyone else that looks cool, that astrotrain piqued my interest, but I so seriously love the classic steam engine the evila star has going

I love Train transformers, so I bought Evilastar and will certainly purchase whatever Hasbro gives us for Astrotrain

Yeah we need some Raiden up in here, am I right?

Also, unless there is some obscene mass-shifting, that is either the worlds largest boombox, or the worlds tiniest city... Maybe Blaster turns into Rhode Island








(I get that it is a playset, just thought it was funny to think about)

OMG!!!!!!! We haven't had a good boombox Blaster since G1! Right?

Well done Hasbro, well done.

william-james88 wrote:I am going to have to start calling you Eagle Eyes Emerje!

I will point out that this most likely has been digitally painted. There are a few little bots on him in base mode that appear to have been painted the same as the background (I numbered them 4 and 5 in the image below). It's quite possible that whoever did the paint didn't notice the orange guy was there. Other possible mistakes I'm seeing is on the side of Blaster's leg the half of the large speaker is white in the center, but black on the radio. In radio mode his black hands are painted orange. In base mode the stock of his gun was painted yellow like his chest.



Doesn't look like they're at the hand painted prototype stage just yet.

Emerje

meh, not overly impressed. Bot mode looks good, but once again, forcing in a gimmick, in this case the "city" mode, has made the alt mode look weird.

Burn wrote:meh, not overly impressed. Bot mode looks good, but once again, forcing in a gimmick, in this case the "city" mode, has made the alt mode look weird.

How does the alt mode look weird? It is a boombox, that's what they look like, right?

The speakers look weird, and I have a hard time remembering a system where the tape deck wasn't flush with the rest of the system. In this particular instance it really sticks out like a sore thumb.

But mostly ... personal preference.

If its voyager size Im interested, otherwise not really. I dont care about a base mode im not looking for playability. Also not digging the enlarged speakers. Does that mean the speakers on his legs in robot mode are fake ?

Burn wrote:The speakers look weird, and I have a hard time remembering a system where the tape deck wasn't flush with the rest of the system. In this particular instance it really sticks out like a sore thumb.

But mostly ... personal preference.

That's probably for some tape-former ejecting system that fans would otherwise whine about if absent. Honestly, my first thought when looking at it, especially the speaker size, was ipod docking station

Rated X wrote:If its voyager size Im interested, otherwise not really. I dont care about a base mode im not looking for playability. Also not digging the enlarged speakers. Does that mean the speakers on his legs in robot mode are fake ?

More likely an homage, but yes, they are fake; you can see part of the alt mode speakers on the side of the legs, and notice that the arms and legs fold to the side to form the backside of the larger speakers.

I also agree, he needs to be, at most, a large ultra class, otherwise he would be a fairly disappointing leader class figure, I guess if he was a titan, the city mode would be more fun, and the alt mode might scale with you in real life

Rated X wrote:If its voyager size Im interested, otherwise not really. I dont care about a base mode im not looking for playability. Also not digging the enlarged speakers. Does that mean the speakers on his legs in robot mode are fake ?

They're both fake as in not functioning. Nothing more but sculpted detail. Seriously though, the ones in boombox mode (and it looks like they can really BOOM) are realistic, while the ones in robot mode are derived from the G1 original.

And he's not a city! He's a Base, big difference.

Two things came to my head after seeing this:
1.) This thing is gonna look really cool in Metroplex's arms.
2.) That looks hella-GEEWUN. If it's the right size, this will work perfectly as my MP Blaster. I always preferred the original toy's gargantuan stature when compared to the other G1 'bots as opposed to his average Autobot height in most G1-based media.

It's legit.

Flashwave wrote:I suspect Buzzsaw does SOMETHING, but I dont think he's cassette sized. Maybe he plugs into the grey thing above Blaster?

New Blaster looks like an intersting concept, but it's basically the G1 version with a base mode, and G1 Blaster just got a reissue. You'd think they might have chosen someone else to reissue with this in the pipeline.

I'm hoping we see some non-G1 guys in Titan Wars, as unlikely as it may be. In particular, this would be a good place for Tidal Wave to resurface, pardon the pun.

Sir Soundwave42 wrote:I don't CW to end until Galvatronus gets his limbs and the Technobots see justice and when will we see the Predacons?

Galvatronus doesn't have limbs, the whole deal is he steals them. That said, I wouldn't mind some random limbs that otherwise belong to nobody for him (or the other stray torsos) to use, guys like Ambulon and Leobreaker and/or Nemesis Breaker.