Transformers Legacy News: Armada Megatron at Retail and In Hand look at Core Snarl + Titan Nemesis

I also found Armada Megatron in Columbia, MD. I didn't buy it, though.

Snarl actually looks pretty good. He and Swoop seem the two that are least affected by having to be tiny combiner pieces.

Snagged my armada Megatron today in NY!

While I have nothing against the Dinkybots Volcanicus, it does make it blatantly apparent that we're never going to see a full sized Monstructor. At least not from . This makes me sad as that would be the last of the U.S. released Geewun combiner teams left to get an updated set.

Brokebot wrote:While I have nothing against the Dinkybots Volcanicus, it does make it blatantly apparent that we're never going to see a full sized Monstructor. At least not from . This makes me sad as that would be the last of the U.S. released Geewun combiner teams left to get an updated set.

Never is a long time, plus we still don't know if we'll get a redeco Constructor alongside the expected Dinoking.

It doesn't specify G1 Soundwave.

I'm still waiting for Earthrise Doubledealer to be retooled into Machine Wars Soundwavw.

Dr. Caelus wrote:It doesn't specify G1 Soundwave.

I'm still waiting for Earthrise Doubledealer to be retooled into Machine Wars Soundwavw.

This and Cybertron Defense Red Alert are the 2 uses I have expected from that mold, I am sad that mold has not gotten any reuses yet

Here's the transformation vid of Titan Class Nemesis

https://youtu.be/LuTGCqeEzFY

I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

https://youtu.be/LuTGCqeEzFY

Well I was never very tech-savvy so here it is.

sol magnus wrote:I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

Guess we will find out if amazon will send the correct figures soon enough

sol magnus wrote:I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

Weren't the two sets supposed to be a month apart? Why are they now being released the same day? Hope Amazon doesn't get theirs early like Pulse is.

Emerje

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

Guess we will find out if amazon will send the correct figures soon enough

There have to be some returns before you start getting wrong figures.

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

Guess we will find out if amazon will send the correct figures soon enough

There have to be some returns before you start getting wrong figures.

It's more the fact that Amazon has not corrected the listing prices, which has me and some others a bit worried we might end up getting the opposite sets that we ordered.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I got notification that Megatron and Senator Ratbat will ship on 6/23/23 from Pulse. Get yer wallets ready.

Guess we will find out if amazon will send the correct figures soon enough

There have to be some returns before you start getting wrong figures.

It's more the fact that Amazon has not corrected the listing prices, which has me and some others a bit worried we might end up getting the opposite sets that we ordered.

Ah. I checked Amazon, and it says 7/5 for that set.

That's why I'm waiting until the correct/update the listing.

Since Pulse is shipping both sets any day now, I decided to cancel my discounted Amazon order. I might be spending fifteen dollars more, but I won't have to worry about wrong items or returning duplicates or anything like that.

Strongarm looked pretty good, and that was the only thing I liked from the stream. It's also too bad they showed off the Hound mold for some other Junkion character before we even know Hound's fate.

Really happy with Strongarm. She's what I wanted for all the Prime and Animated figures, more faithful to the original character design.

Definitely getting trashmaster and detritus, love them. Getting Shadow Striker as well, strongarm idk. Her head looks a little weird for the body but I love the alt mode and the character is cool. I'll get Bludgeon too, headsculpt is cool

Razorbeast88 wrote:Definitely getting trashmaster and detritus, love them. Getting Shadow Striker as well, strongarm idk. Her head looks a little weird for the body but I love the alt mode and the character is cool. I'll get Bludgeon too, headsculpt is cool

Strongarm isn't a perfect representation: I would've preferred a little more bulky, and I don't think they should have designated fembot molds. There are lots of different body types across genders and a long history of gender-flipping characters via redecoes only. But all of that aside, it still looks like a really good likeness, and I like the alt-mode too. The main thing I don't understand, and I've seen a ton of commentary on it online, is the head size. It looks totally normal to me, and very consistent with moldmate Elita-1. I just don't get it, but I don't doubt it genuinely bothers other people.

Also really excited for the lanky Shadow Striker. I would have personally preferred a more standard body shape, but I think splitting the difference between the Universe inspiration and the modern version was genius. Sometimes that sacrifice means you have two bad halves, but here it feels like the combo is more than the sum of its parts. Redecoes and retools are not just the reality but a major part of the franchise's legacy, so this kind of execution is inspired.

Hello, Junkion Combiner!

Sabrblade wrote:Hello, Junkion Combiner!

Omg I love it. Not enough to get axelgrease but damn thats awesome

Thanks to a heads-up from our own Sabrblade, we have our first look at the Junkion combiner teased by designer Mark Maher in the Hasbro Pulse livestream this morning. Feast your eyes on.....



Using Trashmaster as the torso, Scraphook and Axlegrease as legs, and Crashbar and another (unrevealed Junkion?) as arms, Junkasaurus comes together looking pretty awesome. Mark revealed this on social media just a little while ago, and we're glad to bring this to your attention!

What do you all think about this combined mode? Are you going to get those Junkions you may have missed or on so you can create your own Junkasaurus? Let us know your thoughts below!

DAMN, not only is a Junkion gestalt an idea long overdue to be realized in plastic, I'd say this is also the closest we've yet gotten to a toy of Dragon Beast from that early TF:TM draft, despite its components not being passable Predacons of course.

Now I feel lazier than ever for still not having kitbashed PotP Elita-1 into a Nancy for 4 PotP Wreck-Gars with new heads to a attach to. Someday, Garbagia-Infinite, someday...

Is there any other time a combiner team has snuck up on us in such a manner, not revealing that they were such until some of their components had been in stores a while? Were there rumors of the Fossilizer gestalt from the time we knew of their Weaponizer-esque Mix-n'-match abilities?

EDIT: I know the Breast Force were introduced that way in the Victory anime, but they were obviously a gestalt team if you had even one, right? Or did a lot of European kids never realize they'd been somewhat cheated by the Rescue Force?

Oh, RESCUE, right! Anyone else think this thing was partly inspired by the Scrapmaster?

Heeeeeeeey! Might actually pick up that purple Junkion I passed on to make this!

It is the mother of all coincidences that Hasbro planned to release a big dinosaur-shaped robot combiner made of non-dino-based components in the same year that BotCon is also releasing a big dinosaur-shaped robot combiner made of non-dino-based components.

Sabrblade wrote:It is the mother of all coincidences that Hasbro planned to release a big dinosaur-shaped robot combiner made of non-dino-based components in the same year that BotCon is also releasing a big dinosaur-shaped robot combiner made of non-dino-based components.

Very cool.

I plan to get Trashmaster, Strongarm, Bombshell, Shadowstriker and Dreadwing. I'll probably get Detritus, too, but I want my Hound(!).

I was all about the core Optimus thing until I saw the price.

I'm guessing two of the not autobot junkions will work for the legs over the mix matched non decepticon junkion, looks like a cool idea.

Only just noticed the combo of faction symbols on detritus, nice much better than the silly merc symbol. Plus having him first will give a better idea if I want to replace classics hound or not.

I didn't realize that was a new junkion as the other arm I thought it was detritus, cool

Dreadwing looks much better with the official reveal, I think the leak only had yellow paint apps on the face and wrists

This one has it on the wings and nose cone as well

This honestly looks pretty cool! I'm probably just forgetting some but I don't think we've really had a combiner that's a beast like this that isn't...RotF Devastator or something.

SpaceEagle wrote:This honestly looks pretty cool! I'm probably just forgetting some but I don't think we've really had a combiner that's a beast like this that isn't...RotF Devastator or something.

Off the top of my head, there was this fiction-original Beast Mode version of Unite Warriors Lynxmaster.

Junkasaurus doesn't look huge - but he doesn't need to be huge to be awesome. Well played...

Man, the stream was cool today.

Snarl looks good as a robot and stegosaurus, but I am still not sold on the leg mode.

Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Strongarm is a neat concept, but dammit, I hate that they used the Elita mold. That mold is pretty mediocre, and she is not nearly thicc enough.

Bombshell is OK, he might go well with FOC Kickback. Still need to find Shrapnel.

Detritus looks pretty decent, I will get him for the dinobot/junkion shelf.

Bludgeon is surprisingly really cool looking. They actually made that work really well. I will be getting him.

Trashmaster is excellent, that is such a cool new guy! And I love the Junkosaurus combiner mode, that is nifty and unique!

Dreadwing looks smart, I love him. He is mine.

the Prime/Bee set is pretty nice. no interest in me, but still a nice little pack.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

Yeah. It simply makes no sense to G1-ify the Cyberverse designs since the Cyberverse designs are already G1-ified as they are. They're even more G1-like than the Unicron Trilogy designs.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

Yeah. It simply makes no sense to G1-ify the Cyberverse designs since the Cyberverse designs are already G1-ified as they are. They're even more G1-like than the Unicron Trilogy designs.

Exactly, there isn't a good reason for it.

i like what they are doing, fusing designs and such, I do, but it feels odd when most of the figures are accurate, but select ones are fusions, and the fusions usually end up being the ones that I care for the most.

Also, In the stream they mentioned the movies in the Legacy talk. It makes me think/hope maybe some live action influent will makes its way into Legacy. Maybe a Blackout or proper Barricade. I'd like that.

DeathReviews wrote:Junkasaurus doesn't look huge - but he doesn't need to be huge to be awesome. Well played...

Junkasaurus should be about the same size as other CW/UW/PotP combiners. This also works out perfectly considering the good guys were short by 2 in my overall Combiner Collection. This closes the gap.

I'll be substituting in Tow-Line for Axelgrease (to keep a faction-aligned combiner). Here's to hoping the Crashbar retool to make the other arm isn't also a Decepticon Junkion...

I'm still getting Axelgrease though because all the Junkion weaponizers are really great.

That Junkion combiner is surely not an official mode nor a "canon" mode, but it sure is a "why not" mode!

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Junkion combiner is surely not an official mode nor a "canon" mode, but it sure is a "why not" mode!

It is, however, an intentionally designed mode!

alekese wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Junkion combiner is surely not an official mode nor a "canon" mode, but it sure is a "why not" mode!

It is, however, an intentionally designed mode!

I should get a second Crashbar and a second Scraphook just in case.

I'm looking forward to see what that torso bot will be like.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

alekese wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That Junkion combiner is surely not an official mode nor a "canon" mode, but it sure is a "why not" mode!

It is, however, an intentionally designed mode!

I should get a second Crashbar and a second Scraphook just in case.

I'm looking forward to see what that torso bot will be like.

In the stream, Mark Maher said Junkasaurus was "pre-planned".

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

Yeah. It simply makes no sense to G1-ify the Cyberverse designs since the Cyberverse designs are already G1-ified as they are. They're even more G1-like than the Unicron Trilogy designs.

Wouldn't they really be G1-ifying the Car Robots moreso than Cyberverse. I know this is Shadow Striker, but we know it's really Speedbreaker.

sol magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

Yeah. It simply makes no sense to G1-ify the Cyberverse designs since the Cyberverse designs are already G1-ified as they are. They're even more G1-like than the Unicron Trilogy designs.

Wouldn't they really be G1-ifying the Car Robots moreso than Cyberverse. I know this is Shadow Striker, but we know it's really Speedbreaker.

They said in the stream that this is specifically Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and that they merged in design elements from the Universe Shadow Striker's original Side Burn mold in order to G1-ify Cyberverse Shadow Striker.

Sabrblade wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Shadow Striker just continues to make me unreasonably angry, just like Bulkhead. Just call it "Universe" Shadow Striker, not Cyberverse, and I think I'd be better.

Even that wouldn't fix everything since she's still colored more like Side Burn and has none of Universe Shadow Striker's deco.

But I'd at least feel better about it. That is not Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and it saddens me that they are basically checking that box off using this one.

Yeah. It simply makes no sense to G1-ify the Cyberverse designs since the Cyberverse designs are already G1-ified as they are. They're even more G1-like than the Unicron Trilogy designs.

Wouldn't they really be G1-ifying the Car Robots moreso than Cyberverse. I know this is Shadow Striker, but we know it's really Speedbreaker.

They said in the stream that this is specifically Cyberverse Shadow Striker, and that they merged in design elements from the Universe Shadow Striker's original Side Burn mold in order to G1-ify Cyberverse Shadow Striker.

I know what they said, but the true base figure is the Speedbreaker figure the OG Shadow Striker was based on. The car mode is doing most (if not all) of the Cyberverse work as she doesn't have a whole engine block for a chest...

So we get an official reveal of Detruitus before Hound?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:So we get an official reveal of Detruitus before Hound?

I posed the same question in the thread specifically about the Livestream. Yes very odd indeed.

There's quite a few Buzzworthy items that haven't been officially revealed yet. Maybe at SDCC?

So is this showing a second Motorcycle deco we don't know about? It looks like two differently deco'd torsos in the shoulders.

They are really trying to get me to buy Scraphook. I just want more motorcycle junkions.

Hoping we get a redeco of Trash master as RB Salvage. The mold in interesting to me but I just don't know that I feel these Junkions. Having to be more selective with my purchases.