Transformers Pulse Fanstream Event June 23rd and Target Reveal for Collabs June 24th

I'm guessing this stream will just be announcing the Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection, while Legacy wave 3 and Studio Series Fallen and (possibly) wave 4 are being saved for San Diego Comic-Con. I've decided I will be getting Blurr along with Override, so I look forward to pre-orders going up for them.

I'm guessing Velocitron on the 23th and Buzzworthy Bumblebee on the 24th. "Collabs" (with a lowercase c) and the "yellow" clue doesn't scream Transformers Collaborative to me. Would be nice if we were finally getting Sundstorm.

If it is Collaborative then I don't know, Big Bird? Coldplay? Another J. Balvintron?

Emerje

Let's see... Transformers reveal... code name "Yellow"...

I'm thinking another Bumblebee figure, probably another Bayverse remold.

I am guessing Velocitron line on thursday and Red Cog preorders on Friday

Doubting it will be a transforming Godzilla as Playmates has beaten hasbro to it...kinda

and still better than Ectotron

Holy shit, what the hell????!!!!

As usual, the event started with franchise news like Virtual Reality, the non floating collectible rubber duck type figures previously shown, the previously shown Lego Optimus Prime.

But then it went back to toys and we got a bunch of reveals such as:

The Walmart exclusive Velocitron Speedia 500 set, which is not available to purchase until July
It includes, Blurr, Clampdown, Black Convoy, Hauler, Cosmos, Override, Burnout and Roadrocket.

Important points, Clampdown has white plastic instead of red plastic in areas like the legs as a conscious decision to further differentiate him from Red Alert. Also, the panel confirmed that the Black Convoy in the set is meant to be RID SCOURGE, unlike what some fans had guessed (or hoped?).

We also got reveals of the RED figures found by a Taiwanese glamour model earlier today

And lastly, they revealed Shattered Glass Slicer, who is a redeco of Earthrise Wheeljack and comes with a weapons pack in the form of a red Fasttrack.

All images are below.

Welp, gotta get Burnout out to use as SG Skids!

No musts for me. Maybe the RED stuff and I'd want the red fast track but not the wheeljack mold reuse

Roadrocket and a few others are maybes but not priorities. Cosmos is a pass though it's more g1 ish the TR one is perfectly fine and did more with the additional shuttle bot at a way lower price.

Easiest pass is the Skids repaint, as much as I really like diaclone colors legacy skids doesnt work for me. Maybe it would look better as a lada based character if there was one.

Given its name and colours Burnout had written "Decepticon" all over it - shame witnessing it become yet another Autobot. Not entirely convinced by Cosmos, looks a little too much like a thrash bin; Roadrocket is a welcome surprise, as SG Wheeljack/Slicer.

I like how solid Cosmos looks. Though that cap on top of the saucer is kind of tall. I see why they did it - the robot torso had to have some heft to it. Looks a bit odd though...

Oh wowza, I did not expected SG 'Jack, definitely nabbing that, especially to repurpose as Slicer (I'm sure that's going to be intended anyway much like how SG Magnus could be officially repurposed too). Road Rocket and Burnout both look really good, I'm definitely getting those. (Still waiting for a Flamewar retool too.)
I might get Clampdown to partner up with Cordon, too. (May need some reprolabels to look as slavish as Clampdown, though...)
Also hmm, still not sure about Black Convoy/Scourge. I'll wait to see if they actually might do a Toxitron redeco before considering it however.
Also hmm, the lighting makes that IDW Blurr look more presentable, I may at least get him as a crowd filler... (Still not a big fan of the design...)
But all in all these were pretty good reveals!

Edit: Wow I am a giddy goat, I meant to say that I did not expect Slicer and would be fun to repurpose as Jacky.
I guess I let excitement blur my brain a little!

Yeah, those are all pretty much musts for me.

Cosmos is the one I am least drawn to, that chest needed to be collapsable for thr cockpit mode that flying trash can is just hideous, but I do like thr Bot and thr checkered flag is adorable.

I could probably pass on Burnout since I have the botcon set, but I did get Selects Lift Tucket and hell I have 66.7 billion Countachs already so whats a second version of the skids mold?

Road Rocket looks great.

Slicer is a must I love the way they incorporated the black into the v mode deco.

I love the beefier look that IDW Blurr has to his G1 version. I wish the tires touched the ground and turned but otherwise he is perfect.

Black Convoy I will get but I wish they hadn't gone with the only use of the black chest as the inspiration. He should had the gunmetal chest Luke he did in Car Robots, the US release as Scourge, the Generations release as Scourge, the Legacy headmaster, and the cartoon.

angtre wrote:Given its name and colours Burnout had written "Decepticon" all over it - shame witnessing it become yet another Autobot. Not entirely convinced by Cosmos, looks a little too much like a thrash bin; Roadrocket is a welcome surprise, as SG Wheeljack/Slicer.

Burnout was an Autobot before. Burnout and Liftticket were both Autobots by default in Botcon sets.

I don't follow the current SG story but let me get this straight. This Slicer is SG evil Autobot Wheeljack who went undercover as the heroic Decepticon Slicer? Or something like that? Doesn't matter either way, I already picked the set up. Got three actually. One Slicer will be standard Decepticon Slicer. One will be SG Wheeljack. I'll worry about what to do with the third Slicer later. I'll sell it as some point probably. I have until next year to figure it out. I love that it comes with two new guns. I don't recall them mentioning anything about them in the livestream.

I love how there's three female characters in the Speedia line. Not often you see that.

Road Rocket looks really good. Those colors just look amazing on that mold and in general. That is one nice looking shade of red. Might be because it's paired with black. Might be the hints of blue. Don't know but it looks good. The painted shuriken on the arm blades is pretty funny.

Cosmos looks awesome. I don't recall them mentioning anything about him being a partial but I can see how the leakers thought he was made from Warpath. There are some similar transformation elements in where the robot mode parts end up in the vehicle mode and how they get from one place to another but they don't look like they share anything at all so far. Some of the pieces on Cosmos look familiar, like the legs, but they don't line up with anything I'm thinking of like Origin Bumblebee, Kingdom Warpath or Earthrise Cliffjumper. It's just kind of odd for a store exclusive line to get two new molds that aren't retools of anything else so far.

Burn Out would indeed make for a cool Decepticon name but it's not entirely Hasbro's fault making her an Autobot. That honor goes to Funpub. Personally I'd love to have seen more of the Diaclone decos be Decepticons instead of Autobots. We have Exhaust and Loudpedal and that's it. DK-2 Guard (but I guess we kind of have that with the Deseeus Drone), red Skids/SG Skids (not Reboost as that's red Crosscut), red Mirage, Burn Out, Lift Ticket, Spin Out and whatever the names of the blue and yellow Trailbreaker and/or Hoist figures will be would make for some great Decepticons. Tigertrack, Crosscut, Road Rage, Clamp Down and Deep Cover have been named for so long though that I don't think it would go down easy to switch their allegiances now. Reboost and Cordon can stay Autobots. Blue Bluestreak could've been a Decepticon too lol. Not that I can't just put some new labels over their existing sigils myself though. Otherwise, I actually like the Skids mold. It's not amazing but it's not too bad.

The rest we've seen.

Scourge looks great but it's a shame about the colors with the name and the lack of paint on the translucent parts of the shoulders.

Override looks amazing. She may or may not be worth the voyager tag blah blah blah.

Clamp Down makes my custom Siege Clamp Down obsolete. Just like what happened with Deep Cover and Tigertrack.

Blurr looks good. Shame it's not a "pretool" of Pointblank as Armada/Cybertron Blurr. I don't really like the SS Blur mold overall.

Road Hauler is okay. He may or may not be Hauler. Screaming head is cool but should be extra and not the main head. Some people hate animation errors. Something something something Darksyde. Something something something complete.

Just saw hasbro's reveal stream today and it seemed all they talked about was the Walmart Velocitron line that they said would roll out in july. But why wouldn't they discuss the more immenant Target line that is comming TOMMOROW that was announced a couple of days ago?

How do we prepare 4 tommorow's target preorders if hasbro didn't talk about it today? Any info on the buzzworthy worlds collide Ransack 4 pack? Particularly,I need 2 know what that Goldbug is going 2 look like beforehand so I'll know if I'm going 2 Want 2 order it.Comon sense, right?

SciFi80sGameFan wrote:Just saw hasbro's reveal stream today and it seemed all they talked about was the Walmart Velocitron line that they said would roll out in july. But why wouldn't they discuss the more immenant Target line that is comming TOMMOROW that was announced a couple of days ago?

How do we prepare 4 tommorow's target preorders if hasbro didn't talk about it today? Any info on the buzzworthy worlds collide Ransack 4 pack? Particularly,I need 2 know what that Goldbug is going 2 look like beforehand so I'll know if I'm going 2 Want 2 order it.Comon sense, right?

Honestly I just assumed Goldbug would be the Cliffjumper mold w/ SG Goldbug's head in normal Goldbug colours.

listing goes live tomoorow for the goldbug set in UK so there won't be much waiting for the photos. Tonton needs to step up his mergers and aquisitions for sneak reveals, sighs, the good old days of thievery.

blackeyedprime wrote:listing goes live tomoorow for the goldbug set in UK so there won't be much waiting for the photos. Tonton needs to step up his mergers and aquisitions for sneak reveals, sighs, the good old days of thievery.

Hahahahaha

Cosmos' saucer mode is just bad. As for the rest, not really seeing anything that makes me want to part with gas money.

Man, the stuff today was really good.

I decided I am getting all of the Velocitron figures. I'll talk about them in their thread.

Prime Optimus and Megatron give me fits. I like how they look! But the RED figures are such bad quality. I want to like them, but I didn't get Knockout because of Arcee's quality and I feel the same towards these 2.

SG Wheeljack is neat, I like the G1 Slicer action master component too

Thanks to preternia on twitter, we have our first look at the Target exclusive figures going up today as part of the Transformers section of the Target Summer Geek-Out event.

And talk about out of left field! The figures revealed include US releases of the Takara exclusive Street Fighter figures released years ago using Titans Return and Thrilling 30 figures. But the main attraction has to be the release of a Tonka x Hasbro collaborative Devastator, which is G1 Devastator decorated up as a set of Tonka construction vehicles, complete with Autobot symbols. This might be the rumored project: yellow figure as well, though we have no confirmation on that yet.

These figures should be going live on Target's website around 9 AM eastern time, though as we know, Target's systems could be finnicky and we might have to keep watch throughout the day to secure our orders.

Check out the image below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Glad the x over quality is improving even if it has to use pre hasbro x overs to do it as for the Tonka decy really cool but I'm pretty sure no one would attribute Tonka quality to g1 devy haha

I already have the Street Fighter figures so that's an easy pass. I do want the Tonka set, but I'm concerned about how much Hasbro will try to mark it up despite owning Tonka and refreshing the molds a few years ago.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I already have the Street Fighter figures so that's an easy pass. I do want the Tonka set, but I'm concerned about how much Hasbro will try to mark it up despite owning Tonka and refreshing the molds a few years ago.

Emerje

To answer your question, $104.99.

the price is not too unfair imho, but still not worth the investment for me. I have the last Devy re-issue, and I literally just sold off my street fighters, so I'm good passing on all of these.

The Target Summer Geek-out preorders are now live! The Transformers day of this event includes the revealed this morning Hasbro release of the Transformers x Street Fighter figures from Titans Return and Thrilling 30, as well as the Tonka crossover Devastator. These figures are all available for preorder, though no release date is given for the preorders, in line with Target's recent preorder policy.

The Street Fighter sets are still being sold in 2 packs, while Tonka Devastator is 1 big set.

The Autobot Hot Rod Ken vs. Arcee Chun-Li set is set at $74.99, the Optimus Prime Ryu vs. Megatron M. Bison set is $112.99, and Tonka Devastator is $104.99. You can see the links below for the listings for the sets.

Autobot Hot Rod Ken vs. Arcee Chun-Li: https://goto.target.com/c/1137247/81938/2092?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fp%2Ftransformers-c%20...%20nk%3Dsametab%3C%2Fa%3E

Optimus Prime Ryu vs. Megatron M. Bison: https://goto.target.com/c/1137247/81938/2092?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fp%2Ftransformers-c%20...%20nk%3Dsametab%3C%2Fa%3E

Tonka-stator: https://goto.target.com/c/1137247/81938/2092?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fp%2Ftransformers-c%20...%20nk%3Dsametab%3C%2Fa%3E

They went up on time! https://goto.target.com/c/1137247/81938/2092?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fp%2Ftransformers-c%20...%20A-86918794%3C%2Fa%3E

Hey, Autobot Constructicons! Names are... interesting. They love the word "mega" apparently.

Tonkanator
Mega Dozer
Power Digger
Motorload
Skyhook
Mega Hauler
Motormix

I wonder if they were going to just name the guy Hauler before they realized it was not only already taken but being used by Walmart for Road Hauler.

Pretty neat, ordered mine for $105.

Emerje

These sets are also live on hasbro pulse for premium members until 10 am est, then open to all after that

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new/products/transformers-collaborative-street-fighter-ii-mash-up-autobot-hot-rod-ken-vs-arcee-chun-li

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new/products/transformers-collaborative-street-fighter-ii-mash-up-optimus-prime-ryu-vs-megatron-m-bison

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new/products/transformers-collaborative-tonka-mash-up-tonkanator

also his name is Tonkanator

Tonkanator... That is amazing.

Those prices are utter nonsense

I wonder if the Street Fighter toys are just leftovers from a few years ago. It'll be obvious when the packaging is revealed I guess. Seems odd since not much is going on with Street Fighter right now.

william-james88 wrote:Those prices are utter nonsense

For Devastator Tonka Deco I agree. I was also about to agree for the Street Fighter toys as well, but it seems Hasbro being able to offer these directly has kept cost down somewhat. Still in light of these being based on toys from 4 years ago, with the tools already made, but cost of materials going up, I guess it's an even trade.

Lastly, depending truly if these are leftovers, or newly made toys, the originals went on sale before leaving most online retailers. Unless Hasbro's quantities are extremally in short supply there is a good chance these will go on sale as well. I just dont see Street Fighter as a hot IP right now.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65321 (2018) $90 originally, down to $80. (2022 on Pulse $75.00)
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65318 (2018) $130 originally, down to $91. (2022 on Pulse $113.00)

Don't forget, if you have a RedCard you save 5% which on Tonkanator ended up being about what taxes cost (you also get free shipping) so ordering via Target if you have the card makes more sense than Pulse

o.supreme wrote:I wonder if the Street Fighter toys are just leftovers from a few years ago. It'll be obvious when the packaging is revealed I guess. Seems odd since not much is going on with Street Fighter right now.

william-james88 wrote:Those prices are utter nonsense

For Devastator Tonka Deco I agree. I was also about to agree for the Street Fighter toys as well, but it seems Hasbro being able to offer these directly has kept cost down somewhat. Still in light of these being based on toys from 4 years ago, with the tools already made, but cost of materials going up, I guess it's an even trade.

Lastly, depending truly if these are leftovers, or newly made toys, the originals went on sale before leaving most online retailers. Unless Hasbro's quantities are extremally in short supply there is a good chance these will go on sale as well. I just dont see Street Fighter as a hot IP right now.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65321 (2018) $90 originally, down to $80. (2022 on Pulse $75.00)
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ails/65318 (2018) $130 originally, down to $91. (2022 on Pulse $113.00)

Since they're calling it Street Fighter II and not trying to keep up with the hype and calling it Street Fighter VI it'll probably just be the same box with a slip cover/outer box, Hasbro loves those.

The $30 mark up on Tonkanator over the $75 price that the reissue from 2019 is a blatant cash grab on Hasbro's part. There's no way it costs that much more to produce in three years, especially when they own Tonka so there's no gratuitous license fees involved this time.

Shame it looks like the Tonka logo is tampographed on rather than a sticker, they really didn't want people using this as G2 Devastator. I kinda like the use of black instead of purple, though there are G2 KOs that do the same thing.

Emerje

The Tonka Devastator is surely worth a smile (not any real money though, sorry Hasbro).

Shame they never released Constructicons in Diaclone colors as the Constructibots or something like that.

Reissue ? Whatever, I dont care.

might have paid £105 if tonkatron was die cast metal but I thought the encores were over priced back when and skipped on them despite collecting all reisues. Tampos are often really nice on the reissues like with hoist etc.

Think I'd have preferred a CW repaint or evn if Hasbro KO'd the undersized KO rather than the G1 figures

I had zero interest in them before when they were a Takara/Tomy release and that interest is the same now that Hasbro is releasing them. Tonkatron, nice little set but nof'ing way would I pick it up at 70 or the current cash grab price.

The SF guys being reissued is nice, but I don't really care for.

But that Tonka Devastator is absolutely awesome and it's a brilliant repaint. Too bad it's so freakishly expensive.

Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

I would have definitely preferred the Titan remold for the simple reason that it was never repainted before.

The last Walmart reissue of the G1 constructicons were 100$CAN and I thought that was expensive. At 110$US, I can't imagine what the Canadian price will be. 170$CAN?

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

This was my exact thought when i saw it. Why not use the titan? why?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

This was my exact thought when i saw it. Why not use the titan? why?

Because reusing the G1 mold for the 999th time is easy mode.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Question: would anyone besides myself have been more excited if Tonkastator had been on the Titan mold than G1? Or does the fact that it is on the G1 molds hold a nostalgic sway over the deco?

Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

This was my exact thought when i saw it. Why not use the titan? why?

Because reusing the G1 mold for the 999th time is easy mode.

The G1 molds also fit much better with the original Tonka GoBots molds, as I feel like the names are meant to sound vaguely GoBots-y.

Flashwave wrote:Everyone complaining about the G1 Constructic9ns being so expensive, you do remember the prices at Walmart, right?

Yes, do you? They were $75 in 2019, there's no way they've gone up $30 in 3 years. Even Encore in 2011 and 2013 could be had for $70 at the right shop at Japanese prices. I didn't hesitate to order it, which probably makes me part of the problem, but at the same time I want more reissues and want to support them. It's not a great situation that Hasbro puts us in sometimes.

Emerje

Over $100 for a dialled-in G1 Devvy with the words "Tonka" randomly plonked on it and some Autobot symbols? Hasbro must think that there are some real chumps in this community if they think they will sell in any significant numbers. They didn't event bother to offer remolded accessories (head, chest, etc).




I suppose next, Hasblo will release a set of smaller-than-the-original, green, plastic faux-Tonka trucks with a Deception symbol on them and charge $100 a pop too?

We can easily get KO Yellow Devastators too:

- https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2F224968628302%3F

- https://m.aliexpress.com/wholesale/tran ... t=Pc2Msite

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYP6ed_vBUs

I'm sure I've seen the G2 version "knocking about" fairly often too.


As for the SF2 figs, I passed on those when they were released domestically, so I'm not bothering with them now. They look bloody awful.

blackeyedprime wrote:might have paid £105 if tonkatron was die cast metal

Now THAT I'd buy.

Devastator was always one of my favorites, but we've moved on from G1 toy design limitations. The individual members should be at least be fully articulated Core class bots by now.

Hasbro isn't even trying and doesn't care who knows.

I picked up the SF2 figures from TFSource during the 2019 Black Friday sale. Ken vs. Chun-Li was $60 and Ryu vs. Vega/Bison was $90. I'm much happier with those prices than either the original prices or the current prices. Plus I got a free figure for my order over $300.

And I couldn't care less for more G1 reissues. I've moved past G1 figures a long time ago. I had them, I loved them, I no longer need/want them. But it's great for those of you who still want them. I just can't wait for this to go on steep clearance just like all the reissues did except for Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, PMOP and maybe one or two others over the two decades or so they've been doing them outside of Japan.

I'm like some of the others who have commented and would've been down for Tonkanator done from UW Devastator. UW over CW of course as it seems Hasbro doesn't shy away from Takara toolings anymore.

So these are all easy passes for me but not because I don't like them.

I wonder if Hasbro will be reissuing the Takara Star Wars Transformers. Not because I don't have them already but because Han and Chewie are some of my favorite female Transformers and others need to own them. Yes, they're female lol. Han has a HUGE monoboob shelf and not in a Jazz or Prowl kind of way but an Arcee kind of way. It even has high heels and what could pass for Anode's head. Chewie's torso and head looks feminine to me as well. They both have hot pants on too. Chewie also has the open hand like the Rust Renegades. Han has inward elbow joints to have hand on hip poses. Just a little fun but they are indeed female in my collection. They are good toys along with Darth Vader though. And Chewie doesn't crumble to dust.

Oh wait no sorry, they can't bring them over. They have waffles and hollow forearms where the hands were. I don't think the fandom is ready to know that their lords and saviors at Takara do that even without Hasbro involvement. Some still don't acknowledge that waffling isn't new and has been around since G1 and that Beast Wars might have some of the most egregious examples. I wonder what they'd think if they found out that intrusive gimmicks are most likely Takara's doing too if Daigunder and Web Diver are any indication. I'm just having some fun again but am kinda serious.

Count me into the crowd who would have loved a repaint of the Titan class Devastator, not just because it hasn't been done before, but also because I remember Tonka trucks being huge when I was a kid. So if this was a Titan, I would most likely display them as a set of 6 vehicles most of the time.

As for the SF figures, I think it's a neat concept, but I don't like the mold or the paintjob for Hot Rod Ken, and the TR Megatron mold just sux, so pass. I wouldn't mind Ryu Prime and Chun-Li Arcee (Chun-cee?) though.

For me, the main appeal of this Tonkanator set is that, the Tonka-specific labeling aside, it feels an awful lot like something that would have been done in the Car Robots/RiD 2001 line.

A redeco of a vintage mold as all-new characters, and specifically as a construction-themed Autobot combiner. They feel like they could be both direct rivals of Baldigus/Ruination and associates of the Buildmasters/Build Team.

Were I to get this set, I'd put it with my CR/RiD'01 Autobots.

It's way too expensive, but please, someone who does buy it, please take pictures of some Titan Class figures playing with their Tonka trucks. Seems about the right scale.

MeGrimlock78 wrote:It's way too expensive, but please, someone who does buy it, please take pictures of some Titan Class figures playing with their Tonka trucks. Seems about the right scale.

Tonka trucks were pretty big. Compared to Titans, these would be more like Hot Wheels.

Deluxes would scale better.