Transformers Titans Return Astrotrain Teaser Image

Welp, that didn't take long. I may have to get him since I got Blitzwing. Still haven't got Sandstorm, but I dunno about him. I want the triple changers.....

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Welp, that didn't take long. I may have to get him since I got Blitzwing. Still haven't got Sandstorm, but I dunno about him. I want the triple changers.....

Get Sandstorm. In many ways, he is an improvement over Springer. Since he lacks the sword, he doesn't depend on a weapon for one of his alt modes, and he fixes the issue (to a degree) with Springer where the front of the car doesn't stay together.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Welp, that didn't take long. I may have to get him since I got Blitzwing. Still haven't got Sandstorm, but I dunno about him. I want the triple changers.....

You should definitely get sandstorm. In my opinion he wears the mold better than Springer and his colors are killer. Plus the giant black wheel wings give him an awesome silhouette in bot mode.

Very cool indeed.

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Welp, that didn't take long. I may have to get him since I got Blitzwing. Still haven't got Sandstorm, but I dunno about him. I want the triple changers.....

You should definitely get sandstorm. In my opinion he wears the mold better than Springer and his colors are killer. Plus the giant black wheel wings give him an awesome silhouette in bot mode.

I've got both Springer and Sandstorm and while Sandstorm certainly clicks together better than Springer (though I have no real issues with Springer in that department. Mine stays together fine, it just doesn't feel as secure as Sandstorm) he just doesn't look anywhere near as good as Springer in robot mode. He's just too blocky, plain and has that horrendously huge backpack (consisting of his car rear wheels/Vtol-fans, that makes him a bit of a pain to pose or stand up. Damn I haaate that crap) that Springer doesn't. Plus Springer has a sword and swords are cool. Also Sandstorm's gun is just plain ugly which is annoying cos I had the G1 toy too and his gun was kinda neat if unspectacular.

My Springer is on my all-time faves list. Sandstorm is a decent figure but has too many flaws for me so he's on my list of figures I will sell on if I need money. I bought him mainly because of Springer and the Marvel UK Wreckers thing (though Roadbuster was one of those and I sold him on soon after purchasing cos he was junk)

Triple changers abound! I wonder when we will actually see all these guys we have gotten gray silhouettes of. I want to see what all of these end up looking like for real.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Triple changers abound! I wonder when we will actually see all these guys we have gotten gray silhouettes of. I want to see what all of these end up looking like for real.

They're probably wave 2 of titans return so I think we'll see them either at toy fair this weekend or at botcon

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Triple changers abound! I wonder when we will actually see all these guys we have gotten gray silhouettes of. I want to see what all of these end up looking like for real.

They're probably wave 2 of titans return so I think we'll see them either at toy fair this weekend or at botcon

Well, based on last year, we actually had full images of Bruticus by June and Defensor in February, so it is very likely for us to see full titans return wave 1 stuff next week. And wave 2 stuff in a month or 2 I thinks

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Welp, that didn't take long. I may have to get him since I got Blitzwing. Still haven't got Sandstorm, but I dunno about him. I want the triple changers.....

You should definitely get sandstorm. In my opinion he wears the mold better than Springer and his colors are killer. Plus the giant black wheel wings give him an awesome silhouette in bot mode.

I've got both Springer and Sandstorm and while Sandstorm certainly clicks together better than Springer (though I have no real issues with Springer in that department. Mine stays together fine, it just doesn't feel as secure as Sandstorm) he just doesn't look anywhere near as good as Springer in robot mode. He's just too blocky, plain and has that horrendously huge backpack (consisting of his car rear wheels/Vtol-fans, that makes him a bit of a pain to pose or stand up. Damn I haaate that crap) that Springer doesn't. Plus Springer has a sword and swords are cool. Also Sandstorm's gun is just plain ugly which is annoying cos I had the G1 toy too and his gun was kinda neat if unspectacular.

My Springer is on my all-time faves list. Sandstorm is a decent figure but has too many flaws for me so he's on my list of figures I will sell on if I need money. I bought him mainly because of Springer and the Marvel UK Wreckers thing (though Roadbuster was one of those and I sold him on soon after purchasing cos he was junk)

I think it just boils down to personal preference. While I do agree that sandstorms gun kinda sucks I actually really like the big wheels on his back and I've never really had a problem posing him. Also his head sculpt is mind blowing

HEY, lets squeeze more $$ out of this mold rather than coming out with something new...jesus christ.

I like what I see, now we just need colour shots

I also prefer springer over sandstorm, mainly because of the sword robots with swords tend to win me over (unless it's a robot with a stupidly large sun bursting hammer but that's another story) and also because I loved the g1 springer.

I like that the whole Triple Changer line seems to be moving up to Voyager class, BUT WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE A HEADMASTER?!

I just want the whole Triple Changer line to match!!!

maxpower011 wrote:HEY, lets squeeze more $$ out of this mold rather than coming out with something new...jesus christ.

That's business for hasbro I this current climate, moulds being reused helps offset development costs. As much as we would like nothing but unique moulds all the time, it doesn't make much business sense. Also kids won't care that it's a retool, only us adult collectors would notice.

Here's hoping Astrotrain is a show-accurate gray and purple.

Although I would like to get Sandstorm, I am happy with my Springer. As leader of the Wreckers, and one of the main characters from the G1 season 3 show, I love him to bits. I think he also scales fairly decently with a lot of the other season 3 characters out or coming out soon (e.g. CW Cyclonus, TR Galvatron, Generations Arcee, CW leader Ultra M, Masterpiece Hot Rodimus, and others). I am so happy to have Springer, and am now hoping to get the others from the G1 season 3 cast. (Fingers crossed for a Masterpiece Arcee.)

I will be disappointed if Astrotrain's Titanmaster partner isn't an engineer.

Caelus wrote:I will be disappointed if Astrotrain's Titanmaster partner isn't an engineer.

This is actually really cool and now I want it.

Idk why but I just felt like posting this for some reason. This is a Bay-verse Astrotrain model that a buddy of mine on Instructables made a couple years ago.



Man those were the days...

It's non-transformable but it looks frigging awesome.

sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Yep, hasbro offering looks decidedly like the toy decco.
I'll wait for delicious takara grey and purple.

Well... I'll probably get the Hasbro one as a placeholder and then flip it when the takara one hits. We don't know how long it'll be before that shows up.

Lets be honest, I'm not that patient.

MemphisR56 wrote:Yep, hasbro offering looks decidedly like the toy decco.
I'll wait for delicious takara grey and purple.

Well... I'll probably get the Hasbro one as a placeholder and then flip it when the takara one hits. We don't know how long it'll be before that shows up.

Lets be honest, I'm not that patient.

But the image has no color...

Deadput wrote:

MemphisR56 wrote:Yep, hasbro offering looks decidedly like the toy decco.
I'll wait for delicious takara grey and purple.

Well... I'll probably get the Hasbro one as a placeholder and then flip it when the takara one hits. We don't know how long it'll be before that shows up.

Lets be honest, I'm not that patient.

But the image has no color...

It's way too light to not be white. Can't see a dark grey in there.

Anyway;

SHAZAM

(not mine, found it on 4chan)

Don't worry deadput, memp was making an estimated guess based on the shades in that greyscale picture

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

Well...let's not forget about blitzwing and doubledealers shoulders.

steals_your_goats wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

Well...let's not forget about blitzwing and doubledealers shoulders.

At the same time though, the point is all of them have been done and most likely will not be done again. I am fighting for a Sixshot but that may not be for a while if it would happen.

steals_your_goats wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

Well...let's not forget about blitzwing and doubledealers shoulders.

Fixable.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

Well...let's not forget about blitzwing and doubledealers shoulders.

At the same time though, the point is all of them have been done and most likely will not be done again. I am fighting for a Sixshot but that may not be for a while if it would happen.

I too really hope we get a sixshot. That's one character that I don't think has had an official update that definitely deserves it

another repaint of this thing? what a joke. maybe if the rid line was not filled with so much crap people would be buying more stuff. what is there? like six warrior class figs. they are the only ones i bought.

griftimus prime wrote:another repaint of this thing? what a joke. maybe if the rid line was not filled with so much crap people would be buying more stuff. what is there? like six warrior class figs. they are the only ones i bought.

Either you're in the wrong thread or you don't get the concept that Astrotrain was obviously the intended character for this mold, and so far only 2 versions of this mold have been announced.

griftimus prime wrote:another repaint of this thing? what a joke. maybe if the rid line was not filled with so much crap people would be buying more stuff. what is there? like six warrior class figs. they are the only ones i bought.

another repaint of this thing

another repaint

another

What are you talking about sir.

This is the *only* repaint.

Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:sooooo.....there's a new Astrotrain! a retooling of Sentinel Prime! any other Triple Changers on the way? Blitzwing? Springer? Octane? Broadside? Sandstorm? Doubledealer? or even Six Changers! Sixgun? & Quickswitch?

Blitzwing, Springer, Doubledealer, and Sandstorm already have great figures that cannot be matched in awesomeness.

Well...let's not forget about blitzwing and doubledealers shoulders.

At the same time though, the point is all of them have been done and most likely will not be done again. I am fighting for a Sixshot but that may not be for a while if it would happen.

aye, sorry, i meant Sixshot & not Sixgun! that's Metroplex's little buddy

frogbat wrote:Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

It seems very likely. He shares a mold with sentinel prime, who is also. It's thr line wide gimmick. I'd be pleasantly surprised if he wasnt though

MemphisR56 wrote:

frogbat wrote:Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

It seems very likely. He shares a mold with sentinel prime, who is also. It's thr line wide gimmick. I'd be pleasantly surprised if he wasnt though

If you look closely on this image, you can see the head floating above his body just like the other figures for TR.



Soo... yep. Headmaster.

frogbat wrote:Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

aye, i'm on board with Broadside(no pun intended) coz they haven't done him in a while

speaking of figures that haven't been redone toywise since the G1 days, Grandus! i wouldn't mind seeing one done for the Titan Wars

Yeah, can't wait to see this guy in full color, I personally don't mind either the white/purple or the grey/purple, but his head is kinda lackluster, despite being fairly accurate.

Definitely getting both him and Sentinel, might slap a different head onto Astrotrain, maybe his and Crashbash's white's will match

Stuartmaximus wrote:

frogbat wrote:Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

aye, i'm on board with Broadside(no pun intended) coz they haven't done him in a while

speaking of figures that haven't been redone toywise since the G1 days, Grandus! i wouldn't mind seeing one done for the Titan Wars

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You've been talking about him a lot lately...and you may as well keep dreaming I'm afraid as he's just not a priority...like at all. Now if he was a big player in the comics then he would have more of a shot.

Unless you can sweet talk someone from hasbro

ZeroWolf wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

frogbat wrote:Looking forward to him though I like the generations version, he does deserve a larger scale. Springer and sandstorm were definitely fun updates and excellent examples of great remoulding / retooling,

Love the triple changers but only had sandstorm and broadside as a kid (will hope to get the others one day). Again I hope they give us a broadside, would be a good excuse for a leader class triple changer.

Anyhowwwws... Is this guy gonna be a headmaster?

aye, i'm on board with Broadside(no pun intended) coz they haven't done him in a while

speaking of figures that haven't been redone toywise since the G1 days, Grandus! i wouldn't mind seeing one done for the Titan Wars

rsz_grandus.jpg

You've been talking about him a lot lately...and you may as well keep dreaming I'm afraid as he's just not a priority...like at all. Now if he was a big player in the comics then he would have more of a shot.

Definitely not going to happen, there are already at least 3-4 other titans that are already on hasbro's monitors for the next few years, maybe if they run out of idea's, they'll scrape him out of the bottom of the barrel

maxpower011 wrote:HEY, lets squeeze more $$ out of this mold rather than coming out with something new...jesus christ.

This was the intended use of the mold, SP was a pre-tool.

well funnily enough....& speaking of BIG players in the comics(& in other media too) i was kinda hoping they'd've done this guy for the Titan Wars!(well! at least A Unicron) if it weren't for the fact that a 3rd party company got in there first! which btw....they'll probably sell it for a ridiculously high price! & it would've been far cheaper had a Unicron figure originally been part of the Titan Wars line!

Isn't that the one where the ring is placed stupidly? Also that pales in comparison to armada unicron

Hello Astrotrain, we have been expecting you.

yeah i'm not necessarily meaning THAT unicron! but A unicron....like you said....maybe a reworked Armada/Energon mold or something! now granted that a Unicron in the Titan Wars was never on the table in the fist place(by Hasbro) but i think it would've better suited the Titan Wars rather than some bloody 3rd party company getting a hold of it first! in which btw only cements the fact that we'll never now SEE one happening! in future release figures(by Hasbro).

I know it was done on the last page with color, but I felt the image wasn't quite cut in the middle. I shaved a couple pixels off and I feel it looks pretty good.


Yes please hasbro.

Also, so the weibo user decided to up the ante? So not only did we only get half a pic, but they decided negative was better?

It does look like they did some retooling to the figure. Most noticeable in the feet. I like it so far!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It does look like they did some retooling to the figure. Most noticeable in the feet. I like it so far!

Hate to break it to you, but, that's just the shuttle halves flipped forward, instead of the train half

Sorry for not knowing the previous use of this mold or what class...voyager?

Nemesis Destron wrote:Sorry for not knowing the previous use of this mold or what class...voyager?

The first use of this mould is Sentinel Prime and ye a they ar re voyagers

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It does look like they did some retooling to the figure. Most noticeable in the feet. I like it so far!

Hate to break it to you, but, that's just the shuttle halves flipped forward, instead of the train half

Huh looks like you're right. I gotta give credit where credit is due, that's pretty damn clever.