Video Review of Transformers Power of the Primes Blackwing

bodrock wrote:So Aces has obtained the wave2 Prime Masters, and we're seeing the Leaders and Voyagers -- but where are the Deluxes? I'm thinking Target will get them in the next couple of weeks

Deluxe wave 2 have now been found at wall Mart. But we would need a sighting of our own, so if anyone finds them at Walmart please let us know.

With all the posts on Elita-1, I'm surprised noone seems to have mentioned the fact that her combiner mode has her robot mode chest as a butt, and therefore, somewhat bizarrely for a transformer, has a posterior that wont quit.

william-james88 wrote:

bodrock wrote:So Aces has obtained the wave2 Prime Masters, and we're seeing the Leaders and Voyagers -- but where are the Deluxes? I'm thinking Target will get them in the next couple of weeks

Deluxe wave 2 have now been found at wall Mart. But we would need a sighting of our own, so if anyone finds them at Walmart please let us know.

Walmart you say. Guess its time to do some shopping.

mordhelm wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

bodrock wrote:So Aces has obtained the wave2 Prime Masters, and we're seeing the Leaders and Voyagers -- but where are the Deluxes? I'm thinking Target will get them in the next couple of weeks

Deluxe wave 2 have now been found at wall Mart. But we would need a sighting of our own, so if anyone finds them at Walmart please let us know.

Walmart you say. Guess its time to do some shopping.

I go there every week for groceries, so I'll keep my eyes peeled.

The Wal-Mart near me always, always looks wrecked and unclean so I had started avoiding it, but they have made headway in their grocery dept. looking decent. The toy area was a mess, but until these figures pop up elsewhere,.Wal-Mart is now a normal stop for me.

Just a quick question for anyone interested...
After doing a small amount of research it seems a "Unite Warriors" type of line for PotP combiners is only rumor at this point.
Does anyone have any more info about this? Those of you that remember me, I'm beyond excited about Abominus finally making his way into a line.
If there's going to be a Japanese version which is more cartoon-accurate, I'll hold off on looking in stores and bite my time.
Any insight is appreciated!

And speaking of Walmart, the couple local stores that I frequent have had a decent selection even though the actual section space for TF's has been pretty small.
I've already been tempted to pick up a couple Dinobots, but again, if these are released in a Japanese line with more show accurate paint apps, I'm more than willing to wait.

Thanks, and hope you all have been well!

Sowndwave76 wrote:Just a quick question for anyone interested...
After doing a small amount of research it seems a "Unite Warriors" type of line for PotP combiners is only rumor at this point.
Does anyone have any more info about this? Those of you that remember me, I'm beyond excited about Abominus finally making his way into a line.
If there's going to be a Japanese version which is more cartoon-accurate, I'll hold off on looking in stores and bite my time.
Any insight is appreciated!

And speaking of Walmart, the couple local stores that I frequent have had a decent selection even though the actual section space for TF's has been pretty small.
I've already been tempted to pick up a couple Dinobots, but again, if these are released in a Japanese line with more show accurate paint apps, I'm more than willing to wait.

Thanks, and hope you all have been well!

The Dinobots will be released in Japan as is, same paint apps, same stickers, no differences whatsoever (same goes for all of PotP, really). The Terrorcons's status as a "Classic Combiner" may allow them to be released as a UW exclusive set, but restarting the line with just one item?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mordhelm wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

bodrock wrote:So Aces has obtained the wave2 Prime Masters, and we're seeing the Leaders and Voyagers -- but where are the Deluxes? I'm thinking Target will get them in the next couple of weeks

Deluxe wave 2 have now been found at wall Mart. But we would need a sighting of our own, so if anyone finds them at Walmart please let us know.

Walmart you say. Guess its time to do some shopping.

I go there every week for groceries, so I'll keep my eyes peeled.

I'll hunt today as well!

By the by, the Elita-1 Combiner finally has a name: as of NY Toy Fair 2018, it's Elita-Infin1te.

That's an...interesting? name. Yeah, still not so wanting to own her. The in hand photos are not so bad, I guess I just have no real connection to her outside a few old G1 episodes.

Hot off the presses, live from New York Toy Fair, we have some huge news: our first full look at the upcoming Power of the Primes Optimal Optimus toy!

The new leader class figure uses the same "Evolution" engineering that other POTP leaders have, allowing him to power up from the more "Season one" Styled Optimus Primal figure to his full, surfing-monkey self. Check out our photos below and make sure to stay tuned for our more professional photos coming later today! Does this figure meet your expectations? Did you want more out of it? Let us know down below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all the latest Transformers news from New York Toy Fair!

Alongside the Transformers: Power of the Primes leader class Optimal Optimus - the winner of the 2017 fan-vote poll - New York Toy Fair 2018 also brought us some more reveals as seen in the Hasbro Brand Entertainment panel (of which you can read our coverage here).

In the preliminary showroom floor images below, you'll find the likes of Nova Star, the alleged Moonracer retool and redeco, along with Prime Masters Quintus Prime with Bludgeon Decoy Suit, Megatronus with Bomb Burst Decoy Suit, and Solus Prime with Octopunch Decoy Suit. Also included are shots of the full line diorama, and Terrorcon combiner Abominus - check it all out!

Nice. Looks like OpOp hasn't got any vehicle modes...

I need that abominus...the primal I can live without

primalxconvoy wrote:Nice. Looks like OpOp hasn't got any vehicle modes...

The only mode he's lacking from the original is the truck mode (which was/is arguably the weakest mode anyways). We've seen the jet mode on the Hascon teaser from last year, plus you can have the big Primal use the small one as a surfboard.

Someone tell Izquierdo to clean his lens.

**** it they did the one thing to Primal I was hoping they wouldn't! THE CHEST IS ******* GREY GOD******!

Twitchythe3rd wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Nice. Looks like OpOp hasn't got any vehicle modes...

The only mode he's lacking from the original is the truck mode (which was/is arguably the weakest mode anyways). We've seen the jet mode on the Hascon teaser from last year, plus you can have the big Primal use the small one as a surfboard.

Does mini Primal turn into a gorilla?

Solus Prime:

Master of the forge.

Has the worst weapon mode...

Via the official Facebook page for the Transformers brand, we have some official imagery for today's 'reveals' more or less, in some cases, from New York Toy Fair 2018 for the Power of the Primes line.

As covered in the Hasbro Brand panel at the event - which you can read here - these include characters such as Deluxes Moonracer, Nova Star, Legends Tailgate, Battleslash and Roadtrap, Voyager Elita-1, and leader Optimal Optimus. Also included is imagery of Titan class Predaking, whose discussion thread can be found here; as for the rest, join the discussion in the Energon Pub by replying to this post below!

Those all look incredible, especially the Predacons.

im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

im THINKING its a club/nightstick ?

if so its at least a variation as i cant believe bomburts is ANOTHER claw weapon.

STILL im getting these lads as i like the shell mode the most. that said i leave it up to better minds than mine to figure out octopunchs intended weapon mode

i'll be picking up the girls as ive got jazz already so with alita its another bot combiner for my shelf (and i like her take on the mold over starscreams)

but my true love in this line is abominus.

god he looks great, and all the vids ive seen of hun gurr have me convinced he'll be a joy to pose (those heads are just so articulate)

I'm really digging everything in PotP. All the stuff shown is pretty much a guaranteed purchase for me, but I will say that I'm kinda disappointed we didn't get any info about stuff that wasn't already rumored. I would have liked to know who the last pieces of Elita InfinONEte and the Screamer combiner are gonna be.

partholon wrote:im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Kanabo, a Japanese studded club that Samurai used, they tend to be octagonal, and have metal studs running down the sides, not so sure it carries over to the alt mode, it might be a gun, maybe, but the part the tm uses is definitely a Kanabo

Hellscream9999 wrote:

partholon wrote:im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Kanabo, a Japanese studded club that Samurai used, they tend to be octagonal, and have metal studs running down the sides, not so sure it carries over to the alt mode, it might be a gun, maybe, but the part the tm uses is definitely a Kanabo

Ribbed for your PAIN.

These look great!

Va'al wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

partholon wrote:im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Kanabo, a Japanese studded club that Samurai used, they tend to be octagonal, and have metal studs running down the sides, not so sure it carries over to the alt mode, it might be a gun, maybe, but the part the tm uses is definitely a Kanabo

Ribbed for your PAIN.

That is the general idea

Some mixed feelings about this batch:
Prime Master sculpts look amazing, though I’m curious about octopunch’s face. Bomb-burst especially oozes evil, and bludgeon’s weapon is just unfortunate a surprising and unique piece of real-world inspiration.
Battle trap is bought on sight, looks like a huge step forward in engineering as many have already said.
Nova star’s gun is cool. And that’s it; colors look pretty atrocious in the floor pictures and the back kibble...
Elita 1 is not for me. They probably could have made a better one out of Pyra Magna, saved some of that ever-shrinking budget. Even the headsculpt looks derpy to me from the in-hand photos. Maybe it’s better in person?
Conflicted on primal. Optimal Optimus is passable (grey chest can be painted) but doesn’t have much of a place in my collection.
Razor claw looks like he belongs with the Cyberverse reveals. ‘Nuff said.

Elita and Optimus are bought on sight, though Moonracer and Novastar are still on my maybe pile. Predaking does't look very appealing to me, he's not quite as good as Devastator design-wise, and I am a bit sad that Prime Master Onyx will only be sold with Predaking because I wanted every Prime Master but didn't want to add any more Titans to my collection. Speaking of Prime Masters, I love that Bludgeon turns into a weapon made for bludgeoning.

HAH! Called it that Megatronus & Bomb-Burst are retools of Liege Maximo & Skullgrin Bludgeon is all new and so is Octopunch surprisingly enough. Both are styled after the G1 Pretenders's inner robots, nice

The rest looks pretty decent, but what is up with Divebomb?

Still no star saber? WTF!!!

shocksound96 wrote:Still no star saber? WTF!!!

There's been nothing to substantiate that he's coming out, he's never even been rumored, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high

So Elita 1, nova star, moonracer, Arcee, Nautilus and Duct tape It will still look better than volcanus

Predakings looking very power rangerish which woudl be okay if they had kept the spiked gloves and sword. Pretty sure the initial sketch designs of the optimal optimus had the car mode (with him being able to transform and roll out), if not a lego mars missions wheel and duct tape should sort it out. I wonder why there is such a market for third party stuff.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shocksound96 wrote:Still no star saber? WTF!!!

There's been nothing to substantiate that he's coming out, he's never even been rumored, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high

Well, nertz. Star Saber's a perfect candidate for the Evolution gimmick, and it's not like they'd have to make him a psycho like in IDW.

I hope we'll be getting some more combining Legends guys, though, because I'm super stoked for Battletrap. Come on, Flywheels/Slamdance/Beastbox/someone else!

Glarryg

Glarryg wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shocksound96 wrote:Still no star saber? WTF!!!

There's been nothing to substantiate that he's coming out, he's never even been rumored, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high

Well, nertz. Star Saber's a perfect candidate for the Evolution gimmick, and it's not like they'd have to make him a psycho like in IDW.

I hope we'll be getting some more combining Legends guys, though, because I'm super stoked for Battletrap. Come on, Flywheels/Slamdance/Beastbox/someone else!

Glarryg

Going to be a tight squeeze. Wasn't it announced that 2018 would be the final year for PotP?

Glarryg wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shocksound96 wrote:Still no star saber? WTF!!!

There's been nothing to substantiate that he's coming out, he's never even been rumored, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high

Well, nertz. Star Saber's a perfect candidate for the Evolution gimmick, and it's not like they'd have to make him a psycho like in IDW.

I hope we'll be getting some more combining Legends guys, though, because I'm super stoked for Battletrap. Come on, Flywheels/Slamdance/Beastbox/someone else!

Glarryg

You're right, I'm sorry, in retrospect, he'll probably go great with those snapdragon and apeface voyagers we got out of TR, they were perfect candidates for voyager triple-changing headmasters too...

Why do I get the feeling a CW Groove/Afterburner retool as Chromia is coming?

Prime Target wrote:Why do I get the feeling a CW Groove/Afterburner retool as Chromia is coming?

You mean Wreck-Gar If anything, we'll get a compromise in the form of Rum-Maj

Another gallery from Seibertron directly from New York City and the Toy Fair 2018 brings us the big, but not biggest, full colour reveal from the Hasbro Showroom - the protagonist of the Power of the Primes line under many aspects, and definitely the boss bot many will remember from childhoods: leader class Optimal Optimus, the winner of the 2017 fan vote!

The gallery, which you can view in full here, accompanies the initial look we reported on here and the official image posted by Transformers Facebook earlier today. Check out a selection below, spotlighting the two main modes for the Evolved version, and the Optimus Primal sk8r munky mode looking proud!

Glarryg wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

shocksound96 wrote:Still no star saber? WTF!!!

There's been nothing to substantiate that he's coming out, he's never even been rumored, I wouldn't get my hopes up too high

Well, nertz. Star Saber's a perfect candidate for the Evolution gimmick, and it's not like they'd have to make him a psycho like in IDW.

I hope we'll be getting some more combining Legends guys, though, because I'm super stoked for Battletrap. Come on, Flywheels/Slamdance/Beastbox/someone else!

Glarryg

I would have loved a star saber in this evolution gimmick but alas it was not meant to be apparently. Though I'm curious is primal getting put out on his own or is one of the other leaders being re-released alongside him.

Also I share yourhope for the other duocon and I think it would be neat if you could mix and match with them...wouldn't be that hard to pull off right?

I know many clues point to PotP not being long for this world, but I really hope we get enough deluxes to round out complete combiners. Abominus is already set, but we need at least one more Autobot or two more Decepticons in order to have more than ONE complete combiner in the whole toyline. Ideally, we'd get two more fembots to complete Elita Infin1te, three more carbots for the Inferno torso, and two more cons for Starscream. Unless they've really been keeping things under wraps, this isn't looking very likely.

predaking looks amazing just a little skinny looking, same thing with OPOP, looks a lil skinny but still looks awesome regardless, always been a fan beast wars, ambominus looks beautiful. also is it me or do those prime masters appear to have screws instead of the pins, bit strange to change over to pins for the next wave. the customs for this wave will be amazing

I am in love with the Optimal Optimus. His grey cockpit doesn't bother me; it may actually be an improvement. The only negative IMO is the fact that he is a modern toy, which means hollow parts that will look very cheap next to the original toy (specifically the inner thighs, Hasbro's favorite place to hollow out a Transformer).

The next gallery from the Transformers: Power of the Primes section of the Hasbro Showroom at New York Toy Fair 2018 comes in the multitude that is the presence of the Terrorcons and their combined form Abominus, the deluxes Moonracer and Nova Star that will join the Elita-Infin1te combiner, plus Legend class Battleslash and Roadtrap and their combined form Battletrap.

Check out below a selection of the newer figures from the displays, including the original names of the Terrorcon team, with Voyager and torso Hun-Gurrr, and limbs Rippersnapper, Blot, Cutthroat, and Sinnertwin. You also get closeups of Prime Masters and Decoy Suits featuring Bludgeon, Octopunch, and more. Click on any image for the full gallery!

Damn it Hasbro, making me want that Optimal so much., he looks really good. Need to set aside some cash for him now.

Aw, you man the Inner Primal won't have a gorilla mode? I'm a little sad now (or am I looking at this wrong?)

Lore Keeper wrote:I know many clues point to PotP not being long for this world, but I really hope we get enough deluxes to round out complete combiners. Abominus is already set, but we need at least one more Autobot or two more Decepticons in order to have more than ONE complete combiner in the whole toyline. Ideally, we'd get two more fembots to complete Elita Infin1te, three more carbots for the Inferno torso, and two more cons for Starscream. Unless they've really been keeping things under wraps, this isn't looking very likely.

you could always take some rejects from other teams to fill out Inferno and Starscream.
Alpha Bravo and Rook are homeless now that Slingshot and deluxe Groove took their jobs back, so there's 2 limbs for Inferno.
if the rumors anout UW shuttle mode Blastoff getting a us release are true, then you can kick CW jet Blastoff off of your Bruticus, pair him up with Offroad and toss them onto Starscream.

Do we have any proof that PotP is ending after Wave 4? That and I wonder if there is anything new in that wave or if it's repack-and-one-new-figure (which makes me damn glad I don't intend to chase down Novastar becasue Slugslinger was a P A I N to chase down at retail)? Is that reallly it for Potp?

Edit: Btw I may be in the minority but I actually think this Optimal Optimus is looking quite nice. It was never intended to be a 1:1 remake of the original toy and I'm fine with the compromises it take given that beside the new gimmick they fully committed to keeping it's overall design very close to the original. Plus, in spite of how little he used in in the show, the robot and beast mode were always the main attraction for a Beast Wars figure. And, oh man, does he look like one.

Skritz wrote:Do we have any proof that PotP is ending after Wave 4? That and I wonder if there is anything new in that wave or if it's repack-and-one-new-figure (which makes me damn glad I don't intend to chase down Novastar becasue Slugslinger was a P A I N to chase down at retail)? Is that reallly it for Potp?

Edit: Btw I may be in the minority but I actually think this Optimal Optimus is looking quite nice. It was never intended to be a 1:1 remake of the original toy and I'm fine with the compromises it take given that beside the new gimmick they fully committed to keeping it's overall design very close to the original. Plus, in spite of how little he used in in the show, the robot and beast mode were always the main attraction for a Beast Wars figure. And, oh man, does he look like one.

Hmmm. some of the bots on the wave is missing, Flywheels and other Duocons were missing in this wave.

And i just realized Novastar was a redeco of Moonracer with only the head retool.