Toy Fair was owned by Transformers, in quality if not quantity. I would have loved to have been in that room (but not in that storm!).
Metroplex looks outstanding. And working with the new Legends figures with buddy-bot-weapons is interesting too.
Bumblebee with Blazemaster, going for a Hot Shot with Jolt complete rewrite?
Voyager triple-changers Springer and TFA-inspired Blitzwing are excellent-looking.
IDW figures look great, even if they are using the new simplified design philosophy. Face on Orion Pax is the one area I don't think quite holds up to the art.
And Trailbreaker looks pretty good thrown in Generations.
Masterpiece Soundwave with all his minions confirmed, that's great.
BH gets a Shockwave that takes off his awful BH armor, like Smokescreen, now I have 2 figures in that line to buy!
It's a good thing this stuff was shown off, or I'd really have been feeling down about the brand. Beast Hunters further kills my interest, there's nothing shown that looks remotely compelling or even particularly challenging - every figure looks like a narrow variation on a singular theme. The renewed focus on Kreo does nothing for me, nor Construct-bots, and nor Bot Shots either.
BWprowl wrote: Springer...I was telling Six, Springer actually looks TOO GOOD. That toy just looks in-fucking-credible. It's a triple-changing Springer, and his two altmodes actually look like *two different altmodes*! And his robot mode looks awesome, with an amazing face-sculpt and a bitchin' sword.
Yeah, they really delivered a home run there, the altmodes made excellent use of color and shape when moving those parts around. And as much as I liked the FOC concept art for Springer, this is a good compromise, a real heli and ground vehicle.
Ditto for Ongoing Bumblebee, that's a design I never would've thought would get made! I'll have to wait for more looks at him since from what I can tell it seems he might have a lot of fake parts, but for now I can just be impressed that he exists.
Only fake parts I see are the chest.
Thrice-ditto for Orion Pax, it's amazing that legit IDW designs are getting produced as toys and sold alongside their comic books (this is a partnership that could work out well for both companies), and I hope it leads to more comic-based toys getting produced in the future.
Hasbro mentioned working with IDW for the 30th anniversary, and I think it's meant to be an ongoing thing throughout next year.
O6 wrote:I'm glad most of this is coming in the fall.
If I don't seem excited, it's because I already gushed about it on all my social media yesterday.
Thumbsup!
BWP wrote:Are you...trying to imply that Hasbro doesn't make toys of Decepticons?
I hate inserting myself into this argument, but Hasbro has been scaling back Decepticons lately, like they see us as being where the Japanese audiences were a few years ago.
Hey, not many USA Buyers knew who Black Shadow was, but that didn't stop them. Ditto Longrack way back in Cybertron, actually.
But that wasn't a massively-expensive mold, that was a deluxe, this is a Titan Class $125 piece.
Sparky wrote:Metroplex.... Wow. That has to be one of the coolest Transformers I have ever seen. The level of detail in insane. Very nice update on the character. And awesome that they made him a new Titan class figure. I'd love to see some comparison shots to get a better idea of the scale next to some other Transformers.
Agreed. There's a shot of Metro with a Legends figure, but that doesn't really tell you anything IMO.
http://photos.actionfigs.com/transforme ... rmers.html
