This is going to appease a lot of collectors! Our team at SDCC had the opportunity to talk more Combiners with the Hasbro team. With the new combiners revealed earlier this morning, their new feet will have “rocker ankles”, or commonly referred as ANKLE TILTS!
Images are mirrored after the jump. Hit the discussion link below to share your excitement!
Thundershot
She/They are. All new heads. Almost all new arms. Almost all new chest plates. A few other new parts for the torso. New weapons. New hands and feet.
nobleboivin
Getting Victorian but i figured she would be remolded/retoolled
ca12nag3
Im getting Victorion. Though must say the colors i fear. Like Nuclear disaster Fukushima fear.
I also think a lot of this will be molded colors. Seeing these standing they are prototypes. And exactly that, repainted. You can see some of the paint being rubbed off on parts that were transformed. So I expect some level of difference with the final product. Also a lot better paint job then is done by the interns on these.
Autovolt 127
Don Knotts is that you?
influence82
The colors are feminine and I like that they are unified. I like the feminie heads and new weapons. The only thing I do not like are having 2 helicopters. They should have made a jet instead.
I would like this to be sold as a gift set exclusive, because else it will warms the shelves for a long time. That is the reality of less popular characters.
009*
I'm curious about the new G2 Superion, the original was my first combiner, but I'll pass on the others.
TheGrognard
Sold as a box set. You get all 6 at once or none at all.
GoLion
Wait, it WASN'T required that I buy the lifetime purchase plan for transformers? DAMMIT!
lol
Bad Broccoli
Ankle tilts are fine and all, but can we get a few more ratchet detents in the hips? Otherwise, she'll be standing upright on my shelf, just like all of my other CW figures – rendering the ankle tilt moot.
Raiju
Can't say I like the redeco's molds for Victorion, much less the crazy colors. What I do like about it are the new head sculpts, the new combiner feet, and the very cool weapons combining into that giant gestalt sword.
Prime Jetscream
After years of watching people rip their hair out over lack of paint, smaller toys, gimmick lines, etc. and just sitting back and enjoying what turned out great, I can honestly say I've officially lost faith in Hasbro. It's like they designed Combiner Wars to look fantastic only to crush everyone's hopes. The way everything's going it really feels like Hasbro's standards have dropped massively as of this year, way more than when DOTM came out with less paint and smaller toys.
I can't even get into Victorion. Normally I'd be all over it but there's just so much they could have done to differentiate it from the retools. Betatron is just a spit in the face. I never had any attachment to the Combiners besides Bruticus, but Superion and Menasor and Defensor really got me into them. If they put work into Computron it could easily have been one of my favorites, just going off of how the colors look on Betatron here.
PopCulturePooka
And here we see the splendid Joke fly gracefully over someones unsuspecting head.
jaws
G2 Superion: no thank you!
Victorion: interesting color choices–wish it was toned down since these 'bots are from the Sea of Rust, like the idea of the opposite twins, amazing weapons
New hands and feet with ankle tilts definite improvement but the feet are still too small width-wise.
mrgalvaprime
>sees garish colours
>insta boner
Electro Rush
That's not how the voting was set up. We voted for each individual limb and two of the winners were the helicopter mold. To Hasbro there's no other way to interpret the results.
merphul
as with everyone else I am thumbs up on the retools and the combined weapon.
colors… I don't get it… such large patches of such a loud orangey red and bold light teal… give me something like a deeper red bordering on crimson and either lighten that blue to a sky blue or better yet darken it to a midnight blue… would look more appropriate, I didn't realize that rust was carrot colored. I won't give them the benefit of "it's a hand painted proto", they put a ton of effort into painting details, you're telling me they couldn't have used some neutral tones like white, black, silver or gray to create some better differentiation and detailing? or just break up some of the big chunks? I get the sneaky feeling that this is the planned schemed on the end product.
Double copter arms? I can deal with it. Double rotor shoulders makes me think dairugger which is fine by me. the twin thing? lazy lazy excuse to use less effort in differentiating the two. you wanna do twins? give me to very similar looking bots with different alt modes, you know what I'm talking about fandom.
also thinking they went lazy on the fire engine alt mode, why not adapt the onslaught retool? that thing was damn sweet looking. instead we get a fire engine with stylized minecraft pick axe sticking off the ladder… what? do we worry about things burning in the sea? are rusty things flammable? again, coulda used the onslaught retool and the axey looking thing begs on top of the cannons as some sort of giant spread shot energy ballista.
ok I give up, gonna try to just swallow my irritation except for one last comment…
does anyone else think that orange chin piece makes Victorion look like she has a goattee? I can dig it cuz a super neon bearded robot lady definitely belongs in the transformers freakshow.
Prime_Directive
Ugh. Why are there so many Alpha Bravo remolds? The brochure said there'd only be a FEW Alpha Bravo remolds!
Galaxy Convoy
Glad so many people hate Victorion.
That'll make her that much easier to get
Negativedark
Seems about right, assuming they don't decide to knock it up because of the weapons and rarity. Four 15$ deluxes, one 25$ voyager, and one 10$ scout. Well guess I'll ask for Amazon gift cards for my birthday or Christmas.
Because a bunch of people voted Copter for right arm and a bunch of people voted copter for left arm, and Hasbro didn't realize that most of them only wanted a copter for one arm, and the runner up for the other.
I really want to know why Hasbro picked those colors though, and that bright. Remember next time vote Black and White. Harder to mess that colorscheme up. Then again when do the versions we get actually have the paintjob from the versions we see at the conventions?
Just noticed. Pyra Magna has a face design molded on her chest. Well maybe not intentionally, but when the light hits in right from the right angle it looks like eyes, mouth and nose.