Next up in our round of official images from Hasbro following today’s Botcon panel are the official images of Titans Return Voyager Alpha Trion. The elder Autobot and sometimes creator of Optimus Prime is back and ready to show the galaxy how he got to be as old as he is with his sword, and lion and starship transformations.
Also in this batch are official images of Astrotrain who we saw after the Australian Toy Fair last month, along with a couple of new angles on some of the modes. They’re here for completeness.
Seeaich
Call me crazy but having seen some of the radical departures in design of some shared TR transformation schemes so far, like Scourge/Highbrow for one, along with the deploying horns on him I have to wonder will we see a voyager Skorponok from him?
Or maybe it will be a more quick and easy TR Thundertron?
ma70er
No, no… Char was definitely not projecting
Hanzkaz
You should look up the Nightingale from Gundam. Very impressive mecha.
Dinobot Snarl
Or the giant hangnail on his foot, which is completely unnecessary for the alt modes
Starscream 91
I don't see it.
Anyway, with the release of Alpha Trion could we see the other 12 of the 13 Primes in the CHUG style? I would of loved to have a CW Nexus Prime and I want a voyager Fallen & Solus Prime.
ma70er
Blue Thunder? Nice S.N.
j.a.f.o.
What the hell are you talking abou…
…oh, now I can't unsee.
ma70er
Who thought it was a good idea to sculpt pubes on his robot mode?
artiepants
huh, the in-hand pix look decidedly more maroon then the pinkish red I remembered from the renders…
Edit: looking at some gallery shots from events, i see i was lied too by the renders
Dinobot Snarl
Well see…
PredaconElder
That would actually fit really well for Victory Leo. Plus making him a headmaster wouldn't be really far out since Victory had the whole Brainmaster gimmick.
T-Hybrid
That Alpha Trion is going to look amazing as Thundertron in a few waves.
RodimusZero
That Alpha Trion is looking pretty epic. As much as I want to jump on the Hasbro one as a bird in hand, I kind of hope Takara releases him, too. Although, seeing as he's such a radical departure from G1, I have a feeling he'll be sidelined/become some random Beast Wars or Galaxy Force homage released as an E-Hobby or TakaraTomyMall exclusive… I can already see the Legends SD/anime-style comic about how Fangwolf and Vector Prime mix their Force Chips up and fuse into a triple changer or something.
As for Astrotrain, we better get a purple version for TT. And it better have all those windows/trim painted!!! The Hasbro version is so lazy, damn!
Richard McBeef
Takara's take on Astrotrain should look gorgeous. I think the true beauty of the mold will be apparent then.
Zeke1
So Alpha Trion turns into a space cruiser and a…lion? That must be the biggest f#$@ing lion ever. I wonder if they'll make an honorary member of Voltron.
Rodimus Prime
I wish someone with the figure would post pictures with the feet reversed like Sentinel's.
Dinobot Snarl
As long as they swap out the heinous feet
Soundwinder
Well, the ship mode looks freakishly like Tidal Wave. And the Titan Master looks a lot like Ramjet.
And a Voyager triple-changer with a carrier mode? Broadside seems likely.
I do have to agree with the chest and back kibble making it look very Vector Prime-y.
Trion's lion mode is so blocky I could see it easily being swapped out with another mode, so I'm not limiting it to lions.
Dark Jedi
I'm just going to pretend that Astrotrain never existed.
shadowfall1976
I've been dying to say that, but I couldn't remember what the hell they were called.