Our news team is on the scene at Hascon 2017’s Awards Dinner, and they have a second helping of exciting reveals being shown off!
More combiner compatible characters have been revealed along with another BIG surprise:
- Deluxe Moonracer (new mold, combiner compatible)
- Deluxe Rippersnapper
- Voyager Hun-Gurrr
- Optimus Primal with Optimal Optimus armor (triple changer, core robot forms hoverboard)
Check out the pics after the jump, and stay tuned for more!
Requiem Prime
I am really digging the reference to the hoverboard and how they handled Primal/Optimal
Smitty.1981
That's disappointing. I wanted to see a half brown half white TR Getaway.
Scaleface
It was mostly junk plastic. It looked like this:
Smitty.1981
I would love to see a "The Mold was not Clean Enough" version of any Transformer.
MeGrimlockAwesom
i made a good choice voting for primal
stad
I can't get into the story details of Beast Machines, as we couldn't watch enough of it to really get into the story. I can deal with the computer animation of BW, but both the animation and style for Machines was really a turn-off.
I have 2 boys (10/11) and a girl (14) and we went thru the series last summer/fall.
Shepard Prime
From what I know of Beast Wars, doesn't the story get better as i̶t̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶f̶i̶x̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶o̶n̶s̶i̶s̶t̶e̶n̶c̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶d̶e̶c̶i̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶t̶r̶o̶a̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶t̶i̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶G̶1̶ it gets really creative and more bold? I've heard it both ways. Beast Wars is the business but Beast Machines is ehhhh and vice versa. I think the thing that always kept me from getting into it was the bad CGI animation at the time. I'm not (as much of) a animation snob as I was when I was younger so I can deal better but back then, all I could see was the bad textures and weak moving animation. "But it won awards." Yeaaaaahhh, well…
Do you have both girls and boys? My two girls are picky when it comes to which Transformers they take to but the boy, he likes any TF series.
They all like Gatchaman and Voltron tho'. They're in agreement there.
stad
Maybe not so much the sequels….Beast Machines was something that I was interested in seeing after my kids went thru the whole Beast Wars, it was pretty unwatchable.
Shepard Prime
Verno
Long story short:
Shepard Prime
I second that.
Shepard Prime
Yeah, my mind went loop de loops just reading that but in a good way. Guess I'll be adding this to my "get list." lol.
Verno
This post needs pics.
Zula
To expand a bit:
Oprimus Primal had three forms during the run of Beast Wars.
The first was a robot that transformed into an organic looking gorilla. The robot mode was pretty heavily armed, wit twin swards and arm mounted blasters.
The second (Transmetal) was robot with organic components with a technoorganic gorilla alt mode. The alt had a flip out panels on its legs that could form a hoverboard for the gorilla.
The third (Optimal Optimus) was a bulky robot that had three alts – a mech lookng gorilla, a 'jet' and an 'armoured transport'.
This PotP Leader seems to be homaging all three forms in one figure.
The combined mode looks like Optimal Optimus, and has the robot , mech-gorilla, 'jet' and ground vehicle modes.
This can separate into a core robot that resembles Primal's first robot mode, with the armour transforming into a gorilla.
The core robot can transform into a spaceship alt that can be ridden as an alt by the gorilla, similar to to the transmetal version of Primal
This is somewhat awesome, in a way.
Shepard Prime
Oh, okay, thanks. Yeah, now I get the hoverboard jokes now at least. I guess now I know why I thought people were calling the same figure two different names over the years too. Optimus Primal and Optimal Optimus are two different figures but the same guy.
I really need to watch Beast Wars and it's sequels and not just read about it in summary. It makes no sense since the series is so available to watch and it's the only TF series that I haven't at least sampled or watched halfway through.
Axos
Optimus Primal is a robot and gorilla, his upgraded form, Optimal Optimus, is a robot, gorilla, "spaceship", and "car".
this one seems to switch Primals' gorilla mode with a spaceship/hoverboard.
spiritprime
Yay, Optimus Primal!
Shepard Prime
I'm not super familiar with Beast Wars. Like, I know the basics of the general story and such.
So I'm a bit confused here. Optimus Primal turns into a bot, an ape AND a spaceship? Because that's a heckuva lot cooler than I've ever given the guy credit for or is the spaceship mode a new addition? I always thought he was a bot and monkey only.
And that Moonracer is to love.
Lazerwave
I talked to a clerk at the collector store I go to about Optimal Optimus and man was he surprised.