War For Cybertron Optimus Prime and Megatron Toy Images

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I hate to disagree with anyone on the Internet… but if you look at the arms again more closely I think the pieces inside his arm are the parts that latch his forarms together… the sticky up bit near the edge is a pin that's not been pushed in all the way. the other peices marked with arrow are castors for the vehicle mode.

Half of his hand and thumb (on the left side) has been swung out the other half of his hand is inside the other 'tread' and the curve can be seen in the tread where it rotates out so he'd have quite small hands Possibly weapons might also be able to be plugged onto him some how (perhaps onto a hole or slider bar on the other side of his arm we can not see in the current pics).

It looks like his hand is designed to hold 5mm type weapon hafts. which can be judged by the curvature of his thumb and visible fingers.

I think the piece inside his forarm serves no function in robot mode other than to hold his arms together but might also be a latch used in vehicle mode as I think his treads are spread out when he's in that mode.

I think the slight misallignments seems to suggest his elbow can swivel above the join and that when his arms spread out to become treads they also rotate below the split 180 degree each so the split is inside the inner part of the treads and the piece inside his forearms would face inwards. and possible what is used to link it to the vehicle body at another point to add stability. so you then have one thin long skinny track on each side of the tank with possibly a slight gap half way along so he's got 4 tracks really like so many Tank Transformers now do. though the edges of the tracks look quite straight so it might look like one track not 4.

So despite the CGI model looking like he's a hover tank it seems he does have treads on the underside after all.

I agree with the majority of your post. He's just mistransformed in that pic. It's not a matter of odd proportions.

But eh.. I think those ridges aren't tank treads…; the vehicle mode has those ridges are vertically ; so they're actually rubber hovercraft skirts. Megatron's a hovertank.

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Prime looks awesome, but its bad because I wish more voyager than deluxe-size for him and Megatron.

Megatron´s altmode suckz, but robotmode is very cool, and yes, he is transform wrong on the arms:

Mechafire

That's exactly what I was trying to say, but in picture form.  

I hate to disagree with anyone on the Internet… but if you look at the arms again more closely I think the pieces inside his arm are the parts that latch his forarms together… the sticky up bit near the edge is a pin that's not been pushed in all the way. the other peices marked with arrow are castors for the vehicle mode.

Half of his hand and thumb (on the left side) has been swung out the other half of his hand is inside the other 'tread' and the curve can be seen in the tread where it rotates out so he'd have quite small hands Possibly weapons might also be able to be plugged onto him some how (perhaps onto a hole or slider bar on the other side of his arm we can not see in the current pics).

It looks like his hand is designed to hold 5mm type weapon hafts. which can be judged by the curvature of his thumb and visible fingers.

I think the piece inside his forarm serves no function in robot mode other than to hold his arms together but might also be a latch used in vehicle mode as I think his treads are spread out when he's in that mode.

I think the slight misallignments seems to suggest his elbow can swivel above the join and that when his arms spread out to become treads they also rotate below the split 180 degree each so the split is inside the inner part of the treads and the piece inside his forearms would face inwards. and possible what is used to link it to the vehicle body at another point to add stability. so you then have one thin long skinny track on each side of the tank with possibly a slight gap half way along so he's got 4 tracks really like so many Tank Transformers now do. though the edges of the tracks look quite straight so it might look like one track not 4.

So despite the CGI model looking like he's a hover tank it seems he does have treads on the underside after all.

Since I decided to give up on ROTF stuff (excluding what can pass as Classics/Universe) this will be the only line I'll be collecting until Generations kicks off.

Of course, it all depends on what the new series will be. If it's tied to WfC as a sequel, then I'll have to take a serious look at it.

And I think these guys look great despite the idiots who mistransformed them.

Man that Optimus rocked. Very cool looking besides his legs looking a bit stubby for me? However I like how his head is now proportionate to his body where in the trailers it was really really small lol

KingGrimlock

I think its supposed to look like animated cybertron megatron's alt mode.

He's actually a hover tank similar to those that the droids from the Star Wars prequel trilogy drove around.

he is deluxe and so is megs i cant wait!

OP looks OK-ish, if rather bland.

Megatron is a mess… again. So many toylines where Megs doesn't get a decent mold…

Cybertron modes never really appealed to me, they're not really 'robots in disguise' if they all turn into mechanical housebricks!

The more pictures I see of Prime I'm really digging him. Are there pictures anywhere on the net of Bumblebee's vehicle mode? Not liking the Megatron at all.

This isn't a limited line is it? They're not going to release a few figures only are they? If not then we should expect voyagers presumably with their melee weapons