Check out some new images of Transformers United / Transformers Generations figures. Coming from Amazon Japan as updates for the United line over there, we now have a good look at Generations Kup, along with a slew of other early G1 homages including Perceptor, Tracks, Jazz, and Wreck Gar! Rounding it out are Lugnut and Straxus from Takara/Tomy.
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PoweredConvoy
They'd probably prefer to do an all new design then just upscale an existing one.
Randy
RedAlert Rescue
Another question might be why can't they remake a design in a bigger size more often (other than Optimus & Bumblebee).
Perhaps that Generation Galvatron for example as a Voyager.
Or in a smaller size what about Transformers Cybertron or Armada Starscream, or Armada or Energon or Cybertron Megatron as a Deluxe ?
Soulmaster
don't forget the movie characters that were in the movie and didn't got any toy (3rd bike new mold, constructicons)
assbro is thinking with their ass during movie seasons
on topic…
kup is cool XD I cant cygar =( xD
and wreckgar bike mode is nice, me wants assymetric transformer D:
Cal
If by 'real', you mean one that transforms into a tape player, the best on offer is Music Label Soundwave. Otherwise Generations Soundwave is as 'real' as we're gonna get.
TwinSpin
Man I keep coming back to this thread. Wreck Gar, Kup and Perceptor are so awesome.
One thing that I think REALLY works is the orange color on Perceptor's chest. So nice. Hope that makes it into the real toy and aint just photoshopness. :/
Toxicon
I realize, but people all over the boards are moaning and whining for a "REAL" Generations Soundwave. WfC 'Wave works just fine for me, personally.
Anguirus
Uh…Generations Soundwave is "WfC" Soundwave.
And I feel like the last feeling I want with regards to Soundwave, Bludgeon, etc. is boredom with seeing them over and over. I like it when Hasbro is surprising and we get breadth in the CHUG/whatever meta-line.
Toxicon
I've never understood why certain characters can't have more than one toy. We can have 400 versions of Movie Bee or 15 versions of Movie Starscream, but we can't have a Generations Soundwave and WfC Soundwave, or Generations Bulkhead and a Prime Bulkhead? I realize Prime, Bee, SS, etc. are big sellers and all, but I doubt it would sink Hasbro if they released a Generations Bludgeon a year after they released ROTF Bludgeon.
Shit's whack. I want a whole line that consists of nothing but STRAXUSES AND THUNDERWINGS DAMMIT
Wheeljack_Prime
Maybe so, but Prime's toyline probably isn't starting until late 2011/early 2012 because of the TF3 line. Plenty of time to have a 3.0 Bulkhead out by then
WhiteMocha
An easy mistake, with them photographed together.
But nope, the truck is Perceptor in alt mode. Two different figures there. Hasbro Wreck-Gar is a motorcycle, just like Takara's.
Anguirus
lolwut
guard convoy
well prime bulkhead is in developement as we speak, so a "CHUG" style one ain't gonna happen for a while
why we know this? designer at botcon said he was working on bulkhead and he was turning out AWESOME!
AMG
They all look great.
Jorssk
Well this is Hasbro wreck-gar from hasbro: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers…collectors-club-issue-35-cover_1285092406.jpg
I was thinking this car is his transformation mode.
Cast
I always thought uni cyclonus wouldn't make a bad repain as jetstorm from BM, sure not prefect in any way but close enough.
Anguirus
Thread is WON ladies and gentlemen.
It seems self-evident that it's easier to sell people on a repaint of an iconic character with a major story arc in televised fiction than with a box bio…although the right bio can indeed do wonders. Sorry that people are pointing out issues with your idea. Perhaps repaint him as Skywarp?
It's also notable that Scourge is NOT a redeco of an OP design that EVER appeared in fiction, much less in RID itself.
Foster
Here's a thought. Axalon Stampy.
Cal
Because it's essentially the same character. If you wore a raincoat on a wet day, that doesn't make you a different person, it just makes you the same guy wearing a raincoat. Repainting Prowl as Bluestreak is one option; repainting Cyclonus in his negative universe colours (or one of his indentical 'drones', which never appeared outside of a single shot from the movie) is not. And really, Hooligan? Hellbat? Guyhawk? They share more in common with Starscream than Cyclonus. Try again.
Edgewise
How about quote my whole post and you'll see my ideas:
The second part I don't know if I'd characterize as shooting down an idea. It's opening up the idea of a straight repaint of Cyclonus. Wasn't the other post just as much if not more "shooting down"? I wanted a Ricochet/Cyclonus 2-pack and got "shot down" with "he needs a new head!"
My ideas:
-"Killing Jar" Cyclonus
-Additional "Armada" Cyclonus drones
-New character that looks like Cyclonus: pick and choose a character type, pick and choose a color scheme. I'm not picky. I talked about RID Scourge as an example of creating a wholly 'new' character that's a repaint of an existing distinctive figure. Not every repaint has to be derivative of some character that already exists. So do something like that with the Cyclonus mold.
Why not another version of Cyclonus? That was an idea. You're telling me not to shoot down other people's opinions at the same time you shoot down mine?
Based on that, how about the new character "Hypocritus". He shares a body type with Cyclonus just as the seekers share body types and is black and white in color but also red all over.
Yes, doesn't matter if specifically I buy it or not, but the masses. Which also means it doesn't matter if you do/do not buy it either. One person said it mattered, without adding the qualification that it was just their opinion. I am un-arrogant enough to at least frame my opinions as opinions and I acknowledge they are by saying "I don't buy it". Can you acknowledge that your opinion that it does matter is also not an undeniable fact but an opinion?
I guess not because you go on to talk about it being "factually true".
I'm familiar with storyline reasons, but you understand that the story was written to sell the toy that was made? So a new toy with Cyclonus look can be made a story can be written with reasons for it.
Just because there were not characters that looked like Cyclonus in the 80s doesn't mean new ones cannot be created now. RID Scourge's story is an example of doing such a thing.
Want another idea? Paint Cyclonus as Hooligan, Hellbat, and Guyhawk. They didn't look terribly alike, but because they were in the BC'09 comic and didn't get toys, then people wanted them, even if they were just repaints of E.Starscream and shared the same body.
Foster
I will continue to live as a Kup completist.