And we bring you the latest installment of Hasbro’s Leaked From Cybertron video series! it’s turn to have a look at the massive Power Of The Primes Predaking!
The official Transformers Facebook and Instagram have uploaded a new video featuring Hasbro’s design manager Jhon Warden and Hasbro’s engineer Lynsey Bernier. The present Power Of The Primes Predaking giving us details and images about the creative process of this Combiner, showing test models, sketches and prototypes of the individual Predacons and their combined form.
Today’s video follows previous detailed views of Studio Series Blackout and Grimlock & Power of the Primes Dinobots Slash, Sludge, Slug (G1 Slag), Snarl, Swoop, Grimlock and Studio Series Jazz, Brawl, and Grimlock.
Check out the clip and screen caps below and then join to the discussion on the 2005 boards!
#LeakedFromCybertron: Predaking
#LeakedFromCybertron: Hear about the initial development stages of the ferocious Combiner, Predaking!
Posted by TRANSFORMERS on Thursday, July 26, 2018
MengHao
I think OS KO Feral Rex beats it via looks alone standing side by side. But well that is a KO of a KO. You could do a lot of things for cheaper with stolen ip. Honestly there are also some negatives but since most collectors just have their figs standing straight it is not as evident.
Honestly I would have preferred a lot more as well. I don’t mind spending a few dollars more for an improved product which is why I would have preferred a Takara take on this but oh well, I wait for upgrade kits. Lol
Stepper
They could have done a better job to this Power Of The Primes Predaking comparing to all the 3rd party Predaking
SMOG
Do you even know what you're talking about, here? If you'd been paying attention, you'd know that each individual figure is (surprisingly) actually more solid and heavy than any recent Voyager release I can think of. The beast modes are weak, but the bots all have very firm joints and a shocking range of motion (waists, thighs, elbows, swivel arms, head tilts, and even ankle tilts). These things are full of ratchets and tabs that lock things in place.
Also, the use of parts-forming is kept to a minimum; the wing-pack is an inherent parts-forming element of the original Predaking design (kind of hard to do Predaking without it). The fists and feet parts-form, as does almost every other Combiner ever – though at least in this case, the fists stow inside the feet, and the feet become pretty sweet (if oversized) shoulder cannons. Overall, it's quite innovative and yields probably the most stable and dynamically poseable combiner EVER MADE… 3rd party or official. Credit where credit is due.
If you wanted to complain about the clunky animal modes, back-kibble, simplified style, or the stiff Lego-brick aesthetics of the set, then you'd have a point, at least. But as it stands, your above complaints are sort of baseless and poorly-informed.
zmog
T-Hybrid
You know if you pulled that giant stick out of your ass you'd probably find yourself much less grumpy about a children's toyline.
mikequillm
Roll your eyes all you want. If you want this garbage hollow cheap plastic parts-forming pos by all means but it. Hell buy 2
SMOG
Well, yes and no. I think that if we got a CW-style Predaking, most people would have been fine with that. Obviously, there will always be a few gripes. Clearly, the best-case scenario would be getting a Titan Predaking AND a Dinobot Titan, so the Autobots finally get a large-scale combiner (and you get that nemesis effect, with a clear size-appropriate adversary).
I've just recently gotten the POTP Predaking set, and despite some simplifications and compromises here and there, the Predacons are actually quite impressive. This set is (IMHO) far superior to the CW Devastator set. The individual bots are generally meatier, and with fewer concessions made to articulation and overall solidity. Of course, this set also is much more expensive than the original CW Devastator set, and comes with fewer figures, so…
There's something about the thick, chunky tactile experience of this set that is very much like handling the original G1 Preds. Each bot (especially the leg-bots) are so robust in-hand, that it's hard NOT to immediately imagine how nice it would be to have a Dinobot team with similar heft and scale. The Predacons are large voyagers… and probably weigh more than any recent voyager figure we've had! They would have made great Dinobots!
In terms of build, I wouldn't say that these Predacons are really substantially different in their engineering level or materials than the Deluxe POTP Dinobots we got… and I think that in terms of proportion and overall aesthetic, this Predaking still beats out the stock Volcanicus hands-down (of course, Volcanicus is particularly lame, admittedly).
So yeah, I think that a Titan Dinobot team would have actually been a really good set, and mostly well-received, as long as they got the aesthetics on-point.
As it stands, that remains my biggest complaint about POTP Predaking. It's not the engineering. I don't even mind the big backpack kibble. It's just the surface aesthetic. The geometry of the set just doesn't capture the classic style of the Predacons very well. And based on this video and these sketches, it seems like that was less a necessity, than a specific decision that was made at some point in the development process. I think that's what hurts the set most.
That said, it's still sort of a blast to handle.
zmog
ultramagnus1
Looks great. As I said waiting patiently for my LCS to get him in.
T-Hybrid
And the bitching that Predaking was a standard CW style combiner instead of five Voyagers to boot.
gabumon
Hasbro would sell 10000% more toys if Every Single figure got this type of advertising treatment! Now IIIIIII want Predaking!!!
Richard McBeef
Bountyan
I'm glad they made it a Titan class. I can only stomach so many samey 1 voyager 4 deluxe scramble toys and doing it this way let them get the scale closer to the G1 toys.
Mr Cross
What stop motion review?
Richard McBeef
I can't stop watching that stop motion review of him. It makes the whole set look just so damn cool.
ultramagnus1
Its a very g1 set. I like it. Still waiting for my LCS to get him in and I can't wait.
YoungPrime
What's really amusing about this video is that even they didn't show the Beast modes in it, while the individual Bot mode prototypes only got like 2 seconds.
So they knew where they fcuked up at with this set and it's not just people like me just whining for no reason. LOL!
Richard McBeef
Yeah, but if we got Dinobots with the amount of compromises that the induvidual components of Predaking got, the bitching from fans would be LEGENDARY.
SMOG
Also, yeah, Titan Class Dinobot combiner… OBVS…
I don't even like the idea of combining Dinobots, but the notion of making them a Titan set seems so blisteringly obvious (especially as an autobot counterpart to Predaking).
zmog
SMOG
I definitely have mixed feelings about POTP Predaking.
On the one hand, for G1 enthusiasts, it's definitely a big deal. A HUGE G1-style Predaking with all the original component bots, in (mostly) full-on G1 styling? And such a solid, well-proportioned, posable combiner? AND without using a gigantic Razorclaw as the core body? It's impressive, and I'm sure of us never imagined we would see such a thing.
The engineering alone is what has really sold me on getting this figure (especially that stop-motion review, which was awesome!). I love the originality of the transformation. The individual bots are sadly sort of simplistic and hollow, like CW Devastator. Not ideal, but maybe tolerable.
On the other hand, seeing this just reminds me of the nagging peeves I have around this set. The weird "lego block" style takes the idea of a retro G1 aesthetic, and then OVERDOES it… giving us Predacons who are even more awkward and blocky than the originals? Just… why?
Then you look at the more curvy, stylish, Studio OX-style development art Hasbro was using… what could have been…
And seriously… those spike-knuckles are one of those unique, memorable design touches that always said "Predaking" to me. It's sort of bewildering that Hasbro didn't go with them.
I mean, sure… you can buy an upgrade kit. BUT YOU SHOULDN'T NEED TO BUY AN UPGRADE KIT. An upgrade kit usually suggests that there's something essential that is wrong or missing from the original.
zmog
NominusDP
Nice complaining in this comment section
Chopperface
Hey Lynsey you doing anything later?
Oh. Okay. Totally gotcha. Heh.