Hot on the heels of the reveals of the Transformers brand live stream, now Hasbro designers Mark Maher and Sam Smith are treating us with some new images and turnaround videos of the new Legacy Velocitron Speedia 500 line.
First, Mark “Markclonus” Maher have shared on his Instagram account a great group image of samples of the new Velocitron Road Hauler, IDW Blurr, Clampdown, Burnout, G2 Road Rocket, G1 Cosmos, Cybertron Override, and RID Scourge.
Then, Sam “King Samlock” Smith have uploaded on his Instagram account several CAD files turnaround videos of Road Hauler and RID Scourge in robot and vehicle mode for your viewing pleasure. To top it all, he has also added information about the development process of both figures on each video.
You can see the mirrored images, the turnaround videos and Sam Smith’s comments after the jump. Then join to the ongoing discussion on the 2005 Boards!
SPEEDIA 500 VELOCITRON ROAD HAULER
Heyo, FINALLY!, officially revealed during the livestream today we have the Speedia 500 Velocitron Road Hauler! Thanks Mark, Bmac and Isabella for sharing some of the spicy details of this capsule program, they look absolutely amazing. This was actually the very first generations character that I ever worked on. @markclonus asked me to help our with the deco stage for this redeco, so I had a lot of fun working with the files in a 3D environment. I absolutely love this alt head, and hope to share more of the expressive faces in the future. He’s gear up with some incredible accessories, and I love that he has the ability to alternate his hands for the grabber claw, and the hose nozzle attachment.
Road Hauler has a bright color pallet from his original G1 release, so I tried to carry a lot of that influence through out this updated figure design, a make sure that he stood out from the fleet of previous releases. As a Decepticon turned Autobot, he has a classic Constructicon feel to him. The hazard/caution striping is carried throughout the design, and there are some really nice subtleties to the metallics usage for contrast.
While the studio series transformations are my typical bread and butter, I have such a fond love for the simplicity of this transformation. These are my go-to fidget figures on my desk while I work, so there is very rarely a meeting in which I am not handling some generation figures off camera.
What are your thoughts on Road Hauler, is he joining your Velocitron line up?
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SPEEDIA 500 VELOCITRON RID SCOURGE
Thrilled to finally be able to share the RID 2000 Universe Scourge that I have the opportunity to redeco late last year. This figure was a blast to work on, and I had so much fun helping bring him to life. Thanks to @markclous for letting me take this one off of his plate, and for handling the official reveal!
I have to admit, I needed to look up what we ended up calling this guy because he was all over the place in terms of his initial concept. Was he going to be Scourge, is he Black Convoy, is he Nemesis Prime? All we knew is that he was going to be awesome!
The only parameter I was told going into this figure was that the oil tanker needed to be painted silver, the rest of the figure was fair game! I really wanted to make this truck model feel individualized from Laser Prime which was also a black colored semi truck. With an established color palette inspired by the original character, (and thus every variant that has existed over the years) I set out to create a pin striped livery that would feel appropriate to the time in which this vehicle would have been new. I took influence from big rig trucks that I remember seeing on the highway as a kid, and tried to pipe them through out the hood and fairings of the vehicle mode. I also treated the window frames in the same teal tone as those secondary accent colors were so relevant in the 80’s and 90’s. For me, he indirectly gives off some of those “Road Warrior – War Rig” vibes.
His robot mode features the upside down G2 logos on the shoulder pads, and he gets a unique “Dark” Matrix of Leadership loaded into the chest. Forgive my ignorance, if that’s not a real thing, but it looks cool as hell
. His weapons are molded in the same clear as the windscreen, so it was a nice opportunity to punch of the magenta with an era accurate complimentary color to the teal.
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The light piping on this figure is absolutely incredible. So much of the characters upper body is made up of the clear mold, so it was a shame how much of it was at risk of being covered up by paint. I tried to reallocate those paint ops to further individualize this release, and with the right backlighting this guy has so much expression. I hope you all enjoy this release as much as I enjoyed working on it!
Will RID Scourge be joining your collection or did he not qualify for your Speedia500?
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. His weapons are molded in the same clear as the windscreen, so it was a nice opportunity to punch of the magenta with an era accurate complimentary color to the teal.
Foster
This month sometime – they were vague on the livestream.
JukeOutlander
Any estimate when these guys will go up on Walmarts site?
80sforged
Definitely digging this take on Cosmos. Slightly better 'mats, some changes to the exhausts near the hands and you could have an MP Cosmos there. Would like to see him next to MP-45.
Starpilot949
This is a pretty good argument. Multiverse in transformers, now theres a movie id like to see!
Rojixus
Even the good guys can have a few psychopaths in their ranks every once in a while.
Thundershot
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.. my headcanon is that SG Wheeljack discovered the G1 universe and found a way to go there. He changed his name to Slicer and became an Action Master… so they’re one and the same.
NexMix
No, they just prioritized making a Slicer and didn't care much at all for SG in this case
Michael Schlem
I feel like it's sort of a double-billed figure. Like how Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus could be seen as Delta Magnus/Powered Convoy (the Diaclone Ultra Magnus), Shattered Glass Magnus, or Magna Convoy. This figure is being double billed as both original Decepticon Action Master Slicer and as Shattered Glass Wheeljack.
As long as you can remove the SG Decepticon Symbol, you could easily go to Toyhax to find a replacement to make it how you want it.
Foster
No, I feel like they're offering two balls by letting the buyer determine the identity themselves.
Bass X0
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Evil Decepticon Slicer
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But they are in the same colors with a few minor differences and Shattered Glass Wheeljack already has Slicer colors.
Does anyone else feel like they are dropping the ball with the identity of this Slicer? Sure the toy does look good, but why not just release it as evil Decepticon Slicer outside of the SG line, or as evil Autobot Wheeljack if they wanted to have these colors on the Wheeljack mold?
octobotimus
Props to them for not doing the BB remold idea. The less shellformers the better.
TrashBotJones
If I'm being honest here the bee retool looked better than the finished thing
Novaburnhilde
All in all this sub-line's given us some awesome figures. Love how Burnout looks, Cosmos looks pretty great, Road Rocket and Clampdown look good… and actionmaster Slicer too? Rad.
It took me a comical amount of time to realize the weaponizer repaint he comes with his meant to be his exo-suit, hell I'm sure with a few of those some mad lad could make him an actual mech suit.
Fc203
Wouldnt mind if it was an origins bumblebee retool if it meant a slimmer cosmos.
JazzAlert13
Omg he was originally an origins bee retool huh. Thankfully it didn’t happen.
Ruination20
Legacy Velocitron Cosmos in hand. Thanks to Mark Maher (markclonus on Instagram)
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Do you believe?!?!Here he is folks, in all of his cybertronian glory! COSMOS!
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Lets get into it! For capsule programs and the mainline as a whole, we have certain allocated funds for new molds. I wanted a Cosmos badly, to further finish the deluxe minibots collection, but just because I love this guy. His voice, design aesthetic, colors, and especially his alt mode are all
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Swipe right and you will see how I sold him in as a partial tool using the Origins BB mold. He would of been more of a new rendition of him. I just didnt think a g1 version of him was possible with the tooling allocated. But TT made it happen All NEW in 3 molds!!!
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Ittoku Kuwazu worked closely with Hasui Shogo in making this guy the best Cosmos evah! I chimed in on making the flag alt as a blaster and really worked hard on getting the proportions as close to his animation appearance as possible. As you can see from block model to final look, alot had to happen. But with our great partnership this guy is ready to officiate the speedia 500.
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Let me know who you are routing for to become the new leader of Velocitron!!!
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Raiyuki
I'll be honest I haven't read the new SG comics yet (on my to do list frankly) so I'm not sure what he actually has in the comics.
The Botcon toy released as Slicer (as it came with his name and bio) but was made to actually be both Slicer and Wheeljack (who had already used the Slicer deco and Energon Downshift Body in earlier comics) with purple Decepticon insignias on the doors for Slicer and the existing sculpted Autobot insignia painted purple for Wheeljack; the comic for that Botcon also had bot characters appear with Wheeljack in a non SG universe posing as future Slicer to deceive Slicer himself.
So this to say a purple Decepticon logo isn't really wrong if the figure is used as regular Slicer. Going off the wiki though his insignia is actually colored pink like the original Slicer toy but since he's a spy in the IDW SG comics according to the wiki a red con symbol would be right as well?
So I guess TLDR he has like four different possible insignia/color combinations that would all be "correct"
ScorponokIsHere
Obviously??? But I'm responding to somebody who claimed the Wreckers miniseries refers to Road Rocket as a dude. It does not.
Thundershot
Right. I can see them repacking Cosmos and Clampdown as they were the short packed ones of the first round.