It’s been a busy day for TF news, but we have one last bombshell to drop.
Thanks yet again to the detective work of TFW’s Jtprime17, we’ve received some very surprising info: It seems despite 2022 not even being over yet, we may already have some early first listings for the 2024 Legacy line!
These include…
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI LEADER BW TIGERHAWK
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI LEADER G1 SANDSTORM
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI VOYAGER CYBER STARSCREAM
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI VOYAGER PRIME THUNDERTRON
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI VOYAGER ANIMATED OPTIMUS PRIME
• TRA GEN LEGACY UNI VOYAGER BW SILVERBOLT
• TRA GEN LEGACY EV LEADER OPTIMUS PRIME (possible package refresh)
• TRA GEN LEGACY CAPSULE LEADER G2 GRIMLOCK (may release in 2023, originally discovered in our last big set of leaks)
We recommend taking this as a rumor until we receive official confirmation, but for now you can sound off with your first impressions on the boards where EANs and product numbers are also listed!
TF Hot Rod
Yup which I thought was a neat nod.
Thundershot
While Skywarp would be a buy, Universe Ramjet would be the main want from me.
In the cartoon, yes. The toy though was his own character in the Hasbro bio. Even the cartoon referenced this when he changed “I look like… Thundercracker?”
Rodimus_Prime
A very short decent clip of G1 Metalhawk from youtube (
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WishfulThinking
Here's the alt-mode:
![[IMG]](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.0bccad09e49a340d0ff304556ec9070b?rik=lUSks8m%2bNZde4g&riu=http%3a%2f%2ftoys.tfw2005.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2fsites%2f12%2f2010%2f04%2fJet-10_1272634061.jpg&ehk=P0vR4TVdDA%2fHBqKZwpUDs%2baBU2Mx1vum%2fdpfGkFpdZs%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
WishfulThinking
Didn't say it wasn't an easy repaint. Just saying Armada Skywarp exists just in toy form and actually forms a "duo" of Seekers, when you get technical about it.
Laser_Optimus
Yeah, I don't agree with that at all. It's also a pretty garbage design impo. They'd have to overhaul it a lot into the CHUG aesthetic to make me buy an IDW Metalhawk.
TF Hot Rod
Yup but still a easy repaint that if you want can be repurposed as either or.
Novaxmaximal
Ehhhhhhh.. seeing how it turned out I think a retool would have been better
I don't know, maybe a seeker?
KibblerGrrrl
If Metalhawk were to get his own all-new tooling, into whom could that mold be redecoed/(p)retooled? Just curious, Metalhawk is outside of my wheelhouse.
Q Prime
Doesn't mean it's not an easy repaint, or that it still deserves to be made.
WishfulThinking
Wasn't Thundercracker just an upgraded Starscream, though?
TF Hot Rod
Thundercracker especially needs to happen since that deco made it into the show. But while I would pass probably they definitely need to do Skywarp also to complete the trio.
WishfulThinking
True. But Armada Starscream doesn't have that either and Jhiaxus at least fits the profile well.
Ideally, Metalhawk is his own mold. Similar how we all thought Pointblank would end up being a retool and he ended up being otherwise, thankfully.
DocSeth81
i agree. I also want Skywarp and Thundercracker from Armada Starscream
Novaxmaximal
Curiously,the wings are his elbows
PloverNutter
IDW Metalhawk would work, especially a G1-ified version to match the CHUG aesthetic
Q Prime
I would, for the sake of accuracy, like to point out that Jhiaxus' wings are on his back while Metalhawk's are on his arms.
JazzAlert13
Damn! You may just be right! It’d work too cause there’s no super obvious re(paint/tool) for either of them.
WishfulThinking
I've been thinking more Jhiaxus as a retool.
![[IMG]](https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.172ba0f680c7bd00e7fd6643614493ce?rik=Klgt%2f4e1di9KDQ&riu=http%3a%2f%2fimg1.wikia.nocookie.net%2f__cb20060628053827%2ftransformers%2fimages%2fthumb%2f2%2f21%2fMetalhawk_robot.jpg%2f300px-Metalhawk_robot.jpg&ehk=6VQuid9%2f8bVMy7eOQ9xtJH2lk8NhSZYjfx0lyQoBqXM%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0)
![[IMG]](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0573/9266/0674/products/VoyagerJhiaxus3_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1655783931)
DocSeth81
i wonder if the leader optimus will be the holiday optimus in traditional colors. and pie is good