Hasbro’s Mark Maher has once again taken to his Instagram to share with us a behind the scenes look at a new Transformers figure, this time Legacy United Deluxe Rescue Bots Chase!
“Make room on the shelf for this analytical do gooder, Legacy United Deluxe Rescue Bot Chase is ready to arrest some decepticreeps!
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I worked on this stern fellow with the amazing legend Kunihiro san! The magic that the Takara designers perform is hard to capture in words.
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So a ways back at one of the Botcon’s I had the opportunity to do some sketches for fans at the Hasbro booth. I was really surprised how many people requested Rescue Bot characters. It always sat in the back of my mind as a thing I would love to do. The show is for a certain age group but honestly, its quite entertaining for all. Imagine older versions or graduated bots that have moved up in the autobot ranks and get to actually receive orders from Optimus. I hope a few of you have had that vision and dream of these great characters moving up into the big boy toys! What other perfect time then the 40th anniversary to accomplish these cool things in Transformers land.
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I thought it essential to give him his energon capture claw to really lean into the character persona, but I also didn’t want him to be left with no blasters just in case things got hairy. The ability to take off each of the claw hooks and use them as some daggers in some tight hand to hand combat I felt was also necessary. After all, we are trying protect and serve the Autobot cause here and lets face it, Decepticons like Bludgeon definitely don’t play fair.
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Deco and colors for this guy was really hard to accomplish due to the amount of different tint colors on him, I really enjoy how the two tone lightbar came out in production
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Don’t forget to break out the other rescue big boy bots, cause standing alongside Red Alert here really makes me want to dig into some more. I couldn’t find my Medix so maybe next time those two can hang out, maybe get a coffee and a 🍩! 😎
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Let me know whose the next big want for another Rescue bot team member and don’t forget to watch the 10/27 event with the @bmacatron84 and me!!!”
Scornstream
Cool, that's your opinion.
IgnikaMarcus
As another who grew up with RID, I completely disagree.
Greeman
It's weird, the right arm stays petty solid in place, but the left arm is easy to droop down. There's clearly like, nubs on both sides to keep the arm-armature thing stable but the one on the left just doesn't seem to quite do the job.
shumworld
Where can we get those stands to display our TF toys?
Ganon2099
I think all the junkions should've been retooled/repainted into more junkions.
Shattered glass/Axlegrease colors or something. Not to shoehorn Tow-line, Hubcap and Hoist into that mold.
Thundershot
Ah, see, I don’t give two shits about RID, much less what appears to be a minor character in it. I use the characters as new G1 characters to fill in the ranks of my displays.
Scornstream
All the power to you if you find it adequate/enjoyable but personally, as someone who grew up with RID, I think it's fairly awful and would rather have no Tow-Line in my collection than a sub-standard one.
Thundershot
Well, it’s all budget. I’d rather they do that and we get the character than not have it at all. I’ll gladly take MW Hoist and Hubcap repaints.
Scornstream
That was an awful mold choice for Tow-Line anyway (I personally believe Bulkhead would have fit better, despite Tow-Line not being a COE). But it does seem they've gotten a tad lazy on the retooling front recently compared to some older releases.
Thundershot
Based on Tow-Line, I feel confident they would NOT remove the “mad-maxy” stuff.
Scornstream
I disagree on him making a good Heatwave, but Salvage is right there. Just retool it to be less mad-maxy and it is almost perfect.
![[IMG]](https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/c/cb/RB-toy_Salvage-Rescan.jpg)
G1 Milo
Could also do Rescue Bots Bumblebee very easily.
Zylly103
Rescue Bots was a far better show than it had any right to be; definitely of the "entertaining for all ages" variety.
I really hope we at least get the other three "core" Rescue Bots in this style at some point. (I still say Trashmaster would make an excellent Heatwave).
Vanya
lol
Track record shows that they will choose a Universe the character comes from and then mix features of multiple versions of the character as part of the G1-ification.
So I wouldn't be surprised if they labeled him as Animated Universe Lockdown and gave him a more TFA style head, but the body was more Cyberverse inspired.
Especially so if they end up making him a retool of Chase.
Vanya
I would want Siren / Gō Shūtā to be far better than Legacy Minerva.
Optimus1138
That's what I'm expecting, it's what one of the leakers said (although not one of the more reliable ones, so who knows) and what the listing name would indicate (but those don't always match what's actually on the package).
Scornstream
I don't think it'll be any universe Lockdown. It'll just be a generic G1 Lockdown, ala Earth Wars (though that is basically the same as the Cyberverse design since Cyberverse based their design off of it).
Bass X0
People generally have a negative reception towards people’s head canons when they go completely against official canon.
drmick
It might be worth pointing out that the Takara designer of United Chase is Takashi Kunihiro.
It was him who designed ROTF Lockdown for what it's worth.
Optimus1138
Most of us would breathe a sigh of relief that there'd still be potential for a proper Animated/CV/IDW Lockdown to get his own mold later on in the mainline. I hope they'd base AOE Lockdown on Wildrider though, Sideswipe's transformation wouldn't suit him at all.
I'm not that invested in the legs being extended myself and don't think it's super likely, just explaining what people see in it and why I think it's at least possible.
True, I didn't think of that.
I hope we get a Cybertron Downshift homage out of him, it'd basically be his Cybertron alt mode with his Energon robot mode (but with real instead of faux kibble).
A Bumblebee out of this would be pretty cool, he'd get the muscle car alt mode like Bayverse/TFP/Cyberverse but keeps a more G1y transformation.