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New Titanium TFs!!!!

Post by BB Shockwave » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:03 am

Since no-one seemed to notice my post in the older topic, I'm going to make a new one...

Man, I cannot stress how shocked I am about the new Titanium figures that seems to have been popping out of nowhere at the Comic-Con or whatnot! :D


Erm... anyway. I've calmed down a bit, so. here's what we'll get:

http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=album&a ... 00&start=0

6' figures:

G1 Scourge, transforms just like the 86 toy, only a bit updated in style - wish Takara would have made Thunderblast like this one. Really cool, especially the vehicle mode. 8) My only gripe is the head - he seems to have a 'low brow' if you look at it. Oh and he has no weapon... odd.

Optimal Optimus - I don't really know the original, so there... I guess it will have all the transformations, and it looks nice, but I don't like the original either so I'll leave it out of my collection.

RID Prime ( :eek: ) Well that was unexpected... Guess we'll get RID too in Titanium. He's quite good, and since I'll never spend so much money on the original, I'll buy it propably.

G1 TWW Starscream... before you get your hopes up, he's a repaint of TC. Of course, was predictable, but would have been nice if they made them different - after all, Titanium TC looks exactly as in TWW, and in there all three seekers had different transformations. Oh well, at least we have Cybertron Screamer.

Now... drumrolls.... :D G1 Soundwave! And yes, he's a casette player! I have mixed feelings about him - he looks OK in robot mode, but his, erm, crotch is a bit too large... and in tapedeck mode, he's too plain - no fine details at all... Maybe it's because of the darker blue shade. But, he has both of his guns (look like batteries still) and Laserbeak, who hasn't changed much. I'm uncertain if he has another casette behind Laserbeak, or that's his chest already? Anyway, looks really cool.

-And the big suprise, and my fav so far: G1 Rodimus Prime! Yes, him... and we all know how much the old toy sucked. Well, no more - he has a completely different transformation, his trailer is part of the body now! 8) The robot mode is really bulky and strong looking - I bet Don designed it. He even has his gun and the flame deco looks even better then before! :) really a must-have.

3' figures - I'm not really sold on these, but anyway, here we have some more:

-Alt. Sunstreaker (repaint of Sideswipe, duh)
-G1 Prime (looks quite good)
-Energon SCorponok - here I was hoping he'd be the G1 one. Pity.
-G1 Grimlock - looks OK, just like the cartoon version - but why no sword?
-G1 Galvatron, cartoon style. I might get this one---
-G1 Cliffjumper - BB repaint. Lame, Hasbro...
-G1 Predaking! Now this I need... looks really good, and has a sword too.
-G1 Thundercraker - you guessed, SS repaint. Oddly his head is blue....
-G1 Soundwave - really good looking, even though he has no casettes with him. I wish the 6' figure had such colors!

So, I'm really looking forward to the autumn - ever since Hasbro took over, we old G1 fans are getting what we wanted. No more animeformers and Poketrons! :D My only question is, how will Titanium and Classics coexist? If we got Soundwave here, does this mean no Classic SW? Maybe not, since we'll get a classics Jetfire for sure... Anyway, good job, Hasbro!
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Post by snarl » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:26 am

Yeah, I've seen them. I think they look aces and cannot wait for them.

I've spunked the money to BBTS for them all, hope they keep adding to this line, these are crackers afaic.
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Post by Hound » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:59 pm

The Titanium range is confusing me by crossing over into the classics range terriory.

Rodimus and Scorge look very good though. Nice to see decent toys for these guys at last.
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Post by Predabot » Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:57 am

Scourge! Hasbro finally decided to allow the name to return to its rightful owner! :eek:

At first when I saw Rodimus I thought it was just a plain ol' Hot Rod, since I didn't see any pics of the alt-mode, but if what you say is correct..! Then huzzah.

It's Soundwave! :) But are we sure he's a tape-deck? His alt-mode looks oddly Cybertronian in style to me.

Optimal Optimus and Rid Prime really surprises me, and I'm not sure they make that much sence? Seeing as the two original toys were both great, and very similar to these two anyway.

All in all... how can it be such a good time to be a TF-fan right now?? Something must be off!

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Post by BB Shockwave » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:16 pm

Well it's Hasbro... :D I mean, if Takara would have had the upper hand, OP and Megs would be long gone and TFs would look like Brave toys...

Remember, first thing they did with the japanese lines that they killed off every old guy and each new series had a new Bot and Con leader... :(

All it took was Takara giving back Hasbro the reigns and we got Titanium, Classics... all the stuff we've been dreaming about since 1984....

Btw, Preds, that was indeed me on DC++... but for some reason I cannot send PMs, the hub says I need to register.
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Post by Predabot » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:49 pm

Ahaaa!! :D So it was you...

I will agree, that since Hasbro took reign after the mergere of Takara with Tomy, it's been pretty much all good. Huzzah.

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Post by BB Shockwave » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:03 pm

More pics of Comic-Con, including Classics in box (Megs' new motto is apparently "Lesser creatures are playthings to my will" Ooh, scary. :)

Plus better pics of Titanium, especially Soundwave - he IS the old blue color, but his face is, oddly, gold. Looks a bit 'old'-ish to me, could be a GI Joe/TF version?

http://spyderbytez.myphotoalbum.com/vie ... m01&page=1

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