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Sabrblade wrote:Further evidence that this toy should have been a G1-ified AOE/TLK Hound instead of Bulkhead.

Not really and not like it matters since live action hound is more like a live action bulkhead anyway.

Slightly off topic, but people keep saying this and I just don't get it. The only things they really have in common are being fat and green. It's like saying DotM Sentinel is like a live action RID Optimus because they're both tall, red, and turn into fire trucks.

Then you just don’t get it then

But what don't I get?

It’s not the only thing they have in common. They have similar personalities. The prime version. Both yes are big and green but both are head strong, fierce and jump into battle and like the action, put that with how they look and they’re very similar. Intentional or not

Interesting. I've always seen Bulkhead as more of a "gentle giant" type character, but I'm admittedly much more familiar with him from Animated than from Prime. Thanks for the insight.

I get that I personally prefer Animated Bulky over prime but Prime Bulkhead is a solder with a heart of hold. He cares for him team and humans but he’s also a wrecker too. That’s why he’s here and like I said there’s a lot of similarities with Bulkhead from prime and Hound in the movies. It’s mainly coincidental. The people behind the movies admitted he was pretty much just an original character creation and a G1 name slapped on like most the movie characters but with prime still at its peak when AoE was released it’s not hard to draw similarities. I would say hasbro has done that with having bulkhead sharing an alt molds similar to hound and having a Gatling gun. I think the idea that Legacy bulkhead being a planned movie hound though is rubbish. Maybe is an earthmode hound came out in the recent years ware might be some gravity to it but I don’t hasbro wants to put the name hound on a character before they do a G1 earth version first. The similarities with legacy and live action are more an homage

Wow this looks not great. I was really hoping for a TF:A paintjob/remind so I guess ill get the regular release version now. The hammer is cool but the paint job is messy looking and the colors on the head don't fit. A new headsculpt with the beard wouldve been awesome. Oh well

Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Autobot N wrote:Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Nice

Surprised a Scourge redeco hasn't been announced/greenlit already though?

Eh. "Thrilling 30" Springer is still the better figure overall. AND it was the foundation for Sandstorm, one of the best Voyagers of all time....

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Nice

Surprised a Scourge redeco hasn't been announced/greenlit already though?

There's gonna be one in a Walmart exclusive subline. Him along with Cybertron Override (heavy retool of SS86 Hot Rod), G1 Hauler, G1 Cosmos (heavy retool of Warpath), some kind of Blurr, Diaclone Burn Out, G2 Road Rocket from Legacy Arcee, and Diaclone Clampdown

Rodimus Prime wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Springer is the easiest of passes. Maybe they can do a remold or a new figure in ss86 of him.

I think the mold is just fine, they just need to repaint him to be movie-accurate.

And give us a white version as G1 Drift!

Every single mode on him doesnt look right, probably my least favorite 'movie' figure I have. That and i would have liked him to be titans return for him to kind of have his cartoon human form.
Think I've been spoiled with most of his other non g1 figures have looked great even if most haven't been tripple changers. I even liked T30 IDW springer.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Nice

Surprised a Scourge redeco hasn't been announced/greenlit already though?

It has.

Its coming in the Walmart exclusive Velocitron line.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ves/46327/

Autobot N wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Nice

Surprised a Scourge redeco hasn't been announced/greenlit already though?

There's gonna be one in a Walmart exclusive subline. Him along with Cybertron Override (heavy retool of SS86 Hot Rod), G1 Hauler, G1 Cosmos (heavy retool of Warpath), some kind of Blurr, Diaclone Burn Out, G2 Road Rocket from Legacy Arcee, and Diaclone Clampdown

It is really nice to see G2 weirdos like Leadfoot and Road Rocket being reborn through this line.

william-james88 wrote:The Wreck N Rule line is an odd duck. It uses characters that were all part of a Wreckers team at some point but many of these releases get a deco referencing something else. Today's reveal is Bulkhead, who was a wrecker in the Prime cartoon. His deco, however, references movie Hound which does have a similar alt mode in camo deco in Age of Extinction, though not as bright.
Interestingly enough, the toy comes with an extra accessory, a small hammer, which Breakdown had in the Transformers Prime show.

Here are the preorder links:

Amazon:
Pulse (in very limited quantities):

So. does anyone else find it interesting that he comes with Breakdown's hammer?

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:That's disappointing. I expected a more compelling repaint of Bulkhead. At the same time, whew! Can totally skip this line almost entirely. I'll likely pre-order Twin Twist. Still on the fence with Springer.

Man at least you still expected Bulkhead. Other fans out there were hoping for a redeco of the Bulkhead mold into a G1 Pyro. And well, Wolfmanjake already used my line about hope. It held true!!!!!!

I wasn't sure what it was going to be, but I did think it would at least be a new character, not just bulkhead with a little Camo...oh well, this is an easy pass.

Also WJ thanks for the previous pointing out of the boxes for this collection. For some reason I thought they were all the same size. Top one is definitely smaller. It makes sense unfortunately. I hope we do get a Diaclone Topspin down the line at some point though.

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:That's disappointing. I expected a more compelling repaint of Bulkhead. At the same time, whew! Can totally skip this line almost entirely. I'll likely pre-order Twin Twist. Still on the fence with Springer.

Man at least you still expected Bulkhead. Other fans out there were hoping for a redeco of the Bulkhead mold into a G1 Pyro. And well, Wolfmanjake already used my line about hope. It held true!!!!!!

The key is to always set your expectations low so you'll never be disappointed

o.supreme wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:That's disappointing. I expected a more compelling repaint of Bulkhead. At the same time, whew! Can totally skip this line almost entirely. I'll likely pre-order Twin Twist. Still on the fence with Springer.

Man at least you still expected Bulkhead. Other fans out there were hoping for a redeco of the Bulkhead mold into a G1 Pyro. And well, Wolfmanjake already used my line about hope. It held true!!!!!!

I wasn't sure what it was going to be, but I did think it would at least be a new character, not just bulkhead with a little Camo...oh well, this is an easy pass.

Also WJ thanks for the previous pointing out of the boxes for this collection. For some reason I thought they were all the same size. Top one is definitely smaller. It makes sense unfortunately. I hope we do get a Diaclone Topspin down the line at some point though.

The leaks said “bulkhead repaint” and that’s exactly what it is. New characters like say the Fractyl figure is leaked as fractyl not “terrorsaur repaint” or leadfoot as leadfoot and not “mirage repaint” anyone who expected pyro or anything else that wasn’t a repaint of bulkhead can blame themselves for overhyping it and drawing conclusions that just weren’t there.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Man at least you still expected Bulkhead. Other fans out there were hoping for a redeco of the Bulkhead mold into a G1 Pyro.

Nah, Pyro would need a retooled version of the mold. More like a Partsformer...

People werent asking for a perfect recreation of Pyro, they wanted that old hat temporary gap filler figure which is a redeco of G1 character based on a mold with a similar alt mode.

And, considering what we got here instead, it's not like that would have been a worse outcome/idea, and it would have been Wrecker related.

Anyways, out of all the exclusive Amazon lines we got so far, starting back in WFC, this is the worst, as a whole. The golden disk line was pretty fun. But I do find the fossilizers very very cool (not much else though and they are stuck in two packs).

BUT

It does make it so that no key character is an exclusive. While these toys don't interest me much, I much preffer the outcome of my buying less than me wanting these and there not being enough made (or them being restricted through exclusive status). That Earthrise Amazon exclusive line was rather egregious, with having MAIN characters not only be exclusive but also not being made in enough numbers, making us all doubt our Amazon preorders from here on out.

o.supreme wrote:Also WJ thanks for the previous pointing out of the boxes for this collection. For some reason I thought they were all the same size. Top one is definitely smaller. It makes sense unfortunately. I hope we do get a Diaclone Topspin down the line at some point though.

Pleasure, I'm here to help

Autobot N wrote:The key is to always set your expectations low so you'll never be disappointed

The key is to remove all hope.

What a turd sandwich

I s'pose this works for people wanting a more interesting colour scheme and paintjob for Bulkhead than plain greys and unbroken greens. I'm wondering if recolouring Bulkhead's big lower jaw all black (to make it resemble a big beard) would help with turning this into a custom Legacy AoE Hound!

But so far the only figure that has personally interested me was Leadfoot. Gotta love me some G2 callbacks.

Autobot N wrote:Finally managed to snag a Laser Prime on Amazon, it'll be here Monday

Thanks for the heads up! Rural life is awesome...I see deer, fox, bald eagles, turkeys, bears, and wolves all the time, but the closest store with any kind of decent Transformers selection is 90 plus minutes away so I've been waiting for it to pop up on Amazon. It had said July 1st for release. Obviously that changed.

First-Aid wrote:What the heck are they doing?

I've said it in the past...repaints are the wimp's way out. The problem is that Hasbro has figured out that Transfans aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree and that they will snap up just about any repaint as long as there is a good backstory or something relating directly to G1 lore (*cough* *Seekers* *cough*). Is this line worth it? It it even really a "Wreckers" team? Eye of the beholder...but until we stop simply snapping up repaints, HasTak is going to continue to be LAZY and not really give us anything new or creative.

I think you're looking at it from the wrong angle.

Yes, redecos are cheap to do, that's one reason they're usually reserved for store exclusives with new molds restricted to main lines, and exclusives are when they're listening more closely to the fans while working within the limits they imposed on themselves. It's not that we're not the brightest bulbs (not entirely anyway), but more that we're mostly opportunists who'll grab anything that may not appear again for a long time, playing into our FOMO emotions, but it's also a way of showing appreciation for digging that deep into the brand's history as a whole.
Whole new molds as a store exclusive? It's been done, but as WFC Netflix Soundwave has shown it's more of a hassle in the long run due to the exclusivity of the molds in question staying with that store for god knows how many years, leading to more fan boy complaint than usual. Yeah, it'll always be there*, but in Soundwave's case it may be more than Hasbro is willing to deal with.

So... Does this mean the whole line have been revealed now? Where's Topspin?!!!

* Courtesy of Sabrina-Online.com by Eric W. Schwartz

I had planned to skip this mold all together, but now that they've tossed in Prime Breakdowns toon hammer, I may have to get him just to get that hammer.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

First-Aid wrote:What the heck are they doing?

I've said it in the past...repaints are the wimp's way out. The problem is that Hasbro has figured out that Transfans aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree and that they will snap up just about any repaint as long as there is a good backstory or something relating directly to G1 lore (*cough* *Seekers* *cough*). Is this line worth it? It it even really a "Wreckers" team? Eye of the beholder...but until we stop simply snapping up repaints, HasTak is going to continue to be LAZY and not really give us anything new or creative.

I think you're looking at it from the wrong angle.

Yes, redecos are cheap to do, that's one reason they're usually reserved for store exclusives with new molds restricted to main lines, and exclusives are when they're listening more closely to the fans while working within the limits they imposed on themselves. It's not that we're not the brightest bulbs (not entirely anyway), but more that we're mostly opportunists who'll grab anything that may not appear again for a long time, playing into our FOMO emotions, but it's also a way of showing appreciation for digging that deep into the brand's history as a whole.
Whole new molds as a store exclusive? It's been done, but as WFC Netflix Soundwave has shown it's more of a hassle in the long run due to the exclusivity of the molds in question staying with that store for god knows how many years, leading to more fan boy complaint than usual. Yeah, it'll always be there*, but in Soundwave's case it may be more than Hasbro is willing to deal with.

So... Does this mean the whole line have been revealed now? Where's Topspin?!!!

* Courtesy of Sabrina-Online.com by Eric W. Schwartz

Very well said. I'm committed to Leadfoot and Twin Twist. The others I preordered to get on the list, but I might not go through with it since Velocitron seems to be more of my interest with Black Convoy (perhaps the wimpiest way out of all repaints?) and Cosmos.

ScottyP wrote:What a turd sandwich

Immortal Starscream wrote:I had planned to skip this mold all together, but now that they've tossed in Prime Breakdowns toon hammer, I may have to get him just to get that hammer.

It is a surprising development to see that hammer and truly sweetens the deal for anyone who owns AM Breakdown

william-james88 wrote:

ScottyP wrote:What a turd sandwich

I was content with just calling it the most boring and uninspired of all the releases, but that works too.

I hope some day they reuse this Bulkhead mold for Movie Hound.