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SeventhSage wrote:Seems pretty legit to me. I hope they paint the face tho

It's an unpainted prototype. Of course they will. He'll at LEAST have red eyes I'm sure.

Bronzewolf wrote:Seibertronians, thanks to users RodimusConvoy and Autobot N, we've got some potentially big news coming out of the Transformers Facebook fan page TFND. They've shared what could be a production sample of the rumored Titans Return Broadside! Take a look down below, and then compare it to the G1 toy by checking out our galleries here!







What do you think about this leak? Does it look official? Does it look like Broadside to you? Leave a comment ans tell us! And, as always, stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest Transformers news and reviews.

I'll wait to see his alt modes before i decide

Stuartmaximus wrote:
I'll wait to see his alt modes before i decide

At least he probably won't have a s*** lion mode.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that is Tidal Wave, who is supposed to be Broadside's "repaint" and this is a new mold or a very very heavy retool to the point of all but being a new mold. That head says Tidal Wave to me, not Broadside:

Obviously Broadside & / or Tidal Wave - but I'd love to see what it would Look like in Jetfire Colours too.

Maybe its Tidal waves head sculpt on the Broadside body. Its not rounded enough to be Broadside's head.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb and say that is Tidal Wave, who is supposed to be Broadside's "repaint" and this is a new mold or a very very heavy retool to the point of all but being a new mold. That head says Tidal Wave to me, not Broadside:

No it looks more like Broadside to me. It's the block in the back and the lack of paint making it look different.

Tidalwave would be kinda cool though.

RAR wrote:Obviously Broadside & / or Tidal Wave - but I'd love to see what it would Look like in Jetfire Colours too.

I don't think so. Look at the head. It has the separate eyes, the mouth. It looks like Tidal Wave to me

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

RAR wrote:Obviously Broadside & / or Tidal Wave - but I'd love to see what it would Look like in Jetfire Colours too.

I don't think so. Look at the head. It has the separate eyes, the mouth. It looks like Tidal Wave to me

Weird, it looks like a mouth plate on my monitor: no sculpted lips. Plus, mouth plate or not, the first character model for Broadside has a mouth:

SillySpringer wrote:Same here! Though, I kinda wonder if they'd make a new Sandstorm and Springer. If they do I'd be glad to have a better Sandstorm than the old and harder-to-get one. (Unless if Sandstorm were to be a Walgreens exclusive! )

But Sandstorm is still out there and he hasn't inflated much. I'd rather just get the ones that need updating and leave the ones who were fine alone.

I think it's intended to be both... if looking at the mould in general - (excluding possible head changes)

It has Tidal Wave style Feet for sure.

But Tidal Wave didn't have a jet mode Broadside did - and there is a lot of Jet kibble on there.

"However" there is always the excuse to say he got some cross over in his mode because of him Minicon being a jet.

As for specific Broadside bits - it has visible Jet kibble on similar places to the cartoon models and it has the bubble on the chest.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

RAR wrote:Obviously Broadside & / or Tidal Wave - but I'd love to see what it would Look like in Jetfire Colours too.

I don't think so. Look at the head. It has the separate eyes, the mouth. It looks like Tidal Wave to me

Weird, it looks like a mouth plate on my monitor: no sculpted lips.

I can see both, depending on how I look at it.

I think it's also very much worth comparing to his fictional appearances.

G1 Cartoon models (especially the one on the right):-


IDW Broadside:-


(somehow the best picture I could find...)

Toy:-


I'm getting an IDW vibe myself

colours say broadside, head says tidal wave...

look interesting and will probably get him - i always had a love hate relationship with the g1 toy - very crap but also full of potential. Hope they match his g1 weapons which were pretty cool (axe, rifle, 2 rockets)...

Huh, that actually looks...pretty good. Unless there's some serious flaw with it I might get this over Assaulter. Might.

Not sure I'd buy it as Tidal Wave though. Tidal Wave needs to be BIIIIIIIIIG- Leader class at absolute minimum.

RAR wrote:I think it's intended to be both... if looking at the mould in general - (excluding possible head changes)

It has Tidal Wave style Feet for sure.

But Tidal Wave didn't have a jet mode Broadside did - and there is a lot of Jet kibble on there.

"However" there is always the excuse to say he got some cross over in his mode because of him Minicon being a jet.

As for specific Broadside bits - it has visible Jet kibble on similar places to the cartoon models and it has the bubble on the chest.

It was rumored that Tidal wave would be a repaint of Broadside so the body is not really any indication. look at the head, that is the spot.

It really looks like a mouth and it really to me looks like Tidal wave. And considering that Sentinel came before Astrotrain but clearly looked like him, and the same can be said for Prime/Octane and Megatron/Blitzwing, I'm convinced this is Tidal Wave

He has a square chin like Broadside's "battle mask" head
Tidal wave's chin is a triangle shape ad has a distinct head crest this lacks.

Nice ship Bridge his shoulder there I note.

P.s.

If you can't find decent pics of IDW Broadside try Fansprojects Assaulter as he's pretty much the same sort of thing.

Though Broadside is on a comic cover I was looking at it's either War Within or Stormbringer I think.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

RAR wrote:I think it's intended to be both... if looking at the mould in general - (excluding possible head changes)

It has Tidal Wave style Feet for sure.

But Tidal Wave didn't have a jet mode Broadside did - and there is a lot of Jet kibble on there.

"However" there is always the excuse to say he got some cross over in his mode because of him Minicon being a jet.

As for specific Broadside bits - it has visible Jet kibble on similar places to the cartoon models and it has the bubble on the chest.

It was rumored that Tidal wave would be a repaint of Broadside so the body is not really any indication. look at the head, that is the spot.

It really looks like a mouth and it really to me looks like Tidal wave. And considering that Sentinel came before Astrotrain but clearly looked like him, and the same can be said for Prime/Octane and Megatron/Blitzwing, I'm convinced this is Tidal Wave

Plus, of the two carriers, Tidal Wave was the one named explicitly, including his Titan Master partner, who's called Powerhouse.

But we saw with Ptero that they are not doing the really long crests as that would look weird in titan master mode, so that is forgivable. Also, this guy has separate eyes and a mouth, and the face looks very little like the Broadside that had a mouth.

(Autobots)
Sentinel Prime (x2):
Optimus Prime :
Alpha Trion
Broadside


(Decepticons)
Galvatron
Megatron :
Astro Train :
Blitzwing :
Octane :


It seems we will need another Autobot. So Broadside makes sense to me.
There may or may not be an A3 as Leo Prime I suppose - but that is just as easy to do as a bad guy as a good guy.

Anyway I expect every Voyager will get a repaint or remould or both including this one.

Eh, I'm more interested in the little guy's body design. I'm calling based on Armada Ramjet:

I'm really not seeing Tidal Wave in that head. It very clearly has a mouthplate and visor to me, plus Broadside has always had a (albeit not very pronounced) crest on his forehead. I'm saying this is Broadside. Also it's not like we can use release dates as indication when this is a leak and it wasn't specified what line it's from; whether Tidal Wave comes out first or second, that is no proof that this is Tidal Wave.

@RAR
This is true, though I was referring mostly to Broadside's recent ex-RiD appearances - his design possibly having been changed since IDW's early days, which I admittedly have not read up on much aside from a few spotlights and Maximum Dinobots.

Kurona wrote:(somehow the best picture I could find...)

I could find a few better ones. And yeah, him having high shoulders ala magnus definitely gives him that IDW vibe.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Eh, I'm more interested in the little guy's body design. I'm calling based on Armada Ramjet:

The Tidal wave repaint will probably have a titan master that looks like that, but sure about broadside though. The head shown could go either way or it might not even be the head we get (remember Blaster's head?)


Anyways, this guy looks awesome, cant wait to get it. I always love when Hasbro attempts voyager triple changers.

So some people see Tital Wave and regardless of which one comes out first they think it's a Tital Wave toys being re-purposed or pre-purposed as a Broadside.

Where as others think it's a Broadside that regardless of if it comes out first or not is doing double duty as a Tidal Wave.

I can honestly see both in that design - the jet cues & chest seem not unreasonably to be Broadside the shape of the feet seems very Tidal Wave though.

The head to me at least can be taken as either the "White" skull Broadside or the Titalwave - but to me it's more like a generic seeker head than it is even Tidal Wave.

(I don't suppose he's a Megatron/Blitwing retool is he ?).. 'Nah'

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Eh, I'm more interested in the little guy's body design. I'm calling based on Armada Ramjet:

The Tidal wave repaint will probably have a titan master that looks like that, but sure about broadside though. The head shown could go either way or it might not even be the head we get (remember Blaster's head?)

When Titan Masters are retooled for body redeco/retool, only the face on the back is replaced most of the time (plus the body in the case of Twin Cast vs. Soundblaster). Infinitus and Darkmoon have the same body and head (i.e. Darkmoon still looks like Sentinel), showing they're at least partially tied to the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain mold. And that could go the same way for TidalWave/Broadside, having a Ramjet-inspired Titan Master for both.
Speaking of which, I'll have to redo my statement about Titan Masters being freely switched out: it seems when minor parts are reused between different molds, the Titan Master is highly likely to be part of it. Blurr shares parts with Chromedome, including the Titan Master, so do Scourge and Highbrow (I do not consider the latter pair retools, until I can determine which parts are shared).