In-Hand Images: Transformers Generations Legends Swerve with Flanker

Good Lord he looks awesome!

Needs a shoomer!!!!

Love it. Especially the Micromaster reference. He's almost perfect... I just wish he was more of a Scout or small Deluxe size instead of a Legends size. Hell, I'd be happy with just an upscaled version of this.

Ah well, I'm still happy with this.

When does this come out?

I love it like Swerve loves quests!

Darkman20xx wrote:When does this come out?

According to the info at Botcon, October, 2013.

As we've clearly overshot that date, I'd suspect February.

Bought on sight.

AHHHH HE'S SO COOL! I love all these IDW releases, they're doing an excellent job of making them look just like in the comics. Can't wait to get Swerve. Still haven't seen the previous wave around here though, I hope they don't get skipped...

Sugoi! So if Feb 2014 is the local release, then the Tomy would be around June 2014.....quite a wait.

About time we saw Flanker's weapon mode.

Overall, I like 'em. Can't wait to see these guys, Cosmos + Payload, and Shrapnel + Reflector in stores.

Excellent articulation for the scale, and the vehicle mode looks betterthan Bumblebee's from that series.

Swerve looks great. What is the scale of Cosmos? I have iGear Cosmos.

Yep, that's a great looking little figure.

Following up on our previous story of Swerve and Flanker, once again CYBERGEEKS ALLIANCE provides us with a nice look at Swerve and Flanker's wave-mates, Cosmos and Payload! These images also give us a brief first-look at Payload's weapon mode.

I wish the hands were painted black, still a neat figure

Getting this one for sure. And the Swerve figure.

that cosmos is looking real nice cant wait to get my hands on it. Looks like 2014 is gon be a good year for me... but not for my wallet lol

"Puny Decepticons..."

Swerve's looking great, though the packaging art gives him one too many fingers for his hands. I rarely go for anything smaller than a deluxe, but his size is spot on for his character. Would have liked a My First Blaster for him, along with the Shoomer, but since the accessory mandate for this series is "...with a Targetmaster", Flanker is the next best thing.

Cosmos is nice, but given his appearances in MTMTE, he should have been given a similar treatment to Seaspray, with a larger Voyager-class figure.

I take back most of my earlier criticisms, he looks quite wicked. Love that he had neck articulation.

The Variable wrote:Cosmos is nice, but given his appearances in MTMTE, he should have been given a similar treatment to Seaspray, with a larger Voyager-class figure.

That would have been awesome, even if they used the same size targetmaster. Hell, it'd look just that much more imposing in vehicle modes.

I don't even have to think about buying these two on sight. They are pulling some amazing engineering out of that smaller commander size.

I'M lovin' it!!

Looks like I'm triple dipping on Cosmos. Wonder how well the iGear versions gun will fit his hand.

Awesome figure. But too small to go with classics. Too big to go with other legends. He's kind of stuck in the "buy him just because he's cool" category. But I have no idea where to display him. Same thing with Swerve. If he was the size of the Igear version, then we would be replacing him.

Far too lanky looking and the fists are too big, pass from me, sticking with iGears personally.

I like this figure. unlike iGear's, this one deals the the bowed arm better.

And unlike X, I think both Cosmos and Swerve are perfect for Classics. I'll probably repaint the iGear versions at some point as Shattered Glass characters.

all my Classics Minibots are Legends size. I'll be glad to get these two as well.

Swerve looks good, but I still might go with the 3rd party figure with the swappable face.

I love those oversized molded in hands. Least they look a little oversized to me. I'll pick him up for sure. Great alt mode to.

i like this and swerve and they might be the first ones of this size i'll buy! They will probably end up hanging around on metroplex rather than be displayed with my classics (in spite of their size I need a couple of new display cabinets).

Also they might suffer from size envy when they spot powerglide and seaspray.

who is Payload suppose to be?

mooncake623 wrote:who is Payload suppose to be?

The Autobot Micromaster combiner, Blast Master. He formed the back-half of the shuttle mode.

Now that I think about it, turning old Micromasters into these little Targetmaster buddies is actually a pretty neat idea. Half-hoping the listings we uncovered before (there was a Thundercracker and a Gears in there, if my memeory is correct) is true, and we get more Legends figures.

Mindmaster wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:who is Payload suppose to be?

The Autobot Micromaster combiner, Blast Master. He formed the back-half of the shuttle mode.

Now that I think about it, turning old Micromasters into these little Targetmaster buddies is actually a pretty neat idea. Half-hoping the listings we uncovered before (there was a Thundercracker and a Gears in there, if my memeory is correct) is true, and we get more Legends figures.

Oh that's pretty cool. But why did they use the name payload? doing a tfwiki search did not help at all. Payload seems to be a bunch of different characters in different continuities. Also how is he related to Cosmos? Both spaceships?

mooncake623 wrote:But why did they use the name payload?

Probably because Hasbro lost the trademark of "Blast Master", and, uninterested in the marketability of the aforementioned name, just slapped "Payload" on him, since that name appears more frequently and generally sounds cooler than Blast Master.

Also how is he related to Cosmos? Both spaceships?

Pretty much, yeah.

Mindmaster wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:But why did they use the name payload?

Probably because Hasbro lost the trademark of "Blast Master", and, uninterested in the marketability of the aforementioned name, just slapped "Payload" on him, since that name appears more frequently and generally sounds cooler than Blast Master.

Also how is he related to Cosmos? Both spaceships?

Pretty much, yeah.

All sounds like nonsense to me. After all Swerve comes with Flanker, who is somehow linked to Sky High on the wiki entry relating to this toy instead of the actual micromaster Flanker, who's own page isn't clear as to whether he's an Autobot or Decepticon. Top all that off with what exactly links Payload specifically to Blast Master and not Phaser and it all sounds loopy to me.

IIRC Payload was also the name of the GI Joe who flew their space shuttle.


edit: had a thought, will the Japanese version be called Pay-Loads?

Oh, and Payload is able to "combine" with Cosmos in vehicle mode.

craggy wrote:IIRC Payload was also the name of the GI Joe who flew their space shuttle.


edit: had a thought, will the Japanese version be called Pay-Loads?

I think it will be called Pay-Roads.

FellintoOblivion wrote:

craggy wrote:IIRC Payload was also the name of the GI Joe who flew their space shuttle.


edit: had a thought, will the Japanese version be called Pay-Loads?

I think it will be called Pay-Roads.

I don't understand this. Could you please explain?

craggy wrote:

FellintoOblivion wrote:

craggy wrote:IIRC Payload was also the name of the GI Joe who flew their space shuttle.


edit: had a thought, will the Japanese version be called Pay-Loads?

I think it will be called Pay-Roads.

I don't understand this. Could you please explain?

I think he missed the joke of "Pay Loads" to get him. Japanese has no distinction between "l" and "r" sounds, it falls somewhere inbetween. For simplicity's sake the "r" is used for transliteration, except for loanwords.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

craggy wrote:

FellintoOblivion wrote:

craggy wrote:IIRC Payload was also the name of the GI Joe who flew their space shuttle.


edit: had a thought, will the Japanese version be called Pay-Loads?

I think it will be called Pay-Roads.

I don't understand this. Could you please explain?

I think he missed the joke of "Pay Loads" to get him. Japanese has no distinction between "l" and "r" sounds, it falls somewhere inbetween. For simplicity's sake the "r" is used for transliteration, except for loanwords.

that sounds...and forgive me if I'm being a little judgemental here...but it sounds, a teeny tiny terribly bit like he's making fun of the way people from another culture speak our language (well, my language, anyway). I'm sure this is fine though cause Fell probably speaks much better Japanese than any Japanese person speaks English. Probably.

Holy shit! Someone made fun of something on the internet. Someone page the news crew.

I so sowwy.

In any case, current TakaraTomy releases (excluding Masterpieces) use the US/Hasbro names so he'll still be called Payload in Japanese (ペイロード Peirōdo). Of note is that he's actually based on Micromaster Blast Master, so there's a possibility he'll be called that if TakaraTomy catches on.

This is an awesome figure.

Looks pretty cool to me. While the 3p one is much nicer, cost is gonna limit me to this one.