Leaked In-Package Image of Transformers: Power of the Primes Rodimus Unicronus

This.. I will get

Stuartmaximus wrote:Aye it looks ok, just wish we didn't have to wait so dam long since he's not out til Wave 2!

Agreed!

And so, sneakily, we get what may very well be the first mass retail Shattered Glass figure. Huh.

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Skritz wrote:Any pic of Dreadwind's limb modes yet?

No, sorry, but since he is a retool of the aerialbots, it will basically look the same as one of them (I forget which one).

Arm limb.

Would you mind sending a link to the source for that image to the news e-mail. This is very news worthy

Eh, I follow a number of fan pages on Facebook and it came from one of them. I honestly couldn't tell you which one. Sorry.

No luck on seeing early PotP figures in OR today....but I'll definitely be on the lookout.

I know I'm in the minority, but I wanted him to be a standard Decepticon.

SG just effs up my shelves so much. He is TECHNICALLY an Autobot, so he will be displayed with the Autobots. Which means no Leader-Class Decepticons.

Effing. Awesome.

Skritz wrote:And so, sneakily, we get what may very well be the first mass retail Shattered Glass figure. Huh.

If you want to be technical Hero Mashers Heatwave is.

Emerje

DecepticonFinishline wrote:I know I'm in the minority, but I wanted him to be a standard Decepticon.

SG just effs up my shelves so much. He is TECHNICALLY an Autobot, so he will be displayed with the Autobots. Which means no Leader-Class Decepticons.

Effing. Awesome.

TECHNICALLY Rodimus Unicronus is not an Autobot, nor is he SG Rodimus. According to hasbro, the bio of this figure is Rodimus Prime becoming corrupted by Unicron using (DEAD? Evil? Something) Matrix that comes with this figure and it turns him fully fledged evil herald of unicron uber powered Decepticon Galvatron mark 2.0 type thing dealy. So.... yeah. You can put him on the Decepticon shelf. It's just his visual appearance is blatantly the SG Rodimus.

i don't understand dreadwind's wings. they do look detached in package and his alt mode is identical to skydive's. however, in previous photos, his wings are more rearward like dirge's. also, any guesses on who the remaining limbs are? my CW cylclonus wants to know. jazz would make a good crasher.

Rodimus Unicronus will be going on my Transformers 1986 movie shelf and be a stand in for Unicron!

Insurgent wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:I know I'm in the minority, but I wanted him to be a standard Decepticon.

SG just effs up my shelves so much. He is TECHNICALLY an Autobot, so he will be displayed with the Autobots. Which means no Leader-Class Decepticons.

Effing. Awesome.

TECHNICALLY Rodimus Unicronus is not an Autobot, nor is he SG Rodimus. According to hasbro, the bio of this figure is Rodimus Prime becoming corrupted by Unicron using (DEAD? Evil? Something) Matrix that comes with this figure and it turns him fully fledged evil herald of unicron uber powered Decepticon Galvatron mark 2.0 type thing dealy. So.... yeah. You can put him on the Decepticon shelf. It's just his visual appearance is blatantly the SG Rodimus.

You could always have a "Heralds of Unicron" shelf.

I'm sure TF Wiki could give you a better list but, uhm...

Sideways, Ghost Starscream, Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, Sweeps, Cyclonus' Armada (which has named members in Combiner Force along with named Sweeps), pretty much all of the Japanese Galvatron limbs, and now Rodimus as the new general. Hook, Line, and Sinker if they ever get toys. Oh, and Nova Prime.

AlexisSkrull wrote:Rodimus Unicronus will be going on my Transformers 1986 movie shelf and be a stand in for Unicron!

Considering how:
1) The Matrix in current lore is directly connected to Primus, if not a part of him.
2) That Rodimus has some kind of 'Dark Matrix' (I mean, its jet black so it must be EEEVIILL!!)
You could very well argue that a Unicron-corrupted Prime(?) with some sort of Anti-Matrix may very well be seen as some kind of living 'Avatar of Unicron'. We don't know yet if Rodimus Unicronus will ever get used or even what his background is and it may very well be limited just to his box. That said, that face does look more Unicron's mustache than the Evil Spock-esque goatee of SG Rodimus, so you may very well be correct that 'Rodimus Unicronus' is indeed some form of stand-in for Unicron.

Perhaps poor Hot Rod has been turned into Unicron's puppet like Aligned Megatron? Who knows! For all we know his only existence may forever be relegated to the micro-continuity of his box.

thunderjacker wrote:i don't understand dreadwind's wings. they do look detached in package and his alt mode is identical to skydive's. however, in previous photos, his wings are more rearward like dirge's. also, any guesses on who the remaining limbs are? my CW cylclonus wants to know. jazz would make a good crasher.

Dreadwind's main wings are on newly-tooled hinges that allow them to swing back to the legs for Robot Mode, as well as his combined mode with BlackwingDarkwing. Quite nifty.
And as far we know there are no designated teams for each limb this time around, the packaging doesn't specifically call them out. In terms of Combiners, only the Dinobots and Terrorcons form complete teams with Volcanicus and Abominus, with the rest being stand-alone for the time being.

RodimusRex wrote: Hook, Line, and Sinker if they ever get toys

Hook, Line, and Sinker did technically get toys. They came with the TFCC Astrotrain.

I mean....Predaking isn't a titan...Scorponok is however, and they can make two out of scorponok: scorponok 1 will be traditional purple, green, orange, and the second one will be Devil Z Blackzarak, where he will be black and gold with a different red head. As for an autobot Titan, we can only hope and pray that will be Omega Supreme. I for one will be waiting for the blackzarak as I have a G1 Scorp

If Darkwing has a limb mode, he and Dreadwind may also double as limbs for Battle Core Optimus Prime with stickers and some paint Combiner War Nova Prime, a character and figure I originally did not intend to display in its combined form due to a lack of spare limbs. Still gotta figure who might be his other two limbs...

I got em all in Miami !!!

ebo716 wrote:

RodimusRex wrote: Hook, Line, and Sinker if they ever get toys

Hook, Line, and Sinker did technically get toys. They came with the TFCC Astrotrain.

hey they even knew about those toys in Die Hard

jedpak wrote:I mean....Predaking isn't a titan...Scorponok is however, and they can make two out of scorponok: scorponok 1 will be traditional purple, green, orange, and the second one will be Devil Z Blackzarak, where he will be black and gold with a different red head. As for an autobot Titan, we can only hope and pray that will be Omega Supreme. I for one will be waiting for the blackzarak as I have a G1 Scorp

I hate to tell you bud...but this new Predaking IS a Titan! who knows if he'll also get a repaint as Dark Predaking

Skritz wrote:If Darkwing has a limb mode, he and Dreadwind may also double as limbs for Battle Core Optimus Prime with stickers and some paint Combiner War Nova Prime, a character and figure I originally did not intend to display in its combined form due to a lack of spare limbs. Still gotta figure who might be his other two limbs...

I actually already employ Novacus Maximus with CW Offroad, CW Xtinguisher (Wheeljack + toyhax set), CW Smolder (CW Ironhide + toyhax set) and CW the Fallen (Trailbreaker + toyhax set). But the 2 decepticon jets will likely displace Offroad and 1 of the other 3.

Woops! I see now, but at least I can dream of supreme.

After the initial images we saw with the first news reports of Transformers Power of the Primes figures hitting US retail about a month earlier than expected - as covered here - we have some more in-hand images of the two Dinobots, Slug and Swoop (via Instagram users Faceless Master and Runningwithtoys), plus more of the Decepticon jet Dreadwind (from Instagram user frenmocs)! With Jazz already covered in this news story here, we have the entirety of the wave 1 of deluxes from this new toyline - so take a look at the images below, and let us know what you think of what you've seen so far!

If you come across these or any other figure, please make sure to use our regional Sighting Forums, and the global Sightings Database, now fully updated for Power of the Primes too.

GET HYPE!!!!

Whats this? a standard retail Shattered Glass release? HELL TO THE FECKING YEAH!

Hate the breast plate.

Love the limb modes on the dinobots.

The Dinobots do look damn good as limbs....self-control....is....slipping.....may...have...to buy ALL

Okay, shoot me for asking, but the ever livin' heck do those chest pieces tab on? It's eating me up inside not being able to figure it out. Also, those figures have peg holes like I hoped!

Nexus Knight wrote:Okay, shoot me for asking, but the ever livin' heck do those chest pieces tab on? It's eating me up inside not being able to figure it out. Also, those figures have peg holes like I hoped!

The center panel on the combiner peg has a part that flips down to reveal a 5mm port.

These breastplates may be somewhat chunky and derpy-looking but, man, do I hope to see someone make Powermasters for Dreadwind and Darkwing on shapeways.

I'll wait to see what Takara does, hopefully they won't cheap out on the Dinobot weapons.

hmmm so doing a quick conversion....that would put the Deluxes at around about £13 or so, in the UK! buuttt...the UK stores prices may or can vary...like TRU ect...so I doubt we'll be seeing those at that specific price everywhere in the UK, guaranteed there's bound to be price hikes for these going on in some stores in the UK

Stuartmaximus wrote:

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hmmm so doing a quick conversion....that would put the Deluxes at around about £13 or so, in the UK! buuttt...the UK stores prices may or can vary...like TRU ect...so I doubt we'll be seeing those at that specific price everywhere in the UK, guaranteed there's bound to be price hikes for these going on in some stores in the UK

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You forget friend, when it comes to these prices, $1 = £1 regardless of exchange rate so these things are gonna cost £16.99 minimum.

Insurgent wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

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hmmm so doing a quick conversion....that would put the Deluxes at around about £13 or so, in the UK! buuttt...the UK stores prices may or can vary...like TRU ect...so I doubt we'll be seeing those at that specific price everywhere in the UK, guaranteed there's bound to be price hikes for these going on in some stores in the UK

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You forget friend, when it comes to these prices, $1 = £1 regardless of exchange rate so these things are gonna cost £16.99 minimum.

..ok...dam you Google!

but still...my statement stands with the other stuff I said(about varying prices & could be slightly hiked in the UK)

Indeed it does. Woooo for price hikes!

So, a lot has happened this weekend. The first sightings of PotP deluxes in stores. Although it may be a minor thing, the pics of the new limbs working with CW Voyagers makes be happy more than you guys will ever know. .

Also, today is 3 years to the day the CW thread was started. I looked at a few of the first posts, and everyone back then was hoping for Predaking, among many others. Looks like most of our wishes have come true, or will be.

Also the first post in the Unite Warriors thread was 01/21/2015. I know things from 3 years ago wont be exactly the same this time around. However, I believe I can hold off the urge to purchase these for a couple of months, until definitive news from comes as to what their plans are for this series. Besides it will probably take at least that long for this first wave to be fully stocked and on shelves in my area, so that is good news more or less.

When they have the equipment attached to their torsos it looks to me like they are wearing a pregnant Belly or a kid carrier when they headmaster is sitting there.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Thanks to tf-factory on Weibo, we have an in-package image of Power of the Primes Leader Class Rodimus Unicronus, AKA Shattered Glass Rodimus! The figure is an redeco of the Leader Class Rodimus Prime from wave 1 of Power of the Primes, representing Rodimus after being corrupted by evil. Previously, it was unsure whether the figure would have Decepticon sigils or Shattered Glass purple Autobot badges. With this image, we seem to have confirmation that Unicronus will feature the latter, allowing you to seamlessly slip him into your Shattered Glass collection! Will you be picking this figure up, or do you prefer the standard version? Check out the image below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

Excuse my language, but F@#% YES!!!!! I am so glad they went with the for this guy!!!!! MP-10SG has a buddy to kill people with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Va'al wrote:

I wanted to see this. I want to have Swoop and Slag as legs and Snarl and Sludge as arms. Snarl and Sludge in my opinion do not make good legs.

I am excited for the line!!! I am however a realist and I know these guys won't hit my area till January, so I can save up some money for them. But I cannot wait for them. Jazz is definitely a good looking figure, and I long have needed one for my collection.

Limbs look great, think I'm gonna skip the stegasaur and the brachiasaur, they look ugly as hell; all the other limbs look great.

But, can we make it official now? TF distribution is now straight effed.

There, I said it, I've still got movie bee and slash and wave 3 (hotrod/doublecross) chillin warmin up my town and now potp is rollin up in here, with nary a trace of slugslinger, cogman, overlord or anyone else? This is such garbage. I wish hasbro would just release two slightly larger waves a year to give the market time to saturate. Or maybe three, four seems to be too much for b&m retailers to handle well consistently

1. Sludge is a Brontosaurus, not a Brachiosaurus (man as a kid who grew up in the 80's it feels good to say that name again)

2. It's ok to say TF distribution is all messed up, we all know it, no reason to have reservations on that statement.

Can anyone help me out? What are those plastic stands used to hold up the jets or helicopters?

DecepticonFinishline wrote:I know I'm in the minority, but I wanted him to be a standard Decepticon.

SG just effs up my shelves so much. He is TECHNICALLY an Autobot, so he will be displayed with the Autobots. Which means no Leader-Class Decepticons.

Effing. Awesome.

The reason there are no Leader class Decepticons in this line is because evolution is the "Power of the Primes" lol. But you can always slap a reprolabel over his black and purple ass and have an instant generic Decepticon. That is unless you aknowledge the now defunct TFCC funpub fiction.

Rated X wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:I know I'm in the minority, but I wanted him to be a standard Decepticon.

SG just effs up my shelves so much. He is TECHNICALLY an Autobot, so he will be displayed with the Autobots. Which means no Leader-Class Decepticons.

Effing. Awesome.

The reason there are no Leader class Decepticons in this line is because evolution is the "Power of the Primes" lol. But you can always slap a reprolabel over his black and purple ass and have an instant generic Decepticon. That is unless you aknowledge the now defunct TFCC funpub fiction.

It's just a continuity that is basically over. It's still an official fiction.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Thanks to tf-factory on Weibo, we have an in-package image of Power of the Primes Leader Class Rodimus Unicronus, AKA Shattered Glass Rodimus! The figure is an redeco of the Leader Class Rodimus Prime from wave 1 of Power of the Primes, representing Rodimus after being corrupted by evil. Previously, it was unsure whether the figure would have Decepticon sigils or Shattered Glass purple Autobot badges. With this image, we seem to have confirmation that Unicronus will feature the latter, allowing you to seamlessly slip him into your Shattered Glass collection! Will you be picking this figure up, or do you prefer the standard version? Check out the image below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

Excuse my language, but F@#% YES!!!!! I am so glad they went with the for this guy!!!!! MP-10SG has a buddy to kill people with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Va'al wrote:

I wanted to see this. I want to have Swoop and Slag as legs and Snarl and Sludge as arms. Snarl and Sludge in my opinion do not make good legs.

I am excited for the line!!! I am however a realist and I know these guys won't hit my area till January, so I can save up some money for them. But I cannot wait for them. Jazz is definitely a good looking figure, and I long have needed one for my collection.

SG Roddy also has another friend waiting -- the Mech with a Mouth!

Hellscream9999 wrote:There, I said it, I've still got movie bee and slash and wave 3 (hotrod/doublecross) chillin warmin up my town :

You know, I don't think it's wave 3 that's loitering, it's that damn revision wave that had Hotrod, Twinferno, and who ever else that everyone already bought that is the culprit. For the last 4 weeks the 3 Targets I frequent, have each had 4 Twinfernos and nothing else. It's driving me nuts. I NEED SOME TWIN TWIST DAM MOTT!

Of course yes, distro suxx! And honestly, I just don't think TFs are that popular among kids in my area.

Yes I know! Peaugh's got his video reviews up of Wave 1, so go check his YouTube channel out for those(+ probably other reviewers have by now too!)

btw I know someone mentioned that earlier in the UK sightings page

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Insurgent wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

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hmmm so doing a quick conversion....that would put the Deluxes at around about £13 or so, in the UK! buuttt...the UK stores prices may or can vary...like TRU ect...so I doubt we'll be seeing those at that specific price everywhere in the UK, guaranteed there's bound to be price hikes for these going on in some stores in the UK

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You forget friend, when it comes to these prices, $1 = £1 regardless of exchange rate so these things are gonna cost £16.99 minimum.

..ok...dam you Google!

but still...my statement stands with the other stuff I said(about varying prices & could be slightly hiked in the UK)

It's only $16.99 because the price was reduced at retail, the MSRP is $19.99. You'll only get a similar retail reduction if your retailers are known for doing similar price drops (just look at your TLK prices), otherwise it's safer to estimate based on the full price.

KVO Prime wrote:Can anyone help me out? What are those plastic stands used to hold up the jets or helicopters?

Got an example? There's a large number of different stand options out there, most of them coming from Japan. Takara Tomy Mall even sells Transformers branded stands in Japan (same stand that came with MP Tracks). Bandai Action Bases are pretty popular for being fairly cheap, you just have to be willing to put them together yourself.

Emerje

Cobotron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:There, I said it, I've still got movie bee and slash and wave 3 (hotrod/doublecross) chillin warmin up my town :

You know, I don't think it's wave 3 that's loitering, it's that damn revision wave that had Hotrod, Twinferno, and who ever else that everyone already bought that is the culprit. For the last 4 weeks the 3 Targets I frequent, have each had 4 Twinfernos and nothing else. It's driving me nuts. I NEED SOME TWIN TWIST DAM MOTT!

Of course yes, distro suxx! And honestly, I just don't think TFs are that popular among kids in my area.

It may be a 'revision' but its identical to wave 3, and, honestly, it doesn't matter, the revisions coudld'a had figures that people wanted in it, but no, they just splurged out the one wave that may've had the best saturation of the line all over again

But as far as being popular, I've seen them (rid, movie easy figs, tr) have pretty good turn over, but it's the fact that hasbro packs each wave with the same damn figures over and over again, that they begin to congeal on the shelves. Enough with the damn strongarms and grimlocks, people have spoken with they're wallets, we don't want any more of them

take this with a massive grain of salt! & I hope it's not the case! hopefully it's just the rumour mill

So seeing as the PotP Deluxes are starting to appear around retail, I figured I'd have a look around my local (Australian) area last evening and just see if there was anything. Absolutely zero new stuff made itself known, sadly, but on my putzing around I decided to do something that I rarely do, and ask customer service at one of the stores for info.

Naturally, the answer to the first question - "do you have any Transformers stock that isn't on the shelves" - was the stock-standard everything-we-have-goes-straight-onto-the-shelves stuff that I've gotten every time I've asked any customer service person in any of my local stores in the last three years (even when by chance, I check back the next day and there's an entire new wave filling the previously-empty-for-three-weeks shelves). I'm starting to doubt its authenticity; if you always immediately put out what you have, even when there's clearly no room for it on the shelves, then why do you even have a storage area?

And then I had a stroke of genius - what if I looked up the manufacturer code (thanks Seibertron for those helpful in-hand package images! ) and gave them that, and asked them to contact me when they got stock in matching that code? But apparently, doing that would be... against store policy? Now I want to clarify that I'm not mad at the desk-person specifically, and also that I'm not very familiar with how big retail stores work - but surely it wouldn't be against store policy to let a customer provide you with their phone number of their own free will, and then notify them when you get an item in so they can come and buy it from you straight away?

So to help quell my self-righteous anger, I ask you, boardspeople - can someone with retail experience explain why it might be against policy for them to do that? I'm sure there's a reason, I just don't know it yet, and when I don't know things I get grouchy

Qwan wrote:So to help quell my self-righteous anger, I ask you, boardspeople - can someone with retail experience explain why it might be against policy for them to do that? I'm sure there's a reason, I just don't know it yet, and when I don't know things I get grouchy

Not speaking from experience, but I would think it's a 'if we do it for you, we have to do it for everyone thing'. And if you're going to do it for everyone, you're going to have to set up a database to do it. And if you're going to set up a database to do it, you need to make maintaining that database part of their job...

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