New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster

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The new Transformers: Age of Extinction lines and news may be hitting wide and large, but here at Seibertron.com we make sure to keep on track with other releases too - and who doesn't love some Generations toys, anyway? Check out below, and click on any of the images for the full works, the newest high-quality gallery of Generations Legends Tailgate and Groundbuster, in their respective white sports car (with blue flames!) and tractor-gun-thing alt-modes! Keep your eyes peeled too, as Skrapnel and Reflector might make an appearance soon too..

Generations Tailgate

Generations Groundbuster

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Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573892)
Posted by kricket on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:15pm CDT

looks pretty nice

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573894)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:20pm CDT

Even though the colors are off (possibly due to gangmolding), robot mode Goundbuster is based on G1 Neutro:

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573895)
Posted by Mkall on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:21pm CDT

I can't wait to own Tailgate, he looks as awesome as I imagined him.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573896)
Posted by Metroplex79 on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:31pm CDT

Maybe they should have saved the name for the repaint of Scoop...

Don't understand how a construction vehicle can be partnered up with such a fast car. It was odd enough that a jet was partnered with Swerve.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573900)
Posted by ILL-Star on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:38pm CDT

That package art actually makes Tailgate look somewhat intimidating.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573901)
Posted by Seibertron on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:39pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Even though the colors are off (possibly due to gangmolding), robot mode Goundbuster is based on G1 Neutro:

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573905)
Posted by Seibertron on May 14th, 2014 @ 1:42pm CDT

EMP Starscream wrote:How come I never saw these in the stores? I saw plenty of Bruticus Build a Bots but never one of these. Sorry to complain here but I knew about these coming out and waited to get the redecos...never saw one. Did the stores just not get them? I would hate to assume a dealer came in a swept away all of them. Was this wave short produced?

Which figure did you have trouble finding in stores?

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573966)
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on May 14th, 2014 @ 5:28pm CDT

Metroplex79 wrote:
Don't understand how a construction vehicle can be partnered up with such a fast car. It was odd enough that a jet was partnered with Swerve.

I believe it is actually a bomb dispersal unit of some denomination, playing off the fact tailgate lied about his role as bomb disposal if I remember correctly, when he was in fact waste disposal of a denomination.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573969)
Posted by Seibertron on May 14th, 2014 @ 5:35pm CDT

You've got to love Groundbuster's Pooper Scooper mode or Cybertronian Vacuum Cleaner mode!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1573993)
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on May 14th, 2014 @ 6:50pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:

Whoa, this toy is so much different than the G1 toy and it has been done in a way that gave the character a different feeling. This toy is (like I've said before) a feminine looking toy that's a male. It looks...weird and it reminds me too much of Beast Wars Metals Air Hammer.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574011)
Posted by MaverickPrime on May 14th, 2014 @ 8:31pm CDT

Oh, he's deliciously MTMTEy, I LOVE IT!(but WTF is going on with the boxart? That doesn't look like him at all! He does look cool, though, just not like Tailgate.)

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574012)
Posted by Seibertron on May 14th, 2014 @ 8:35pm CDT

MaverickPrime wrote:Oh, he's deliciously MTMTEy, I LOVE IT!(but WTF is going on with the boxart? That doesn't look like him at all! He does look cool, though, just not like Tailgate.)

Sure it looks like him! Just his G1 version oddly instead of the Generations/MTMTE version oddly.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574013)
Posted by EMP Starscream on May 14th, 2014 @ 8:37pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:
EMP Starscream wrote:How come I never saw these in the stores? I saw plenty of Bruticus Build a Bots but never one of these. Sorry to complain here but I knew about these coming out and waited to get the redecos...never saw one. Did the stores just not get them? I would hate to assume a dealer came in a swept away all of them. Was this wave short produced?

Which figure did you have trouble finding in stores?

The whole Ruination wave...I didn't see one.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574792)
Posted by Mindmaster on May 16th, 2014 @ 7:25pm CDT

You've seen the gallery of Tailgate with his partner Groundbuster, but are you ready for their wavemates? That's right, it's new gallery time, and this guy's a little heavy on the electrons! Seibertron.com is excited to add to its renown galleries Generations Legends-class Skrapnel with Reflector!

Skrapnel is a modern update of Generation One Shrapnel (renamed due to licensing and trademark reasons), and Reflector not only transforms into his iconic camera mode, but also a weapon for Skrapnel to wield and cause mayhem among the Autobots. Fans of the original Generation One toyline will recognize Reflector's weapon mode as the same weapon the original Shrapnel's toy had. Take a quick glance below, and click any of the images to be taken to each figure's respective gallery should you want to view more:

Generations Skrapnel

Generations Reflector

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574796)
Posted by RiddlerJ on May 16th, 2014 @ 7:41pm CDT

He's eating all the energon cubes! Somebody stop him!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574798)
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on May 16th, 2014 @ 7:48pm CDT

Skrapnel's camera of doom! :lol:

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574800)
Posted by Shockwave7 on May 16th, 2014 @ 8:22pm CDT

Can't wait for this one. Hope he comes out soon - and that they have plans to do Bombshell and Kickback...

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574805)
Posted by Super Megatron on May 16th, 2014 @ 8:50pm CDT

This isn't Reflector per se - more like Viewfinder.

That said, I'm really impressed with the weapon mode - it actually looks like the G1 version of Shrapnel's weapon.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574816)
Posted by Noideaforaname on May 16th, 2014 @ 10:23pm CDT

Hope to find Skrapnel, I'm a sucker for bug-formers and he'd go great with Chop Shop, the Prime Insecticon, and the upcoming Venin/Bugly. Even if they don't make the other Insecticons (which unfortunately seems likely at this point), he'll still have plenty of bug buds to hang out with.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574818)
Posted by MGrotusque on May 16th, 2014 @ 10:29pm CDT

Shrapnel is absolutely fantastic! They kept him G1 size but upped the articulation and detail and it works.

A bit of an odd pairing with Reflector but hey....why not right?

I found Generations Cosmos today and i was just about to give up altogether. Now i gotta get all tense again waiting/hunting for this guy now. :roll:

will it ever end.....

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574911)
Posted by MGrotusque on May 17th, 2014 @ 9:34am CDT

It's unfortunate that Reflector in bot mode appears to have a "super deformed" set of a certain part of the male anatomy between his legs and dragging on the floor. That's unfortunate. #-o

I'm sorry....but once i saw that i couldn't unsee it.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1574913)
Posted by paul053 on May 17th, 2014 @ 9:43am CDT

Now I want Sharpnel. He looks very good. But that makes my FOC Kickback look so........ out of scale.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575039)
Posted by shajaki on May 17th, 2014 @ 7:22pm CDT

i was completely not sold on shrapnel. i dont know why, but these pics have completely turned me around. im really into him! id buy him just for the camera even. cant wait!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575176)
Posted by Diem on May 18th, 2014 @ 12:37pm CDT

Personally this Shrapnel is a huge turn off. I am a huge fan of the original and this one utterly rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if it's the small head, the over-sized canary yellow chest panel or the shade of purple on the arms and feet. I'll still get him but articulation aside he feels like a downgrade from the original.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575405)
Posted by shajaki on May 19th, 2014 @ 11:23am CDT

Diem wrote:Personally this Shrapnel is a huge turn off. I am a huge fan of the original and this one utterly rubs me the wrong way. Not sure if it's the small head, the over-sized canary yellow chest panel or the shade of purple on the arms and feet. I'll still get him but articulation aside he feels like a downgrade from the original.

i didnt like him initially either. id say wait for the takara one, but who knows what theyre doing these days...

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575425)
Posted by Seibertron on May 19th, 2014 @ 12:05pm CDT

I really like Skrapnel. The only issue I have with it is the yellow chest. I would've really like to have seen them do the translucent yellow chest that could fit a small energon cube. Something along those lines would've made me really pleased. I also understand why they didn't do that, because of costs, but it would've still been pretty cool. Other than that, I think this is a great update to one of my favorite G1 toys. Here's hoping Bombshell and Kickback get the same treatment.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575439)
Posted by Diem on May 19th, 2014 @ 1:02pm CDT

Seibertron wrote:I really like Skrapnel. The only issue I have with it is the yellow chest. I would've really like to have seen them do the translucent yellow chest that could fit a small energon cube. Something along those lines would've made me really pleased. I also understand why they didn't do that, because of costs, but it would've still been pretty cool. Other than that, I think this is a great update to one of my favorite G1 toys. Here's hoping Bombshell and Kickback get the same treatment.

A transparent chest with a cavity would have been best.
A slightly darker yellow or use of darker yellow paint apps to suggest depth would have been nice too.
A better shape even, rather than it taking up his whole chest would have been a good step.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1575460)
Posted by Noideaforaname on May 19th, 2014 @ 1:37pm CDT

Yeah, the chest could stand to be broken up a bit more. As it is now, it's just a solid square of yellow. Something like this would've helped a lot:

legends-skrapnel-136.jpg

Have these guys been spotted anywhere yet? I finally found Swerve and Cosmos at my store the other day, so now the other Legends don't feel like a far-off fantasy anymore.
Then again I have no idea how AoE will affect these...

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1577121)
Posted by Tresob on May 25th, 2014 @ 11:20pm CDT

As others have noted, the Reflector-gun is just brilliant...I hadn't realized how it took the shape of the original blaster. Well-played, toy designers, well-played! Now if I can just find one at a reasonable price...

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581351)
Posted by mooncake623 on June 12th, 2014 @ 12:50am CDT

Ryan's at it again! Working long and hard to bring you the best and most in-dept picture reviews out there. This time Seibertron.com is proud to present his latest work with new galleries of Generations Deluxe Rattrap and Tankor. Both are brand new molds on old favorites from Beast wars and Beast Machines.

Generations Rattrap

Generations Tankor

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581452)
Posted by DeceptiCobra on June 12th, 2014 @ 8:55am CDT

Whoa! Didn't know Tankor was that short!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581492)
Posted by Siger on June 12th, 2014 @ 10:45am CDT

I like how Tankor is smaller than Rattrap. He would have been so much easier to defeat in beast machines at that size. :lol:

This must be the legion size Tankor because Rattrap is smaller than Tankor's foot LOLZ:

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581496)
Posted by Noideaforaname on June 12th, 2014 @ 11:02am CDT

They put all this love and effort into the Beast Wars gang --getting them in approximate scale, making them look awesome, designing Rattrap in a way that lets him stand up in rat mode-- but when they get to the Beast Machines guy it's like "whatevs, he's not orange-and-black this time, that's good enough."

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581507)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 12th, 2014 @ 11:43am CDT

Siger wrote:I like how Tankor is smaller than Rattrap. He would have been so much easier to defeat in beast machines at that size.
This must be the legion size Tankor because Rattrap is smaller than Tankor's foot LOLZ:

Picture an Autobot or Decepticon standing in that image along with everybody else.

We don't need a bigger Tankor. We need Cyberverse Maximals and Predacons, not giant Deluxes and Voyager (unless they make one for Optimal Optimus).

Noideaforaname wrote:They put all this love and effort into the Beast Wars gang --getting them in approximate scale, making them look awesome, designing Rattrap in a way that lets him stand up in rat mode-- but when they get to the Beast Machines guy it's like "whatevs, he's not orange-and-black this time, that's good enough."

Rattrap? Approximate scale? The toy comes all the way up to Dinobot's chest!

Compare:

This is one of those cases where the original mold wins the scale proportions.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581650)
Posted by Noideaforaname on June 12th, 2014 @ 6:14pm CDT

"Approximate." Rattrap's still the short one.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581653)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 12th, 2014 @ 6:20pm CDT

Noideaforaname wrote:"Approximate." Rattrap's still the short one.

Barely. He's taller than the Optimus Primal figure seen in the above pics.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581669)
Posted by Siger on June 12th, 2014 @ 7:16pm CDT

Well yeah I already thought Rattrap was way too big and Tankor way too small from the first reveal pics. The rat mode was almost as big as Voyager Rhinox's rhino mode. Man that's a big scary rat! You are right about not needing a voyager size Tankor, or in fact anymore Tankors. It's not an interesting or a good looking TF overall. Why not a better Cheetor or a transmetal one first? Why not a new Dinobot to go along with the new movie Dinowave?

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581754)
Posted by ~Nightphoenix~ on June 13th, 2014 @ 3:46am CDT

Can it be purchased from a local retail store (such as Wal-Mart) for a reasonable price? :-?

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581850)
Posted by Mindmaster on June 13th, 2014 @ 1:21pm CDT

Screaming_star91 wrote:Can it be purchased from a local retail store (such as Wal-Mart) for a reasonable price?

If you think $10-15 (depending on where you live) is reasonable, yes.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581881)
Posted by ~Nightphoenix~ on June 13th, 2014 @ 2:48pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:If you think $10-15 (depending on where you live) is reasonable, yes.

Perfect (Dinobot & Rattrap were always my favorite BW's characters), that's just my price range. Thank you! :APPLAUSE:

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581922)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 13th, 2014 @ 6:22pm CDT

Screaming_star91 wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:If you think $10-15 (depending on where you live) is reasonable, yes.

Perfect (Dinobot & Rattrap were always my favorite BW's characters), that's just my price range. Thank you!

All you have to do now is FIND them since no store that isn't online seems to be getting these in.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1581975)
Posted by ~Nightphoenix~ on June 13th, 2014 @ 10:16pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote: All you have to do now is FIND them since no store that isn't online seems to be getting these in.

True, I'll just have to wait, It might take a few months but I refuse to pay anymore than $15.00. [-(

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1582012)
Posted by Seibertron on June 14th, 2014 @ 1:43am CDT

Siger wrote:Well yeah I already thought Rattrap was way too big and Tankor way too small from the first reveal pics. The rat mode was almost as big as Voyager Rhinox's rhino mode. Man that's a big scary rat! You are right about not needing a voyager size Tankor, or in fact anymore Tankors. It's not an interesting or a good looking TF overall. Why not a better Cheetor or a transmetal one first? Why not a new Dinobot to go along with the new movie Dinowave?

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1582017)
Posted by Seibertron on June 14th, 2014 @ 1:56am CDT

I feel bad that everyone is hating on Tankor. I really like the toy! I think it's a great update to a character that really hasn't had a cartoon accurate toy before. Sure I'd love a Voyager, Ultra or Leader Class scaled Tankor but that's just not realistic. In the meantime I'll take this fantastic update that is very poseable and lots of fun. Kudos to Hasbro for keeping the fires lit for this character. Any time they'd like to throw Beast Machines Thrust and Jetstorm some Generations love, I'll be right there to support them. Deluxe Class and all!

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1582026)
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on June 14th, 2014 @ 2:42am CDT

Seibertron wrote:I feel bad that everyone is hating on Tankor. I really like the toy! I think it's a great update to a character that really hasn't had a cartoon accurate toy before. Sure I'd love a Voyager, Ultra or Leader Class scaled Tankor but that's just not realistic. In the meantime I'll take this fantastic update that is very poseable and lots of fun. Kudos to Hasbro for keeping the fires lit for this character. Any time they'd like to throw Beast Machines Thrust and Jetstorm some Generations love, I'll be right there to support them. Deluxe Class and all!

I genuinely would love a neo-classic Beast Machines Thrust and Jetstorm

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1582086)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 14th, 2014 @ 8:31am CDT

Seibertron wrote:I feel bad that everyone is hating on Tankor. I really like the toy! I think it's a great update to a character that really hasn't had a cartoon accurate toy before. Sure I'd love a Voyager, Ultra or Leader Class scaled Tankor but that's just not realistic. In the meantime I'll take this fantastic update that is very poseable and lots of fun. Kudos to Hasbro for keeping the fires lit for this character. Any time they'd like to throw Beast Machines Thrust and Jetstorm some Generations love, I'll be right there to support them. Deluxe Class and all!

I think the robot mode is fantastically show-accurate.

The tank mode, however, is more show-accurate on the original Basic class Tank Drone figure (and moreso on its Beast Wars Returns Vehicon Tankor redeco).

Though, I understand why the tank mode is lacking the show-accuracy department, as it looks like they tried to replicate the cartoon model's transformation to tank mode without any of the cheating the CGI model uses, using only parts that appear in the toy's robot mode as they appear in its robot mode, instead of trying to simulate the slight morphing that his cartoon transformation undergoes when converting robot mode to tank mode. The result is a tank mode that appears to be made from the robot mode's parts arranged in how they ought to be for the tank mode, but since that isn't what the tank mode looked like in the cartoon (again, thanks to the slight morphing of the CGI model), the tank mode isn't as show-accurate as it attempted to be.

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Posted by Mindmaster on June 14th, 2014 @ 11:16am CDT

I really want to like Tankor, but his short stature really turns me off. Had he been a Voyager, I would've been all for it.

And yes, updates for Thrust and Jetstorm would be much appreciated.

Re: New Galleries: Transformers Generations Legends Class Tailgate and Groundbuster (1588419)
Posted by Autobot032 on July 7th, 2014 @ 6:01am CDT

It was 2006 and we had just witnessed the end of Transformers Cybertron, the final piece of the long running Unicron Trilogy, and we were waiting for Michael Bay's first Transformers movie. We were all excited because we didn't know what the future held, but we were just bursting at the seams. Shortly after the shock and awe of the mention of the upcoming film, we all wondered "Wait, what filler line will take over in Cybertron's place?"

We lovingly call that "filler" line Transformers Classics.

Little did we know, it started a sweeping movement, a rebirth of what had come before. Before we could look to the future, Hasbro went back to the past and brought us these really nice updates of some of our favorite characters/figures. One of those updated characters was Optimus Prime, of course. Who knew eight years later that the Optimus mold would have so many uses? (10 as of right now!)

Which brings us to our newest galleries: Henkei Convoy Clear Version (AKA Crystal Convoy, the former is the official moniker, while the latter came from the fans. I think Crystal fits better) and United Ultra Magnus!

Click any of the images below to be taken to the full galleries:

Transformers United Ultra Magnus