Transformers Legacy Commander Class Motormaster Found at Target

What's funny is, this Is the first time in at least 5 years that big bad toy store fulfilled my pre-orders before hitting the store shelves.
My motormaster AND Sludge got fulfilled Monday an should be here either tomorrow no later than Saturday. Can't wait.
Thumbs up to bigbad aswell.

My target has had them for a few days now in the back room, but refuse to pull them out. some employees are seeing the release date on the website and saying he wont get pulled out until then. others are saying he is part of the reset, and they are not allowed to get the stuff from the reset. and they have 1 person working on resets, so who knows when they will get to it. I am checking every day assuming someone is going to not give a crap and stock it any day now.

Sludge is instock at bigbadtoystore last I checked @10:50am pacific

I'm opening my laser prime this Saturday....

Got my MM from a local Target two days ago

Rtron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Tuned Agent wrote:Better pics of the accessory-less bot modes (from TFW):

There's something about Megatron's face that looks... off.

Like, very inaccurate to either the original toy or his cartoon face.

It's the nose and teeth. Both are triangular in the new toy, while they were square in both the original toy and the show.

The teeth being triangular is toy accurate. It's what the OG toy would have looked like if the mouth wasn't painted so lazily.

william-james88 wrote:The teeth being triangular is toy accurate. It's what the OG toy would have looked like if the mouth wasn't painted so lazily.

It's the cheekbones. The original toy and the cartoon face both had smooth faces. The new toy has very pronounced cheekbones that give the face a very bumpy appearance.

You know even if I had the chance to get both Drag Strip and Motormaster....no given for free there is no freakin' way that I could combine the 2 and have that image above standing there pending completion.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:The teeth being triangular is toy accurate. It's what the OG toy would have looked like if the mouth wasn't painted so lazily.

It's the cheekbones. The original toy and the cartoon face both had smooth faces. The new toy has very pronounced cheekbones that give the face a very bumpy appearance.

I know, it not accurate in every aspect, I was only referring to the teeth which were misidentified as being inaccurate. At least for that aspect we have an explanation.

Anyways, while not accurate to one specific source, I think the headsxulpt looks good. I love BW Megatron and this is a nice addition in the Legacy of BW Megs facesculpts for me.

Nemesis Destron wrote:You know even if I had the chance to get both Drag Strip and Motormaster....no given for free there is no freakin' way that I could combine the 2 and have that image above standing there pending completion.

I had to read through what you said a few times, and I'm still confused. Care to explain what you mean?

I'm so excited to get MM in-hand. Sadly it'll probably be a bit till I get him at one of my local Walmarts, since I live in Tennessee and all the Walmarts in my area take a while for new figures to get in stock. We also just got Legacy deluxe wave 1.5 a week ago.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:You know even if I had the chance to get both Drag Strip and Motormaster....no given for free there is no freakin' way that I could combine the 2 and have that image above standing there pending completion.

I had to read through what you said a few times, and I'm still confused. Care to explain what you mean?

For certain....I simply could not have this to look at waiting until fully complete....

Transformers Legacy Metroplex was recently found in the US. This is a toy that many fans are not sure to buy and it is the first Titan Class figure not to represent something tied to the G1 era. So a review could come in handy. We have one for you from our fellow Seibertronian Lore Keeper, enjoy!

Lore Keeper wrote:Cue the bagpipes! The leader of Gigantion has returned!

Snagged a Red Cog yesterday.

Also -




I haven't figured out how to get the video in the post yet.

M'eh - Legacy Metroplex still isn't my cup o'tea. I wish the reviewer had given us some close-ups of the figure though, so we could get a better look, and a lot of the details that might otherwise have been visible were washed out by the lighting. They were kind of ginger in demonstrating the articulation. I get the impression that the robot mode should be capable of some pretty dynamic poses, but they didn't show much beyond a standard T pose...

Great job beating primevsprime and chefatron!

Most of Amazon's exclusive Transformers Wreckers line, known as the Legacy Wreck N' Rule line, has been shipped to those who preordered them. Not all fans have picked them up and for those waiting to see some reviews, well we have that for you now. Most of the reviews below are from fellow Seibertronians like Chuckdawg and Thundertron so we thank you for creating this content and reaching out to us. If you want more review from them, they post reviews regularly in our Review Forum.

Enjoy!

Twin Twist







Springer





Impactor and Spindle





Bulkhead

preferring the Legacy version of Impactor just for the slight retooling to have a better andflatter place for the faction symbol -makes it easier to stick on a regular autobot symbol too.

blackeyedprime wrote:preferring the Legacy version of Impactor just for the slight retooling to have a better andflatter place for the faction symbol -makes it easier to stick on a regular autobot symbol too.

Get it if you dont have all the millions of other Impactors. Funny how he went from having one toy to so many so fast.

I am happy with Twin Twist, I plan to get Springer and Bulkhead, and I guess I should get Impactor/Spindle and Leadfoot/Masterdominus

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Great job beating primevsprime and chefatron!

I'll have to hold on to this moment. It may never happen again.

DeathReviews wrote:M'eh - Legacy Metroplex still isn't my cup o'tea. I wish the reviewer had given us some close-ups of the figure though, so we could get a better look, and a lot of the details that might otherwise have been visible were washed out by the lighting. They were kind of ginger in demonstrating the articulation. I get the impression that the robot mode should be capable of some pretty dynamic poses, but they didn't show much beyond a standard T pose...

I appreciate the feedback. I do apologize for the lighting issue. My camera struggles with filming in that location and likes to go overboard when automatically adjusting for the lighting. Also, you're right. I should have shown a better range of poses for the toy. Definitely food for thought for next time.

Did a few changes on my Springer and he's one of my Favs now.

A good review. It gets the point across well enough. Cyberplex looks cool. But he's another one, like Black Zarak, that I have no association with or affinity for. So I'll stick to the default four City Bots for now.

DeathReviews wrote: I get the impression that the robot mode should be capable of some pretty dynamic poses, but they didn't show much beyond a standard T pose...

I mean, "dynamic poses" is relative with the City Bots as it is. Which is why I keep them in City Modes and display smaller figures on them.

Ouch
All this talk of copyright law is making my head hurt
All I know is we WILL be getting deluxe insecticons, somehow
If we got ransack Hasbro will make more
If they won't customizers will do It for them...

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Ouch
All this talk of copyright law is making my head hurt
All I know is we WILL be getting deluxe insecticons, somehow
If we got ransack Hasbro will make more
If they won't customizers will do It for them...

Customisers will do it for themselves, and maybe other people on commission but they'll be far from mass produced.

Lore Keeper wrote:I appreciate the feedback. I do apologize for the lighting issue. My camera struggles with filming in that location and likes to go overboard when automatically adjusting for the lighting. Also, you're right. I should have shown a better range of poses for the toy. Definitely food for thought for next time.

Thanks - hope it didn't come across as snarky in any way. We reviewers tend to rely too much on negative vs. constructive criticism .

I know about hypersensitive cameras. I myself need to upgrade my lighting systems, but I'm just so lazy...

How does the Legacy Metroplex balance when you put it in a strong pose? How's the center of gravity? Can you tilt the feet such that it will hold a pose if the legs/feet are planted far apart? I suspect the 'short' version of the bot is stable on his feet, just because he's more compact and has less that might overbalance him. Got any screenshots of a really good action pose where he's swinging his scooper weapon?

Burn wrote:

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Ouch
All this talk of copyright law is making my head hurt
All I know is we WILL be getting deluxe insecticons, somehow
If we got ransack Hasbro will make more
If they won't customizers will do It for them...

Customisers will do it for themselves, and maybe other people on commission but they'll be far from mass produced.

then how do you explain ransack?

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

Burn wrote:

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Ouch
All this talk of copyright law is making my head hurt
All I know is we WILL be getting deluxe insecticons, somehow
If we got ransack Hasbro will make more
If they won't customizers will do It for them...

Customisers will do it for themselves, and maybe other people on commission but they'll be far from mass produced.

then how do you explain ransack?

...Hasbro made the decision to make him?

Amazon charged me for Metroplex, coming Wednesday!

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Amazon charged me for Metroplex, coming Wednesday!

Emerje

Hope you enjoy it!

Just unboxed Laser Prime!

Got this far before looking up Baltmatrix

Enjoying so far, I'll rate him at the end of the day.

Nice. I'm awaiting Scourge, hopefully he scales well with UW Baldigus.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Nice. I'm awaiting Scourge, hopefully he scales well with UW Baldigus.

Baldigus. Is that Ruination?

Those are Movie Optimus flames.

Sabrblade wrote:Those are Movie Optimus flames.

? No
Laser came first
Movie Optimus is obviously supposed to be an "cooler" imitation of laser prime
But they ultimately failed
They took what made Laser Prime cool and distorted it

I'd say they added the flames to honour live action Optimus, after all the movies brought many more fans to the franchise and more money to hasbro through profit shares and the movie toylines which were sublime.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Those are Movie Optimus flames.

? No
Laser came first
Movie Optimus is obviously supposed to be an "cooler" imitation of laser prime
But they ultimately failed
They took what made Laser Prime cool and distorted it

No no, see, the original G2 Laser Optimus from the 90s had no flames on its truck nose. The colors just faded from black to red in a smooth gradient:




Hasbro later gave the design Movie Optimus's flames when they made the Reveal the Shield version of Laser Optimus in 2011:



When they did the Titans Return version in the proper G2 Laser Optimus colors, they got rid of the truck nose's flames and put back the black-to-red gradiant:



But now with this Lagacy version, Hasbro has restored the flames once again:

ZeroWolf wrote:I'd say they added the flames to honour live action Optimus, after all the movies brought many more fans to the franchise and more money to hasbro through profit shares and the movie toylines which were sublime.

No it's just a stylization of the front of the color split between red and black on the front of the origional.

The return of Optimus Prime I wish had been

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I'd say they added the flames to honour live action Optimus, after all the movies brought many more fans to the franchise and more money to hasbro through profit shares and the movie toylines which were sublime.

No it's just a stylization of the front of the color split between red and black on the front of the origional.

Might want to check the post above mine.

Technically prime and hot rod were dual leaders in the Japanese only Headmasters anime...for all of two-three episodes till prime died again (wanting to give Goku from DBZ a run for his money on death counts)

Laser Prime cleans up beautifully

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Laser Prime cleans up beautifully

No need to post the review one sentence at a time, one picture at a time.
Just post your review in one extensive post. It's way easier to read and follow this way.

Okay I was asleep on this one....why the hell did I pay over $30 bucks for Red Cog? Right away I thought it was a pricing error but there it was clear as day on the freakin' peg. So I'm highly considering returning this guy with the hopes of maybe a mark down or lucky to make it to clearance but FRAK that much...? And I loved for a moment looking at all the various prices for Deluxe size figures...$22...$24....

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Nice. I'm awaiting Scourge, hopefully he scales well with UW Baldigus.

Baldigus. Is that Ruination?

The Japanese version, yes.

Nemesis Destron wrote:Okay I was asleep on this one....why the hell did I pay over $30 bucks for Red Cog? Right away I thought it was a pricing error but there it was clear as day on the freakin' peg. So I'm highly considering returning this guy with the hopes of maybe a mark down or lucky to make it to clearance but FRAK that much...? And I loved for a moment looking at all the various prices for Deluxe size figures...$22...$24....

Maybe you paid extra for the soda cans, arcee attachment, and other useless goodies.

I was going to ask, does red cog stay together better than the origional?

Wildrider is anything but a wild ride.

I got him earlier this week and opened him up yesterday.

He doesn't get as tabby as other Legacy figures, which results in a few bits being left a bit loose when transformed, nothing figure ruining, but not as good as Dragstrip.

Transformation is bog standard for a car. Lower legs open up and fold in half etc etc.

Putting him into leg mode involves folding the hood and windscreen up. Yeah, that's it.

Because he doesn't tab together tightly as others, getting him to connect to Menasor was a bit troublesome. There are two pegs at the top and two notches further down which all need to line up, the loosey goosey-ness (again it's only a minor looseness not anything major) made it a bit hard to get all four to line up.

Eventually I got him connected and ... yeah. He faces backwards. I know this is cartoon accuracy but for display purposes Wildrider and Breakdown will essentially not be seen and are virtually pointless.

Burn wrote:Wildrider is anything but a wild ride.

I got him earlier this week and opened him up yesterday.

He doesn't get as tabby as other Legacy figures, which results in a few bits being left a bit loose when transformed, nothing figure ruining, but not as good as Dragstrip.

Transformation is bog standard for a car. Lower legs open up and fold in half etc etc.

Putting him into leg mode involves folding the hood and windscreen up. Yeah, that's it.

Because he doesn't tab together tightly as others, getting him to connect to Menasor was a bit troublesome. There are two pegs at the top and two notches further down which all need to line up, the loosey goosey-ness (again it's only a minor looseness not anything major) made it a bit hard to get all four to line up.

Eventually I got him connected and ... yeah. He faces backwards. I know this is cartoon accuracy but for display purposes Wildrider and Breakdown will essentially not be seen and are virtually pointless.

Does wildrider add any stability to Menasor or is it just making the leg look more filled out.