Transformers Titans Return Revision Wave for Deluxe Class Listed on Diamond Website

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:

Spider 001 wrote:I won't pay $15.99 at Target. No way in hell I'll pay $19.99. I'll wait for Walmart & pay $14.94.

These things are still only worth $9.99 IMO.

What has been your success rate at waiting and still getting the figures you want? You have a strategy in terms of grabbing a few early and waiting on others? I'm still trying to figure out how to gauge which figures I can wait for to get a good discount, and which ones I should just snag when available at close to MSRP rather than taking a chance at saving a few bucks.

Just curious guys, I hear Hasbro Toy Shop is the way to go in the US if you want to pay the least possible, but do they get every figure that gets released?

Yeah. I think so. Eventually.

They never got Sky Lynx.


-sulks back to corner, bitter that he had to go to UNIVERSAL FRICKIN STUDIOS to get one-

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Does TRU ever have sales on transformers in the US, or is the only change of getting a figure for less than MSRP when it goes on clearance? I ask because the thing with rainchecks is that they dont apply to clearance items.

In my time, the only sale I saw was on the original wave of Clash RiD figures, and those were buy $30 get $5 off, which I couldn't get cause it was only for those 3 (they never got Megatronus) and I only wanted 2 of them.

They'll sometimes have BOGO 40% or 50% off. Nothing great.

I've not been lucky enough to find that sale.

Walmart and Target are my best 2 sources. Target somehow manages to find deluxes earlier than the others most of the time (looking at you combaticons) and Walmart gets the waves all at once usually (looking at you TR leaders) and keep the $4.99, $9.99, $14.99, $24.99, and $44.99, unlike TRU where they get stuff half the time the quickest, but have consistently been up about 20% ($6.99, $12.99, $23.99, $29.99, $50.99)

Target's awesome. That's where I found Alpha Bravo, my first AerialBot, and it was the place of my greatest find: They had Legends Tailgate Two to three months before his release date, and at 50% off because of a small crumple on his packaging. That was awesome. Don't ask me how they got it.

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.

Broadside?

Oh wow...that looks really good. I think it's retooled from Alpha Trion? Maybe? Can't quite tell...either way, I hope this is legit.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Oh wow...that looks really good. I think it's retooled from Alpha Trion? Maybe? Can't quite tell...either way, I hope this is legit.

Yeah it looks a bit like it with the legs. If it is, I hope they ditched the whole beast mode and gave him a jet mode. (looks like it with the lack of beast kibble and added jet wings on him.) Kinda wonder how they'd turn a lion into a jet though.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Oh wow...that looks really good. I think it's retooled from Alpha Trion? Maybe? Can't quite tell...either way, I hope this is legit.

It is. Look at the toes and outer lower-legs...

Also, when I realized we'd be getting all six Triple Changers released (TR Astrotrain and the eventual Blitzwing and Octane repaints + Gen Springer, Gen Sandstorm and this guy):

Madeus Prime wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Oh wow...that looks really good. I think it's retooled from Alpha Trion? Maybe? Can't quite tell...either way, I hope this is legit.

It is. Look at the toes and outer lower-legs...

Also, when I realized we'd be getting all six Triple Changers released (TR Astrotrain and the eventual Blitzwing and Octane repaints + Gen Springer, Gen Sandstorm and this guy):

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! )

This should be fantastic. Been looking forward to a Broadside that much it made join the boards after all this time just reading everyones comments.

This looks like an official Hasbro figure, granted it's only a test shot. I really like what I see so far.

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

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).

This is not Tidal-Wave. It has a face-plate, a visor, and the little chin thing. It's obviously Broadside. I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Legs

this is the blue/gold dress effect again. the resolution, colors, angle and shadows are making people see the head in different ways. see the attached image, people that see the the tidal wave head are seeing the image as outlined in the top image. two eyes, animated or prime/rid style nose (or lack thereof)and a biglipped almost beastwars megatron mouth.
the second image is what others are seeing, visor and faceplate. civen the shadows, angle of the head and the fact you can see the legs of the heads robot mode, im thinking the lower image is the right one, though when i first saw it, i saw the top one.

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

Everyone is so sure.......just wait for more images if this is legit then decide

SillySpringer wrote:This is not Tidal-Wave. It has a face-plate, a visor, and the little chin thing. It's obviously Broadside. I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

Yup gotta agree with this.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

I think the pylons are actually his legs(the TM's) as Immortal Starscream & Bumblebee 21 pointed out, so i guess i was wrong there(as well as the class size)

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

I think the pylons are actually his legs(the TM's) as Immortal Starscream & Bumblebee 21 pointed out, so i guess i was wrong there(as well as the class size)

Titan Masters' legs can't move out like that, and neither can the arms. So yeah, Trion/Sentinel-styled pylons.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

I think the pylons are actually his legs(the TM's) as Immortal Starscream & Bumblebee 21 pointed out, so i guess i was wrong there(as well as the class size)

Sorry friend, the legs I was pointing out are the thighs that make up the top of his dome there. The side bits are the spring loaded pylons that pop up just like sentinel/astrotrain and alpha trion

Yeah, all I see in that head is Broadside, not Tidal Wave. As for why they'd do him first rather than as a pre-tool like Astrotrain, Octane, and Blitzwing is simple: They've had CHUG figures before, Broadside hasn't.

And I do want a new Sandstorm very badly. I didn't like the Generations one at all, mainly because I HATE that head sculpt, it's the only Generations Voyager I passed on. To me Sandstorm has a square head and mouth plate, perfectly suited for Titans Return. Whatever that Generations head sculpt was it wasn't Sandstorm.

Emerje

Immortal Starscream wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

I think the pylons are actually his legs(the TM's) as Immortal Starscream & Bumblebee 21 pointed out, so i guess i was wrong there(as well as the class size)

Sorry friend, the legs I was pointing out are the thighs that make up the top of his dome there. The side bits are the spring loaded pylons that pop up just like sentinel/astrotrain and alpha trion

Ah right, ok, thanks

so i was right about that after all

oh btw....about class size.....wasn't it speculated early on that Broadside may be Leader Class i could've sworn that i read something about that ages ago! yeah yeah....regardless....granted that we now know for sure! that he's Voyager Class.

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Immortal Starscream wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I know that Broadside is supposed to be Leader Class(i think )
but those parts either side of his head look very much like the Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain ones! can anyone else see parts that look like it may be retooled from previous TR figs?

Voyager Class. All Triple Changers are Voyager Class, while Leader Class has the base modes and helmets. That's the main distinction.

Those pylons on either side of the head are for "beefing" it up, Alpha Trion uses the same principle.

I think the pylons are actually his legs(the TM's) as Immortal Starscream & Bumblebee 21 pointed out, so i guess i was wrong there(as well as the class size)

Sorry friend, the legs I was pointing out are the thighs that make up the top of his dome there. The side bits are the spring loaded pylons that pop up just like sentinel/astrotrain and alpha trion

Ah right, ok, thanks

so i was right about that after all

oh btw....about class size.....wasn't it speculated early on that Broadside may be Leader Class i could've sworn that i read something about that ages ago! yeah yeah....regardless....granted that we now know for sure! that he's Voyager Class.

It was likely someone saying he should be Leader class in their opinion due to his hulking size in IDW and a few other fictional appearances.

Emerje wrote:And I do want a new Sandstorm very badly. I didn't like the Generations one at all, mainly because I HATE that head sculpt, it's the only Generations Voyager I passed on. To me Sandstorm has a square head and mouth plate, perfectly suited for Titans Return. Whatever that Generations head sculpt was it wasn't Sandstorm.

Emerje

Looking at it now, Sandstorm's Generations head seems to be a compromise between the G1 toy's molded details and most of his fictional appearances (including the G1 cartoon) having a face instead of the original toy's faceplate.