We Might be Getting a New Rodimus Unicronus / Shattered Glass Rodimus Toy

Nemesis Primal wrote:Remember when we found out Selects Magnificus existed because some guy sold an early copy on Shopee as "Shattered Glass Perceptor"? Well in a very similar vein, someone recently put up a new listing on there for "Rodimus Unicronus", using a picture of specifically the inner bot from the PotP figure and a price that falls between Voyager and Leader when converted to USD. Based on that, it seems to me like there's a solid chance that one of the other Shattered Glass figures for the year after Grimlock is Rodimus, most likely from the SS86 mold.

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Can you provide a link?

I would very much like a SG Hot Rod from the SS86 mold.

Followed by a Lost Light version.

william-james88 wrote:Can you provide a link?

....well I can, but in the time between that screenshot being taken (which was on the 25th by a person on a different site) and now, said user has removed the "Rodimus Unicronus" option from their offerings: https://shopee.ph/Hasbro-Transformers-Legacy-Kingdom-Generation-Select-robot-Model-i.472500711.15384808354?xptdk=2852c725-eda2-48a4-9534-ff3765331341 That being said, looking through the seller's reviews and double-checking the original "SG Perceptor" article, I can 100% confirm that this is the exact same seller and the exact same listing that Magnificus first came from, the review the first pictures of Magnificus came from is even still there on page 22 of reviews.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:But the listing is selling that Rodimus Unicronus toy as "Rodimus Unicronus", not as "Shattered Glass Rodimus". There is no confusion/deception this time.

I get what he means, he is saying that the person doesn't really know what line his new toys is from. So while he may think it's Rodimus Unicronus, and lists it as such, it might actually be Shaterred Glass Hot Rod.

Exactly. This particular individual has not only sold stolen factory samples multiple times before (so they're not getting the packaging or instructions to get accurate names from), but we have a specific example of them getting a figure that technically could be released under 1 of 2 names, guessing which name is correct to use for the listing, and using an older existing picture as their stock photo instead of an actual picture of the new figure (for Magnificus they used a picture of him/SG Perceptor from one of the comics). This is literally Magnificus Leak 2: Rodimus Boogaloo.

Plus Hasbro themselves said when SG Grimlock went up for preorder that Grim was their "first SG figure of the year", which inherently implies the existence of more releases, and Rodimus does fit with their other SG releases all being the popular/evergreen characters, characters that were important in the original SG fiction, and/or characters who can double as updates to other more-obscure characters. Pretty sure he was in the recent MotG cards that got SG versions too.

I hope this turns out to be a proper SG Rodimus.

I've been on the fence about getting Rodimus Unicronus for my SG collection, but it just doesn't hit the right notes for me.

So if this IS true, and we're getting Grimlock and then Rodimus, I wonder who else is on the table this year? We need some big Decepticons to fill in the ranks, like Shockwave, Cyclonus, and the other Seekers.

And however unlikely, I would LOVE a multi-pack featuring just a bunch of SG Cassettebots.

Gearslide wrote:I hope this turns out to be a proper SG Rodimus.

I've been on the fence about getting Rodimus Unicronus for my SG collection, but it just doesn't hit the right notes for me.

So if this IS true, and we're getting Grimlock and then Rodimus, I wonder who else is on the table this year? We need some big Decepticons to fill in the ranks, like Shockwave, Cyclonus, and the other Seekers.

And however unlikely, I would LOVE a multi-pack featuring just a bunch of SG Cassettebots.

I'm still holding out hope for an Earthrise Dirge/Titans Return Repugnus two pack.




Emerje

It sucks that there may be devious breaches involved all to provide US fans the recent information. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thrilled about SG Rodimus and a Rodimus Unicronus as well....'nuff said!

I really wish a SG Rodimus would use the Kingdom Rodimus Prime base instead. That mold is so much better.

As long as it comes with all the accessories and doesn't cut any before demanding the same price I'll consider him. Could also be neat if this one has the mouth plate that the Machinima one had

Shopee guy put Rodimus back up, now calling it "Black Hot Rod" and showing what appears to be someone's drawing of the SS86 Hot Rod mold in a mix of SG deco and Black Hot Rod/Lost Light colors instead of the PotP stock photo they had before. They've also put up a listing for the G2 Mirage we know his coming from Toxitron Collection, but their picture for that is literally just a digibash of that color scheme on the Siege mold (it's still watermarked even) that has been around since Siege, so I don't know if their picture for Rodimus is 100% indicative of the final mold choice, since I doubt Hasbro is going to randomly revert back to the Siege mold for that Mirage.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really wish a SG Rodimus would use the Kingdom Rodimus Prime base instead. That mold is so much better.

Doesn't Hot Rod have better accessories for it though, between the saw blade and the optional visor for the PotP look? I don't remember SG Rodimus ever having the trailer.

Heads up, Grimlock is preparing to ship from Pulse!

Nemesis Primal wrote:Shopee guy put Rodimus back up, now calling it "Black Hot Rod" and showing what appears to be someone's drawing of the SS86 Hot Rod mold in a mix of SG deco and Black Hot Rod/Lost Light colors instead of the PotP stock photo they had before.

Ah, so it sounds like another case of Hasbro trying to get two uses out of one SG figure again. Guess I'm buying two, I was hoping they'd use the LL or movie colors for the unreleased Velocitron figure, but they went with that toy deco instead.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Heads up, Grimlock is preparing to ship from Pulse!

Emerje

Yeah. Mine is confirmed to ship on May 16th now. That's quite a leap forward from August!

Nemesis Primal wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really wish a SG Rodimus would use the Kingdom Rodimus Prime base instead. That mold is so much better.

Doesn't Hot Rod have better accessories for it though, between the saw blade and the optional visor for the PotP look? I don't remember SG Rodimus ever having the trailer.

His visor and saw don't make up for how much better the Kingdom Prime figure is. Sword offsets saw, visor is really the only thing missing, but even then, the SS86 mold is just so much inferior.

Plus, Kingdom doesn't use faux parts, has a bigger spoiler, is more solid, and many others things.

i too got notice Grimlock was preparing to ship. Dangit!

I'm holding out on Grimlock in case I like the g2 version more, hopefully a reveal or leak comes out soon

My grimlock arrived today. I really wish he had a sword instead of his gun for this release, but he still looks cool. The purple and turquoise is pretty rich. And the orange is striking. Plus, considering he is a genius, I like to give him this saucy smirktastic pose letting everyone know he is better than them

Most likely his gun is gang-molded with the rest.
But where's Sam?

Got my Grimlock today too.

I never realized how much the molding of a figure can do for the visuals, because SG Grimlock's paint is very minimal and the molding does some HEAVY lifting. The end result is pretty damn good, I just wish the gray paint was more matte and less glossy. But it's still really good.

I do wish he came with the sword as well, but considering SG Grimlock is a Genius Tactician, I guess a gun is more in line with him than a melee weapon.

Would be cool to get one of those "Figure with a bunch of Accessories & Combat Effect" packs they've done before for SG.

Edit: So here's an issue: I can't flip out Grimlock's right hand after having transformed him and back. It's just completely stuck in there.

Edit2: Managed to get it out by carefully wedging a small tool in there to get some leverage. But it was REALLY stuck in there.

Did anyone else encounter any QC issues with their SG Grimlock? My thanks in advance!

Nemesis Destron wrote:Did anyone else encounter any QC issues with their SG Grimlock? My thanks in advance!

As I mentioned in the post above, the ONLY issue I've had is that the fists can get stuck after folding them in.

It seems there are two thresholds the fists can fold to. The first is a soft notch that will keep them in place. But if you go past that, there's a second hard notch that will lock the fist in with a click and become VERY difficult to flip it back out from. The trick seems to be being delicate and not going past the first threshold.

But otherwise, no issues. No bad paint, no mismatched or incorrect parts, etc.

SS86 Hot Rod mold confirmed for SG Rodimus:
My Grimlock (who I'll be using as Trypticon) is supposed to get here today, after apparently being trapped in Portland for all of yesterday.

Pretty nice looking!

I hope it will be available at my local GameStop.

Nemesis Primal wrote:SS86 Hot Rod mold confirmed for SG Rodimus:
My Grimlock (who I'll be using as Trypticon) is supposed to get here today, after apparently being trapped in Portland for all of yesterday.

That silver paint is SHARP. Surprised they went with that instead of just white, but it really looks great.

Hopefully we get a Lost Light variant eventually. I like that deco better.

I like the headsculpt, gonna pass on that one though

I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

That's because K Rodimus is most likely molded with the trailer part. And since he's the only Commander that under-performed, "reissuing" it was a bad idea.

o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

Probably because the character was always Hot Rod in all but name and never truly Rodimus Prime. The original toy was released at the time when Hasbro no longer had the name "Hot Rod" available to use, and were instead using just "Rodimus" without the "Prime" to refer to Hot Rod. Such was the case with the original 2006 release of the Classics Rodimus mold, which was also used for the original 2008 SG figure.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Shopee guy put Rodimus back up, now calling it "Black Hot Rod" and showing what appears to be someone's drawing of the SS86 Hot Rod mold in a mix of SG deco and Black Hot Rod/Lost Light colors instead of the PotP stock photo they had before. They've also put up a listing for the G2 Mirage we know his coming from Toxitron Collection, but their picture for that is literally just a digibash of that color scheme on the Siege mold (it's still watermarked even) that has been around since Siege, so I don't know if their picture for Rodimus is 100% indicative of the final mold choice, since I doubt Hasbro is going to randomly revert back to the Siege mold for that Mirage.

A little bummed the Lost Light colors didn't happen. But maybe that's not a bad thing, they can still do it properly later rather than try to shoehorn it into SG.

Emerje

Personally, I'd rather we get a brand new Lost Light Hot Rod mold using his comic body design first, and then have that figure redecoed into his dark colors from the same series, to really get the look right.

Sabrblade wrote:Personally, I'd rather we get a brand new Lost Light Hot Rod mold using his comic body design first, and then have that figure redecoed into his dark colors from the same series, to really get the look right.

That would definitely be preferred, but I don't see them doing that design without it being a retool of another figure.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Personally, I'd rather we get a brand new Lost Light Hot Rod mold using his comic body design first, and then have that figure redecoed into his dark colors from the same series, to really get the look right.

That would definitely be preferred, but I don't see them doing that design without it being a retool of another figure.

Emerje

You never know. They've certainly surprised us before. Everyone expected Jhiaxus to be an Armada Starscream pretool, but he turned out to be his own brand new mold.

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

Probably because the character was always Hot Rod in all but name and never truly Rodimus Prime. The original toy was released at the time when Hasbro no longer had the name "Hot Rod" available to use, and were instead using just "Rodimus" without the "Prime" to refer to Hot Rod. Such was the case with the original 2006 release of the Classics Rodimus mold, which was also used for the original 2008 SG figure.

I guess that makes sense. I was just thinking back to the previous Rodimus Unicronus toy in PotP which was both a Hotrod & Rodimus Upgrade.

-Kanrabat- wrote:That's because K Rodimus is most likely molded with the trailer part. And since he's the only Commander that under-performed, "reissuing" it was a bad idea.

That is true also. So probably no shot at a Golden Primus then

I tried looking for "lost light" but that's all I could find:

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

Probably because the character was always Hot Rod in all but name and never truly Rodimus Prime. The original toy was released at the time when Hasbro no longer had the name "Hot Rod" available to use, and were instead using just "Rodimus" without the "Prime" to refer to Hot Rod. Such was the case with the original 2006 release of the Classics Rodimus mold, which was also used for the original 2008 SG figure.

I guess that makes sense. I was just thinking back to the previous Rodimus Unicronus toy in PotP which was both a Hotrod & Rodimus Upgrade.

Yeah, but with that toy, Hasbro went out of their way to say "No no, this isn't SG Roddy, no siree, this is totally a NEW form of normal Roddy who's instead a Unicron-corrupted version! Look! He even has a Decepticon symbol, too! No SG Autobot symbol here, no siree! And look! He's even the main big bad of our new Machinima cartoon's third season! Where he's definitely not SG Roddy, no siree; he's totally Unicron in normal Roddy's body! Why don't you give it a watch, eh? You might like it, yeah? It's the third season, yes? We pulled out all the stops for this one, yep! So why don't you watch it? Why don't you like it? Why don't you love it? WHY U NO LUV IT? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.

Probably because the character was always Hot Rod in all but name and never truly Rodimus Prime. The original toy was released at the time when Hasbro no longer had the name "Hot Rod" available to use, and were instead using just "Rodimus" without the "Prime" to refer to Hot Rod. Such was the case with the original 2006 release of the Classics Rodimus mold, which was also used for the original 2008 SG figure.

I guess that makes sense. I was just thinking back to the previous Rodimus Unicronus toy in PotP which was both a Hotrod & Rodimus Upgrade.

Yeah, but with that toy, Hasbro went out of their way to say "No no, this isn't SG Roddy, no siree, this is totally a NEW form of normal Roddy who's instead a Unicron-corrupted version! Look! He even has a Decepticon symbol, too! No SG Autobot symbol here, no siree! And look! He's even the main big bad of our new Machinima cartoon's third season! Where he's definitely not SG Roddy, no siree; he's totally Unicron in normal Roddy's body! Why don't you give it a watch, eh? You might like it, yeah? It's the third season, yes? We pulled out all the stops for this one, yep! So why don't you watch it? Why don't you like it? Why don't you love it? WHY U NO LUV IT? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And definitely don't look back at our original stock photos and convention displays! It's a gray symbol not purple, totally different!



Emerje

I'll probably grab SG Hot Rod, mostly just because I like the colors, but I'm not sold on the flame decal. Would have preferred it be closer to Rodimus Unicronus or Black Rodimus Convoy's, but they look dead on accurate to the original's. Little odd to me that they chose to go with the black spoiler, not grey because it should be molded with other parts that could have been grey

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Little odd to me that they chose to go with the black spoiler, not grey because it should be molded with other parts that could have been grey

The spoiler is gray.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Little odd to me that they chose to go with the black spoiler, not grey because it should be molded with other parts that could have been grey

The spoiler is gray.

Emerje

Ah, lighting in the pic I glanced at made it look darker than it does in the others. I was meaning closer to the grey used for the Legacy Dinobots, not the gunmetal grey

Not surprised, but still disappointed that SG Hot Rod uses the voyager and not commander mold. The voyager just isn't that good a mold, while the Kingdom mold is the best WFC figure. I'll still get it, but like Goldbug, I think there were way better options.

Grimlock, for instance, is really good

I had to check on Pulse, but it seems SG Grimlock don't come with a SG Wheelie.

A shame.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I had to check on Pulse, but it seems SG Grimlock don't come with a SG Wheelie.

A shame.

I had to check on SG Wheelie and turns out he does exist, sorta. No new colors, though.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I had to check on Pulse, but it seems SG Grimlock don't come with a SG Wheelie.

A shame.

'Twould have ruined SG Wheelie's physique if it had been made from that dinky little figurine. SG Wheelie is supposed to be a big beefy barbarian warlord.

WHAT?
Not that Cybertron Crumplezone mold!

Searching...

But the toy was never made, right?

-Kanrabat- wrote:WHAT?
Not that Cybertron Crumplezone mold!

Dark Crumplezone, actually.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Searching...

But the toy was never made, right?

Nope. Illustration only, just like many other SG characters who never got toys but still had bodies based on real toy molds.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:WHAT?
Not that Cybertron Crumplezone mold!

Dark Crumplezone, actually.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Searching...

But the toy was never made, right?

Nope. Illustration only, just like many other SG characters who never got toys but still had bodies based on real toy molds.

Interesting.

Too bad so many of them will never be made.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:WHAT?
Not that Cybertron Crumplezone mold!

Dark Crumplezone, actually.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Searching...

But the toy was never made, right?

Nope. Illustration only, just like many other SG characters who never got toys but still had bodies based on real toy molds.

Interesting.

Too bad so many of them will never be made.

And as for the purple redeco of Arms Micron Jigu, The inverse logic there was that, where normal Wheelie fights against Sharkticons, SG Wheelie fights with a Sharktigun.

Gearslide wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:SS86 Hot Rod mold confirmed for SG Rodimus:
My Grimlock (who I'll be using as Trypticon) is supposed to get here today, after apparently being trapped in Portland for all of yesterday.

That silver paint is SHARP. Surprised they went with that instead of just white, but it really looks great.

Not bad, I'm generally not into SG versions but this one kind of looks neat. Though it is a bit too simple just being Raider colors and a hint of purple. And I'm not really digging the head sculpt.
While probably accurate, it just lacks a bit of pazazz. Particularly at their prices.

Till-all-R1 wrote:Particularly at their prices.

If Grimlock is any indication, the lack of exclusive-cover comics means that Shattered Glass prices are now just the exact same as retail prices.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:Particularly at their prices.

If Grimlock is any indication, the lack of exclusive-cover comics means that Shattered Glass prices are now just the exact same as retail prices.

Those comics that few care about were sold at a premium. Like, around 10$US for a single chapter.
Good riddance.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Till-all-R1 wrote:Particularly at their prices.

If Grimlock is any indication, the lack of exclusive-cover comics means that Shattered Glass prices are now just the exact same as retail prices.

That's nice for Grimlock. lol

But some of the others I was interested in being around $10 more than their basic counterpart is why I ultimately passed on them. Case in point, I really like the looks of Slicer but $49 for a DLX Bot???
Yeah okay it also comes with some other "Exo-Suit" thing that I don't want which pads the price, but at best it's only the price of a "Core" bot which still leaves $15 unaccounted for. IMO

Same for Flamewar, a Neat looking Bot but not a must have at almost double the price!

Blurr was a little better in that regard since it was basically Voyager priced, I just wasn't a big enough fan of the character where I felt I need an alternat version of him.

So I for one would like to see what is essentially just a repaint of an existing mold sold at more reasonable prices as their initial release.

Haven't most of the SG figures been available at deep discounts during the Pulse sales? Really the only excuse for not getting them is just not having money on hand at the time, they were more than affordable.

Emerje