Down for Thundertron and probably Energon Megs. A couple of other maybes, but I'm gonna wait until I see some better posed shots. The rock dudes are a neat idea, but I feel like they need more color contrast, so I'll wait until I see them in person.
I'm sure this means a larger version of this version of Megatron will be released.
CHASE
That is all.
That is all.
I’m calling it now:
The reason for the Thundertron Leader listing is because it’s going to be a repeat of the Kingdom Spoiler set with Megatron. We’ll get a slightly redeco’d Thundertron (maybe a GO Prime deco?) with one of the Armorizers in bronze/gold coloring And maybe some “golden Energon cubes” or something.
Depending on the maturity level and/or cheekiness of the marketing team, said Armorizer may have a name relating to “booty”
I wouldn't be surprised if they do any of the existing recolours, such as Nemesis/Go Prime, Alpha Trizor or even Lio Convoy versions of this mold.
Anyway, here's a comparison pic between the original and new versions.
I kinda like the idea of robots with glowing fiberoptic beards.
Plot twist: that’s not beard.
Oh my.
Ok. My two cents? Weaponizers? Meh. They were cool design wise, but they looked like standard Cybertronians, gimmicks aside. Only they looked like generics I couldn't be bothered for. Fossilisers? Creative certainly, and I get why a lot of people like them, but the idea of them being fossils of Predacons and Maximals... eh.... something wasn't clicking. Using the gimmick on Junkions is brilliant though, and that's been fun.
The rock dudes though? I'm ALL IN.
No they don't fit the Generations aesthetic. No they're not carbon copies of the Rock Lords. And I don't care. They're unique, they're different. I feel like for the first time Hasbro's really gotten this gimmick to a point where I can just let my imagination take over. You have your Autobots, Decepticons, Maximals, Predacons, even a Star Seeker, but these rock guys? They're so clearly different from the Cybertronians that my mind is running with the possibilities of what they could be.
The lack of fiction is, for me, a plus and not a minus. Yeah I heard they're based on some characters from some G1 episode, but to me they strike me as entirely weird and alien dudes who I can fit into my collection as not just offshoots of the Autobots and Decepticons, but as entirely their own thing.
And that's very, very cool.
Sorry if the fun was too much for you.
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Or Leobreaker
And if you look at the packaging, you'll notice Hasbro didn't try to kludge them into factions. They're just their own thing.
I bet Rik Alvarez is seething in frustration over how the current Hasbro team gets to do stuff with his super special big bad pirate villain Thundertron while his plans for the guy went down the tubes to make room for Beast Hunters. 
It's a space station.
I love it. They're their own thing and that's awesome.
While the Rock Lords were mentioned in the stream as being one of the inspirations for the Armorizers, the first source of inspiration specified in the stream were the rock-based inhabitants of the planet Daira from the episode "My Friend Sixshot!" in the Japanese G1 cartoon Transformers: The Headmasters. The name "Infernac" (in reference to the Armorizers all having the words "Infernac Universe" written on their packaging) also comes from Inhumanoids, as the name of a realm located at the center of the Earth.
