Filch is the only one that has me excited of these four.
I always like Cyclonus as a unique looking character so having another guy who looks like him goes against that for me.
And teal skeletons! Except, they're now the Vok! Great nod, there!Hey, Cannonball has a Cyber Key thingy.
From here and what is being done with many of the new Target stuff (like Blaster), it feels like there was some pushback from retail partners about the unique packaging. Maybe the unique packaging was dropped so that retailers could justify keeping the items around longer?There's not even a Line of character description, nor a Function call out to be found in the product description on the Walmart Website. Also not a word of text explaining what a "Star Raider" is. Kids would have zero idea from the packaging or website not just who these guys are as characters, but even that these guys have anything to do with Pirates at all.
It's SOOOO dull and lifeless as a push for a theoretically fun concept of a subline.
I can only dream of these getting brief but so fun Takara comics like the Velocitrons did to bring them all and their situation and their character and relationships to life. That could sell me on all these the way RiD15 is selling me on only Filch at the moment.
-ZacWilliam, sadly the Toxitron toys didn't get that so I don't have too much hope.
I think Armada Voyager and Cybertron Deluxe versions are very realistic posibilities, just spread out over a year or 2.I wonder if that wasn’t “the plan” at one point. The leaked listings for 2025 reportedly feature a Voyager iteration of Armada Red Alert. So, maybe, Hasbro had done up Cannonball/red Alert as an option until they decided to do a full Voyager for him?
Then again, we’ve gotten BOTH an “Armada Universe” AND “Cybertron Universe” Starscream, despite them being, fundamentally, the same character and universe. Though, in that case, the two designs were FAR more different than Armada and Cybertron Red Alert were.
Man, that Lockdown is making nobody happy.
Well, except the future person who's going to respond to this post to contradict me.
What's wrong with it though? It looks like a Lockdown, doesn't it?
I'll agree that it's at best a "pretty ok" Lockdown. An ideal Lockdown would be tall and lithe. Like the original, a deluxe that unfolds into a surprisingly tall robot. But this mold was always pretty clearly made to serve as a base for a future Lockdown, so I'm not surprised in the slightest.