Speaking of Amazon, has anyone else gotten Chop Shop and Barrage?
Yep, mine arrived yesterday.
New SDCC set revealed, being promoted under the United banner- Fractured Friendship: Gladiator Megatron vs Security Officer Orion Pax
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Gladiator Megatron is a retool/repaint Miner Megatron (itself derived from the old Siege Megatron). I dig the war paint and the dark helmet always looks sexy. I'm also digging the extra weapons, as a warhammer isn't a common weapon and the sword is very evocative of the Armada era Starsaber (at least the stylized interpretation). I don't NEED another Megatron, but the new painted details and weapons really speak to my imagination.
Security Officer Orion Pax is...well, frankly, he's Stormbringer Optimus Prime. Aside from some colors and leg details, this is as close to Stormbringer as they could probably get while working with the WFC Gamer mold as they could. I think the figure wears these details better than the WFC version, and it looks like the big complaint with the arms got addressed. I also like how it seems like Hasbro was "planning" for this release by incorporating a lot of the key design traits into the prior "Humble Origins" Orion Pax. That's a level of design continuity that's quite rare and I think DOES add to the value of that prior figure. It's not common that you have an Orion Pax and Optimus Prime that actually share THAT degree of commonality (prior to TF One, anyway).
Like this set, I'll probably be getting it.
Also, be sure to check your local stores, 'tis Clearance season! A nearby Walmart had leaders (both Studio and Generations) marked down to $41 and $44, while I managed to find a Toxitron Series Grimlock still sporting a full price sticker. But the app said it was $38 and it ended up ringing up for just $27
SDCC 2024 – Transformers Fractured Friendship 2-Pack
Hasbro have revealed new San Diego Comic Con exclusives today via IGN, and the Transformers offering is a two pack of Optimus Prime and Megatron titled "Fractured Friendship". Both are Voyager molds, with Optimus coming from the WFC game line, and Megatron being a rework of the Siege mold...
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Gladiator Megatron is a retool/repaint Miner Megatron (itself derived from the old Siege Megatron). I dig the war paint and the dark helmet always looks sexy. I'm also digging the extra weapons, as a warhammer isn't a common weapon and the sword is very evocative of the Armada era Starsaber (at least the stylized interpretation). I don't NEED another Megatron, but the new painted details and weapons really speak to my imagination.
Security Officer Orion Pax is...well, frankly, he's Stormbringer Optimus Prime. Aside from some colors and leg details, this is as close to Stormbringer as they could probably get while working with the WFC Gamer mold as they could. I think the figure wears these details better than the WFC version, and it looks like the big complaint with the arms got addressed. I also like how it seems like Hasbro was "planning" for this release by incorporating a lot of the key design traits into the prior "Humble Origins" Orion Pax. That's a level of design continuity that's quite rare and I think DOES add to the value of that prior figure. It's not common that you have an Orion Pax and Optimus Prime that actually share THAT degree of commonality (prior to TF One, anyway).
Like this set, I'll probably be getting it.
Also, be sure to check your local stores, 'tis Clearance season! A nearby Walmart had leaders (both Studio and Generations) marked down to $41 and $44, while I managed to find a Toxitron Series Grimlock still sporting a full price sticker. But the app said it was $38 and it ended up ringing up for just $27
Megatron's hammer looks like a wad of gum on a stick. Megatron himself is okay, a bit of a downgrade compared to the previous miner release but not bad. Orion Pax is pretty cool retool and the best shot the IDW pre-Earth design's getting officially but I'm just tired of Optimus in general.
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how long do y'all think hasbro will keep using the stege megatron mold as the basis for g1 megatron toys
How long do you think Hasbro’s going to keep make G1-flavored Megatrons?
Until they make a Studio Series 86 mold. Then they'll spam that one until the 45th anniversary mold.
Yeah, this feels like them squirting out one last use of this mold before the new one comes in.
'course watch them find even more ways to release it just to spite me.
'course watch them find even more ways to release it just to spite me.
watch as the hypothetical studio series 86 megatron is a stege retool
In Japan, these formerly Japan-exclusive figures are a tad out of the price-range for most Japanese collectors...
They never released in Japan at all. At least not as transformers.
I’m surprised they haven’t used it more for other characters. The way the mold transforms, you could change any of the major body parts aside from the shoulders/arms and give it entirely new weaponsand it’d not impede transformation
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I'm passing on the new OP & Megs set, the Seige Hound retool into Orion Pax looks better espeically when I added some third party guns to his wrists and that just made him look better in my view! Anyway, the Megatron mold, really needs to retire at this point, its the most overused mold to date, it even beats the seeker mold which always been the go to mold for mass production overkill, don't believe me, then watch this video to see the TRUTH of this fact:
'Til the mold sieges up, heyooooo!
Doing this mold as Miner Megatron might have been a good idea, but it wasn't such a good idea that they needed to do it twice.
No, but the originals were close enough.
(Before CVC could review it. Well done Hasbro!)
So - a minor Miner retool?
Or a minor retool of a Miner Megatron?
(It's summer, I don't have anywhere else to use all this stuff up . . . )
TRANSFORMERS LEGACY UNITED VOYAGER CLASS "FRACTURED FRIENDSHIP" 2-PACK
(I wonder if OP's feet will be visible in alt mode?)
(I wonder if OP's feet will be visible in alt mode?)