Transformers Legacy toyline

[LordGigaIce]

They seem to like to roll Generations out in trilogies now
Prime Wars (CW, TR, PotP)
WFC (Siege, ER, Kingdom)
Legacy (Legacy, Evolution, United)

So we're just gonna start a new trilogy of lines

 

[wonko the sane?]

Works for me! This is the only line I've really been collecting... jive, for a long time.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'm not sure what the point is now that these trilogies don't have story arcs anymore. It might just be to trick retailers into spam ordering wave 1 all over again.

 

[Superomegaprime]

I'm not sure what the point is now that these trilogies don't have story arcs anymore. It might just be to trick retailers into spam ordering wave 1 all over again.

Well Legacy was envisoned to have show on Netflix to serve as a sequel to the WFC trilogy, but Netflix decided not to carry on and likely the original deal was for one batch of eps to be broken up into three seasons, thus we got Siege, Earthrise & Kingdom, the Prime Wars was more or less make it up as you go along and the acompaning series was poorly written and wasted the lines potential but then I think they were caught off guard when Optimus Primal won the fan vote back then which likely made them realise that they could do BW characters as toys but its whoever in charge was likely holding things back or didn't think it would be sucessful!

 

[LordGigaIce]

I'm not sure what the point is now that these trilogies don't have story arcs anymore. It might just be to trick retailers into spam ordering wave 1 all over again.

Prime Wars and WfC had shows- bad shows, but they had them. Legacy was planned to have one but Netflix didn't renew the property.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I even said "anymore".

 

[NovaSaber]

Does Overcharge have the stickers of all the different faction symbols like the e-Hobby one?

 

[LordGigaIce]

I even said "anymore".

my guess is they like the thematic through lines

Legacy didn't have fiction but the "everyone from the multiverse converges" stuff was present throughout. And it sounds like the common element from the next trilogy will be the Thirteen.

Granted you could do the Thirteen in Legacy and still have it be thematically consistent but if you really think about it they could just keep doing Legacy forever 🫠

 

[MrBlud]

That 40th Anniversary Trigger video showcases quite a few of the characters available in Legacy TBH.

 

[unluckiness]

Isn't that because they're the most important or popular characters?

 

[Sabrblade]

Does Overcharge have the stickers of all the different faction symbols like the e-Hobby one?

Looks to be just tampographed Decepticon symbols only.

 

[Agent X]

All this discussion about Breakdown's colors, but I haven't seen anyone mention that he doesn't have the red slime dripping down the roof. That part is kind of shocking to me after the work they did to replicate the crazy deco details on the Toxitron collection toys.

Does Overcharge have the stickers of all the different faction symbols like the e-Hobby one?

Oh I'm sure toyhax will have the toys covered.

And I mean COVERED. In stickers. More than anyone will need. More than most will want.

 

[Sabrblade]

Oh I'm sure toyhax will have the toys covered.

And I mean COVERED. In stickers. More than anyone will need. More than most will want.

And then Takara will rerelease them two years later with better colors in a Dramatic Capture Series 3-pack and we'll all wish Hasbro had done them like that the first time around.

 

[Agent X]

And then Takara will rerelease them two years later with better colors in a Dramatic Capture Series 3-pack and we'll all wish Hasbro had done them like that the first time around.

Except Overcharge and G2 Breakdown never appeared in animation to have slaveish tv decos.

 

[Sabrblade]

Except Overcharge and G2 Breakdown never appeared in animation to have slaveish tv decos.

They'll get extremely toy-accurate ones instead.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Except Overcharge and G2 Breakdown never appeared in animation to have slaveish tv decos.

And then Takara will rerelease them two years later with better colors in a Dramatic Capture Series 3-pack and we'll all wish Hasbro had done them like that the first time around.

Overcharge will be the new head with Blitzwing colors in a pack of 3.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I do want Overcharge. I like troop builders too much to not get one. But I'm going to wait until it shelfwarms its way to clearance.

I'm not convinced it would have been worse off by gutting it down to a Voyager instead of unconvincingly padding it to a Leader. The higher budget bought some extra complexity, but I don't see how that extra complexity helped either of the vehicle modes.

 

[Sabrblade]

I do want Overcharge. I like troop builders too much to not get one. But I'm going to wait until it shelfwarms its way to clearance.

I'm not convinced it would have been worse off by gutting it down to a Voyager instead of unconvincingly padding it to a Leader. The higher budget bought some extra complexity, but I don't see how that extra complexity helped either of the vehicle modes.

His name is very apt for his price point.

 

[Shadewing]

Overcharge will be the new head with Blitzwing colors in a pack of 3.

Damn, someone beat me to it

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Wait... end of line? Is legacy actually ending?

It's only after posting this that I now realize and appreciate the truly unintended irony here.