Neat. I would name SG Grimlock Trypticon too.
Neat. I would name SG Grimlock Trypticon too.
Managed to preorder Cloudcover off Hasbro Pulse this morning, despite some problems. Can't wait to have him.
Pulse has Toxitron and Jazz back in stock now.
Nice. Switched my preorder to Pulse as I haven't heard great things about Walmart's preorder system.
Done and done.
Probably gonna find Toxitron in stores over the weekend now or something, but whatever. Better to be sure.
Probably gonna find Toxitron in stores over the weekend now or something, but whatever. Better to be sure.
So the Product Blurb says:
So how do folks imagine this works? Are all these neon robots Toxitron's toxic troops? Is this set in a universe where he has somehow taken over and/or Toxic-Zombied Jazz and Grimlock and Co? Or is only Cloudcover working for him cause they are both Cons, and the Autobots are in some kind of anti-toxic paint or something? Or is Toxitron the sole actual villian in the toyline and the rest of the bots and cons are arrayed against him and his non-toy "Toxic Warriors"?
How do you imaging things going down?
-ZacWilliam, still pulling for a Takara Web Comic
- TOXITRON COLLECTION: A collection of Transformers robots has risen out of the Toxic Sludge Swamps of Cybertron! Toxitron is unleashing radioactive mayhem with a team of toxic warriors
So how do folks imagine this works? Are all these neon robots Toxitron's toxic troops? Is this set in a universe where he has somehow taken over and/or Toxic-Zombied Jazz and Grimlock and Co? Or is only Cloudcover working for him cause they are both Cons, and the Autobots are in some kind of anti-toxic paint or something? Or is Toxitron the sole actual villian in the toyline and the rest of the bots and cons are arrayed against him and his non-toy "Toxic Warriors"?
How do you imaging things going down?
-ZacWilliam, still pulling for a Takara Web Comic
It's kind of weird how there are two separate "evil versions" of the Laser Optimus mold. Especially when divorced from their original stories.
Clearly Jazz and Grimlock, soon to be joined by others, have been granted elemental powers (most likely in the form of rings) that they will use to summon a hero who can take Toxitron's pollution down to zero.
Now we just need the Laser Magnus repaint for an even 2-on-2 battle.
Jazz, Grimlock and the others are probably unvoluntarily altered by the toxic goo. Cloudcover and the 2 Stunticons willingly recieve the power up.
Less Captain Planet and more Toxic Crusaders
TOXIC CLONES, or it could be the remains of experiements by Shockwave, Wheeljack and every other mad scientist on Cybertron, where they dump their failures so not to gog up their labs!
Well, how do you think those toxic swamps came to be in the first place?
Transformers is finally embracing the environmental message of the Nineties. Remember G.I. Joe's eco-warriors?
They should have repainted the CW/PotP molds so we could have Captimus Planetron
Who plays the part of Mati, I wonder...
Went ahead and pre-ordered Cloudcover on Walmart. The comments here about their pre-order history has me leery, but they give me free shipping and didn't feel like paying $7 shipping on a $35 on Pulse. So, will take my chances.
It'd be cool to know what some of the thinking/discussions were about all of these cancelled G2 designs. I always wonder if they were intended to come out at roughly the same time as (or instead of) the other G1 mold re-uses, and got thrown out for being too 'out there', or if they were intended for later down the road, and then thrown out when they decided to shift to doing new molds instead. There does seem to be a mix of approaches - some guys are nearly the same as their originals (Optimus, Inferno, silver Dinobots), other guys have similar but subtly different decoes (Jazz, Starscream), some guys have the same deco with one major color shift (Constructions, second wave Dinobots), then there are some guys with wildly different color schemes (Ramjet, Aerialbots, Combaticons).
It'd be cool to know what some of the thinking/discussions were about all of these cancelled G2 designs. I always wonder if they were intended to come out at roughly the same time as (or instead of) the other G1 mold re-uses, and got thrown out for being too 'out there', or if they were intended for later down the road, and then thrown out when they decided to shift to doing new molds instead. There does seem to be a mix of approaches - some guys are nearly the same as their originals (Optimus, Inferno, silver Dinobots), other guys have similar but subtly different decoes (Jazz, Starscream), some guys have the same deco with one major color shift (Constructions, second wave Dinobots), then there are some guys with wildly different color schemes (Ramjet, Aerialbots, Combaticons).
I had an elita-1 get canceled on me (Netflix version) but I got lucky and it came back in stock.. though the Legacy one is better, admittedly. I even got Cosmos and Galaxy Shuttle successfully.
But I seem to be on the luckier end of that spectrum.
But I seem to be on the luckier end of that spectrum.
Our powers combined, we are Captimus Planetron, GO PLANETTRON!!!!
Autobots & Decepticons "REALLY?"