Galvatron Unicron Companion Pack Available again on Hasbro Pulse
Friday, February 18th, 2022 1:54PM CST
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The toy is 57.99 and you can get it here:
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Posted by DeathReviews on February 18th, 2022 @ 7:38pm CST
Posted by o.supreme on February 18th, 2022 @ 8:08pm CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on February 19th, 2022 @ 4:50pm CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on February 19th, 2022 @ 4:57pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Got Black Zarak today but haven't had a chance to open the box. I'm more concerned about the box from Pulse being able to hold Scorponok, Omega Supreme, and Zarak; I have space issues. For those that have busted out Zarak, is the main body all in one piece, or do you have to connect the tail like on Scorponok?
I would think it's all in one piece, but the tail's folded out: a video review showed he's boxed in robot mode, but with the head off.
Posted by o.supreme on February 19th, 2022 @ 5:04pm CST
Posted by Hellscream9999 on February 19th, 2022 @ 7:47pm CST
Just a heads up to people who are getting it, there are some parts on both headmasters that are prone to falling off, the tiny headmasters arms have fallen off in the big bodies' neck port and the small black panels on the sides of the large head/red arm shield/panels fall off pretty easily if you move them.
Already almost lost the tiny headmasters' arms already so wanted to bring it to everyone's attention.
Posted by o.supreme on February 19th, 2022 @ 8:27pm CST
Other than that, the main body is great. Tight joints, even better than ER Scorp. Guessing it was all the retooling of the head, which looks amazing,I just won't be transforming it very often.
Also now that we have generations updates for all 9 Destron Generals, some 3p company is leaving money on the table not giving us capes, accessories, and royal garb for these guys.
Posted by Rodimus Prime on February 19th, 2022 @ 9:23pm CST
Posted by ZeroWolf on February 20th, 2022 @ 3:36am CST
Posted by Sabrblade on February 20th, 2022 @ 10:58am CST
Everyone else does too.ZeroWolf wrote:I feel very sorry for Overlord in those pictures God Ginrai just towers over him
Posted by o.supreme on February 20th, 2022 @ 11:11am CST
Rodimus Prime wrote:BZ looks great! I hope you have those shelves properly secured.
My wife actually designed the shelf, and my father-in-law helped me install. He is the king of overcaution when it comes to construction. We are helping him build a deck. I'd say he uses 2-3 times more screws and nails than code requires, and extra supports. When we put that shelf up, he had to be absolutely certain the screws were going into studs, and it is one of the most secure shelves I've seen. We have others placed throughout the garage for storage. We recently had to remove one to move an appliance. After removing all the screws, the shelf stayed attached to the wall merely by friction! And it took more force than expected to pry it from the wall, so yeah, I think we are pretty safe. Now a good earthquake could probably cause some of the smaller toys to take a dive, so getting a piece of clear solid plastic is my next goal (since transparent aluminum hasn't been invented yet )
Posted by -Kanrabat- on February 20th, 2022 @ 11:55am CST
Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else does too.ZeroWolf wrote:I feel very sorry for Overlord in those pictures God Ginrai just towers over him
Overlord needs to be redone as a commander.
Ginrai as well the TR one was horrible. Ginrai should be a commander by himself with a voyager Godbomber included in the box. That pack could have its own price point.
Posted by Sabrblade on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:27pm CST
That'd make him tower over HasLab Victory Saber. God Ginrai is supposed to be the same height as Star Saber and other normal-sized Combiners. The Legends one we got was the right size, but it's main problem was its over-engineering that made it very unstable. A more solidly-constructed one at the same size is what we need.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else does too.ZeroWolf wrote:I feel very sorry for Overlord in those pictures God Ginrai just towers over him
Overlord needs to be redone as a commander.
Ginrai as well the TR one was horrible. Ginrai should be a commander by himself with a voyager Godbomber included in the box. That pack could have its own price point.
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:42pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:46pm CST
The only retools we get out of Selects are small tooling changes like new heads and such.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Maybe Selects could give us a Overlord (heavy) retool? Or is the line strictly redecos??
Takara were the ones who did the heavy retools for Selects, but they ended their line.
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:47pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:50pm CST
From Hasbro's perspective, they'd be like "We just did a perfectly good Overlord back in Titans Return." And he's no big name character they'd be willing to redo every year like Megatron and Starscream.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I see. So the chances of a brand new Overlord (or even Thunderwing) are very slim, without any onscreen representation.
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on February 20th, 2022 @ 12:54pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:From Hasbro's perspective, they'd be like "We just did a perfectly good Overlord back in Titans Return." And he's no big name character they'd be willing to redo every year like Megatron and Starscream.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I see. So the chances of a brand new Overlord (or even Thunderwing) are very slim, without any onscreen representation.
Indeed. That's the flipside to the eternal reuse of Megatron and Prime in the shows. A lot of other characters have been sidelined as they keep the same leaders all the time.
I just did some checking for my own curiosity. Overlord hasn't been onscreen since Zone(1990) - 32 years now. Meanwhile, Thunderwing has never been onscreen. Straxus too. But I talk about those two specifically, as both would fit with Commander Class figures.
Posted by Nemesis Primal on February 20th, 2022 @ 1:24pm CST
Technically, Overlord has had screentime more recently by being in the Prime Wars Machinima stuff.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:From Hasbro's perspective, they'd be like "We just did a perfectly good Overlord back in Titans Return." And he's no big name character they'd be willing to redo every year like Megatron and Starscream.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I see. So the chances of a brand new Overlord (or even Thunderwing) are very slim, without any onscreen representation.
Indeed. That's the flipside to the eternal reuse of Megatron and Prime in the shows. A lot of other characters have been sidelined as they keep the same leaders all the time.
I just did some checking for my own curiosity. Overlord hasn't been onscreen since Zone(1990) - 32 years now. Meanwhile, Thunderwing has never been onscreen. Straxus too. But I talk about those two specifically, as both would fit with Commander Class figures.
Now whether that representation is actually helpful is a different story.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on February 20th, 2022 @ 4:51pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:That'd make him tower over HasLab Victory Saber. God Ginrai is supposed to be the same height as Star Saber and other normal-sized Combiners. The Legends one we got was the right size, but it's main problem was its over-engineering that made it very unstable. A more solidly-constructed one at the same size is what we need.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else does too.ZeroWolf wrote:I feel very sorry for Overlord in those pictures God Ginrai just towers over him
Overlord needs to be redone as a commander.
Ginrai as well the TR one was horrible. Ginrai should be a commander by himself with a voyager Godbomber included in the box. That pack could have its own price point.
The main challenge will be to find a way to have the right parts count for the pricepoint. Ideally, Ginrai should be a leader. But how to respect the leader budget when leader Optimus came with a margarine container as a trailer? But if Ultra Magnus was possible, I don't see how a Ginrai in the same size as Magnus couldn't be possible. At worst, he could be a Commander simply due to the parts count. Add a voyager "weaponizer" Godbomber and I don't think he'll be that huge. He'll be on scale.
Posted by o.supreme on February 20th, 2022 @ 7:26pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Takara were the ones who did the heavy retools for Selects, but they ended their line.
Was that ever confirmed, or just assumed since nothing new has been announced in quite a while? Since "Brand Unification" starting with PotP, the few unique offerings we got from TT Selects (as opposed to Hasbro Selects), really filled in some nice wants in my collection. The prospect of that ending is very sad indeed.
I mean Hasbro offering BZ was great for sure, but future offerings like the idea of a Dinoking/Monstructor that would be heavy retools of PotP Dinobots and Terrorcons probably isn't feasible via Hasbro, only TT would tackle such a challenge. Or Haslab...which presents other challenges.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on February 20th, 2022 @ 7:33pm CST
o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Takara were the ones who did the heavy retools for Selects, but they ended their line.
Was that ever confirmed, or just assumed since nothing new has been announced in quite a while?
The tie-in manga was finished, and that's usually a sign of no future projects for the time being.
Posted by Sabrblade on February 20th, 2022 @ 9:28pm CST
In addition to what Nemesis Primal said about Foghorn Overlord being in Machinima's Prime Wars Trilogy cartoon, Thunderwing did get some motion picture action in Transformers Prime: The Game, which features some rather cinematic cutscenes and almost all the same voice cast as the show (though, no toy was ever made of him, either).AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:From Hasbro's perspective, they'd be like "We just did a perfectly good Overlord back in Titans Return." And he's no big name character they'd be willing to redo every year like Megatron and Starscream.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I see. So the chances of a brand new Overlord (or even Thunderwing) are very slim, without any onscreen representation.
Indeed. That's the flipside to the eternal reuse of Megatron and Prime in the shows. A lot of other characters have been sidelined as they keep the same leaders all the time.
I just did some checking for my own curiosity. Overlord hasn't been onscreen since Zone(1990) - 32 years now. Meanwhile, Thunderwing has never been onscreen. Straxus too. But I talk about those two specifically, as both would fit with Commander Class figures.
Posted by Emerje on February 21st, 2022 @ 1:33am CST
Sabrblade wrote:That'd make him tower over HasLab Victory Saber. God Ginrai is supposed to be the same height as Star Saber and other normal-sized Combiners. The Legends one we got was the right size, but it's main problem was its over-engineering that made it very unstable. A more solidly-constructed one at the same size is what we need.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else does too.ZeroWolf wrote:I feel very sorry for Overlord in those pictures God Ginrai just towers over him
Overlord needs to be redone as a commander.
Ginrai as well the TR one was horrible. Ginrai should be a commander by himself with a voyager Godbomber included in the box. That pack could have its own price point.
Legends Super Ginrai's main problem was that he was only either Super Ginrai or God Ginrai, there was no plain Ginrai Transtector which a Commander level figure could fix. And after three years and a Voyager sized Commander are we still thinking of classes in terms of size when they're based on complexity? Commander class would be perfect for Super Ginrai and put him on par with Star Saber who got a massive bump from being a HasLab project despite being called a Leader class figure.
Leader Ultra Magnus is OK, but could be better since he cheats with a lot of parts forming. Ideally he should be like the CW version, but with a transforming white Prime inside. I'd like to see him revisited as Commander class in five years.
Jelze Bunnycat wrote:o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Takara were the ones who did the heavy retools for Selects, but they ended their line.
Was that ever confirmed, or just assumed since nothing new has been announced in quite a while?
The tie-in manga was finished, and that's usually a sign of no future projects for the time being.
They ended the story they were telling, but in the end they left an opening for more to come with Golden Age Beast Soundwave watching the Straxuses from the shadows vowing to continue the fight.
I'm thinking that, despite not being exclusives, the Premium Finish line took over the funding for Selects in Japan.
Emerje
Posted by Wolfman Jake on February 21st, 2022 @ 7:56am CST
Posted by william-james88 on February 21st, 2022 @ 10:14am CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:Anyone else remember the rumors last year of an Amazon edition of Optimus Prime? Whatever came of that?
I keep thinking of that whenever I see the Amazon Prime truck. Toys have a 2 year cycle from design to distribution so depending on how early the rumour is, it can take awhile before we see something. I keep thinking of those BotBots vehicle playsets that we seven saw art for, those have yet to come out as well.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on February 21st, 2022 @ 10:18am CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:Anyone else remember the rumors last year of an Amazon edition of Optimus Prime? Whatever came of that?
My guess is that if it comes, it will be a Prime day release/exclusive like PotP Nemesis Prime and ER Dead Prime were. So July would be the most likely. Also, I think technically this one may fall under the crossovers banner if I remember right.
Posted by o.supreme on February 21st, 2022 @ 10:44am CST
Emerje wrote:I'm thinking that, despite not being exclusives, the Premium Finish line took over the funding for Selects in Japan.
Emerje
I had that thought as well, and that is unfortunate. So much potential left untapped. Still I will say that Super Megatron I think was a surprise most of us thought we'd never see. I've had to spend a LOT of my tax return on bills/medical etc. But since my list of TF wants is diminishing quickly, I may try to obtain both Selects Star Convoy (I never got PotP Prime) and Super Megatron, though the second hand market will be nearly double what Pulse initially charged, I may be able to swing it.
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on February 21st, 2022 @ 8:37pm CST
Posted by Nemesis Primal on February 21st, 2022 @ 11:07pm CST
We still have leaked listings for DK-3 (Blue Trailbreaker) and Cyclonus' Armada (Toy Colors Cyclonus) that we have yet to see come to fruition, yes, as well as Schrodinger's Clampdown.Sentinel_Primal wrote:Didn't we have a rumor that a blue Trailbreaker was supposed to be a thing? Or was that speculation based on Guard and Lift-Ticket?
Posted by Rodimus Prime on February 21st, 2022 @ 11:57pm CST
Posted by Nemesis Primal on February 22nd, 2022 @ 2:05am CST
Silverstreak is a Target exclusive (I believe his listing mentioned being part of Legacy and the Bee line, much how we've gotten figures that are labeled as Stuido Series in the Bee line), people kept assuming he would be a Selects figure when he first leaked just because he's a Diaclone guy (and because people reviewed him without his packaging/instructions).Rodimus Prime wrote:And blue Bluestreak is still on the way, right? I remember seeing it some shots for other figures.
Posted by o.supreme on February 22nd, 2022 @ 11:03am CST
I think the only ones in recent memory that weren't Red were ER Runabout and the alleged upcoming Legacy Blurstreak/Silverstreak.
Posted by Sabrblade on February 22nd, 2022 @ 11:06am CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 25th, 2022 @ 7:20pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 25th, 2022 @ 7:41pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 27th, 2022 @ 9:13am CST
Gamestop was one of the first to get Black Zarak in stock, and is also one of the few sites that have kept him at the $159.99 price point, instead of the new $169.99 Titan class price point. So they were already sort of offering you a deal. But they are now currently running a 10% off $75 and 20% off $125 purchases deal, a deal which does apply to the infamous Black Zarak. This deal lowers his price down to $127.99, pretty much in line with 2015 Titan Class prices.
If you haven't gotten Black Zarak yet, like yours truly, this is the perfect offer to push you over the edge and give him a look.
You can click on the link above or the picture below to take you straight to the page. Don't fret, the sale price does not show up until the checkout page, but the deal is advertised on his page to let you know it's active.
Posted by o.supreme on February 27th, 2022 @ 9:52am CST
Posted by Cheetron on February 27th, 2022 @ 10:50am CST
Posted by o.supreme on February 27th, 2022 @ 10:56am CST
I'm not sure if any actually Shipped to stores, but it's an option if you have any stores close by you, they can also check the inventory for any other location within a 50 mile radius.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 27th, 2022 @ 3:33pm CST
Posted by sol magnus on February 27th, 2022 @ 6:07pm CST
Posted by RotorstormNZ on March 1st, 2022 @ 9:27pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 7th, 2022 @ 6:49pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 7th, 2022 @ 7:27pm CST
Posted by Rodimus Prime on March 8th, 2022 @ 12:01pm CST
Missing horn and all?D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I really hope the Selects Cyclonus repaint uses his IDW2005 head. I really want that
And yes, that Black Zarak is a beautiful piece. I actually like the scorpion mode even more.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 8th, 2022 @ 7:21pm CST
Rodimus Prime wrote:Missing horn and all?D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: I really hope the Selects Cyclonus repaint uses his IDW2005 head. I really want that
And yes, that Black Zarak is a beautiful piece. I actually like the scorpion mode even more.
I'd take both fully horned and missing horn
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 21st, 2022 @ 8:38pm CDT
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on March 21st, 2022 @ 9:52pm CDT
I'm glad I have my spring job again this year, because I need him. I'll have to do some finagling to get him to fit, but I need him.