New Galleries: Titans Return Deluxe Skullsmasher with Grax

really like the look of this guy, great homage to the original (i never did own him unlike weird wolf and mind wipe so would just check him out in catalogue pics ) i have 2 complaints however - the hip balljoints seem to be a bit too big causing his legs to pop off during every transformation attempt. An I'm not quite sure why they used rubbery plastic for the pilot hatch.

great detailing round the croc's mouth and the tail pivot is cool tho

He looks sooo awesome.

Skullcruncher looks awesome! If I had one complaint it's that I really, REALLY wish the croc legs folded into the backs of the robot legs so they looked less hollow. Hopefully a third party or Shapeways guy will make a fix for that.

That aside though he looks fantastic.

Delta Magnus wrote:Skullcruncher looks awesome! If I had one complaint it's that I really, REALLY wish the croc legs folded into the backs of the robot legs so they looked less hollow. Hopefully a third party or Shapeways guy will make a fix for that.

That aside though he looks fantastic.

Yeah, it is a pity they didn't do that; but he does look excellent, can't wait to get him and weirdwolf

The detail on that head sculpt is superb. Really digging that tail sculpt too! Overall, this dude is looking great. The colors pop without looking obnoxious and both modes give solid designs.

I owned the original Skullcrusher, but a friend stole it from my house (along with some other TFs and all my Transformer comics) when I went on vacation in 1987, and he got away with it, so I was happy to see this done. At BitCon I was disappointed to see how much smaller it was, but the poseability is definitely better. Aside from fear of losing the small head, I do like this and will probaqbly get it.

I am also thinking for the first time to buy a 2nd one to redecorate as Optimus Prime the Alligatorcon from the G1 cartoon episode.

Break wrote:I owned the original Skullcrusher, but a friend stole it from my house (along with some other TFs and all my Transformer comics) when I went on vacation in 1987, and he got away with it, so I was happy to see this done. At BitCon I was disappointed to see how much smaller it was, but the poseability is definitely better. Aside from fear of losing the small head, I do like this and will probaqbly get it.

I am also thinking for the first time to buy a 2nd one to redecorate as Optimus Prime the Alligatorcon from the G1 cartoon episode.

Do it, it'll be easy to buy the o/p head from the upcoming triple-changer

(he may even come with two heads, so it's an even better deal for you )

Seriously?

Noideaforaname wrote:
Seriously?

His croc (gator?) head is detached to fit him into the package. Still weird to call it out when it's just a simple ball joint.

The head doesn't look that bad.

Of all the figures announced so far this is the one I've been looking forward to the most. He was my first Headmaster, I got him for Easter back in '87 which basically made him my favorite. Still have him, too. I'm glad this one turned out so well, I can't wait to find him!

Emerje

Break wrote:I owned the original Skullcrusher, but a friend stole it from my house (along with some other TFs and all my Transformer comics) when I went on vacation in 1987, and he got away with it, so I was happy to see this done. At BitCon I was disappointed to see how much smaller it was, but the poseability is definitely better. Aside from fear of losing the small head, I do like this and will probaqbly get it.

I am also thinking for the first time to buy a 2nd one to redecorate as Optimus Prime the Alligatorcon from the G1 cartoon episode.

That's what happened to pretty much my entire G1 collection too. A friend came over and stole almost all my TFs over a 3 day period by stuffing them in his book bag back in January of '89. When I found out I robbed him of his Triple Fat Goose trench coat and sent him running home in his t shirt. I got expelled for it, but my parents let me keep the coat. Not a bad trade for a 14yr old who wasn't interested in toys anymore

Twitchythe3rd wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:*snip*
Seriously?

His croc (gator?) head is detached to fit him into the package. Still weird to call it out when it's just a simple ball joint.

Ah. For a second there I thought it was a case of legal disclaimers gone mad, like how a completely blank background is occasionally touted as a "fantasy scene".

Granted, it's still weird since the entire gimmick is popping heads on and off (and tails, in Skullcruncher's case).

I would definitely detail the head a little better:

As Titans Return keeps appearing all over retail worlds and after we posted Skullsmasher with Titan Master Grax, here at Seibertron.com we are happy to bring you another bot from the first wave of deluxe figures: Hardhead, with his Titan Master head partner Furos!

Another update to the G1 Headmaster of old, all the way from 1987, Hardhead is perhaps a little stockier than his predecessor, but overall carries across the same colour palette and scheme, plus his shoulder cannon and H-tank alt mode. You can see comparisons in the gallery, along with Furos (whom we know as Duros, of course. Check them out by clicking on any of the images below!

Titans Return Hardhead (159 images) - Deluxe Class














Titans Return Furos (62 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters

Can't help but notice Furos lost a bit of his "ear." Not encouraging...

Noideaforaname wrote:Can't help but notice Furos lost a bit of his "ear." Not encouraging...

THAT is really worrying

Right after bringing you the Titans Return Hardhead gallery, Seibertron.com continues its Titans Return galleries with another bot from the first wave of deluxe figures: Blurr, with his Titan Master partner Hyperfire!

Unlike the other updates to the G1 Headmaster this is a different take on Blurr since this is the first time Blurr is a Headmaster. This doesn't stop the toy from also being the most faithful update to his original 1986 toy that we have gotten so far. It should also be remembered, that G1 Blurr did get a gimmick update one year later by being rereleased as a Targetmaster. His 1987 Targetmaster gun partner, Haywire, is partly homaged by his new Titan Master, Hyperfire.

Titans Return Blurr (161 images) - Deluxe Class














Titans Return Hyperfire (53 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters

he looks almost exactly like his G1 toy in vehicle mode

The mold is a winner but sweet Primus, that paint job (or rather lack thereof) is inexcusable. Takara wins outright here.

That said, I'm still considering Animated Blurr. I love that design.

Delta Magnus wrote:The mold is a winner but sweet Primus, that paint job (or rather lack thereof) is inexcusable. Takara wins outright here.

That said, I'm still considering Animated Blurr. I love that design.

I am curious to know where those 2 lie on anyone's list of top 5 Blurr toys.

william-james88 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:The mold is a winner but sweet Primus, that paint job (or rather lack thereof) is inexcusable. Takara wins outright here.

That said, I'm still considering Animated Blurr. I love that design.

I am curious to know where those 2 lie on anyone's list of top 5 Blurr toys.

Well Legends Blurr probably wins due to being the definitive G1 Blurr (thus far)...but I'd say the Animated figure would be a close second. I assume, don't actually own it yet.

As for top 5 Blurrs, there haven't been that many, so I'd probably list it as:

5: The G1 toy, as for a vintage figure it's fairly animation accurate (and also pretty good looking in car mode).
4: Armada Blurr, which despite being a brick is a very stylish brick, with a sweet as hell car mode and a good looking, if inarticulate, robot mode.
3: Generations Blurr, which although not very Blurr-ish is still a good toy by virtue of being based on the superb Drift mold (which I must buy some day) and coming with some cool weapons.
2: Animated Blurr, which is awesomely poseable, nicely styled and extremely unique (plus is a nice homage to the cancelled TransTech Cheetor).
1: Takara Legends Blurr, for being the only even remotely G1-accurate official Blurr figure since the 80s, Headmaster aside. (And by the looks of things a good toy to boot provided they don't botch the plastic).

That's a lot of blue Blurrs. Y'know, honestly TR Blurr's paint scheme is kinda growing on me. It's really not all that terrible...though it isn't really amazing, either. The Legends definitely tops it across the board, which is why I'll be importing him.

Rounding out our first wave of deluxe Titans Return figures, we bring to you Seibertron.com's newest gallery: Deluxe Scourge with Fracas! Scourge is a new figure based on his original G1 self originating in the infamous 1986 Movie. This version of the figure also includes his original Targetmaster figure Fracas, now redone as a Titan Master. However, the look of this new Fracas is entirely based on G1 Nightstick, Cylconus' Targetmaster partner since Fracas' look in the show and comic was actually based on G1 Nightstick. Consider this an homage that goes full circle. This small Titan Master can pilot Scourge's spaceship mode as well as the double-barrelled gun.
Check out the gallery images below, and click on any image you want to follow the trail back to the full gallery, and remember to keep an eye out! These guys are hitting your store shelves now!

Titans Return Scourge (195 images) - Deluxe Class
















Titans Return Fracas (58 images) - Deluxe Class, Titan Masters

I am loving the galleries and I am looking forward to these guys showing up in my area! (still waiting)

best looking scourge so far

Too much blue. I will be getting one of the Takara Legends Scourges and using my 2 other Generations Scourges as his sweeps.

Noideaforaname wrote:
Seriously?

Strange thing to see on a children's toy.

I hope a 3rd party makes a proper head form him and Blurr.

omega666 wrote:I hope a 3rd party makes a proper head form him and Blurr.

Galvatron is the one I'm most concerned with. I can't get over how cool the rest of him is but his head is a disaster. Form follows function failed miserably with Galvatron.

Who needs to troop build when you can just get every Scourge toy instead?


It's too bad Scourge makes no attempt to blend the HM's arms into his face, like all the other HMs have done. Dunno if space was an issue or if they were intentionally giving him antennae for whatever reason, but he looks rather bad compared to the others.

Awesome! Just grabbed Motormaster, Wheeljack, and Legends Groove today, which made up for the fact that Titans Return hasn't hit the shelves of stores in my area. (I've only been to Target today so I actually don't know about the rest)

Noideaforaname wrote:Who needs to troop build when you can just get every Scourge toy instead?


It's too bad Scourge makes no attempt to blend the HM's arms into his face, like all the other HMs have done. Dunno if space was an issue or if they were intentionally giving him antennae for whatever reason, but he looks rather bad compared to the others.

Well the artwork looks like it has antennas. But that could be motion blur from the head attaching.

^ There's that, and the art does avoid being blindly literal (i.e. screws, those slots opposite ball joints, etc.). But it doesn't match Scourge's classic head design, so I kinda feel like I'm supposed to, well, pretend they don't exist.

Our next Transformers Titans Return gallery is also our first Leader class one for the line, as here at Seibertron.com we bring you a full look at Autobot communications expert Blaster, with Titan Master Twin Cast! The latter, of course, takes its name from the e-Hobby exclusive redeco of Blaster himself from his rebuild in the Headmasters animated series, as can be found here - and the name of our very own podcast - though now repurposed for the Headmaster/Titan Master instead.

Blaster, on the other hand, is the latest update for the Autobot from 1985, bringing robot, boombox and a passable base mode for Titan Master playability and cross-compatible with most figure classes in the Titans Retun line. Check out the full galleries by clicking on any of the images below!

Titans Return Blaster (217 images) - Leader Class
















Titans Return Twin Cast (55 images) - Leader Class, Titan Masters

Looks good! I don't know whether to get Soundwave or Blaster. Dead set on Galvatron though. I don't know what people are talking about when they say the head is messed up.. But I can just fix it by swapping it out for another. Maybe with the Voyager class Megatron that's rumored to be released. Wait, has that been confirmed to be a Headmaster?

Noideaforaname wrote:^ There's that, and the art does avoid being blindly literal (i.e. screws, those slots opposite ball joints, etc.). But it doesn't match Scourge's classic head design, so I kinda feel like I'm supposed to, well, pretend they don't exist.

I don't see any screws.. Are you and I looking at the same artwork? Or am I looking at a different one?

Fellow Seibertronians, hot on the heels of our Leader class Blaster galleries, and rounding out our galleries of the wave 1 leader class is Titans Return Leader Class Powermaster Optimus Prime with Apex. This latest version of Optimus Prime is an extremely heavy retool of the Combiner Wars Leader class Ultra Magnus meant to be an reimagined update to his G1 counterpart, except that he is no longer a Powermaster. Instead Optimus has his Titanmaster Apex, whose name is derived from the Apex Armor which was additional armor the G1 Powermaster Optimus Prime could equip. Apex's head mode is based off of the Orion Pax toy, which was a redeco of the G1 Kup toy, and is, of course, the pre-Prime identity of Optimus Prime. So check out the gallery, and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime (205 images) - Leader Class






















Titans Return Apex (65 images) - Leader Class, Titan Masters

I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't any pictures in the Powermaster Optimus Prime gallery that shows us the Apex head attached to Prime's body without the external helmet, the way the Blaster gallery showed us the helmetless Twincast head attached to Blaster's body.

i hope there will be some god bomber armor for him, maybe takara will work some magic

my optimus prime as a kid was power master prime - so I was really looking forward to this update. I also really dig the combiner wars ultra magnus mould so when this was announced i was over the moon. He doesn't disappoint though obviously part of me would love to have a cab that transformed into a mini prime... The base mode is a bit ridiculous and obviously an afterthought; Blaster's for example is much more convincing.

My two gripes with this guy are the re use of ultra magnus' black guns. In fact I don't think I'll be the only one to give each a matching pair. And he really needs ankle tilts more than Ultra magnus.

There's something about the plastic they're using that just looks...weird, especially on the Headmasters. It looks oddly coarse and grainy, almost as if it's 3D printed? It looks really, really bad when the Headmasters are in robot mode- the faces are barely discernible mushes, and the molding in general looks really rough. The lack of paint doesn't help either.

Also, that sparkly blue plastic Scourge and Fracas are molded from looks an awful lot like it'd be prone to GPS. I really hope I'm wrong but given the recent trend for wonky QC and cheap plastic...I'm worried.

Delta Magnus wrote:There's something about the plastic they're using that just looks...weird, especially on the Headmasters. It looks oddly coarse and grainy, almost as if it's 3D printed? It looks really, really bad when the Headmasters are in robot mode- the faces are barely discernible mushes, and the molding in general looks really rough. The lack of paint doesn't help either.

Also, that sparkly blue plastic Scourge and Fracas are molded from looks an awful lot like it'd be prone to GPS. I really hope I'm wrong but given the recent trend for wonky QC and cheap plastic...I'm worried.

I think the toughest thing on the headmasters is getting any detail onto the tiny robot faces let alone paint. Sieberton's incredible close-up's of the robot faces unfortunately brings out every blemish when in reality, the heads are so tiny you would barely notice some things without magnification (especially if you are over 35). Of the ones I have in hand, the plastic on all of them looks a little better than the photos, but the details are much harder to see with my own (aging) eyes.

I'm a little worried about GPS on Scourge myself, but so far he feels pretty solid.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:There's something about the plastic they're using that just looks...weird, especially on the Headmasters. It looks oddly coarse and grainy, almost as if it's 3D printed? It looks really, really bad when the Headmasters are in robot mode- the faces are barely discernible mushes, and the molding in general looks really rough. The lack of paint doesn't help either.

Also, that sparkly blue plastic Scourge and Fracas are molded from looks an awful lot like it'd be prone to GPS. I really hope I'm wrong but given the recent trend for wonky QC and cheap plastic...I'm worried.

I think the toughest thing on the headmasters is getting any detail onto the tiny robot faces let alone paint. Sieberton's incredible close-up's of the robot faces unfortunately brings out every blemish when in reality, the heads are so tiny you would barely notice some things without magnification (especially if you are over 35). Of the ones I have in hand, the plastic on all of them looks a little better than the photos, but the details are much harder to see with my own (aging) eyes.

I'm a little worried about GPS on Scourge myself, but so far he feels pretty solid.

Well, TT's managing to paint all the headmasters quite thoroughly in non-head mode, so, it can be done, hasbro simply isn't

Prime's head sculpt looks BOSS!

Man, the PMOP toy looks so good (save for that very dull tannish shade of gray) that I just can't wait to see how Takara can possibly make it any "better" for their Super Ginrai version.

fenrir72 wrote:Prime's head sculpt looks BOSS!

Speaking of which, I took some pics of him sporting just his Titan Master Apex noggin' without the traditional Optimus Prime helmet. I'll post them tomorrow for you guys to see.

Shegotron wrote:I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't any pictures in the Powermaster Optimus Prime gallery that shows us the Apex head attached to Prime's body without the external helmet, the way the Blaster gallery showed us the helmetless Twincast head attached to Blaster's body.

Here you go Shegotron! Thanks for letting me know that I forgot these shots of him with just the Titan Master Apex head. You can click on the image below to view more images of him like this. Enjoy!

Ultra Markus wrote:i hope there will be some god bomber armor for him, maybe takara will work some magic

Takara confirmed there wont be the god bomber armor since they are doing Super Ginrai and not God Ginrai. Well at last thats what is written on the sketch they released of the upcoming toy.