New Video Review of Transformers Earthrise Battlemaster Slitherfang

Mindmaster wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Rumours are Prowl and Ironhide will be exclusives of some fashion. Don't think Target though, more likely amazon

I heard that as well, hopefully if those sets become reality they won’t be like Siege Skywarp and friends (who I had before I got the new one) and be crazy ridiculous on the aftermarket. I’m kinda tired of big name characters being exclusives, selling out quick, and being expensive later in the future. I’m no completionist but I want to get as much of the modernized 84/85 cast as possible. I wasn’t even thought of when it was a thing so this is kinda my way of living that experience out.

I think it's supposed to create a kind of variety on the shelves instead of the same names appearing (though some same names are allowed...) but exclusives bring with them their own problems, it's very hard to balance.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Rumours are Prowl and Ironhide will be exclusives of some fashion. Don't think Target though, more likely amazon

I heard that as well, hopefully if those sets become reality they won’t be like Siege Skywarp and friends (who I had before I got the new one) and be crazy ridiculous on the aftermarket. I’m kinda tired of big name characters being exclusives, selling out quick, and being expensive later in the future. I’m no completionist but I want to get as much of the modernized 84/85 cast as possible. I wasn’t even thought of when it was a thing so this is kinda my way of living that experience out.

I think it's supposed to create a kind of variety on the shelves instead of the same names appearing (though some same names are allowed...) but exclusives bring with them their own problems, it's very hard to balance.

Personally, I'd rather the 'big names' be exclusives than not get them at all.

I hope I can get three of him, I loved soundbarrier so much I got two more since he was shelfwarming a bit the ramp play pattern is pretty fun to set up little bases among the shelf of bots, if I had less self control I'd buy more multiples to make a wheel o' bots

From the looks of it, Airwaves shares his upper thighs, elbows, and chest peg with Brunt.

ebo716 wrote:From the looks of it, Airwaves shares his upper thighs, elbows, and chest peg with Brunt.

Only his hip joints and the chest peg! His thighs are very similar but are different. I assume his thighs are treads for a Hothouse retool

Looks BBTS 2 days ago -Oh they only have Slitherfang and Rung together, oh well. "Checks today" appropriately they did have them seperated at some point in the last 48 hours and Slitherfang sold out...Of course. Well It was a pain in the behind to find Sounbarrier, hopefully I can find Slitherfang at a Target without having to pay scalper prices online.

o.supreme wrote:Looks BBTS 2 days ago -Oh they only have Slitherfang and Rung together, oh well. "Checks today" appropriately they did have them seperated at some point in the last 48 hours and Slitherfang sold out...Of course. Well It was a pain in the behind to find Sounbarrier, hopefully I can find Slitherfang at a Target without having to pay scalper prices online.

Really? Soundbarrier is literally the only Battlemaster I see... multiple pegs of nothing but him.

Mindmaster wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Looks BBTS 2 days ago -Oh they only have Slitherfang and Rung together, oh well. "Checks today" appropriately they did have them seperated at some point in the last 48 hours and Slitherfang sold out...Of course. Well It was a pain in the behind to find Sounbarrier, hopefully I can find Slitherfang at a Target without having to pay scalper prices online.

Really? Soundbarrier is literally the only Battlemaster I see... multiple pegs of nothing but him.

They don't get Battlemasters at all in Maryland, anymore.

Mindmaster wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Looks BBTS 2 days ago -Oh they only have Slitherfang and Rung together, oh well. "Checks today" appropriately they did have them seperated at some point in the last 48 hours and Slitherfang sold out...Of course. Well It was a pain in the behind to find Sounbarrier, hopefully I can find Slitherfang at a Target without having to pay scalper prices online.

Really? Soundbarrier is literally the only Battlemaster I see... multiple pegs of nothing but him.

I had to beg a Target employee to dig a Soundbarrier out of the back a few months ago, only saw it one other time. Siege BMs still clogging pegs in northern CA stores. Never saw Rung either. I guess I should have waited so I could pre-order Rung & Slitherfang both now. But I was able to get a TT Rung at a fairly reasonable price compared to others.

With Doublecrosser being the only other new BM, I wonder if his Wavemate would be Slitherfang?

Found the clone two pack @ target today in Cupertino CA

Bleh - ER Arcee's alt mode looks even flimsier than the Thrilling 30s version...

Otaku-mus Prime wrote:Are Smokescreen's headlights going to be black? I really hope not.

I'm pretty sure they're the same clear plastic as his windows. So dark, but not quite black.

I recently made the decision to get out of collecting, so my current pre-orders are the last ones, but today this giant arrived! Expect images soon!

Fuck yeah! Congrats!

Apologies, I just realised whilst changing to Scorpion mode I had his feet mistransformed, will post some better pictures after!

You know what I'm going to ask don't you? Do you have a Fort Max on hand for comparison?

ZeroWolf wrote:You know what I'm going to ask don't you? Do you have a Fort Max on hand for comparison?

I do of course! I will get some more comparisons once I have taken pictures of the alternate modes!

Fantastic! Can't wait to see them! Still okay for us to use the photos in a news article?

Absolutely, feel free to use these for the news!

Scorpion mode:







Base Mode:

The detail is incredible! I'll put the news article up once you've finished putting up the pictures.

Some Zarak pictures:

Oh, this is very delicious~ The Deluxe Zarak makes for a much better scorpion head than the original toy's scorpion head, the separate eyes under the retractable (or removable?) visor are a nice touch, and he's well set up for a reshell into the Black Zarak/Dark Scorponok (what Hasbro might call the redeco; there's precedent) head.

Do you also have TR Trypticon to compare him with?

And finally, some comparison shots with the correctly transformed feet!





And, my favourite photo

Very nice looking figure. I'm glad I got him preordered. Do you happen to have a G1 Fort Max you can stand him next to? Scorpy looks so G1-accurate, he kinda looks out of place with TR Max.

Okay, so my thoughts on ER Scorponok:

To sum it up, this is one of my favourite figures I own at the moment. He is hands down my favourite titan figure, which is tough to say considering I absolutely adore Omega Supreme. I just love the aesthetic of this figure, and its actually fun to transform and display (unlike Fort Max/Trypticon). He is incredibly articulated, including a neck joint to allow him to look down one click which I think is such a good feature. Makes him feel very imposing looking down on his enemies. He is also incredible hefty, it feels worth the price tag, and really doesn't feel hollow. Only minor hollow part is in his legs but thats just for where his feet go in the other modes. All space is used up by every mode, and its incredible.

For the alt modes, I definitely prefer scorpion mode, its just huge and imposing and I love how well it pulls it off. My only minor complaint is I feel it could have done with another joint in the arms more in the middle to make a more natural bend of the claw, but that is a VERY minor complaint, it still looks great as is. The base mode doesn't look like anything special, but I wasn't expecting it to be. It does the job well enough, and thats the most important part of it! I think its also good they included a spot to store the head in base mode, as well as an area for the titan master to ride the scorpion mode (even if you do have to untransform him a bit).

Zarak looks great, and feels great. Kind of sucky that you have to remove the orange ears to put them on the back, but honestly its another very minor complaint on an otherwise perfect figure. Even Zarak has ankle pivot! Miles better than Cerebros, even if he is smaller!

Overall I'm incredibly impressed with this figure, a good final pit stop before stopping my collecting days, go out with a bang as they say! Would recommend this to anyone who is even remotely interested!

Also, in response to a previous comment, the visor is detachable, however you need to remove a screw to do so. I thought I'd have to put the screw back in, but it actually holds in very well without, so leaving the screw loose gives you the option permanently!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Very nice looking figure. I'm glad I got him preordered. Do you happen to have a G1 Fort Max you can stand him next to? Scorpy looks so G1-accurate, he kinda looks out of place with TR Max.

Unfortnuately not, I only got into collecting in 2015 along with Combiner Wars, so most of my collection is modern!

Thank you for all the photos! Once I get back home I'll start drafting the news story. Okay to share your thoughts as well?

ZeroWolf wrote:Thank you for all the photos! Once I get back home I'll start drafting the news story. Okay to share your thoughts as well?

Gave them in a previous response, a bit of a hefty one but it is well deserved from this beast

Rodimus Prime wrote:Very nice looking figure. I'm glad I got him preordered. Do you happen to have a G1 Fort Max you can stand him next to? Scorpy looks so G1-accurate, he kinda looks out of place with TR Max.

TR Fort Max definitely tries his best (aside from the head integration in altmode), but yeeeah did he suffer from being an experiment (and thus, HasTak hedging their bets). On the upside, thanks to his proving that people would buy Titan basebots other than Metroplex we got Trypticon, Omega Supreme, and Scorponok - all beautifully accurate.

LeAwsome1, I'm curious. First, would I be right in thinking that your least favorite part of transforming Trypticon is splitting the legs? Second, can Scorponok ride on the back of Trypticon's robot mode?

Also, excuse me while I drool.

LeAwesome1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Thank you for all the photos! Once I get back home I'll start drafting the news story. Okay to share your thoughts as well?

Gave them in a previous response, a bit of a hefty one but it is well deserved from this beast

I think he meant would it be okay if he shared your thoughts on the figure in the news piece along with the pictures.

And Zelda, I got both Devy and Omega to ride on Tryppy, so I'm sure Scorpy can do it, seeing as how he's even more articulated.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

LeAwesome1 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Thank you for all the photos! Once I get back home I'll start drafting the news story. Okay to share your thoughts as well?

Gave them in a previous response, a bit of a hefty one but it is well deserved from this beast

I think he meant would it be okay if he shared your thoughts on the figure in the news piece along with the pictures.

And Zelda, I got both Devy and Omega to ride on Tryppy, so I'm sure Scorpy can do it, seeing as how he's even more articulated.

Indeed, though why have I got the sudden desire to see if someone has taken pictures of devy, omega and Fort max riding on a trypticon of their own That would be the most insane cowboy posse ever.

LeAwesome1 wrote:Okay, so my thoughts on ER Scorponok:

To sum it up, this is one of my favourite figures I own at the moment. He is hands down my favourite titan figure, which is tough to say considering I absolutely adore Omega Supreme. I just love the aesthetic of this figure, and its actually fun to transform and display (unlike Fort Max/Trypticon). He is incredibly articulated, including a neck joint to allow him to look down one click which I think is such a good feature. Makes him feel very imposing looking down on his enemies. He is also incredible hefty, it feels worth the price tag, and really doesn't feel hollow. Only minor hollow part is in his legs but thats just for where his feet go in the other modes. All space is used up by every mode, and its incredible.

For the alt modes, I definitely prefer scorpion mode, its just huge and imposing and I love how well it pulls it off. My only minor complaint is I feel it could have done with another joint in the arms more in the middle to make a more natural bend of the claw, but that is a VERY minor complaint, it still looks great as is. The base mode doesn't look like anything special, but I wasn't expecting it to be. It does the job well enough, and thats the most important part of it! I think its also good they included a spot to store the head in base mode, as well as an area for the titan master to ride the scorpion mode (even if you do have to untransform him a bit).

Zarak looks great, and feels great. Kind of sucky that you have to remove the orange ears to put them on the back, but honestly its another very minor complaint on an otherwise perfect figure. Even Zarak has ankle pivot! Miles better than Cerebros, even if he is smaller!

Overall I'm incredibly impressed with this figure, a good final pit stop before stopping my collecting days, go out with a bang as they say! Would recommend this to anyone who is even remotely interested!

Also, in response to a previous comment, the visor is detachable, however you need to remove a screw to do so. I thought I'd have to put the screw back in, but it actually holds in very well without, so leaving the screw loose gives you the option permanently!

Thanks for all the pics and the excellent write up. Could you shoot more pictures of the box?

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, LeAwesome1, recieved a special package today from InDemandToys. It was none other the Transformers: Earthrise Titan Class Scorponok! LeAwesome1 has graciously agreed to share a whole host of photos of this latest, most wanted, titan. Check the users thoughts and their grand glorious gallery below!

LeAwesome1 wrote:Okay, so my thoughts on ER Scorponok:

To sum it up, this is one of my favourite figures I own at the moment. He is hands down my favourite titan figure, which is tough to say considering I absolutely adore Omega Supreme. I just love the aesthetic of this figure, and its actually fun to transform and display (unlike Fort Max/Trypticon). He is incredibly articulated, including a neck joint to allow him to look down one click which I think is such a good feature. Makes him feel very imposing looking down on his enemies. He is also incredible hefty, it feels worth the price tag, and really doesn't feel hollow. Only minor hollow part is in his legs but thats just for where his feet go in the other modes. All space is used up by every mode, and its incredible.

For the alt modes, I definitely prefer scorpion mode, its just huge and imposing and I love how well it pulls it off. My only minor complaint is I feel it could have done with another joint in the arms more in the middle to make a more natural bend of the claw, but that is a VERY minor complaint, it still looks great as is. The base mode doesn't look like anything special, but I wasn't expecting it to be. It does the job well enough, and thats the most important part of it! I think its also good they included a spot to store the head in base mode, as well as an area for the titan master to ride the scorpion mode (even if you do have to untransform him a bit).

Zarak looks great, and feels great. Kind of sucky that you have to remove the orange ears to put them on the back, but honestly its another very minor complaint on an otherwise perfect figure. Even Zarak has ankle pivot! Miles better than Cerebros, even if he is smaller!

Overall I'm incredibly impressed with this figure, a good final pit stop before stopping my collecting days, go out with a bang as they say! Would recommend this to anyone who is even remotely interested!

Also, in response to a previous comment, the visor is detachable, however you need to remove a screw to do so. I thought I'd have to put the screw back in, but it actually holds in very well without, so leaving the screw loose gives you the option permanently!

Box:



Robot Mode (Toes not transformed correctly):



















Scorpion Mode:











Base Mode:









Zarak:





















More comparisons (Toes transformed correctly):











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Love the photos, he looks amazing, cannot wait to receive mine.

SGM

Wow! Titan Scorponok looks GREAT!

It seems like he's an all-new mold with no mold/ parts-sharing. Is that right? There were those who said he was a heavy re-mold of Omega Supreme.

I only wish he included his big orange rifle, his elevator, the other two double-cannons, & whatever city-mode bits Hasbro always leaves out due to budgetary restraints. Oh well, 3rd Party add-ons to the rescue, again!

I hope this mold gets a Black Zarak repaint/ remold.

AutobotAlvaron wrote:Wow! Titan Scorponok looks GREAT!

It seems like he's an all-new mold with no mold/ parts-sharing. Is that right? There were those who said he was a heavy re-mold of Omega Supreme.

I only wish he included his big orange rifle, his elevator, the other two double-cannons, & whatever city-mode bits Hasbro always leaves out due to budgetary restraints. Oh well, 3rd Party add-ons to the rescue, again!

I hope this mold gets a Black Zarak repaint/ remold.

Entirely his own mould, I see nothing that has been shared what so ever! I own both, so I just had a gloss over, and I thought the legs may have been shared but they are not!

I don't get every titan .... but I'm gonna get this.

I saw that his head was cross compatible with Fort Max's too. Not something I expected, but was glad to see.

AutobotAlvaron wrote:Wow! Titan Scorponok looks GREAT!

It seems like he's an all-new mold with no mold/ parts-sharing. Is that right? There were those who said he was a heavy re-mold of Omega Supreme.

I only wish he included his big orange rifle, his elevator, the other two double-cannons, & whatever city-mode bits Hasbro always leaves out due to budgetary restraints. Oh well, 3rd Party add-ons to the rescue, again!

I hope this mold gets a Black Zarak repaint/ remold.

Where did you hear that? I've never heard he was going to be a remold. The only titan to ever be a retool was Fortress Maximus.

Got some more pictures of the box as requested, you can see Bumblebee and Doubledealer on there





I also noticed a gunshot coming from round the corner, and is that who I think it is firing?


Is that Megatron?

I noted that Megatron was firing on Scorponok back when we had the box reveal I wonder what the angle is with it. Afterall according to the Japanese G1 timeline, Megs and Optimus did ally together for a while (the truce broke down in the lead up to the Japanese G2 release), megs became a good guy in the IDW stories, Transformers Prime had him renouncing evil at its end. I can't remember what happened with megs in the prime wars trilogy though, other than he was snarky as hell but wasn't the bad guy. Are we about to see a twist in this tale?

ZeroWolf wrote:I noted that Megatron was firing on Scorponok back when we had the box reveal I wonder what the angle is with it. Afterall according to the Japanese G1 timeline, Megs and Optimus did ally together for a while (the truce broke down in the lead up to the Japanese G2 release), megs became a good guy in the IDW stories, Transformers Prime had him renouncing evil at its end. I can't remember what happened with megs in the prime wars trilogy though, other than he was snarky as hell but wasn't the bad guy. Are we about to see a twist in this tale?

It would be so weird if the mandatory Megatron of the next line was an Autobot.

Skritz wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I noted that Megatron was firing on Scorponok back when we had the box reveal I wonder what the angle is with it. Afterall according to the Japanese G1 timeline, Megs and Optimus did ally together for a while (the truce broke down in the lead up to the Japanese G2 release), megs became a good guy in the IDW stories, Transformers Prime had him renouncing evil at its end. I can't remember what happened with megs in the prime wars trilogy though, other than he was snarky as hell but wasn't the bad guy. Are we about to see a twist in this tale?

It would be so weird if the mandatory Megatron of the next line was an Autobot.

Well there's plenty speculation that the next line will have a... Different sort of Megatron, of the purple dinosaur sort.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Skritz wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:I noted that Megatron was firing on Scorponok back when we had the box reveal I wonder what the angle is with it. Afterall according to the Japanese G1 timeline, Megs and Optimus did ally together for a while (the truce broke down in the lead up to the Japanese G2 release), megs became a good guy in the IDW stories, Transformers Prime had him renouncing evil at its end. I can't remember what happened with megs in the prime wars trilogy though, other than he was snarky as hell but wasn't the bad guy. Are we about to see a twist in this tale?

It would be so weird if the mandatory Megatron of the next line was an Autobot.

Well there's plenty speculation that the next line will have a... Different sort of Megatron, of the purple dinosaur sort.

It could very well be that Skorponok poses a threat to the Autobots AND Decepticons. Megatron has no shortage of potential usurpers in his circle.

As long as they don't have Starscream possessing Scorponok ala the Titan's Return cartoon

ZeroWolf wrote:As long as they don't have Starscream possessing Scorponok ala the Titan's Return cartoon

Instead, he'll possess Bumblebee.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:As long as they don't have Starscream possessing Scorponok ala the Titan's Return cartoon

Instead, he'll possess Bumblebee.

Now that's a twist!

I think he's gorgeous but I just don't like Scorponok as a Titan-sized character. I ended up using my ebay earnings to finally buy PE Warden and Botcon Scorponok - they'll be repping the characters in my collection now.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:As long as they don't have Starscream possessing Scorponok ala the Titan's Return cartoon

Instead, he'll possess Bumblebee.

Now that's a twist!

Then he'll jump around and possess Optimus, Megatron, Arcee, Soundwave, Shockwave, Ultra Magnus, and more.

And with Starscream being Starscream, he won't wisen up to realize that he could have just stayed inside Megatron and taken over the Decepticons that way.

Scorponok looks great! Nice to finally have a Decepticon Titan that scales well with his Autobot counterpart. ASo...whay are some areas getting this now, and U.S. has to wait until September (the fans in Japan have to wait until November...). I know regional packaging may have something to do with it, but I believed most countries that have multilingual packaging should theoretically all get it about the same time...Oh well....*patience*