New Video Review of Transformers Generations Selects Centurion and Weapon Pack

I feel the accessory pack itself would have went well with Optimus Prime. He's a Leader Class figure and the one most fans would want to buy, and the accessory pack would have not only completed the trailer but also encourage other fans to buy the other figures in the line. But of course, it's gotta go to an obscure repaint and online exclusive.

We got the trailer with Optimus, now we get the rest as part of a pack. This + Leader Optimus - Centurion > $50. If you don't want to drop the extra money on this, then don't.

...why do people STILL think this pack is a Selects thing when it's been confirmed already that it isn't? This should be on the Earthrise thread, this set is WFC-E33.

Nemesis Primal wrote:...why do people STILL think this pack is a Selects thing when it's been confirmed already that it isn't? This should be on the Earthrise thread, this set is WFC-E33.

That is technically accurate but he is sold in a Selects box and not standard WFC Earthrise packaging. Plus the figure itself is a straight repaint, not counting the accessories, and a Pulse exclusive. Seems like everything indicates him being a Selects figure other than his ID number, which I didn't even take notice of until now.

I still don't like that a lot of this stuff didn't come with Prime. And with the super small deluxes like Cliffjumper (compared to Hoist in the same line), they could have included some of those accessories to make up for the small size.

Maybe it would have felt more appropriate to pay for them separately if they were more detailed or articulate, but that unpainted jetpack really doesn't do it for me.

Hmmm I hope to see a lot of Ebay sellers break up this set so I can make like a buffet, take what I want and leave the rest...remember buffets?

I was thinking of doing that. I want the parts for Prime, Megatron, and some of the smaller accessories, but the Ravage Cage, individual guns for BB, Cliff, Ironhide, Trailbreaker...I don't really need/want. Of course my son may commandeer them to other toys, so we will see

The other approach would be buying the pack and reselling the Centurion drone. I don't know how many IDW fans will be building armies, but I'm sure there will be some, and it's not like there's a lot of use for three Ravage cages.

I really wish the gun mode Shockwave and camera mode Reflector were painted.
They were so close..

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:I really wish the gun mode Shockwave and camera mode Reflector were painted.
They were so close..

They might be unpaintable plastic.

Zeedust wrote:I know the Seacons are old news by this point, but it took this long for my Lobclaw and Kraken to arrive, so I'm just now putting together King Poseidon, and I need help.

Is Tentakil just an inherently unstable leg, or am I doing something wrong?

Mine's that way too. Tentakil is a bad leg, it doesn't tab together, just holds together loosely. And with all that weight on top, it won't hold

Sabrblade wrote:

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:I really wish the gun mode Shockwave and camera mode Reflector were painted.
They were so close..

They might be unpaintable plastic.

Huh, I didn't think of that. Either way I would've even been happy had they just been molded in solid purple.
Oh well.

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:I really wish the gun mode Shockwave and camera mode Reflector were painted.
They were so close..

They might be unpaintable plastic.

Huh, I didn't think of that. Either way I would've even been happy had they just been molded in solid purple.
Oh well.

Yeah, they might have gangmolded all of the gray accessories. Sideswipe's rocket pack is gray too when it should be red.

Looking at the accessory pack again, after the initial excitement has worn off ... the lack of colors really hurts this.

If this were 3rd party the lack of colors would be an instant no-buy. But I suppose it keeps with the trend of the similar lack of paint on ER Prime himself (the unpainted grey inner legs). It's like ... this is good. but it could have been better.

But I've already gotten ER Prime so I'm committed. I wonder if there's space in his trailer for most of the accessoies.

This Drone Brunt and accessories pack is going to be sweet. Most of it I want, but is Optimus' ion canon a bit too large? Glad I gots my pre-order in and didnt buy Brunt.

What I am most excited for is the Super Megatron. He looks so badass. I know its basically a TR Galvatron remold, but its pretty much a new figure. Wrist swivels would have been tight, but he just looks so good and is the Megatron I need for my timeline headcanon collection.

Moonshot wrote:This Drone Brunt and accessories pack is going to be sweet. Most of it I want, but is Optimus' ion canon a bit too large? Glad I gots my pre-order in and didnt buy Brunt.

What I am most excited for is the Super Megatron. He looks so badass. I know its basically a TR Galvatron remold, but its pretty much a new figure. Wrist swivels would have been tight, but he just looks so good and is the Megatron I need for my timeline headcanon collection.

It does look too big. There's also no way for it to fold up so a lot of the functionality is lost.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Moonshot wrote:This Drone Brunt and accessories pack is going to be sweet. Most of it I want, but is Optimus' ion canon a bit too large? Glad I gots my pre-order in and didnt buy Brunt.

What I am most excited for is the Super Megatron. He looks so badass. I know its basically a TR Galvatron remold, but its pretty much a new figure. Wrist swivels would have been tight, but he just looks so good and is the Megatron I need for my timeline headcanon collection.

It does look too big. There's also no way for it to fold up so a lot of the functionality is lost.

In fairness, I think it, and a lot of the other weapons here, are supposed to store in Prime's trailer. If you open it up there's a lot of spots tailor made for weapons.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Moonshot wrote:This Drone Brunt and accessories pack is going to be sweet. Most of it I want, but is Optimus' ion canon a bit too large? Glad I gots my pre-order in and didnt buy Brunt.

What I am most excited for is the Super Megatron. He looks so badass. I know its basically a TR Galvatron remold, but its pretty much a new figure. Wrist swivels would have been tight, but he just looks so good and is the Megatron I need for my timeline headcanon collection.

It does look too big. There's also no way for it to fold up so a lot of the functionality is lost.

In fairness, I think it, and a lot of the other weapons here, are supposed to store in Prime's trailer. If you open it up there's a lot of spots tailor made for weapons.

That still has nothing to do with the ion canon being too big for Prime to use. I dont care bouts it fitting in the trailer or not. Just if its out of scale size for Primes robot mode.

Moonshot wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Moonshot wrote:This Drone Brunt and accessories pack is going to be sweet. Most of it I want, but is Optimus' ion canon a bit too large? Glad I gots my pre-order in and didnt buy Brunt.

What I am most excited for is the Super Megatron. He looks so badass. I know its basically a TR Galvatron remold, but its pretty much a new figure. Wrist swivels would have been tight, but he just looks so good and is the Megatron I need for my timeline headcanon collection.

It does look too big. There's also no way for it to fold up so a lot of the functionality is lost.

In fairness, I think it, and a lot of the other weapons here, are supposed to store in Prime's trailer. If you open it up there's a lot of spots tailor made for weapons.

That still has nothing to do with the ion canon being too big for Prime to use. I dont care bouts it fitting in the trailer or not. Just if its out of scale size for Primes robot mode.

Why not just stick with the one he already comes with?

Or just call this big one an upgraded version.

Sabrblade wrote:

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

-WonkoTheSane- wrote:I really wish the gun mode Shockwave and camera mode Reflector were painted.
They were so close..

They might be unpaintable plastic.

Huh, I didn't think of that. Either way I would've even been happy had they just been molded in solid purple.
Oh well.

Yeah, they might have gangmolded all of the gray accessories. Sideswipe's rocket pack is gray too when it should be red.

There's four colors of plastic here: gray, clear pink, clear yellow, and clear black. It would be strange if all the gray parts weren't gang molded, but they are definitely paintable since Roller is molded in gray, painted blue, and has clear black (unpainted) tires. Likewise Megatron and Soundwave are also painted gray plastic. Prime's gun is also clear black, but painted solid black while the cage is just clear black. Pretty sure they blew their paint budget between Roller and Prime's gun, can't imagine they set aside much just for an accessory pack. Would have made much more sense to use opaque black since nothing in this set actually requires clear black plastic. The equivalent amount of paint used for the gun could have gone to Shockwave and Reflector and still had enough left to add some paint to other guns.

Emerje

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron userbacem, has been in touch to let us know that new images of the forthcoming Transformers Generations Selects Deluxe Class figure, Rotorstorm, have appeared on the Transfans Facebook Page! These new photos show off the brand new head sculpt that was revealed as part of the Transformers Fans First Friday. Until that point, all we had seen of the figure, had it with a recoloured Spinister head from Siege.

We also get a comparison side by side with Spinister.

According to the Facebook post, these pictures originated from a twitter account, Play with Photography.

























What do you think of Rotorstorm? Will you be getting him? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Am I the only one bothered by Spinister's guns not being the same? I look at Rotorstorm and all four barrels are yellow and it just looks so much better to me.

I'm definitely considering it, especially since I just got a box Overlord on the cheap!

Not sure why they even tried to put the symbols on the shoulders and if they thought that it some how works they could have given ultra magnus his. Skipping rotorstorm for the original toy tho the selects version looks nice I'd rather him be different to spinnister.

Gotta admit, Rotorstorm looks pretty damned good!

aronjlove wrote:Am I the only one bothered by Spinister's guns not being the same? I look at Rotorstorm and all four barrels are yellow and it just looks so much better to me.

Spinister's guns were designed to look like his old Targetmasters in gun mode, so that's why they're different colors.

Kinda regretted preordering before the head was shown to be different than Spinister's, But now I'm so glad I did. He looks fantastic! Now they just need to do Pyro, Guzzle, And Ironfist, And I'll be very happy.
C'mon Hasbro, You know you want to!.. You do want to.. Right? Right?

Bounti76 wrote:

aronjlove wrote:Am I the only one bothered by Spinister's guns not being the same? I look at Rotorstorm and all four barrels are yellow and it just looks so much better to me.

Spinister's guns were designed to look like his old Targetmasters in gun mode, so that's why they're different colors.

Oh yeah, he was a double Targetmaster. They got funky with the color schemes at the tail end of G1.

Rotorstorm still looks great, no regrets.

Has anyone else seen this yet? This screenshot has been making rounds, and I just checked and confirmed it is a real post:

Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron users, Nemesis Primal and -WonkoTheSane- have let us knkw that the Official Transformers Instagram has been updated with a surprising list of reveal dates, in what Hasbro is calling, Transformers Tuesdays!



As you can see from the image, every Tuesday starting tomorrow (08/11) until Tuesday 09/08, at 12 Eastern Time (9 Pacific Time) a new Transformers Generations Selects figure will be revealed on the sellers listed on that day (tomorrow the reveal will fall on Hasbro Pulse for instance, then next week Entertainment Earth etc)

While the post says figures, we don't know how many are set to be revealed each time.

What do you think we'll see tomorrow? What figures would you like to see done in the Selects range? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

So we can assume there's at least 5 reveals if each reveals one. And that somewhat matches up with previous leaks.

Hothouse (Airwave repaint)
Bugbite (Bumblebee repaint)
G2 Megatron (ER Megatron repaint)
Roritchi (Fasttrack repaint)

And I'm guessing Bluestreak? I don't think he's been leaked for any specific line.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:So we can assume there's at least 5 reveals if each reveals one. And that somewhat matches up with previous leaks.

Hothouse (Airwave repaint)
Bugbite (Bumblebee repaint)
G2 Megatron (ER Megatron repaint)
Roritchi (Fasttrack repaint)

And I'm guessing Bluestreak? I don't think he's been leaked for any specific line.

Emerje

The Bluestreak listing on eBay that had those renders that got posted on the ER thread claims him to be E32 as part of Earthrise proper, so I'm inclined to believe he's the Walgreens figure this year.

There have some Selects Ratchet leaks/claims of varying credibility, so maybe the 5th one is Ratchet? Outside of that, it would have to be someone we don't know about.

Man that is going to be a real PITA to keep track of. Well thankfully I only want 2 of these, (Hothouse & Roritchi) hopefully they are both Pulse...odds are not likely though. I especially feel bad for all non US fans, hopefully they can get these some other way.

o.supreme wrote:Man that is going to be a real PITA to keep track of. Well thankfully I only want 2 of these, (hothouse & Roritchi) hopefully they are both Pulse...odds are not likely though. I especially feel bad for all non US fans, hopefully they can get these some other way.

Have there been a Selects figure not available through Pulse?

Edit: Nevermind, you mean the reveal.

I don't think so, but hopefully there will be a little clarification. Do these online retailers get absolute exclusivity, or just first release of these toys?

I remember with Lancer and Galactic Man, I think EE had first release at SDCC last year, and Pulse got it 3 or 4 months later...

Inferno would be my guess for selects if the earth rise rumor of only three waves is true.

Earthrise is confirmed to have 4 waves, if only 1 or 2 items in that wave, like how PotP only new item in wave 4 was Novastar... Inferno is slated for Kingdom

blackeyedprime wrote:Inferno would be my guess for selects if the earth rise rumor of only three waves is true.

Inferno is rumoured to be a Kingdom release.

Shackwave and Lancer were both available on Pulse during SDCC while EE was selling them, they just had limited stock because most of it seemingly went to EE at the time, so most of the users here who ordered them from Pulse got them later because of that.

There was one Selects figure that was never sold on Pulse though: RED WING.

blackeyedprime wrote:Inferno would be my guess for selects if the earth rise rumor of only three waves is true.

Inferno is supposedly in Kingdom Wave 1 according to the credible leaks.
EDIT: Ninja'd twice over.

There's also new rumours stating that Earthrise is only going to be three waves with Kingdom potentially hitting when Siege wave 5 was out. Its dubious but I can sorta see it

ZeroWolf wrote:There's also new rumours stating that Earthrise is only going to be three waves with Kingdom potentially hitting when Siege wave 5 was out. Its dubious but I can sorta see it

I thought it said KINGDOM was only going to be 3 waves, with wave 1, yes to hit late 2020.....

Kingdoms inferno could be beast wars inferno. I'd like a selects artfire but that seems like it could be a netflix wave 3 thing with the Netflix voyagers including battlemasters.

blackeyedprime wrote:Kingdoms inferno could be beast wars inferno. I'd like a selects artfire but that seems like it could be a netflix wave 3 thing with the Netflix voyagers including battlemasters.

Nah the rumour was specifically G1 Inferno.

O.Supreme@ I could have sworn it said Earthrise was three waves:-?

o.supreme wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:There's also new rumours stating that Earthrise is only going to be three waves with Kingdom potentially hitting when Siege wave 5 was out. Its dubious but I can sorta see it

I thought it said KINGDOM was only going to be 3 waves, with wave 1, yes to hit late 2020.....

Both the credible Kingdom leaker AND In-Demand Toys have said that Earthrise only has 3 waves and Kingdom starts in December.

blackeyedprime wrote:Kingdoms inferno could be beast wars inferno. I'd like a selects artfire but that seems like it could be a netflix wave 3 thing with the Netflix voyagers including battlemasters

The leak was specifically G1 Inferno from the ER Grapple mold, the leaker was specific for that exact potential confusion. So far BW Inferno being in Kingdom is actually up in the air because of it, because people seem to think getting two Infernos in one line will be "too confusing" even though we've had multiple Optimus figures in almost every recent line.

I would also love a Selects Artfire though, that would probably be the only one that interests me. That color scheme is great.

ZeroWolf wrote:O.Supreme@ I could have sworn it said Earthrise was three waves:-?

My bad, you are correct about the rumor, but the rumor itself must be incorrect, because we have this:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... uct/44755/

and we know Runabout is a standard release assumed for ER wave 4 (possibly the only release) to complete the map.

Nemesis Primal"

[quote="blackeyedprime wrote:Kingdoms inferno could be beast wars inferno. I'd like a selects artfire but that seems like it could be a netflix wave 3 thing with the Netflix voyagers including battlemasters

The leak was specifically G1 Inferno from the ER Grapple mold, the leaker was specific for that exact potential confusion. So far BW Inferno being in Kingdom is actually up in the air because of it, because people seem to think getting two Infernos in one line will be "too confusing" even though we've had multiple Optimus figures in almost every recent line.
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Yet the credibal leaker will be wrong about core optimus prime if it is Bat mode/ Optimus primal unless hasbro is just calling the bat prime instead of primal -so I still think beast wars infernos due to appear in Kingdom especially if beast Wars Scorponok does.

Personally I am still hoping for a 'Nightbeat' release. The thrilling 30 release I wasn't a fan of. I would love a more G1 accurate and up to date Nightbeat.

LordBludgeon wrote:Personally I am still hoping for a 'Nightbeat' release. The thrilling 30 release I wasn't a fan of. I would love a more G1 accurate and up to date Nightbeat.

That would be nice, I'd buy it. The Thrilling 30 one never really screamed Nightbeat to me. Of course, It didn't really help I didn't really like the mold to begin with.

LordBludgeon wrote:Personally I am still hoping for a 'Nightbeat' release. The thrilling 30 release I wasn't a fan of. I would love a more G1 accurate and up to date Nightbeat.

Nemesis Primal wrote:So far BW Inferno being in Kingdom is actually up in the air because of it, because people seem to think getting two Infernos in one line will be "too confusing" even though we've had multiple Optimus figures in almost every recent line.

The difference is that there is no confusion with multiple Optimus Prime toys because Optimus Prime is still Optimus Prime, while Inferno is not Inferno (despite Dawn of the Predacus's stupid implications).