Official Images of Transformers Prime Voyager Class Thundertron and Dreadwing
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Posted by NemesisMonkeySupreme on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:19pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:24pm CDT
New faction, new insignia, new faction's leader, lion altmode, space pirate, obscure character given special treatment, it's a novelty thing.NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:I really have a hard time seeing why people think this figure is must have…
Posted by Va'al on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:33pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Your wish has been granted, Va'al.New faction, new insignia, new faction's leader, lion altmode, space pirate, obscure character given special treatment, it's a novelty thing.NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:I really have a hard time seeing why people think this figure is must have…
You know the whole argument for Grimlock: Giant Space Fire-breathing Dinosaur Robot?
This is on the same lines: Giant Space Peg-leg Pirate Robot Lion.
Pirates. In Space. Who are robots. And also animals.
It's a matter of ticking all the boxes of childhood obsessions.
I, personally, love him. I don't expect anyone else to do so.
Just realised: we have TF zombies, dinosaurs and pirates, and the characters are shapeshifters by nature. So far, all the biggest current trends are there!
Posted by Gundamu on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:33pm CDT
Posted by Midnight_Fox on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:34pm CDT
Va'al wrote:
Just realised: we have TF zombies, dinosaurs and pirates, and the characters are shapeshifters by nature. So far, all the biggest current trends are there!
Also, Animated gave us ninjas.
Posted by Heckfire on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:38pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:38pm CDT
Oh, we've had those since long before Animated.Midnight_Fox wrote:Va'al wrote:
Just realised: we have TF zombies, dinosaurs and pirates, and the characters are shapeshifters by nature. So far, all the biggest current trends are there!
Also, Animated gave us ninjas.
Posted by NemesisMonkeySupreme on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:39pm CDT
also, pirates kind of suck. but maybe that's just me.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:42pm CDT
Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
Posted by Twitchythe3rd on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:47pm CDT
Magnus is a pass. The MechTech hammer turns me off.
They're making it hard for me to not want Thundertron.
And Grimlock is a given. Him Grimlock king!
Posted by NemesisMonkeySupreme on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:48pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
Extra dimensional wormholes. Problem solved. And can be used to win any argument!
Posted by Va'al on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:49pm CDT
NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:maybe I'm just on translucent plastic and robot with bladed weapons overload.
also, pirates kind of suck. but maybe that's just me.
I only have PRiD Megatron who fits that description, so I think I need more.
(As for the second part, I recommend watching the recent Sky adaptation of Treasure Island. A whole different level of pirates, compared to Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.)
Posted by Anonymous on July 18th, 2012 @ 12:49pm CDT
Looks like a certain someone walked the plank before.NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:also, pirates kind of suck. but maybe that's just me.
Posted by Megatronsdemise666 on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:07pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
Posted by Va'al on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:16pm CDT
Megatronsdemise666 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
Sabr, I leave this to you.
I have a thesis chapter to write.
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:19pm CDT
*squints*
His face.
.....
HE HAS A NOSE! :O THUNDERTRON HAS A NOSE!
Posted by Anonymous on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:21pm CDT
Indeed, there are several glaring inconsistencies if one considers them one continuity. It's far easier to consider them merely a continuity family.Megatronsdemise666 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
Can't have that. If he truly fits into the TFP line, that needs to go.Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Wait.
*squints*
His face.
.....
HE HAS A NOSE! :O THUNDERTRON HAS A NOSE!
Posted by GuyIncognito on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:34pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:35pm CDT
Megatronsdemise666 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
dude the cons lost allllllllllllllllll of the dark energon during the war if you had read the books i guessed i cant remember but i believe they gave up all of the dark energon they had for trying to follow optimus anyway by the time they were on earth before the series began megatron left earth during those 3 years he was gone to find another source of the dark energon. oh and they dont have time to talk about the other autobots due to they all ways have to focus on the present and not the pass but hey there are bots who have been mentioned i only remember 5 perceptor, the wreckers roadbuster, impactor i think, pyro and some other wrecker i forgot what his name is any way the wreckers who have been mentioned are all dead as said by wheeljack. oh and the games wont go into g1 cause dinobots in g1 were built on earth not on cybertron and in the consal breakdown and dead end are playable in the ds version of war for cybertron cyclonus motormaster dragstrip are all playable which is not possible in g1 cause motor master, dragstrip,breakdown,and dead end are stunticons and the stunticons were built on earth and could never have been on cybertron during the war that and cyclonus was either skywarp or thundercracker before they were killed and rebulit by unicron and in the game them and cyclonus are separate characters. dude you just got sarged!!!
Posted by Mkall on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:38pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:39pm CDT
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Megatronsdemise666 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
dude the cons lost allllllllllllllllll of the dark energon during the war if you had read the books i guessed i cant remember but i believe they gave up all of the dark energon they had for trying to follow optimus anyway by the time they were on earth before the series began megatron left earth during those 3 years he was gone to find another source of the dark energon. oh and they dont have time to talk about the other autobots due to they all ways have to focus on the present and not the pass but hey there are bots who have been mentioned i only remember 5 perceptor, the wreckers roadbuster, impactor i think, pyro and some other wrecker i forgot what his name is any way the wreckers who have been mentioned are all dead as said by wheeljack. oh and the games wont go into g1 cause dinobots in g1 were built on earth not on cybertron and in the consal breakdown and dead end are playable in the ds version of war for cybertron cyclonus motormaster dragstrip are all playable which is not possible in g1 cause motor master, dragstrip,breakdown,and dead end are stunticons and the stunticons were built on earth and could never have been on cybertron during the war that and cyclonus was either skywarp or thundercracker before they were killed and rebulit by unicron and in the game them and cyclonus are separate characters. dude you just got sarged!!!
that and the combaticons were not present during the war they were in storage even if they were they would not have those forms and they would not have been able to turn into bruticus and they i think would not be decepticons i think they were renegades not autobots but renegades
Posted by Anonymous on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:39pm CDT
There's more than one G1 continuity.mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Megatronsdemise666 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
I dont think the games are the same timeline
Seeing how in wfc megatron obtains dark energon but in tf prime he gets it for the first timeand search the galaxy for more and found it on earth. While wfc megs had a ton of it lol.
And also how many characters like bruticus and metroplex not being mentioned.
Foc should just continue into a G1 story.
dude the cons lost allllllllllllllllll of the dark energon during the war if you had read the books i guessed i cant remember but i believe they gave up all of the dark energon they had for trying to follow optimus anyway by the time they were on earth before the series began megatron left earth during those 3 years he was gone to find another source of the dark energon. oh and they dont have time to talk about the other autobots due to they all ways have to focus on the present and not the pass but hey there are bots who have been mentioned i only remember 5 perceptor, the wreckers roadbuster, impactor i think, pyro and some other wrecker i forgot what his name is any way the wreckers who have been mentioned are all dead as said by wheeljack. oh and the games wont go into g1 cause dinobots in g1 were built on earth not on cybertron and in the consal breakdown and dead end are playable in the ds version of war for cybertron cyclonus motormaster dragstrip are all playable which is not possible in g1 cause motor master, dragstrip,breakdown,and dead end are stunticons and the stunticons were built on earth and could never have been on cybertron during the war that and cyclonus was either skywarp or thundercracker before they were killed and rebulit by unicron and in the game them and cyclonus are separate characters. dude you just got sarged!!!
Posted by NatsumeRyu on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:40pm CDT
I like this guy, but he doesn't yet make it on the list of wants for me, sadly the pirate mmo insignia is the most I care about, even if he looks cool (in both modes). Maybe after we get more on the mmo I'll want him for some personal reason or another...
Posted by ricemazter on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:41pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Especially with that FOC Dinobots comic series that leads directly into season 3 of Prime?Heckfire wrote:So...are people STILL gonna argue that TFP isn't part of the Alligned continuity with the games and books?
It may be in the same family as the games and books, but it doesn't appear to be in the same direct continuity as the others. If we look the events with dark energon do not add up from the games as well as the primes series, and in WFC we can assume that orion pax never existed, since optimus was in fact optimus before becoming a prime.
Posted by ricemazter on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:46pm CDT
Posted by craggy on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:58pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 1:58pm CDT
In Fall of Cybertron, Teletraan 1 calls Optimus "Orion Pax" at first.ricemazter wrote:It may be in the same family as the games and books, but it doesn't appear to be in the same direct continuity as the others. If we look the events with dark energon do not add up from the games as well as the primes series, and in WFC we can assume that orion pax never existed, since optimus was in fact optimus before becoming a prime.
Posted by Va'al on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:07pm CDT
craggy wrote:Thundertron? "Whispered secrets of a shattered age, I summon you: renew this sage!" or "Snikt, Bub." Either way. I like him.
...
Old-Man-Logan-Tron!
Posted by ricemazter on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:10pm CDT
Posted by Megatron Wolf on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:21pm CDT
Posted by GuyIncognito on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:35pm CDT
NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:I really have a hard time seeing why people think this figure is must have…
Because it's cool.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:40pm CDT
In the War for Cybertron comic, he starts off as Orion Pax, but is renamed Optimus Prime right before the war begins. He rejects the Prime title and is just called "Optimus" until he's forced to accept his true calling as "Optimus Prime" after they rescue the late Zeta Prime.ricemazter wrote:yes but in WFC we have a ton of characters referring to optimus as optimus before he would have become optimus in the prime show. Even Bumblebee refers to him as optimus when relaying a message regarding him, before optimus actually identifies himself. My guess is that the teletran 1 thing is just a gag high moon put in the game. It might have been a reference to the other continuity in the same way that the excuse me scene from the grimlock gameplay, and the "spare me this mockery of justice" line from WFC are both references to the 1986 movie.
Posted by xyl360 on July 18th, 2012 @ 2:58pm CDT
The pirate/new faction thing doesn't do anything for me either (I'll be covering up my G2 Decepticon symbols on Amazon Bruticus with Reprolabels Decepticon symbols ).
Posted by MINDVVIPE on July 18th, 2012 @ 3:01pm CDT
If you don't think pirates are cool, heres a song that might convince you otherwise.
The whole album is pirate themed, fyi.
Posted by Joetx on July 18th, 2012 @ 3:28pm CDT
mirageandjazz1197 wrote:dude the cons lost allllllllllllllllll of the dark energon during the war if you had read the books i guessed i cant remember but i believe they gave up all of the dark energon they had for trying to follow optimus anyway by the time they were on earth before the series began megatron left earth during those 3 years he was gone to find another source of the dark energon. oh and they dont have time to talk about the other autobots due to they all ways have to focus on the present and not the pass but hey there are bots who have been mentioned i only remember 5 perceptor, the wreckers roadbuster, impactor i think, pyro and some other wrecker i forgot what his name is any way the wreckers who have been mentioned are all dead as said by wheeljack. oh and the games wont go into g1 cause dinobots in g1 were built on earth not on cybertron and in the consal breakdown and dead end are playable in the ds version of war for cybertron cyclonus motormaster dragstrip are all playable which is not possible in g1 cause motor master, dragstrip,breakdown,and dead end are stunticons and the stunticons were built on earth and could never have been on cybertron during the war that and cyclonus was either skywarp or thundercracker before they were killed and rebulit by unicron and in the game them and cyclonus are separate characters. dude you just got sarged!!!
I'm sure you had a lot of helpful info in that comment, but I was dissuaded from reading it due to the near total lack of punctuation, total lack of capitalization, & all-around lack of readability.
Grammar, punctuation, & spacing are your friends.
Posted by ricemazter on July 18th, 2012 @ 3:35pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:In the War for Cybertron comic, he starts off as Orion Pax, but is renamed Optimus Prime right before the war begins. He rejects the Prime title and is just called "Optimus" until he's forced to accept his true calling as "Optimus Prime" after they rescue the late Zeta Prime.ricemazter wrote:yes but in WFC we have a ton of characters referring to optimus as optimus before he would have become optimus in the prime show. Even Bumblebee refers to him as optimus when relaying a message regarding him, before optimus actually identifies himself. My guess is that the teletran 1 thing is just a gag high moon put in the game. It might have been a reference to the other continuity in the same way that the excuse me scene from the grimlock gameplay, and the "spare me this mockery of justice" line from WFC are both references to the 1986 movie.
Even so that still contradicts the TFP timeline as we know it. In the show he only became optimus prime after interacting with the core of cybertron, still being orion pax before that. Even if the story did match up, it's clear in the prime show that upon meeting the core he was physically reformatted into a new body by the matrix/core which did not happen in wfc where he was given the matrix and only stored it away.
Posted by Autobot032 on July 18th, 2012 @ 3:59pm CDT
NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:I really have a hard time seeing why people think this figure is must have…
Me too. This is one ugly trainwreck.
Posted by Noideaforaname on July 18th, 2012 @ 4:38pm CDT
- a beast-former
- a space pirate
- a new faction (which I hope doesn't get swallowed up by the main two over time)
A welcome breath of fresh air after all these Movie/Classics/Kreo/Prime/WfC/FoC/BotShot Optimuses/Bumblebees/Megatrons/Starscreams/etc. etc..
Posted by LiKwid on July 18th, 2012 @ 6:20pm CDT
Posted by CrimsonPrime on July 18th, 2012 @ 10:36pm CDT
PS : To those who's still wondering why some people love this figure...That's cause every human is different. Dont expect them to like the same thing you like and dont expect them to hate the same thing you hate. There, nuff said.
Posted by Rated X on July 18th, 2012 @ 10:44pm CDT
Posted by RAcast on July 18th, 2012 @ 10:52pm CDT
Rated X wrote:I watched both seasons of TF Prime and there was no damn Thundertron. Who is this guy ? He seems to be a new mold so is this character coming in season 3 ? Or did they just stick an animated head on an old unused mold just to make money ?
He (and the rest of his pirate-y crew, the Star Seekers, ARR!) are from Exiles, a prequel comic to Prime (depending on who you ask, that is).
Other members of his crew include: Axer, Cannonball, Sandstorm, and Brimstone.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 18th, 2012 @ 11:27pm CDT
Ratchet was the one telling that story, and he was never even present to bear witness any of the events he described, so none of it was from his memory. Therefore, the images shown in that flashback could have only come from either his or the humans' imaginations, in which there are bound to be some inconsistencies from how the events actually played out. Plus, with Ratchet having not been there, it's possible that he got some thing mixed up from secondary sources who told him of those events (or, he's just getting senile ).ricemazter wrote:Even so that still contradicts the TFP timeline as we know it. In the show he only became optimus prime after interacting with the core of cybertron, still being orion pax before that. Even if the story did match up, it's clear in the prime show that upon meeting the core he was physically reformatted into a new body by the matrix/core which did not happen in wfc where he was given the matrix and only stored it away.
Not to mention the fact that, after Optimus lost the Matrix's energy at the end of the episode, he did not revert to any previous body form like he would have had he gotten a new form upon being granted the Matrix. Everytime someone has gotten a new physical form upon receiving the Matrix, they always reverted back to their previous state after the Matrix's removal. Yet, no such event happened to Optimus when he emptied the Matrix. He only lost his memories, not his bulk. If he had been upgraded before, he would have at least gotten smaller or something. But he did not.
Besides, Optimus's official profile of the Fall of Cybertron website describes him exactly as Exodus and the Prime cartoon said he was like before becoming Optimus. Everything official wants us to treat him as the same guy across the board. Why continue to fight what's canon?
Where on Earth have you been during every single discussion about this toy on this website? This guy from the Exiles novel, a fact Hasbro explicitly spelled out when they first revealed him at BotCon last April, and is a part of the Prime cartoon's universe. He's even going to be a major antagonist in the upcoming Transformers: Online MMORPG game, which is also set in the world of the Prime cartoon.Rated X wrote:I watched both seasons of TF Prime and there was no damn Thundertron. Who is this guy ? He seems to be a new mold so is this character coming in season 3 ? Or did they just stick an animated head on an old unused mold just to make money ?
Posted by DJrasmo on July 19th, 2012 @ 12:51am CDT
First of all, I will just go ahead and get the elephant in the room out there..."Motorbreath" is just an insult to a great character we all know and love, and have been waiting for a decent fig of him (not to mention the rest of his team) for FOREVER now...
And I am not too fond of Wheelie being a generic Jazz repaint...from the pics it doesnt even look like they bothered to re-mold the "flip-out window-speaker" thingies from Jazz's mold...not to mention the fact that Wheelie should be scout class, at the most.
Just like Hasbron't to take it's customer demand and turn it into a complete FAIL of a product. I understand these are supposed to be "simpler" version of transformers (maybe for like, little kids to get started on or something) but still...
I am loving the updated Soundwave/Blaster voyager bots...but I am somewhat underimpressed with the Ejector/Rewind pics...if Rumble and Frenzy are done in the same mold, i am not seeing much in the way of articulation which basically rules out any cool pile-driver attachments for those two (at least from what I can tell visually from the pics).
FoC Grimlock = RULE. Same with Shockwave...does anyone know where I can get some size comparison pics (i know these are new projects but fans always want to see some scale info)
Posted by Random on July 19th, 2012 @ 1:21am CDT
Posted by AlexSpastic on July 19th, 2012 @ 9:54am CDT
P.S. I hope Ultra-Magnus gives Prime a hard time. Prime has too many sycophants and there is a strong possibility that he might just preach a Decepticon to death.
Posted by Anonymous on July 19th, 2012 @ 10:47am CDT
AlexSpastic wrote:I welcome my new Decepta-pirate Over-Lords. Megatron has wasted one planet so badly that even though he won he still doesn't want to live there. I don't even think he is fun to hang with either to be honest.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 19th, 2012 @ 10:48am CDT
Thundertron ain't no Decepitcon. In fact, he'd be appalled to be even associated with a Cybertronian faction. He utterly dispises Cybertronians, beauring some sort of grudge-like vendetta against them all. He is a Star Seeker and proud of it.AlexSpastic wrote:I welcome my new Decepta-pirate Over-Lords. Megatron has wasted one planet so badly that even though he won he still doesn't want to live there. I don't even think he is fun to hang with either to be honest.
From what we've seen of him thus far, Magnus is loyal and honorable to Optimus.AlexSpastic wrote:P.S. I hope Ultra-Magnus gives Prime a hard time. Prime has too many sycophants and there is a strong possibility that he might just preach a Decepticon to death.
Posted by Sodan-1 on July 19th, 2012 @ 8:27pm CDT
Posted by Noideaforaname on July 19th, 2012 @ 8:57pm CDT
Still, I'm hoping he gets a crew of more 'typical' beast-formers. In particular, a small parrot that can sit on his shoulder is a must.