Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed

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When Legacy deluxe Needlenose was revealed in a livestream, he was shown to have lots of playability with his targetmasters. They were shown to have 4 other playability modes with Needlenose, along with their robot modes. That was then followed by a small comment saying that there was another secret function with Needlenose and things were left at that. Well, thanks to more images from Sonic Bomber-Core, it looks like that has been revealed. Needlenose seems to fit perfectly with Legacy Skyquake, thanks to some grooves/pegs. This could be that extra fuctionality since it resembles the look G1 Skyquake would have when his Predator jets connected with him. Back then, the connection was to reveal and image through a lens which was that toy's gimmick, but this would be an homage to the "docking" look it would have. That gives further proof (not that we needed much more) that Legacy Skyquake would come out in G1 colours and this connection point would be for a new Predator jet toy using the Needlenose mold.

Of course, these are all assumptions, but there is definitely a purposeful connection point found, so we'll see to what extent all these guesses will be shown to be right. That would explain why the Needlenose mold had an extra secret function that could not be revealed during Needlenose's reveal.

The pictures also show how the weapon is stored in alt mode.

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Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151702)
Posted by Immortal Starscream on December 14th, 2022 @ 10:29am CST

neat. probably still not getting needlenose, but good find nonetheless.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151708)
Posted by SpaceEagle on December 14th, 2022 @ 11:42am CST

This will probably mean that Needlenose will get retooled into one of the Predator jets, huh? I wonder if the Targetmasters will be redecoed if that's the case, maybe into Quake's partners?

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151710)
Posted by First-Aid on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:17pm CST

SO, I'm confused. Is this supposed to be Prime Universe Skyquake or G1 Skyquake? i thought it was supposed to be Prime Universe

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151712)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:24pm CST

First-Aid wrote:SO, I'm confused. Is this supposed to be Prime Universe Skyquake or G1 Skyquake? i thought it was supposed to be Prime Universe

This is G1-ified Prime Skyquake, not to be confused with the Prime-ified G1 Skyquake redeco expected to come later.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151713)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:27pm CST

First-Aid wrote:SO, I'm confused. Is this supposed to be Prime Universe Skyquake or G1 Skyquake? i thought it was supposed to be Prime Universe

Remember how de-Primed the Prime Universe Bulkhead, Arcee, and Knock Out toys were? This is that for Prime Universe Skyquake.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151714)
Posted by First-Aid on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:28pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
First-Aid wrote:SO, I'm confused. Is this supposed to be Prime Universe Skyquake or G1 Skyquake? i thought it was supposed to be Prime Universe
Remember how de-Primed the Prime Universe Bulkhead, Arcee, and Knock Out toys were? This is that for Prime Universe Skyquake.

Ok. that justifies my depression then. Thanks.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151716)
Posted by SpaceEagle on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:56pm CST

This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151717)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:58pm CST

SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...

It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too. >:oP

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151718)
Posted by SpaceEagle on December 14th, 2022 @ 1:00pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

Ah, well, I just hope they at least look good. I like how this Skyquake figure looks (I am very biased towards big jet dudes, though), and I enjoyed Knock Out, so I hope the Animated figures will look cool too.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151719)
Posted by william-james88 on December 14th, 2022 @ 1:43pm CST

First-Aid wrote:SO, I'm confused. Is this supposed to be Prime Universe Skyquake or G1 Skyquake? i thought it was supposed to be Prime Universe

That is Prime Universe Skyquake. But it has so many G1 nods that it is assumed by all that it will be redeco'd into G1 Skyquake.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151723)
Posted by DeathReviews on December 14th, 2022 @ 2:21pm CST

Hm. Well, neat as it may be to stick a Deluxe Needlenose on top of some other leader/voyager size jet? I've already got ROTF Voyager Mindwipe and Scout/Legends Skystalker...

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151726)
Posted by First-Aid on December 14th, 2022 @ 3:44pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151728)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on December 14th, 2022 @ 4:11pm CST

Well, now I wonder if Dreadwing will be a Prime/G2 mashup with a recolor of Needlenose as G2 Smokescreen.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151729)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on December 14th, 2022 @ 4:12pm CST

First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

I second this, especially if they do toys for the dozens of show characters that never got them, like the remaining Starscream clones and Constructicons. If the resulting toys are a series of compromises that aren't accurate to anything, then there's no way to send Hasbro the right message about how they should be done, via good sales or bad; shelfwarming will probably just result in Animated not being revisited for another decade.

Hopefully APC Toys' 3P Prime figures will include Skyquake soon, as that's apparently the only hope for TF Prime die-hards. And I actually like this new official Skyquake.

On another note, shouldn't any mention of Skyquake's Super Sight gimmick include a warning to never actually do that if you're lucky enough to acquire the original toy intact? There's gotta' be one fan out there somewhere that doesn't know about the GPS, and is just about to get their hands on one.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151730)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 14th, 2022 @ 4:13pm CST

First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

We kinda got a taste of this before back with Generations Thrilling 30 Blitzwing and Reveal the Shield Lugnut.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151735)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 14th, 2022 @ 5:46pm CST

Dr. Caelus wrote:Well, now I wonder if Dreadwing will be a Prime/G2 mashup with a recolor of Needlenose as G2 Smokescreen.

Had not thought about this, that is actually a neat thought

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151744)
Posted by Emerje on December 14th, 2022 @ 7:47pm CST

First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

At the same time Hasbro also said they acknowledge the complaints about the Prime Universe figure designs and will be taking that into consideration for Animated toys. Skyquake looks to be the best of the Prime Universe figures so they do seem to be listening.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:Well, now I wonder if Dreadwing will be a Prime/G2 mashup with a recolor of Needlenose as G2 Smokescreen.

Had not thought about this, that is actually a neat thought

That's a little too ambitious for this figure, though. We'll definitely need a new mold to do those two justice. Then they can repaint Smokescreen into Energon Starscream.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151746)
Posted by william-james88 on December 14th, 2022 @ 8:17pm CST

Emerje wrote:
First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

At the same time Hasbro also said they acknowledge the complaints about the Prime Universe figure designs and will be taking that into consideration for Animated toys. Skyquake looks to be the best of the Prime Universe figures so they do seem to be listening

Skyquake is too early to know that since it's not past the 2 year cycle of design to market.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151747)
Posted by Emerje on December 14th, 2022 @ 8:52pm CST

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

At the same time Hasbro also said they acknowledge the complaints about the Prime Universe figure designs and will be taking that into consideration for Animated toys. Skyquake looks to be the best of the Prime Universe figures so they do seem to be listening

Skyquake is too early to know that since it's not past the 2 year cycle of design to market.

That's for a full figure from design to production. Tweaks like a new head and gun can be done up until the metal molds are cut. Though I'll admit there are a lot of Prime Skyquake design cues that would be hard to add later like the shoulder pads so I probably am wrong, but I'm not wrong about what they said about Prime and Animated Universe figures.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151748)
Posted by SpaceEagle on December 14th, 2022 @ 8:52pm CST

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
First-Aid wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SpaceEagle wrote:This does make me wonder what they'll do with the Animated figures, while I didn't mind the Prime offerings, I can definitely see why Prime fans don't like them.
But I am intrigued to see if they'll lean harder into the Animated style or if they'll do spliced designs like this. Judging how this figure is a head retool away from being a stylised G1 Skyquake, I feel like it could be the latter...
It's been confirmed by Hasbro that the Animated designs will be G1-ified too.

This ticks me off. Part of what Animated so awesome was that they managed to pull of some really hard bot designs really well in toy form; maybe more distinct and unique than any other line. So changing the bots and Geewunning them would remove any sense of uniqueness to those figures. I dread how horrific this is going to be.

At the same time Hasbro also said they acknowledge the complaints about the Prime Universe figure designs and will be taking that into consideration for Animated toys. Skyquake looks to be the best of the Prime Universe figures so they do seem to be listening

Skyquake is too early to know that since it's not past the 2 year cycle of design to market.

I do agree, this does feel more in line with worrying about double-duty like Prime Arcee was (that Road Rocket retool was very predictable) and this very much looks like it's just one head away from also being G1 Skyquake/MW Starscream, which is probably exactly what HasTak wanted since it means at least 5 potential mold resuses.

It's why while I personally like how this design looks a lot (and I do enjoy the "double duty" vibe), it's also exactly why I can understand Prime fans feeling frustrated with it.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151754)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on December 14th, 2022 @ 11:11pm CST

Regarding Thrilling 30 Blitzwing and RTS Lugnut being deanimated Animated figures, don't forget RotF Lockdown and (to a lesser extent) Thrilling 30 Arcee.

Emerje wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:Well, now I wonder if Dreadwing will be a Prime/G2 mashup with a recolor of Needlenose as G2 Smokescreen.

Had not thought about this, that is actually a neat thought

That's a little too ambitious for this figure, though. We'll definitely need a new mold to do those two justice. Then they can repaint Smokescreen into Energon Starscream.

Emerje

G2 Dreadwing was one of my favorite childhood toys, so I hope they don't go this route, but I can imagine it in my head. Prime Dreadwing is already dark blue, so add the teal camo and red highlights, and maybe swap some grey out for black, and they might say 'close enough'.

I would much prefer a Dreadwing/Smokescreen Commander Class 2-pack. Something to rival Siege Jetfire.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151756)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 14th, 2022 @ 11:37pm CST

Dr. Caelus wrote:Regarding Thrilling 30 Blitzwing and RTS Lugnut being deanimated Animated figures, don't forget RotF Lockdown and (to a lesser extent) Thrilling 30 Arcee.

In ROTF Lockdown's case, that was a "Movie-fied" version rather than a "G1-ified" version.

Although, that Movie-fied Lockdown would get slightly G1-fied by IDW (mostly just the face):

And then streamlined even further by both Earth Wars and Cyberverse:

Dr. Caelus wrote:I would much prefer a Dreadwing/Smokescreen Commander Class 2-pack. Something to rival Siege Jetfire.

There's also the old Dreadwing/Smokescreen 2-pack Takara made using the ROTF Mindwipe and Skystalker molds, which were later used in Japanese G1 fiction as new bodies for the two, upgraded by the Vok Dark Nova.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151757)
Posted by joevill on December 14th, 2022 @ 11:41pm CST

OMG THEY CAN POWERLINX

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151761)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on December 15th, 2022 @ 12:28am CST

Sabrblade wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:I would much prefer a Dreadwing/Smokescreen Commander Class 2-pack. Something to rival Siege Jetfire.
There's also the old Dreadwing/Smokescreen 2-pack Takara made using the ROTF Mindwipe and Skystalker molds, which were later used in Japanese G1 fiction as new bodies for the two, upgraded by the Vok Dark Nova.

I always felt those were pretty lackluster. The colors on Mindwipe and Skystalker worked better for the molds, and abandoning Dreadwing's excessive firepower for two knives was no fun, especially without hands to hold anything else. Thrilling 30 Dreadwing was not great, but still better than those.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151806)
Posted by Overcracker on December 15th, 2022 @ 4:25pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:Regarding Thrilling 30 Blitzwing and RTS Lugnut being deanimated Animated figures, don't forget RotF Lockdown and (to a lesser extent) Thrilling 30 Arcee.
In ROTF Lockdown's case, that was a "Movie-fied" version rather than a "G1-ified" version.

Although, that Movie-fied Lockdown would get slightly G1-fied by IDW (mostly just the face):

And then streamlined even further by both Earth Wars and Cyberverse:

I'd be so on board with a G1-ified version of LockDown in the same vein as Skyquake.

I love Animated Locky to bits and have always regretted not picking up RotF Lockdown.

He's still one of my favorite Animated figures.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151811)
Posted by M. Spector on December 15th, 2022 @ 6:30pm CST

I think that Lockdown is the most likely of all the TFAnimated characters to get the legacy treatment, for sure. Partially because he would be the most visually distinct rather than say, another Bumblebee or OP or heck even Starscream

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151813)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on December 15th, 2022 @ 6:46pm CST

M. Spector wrote:I think that Lockdown is the most likely of all the TFAnimated characters to get the legacy treatment, for sure. Partially because he would be the most visually distinct rather than say, another Bumblebee or OP or heck even Starscream

I'd lay good odds on Animated Prowl too, though he might only be another use of Legacy Arcee/Road Rocket.

Seems like Sentinel Prime has a chance as well.

The Jet twins would be great, but slim chance there.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151818)
Posted by Emerje on December 15th, 2022 @ 8:53pm CST

Dr. Caelus wrote:
M. Spector wrote:I think that Lockdown is the most likely of all the TFAnimated characters to get the legacy treatment, for sure. Partially because he would be the most visually distinct rather than say, another Bumblebee or OP or heck even Starscream

I'd lay good odds on Animated Prowl too, though he might only be another use of Legacy Arcee/Road Rocket.

Seems like Sentinel Prime has a chance as well.

The Jet twins would be great, but slim chance there.

Here's an idea: Voyager Animated Prowl complete with armor. He'd be better off as a "tall Deluxe" and the samurai armor would mean we're automatically getting the best version possible. And to top it off, as a bonus they could retool it into Axer with an alt mode based on his Action Master vehicle or even Vroom with the armor modeled on his pretender shell.

Sentinel Prime is a fun one, we need more Transforming snow plows.

The twins could be a fun Leader class set. They're simple enough that they could either make them better or make them into a bigger combined form.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151822)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 15th, 2022 @ 10:03pm CST

Emerje wrote:
The twins could be a fun Leader class set. They're simple enough that they could either make them better or make them into a bigger combined form.

Emerje

What twins? Animated Jetfire? Yeah, I can totally see that. Bigger and more transformation steps so that EVERYTHING look good in ALL modes would be great. Also, this time around, less uses of clear plastics in scary places, please.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151826)
Posted by RotorstormNZ on December 15th, 2022 @ 10:49pm CST

I for one hope that if we get G2 Dreadwing and Smokescreen - and I do hope it - they're new moulds reminiscent of the original B-2 and F-22-ish designs

william-james88 wrote:But it has so many G1 nods that it is assumed by all that it will be redeco'd into G1 Skyquake.

And if it does not? We Skyquake fans riot. :lol:

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151829)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 15th, 2022 @ 10:54pm CST

As far as Hasbro is concerned, this very well may be meant to serve as both Prime and G1 Skyquake, passing a sort of "close enough" squint test (and Hasbro sure does love their squint tests).

After all, from a corporate marketing perspective, recoloring a green Decepticon jet named Skyquake into a green Decepticon jet named Skyquake is the definition of redundancy.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151830)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 15th, 2022 @ 10:56pm CST

RotorstormNZ wrote:
william-james88 wrote:But it has so many G1 nods that it is assumed by all that it will be redeco'd into G1 Skyquake.

And if it does not? We Skyquake fans riot.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151832)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on December 15th, 2022 @ 11:30pm CST

Emerje wrote:
Dr. Caelus wrote:
M. Spector wrote:I think that Lockdown is the most likely of all the TFAnimated characters to get the legacy treatment, for sure. Partially because he would be the most visually distinct rather than say, another Bumblebee or OP or heck even Starscream

I'd lay good odds on Animated Prowl too, though he might only be another use of Legacy Arcee/Road Rocket.

Seems like Sentinel Prime has a chance as well.

The Jet twins would be great, but slim chance there.

Here's an idea: Voyager Animated Prowl complete with armor. He'd be better off as a "tall Deluxe" and the samurai armor would mean we're automatically getting the best version possible.

Hm, a higher price point might also justify more articulation, which would really go a long way with Prowl.

On the otherhand, now that I think about it, Prowl's physical similarity to Thrash may push his return to back until after Earthspark is done

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151833)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on December 16th, 2022 @ 2:07am CST

Leaks remain adamant that the Legacy Evolution Wave 2's Deluxe Prowl will be Animated Prowl, as a reminder.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151835)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 16th, 2022 @ 2:56am CST

Sabrblade wrote:As far as Hasbro is concerned, this very well may be meant to serve as both Prime and G1 Skyquake, passing a sort of "close enough" squint test (and Hasbro sure does love their squint tests).

After all, from a corporate marketing perspective, recoloring a green Decepticon jet named Skyquake into a green Decepticon jet named Skyquake is the definition of redundancy.

They do this all the times with Optimus and Megatron. How many Siege and Earthrise Optimuses/Megatrons they repainted with not much differences in deco? There's also SS86 Scourge and Sweep who must be put side-by-side to clearly see the difference. So having a Select G1 Skyquake in its brighter original colors is certainly not ruled out.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151842)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 16th, 2022 @ 8:54am CST

I don't want to panic anyone, but the Walgreens placeholder listing for Minerva isn't up anymore. Same thing happened with Marvel Legends Moonstone. As far as I know, they have never been available to ship and were never in retail stores. I'm hoping they took them offline ahead of them actually going on sale soon. At any rate, might be a good idea to keep your eyes open this weekend.

The product exists, it hasn't been sold domestically yet outside tiny quantities on Pulse, so I'm sure we'll see them at some point.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151844)
Posted by sol magnus on December 16th, 2022 @ 10:37am CST

Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151845)
Posted by j_c1987 on December 16th, 2022 @ 10:38am CST

I have not found her at any walgreens anywhere in my region. very upsetting. trying to keep my daughter influenced

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151846)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 16th, 2022 @ 10:41am CST

sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

I would prefer not. Year 1 posting will drop off as year 2 posting picks up. The Studio Series thread doesn't reboot every year.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151847)
Posted by sol magnus on December 16th, 2022 @ 10:48am CST

AcademyofDrX wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

I would prefer not. Year 1 posting will drop off as year 2 posting picks up. The Studio Series thread doesn't reboot every year.

In the sense that this is a continuation like "Earthrise" was for "Siege" and "Kingdom" was for "Earthrise", I thought it might be appropriate. It's not the end of the world if not, but I do tend to favor organization of information.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151848)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 16th, 2022 @ 11:01am CST

sol magnus wrote:
AcademyofDrX wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

I would prefer not. Year 1 posting will drop off as year 2 posting picks up. The Studio Series thread doesn't reboot every year.

In the sense that this is a continuation like "Earthrise" was for "Siege" and "Kingdom" was for "Earthrise", I thought it might be appropriate. It's not the end of the world if not, but I do tend to favor organization of information.

Think of more like how...

Beast Machines became "Beast Machines: Battle for the Spark"
Armada became "Armada: The Unicron Battles"
Energon became "Energon: The Powerlinx Battles"
Cybertron became "Cybertron: Primus Unleashed"
The first movie line became "Transformers: AllSpark Power" and "Transformers: Premium Series"
Revenge of the Fallen became "Revenge of the Fallen: N.E.S.T. Global Alliance"
The 2010 Transformers line became "Transformers: Reveal the Shield"
The original Generations line became "Generations: Fall of Cybertron" and "Generations: Thrilling 30"

And so on.

I liken Siege becoming Earthrise and then Kingdom to more like how Armada became Energon and then Cybertron. Or how Combiner Wars became Titans Return and then Power of the Primes. All three different lines part of a larger umbrella-named trilogy ("Unicron Trilogy", "Prime Wars Trilogy", and "War for Cybertron Trilogy").

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151849)
Posted by sol magnus on December 16th, 2022 @ 11:02am CST

Sabrblade wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
AcademyofDrX wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

I would prefer not. Year 1 posting will drop off as year 2 posting picks up. The Studio Series thread doesn't reboot every year.

In the sense that this is a continuation like "Earthrise" was for "Siege" and "Kingdom" was for "Earthrise", I thought it might be appropriate. It's not the end of the world if not, but I do tend to favor organization of information.
Think of more like how...
Beast Machines became "Beast Machines: Battle for the Spark"
Armada became "Armada: The Unicron Battles"
Energon became "Energon: The Powerlinx Battles"
Cybertron became "Cybertron: Primus Unleashed"
The first movie line became "Transformers: AllSpark Power" and "Transformers: Premium Series"
Revenge of the Fallen became "Revenge of the Fallen: N.E.S.T. Global Alliance"
The 2010 Transformers line became "Transformers: Reveal the Shield"
The original Generations line became "Generations: Fall of Cybertron" and "Generations: Thrilling 30"
And so on.

I liken Siege becoming Earthrise and then Kingdom to more like how Armada became Energon and then Cybertron. Or how Combiner Wars became Titans Return and then Power of the Primes. All three different lines part of a larger umbrella-named trilogy ("Unicron Trilogy", "Prime Wars Trilogy", and "War for Cybertron Trilogy").

So...no, then? :lol:

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151853)
Posted by blackeyedprime on December 16th, 2022 @ 11:58am CST

sol magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
AcademyofDrX wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

I would prefer not. Year 1 posting will drop off as year 2 posting picks up. The Studio Series thread doesn't reboot every year.

In the sense that this is a continuation like "Earthrise" was for "Siege" and "Kingdom" was for "Earthrise", I thought it might be appropriate. It's not the end of the world if not, but I do tend to favor organization of information.
Think of more like how...
Beast Machines became "Beast Machines: Battle for the Spark"
Armada became "Armada: The Unicron Battles"
Energon became "Energon: The Powerlinx Battles"
Cybertron became "Cybertron: Primus Unleashed"
The first movie line became "Transformers: AllSpark Power" and "Transformers: Premium Series"
Revenge of the Fallen became "Revenge of the Fallen: N.E.S.T. Global Alliance"
The 2010 Transformers line became "Transformers: Reveal the Shield"
The original Generations line became "Generations: Fall of Cybertron" and "Generations: Thrilling 30"
And so on.

I liken Siege becoming Earthrise and then Kingdom to more like how Armada became Energon and then Cybertron. Or how Combiner Wars became Titans Return and then Power of the Primes. All three different lines part of a larger umbrella-named trilogy ("Unicron Trilogy", "Prime Wars Trilogy", and "War for Cybertron Trilogy").

So...no, then?

So SS86 can merge with SS thread again?

Hides.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151873)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on December 16th, 2022 @ 3:27pm CST

sol magnus wrote:Should we break this thread off for Legacy Evolution?

blackeyedprime wrote:So SS86 can merge with SS thread again?

I'm just gonna hang back and watch D-Max have an aneurysm from here. :-D

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151874)
Posted by william-james88 on December 16th, 2022 @ 3:41pm CST

j_c1987 wrote:I have not found her at any walgreens anywhere in my region. very upsetting. trying to keep my daughter influenced

This toy has not been spotted in stores yet (and might only ever be sold online). Any trip there for that toy would be a wasted trip until you read that it's been found.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151880)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 16th, 2022 @ 4:05pm CST

william-james88 wrote:
j_c1987 wrote:I have not found her at any walgreens anywhere in my region. very upsetting. trying to keep my daughter influenced

This toy has not been spotted in stores yet (and might only ever be sold online). Any trip there for that toy would be a wasted trip until you read that it's been found.

Regardless, Minerva is pretty trash. Not worth it at all.

I think I'll just dump her along some other bots to buy something better at my local geek store, GameStop style.

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151909)
Posted by RotorstormNZ on December 17th, 2022 @ 3:10am CST

Anyone else suggested or also think an RID Universe Rail Racer would be a fun toy/s?

AcademyofDrX wrote:
RotorstormNZ wrote:
william-james88 wrote:But it has so many G1 nods that it is assumed by all that it will be redeco'd into G1 Skyquake.

And if it does not? We Skyquake fans riot.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

We are legion! (No, not that Legion)

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151912)
Posted by First-Aid on December 17th, 2022 @ 7:39am CST

RotorstormNZ wrote:Anyone else suggested or also think an RID Universe Rail Racer would be a fun toy/s?

AcademyofDrX wrote:
RotorstormNZ wrote:
william-james88 wrote:But it has so many G1 nods that it is assumed by all that it will be redeco'd into G1 Skyquake.

And if it does not? We Skyquake fans riot.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

We are legion! (No, not that Legion)

I will riot on behalf of the Prime Skyquake fans. And I don't need anyone else. I have siblings who were EOD...heh heh heh... :michaelbay:

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151962)
Posted by blackeyedprime on December 18th, 2022 @ 10:22am CST

Not so animated prowl pics out, pretty good but no samurai greatness. Would be interested in it as a prowls action master vehicle colors tho.

Also a bike junkion

https://www.facebook.com/DaimChocReports

Re: Transformers Legacy Needlenose Additional Secret Functionality Possibly Revealed (2151963)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 18th, 2022 @ 10:34am CST

Speaking as one who still has the original Animated Prowl, the Animated Samurai Prowl, and the Japanese-exclusive G1-colored Animated Elite Guard Prowl, I ask myself what this new G1-ified Animated Prowl offers me that those original toys don't?

And from the looks of it, the answer is... guns. Pointless guns. Because Autobot Cyber-Ninjas totally use guns. >:oP