Transformers Wheeljack Teased on War for Cybertron Siege Springer Box
Thursday, June 27th, 2019 7:53PM CDT
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Posted 17 hours agoPosted by SpikeyTigertron on June 27th, 2019 @ 7:54pm CDT
Posted by Skritz on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:02pm CDT
Posted by Stormshot_Prime on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:03pm CDT
Posted by blackeyedprime on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:04pm CDT
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I would rather Trailbreaker and Hoist gut their own mold.
Me too, it kind of works for trailbreaker but I want a hoist looking hoist. A diaclone black version of iron hide would be okay for me if they really wanted to squeeze another use from the mold.
Posted by Albatross250 on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:14pm CDT
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:16pm CDT
Stormshot_Prime wrote:Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.
I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.
But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:18pm CDT
Nathaniel Prime wrote:I saw this digibash online and wondered if you guys would like it if this idea came to fruition
Not good enough for me. Trailbreaker AKA my favorite bot needs an original mold, but similarly sized to Ironhide. He needs to have size and presence.
Skritz wrote:Btw anyone a bit weirded out that Crosshairs has the cartoon/comics head and not his toy-accurate head when usually Hasbro tend more toward the toy designs. Maybe its because his regular head design was too much like Ironhide?
i find it weird, but it is welcome. I may be one of 12 people in the world who liked Rebirth, so I am OK with cartoon faces for all from those episodes.
Cyberpath wrote:On the official Transformers Amazon store, Reflector is $30 while Brunt and the rest of the Deluxes are $20, what am I missing here?
Isn't it enough that we have to get three exact copies of the same action-figure in order to get the full character?
BTW, anyone got him yet? Any good?
I did! Got 2 of them last week in stores, still trying to get my 3rd.
They are really cool and really fun. As individuals they are great, but I really want to see the camera mode. That is the mode I plan to display them in and use for photos. (haha, puns).
I plan to focus on my new Siege guys next week and the week after for my deskbot shots and thoughts, I'm on the Beast high right now.
Skritz wrote:Is it wrong I'd totally want Siege Wheeljack to wield some bigass cyber-wrentch as a melee weapon to clobber Decepticons with?
I am with you. Wheeljack needs wrenches and such! and he needs a spare wrench so I can give it to Nautica!
Posted by Skritz on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:19pm CDT
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Stormshot_Prime wrote:Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.
I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.
But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.
Yeah, this being the kind of line that tries to double as vaguely Earth mode-esque, Wheeljack will definitely remain a car. Maybe a much more cubic one with details that call back to his pilot episode altmode but there is no way we're getting that cubic hovercraft thing. Unfortunately.
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:26pm CDT
Skritz wrote:ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Stormshot_Prime wrote:Here’s to hoping Wheeljack’s altmode will look like how he appeared in the first episode of the G1 cartoon.
I think that in Wheeljack's case that won't be happening. If it does it will involve shellforming shenanigans.
But I think Wheeljack might be more in line with his original transformation scheme (or that of the Generations toy), with Sunstreaker as a reshell.
Yeah, this being the kind of line that tries to double as vaguely Earth mode-esque, Wheeljack will definitely remain a car. Maybe a much more cubic one with details that call back to his pilot episode altmode but there is no way we're getting that cubic hovercraft thing. Unfortunately.
Exactly. They could pull it off well enough with a Cybertronian robot mode, but because they're using his Earthly robot mode with its rounded windshield chest doing the boxy car mode would take shellforming.
Posted by Stargrave on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:31pm CDT
And also via Robotkingdom.com we have some nice clean images of the package, this time without all that pesky glare. Robotkingdom has the item listed at $56.90 but is currently out of stock. They also list the item as was previously reported, the Cybertron Firestormer Pack.
Enjoy the images and share your view with the Seibertron crew in the forums!
Posted by Skritz on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:33pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 27th, 2019 @ 8:35pm CDT
Posted by Randomhero on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:26pm CDT
I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.
Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....
Posted by blackeyedprime on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:28pm CDT
Posted by Hellscream9999 on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:35pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:What the hell!!?!?
I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.
Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....
did you submit it to the news team?
Posted by Randomhero on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:42pm CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:Randomhero wrote:What the hell!!?!?
I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.
Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....
did you submit it to the news team?
Every Time I’ve done that in past I’ve never gotten a reply. I’ve even tweeted first sightings on the sites twitter no reply. Nothing.
Nathaniel Prime wrote:Randomhero wrote:Just found springer. So...Wheeljack is on the side of the box in the background art...that’s a thing
You didn't catch that? It was from the beginning.
Though, to be fair, I just discovered Sunstreaker on that art as well.
Right here, I said it days ago and was just shot down that is was old news.
I mean you guys live on here. I’ve seen people just post stuff on threads and it gets credited
Posted by Stargrave on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:47pm CDT
Posted by Stargrave on June 27th, 2019 @ 9:53pm CDT
Posted by Nickster563 on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:23pm CDT
Posted by Cobotron on June 27th, 2019 @ 10:58pm CDT
Nickster563 wrote:This isn't new at all, Wheeljacks been showing up in siege artwork ever since the optimus prime siege poster handed out last year...
And to make it more interesting, I'd wager that drawing of Wheeljack on the poster is the exact same file cut and pasted into a layer for the art on Springer"s box art.
Just like Dazzlestrike on Greenlight's packaging is the exact same art as Lionizer on his.
Ahhhhh! The wonderful cheats of digital painting!
Edit: Even the poor bot getting blasted on the Prime poster and the Springer box is the same drawing mirrored!
Posted by Seibertron on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:05pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:What the hell!!?!?
I posted about wheeljack four days ago on the siege thread and was told it’s old news and nothing new.
Guess it just matters who’s running the site on certain nights....
It was definitely news and happy to give you credit, though it was something I noticed on my own today while cropping photos of Springer's box. Generally, news submissions are sent via the contact form at https://www.seibertron.com/contact/inde ... bject=news or directly via email at news@seibertron.com, but we don't have anything from you. Can you post a link to the post where a staff member told you it was old news and nothing new?
Posted by Seibertron on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:20pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:Every Time I’ve done that in past I’ve never gotten a reply. I’ve even tweeted first sightings on the sites twitter no reply. Nothing.
I have zero emails sent from your username or from your email address registered with your Seibertron.com email account. I have every email everyone has ever sent me (minus spam/junk mail) dating all the way back to at least 2005. Not saying that we haven't missed an email from you, it's just not being sent from the contact form and it's not being sent to our public group email addresses.
Randomhero wrote:I mean you guys live on here. I’ve seen people just post stuff on threads and it gets credited
We do live on here, or specifically, I definitely live on here. But things go unnoticed, we miss things. We are, after all, human. Everyone on this site's staff, other than me, is a volunteer. They help with Seibertron.com in between their jobs, their relationships, their families, their kids, their lives, etc. Things fall between the cracks. Please don't take it personally when that happens.
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Posted by Seibertron on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:22pm CDT
Posted by Stargrave on June 27th, 2019 @ 11:51pm CDT
This writer personally dismissed the team as direct repaints of the Autobot Race Car Patrol (although noted otherwise in a previous article here), alas, the torsos and heads are complete remolds to match the original versions of the characters. Personal opinion now changed 180 degrees I myself shall be actively hunting these nifty nanocons down. How about you? Hop on the forums and let us know!
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on June 28th, 2019 @ 12:18am CDT
Do I think it's likely? Far from it. Quite frankly I'm surprised we even got more reveals, but hey, it's always possible
Posted by Stargrave on June 28th, 2019 @ 12:22am CDT
Posted by Seibertron on June 28th, 2019 @ 12:23am CDT
Sentinel_Primal wrote:So, I just realized something. So every wave of deluxe and voyager figures this line has had (at least) 3 figures and 2 figures each. So either wave 4/5 is being filled out just enough that retailers will stock it, or we could see a couple of more reveals at SDCC. Personally, I'm hoping we'll get a couple more with either Wheeljack or Tracks filling out the deluxe class and of course Snapdragon filling out voyager.
Do I think it's likely? Far from it. Quite frankly I'm surprised we even got more reveals, but hey, it's always possible
There's generally a ton revealed at SDCC. It's less than a month a way (20 days to be precise) to when Hasbro has their annual ginormous reveal day on the Thursday of San Diego Comic-Con which is only rivaled by the reveals from Toy Fair in February, and (only recently) NYCC in October, though SDCC reveals are much greater than NYCC.
Posted by AcademyofDrX on June 28th, 2019 @ 1:17am CDT
If that is the case, we'll likely see figures tied to the new play features. I think it's notable that no new Battle Masters, Micromasters, or Weaponizers were included in the Screen Rant feature. If the next line has new size classes - say, the reintroduction of Legends, or an armor mechanic like in Cyberverse - they won't be teased until the line is announced.
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 28th, 2019 @ 1:34am CDT
Posted by AcademyofDrX on June 28th, 2019 @ 1:41am CDT
I only noticed because my issuer's fraud detection system reacted to the multiple charges, including the larger one for Jetfire. I wanted to be like, buddy, I got bad news for you about 2019, you'd better get used to this.
Posted by Seibertron on June 28th, 2019 @ 3:17am CDT
As for their case-mate Brunt (who does not currently appear in Walmart's search results), it is possible that this listing is actually Brunt, but without an image and an odd description that mentions "Flywheels", we're not quite sure yet so buy at your own risk.
Check out the listings for Red Alert and Reflector Refraktor below by clicking on their respective images. You can view all of Walmart.com's Transformers listings here: https://www.walmart.com/search/?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&cat_id=0&page=2&query=transformers&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff
Make sure you share your brick-and-mortar store sightings in our sightings forum and sightings section and report your online sightings here.
Happy online hunting!
WFC-S36 Refraktor (Reflector)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Generations-War-for-Cybertron-Deluxe-WFC-S36-Refraktor/679254172?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff
WFC-S35 Red Alert
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Transformers-Generations-War-for-Cybertron-Deluxe-WFC-S35-Red-Alert/903936298?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff
Posted by DMSL on June 28th, 2019 @ 3:27am CDT
Posted by DMSL on June 28th, 2019 @ 3:28am CDT
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:04am CDT
Did anyone notice Refraktor has no battle damage painting?
Posted by Ravage2031 on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:05am CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:11am CDT
Posted by Wwoptimusprime39 on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:12am CDT
Posted by Inactive_____ on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:28am CDT
This lil guy is, no joke, one of the best toys I've bought in a while. He's a bull! That's also a hammer! Yes pls!
Okay, dialing it back a bit, I think why this guy excites me so much is he's just the perfect brand of goofy fun. I think this is what the battle masters should maybe focus on rather than 8 million of the same double barreled gun.
For something with such limited posability, he's actually surprisingly dynamic in both modes. The huge blast effect gives the hammer a real sense of weight and impact, and his hunched shoulders and bulky limbs definitely evoke a bruiser type aesthetic.
I guess my only real complaint is that the handle is a little short. I would love a longer handle that turned this guy into a two handed warhammer, but ultimately, that a very minor nitpick on a toy that's super fun.
In the end, I love him and ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ gib more hammer pls hasbro. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Here's a glut of pictures from me screwing around with him. sorry not sorry
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 28th, 2019 @ 5:48am CDT
Ravage2031 wrote:Ordered 2 and should be here by Sunday. Red Alert showed as a preorder and as for Brunt, I ordered him from Walmart last week but that listing isn't there anymore.
I ordered brunt from Amazon.com and he's supposed to be delivered (here in Germany) tomorrow.
Posted by blackeyedprime on June 28th, 2019 @ 6:14am CDT
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 28th, 2019 @ 6:21am CDT
blackeyedprime wrote:Meanwhile, every one is in for a shock when wheel jack transforms into a selfie stick, let the earth modes commence!
NOOO, we had enough earth modes so far
It's time for some futuristic alien stuff
Posted by Rogue-Primal on June 28th, 2019 @ 7:33am CDT
Posted by Cyberpath on June 28th, 2019 @ 7:52am CDT
Good catch. Maybe Hasbro figures fans will get three, and all of them having roughly the same war-paint would be kind of weird.Lunatic Prime wrote:Did anyone notice Refraktor has no battle damage painting?
Not that it doesn't get rough..
Posted by sol magnus on June 28th, 2019 @ 7:57am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on June 28th, 2019 @ 8:01am CDT
Gemstonegemini wrote:If you'll allow me, I'd like to gush for a few minutes about SMASHDOWN
This lil guy is, no joke, one of the best toys I've bought in a while. He's a bull! That's also a hammer! Yes pls!
Okay, dialing it back a bit, I think why this guy excites me so much is he's just the perfect brand of goofy fun. I think this is what the battle masters should maybe focus on rather than 8 million of the same double barreled gun.
For something with such limited posability, he's actually surprisingly dynamic in both modes. The huge blast effect gives the hammer a real sense of weight and impact, and his hunched shoulders and bulky limbs definitely evoke a bruiser type aesthetic.
I guess my only real complaint is that the handle is a little short. I would love a longer handle that turned this guy into a two handed warhammer, but ultimately, that a very minor nitpick on a toy that's super fun.
In the end, I love him and ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ gib more hammer pls hasbro. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Here's a glut of pictures from me screwing around with him. sorry not sorry
*Now has the GaoGaiGar theme playing in his head*
A custom gold version of smash down would work snazzy (though a bigger one would be better) and we'd have a nice Goldion Hammer homage
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 28th, 2019 @ 8:02am CDT
Cyberpath wrote:Good catch. Maybe Hasbro figures fans will get three, and all of them having roughly the same war-paint would be kind of weird.Lunatic Prime wrote:Did anyone notice Refraktor has no battle damage painting?
Not that it doesn't get rough..
Either that or they thought a camera with battle damage would look odd.
Posted by Flashwave on June 28th, 2019 @ 8:46am CDT
Gemstonegemini wrote:If you'll allow me, I'd like to gush for a few minutes about SMASHDOWN
This lil guy is, no joke, one of the best toys I've bought in a while. He's a bull! That's also a hammer! Yes pls!
Okay, dialing it back a bit, I think why this guy excites me so much is he's just the perfect brand of goofy fun. I think this is what the battle masters should maybe focus on rather than 8 million of the same double barreled gun.
For something with such limited posability, he's actually surprisingly dynamic in both modes. The huge blast effect gives the hammer a real sense of weight and impact, and his hunched shoulders and bulky limbs definitely evoke a bruiser type aesthetic.
I guess my only real complaint is that the handle is a little short. I would love a longer handle that turned this guy into a two handed warhammer, but ultimately, that a very minor nitpick on a toy that's super fun.
In the end, I love him and ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ gib more hammer pls hasbro. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Here's a glut of pictures from me screwing around with him. sorry not sorry
Your Photos are making me think more about getting Peime if he ever shows up in my area...
*bad thoughts! Bad, no money thoughts*
Posted by Stargrave on June 28th, 2019 @ 9:18am CDT
Posted by blackeyedprime on June 28th, 2019 @ 9:24am CDT
Posted by Lunatic Prime on June 28th, 2019 @ 9:48am CDT
blackeyedprime wrote:I think refraktors lack of battle damage is Pteraxodon was running empty after flying over the seekers. There is no way that is battle damage on their wings.
Yea, some of the paint marks look indeed more like "splashes" than scratches.