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Ironhide ROTF toy February 21st, 2009

This comes via TF08 and their abun­dant source of unre­leased toys. Some more gal­leries of toys are also float­ing about of Deluxe Side­swipe, Deluxe Break­away and Voy­ager class Opti­mus Prime.

Demolisher Bio Revealed, on sale at eBay February 21st, 2009

An eBay auc­tion has been spot­ted sell­ing the Demol­isher toy boxed, com­plete with an image of the packet and the character’s descrip­tion. View the orig­i­nal auc­tion, view another live auc­tion to pur­chase Demol­isher.

Demol­ishor isn’t very bright, but he knows when to fight, and when to run and hide. Arriv­ing on Earth to find Mega­tron destroyed, hid­ing seemed like the best option. Since then, he’s taken a few smaller Decep­ti­cons under his pro­tec­tion, and built quite a lit­tle com­mu­nity. It hasn’t been easy hid­ing among the humans that creep like a dis­ease over this planet, but he and his com­pan­ions are con­tent until a new Decep­ti­con leader emerges to guide them back to glory.

Via Seib­ertron

Mysterious key chains February 19th, 2009

Of the new Trans­form­ers mer­chan­dise at Toy Fair 09 were a set of key chains, with their front designs pix­e­lated out to pre­vent reveal­ing the details of the char­ac­ters. Action Figs have posted a gallery of these with the notice­able Bum­ble­bee, Starscream etc — there are two notable odd­i­ties how­ever, one mys­te­ri­ous unnamed ‘New Char­ac­ter’ and a fig­ure labeled as Opti­mus Prime that doesn’t match his usual robot form. TFW also have a pair of sil­hou­ettes that match these two designs.

The source of these sil­hou­ettes states that the robot form of Opti­mus Prime is in com­bi­na­tion with Jet­fire, look­ing closely you can see the wing out­line, boost­ers and a canon — this com­bi­na­tion has pre­vi­ously been seen on the Leg­ends class toys, although that arrange­ment looks very different.

The unnamed char­ac­ter has claws and is grey, I’d hes­i­tate a guess at Megatron.

Opti­mus Prime

The toys

New char­ac­ter

Skids Bio February 18th, 2009

With images via TF08, we have a lit­tle descrip­tion about the Skids char­ac­ter (Green Chevy Beat/Spark):

Because he is slightly less hyper­ac­tive than his brother MUDFLAP, AUTOBOT SKIDS has always thought of him­self as “the smart one.” He likes to point this out at every oppor­tu­nity. While MUDFLAP zips around like a maniac, AUTOBOT SKIDS prefers to impress his supe­ri­ors among the AUTOBOT high com­mand by behav­ing in a way he thinks of as mature, which usu­ally involves talk­ing non­stop about any­thing that occurs to him.

High Resolution Trailer #2 Screenshots, The Fallen & Arcee February 16th, 2009

Now that our 1080p high res­o­lu­tion trailer is out on Yahoo, it’s time for 70 odd high res­o­lu­tion screen­shots that pick out the key parts of the trailer:

The Fallen

Arcee

Screen­shots

Devastator toys, All constructicons revealed, Skids and Mudflaps Robot modes February 14th, 2009

With the 2009 toy fair comes images of new Revenge of the Fallen toys. So far we have two ver­sions of the Dev­as­ta­tor toy (one being a sim­pli­fied FAB ver­sion), all SIX alt modes of the con­struc­ti­cons, names for each of them (Ram­page, Scav­enger, Scrap­per, High­tower, Long Haul, and Mix Mas­ter) and images of Rampage’s robot mode, Skids and Mud­flap robot modes and toys (these are the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax). The gallery fur­ther down also includes boxes for some of the toys, show­ing CG ren­der­ings of their heads (e.g. Demol­isher, Ram­page Bull­dozer, Side­swipe, Skids, Mud­flaps). There is also a rac­ing game enti­tled ‘Dev­as­ta­tor Show­down’ which shows a ren­dered ver­sion of Dev­as­ta­tor try­ing to eat Skids.

Dev­as­ta­tor, Constructicons

Com­pare with con­cept rendering

High­tower (the crane), Long Haul (dump truck), Mix­mas­ter (cement mixer), Ram­page (bull­dozer), Demol­isher or Scav­enger (exca­va­tor, names seem to con­flict), Scrap­per (loader)

Skids and Mudflaps

Other toys

Sources

Trans­form­ers Club, TForm­ers, TFW2005, TheAllSpark

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DEVASTATOR detailed concept in FULL, Detailed Fallen Concepts February 11th, 2009

Oh wow, wasn’t expect­ing this to land on the doorstep today! Here we have it the FULLY com­bined Dev­as­ta­tor. Click the image for a higher res­o­lu­tion more detailed ver­sion. From the text that sur­rounds the image we can see what makes up the con­stituent parts of this beast, and it’s face is incred­i­bly beast-like:

Right Leg: Dump Truck
Left Arm: Crane
Left Leg: Bull­dozer
Torso: Exca­va­tor (this is the Terex Rh400 we’ve seen in the trailer)
Right Arm: The name isn’t vis­i­ble but guess­ing from the pic­ture I’d say a Load­ing vehi­cle (see details fur­ther down)

There’s also a ‘Mixer’ in there some­where and another vehi­cle form­ing the rear, with pos­si­bly another vehi­cle on the sheet that has been obscured by the char­ac­ter. The body com­bines to end up very Gorilla like, with hands that reach the floor and a head that sticks out the front, almost like King Kong.

This matches ear­lier reports:

Right Leg: Dump Truck
Left Leg: Bull­dozer
Right Arm: Wheel Loader
Left Arm: Truss Crane [no robot mode on this one],
Right Shoul­der: Exca­va­tor
Left Shoul­der: Artic­u­lated Dump Truck
Head: Cement Mixer

For com­par­i­son: Con­struc­ti­con Terex RH400 Toy Review | Trailer and Images

The Fallen’s con­cept builds on the char­ac­ter we’ve seen in the toy gal­leries. This is much more skinny, evil and alien look­ing. No flames on this one, maybe he ‘sparks up’ — he looks like he can do a whole lot of damage!

Com­par­i­son: Toy Images | Poster

Source: ACToys​.net

Indi­vid­ual Con­struc­ti­con Alt Modes

The world’s largest exca­va­tor (Terex RH400) which forms the Torso and most likely as its right leg, the world’s largest truck the Cater­pil­lar 797B:

Although as the leg is green it may also be the Hitachi Euclid R280:

To match this, the left leg prob­a­bly needs to be the world’s largest bull­dozer, I orig­i­nally thought this would be the Komatsu D575 (image) which is the largest pro­duc­tion bull­dozer but the tracks on that are not tri­an­gu­lar like they are in the con­cept image. This led me to the Acco Cus­tom built bull­dozer, the tracks on this per­fectly match the left foot:

The name of the right arm is obscured from vision, but given the raised bucket it looks a lot like a Load­ing vehi­cle, the largest of which is the Cater­pil­lar 994D. It could be any one of the large Load­ing vehi­cles, here is another, the Le Tourneau L-2350:

The left arm, the crane, looks like the Dragline exca­va­tor vari­ety — for all that machin­ery we can see in the con­cept it needs to be more than just a stan­dard crane. I haven’t man­aged to find a yel­low one:

The head looks like a drill but I can­not find a vehi­cle to match it.

Sideswipe Toy in alt and robot modes February 10th, 2009

TF08 have the scoop on yet another Trans­form­ers 2 toy, this time it’s the super-sweet Cen­ten­nial oth­er­wise known as Side­swipe. This is a deluxe class model, fea­tures to note include the auto­bot logo on his right shoul­der and scythe like pointy weapons/shielding above the arms.

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