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OR: Deep Cover - Uncovered

A few quick and attentive fans including myself already own Generations Selects Deep Cover, but Hasbro officially revealed it today and opened up preorders across the fan channel retail spectrum. But then they also made oblique reference to a second Deep Cover that would also be happening. What the heck? Listen to News Desk 130 to find out some of the whats and maybe-whys!

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This week: Unicron is coming, and so are new Botbots! We also get our first in-hand look at Kingdom Dinobot. Woah!

 

The News

Haslab Unicron shipping soon, at least from Robot Kingdom

BotBots Lives!! Series 6 Checklist Catalog Posted by Hasbro

Transformers mascot costumes from the 80s found in a warehouse

Kingdom Dinobot in hand photos (from a legitimately obtained source!)

Super 7 unveils wave 1 of their ULTIMATES! Transformers line and Optimus Prime has a basketball. FINALLY.

Ia-Con online is happening on January 30th and 31st 2021! For more info, visit iacononline.wordpress.com!

This week: First looks at Deep Cover, which should make Matt very happy. RED Cheetor and Arcee are spotted in the wild, Earthrise Thundercracker and Skywarp get another go, Winter Wonderfest, and more!

The News

Patrick Tatopoulos Joins New ‘Transformers’ Film

Generations Selects Deep Cover First Look

MP-52+ Thundercracker (ver 2.0)

RED Cheetor and Arcee First Sighting

Winter Wonderfest Online coming February 7th

A new edition of Transformers Monopoly is coming; listing found in the Walmart app

Earthrise Skywarp and Thundercracker two pack back up for preorder at BBTS and Entertainment Earth

Flame Toys is threatening us with a model kit of Arcee now.

Ia-Con Online is happening on January 30th and 31st. Go to iacononline.wordpress.com to learn more, or follow them on Twitter @iacononline!

This week: It's our 2021 Prediction Show! What crazy ideas do we have this year? Also: Masterpiece Thundercracker announced, order now. That was fast.

The News

RFC News Desk 127 – Masterpiece Skids Announced

MP ver 2 Thundercracker leaked Preorders expected to open on the 14th.

Transformers: Generations Retro Headmasters Wave 1 Sighted at Retail

Transformers WFC Kingdom Ultra Magnus In-Hand Images

Netflix wave 3 redecos leaked:

Cheetor and Siege Ironhide redeco

Rusty Barricade (“Sparkless”) and clear Paleotrex

It's our annual year in review show! We recap the news of the year, review our predictions for 2020, and share with you our best and worst toys and items of the year!

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No debating it now: Masterpiece has finally hit the Skids.

TakaraTomy has started off the new year right on Twitter with lineart for the next Masterpiece figure: MP-TBA Skids! And both the lineart and the accompanying Tweets seem to indicate (via mechanical translation, in the Tweets' case) that we're in for a change in the MP approach.

The lineart is very clearly not based particularly heavily off of Skids' extremely light appearances in the G1 cartoon, and the accompanying text reads: "With instinctive deformation and a wide range of movement, it is a new work that will be a hybrid version of MP these days!" ("Deformation" is the usual auto-translate word for "transformation" or, if you work for Hasbro, "conversion.") So from the sound of things, we're looking at a refocusing on comfortable transformations and good articulation, at least as far as Skids is concerned. The "Hybrid version of MP these days" part makes it sound like we could be looking at a line-wide shift in approach as well, but only time will tell.

This strikes us as both a potentially welcome and unwelcome thing. The pursuit of animation-model accuracy produced some fascinating results but also some disturbing trends in terms of complexity and price. A reversal on that aimed at leaning more towards the early Autobot Cars era of MP, with high-quality but still not ridiculously expensive figures, would certainly be welcome! Though stylistic mismatch between Masterpieces is definitely a concern here. But we'll have to wait and see both how Skids turns out and what the full implications of his new direction ends up being.

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2021: Wanna bet?

The News

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