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canprime:
Another rumour.

This time is is being attributed to Sgt. Slaughter himself.  Apparently he was at a convention and let it slip that Hasbro was working on another TF Crossover.  This time it was going to be the Triple T with O-Ring Slaughter!!!

Man I really hope this is true.  I would love to get a Triple T with O-Ring Slaughter.  I would also suspect that the Autobot would be Grimlock since he lines up well with Slaughter (leader-ish type who is a big brawler).  I mean they could do Prime of course, but I kind of feel Prime should have a more iconic Joe vehicle alt mode.

Anyway, just a rumour for now, but I hope it is true.

martin-montreal:
If true, it would be the first time we get the vehicle with his original driver instead of a random fig.

Too bad I'm not a big fan of the Triple T/Sgt. Slaughter. Anyway, it's always fun to see Hasbro having ideas/plans for the o-ring line 👍

akpayne:
I have picked up both the HISS tank and the awe striker - The carded figures are a fun, and in vehicle mode, Megatron and BB are great. The interior of the HISS tank has more detail than the original!  However as far as the robot mode - they are pretty flimsy transformers with lots of hollow gappy parts.

canprime:
Yep they are definitely vehicle first, robot second when it comes to design.   As a collector of both Joe and TF I would love to have a better robot mode, but in the end I'll take an accurate vehicle mode over robot mode.   However that doesn't mean I don't was a sensible robot mode.  I would hate for them to do a great vehicle, only to have the robot look like hot garbage.

Now, granted, there is only so much they can do when they have to marry two existing forms into one toy.  There will inevitably be some corners cut to make them both work, but so far they have done a pretty great job.  Plus they have to make the vehicle modes hold figures on top of everything else!!!  I would imagine if the designers had to start from zero there would be a much better marriage of the two forms, especially if they didn't have to worry about trying to fit 3.75" figures into the vehicle modes as well.

B:
I hope they release Stalker as a single card. I'm not into TF so that has no interest for me but I want that Stalker.

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