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Just finished up watching the livestream while my daughter helped me dig a large hole in the backyard. Fun was had by all, including the little green inchworm we found.
The livestream was hosted by Ben Montano and Isabella Weiss (who mostly talked about video games and ducks) and Mark "Markclonus" Maher.
So they officially unveiled the entire Velocitron assortment, much of which has already been leaked. All of them are packaged in vehicle mode, emphasizing that they're all in a race, and as a tribute to the G1 toy packaging. They showed off Blurr, Clampdown, Road Hauler, and Override, who at this point are not news. (People have posted in-hand images of Road Hauler and he's confirmed to have the short pegs.)
Of note is Burnout, a black Diaclone-inspired redeco of Skids, who was described as a female character. She's got the Crosscut style head with mask, and some different deco than the Skids toy. We tend to get the Diaclone Honda City Turbo toy in blue and red and silver, but black is a new one.
Road Rocket is the G2 Laser Cycle character, as expected, and a remold of Prime Arcee. They also identified Road Rocket as female, but he's clearly identified as male in his G2 tech specs from 1995.
Cosmos is an all-new mold! And he's amazing. He's very G1 toon accurate, very much in the vein of the various third party toys. (Who's a big chungus? Who's a big chunky boy?) In the context of the Velocitron story, he's the race announcer and comes with a checkered flag. It also doubles as a white flag for surrender purposes, or the flag can pop off the handle and he can equip the handle as a gun. Maybe we could get an X-Dimension GoBot Pathfinder version some day.
They kept referring to Black Convoy as Scourge. He was planned from the inception as soon as they knew they were doing G2 Laser Prime.
Walmart is doing some kind of collector con next month in July, and there will be three new R.E.D. figures available. These were just barely leaked yesterday, I believe. There will be G1 Thundercracker (obviously a Starscream redeco), and Prime universe Megatron and Optimus Prime. Looks like R.E.D. will be closed-box packaging going forward.
There's also a Shattered Glass toy of Action Master Slicer coming, a redeco of Wheeljack in the European 1992 colors. He comes with a red-and-pink version of the Fasttrack weaponizer mold, to complete the character and serve as his Action Master Exo-Suit. The weaponzier (I don't think they named him in the livestream; Red Roritchi?) can also serve as the red spear for the Hasbro Pulse Black Zarak toy.
Zob (super excited about Cosmos—he looks SO GOOD)