TFcon LA 2023 3rd Party Reveal Recap

[@bluebraixen]

Fans Toys numbers their combiners with an individual number for the whole combiner and letters for every component.

[@Coboxite]

There's a part of me that wants a 3rd party company to take the piss and make a titan sized Devastator using leader sized Devastators using voyager sized Devastators using legends scale Devastators

[@MathewHaswell]

Constructicon-ception.

[@Crab_cos]

Sounds devastating

[@otaking3582]

The name "Paul" should've been given to an Optimus Primal with a third eye.

[@theprimo100]

* insert Captain America reference meme *

[@chriscarpenter3370]

also should've come with a small Jimmy neutron

[@jaredhebert942]

Call him Paul II

[@otaking3582]

@@jaredhebert942 But then he'd need to be packaged with John (and possibly George and Ringo).

[@samurexatlas7373]

The Magnus has his legs staying out, the blue highlights flip away on tiny panels.

[@tfuniverse1651]

Cool thing about MMC’s Ruination is that like FH Scourge he’ll scale mostly well with Haslab Omega Prime.

[@mecha53107]

The Seeker colors are inspired by a meme with a bunch of random and weird seeker names.

[@Fuzzy_Barbarian]

The Seeker called Paul made me laugh. Currently in the Spider-Man comics, there's a character called Paul who the fandom *hates* for "stealing" MJ from Peter. I like to think this is his true form, just for the virgin vs. chad meme.

[@Snugrot]

I picked up IF's sideswipe a few weeks ago just for the heck of it, and I've gotta say, it's fantastic. It feels quality, looks great, and has an involved but not over-complicated transformation. I will absolutely be picking up more of their stuff.

[@soundblaster1987reviews]

The best way to do Liokaiser is to think of it like a hybrid of Devastator's combination engineering and Computron's vehicle variety mixed with chest-mounted Targetmaster Mini-Cons.

[@RialVestro]

I love that Fallen design. It's not quite the War Within design but it does retain the living furnace aesthetic that I love for that character. This is how you redesign the Fallen. That added purple, especially that crown on the head makes me think of Galvatron. Is this a Unicron powered Megatronus?

[@Roboshi2007]

The MMC bruticus, does have some optional partsforming if you want to add larger feet. It's entirely optional as mine doesn't have it, but the feet can become cargo for the core robot. in alt mode.

[@kevsil616]

The all red head on that Ironhide is a call back to the Marvel Comics version

[@BoisegangGaming]

I wish one of these third parties would just make a Defensor and have Rook instead of Groove, or any of the B-team Combiner Wars limbs.

[@user-lynKx]

that cang toys swoop is pretty much a third party gundam I've been building a few third party gunpla that have been coming out and they're this exact spiky aesthetic

[@tracytron7162]

41:20 It's not it's own thing, it's just an optional shell that goes over the teams combine mode

[@MrEnKaye]

That Cang Toys Not-Swoop looks like it would fit right in Code Geass

[@Bigdaddyweese]

That X-Transbots is a legends scale combiner Defensor

[@Alzeal07]

too expensive to me but the kang toys guys looks SO GOOD, stylised is the best way

[@DetectiveBarricade]

The gold piece on Rollbar is a separate optional piece. It folds up into a box or into part of a ramp to make a base mode for Mega Octane. I think these along with the other toy accurate parts were sold separately for Bruticus and just included with the G2 version.

[@Zatyme94]

Regarding the foot for not Ruination, at some point MMC released an accessory set that included some paets to make Bruticus more toy accurate as the cose of losing the all built in appeal.

[@willytorres1962]

That superion looking sickkk

[@superrobotreviews]

Garish Nightmare +1 . Blends into nothing in the sky +10

[@NemesisPrime1984]

It would be cool if they made a seeker that uses the ROTF starscream colors with the cybertronian tattoos

[@chriscarpenter3370]

I'm immediately jumping on the unique toys skids and mudflap

[@Tfbrave]

One day I hope at least one of these 3rd party companies decide to tackle any of the designs from the brave series

[@tjpera01]

I would say the magnus and the armada stuff looked most interesting to me and if I had the money would probably go and preorder or buy the scourge

[@jeffleake1960]

As someone who likes in the UK im perfectly aware the Dinobot formally known as "Slag" is not a loose woman and infact a 20ft killer transforming dinosaur come robot

[@eoinkenny2857]

Kids and mud flap probably should be deluxe size to fit in scale

[@PrincessMatrix]

3rd Party companies do tend to get involved in a fair bit of drama with their competition. It's not sheer coincidence when company A announces a character, then company B just happens to reveal they're also working on that same character. There's also some bad blood between companies, but it's hard to get a full story since there's a lot of hearsay and hushed lips.

[@BainesMkII]

The random boring Seeker color schemes make me wonder if companies have already done the obvious "other Transformers as Seekers" repaints, just because I'd like to see an '84 Megatron Seeker, Blitzwing Seeker, Prime Seeker, Junkion Seeker, etc. I'm sure those have long been done by now though.

[@Nemesis_Slime]

for the OM Swindle mold: the foot is separate but not required, it's basically a shoe

[@RangerOkie88]

I wish someday a 3P company would do new cassette characters…not new takes on existing characters, but whole new characters, like animals or vehicles…

[@duskbringer4583]

Skywarp could be Universe Ramjet, hard to say as same mold.

[@MikeD974]

If star toys tracks is anything like their blitzwing it will be great

[@Lawtann2]

I actually still like my Kingdom Ultra Magnus. I didn't see a reason to swap out with the SS Commander.

[@user-hq8vb8ok5n]

How can anyone be scared of a seeker named Paul.

[@samurexatlas7373]

Because he's Paul Blart. Mall cop.

[@Bigdaddyweese]

Robot Toys are legends scale

[@jessmarz649]

Paul: HI, I'm Paul!!

[@jupiter5673]

Fans Toys are definitely gonna have to do an Optimus after they showed off the inner robot of their upcoming Ultra Magnus

[@reliantrobin9450]

It’s up for pre-order on Show-z

[@SideswipePrime606]

So, the WEIRDEST part about being in the room at TFCon was that the crowd actually cheered for the Unique Toys Skids and Mudflap. I was so confused, because I thought the fandom at large, justifiably, hated these guys.

[@lynngreen7978]

RE: G1-style Seeker molds and female characters. What I would like to see, is the accurate air intake cowling for the females, with a more aerodynamic cowling for the males. Then some kind of adjustment to the waist/hip ratio for the females. Nothing overtly exploitative, while conveying the figure.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

I think the orange and sand blueish purple Seekers are meant to be loose homages to the unnamed Starscream clones from Animated.

[@jeffleake1960]

How many years will we have to wait for the ft magnus 2, 5 maybe 10 like there soundwave ? They certainly dont rush thats for sure

[@darthprime4916]

I feel the same about 3rd party doing same bots. Devastator is my fav. But where is a good piranacon, techno bots. Np Aplha Trion. Can anyone attempt a Pretender? Even a auper7 non transforming shell. Or a latex type material that would cover The bot.

[@Sonny90091]

Well, then I hope that Legacy will also start with a Defensor!

[@eoinkenny2857]

I think each figure goes for between $30-$40 each for liokisour team

[@Bigdaddyweese]

For a legends size figure their Tracks from MFT is pretty decent

[@Iceykitsune]

One toy I would really like 3rd parties to do is G2 Dreadwind and smokescreen.

[@Dai_Tallsian]

The X-Transbots hotspot is not all in one, iirc. Only MMC does that for their combiners.

[@emblom52]

Yes, this is all MakeToys is anymore.

[@Bigdaddyweese]

Iron Factory second hand gets expensive

[@Ranma_Leopard]

Very enjoyable video

[@ultimateblaze23]

I think for the last two years every single 3rd party panel is the same four combiners over and over again

[@blud890]

He didnt even mention fans toys optimussss

[@user-lynKx]

maketoys starting off with the banger news *_COLORVERSE_* as if it's a cooler name than _repaint_

[@reliantrobin9450]

At least the repetition in third parties is competition. Hasbro straight up selling the same shit over and over. Like Kingdom Blaster did you? Well here’s the 86 version you really wanted so buy it again please. And what’s that you wanted an Earthrise Hound? Well you have to buy the other four again. 😂

[@Jukeboxer11]

Subtitle: man who despises all things related to third-party transformers reviews third-party transformers for 45 minutes.

[@jamievaughn1485]

So for Newage and Magic Square you can get them much cheaper from ShowZ and Magic Square has their own direct website where most characters run around $35. I’m finding it hard to follow certain Transformer KZbinrs as you guys throw so heavy bad or wrong info on 3rd party stuff that I can’t rely on your news or updates. That Newage figure should be about $35-$40. I guess it’s just more people hating on Legends scale when they are fun and have a pretty big fan base. Maybe this isn’t the channel for my Transformer news after all.

[@treebotreviews]

39:43 this is all the worse because the minicons have sucked ass so far in fans hobby. Especially spark plug. He SUCKED.

[@blud890]

Lol "triple changer"

[@marcamusprime9513]

A friend watched a video

[@tracytron7162]

28:45 It looks like they are the same thighs to me, that bit of blue on them visible in the albino prime mode is just on a panel that flips around for the full Magnus mode