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Transformers Combiner Wars Quickslinger and Brake Neck (Slingshot and Wildrider)

Hasbro is helping fans complete their Aerialbots and Stunticons with new version of Slingshot and Wildrider! They have been renamed Quickslinger and Brake Neck due to trademark reasons but retain the show accurate heads seen on the upcoming Unite Warriors Japanese versions. Quickslinger is a variant of Firefly while Brake-Neck is a variant of Dead End. Information on their availability is coming soon. Each Combiner Wars limb has an MSRP of $16.99.

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Posted 25 March, 2015 - 10:22 by VF5SS

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fans fear change

For a franchise defined by transforming vehicles and robots, it shows how much fans fear change. Their replacement characters were obviously designed because they'd be easier to retool such as how Alpha Bravo becomes TWO other known characters, and the same can be said for the new guy in the Stunticons. However, I have to agree that some things don't need to be changed because 'well... we can't use those names...' reasons.

I'm hopeful Hasbro won't short sheet us on their release to being maybe as TRU/HasbroToyShop exclusives.

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Posted by Rob on 25 March, 2015 - 16:23
Competition

At this point, Hasbro knows that the third party manufacturers are out there and that fans are willing to spend a lot of money on show-accurate replacements and upgrades. A third-party CW Slingshot was announced the day after Superion was revealed, and I'm sure a Wildrider was in the works alongside it. Fans'll be fans, so I can't blame Hasbro for doing their best to get in on the market, especially if Takara was already making the new heads.

Plus they're online exclusives so scalping hopefully won't be an issue. I don't think they'll be just HTS exclusives; they've had a working relationship with BBTS, TFSource and other big TF stores and I think they'll set up to distribute through them. I'm not sure if Toys R Us would get them if that were the case.

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Posted by atom smasher on 26 March, 2015 - 06:04