The Rumor Buster

Transformers: Good News/Bad News

First, the bad news… it looks like Robot Heroes may have joined Adventure Heroes, M-Pire and Toy Box Heroes in the Hasbro Heroes graveyard. Normanb258 shared this over on the message board but apparently Parry Game Preserve asked a very delicate question regarding Robot Heroes, and got a sad answer:

Preserve: Do you plan to continue the Robot Heroes line beyond the current movie figures?

Hasbro: We do not have any plans to continue with this expression of Transformers past the ROTF line.

So now you want good news? Hasbro has released pictures of some upcoming Transformers figures and we’ve got them over in the Transformers Gallery. One warning for those that don’t collect the line, Rampage may make you want to start. Here’s the rundown:

Combat and Robot Heroes Holiday 2009 Pictures in the Gallery

Packaged pictures of the Combat Heroes (Conrad “Duke” Hauser, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes) and Robot Heroes (Optimus Prime, Starscream and Ironhide) 2009 Target holiday set are up at the gallery to tide you over until some better pictures can be taken.

Combat Heroes and Robot Heroes Target Holiday Sets

The Target holiday Combat Heroes and Robot Heroes sets are hitting stores now. I put up some quick cell phone pictures up over on the message board until they get to a better home. In the meantime, here’s a rundown of the changes I can see between them and the original figures:

Optimus Prime has silver antennae and looks to be a much brighter shade of blue

Ironhide: possibly a repaint of the Ironhide/Mixmaster figure, but not sure yet.

Starscream: Looks like the Springer/Starscream 2-pack figure but painted a little lighter.

Snake Eyes: Possibly a repaint of the Snake Eyes/Neo Viper figure?

Storm Shadow: a repaint of the Heavy Duty/Storm Shadow figure?

Conrad “Duke” Hauser: a blonder/lighter haired version of the Duke/Baroness 2-pack figure. Also, I think the green is a little lighter.

Edit: 9:30 a.m. 11/06/09 – I double checked the figures and realized that the glare from the pictures was making some black things look silver, so Ironhide and Snake Eyes are downgraded to potential repaints.

Robot Heroes, Combat Heroes Gallery Updates

Clanure’s got pictures of the second wave of Robot Heroes Revenge of the Fallen cinema scenes (Desert Devastation and Shanghai Shootout) up in the gallery, along with the new wave of Combat Heroes Rise of Cobra figures featuring Cover Girl, Ripcord, Wild Bill, Aqua Viper and the young Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes figures. Meanwhile, the gallery has over 6100 images, and it’s now approaching 61,000 image views!

New Robot Heroes Images

Clanure’s updated the Robot Heroes Gallery with more ever exclusive shots of the Robot Heroes Revenge of the Fallen Movie Wave 3 figures, and the unreleased Robot Heroes Universe Wave 4, including Dessaurus, Jetstorm, Laserbeak, and others. All those photos bring the gallery up to over 5150 photos, and we’re approaching the 50,000 gallery view milestone. As always, jump over to the board for discussion!

Robot Heroes Gallery Update (Revenge of the Fallen Wave 2)

Maybe Clanure didn’t think it was newsworthy, but you can see his awesome photos of the Revenge of the Fallen Wave 2 Robot Heroes Jolt/Ravage and Ironhide/Mixmaster packs over in the gallery. You can always join the Robot Heroes and Transformers discussion over on the board.

Massive Robot Heroes Gallery Update

We’re finally catching up on all the latest news and developments, so while this may be old news for board members, Clanure finished the massive Robot Heroes Gallery. Those 460 plus photos bring the Robot Heroes gallery up to 541 and covering everything up to the latest toys based on Transformers Revenge of the Fallen and even the Robot Heroes board game! Join the Robot Heroes discussion over on the board. In the meantime, here’s a quick sample of Clanure’s previous and most recent photos. Naturally, they’re just as awesome as always.