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Legacy United Tidal Wave Concept Design Images for 2024 Titan Class Figure

As promised, Hasbro Designer Sam Smith @king_samlock takes gives up the behind the scenes on the Armada Universe Tidal Wave Titan class figure! There is so much to this figure that we are just seeing in more detail now. Read on to see Sam's notes on the development of this figure along with images and videos to follow on this figure that will be landing in Fall 2023.

Transformers Legacy United - Titan Tidal Wave

“Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave”

With the daunting chant on impending doom and having been officially announced at Cybertron Fest Singapore, let’s get into the details of Titan Tidal Wave. With the launch of Legacy United, we knew that there was no greater time to revisit this character at the titan scale. This guy was a blast to work on, but we had so many priorities we needed to define out of the gate. As a Titan, Tidal Wave needed to deliver a large scale super articulated robot. As a vehicle, he needed to deliver a large flying aquatic war craft, which needed to be assembled out of 3 smaller vehicle form factors (the dark fleet). Tidal Wave needed to combine with Armada Megatron, to create Burning Megatron and we felt that he needed to have an alt mode that was achievable without the need to separate the vehicles in assembly. I’d like to say that we were able to achieve 4 out of the 5, but in the end, we did them all!

Shogo Hasui (Hasui san) was an absolute rockstar to work with on this project, and continued to find incredible solutions in delivering such a massive undertaking. He continued to push this figure forward despite all the curve balls that we through to him.

In the end Tidal Wave delivers a super articulated Titan robot, with waist, ankle, clever butterfly shoulders, wrist and neck. His chest weaponry all 8 turrets points are articulated for rotation, with the larger 4 featuring articulated barrels and 5mm ports for blast effect compatibility. In addition, his palm cannons also used 5mm ports that can be utilized in robot and alt mode

Tidal Waves color spec is primary based on the Armada animation with a few pieces of influence from the original toy, similar to Armada Megatron.

Transformers Legacy United - Titan Tidal Wave - Combined Burning Megatron

In order to combine with Megatron to create Burning Megatron, miniature versions of the dark fleet can be extracted from various parts of Tidal Wave in order to combine. To avoid being left with a partial titan during the combination, we introduced a secondary transformation to the hands to keep them in tact so that a very in tact titan figure remains. The miniature versions are able able to be displayed as mini dark fleet vehicles, that convert into their armored accessories for Megatron.

To assist with the added weight of the components, and to deliver a more frightening Megatron, Foot extensions are included to raise the characters height, along with the ability to port the arm weaponry into the sides of the arms or the upper shoulders.

Transformers Legacy United - Titan Tidal Wave - Alt Mode

We decided early on, the importance of delivering the dark fleet as 3 separate vehicles to align to the original toy, and the consistent onscreen combination sequence that took place on screen. Due to this figure being super articulated, we would not be able to have him transform from robot to combined war craft without separating the vehicle forms. In order to avoid having him be referred to as a parts former, we introduced a secondary alt mode as a battle station / weapons fortress.

What are your thoughts on Titan Tidal Wave? Was he a worthy selection for the next titan figure? Our would you have preferred to have seen him at a smaller scale? Let us know along with any other questions in the comments below!

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ARHaslage 2024-03-24 @ 5:36 pm

Hasbro has a weird kink for boob canons, but this time I am here for it!

Gates13 2024-01-17 @ 4:42 pm

I love it! Not sure what some are complaining about. Can't wait for more Armada characters.

Decepticats 2024-01-16 @ 7:15 pm

You know, it's almost as if Hasbro, a toy company, has gotten so wrapped up in a postmodern cult ideology, they've forgotten how to give the fans what they want, which is the only reason they exist. Stay in your lane! If I want to be told how much I suck, I'll go to church, but until then, worry more about running your business instead of running your business into the ground at the behest of the Davos crowd.

Decepticats 2024-01-16 @ 7:01 pm

So that's it? Tidal Wave? It's great and all but I've been waiting a long time for Sureshot and Swoop, and others to be revealed and I'm tired of waiting at this point. Waiting and wondering what's canceled or pushed back. No more, Hasbro!

Joe Velez 2023-12-13 @ 9:22 pm

Okay I thought they made smaller version of all three Dark Fleet pieces. People kept ignoring the backpack when talking about the combining aspect. It was rather visible but nobody seemed to see it and thought that it was only new shoes along with the arm pieces.

Anyway though, the fact that they made what is essentially a mini Tidal Wave but DOESN'T have the combined vehicle mode or a robot mode is an absolute travesty. It's TIDAL WAVE. There's not much going on there that they couldn't easily make those pieces a full figure by taking like a quarter inch off the overall height of the main figure. Those guys were talking about this figure as if it was a difficult feat of engineering or something. All they did was upsize the original and add a few pieces of articulation. Then had extra flaps for the base mode and for the storage of the combination components.

If DNA doesn't make a replacement for those pieces for it to be a min Tidal Wave, they'll really be dropping the ball. Other than Ramjet, that's all this could possibly need.

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