Victorian Transformers Combiner Wars

Victorion (Collection Pack, 2016)

Accessories: Left & right hands, 2 feet, buildable broadsword

Part of the Combiner Wars series, Victorion is made up of Voyager Class Pyra Magna as the torso, with Rust Dust forming her chest, and Dust Up, Stormclash, Skyburst, and Jumpstream each forming a limb. Pyra Magna has been retooled to give Victorion a new head. Having the copter-twins Skyburst and Stormclash as legs puts her in "flight mode”. Her broadsword is the combined mode of her components’ weapons, with the base of the sword resembling the Lightning Bug from the original cartoon episode "Cosmic Rust”. The final product features a more muted green compared to the early stock photos that depict hand-painted prototypes.
Unlike earlier Combiner Wars gestalts, Victorion uses dedicated hand and foot parts, rather than the "can be either hand or a foot or a gun” parts that come with the rest of the limb-bots in the series. This is because her components aren’t sold separately, resulting in a reduced need for flexibility in the hand/foot-part department.
Every one of Victorion’s components has Cybertronic tampographs in her vehicle mode, which read:

IF CYBERTRON BE YOUR HOME (Pyra Magna)
FAR AWAY NEVER ROAM (Rust Dust)
HEAR MY MESSAGE LISTEN AND FEAR (Skyburst)
DANGER COMES THE END IS NEAR (Stormclash)
JUST LIKE US YOU SOON WILL RUST (Dust Up)
ALL SHALL BE TURNED TO DUST (Jumpstream)
This is another callback to "Cosmic Rust”: the warning message left by victims of the titular plague on their colony world.
Victorion was only available as a box set including a poster and a collector card based on her packaging art, one of several so-called "Collection Packs” that were "online exclusives” in the United States, available from online retailers such as Hasbro Toy Shop, Amazon, and BigBadToyStore as well as the online stores of "big box” retailers such as Toys"R"Us, Walmart, Target, and Kmart. In Hasbro’s Asian markets such as Singapore and Taiwan, the set was available at general retail. In Australia, it was sold at Toys"R"Us stores, whereas in Canada, was both sold at Toys"R"Us stores and available via Amazon Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was available via the UK Toys"R"Us website (but never sold in stores), whereas in Spain, it was available via the Spanish subsidiaries of Amazon and Carrefour, as well as the department store chain El Corte Inglés, supposedly also only available online.
This set, including the new individual head sculpts but without Rust Dust, was redecoed to make Unite Warriors Megatronia.

Notes

Victorion’s reveal image from USAToday
Victorion was the result of the 2015 Fan Built Combiner polls. Fan-voting determined:
Her gender
Her name
The molds used
Her color scheme
Her special power (Gravity control)
Her origin ("Rust Sea” won, so while the components are from Caminus, Victorion proper was "born” in the Rust Sea in-fiction.)
Her "rival” (Galvatronus won, and on his first formation in IDW continuity, he immediately grapples with Victorion.)
Her attitude ("doesn’t take instruction well” won, and yeah, upon first forming, she’s kind of a loose cannon until Windblade talks her down.)
Though she is the first female "traditional”, Scramble City-style Combiner, the honor of first Combiner to be referred to as female goes to Heavy Metal, a Unicron Trilogy 3-bot Mini-Con Combiner.
In her first fictional appearance, she is drawn without any obvious integration of Rust Dust, who forms her "chest armor” in toy form. Similarly, in his first appearance in IDW continuity, Defensor is also drawn without his chest armor component, Groove. Given that Pyra Magna is a retool of Hot Spot, both of whom form the torsos of their respective Combiners, it seems an odd omission to make twice.
HasbroDesignerDesk-Victorionfaceplate.jpg

Occasionally, Victorion is drawn with a mouthplate and non-visored eyes rather than the exposed mouth and visored eyes the final toy has. This seems to be based on one of the earlier designs for Victorion, as seen in a clip from Hasbro’s "Designer Desk” video for Victorion on YouTube.
Victorion is one of the largest Transformers action figures to have heel struts. She also has hands that are much smaller than any other Combiner Wars Combiner, even without the knuckle-guns that other figures have. They’re close to the size of original G1 Combiner toy hands.
If you think about it, it’s rather fitting that the fandom gets to have influence on a character who literally comprises disparate personalities.
According to Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #3, Victorion has a variable height of approximately 150 feet and a variable weight of approximately 1500 tons.

Transformers Combiner Wars

Hasbro

630509396436

2016

Luxembourg

12 in

Transformers Combiner Wars

CMBW2

2018-06-08 15:35:52

~122,92 €

2026-02-23

2018-06-08 15:35:52