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I'm actually liking the retail version more now, i know it's got a toxic colour scheme but i would sooner have 5 different colours on the combiner than 3 it maybe game accurate but Vortex Blast Off and Swindle are the same colour just a different shade .


The only thing that gets me about this is the two totally different hands

I should see this first hand tonight at Comic Con and will probably pick him up. Whether I wind up liking him enough to keep him, that's another story.

DevastaTTor wrote:I should see this first hand tonight at Comic Con and will probably pick him up. Whether I wind up liking him enough to keep him, that's another story.

Don't judge him till you fiddle around with him. There's often lots of hidden stuff on TFs that the first people to get a TF just don't notice.

Check out Bruticus' scramble gimmick and try confirming if Onslaught's cannon really can plug into Bruticus' back. =)

orangeitis wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote:I should see this first hand tonight at Comic Con and will probably pick him up. Whether I wind up liking him enough to keep him, that's another story.

Don't judge him till you fiddle around with him. There's often lots of hidden stuff on TFs that the first people to get a TF just don't notice.

Check out Bruticus' scramble gimmick and try confirming if Onslaught's cannon really can plug into Bruticus' back. =)

If I buy it today, I'll open it up and check it out for sure and will post comments.

njb902 wrote:can't wait. I hope this is a start of a trend. it would be awesome to get a 6 bot devastator, not to mention the other combiners.

I agree, but my hope is that combiners will not automatically be Cybertronian version from here on. I think my general concern is that Generations type figures do not become solely Wf/FoC figures. Like, Cybertronian Jazz is not "Classics"/G1 Jazz. Anyway, I don't want only Cybertron style combiners. Some of them, cool: if we got a Cybertron alt mode set of Constructicons or even PRedicons or Terrorcons, some team where the alt modes could be more interesting that horrid attempts at Cybertron jets and cars, that's fine, but I don't want a Cybertron Superion for instance, where the entire set of bots ends up being horrible, jagged disasters labeled as planes.
In general I thihnk the Cybertron alt mode is a nice change of pace, but I would not want it to become the new norm.

My biggest complaint with the toy based on pictures is the placement of the connectors on the arms. I wish the connectors on Vortex and Blast Off would have been slightly lower allowing some of their kibble to stick up above his shoulders. I think that would make him look "bigger" and a little stronger. In my opinion, the way they connect now makes him look very skinny and weak at the shoulder. It looks more like a wrist.

amcgrath929 wrote:My biggest complaint with the toy based on pictures is the placement of the connectors on the arms. I wish the connectors on Vortex and Blast Off would have been slightly lower allowing some of their kibble to stick up above his shoulders. I think that would make him look "bigger" and a little stronger. In my opinion, the way they connect now makes him look very skinny and weak at the shoulder. It looks more like a wrist.

YES!! that's what i was thinking!

amcgrath929 wrote:My biggest complaint with the toy based on pictures is the placement of the connectors on the arms. I wish the connectors on Vortex and Blast Off would have been slightly lower allowing some of their kibble to stick up above his shoulders. I think that would make him look "bigger" and a little stronger. In my opinion, the way they connect now makes him look very skinny and weak at the shoulder. It looks more like a wrist.

I think it was necessary to do what they did to allow for the scramble gimmick.

I want that G2 colored one more than anything.

orangeitis wrote:

amcgrath929 wrote:My biggest complaint with the toy based on pictures is the placement of the connectors on the arms. I wish the connectors on Vortex and Blast Off would have been slightly lower allowing some of their kibble to stick up above his shoulders. I think that would make him look "bigger" and a little stronger. In my opinion, the way they connect now makes him look very skinny and weak at the shoulder. It looks more like a wrist.

I think it was necessary to do what they did to allow for the scramble gimmick.

It could also be a mistransformation. You know those crazy photographers over at HasTak.