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Gauntlet101010 wrote:Let's hope this is their often rumored Menasor! Hes the last of the Decepticon combiners and the last of the original G1 combiners that have never seen a decent update. I've been holding out on ANY Stunticon figures in the hopes that we'd get a combiner one day - officially or not.

Before anyone gets too excited (I guess its too late), remember, Fansproject is not the main focus for the group members in their daily lives. Unlike other groups, FansProject is very patient, and they don't see a need to announce things a year ahead, when they first begin work on a project. All the items coming out next have been in the works for a minimum of 18 months at least. Steel Core was probably started at least 2 years ago. I first saw the prototype back in January 2011. It would of taken a minimum of 6 months to get to that prototype stage.

Just because they just showed Assaulter's artwork recently, doesn't mean their just starting off in the drawing stages.

As for the upcoming releases, thats all stuff you guys would of known based on leaks and what not over the year. Members here have known Menasor was the next combiner, as some where shown photos at Botcon 2011. Based off that, you'd come to the conclusion that is 5 figures at the minimum, if FP release each individually. Plus, the teaser for Crossfire 3. Teasers shown at TFCon 2009. Everything adds up. Most of what I've mentioned today is not really news, unless you don't follow FP as others do.

As for the pricing, remember not all the 3rd party groups have the same production run of units as others. Fansproject is popular, so they can sometimes do a bit larger of a run and help keep end cost down. As well, there are other costs involved for productions, or suprise costs a group encounters, that fans don't know about, and a group has to factor it in or their product might not get released at all.

Rated X wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Let's hope this is their often rumored Menasor! Hes the last of the Decepticon combiners and the last of the original G1 combiners that have never seen a decent update. I've been holding out on ANY Stunticon figures in the hopes that we'd get a combiner one day - officially or not.

Dont forget, Predaking, Abominus, and Piranacon. Well we need better Stunticons. And after seeing FOC Bruticus, I think it would be better if Hasbro left combiners to the experts.

Unlike other groups, FansProject is very patient, and they don't see a need to announce things a year ahead, when they first begin work on a project.

FansProject wrote:Also coming in 2011

WB-002
CA-06
CA-07
Crossfire-03
(Audacity) Amelioration of Novel form, HeartMaster — HM-001
and much more….

Rated X wrote:The bottom line is somebodys gotta do the stunticons and if Fansproject sleeps on it too long somebody else will git-r-dun !

xyl360 wrote:

Rated X wrote:The bottom line is somebodys gotta do the stunticons and if Fansproject sleeps on it too long somebody else will git-r-dun !

Yep, I can already hear TFC knocking on the door. They seem intent on doing pretty much all of the G1 combiners it seems (concepts for Computron and Abominus have already been seen and they're obviously doing Superion). Considering the fact that Superion and Menasor are somewhat arch enemies, I suspect they'll jump on the Stunticons even if FP does their own, but maybe I'm wrong on that. But you can bet they probably will do one if FP doesn't get their own out soon enough.

necr0blivion wrote:

xyl360 wrote:

Rated X wrote:The bottom line is somebodys gotta do the stunticons and if Fansproject sleeps on it too long somebody else will git-r-dun !

Yep, I can already hear TFC knocking on the door. They seem intent on doing pretty much all of the G1 combiners it seems (concepts for Computron and Abominus have already been seen and they're obviously doing Superion). Considering the fact that Superion and Menasor are somewhat arch enemies, I suspect they'll jump on the Stunticons even if FP does their own, but maybe I'm wrong on that. But you can bet they probably will do one if FP doesn't get their own out soon enough.

I can see TFC keeping the size of their Gestalts the same as Hercules instead of trying to downsize a bit. However, as much as I would love to get new versions of all the combiner teams, I'm happy with 1 or 2 a year. Hercules was really a one-off for me at that price range, I really don't want to think about sustaining $100/pop every time.