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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:07 pm

The Futaba Channel brings us our first in-hand images of the upcoming Transformers Generations Deluxe Whirl. Whirl is redeco/remold of the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Vortex mold and part of the Wreckers combiner team, who are of course all redeco/remolds of the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Combations. The Wreckers team combiners to form Ruination. Check out the images below.

Whirl along with the rest of the team will make up Transformers Generations Deluxe Wave 4.

News Credits: 103 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:11 pm

Not feeling this at all for some reason..

by **Henry921** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:13 pm

Cyber Bishop wrote:Not feeling this at all for some reason..

I blame the orange, myself.

Not gonna bother with this one; not gonna bother with Ruination. Just gonna get Impactor and Roadbuster and leave the rest to die a slow death shelfwarming.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:18 pm

Yeah, the orange sucks; it doesn't belong on a Whirl homage. However, I love the head sculpt (at least from what I can see of it).

News Credits: 1 · by **mattwhite924** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:23 pm

I'm a little bit disappointed his bio isn't just "NO KNOWN WEAKNESSES".

by **lowman_x** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:23 pm

What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:25 pm

Orange? ORANGE!? WTF?

Does use of these moulds come with a stipulation that they must ALSO have a crappy colour scheme?

by **Rated X** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:25 pm

Im seriously considering buying him just to mix blue and purple parts and make a semi-G1 colored Vortex...

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:26 pm

lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?

Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?

News Credits: 1 · by **dirk2243** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:28 pm

No........ no........ just....no.....

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:42 pm

The head might be useful for custom purposes...

I was considering grabbing him to do the old part-switcheroo with Vortex too, but there's too much paint removal involved.

by **lowman_x** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:49 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?

Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:51 pm

thats horrible

News Credits: 16 · by **Super Megatron** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:56 pm

Actually more excited about this set than the Combaticon set...

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:56 pm

I'm actually looking forward to this wave of figures. Theh shall be my Shattered Glass Wreckers and they will be AWESOME!

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:58 pm

lowman_x wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?

Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?

Vortex redeco from Robots in Disguise.

Hence the combined form being named Ruination.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:01 pm

That orange is gross.

by **griftimus prime** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:18 pm

why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.

by **lowman_x** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
lowman_x wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?

Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?

Vortex redeco from Robots in Disguise.

Hence the combined form being named Ruination.

Ah. Indeed. Thanks for the clarification. Never watched RID. Well, that's a lie. I did. Once. Well, I tried anyways. The "Autobot Brothers" just annoyed the hell out of me. Brawn-X? To the EXTREME!! Is that what that was meant to be? :-P

by **lowman_x** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:26 pm

griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.

I'll second that (on both counts).

The middle TF needs to be a voyager size. It's way too spindly looking when combined and there's no bulk to it.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:39 pm

griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.

Simple, they're not official Transformers products.

If you wish to keep up with Predaking, or any other 3rd party product, here's the forum in which to do it.

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblevivisector** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:41 pm

Okay, G1 Whirl's rotors were yellow, so the orange kinda' makes sense on them, but as for the orange on the rest of him...

Wait, it just dawned on me! Since even Twin Twist has a blue-orange deco, which makes just as little sense (unless I'm forgetting a Diaclone or Salt-Man color scheme), could the whole point be to give Ruination a more unified look, to better homage Emirate Xaaron?!? It'll largely fail, but considering he was gold and really-light-blue-for-silver in most comic appearances, that would almost make sense. Of course, the resulting Ruination will only be accurate to that one Condor Verlag cover scale-wise...wait, that means these colors will actually make PERFECT sense!

News Credits: 1 · by **njb902** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:45 pm

Is it wrong that I want them just for the weapons?

by **Rated X** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 5:02 pm

kirbenvost wrote:The head might be useful for custom purposes...

I was considering grabbing him to do the old part-switcheroo with Vortex too, but there's too much paint removal involved.

91% isopropyl alcohol will take that crappy orange paint off in 30 seconds. If you only want to remove certain parts, then dip tissue in the alcohol and lay it on those parts for 5 minutes then wipe carefully. Use a pencil eraser to remove any paint stains, then shine up the area with more alcohol. Then get the purple parts from Vortex and begin the de-Hasbro-azation and make the G1 gods proud.