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Hmm, interesting. These might be my Classics Dinobots.

Even if you personally don't like the idea of dinobots combining, it's obvious that most people do. Do a search on ebay for "dinobot combiner" and see how many crappy customs there are and what people are willing to pay for them. It's about time a third party made one that was actually GOOD.

And yes, Hasbro is moronic for not doing this themselves. They made Grimlock into other gimmicky stuff like Pretenders, etc., but never made the dinobots into the original gimmick -- a combiner? Utterly stupid.

I could live with them being not molded exactly to resemble G1, provided they have G1 colors. However, the scale really screws them up. Not only are they out of scale in the TF kingdom, but they are out of scale in the dinosaur kingdom as well. I mean, look at sludge. Why is he the smallest instead of the largest ???? Sludge should have been the torso. And dont give me the lame excuse about "the torso always has to be the leader". Scrapper was a freakin leg on Devastator. I have no intrest in the combiner feature anyways and since the robot modes are not going to be G1, they would get displayed in dino mode. But the scale sucks.

Gotta see more of the Defensor team before I comment.

Doesn't look too bad really, hopefully the Ropbot modes are pretty decent.

I want to see the robot forms before I decide..

Optimusfan79 wrote:With dinobots combining every single TF fan can't say they didn't want to see that when you watch Heavy Metal War, The Movie, & Call of the Primitives, seeing Devestator get the best of them or watching them not begin able to handle Predaking & Abominus. Look @ that custom dinobot custom everyone would want that. Next to a city TF the dino's r suppose to be the badest bots out their. I'm happy somebody went above & beyond to give us want 90% of TF fans always wanted to see hasbro do. It looks great so far can't what to see the finished product!

karellan wrote:Even if you personally don't like the idea of dinobots combining, it's obvious that most people do. Do a search on ebay for "dinobot combiner" and see how many crappy customs there are and what people are willing to pay for them. It's about time a third party made one that was actually GOOD.

I for one don't want the Dinobots to ever combine again. Seriously, cut this sh!t out. Saying they should combine is like saying the Wreckers should combine or the Sweeps or the Headmasters. It's all just unnecessary. Most fans actually don't want a dinosaur combiner. Or at least not that one.

karellan wrote:And yes, Hasbro is moronic for not doing this themselves. They made Grimlock into other gimmicky stuff like Pretenders, etc., but never made the dinobots into the original gimmick -- a combiner? Utterly stupid.

The original gimmick was transforming and only the Actionmasters didn't do that which is a gimmick in itself "yo dawg" style.

@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.

The combined mode is pretty sweet no doubt but i'm not interested. I don't need or want combining Dinobots. Excellent figure though.

Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.

I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them

They all look like cracking figures but they're just not my thing. I could never be happy with a Defensor who's bigger than a Dinobot combiner.

Mkall wrote:

Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.

I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them

More of that 10% huh Mkall...LOL! If you get them you gonna merge them once its human nature LOL.

Optimusfan79 wrote:

Mkall wrote:

Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.

I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them

More of that 10% huh Mkall...LOL! If you get them you gonna merge them once its human nature LOL.

Once to see what it's like perhaps, but IMO (and only IMO) the Dinobots are seperate characters, not combiners.

Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

when i was a kid i had always wanted the dinobots to be a combiner. well.....20 years later and my dream came true. i am ALL in on this set. hopefully they dont start shipping untill AFTER hercules.....it would be a lot easier on the wallet

This newsbit makes me so happy.

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Geekee1 wrote:

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.

They don't look as good as the FOC designs IMO. So if Hasbro does sit on those figures we hoped for the first time again while throwing out more BumbbleBees and Primes. Well.....

Flux Convoy wrote:

Geekee1 wrote:

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.

Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...

Mkall wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:

Geekee1 wrote:

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.

Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...

mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?

lol


seriously - its an impressive looking piece - seems these 3rd party buggers are upping the ante with each production

Baneblade wrote:

Mkall wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:

Geekee1 wrote:

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.

Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...

mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?

lol

It doesn't hurt that I didn't even see Victory until the Madman Headmasters/Victory/Masterforce release in '09. In fact, aside from having a couple of them as a kid, I only know the Pretender Monsters from Marvel's Rhythms of Darkness! when I was 10. Jim Lee did the cover and it was the first issue I got when I really started collecting comics and was blown away by it! Still, they never even combined in the issue!

zodconvoy wrote:

Baneblade wrote:

Mkall wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:

Geekee1 wrote:

Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.

Now that could be a capital idea.

Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.

Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...

mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?

lol

It doesn't hurt that I didn't even see Victory until the Madman Headmasters/Victory/Masterforce release in '09. In fact, aside from having a couple of them as a kid, I only know the Pretender Monsters from Marvel's Rhythms of Darkness! when I was 10. Jim Lee did the cover and it was the first issue I got when I really started collecting comics and was blown away by it! Still, they never even combined in the issue!

sad thing is that on the dvds the dinoforce/dinoking were a bunch of bungling morons - really cant see these figs being repainted to represent that facet of the tf universe

Additional images of TFC Toys upcoming Dino-Combiner have popped up on Action Figure Checklist. In this set of images we finally get to see all of the figures in their robot modes. Good enough to become your Classics universe Dinobots? Check out the images mirrored below.

Meh. I don't need my Dinobots to combine. I would rather see better robot and dino mold without having to sacrifice for the combiner functions.

So the tails have to be removed and set aside? That's disappointing, and makes these figures less attractive.

They are Waaaaay to small......They need to be upsized to at least the size the Hercules toys are at. I mean wtf?? Making merge groups so small is just dumb. It looks cool, but if there scout sized with a deluxe Grimlock, whats the point??? It wont sell very well.