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TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby El Duque » Mon Mar 05, 2012 9:30 am

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Some interesting Technobot concept sketches have been posted by Xiao Red (who always seems to have the inside track on TFC Toys info) over on ACToys. It appears third-party toy company TFC Toys may be considering the Technobots as their next Transformers related project. This would also be consistent with the hints they dropped on their facebook page about their next project featuring red and white on each figure. The concept sketches for Afterburner, Strafe, Lightspeed, and Nosecone are mirrored below. This should be treated as a rumor for the moment. As we all know by now third-party companies are notorious for teasing and starting projects that never see fruition.


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Postby Mkall » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:07 am

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Well this is indeed good news to wake up to.

I wonder how scale is going to work out? Either way it's going to be awesome!
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Postby worldsgreatest » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:20 am

This would be so awesome. Fingers crossed.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby Gauntlet101010 » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:24 am

The Technobots aren't on my want list, so it's an easy pass.

What happened to their Dinobots? Not that I wanted them, but it's weird that they aren't moving forward with those first.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby DecepticonFinishline » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:03 am

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Mkall wrote:Well this is indeed good news to wake up to.

I wonder how scale is going to work out? Either way it's going to be awesome!


Hopefully all the limbs as deluxe (sold 2 at a time?) and Scattorshot as (near) Ultra class. I'm excited to see a Scattorshot that ISN'T based on TF Cybertron Scattorshot.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:The Technobots aren't on my want list, so it's an easy pass.

What happened to their Dinobots? Not that I wanted them, but it's weird that they aren't moving forward with those first.


The Dinobot combiner seemed to receive a lot of flak here. I think with the success of Hercules it makes sense that they want to work on a G1-based combiner.


All in all, I haven't seen a Computron since the original. If it's designed with just a little of the greatness of Hercules, then I CAN'T WAIT.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby Mkall » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:07 am

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DecepticonFinishline wrote:
Mkall wrote:Well this is indeed good news to wake up to.

I wonder how scale is going to work out? Either way it's going to be awesome!


Hopefully all the limbs as deluxe (sold 2 at a time?) and Scattorshot as (near) Ultra class. I'm excited to see a Scattorshot that ISN'T based on TF Cybertron Scattorshot.

I'm kinda hoping for the opposite actually; I'm hoping that they'll be scout/deluxe figures so the end result could be in scale with all the other combiners, but I'm doubting that's the case. TFC's going for their own scale I think.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby DMSL » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:11 am

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If these are going to be as good or better than Hercules/not constructicons i'm getting them all. Though i hope the colours will be G1 accurate i woulden't mind if they were all red with white details. Apart from Scattershot and Strafe that is they should definately be all white with red details.
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Postby DecepticonFinishline » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:14 am

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Mkall wrote:
DecepticonFinishline wrote:
Mkall wrote:Well this is indeed good news to wake up to.

I wonder how scale is going to work out? Either way it's going to be awesome!


Hopefully all the limbs as deluxe (sold 2 at a time?) and Scattorshot as (near) Ultra class. I'm excited to see a Scattorshot that ISN'T based on TF Cybertron Scattorshot.

I'm kinda hoping for the opposite actually; I'm hoping that they'll be scout/deluxe figures so the end result could be in scale with all the other combiners, but I'm doubting that's the case. TFC's going for their own scale I think.


I love their new scale! I want them all! I want the top of my shelf to house several leviathans!!! :BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN:
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby DrLegend » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:21 am

:DANCE: :DANCE: :DANCE: :DANCE: :DANCE:

This is fantastic news! Computron was the one combiner I never owned yet always wanted. With the rumors of Fansproject wanting to make Stunticons, I'm happy to see that they're not trying to double dip.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby Kibble » Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:29 am

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Gauntlet101010 wrote:The Technobots aren't on my want list, so it's an easy pass.

What happened to their Dinobots? Not that I wanted them, but it's weird that they aren't moving forward with those first.


Before they actually released Herc, TFC was really good at announcing things and less good at getting the damn things out.
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Postby Rated X » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:01 pm

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Mkall wrote:
DecepticonFinishline wrote:
Mkall wrote:Well this is indeed good news to wake up to.

I wonder how scale is going to work out? Either way it's going to be awesome!


Hopefully all the limbs as deluxe (sold 2 at a time?) and Scattorshot as (near) Ultra class. I'm excited to see a Scattorshot that ISN'T based on TF Cybertron Scattorshot.

I'm kinda hoping for the opposite actually; I'm hoping that they'll be scout/deluxe figures so the end result could be in scale with all the other combiners, but I'm doubting that's the case. TFC's going for their own scale I think.


Im pretty confident it will be 4 scouts/deluxes and a voyager. This is not a 6 member team like the Constructicon set. Plus, as we saw in the Michael Bay films, construction vechicles are huge. That is what they probally were thinking when they made Hercules so huge. But I think complaints about Hercules price to make them scale down a bit. Best part is this opens up the door for Abominus. :D
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Postby zodconvoy » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:29 pm

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Postby --B-- » Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:31 pm

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I really hope this is somewhat affordable, Computron was one of the few G1's that I had complete since I got them as a kid, and was truly disappointed the day I had to let him go.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby Daggor » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:52 pm

Strafe was always one of my favorite toys - a simple transformation, but I'd love to see an update.
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Postby Nemesis Destron » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:03 pm

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Postby kirbenvost » Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:47 pm

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Interesting. :-? I can't say Computron is high on my list of wanted figures, but G1 Afterburner was one of my first Transformers ever... so I'm curious about how this will turn out.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby RiddlerJ » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:27 pm

I see Nosecone and Strafe recolored into Twin Twist and Top Spin.
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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby DevastaTTor » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:39 pm

I'm interested if for no other reason than my "classic" Autobots are becoming painfully out-numbered. Do hope the scale isn't too huge; would prefer this Bruticus scaled versus another Hercules-sized beast.
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Postby cylor » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:41 pm

DevastaTTor wrote:would prefer this Bruticus scaled versus another Hercules-sized beast.


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Re: TFC Toys Taking on the Technobots?

Postby Mkall » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:46 pm

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Let's be realistic here - we won't be seeing these guys for at least another year. TFC has so many projects either announced or in prototype stage:

Off the top of my head:
Dino-Combiner
StarCats combiner
PCC limbs
Reflector
Abominus (sketches seen last year)
and now sketches for Protectobots.
I'm sure there's some targetoids or something right?

At this stage after my initial excitement wore off, I will not get excited until I see prototype images.
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Postby rpetras » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:46 pm

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Postby Skullcrunchberries » Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:47 pm

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Considering their track record as far as Hercules is concerned, holy dinosaur marbles I am beyond stoked. Computron was always my favorite Autobot combiner :3
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