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Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:I dont need this. I wouldnt mind it if it was in scale with actual transformers. Couldnt they have used legends arcee and the mefan fox human alliance figure ?

The Club has no access to either onscreen Movieverse molds (Legends Arcee) or Human Alliance humans designed to represent characters played by the movie actors.

Actually I meant tf prime legends arcee. I would think any mold could be for the right so it can make money rather than collect dust in some chinese Warehouse. The club did start using off screen movieverse molds to make spinister, octopunch, and machine wars sandstorm. Change the paint colors and it isnt megan fox anymore. Its not like its a GM car or something. Its a mini doll.

Rated X wrote:Actually I meant tf prime legends arcee.

Ah, that make more sense. Though, the Club seems to prefer using more substantial figures like Deluxes and up, and the Legends Prime Arcee would be too small for a Human Alliance human figure since the HA line made some motorcycle toys for their human figures to ride (Jazz's gun, Arcee, Chromia, etc.) that were much bigger than Legends; closer to Scout sized even.

Rated X wrote:I would think any mold could be for the right so it can make money rather than collect dust in some chinese Warehouse. The club did start using off screen movieverse molds to make spinister, octopunch, and machine wars sandstorm. Change the paint colors and it isnt megan fox anymore. Its not like its a GM car or something. Its a mini doll.

Offscreen movieverse molds are fine, so long as they aren't designs owned by Paramount. The HA Mikaela mold is not only Paramount-owned but sculpted in Megan Fox's image. For a very limited production figure release, the Club would likely spend more money trying to get the mold to make the figure than they would earn from selling the figure.

Jesse Wittenrich once spoke about a matter similar to this, so if I can find what wrote about it, I'll post it here for all to see.

Will she be as kawaii as Marissa in KISS Players?

fenrir72 wrote:Will she be as kawaii as Marissa in KISS Players?

I thought the fandom had collectively agreed to never speak of that again?

Skywarp64 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Will she be as kawaii as Marissa in KISS Players?

I thought the fandom had collectively agreed to never speak of that again?

Nay, good sir (or ma'am, not sure ), for if one were to carefully and strategically eradicate any and all elemental traces of gross/skeevy material from the Kiss Player fiction, one would see that it does contain two very intriguing storylines. One involving the EDC leading an anti-Transformers propaganda and hunting down the Cybertronian TFs with manmade TF drone soldier (before the concept fell into overuse a few years later), and one involving Unicron's servants leading the protagonists on a multiverse-spanning journey that results in Primus battling Unicron on prehistoric Earth and sealing him away, planting the seeds for events to come in both Car Robots, Beast Wars II, and Beast Wars Neo.

If only it weren't for the perverted skeeviness hiding these grander stories.

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:So, you were annoyed that you'd have to be part of both clubs to get a full set, and now you're annoyed that this isn't the case? Just no pleasing some people.

When it comes to me and FunPub? No, there isn't.

The only decent thing they've done in recent years is Runabout and Runamuck. Nothing else has really interested me (except Scorponok, but I couldn't afford him anyway) and their business sense is rather lacking.
(That's how I feel anyway)

I like Jackpot, Scourge, Thrustinator, and the BW Uprising stuff... But I do agree there's room for improvement. For starters, get your freakin' website back up, people, it's been how long now?

http://www.transformersclub.com/

I meant the part with like the strries and profiles and stuff that was supposed to be there at one point, maybe the forums if they feel ambitious.

Sabrblade wrote:

Skywarp64 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Will she be as kawaii as Marissa in KISS Players?

I thought the fandom had collectively agreed to never speak of that again?

Nay, good sir (or ma'am, not sure ), for if one were to carefully and strategically eradicate any and all elemental traces of gross/skeevy material from the Kiss Player fiction, one would see that it does contain two very intriguing storylines. One involving the EDC leading an anti-Transformers propaganda and hunting down the Cybertronian TFs with manmade TF drone soldier (before the concept fell into overuse a few years later), and one involving Unicron's servants leading the protagonists on a multiverse-spanning journey that results in Primus battling Unicron on prehistoric Earth and sealing him away, planting the seeds for events to come in both Car Robots, Beast Wars II, and Beast Wars Neo.

If only it weren't for the perverted skeeviness hiding these grander stories.

Huh. Never would've guessed in a million years something good came out of Kiss Players.

For the record, it's sir. You got it right the first time.

Joe fans are concerned that this set won't be available to them unless they join the TFCC. The Retaliation bikes are TERRIBLE toys, heck you can find them on shelves now. The only thing worse than the bikes are the five points of glory figures they come with.

Skywarp64 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Skywarp64 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Will she be as kawaii as Marissa in KISS Players?

I thought the fandom had collectively agreed to never speak of that again?

Nay, good sir (or ma'am, not sure ), for if one were to carefully and strategically eradicate any and all elemental traces of gross/skeevy material from the Kiss Player fiction, one would see that it does contain two very intriguing storylines. One involving the EDC leading an anti-Transformers propaganda and hunting down the Cybertronian TFs with manmade TF drone soldier (before the concept fell into overuse a few years later), and one involving Unicron's servants leading the protagonists on a multiverse-spanning journey that results in Primus battling Unicron on prehistoric Earth and sealing him away, planting the seeds for events to come in both Car Robots, Beast Wars II, and Beast Wars Neo.

If only it weren't for the perverted skeeviness hiding these grander stories.

Huh. Never would've guessed in a million years something good came out of Kiss Players.

For the record, it's sir. You got it right the first time.

Sabrblade is always 99.98% right when it comes to TF lore. KISS Players had a pretty good storyline ( ecchi references aside...........aside from the tentacles and half naked girls getting eaten up, let's say compare that to the story line of ROTF and the over emphasizing Megan Fox's frame of the motor cycle scene, which one would you prefer?)

The trouble is, a lot of people fixated on the girls and the tentacles not not the core story.

Interesting idea, but its not for me.

Found the quote from Jesse Wittenrich on the Club's access to Human Alliance human molds:

Can't access any of the molds sculpted to look like actors, that's for sure. Well they could if they wanted to fund a new head sculpt, but since cutting a tooling for a head is pretty much the same regardless of size, I'm pretty sure Fun Pub would prefer to fund a Deluxe or Voyager head sculpt rather than a Human Alliance head.

And in response to the questionable resemblance of the figure to its actress, he said:

Right. But that doesn't matter in the paperwork. It could be a blob with a smiley face etched in it (which some of the HA aren't far from) but if Hasbro said that it's supposed to represent an actor that's all that counts.

So, yeah, if they wanted to use the Human Alliance Mikaela, they'd have to give it a new head, which would partly defeat the purpose of using it for Marissa Faireborn in the first place. And giving it a new head would cost about as much as it would to give a Deluxe or larger figure a new head, so it'd be hardly even worth the effort.

Just yesterday's we reported the reveal of the TCC exclusive MARISSA FAIREBORN and AFTERBURNER here and today we already have the first mock up toy image thanks to the TFCC facebook page. We've Mirrored the below images for your viewing pleasures and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

Dead Metal wrote:That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

I take it you have never watched the G1 cartoon episode "Money Is Everything".

Looks good, but I kinda wish the eyes of that Cover Girl headsculpt weren't so squinty.

Though, it is a rather tiny image compared to this one:

Super Megatron wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

I take it you have never watched the G1 cartoon episode "Money Is Everything".

Not to mention that this is no different from those SDCC Joe/TF crossover sets that had non-transforming Joe/Cobra vehicles as Starscream, Shockwave, Hound, and Jetfire. At least this one has some fictional precedence by teaming Afterburner up with Marissa, rather than being done just for fun like the others were.

Dead Metal wrote:That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

Neither is SDCC Hound, SDCC Jetfire, or SDCC Shockwave. The bike is painted to resemble Afterburner in vehicle mode. It just doesn't transform. A vehicle mode actionmaster, if you will.

And as mentioned, the Technobots were working with Marissa and the EDC during that episode with Dirk and Quintessons,

Sabrblade wrote:Looks good, but I kinda wish the eyes of that Cover Girl headsculpt weren't so squinty.

Though, it is a rather tiny image compared to this one:

Updated. thanks.

Super Megatron wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

I take it you have never watched the G1 cartoon episode "Money Is Everything".

I would hardly call that a teamup worthy of homaging in this way. IT would have been better had this simply been a bike.

Nice G.I. Joe stand

Dead Metal wrote:

Super Megatron wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That looks pretty good. Actually wouldn't mind having that as a novelty.

Though, I do question why the hell they decided to name the bike Afterburner, not only is it not a TF, but she never had a connection to Afterburner in the first place.

I take it you have never watched the G1 cartoon episode "Money Is Everything".

I would hardly call that a teamup worthy of homaging in this way. IT would have been better had this simply been a bike.

I don't know. Given we got the "Year of the Horse Optimus Prime", "Optimus Prime with Starscream parts", and "Neon Genesis Evangelion Masterpiece MP-10", this is a welcome change.

mooncake623 wrote:Just yesterday's we reported the reveal of the TCC exclusive MARISSA FAIREBORN and AFTERBURNER here and today we already have the first mock up toy image thanks to the TFCC facebook page. We've Mirrored the below images for your viewing pleasures and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Could we modify the mirror link, please? It takes us to the Facebook Mobile page which displays REALLY wonky on a computer.

More G1 humans in this fashion would be very nice. This is a good start.

RhA wrote:More G1 humans in this fashion would be very nice. This is a good start.

Oh NOW we get pro-human comments like this.

Sabrblade wrote:

RhA wrote:More G1 humans in this fashion would be very nice. This is a good start.

Oh NOW we get pro-human comments like this.

We just needed figures of good humans. I don't think anyone ever cheered for Marissa to be "accidentally" stepped on like they have for most iterations and doppelgangers of Spike is all.

Second pic from the TCC Twitter - https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/500312605677060096