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[Sabrblade]

This set is kinda all over the place. It's Machine Wars, but they've included a few Beast Machine characters, and they're using molds from Movieverse, Classics, and now Prime.

Regarding the molds, what else could they have done? All they had to work with were post-UT molds.

[Mkall]

no no no no no...

[RiddlerJ]

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Prime Dreadwing? They used an 6-month-old toy?

Yeah, I thought there had to be a gap between the release of a mold and when they can use it. Did they pay extra or something for this mold?

[STngAR]

This set is reminding me of a bad poem...........no rhyme or reason.

[ausbot]

This would have worked, but only if it had a new head.

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

This would have worked, but only if it had a new head.

Funny you should mention that. I just looked into the original MW Megaplex, specifically his packaging art:

Machine Wars Megaplex Packaging Art on TFwiki.

It's recolored from the G1 Predator Falcon art, but it shows some very superficial similarities to Prime Dreadwing. And I said very superficial.

[datguy86]

Crap. I've made it a point to collect all of the US Prime mold releases and this just jacked them out of my price range.

[Sabrblade]

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Prime Dreadwing? They used an 6-month-old toy?

Yeah, I thought there had to be a gap between the release of a mold and when they can use it. Did they pay extra or something for this mold?

Pete Sinclair wrote this over at Allspark.com:

The Prime Dreadwing mold became available VERY late in planning. All other head molds were done. We decided that with the right deco and characterization he still worked as Megaplex. Worked well actually once we put him up against all the other toys.

As always, its all about context. Once they all are displayed, the Decepticons side by side, they look pretty sharp...

He also wrote this:

I understand some people don't like it, but this is NOT a Machine Wars Redux. This is taking the concept and expanding it. And just like many other instances within Transformers, the file cards are not going to 100% reflect the character/story. Though many of the aspects FROM then file cards will still be a part of the overall story.

[SW's SilverHammer]

You know, I know funpub is a bit limited in what it can and can't use/do with these molds, However, they may be using good molds, however they're using them for rather drab figures, whose colors don't look much better than the original machine wars wave. If anything the should be improving on the characters color schemes, adding more detail and the like, a bit like Skywarp. Granted Skywarp may be a bit sucky, but at least they tried something to break up the monotony.

[Cybershark]

This set is reminding me of a bad poem...........no rhyme or reason.

Totally True, Im sorry but this ranks up there as 1 of the WORST Botcon sets I think I have ever seen. And making characters that literally Nobody wants or cares about in Machine Wars and Beast Machines? Plus using a "new" mold already AND no new head on it?

The entire thing is not getting bought by me now. At least I get to save $375 or so. Maybe with any luck they will have some decent Botcon attendee sets? Does anybody have any guesses or leads on them yet?