Highbrow and The Fallen - New Hunt for the Decepticons Toy Galleries!

Cool galleries. I REALLY wish they would have released The Fallen in true The Fallen colors (solid black with red and orange highlights). However, it just seems as if Hasbro refuses to release the guy in his true colors. First we get army green, then red with black highlights, and now purple and blue?! WTF? The only toy with The Fallen's real colors is the Legends class. Hopefully Takara will get the colors right on this version of the mold because I really want to buy this mold, but I refuse to do it when the constantly screw up the colors.

As for Highbrow, I absolutely love this figure. I don't know why though. I'm not a big fan of the color scheme (dark olive green and light blue don't work IMO), hey's really hard to pose, and his arms are a pain in the ass to make look right. He also has sucky weapons. Still, I'd say Tomahawk and Battle Blades BB aside, this is my favorite ROTF figure.

I saw these yesterday, and spent a few hours looking at that Fallen, its pretty snazzy

Highbrow being an autobot means I cant get him

Nice Galleries once again!

mattyc1007 wrote:Highbrow being an autobot means I cant get him

What do you have against Autobots?

Nice galleries as usual Ryan!

Highbrow has some weirdly jointed wrists, but it otherwise pretty snazzy. And I love that there is a Transformer with matching propellor arms for once. I will have to pick this one up if I have money left after Xmas shopping.

The Fallen... meh. Good color scheme, but I dislike the mold. I'd rather get a new 'living furnace' version of this character instead of another 'alien pharaoh'.

I got both of em at wal-mart for 16 bucks and I love em !!!

I have my 3 Fallen repaints on display as "The Primes".

Highbrow stays in plane mode. Im not one to nit-pick but I gotta point out that the idiots at hasbro mounted the cannons in a place where if they were actually fired, they would blow off the propellers in flight. Why didnt they just make the wings a little longer since this plane is not actually a real aircraft, but a hybrid of the P-38 Lightning and a German bomber ???

Rated X wrote:mounted the cannons in a place where if they were actually fired, they would blow off the propellers in flight.

Not nitpicking, but in general, guns can be mounted like that, as long as the rate of fire and propeller spin are synchronized. The bullets literally pass through between the propeller blades. It's pretty slick.

shocktastic14 wrote:you know highbrow looks awesome but i have to disagree in what he resembles he looks more like the p-38 lightning from lockheed.

Sorry, but the core fuselage doesn't match at all:



The P-38 has a traditional cockpit, as well as foreward slung nose cone.




The FW-189, however, has the majority of the fuselage projecting backwards from the central strut. Additionally, it has a nice dome style cockpit in the rear. Remove the main cockpit, and you'd be pretty close to Highbrow.

Anyway, he's just a made up mish mash of whatever traits they think looked cool, but FW-189's silhouette was what jumped out at me immediately.

give me your face!

chrisc4 wrote:give me your face!

My thoughts exactly.

I think ill wait a month or two to see if takara will repaint the fallen in his natural colors.

Rated X wrote:

Razorclaw0000 wrote:

Rated X wrote:mounted the cannons in a place where if they were actually fired, they would blow off the propellers in flight.

Not nitpicking, but in general, guns can be mounted like that, as long as the rate of fire and propeller spin are synchronized. The bullets literally pass through between the propeller blades. It's pretty slick.

Did they have that technology in WWII ??? Even if they did, I would still be scared to pull the trigger. One loose bolt or miscalibration and your going for a nose dive

They made some kind of mechanism that only fired bullets between the propeller blades during WW1.