New Gallery: Age of Extinction Generations Deluxe Crosshairs

That shot is a good shot.



(Lacks in uber happy face though! )

MaverickPrime wrote:Have there been other characters/species that have been officially called Dinobots? (Which is why I didn't count Hardhead from Beast Wars Neo)

Beast Era Dinobots:

• T-Wrecks - T-Rex
• Triceradon - Triceratops
• Airraptor - Archaeopteryx
• Striker - Stegosaurus
• Dinotron - Pachycephalosaur
• Rapticon - Raptor skeleton
• Terranotron - Pteranodon
• Magmatron - Quetzalcoatlus, Giganotosaurus, Elasmosaurus

Playskool Go-Bots Reptron joined the above group at one point. He turned into a Raptor.

The Cruellocks from Energon were named "Dinobots" in Japan. They turned into American Godzilla.

Walmart Dinobots:

• Grimlock - Raptor
• Terranotron/Swoop - Pteranodon
• Snarl - Stegosaurus
• Sludge - Dimetrodon
• Triceradon - Triceratops
• Slapper - Ankylosaur

Classics Mini-Con Dinobots:

• Hacksaw - Stegosaurus (non-toy character)
• Knockdown - Triceratops
• Terrorsaur - T-Rex
• Swoop - Pteranodon

Shattered Glass Dinobots:

• Grimlock - T-Rex
• Swoop - Pteranodon
• Seven others

Shattered Glass Dinocons:

• Goryu - T-Rex
• Overkill - unspecified
• Slugfest - Stegosaurus
• Five others

Dinoforce member Kakuryu joined the G1 Dinobots when he became Grimmaster. Originally, his Pretender Shell was a Triceratops. After becoming Grimmaster, he became a Styracosaurus.

Just noticed his box art depicts his goggles as 3-D glasses! Any word as to whether there'll be actual Crosshairs 3-D role play glasses?

This is the first movie toy I will probably pick up. Really like his vehicle mode, plus I have a thing for green.

Nerv103 wrote:This is the first movie toy I will probably pick up. Really like his vehicle mode, plus I have a thing for green.

So do I. It's called an aversion! Sweet mother of Primus but that's just one obnoxiously LOUD colored figure. I suppose we can drop the "In Disguise" portion out of "Robots in Disguise" for this one. It's a sad state of affairs when a version of Bumblebee can actually blend in better than any other bot on both teams.

I have to admit that some of the alt modes are growing on me but I just can't bring myself to pick up any of these characters up when I not only plan on never transforming them (the 'bot modes are a friggin' joke on pretty much all of them) but their colors are so abhorrent that I would be tempted to hit the paint aisle on the way to the cash register. I'd be better off just picking up a model kit of the vehicles.
I'm honestly trying really hard to lighten up a bit on my attitude about the movie and the figures and not be such a royal prick about the whole thing but Hasbro isn't throwing me any bones here. They would have gotten a second purchase out of me with this one if it weren't such an obnoxious color. The whole "trench-coat" thing going on isn't helping the situation either. Unless Keanu Reeves were voicing the character and they did this design as an intentional inside joke, this is just a lame idea and it transfers horribly on the toy.

Anyone noticed the toothpick in the mouth (see boxart), duster coat, dual wielding pistols.....Chow Yun Fat from the film A Better Tomorrow anyone??

Shockwave7 wrote:Well I have to give props to them for Crosshairs. They engineered the figure so that people aren't calling it 'horrible, ugly, obvious, brick-like kibble', they're calling it a 'trenchcoat'.

Kudos for fooling the community into thinking the kibble looks 'cool' vs. seeing it as yet another lazy-butt shellformer.

Kibble isn't always necessarily a bad thing. It can help change the sillohuette of a figure and make it look like more than just a humanoid robot. Starscream's wings and shoulder vanes, Prowl's door wings and Shrapnel's "horns" are all technically kibble, and yet they are fundamental parts of the character's design- they give them the distinctive look that we all love. Crosshair's trenchcoat-kibble is a similar phenomenon. It sets him apart from the other robots and gives him a unique shape, in addition to being somewhere to store the bits of car. Plus, it's part of the actual character model, so we can't blame Hasbro for this one.

Also, surely a car Autobot that doesn't follow the "Back of car becomes legs, front of car becomes chest, doors become wings" formula is a good thing?

Construct-Bot Grimlock is better-looking than Voyager Grimlock.

And I noticed something: Construct-Bots uses a numbering system too, only with E (which I think stands for "Episode") instead of Series. Great, more obscure info to document

The Dinos look pretty decent, but I'm kind of the fence with this line.

why do these look better than the main line toys???