Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service: Tarantulas & Serpent O.R. In-Hand

I know that it would seem redundant seeing that Gens Senator Ratbat had the metallic plastic/paint, but Serpent, Oregon really need metallic pant, at least on the gold bits. It really looks like a horrible yellow, like armada hotshot/hulk hogan levels of yellow.

Tarantulas looks epic

Nemesis Primal wrote:So, the same year Serpent O.R. is in the FSS, Hasbro releases Viper. I wonder if they were meant to go together, because this is a hell of a coincidence otherwise.

I could see it being a coincidence since the Club might have seen the Ratbat head and got the idea of Serpent O.R. first, with the main Hasbro brand team doing Viper independently since team member John Warden was the lead designer on the G.I. Joe brand team from 2006 to 2013.

If not for the brand team having the former Joe lead designer in it, I too would be more inclined to consider it more than coincidental, but his being there helps open the possibility of the Club and the brand team coincidentally doing their own separate Joe-based homages.

Really over these G.I. Joe/TransFormers crossover figures... can we stop trying to make that happen?
Tarantulas looks fantastic... I can't wait to see his claws in a more show accurate positioning. I really do wonder if he glows-in-the-dark

Rated X wrote:Yeah the amount of GI Joe being shoved down transformer fans throats by both the club and hasbro is starting to get disturbing. I can see the club slapping a Joe in a wheelchair and calling him Chip Chase. Then theyll gloat how the wheelchair is an original mold like they did with the ape shell.

And people would still buy it.

By the way, no G.I. Joe, no Transformers. G.I. Joe lead to Henshin Cyborg and Microman, which lead to Diaclone, which in turn lead to The Transformers.

wilcosu35 wrote:

prjkt wrote:Growing up with more Lego than I ever should have had made that thing an easy build. Now I haven't had new Lego for over a decade, but that Kreo kit just feels so much cheaper than the Lego i do have - is this a normal thing?

A lot of these Fake-lego brands are known for being very cheap, in price and in quality. I once bought some stuff from Megabloks. Some sort of technic-action figure that turned into a ball and could launch a rotor. I actually threw them out because they smelled horribly, and the quality was atrocious.

I wouldn't call them "fake" per se, since the basic building block design patent is now Public Domain. Kre-O can feel cheap and some clips and ball joints can be loose, but overall, nothing dramatically wrong with the blocks themselves.

I just realized that Tarantulus and Serpent OR use the same (or very similar) color palettes/plastics... I wonder if this Serpent is a test shot? Or maybe this is the real thing, and they lightened up the palette to save on costs?

Those angry about the crossovers.... I really don't get.

There's only three I can think of: Viper, Serpentor, and Marissa. I don't count the SDCC Joe stuff and those are more for the the Joe fans, while the former are more for us.

That's what y'all consider "forcing down our throats"?

People have been begging for this kind of stuff for years. Old Snake, Marissa Faireborn, the "Only Human" Autobot Synthoids... And now that we finally get these things after waiting 30 years... this reaction comes along.

This fandom, I swear.

Sabrblade wrote:People have been begging for this kind of stuff for years. Old Snake, Marissa Faireborn, the "Only Human" Autobot Synthoids... And now that we finally get these things after waiting 30 years... this reaction comes along.

This fandom, I swear.

People have different likes and dislikes, the fandom as a whole is not a single entity. I'm sure the same people begging for this aren't the ones complaining.