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News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:22 am

Hmmm...Grimlock maybe if I have spare cash. But BB is a must buy. Very interesting concept. I'm wondering if we'll see something like that in the third season...I don't remember seeing it in the first two.

by **Dreadwinglord** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:04 am

Pure win I'm surprised to say XD

News Credits: 1 · by **Gandalf** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:30 am

For a split second I thought that was a Bumblebee
figure in his Cybertronian mode from G1....of course *that* dream was instantly smashed upon remembering/realizing what I was looking at.

Further reasons for me to stay away from the Animated line once I get Blurr.

Hydrodrive Bumblebee? PLEASE don't tell me they're resorting to the themed-snap-on-armor gimmick that has been so heavily overdone in the various Batman and TMNT lines.....

I can see it now: "New! Optimus Prime with Arctic Toboggan Armor! Bumblebee with Glow-in-the-Dark Electro Armor!

They are skirting a thin line here, let's hope they stay on the "cool" side.

News Credits: 3 · by **metaphorge** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:49 am

Grimlock is (like all non-new-character-repaints) an easy pass, but I'm all over hat Bumblebee.

Now they need to take that mold and repaint/retool it into Cliffjumper... and WASP (pre-Insecticonization)....

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:41 am

Sledge wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:That's it, the Animated toy line just jumped the shark with these repaints. Grimlock is only slightly strange but that submarine BB is just weird. Big pass.

Ok, then riddle me this, champ: what figure is that BB a repaint of?

Hmmmm, that's tricky. Let me think... maybe the bastard lovechild of Goldbug and Seawing?

News Credits: 1 · by **Brakethrough** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:20 am

Me Grimlock PIMP!

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:24 am

The Grimlock repaint is a big ol' pass for me.

If BB is a static figure just with the sub, I'll probably pass, but if it is a new fig with a new transform especially with a better scale to the other figs, I'm all over it.

by **StryderPrime** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:15 am

Gandalf wrote:For a split second I thought that was a Bumblebee
figure in his Cybertronian mode from G1....of course *that* dream was instantly smashed upon remembering/realizing what I was looking at.

Further reasons for me to stay away from the Animated line once I get Blurr.

Hydrodrive Bumblebee? PLEASE don't tell me they're resorting to the themed-snap-on-armor gimmick that has been so heavily overdone in the various Batman and TMNT lines.....

I can see it now: "New! Optimus Prime with Arctic Toboggan Armor! Bumblebee with Glow-in-the-Dark Electro Armor!

They are skirting a thin line here, let's hope they stay on the "cool" side.

What make this better then the batman, Power Posers, and TMNT lines is that the acturally TF figure itself is still fun 2 transform, with or without the accessories.
I mean it quadruple the toy play value if you really think about it by giving them extra armor to attrach to them in vehicle and bot mode.

Prime been armoring up for years. Hell, I still shock that Animated Prime dont have a "real" trailer to combine or do sumthing with

but i glad the other bots like Prowl and BB are now getting that same treatment