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[Agamemnon]

So, maybe this was already brought up, and I don't remember reading it, but with pics of what appear to be Victorian's final colors, I noticed something:


If I remember correctly, the earlier painted prototypes had the two choppers with identical paint jobs. This shows them that they are mirrors of each other. So, they are a bit different.


Clearly we are different!

[Cobotron]

Had some real good fun with some new bots over the weekend.

[Va'al]

...white the tigah!

[Rodimus Prime]

Not bad. If I do get this, the choppers will be arms and the cars will be legs. Looks better that way.

[Lunatic Prime]

So, maybe this was already brought up, and I don't remember reading it, but with pics of what appear to be Victorian's final colors, I noticed something:


If I remember correctly, the earlier painted prototypes had the two choppers with identical paint jobs. This shows them that they are mirrors of each other. So, they are a bit different.


Clearly we are different!

I can't remember the ones from the conventions last year (you should look into the galleries here), but the CR images always were mirrors of each other.

[albnok]

So my Swindle and Hound are twins, with the same gun and notches, except for the head, and the notch in Swindle's hand/foot/gun to allow it to sit on the back of Offroad, oddly.

[albnok]

Has anyone done anything interesting with the peg and port on Groove's legs yet?

I combined him with Hot Spot's guns to make a dual pistol type thingy for Defensor. His feet become the arm stock.

I can't figure this out. Can you upload a picture?

[Agamemnon]

So, maybe this was already brought up, and I don't remember reading it, but with pics of what appear to be Victorian's final colors, I noticed something:


If I remember correctly, the earlier painted prototypes had the two choppers with identical paint jobs. This shows them that they are mirrors of each other. So, they are a bit different.


Clearly we are different!

I can't remember the ones from the conventions last year (you should look into the galleries here), but the CR images always were mirrors of each other.

Indeed, you are right. I didn't notice it back then because of the similarity between bot paint jobs. Here are the pics from SDCC in 2015:



I always thought these paint jobs made them look virtually identical except for the heads. Then, in the gestalt shot, they are clearly mirrors in vehicle mode.


I just didn't notice it at the time. Although I am remembering prototype images with the choppers on the arms, but I am having trouble finding those...

At any rate, I will echo the sentiment that the final colors are much better than these were. I like her and will be happy to have her in my collection.

[Edit] ANd now that I think about it, if the choppers were on the arms, their mirrored paint jobs would make them look identical in that position. Maybe I'm not crazy after all.

(Actually, I'm pretty sure I am crazy, but that means I'm not because I cannot be aware I'm crazy if I'm crazy. See Catch-22)

[Lunatic Prime]

So my Swindle and Hound are twins, with the same gun and notches, except for the head, and the notch in Swindle's hand/foot/gun to allow it to sit on the back of Offroad, oddly.

Why does Swindle's hand-foot-gun have such a notch?
Did you change that part with Ironhide's?

[albnok]

So my Swindle and Hound are twins, with the same gun and notches, except for the head, and the notch in Swindle's hand/foot/gun to allow it to sit on the back of Offroad, oddly.

Why does Swindle's hand-foot-gun have such a notch?
Did you change that part with Ironhide's?

Haha no - it's been mentioned somewhere else on this thread, too! Ironhide's hand/foot/gun has the outer part chromed, while the fingers are plain grey. Swindle's is all grey. I'm quite particular about not mixing my Combiner Wars weapons and hand/foot/guns to the extent of marking any identical weapons with a silver Sharpie on its post bottom, if it's the second version.

I've had to do this for Quickslinger's gun, Blade's gun, and G2 Silverbolt's guns. Every other hand/foot/gun and weapon has unique color combinations - sometimes as the thumb joint, or even an almost undistinguishable grey (Dead End and Brake-Neck for example - but the hint is that Brake-Neck has lighter grey in his torso.)

[Agamemnon]

So my Swindle and Hound are twins, with the same gun and notches, except for the head, and the notch in Swindle's hand/foot/gun to allow it to sit on the back of Offroad, oddly.

Why does Swindle's hand-foot-gun have such a notch?
Did you change that part with Ironhide's?

Haha no - it's been mentioned somewhere else on this thread, too! Ironhide's hand/foot/gun has the outer part chromed, while the fingers are plain grey. Swindle's is all grey. I'm quite particular about not mixing my Combiner Wars weapons and hand/foot/guns to the extent of marking any identical weapons with a silver Sharpie on its post bottom, if it's the second version.

I've had to do this for Quickslinger's gun, Blade's gun, and G2 Silverbolt's guns. Every other hand/foot/gun and weapon has unique color combinations - sometimes as the thumb joint, or even an almost undistinguishable grey (Dead End and Brake-Neck for example - but the hint is that Brake-Neck has lighter grey in his torso.)

I just checked my Swindle, and I do not have the notch between the fingers either. This is very weird. Perhaps a mis-assembly at the factory? Some poor kid has an Ironhide out there that wont allow for the hand to mount in the truck bed like the pictures show?

[Lunatic Prime]

So my Swindle and Hound are twins, with the same gun and notches, except for the head, and the notch in Swindle's hand/foot/gun to allow it to sit on the back of Offroad, oddly.

Why does Swindle's hand-foot-gun have such a notch?
Did you change that part with Ironhide's?

Haha no - it's been mentioned somewhere else on this thread, too! Ironhide's hand/foot/gun has the outer part chromed, while the fingers are plain grey. Swindle's is all grey. I'm quite particular about not mixing my Combiner Wars weapons and hand/foot/guns to the extent of marking any identical weapons with a silver Sharpie on its post bottom, if it's the second version.

I've had to do this for Quickslinger's gun, Blade's gun, and G2 Silverbolt's guns. Every other hand/foot/gun and weapon has unique color combinations - sometimes as the thumb joint, or even an almost undistinguishable grey (Dead End and Brake-Neck for example - but the hint is that Brake-Neck has lighter grey in his torso.)

Yeah, what I meant was if you switched the fingers of the weapons and not the whole weapon, because I can see that it isn't Ironhide's hand-foot-gun.
And Swindle's normally doesn't have that notch:

[Cobotron]

My Swindle's HFG has the notch too. Veeeerrrrryyyy interesting.

[albnok]

Ah slag, so much for me being able to tell. I mixed up Swindle and Brawl's hand/foot/guns! So my Swindle isn't different, other than that it has the pegs on the side of its weapon, like Hound's:



Here are my trucker hand/foot/guns. Left to right: Brawl, Ironhide, Trailbreaker, First Aid, Offroad.

[albnok]

Yeah, what I meant was if you switched the fingers of the weapons and not the whole weapon, because I can see that it isn't Ironhide's hand-foot-gun.

I don't think it's a factory screw up, because the shade of grey used for Swin... I mean Brawl's fingers is lighter than Ironhide's. (Refer to picture in my posting just above.)

Edit: Whoops, my quote about factory is in reply to Agamemnon.

[Lunatic Prime]

Yeah, what I meant was if you switched the fingers of the weapons and not the whole weapon, because I can see that it isn't Ironhide's hand-foot-gun.

I don't think it's a factory screw up, because the shade of grey used for Swin... I mean Brawl's fingers is lighter than Ironhide's. (Refer to picture in my posting just above.)

Edit: Whoops, my quote about factory is in reply to Agamemnon.

Why Brawl now? That's Swindle's HFG.

[Lunatic Prime]

My Swindle's HFG has the notch too. Veeeerrrrryyyy interesting.

Maybe they used some leftover parts (the fingers) from the production of Ironhide's HFG.

[albnok]

Yeah, what I meant was if you switched the fingers of the weapons and not the whole weapon, because I can see that it isn't Ironhide's hand-foot-gun.

I don't think it's a factory screw up, because the shade of grey used for Swin... I mean Brawl's fingers is lighter than Ironhide's. (Refer to picture in my posting just above.)

Edit: Whoops, my quote about factory is in reply to Agamemnon.

Why Brawl now? That's Swindle's HFG.

I mixed Brawl's and Swindle's HFGs up at some point.

Checking back with old pictures, I had the correct HFGs out of the box. At some point in time I must've mixed them up. Didn't even take note of how to tell Brawl's and Swindle's HFGs apart.

And yes, Hound's HFG is a recolor of Swindle's. My first picture shows the mismatched HFG, which I didn't notice - you can tell that Brawl's HFG tapers while Hound/Swindle's is a straight rectangle.

Also, I guess either Cobotron got confused by me getting confused, or he too swapped them by mistake!

[Lunatic Prime]

Yeah, what I meant was if you switched the fingers of the weapons and not the whole weapon, because I can see that it isn't Ironhide's hand-foot-gun.

I don't think it's a factory screw up, because the shade of grey used for Swin... I mean Brawl's fingers is lighter than Ironhide's. (Refer to picture in my posting just above.)

Edit: Whoops, my quote about factory is in reply to Agamemnon.

Why Brawl now? That's Swindle's HFG.

I mixed Brawl's and Swindle's HFGs up at some point.

Checking back with old pictures, I had the correct HFGs out of the box. At some point in time I must've mixed them up. Didn't even take note of how to tell Brawl's and Swindle's HFGs apart.

And yes, Hound's HFG is a recolor of Swindle's. My first picture shows the mismatched HFG, which I didn't notice - you can tell that Brawl's HFG tapers while Hound/Swindle's is a straight rectangle.

Also, I guess either Cobotron got confused by me getting confused, or he too swapped them by mistake!

Uh, and I was confused because the gun barrels look the same and I thought they were different.

Edit: But why does Brawl's have that notch?
It's not to attach it to him!!!

[Cobotron]

Ya ya ya, sorry guys. I had them swaped. It's BRAWL's that has the slot.

[Lunatic Prime]

Ya ya ya, sorry guys. I had them swaped. It's BRAWL's that has the slot.

But why has it?

[Cobotron]

Ya ya ya, sorry guys. I had them swaped. It's BRAWL's that has the slot.

But why has it?

No clue.

[Stuartmaximus]

is anybody else wondering what the final part of Prime Wars Trilogy is going to be?

If Hasbro is looking to fill in collection holes with each part (combiners first, headmasters second), it seems the most glaring omission to the generations line are the beasts. I'm hoping that's the direction of the last part so we can get proper Dinobots, Predacons, Terrorcons, and Pretender Monsters.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Well, Victorion looks really good with the adjusted colors. They look much better. And the coptor twins do look better.

And I found that the standard reverse Bruticus formation does work much better. For one he looks much bulkier and mean, and the weight means you can ratchet his hips back a notch and he leans forward enough to look normal. win!

[shajaki]

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