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Bounti76 wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Alpha Bravo from G1 Blades

I like this idea, but why Blades instead of Vortex, the guy the CW figure was a pre-mold of? If it's because there's too many Combaticon proxies then why not do Rook out of Nosecone?

As for the missing Lobclaw mold, I would just name it Gimlet. For all we know he may be the reason the mold wasn't originally used in the first place. Story-wise, no idea how it would work it probably wouldn't. Brainwashing maybe?

Emerje

I'm game for whatever everyone thinks would work best for those Combiner Wars guys as G1 molds. Yes, Alpha Bravo from Vortex would be better, I think I mixed up my G1 helicopters, and too many Combaticon mold potentials for the Combiner Wars guys. There needed to be one more "car" based G1 Combiner I feel like to give more re-mold capabilities!

I would have been fine with that. Piranacon never had a direct Scramble City style rival in the G1 line. Superion/Menasor, Bruticus/Defensor, Computron/Abominus.....Piranacon is all on his own. Add Predaking and Devastator into the mix, and Decepticon combiners outnumber the Autobot combiners. I'd actually like to see Hot Spot, Blades and/or Vortex, Breakdown and Dead End G1 molds redone as an original G1 molds Victorion.

I think they're more even if you include the Japanese only Combiners as Raiden takes on Predaking, then you can add Landcross and Road Casear. Plus devys always had his rival omega supreme

Okay so I just remembered that Japan also had Dinoking and Leo kaiser so really, the bots only get the plus 1 in Raiden. Lucky that the bots have characters that can one shot gesalts isn't it

We all figured God Neptune was happening, but man is that fast. Some people are still waiting for their Seacons to arrive in the mail. I thought they would have spaced them out a little more.

IF released as a boxed set, I might consider but I would like it to be a bit more reasonably priced as well since they already have the molds.

Watch this be a Takara Tomy Mall exclusive Boxset

Hey where's Battle Giea and Guard City at.....

Hellscream9999 wrote:I do hope they remold scylla a little though, just to make her slightly more feminine when compared to tentacool

Hey now, female Tentacools are just as common as the male ones, why would one need retooling?

Hellscream9999 wrote:Oh come on, I just dropped $200+ on king posiedon, and now they do this to me? fortunately, since this is they probably won't be out til next year.

God, I'm such a f'ing sucker for combiners, I just hope this is a box set and they don't include the guns, and shave a good chunk off the set; I do hope they remold scylla a little though, just to make her slightly more feminine when compared to tentacool

Frankly, I thought Tentakil is pretty feminine, especially the hips- figures as they're Moonracer's.

ZeroWolf wrote:I think they're more even if you include the Japanese only Combiners as Raiden takes on Predaking, then you can add Landcross and Road Casear. Plus devys always had his rival omega supreme

Okay so I just remembered that Japan also had Dinoking and Leo kaiser so really, the bots only get the plus 1 in Raiden. Lucky that the bots have characters that can one shot gesalts isn't it

I you're counting the non-Combiner Omega Supreme as Devastator's counterpart then you might as well do the same for King Poseidon's original counterpart: Super Ginrai.

It was super Ginrai who I was thinking of when I said about one shoting gesalts (well hmm and Victory Leo when he demolishes Leo Kaiser at the end of Victory... Though thinking further, that's just Ginrai anyway )

Hellscream9999 wrote:Oh come on, I just dropped $200+ on king posiedon, and now they do this to me? fortunately, since this is they probably won't be out til next year.

God, I'm such a f'ing sucker for combiners, I just hope this is a box set and they don't include the guns, and shave a good chunk off the set; I do hope they remold scylla a little though, just to make her slightly more feminine when compared to tentacool

Same here. This one is an easy pass, though. Just like Victorion and Liokaiser. If I'm going to drop that much coin, I need to see some retooling, not just a fresh coat of paint and possibly one less component.

And then there's Monstructor, who's so on his own that you guys forgot him, unless I overlooked a post!

Lore Keeper wrote:We all figured God Neptune was happening, but man is that fast. Some people are still waiting for their Seacons to arrive in the mail. I thought they would have spaced them out a little more.

Some are still waiting for the invoice too!

Since this is just now being teased, I bet it won't come out until early next year. And I really hope that it's a Unite Warriors styled boxset.

Seibertron wrote:And then there's Monstructor, who's so on his own that you guys forgot him, unless I overlooked a post!

I haven't forgotten, I really want him, he is the last US G1 combiner to come, and honestly is one of my favorite combiners in US G1.

I wonder if Monstructor will honestly ever happen. For one thing, (unless I'm mistaken), only his Japanese counterpart, Dinoking, was ever sold in Japan. If they only did the inner robots, I could see a tiny possibility that they could be redecoed into Monstructor. But with Takara being the ones to initiate and release the Seacons, who were sold as is in both countries, I don't see Hasbro taking the lead on any potential Monstructor. Not to mention, he's not a Scramble City style combiner. The only other combiners who he really resemble buildwise is Liokaiser and Devastator... they both have two torso components and the limbs (who aren't interchangeable, as I recall).

Seibertron wrote:And then there's Monstructor, who's so on his own that you guys forgot him, unless I overlooked a post!

I was just counting him in with Dinoking since they are the same toy barring colours and their pretender shells.

Bounti76 wrote:I wonder if Monstructor will honestly ever happen. For one thing, (unless I'm mistaken), only his Japanese counterpart, Dinoking, was ever sold in Japan. If they only did the inner robots, I could see a tiny possibility that they could be redecoed into Monstructor. But with Takara being the ones to initiate and release the Seacons, who were sold as is in both countries, I don't see Hasbro taking the lead on any potential Monstructor. Not to mention, he's not a Scramble City style combiner. The only other combiners who he really resemble buildwise is Liokaiser and Devastator... they both have two torso components and the limbs (who aren't interchangeable, as I recall).

You're right as the fists are molded in to the arm components so they have a set right and left.

The problem with saying they'll never happen is that we know there was plans of some kind from the fact that we saw snarl with alt mode weapons matching one of the Dino Force dinosaur shells and cutthroat with one of the monster pretenders heads. Had Power of the Primes continued, we'd likely have seen them made.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:I wonder if Monstructor will honestly ever happen. For one thing, (unless I'm mistaken), only his Japanese counterpart, Dinoking, was ever sold in Japan. If they only did the inner robots, I could see a tiny possibility that they could be redecoed into Monstructor. But with Takara being the ones to initiate and release the Seacons, who were sold as is in both countries, I don't see Hasbro taking the lead on any potential Monstructor. Not to mention, he's not a Scramble City style combiner. The only other combiners who he really resemble buildwise is Liokaiser and Devastator... they both have two torso components and the limbs (who aren't interchangeable, as I recall).

You're right as the fists are molded in to the arm components so they have a set right and left.

The problem with saying they'll never happen is that we know there was plans of some kind from the fact that we saw snarl with alt mode weapons matching one of the Dino Force dinosaur shells and cutthroat with one of the monster pretenders heads. Had Power of the Primes continued, we'd likely have seen them made.

Right, and I could see them happening if they're remolded from Prime Wars Trilogy molds, but then we'd get something similar to CW Liokaiser. Given the unique construction of Monstructor/Dinoking, unless they had two all new molds to form the torso, I think a lot of people would pass.

I suppose it was the easy/inevitable choice (God Neptune). I had the original for a while before I sold my old collection. It will be a nice addition, but the evil combiners are really outnumbering the heroic now. We need Raiden, Road Caesar and Landcross, oh and G2 Defensor would be nice... .

Incidentally, I'd love for this to be a UW styled box set, but I don't see that happening.


I do hope it is a while before pre-orders, hopefully TFSource gets their 3rd wave of Seacons before God Neptune pre-orders start

Oh definitely, and I think that's what would have happened, Hasbro wouldn't have put the work in that was needed to do it right.

I'm still hoping for some modern form of Pretenders before they jump on to Monstructor, who saw a resurgence as one of the more popular combiners in the IDW 2005 Universe (or at least most used). For whatever reason, the Pretenders were some of my favorite G1 toys and characters. The two "separate" toys in 1 really got me as a kid, and then their usage in the Marvel comics after the cartoon ended helped me use my imagination more with them when I made my own comics as a kid. Fast forward another 7 or 8 years later and I discovered Masterforce and Victory on bootleg VHS at Motor City Comic-Con around 1994 or 1995. My love for the Pretenders was re-ignited after discovering the concept was used in the Japanese cartoons.

One day! I have faith that Hasbro and Takara will come up with something cool for the Pretenders at some point.

Monstructor's team could work just fine without the Pretender shells.

Anyone get a figure with backwards beast mode legs? Just got Kraken (Seawing) today and this don't look right.
Edit: NVM, the tail was flipped in the box lol after rotating the waist my figure looks right

216 photos of Kraken / Seawing for your viewing pleasure and for comparison purposes ...


Transformers Generations Selects Seawing (Kraken) Gallery

Now that you mention it, maybe that's why I had him mistransformed in some of the pictures (most notably any of the beast mode comparison pics with other Seacons and his G1 version ... I re-shot the pics of him in beast mode by himself after realizing I had him mistransformed). His instructions show him with his legs assembled the same way as ours, though I feel like the legs should be positioned the other way as well. However, the single point sticking forward is more like how his G1 toy was, which is how the Generations Selects version is assembled.

Seibertron wrote:216 photos of Kraken / Seawing for your viewing pleasure and for comparison purposes ...


Transformers Generations Selects Seawing (Kraken) Gallery

Now that you mention it, maybe that's why I had him mistransformed in some of the pictures (most notably any of the beast mode comparison pics with other Seacons and his G1 version ... I re-shot the pics of him in beast mode by himself after realizing I had him mistransformed). His instructions show him with his legs assembled the same way as ours, though I feel like the legs should be positioned the other way as well. However, the single point sticking forward is more like how his G1 toy was, which is how the Generations Selects version is assembled.

I'm horrible with the instructions so I always find a review and follow along. In the review, the chicken legs were facing opposite of mine with the tail sticking up. That's when I realized I needed to rotate the waist.

Hunting down Overbite and Tentakill will be a pain. I've had to cancel the preorders since I couldn't afford them during their intended release date and now the predorders are all sold out. Ah well, they shouldn't be completely impossible to get them afterward. Costly, but not impossible.