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Railbomb wrote:I feel like you're right about the 3 members of Tripredacus but I'm not sure about Tarantulas seeing they just made one for TFCCSS though I don't know who else the could do.

For me, a Transmetal Tarantulas is just an "excuse" to get UW Groove mold into the fray. This, or either UW Groove asFlamewar (Hell, they could even use Legends Groove as either, IF one of the Tripredacus turns out to be REALLY Hot Spot!)... Or another Aerialbot repaint for Onyx Primal...

Railbomb wrote:Or just looking at the TFWiki page for the council it say their founder was Preditron so maybe him?

TFWiki wrote:Preditron is blue and yellow

Good, Now I can't unsee a Hotspot with all BLACK parts replaced by YELLOW ones...

Gearslide wrote:If we really are getting some kind of Tripredacus homage at Botcon, we can technically already have a Magnaboss set of components to match, in the form of Combiner Wars Ironide, Prowl, and Silverbolt

Now that would be either nice... or ludicruously underwelming for "not-more-CW-toys-repaints-for-exclusives"...

With combiner wars figures, I had hoped for a new Nexus Prime. Oh well. I still really want a Nexus Prime

william-james88 wrote:and this means we now have to wait a while before he gets a better toy.

Me thinks you would be waiting a long while anywho

Randomus wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:more proof hasbro has no idea what they are doing, you know how many of these they would sell if it was mass released especially if it deals with Tripredacus. Instead of doing interesting beast wars homages we get half assed autobot repaints of menasor and ugly fembots that use 2 of the same mold, good job hasbro you really know what the fans want.

I'd like to know what Rattrap, Waspinator, and Rhinox think about that. I'll head down to my local Walmart and ask them; I know they're still hanging out.

Wow, you're lucky. You actually have Transformers at your Walmart! Over at mine, it's squeezed into a little corner of the aisle, and last I checked, there were 0 Transformers on the shelf.

I'm really hoping we'll see a Botanica out of this set...

trip2boy wrote:

Randomus wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:more proof hasbro has no idea what they are doing, you know how many of these they would sell if it was mass released especially if it deals with Tripredacus. Instead of doing interesting beast wars homages we get half assed autobot repaints of menasor and ugly fembots that use 2 of the same mold, good job hasbro you really know what the fans want.

I'd like to know what Rattrap, Waspinator, and Rhinox think about that. I'll head down to my local Walmart and ask them; I know they're still hanging out.

Wow, you're lucky. You actually have Transformers at your Walmart! Over at mine, it's squeezed into a little corner of the aisle, and last I checked, there were 0 Transformers on the shelf.

Just finished a shopping trip. Both TRU and Target still have Rhinox and Whirl. all the Rattraps are gone though!

Seriously funpub, what the **** have you wrought?! This is one of the worst things they have done. I know I indulge in allot of hyperbole, but this, this is straight up insultingly bad. I don't care about how they try and justify using the fiction, CW is a mold that does not fit ravage, what so ever. The head, so far, isn't even entirely accurate to the source material, the check bones and teeth are off, and he doesn't have the Vladimir Putin hairline. The figure itself is decent, but the mold is fickle, with odd hinging and joint placement, the alt mode dosen't fit with the character, really the only predacon it would've fit with would've actually been Shadow Panther. So I personally find this the second most insulting figure the club has done, the first being slipstream but TT's fixing that, with the dumbest being THUNDER MAYHEM or Ferak. What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

I agree that the CW Breakdown mold is... lacking in robot mode proportions, but he doesn't look too bad in all honesty. I'm more surprised at how soon they've revealed him

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

I agree that the CW Breakdown mold is... lacking in robot mode proportions, but he doesn't look too bad in all honesty. I'm more surprised at how soon they've revealed him

I was thinking the same thing. Didn't they release last years set like a few weeks before botcon? I wonder why they did it so early

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

Lost sight of it? So it was a clerical error? It was misfiled? Who? Who? Who do you mean, who? How could somebody misfile something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just put it in the right file! According to alphabetical order! You know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, K, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z! That's all you have too do! I've never misfiled anything! Not once, not one time!

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

Lost sight of it? So it was a clerical error? It was misfiled? Who? Who? Who do you mean, who? How could somebody misfile something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just put it in the right file! According to alphabetical order! You know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, K, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z! That's all you have too do! I've never misfiled anything! Not once, not one time!

I believe you're blowing this a bit out of proportion aren't you? Things happen man, people make mistakes.

I wonder if this is to be an origin story for the Tripredacus Council and its agents.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

Idiotic question from n00b person: How about the Transmetals Cheetor mold? Even if they CAN'T retool it again to make a "Metals Ravage", but it may be possible to change his head to a more "Ravage-ish", right?

TFwiki wrote:This mold was retooled into Metals Jaguar and BotCon 2001's Tigatron, and slightly retooled to make Armada Cheetor.

Nah, nevermind...

steals_your_goats wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

Lost sight of it? So it was a clerical error? It was misfiled? Who? Who? Who do you mean, who? How could somebody misfile something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just put it in the right file! According to alphabetical order! You know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, K, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z! That's all you have too do! I've never misfiled anything! Not once, not one time!

I believe you're blowing this a bit out of proportion aren't you? Things happen man, people make mistakes.

Molds never just "go away"...The goddamn mold is somewhere in the goddamn **** files!

So he's meant to emulate his appearance in Beast Wars... it kind of works, but I dunno', Ravage as a car is weird to me.

I don't hate it, but I wouldn't buy the box set just to get him.

Pretty interesting first round; definitely into the theme at least.
Lets see where round 2 takes us.

Am I the only one who likes the CW Breakdown mold? Maybe not for Ravage, but in general I think it's a good mold.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Am I the only one who likes the CW Breakdown mold? Maybe not for Ravage, but in general I think it's a good mold.

I like it, not a fan of the hips but other than that I don't mind it.

It looks like they took a Masters of the Universe figure's head and mounted it on an 80's knock-off GoBot.

I think this figure looks great personally.

The Breakdown mold never looked so good.

Randy

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:What they should've done is pull the original Metals Jaguar and retool the head. And Don't **** tell me "the molds too old, they can't use it" I'm sure they can figure something out, they pulled Dirgegun/Cyberwaspinator for TFSS 2.0

They actually lost sight of the X-9 Jaguar mold somewhere between 2001 and 2005, since they wanted to reissue him for BW 10th Anniversary.

Lost sight of it? So it was a clerical error? It was misfiled? Who? Who? Who do you mean, who? How could somebody misfile something? What could be easier? It's all alphabetical. You just put it in the right file! According to alphabetical order! You know, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, K, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z! That's all you have too do! I've never misfiled anything! Not once, not one time!

I believe you're blowing this a bit out of proportion aren't you? Things happen man, people make mistakes.

Molds never just "go away"...The goddamn mold is somewhere in the goddamn **** files!

Yup, they just don't know where it's currently located, is all. Things do get misplaced when shifting production inventory around between factory locations.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Am I the only one who likes the CW Breakdown mold? Maybe not for Ravage, but in general I think it's a good mold.

I like it too, all things set aside. It makes a good arm for me, and Sunstreaker really pulls off the look well for it. It works for me

Found this digibash of the Dustup version of the Dead End mold in grayscale with the Ravage head attached to it and I think the remolded fembot parts make it look a little nicer:

Sabrblade wrote:Found this digibash of the Dustup version of the Breakdown mold in grayscale with the Ravage head attached to it and I think the remolded fembot parts make it look a little nicer:

That's actually the dead end mold, but it does look nicer

A complicated head design in a figure with a confined space for that head to exist...this has not been an design approach that has worked well for the Club in the past.

Can anyone speak to how the QC process will work to avoid another potential misfire on a new head sculpt?