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ScottyP wrote:I don't like this figure. I don't need another Tarantulas with a non-Beast mode. Just got that in the mail last month.
I know what the fiction/naming implied, and you can make up new stories all you want to, but this is poorly timed, lazy, and adds no value to the box set for me.
ZeroWolf wrote:I think with regards to the club, they can only work with what hasbro has done lately.
Bingo. I understand wanting to do something for Beast Wars' 20th, especially since Hasbro is probably doing extremely little on their own. These feel a bit forced though, at least for right now. Hard to say with only two figures shown but I'm kinda bummin' on the theme now. Maybe if Sea Clamp and pals end up being a thing, using molds that don't feel forced, that will work out to be a cool thing.Doctor McGrath wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:I think with regards to the club, they can only work with what hasbro has done lately.
For sure they are. I'm just not big on the sale of homaging for the sake of homaging.
Sabrblade wrote:Five tends to be the standard number per boxed set, so it's not a far-fetched guess. And five is all that's needed for a CW combiner.Emerje wrote:Did I miss where they said how many figures will be in the box this year?
We've gotten five figures in the following year's boxed sets (small accessory figures like Targetmasters, Headmasters, Mini-Cons--barring one case--and Arms Microns count as just that, accessories): 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Sabrblade wrote:Last I counted the Subscription Service will be giving us one Voyager and six Deluxes.Emerje wrote:You know we're going to get a lot more than one Voyager and four deluxe, that's less than what the subscription service is giving us.
Sabrblade wrote:Though this year's set had multiple factions, all five of the Cybertron's Most Wanted boxed set toys were bad guys.Emerje wrote:And besides, when was the last time a set was made of just one faction? 2011, but that was a really small set compared to what we normally get these days. Otherwise there's always at least one member of the opposition represented.
Lucky Logician wrote:FunPub, you now own the mold of a monkey who can fit a truck inside it. If you want to make money hand over fist, PAINT HIM LIKE OPTIMUS PRIMAL! He would be both a trukk and a munky.
Emerje wrote:Lucky Logician wrote:FunPub, you now own the mold of a monkey who can fit a truck inside it. If you want to make money hand over fist, PAINT HIM LIKE OPTIMUS PRIMAL! He would be both a trukk and a munky.
With a little imagination you can actually give CW Prime a gorilla mode simply by making him do a back bend and using the super mode head. It's sort of like the Transmetal transformation so maybe do him up in those colors since Ravage and Tarantulas are both TMs, with some good blue metallic paint.
Also Jelze makes a good point about Groove. It's also probably harder to coordinate the use of new molds than it is with Hasbro.
Emerje
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Emerje wrote:Lucky Logician wrote:FunPub, you now own the mold of a monkey who can fit a truck inside it. If you want to make money hand over fist, PAINT HIM LIKE OPTIMUS PRIMAL! He would be both a trukk and a munky.
With a little imagination you can actually give CW Prime a gorilla mode simply by making him do a back bend and using the super mode head. It's sort of like the Transmetal transformation so maybe do him up in those colors since Ravage and Tarantulas are both TMs, with some good blue metallic paint.
Also Jelze makes a good point about Groove. It's also probably harder to coordinate the use of new molds than it is with Hasbro.
Emerje
I posted this in the combiner wars thread, but if you convert the top half of CW primes body to torso mode and add 2 deluxes as arms, you will have CW Optimus Primal
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:I thought of another potential option for this combiner. Specifically, the Legends class component (if it's going to have one, that is).
In the third Beast Wars: Uprising prose story, "Burning Bridges", there is a mnemosurgeon named Vampire who works inside the Mandala, headquarters of the Predacon Secret Police. And he happens to be based on the design on Legends class Groove.
Granted, this year's story could be set in the BW cartoon continuity proper like DoFP was, but that wouldn't stop there being a cartoonverse version of Vampire as well as an Uprisingverse version.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:He's a very creepy Pred (I envisioned him sounding like either Prime Starscream or Movieverse Starscream when I read his dialogue).
Eh, I'm not entirely sure if that's his actual name since the story made it sound like that's just what he's "called" rather than "named".SW's SilverHammer wrote:Sabrblade wrote:He's a very creepy Pred (I envisioned him sounding like either Prime Starscream or Movieverse Starscream when I read his dialogue).
It gets a bit dampened when you consider his name is Vampire. Even by transformers standards that's dumb.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Eh, I'm not entirely sure if that's his actual name since the story made it sound like that's just what he's "called" rather than "named".SW's SilverHammer wrote:Sabrblade wrote:He's a very creepy Pred (I envisioned him sounding like either Prime Starscream or Movieverse Starscream when I read his dialogue).
It gets a bit dampened when you consider his name is Vampire. Even by transformers standards that's dumb.
Heh, Stiletto even made a "for Primus's sake!" remark about the name.
Plus, I sincerely doubt it'd be a Trademarkable name for a Hasbro (via Fun Pub) TF toy to use since it's so generic, so there's a good chance that he'd get a different name if he were to ever get a toy.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Even though it was Magnaboss whose combined weapon was a sword, I wonder if it would be possible for Ram Horn, Sea Clamp, and Cicadacon to each come with a redecoed Arms Micron component of the Dark Matter Calibur. Ram Horn could have Gabu (the bladed weapon), Sea Clamp could have Dai (the gun), and Cicadacon could have Baru (the cleaver). Then the combined form could wield the big sword.
Sea Clamp was who I was hoping for, but then they went and used Tarantulas instead.Mkall wrote:So I've thought of the character who would really work well with the Rook Mold:
Scorponok.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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