Responding to multiple posts, here.
Insurgent wrote:Tarantulas looks decent, but the alt mode doesn't make sense.
Did all of the 2006 altmode choices make sense? Optimus Primal as a racecar? Dinobot as a construction shovel? Rattrap as a racing cycle? Megatron as a big beefy missile carrier? (that one they even had to explain away as being a suit he wore over his real body)
The Rook mold's altmode is bulbous like Tarantulas's spider mode, and like how a bug (insect or arachnid) has more that four legs, so too does this altmode have more than four wheels.
But I agree with the notion of the robot mode making him look too blocky.
Rated X wrote:Im usually a big fan of obscure characters, but in this case I feel funpub dug too deep into the bottom of the barrel.
They chose characters from the show who all played some role in what was arguably the best and most memorable season finale of the whole show, three of whom whose original toys happened to be a combiner.
Rated X wrote:There are plenty of more mainstream beast wars characters (mostly predacons) that still need a pre earth mode.
Most of whom already have pre-Earth toys, and the rest of which don't need pre-Earth toys since the likes of Blackarachnia, Inferno, Silverbolt, Quickstrike, and Transmetal 2 Dinobot were all born on Earth. Tigatron and Airazor had their Earthen births retconned and many fans disliked that.
Rated X wrote:Unfortunately combiner wars cars and jets make lousy cybertronian alt modes. They should have used some TF prime molds instead. Everything doesnt have to be a combiner. Funpub is already doing a combiner for the 4.0 subscription service. This combiner is overkill. The choices of combining molds available simply dont work for this theme. Making the set a combiner actually did more harm than good. They should have just brought back unicron trilogy molds. They work perfect for this theme and allow newer collecters to obtain different molds on their shelves instead of the same CW molds in 5 different colors.
1. Three of these guys already were a Combiner back in the day.
2. See TF_JW's post that came right before yours about the use of CW molds.
Counterpunch wrote:My only real issue with the set is the disconnect between the colors of the three unified color-scheme bots
TF_JW's post that came after yours should help to alleviate these concerns.
Counterpunch wrote:and what the show was actually doing with its lighting effects.
Those bots in the show, under the overhead white light are shown as being gray or silver. They are only colored red after the desk lights are turned on.
I feel personally that those character's color schemes, as shown by the toys, are making a disconnected leap from the limits of lighting in an early CGI show to real toy models.
Those characters were not red. Even the IDW comics took note of that.
As per my earlier discussion with Doctor McGrath, solid gray toys are plain-looking, colorless, and dull. Regardless of the original intent of the scene, their bodies physically glowed red when the meeting began. Under the bright white light, their bodies were still red. Red is more exciting than colorless gray.
And IDW's BW comics are best left forgotten.
Bed Bugs wrote:So when is it going to be revealed which universe this set takes place in?
Most likely when the information brochure goes up, as it usually contains a brief summary of the convention comic's story, and short bios for the characters the toys represent.
Hellscream9999 wrote:Are you going to do a 'botcon' rattrap out of groove
Then it could be botcon: botcon rattrap
They already gave us a BotCon Rattrap.
Sure, they's giving us another Tarantulas, but the backlash to that redundancy furthers my point.