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News Credits: 11 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:11 pm

I agree with you Ryan.

News Credits: 8 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:11 pm

think the deluxe prime would've looked better. still say its to early for an animated botcon set you can still find all of these molds in stores & since theres very little remolding, they're not really all that special.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:13 pm

I think everyone was expecting a repaint of Animated Optimus Prime so it's no surprise. But I can't get past that head module remold. That box-looking remold is horrendous. :SICK:

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:18 pm

Yup, just like myself and several others figured. So we've got, essentially, a Shattered Glass TFA Voyager Prime with a swapped head that just barely surpasses 2 dimensional face detailing, that makes the team leader for a combiner team that actually doesn't combine, and this is the exclusive set for the biggest annual convention devoted to Transformers held on the face of God's green earth? I'm just a touch underwhelmed. Granted, I still like it more than most of the DotM toys I've seen but I still think that, after some of our past Convention sets, that the bar would be just a little bit higher. Just my opinion, everyone has their own tastes and for those of you that like this years offering, I'm genuinely happy for you but this one just isn't quite my cup of tea.

News Credits: 226 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:19 pm

Dear FunPub,

Thanks for the laugh. Good way to start my day. Keep up the funnies!

Kind regards,

Burn ... aka, disgruntled former member of your cool kids club.

Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:22 pm

When I look at the other figures in this set, their repaints/remolds make them look like entirely different characters. Motormaster looks like a Prime repaint that someone broke the head off of, and then stuck a lego block in there to look like a head.

Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:24 pm

This set is so very, very underwhelming, IMHO. I used to try and find these exclusives, but the recent ones just aren't worth it. I'm not even gonna go into box for a head Motormaster they've put out. I'm sorry, this is just horrible...

News Credits: 4 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:25 pm

he's a dick in a box.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:32 pm

Wow......Motor Master really sucks. Figures they go the Optimus Prime repaint route. That head would look fine if it was on Wreckgar, but it just looks stupid on Primes body.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:34 pm

Lord Onixprime wrote:That head would look fine if it was on Wreckgar, but it just looks stupid on Primes body.

Ya, but then he'd be a garbage truck, not a semi...

Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:35 pm

HELL YEAH! NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! WOOT!

WHEN CAN I SIGN UP!??!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:41 pm

Jesterhead wrote:
Lord Onixprime wrote:That head would look fine if it was on Wreckgar, but it just looks stupid on Primes body.

Ya, but then he'd be a garbage truck, not a semi...

He still isn't a Semi, he is a fire truck.

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:42 pm

craggy wrote:he's a dick in a box.

Gotta love Mother Lovin'. Hilarious stuff indeed.

News Credits: 20 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:44 pm

Oh Motormaster, http://nooooooooooooooo.com/. The paint job looks great, that head is all wrong for the body though. I don't see why Wreck-Gar couldn't have been used. The body would have worked better all around and less resculpting would have been necessary for a new head/face. The chest windows just look kinda stupid. I actually kinda wish that they'd just gone wild with these guys now that we've seen em all. This isn't G1, why only gamble on the one figure (Drag Strip)?

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:45 pm

Lord Onixprime wrote:
Jesterhead wrote:
Lord Onixprime wrote:That head would look fine if it was on Wreckgar, but it just looks stupid on Primes body.

Ya, but then he'd be a garbage truck, not a semi...

He still isn't a Semi, he is a fire truck.

Wreck-Gar without a remolded head sans garbage truck forklifts would have been the absolutely 100% correct choice for this without a doubt. They could have even gone the extra mile to give us a new Motormaster head on the Wreck-Gar body to make it a little more unique and everyone still would have been happy.

:KREMZEEK:

Who's got a few minutes to do a quick digital mockup of Wreck-Gar in these colors as Motormaster? I wish I knew how to do that easily in Photoshop.

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:48 pm

This set is just poorly thought out.

They could have saved us the whole "drag queen" Drag Strip fiasco by calling the Dead End or Breakdown body "Drag Strip" and calling the Arcee mold one of those characters. Dead End would've been my first choice. That Arcee mold would have looked awesome in Dead End's colors (black and red). But instead, they went the typical fan boy route and gave us some fun immature drag queen innuendos instead (couldn't have called the Arcee mold "Wildrider" for innuendo reasons also).

I still think that the Blurr mold would've been the best Drag Strip usage. Because they're giving us TFA Cheetor, having the Blurr mold colored yellow again was decided against ... but I don't really recall anyone clamoring for a TFA Cheetor so maybe they should have done something different with those molds, or swapped the Arcee mold out of the BotCon set, used the Blurr mold for Drag Strip, and then given us Paradron Medic or something desirable out of the Arcee mold as a Club exclusive. Ah, what am I talking about? That would make too much sense.

I really wish they'd stop going out of their way to not do what they did in 2007. The BotCon 2006 and 2007 sets were two of the most well thought out and fan wank sets imaginable. Those sets were what convention sets should be all about.

:evil:

News Credits: 12 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:49 pm

This just in from Cybertron.

Th tyranical leader of the Autobots was overthrown today. Rodimus Prime has taken his plece. In order to make sure that his predecessor could not rebel against his, Rodimus has ordered the previous leader thought processor's removed and replaced with a more subservient CPU.

I love everything about the new coloring except for the head. I would have rather that they just used the base head design for the G1 toy without the box look.

One plus to this is that I now know how I'm going to make my combiner parts. Since I've got most of these lying around the house, I should be able to start working on making something that will help these figures combine.

I'm gonna get a Menasor out of this set if it kill me!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:49 pm

Seibertron wrote:They could have saved us the whole "drag queen" Drag Strip fiasco by calling the Dead End or Breakdown body "Drag Strip" and calling the Arcee mold one of those characters. Dead End would've been my first choice. That Arcee mold would have looked awesome in Dead End's colors (black and red). But instead, they went the typical fan boy route and gave us some fun immature drag queen innuendos instead (couldn't have called the Arcee mold "Wildrider" for innuendo reasons also).

My only issue with that would have been that Drag Strip was a F1 car, while Dead End, Breakdown, and Wildrider were all street legal cars. Flip that over to the animated 'verse, and Arcee's cybertronian car fits the bill of a F1 car much, much better than Jazz, Rodimus, or Lockdown with their Earth mode styled bodies.

Seibertron wrote:Who's got a few minutes to do a quick digital mockup of Wreck-Gar in these colors as Motormaster? I wish I knew how to do that easily in Photoshop.

Vanishing Point already did one, and it looks great!

If the forks were gone/retooled, then ya, it would be a way better Motormaster...

Vanishing Point wrote:I did a quick digibash of what I would do for Motormaster
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News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:00 pm

Vanishing Point wrote:I did a quick digibash of what I would do for Motormaster

That's closer to what I'm thinking of ... but needs some more TLC. It definitely looks better than Optimus Prime with a brick head for Motormaster.

Maybe it's because the BotCon Motormaster is black instead of grey. I think he would've looked better as a grey truck with black legs to match closer to the original design cues on the character. They took the cues too literally from alt mode.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:08 pm

I'm disappointed they went with the predictable Optimus Prime redeco, but I think they did a good job Animated-ising his head.

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:12 pm

bluecatcinema wrote:I'm disappointed they went with the predictable Optimus Prime redeco, but I think they did a good job Animated-ising his head.

I actually don't have a problem with that head. I just have a problem with that head on that body.

Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:17 pm

Head is a little too boxy, but it still looks amazing! :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:25 pm

This looks awesome ...

This looks horrible ...

Some things are not meant to translate well. Wyatt had a great idea, but it doesn't work with the actual Prime body.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:28 pm

head belongs on a Wreck-Gar body, boooooooo

News Credits: 3646 · Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:30 pm

Jesterhead wrote:My only issue with that would have been that Drag Strip was a F1 car, while Dead End, Breakdown, and Wildrider were all street legal cars. Flip that over to the animated 'verse, and Arcee's cybertronian car fits the bill of a F1 car much, much better than Jazz, Rodimus, or Lockdown with their Earth mode styled bodies.

And maybe that's what someone was thinking. I for one could care less about that and am more interested in the silhouette. I guess Blurr's alt mode screams dragster with those big ass wheels far more than Arcee's Cybertronian vehicle mode. Unfortunately, our discussion just further proves the dilemma the BotCon folks face with each of these decisions since you can't please everyone all the time.