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News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:20 pm

Wow! That looks MUCH better than before. These pics justify a purchase of it for me.

by **MGrotusque** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:45 pm

Yeah....what is going on with those ducks! They should have made the windows blue and left it at that. At least the windows are in the same vicinity as the tubes on the original.

'sigh'.....Failure.....IMO :roll:

EDIT: and yes.....clearly they are not meant to be ducks but they SURE AS HELL LOOK LIKE DUCKS!

by **Rated X** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:57 pm

Looks good, I like it. But if it is indeed meant to be shattered glass, shouldnt it be SG Seaspray AKA Octopunch ??? Kinda like SG Tracks AKA Road Rage ???

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:02 am

Rated X wrote:Looks good, I like it. But if it is indeed meant to be shattered glass, shouldnt it be SG Seaspray AKA Octopunch ??? Kinda like SG Tracks AKA Road Rage ???

Cuz there's already a SG Seaspray (whose design is repurposed from movie Storm Surge).

News Credits: 2 · by **Twitchythe3rd** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:10 am

Can't....stop....laughing at ducks.....

by **MINDVVIPE** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:11 am

Ohp, seems like someones grill is only half painted blue.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:13 am

He definitely looks more Classics than Shattered Glass, I think Deep Dive looks the best of the three.
Also think they should have made the blue paint symmetrical on the abdomen

News Credits: 5 · by **dedcat** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:21 am

I'm suddenly a bit upset I passed on Deep Dive.

Also, quack.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:30 am

DISCHARGE wrote:He definitely looks more Classics than Shattered Glass,

Well, there are a handful of SG characters who, instead of having familiar bodies with reverse colors, have different bodies with familiar colors. Galvatron, Jazz, Alpha Trion, etc.

by **dinogeist** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:43 am

Personally,this botcon 2012 octopunch is the worst colored of the trio.

I sincerly doubt the rumored octopunch new head sculpt is gonna save this figure being all kinds of horrible.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:48 am

TigerMegatron wrote:I sincerly doubt the rumored octopunch new head sculpt is gonna save this figure being all kinds of horrible.

What are you talking about? This is the final product. These images clearly show that there is no new headsculpt.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:28 am

Sabrblade wrote:
DISCHARGE wrote:He definitely looks more Classics than Shattered Glass,
Well, there are a handful of SG characters who, instead of having familiar bodies with reverse colors, have different bodies with familiar colors. Galvatron, Jazz, Alpha Trion, etc.

I see your point, but for me at least, the use of alternate colors sticks out more as a SG theme than the use of a previously unused alt mode. Using the base colors of a character with a new alt mode is done on a regular basis with the onset of many new lines. In the end though I really don't care, aren't too many SG figures I like anyway.

by **kevinblevins** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:39 am

I think it's hilarious that we're seeing a convention exclusive before all the box set figures have been fully revealed.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:41 am

kevinblevins wrote:I think it's hilarious that we're seeing a convention exclusive before all the box set figures have been fully revealed.

We've already seen Metalhawk in the BotCon registration.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:16 am

Since there are more pictures of the actual toy to talk about, I made a new thread in the Scratch Build Forum for the helmet I'm working on. Tell me what you think!

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:28 am

I think I'm just going to slap some reprolabels on him and call him Classics.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:11 am

so why did they decide to use the shell design for the figure instead of using the actual robot?

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:28 am

Megatron Wolf wrote:so why did they decide to use the shell design for the figure instead of using the actual robot?

Because that's the most iconic part of him, plus all Pretender homages have been based off of the shell.

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:36 am

Dead Metal wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:so why did they decide to use the shell design for the figure instead of using the actual robot?

Because that's the most iconic part of him, plus all Pretender homages have been based off of the shell.

Except deluxe Bludgeon SG Bludgeon and SG Submarauder.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:41 am

My wife will like this figure solely for the bright colors and duck tentacles, you could have named him anything.

by **Deathsanras** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 am

Cannot...

unsee...

ducks.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:51 am

I'm not familiar with all the Transformers fiction. Can someone explain the "ducks" thing to me?

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:11 am

Maybe the tentacles looking like ducks is intentional, because he's a good guy.

Ducktopunch.

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:17 am

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm not familiar with all the Transformers fiction. Can someone explain the "ducks" thing to me?

They're not supposed to be ducks, unless someone was making an inside joke. They are tentactles that just happen to look like ducks.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:40 am

Delicon wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:I'm not familiar with all the Transformers fiction. Can someone explain the "ducks" thing to me?

They're not supposed to be ducks, unless someone was making an inside joke. They are tentactles that just happen to look like ducks.

I think I like the explanation someone else said earlier in the thread better than the ducks one, it looks like two tentacles fondle his nipples.

Scaleface wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:so why did they decide to use the shell design for the figure instead of using the actual robot?

Because that's the most iconic part of him, plus all Pretender homages have been based off of the shell.

Except deluxe Bludgeon SG Bludgeon and SG Submarauder.

I believe you're talking about the ROTF repaint of Wreackage?
That doesn't refference the shell due to not being meant as an update of the original character, while the Voyager version was designed as a Classics version of the character.
SG Bludgeon is just a purpose of RID Bludgeon and ment as a nice nod to that incarnation of the character. I give you that on Submarauder though.

Also another reason why they homaged the shell with this one is the simple fact that, there is no toy that turns into a crab in any of the recent toy-lines, which they limited themselves to.