- Sunstorm
- Bitstream
- Hotlink
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
Bumblevivisector wrote:Ah, so the REAL Rainmakers are orange, blue, and purple. Yes, I see. Wow, you can almost hear the prices of the CHMS Rainmakers going into free-fall.
I kid, of course I want these guys as bad as anyone else now! An official Sunstorm was long overdue, but does this constitute an official retcon that Sunny's supposed to be the fluorescent yellow guy in Divide and Conquer and not the darker yellow guy in MTMTE part 1? Or is there a new acid-rain attack in the comic?
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Bumblevivisector wrote:Ah, so the REAL Rainmakers are orange, blue, and purple. Yes, I see. Wow, you can almost hear the prices of the CHMS Rainmakers going into free-fall.
I kid, of course I want these guys as bad as anyone else now! An official Sunstorm was long overdue, but does this constitute an official retcon that Sunny's supposed to be the fluorescent yellow guy in Divide and Conquer and not the darker yellow guy in MTMTE part 1? Or is there a new acid-rain attack in the comic?
I'm guessing this set IS the three alternate colored seekers in MTMTE pt. 1. Why they are calling them the "Rainmakers", I have no idea. So, of the "real" Rainmakers from Divide and Conquer, we still only have one officially, Acid Storm.
Gearslide wrote:-The set makes the CHMS rainmakers become redundant.
Bumblevivisector wrote:Gearslide wrote:-The set makes the CHMS rainmakers become redundant.
-Redundancy becomes abstract where troop-building is concerned.
-The CHMS rainmakers and burnt-yellow Sunstorm still stand stubbornly corporeal, show-accurate, and in different color schemes than these guys.
Not attempting to do the three Divide and Conquer seekers in better likenesses than the illegal competition implies that, if anything, FunPub might be afraid of redundancy working the other way around. Well, except Acid Storm, who would've been an official redundancy, and was probably the real reason, as Gauntlet suggested. CHMS Acid Storm just cannot understand how that Universe guy is supposed to blind Autobots with that ugly camo job.
Oh well, even if this set immediately becomes impossible to find at any price, these three color schemes might just find their way to Carob Island sooner than we think...
-Kanrabat- wrote:YEah, too many Transformers are in a serious need of a good rim job.
Blast Cannon wrote:This thread is brilliant. Duragrip you are a gloriously weird sexual deviant and I love it.
T-Macksimus wrote:I hate to say it but I immediately thought Cybertron Series Skywarp and Thundercracker and Starscreams true color when I saw these 3 lined up.
Recycling Sunstorm again was a huge mistake in my opinion and naming the other two in the manner they did, so far removed from their G1 counterpart Acid Storm, just utterly screws up the whole vibe and continuity of these characters. I'd have more respect for them if they had simply named them Moe, Larry and Curly. What they did here was a slap in the face of all the fans looking forward to this set. If I had had my heart set on purchasing this set and had my money put aside for this, I'd be pissed! Yeah, the figures look good. I'm a huge fan of the Classics Seeker mold but they really should have paid better attention to detail as far as the names go and should have thought ahead about how much they just devalued the Sunstorm figures that have come before. Giving 'Storm the Movie 'Bee treatment is a bad idea.
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Mindmaster wrote:
Actually, Sunstorm appeared with Bitstream and Hotlink in Generation One's very first episode, "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1", seen here.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Maybe Sunstorm, Bitstream, and Hotlink didn't do their usual "Rainmaker" thing in MTMTEp1 because there were other Decepticons in the field and on the ground who could be damaged by their acid rain? Maybe Acid Storm was sick that day, or is just off camera? I bet we'd see him if the Cybernet Space Cube had an HD widescreen aspect ratio back then. The only thing that really bums me out is that Universe 2008 Acid Storm severely clashes with the decos of the rest of his alleged compatriots.
gavinfuzzy wrote:Ah, after 24 years, that generic purple seeker gets a toy.
Also, the Classics starscream mold's not degraded yet?
What was the rumors about Classics (voyager) Prime's mold degrading, hence United Prime was Deluxe?
That rumor was probably debunked, since United saw Ultra Magnus.
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Mindmaster wrote:gavinfuzzy wrote:Ah, after 24 years, that generic purple seeker gets a toy.
*29 years.
Mindmaster wrote:gavinfuzzy wrote:Also, the Classics starscream mold's not degraded yet?
What was the rumors about Classics (voyager) Prime's mold degrading, hence United Prime was Deluxe?
That rumor was probably debunked, since United saw Ultra Magnus.
I haven't heard those rumors. If they are true, guess we won't be seeing a reuse of said mold here in the States.
gavinfuzzy wrote:Also, these dudes are supposedly NOT rainmakers.
And, hasbro supposedly claimed that Sunstorm was NOT the yellow Rainmaker
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rainmakers
Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Mindmaster wrote:gavinfuzzy wrote:Also, these dudes are supposedly NOT rainmakers.
And, hasbro supposedly claimed that Sunstorm was NOT the yellow Rainmaker
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rainmakers
But if these are not Rainmakers, then why are they called "Rainmakers" here? Not getting on your case, it's a genuine question.
Wolfman Jake wrote:There is still a rather big misunderstanding when fans talk of "mold degredation." Yes, a mold will degrade and eventually break after so many uses, but new ones can be made again and again. Everything is designed on computer now, so the original data is seldom lost. The question of if a mold gets remade as more to do with if the price of recasting the mold will be offset by the sale of the new product. If not, it may not be done. In the case of the Classics Seeker mold(s), they get used so extensively that Hasbro/Takara are almost sure to make their money back and then some each time they recast a new mold to produce more product.
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