The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · by **Seibermore** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:54 am

Please tell no one posted this already.
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http://www.tf08.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=436
Looks weird

News Credits: 2 · by **Random** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:01 pm

First I've seen it, so it's news to me. Neat find. Depending on price, I'd consider it.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:15 pm

Thanks for the news!

Can't say I like the head, but it does look incomplete, so we'll have to see what the final version looks like

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:20 pm

I hope this is severely miss transformed.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:24 pm

I can clearly tell there's some not-final problems with him, but that's pretty terrible. Why does he have such a big upper body?

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:45 pm

Nekoman wrote:I can clearly tell there's some not-final problems with him, but that's pretty terrible. Why does he have such a big upper body?

My guess is that the torso of the figure is missing, making the legs look far scrawnier than they should be. Remember the early pics of Universe Inferno that didn't have the crotch area folded down right, making it look silly? Same thing here I'm thinking.

by **Starscream6** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:55 pm

looks like it might be a activator...

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:59 pm

Hmm...so we've sort of of seen the vehicle mode pics for this, and now a bot mode. Hopefully they would make Ironhide out of it too.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:13 pm

Huh, looks pretty cool, if incomplete. If it's a deluxe or Voyager I'll probably get it.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:19 pm

kirbenvost wrote:Huh, looks pretty cool, if incomplete. If it's a deluxe or Voyager I'll probably get it.

Other pictures made it look more like an activator.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:34 pm

Really? Looks a little too articulated for an Activator to me, the legs are very similar to the deluxe Ratchet.

by **JesWal** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:26 pm

Hmm, I was thinking this would be Animated ironhide when we first saw the proto shots. I wanna see pics of Animated Rodimus now!

by **Hard Hacker** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:28 pm

I'm sure when it's transformed correctly, then it'll look good.

by **Doubledealer93** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:43 pm

dude!

it looks like it got in a fight with a dremmel tool and lost! but same here i hope it is seriously mistransformed :-(

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:07 pm

Hope they make an Ironhide version. Either way ill be getting one.

News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:23 pm

The face is intentionally damaged because it's a prototype. This is common practice on a lot of prototypes to make it less desirable.

The upper legs look pretty similar to the deluxe version. I'm assuming this is perhaps a retooling of Earth-mode Ratchet so that we can get an Ironhide figure as well?

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:10 pm

Paint it red and call him Ironhide then I'll bite.

Does look nice though.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:15 pm

Poor Ratchet, they really love sanding back the faces on these test shots.

Will be an automatic purchase for me, since Flashback Cybertron Ratchet has been getting more screentime than Earth mode Ratchet.

by **travicon** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:19 pm

sweet, i'll be gettin this for sure!

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:51 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:Hmm...so we've sort of of seen the vehicle mode pics for this, and now a bot mode. Hopefully they would make Ironhide out of it too.

Oh we'll get an Ironhide fore sure out of this. It's an easy sell & repaint.