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News Credits: 1 · Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:02 pm

In all of the main sub-toylines of DOTM (Cyberverse, main, HA), we're getting different versions of the Wreckers, inconsistently armed and unarmed in vehicle mode. For the main (Deluxe class) toys, how would you have liked them to be? All armed, or all unarmed? Or do you like them the way they are, with some armed and some unarmed? I would have liked it if they were all unarmed, but, like Roadbuster, they had some weapons that could deploy (in Roadbuster's case, the missile pods).

News Credits: 2 · Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:59 pm

I think i'm seeing a pattern with the Wreckers. In all the size classes they appear in (Legion, Deluxe, Full-Size HA), we get two of them armed and one clean.

If the pattern holds, HA Topspin and Deluxe Leadfoot should be be armed.

Just my two cents on the matter. I don't really care so long as all three get a Deluxe. They're really the only DOTM main line figures i'm after.

Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:18 pm

Deluxe Roadbuster has extra mechtech ports on the door panels to give him an armed mode. I didn't even know that these were there until I took mine apart to repaint.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:28 am

twitchthird(cant really remember spelling) has it just about right as far as i can presume.
shame theres no ground rule so that they can all be in scale and consistently armed/umnrmed, eg all ledgneds armed, all deluxes clean, all HA armed?
or something like that.

News Credits: 11 · Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:08 pm

Grahf wrote:Deluxe Roadbuster has extra mechtech ports on the door panels to give him an armed mode. I didn't even know that these were there until I took mine apart to repaint.

Unfortunately the way the car fits together, they're not useable in vehicle mode. :-(

Anyway if I had to choose and deployable weapons on all of them are not an option, I'd say armed. They just look cooler that way.

Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:14 pm

I'd like to see all 3 deluxes armed.
They look like twisted metal guys, they look somewhat decent.
They remind me of the car brothers from RiD.

I know there's trouble with leadfoot, but I hope we get him over here...come on target...

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:34 pm

kirbenvost wrote:
Grahf wrote:Deluxe Roadbuster has extra mechtech ports on the door panels to give him an armed mode. I didn't even know that these were there until I took mine apart to repaint.

Unfortunately the way the car fits together, they're not useable in vehicle mode.

Anyway if I had to choose and deployable weapons on all of them are not an option, I'd say armed. They just look cooler that way.

They're useable if you pop his doors out a little bit. That's what I do. I think it looks cooler anyway (even if it weren't necessary to attach guns), since it makes him look more transformed, like the brute modes in the movie. Here's a picture of my battle mode for Deluxe Roadbuster:

News Credits: 2 · Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:38 pm

Screamfleet wrote:I'd like to see all 3 deluxes armed.
They look like twisted metal guys, they look somewhat decent.
They remind me of the car brothers from RiD.

I know there's trouble with leadfoot, but I hope we get him over here...come on target...

This is whay I think Deluxe Leadfoot will be the armed version. Not a Target logo in sight, and therefore easier to sell to Not-Target retailers.

Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:05 pm

I do hope we see him.
I wish hasbro would focus on getting us every character rather than variations of the same character. I'm still disappointed we never saw the other constructicons from ROTF, even though I was really on interested in scrapper.

News Credits: 4 · Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:58 am

New pics of HA Leadfoot here,

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.p ... =1&fpart=5

At the bottom.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:50 am

I want it all. I want three deluxes and three HAs that have deployable weapons in car mode and really great bot modes.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:52 am

you can bet on there bein stealth force of these guys.
actually, youl'd be a fool NOT to bet on that.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:00 pm

ArmadaPrime wrote:you can bet on there bein stealth force of these guys.
actually, youl'd be a fool NOT to bet on that.

There already is one of Topspin. I wouldn't be surprised if the others are just repaints.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:23 pm

All I want are three deluxe Wreckers. Topspin's already in brute mode, and Roadbuster can simulate his own...all that's needed now is a brute mode Leadfoot, and I can completely forgo the HA and save some cash for a possible leader class Megatron and Shockwave.