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News Credits: 12 · Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:43 pm

EEeeeeuuuurrrcchchh! What the slag is going on with those hips!?! His legs just look like they're loosely hanging from his totally flat, square arse! Bleugh. Easy pass.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:00 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:EEeeeeuuuurrrcchchh! What the slag is going on with those hips!?! His legs just look like they're loosely hanging from his totally flat, square arse! Bleugh. Easy pass.

Was looking at the toy last night and I was wondering if the walking hips have limited range of forward movement. due to the hips joints being so far up the waist tab piece.

Think TW created the more normal looking, well proportioned robot mode.

DX9's weird looking, badly proportioned robot mode reminds me of a Hasbro, Built to rule TF toys.

News Credits: 33 · Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:59 pm

CGA.
Dx9 D05 > Chigurh WIP prototype
It said something about improving the waist joint and pose-ability.

Tue Oct 28, 2014 3:43 pm

Well that's good news!

News Credits: 4 · Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:23 pm

Improving the waist and hips is awesome news, As that's the main negative that I noticed last night about the toy.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:15 am

A member on the TFW forums has figured out why the toy is being called, Chigurh. Apparently it's named after, Anton Chigurh. He's the antagonist from a book and movie called "No country for old men" Basically he just kills people... and doesn't care.

News Credits: 33 · Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:35 am

Tsutsukakushi wrote:A member on the TFW forums has figured out why the toy is being called, Chigurh. Apparently it's named after, Anton Chigurh. He's the antagonist from a book and movie called "No country for old men" Basically he just kills people... and doesn't care.

I read his name "Chigurh" is actually named after the supposed sound a train makes :-B

Wed Oct 29, 2014 6:19 am

Autobot Genocide wrote:
Tsutsukakushi wrote:A member on the TFW forums has figured out why the toy is being called, Chigurh. Apparently it's named after, Anton Chigurh. He's the antagonist from a book and movie called "No country for old men" Basically he just kills people... and doesn't care.

I read his name "Chigurh" is actually named after the supposed sound a train makes

Should've named him ChooChoo

News Credits: 33 · Mon Dec 01, 2014 4:42 am

Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:17 am

why does the head and chest remind me of armada tidalwave? #-o

News Credits: 4 · Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:17 pm

Beautiful looking pic.

Autobot Genocide wrote:

News Credits: 33 · Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:34 am

News Credits: 293 · Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:13 am

crap he's big! that makes him... what? a head taller than MP10?

Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:36 pm

He REALLY needs a crotch.

He looks off to me without it.

News Credits: 33 · Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:05 pm

I'm not a fan of either of the Astrotrains coming out both just don't look right .

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Autobot Genocide wrote:I'm not a fan of either of the Astrotrains coming out both just don't look right .

I'm in agreement. I'd love to upsize my Classics Astrotrain (and Octane for that matter), but neither one shown so far has captured my interest.

Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:20 pm

I like this one better because it doesn't have the stupid chest fin making it cartoon more accurate. But I'm not buying it because it doesn't scale with Blitzwing.

News Credits: 122 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 1:36 am

Mkall wrote:
Autobot Genocide wrote:I'm not a fan of either of the Astrotrains coming out both just don't look right .

I'm in agreement. I'd love to upsize my Classics Astrotrain (and Octane for that matter), but neither one shown so far has captured my interest.

Yup. Classics Astrotrain could use a simple upsize. Barring that... I'm quite happy with the Specialists version.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:59 am

Don't like the sculpt on this one at all, As it looks very Neo-Classics to me. Prefer the TW Astrotrain because I think it looks more like a MP TF Update toy.

News Credits: 12 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:13 pm

TW version looks a fair bit better TBH. The overall design looks a lot better and more coherent, and it uses the vintage toy colours rather than the godawful brown and grey of the cartoon model (which not only looks hideous but was only used thanks to a mix-up with the character sheets). Also it seems a more manageable size.

News Credits: 122 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:31 pm

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Don't like the sculpt on this one at all, As it looks very Neo-Classics to me. Prefer the TW Astrotrain because I think it looks more like a MP TF Update toy.

Except TW's is voyager scale... (I think)

News Credits: 12 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:32 pm

Yeah. Devilstar is a Voyager whilst this guy is MP scale (and a huge one at that).

News Credits: 293 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:41 pm

megatronus wrote:
Mkall wrote:
Autobot Genocide wrote:I'm not a fan of either of the Astrotrains coming out both just don't look right .

I'm in agreement. I'd love to upsize my Classics Astrotrain (and Octane for that matter), but neither one shown so far has captured my interest.

Yup. Classics Astrotrain could use a simple upsize. Barring that... I'm quite happy with the Specialists version.

i almost want to have two of these:
-one chigurth in train mode to the left
-henkei/specialists atrotrain bot mode in the middle
-another chigurth in shuttle mode to the right

cause his alt modes didnt fit the scale of his robot mode by any means :lol:

News Credits: 4 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:52 pm

Chimungmung.com and other imports sites. http://chimungmung.com/product_info.php ... ts_id=2103 are listing TW Devilstar-Atrotrain with a 22.5 cm tall robot height. Which translates to a 8.9 inch robot height, Which is Leader scale.

News Credits: 10 · Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:58 pm

Or, maybe we can not care so much about specific height measurements? Approximations are good enough for many, including me. I would think that would be evident by now...