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News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:24 am

Site Sponsor BBTS has placed a new Transformers Preorder - Encore #16 The Combaticons Box set!

Please check out their preorder link here!

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:30 am

Exceptionally sweet....especially because I don't need to buy them since I have all the G1 gestalts! Now I can save a little, take my time, and get Metroplex instead.

But for those without these figures--what great news!

News Credits: 4 · by **capellamusic** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:32 am

OMG! Guaranteed buy!! (but not on bbts

) I'm really glad they chose the combaticons, we need more decepticons on the Encore line!

Like Cyberstrike on Facebook · by **Cyberstrike** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:32 am

The Combaticons again?
I got enough Combaticons and their various repaints over the years. Pass.
If it were the Stunticons, Terrorcons, The Pretender Monsters (aka Dinoking), the Seacons, or the Predacons then I might be interested but Car Robots and RiD have completely burned me out on this group.

by **Kryptikore** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:33 am

GASPS!! Damn-it! Grrrr... I've got the RID & Universe repaints, but it's the original! That's more money that doesn't even have a chance going into my wallet.

by **Nickolai** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:34 am

Yes, YES YES!!!! A million times YESSS!!!!!!!

I am just overwhelmed by this announcement. :grin:

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:41 am

Yessssss. This pleases me.

News Credits: 125 · by **Counterpunch** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:49 am

Allow me to speak for everyone when I say...

FINALLY!

News Credits: 3554 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:54 am

Counterpunch wrote:Allow me to speak for everyone when I say...

FINALLY!

Omigod this is unbelievably awesome. It's about damn time that they reissued this as an original G1 reissue. It was the no-brainer reissue to me this whole time. I could never believe that we were getting repaint after repaint of this mold yet no one released it as a reissue.

Finally, indeed. Now bring on the rest of the gestalts dammit!

News Credits: 88 · by **DavidT** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:03 am

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I'm hoping they'll do something with tampos or paint apps. or something to make them more cartoon accurate like they did with several other Encore reissues.

I wonder if E-Hobby will give us a version of these so we can have yet another repaint

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News Credits: 1 · by **Optimist_Prime** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:04 am

To paraphrase former wrestler, The Rock...

Counterpunch wrote:Allow me to speak for everyone when I say...

FINALLY!

BRUTICUS HAS COME BACK... HOME!!!

by **metalformer** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:09 am

Frankly, I am NOT surprised at all, since those molds has been reused to death in the last years. What do surprise me is that they didn't came up with this earlier before. I would love to see the box this militia will come in!

Combaticfans (me included of course *pointing at sig bellow!*) will surely rejoice to have not only a repaint of the Cybertron team sharing the names but also the original team as well. I do own both of them already (G1 not being 100% "G1" so that is an extra motivation) but despite that, if my budget wasn't ill I would gladly invest on these two without hesitations!

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:28 am

Wow! I'm surprized so many people are happy about it. I'm planning on getting this set. I've only got the original RiD Ruination and have been considering getting another version. But I'm concerned about the quality control. I heard that because this mold was reused so many times, the mold degraded so much that it broke. But I hope they reissue more gestalts afterword.

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:44 am

DavidT wrote:I wonder if E-Hobby will give us a version of these so we can have yet another repaint

Yes, they will all be redecoed in a purple/pink/white specked pattern with Autobot idents.

Named the Partybots, Streatdealer, Whirlybird, High Flier, Tanked, and their leader Big Blast, they will merge into Raveicus.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:46 am

Fu** Yes!
I love this combiner and finally I can have the original minti- fresh and in original colours.
*Crushes what's left of the RID repaint and the KO*

News Credits: 6 · by **Roadbuster** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:49 am

UltraPrimal wrote:Wow! I'm surprized so many people are happy about it. I'm planning on getting this set. I've only got the original RiD Ruination and have been considering getting another version. But I'm concerned about the quality control. I heard that because this mold was reused so many times, the mold degraded so much that it broke. But I hope they reissue more gestalts afterword.

I think people are more happy because this was a set that Hasbro could have done and made a killing off of back when they were doing reissues. Really this was a set that should have been done be it by Takara or Hasbro.

Anyways...

dang it! dang it! dang it! :-x

I bought a G1 Bruticus back in 2007. Had I known they were going to do this I would've held off. Now I gotta hold off on Superion, Menasor, Defensor, Abominus, Computron, and Pirhanacon.

by **dabattousai** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:02 am

Awesome, I had all the G2 ones but they are all in pieces and are somewhere in crates all together and I believe one of them is broken. Now I can own the G1 version, but I wish is was Menasor though.

News Credits: 3554 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:15 am

Here's more food for thought ... how about for the eHobby version they give us a G2 set or even better yet ... how about the extremely rare and very expensive Japanese exclusive Battle Gaia set. Please please please somebody be considering this so that I can save myself $1400 at some point.

Speaking of which, where's an eHobby Metrotitan set? I'll have to send an email to my contact at eHobby.

by **Iron Prime** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:21 am

Seibertron wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:Allow me to speak for everyone when I say...

FINALLY!

Omigod this is unbelievably awesome. It's about damn time that they reissued this as an original G1 reissue. It was the no-brainer reissue to me this whole time. I could never believe that we were getting repaint after repaint of this mold yet no one released it as a reissue.

Finally, indeed. Now bring on the rest of the gestalts dammit!

Well said both of you! I only have the RiD repaint so I will definitely be making an effort to get this! With any luck this will lead to us getting the rest of the gestalts somewhere down the line!

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:22 am

As much as I would like to see the idea in my last post about a e-hobby set, a change to get a reissued Battle Gaia would be 9 ways of awesome.

News Credits: 1 · by **Silverbolt** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:24 am

have a G1, G2, Ruination, Arctic camo, tiger striped camo, two custom painted knockoffs and a third sitting unfinished. I think I'm good unless the paint scheme is outstanding. Looks like alot of people wanted this so I'm glad that they have released it but its probably a pass for me. Would get it a ehobby Battle Gaia though, same with Metrotitan if they ever did it.

News Credits: 3554 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:31 am

Editor wrote:As much as I would like to see the idea in my last post about a e-hobby set, a change to get a reissued Battle Gaia would be 9 ways of awesome.

Man, I just can't get Battle Gaia out of my head. It would be very incredible to be able to add Battle Gaia to my set of Bruticus repaints. Then they'd all be one huge happy family at last.

News Credits: 125 · by **Counterpunch** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:56 am

Editor wrote:As much as I would like to see the idea in my last post about a e-hobby set, a change to get a reissued Battle Gaia would be 9 ways of awesome.

and $200 of awesome as well...

News Credits: 3554 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:10 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
Editor wrote:As much as I would like to see the idea in my last post about a e-hobby set, a change to get a reissued Battle Gaia would be 9 ways of awesome.

and $200 of awesome as well...

Sure as hell beats $1300+ on eBay for an original.

I sent an email to my contact at e-Hobby. Not sure if they'll respond or not. My contact doesn't have the best English from our past email conversations and my Japanese is non-existent so we'll see if I can get any information about the possiblity of a Metrotitan or a Battle Gaia from them.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:24 pm

Cyberstrike wrote:The Combaticons again?
I got enough Combaticons and their various repaints over the years. Pass.
If it were the Stunticons, Terrorcons, The Pretender Monsters (aka Dinoking), the Seacons, or the Predacons then I might be interested but Car Robots and RiD have completely burned me out on this group.

Agreed...but that's probably why they are doing them: they have intact molds. The only good thing is that maybe this is the beginning of Gestalt reissues and we'll see some of the other groups coming out soon.