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News Credits: 33 · Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:41 pm

Sun Sep 07, 2014 12:51 pm

I have few words to describe how much I want this guy.

Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:16 pm

Now thats cool. Lets just hope it scales with their menasor and they dont try to pull that toy accurate mini bot crap. I have faith in fansproject though...

Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:58 pm

This teasing is frustrating... especially since Monstructor is one I've been wanting for a long time now. Hope we get some concrete details and some nice pics soon, but I won't hold my breath. Knowing that this is coming though just made my day, regardless of being teaser-jerked.

Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:05 pm

Love it! More decepticons. More Japanese trilogy characters. My poor poor wallet....

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

And here I am drooling on my keyboard...

News Credits: 4 · Sun Sep 07, 2014 2:17 pm

So, FP is making Two different Dino teams toys? :lol:

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Tsutsukakushi wrote:So, FP is making Two different Dino teams toys?

Depends on how they do it. IMO, Monscructor has always been the "purer" of the two. The Dinoforce were just monster-styled robots in different pretender shells/backpacks/whatever.

Sun Sep 07, 2014 3:01 pm

Mkall wrote:IMO, Monscructor has always been the "purer" of the two. The Dinoforce were just monster-styled robots in different pretender shells/backpacks/whatever.

Pretty much how I feel too. It'll be interesting to see how FP presents this combiner. I can only hope they go the Monstructor route first, because I really cannot see myself opening my wallet for Dinoking.

News Credits: 12 · Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:46 pm

Not gonna lie, I always thought Monstructor was the derpiest combiner. Even aside from being tiny, he was neon as **** and he looks a bit...eh, really. The only guy I can name is Slog, the sociopathic artist (who is awesome).

I wonder how they'll handle the whole "pretender" thing? The pretender shells looked a fair bit better than the actual monster modes of the inner robots IMO. I'd love it if they styled the individual robots with elements of their shells and we got some ultra-creepy pseudo organic robots, but that will most likely never happen.

Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:02 pm

You know fp. I love your stuff I really do but where is my mindwipe. I mean you announced and released a dinobot and in two different color schemes and I'm still waiting...

Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:41 pm

I really want a 3rd party monstructor. But I really did not like their menasor. I'll wait till I see more before I decide.

News Credits: 4 · Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:27 am

Think it will be a hard task creating those 3rd party fully articulated rubber monster and dino pretender shells. Then even harder trying to squueze the robots inside those shells. either the robots will be tiny or the shells will be huge.

If FP creates the pretender shells. Think they should give buyers the option to buy the shells or not. Maybe do a set A just the robots and set B just the pretender shells.

Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:43 am

Nah, most likely FP is going to ditch the shells completely and work the design cues into the alt mode instead. Rubber shells generally don't last long.

Though if they're indeed trying to do the shells they might just try to do it like those MG Gundam kits with the bot as inner frames with detachable pretender armor pieces.

Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:01 am

As complicated as FP can get with their designs, I really don't see them going so far as to work with inner frames with detachable creature skins. Think I would prefer FP take subtle cues from the pretender shells when designing the alt modes of these guys. Just enough to pay homage to the shells while letting the robot and color aesthetics of the inner robots dominate the design.

Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:57 am

Yeah, I know. The number of parts for such engineering would definitely rake up the cost as well.

Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:02 pm

Hopefully they'll do what Hasbro did with Bludgeon and Skullgrin-the robot modes influenced by the outer shell and the alternate modes akin to the inner robot's vehicle mode.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:35 pm

All these companies need to slow down. It's nice to be bombarded with product and all, but it's getting a bit much.

Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:43 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Hopefully they'll do what Hasbro did with Bludgeon and Skullgrin-the robot modes influenced by the outer shell and the alternate modes akin to the inner robot's vehicle mode.

What i was thinking. With Dinoking, they only need to make one more dino and do the necessary remolding of the Lost Exo-Realm dinos to allow for combining and ...boom, Dinoking

News Credits: 409 · Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:14 pm

I am excited to have Monstructor. I loved him in the IDW comics, and his G1 form was so tiny

I hope they pull off the alt modes well. But the combined mode needs to be stellar, because that is how I would display him.

Doesn't Monstructor's touch corrode and decay Transformers and other life? If so, he definitely needs creepy clawed hands.

News Credits: 12 · Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:18 pm

I believe so. i know he's an eldritch abomination. I'd really like it if they gave him a very organic, Giger-esque look partially inspired by the pretender shells, but that probably won't happen.

News Credits: 409 · Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:39 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:I believe so. i know he's an eldritch abomination. I'd really like it if they gave him a very organic, Giger-esque look partially inspired by the pretender shells, but that probably won't happen.

Oohh...You just hit my H.P. Lovecraft and Giger love.

News Credits: 33 · Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:59 pm

WildFly .

Sun Jul 19, 2015 1:19 pm

I want Monstructor more than Dinoking.

Were the vintage G1 toys the exact same robot molds with different pretender shells ? Or were the robots retooled as well ?

News Credits: 3 · Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:04 pm

Rated X wrote:I want Monstructor more than Dinoking.

Were the vintage G1 toys the exact same robot molds with different pretender shells ? Or were the robots retooled as well ?

Only shells and colors were different. Same figures otherwise.