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News Credits: 1 · Sun Jul 19, 2015 7:51 pm

I think the shells would be awesome to have. if you build them i will come....with my wallet....to bbts....or your website.....just make them!

Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:52 pm

The best news to come out of TFcon 2015.

I cannot wait for the preorders on these guys!

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

I was talking to Down_Shift, who said that the Monstructor slides were supposed to be in the presentation, but were lost due to a technical glitch. He'll be sending them out at some point in the near future.

Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:57 am

I really hope FP goes back to the basics with this set. Motormaster was a total failure. I bought them in haste because they were stunticons and regret that purchase. I might wait a bit and and see how this one goes first. Not sure.

News Credits: 461 · Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:40 am

Heard they are making the shells and that it'll be sold separately .. like accessories.

Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:52 am

Mkall wrote:I was talking to Down_Shift, who said that the Monstructor slides were supposed to be in the presentation, but were lost due to a technical glitch. He'll be sending them out at some point in the near future.

That Wildfly looks so damn good that I'm already sold, but I cannot wait to see more. I'm drooling with anticipation!

=P~

News Credits: 33 · Sat Sep 12, 2015 5:01 am

Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:53 am

Yay, Birdbrain!!

News Credits: 10 · Sat Sep 12, 2015 9:49 am

Dinoking looks awesome for what it is, but I have the two issues I mentioned in that thread (dislike for pretenders and the inner robots not looking like dinos.) However, I really like the figures. I'm glad FP is doing this too, and they do look very good! =P~

Now, FP, don't ruin my relationship with my accountant. Please release one at a time over 2 years!! (or at least a year!) :PRAY:

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

News Credits: 5 · Sun Oct 18, 2015 2:14 pm

All good stuff. Wonder if the shells will actually make it into production?

News Credits: 10 · Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:04 pm

I think I may get this variation....

News Credits: 5 · Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:54 pm

Counterpunch answered my question about the shells via Twitter. According to a FP he spoke with at TFCon, "Monster shells will be smaller, easier to get, and cheaper. Probably similar to g1 shell design."
So that's all good news for now.

Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:54 pm

Im so happy with the dinoking versions of this mold Im double dipping on monstructor. Still not sure about the shells...they are kind of corny. But the figures themselves are awesome. Nice simple transformations that are actually fun to fiddle with. Not over enginered geek puzzles like their stunticons which I regretted buying in the long run.

Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:55 pm

Im so happy with the dinoking versions of this mold Im double dipping on monstructor. Still not sure about the shells...they are kind of corny. But the figures themselves are awesome. Nice simple transformations that are actually fun to fiddle with. Not over enginered geek puzzles like their stunticons which I regretted buying in the long run.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:11 am

Not sure I'm gonna bother with these. The Monster Pretenders were always kinda daft and these look kinda generic to me. Personally I'd have preferred it if they'd worked aesthetic elements from the shells into the robots and ditched the shells altogether.

News Credits: 10 · Mon Oct 19, 2015 11:31 am

Delta Magnus wrote:Not sure I'm gonna bother with these. The Monster Pretenders were always kinda daft and these look kinda generic to me. Personally I'd have preferred it if they'd worked aesthetic elements from the shells into the robots and ditched the shells altogether.

Yes, indeed! This is why I used that one cheap 3P dinosaur combiner as my Dinoking. Sure, it was only five members (I'm looking to do a custom Ankylosaur add-on

) but they had a look that seemed to fit the derpy, comical approach of the members in the Japanese cartoon.

If a company did exactly as you suggest here, DM, I would be all over it! That would be in keeping with the "Classics" update approach I've liked from day one of the line, and why I like other pretender "Classics" updates like Thunderwing (though a bit small) and Bludgeon.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Oct 19, 2015 1:11 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Not sure I'm gonna bother with these. The Monster Pretenders were always kinda daft and these look kinda generic to me. Personally I'd have preferred it if they'd worked aesthetic elements from the shells into the robots and ditched the shells altogether.

Yes, indeed! This is why I used that one cheap 3P dinosaur combiner as my Dinoking. Sure, it was only five members (I'm looking to do a custom Ankylosaur add-on ) but they had a look that seemed to fit the derpy, comical approach of the members in the Japanese cartoon.

If a company did exactly as you suggest here, DM, I would be all over it! That would be in keeping with the "Classics" update approach I've liked from day one of the line, and why I like other pretender "Classics" updates like Thunderwing (though a bit small) and Bludgeon.

Aye. It's funny, because the shell designs for the Monster Pretenders are awesome (I'm particularly fond of Slog with its dumpy red tentacle goblin thing) but the inner figures (from what I've seen) are honestly the worst G1 combiner team ever. I'm usually quite fond of the dafter stuff from the late 80s (as my love of Seacons can testify) but the Monster Pretenders, shells aside, are just...bleh. Also 2 of their members suffer from Gold Plastic Syndrome, and those gorgeously lumpy shells are prone to rotting.

Going a bit off topic here, but if you were a 3P company doing Pretenders, how would you do them- as in, how would you make each specific Pretender? I have some ideas for a few of them, notably:
Skullgrin: Transforms from a hideous skull headed horned beast of a robot (like his shell) into a tank seemingly made of flesh, bone and weapons.
Submarauder: Transforms from a chitinous, slimy robot mode into a horseshoe crab (his submarine mode always looked like a horseshoe crab to me...)
Bomb-Burst: Transforms from a hideous vampiric bat-monster into something resembling Car Robots Gigatron's jet mode.
The Monster Pretenders: Beast modes are essentially their shell designs, whilst their robot modes have more in common with some of the more hideous Beast Wars figures than any conventional Transformer. Monstructor, meanwhile, is a lovecraftian, barely humanoid aberration with hands and feet formed from various bits of the indivdual beast modes- one foot could be a bloated mass of flesh, the other a cloven hoof, whilst for hands he could have a tentacle on one arm and a lobster claw on the other.

Basically Monstructor needs to live up to his backstory as an eldritch abomination.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 19, 2015 2:35 pm

Doctor McGrath wrote:Counterpunch answered my question about the shells via Twitter. According to a FP he spoke with at TFCon, "Monster shells will be smaller, easier to get, and cheaper. Probably similar to g1 shell design."
So that's all good news for now.

any news about the dino shells?- i want those just as much!

News Credits: 3 · Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:36 pm

mbd88prime wrote:
Doctor McGrath wrote:Counterpunch answered my question about the shells via Twitter. According to a FP he spoke with at TFCon, "Monster shells will be smaller, easier to get, and cheaper. Probably similar to g1 shell design."
So that's all good news for now.

any news about the dino shells?- i want those just as much!

Dinoichi/Kakuryu's shell was available as a TFCon Charlotte exclusive. Peaugh is claiming that they'll be available through FP Core as well.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:07 pm

well i hope so but i have emailed them about it and they claim ignorance. they directed me to fansproject proper who then ignored my question....sigh.....