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Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:06 am
by Cyber Bishop
griftimus prime wrote:pathetic. i have been soo happy from all the awesome toy fair stuff. now this.... stop with the repaints hasbro!



Yeah, I agree...

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:12 am
by SKYWARPED_128
Mindmaster wrote:
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:He doesn't really count as Transmetal Megs unless he's got the "ass-fan/bosters", does he?


Ass-fans? :???: If you meant the intakes he can deploy in beast mode and robot mode, they were on his beast hips/robot back.

I don't think this is supposed to represent Megatron's Transmetal body, but rather his Season 1 body.


I remember someone calling ROTF Ravage's cannons "ass cannons", and on a whim, decided to call Transmetals Meg's boosters "ass-boosters." Not very suitable, in retrospect. :lol:

I naturally thought it would be Transmetals since his season one body was organic as opposed to mechanical.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:02 am
by Agamemnon
Maybe the head will come off and clip to his hand. What would season 1 Megs be without a gigantic, bot crushing maw for a hand?

Sorry, Hasbro, I think this one misses...

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:02 am
by Doubledealer93
OH MY GOD :APPLAUSE: :APPLAUSE:

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:14 am
by Down_Shift
griftimus prime wrote:pathetic. i have been soo happy from all the awesome toy fair stuff. now this.... stop with the repaints hasbro!


Sorry man, but that's half their bid'ness. I don't think this looks that bad actually.

I might willingly pick up a beast wars mould...

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:20 am
by Jelze Bunnycat
That must be the molds alternate head. Pretty interesting choice, then again, how many T-Rex TF's do we have aside from Grimlock? Anyone?

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:36 am
by rpetras
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That must be the molds alternate head. Pretty interesting choice, then again, how many T-Rex TF's do we have aside from Grimlock? Anyone?


Complete list from TFWiki:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Popular_beast_al ... annosaurus

Same list filtered for character repeats, but leaving in mold mates that are different characters:
Grimlock (G1)
Overkill (G1)
Gōryū (Victory) (pretender shell only)
Megatron (BW) / T-Wrecks
Trypticon (G1) / Gigastorm
Tyrannitron
Terrorsaur (Classics) / Gnashteeth / Chromebite / Ransack (Universe 2008) / Dualor (DOTM)
Predacon (Armada)
Cindersaur

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:39 am
by Jelze Bunnycat
rpetras wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That must be the molds alternate head. Pretty interesting choice, then again, how many T-Rex TF's do we have aside from Grimlock? Anyone?


Complete list from TFWiki:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Popular_beast_al ... annosaurus

Same list filtered for character repeats, but leaving in mold mates that are different characters:
Grimlock (G1)
Overkill (G1)
Gōryū (Victory) (pretender shell only)
Megatron (BW) / T-Wrecks
Trypticon (G1) / Gigastorm
Tyrannitron
Terrorsaur (Classics) / Gnashteeth / Chromebite / Ransack (Universe 2008) / Dualor (DOTM)
Predacon (Armada)
Cindersaur


And which one would less knowledgeable fans actually know at heart? ;)

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:50 am
by NTESHFT
I still think the sword and shield should be bigger. I want to see some color images of this. Megatron was the only toy I ever liked from the Beast Wars toy line, so I may bite....

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:51 am
by CMBcheetor
They should just reissue Transmetal Megs... but with better plastic. :PREDACON:

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:04 am
by Jelze Bunnycat
CMBcheetor wrote:They should just reissue Transmetal Megs... but with better plastic. :PREDACON:


The Japanese version of Transmetal Megatron, D-40 Metals Megatron, uses a different plastic that eliminates the waist snapping problem.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:39 am
by Lord Onixprime
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
CMBcheetor wrote:They should just reissue Transmetal Megs... but with better plastic. :PREDACON:


The Japanese version of Transmetal Megatron, D-40 Metals Megatron, uses a different plastic that eliminates the waist snapping problem.


Actually, it doesn't. Both versions are equally prone to breakage.

I for one love this idea. I don't know if I'd rather see him painted up just purple, or see him brown and purple like him Transmetals figure though. Either way, this is a great offering from Hasbro to us that feel BW goes completely unnoticed lately. Plus, when the Dinobot DLC came out for FoC, first thing I did was attempt to make BW Megatron, and now I can have him in figure form.

I was thinking the other day how they could remold a lot of Grimlock figured into a pretty decent BW Megatron homage, so I hope this is true.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:14 am
by King Kuuga
griftimus prime wrote:pathetic. i have been soo happy from all the awesome toy fair stuff. now this.... stop with the repaints hasbro!

Yeah, stop trying to capitalize on your expensive investments, Hasbro! Gosh!

Man, I'm.....kinda on the fence about this. Beast Wars Megatron was my very first Transformer, but....he's fine. I don't need a new version of him. But I kinda want him anyway. Damn choices!

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:27 am
by Rated X
Doesnt work at all. Stick with the flesh/fur look.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:29 am
by Doubledealer93
and it better not be a damned exclusive.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:30 am
by Lord Onixprime
Rated X wrote:Doesnt work at all. Stick with the flesh/fur look.


Works fantastically.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:59 am
by triKlops
down to grab this.
ihad been waiting for a BW Megs to swing my way so this should do the trick!

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:12 pm
by craggy
while I'm all for a)Beast Wars Classics and b)fully robotic beast modes and even quite keen on a melding of the two, ala Cybertron Megatron and Optimus Primal, this doesn't work for me. I'm not keen on the head sculpt to begin with, and Megatron doesn't really look right without one of his hands made moot by having to wield half of his beast-mode kibble in it. I'd have much rather had no remolding and a simple repaint into G2 Grimlock, or an homage to the lava Grimlock from animated. They could have even called the red on T-Wrecks (sure he was a BW Meg repaint, but he was far from prominent in fiction, so I could live with such a big departure in design.

Silly that I'm asking for kibble weapons here, but it makes sense for Megatron. Still, it it looks nice enough in the final product I'm not ruling out my being swayed by it.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:30 pm
by Noideaforaname
I'm all for Beast Era characters, but I'm just not feeling this. It's just too Grimlock and not enough Megatron.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:51 pm
by Manterax Prime
Hasbro, if you're going to give us a new BW Megatron, give us the red version of the RID Megs that you bastards cancelled once FunPub took over Botcon. Not this.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:13 pm
by Tresob
I have the same set-up for my first Titan slot in Fall of Cybertron.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:26 pm
by datguy86
Headsculpt is very BW Megatron, but with the sword and shield I'm more reminded of Magmatron. Very slim chance of it being Magmatron? Mmmmmaybe.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:27 pm
by Megatron Wolf
didnt see that one coming, but thats because this mold doesnt work for BW Megatron. With more remolding sure but just a new head sculpt makes it look stupid.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:36 pm
by Nemesis Maximo
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:He doesn't really count as Transmetal Megs unless he's got the "ass-fan/bosters", does he?


Ass-fans? :???: If you meant the intakes he can deploy in beast mode and robot mode, they were on his beast hips/robot back.

I don't think this is supposed to represent Megatron's Transmetal body, but rather his Season 1 body.


I remember someone calling ROTF Ravage's cannons "ass cannons", and on a whim, decided to call Transmetals Meg's boosters "ass-boosters." Not very suitable, in retrospect. :lol:

I naturally thought it would be Transmetals since his season one body was organic as opposed to mechanical.

Not to ,ention asymetrical. I figured it would be Transmetal as well.

Re: Generations Grimlock Being Remolded Into Beast Wars Megatron?

PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:53 pm
by philtron3030
now i want to see monkey optimus. but seriously i think this works perfectly, just wish they could of give him different weapons, like a blaster or something.