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are they running out of head molds? whats with the camera lens for his face? eek

Air Commander Starscream wrote:

Sheogorath wrote:I'm pretty sure these are just the pictures from Hasbro's website that we saw the other day.

http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=10136

Although they seem to have replaced Dreadwing's pictures with pictures of Wreckage

Yea they were temporarily up over Wreckages images, but Hasbro found the mistake (thats a new one) and fixed it. So now the images arnt there so I posted the images as a seperate news item here for those who wernt able to see it yesterday.

I thought that was an erroneous link.

oakleyswitch wrote:are they running out of head molds? whats with the camera lens for his face?

I think they might have. They sure as hell aren't being very creative, now are they?

Seibertron wrote:

scythafixion wrote:I'm completely the opposite of this fandom. I HATE that Classics Dirge is a cheap Ramjet repaint & I think Classics Thrust looks like ****. Everybody else seems to love them. I love this Dreadwing drone & everybody else seems to hate it. Oh well!

I think that's the beauty of this hobby. Everyone has different tastes so therefore there is a special Transformer for everyone. Kind of like how I've always liked the Wheelie toy. Go figure.

This is kind of true. I'd rather they make a new mold than reissue G1 Wheelie, though. And in case you missed it, I'm pissed that these seekers are Botcon-exclusive because I realy, realy, realy, realy, REALY like Thrust (really ) and I can't afford to crap out two or three hundred dollars just for that one figure.


Also, I don't hate Dreadwing - kinda like it, actually - it's just that head's just getting redundant. You know, like BM deluxe Jetstorm (my other favorite figure besides G1 Kup) getting repainted, only not quite as good.

Seibertron wrote:It's like a boss used to say to me about 10 years ago back in the day when I used to sell cars ... "Ryan, there's an ass for every seat."

This is true, also.

This figure and Swindle look like the children of Shockwave and Armada Laserbeak (yes, I know the Laserbeak thing has been mentioned, but it just fits so well again).

One lens head is okay, but c'mon.....

Seibertron wrote:

scythafixion wrote:I'm completely the opposite of this fandom. I HATE that Classics Dirge is a cheap Ramjet repaint & I think Classics Thrust looks like ****. Everybody else seems to love them. I love this Dreadwing drone & everybody else seems to hate it. Oh well!

I think that's the beauty of this hobby. Everyone has different tastes so therefore there is a special Transformer for everyone. Kind of like how I've always liked the Wheelie toy. Go figure.

It's like a boss used to say to me about 10 years ago back in the day when I used to sell cars ... "Ryan, there's an ass for every seat."

Now thats funny, and tes I totally agree when people don't like something but they sometimes go really way too far, example, dreadwing looks like something that bayscream ****. really, very not nessessary and how do they know what starscreams ahit looks like seriously, come on guys really! still theres an ass for every seat, funny.

Roboto750 wrote:This figure and Swindle look like the children of Shockwave and Armada Laserbeak (ues, I know the Laserbeak thing has been mentioned, but it just fits so well again).

I hadn't thought of that. The laserbeak head I've mentioned myself, but yeah, I see your point.

ShGarland_1383 wrote:

oakleyswitch wrote:are they running out of head molds? whats with the camera lens for his face?

I think they might have. They sure as hell aren't being very creative, now are they?

What's worse is that generic bad guys in the screenshots for the videgames and the models in the 'name the decepticlone' survey all appear to have either G2-like helmet faces or monolenses AND traditional-looking faces (battle helmets maybe?).

Pass

First off, this is CRAP. The only thing redeeming to me about it is the fire effect for the engines, and it has 'army building' potential if you could get your hands on more (BIG but who'd want to?) and do a diorama of the IDW's TF Movie Prequel #1.

I don't like the robot body, but I've always been a fan of TFs with a robot or machine face(Shockwave, Whirl, WheelJack, Optimus) so I like the head on this guy.

I just hope Hasbro doesn't read this and take it as an excuse to be lazier.

Why do I get the feeling the SWTF team designed that?

oh boy is that bad

He has a bull's-eye on his chest. He literally has a bull's-eye on his chest. I think we've found the movie-verse counterpsrt for Waspinator.

I'm iffy on this guy... Need more pictures, clearer idea of poseability.

Looks like they just gave up half way through development. If they stuck Star Wars Transformer on it I would accept it but LAME!

Also, why does he have a winky?

DREADWING isn't terribly intelligent, so no one's certain where he got the teleportation technology that allows him to warp up to two and a half miles instantly. He sure didn't invent it and no one else has it, so he must have stolen it, which makes sense. He is, after all, a born thief. Sneaky and greedy, he pranks and steals from his fellow DECEPTICONS as often as the AUTOBOTS. No one likes him, so he spends most of his time alone, plotting grand schemes and spiking other robots' gas tanks with sugar.

Have you read the above? He isnt very clever yet he plots grand schemes, plays pranks and sneaks about. Was this written by two people or just one very dumb person? Actually, scrub that. It was probably written by the same person who signed it off as ready for production.

Erm... not so sure what I think of this one. My first instinct is a mix of "What the hell?" and "Thats.. nice..." Maybe when this one goes clearence.

It says he *plots* grand schemes, not that he follows through on them. Plenty of idiots have thought about taking over the world.

Plane mode is decent. Robot mode is a bit tragic. I like the lens-face, but the head looks impractically long and I suspect turning it very far to either side will leave the back/nosecone to bang into the wings. If I see it at US RRP while I'm over for Botcon I'll inevitably pick it up, but if he doesn't appear till I'm back in the UK I may have second thoughts.

-Nick

Ravage XK wrote:Have you read the above? He isnt very clever yet he plots grand schemes, plays pranks and sneaks about. Was this written by two people or just one very dumb person? Actually, scrub that. It was probably written by the same person who signed it off as ready for production.

I don't know who wrote it but it's one of the most childish and immature bios i've ever read.

Perhaps the writer based it on themselves? That would explain the lack of intelligence.

And he has the ability to warp across a distance. Thank **** they didn't paint him black and call him Skywarp. Guess we should be thankful for that.

I like the alt mode...


And Movie Thundercracker looks promising.
(Keeping comments positive.)

Ive seen alot worse than that, armada nightbeat, g1 ironhide/ratchet, Energon Fatimus Prime, 3d card battle thing, cliffjumper don't make sense, come on, red jazz vehicle and a alt. swindle robot or whatever his name is. still this is preety cool and I really hear that swindle is really cool and that the chest cannon really works in both modes and last but certainly not least, I hope these aren't in the movie unless prime blow the **** out of them.

What's the deal with these camera-headed goobers? And maaaan...Dreadwing's 'bot mode looked like a super-fugly Star Wars TF.

well actually if it was starwar transformers then I would have expected it to be...forget it, still it look to ave really good pose to it and really the movie line seams to be based on poseability, well not everything is perfect guys and girl, and really of topic, I find it really funny why people call harry hobgoblin,green goblin,and night surfer, don't people read, go to wikipedia and they will see he is called new goblin.

and the leader of the drone is megatron duh

Overcracker wrote:EDIT:
Does anybody else think the purple tab coming off his crotch is just wrong??

Yes, I do. While there's quite a lot of 'crotch kibble' in the world of TF's, most of it can be ignored. This, not so much. There aren't alot of other functions a free-swinging purple slab can have in robot mode.

Like I've said before, why they just didn't name it Erector is beyond me.

Ha ha, no.

its happening again! every time hasbro does a line thats good they chop off their own nose... the classics line was a grand slam almost all of the bots were great....Now they try and sell stuff like this OMG look at his tiny little black panty waist and he has a purple Penis to go along with them holy **** this is bad