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News Credits: 905 · Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:32 pm

Curt from TFSource has updated us with the following message:

Hi Seibertronians,

We’ve just put up the preorder for the iGear - Kup 02 - e-hobby Custom Head Kit Set!

You can see photos/details here:
http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/2279/

Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:44 pm

Yo I-Gear start making just heads !!!

The cigar makes a cool "LEGALIZE IT" gag for a bachlor pad. But for a display, it just looks as silly as Skids gold tooth.

Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:57 pm

Rated X wrote:Yo I-Gear start making just heads !!!

The cigar makes a cool "LEGALIZE IT" gag for a bachlor pad. But for a display, it just looks as silly as Skids gold tooth.

Have you read "Transformers Spotlight: Kup"? Try reading it incase you haven't and wanted to know why they'd give Kup a cygar.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:02 am

I Havn't read S:K but I still preger him with the cygar than without it. Adds charcter to a otherwise new and modern mold.... aside from the lil windscreen on his chest

Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:14 am

Just shootin from the hip here, but wouldn't the Kup-01 head match the arms of the E-hobby figure anyway?

edit... never mind I took a look at the comparison shots again...

Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:30 am

mattyc1007 wrote:I Havn't read S:K but I still preger him with the cygar than without it. Adds charcter to a otherwise new and modern mold.... aside from the lil windscreen on his chest

Yea I love the windscreen too, a nice addition to the reminiscence of Dreamwaves' War Within Cybertron Kup. Which I guess got that from Ironhide having it... from G1 toy Ironhide having it :lol:

News Credits: 20 · Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:13 am

Howsabout getting the first version out first I-Gear? One battle at a time boys.

News Credits: 129 · Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:19 am

MINDVVIPE wrote:
Rated X wrote:Yo I-Gear start making just heads !!!

The cigar makes a cool "LEGALIZE IT" gag for a bachlor pad. But for a display, it just looks as silly as Skids gold tooth.

Have you read "Transformers Spotlight: Kup"? Try reading it incase you haven't and wanted to know why they'd give Kup a cygar.

No...no.

I actually really like his idea. I think it might be possible to do a whole hoodlum cast of Transformers now between Blut Kup and Gold Tooth Skids.

So inspired...

News Credits: 5 · Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:51 am

mattyc1007 wrote:I Havn't read S:K but I still preger him with the cygar than without it. Adds charcter to a otherwise new and modern mold.... aside from the lil windscreen on his chest

While Spotlight: Kup is a great read and vital to understanding what was going on with him, the first time he shows up with it is his next appearance in All Hail Megatron 5. Suddenly, Kup is back better than new and more bad ass than ever before. The cy-gar is explained in the ALM 15 as a vital part of Kups return. He had it in Spotlight: Drift (which is set between ALM 15 and 5) and Last Stand of the Wreckers. And then Infestation happened. Up until that point IDW managed to tell a coherent and easy to follow character arc completely out of order in a way that the bigger comic book companies haven't pulled off in forever. I really hope that in the long run, Infestation ends up not being canon due to it being a crossover and nothing really worthwhile coming from it overall.