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Yes!
I love it!!

Oh man, i hope this comes out before Christmas.
I don't care if it takes me days to find it, this is just way too cool!

Absolutely a win. This guy needs to get done up in Unicron colors too, as Cyb Unicron's Evolved Form.

I've been in love with this figure since I first saw it at Botcon 2009 earlier this year. Bludgeon has always been one of my favorite characters. It's nice to see that he's finally getting some long overdue love ... and an extremely awesome figure to boot. I love everything about this character. Truly awesome. I love it even more that it was probably originally intended to be a part of the Classics line but they packaged it in ROTF since that's the main line that's out currently. Let the copy editors at Hasbro do their thing with the bios on the back and now Bludgeon has a backstory and an Ironhide nemesis. Awesome beyond awesome to me.

As for the "bendy" plastic, the hot water trick indeed works. I just gave Robot Heroes Predaking a hot bath last night to correct some pieces that got bent while he served time in his plastic bubble prison. After his hot bath, he turned out good enough for me to photograph. Probably could have used a little more work, but he turned out pretty good in my opinion.

lowman_x wrote:Okay, this is looking pretty sweet. I think it's going to be only my 2nd movie piece ever. (I picked up Ravage a couple of months ago... a little disappointed with it, actually.)

One question... why does he have ET's face stuck onto his chest?

I wanted this but you made me change my mind. Maybe I will paint the chest myself so it looks better

exzau wrote:

lowman_x wrote:Okay, this is looking pretty sweet. I think it's going to be only my 2nd movie piece ever. (I picked up Ravage a couple of months ago... a little disappointed with it, actually.)

One question... why does he have ET's face stuck onto his chest?

I wanted this but you made me change my mind. Maybe I will paint the chest myself so it looks better

I like it...I think it adds to the mystique...did I just use mystique in a sentence. ..?

This guy keeps looking more bizzare everytime I see him. Ill probally get him since my focus is collecting Decepticons, but why is this weird mold getting such great reviews by everyone ??? The whole samurai concept is silly to me. Such a nice tank mode would have been better as a Voyager Brawl because the deluxe lacked detail and the Leader is to far off scale...

Rated X wrote:This guy keeps looking more bizzare everytime I see him. Ill probally get him since my focus is collecting Decepticons, but why is this weird mold getting such great reviews by everyone ??? The whole samurai concept is silly to me. Such a nice tank mode would have been better as a Voyager Brawl because the deluxe lacked detail and the Leader is to far off scale...

We love him because of this:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bludgeon_%28G1%29
He's the perfect homage.

Also the Leader Brawl is pretty good scale wise.

Dead Metal wrote:

Rated X wrote:This guy keeps looking more bizzare everytime I see him. Ill probally get him since my focus is collecting Decepticons, but why is this weird mold getting such great reviews by everyone ??? The whole samurai concept is silly to me. Such a nice tank mode would have been better as a Voyager Brawl because the deluxe lacked detail and the Leader is to far off scale...

We love him because of this:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bludgeon_%28G1%29
He's the perfect homage.

Also the Leader Brawl is pretty good scale wise.

G1 rules. Aren't the Leader class all scale wise?

Dead Metal wrote:Is it mee or does his face look less organic scull like than in the promo pics?

Damn this is the most badass TF this year.

It looks less organic to me and these up close pics make me feel much better about the skull face. I like it much more.

When I first saw the bendy sword, I thought "Great, a katana or tachi." but now that I know it's supposed to be straight, happy days!

Very cool figure, I can't wait to get one.

How's this for a comparison:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/trans ... nShell.jpg

Looks good it think!

I love him more as time goes on. I probably shouldn't even mention this because I really want him bad right now, but it wouldn't be fair to others not to. he's already up new out of package(of course) on ebay. You can find it here http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Voyager-Decepticon-Bludgeon-Figure-Changer_W0QQitemZ250503723717QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3a532f7ac5&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_3652wt_1167

I hope I don't get outbid too quickly, but let the war begin!!!

Stockade wrote:How's this for a comparison:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/trans ... nShell.jpg

Looks good it think!

The new version is an incredible update to the character. Especially when you look at his original figure.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... dgeon/118/

You've come along ways baby!

Seibertron wrote:

Stockade wrote:How's this for a comparison:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/trans ... nShell.jpg

Looks good it think!

The new version is an incredible update to the character. Especially when you look at his original figure.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... dgeon/118/

You've come along ways baby!

Oh snap, I never knew Bludgeon was a tank alt mode in G1.

Seibertron wrote:

Stockade wrote:How's this for a comparison:

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/trans ... nShell.jpg

Looks good it think!

The new version is an incredible update to the character. Especially when you look at his original figure.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... dgeon/118/

You've come along ways baby!

Agreed!

Now Hasbro needs to hurry up with mass production of this bad boy!

Seibertron wrote:You've come along ways baby!

I have to praise you like I shouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuld. I have to praise you! I have to praise you!

Excellent, excellent figure, aside from the rubber bits. Could be the best TF since Universe Cyclonus. And if the bendy rubber is indeed fixable by hot water (Vector Prime CAN have a straight sword?!?! WHOA.), the only flaw is gone!. I love the sword scabbards, the amazing level of detail, the perfect color scheme, and the excellent homage. I predict this guy being very hard to find in stores due to demand.

kirbenvost wrote:

Seibertron wrote:You've come along ways baby!

I have to praise you like I shouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuld. I have to praise you! I have to praise you!

Excellent, excellent figure, aside from the rubber bits. Could be the best TF since Universe Cyclonus. And if the bendy rubber is indeed fixable by hot water (Vector Prime CAN have a straight sword?!?! WHOA.), the only flaw is gone!. I love the sword scabbards, the amazing level of detail, the perfect color scheme, and the excellent homage. I predict this guy being very hard to find in stores due to demand.

Erm... Vector Prime had a problem with a bendy sword? Mine (the Classics/Universe repaint I like to call "The Last Autobot") has a nearly perfectly straight one...

vectorA3 wrote:Bludgeon was actually first revealed at Botcon '09's Hasbro presentation. They had a strict no photos or video policy. Then at SDCC (2 months later) absolutely no restrictions. Thought that was weird, but guess they wanted the botcon showing to be special. There really wasn't any difference between the botcon and SDCC presentations really - maybe 2 or 3 new toys and fully painted prototypes of the ones that were gray @ botcon. Disappointing, but I guess I can't complain b/c many don't even get to go to those panels.

The news post was referring when it was first revealed to the public. 90% of the fandom never saw it prior.

Best pics so far! Lovin the rubber treads:grin:

This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Megatron Wolf wrote:This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Srly, we need more of new molds of new characters that are homages or not, instead of the repaints they've been continuously giving us.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Srly, we need more of new molds of new characters that are homages or not, instead of the repaints they've been continuously giving us.

Sorry, it's 4x less expensive to do a repaint than make a new mold. Think what toy companies are going to do most of the time...

Blurrz wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Srly, we need more of new molds of new characters that are homages or not, instead of the repaints they've been continuously giving us.

Sorry, it's 4x less expensive to do a repaint than make a new mold. Think what toy companies are going to do most of the time...

Speaking of repaints, I wonder if Hasbro thought to make a sprue with a different head, chestplate, crotchplate, feet and weapons? Then they could repaint it black, add some bright orange paint apps and have an awesome Classics 'The Fallen'. Hell, if they could do that, they could have another sprue, and repaint Bludgeon purple and grey and you got a Voyager Galvatron tank.

As far as repaints go, I would love to see a Voyager Classics/Universe Starscream mould, ideally as an F22. They could repaint that til the cows come home and I would keep buying them.

Repaints are great when done well and even better if retooling is involved.

Dread_Wing wrote:

Blurrz wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Srly, we need more of new molds of new characters that are homages or not, instead of the repaints they've been continuously giving us.

Sorry, it's 4x less expensive to do a repaint than make a new mold. Think what toy companies are going to do most of the time...

Speaking of repaints, I wonder if Hasbro thought to make a sprue with a different head, chestplate, crotchplate, feet and weapons? Then they could repaint it black, add some bright orange paint apps and have an awesome Classics 'The Fallen'. Hell, if they could do that, they could have another sprue, and repaint Bludgeon purple and grey and you got a Voyager Galvatron tank.

As far as repaints go, I would love to see a Voyager Classics/Universe Starscream mould, ideally as an F22. They could repaint that til the cows come home and I would keep buying them.

I like The Fallen idea.

shonenfan4 wrote:

Dread_Wing wrote:

Blurrz wrote:

shonenfan4 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:This looks like one of the best figures to come out of the ROTF line

Srly, we need more of new molds of new characters that are homages or not, instead of the repaints they've been continuously giving us.

Sorry, it's 4x less expensive to do a repaint than make a new mold. Think what toy companies are going to do most of the time...

Speaking of repaints, I wonder if Hasbro thought to make a sprue with a different head, chestplate, crotchplate, feet and weapons? Then they could repaint it black, add some bright orange paint apps and have an awesome Classics 'The Fallen'. Hell, if they could do that, they could have another sprue, and repaint Bludgeon purple and grey and you got a Voyager Galvatron tank.

As far as repaints go, I would love to see a Voyager Classics/Universe Starscream mould, ideally as an F22. They could repaint that til the cows come home and I would keep buying them.

I like The Fallen idea.

i'm on board with that idea, I really want a War Within Fallen that's not craptacular Titanium Series. And Voyager Classics Seekers would be awesomesauce smothered.