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News Credits: 150 · Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:14 pm

In the ROTF Novel (adaptation), they describe Arcee as one entity controlling 3 bots, but when she combined in the book it sounded like Arcee could hover based on the description they gave...though nothing concrete. We also had a small pic of combined Arcee in a comic book. So after playing with Chromia, I came up with this:

News Credits: 198 · Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:20 pm

Hmmm, interesting.

Could those bases that come with Chromia and Arcee act as legs or some other part of a larger combined bot?

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:18 pm

After I saw what the deluxe Arcee fgure was going to looklike I asked this very same question.. The Cannon arm chromia has is oddly shaped for a regular sized figure especially of her stature.. How the "Flare up" fig looks I guess will really tell the tale of how these figs were supposed to combine..

Also if you look on the base for chromia, you can see tank-like treads on the bottom of it.. :-?

News Credits: 3 · Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:43 pm

Until I saw this picture, I was thinking that Chromia could form the head. Her motorcycle headlight unit could easily pass for a masked robot head.

That is interesting though. I do hope they really combine T_T

Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:02 am

I think she's the right arm. Flareup has a big left hand which will probably be the hand of the combined mode. Arcee has two wheels for her feet so she'll probably be the lower body.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:54 am

Evil_the_Nub wrote:I think she's the right arm. Flareup has a big left hand which will probably be the hand of the combined mode. Arcee has two wheels for her feet so she'll probably be the lower body.

Then... who'll form the head? The Command Jet Explorer from Dairugger XV aka Voltron I?

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:21 pm

It would be interesting if they could all be swapped around to form multiple configurations of combined modes.

News Credits: 609 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:25 pm

I think you're correct that she's the left arm. I can't find any way to swivel the whole arm assembly around. However, has anyone find a purpose, other than aesthetics, for the blue sliding piece on the gun/launcher?

News Credits: 6 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:49 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Evil_the_Nub wrote:I think she's the right arm. Flareup has a big left hand which will probably be the hand of the combined mode. Arcee has two wheels for her feet so she'll probably be the lower body.

Then... who'll form the head? The Command Jet Explorer from Dairugger XV aka Voltron I?

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I'll form the HEAD!

Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:54 pm

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GetterDragun...I think you might be on to something...

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:07 pm

That pics just a lame photoshop.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:22 pm

Tyrannotaur wrote:
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GetterDragun...I think you might be on to something...

OK, Chromia's one arm, Arcee's the legs and Flare Up is the other arm and head. Gotta try that once I get Arcee.

Now why do I feel like playing Tetris all of a sudden?

Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:34 pm

Jesterhead wrote:That pics just a lame photoshop.

From the Graphic novel Movie Adapataion actually. The art anyway. I found it on google.. didn't feel like scanning my own book.
I thought I might post it since it is relevant to the topic..
We know that Chromia is one arm, Flareup is another and Acree is the main body.. we just need to figure out how that works exactly..

News Credits: 150 · Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:08 pm

Tyrannotaur wrote:
Jesterhead wrote:That pics just a lame photoshop.

From the Graphic novel Movie Adapataion actually. The art anyway. I found it on google.. didn't feel like scanning my own book.
I thought I might post it since it is relevant to the topic..
We know that Chromia is one arm, Flareup is another and Acree is the main body.. we just need to figure out how that works exactly..

Good find! That would correlate with how I have it transformed, except it's mirrored. Also, in the movie adaptation, the way they describe her attacking Sideways sounds like she is hovering, so maybe she bounces around on that one wheel.

Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:10 am

This makes me want Flareup to come out so bad. Once my Arcee arrives I will try combineing them somehow

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:44 am

My god, the person who ever put that photoshopped crap out still haunts me. I've had countless arguments with him regarded this and AM not letting it transfer over here. First off, that's not 'the combined' form, that's Flare Up transforming;

And I know it is because I've got the graphic novel, and my scans are just terrible, it's supposed to be purple bike. And even if you go around saying that it's the 'author's rendition of what the combined form looks like, it isn't. It's just some third rate doophus coloring the picture to what he believes is what Arcee should look like. There's 2 wheels, and I'm pretty sure we'd see at least a reminisce of the 4 other wheels. The only thing that signifies the combination is the NOVEL Adaptation, not the comic adaptation. For god knows, they never combine. And if anyone wants to claim that the 'Arcee' seen next to Ratchet after Prime gets stabbed in the comic is the combined form, well I assure you it is not. However that's for another post, be a dear and ask if you want to know why I believe it's not the combined form.

News Credits: 198 · Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:55 am

Blurrz wrote:My god, the person who ever put that photoshopped crap out still haunts me. I've had countless arguments with him regarded this and AM not letting it transfer over here. First off, that's not 'the combined' form, that's Flare Up transforming;

And I know it is because I've got the graphic novel, and my scans are just terrible, it's supposed to be purple bike. And even if you go around saying that it's the 'author's rendition of what the combined form looks like, it isn't. It's just some third rate doophus coloring the picture to what he believes is what Arcee should look like. There's 2 wheels, and I'm pretty sure we'd see at least a reminisce of the 4 other wheels. The only thing that signifies the combination is the NOVEL Adaptation, not the comic adaptation. For god knows, they never combine. And if anyone wants to claim that the 'Arcee' seen next to Ratchet after Prime gets stabbed in the comic is the combined form, well I assure you it is not. However that's for another post, be a dear and ask if you want to know why I believe it's not the combined form.

Ooooo, the plot thickens!

News Credits: 609 · Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:18 am

Blurrz wrote:However that's for another post, be a dear and ask if you want to know why I believe it's not the combined form.

OK Blurrz, I'll bite (even though I'm pretty sure I already know the answer as well).

Why is that not the combined form?

My guesses (highlight to see):

Height is wrong.
We only see purple.
We should probably see four wheels up near the shoulder areas.

I could be wrong and might be missing something, but I definitely agree that we haven't seen the combined form. I also think that if she did combine, they'd devote at least a panel or two to the sequence.

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:34 pm

Yeah, that's basically it buddy. If you take a look at the picture of the Flare Up (pink/purple fembot) next to Ratchet, you'll notice that the left shoulder has a tinge of blue, as if something blue is protruding from her normally purple/pink arm. Swing back at the picture of her transforming from the actual comicbook, you'll notice that her left shoulder is has a tinge of blue, like some sort of metal netting encasing her shoulder. Give or take the writer's conception of what she looks like.. I'm pretty damn sure she's the same person.

News Credits: 609 · Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:44 pm

The blue highlight is a good point too!

I think I've decided that having non-combining biker bots will be the biggest disappointment I've ever suffered in seven years of collecting.

I love Chromia; I'm sure I'll love Arcee if I ever find her. If Flareup doesn't have the necessary pieces to combine, I may never recover...

Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:53 pm

Blurrz wrote:My god, the person who ever put that photoshopped crap out still haunts me. I've had countless arguments with him regarded this and AM not letting it transfer over here. First off, that's not 'the combined' form, that's Flare Up transforming;

And I know it is because I've got the graphic novel, and my scans are just terrible, it's supposed to be purple bike. And even if you go around saying that it's the 'author's rendition of what the combined form looks like, it isn't. It's just some third rate doophus coloring the picture to what he believes is what Arcee should look like. There's 2 wheels, and I'm pretty sure we'd see at least a reminisce of the 4 other wheels. The only thing that signifies the combination is the NOVEL Adaptation, not the comic adaptation. For god knows, they never combine. And if anyone wants to claim that the 'Arcee' seen next to Ratchet after Prime gets stabbed in the comic is the combined form, well I assure you it is not. However that's for another post, be a dear and ask if you want to know why I believe it's not the combined form.

Holy crap. I feel like an idiot now. I'm sorry for posting this up without checking my book first. For whatever reason I thought this was how it looked in the book. Maybe because I saw the "combined" picture first? I dunno. Again I apologize. :-(

I still think Getterdragun is on to something though. If anyone gets Arcee they need to try and combine them.

News Credits: 1452 · Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:00 am

Oh no, nothing wrong with that, and I'm not undermining what Getterdragun is getting at here. However, there's really two things that are gonna happen...

1) They don't combine... Hasbro meant that they would but scrubbed the entire idea when it wasn't to be put in the movie. Thus we're left with three bikes that were meant to transform into a combiner, however we're not given the pieces or attachments to do so.

2) They do combine, however the instructions won't say that they do, and what they combine into looks awfully freaking terrible.

News Credits: 6 · Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:03 am

I found some pics from Tformers of Arcce and Chromia stuck together.
http://tformers.com/gv.php?mode=view&album=453&pic=dsc03445.jpg&dispsize=800&start=20
http://tformers.com/gv.php?mode=view&album=453&pic=dsc03444.jpg&dispsize=800&start=20

Make of it what you will.

News Credits: 1452 · Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:20 am

To me, it's a Bionicle mishap. In our transformers lore, we've never seen more than one head on a Combiner, and it's painfully obvious that the other heads will be visible along with the one head that's attached to the middle bike.

News Credits: 6 · Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:36 am

Blurrz wrote:To me, it's a Bionicle mishap. In our transformers lore, we've never seen more than one head on a Combiner, and it's painfully obvious that the other heads will be visible along with the one head that's attached to the middle bike.

Don't be hatin'.

I do agree, though. Whatever combined mode we get from this, it'll be horrible.
Unless, of course, Flare Up is our saving grace.