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News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:05 am

Anyone seen the January Previews yet? If you did, or plan to, you should notice something interesting in the Transformers toys section.

According to lastmaximal at Cybertron Phillipines he saw a red repainted Dropkick in the most recent issue of Previews.

He even snapped a picture of it from his cell phone. The quality is quite poor, but you can see Stealth Bumblebee and a red truck that seems to resemble Dropkick.

What is this unknown Transformers name? When will it be released? Autobot or Decepticon? Feel free to discuss it below!

We'll let you know if this is more than a rumor, when we find out more, in the Seibertron Movie News and the Seibertron Toy News.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:28 am

Red Dropkick looks a lot like Alternators Optimus Prime. :-?

by **Mandamus** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:44 am

I was really close to getting Dropkick the first time around, but I decided to stick to on-screen characters.

This might be enough for me to change my mind but I want to see better pictures first.

News Credits: 2 · by **grimlockprime108** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:46 am

looks like it has a flame deco....rodimus?

News Credits: 1 · by **Sgt.Schnitzel** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:16 am

Yeeesss , I would like to see a repaint of Dropkick, Dropkick is one of the best molds out there, I don't think Hasbro is going to abandon him.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:33 am

Take that IronHide!

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:54 am

hmmm.... a Movie Rodimus?? that wouldn't be so bad me thinks.. :grin:

by **fuzzd0rk** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:30 am

Is it just me, or is anyone else kind of getting sick of all these movie repaints?

by **ghostscream127** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:52 am

im also getting sick of rePAINts its horrible but if its a remold then ill get it :sad:

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:15 am

ghostscream127 wrote:but if its a remold then ill get it

Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Still, it's an interesting color for the mold. I wonder if a lime green Payload can be far behind...

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:50 am

Enough with the movieline repaints already! :-x

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:30 am

Hurray! They had a red redeco of Dropkick as an Autobot in the movie video game. One more Drone for my Autobot army, and it's in G1 Ironhide colors! Beautiful.

NOw we need Autobot redecos of Payload, Dreadwing and a Decepticon redeco of Longarm.

by **cybertronianjedi** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:39 am

hmm....better consider him as a base for a repaint/kitbash.....i f i can get him

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:17 pm

But of course thats all were getting until animated comes out....More freakin repaints

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:33 pm

WTF! I posted this in the repaint thread yesterday, I ‘m so lucky! Now lets hope we get the Autobot Swindle, Payload and Dreadwing I was talking about.

by **thedistinctroom** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:07 pm

To me it looks like an All Spark version of Dropkick because of the light blue parts.

by **Dark_Lord_Prime** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:23 pm

I just came from my comic shop, and I checked out the January Previews. It is, indeed, a red repaint of Dropkick. It has a silver Autobot symbol on the door, but as far as I could tell from the head, it's a recolor of Dropkick's head. *shrug*

Also, it DOES have "Allspark Power" cyan, though it looks a lot better on him than it does on any of the others.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 5:18 pm

Dark_Lord_Prime wrote:I just came from my comic shop, and I checked out the January Previews. It is, indeed, a red repaint of Dropkick. It has a silver Autobot symbol on the door, but as far as I could tell from the head, it's a recolor of Dropkick's head. *shrug*

I also stopped by my shop and flipped through the Previews issue on the rack and found the red repaint. I guess we can file this under "coming soon" as opposed to rumor. They also had a pick of the "reverse colored" Concept Bumblebee..it looks like it has the battle helmet down in the face mold.

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:37 pm

I worry they won't repaint Swindle again, with Camshaft already coming out.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:44 pm

@Nekoman: Swindle's already been repainted into Camshaft

And c'mon... not too exciting here. Just another Teal-covered Allspark repaint.

by **Jazzz** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:36 pm

I'll buy it if the colors are good and the bio is as funny as the one on Dropkick(watch the review of him by Bikertrashwolf on youtube).

News Credits: 1 · by **bumblezzz** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:25 pm

tformers.com has a better pic(they say it is stockade-silly tformers.com???? :lol:

) I really like it, but I really hope it is not salvage because I want salvage to be a con and he looks more like a inferno to me.

News Credits: 387 · by **Nekoman** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 10:42 pm

Blurrz wrote:@Nekoman: Swindle's already been repainted into Camshaft

I know he’s already been repainted into Camshaft, but I want a Swindle that is an green Autobot with a head similar to that of Dropkick’s so that way its like the one in the game.

Hasbro really missed an opportunity to actually have an repaint for the movie line that actually appears in something (and in Autobot Swindle's case he appears in the game.).

by **DeepWater** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:40 pm

I'm only laughing because I had plans for a red repaint Dropkick and either now my idea really won't work or it'll just be a very easy repaint to what I have intended for the mold.

It's one of the better movie molds - easy transformation, several possible 'looks' for the 'bot...

by **Wes Crayon** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 2:16 am

Dropkick is pretty much my favorite figure from the movie line... so I think I could be down for this repaint. Aside from Jungle Bonecrusher and some of the others that I'm interested in because I never saw the originals in stores (*cough*08BB*cough*), this is one of the few movie repaints I like!