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My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

megatronus wrote:My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

Or find a Hyper Novae, people on eBay will probably try and sell The club's Nova prime for a similar price. Yes that's hyperbole.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

Or find a Hyper Novae, people on eBay will probably try and sell The club's Nova prime for a similar price. Yes that's hyperbole.

I was never interested in Hyper Novae. I'm way over the Battler Tanker concept.

megatronus wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

Or find a Hyper Novae, people on eBay will probably try and sell The club's Nova prime for a similar price. Yes that's hyperbole.

I was never interested in Hyper Novae. I'm way over the Battler Tanker concept.

I wasn't talking about the toy from the conceptual gimmick level, just for the "Nova Prime" aspect.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

Or find a Hyper Novae, people on eBay will probably try and sell The club's Nova prime for a similar price. Yes that's hyperbole.

I was never interested in Hyper Novae. I'm way over the Battler Tanker concept.

I wasn't talking about the toy from the conceptual gimmick level, just for the "Nova Prime" aspect.

The gimmick kills it for me. It's hard to un-see.

Also, did you change your avatar between your first post and this one? Gnarly.

Looking forward to the forthcoming TCC Lio Convoy gallery. In addition to pics of him with other uses of the Orion Pax mold and previous Lio Convoy toys, I hope we'll see some pics of Lio Convoy with his (former) boss TFSS Eject.

megatronus wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

megatronus wrote:My Nova Prime arrived in the mail today, and I admit, I'm a bit underwhelmed.

He's a bit loose all around, and the head, while OK, doesn't scream of the Nova Prime we wanted.

He'll look really good on the shelf, and I don't regret buying him. But if you're on the fence, I would wait for a sale or just skip this one.

Or find a Hyper Novae, people on eBay will probably try and sell The club's Nova prime for a similar price. Yes that's hyperbole.

I was never interested in Hyper Novae. I'm way over the Battler Tanker concept.

I wasn't talking about the toy from the conceptual gimmick level, just for the "Nova Prime" aspect.

The gimmick kills it for me. It's hard to un-see.

Also, did you change your avatar between your first post and this one? Gnarly.

Honestly, the only thing I notice about is the legs. Also I change my avatar allot, but since 2150, it's been Vladimir's greatest hits.

As the registration deadline for BotCon 2015 approaches, Seibertron.com is swelling with pride (heh) at the new installment of our toy galleries: Transformers Collectors' Club Deluxe Lio Convoy! The figure is a redeco of the Deluxe Generations Orion Pax, using a lionesque pattern of white, red, grey and gold, plus a new headsculpt too.

Lio Convoy is but one of the Orion Pax repurposes, as we have already seen and featured a gallery for Nova Prime a while back, and a third purple iteration seems to be teased on the box for the latter. In the meantime, click on any image below to view the full gallery, which includes comparison shots with Nova Orion and previous versions of Lio Convoy too!

Convention & Club Exclusives Lio Convoy

People seem really excited about this figure.

Seibertron wrote:People seem really excited about this figure.

I am! Won't be getting one any time soon cause... money

I know I'm really happy with it. I wasn't sure what to expect since I didn't get Orion Pax so this is my first real encounter with the mold. It's a very solid figure with great articulation. He is a little small, even smaller than RID Warrior Op. The paint (at least on mine) is very clean and the sculpt doesn't look "soft" like some people have complained about in photos. My favorite part is how the truck mode slightly resembles a lion head with the black nose and gold mane. It's a nice figure, easily one of the best sub figures they've come up with.

Emerje

Seibertron wrote:People seem really excited about this figure.

I love it. The headsculpt on mine looks really sharp with good paint apps, and a very striking shade of blue that no pics ever do any justice towards and which I actually find myself liking more than the blue used on the head of my Legend Commander Collection Lio Convoy.

It also helps that a good story can really help sell a figure, as Jim Sorenson really nailed the two prose stories this iteration of Lio Convoy starred in. I hope he (Jim) keeps going with more of the Uprising story.

My only, if any, issues I have with the figure are those that stem from it using the Orion Pax mold, of which I'm not that big a fan of. But between this and the Nova Prime version, both are the better versions of the mold compared the much more plain-looking Hasbro Orion Pax.

As far as this gallery is concerned, as I said before, no pics can do the head's vivid shade of blue proper justice, but you always give it your all and then some. I'm only a bit saddened to see no pics of TCC Lio Convoy with his (former) supervisor TCC Eject.

Turning the camera lens to the Transformers Collectors' Club subscription service 3.0 we get a very nice gallery of the 1st figure Carzap with Kreon G.B. Blackrock. Based on an unused concept that paired Transformers with Takara's Diablock building block line which was to be known as Blocktown in the post G2 era.

Carzap is a retool of the Generations Bumblebee mold which was also used for Generations Goldfire, Nightbeat as well as Goshooter which was a Million Publishing exclusive. To homage the building block aspect of Blocktown, Carzap comes with a Kre-O set that builds a gas pump which can be converted into a laser cannon. Click on any of the images to see the full gallery.

Convention & Club Exclusives Carzap








Convention & Club Exclusives G.B. Blackrock

I wouldn't mind adding a few more humans to my TF collection such as GB Blackrock but certainly not Kreons. I was fond of the Human Alliance figures though so does anyone know of any other toylines that have similar figures in size and articulation that I can just buy the human figures from to customise into TF humans? Actual HA figures would be far too expensive since would have to buy the whole robot set and end up with a ton of unneeded robots.

I want Carzap. Alot. Which is odd cause I have no connection to the figure other than loving G2.

In other Sunday news, we have some more BotCon exclusives to share with and beyond the Seibertron.com community - feast your optics on the swarm of the Waruder Marauders Drones and their pilots! The Diaclone inspired figures of Mudfighter, Storm Rider, Parasite and Paralyzer are all redecos of the Transformers Generations deluxe Waspinator, and come with their own Legends class Targetmaster Waspinator redeco too - click on any of the images below to view the full galleries, as usual, and get the buzz going in the Energon Pub.

BotCon Exclusives Waruder Mudfighter Drone








BotCon Exclusives Waruder Thrasher Pilot






BotCon Exclusives Waruder Storm Rider Drone








BotCon Exclusives Waruder Crusher Pilot






BotCon Exclusives Waruder Parasite Drone








BotCon Exclusives Waruder Ripper Pilot






BotCon Exclusives Waruder Paralyzer Drone








BotCon Exclusives Waruder Buzzer Pilot

Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness

I never have had a strong desire to Troop-Build the Waspinator mold...

...until Botcon 2015

Mkall wrote:I never have had a strong desire to Troop-Build the Waspinator mold...

...until Botcon 2015

They just all look so nice

Fantastic toys, aren't they?

Ryan, if you own or ever plan to get the original Diaclone figures that these pilots and the Storm Rider drone are based on, and want to later update the galleries with comparison pics, here's a chart with all of them plus the others that all the Diaclone homage toys from this year were based on:



Source: https://twitter.com/p2099/status/611777982454087680

Hellscream9999 wrote:Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness

I know...

At first all I wanted (well, needed) was the yellow/green SG Waspinator. But the preview of this gallery and the full one convinced me how much love they put into these Wasps. I want them all. But DAMN that price

shajaki wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Curse this set and it's over-priced-ness

I know...

At first all I wanted (well, needed) was the yellow/green SG Waspinator. But the preview of this gallery and the full one convinced me how much love they put into these Wasps. I want them all. But DAMN that price

Yeah, I would say for 8 figures, it's worth it, but unless they swapped the stupid-cheap rubber for something that doesn't make me want to burn the mini-waspies, I will be saving my money for CW wave 3 (whenever HTS gets them instock )

THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators!

Pride!

megatronus wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:THAT is a terrifying swarm of angry rainbow Waspinators!

Pride!