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Rated X wrote:We should have gotten Redwing...
But instead we got this...
Seibertron wrote:Rated X wrote:This mold is G.O.A.T. !!!
(Greatest of all time for the non hop hop fans)
Such a shame to see this mold go because the Armada Starscream mold doesn't hold a candle to this one. Cmon, TFCC give us a god damn Redwing (the character you created) and I wouldnt mind a G2 Sandstorm from the Ramjet version of the mold either...
How about a proper Sunstorm with white instead of black?
Delta Magnus wrote:Rated X wrote:We should have gotten Redwing...
But instead we got this...
Yes, because a generic who existed for all of ONE PANEL in a comic with no lines, characterization or anything else, and only got a name because of the nagging of an overly obsessed fan TOTALLY deserves a new toy more than one of the first ever female Transformers toys, who also happened to be the creation of Raksha, one of the organizers of BotCon 1995. You'd get on just fine; she's a major GEEWUNer who hates Beast Wars and everything that followed it.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Her colors are based on the deco that the original 1995 Nightracer toy was intended to have, as its yellow parts were instead supposed to have been blue.megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
Sabrblade wrote:Her colors are based on the deco that the original 1995 Nightracer toy was intended to have, as its yellow parts were instead supposed to have been blue.megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?
I think it's neat that we finally have a toy of Nightracer in the deco she was meant to have instead of the one she got. Sure, it means that this character now has two decos to her name, but her new toy having the original planned deco gives her a look that we never got in toy form before and doesn't take away from the 1995 toy still having its deco.Seibertron wrote:With that said, I would have preferred to have the yellowish green myself because that's what the original toy was. I'm not sure I understand the point of doing it like Raksha originally wanted/intended for Nightracer to be because now the new toy doesn't really look like the original toy, which is all I care about and I'm assuming most of you would have preferred to have it look like the original toy as well.
I'm told she's still friends with some of the Fun Pub Club staff and has been a dealer at the BotCons of recent years.Seibertron wrote:I also think it's odd to have made an anagram of Raksha's name for the Mini-Con/Micromaster figure. I'd get it more if Raksha was was still a prominent person in the Transformers community after the 90s.
Altogether, it strikes me as an homage that is a real big stretch with some very odd fandom ties to people who, to the best of my knowledge, aren't involved with Transformers much any more.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
durroth wrote:Wasn't the original yellow instead of blue because instead of actually molding new parts, hasbro just made nightracer out of extra parts from a bunch of other bots?
TF_JW wrote:The freebie figure was never really "themed" with any of the rest of the subscription offering. Unlike the previous subscription where if you make a Rewind, it just makes sense to package him with Eject. Especially since they were two smaller scale figures and could fit into the same shipping box with ease.
Both color schemes were considered for this freebie, with the decision actually being rather painstaking. Ultimately since Matt Frank was insistent that she be blue back during A Flash Forward, it was agreed that it would be best to remain consistent.
Plus, despite being for yellow myself originally, the final blue deco that was mocked-up popped much better than any of the yellow decoes.
She's actually one of my favorites from this round (and there are A LOT of favorites in this one!). And now, thanks to the gallery here, I have to get an extra Jackpot gun to go with her! :p
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Deathsanras wrote:Nice. Wipe-Out looks good.
Seibertron wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?
Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?
They should both have the yellowish green plastic, like Krok has. Instead, they went with the color scheme that Raksha apparently wanted originally for Nightracer, but Hasbro presented them with the yellowish green with black instead of blue and black like she had wanted.
With that said, I would have preferred to have the yellowish green myself because that's what the original toy was. I'm not sure I understand the point of doing it like Raksha originally wanted/intended for Nightracer to be because now the new toy doesn't really look like the original toy, which is all I care about and I'm assuming most of you would have preferred to have it look like the original toy as well. I also think it's odd to have made an anagram of Raksha's name for the Mini-Con/Micromaster figure. I'd get it more if Raksha was was still a prominent person in the Transformers community after the 90s or if Transformers names were commonly derived from prominent people involved with the Transformers brand.
Altogether, it strikes me as an homage that is a real big stretch with some very odd fandom ties to people who, to the best of my knowledge, aren't involved with Transformers much any more.
Though I will second someone's comment above that Raksha and Rated X have some similar views regarding their passion for G1, though Raksha's take on the Decepticons being the real good guys is definitely a different angle, one which I don't think Rated X would care much for.
If you aren't familiar with Raksha, check out this article she wrote for my Trans-Forum fanzine that I did pre-Seibertron.com during the late 90s. Her article from the June 13th, 1997 issue of Trans-Forum was titled "The Real Heroes of the Story".
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/the-real-heroes-of-the-story/18267/
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