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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.

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?

That would be nice. But I do give them a free pass on that because they did gang mold their sunstorm with the other 2. Maybe e hobby will pick up the mold and do its variants. Just because funpub made the incredibly poor decision to stop using the mold, doesnt mean hasbro or takara wont use it again. This mold is money in the bank. Personally, my proper Sunstorm itch was scratched by CHMS a long time ago. But I hope this mold makes a comeback. Funpub has gone against their word before like they did with "no more UT molds".

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.

Don't forget that Red Wing was also shot in the back of the head and was not shown again after that.

Nice. Wipe-Out looks good.

This mold for Nightracer is starting to grow on me. Too bad they couldn't remold the head. I like the round helmet she had in the comic as opposed to this pointy square one.

That paint scheme is just so gorgeous!

Botcon 1995 Nightracer: one of few toys I have no plans on ever opening because, I mean, why? Own so many Spychangers! Might grab that Whizbang version one day to have one out, and leave the real deal sealed up. Guy I bought it from had set it up like a bagged/boarded comic and that's been a great way to keep it nice!

What gun is she holding in these shots? I've had that gun for ages and have NEVER figured out where it came from?

The gun I gave Nightracer is an extra Action Master Jackpot gun I had in my gigantic tub of extra/miscellaneous Transformers parts from the Seibertron.com Store. The smaller peg is actually broken on it, but the larger 5mm peg is still in tact which worked out perfectly for ol' Nightracer here. It's a really close shade of blue to the blue plastic used on Nightracer. Not a 100% match, but it's really damn close.

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?

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?

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.

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?

Who said they have to match, period?

Sabrblade 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?

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.

Good to know. I still think it would have been fun for the set to match... but not bummed at all. Delivery #6 turned out real nice either way.

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/

I figured the yellow would have been a prizing factor for the appeal of the toy, but in the defense of the all-blue group, the clone Nightracer made her debut in 2012, sporting no yellow at all:



That said, since she's the clone and therefore has not to match the template in color or form, maybe the original can be made after the colors of the original BotCon toy?

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 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.

I liken this situation to the Tripredacus Council toys we're getting for BotCon next year. Sure, they aren't in the decos of their original toys, but they are in a deco based on something else that we never got before and doesn't take away from the original toys having the decos they had.

And, well, there is the 2012-2014 TCC comic fiction that had her in the original planned deco, both in the G2 GoBot body and in the Tailgate body, so there is some fictional precedence:



Plus, Shakar's deco does pay some homage to the 1995 Nightracer toy deco with its yellow paint apps.

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.

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.

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? The new one, regardless of its head, looks *great*. You can give her a bit of a "skirt" by leaving the rear wheels in their vehicle mode rotation position and lowering her backpack too, if you want to make her look more "feminine" or differentiate her more from tailgate.

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?

Exactly. The Japanese release of Go-Bots Optimus Prime, Megatron and Soundwave specifically is to blame here. Because they're gangmolded in pairs, those releases left Hasbro with a lot of unused parts, from which Nightracer is made:

- car shell is from Bumblebee
- the yellow parts were gangmolded with Soundwave's shell
- the wheels came from the Double Clutch mold

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

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

Don't worry she's beautiful

Deathsanras wrote:Nice. Wipe-Out looks good.

AH, so I'm NOT the only one! Totally thought that was him until I dug out her bio card.

I miss Raksha's old site. Hasn't come back up, has it? Great that she sorta' came out of retirement/semi-seclusion to contribute to this. Doesn't make sense to call her a geewunner though, since she was most active during G2, and her reasons for hating Beast Wars were at least substantive, whereas most BW haters I talk to in person dismiss it with, "They shouldn't have computer-animated Transformers" after only having watched about 30 seconds of it...or any TF show after 1986.

Jackpot's gun really works; did any of the Euro-exclusive Action-Mastes have yellow tommy-guns? Er, then again, moot point. We'll surely see a Shapways or 3rd party solution before long.

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/

Thanks for the link, but god... I'd forgotten how nuts and reaching her view point was.

The other addition to the ever-expanding Seibertron.com figure galleries brings us under the Transformers Collectors' Club banner, and their latest Subscription Service 3.0 - in the shape of Krok and Gatoraider! The former is based on pre-existing mold of Generations Deluxe Megatron - whose gallery you can find here - with the addition of a new head, new deco and alligator-tastic Micron. Check them out below.

Convention & Club Exclusives Krok










Convention & Club Exclusives Gatoraider

That thumbnail for the Krok story threw me off.