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News Credits: 5749 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:52 pm

TFC Toys have updated their weibo page with a few new images of their Hercules combiner. These images offer us our most complete look at the figure in combined mode to date with all but Mad Blender (aka Mixmaster), Neckbreaker (aka Bonecrusher), and the chest shield/wing in their familiar green and purple decos. Enjoy the images mirrored from their weibo page below.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:59 pm

Its Looking sweeter all time. A bit pricy but awesome. Want to see the combined mode articulation. Got a feel for the arms. Guessing legs can rotate and bend at knee.

News Credits: 7 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:18 pm

I love this thing so much!

Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:24 pm

OMG

i cant wait for this figure to come out. now all i need is the money lol

Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:39 pm

i love this figure, but i dont like the stark color choices. im too chicken to paint something this expensive so ill learn to live with it, but hot damn that head looks great with paint!

Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:06 pm

... It's a thing of beauty.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:11 pm

So close...
Soon...
Soon we will see the largest 3rd party endenvor competed!

And maybe we'll actually get to own another piece, huh?

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

That must mean the next two must be getting close to pre-ordering.

Awesome.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:52 pm

Well, sorry MT, but I think I'll be concentrating on TFC here.

News Credits: 187 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:20 pm

Please Hasbro, let them be... let them be. I want this set more than any figure in a LONG while. I am so paranoid/nervous that something is going to happen that will keep me from completing this set. :PRAY:

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:36 pm

Damn, that's impressive. Wish I could afford it. I hope I can afford Maketoys' version...

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:39 pm

Can someone remind us all what this would all total out to, ballpark at least including shipping? in any currency would be nice to know. I can't imagine there be too great a competition in price for the pieces on this mighty bot. :VEHI:

Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:41 pm

Alright, they sold me. Looking forward to the inevitable box-set release.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:48 pm

Nemesis Destron wrote:Can someone remind us all what this would all total out to, ballpark at least including shipping? in any currency would be nice to know. I can't imagine there be too great a competition in price for the pieces on this mighty bot.

Each piece is about $97 +10 shipping on Tfsource

$107 each x 6 Constructicons = $642.00 shipped for the big guy

News Credits: 3 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:01 pm

Or 78 + 16 shipping from robotkingdom for a total of about $564 for the 6.

Thanks goodness they went green on the shovel for Structor!

Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:09 pm

the PERFECT devastator. and i cant get it

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:18 pm

Thank god they've coloured Structor's shovel green!!! Really looking forward to getting hold of this now. I'm sure it's been said before (probably even by myself) but I wonder why TFClub display Exgraver's digger like they do in Herc mode when the instructions say to tuck it away.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:57 pm

yeah I wonder about Ex-Graver's combined transformation as well. I just assume/hope they are going with the way it looked in IDW series, I personally like the out of the way look better.

Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:23 pm

Lookin good in color! I wish these would come out faster, I want Devastator.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:21 pm

I couldn't figure out why I didn't like this for the longest time, but I think it just looks too cartoony for me, plus I am not a fan of the head.

I can't afford it no matter what, and I am really glad that a lot of people are getting they're classicsverse Devy, but this just isn't for me.

News Credits: 7 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:42 pm

--B-- wrote:I couldn't figure out why I didn't like this for the longest time, but I think it just looks too cartoony for me, plus I am not a fan of the head.

I can't afford it no matter what, and I am really glad that a lot of people are getting they're classicsverse Devy, but this just isn't for me.

What are your thoughts on the Make Toy version --B--?

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:15 pm

Between the price and the difficulty in tracking down 3rd party figs, I could only dream of owning something like this.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:51 pm

WHY CAN'T HASBRO DO THIS. there combiners are five guys, made from three molds, and they don't even have elbows

News Credits: 1 · Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:54 pm

Budget reasons is why Hasbro can't do this. They only had enough $$$ to produce a certain amount of figures for their combiners. Either two combiners with wholly unique limbs or three with a few reapeats.

In an odd way, 3rd party guys have much more freedom to let their deigns run wild than the official guys do.

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Dr. Heavy B wrote:WHY CAN'T HASBRO DO THIS. there combiners are five guys, made from three molds, and they don't even have elbows

It's not really fair to compare something like this to something Hasbro made almost 5 years ago with a much more limited budget than they do now.

I think if Hasbro were to get back in on the proper gestalt train, we'd all be impressed.