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If they make an Abominus combiner, I hope they make new monster molds and not just vehicles with fake monster paint. As Death, I prefer REAL monsters....

shajaki wrote:Looking at the art, the combiner fingers are clawed. Think the ones in the toy pics are just placeholders?

I wish, like how Trailbreaker has new fingers. that would be cool to see new fingers

DeathReviews wrote:If they make an Abominus combiner, I hope they make new monster molds and not just vehicles with fake monster paint. As Death, I prefer REAL monsters....

There will be no Abominus Combiner.


No beast combiners in the combiner wars line Hasbro says although they could make them in a few years.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:If they make an Abominus combiner, I hope they make new monster molds and not just vehicles with fake monster paint. As Death, I prefer REAL monsters....

There will be no Abominus Combiner.


No beast combiners in the combiner wars line Hasbro says although they could make them in a few years.

Well actually, nothings stopping them from releasing them as vehicles

Hellscream9999 wrote:Well actually, nothings stopping them from releasing them as vehicles

True but it would be unlikely out of all the changes Hasbro/Takara have made with the Combiners none have been as drastic as changing the altmodes completely.



Only way they could do that is if they were them pre Terrorcon.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Well actually, nothings stopping them from releasing them as vehicles

True but it would be unlikely out of all the changes Hasbro/Takara have made with the Combiners none have been as drastic as changing the altmodes completely.



Only way they could do that is if they were them pre Terrorcon.

Well, I'm torn... I need me some beast combiners, but on the other hand, I loved the updated looks the graphic novels gave to the beast-formers like iguanus and company in Stormbringer and war within. So if they did completely reshell the vehicles and heads to look like cybertronian animal-based vehicles, I wouldn't mind that

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, I'm torn... I need me some beast combiners, but on the other hand, I loved the updated looks the graphic novels gave to the beast-formers like iguanus and company in Stormbringer and war within. So if they did completely reshell the vehicles and heads to look like cybertronian animal-based vehicles, I wouldn't mind that

You mean Vehicle modes pulling a Hercules and wearing animal skins over the cars or something like those monster Hot wheel cars?








Or maybe something more subtle and more of a homage?

Va'al wrote:Courtesy as always of TF_JW from BotCon and FunPub, we have some more Dawn of the Predacus set news to share with you all, specifically, the box art for the set, as created by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. Check it out mirrored below, along with some additional art and renders for figures from the 2016 exclusive set, via G1Hexatron on Facebook.

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Everyone's talking about the jet that may or may not be Terrorsaur but what about the other vehicle in the bottom left corner?

Railbomb wrote:

Va'al wrote:Courtesy as always of TF_JW from BotCon and FunPub, we have some more Dawn of the Predacus set news to share with you all, specifically, the box art for the set, as created by Marcelo Matere and Josh Perez. Check it out mirrored below, along with some additional art and renders for figures from the 2016 exclusive set, via G1Hexatron on Facebook.

BotCon 2016 Registration begins this week! Before we start, here is a look at the box w/ artwork for the excl. toys!

Everyone's talking about the jet that may or may not be Terrorsaur but what about the other vehicle in the bottom left corner.

Looks to be just a generic vehicle, not unlike those featured in the upcoming Powermaster-ish Optimus Prime.

Car sharks! Yes!

He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, I'm torn... I need me some beast combiners, but on the other hand, I loved the updated looks the graphic novels gave to the beast-formers like iguanus and company in Stormbringer and war within. So if they did completely reshell the vehicles and heads to look like cybertronian animal-based vehicles, I wouldn't mind that

You mean Vehicle modes pulling a Hercules and wearing animal skins over the cars or something like those monster Hot wheel cars?








Or maybe something more subtle and more of a homage?

megatronus wrote:Car sharks! Yes!

Honestly, I'd take both, I liked the Lego legends of chima vehicles, and I've always love the weird hotwheels stuff, so anything like that, or in between, I'd be good with

But to be precise, this is what I was thinking of:

Stormbringer Iguanus

RiddlerJ wrote:He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

But this isn't a 'boxset' it's a botcon set, they are limited by rules and stuff, plus if they jammed in another figure, it would probably be ~$450, plus they are running out of characters they could ret-con into hanging with the tri-predacus council

RiddlerJ wrote:He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

It's also like the Unite Warriors giftsets, which only have five figures.

That's totally Terrorsaur using the Air Raid mold, look at thewings and why else would he have an orange beak painted on the nosecone?

MaverickPrime wrote:That's totally Terrorsaur using the Air Raid mold, look at thewings and why else would he have an orange beak painted on the nosecone?

The tail fins are at a 90 degree angle to the wings and other tail fins, which tricked me into thinking Breakaway, but the rest of the back is wrong and I missed it.

However, taking another look, I'm still not convinced it's Air Raid. The wings look more like Skydive's to me. Same basic mold, granted, but with some significant parts differences.

Sabrblade wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

It's also like the Unite Warriors giftsets, which only have five figures.

I thought they all had six figures.

Nemesis Primal wrote:
The tail fins are at a 90 degree angle to the wings and other tail fins, which tricked me into thinking Breakaway, but the rest of the back is wrong and I missed it.

However, taking another look, I'm still not convinced it's Air Raid. The wings look more like Skydive's to me. Same basic mold, granted, but with some significant parts differences.

It would not have been Breakaway anyways since Funpub is not allowed to use movie molds I think only the Dinobots could be exceptions.

RiddlerJ wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

It's also like the Unite Warriors giftsets, which only have five figures.

I thought they all had six figures.

UW-01 Superion: Silverbolt, Air Rider, Skydive, Sling, Firebolt

UW-02 Menasor: Motormaster, Dead End, Breakdown, Drag Stripe, Wildrider

UW-03 Guardian: Hot Spot, Streetwise, First Aid, Graze, Groove (Deluxe class)

UW-04 Devastor: Scrapper, Bonecrusher, Mixmaster, Gren, Scavenger, Long Haul

UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime: Convoy, Ironhide, Prowl, Ligier, Sunstreaker

UW-06 Grand Galvatron: Tactician Cyclonus, Ghost Starscream, Curse Armada Thrust, Zombie War Breakdown, Wandering Roller

UW-07 Bruticus: Onslaught, Vorter, Brawl, Swindle, Blast Off (space shuttle)

Only Devastor has six.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:
The tail fins are at a 90 degree angle to the wings and other tail fins, which tricked me into thinking Breakaway, but the rest of the back is wrong and I missed it.

However, taking another look, I'm still not convinced it's Air Raid. The wings look more like Skydive's to me. Same basic mold, granted, but with some significant parts differences.

It would not have been Breakaway anyways since Funpub is not allowed to use movie molds I think only the Dinobots could be exceptions.

I believe they're allowed to use anyone that's not seen on-screen as long as they're not a licensed vehicle, so the 4 on-screen Dinobots are no go. I think it has something to do with Paramount owning the design for the characters.

Oh yeah.

I was confusing them with the G2 boxes for Superion and Bruticus which had the little 6 figures windows on the left side

Terrorsaur is the more logical plabe, but what if its Laserbeak and Buzzsaw? They were Tripedacus Agents in DoFP until they got blowed up. Could be a fun TFCC nod to past work

OK, the more I look at it I'm definitely seeing Terrorsaur in that jet. If you zoom in you can see teeth painted on the side of the yellow "beak" and spots all over the back. It still looks like the Classics Seeker mold to me.

Would it really be that hard to remold the fingers? I mean, the thumbs are already pointed so they wouldn't need changing. I don't know if fingers are the same size on both hand types, but if so then they'd only have to mold the new fingers once and get four uses out of them in every set. It would certainly help towards justifying the price.

Emerje

Railbomb wrote:
I believe they're allowed to use anyone that's not seen on-screen as long as they're not a licensed vehicle, so the 4 on-screen Dinobots are no go. I think it has something to do with Paramount owning the design for the characters.

Botcon had those G1 colored Dinobots last year.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Railbomb wrote:
I believe they're allowed to use anyone that's not seen on-screen as long as they're not a licensed vehicle, so the 4 on-screen Dinobots are no go. I think it has something to do with Paramount owning the design for the characters.

Botcon had those G1 colored Dinobots last year.

That was two years ago, and it was the San Diego Comic-Con. SDCC exclusives are released by Hasbro themselves, so they don't have the same restrictions.

Sabrblade wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:He needs a Legends figure. All the other combiner box sets have 6 figures.

It's also like the Unite Warriors giftsets, which only have five figures.

(snip)

Only Devastor has six.

Not only are the Legends figures not in the Unite Warriors box sets, they're not even in the Unite Warriors line; Takara put those molds in Adventure instead.