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Tekka wrote:Some Decepticons:


Multirole Typhoon for Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp


Multi-role V/STOL Close Support Harrier F/A.2 For Thrust and the Coneheads

Nice...

Here is a better shot of Tridecca:

craggy wrote:Royal Mail van for someone?

I don't get the Trideca name for Red Bus Prime, considering it's only a dubble decca.

How about Jazz as an Aston Martin?

Yes an Aston for Jazz would be cool..

I have a solution for Trideca Prime..there are 2 other buses that when combined form the first super Gestalt U.K. Optimus Prime type guy!! that would be cool.. 3 double decker Buses that form one big super Leader of the Autobots U.K...one could be green, Blue, and the Red one..

so it's be line RID Prime And Magnus with another Prime combinig..Whoa that toy would be the Bomb diggity!!


my engineering skills are kinda fried after the whole Trideca Thing... if some one else has an artistic back ground and wants to give it a go.. be my guest.. Phew.. it's hard work to Digi-Bash!!



Oh I just had a good idea, How about a U.N.I.T. Jeep with back gun from the Dr. Who series..as a Hound type guy!!???? and on the side of the truck it says MI-5, U.N.I.T. guard

Tekka wrote:
Multi-role V/STOL Close Support Harrier F/A.2 For Thrust and the Coneheads

G1/G2 slingshot and G2 Deftwing already have that alt mode...

Of course the UK did have an exclusive toyline in days gone by...

Oh, dear. The talk of equivalent accents just put me in mind of my missus when we came out of the movie:

"Prime should be from Essex. You wouldn't get any of that 'freedom is the right of all sentient beings' bollocks then, he'd be much more straightforward. More like 'Autobots - 'ave it!' and 'Oi, Megatron... leave it!'"
Yeah, she's from Essex.

And Tekka... I have the very fig you're hankering for... pics soon.

<edit> Aaand here we are... this the sort of thing you're after, lad?

Oh my that's scary... I was kinda in the mood for the newer mini with an updated Classics Bumblbee or Alternators look..but that...


Thats.. just...


Thats... Wrooonnng...

Aww, you've hurt his feelings!

He's one of those things you pick up in the cheapio shops; I got him for about three quid in Poundstretcher a few years back. He's about Deluxe size, and although he's not overly poseable, he's about 70% die-cast...

Ramrider wrote:Aww, you've hurt his feelings!

He's one of those things you pick up in the cheapio shops; I got him for about three quid in Poundstretcher a few years back. He's about Deluxe size, and although he's not overly poseable, he's about 70% die-cast...

he is an interesting figure... and the fact that there are cheepio diecast Transformers out there.. that aren't transformers, really shows how inexpensive the G-1 toys really are, and leads me to wonder if when i buy into these reissues, am i just paying basically for the packaging and the name??


here's a funny thing I put into the Digibash that i thought was cool..you know how nowadays they have stickers on Buses that reference something?? well I found a Bus sticker and placed it on my DigiBash of Tridecca Prime..

it's in the mid section under the chest.. and says "Hybrid Technology"..

Get it???

I'm not sure if a Mini would work in a Transformers line. I thought that BMW owns Mini now and I can see that being a problem. Fellow German manufacturers Porsche and VW have rejected the use of their vehicles being used in a "warlike manner". Don't get me wrong, to me the Mini is definitly one of the first vehicles that come to mind when thinking of British automobiles, but I don't think it's going to happen, which is awful because I'd love to see Mr. Bean as the Spike of the UK Autobots.

As for other cars that could be used, don't forget manufaturers like Lotus. You could get a few "sporty" looking Autobots out of them. There's also Jaguar which could produce a few nice characters. I know, actually Ford owns them... until they sell them sometime within the next year. Land Rover is in the same situation as Jaguar with Ford trying to sell them off but still a British vehicle and probably an excellent template for an Ironhide character. Actually now that I think about it Brawn supposed to be a Land Rover? Aston Martin has already been mentioned. Triumph would be another interesting resource to pull from as they have produced cars and motorcycles. I'm not too big on Motorcyle Transformers because they are more obviously noticed when driving unmanned then some of the cars who can be played off as having "tinted windows" so no one realizes there is no driver.

As far as original or at least renamed characters go, I'd love to see one named Brigade as a type of firefighting truck.*

Seems like there is a lot of potential for a line like this if Hasbro/Takara saw a big enough market.





*Does anyone remember when we used to talk about RiD Prime and you'd type fire truck (as one word, not two) and it would edit it out. Try it: firetruck

Oh, it won't happen; as with a lot of Skywarp's threads, it's sort of a "wouldn't it be nice" pipe dream kind of affair. So under the circumstances, I wouldn't worry about licences, I think we're just having fun with the stereotypes (after all, isn't this all about the stereotypes?)...

I also forgot about all the weird Ford vehicles that didn't make it state side, of course some where butt ugly.

There's also the Rolls Royce but that kind of seems almost like drifting into Gobot territory. Anyone remember Tux, the Gobot that had that stupid Tophat in Bot mode?

Sometimes I wonder if the true "Challenge of the Gobots" was "mentally".

Swerve wrote:Sometimes I wonder if the true "Challenge of the Gobots" was "mentally".

Oh, that is so siggable - I'd do it if I didn't despise people who had enormous sigs.

Remember Tux? He's about three feet away...

that's funny.........

yeah this is a what if thread for those concepts.. it'd be cool to see the U.K. get some action.. but it's all in fun here..bashing your head on license issues and such are just not what we you should do.. just pretend they got the licensing issues resolved and are now asking us to help them design characters for the U. K...

lets pretend this si a Mythos for the UK similar to that fo the Japanese victory series..exclusive to the UK only...cartoon and toylines..

"I'm all class, Gobots style!"

Seems like a cool concept . I like the Constable design.

Ramrider wrote:Oh, dear. The talk of equivalent accents just put me in mind of my missus when we came out of the movie:

"Prime should be from Essex. You wouldn't get any of that 'freedom is the right of all sentient beings' bollocks then, he'd be much more straightforward. More like 'Autobots - 'ave it!' and 'Oi, Megatron... leave it!'"
Yeah, she's from Essex.

And Tekka... I have the very fig you're hankering for... pics soon.

<edit> Aaand here we are... this the sort of thing you're after, lad?

Sweet. :p

I like it, he looks like I'll need to repaint him though to get rid of all the ads. Give him a new head and a custom .357 Magnum as a weapon.

Then he'll be perfect!

How about Shortround from the Cybertron line returns as Loo?

No wonder Tarantulas always chattered, all he needed was to find a place to let loose .

Swerve wrote:"I'm all class, Gobots style!"

His mortal enemies are the Aerialbots, 'cos Slingshot keeps stealing his groin.

I think we'd need a cockney white van character as well. A Rolls Royce would be good, maybe for a bad guy. Arcee as Lady Penelope's car is genius.

I wonder what kind of Toy i could give a go at trying to kitbash a truck into the Constable design??? Anyone out there Brave to take on the Trideca Prime design?? I could see someone doing a Bus into a Bot, but here's the hard part doing 3 in different colors that change into a Robot, then combine into the biggest baddest Leader bot ever... it boggles the imagination.. and if anyone has an idea of doing the Mini.. i think a model kit and alternators is a good way to go about it, and easier fo sho...

In the Trideca Prime model i imagined the top of the bus breaking down to form the shoulders, the top back portion breaks out into the arms, the front end splits and widens to allow the head to pop up, and an autobot symbol should have been implanted in the middle of that chest plate..

Anyways, the lower half of the Bus becomes the mid section under the front end, and breaks apart to form the legs, with the back end splitting into the feet.. not a bad concept.. I just can't figure out how to combine 3 Buses to form the super mode Trideca Prime..?? I'll keep trying to work it out and then try to do a digibash...

first though it's the minicooper.."Union" he's next on the digibash list...

I think hasbro should give it a go and try to do some kind of toy for the UK market.. it's novel and I think some of the designs of the vehicles are quite cool actually..

what are 3 names good for the 3 buses/Bots who combine to form Trideca Prime??

anyways here is the mini cooper toy I found online.. the digibash of that Minicooper on the first page is not my design...that's why I'm trying to work out another design like the alternators..
http://motoringfile.com/pictures/mini_transformer.jpg

and here:
http://www.motoringfile.com/2005/03/07/ ... from_mini/

and here:
http://www.motoringfile.com/2005/05/10/ ... alerships/

by the way if you want a Mincooper it's been 2 years since they offered it, but it only cost 20.00 from the dealerships and they have a website address and phone number to order.. I'm gonna look into buying one on payday.. they come in different colors too!!!

Edit:
Damn!!! can't find a store online that's selling them!!!!

Tekka wrote:Some Decepticons:


Multirole Typhoon for Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp


Multi-role V/STOL Close Support Harrier F/A.2 For Thrust and the Coneheads

I was actually thing a MiG-29 would work well for the Seekers, considering it was in use in the 80s and is an analog to the American F-16.

I'm not sure what he could turn into(an Organ Grinder's box maybe), but Blaster(Grinder?) could talk in Cockney Slang.

Swerve wrote:I'm not sure if a Mini would work in a Transformers line. I thought that BMW owns Mini now and I can see that being a problem. Fellow German manufacturers Porsche and VW have rejected the use of their vehicles being used in a "warlike manner". Don't get me wrong, to me the Mini is definitly one of the first vehicles that come to mind when thinking of British automobiles, but I don't think it's going to happen, which is awful because I'd love to see Mr. Bean as the Spike of the UK Autobots.

well i think the post on page 3 shows that mini themselves, consider their car a fighter and have no problem turning it into a transformer.. only without hasbro's help.. I want one!!!!!!!!!!!! I want all 3 variation colors they shall be the UK's answer to my Masterpiece Seekers!! OH yeah!!!

Will the Harrier jet be an Autobot or Decepticon?

I'm amazed that you brits haven't mentioned Tardis and Dalek TF's.

Wing Zero Custom wrote:I'm amazed that you brits haven't mentioned Tardis and Dalek TF's.

Maybe soundwave could be a Tardis? As for Dalek TFs, there already is one. http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Octus