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News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:53 pm

Wonder if it's gonna shelfwarm like hell...

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:54 pm

Burn wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage and an incredible robot mode, but the designers about 4/5 through development remembered "Oh SHIZZLESNIT, this guy's supposed to be a Transformer", and hastily folded him up into nothing and pretended it's a vehicle mode.

Gotta agree. His bot mode is bloody fantastic (though not a fan of face plate-less head) but that vehicle mode is a stretch...and I don't mean because of the length.

HA! Nice one ;)^

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:55 pm

Sigma Magnus wrote:Wonder if it's gonna shelfwarm like hell...

Dunno, I'm not psychic, but they usually move pretty well when they're new, but then stores order a ton, and then they sit...

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:57 pm

I always doubt the possibility of an Optimus toy not selling well.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:00 pm

Kurona wrote:I always doubt the possibility of an Optimus toy not selling well.

Indeed, cue Thew's 'I got Prime on it'

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:51 pm

It's nice to see some articulation of a RiD figure bigger than warrior-lass.

by **jay5** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:59 pm

Any shots yet of TAV-54 Scorponok? Supposed to drop next month.

News Credits: 3 · by **Decepticon Stryker** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:40 pm

Looks like one of the non-transforming 3rd Party Transformers. It is beautifully well detailed.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 10:56 pm

He's so TALL!!! :shock:

Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage

He is? To what?

Kurona wrote:and an incredible robot mode, but the designers about 4/5 through development remembered "Oh SHIZZLESNIT, this guy's supposed to be a Transformer", and hastily folded him up into nothing and pretended it's a vehicle mode.

Yeah, that altmode is a letdown, but at the very least, I kinda feel like the more uniform Takara deco makes the altmode look slightly less offensive than it looks with the Hasbro deco's use of a rather unappealing shade of white/gray.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:45 pm

Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:07 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?

The former. This figure comes with its own Prime Decepticon Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:12 am

Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?
The former. This figure comes with its own Prime Decepticon Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

Really? I'm asking because something seems off with the hilt

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:18 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?
The former. This figure comes with its own Prime Decepticon Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

Really? I'm asking because something seems off with the hilt

How so?

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:21 am

Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?
The former. This figure comes with its own Prime Decepticon Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

Really? I'm asking because something seems off with the hilt
How so?

It's rotated differently from the other pics in relation to the blade. Also I thought the hilt was gray and chrome while this one looks black

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:24 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?
The former. This figure comes with its own Prime <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=11600&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=smart&icep_ff3=9&icep_uq=transformers%20decepticon&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" class="epn-link" target="_blank" id="epn2">Decepticon</a> Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

Really? I'm asking because something seems off with the hilt
How so?

It's rotated differently from the other pics in relation to the blade. Also I thought the hilt was gray and chrome while this one looks black

Oh snap, wait, now I see what you see. In the last pic, right? It does look like the Supreme Mode one is plugged into the hilt of the Hyper Surge one. That's awesome.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:26 am

Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Am I seeing things or does the sword from this figure and Supreme Prime combine somehow?
The former. This figure comes with its own Prime <a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?toolid=11600&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=smart&icep_ff3=9&icep_uq=transformers%20decepticon&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg" class="epn-link" target="_blank" id="epn2">Decepticon</a> Hunter that's of a different mold than the one included with OP Supreme Mode. And the last pic has simply it holding the Supreme Mode one.

Really? I'm asking because something seems off with the hilt
How so?

It's rotated differently from the other pics in relation to the blade. Also I thought the hilt was gray and chrome while this one looks black
Oh snap, wait, now I see what you see. In the last pic, right? It does look like the Supreme Mode one is plugged into the hilt of the Hyper Surge one. That's awesome.

Well I have the Supreme Mode Prime so we'll find out soon

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 5:50 am

Sabrblade wrote:He's so TALL!!!

Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage
He is? To what?

Maybe it's just me, but I kinda see Thunderclash in the American one.

Is it just me? Am I crazy? Is my as-of-yet-unadvertised Thunderclash love getting the better of me?

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:38 am

Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:He's so TALL!!!

Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage
He is? To what?

Maybe it's just me, but I kinda see Thunderclash in the American one.

Is it just me? Am I crazy? Is my as-of-yet-unadvertised Thunderclash love getting the better of me?

You are not alone. He is going to be my Thunderclash stand-in.

Until he dies, or I find some-bot better.... :-s

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:37 am

Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:He's so TALL!!!

Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage
He is? To what?

Maybe it's just me, but I kinda see Thunderclash in the American one.

But... Thunderclash didn't have wings. Or shoulder guns. Or a big sword. Or huge swirling shoulders. Or faceplate armor. Or a red long nose cab. Or a gigantic physique. Or frankly any of Optimus's colors in any of the places they appear on Optimus.

The most similar things are the wing-like chest designs, but which are teal on Thunderclash and blue on Optimus.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:40 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:He's so TALL!!!

Kurona wrote:He's an amazing homage
He is? To what?

Maybe it's just me, but I kinda see Thunderclash in the American one.
But... Thunderclash didn't have wings. Or shoulder guns. Or a big sword. Or huge swirling shoulders. Or faceplate armor. Or a red long nose cab. Or a gigantic physique. Or frankly any of Optimus's colors in any of the places they appear on Optimus.

It's the whole theming of it. No-one in else in Transformers - at least, as far as I know - is identified as a cab-trailer that transforms into a heroic-looking figure with a white chest and the theming of blue wings. It's of course nowhere near a remake, I'm not saying that; but you sort of feel a bit of Thunderclash from him.

Also the blue crest on his chest, the blue forearms, the two cannons which wherever they are are still a big definition of Thunderclash's profile in one mode, and the fact that he can armour up. It feels a bit like Thunderclash.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:46 am

Armor up? Thunderclash can't armor up. :???:

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:48 am

Sabrblade wrote:Armor up? Thunderclash can't armor up.

It was a pretty bad way of saying it, yeah. The idea I meant to convey is that a large section of the vehicle mode can separate and then be operated by the base robot - in Optimus' case it makes him a super sayain god, in Thunderclash's case it be comes this big sort of base.
In both cases they provide protection, extra firepower and specifically those two big cannons.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:58 am

That reminds me, what exactly does happen to this Optimus toy's extra altmode pieces when he's not wearing them? Do they store somewhere or just lay off the side?

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:01 am

Sabrblade wrote:That reminds me, what exactly does happen to this Optimus toy's extra altmode pieces when he's not wearing them? Do they store somewhere or just lay off the side?

Same place G1 Optimus' trailer went

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:09 am

Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:That reminds me, what exactly does happen to this Optimus toy's extra altmode pieces when he's not wearing them? Do they store somewhere or just lay off the side?

Same place G1 Optimus' trailer went

Ah, lay off to the side, it is, then.