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Methusalen wrote:Mr. Optimus Prime has the "Mediabots" on his MySpace page...
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Pretty cool concept, love the character ideas for repaint, along with the bios and background story as well!

wow that is freakin awesome!!!!

80s TV show TFs. The A-Team van, Airwolf, KITT, Blue Thunder and Thunder (from Thunder In Paradise) with whatever features they had in the show, and kickass robot modes. Who wouldn't buy them?

Agreed on A-Team van!

I would like to see primitive Cybertronian transformation. They had to start out small before becoming hover vehicles.

Isn't there a transformer toy already released that looks exactly like Blue thunder?? I wanna say it's an energon toy, but I can't recall off the bat which one... It would be totally cool if someone did a repaint or digibash repaint in the colors of that helicopter..

Energon Bulkhead + can of Krylon = wicked looking Blue Thunder I wish I had been able to buy more duplicates of larger figures to do repaints on. Discount stores have served me well so far, and finding Legends Starscream/Sunstorm and Thundercracker figures on sale allowed for 2 sets of the G1 colored Seekers (finally got to repaint a mini-Cybertron series Skywarp in the colors he should have been all along) As soon as I figure out how to stretch the body a little on my spare Cybertron Override, I'll have Speed Racers Mach-1. (any ideas,folks??)
With the Classics toys circulating through stores again, making Grave Digger and The General Lee from the Decepticon "Dirt Diggers" vehicles will be a cinch (once I buy another set)
What I would really like to see are "faithful" reproductions of an F-14 and F-117A. G1 Jetfire was almost dead on but not quite and the Classics version is not there either. Cybertron Soundwave doesn't cut it for me on the F-117. 2 new deluxe figures of these, totally accurate, would make my year.

T-Macksimus wrote:What I would really like to see are "faithful" reproductions of an F-14 and F-117A. G1 Jetfire was almost dead on but not quite and the Classics version is not there either. Cybertron Soundwave doesn't cut it for me on the F-117. 2 new deluxe figures of these, totally accurate, would make my year.

A F-117A Stealth fighter, that would go well with the SR-71 Blackbird.

Here's a mock up I did awhile back. I took a very inaccurate ERTL General Lee model (flush rear window instead of the recessed like the '69 Charger had) and put it with an old Patlabor model. I think I may go out to the garage and dig out one of my Alternators and see if I can really make this happen.







Note that the right legs opens up allowing the gun to be placed there. When opened, it raises the gun and when closed, it lowers it.

its a real vehicle, not a fantasy one, but its still amazing, I'm going to have to say "Bagger 288."



and no, I'm not counting Cybertron Metroplex.

wow, the general Lee would be an awesome alternator.. Nice work on the concept, I can't wait to see how far you can take the idea. I'll keep on the look out. But see how cool the General Lee's grill would look for the chest. And I love the idea of the top portion being the sheild on his left arm, that would be cool, because he could have the Rebel Flag and an Autobot Symbol in the center!! Too bad we couldn't have some sort of saying like Barricades.. like the Autobots will rise again!! kinda like they say, The south will rise again!!

I love the General Lee, and you know what would be another cool villain to fight it, the Boss Hog car, with the giant steers on the front of the hood..it's a white caddilac..the Car Decepticon could be called BossHog!!



Another Idea I had was to incorporate transformers into the Mad MAx pantheon... they could do Max's car called the Interceptor..


Interceptor would be an autobot whose a cop, who has his own style of vengence, like a vigilantee, who is a good guy, but goes off alone to rtake out decepticons with brute force, which sometimes gets him in trouble and makes Optimus Prime very frustrated..along with the General Lee and his michievious Antics..


you could alos do the Austrailian Policse car from mad Max, it's called the Falcon Pursuit...

World War II vehicles. That is all.

How about the Hunter Killer from terminator?

Possibly with a T-800 / 850 deployable in a Frenzy / Scorponok style.



Or maybe the X-Men jet

If your gonna do the terminater ship, why not do the Aliens harrier from that movie.. you know the space Marines one that got blown up by an alien.

"GAME OVER MAN!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

skywarp-2 wrote:Another Idea I had was to incorporate transformers into the Mad MAx pantheon... they could do Max's car called the Interceptor..

The Last of the V8's... I always loved that car... Heck, I'd be happy with the one he uses in "The Road Warrior" (after it's all beaten up and driven in the desert)...

I'm back. Lotsa nice ideas since last I was here.

So how about the player-characters ships from Ikaruga? M.A.S.K. transformers were a nice idea; does anyone remember M.A.N.T.A. Force? The big, grey horse-shoe crab-shaped spaceship with the smaller vehicles inside?

I know it's already been done with the Darth Vader TIE Advanced X1 but I would like to see the TIE Advanced X2 from the various Lucasarts games with it's four pronged wings turned into Starscream and repainted into Thundercracker and Skywarp.
I would go for the other TIE craft as well but the slim ball design probably would only allow for a very slim robot.

Perhaps an Assault Gunboat as Blitzwing as well.

A whole line of Transformers as Star Wars vehicles would be cool. But I guess it's already too late with all the Star Wars characters having taken up so many of the vehicles. =(

Personally, for Transformers 2, I'd like to see Hot Rod done up in a Red 2007 or 08 C6 Corvette.

And for Kup, a pickup truck from the 50's, 60's or 70's. Just feels appropriate for him in my opinion.

IjuinTekka wrote:I know it's already been done with the Darth Vader TIE Advanced X1 but I would like to see the TIE Advanced X2 from the various Lucasarts games with it's four pronged wings turned into Starscream and repainted into Thundercracker and Skywarp.
I would go for the other TIE craft as well but the slim ball design probably would only allow for a very slim robot.

Perhaps an Assault Gunboat as Blitzwing as well.

A whole line of Transformers as Star Wars vehicles would be cool. But I guess it's already too late with all the Star Wars characters having taken up so many of the vehicles. =(

the Star Wars Transformers line was a great idea, unfortunately Hasbro had to make them turn into the actual characters from the movies, which made the robot modes suck!!!! I was fine with just settling for the altmodes being starwars, but an obi kanobi robot?? WTF!!

A T2 Hunter/Killer, an Aliens Dropship and an APC (also from Aliens)would make for an awsome set. 2 lethal airships and a ground-ponding brute of a warrior robot. Actually, with the 2 airships for the arms, the APC for the body and the 2 Road Warrior rigs (slightly cleaned up and modified) for the legs and you have one seriously bad-ass Hollywood Gestalt.
Just to do it right, make the appendages Deluxe class and the APC Voyager class so the whole thing measures up to a Supreme Class Gestalt.

the cartoon car from Who framed Roger Rabbit

Maximal Primal wrote:

IjuinTekka wrote:I know it's already been done with the Darth Vader TIE Advanced X1 but I would like to see the TIE Advanced X2 from the various Lucasarts games with it's four pronged wings turned into Starscream and repainted into Thundercracker and Skywarp.
I would go for the other TIE craft as well but the slim ball design probably would only allow for a very slim robot.

Perhaps an Assault Gunboat as Blitzwing as well.

A whole line of Transformers as Star Wars vehicles would be cool. But I guess it's already too late with all the Star Wars characters having taken up so many of the vehicles. =(

the Star Wars Transformers line was a great idea, unfortunately Hasbro had to make them turn into the actual characters from the movies, which made the robot modes suck!!!! I was fine with just settling for the altmodes being starwars, but an obi kanobi robot?? WTF!!

The Arc-170 / Clone Pilot looks quite good in robot mode, and is very poseable.

I was very disappointed with Boba Fett, though. He stays on the shelf in Slave-I mode because the robot mode is so impressively bad.

Ack! W.F.R.R. cartoon car? lol are you trying to make things even more cartoonish than Animated?

Ok, here is a treat for you old Geezers out there who grew up in the 1980s... How about a Gunstar transformer from.......

Yep you guessed it... the movie, the Last Starfighter!!!!

This model I found is a custom scratch built, there is no model made for this Starfighter to date. It would make a great transformer though..the Japanese really need to get ahold of the guy who made this...







Damn!!! that would make an awesome Jetfire in the "Animated" series!!!

skywarp-2 wrote:Ok, here is a treat for you old Geezers out there who grew up in the 1980s... How about a Gunstar transformer from.......

Yep you guessed it... the movie, the Last Starfighter!!!!

This model I found is a custom scratch built, there is no model made for this Starfighter to date. It would make a great transformer though..the Japanese really need to get ahold of the guy who made this...







Damn!!! that would make an awesome Jetfire in the "Animated" series!!!

R O F L! Seriously, that is actually quite awesome. I had totally forgotten about that movie (and yes I'm quite geezerific). Hell, if we're going to go old school here are a few for you:

The BTA Fighter from Enemy Mine:


This one has probably been posted here already but it's one of my favorites, the Colonial Marine Dropship from Aliens:


I'd also take a Cylon Raider, either old or new:

Transformers :Animated"
Skyfire/Jetfire:





Damn!!! that would make an awesome Jetfire in the "Animated" series!!![/quote]

The BTA Fighter from Enemy Mine:
Aka Transformers "Animated" Powerglide:



the Colonial Marine Dropship from Aliens:
Aka Transformers "Animated" Quickstrike!!


I'd also take a Cylon Raider, either old or new:
Aka Transformers "Animated" Cosmos

Aka Transformers Animated, Starazor, Airazor's sister..
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Excellent idea!!! [/b]

skywarp-2 wrote:Excellent idea!!!

Excellent work my friend