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News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:15 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:Looking nice!

The head seems a bit small though...

And his cannon is on the wrong arm...

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:30 am

Glad the swiss cheese holes on the forearms got filled in with plastic panels pieces.

Need to see this toy in it's final colors before I decide to buy or not.

Like the big scale of this toy.

Still think the Plastic looks like it uses either shapeways or shampoo bottle plastic. Hoping it's just for the test shot and the final version uses stronger plastic.

Looking forward to the video reviews on this toy.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:32 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Looking nice!

The head seems a bit small though...

And his cannon is on the wrong arm...

The cannon is probably useable on either arm (I would imagine). It's not a big deal either way, but I highly doubt that it's exclusive to that arm.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:40 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Looking nice!

The head seems a bit small though...

And his cannon is on the wrong arm...

The cannon is probably useable on either arm (I would imagine). It's not a big deal either way, but I highly doubt that it's exclusive to that arm.

Oh, right! Outside of the overall size, and your comment on the head, it was the only thing else I could see wrong. And it was definitely snarky.

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:13 am

Over at the TFW boards, A TFW member got this BoldForms message from their facebook page.

Bold Forms hi, its same height of MP10. thank you!
Like · Yesterday at 2:05am

Apparently the newer feet that are bigger made the robot mode get taller.

I'm interested in this, looking forward to seeing the sculpt in it's final colors.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 11:47 am

Pics/Steve Serrano

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:36 pm

robotmel wrote::D

Pics/Steve Serrano

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Thanks for the pics, Is this toy at TFCon Chicago?

If it is indeed the same scale as MP-10, Then I'm going to buy it.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:45 pm

Hmm, good to see the cannon can swap arms.

I may very well get this. He looks to be about Leader Class, so he'd go well with other Optimus Primes we've had (RID Prime, Cybertron Prime, 2007 movie and ROTF Leader Primes). He has a very nice toyetic look to him- he kinda looks like something HasTak themselves would make if they didn't have budget limitations, which is cool.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:52 pm

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Mon Oct 27, 2014 9:38 am

So far, I like the Xtransbots Megatron better.

If this is still "pretty early prototype", and will get more detailing, then I may still be interested.

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Wed Oct 29, 2014 10:08 am

My interest in buying this BF Gladius toy is not as high as it use to be. Probably won't be buying it.

With the recent TFCON reveal of X-Transbots Megatron, I'm now more interested in buying X-T MX-I Apollyon.

by **necr0blivion** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:38 pm

Necro bump from necr0blivion! We've got some new pics of Gladius.

News Credits: 1 · by **mbd88prime** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:07 pm

GIMME GIMME GIMME NOW!.......ahem..... i mean, that's interesting.

News Credits: 1 · by **leakin' lubricant** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 4:20 pm

Looks like they've redesigned it from the ground up... That's not good, he looked pretty damned impressive in those early prototypes, these however are looking pretty bad IMO. Wonder if he's been scaled down a bit :-?

by **necr0blivion** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:45 pm

leakin' lubricant wrote:Looks like they've redesigned it from the ground up... That's not good, he looked pretty damned impressive in those early prototypes, these however are looking pretty bad IMO. Wonder if he's been scaled down a bit

I think there's a lot of give and take between the two versions. First off, the legs on the original were too skinny like MP-05. Also the hands on the new version seem better looking than the previous one. But I think it pays off to take some risks, since the field will be flooded with Megatrons now: CW/Legends, X-Transbots, and Mega Steel to name the more recent versions.

News Credits: 1 · by **mbd88prime** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:06 pm

hopefully means he's scaled down to classics scale. he would be perfect for that. want to get him either way though cuz he pulls off both classic megs alt modes plus bot mode very well. will wait to pull trigger

till we see quality in a review.

News Credits: 1 · by **leakin' lubricant** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:13 am

I personally think the original test shot is leaps and bound ahead of this new one in every mode. Strange that they scrapped the original design when they were so far ahead with it.

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 11:49 pm

A new 3p company has entered the frey with a triple changer MP Megatron that goes from robot to tank to pistol:

Preorders: http://tfsource.com/BF01-Gladius-the-Dark-Emperor/ 159.99$

Source: http://news.tfw2005.com/2015/08/17/bold-forms-gladius-the-dark-emperor-color-prototype-images-299869

Dont know about you guys, but I will just stick to my Appolyon.

by **necr0blivion** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:02 am

Yo mods, please merge with this thread:
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/bold-forms-gladius-the-dark-emperor-megatron--t99805.php

by **guarayakha** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:48 am

I must say, this looks alot better than their early proto teasers :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 4837 · by **william-james88** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:59 am

necr0blivion wrote:Yo mods, please merge with this thread:
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/bold-forms-gladius-the-dark-emperor-megatron--t99805.php

Consider it done.

by **Shadowstream** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:42 pm

Right appeal, wrong market.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:44 pm

That is pretty awesomne, I just hope it desn't have a hunch of QC problems and unnecessary partsforming like Lone Wolf...

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:25 pm

If it were voyager sized for a Classics/Generations style/scaling, it would be perfect.

As MP sized, it's not G1 cartoon accurate enough to fit in with the current offerings.

News Credits: 6 · by **MemphisR56** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:18 am

leakin' lubricant wrote:

I personally think the original test shot is leaps and bound ahead of this new one in every mode. Strange that they scrapped the original design when they were so far ahead with it.

Chest shape, torso and leg proportions all look *way* better in bot mode.

I dunno what you can see in the old design by comparison really.