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News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:25 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
OmarJT82 wrote:Here are the names of the individual Autobots that make up Victorion:

Pyra Magna (Head/Chest/Torso - Hot Spot with new head sculpt)
Jumpstream & Dustup (Arms - Breakdown & Dead End remolds)
Stormclash & Skyburst (Legs - Alpha Bravo remolds)
Rust Dust (Chest - Groove remold).
And together, they are the Torchbearers, charged with preserving Cybertronian artifacts (or so I'm told).

Sourcey source?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:28 pm

Va'al wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
OmarJT82 wrote:Here are the names of the individual Autobots that make up Victorion:

Pyra Magna (Head/Chest/Torso - Hot Spot with new head sculpt)
Jumpstream & Dustup (Arms - Breakdown & Dead End remolds)
Stormclash & Skyburst (Legs - Alpha Bravo remolds)
Rust Dust (Chest - Groove remold).
And together, they are the Torchbearers, charged with preserving Cybertronian artifacts (or so I'm told).

Sourcey source?

Read it on another site's Victorion reveal thread. I can ask about it.

by **OmarJT82** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:30 pm

Va'al wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
OmarJT82 wrote:Here are the names of the individual Autobots that make up Victorion:

Pyra Magna (Head/Chest/Torso - Hot Spot with new head sculpt)
Jumpstream & Dustup (Arms - Breakdown & Dead End remolds)
Stormclash & Skyburst (Legs - Alpha Bravo remolds)
Rust Dust (Chest - Groove remold).
And together, they are the Torchbearers, charged with preserving Cybertronian artifacts (or so I'm told).

Sourcey source?

Check out the 31st and 32nd pages of this thread: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transform ... 015-a.html

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:31 pm

Va'al wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
OmarJT82 wrote:Here are the names of the individual Autobots that make up Victorion:

Pyra Magna (Head/Chest/Torso - Hot Spot with new head sculpt)
Jumpstream & Dustup (Arms - Breakdown & Dead End remolds)
Stormclash & Skyburst (Legs - Alpha Bravo remolds)
Rust Dust (Chest - Groove remold).
And together, they are the Torchbearers, charged with preserving Cybertronian artifacts (or so I'm told).

Sourcey source?

The names are on the slides of the individual figures:

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:33 pm

>Jumpstream

>Rust Dust

>Stormclash

Are you even trying anymore Hasbro?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:33 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The names are on the slides of the individual figures:

No, not those. The "Torchbearers" thing I said.

And, no, it wasn't TFW I saw it on.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:37 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:>Jumpstream

>Rust Dust

>Stormclash

Are you even trying anymore Hasbro?

As opposed to what?

Bumblebee?

Jazz?

Clffjumper?

Jackpot?

Astrotrain.

Don't make me use my list on you.

I would love to see you make up some names best I can come up with is Deadput.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:39 pm

Also this thread just makes me feel sad.

Just real damn sad are we really this pathetic?

It's really hard trying not to get in an argument with people (Anger issues and all).

I am legitimately horrified at this thread.

News Credits: 2 · by **munkimus prime** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:41 pm

I'm getting a major Rapido vibe from that Colour scheme. Wait does she have proper hands and feet.? Well that's awesome and the weapon that she comes with is pretty cool too.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:43 pm

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:>Jumpstream

>Rust Dust

>Stormclash

Are you even trying anymore Hasbro?

As opposed to what?

Bumblebee?

Jazz?

Clffjumper?

Jackpot?

Astrotrain.

Don't make me use my list on you.

I would love to see you make up some names best I can come up with is Deadput.

Let's see...

How about Rotorwash, Jack-Knife and Chicane?

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:46 pm

Victorion looks alright, I will wait patiently until better pics come out, but will get her depending on price and availability >:oP

As for the designs, I mean no one really freaked out when the dotm nascar guys were fat redneck types; and while it's true that many women have figures like arcee and blackarachnia, it's true just as many don't. The only problem I have with this is that this was to be a momentous 'thing', this whole fan-made combiner, hasbro could've done more remolding and didn't, and that is sad; but I'm very apathetic, I don't care, because => COMBINERS RULE :DANCE:

by **Grahf_** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:48 pm

OmarJT82 wrote:Here are the names of the individual Autobots that make up Victorion:

Pyra Magna (Head/Chest/Torso - Hot Spot with new head sculpt)
Jumpstream & Dustup (Arms - Breakdown & Dead End remolds)
Stormclash & Skyburst (Legs - Alpha Bravo remolds)
Rust Dust (Chest - Groove remold).

Pyra Magna has a new head, chest and forearms as she has open hands instead of closed hands.
Jumpstream has a new head, chest and forearms with open hands.
Dustup has a new head, chest and open hands.
Stormclash and Skyburst have new forearms and they each have new heads. They also have asymmetrical color schemes that are mirror images of each other. Or they do for now, who knows what will happen later.
Victorion herself has a new head, posable hands and feet with ankle tilts. Then there's also the combinable weapons.

There's quite a bit more to this set than people are giving credit for. Could they have done a bit more like a new head for Rust Dust, new hips and thighs for all of them and new chest/s for Stormclash and/or Skyburst? Sure however they added quite a bit as it is. If they keep this color layout, then they're going to have to have a decent amount of paint on them as well.

I want to buy that TFC designed Star Rescue combiner now and get two helicopters for it so it can be Victorion in "G1" colors and Victorion proper can be the "G2" version.

News Credits: 2 · by **Ultra Mad** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:49 pm

Do we have a release date for this set?

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:52 pm

Ultra Mad wrote:Do we have a release date for this set?

"sometime 2016"-quote Hasbro

News Credits: 4 · by **padfoo** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:52 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Genericon #378 wrote:But who asked for fruit punch mixed with blue raspberry slurpee colour? Who?
Hey, I always mix those two flavors together! They make the best-tasting slurpee.

Sure does, certainly my favorite >:oP

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:55 pm

Guys, the topic at hand is Victorion, site rules and violations are not to be discussed here. Please remain on-topic.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:58 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:Let's see...

How about Rotorwash, Jack-Knife and Chicane?

Rotorwash is decent but sounds more like an aquatic Bot

The other two don't really seem like good names to me.

But the names we got are fine

News Credits: 4 · by **padfoo** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:59 pm

Jones wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Yeah, except my problem with them isn't just the awful colours. It's the fact they look like hideous caricatures of femininity made by someone who has never seen a real woman.

Just putting this out there, but are the variances in real women's appearances pretty much the same as the variances in real men's appearances? For example, there's a big visual difference between two people like The Rock and Peter Dinklage, and they're both awesome. You could correlate those two to bots like Grimlock and Bumblebee (again, both awesome), and we've never had an issue with that, so ultimately what does it matter if we have a stereotypically-feminine bot like Arcee and other fembots released that look more like these?

Isn't it just all good, in the end?

Well said, all different shades, shapes and sizes!

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:11 pm

I knew the fembots were going to be a major let down but i didnt expect them to be this big of a let down, hasbro you had something great and as usual you done **** it up.

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:24 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:I knew the fembots were going to be a major let down but i didnt expect them to be this big of a let down, hasbro you had something great and as usual you done **** it up.

How?

I don't understand why people are getting upset outside of the paint which is obviously due to the hand painted prototypes which always look worse then the finished products.

News Credits: 2 · by **munkimus prime** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:35 pm

I usually hate coming into the forums during Botcon and SDCC. It saddens me that there's so much negativity on here about toy robots. I sometimes question if I'm even in the right fandom. We're getting something that hasn't been done before and I like it when Hasbro does something different.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:49 pm

munkimus prime wrote:I usually hate coming into the forums during Botcon and SDCC. It saddens me that there's so much negativity on here about toy robots. I sometimes question if I'm even in the right fandom. We're getting something that hasn't been done before and I like it when Hasbro does something different.

I do to, usually; I wish there was more 'different', like new characters, or obscure micromaster character updates, or something in lieu of the '84 teams >:oP

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:52 pm

I like the idea, but the execution? Nah. What the ****'s the point of having a female combiner team when they're just repaints of male characters? That bothered me from the start. And now the fact that they're all the same colors, and have the same exact mold for two different characters just doesn't do it for me. I hope they make another female combiner team just so they have the chance to get it... well, better than this. I'm not pissed, just wondering what made them think this was the way to go about it.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:05 pm

SlyTF1 wrote:I like the idea, but the execution? Nah. What the ****'s the point of having a female combiner team when they're just repaints of male characters? That bothered me from the start. And now the fact that they're all the same colors, and have the same exact mold for two different characters just doesn't do it for me. I hope they make another female combiner team just so they have the chance to get it... well, better than this. I'm not pissed, just wondering what made them think this was the way to go about it.

Well we knew they were repaints, not sure what everyone was expecting; the design of the legs' transformation made it nigh on impossible to do much augmenting to. And since all of them lay on their chests, some even flip up into cramped areas with the head too, there was much room to change their chests, that the car-bots have different chests is nice. Hotspot wouldn't have any ground clearance if they gave her a new chest, and messing with the thighs might have inhibited the combined mode/vehicle, so...

I guess I'm wondering what exactly were you or anybody actually expecting?

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:15 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:I like the idea, but the execution? Nah. What the ****'s the point of having a female combiner team when they're just repaints of male characters? That bothered me from the start. And now the fact that they're all the same colors, and have the same exact mold for two different characters just doesn't do it for me. I hope they make another female combiner team just so they have the chance to get it... well, better than this. I'm not pissed, just wondering what made them think this was the way to go about it.

Well we knew they were repaints, not sure what everyone was expecting; the design of the legs' transformation made it nigh on impossible to do much augmenting to. And since all of them lay on their chests, some even flip up into cramped areas with the head too, there was much room to change their chests, that the car-bots have different chests is nice. Hotspot wouldn't have any ground clearance if they gave her a new chest, and messing with the thighs might have prohibited the combined mode, so...

I guess I'm wondering what exactly were you or anybody actually expecting?

Their own molds.