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News Credits: 2 · by **Head Shot** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:11 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-Custom ... dZViewItem

i've never read the comic series, but this custom looks incredible!

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:22 pm

that looks pretty awesome despite the bubbles and whanot

by **Valandar** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:27 pm

Yeah, and the guy who's been making it hasbeen posting at Tfans and TFW2005. He's planning on revising it to take screws and rearranging the parts by color so he can actually produce more than a few and sell them.

Should be pretty durn sah-weet!

by **Darth Screamer** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:29 pm

That's sweet!

by **tentagil** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:46 pm

Valandar wrote:Yeah, and the guy who's been making it hasbeen posting at Tfans and TFW2005. He's planning on revising it to take screws and rearranging the parts by color so he can actually produce more than a few and sell them.

Should be pretty durn sah-weet!

Yeah based on the auction this is from his first run of testshots as he's getting the final bugs out of the process before he does them in mass. Think he said they'll be going for somewhere around 200-250 assembled and painted I think. Which based on complexity and the quality he's putting in isn't to bad, These should be several steps about even RBS's Fembots.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ninja Sixshot** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:48 pm

nice.

News Credits: 3 · by **Collector Maximus** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:49 pm

awesome! Wasn't that Bumblebees train mode? I don't remember prime unless he was in the last issue...which I never read :oops:

News Credits: 2 · by **Bombus distinguendus** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:00 am

amazing...simply amazing

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:37 am

Holy crap that is fantastic!!!
And its only a fan built custom job!!! Wowee!!!!

If Hasbro put that into production I would by it and about 15 repaints! Steam Locomotives and Transformers... cant go wrong with that combo!

by **Valandar** » Thu May 31, 2007 2:32 am

He made it with a totally different style than any other kitbasher / scratchbuilder I've seen. He actually made 3d models of the individual parts and used a rapid prototype machine to make them.

by **Godmodule** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:01 am

Interesting...

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Thu May 31, 2007 3:13 am

That's excellent.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:33 am

That is awesome. I really wish Takara would do this line.

by **Bun-Bun** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:44 am

Defects or not, that is Damn impressive.....
I wish I had sKillZ

Collector Maximus wrote:awesome! Wasn't that Bumblebees train mode? I don't remember prime unless he was in the last issue...which I never read

Prime was never actually in the comic series, but there are concept drawings floating around, which is where this version came from

Website · by **Flux Convoy** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:51 am

That is very nice. It's a shame the series itself sort of stunk. I was really hopeful after the first issue then..... bleh.

by **DREWCIFER** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:26 am

That's bloody clever.

:DEVIL:

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:13 am

Dude, that should be added to some TF line. it's freakin awesome.

But If hasbro made it instead of this guy, would hasbro be the KO company :-?

Turnabout is fair play, or, whatever get;s that toy in my hands, without spending 200 bucks.

by **Dagon** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:28 am

I'd like to see the HoS Insecticon train.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:29 am

I remember this guy!
It's one of his first models, and I believe he's working on making the final thing(s) now!

I'd love to own that baby.

by **Swerve** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:30 am

I thought they let Optimus sleep through the whole "Hearts of Steel" ordeal because they felt it wasn't important enough to wake him up out of stasis. Maybe the figure could have a sleep mode.

by **Dagon** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:37 am

Swerve wrote:I thought they let Optimus sleep through the whole "Hearts of Steel" ordeal because they felt it wasn't important enough to wake him up out of stasis. Maybe the figure could have a sleep mode.

They did. Maybe one of the accessories for this figure is a nice, soft pillow.

by **Swerve** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:40 am

Dagon wrote:
Swerve wrote:I thought they let Optimus sleep through the whole "Hearts of Steel" ordeal because they felt it wasn't important enough to wake him up out of stasis. Maybe the figure could have a sleep mode.

They did. Maybe one of the accessories for this figure is a nice, soft pillow.

Now that I think about it, Prime never looked like a train, they all had that Beast Wars look until Bumblebee woke up and changed his apperance to look like a train.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:55 am

It'd be real cool if the guy sold the parts as a model kit, with all the screws and whatnot. Then you could build the transformer yourself!

I've always wanted to buy a transformer as a kit. I would just love to build, say, Masterpiece Prime from scratch, using parts provided by Hasbro!

by **Swerve** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:21 am

Lord Crump wrote:It'd be real cool if the guy sold the parts as a model kit, with all the screws and whatnot. Then you could build the transformer yourself!

I've always wanted to buy a transformer as a kit. I would just love to build, say, Masterpiece Prime from scratch, using parts provided by Hasbro!

I've actually wondered why someone hasn't come up with that idea yet. They make models of action figures, I believe there are even a few for Transformers, that you can assemble, but I always wondered why Hasbro or Takara never released a kit that allowed you to build a transformable model.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:05 pm

Swerve wrote:
Lord Crump wrote:It'd be real cool if the guy sold the parts as a model kit, with all the screws and whatnot. Then you could build the transformer yourself!

I've always wanted to buy a transformer as a kit. I would just love to build, say, Masterpiece Prime from scratch, using parts provided by Hasbro!

I've actually wondered why someone hasn't come up with that idea yet. They make models of action figures, I believe there are even a few for Transformers, that you can assemble, but I always wondered why Hasbro or Takara never released a kit that allowed you to build a transformable model.

Because, strangly enough, it would cost more. They see normal profit as the standard of (0). They would save money in Asia buy not having to assemble it (+1) and that would become the new (0). But they'd lose most of the children and parents market (-1). So while not actually losing money they wouldn't be increasing profit so (0) is seen as (-1). They would then raise the prices to make a profit (+1) which on the shelf would mean a price tag of at least (+2 or higher). That price change would mean that less of us harder core fans would be buying it so they'd produce less and have to raise the price again to make a (new +1 or higher) profit. All of that happens before it idea gets pitched in the board room.
The less accessible (customer friendly) the product, the smaller the buying base, the higher the price. The cycle of price hikes and consumer base shrinking goes on until you end up with a super rare and super expensive model kit like they routinly get in Japan.

Has-blows.