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News Credits: 33 · by **TF_JW** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 8:21 am

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/762813580513271809

Unused TCC concepts for a couple of Scrounge figures. It's awesome that Hasbro are finally actually releasing their Scrounge though!

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:21 pm

Scrounge from FoC Rumble/Frenzy? Genius, so fitting in Blaster, his only friend. And the Kreon uses the inverted Mirage helmet, right?

News Credits: 33 · by **TF_JW** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 2:25 pm

Yup. The Kreon's eyes would have been tampoed on the back of a Mirage helmet. The face opening (now on the back of the head) would have revealed some of Scrounge's cranium details tampoed on inner head brick.

News Credits: 3 · by **Decepticon Stryker** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:57 pm

Kreon Scrounge would work, since you could remove his hand and replace it with a brick that looked like his fingers. Speaking of Scrounge, I saw a cool custom of him using either Rid Slipstream or Jetstorm mold.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 6:00 pm

On the side, what's the percentage of the ideas that ultimately go completely unused? If an idea gets reworked (like Universe 2003 Spacewarp into Astrotrain), or is used as a basis for a different character (like Nemesis Prime into Toxitron), I'd count it as used.

News Credits: 33 · by **TF_JW** » Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:02 am

It depends on the year, but there are usually quite a few of ideas that end up not making the cut. There quite actually could be a book that was nothing but unused concepts.

Including just plain wacky concepts that had no chance of proceeding further than the initial mock-up, I'd say I probably have 60-70 concepts for this year. Some are variations of each other (same character, different mold; same mold, different character) so they might no exactly fit your question though.