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News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:26 pm

I just looked up a scale chart and Wreck-Gar is the same height as Hot Rod, Kup, & Blurr...
I don’t really care if they make him a bit larger. Just interesting.
My memory is failing me in picturing scenes from the movie where he’s pictured with any of those others.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 1:06 am

The movie sure didn't make it clear. In some scenes Wreck-gar is bigger than Springer and sometimes smaller. I'm fine with him just being the same size as Springer.

As for being a large motorcycle instead of a human motorcycle, what's the difference?

Emerje

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:48 am

What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:52 am

sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:00 am

Emerje wrote:
sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

Probably. And that would be fine. But in the movie, he was riding himself.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:03 am

Emerje wrote:

Emerje

Ah, good ol' G1 scale randomness! :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:22 am

sol magnus wrote:
Emerje wrote:
sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

Probably. And that would be fine. But in the movie, he was riding himself.

What? Really?
It wasn’t another Junkion??

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:28 am

Sowndwave76 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
Emerje wrote:
sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

Probably. And that would be fine. But in the movie, he was riding himself.

What? Really?
It wasn’t another Junkion??

The 'other Junkion' was riding himself, too.

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 8:39 am

sol magnus wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
Emerje wrote:
sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

Probably. And that would be fine. But in the movie, he was riding himself.

What? Really?
It wasn’t another Junkion??

The 'other Junkion' was riding himself, too.

I believe it, but I don’t really get it...

News Credits: 5 · by **Nuclearxpotato** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:39 pm

Emerje wrote:
sol magnus wrote:What I mainly care about is Wreck-Gar needs to be able to ride himself so I can get two.

Do you think they wouldn't take the opportunity to retool him into another Junkion? Seems inevitable to me.

Emerje

Leaks say that we're getting a Junkion Retool in a later wave. Honestly it could be cool if they release the Junkion over multiple waves with different variant parts (heads, maybe some swapped colours)

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:19 pm

If the leaks i read are to be believed, the Insecticons are rumoured for this line but only one more Dinobot after slag. The others will be in the next line (or one after that) after Kingdom.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:35 pm

Anyone seeing any yellowing on their SS Jazz? I've seen 2 people on Twitter now who have had the front fenders on their Jazz's yellow

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 6:40 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Anyone seeing any yellowing on their SS Jazz? I've seen 2 people on Twitter now who have had the front fenders on their Jazz's yellow

Nope. And I left him under a light for like 3 days once.

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:43 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:If the leaks i read are to be believed, the Insecticons are rumoured for this line but only one more Dinobot after slag. The others will be in the next line (or one after that) after Kingdom.

This makes a lot of sense with the Insecticons... Not just because of their involvement in the '86 movie, but because they haven't been given what I think a lot would consider to be legit figures.
There's a bit of a discrepancy in my memory; in the cartoon, they were relatively small...
Yet in the early scene in the movie, as Hot Rod and Kup are coming back to Autobot City, they are really pretty large bugs.
I'm assuming they should be roughly the same size as ER Cliffjumper and NF Bee. And if Hastak were to make them just a little bigger in bot mode, so be it.
Not to mention, it's been a while since these guys have had their Legends class releases, right?
At least 2-3 years since the most recent?

I don't care which line these Dinobots are in... If they're the same quality and scale really well with Grimlock and Slag, I'll be happy. I think I speak for plenty when I say I hope the last one isn't 2 years out from now. I think it would be fair to have all 5 in roughly 2 years.

Oh, also, I haven't had any discoloration issues with my SS86 Jazz.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:40 am

If I recall correctly Bombshell came out at the beginning of Combiner Wars (late 2014), Kickback came out during Titan's Return (2016-2017) and Skrapnel got a redeco of his T30 release for Power of the Primes (so he's the oldest Insecticon whose toy dates back to 2013-2014 ish)

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:17 am

I hope for "mini Masterpiece" Insecticons. Beefy Deluxes like Allicon.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:02 am

If we do indeed get deluxe Insecticons, I'm gonna have a difficult decision to make. I really like the legends sized Insecticons we got in Prime Wars, and the new ones would have to be near perfection for me to consider getting them.

News Credits: 9 · by **Sowndwave76** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:32 am

Similar to these new Dinobots, I feel confident that Hastak can make these characters look phenomenal.
Even at deluxe size.
These are characters that I never loved, but I really dig their appearances. They each have their own distinct look, & I love their colors... They just look like proper Decepticons.

Anyway, I can’t see how these would be worse than their previous releases (not that those were bad).
I also think it will be easier to avoid the “off” looks of Blurr & Kup’s face sculpts.
What I’m hoping for is some decent articulation of the bug limbs. If those are on ball joints for extra pose ability in both modes, that would be real nice.

And it has been at least 4-ish years + since we’ve seen these guys get figures...
I’d say it’s due time... Even if they’re not planned for the SS86 subline.

News Credits: 19 · by **blackeyedprime** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:53 am

Bah, I wanted commander class radio controlled insecticons. i'd say I 'd just get the select repaints but Insecticons are hard for me to pass on.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:58 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:If we do indeed get deluxe Insecticons, I'm gonna have a difficult decision to make. I really like the legends sized Insecticons we got in Prime Wars, and the new ones would have to be near perfection for me to consider getting them.

I have the G1 Platinum reissues and the Prime Wars trilogy ones. I'll be very glad to triple-dip.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:23 pm

I'd love deluxe class Insections. The old ones can be their drones.

News Credits: 48 · by **Nemesis Primal** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 2:50 pm

Add me to the list of those excited by Deluxe Class Insecticons, I never got the Prime Wars Legends ones because they were too small and pathetic-looking for my tastes and I've been talking about wanting new ones made since Siege. I know they probably won't be as big as I'd like, I feel like around Siege Refraktor's height would be good for them but people keep talking about them as if they're Minibot-sized. I just want them to be a good size, look solid, actually come with accessories due to the price point (guns for each of them, and then maybe a cerebro-shell for Bombshell and some electric blast effects for Shrapnel?), and for them to not be so cartoon-accurate that Bombshell is weirdly grey like he seems to be in most of the G1 cartoon screenshots of his robot mode I can find. Also Diaclone Selects repaints would be cool, although I would probably be more likely to pick-and-choose those.

Hell, the die-hard FoC fan in me would take a Voyager Bombshell if he was beefy enough, but that probably belongs on the "Hasbro will never make this" thread

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:13 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Hell, the die-hard FoC fan in me would take a Voyager Bombshell if he was beefy enough, but that probably belongs on the "Hasbro will never make this" thread

TF Prime Bombshell said hi!

by **Nemesis Reformatted** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:06 am

My most wanted figures are Barrage, Ransack, Venom & Chop Shop. It really upsets me when nobody ever mentions them. It's like they don't even exist. It's always Kickback, Bombshell & Shrapnel because only the cartoon exists, nothing from the original toy line matters.

I know this about the 86 movie but whenever I see "Insecticons" I get excited. But then I'm like "Oh, it's the crappy 3 again. Not the good ones" and the disappointment sets in.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:12 am

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:My most wanted figures are Barrage, Ransack, Venom & Chop Shop. It really upsets me when nobody ever mentions them. It's like they don't even exist. It's always Kickback, Bombshell & Shrapnel because only the cartoon exists, nothing from the original toy line matters.

I know this about the 86 movie but whenever I see "Insecticons" I get excited. But then I'm like "Oh, it's the crappy 3 again. Not the good ones" and the disappointment sets in.

As far the MOVIE line is concerned, those 3 that never appeared will never be.

However, their chances to appear in the regular Generations line are very high. Many obscure characters whose toys were locked in G1 were reborn in the recent trilogy.
Just wait a bit more.