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by **Sportimus Prime** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:47 pm

Which Cybertron Scrapmetal is better? Red or yellow? And why does the same figure come in 2 different colors, having the same name? And is the little guy any good?

by **videriant** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:51 pm

It's a nice character, especially for a scout. In robot mode you can give him spikes, rumbles, or hands. He comes in two (+blue for japan, +redeco for cartoon) because they couldn't come up with an alternate name for him for a repaint and the red one is suppose to be a slightly smarter version while the yellow is suppose to be droneish. I like the yellow one, wish I had a blue one, and give props to the red one for being a cassette terrorcon (with divebomb/laserbeak and ravage from energon as the others).

News Credits: 4 · by **tom brokaw** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:52 pm

imo he's a great figure, one of the best cybertron scouts. personally, i like the red one better.... also theres a blue one and a multi colored one in the galaxy force line by takara.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:10 pm

tom brokaw wrote:imo he's a great figure, one of the best cybertron scouts. personally, i like the red one better.... also theres a blue one and a multi colored one in the galaxy force line by takara.

And a rare Botcon Customizing Class one as well. It's red, but if kept dead mint, is still on sprues, and also includes the head that is more humanoid looking and less bug like.

News Credits: 4 · by **SnapTrap** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 7:30 pm

In the Cybertron toon, the planet Cybertron is over-run with Scrapmetals (called Ramble in Japan). They were colored yellow, red, and blue. They were pretty much described as "vermin" but somehow enlarged to a bigger size. In Japan, they released the toy in all three colors but for some reason, Hasbro just brought out the two in red and yellow and made up a story of Scrapemtal being sentient. Obviously the blue one is highly sought after in the US and can be quite expensive for a figure its size. Also in the toon, one of the human characters, Coby, builds a personalized "Ramble" eventually named "Coby Ramble". This figure was released in Japan in a special box set with Optimus Prime and Wingsaber. The figure has a retooled, more human looking head and this mold was reused as the Botcon 2006 customizing class figure.

by **Decatron** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:30 pm

One of my favorite scouts, I wish I had the blue and red versions. I leave him with the "piledriver" extensions and prop him next to Soundwave.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:22 pm

Get the red one, and pose him next to Soundwave as an homage to Rumble/Frenzy! That's what I do. He is an homage of sorts with his pile driver hands.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:19 pm

I like the idea of a vermin bot so I bought multiples of the red and yellow versions ($5 a shot MISB at the recent Action figure expo in Ontario) I think I have about 24 of them.

In numbers they look really cool, like an infestation. Great effect for the display.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:20 pm

double post

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:20 pm

I am still looking for the blue one, it typically sells for such a ridiculous amount on ebay, I bow out of the auction.

by **Sportimus Prime** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:24 pm

^Hehe, triple post there. Cool.

I bought the red one. The yellow one seems nice too, but the red looks more menacing. Neat looking figure. Thanks for the help.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:29 pm

Sportimus Prime wrote:^Hehe, triple post there. Cool.

Yep, sorry about that, got a little impatient with the submit button. heh.

by **Predacon Galvatron** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:01 pm

I have the Red Version, and I love him. With this here it all comes down to what color you prefer. Personally, I liked the Blue, but USA never got him. Out of the 2 released, I like Red, simply because I'm a huge fan of that color, however they could've done Black too. *Here's to hoping for the blue repaint, and a black repaint in Universe/Classics 2.0.

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News Credits: 1093 · by **Alex Kingdom** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:06 pm

this one is my favorite. Although he is now for sale :grin:

Yours AK

News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:35 pm

Alex Kingdom wrote:this one is my favorite. Although he is now for sale

Yours AK

Yea I always wanted a Coby Rumble...but wasn;t willing to pay that much for the giftset.

The figure was pretty cool, especially with the hand ground pounder G1 homage. I enjoyed all of the scouts from the GF/Cybertron line, but Rumble was my fav.