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Counterpunch.... is Optimus Prime preggers in your sig?

NuclearConvoy wrote:Counterpunch.... is Optimus Prime preggers in your sig?

He's an un-wed mother.

(We're hoping it's a Roller.)

Stockade wrote:Ok one question and why is everyone praising Lugnut and seems to be trashing Grapple?? i don't get it, Grapple is the same as inferno just minor re-tooling here and there, but basically the same figure! And now Lugnut from a totally different line in my point of view, comes in and steals away the glorious victory of Grapple spotlight! Not only that i dont seeing Lugnut fitting in the Genline/Classics at all or any line in my opinion when he's from the animated line to begin with. Sorry for the rant about this, but TFA line is one line i never got into and didn't care for and yes i saw the cartoons and thought they was too childish as well with the toys, but thats me.

a) Unless I'm mistaken, hardly anyone is trashing Grapple. I recall someone not liking his head, but most people seem to love him (provided he doesn't end up too yellow).
b) Heaps of fans are very happy to see Animated characters cross into other continuities. If that doesn't float your boat, that's cool, just don't buy Luggers

Speaking of Lugnut, does anyone know if he has all five eyes? I can only see the one.

Oilspill wrote:

Stockade wrote:Ok one question and why is everyone praising Lugnut and seems to be trashing Grapple?? i don't get it, Grapple is the same as inferno just minor re-tooling here and there, but basically the same figure! And now Lugnut from a totally different line in my point of view, comes in and steals away the glorious victory of Grapple spotlight! Not only that i dont seeing Lugnut fitting in the Genline/Classics at all or any line in my opinion when he's from the animated line to begin with. Sorry for the rant about this, but TFA line is one line i never got into and didn't care for and yes i saw the cartoons and thought they was too childish as well with the toys, but thats me.

a) Unless I'm mistaken, hardly anyone is trashing Grapple. I recall someone not liking his head, but most people seem to love him (provided he doesn't end up too yellow).
b) Heaps of fans are very happy to see Animated characters cross into other continuities. If that doesn't float your boat, that's cool, just don't buy Luggers

Speaking of Lugnut, does anyone know if he has all five eyes? I can only see the one.

I was about to ask the same thing. It looks like he'll have only one optic. It would've been great to see the other four but I suppose that's cool.

Well crapsicles. As I was wondering earlier, which Animated Lugnut to I go to correspond with this one, regular or Atomic? It looks like both! *facepalm*

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Oilspill wrote:

Stockade wrote:Ok one question and why is everyone praising Lugnut and seems to be trashing Grapple?? i don't get it, Grapple is the same as inferno just minor re-tooling here and there, but basically the same figure! And now Lugnut from a totally different line in my point of view, comes in and steals away the glorious victory of Grapple spotlight! Not only that i dont seeing Lugnut fitting in the Genline/Classics at all or any line in my opinion when he's from the animated line to begin with. Sorry for the rant about this, but TFA line is one line i never got into and didn't care for and yes i saw the cartoons and thought they was too childish as well with the toys, but thats me.

a) Unless I'm mistaken, hardly anyone is trashing Grapple. I recall someone not liking his head, but most people seem to love him (provided he doesn't end up too yellow).
b) Heaps of fans are very happy to see Animated characters cross into other continuities. If that doesn't float your boat, that's cool, just don't buy Luggers

Speaking of Lugnut, does anyone know if he has all five eyes? I can only see the one.

I was about to ask the same thing. It looks like he'll have only one optic. It would've been great to see the other four but I suppose that's cool.

Derrick Wyatt will be pissed

Oilspill wrote:

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Oilspill wrote:

Stockade wrote:Ok one question and why is everyone praising Lugnut and seems to be trashing Grapple?? i don't get it, Grapple is the same as inferno just minor re-tooling here and there, but basically the same figure! And now Lugnut from a totally different line in my point of view, comes in and steals away the glorious victory of Grapple spotlight! Not only that i dont seeing Lugnut fitting in the Genline/Classics at all or any line in my opinion when he's from the animated line to begin with. Sorry for the rant about this, but TFA line is one line i never got into and didn't care for and yes i saw the cartoons and thought they was too childish as well with the toys, but thats me.

a) Unless I'm mistaken, hardly anyone is trashing Grapple. I recall someone not liking his head, but most people seem to love him (provided he doesn't end up too yellow).
b) Heaps of fans are very happy to see Animated characters cross into other continuities. If that doesn't float your boat, that's cool, just don't buy Luggers

Speaking of Lugnut, does anyone know if he has all five eyes? I can only see the one.

I was about to ask the same thing. It looks like he'll have only one optic. It would've been great to see the other four but I suppose that's cool.

Derrick Wyatt will be pissed

Haha! No doubt!

Is it me or has anyone noticed the Autobot Insignia pattern on Strafe's wings? I think it looks nice and a clever way to repaint the Mindwipe figure. I may consider buying him afterall.

Counterpunch wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:Counterpunch.... is Optimus Prime preggers in your sig?

He's an un-wed mother.

(We're hoping it's a Roller.)

Hope all you want, it's probably a Rodimus.

AutobotJazz87 wrote:Is it me or has anyone noticed the Autobot Insignia pattern on Strafe's wings? I think it looks nice and a clever way to repaint the Mindwipe figure. I may consider buying him afterall.

I noticed.

Counterpunch wrote:Reveal the Shield Strafe is an idiot.

Guess his allegiance?

But what...don't look at his wings too hard? lol He's doubling down on you not paying attention.

HOW can I afford all of this? I'm going to have to sell one of my kids.

AutobotTrainer wrote:HOW can I afford all of this? I'm going to have to sell one of my kids.

::Approved::

Grapple looks awful but so did Inferno. Not interested in fat blocky TF's. Lugnut looks decent and movie-like enough for me to consider adding but since he's not a character I'm at familiar with I don't know. Strafe I'm undecided on. I don't care for the G1 character at all but I love the Mindwipe mold and I think those colors are appealing in robot mode but not so much in vehicle.

oh no.
i hoped they wouldn't and they did.
they made a matching mindwipe to go with the garishly coloured white and yellow and orange skystalker.
actually, this mindwipes not bat.
but i dont like that skystalker

Can anyone find Lugnuts rubsign?

EyeOfTheTigatron wrote:Can anyone find Lugnuts rubsign?

Yes.

Is this some sort of trick question?

its on the back of his hand mate

Joker'sRequiem wrote:Lugnut, to me, is the best of the three. He just looks amazing. I love the WWII alt-mode. . . .

Apologies for being pedantic, but they didn't have any jet powered transport aircraft in WWII. Only a couple of fighters near the end. Lugnut's alt-mode is a bit of a chimera. Makes me think of some kind of steam punk vehicle. He's still bitching awesome. What's everyone's thoughts on his aesthetics; movie or Classics?

The thing that winds me up the most about Grapple is that Hasbro obviously know that the fans want him in that kind of orange (otherwise they wouldn't photoshop the images to look that way), so why not just paint him orange instead of that bright yellow we saw a few weeks back?

Grapple looks good but i'd prefer if they gave him a freaking gun that he can hold and have the crane store on his back.

Lugnut looks cool, Voyager Class? I like it.

Strafe is a definate no for me the mold is nice but doesn't look like Strafe and the paintjob i could care less about.

Sodan-1 wrote:

Joker'sRequiem wrote:Lugnut, to me, is the best of the three. He just looks amazing. I love the WWII alt-mode. . . .

Apologies for being pedantic, but they didn't have any jet powered transport aircraft in WWII. Only a couple of fighters near the end. Lugnut's alt-mode is a bit of a chimera. Makes me think of some kind of steam punk vehicle. He's still bitching awesome. What's everyone's thoughts on his aesthetics; movie or Classics?

The thing that winds me up the most about Grapple is that Hasbro obviously know that the fans want him in that kind of orange (otherwise they wouldn't photoshop the images to look that way), so why not just paint him orange instead of that bright yellow we saw a few weeks back?

Hmm... I think Lugnut fits in well with the Classics/Generations line moreso than the movie line. There's not a lot of "movie kibble" to make this figure scream "movie" line. Of course that's not to say that he wouldn't fit in the movie line as well. He's a versatile figure in that respect much like Lockdown and Seaspray as someone mentioned earlier. But my personal opinion on Lugnut is that of Classics/Generations aesthetics. In the end, it's up to the owner to place him in whatever line he/she wishes to.

As far as Grapple goes, one can only hope that the yellow we saw in the packaged pics are the result of poor lighting and camera quality. That's rarely the case though. Hasbro never paints their figures whole. The dominant color of the figure is usually just colored plastic while other small details are painted in.

[quote="AutobotJazz87 Hasbro never paints their figures whole. The dominant color of the figure is usually just colored plastic while other small details are painted in.[/quote]

Of course. That's what I meant.

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote: Lugnut's alt-mode is a bit of a chimera. Makes me think of some kind of steam punk vehicle. He's still bitching awesome. What's everyone's thoughts on his aesthetics; movie or Classics?

Hmm... I think Lugnut fits in well with the Classics/Generations line moreso than the movie line. There's not a lot of "movie kibble" to make this figure scream "movie" line. Of course that's not to say that he wouldn't fit in the movie line as well. He's a versatile figure in that respect much like Lockdown and Seaspray as someone mentioned earlier. But my personal opinion on Lugnut is that of Classics/Generations aesthetics. In the end, it's up to the owner to place him in whatever line he/she wishes to.

Having just seen the images of United Lugnut, I think he'd look right at home with the Classics while RTS Lugnut would be better with the movie figures.

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Joker'sRequiem wrote:Lugnut, to me, is the best of the three. He just looks amazing. I love the WWII alt-mode. . . .

Hmm... I think Lugnut fits in well with the Classics/Generations line moreso than the movie line. There's not a lot of "movie kibble" to make this figure scream "movie" line. Of course that's not to say that he wouldn't fit in the movie line as well. He's a versatile figure in that respect much like Lockdown and Seaspray as someone mentioned earlier. But my personal opinion on Lugnut is that of Classics/Generations aesthetics. In the end, it's up to the owner to place him in whatever line he/she wishes to.

I think you might wanna stay away from the spiked Energon drinks and look again! Theres no way that Lugnut fits into the classics line or Genline at all! I can see the movie-bayverse line or back to the animated line, but thats it.
I think this anticipation of new figures has some people thinking this way and that!!!

Stockade wrote:

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Joker'sRequiem wrote:Lugnut, to me, is the best of the three. He just looks amazing. I love the WWII alt-mode. . . .

Hmm... I think Lugnut fits in well with the Classics/Generations line moreso than the movie line. There's not a lot of "movie kibble" to make this figure scream "movie" line. Of course that's not to say that he wouldn't fit in the movie line as well. He's a versatile figure in that respect much like Lockdown and Seaspray as someone mentioned earlier. But my personal opinion on Lugnut is that of Classics/Generations aesthetics. In the end, it's up to the owner to place him in whatever line he/she wishes to.

I think you might wanna stay away from the spiked Energon drinks and look again! Theres no way that Lugnut fits into the classics line or Genline at all! I can see the movie-bayverse line or back to the animated line, but thats it.
I think this anticipation of new figures has some people thinking this way and that!!!

Nah, he'll fit in with Classics/Gen nicely. He has none of the spikeyness of the movie line with all it's little panels of metal. It has the slightly blockyish look of classics. The feet are the only thing that might look movieish - but Lugnut has always had feet with two big 'toes' on them.

Though I'll probably get the Takara version, which will totally stand out on the shelf a bit, what with the metallic purple and all, but I'm cool with that.

Oilspill wrote:

Stockade wrote:

AutobotJazz87 wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Joker'sRequiem wrote:Lugnut, to me, is the best of the three. He just looks amazing. I love the WWII alt-mode. . . .

Hmm... I think Lugnut fits in well with the Classics/Generations line moreso than the movie line. There's not a lot of "movie kibble" to make this figure scream "movie" line. Of course that's not to say that he wouldn't fit in the movie line as well. He's a versatile figure in that respect much like Lockdown and Seaspray as someone mentioned earlier. But my personal opinion on Lugnut is that of Classics/Generations aesthetics. In the end, it's up to the owner to place him in whatever line he/she wishes to.

I think you might wanna stay away from the spiked Energon drinks and look again! Theres no way that Lugnut fits into the classics line or Genline at all! I can see the movie-bayverse line or back to the animated line, but thats it.
I think this anticipation of new figures has some people thinking this way and that!!!

Nah, he'll fit in with Classics/Gen nicely. He has none of the spikeyness of the movie line with all it's little panels of metal. It has the slightly blockyish look of classics. The feet are the only thing that might look movieish - but Lugnut has always had feet with two big 'toes' on them.

Though I'll probably get the Takara version, which will totally stand out on the shelf a bit, what with the metallic purple and all, but I'm cool with that.

I guess its just me then, cause i don't see any place for this guy except for the movie line! maybe cause he's from the animated line thats where he should stay and not jumping from that line to this one! Which i think is totally wrong, but thats my opinion.

I think Lugnut will look just fine in a Classics setting.