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[Deadput]

Love that shuttle call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

X both are just as real just like how long nose Prime is as real as flat nose Prime or how boom box soundwave is just as real as truck soundwave.


Just two different options/modes of the same guy.


No need to rub it in.

[MemphisR56]

Welp, called it. Massuve boob shelf.

I'll be honest. I held out for this, and I thought it would be brilliant, but I feel that the bot mode is rather dissapointing.

But then again? I'm not buying this set to display in individual bot modes.

Sure it looks a lpt like the character model, but it's one of the least toy accurate and dumb looking models in the original series.

I feel like somebody nailed it earlier in the thread when they said it looked like the designer couldn't pull off getting the nosecone to contain the arms. I just think they compromised the bot mode to get it to pull off all the other modes.

And it is totally a backwards version of the aerial bot transformation scheme, which, while kind of clever in a universe sunstreaker sort of way, is dissapointing because it's not an actual new layout.

tl;dr: It's not what I expected and I don't like it. But will buy it anyway because I'm an idiot.

[Hellscream9999]

Welp, called it. Massuve boob shelf.

I'll be honest. I held out for this, and I thought it would be brilliant, but I feel that the bot mode is rather dissapointing.

But then again? I'm not buying this set to display in individual bot modes.

Sure it looks a lpt like the character model, but it's one of the least toy accurate and dumb looking models in the original series.

I feel like somebody nailed it earlier in the thread when they said it looked like the designer couldn't pull off getting the nosecone to contain the arms. I just think they compromised the bot mode to get it to pull off all the other modes.

And it is totally a backwards version of the aerial bot transformation scheme, which, while kind of clever in a universe sunstreaker sort of way, is dissapointing because it's not an actual new layout.

tl;dr: It's not what I expected and I don't like it. But will buy it anyway because I'm an idiot.

Sound logic if I ever heard any

[fenrir72]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Correct X. I mean how the heck would one define this as trash? Unless you are weaning off your plastic crack fix? Genericon, dude, at least wait for the colored pics....wait, there are the prototypes already available.

[fenrir72]

For something that looks like "utter trash" looks surprisingly good!

Shuttle mode looks bad though.



Feet and chest are large too or at least disproportionate with his arms and thighs.


Not saying it looks awful but I'm pointing out flaws (or at least personal flaws)

Well, the proportions always depends on the base vehicle it transforms into. Given that as "limbs", and aircraft types whose majority shapes looks like that of a sausage......cylindrical. Also, the feet is aiming for the F.Dery style who for better or worst weirdness designed the animation models verrrrrrry differently from the actual toy

[MemphisR56]

Additionally, I've just noticed that he has the same slots on his hands as rook.

This Blastoff can Hulk Hands.

[Nemesis Destron]

I guess I'm part of the few that either dig this guy or do not seem to see what the majority clearly does. Perhaps when some "in hand" images are found things may get crystalized...'nuff said!

[frogbat]

the combaticons were and always will be my fave combiner. They were my first and you never forget your first. The vehicles were the most diverse and most interesting. Their cartoon introduction was awesome. Even as a kid, I did not fully like the inclusion of a shuttle over a jet. Till this day i remind myself of starscream's reasoning to have his own shuttle as megatron had astrotrain. So wasn't too bothered that hasbro did without the shuttle.

I think he looks a bit off as many have commented but will come together better once we see his paint apps. Right now, it would cost me little more to go for the UW version due to postage etc so I might plump for it just the same. I'll be happy getting a different mould over another aerialbot.

Also, Really appreciate the 4 rotors on vortex. He was the last member of my original set I had missing for a long time till my gran tracked him down for me.

[ZeroWolf]

For some reason my subscription to this thread has played up again so u almost missed this.

These are much better pictures, I love the shuttle mode and the feet don't bother me that much, wonder if you can give him a fanmode to have him hovering like bm jetstorm.

The chest is bulky, no getting around that but considering everything else it's just making a mountain out of a molehill.

If I had the money, this would be mine as I have a soft spot for shuttles...

[Evil Eye]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Anyway, I quite like this. The shuttle mode looks pretty good (exposed arms aside) and the robot mode looks nice too. Sure the arms could be a tad bulkier, and the feet look kinda weird, but overall he looks good. And that headsculpt!

I suppose they COULD have made his arms into the nosecone, but that would have resulted in a very long nose in shuttle mode- and it might have interfered with combined mode. Myself I'd rather that they'd taken a completely different approach and made his nosecone/cockpit split into "shoulder pylons" ala Gunbuster.


So yeah, I'm almost certainly buying the UW release, though more for the inevitable improvements to the other members and to diversify the molds in my collection as much as possible. I might very well get an extra Brawl and make a kit for him to convert him into an anti-air tank (or some other kind of tank- mobile rocket launcher perhaps? Engineering tank?). To be honest I might do that anyway because with CW limbs, the more the merrier.

[Cyberpath]

I think he looks good. They even put the fin on his back like his character-model. (Do you think there's some "partforming" there, like Brawl's gun?)

It's refreshing to see a new mold. The repaint/retool in CW/UW was kind of an overkill. It's one thing in the same group of jets/cars.. but across factions? And passing a brown Slingshot as Blast Off was the line's least inspired move, I think.

[Evil Eye]

I think he looks good. They even put the fin on his back like his character-model. (Do you think there's some "partforming" there, like Brawl's gun?)

It's refreshing to see a new mold. The repaint/retool in CW/UW was kind of an overkill. It's one thing in the same group of jets/cars.. but across factions? And passing a brown Slingshot as Blast Off was the line's least inspired move, I think.

Honestly I wouldn't have minded so much if he'd been a new mold jet or a heavy retool/reshell of Firefly. As it happens, though, he was a pretty uninspired repaint of Firefly with the wrong headsculpt. I'd rather we got a completely new character like with Rook (MIGHTY IS HE), Alpha Bravo and Offroad.

[Stuartmaximus]

For some reason my subscription to this thread has played up again so u almost missed this.

These are much better pictures, I love the shuttle mode and the feet don't bother me that much, wonder if you can give him a fanmode to have him hovering like bm jetstorm.

The chest is bulky, no getting around that but considering everything else it's just making a mountain out of a molehill.

If I had the money, this would be mine as I have a soft spot for shuttles...

including Sky Lynx

[ZeroWolf]

For some reason my subscription to this thread has played up again so u almost missed this.

These are much better pictures, I love the shuttle mode and the feet don't bother me that much, wonder if you can give him a fanmode to have him hovering like bm jetstorm.

The chest is bulky, no getting around that but considering everything else it's just making a mountain out of a molehill.

If I had the money, this would be mine as I have a soft spot for shuttles...

including Sky Lynx

Why are you bringing up sky lynx? I was talking purely about blast off. But yes I would also get sky lynx (in some forms, as I would still get the liokaiser set despite not liking the changes because I'm a consumerist dolt)

[william-james88]

I think he looks good. They even put the fin on his back like his character-model. (Do you think there's some "partforming" there, like Brawl's gun?)

It's refreshing to see a new mold. The repaint/retool in CW/UW was kind of an overkill. It's one thing in the same group of jets/cars.. but across factions? And passing a brown Slingshot as Blast Off was the line's least inspired move, I think.

Those are my sentiments as well. I feel he looks as good/bad as any other deluxe in the line and I am just happy to get some diversity. And plus, since I dont have Rook, I will finally get to play with the hulk hands.

[steals_your_goats]

I actually quite like this guy. I had no problem with the Hasbro version and I bought him and vortex for Galvatronus, but I'm happy to get a new mold. Hopefully we get some color images soon.

[Alpha Dominus]

Hurray for new molds! Not digging the arms sticking out in shuttle mode but other than that I'd take this any day over the constant shoehorning of remolds/repaints.

[Stuartmaximus]

any chance that they could retool the new Blast Off as Astrotrain?

[Gauntlet101010]

And here I thought that Blastoff looked alright. Not "Original Classics -> 30th Anniversary" good, but "Combiners Wars" good. None of the CW moulds have wowed me like earlier ones did, but then again, none of the earlier ones has a gigantic combiner port to work into the design either.

I'm gonna get it. For mould diversity if for no other reason. After that I think I'm good for official combiners.

[Easy Tiger]

any chance that they could retool the new Blast Off as Astrotrain?

I think you've got a better chance of the new Sentinel Prime being retooled into Astrotrain.

As for Blast Off, I quite like this mold. I really hate the conspicuousness of the pegs in bot modes, so any efforts to hide them are welcome.

[Microraptor]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Am I the only one who finds it amusing that the guy with PRESIDENT OBAMA (the guy who's campaign slogan was "change") as his avatar has a virulent hatred to change?

[Rated X]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.

[Microraptor]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy they Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.

Or, quite possibly, they decided that having a SPACE SHUTTLE on a team of combat vehicles was silly. Scale also has something to do with this, because a space shuttle is much bigger than the other vehicles.

[Rated X]

I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy they Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.

Or, quite possibly, they decided that having a SPACE SHUTTLE on a team of combat vehicles was silly. Scale also has something to do with this, because a space shuttle is much bigger than the other vehicles.

So youre telling me Hasbro thought the shuttle was so "silly" that changing it was worthy of their attention, but not worthy of a new jet mold? Or even a new head for that matter? Cmon bro...you know it was cheapness. There are several "in scale" high altitude spy jets that Hasbro could have used for the "blast off" character if it was truly about scale. Hasbro could have delivered a new mold that was in scale. Use of the slingshot head debunks any theory that it wasnt a penny pinching move on behalf of hasbro.

[Noideaforaname]

Meanwhile, the Protectobots are rocking a flippin' armored personnel carrier.