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News Credits: 241 · Fri May 13, 2016 9:36 pm

Prowl4 wrote:When does the 7th get revealed?

At the release of the 6th figure, which I predict to be Bludgeon. I also predict Impactor to be 2nd last, just for FunPub to mess with us :lol:

I see the helicopter mould is already in use but I wonder if it'll be rotorstorm. Ties in with lsotw in a funny way. I can't really picture it being anybody else.

With the Blades head that could actually work. But we already have Alpha Bravo fatigue as it is (sorry Va'al), plus it was never confirmed to be a Wrecker.

News Credits: 1 · Fri May 13, 2016 9:57 pm

Could be Leadfoot from the Dragstrip mold, Stakeout from Prowl, or *fingers crossed* Guzzle from Brawl.

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 14, 2016 5:35 am

Brakethrough wrote:Could be Leadfoot from the Dragstrip mold, Stakeout from Prowl, or *fingers crossed* Guzzle from Brawl.

Oh stakeout would be quite nice. I wouldn't say no to leadfoot either. It'll be interesting to see who it is I read that it's to complete the combiner wreckage so it must be a wrecker. I personally hope it's rotorstorm though to harken back to that lsotw line. Although tfcc could use the highbrow mould as rotorstorm as a partial joke because he lost his head.

News Credits: 21 · Sat May 14, 2016 7:09 am

Prowl4 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Is this figure a part of a Combiner? Please don't mind me asking, I don't update myself with BotCon figures as much as I used to.

It's a TFSS 4.0 figure, and all figures in this series combine as they all use CW molds. They are collectively known as the Mayhem Attack Squad, the Decepticon equivalent to the Wreckers from the Marvel comics (including the fact their roster constantly changes), and this iteration consists of:

- Needlenose with Sunbeam and Zputty (aka "Zigzag")
- Grabuge (aka "Ruckus", using the French-Canadian name, so it's not France French)
- Spinister with Singe and Hairsplitter
- Windsweeper
- Bludgeon

They combine into this fellow, designed after the most important character in the Marvel comics, Thunderwing:

Impactor (a retool of CW Rook) is the sixth figure in the set, and he'll part of the Combiner in the next series. The 7th Mystery figure will be a CW Deluxe as far as we know.

When does the 7th get revealed?

I see the helicopter mould is already in use but I wonder if it'll be rotorstorm. Ties in with lsotw in a funny way. I can't really picture it being anybody else.

Not fan of these combiner wars figures but I like repaint on him

News Credits: 6188 · Sat May 14, 2016 7:15 am

Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian chuckdawg1999, and as a follow-up to the arrival of the Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 4.0 figure, as reported here, we have a video review of the Triggerbot who isn't Ruckus - Grabuge! Check it out embedded below, and keep your optics tuned for the Seibertron.com gallery soon.

News Credits: 5 · Sat May 14, 2016 7:43 am

Zeedust wrote:
Mr O wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:I can't fathom where "ZPutty" comes from, or why it's the least bit appropriate as a substitute,

Is there one called "Do-Da"? 'cause that might explain it, but lead to another question.

Would you mind explaining that one?

I'll try. Like 'zippety doo-da' from the song. Bigger questions arise and they're best not asked.

I asked anyway, and only found this: http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Z_Putty_Patrollers
Maybe a reference to neither the original mould nor character having a Japanese version.

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 14, 2016 8:46 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Is this figure a part of a Combiner? Please don't mind me asking, I don't update myself with BotCon figures as much as I used to.

It's a TFSS 4.0 figure, and all figures in this series combine as they all use CW molds. They are collectively known as the Mayhem Attack Squad, the Decepticon equivalent to the Wreckers from the Marvel comics (including the fact their roster constantly changes), and this iteration consists of:

- Needlenose with Sunbeam and Zputty (aka "Zigzag")
- Grabuge (aka "Ruckus", using the French-Canadian name, so it's not France French)
- Spinister with Singe and Hairsplitter
- Windsweeper
- Bludgeon

They combine into this fellow, designed after the most important character in the Marvel comics, Thunderwing:

Impactor (a retool of CW Rook) is the sixth figure in the set, and he'll part of the Combiner in the next series. The 7th Mystery figure will be a CW Deluxe as far as we know.

Thank you. In fact that is the first time I've ever seen Thunderwing.

...Now that I see him, he looks disgusting. He makes me a little dizzy just looking at all the contrasting colors on the figure alone, and the background just makes it even worse. :HEADHURTS:

Why are the designers making the colors so bright? Why go through the trouble for another Transformer that looks like a bag of Skittles? How many times must we taste the rainbow?

Don't get me wrong, the individual figures are exquisite, but not when you put them together as a Gestalt.

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 14, 2016 8:54 am

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Is this figure a part of a Combiner? Please don't mind me asking, I don't update myself with BotCon figures as much as I used to.

It's a TFSS 4.0 figure, and all figures in this series combine as they all use CW molds. They are collectively known as the Mayhem Attack Squad, the Decepticon equivalent to the Wreckers from the Marvel comics (including the fact their roster constantly changes), and this iteration consists of:

- Needlenose with Sunbeam and Zputty (aka "Zigzag")
- Grabuge (aka "Ruckus", using the French-Canadian name, so it's not France French)
- Spinister with Singe and Hairsplitter
- Windsweeper
- Bludgeon

They combine into this fellow, designed after the most important character in the Marvel comics, Thunderwing:

Impactor (a retool of CW Rook) is the sixth figure in the set, and he'll part of the Combiner in the next series. The 7th Mystery figure will be a CW Deluxe as far as we know.

Thank you. In fact that is the first time I've ever seen Thunderwing.

...Now that I see him, he looks disgusting. He makes me a little dizzy just looking at all the contrasting colors on the figure alone, and the background just makes it even worse. Why are the designers making the colors so bright? Why go through the trouble for another Transformer that looks like a bag of Skittles? How many times must we taste the rainbow?

Don't get me wrong, the individual figures are exquisite, but not when you put them together as a Gestalt.

With a team name like mayhem I wouldn't exactly think them to be unified.

Sat May 14, 2016 1:42 pm

What the hell is a Grabuge? :???:

C'mon hasbro.

News Credits: 656 · Sat May 14, 2016 4:24 pm

I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 14, 2016 4:52 pm

HilltopOfKaon wrote:What the hell is a Grabuge? C'mon hasbro.

Well it's funpub not Hasbro, but they couldn't use ruckus due to trademark issues so they used his French Canadian name instead.

News Credits: 241 · Sat May 14, 2016 6:40 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:
HilltopOfKaon wrote:What the hell is a Grabuge? C'mon hasbro.

Well it's funpub not Hasbro, but they couldn't use ruckus due to trademark issues so they used his French Canadian name instead.

The name is certainly fitting as "Grabuge" (pronounced "Gra-booj") translates to "mayhem", "disorder", or "chaos".

For future reference, don't expect every replacement name to have English roots.

News Credits: 54 · Sun May 15, 2016 2:17 am

HilltopOfKaon wrote:What the hell is a Grabuge? C'mon hasbro.

What the hell is a Starscream?

The hell is a Jhiaxus?

The hell is a Galvatron?

The hell is a Quintesson?

The hell is a Alpha Trion?

The hell is a Emirate Xaaron?

The hell is a Moonrace?

The hell is a Catilla?

The hell is a Chromedome?

The hell is an Arcee?

The hell is a Kup?

The hell is a Omega Supreme?

The hell is a Wheeljack?

The hell is a Sunstreaker?

The hell is a Straxus?

The hell is a Octopunch?

The hell is a Bugly?

The hell is a Carnivac?

The hell is a Fangry?

The hell is a Cindersaur?

The hell is a Horri-Bull?

The hell is a Iguanus?

The hell is a Tentakil, Skalor, Nautilator and a Piranacon?

The hell is a Submarauder?

The hell is a Scorponok?

The hell is a Slugslinger?

The hell is a Hun-Grrr?

The hell is a Sinnertwin?

The hell is a Cyclonus?

The hell is a Weirdwolf?

The hell is a Ratbat?

The hell is a Motormaster?

The hell is a Trypticon?

The hell is an Astrotrain?

The hell is a Laserbeak?

The hell is a Thundercracker?

And what the hell is a Grimlock?

News Credits: 462 · Sun May 15, 2016 11:39 pm

Deadput wrote:The hell is a Chromedome?

Bad example. That one's a real word. It refers to a baldheaded person or an intellectual, according to Dictionary.com.

News Credits: 33 · Mon May 16, 2016 9:21 am

The trademarks are all owned by Hasbro and run through all the legal checks by Hasbro Legal.

Fun Pub picks names that they hope will pass legal, always choosing the original names first. Sometimes those don't pass and replacements have to be found.

News Credits: 241 · Mon May 16, 2016 11:55 am

TF_JW wrote:The trademarks are all owned by Hasbro and run through all the legal checks by Hasbro Legal.

Fun Pub picks names that they hope will pass legal, always choosing the original names first. Sometimes those don't pass and replacements have to be found.

Silly question, but something I've been wondering. Can Hasbro use the trademarks they've acquired for FunPub for their own toys, or are they tied to a certain company?

News Credits: 33 · Mon May 16, 2016 12:13 pm

Hasbro are the ones who own all the names and characters that Fun Pub use.

"Breakaway" is a name that comes to mind as something that Fun Pub used first and then Hasbro grabbed onto.

News Credits: 129 · Thu May 19, 2016 1:39 pm

ScottyP wrote:I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

My issue with him is that if you were to attach the hand/foot gun in alt mode, the paint will tear off its tab.

Thu May 19, 2016 4:16 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

My issue with him is that if you were to attach the hand/foot gun in alt mode, the paint will tear off its tab.

It might happen eventually, and I certainly advise caution, but several folks have posted that they've done so without issue, despite their own fears.

News Credits: 2 · Thu May 19, 2016 5:06 pm

Counterpunch wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

My issue with him is that if you were to attach the hand/foot gun in alt mode, the paint will tear off its tab.

Which tab?

Sat May 21, 2016 2:08 pm

Got charged for the next two figures, which makes me very happy.

So, who do you think are the next two? My money's on Spinister and Windsweeper.

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 21, 2016 3:09 pm

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Got charged for the next two figures, which makes me very happy. So, who do you think are the next two? My money's on Spinister and Windsweeper.

It seems like they're releasing them in the same order they were revealed in so it'll be windsweeper next. I hope I'm wrong and It's someone else though because there's no mystery to it if they just go in order.

News Credits: 174 · Sat May 21, 2016 3:21 pm

Prowl4 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

My issue with him is that if you were to attach the hand/foot gun in alt mode, the paint will tear off its tab.

Which tab?

Well, if it's being attached in vehicle mode, likely the tab on the pickup bed that slots into the space between the middle and ring fingers on the hfg (see below), which would mean that his lower legs are painted.

News Credits: 241 · Sat May 21, 2016 4:08 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Prowl4 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
ScottyP wrote:I got Ruckus in today and I'm pretty disappointed with it. Lots of chipped tan paint already, and the teal/green color should have been metallic. Pretty 'meh' on this guy.

My issue with him is that if you were to attach the hand/foot gun in alt mode, the paint will tear off its tab.

Which tab?

Well, if it's being attached in vehicle mode, likely the tab on the pickup bed that slots into the space between the middle and ring fingers on the hfg (see below), which would mean that his lower legs are painted.

I read one review that didn't have that problem, so I guess mileage will vary (read: it depends on how thick the layer of paint is).

Sat May 21, 2016 4:24 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Got charged for the next two figures, which makes me very happy. So, who do you think are the next two? My money's on Spinister and Windsweeper.

It seems like they're releasing them in the same order they were revealed in so it'll be windsweeper next. I hope I'm wrong and It's someone else though because there's no mystery to it if they just go in order.

Hmm, personally I don't care about any 'mystery'. I already know who six of the seven will be. I just want them for my shelves.