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Rated X wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:I like what I'm seeing so far. Wish Groove could be ridden by other Protectobots (the handlebar placement makes this unlikely), but that was never going to be a deal breaker for me.
It's a little odd that Streetwise is so G1 inspired while Groove is so not. But that's about all the complaints I have.
I think Streetwise is more or less a Barricade style Mustang. And police actually do use them In Florida, the Highway Patrol does have them. Not the Barricade model, but something similar. I cant say I'm feeling the neo bike. I'm getting tired of seeing transformers having alt modes that never make it past prototype stage in real life. One thing I liked about G1 is that most of the car alt modes were common on the streets when the toys came out. I couldn't see a cop riding that thing in real life. Maybe in a science fiction movie. Lets hope TFC doesn't come up with some kind of one man mini copter for Blades. That would be horrible.
Rated X wrote:I know plenty about jets. This isn't the 80's any more where the Air Force builds a new fighter every year to answer the Russians latest Mig. The only true combat fighter seeing real service these days the F-22 Raptor. Then came the F-35 Lightning which looks almost the same as the raptor.
Rated X wrote:Sure we still have some F-16's in service.
Rated X wrote:And the F-18 seems to be the preferred choice of military air show teams.
Rated X wrote:I'm not sure what the Chinese have now a days. There was a time they just had cold war era stuff but with all the money they got now I'm sure they got some pretty high tech stuff too.
Rated X wrote:Im sure there are plenty of jets out there that I don't know about because they never made it past the prototype stage (similar to the FP Stunticon cars)
Rated X wrote:And if I was TFC, I would have gone with the B1 Bomber rather than the Blackbird. it's still in service or at least was during the Iraq war. Of course, I would still rather have a Concorde, but the B1 actually was a combat jet unlike the Blackbird which was a spy plane.
Agamemnon wrote:Perhaps a station wagon type of ambulance and a small jumper type of helicopter can be used. I don't know how they are going to get around such recognizable vehicles, but I am eager to see them try.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:Nothing Hasbro does surprises me anymore, their ineptitude is legendary!
Burn wrote:Shadowstream wrote:It's quite clear they dun dropped the ball, but did they have to drop it so far and so hard?
It's FunPub. It's their specialty.
Shadowstream wrote:If not-First Aid looks good I might bite just for him, but I'm going to wait for the hopeful eventual Maketoy and/or Fansproject attempts at the Protectobots since they'll more than likely be of a more desirable size next to the other combiners from those 2 companies that I already have, not to mention being more in line with my aesthetic tastes.
Banjo-Tron wrote:Shadowstream wrote:If not-First Aid looks good I might bite just for him, but I'm going to wait for the hopeful eventual Maketoy and/or Fansproject attempts at the Protectobots since they'll more than likely be of a more desirable size next to the other combiners from those 2 companies that I already have, not to mention being more in line with my aesthetic tastes.
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Sodan-1 wrote:Banjo-Tron wrote:Shadowstream wrote:If not-First Aid looks good I might bite just for him, but I'm going to wait for the hopeful eventual Maketoy and/or Fansproject attempts at the Protectobots since they'll more than likely be of a more desirable size next to the other combiners from those 2 companies that I already have, not to mention being more in line with my aesthetic tastes.
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I can't say much about your aesthetic tastes compared to mine, but I too am a little worried about the size of these guys. For what it's worth Streetwise looked to be smaller than TFC's Predacons. I'm hoping that, coupled with a fairly generously sized team of FP Stunticons (generous in comparison to Colossus anyway) means that the size differences may not be too great.
mbd88prime wrote:love these and all tfc combiners because they look cool, they're solid, and they are BIG like a combiner should be.
keep it up TFC you rock!!!
p.s. a dino combiner is a great idea and it doesn't need a sixth or seventh member that become shoes or something. five is the standard for most combiners
p.p.s. a nice big not- menasor without holey leg arms is a must as well to go against your uranos!!!
Rated X wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:I like what I'm seeing so far. Wish Groove could be ridden by other Protectobots (the handlebar placement makes this unlikely), but that was never going to be a deal breaker for me.
It's a little odd that Streetwise is so G1 inspired while Groove is so not. But that's about all the complaints I have.
I think Streetwise is more or less a Barricade style Mustang. And police actually do use them In Florida, the Highway Patrol does have them. Not the Barricade model, but something similar. I cant say I'm feeling the neo bike. I'm getting tired of seeing transformers having alt modes that never make it past prototype stage in real life. One thing I liked about G1 is that most of the car alt modes were common on the streets when the toys came out. I couldn't see a cop riding that thing in real life. Maybe in a science fiction movie. Lets hope TFC doesn't come up with some kind of one man mini copter for Blades. That would be horrible.
GiveMeSkyfire wrote:Quite true my friend! I have not given up on that shining city on the hill yet...
craggy wrote:Rated X wrote:Gauntlet101010 wrote:With Groove it's definitely a challenge. We've seen a fair amount of decent motorcycle bots over the years now, but they're still not really ideal candidates for lining up in a Scramble City combiner with a car, an ambulance and a helicopter. This chunky Groove is at least using a design that I liked the look of when I first saw it (it's a bit Lawmaster from Judge Dredd) and whilst still looking faintly ridiculous as a leg is almost believable as some kind of Cybertronian thing.
william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.
If they scale well with everything TFC has done so far then they aren't over-sized. That will mean they are perfectly sized for those of us who want BIG gestalts.Banjo-Tron wrote:These latest pictures confirm it, I'm out. I'd rather no Protectobots at all than have this set of oversized, uninspiring figures.
william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.
Arctorro wrote:Looks like they learned nothing from Uranos and there will be a pile of crap sitting off to the side no matter what mode they are in![]()
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
FP (for all their quality issues with M3) have obviously put a fair amount of effort into integrating everything in all modes, though the weapon on the back of Diesels trailer is a let down.Agamemnon wrote:I think this was brought up in the FP Stunticons thread, but I do have to hand it to FP: they seem to have a real knack for integrating the combiner parts (feet and hands, in particular) into the individual bot and alt modes. (I will admit that the two hand weapons for Vortex and Blast-off were stretching the bounds of coolness.)
Even with Herc, TFC did a pretty decent job of integration. (I liked the use of the hand as a sort of "disc" or "plow" behind the vehicle.) The feet-used-as-display-stands was a neat idea with Uranos. This looks like they are getting lazy, or maybe just running out of ideas on integration.
william-james88 wrote:So that would also be the case for Predaking, who is also six members.
Arctorro wrote:FP (for all their quality issues with M3) have obviously put a fair amount of effort into integrating everything in all modes, though the weapon on the back of Diesels trailer is a let down.Agamemnon wrote:I think this was brought up in the FP Stunticons thread, but I do have to hand it to FP: they seem to have a real knack for integrating the combiner parts (feet and hands, in particular) into the individual bot and alt modes. (I will admit that the two hand weapons for Vortex and Blast-off were stretching the bounds of coolness.)
Even with Herc, TFC did a pretty decent job of integration. (I liked the use of the hand as a sort of "disc" or "plow" behind the vehicle.) The feet-used-as-display-stands was a neat idea with Uranos. This looks like they are getting lazy, or maybe just running out of ideas on integration.
I look at the hand weapons for Bruticus the same way as Herc, a good try at something difficult to do.
I can't stand the feet-used-as-display-stands thing and see it as a completely lazy and uninspired way of dealing with the feet.
It doesn't look like they are even trying with integration any more. If it was due to scramble city style gestalts, like people were claiming Uranos was going to be, then maybe it could be over looked. But when the hands and feet could be worked into the big Blackbird and Firetruck figures what they are doing is pathetic really.
The problem for those of us collecting the larger scale combiner teams is that TFC is really the only hope we have. Yes MMC have made Feral Rex, but they don't seem interested in doing another combiner team. So we are forced to hope TFC will get it right and they seem to have run out of inspiration with the completion of Herc. Do we keep going with them, over looking the flaws, or wait hoping someone will do something in what is really TFC's own scale...
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
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