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News Credits: 5749 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:05 am

The TFCC twitter feed has posted a couple of in-hand vehicle mode images of their 2014 club exclusives Protoform X and Trans-Mutate, redeco/retools of Transformers Prime First Edition Deluxe Megatron and Arcee respectively. Protoform X will be the 2014 membership incentive figure, Trans-Mutate will be available as a 2014 exclusive separate from their TFSS 2.0 figures. Check them out below.

News Credits: 122 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:17 am

I find myself strangely excited for both of these.

Ever since I sold off my TF:Prime figures, I've been eager to get some of the better molds back into my collection. I'm super happy they've found a way to work these FE molds into Classics!

Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:17 am

I tell ya, I dig that Protoform-X.

News Credits: 12 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:18 am

Transmutate looks awesome. I've always like that color combo and I love the Prime Arcee mold. It's also a perfect mold for Transmutate because it has that skeletal look in bot mode. I'm not interested in Protoform X, though. I just don't care for that mold.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:30 am

Transmutate makes an ugly, ugly bike.

I kinda like Protoform X's color scheme, but still not much want for it. Not really a Beast Wars fan so no real attachment to these characters.

News Credits: 3645 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 11:44 am

Midnight_Fox wrote:Transmutate makes an ugly, ugly bike.

I kinda like Protoform X's color scheme, but still not much want for it. Not really a Beast Wars fan so no real attachment to these characters.

You're missing out. Rampage/Protoform X is one of the most fun Transformers characters. There aren't many sadistic Decepticons or Predacons out there (at least, they're not portrayed that way usually). Rampage is sadistic, evil and he's fun to watch.

News Credits: 251 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:02 pm

Transmutate, though an interesting redeco, doesn't pique my interest.

Protoform X/Rampage, on the other hand...

=P~

Hopefully I'll be able to sign up for the Club before the deadline to get in on the figure.

News Credits: 6188 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 12:16 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Midnight_Fox wrote:Transmutate makes an ugly, ugly bike.

I kinda like Protoform X's color scheme, but still not much want for it. Not really a Beast Wars fan so no real attachment to these characters.

You're missing out. Rampage/Protoform X is one of the most fun Transformers characters. There aren't many sadistic Decepticons or Predacons out there (at least, they're not portrayed that way usually). Rampage is sadistic, evil and he's fun to watch.

IDW Overlord, Pharma and the DJD beg to differ. [-(

I am very partial to these two figures though. Very. I already was when we saw these pictures:

Dammit.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:16 pm

Being a huge Beast Wars fan I'm looking forward to both these figures. I was looking at my member page and it looks like my membership gets automatically renewed when it's time, am I just looking at this wrong or is anyone else's like that.

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:51 pm

I'll pick up the transmutate at some point because I like the mold, but I'm not renewing TFCC this year just for that.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:03 pm

I'm also a huge BW fan. It's what got me into Transformers.

That said, these figures just don't work. Transmutate most of all. Where the hell was it said that Transmutate was female? Oh, yeah, nowhere. So...why the Arcee mold? Why not something obscure? I understand it's an alternate timeline, but even so, WTH Fun Pub?

As for Ramapage, the TFP Megatron mold doesn't scream sadistic, mentally unstable maximal protoform. It says "normal guy". Rampage is not a normal guy. Again, WTH Fun Pub?

(on an off-note: I'M BACK!!! Stupid at&t service redirected me to an error page for a while)

News Credits: 12 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:18 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:Where the hell was it said that Transmutate was female? Oh, yeah, nowhere.

Where was it said that Transmutate was male?

News Credits: 241 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:21 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:Where the hell was it said that Transmutate was female? Oh, yeah, nowhere. So...why the Arcee mold? Why not something obscure? I understand it's an alternate timeline, but even so, WTH Fun Pub?

BW Transmutate was voiced by Susan Blu, the same actor who voiced Arcee in G1. The original character description also said this: ...and a face that vaguely indicates it is female. Overall, despite its treatment as being genderless overall, it's pointing to female ever so slightly.

News Credits: 12 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:26 pm

Something to think about regarding TF "gender":

http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1998

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 3:50 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:Where was it said that Transmutate was male?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:BW Transmutate was voiced by Susan Blu, the same actor who voiced Arcee in G1. The original character description also said this: ...and a face that vaguely indicates it is female. Overall, despite its treatment as being genderless overall, it's pointing to female ever so slightly.

And this why I said "something obscure", meaning a mold that could work as male or female.
Just because Transmutate's face looks female doesn't mean it is. It's chest has a very male shape to it, but that doesn't mean Tranmutate is male either.

Using a mold and face that could be male OR female is the perfect fit for Transmutate. You just can't tell. And we shouldn't be able to.

News Credits: 241 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:00 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:Using a mold and face that could be male OR female is the perfect fit for Transmutate. You just can't tell. And we shouldn't be able to.

Well, Starscream would be perfect for it. Then again...

News Credits: 12 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 4:26 pm

Maybe Transmutate is transgendered. Now she's a female. Deal with it. Complaining about her being or looking female just makes you sound sexist and old-fashioned.

News Credits: 226 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:24 pm

Funny, I thought Hasbro and IDW were trying to convince us that TF's don't have genders and won't have them for a couple more months ... >:oP

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 5:28 pm

Burn wrote:Funny, I thought Hasbro and IDW were trying to convince us that TF's don't have genders and won't have them for a couple more months ...

IDW maybe. The Covenant of Primus is pretty explicit about women existing.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:09 pm

Excited for these and their universe. "Non-Beast Wars", "Beastless Wars"... Darn it, I'm starving for an official name beyond its technobabble stream designation!

News Credits: 6188 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 7:17 pm

Midnight_Fox wrote:
Burn wrote:Funny, I thought Hasbro and IDW were trying to convince us that TF's don't have genders and won't have them for a couple more months ...

IDW maybe. The Covenant of Primus is pretty explicit about women existing.

I'm not too sure about that 'couple of months' thing either.. :-$

News Credits: 462 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 9:21 pm

Holy snap, they made her bio PUBLIC!!! :shock:

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/424287497997148160

Looking to know more about the "yet to be named" Beast Wars Universe to be featured in 2014 in the TCC Magazine. pic.twitter.com/V2eUKnCtM5

Additional Tweets:

And just WAIT till you see the art. Evan Gauntt is one of the BEST Transformers artists around and he us used exclusively by the TCC.

The art for Rampage is incredible. He does the entire piece and his use of color is just incredible. Can't wait for you all to see!

Then the above Tweeted bio, followed by:

This profile was originally featured in Issue 25 of the TCC Magazine… Art by Evan Gauntt.

Welcome @naototsushima to the TCC! Excited to have the artist behind Transformers Animated: The Cool doing line art for the 2014 Club Comic!

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:59 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:Maybe Transmutate is transgendered. Now she's a female. Deal with it. Complaining about her being or looking female just makes you sound sexist and old-fashioned.

So, me saying a genderless character that was only in 1 episode should stay genderless is sexist?

I'd like to see the dictionary you read.

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:28 am

Ok, before this degenerates into the same discussion again - give up.

The mold is for a female character, it does not make it a female mold.
The character is genderless, the molds available are what they are, and I didn't see the same outrage when Strika was announced as using the Warpath mold.

You're welcome to keep on discussing the issue, but not in this thread.

News Credits: 767 · Sat Jan 18, 2014 3:14 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:I'm also a huge BW fan. It's what got me into Transformers.

That said, these figures just don't work. Transmutate most of all. Where the hell was it said that Transmutate was female? Oh, yeah, nowhere. So...why the Arcee mold? Why not something obscure? I understand it's an alternate timeline, but even so, WTH Fun Pub?

As for Ramapage, the TFP Megatron mold doesn't scream sadistic, mentally unstable maximal protoform. It says "normal guy". Rampage is not a normal guy. Again, WTH Fun Pub?

(on an off-note: I'M BACK!!! Stupid at&t service redirected me to an error page for a while)

The TFPrime Megatron mold is perfect for X.
It does scream cruel and sadistic, it's just subtle about it, you gotta take a very close look at Megatron's design again, nothing about it scream normal guy. No normal guy has butchering tools for fingers. On top of that, Rampage's original toy and design never screamed sadistic, mentally unstable protoform, both screamed "crab guy with lots of guns and crab legs".

Also, this is X, so he might still not be crazy and sadistic, remember that happened after all the tests to see if he was immortal.

I really want that Protoform X, he'll be awesome to have.