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News Credits: 1 · Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:09 pm

Probably old news. On Battle Blades Bumblebee, I just realized I could fold the hood flap down in bot mode. There's even a slot on BB's back to fit the pointed end of the hood kibble. The instructions didn't mention it, and most other pics showed him with the hood flap behind his head. Now his bot mode looks far cleaner.

Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:00 am

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Probably old news. On Battle Blades Bumblebee, I just realized I could fold the hood flap down in bot mode. There's even a slot on BB's back to fit the pointed end of the hood kibble. The instructions didn't mention it, and most other pics showed him with the hood flap behind his head. Now his bot mode looks far cleaner.

Well I'll be doggone, you're right!

That looks much better now.

Thanks for the tip!

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:38 pm

Cobalt Prime wrote:
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:Probably old news. On Battle Blades Bumblebee, I just realized I could fold the hood flap down in bot mode. There's even a slot on BB's back to fit the pointed end of the hood kibble. The instructions didn't mention it, and most other pics showed him with the hood flap behind his head. Now his bot mode looks far cleaner.

Well I'll be doggone, you're right!

That looks much better now.

Thanks for the tip!

Glad you found it useful, Cobalt. :grin:

BTW, if like me, you find BB Bee's protruding "pencil neck ball-joint" annoying, there's an easy "optical illusion" you could use. Just paint up the yellow panel using a similar matte dark gray paint. I'm NOT talking about the hood flap, but that yellow panel just behind his head. Color it gray, and the ball-joint blends into the gray background when you view him from the front.

Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:39 pm

_I_Am_Megatron_ wrote:You can lock DOTM deluxe Sideswipe's mech-tech weapon by holding the blade out, and pulling the button all the way back at the same time.

Not exactly a feature, that - doing that, all you're doing is stripping the gears.

News Credits: 15 · Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:18 pm

Valandar wrote:
_I_Am_Megatron_ wrote:You can lock DOTM deluxe Sideswipe's mech-tech weapon by holding the blade out, and pulling the button all the way back at the same time.

Not exactly a feature, that - doing that, all you're doing is stripping the gears.

Yes, and I would never take the risk of damanging my figures. The gun does lock sometimes, mainly because the weapon got jammed once from me dropping it. The weapon did that for a while after the fall but it doesn't do it now. But back on topic...oh wait, I finished...

Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:25 pm

shockwave'smectech weapon in dotm has holes in the side so the button can stay still to leave his cannon as a partical wave blaster

Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:10 am

lazerwave217 wrote:shockwave'smectech weapon in dotm has holes in the side so the button can stay still to leave his cannon as a partical wave blaster

Gota love the smectech weapons

News Credits: 4 · Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:30 am

Holes in the side? I thought the button just clipped to hold it?

News Credits: 9 · Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:27 am

lazerwave217 wrote:shockwave'smectech weapon in dotm has holes in the side so the button can stay still to leave his cannon as a partical wave blaster

_I_Am_Megatron_ wrote:Holes in the side? I thought the button just clipped to hold it?

Yes, it does. I have no idea what he's talking about! Mind you, I haven't opened mine yet, just played with the weapon through the hole!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:54 pm

On Generations Warpath, you can kind of make it look like he's using a Buzz-Lightyear-like communicator by opening the flap on his right forearm (technically, you could do this on either arm, but I think it looks cooler on his right arm.)

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:02 am

Seahammer: Merman mode! XD

I'm surprised more folks hasn't seen/done this. It's so easy, but I didn't even think about it until I saw a video on youtube. XP

Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:02 pm

NatsumeRyu wrote:
Seahammer: Merman mode! XD

I'm surprised more folks hasn't seen/done this. It's so easy, but I didn't even think about it until I saw a video on youtube. XP

What are you speaking of? Which Toy does this? :???:

P.S. Your photo isn't showing up

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:07 pm

godzillabot wrote:
NatsumeRyu wrote:
Seahammer: Merman mode! XD

I'm surprised more folks hasn't seen/done this. It's so easy, but I didn't even think about it until I saw a video on youtube. XP

What are you speaking of? Which Toy does this?

P.S. Your photo isn't showing up

DOTM skyhammer, and the legs are not transformed.
the pic looks fine from here...

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:31 pm

ArmadaPrime wrote:
godzillabot wrote:
NatsumeRyu wrote:
Seahammer: Merman mode! XD

I'm surprised more folks hasn't seen/done this. It's so easy, but I didn't even think about it until I saw a video on youtube. XP

What are you speaking of? Which Toy does this?

P.S. Your photo isn't showing up

DOTM skyhammer, and the legs are not transformed.
the pic looks fine from here...

The pic looks fine from here, too.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:36 pm

I don't know if I should post a pic, since it might be suggestive. HA Roadbuster can wear his saw blade on the underside of his... crotch, sticking out in "attack mode", if you will. #-o

I'm not sick, I was looking for a place to store the blade in robot mode becuase I put other Mechtech weapons on his arms and shoulders. Honest!

News Credits: 3 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:05 pm

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:I don't know if I should post a pic, since it might be suggestive. HA Roadbuster can wear his saw blade on the underside of his... crotch, sticking out in "attack mode", if you will.

I'm not sick, I was looking for a place to store the blade in robot mode becuase I put other Mechtech weapons on his arms and shoulders. Honest!

o.0
...

News Credits: 5 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:36 pm

The worst one for the Bot "rod" is the new HA Tailpipe..

His Muffler becomes... well, his "shooter"
They put it right in the middle, and it swings around to his front side, and it even has that "rod" like definition.

I'll take a pic tonight, i almost died laughing when I did it.

Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:12 pm

It's alright guys, it seems to happen, after all, look at whirl in this pic

As well as the rounded twin objects on Classics Sunstreakers crotch :lol:

Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:36 pm

Skywarp64 wrote:On Generations Warpath, you can kind of make it look like he's using a Buzz-Lightyear-like communicator by opening the flap on his right forearm (technically, you could do this on either arm, but I think it looks cooler on his right arm.)

You can also use his missile in a few alternate ways. It actually fits into his turret cannon, so you can use it to give him an extra long PEW PEW shooter.

If that's not your thing, you can put it in his fist hole and have him use it as a microphone. Warpath sings the oldies ZOWIE!

News Credits: 4 · Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:43 pm

DOTM Shockwave looks much better with his feet sticking out the sides and his knees pushed up towards the front in tank mode.

His feet and knees pushed in hides alot of the detailing.

Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:36 pm

Seems like a lot of these hidden features are due to idiotic mistransformations on the packaging art or the figures being incompletely transformed in the packaging (for ease of packagin, obviously). BB Bumblebee, RotF voyager Mixmaster, RotF deluxe Sideways, and RotF leader Prime are just a few that come to mind. It was a few weeks after owning RotF leader Prime that I found out he had panels that popped out the back of his calves and that his back folded up accurate to the movies. I feel that Mixmaster and Sideways are very underrated figures due to their complexity and accuracy (if transformed correctly).

News Credits: 3 · Sat Jun 18, 2011 4:53 am

Dean ML wrote:Seems like a lot of these hidden features are due to idiotic mistransformations on the packaging art or the figures being incompletely transformed in the packaging (for ease of packagin, obviously).

rotf wheelie and scalpel spring to mind...

Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:51 am

Dean ML wrote:Seems like a lot of these hidden features are due to idiotic mistransformations on the packaging art or the figures being incompletely transformed in the packaging (for ease of packagin, obviously). BB Bumblebee, RotF voyager Mixmaster, RotF deluxe Sideways, and RotF leader Prime are just a few that come to mind. It was a few weeks after owning RotF leader Prime that I found out he had panels that popped out the back of his calves and that his back folded up accurate to the movies. I feel that Mixmaster and Sideways are very underrated figures due to their complexity and accuracy (if transformed correctly).

Also forgot about Prime's wheels on his ankles rotating backwards. Judging from swag pics, a LOT of collectors miss this, even those that do excellent custom work.