Black Hat wrote:What is it you don't like about Divebomb's bird mode if I may ask? I always found it one of the best bird modes the franchise has.
Black Hat wrote:What I REALLY want (and I have said this before but hear me out) is a TR-compatible leader class Big Convoy (call him Colossus Prime or Behemoth Prime, with Titan Master Slammoth) with a "mammoth bone hut" base mode. Or failing that, a heavy retool of Alpha Trion- they practically have the same transformation anyway (beast head splits to form shoulders most notably).
Emerje wrote:Black Hat wrote:What is it you don't like about Divebomb's bird mode if I may ask? I always found it one of the best bird modes the franchise has.
Mostly the wings. As I said, the transformation is intuitive, but I just couldn't be convinced that his big chunky wings would be useful for flight. That's not to say I think Cruellock is flawless or anything, his hands are a bit lazy (but apparently not lazy enough for Hasbro to copy them for PotP Rippersnapper) and I wish they could have come up with something better to do with his leftover tail parts in bot mode, but overall I just find him to be the better figure.
For me both of Airrazor's figures have better bird modes.
Emerje
Flashwave wrote:Always preferrwd Divebomb, only because Cruellock was too simple. That Beast node IS cool, but transforming didnt yiedl anyrhi f remarkably different. Besides that glorious meat cleaver.
YoungPrime wrote:Most of these have potential. But I guess I'll just shut up, anticipate some more OP's, Bee's and Windblades and be happy about it.
TF-fan kev777 wrote:YoungPrime wrote:Most of these have potential. But I guess I'll just shut up, anticipate some more OP's, Bee's and Windblades and be happy about it.
Um, you do realize that in the last 3 generations lines (CW, TR, PotP) there has been a grand total of 1 Bumblebee and 1 Windblade, right? Plenty of Optimuses (Optimi?) to go around, no doubt, but that is inevitable.
-Kanrabat- wrote:I won't count "botcon" exclusives. But yeah, Windblade is shilled a bit too much. How about giving some other fembots the spotlight? Like Cybertron's Thunderblast with an updated and improved mold?
Emerje wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:I won't count "botcon" exclusives. But yeah, Windblade is shilled a bit too much. How about giving some other fembots the spotlight? Like Cybertron's Thunderblast with an updated and improved mold?
Those first two were from SDCC which were far easier to get a hold of than just about anything ever to come out of BotCon.
Emerje
Emerje wrote:I really don't see much difference between a store exclusive and a convention exclusive that's also sold online and across parts of Asia. Official Hasbro products made for a specific main line should count as part of that line. That's different from the BotCon method which usually created their own lines or made figures that could easily supplement Hasbro lines without necessarily being part of them.
Emerje
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:5. Runabout/Runamuck - Non-combiner Decepticon cars are a rarity in themselves. It's criminal how much of an after thought these two are, given their somewhat unique standing among their contemporaries. That oversight should be redressed.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:5. Runabout/Runamuck - Non-combiner Decepticon cars are a rarity in themselves. It's criminal how much of an after thought these two are, given their somewhat unique standing among their contemporaries. That oversight should be redressed.
Technically speaking, those two have Generations-styled figures via Adventure: CW Blackjack was originally meant as either and sculpted as such. Adventure took advantage of that:
Transformers Adventures Runabout Gallery
... with Runamuck paired with a Dogfight redeco of CW PowerglideViper as a mailaway.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:AllNewSuperRobot wrote:5. Runabout/Runamuck - Non-combiner Decepticon cars are a rarity in themselves. It's criminal how much of an after thought these two are, given their somewhat unique standing among their contemporaries. That oversight should be redressed.
Technically speaking, those two have Generations-styled figures via Adventure: CW Blackjack was originally meant as either and sculpted as such. Adventure took advantage of that:
Transformers Adventures Runabout Gallery
... with Runamuck paired with a Dogfight redeco of CW PowerglideViper as a mailaway.
Interesting. Thanks. Well if they have Technically received an update, I will lean my fifth selection towards my joint honourable mentions:
5. Piranacon/Raiden - The two Gestalts that get the least possible amount of respect in Transformers.
The Seacons are my favourite G1 Combiner Team, that are barely even thought of, or acknowledged.
Whereas most fans outside of Japan and the Hardcore, probably wouldn't even know who Raiden is...
DecepticonFinishline wrote:
ROTF Bludgeon (and his several repaints/retools) is another good example of this. A lot of people put him with the Generations toys (I did for a time, too) but he is not TECHNICALLY a Generations toy.
DecepticonFinishline wrote:I, personally, wouldn't count these. Generations-styled is true. But TAV is not Generations. Generations-styled is a pretty fluid term, and open to interpretation.
Emerje wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I, personally, wouldn't count these. Generations-styled is true. But TAV is not Generations. Generations-styled is a pretty fluid term, and open to interpretation.
How would you classify these two? They're even more Generations than the TAV figures.
Time Lines "Over-Run" and Runamuck
Emerje
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Ok, so no Beast Wars for this list (although BW is G1 ) got it!
Emerje wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I, personally, wouldn't count these. Generations-styled is true. But TAV is not Generations. Generations-styled is a pretty fluid term, and open to interpretation.
How would you classify these two? They're even more Generations than the TAV figures.
william-james88 wrote:Also Emerje, the ones you showed are not more part of the Generations line than the TAV figures are. They are all molds that originated in CHUG but were used in other lines (be it TAV or Timelines).
Emerje wrote:william-james88 wrote:Also Emerje, the ones you showed are not more part of the Generations line than the TAV figures are. They are all molds that originated in CHUG but were used in other lines (be it TAV or Timelines).
Not Really. Timelines tends to be a catchall for multiple lines and these two characters were definitely the G1 versions while the TAV figures were characters unique to the Adventure (and Aligned by extension) universe no matter how they look and what they're named. TAV Runabout and Runamuck look like the G1 versions, but they aren't the same characters. Same goes for any other TAV figures like Powerglide, the Insecticons, and Adams/Cosmos. Basically if it had the RID/TAV scan symbol then it's not the G1 character. Would you call TAV Slug and Swoop Animated figures just because they use Animated molds?
If you really want a truly confusing figure then look at Fracture, a GoBot in a movie line using a CHUG mold.
Emerje
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Emerje wrote:william-james88 wrote:Also Emerje, the ones you showed are not more part of the Generations line than the TAV figures are. They are all molds that originated in CHUG but were used in other lines (be it TAV or Timelines).
Not Really. Timelines tends to be a catchall for multiple lines and these two characters were definitely the G1 versions while the TAV figures were characters unique to the Adventure (and Aligned by extension) universe no matter how they look and what they're named. TAV Runabout and Runamuck look like the G1 versions, but they aren't the same characters. Same goes for any other TAV figures like Powerglide, the Insecticons, and Adams/Cosmos. Basically if it had the RID/TAV scan symbol then it's not the G1 character. Would you call TAV Slug and Swoop Animated figures just because they use Animated molds?
If you really want a truly confusing figure then look at Fracture, a GoBot in a movie line using a CHUG mold.
Emerje
The point was the originator line for the molds used for them, not what series or continuity the characters in question are in. If one so choses, the ones made from "Generations" molds can be repurposed as G1. That's why I said "technically" earlier.
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