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News Credits: 905 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 8:46 pm

KOToys has informed us that the photo gallery of the upcoming Transformers Generations series Deluxe class Darkmount is online over at KOToys forum.

In the recent BotCon convention, it was announced that this toy will be repaint/remold into Skullgrin (a Generation 1 Pretender).

You can view the full gallery here: http://www.kotoys.com/forum/index.php?topic=681.0

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:50 pm

Not familiar with this character and only looks ok to me. Pass.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:56 pm

Man, Straxus has needed a toy for so damned long. I just wish I was actually in a place in my life where I could go about getting all the toys I want... I really wanna cut it down to pretty much Classics/Universe/Generations and Animated and a few other random toys. ****, man, this is awesome. I can also easily imagine what they will do to make him Skullgrin, as long as they use his Monster Pretender head a a basis for the toys head.

What is the logic behind the name Darkmount though? I know there's a connection, and I think it was where Straxus had his base, but my mind is tired and frazzled.

Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:03 pm

omega666 wrote:Not familiar with this character and only looks ok to me. Pass.

The basics about him: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Straxus_%28G1%29

Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:05 pm

NuclearConvoy wrote:Man, Straxus has needed a toy for so damned long. I just wish I was actually in a place in my life where I could go about getting all the toys I want... I really wanna cut it down to pretty much Classics/Universe/Generations and Animated and a few other random toys. **** man, this is awesome. I can also easily imagine what they will do to make him Skullgrin, as long as they use his Monster Pretender head a a basis for the toys head.

What is the logic behind the name Darkmount though? I know there's a connection, and I think it was where Straxus had his base, but my mind is tired and frazzled.

Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:33 pm

The more of the figure I see, the more I like it and I started off liking it a lot!

News Credits: 6 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:38 pm

CybertronHotShot wrote:Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.

The whole fiasco dredges up fears originally invoked by Zombieland, but I guess all things considered, if I have to give up my name at some point in favor of a place I have lived, I have some reasonable choices; could be a lot worse.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:06 pm

Caelus wrote:
CybertronHotShot wrote:Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.

The whole fiasco dredges up fears originally invoked by Zombieland, but I guess all things considered, if I have to give up my name at some point in favor of a place I have lived, I have some reasonable choices; could be a lot worse.

Going by places I've lived I could be called Hudson or Montreal.
I think I'd go with Hudson.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:33 pm

And I could be Hell Paradise Michigan.

And whether or not you've heard of him, no toyless G1er deserved this Generations treatment more than Straxus, period. There were indeed better characters in the toon and comic, but all of them would be at least possible to take a stab at kitbashing a toy of. Straxus was too unique. Despite having an alt mode likely based on Galvatron's, until now the only toy that had one close to it was Energon Shockblast/Sixshot, but his Shockwave homage was so good that it made his upper body unworkable for Straxus (though appropriate, since Straxus ran the show on Cybertron in Shocky's absence in Marvel continuity). Yet his lower body is still debatably closer to Straxus' than this Darkmount toy's. If only Generations had room for Voyagers...

Say, since you guys at KO Toys were first to post this, you'd also be first to tell us if some Chinese enterprise was cranking out some unofficial 2X "reproductions" of lil' Darkmount here, right? That'd be about in scale with those Shockblast legs. Heck, make it 3X or 4X so he could really beat up Blaster, and not just the Action Master! I'll buy a whole case of real Darkmounts anyway so HasTak can't complain I'm somehow stealing from them! I just need Straxus bigger! BIGGER I tell you! He's the Lord High Governor of Polyhex, and shall tower over my collection!!!

Oh, and this new Skullgrin's bio had better mention his movie career. I wonder if there's a big Marrowack or Cubone toy I can hollow out into his pretender shell...

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:28 am

despite absence of flight mode:

super groovy!

true for all aspects of life.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:17 am

[quote="NuclearConvoy"Going by places I've lived I could be called Hudson or Montreal.
I think I'd go with Hudson.[/quote]
Where I've lived:
East Ridge(TN)
Red Bank(TN)
Oceanside(CA)
Chattanooga(TN)
Cleveland(TN)
Kearney(NE)

Where I'm going with if the "Slag" hits the turbine(#):
Breckinridge(CO)

RE: Straxus. It's been a long time comming.
A long time.

(#) Zombie or Captain Trips type)

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:04 am

Hasbro got this one right in my book.

Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:28 am

"I'm not saying he's a gold digga...but he aint messin' wit not broke

" Thank you Kanye for the memorable line...I can't wait to get this guy and customize him to him true G1 potential :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 251 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:56 am

I have a feeling no one likes his third mode but me. Why? Because except a few photos from BotCon, the only turret images we're getting was the very first image we got! The hell, man?! :-(

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 9:42 am

Mindmaster wrote:I have a feeling no one likes his third mode but me. Why? Because except a few photos from BotCon, the only turret images we're getting was the very first image we got! The hell, man?!

I must have missed the photo of the third mode. So Darkmount is a triple changer? Sounds good to me!

News Credits: 104 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:31 pm

Seeing this guy up close and personal at BotCon made me want him. He is quite impressive looking. I like that their able to engineer TFs to be able to use 2 handed weapons now. Very nice touch. Makes his weapon look more impressive.

News Credits: 33 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:46 pm

This toy is sex. It belongs with my G1 collection.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4uj_ZPHvY[/youtube]It will be mine.
Oh, yes - it will be mine.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:47 pm

Pics make him look really nice.

Hope I can hold off buying him till Skullgrin comes out before I decide which version of this mold I'd prefer picking up.