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News Credits: 654 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:09 pm

It's all DofP to me.

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:12 pm

ScottyP wrote:It's all DofP to me.

Even if they make the Rattrap and Dynobot ones?

News Credits: 654 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:25 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
ScottyP wrote:It's all DofP to me.
Even if they make the Rattrap and Dynobot ones?

In my head canon, sure. Transmetals or something. They went on a moon mission in between seasons 1 and 2, or something else that probably doesn't work at all in the actual BW canon :lol:

I don't take the fiction too seriously when the source is the club, but you know that about me by now. I know they're not technically DofP, but it works well enough for me.

by **gothsaurus** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:48 pm

Yeah, while I know the club and fiction have to often skirt around issues... just like when Hasbro loses an official name... I think most of us can "sense" a good place to direct the figures... and how to cobble together a timeline.

As for many of us, pre-beast-mode figures go on the Botcon DoFP shelf... and I'm definitely one of those. It's just the best place to display them.

by **TheVenocWarlord** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:12 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
TheVenocWarlord wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.
Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Wow people care about Uprising!?

You kidding? I can't get enough of it. I'm a huge fan of Beast Wars and their Transtech forms.

These Transtech guys are gold to Beast Wars fans, IMO. At least to me. They're almost as good as the BW figures themselves. Now if we could get more guys than Rhinox, Waspinator, and Rattrap, that would be great. Improved Dinobot and CHEETOR would be fantastic.

They're not TransTech. Uprising is simply an all-new Universe, with separate versions of our Beast Wars characters. Nothing more.

Heh, that's still Transtech to me. Beast Wars characters before they get their beast bodies; or in this case, instead of getting beast bodies. They still share the same coloration as they would have gotten if they got Beast Modes.

Either way; I can't get enough of it. G1 Fans keep getting references to what they love; so why not use Beast Wars fans? It's about time for us to get more love.

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:25 pm

TheVenocWarlord wrote:Heh, that's still Transtech to me. Beast Wars characters before they get their beast bodies; or in this case, instead of getting beast bodies.

But that's not what Transtech is, nor is it even relevant to those examples you mentioned.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:26 pm

yeah! keep the beast wars and beastless wars coming!

by **BobbyC93** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:30 pm

What SG transformer from FSS would you like to see in the future? I would like to see SG backstreet.

by **Peridot** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:44 pm

This may be my first TFCC figure. Mostly so I can stick that head on my Orion Pax and call it Optimus Prime, but still...

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 6:00 pm

Okay, so, according to both Pete Sinclair and Cheetimus Primal, the fact that the Club is making a Lio Convoy out of the Orion Pax mold like Cheets had done is a coincidence.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/996929-2015-tfcc-freebie-4.html#post11416357

Pete@BotCon wrote:Coincidence this time...

http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/106224-so-the-club-is-making-a-lio-convoy-leo-prime/page-7#entry2645728

Cheetimus Primal wrote:Does my word count?
It's a coincidence. I know that for a fact.

http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/106224-so-the-club-is-making-a-lio-convoy-leo-prime/page-7#entry2645740

Cheetimus Primal wrote:For the record I know well in advance when FP is going to use anything I've done. They aren't jerks.

Jesse Wittenrich also explained which ideas both Cheets and Fun Pub had done that were coincidences and which weren't:
http://www.allspark.com/forums/topic/106224-so-the-club-is-making-a-lio-convoy-leo-prime/page-8#entry2645833

Both Krok and Lio Convoy came from conversations that Pete and I had a while back - Lio Convoy actually came about VERY shortly after the first Orion Pax photos went public (I still have the first proof of concept mock-up made from the hand-painted Hasbro publicity shots) and Krok was right after Megatron was released. Just about this time last year, actually.

Lio Convoy came from me, since I saw a lion's head in the truck mode almost immediately. (My first thought then was Under-3 but I couldn't get the plastic layout to cooperate the way I wanted it to.) I don't remember who had Krok as an idea first, since as Pete mentioned it was a fairly obvious idea to both of us. Him being the huge Actionmaster fan that he is, it was probably him though. And then I added Gatoraider.

Alpha Trizer was another one that came from a conversation between Pete and myself. All the way back to like a week after BotCon 2012 when Hasbro first had shown Thundertron. I remember frantically looking for the best photos from BotCon and the SDCC so that I could make a mock-up for him.

Pounce and Wingspan were all Cheetimus though. Repeating it here in case it hasn't been said.

by **TheVenocWarlord** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:21 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
TheVenocWarlord wrote:Heh, that's still Transtech to me. Beast Wars characters before they get their beast bodies; or in this case, instead of getting beast bodies.
But that's not what Transtech is, nor is it even relevant to those examples you mentioned.

Well, I've only heard the term applied to Beast Wars figures before they got beast modes. What else are you going to call these guys?

But anyway, there are a lot of us happy that Beast Wars and it's extensions are getting more attention.

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:27 pm

TheVenocWarlord wrote:Well, I've only heard the term applied to Beast Wars figures before they got beast modes.

Whoever told you that was mistaken.

This is what Transtech was going to be - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transtech

And what it ultimately became instead (though spelled as "TransTech") - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_TransTech
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transcendent_Technomorph

TheVenocWarlord wrote:What else are you going to call these guys?

For the 2006 ones, "Dawn of Future's Past" toys or just "pre-Beast Wars" toys.

For the 2013 Depth Charge, and the 2014 Rampage and Trans-Mutate, "Beast Wars: Uprising" toys.

TheVenocWarlord wrote:But anyway, there are a lot of us happy that Beast Wars and it's extensions are getting more attention.

Agreed.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:40 pm

interesting choice but not worth the price of admission

by **TheVenocWarlord** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:43 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
TheVenocWarlord wrote:Well, I've only heard the term applied to Beast Wars figures before they got beast modes.
Whoever told you that was mistaken.

This is what Transtech was going to be - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transtech

And what it ultimately became instead (though spelled as "TransTech") - http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_TransTech
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transcendent_Technomorph

TheVenocWarlord wrote:What else are you going to call these guys?
For the 2006 ones, "Dawn of Future's Past" toys or just "pre-Beast Wars" toys.

For the 2013 Depth Charge, and the 2014 Rampage and Trans-Mutate, "Beast Wars: Uprising" toys.

TheVenocWarlord wrote:But anyway, there are a lot of us happy that Beast Wars and it's extensions are getting more attention.
Agreed.

Thanks for the info.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:49 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:They're not TransTech. Uprising is simply an all-new Universe, with separate versions of our Beast Wars characters. Nothing more.

I still want that transtech rhinox made from darkmount with hoist's crane in place of the cannon that they showed in vehicle mode in the dec/jan 14 issue of the club mag

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:03 pm

durroth wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:They're not TransTech. Uprising is simply an all-new Universe, with separate versions of our Beast Wars characters. Nothing more.

I still want that transtech rhinox made from darkmount with hoist's crane in place of the cannon that they showed in vehicle mode in the dec/jan 14 issue of the club mag

Unfortunately, TransTech Rhinox's robot mode can't be achieved from the Straxus figure since, while the legs do come from the Straxus toy design, the rest of the body is more of an original hodgepodge of elements taken from many designs. They designed his robot mode without a particular toy in mind, but threw in that vehicle mode pic into his bio page to at least give him something to represent a possible altmode for his robot design.

News Credits: 1 · by **durroth** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:33 pm

I know it doesn't work robotwise, but I still wish it was real

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:36 pm

DofP

??

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:45 pm

megatronus wrote:DofP

??

"Dawn of Future's Past" - http://www.botcon.com/botcon06figures.cfm

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:52 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
megatronus wrote:DofP

??
"Dawn of Future's Past" - http://www.botcon.com/botcon06figures.cfm

Cool - thanks!

News Credits: 460 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:46 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:Wow people care about Uprising!?

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Jul 31, 2014 11:49 pm

whoa whoa whoa now I would buy that dinobot outta springer mold! :grin:

FanPUB go coincidentally copy that idea!

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:00 am

mooncake623 wrote:whoa whoa whoa now I would buy that dinobot outta springer mold!

FanPUB go coincidentally copy that idea!

I'm betting on Va'al's lightly tea-scented, British-flag-themed, named-stitched undies that one of the two reveals coming up over the next two weeks will be Beast Wars: Uprising Dynobot using the Generations Springer mold.