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steals_your_goats wrote:

megatronus wrote:

RNSrobot wrote:Mm. But we know 4.0 will be a deluxe.

Hmmm... Is there any speculation on who it'll be?

People were saying quake out of brawl or crankcase out if First aid to round out the double targetmasters and triggercon teams. But with the rumor of quake coming out in titans return I think it's unlikely It'll be him. I'm hoping for crankcase.

Or the fourth Wrecker combiner limb.

Sabrblade wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

megatronus wrote:

RNSrobot wrote:Mm. But we know 4.0 will be a deluxe.

Hmmm... Is there any speculation on who it'll be?

People were saying quake out of brawl or crankcase out if First aid to round out the double targetmasters and triggercon teams. But with the rumor of quake coming out in titans return I think it's unlikely It'll be him. I'm hoping for crankcase.

Or the fourth Wrecker combiner limb.

That too, but personally I'd prefer that spot to go to the 5.0 7th figure.

The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Flashwave wrote:The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Wonder whom the combiner head would be though? Tidalwave's is kinda shaped like Bruticus... Demolisher combine to form Tidalwave

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Flashwave wrote:The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Wonder whom the combiner head would be though? Tidalwave's is kinda shaped like Bruticus... Demolisher combine to form Tidalwave

Stop that you hooligan! I didn't even know I wanted it until you said that.

megatronus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Flashwave wrote:The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Wonder whom the combiner head would be though? Tidalwave's is kinda shaped like Bruticus... Demolisher combine to form Tidalwave

Stop that you hooligan! I didn't even know I wanted it until you said that.

Yeah, I'd go for that, the giant squat design even kinda fits for it... they could even remold the chest armor to look like his chest design from armada

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Flashwave wrote:The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Wonder whom the combiner head would be though? Tidalwave's is kinda shaped like Bruticus... Demolisher combine to form Tidalwave

You should really put this in that thread for what we would want from a new club, cause that would be awesome!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Flashwave wrote:The more I look at this, the more excited *I get for Toxy. But I have to be honest, given a choice between Toxitron or Demolishor, I thibk I would rather have had the Demolishor head. Maybe Hasbro can use it for whatever replaces the club

Wonder whom the combiner head would be though? Tidalwave's is kinda shaped like Bruticus... Demolisher combine to form Tidalwave

You should really put this in that thread for what we would want from a new club, cause that would be awesome!

Signs are currently pointing to Combiner heads not being switched out along with the regular head. Optimus Maximus hasn't got a new one despite the "Star Convoy" alternate head, Betatron has the original Superion head Silverbolt had, and the "Armada Demolishor" prototype still has the Bruticus noggin. So unless Toxitron gets a newly tooled Combiner head, expect a Menasor wanna-be like these guys:

Tacking onto the "using extras for legs/whatever," my original plan was to make up some of the odd numbers with Impactor and the bonus figure. But now it sure seems like 4 and 5 subs will give us two complete combiners.

So assuming one has picked up every retail CW limb (and enough torsos), doesn't get shut out of deluxe Groove, and grabbed Quickslinger and Brake-Neck, leaves a person with three extra limbs. Ostensibly Alpha Bravo, Off-Road, and Rook, although in my personal set-up Rook will remain a Protectobot as I have First-Aid and Off-Road as limbs for Cylonus (along with the other two trucks).

So I have Battle Core Prime with Sunstreaker, Prowl, and Alpha Bravo.

Am I missing anything in particular? With no news on a NA release of shuttle Blast-Off, the singular extra limb NOT counting Takara stuff (which are all box set teams anyway) would be Botcon Terrorsaur, who is more or less unattainable for me right now. Unless BOTH of the mystery figures end up being CW deluxes which is certainly not guaranteed.

RNSrobot wrote:Am I missing anything in particular? With no news on a NA release of shuttle Blast-Off, the singular extra limb NOT counting Takara stuff (which are all box set teams anyway) would be Botcon Terrorsaur, who is more or less unattainable for me right now. Unless BOTH of the mystery figures end up being CW deluxes which is certainly not guaranteed.

Though, Terrorsaur doesn't have a HFG, so any combiner he'd be part of would be lacking either a hand or a foot.

Did you also count BotCon Ratchet?

Well, yes and no about Terrorsaur's HFG. Most combiners he'd be a part of would be as a replacement for an existing limb. So Terrorsaur would just borrow, say, Tarantulas' HFG if he were to become part of Predacus.

Or maybe Roller's or Starscream's HFG if he joined Grand Galvatron.

TF_JW wrote:Well, yes and no about Terrorsaur's HFG. Most combiners he'd be a part of would be as a replacement for an existing limb. So Terrorsaur would just borrow, say, Tarantulas' HFG if he were to become part of Predacus.

Or maybe Roller's or Starscream's HFG if he joined Grand Galvatron.

Unless one already has all the HFGs that they own already attached to other combiners, with no spares left over for Terrorsaur to borrow. That was my point.

TF_JW wrote:Well, yes and no about Terrorsaur's HFG. Most combiners he'd be a part of would be as a replacement for an existing limb. So Terrorsaur would just borrow, say, Tarantulas' HFG if he were to become part of Predacus.

Or maybe Roller's or Starscream's HFG if he joined Grand Galvatron.

Random Question: can you tell us when the 5.0 subscription service is going to open up for ordering? I assume the Club pushed it back so that we'd at least have figure 1 of 4.0 in hand before hitting us up for more money?

Sabrblade wrote:

RNSrobot wrote:Am I missing anything in particular? With no news on a NA release of shuttle Blast-Off, the singular extra limb NOT counting Takara stuff (which are all box set teams anyway) would be Botcon Terrorsaur, who is more or less unattainable for me right now. Unless BOTH of the mystery figures end up being CW deluxes which is certainly not guaranteed.

Though, Terrorsaur doesn't have a HFG, so any combiner he'd be part of would be lacking either a hand or a foot.

Did you also count BotCon Ratchet?

That's it. Again unlikely to obtain but in theory there is a complete extra set of limbs after completing the combiners "proper."

An extra hfg for terrorsaur is easy enough to obtain in black. Just not red. Heh.

RNSrobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RNSrobot wrote:Am I missing anything in particular? With no news on a NA release of shuttle Blast-Off, the singular extra limb NOT counting Takara stuff (which are all box set teams anyway) would be Botcon Terrorsaur, who is more or less unattainable for me right now. Unless BOTH of the mystery figures end up being CW deluxes which is certainly not guaranteed.

Though, Terrorsaur doesn't have a HFG, so any combiner he'd be part of would be lacking either a hand or a foot.

Did you also count BotCon Ratchet?

That's it. Again unlikely to obtain but in theory there is a complete extra set of limbs after completing the combiners "proper."

An extra hfg for terrorsaur is easy enough to obtain in black. Just not red. Heh.

And there are enough figures with pegs on tjeir weapons' butt stock that they can go for a gun hand and give their HFG To Terry

Yeah, it'd be kinda annoying to have 20 CW limbs and only 19 HFGs. Makes me wonder about Fractyl; it seems like he's intended to be part of the Wreckers Combiner so he's probably got a HFG, but it's weird that FunPun's releasing two decos of the same figure in short succession, but with only one missing an accessory. Huh.

I don't think any of the Combiner Wars weapons have been a sufficient replacement for a hand, but Takara's Nosecone looks like he'll be able to rock a mean drill hand in limb mode, which wold leave his HFG surplus.

RevTibe wrote:Yeah, it'd be kinda annoying to have 20 CW limbs and only 19 HFGs. Makes me wonder about Fractyl; it seems like he's intended to be part of the Wreckers Combiner so he's probably got a HFG, but it's weird that FunPun's releasing two decos of the same figure in short succession, but with only one missing an accessory. Huh.

I don't think any of the Combiner Wars weapons have been a sufficient replacement for a hand, but Takara's Nosecone looks like he'll be able to rock a mean drill hand in limb mode, which wold leave his HFG surplus.

Takara's Nosecone was exactly who I was thinking of.

It is odd that Terry didnt get all his parts (not unprecedented) but the may have figured on since he was never intended to ve a combiner and the boxset combiner Predacus already had 4 HFGs they didnt need to pack anymore since there was only 1 torso anyway

And with the arrival of the first Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 4.0 figure, we receive news from the Club itself about the final service - now open for Club members to subscribe! Soon to be open for non-current members too, 5.0 will include the figures revealed during BotCon, as seen here. Check out more info below!

The Transformers Figure Subscription Service (TFSS) 5.0 order period is now open. As of now, the TFSS is only open to active Transformers Collectors’ Club members. In the next few weeks we will be offering an option for ANY past member of the Club to order the TFSS 5.0 as well. Stay tuned to TransformersClub.com for information on when that is available.

In the meantime, if you are an active member you can order your TFSS 5.0 now. Please note, there is no limit on the number of subscriptions you can purchase as the TFSS is built to order.

The order period will run until midnight May 26, 2016. In addition, please ignore the Join link on the log in page. It has been disabled.

You can either pay in full or by installment. Also, everyone that completes the full TFSS will also receive a BONUS 7th deluxe figure! This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail.

Thank you for your support and we hope you are as excited as we are about the TFSS 5.0!

- Brian

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

In the next few weeks we will be offering an option for ANY past member of the Club to order the TFSS 5.0 as well. Stay tuned to TransformersClub.com for information on when that is available.

That's pretty cool!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

Unless it isn't a CW Deluxe mold. As the 4.0 mystery figure is said to be a CW Deluxe, the 5.0 figure needn't have be one as well.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

Unless it isn't a CW Deluxe mold. As the 4.0 mystery figure is said to be a CW Deluxe, the 5.0 figure needn't have be one as well.

Since Wreckage only needs one more limb from either year... it's gonna be a long wait.

strange that i never get these emails even though im an active member. need to wait to make sure i can afford to subscribe. bad idea for them to try and charge for both subs in the same month

Sorry if this is stupid but where do you order? I don't see a link or anything.

steals_your_goats wrote:Sorry if this is stupid but where do you order? I don't see a link or anything.

It's not on the web page yet. Just in the e-mails.

EDIT: I had the link here, trying to be helpful, but a post elsewhere suggests that, if you use that, you might find yourself trying to buy a shipment to be mailed to MY address. So I took it down to be safe. Sorry.