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News Credits: 7 · Mon May 23, 2016 1:34 am

If I don't make the deadline, how rough a ride can I expect finding these on the secondary market, in terms of how much they might cost and how hard they'll be to get?

Mon May 23, 2016 9:59 am

Zeedust wrote:If I don't make the deadline, how rough a ride can I expect finding these on the secondary market, in terms of how much they might cost and how hard they'll be to get?

My best response to this is to suggest checking out the prices currently at BigBadToyStore. They offer suggested prices, and you'll see that some of the preorders are already sold out. While its possible they may order more,it should still give an idea of how difficult and expensive some of these toys will become down the road.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=265&category=1519

News Credits: 7 · Mon May 23, 2016 10:19 pm

Thanks.

...Ugh, that's a bleak outlook.

News Credits: 1646 · Tue May 24, 2016 6:13 pm

Thanks to the Collectors Club itself, we have word that the final Figure Subscription Service has been extended until this Friday at 11pm. We have mirrored the message below for all to read. As you may remember, we have mentioned before that the Subscription is open to all previous members, so if you are included in that list, order up!

The Transformers Figure Subscription Service (TFSS) 5.0 order period has been extended until Friday at 11PM central time.

You can order your TFSS 5.0 until then. Please note, there is no limit on the number of subscriptions you can purchase as the TFSS is built to order.

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! This is it! The last Transformers FSS! Don't miss it.

- Brian

News Credits: 7 · Wed May 25, 2016 12:09 am

Phew. Thanks, that helps a little.

News Credits: 2 · Wed May 25, 2016 6:13 am

Read the prose so toxitron is a reception and put an Autobots symbol on him in order to gain access to autobot bases. Pretty cool idea.

News Credits: 13 · Fri May 27, 2016 2:32 pm

the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112

News Credits: 462 · Fri May 27, 2016 2:47 pm

grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112

Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

News Credits: 13 · Fri May 27, 2016 3:51 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

ahh i see, well i guess that kind of kills my hope that the mystery figure would have been Eagleeye from Armada Starscream. too bad, really wanted to finish Serpent O.R.'s unit

Fri May 27, 2016 6:22 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112
Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

While I certainly appreciate options, I don't see how that would work, since Impactor is 4.0 while Counterpunch and Toxitron are 5.0....

News Credits: 462 · Fri May 27, 2016 6:25 pm

G.B. Blackrock wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112
Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

While I certainly appreciate options, I don't see how that would work, since Impactor is 4.0 while Counterpunch and Toxitron are 5.0....

If someone gets 5.0 but not 4.0, then they'd be missing Impactor and the 4.0 mystery figure. AB and Offroad's inclusion allows any 5.0 consumers to use them in place of the two missing 4.0 limbs.

News Credits: 174 · Fri May 27, 2016 8:56 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112
Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

While I certainly appreciate options, I don't see how that would work, since Impactor is 4.0 while Counterpunch and Toxitron are 5.0....
If someone gets 5.0 but not 4.0, then they'd be missing Impactor and the 4.0 mystery figure. AB and Offroad's inclusion allows any 5.0 consumers to use them in place of the two missing 4.0 limbs.

Plus, what combiner wouldn't want a psychotic axe-murderer and a god included in their gestalt :lol:

Fri May 27, 2016 9:23 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112
Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

While I certainly appreciate options, I don't see how that would work, since Impactor is 4.0 while Counterpunch and Toxitron are 5.0....
If someone gets 5.0 but not 4.0, then they'd be missing Impactor and the 4.0 mystery figure. AB and Offroad's inclusion allows any 5.0 consumers to use them in place of the two missing 4.0 limbs.

I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?

News Credits: 174 · Fri May 27, 2016 9:28 pm

G.B. Blackrock wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
grimdragon2001 wrote:the @The_TF_Club twitter page put up a new image suggesting members of sub 5.0 are meant to combine with Alpha Bravo and Offroad. wonder what this amalgamation of bots and cons will be named

https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 9288154112
Its name is Wreckage.

Alpha Bravo and Offroad are included in the group on the off chance that someone is getting the TFSS 5.0 but didn't get the 4.0 with Impactor and the mystery figure to complete the intended final combination for Wreckage, giving those who missed out another option with two retail figures that they might already own.

While I certainly appreciate options, I don't see how that would work, since Impactor is 4.0 while Counterpunch and Toxitron are 5.0....
If someone gets 5.0 but not 4.0, then they'd be missing Impactor and the 4.0 mystery figure. AB and Offroad's inclusion allows any 5.0 consumers to use them in place of the two missing 4.0 limbs.

I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?

Because they're technically 'taken' by G1 nostalgia or lore or something like that - they're free agents, it's scramble-city, swap whom you want where you want them

News Credits: 241 · Fri May 27, 2016 9:51 pm

G.B. Blackrock wrote:I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?

Because... Alpha Bravo and Offroad have the least amount of characterisation so far and thus are perfect for FunPub's clay modeling practices?

News Credits: 2 · Fri May 27, 2016 9:58 pm

G.B. Blackrock wrote:I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?

Apologies if I'm misreading the chat, but Wreckage using AB and Offroad as limbs does appear in fiction - that's the focus of the short story, canonizing a Wreckage team that doesn't rely on the 4.0 subscription service.

News Credits: 462 · Fri May 27, 2016 11:38 pm

RevTibe wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?
Apologies if I'm misreading the chat, but Wreckage using AB and Offroad as limbs does appear in fiction - that's the focus of the short story, canonizing a Wreckage team that doesn't rely on the 4.0 subscription service.

Booyah! *mic drop*

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 28, 2016 7:51 am

I'm actually really disappointed that they didn't make a new combined head for this guy.

Sat May 28, 2016 10:56 am

RevTibe wrote:
G.B. Blackrock wrote:I get that, but that would still be a combination that, apparently, would never appear in the fiction. Why not use any other two CW figs lying around?
Apologies if I'm misreading the chat, but Wreckage using AB and Offroad as limbs does appear in fiction - that's the focus of the short story, canonizing a Wreckage team that doesn't rely on the 4.0 subscription service.

You're not misreading. I was simply miscounting. I wasn't thinking about taking Impactor OUT to make room for these two. Sorry about that.

News Credits: 241 · Sat May 28, 2016 12:38 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:I'm actually really disappointed that they didn't make a new combined head for this guy.

We may just see one. Who knows what adding the last two intended members could do with his noggin.

And that is on par with regular CW practices btw. Only regular heads are switched out, but not Combiner heads. Toxitron's regular head is an unused Hasbro design, in case you didn't know.

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 28, 2016 2:02 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:I'm actually really disappointed that they didn't make a new combined head for this guy.

We may just see one. Who knows what adding the last two intended members could do with his noggin.

And that is on par with regular CW practices btw. Only regular heads are switched out, but not Combiner heads. Toxitron's regular head is an unused Hasbro design, in case you didn't know.

Hopefully the final product changes. And I'm aware of how the retail products work I was just hoping that since it's a club combiner that they would make a new head for him like they did for thunder mayhem.

Sat May 28, 2016 4:17 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:I'm actually really disappointed that they didn't make a new combined head for this guy.

We may just see one. Who knows what adding the last two intended members could do with his noggin.

And that is on par with regular CW practices btw. Only regular heads are switched out, but not Combiner heads. Toxitron's regular head is an unused Hasbro design, in case you didn't know.

Granting that it *does* seem that this story is written specifically to give folks who bought only TFSS 5.0, but not 4.0, an option to create a canonical Wreckage at home, I think we can now accept as a foregone conclusion that no new combiner head is forthcoming.

News Credits: 13 · Sat May 28, 2016 4:44 pm

gotta say, while it's not a new head, putting the Ultra Prime head on the Motormaster body is an interesting twist. I mean, they could have just left the Menasor head on there

News Credits: 462 · Sat May 28, 2016 10:33 pm

Yeah, at first I was hoping they would put the Ultra Prime head on the Motormaster body, but when I learned that there hasn't been a previous case of a reshelled mold having swapped parts with the original mold, I retracted my hopes and resided myself to just expecting the Menasor head in green and purple.

Now that we see that they did manage to use the Ultra Prime head, that's incredible!

News Credits: 1646 · Thu Jun 02, 2016 5:56 pm

We are proud to bring to you today our latest Seibertron.com galleries, those being the club exclusive Nightbeat, Superlink SC-02 Hot Shot and SC-23 Hot Shot Fire! All 3 utilize the same energon Hot Shot mold that can powerlink to any other energon era figure. Take a gander at the gallery and let us know what you think!

Club Exclusives Nightbeat (189 images) - Deluxe Vehicles, Exclusives