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Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:Rather, the Club should be better at engineering their heads. Or invest the additional money to remold the part(s) the head has to collapse into. Showing awesome concept art and failing to deliver on those expectations hurts the Club more than a $5-10 hike per figure for those retoolings would.

Take Protoform X. Had they done a simple retool to expand the opening the head inserts into for vehicle mode (which would require remolding a single piece) that figure would be epic. As it is, he suffers from shrunken head syndrome. Bummer. And now we have to deal with Lio/Nova's squished heads, too. Grr.

The Club is only allotted to have one part remolded per mold that get's remolded.

What do you mean by allotted? That Hasbro will only let them remold one part, or that they only have the budget for one part?

Why should Hasbro make accommodations for TFCC?... well, it's not JUST TFCC.

Hasbro/Takara are retooling their own toys more than ever... Whether heavy retools like Sandstorm/Springer or GDO/Asia/Cloud exclusives with new heads like Brawn — leaving a little elbow room opens up great options and opportunities for the future. It's just good practice not to paint yourself in a corner, ya know?

megatronus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:Rather, the Club should be better at engineering their heads. Or invest the additional money to remold the part(s) the head has to collapse into. Showing awesome concept art and failing to deliver on those expectations hurts the Club more than a $5-10 hike per figure for those retoolings would.

Take Protoform X. Had they done a simple retool to expand the opening the head inserts into for vehicle mode (which would require remolding a single piece) that figure would be epic. As it is, he suffers from shrunken head syndrome. Bummer. And now we have to deal with Lio/Nova's squished heads, too. Grr.

The Club is only allotted to have one part remolded per mold that get's remolded.

What do you mean by allotted? That Hasbro will only let them remold one part, or that they only have the budget for one part?

Mostly budget. Remember, such parts will only be used once, twice if lucky (Breakdown's head, Thrust's wings), and were it not for budget, 2007 Dirge would have gotten new wings too.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:Rather, the Club should be better at engineering their heads. Or invest the additional money to remold the part(s) the head has to collapse into. Showing awesome concept art and failing to deliver on those expectations hurts the Club more than a $5-10 hike per figure for those retoolings would.

Take Protoform X. Had they done a simple retool to expand the opening the head inserts into for vehicle mode (which would require remolding a single piece) that figure would be epic. As it is, he suffers from shrunken head syndrome. Bummer. And now we have to deal with Lio/Nova's squished heads, too. Grr.

The Club is only allotted to have one part remolded per mold that get's remolded.

What do you mean by allotted? That Hasbro will only let them remold one part, or that they only have the budget for one part?

Mostly budget. Remember, such parts will only be used once, twice if lucky (Breakdown's head, Thrust's wings), and were it not for budget, 2007 Dirge would have gotten new wings too.

That's a silly point to pick apart, as I mentioned price hikes in my original comment.

^ I'm with you on this. Even if they didn't want to mod it, hand those factory workers some sanding tools and have them shave down a part during the assembly process.

This is of course a statement made as someone totally ignorant to the assembly processes being used, and is made in the hope that this might increase the pay those folks get if it is inhumanely low. Sigh.

Oh, and Edit: What I came here to say was that the Lio Convoy head I could live with, but I think it looks really bad on Nova Prime. Just looks like a White Prime with a funky head now instead of Nova. Bummer too, I was quite looking forward to this one. (Disclaimer: I have no self-control and will still buy it, so take my opinions as you should on club stuff, which is with a grain of salt.)

Sabrblade wrote:Well, if the rumor of Nova Prime being Lio Convoy's clone proves true, I can live with the two of them having the same headsculpt.

Using fiction to justify the club's screw ups only has a novel appeal for so long. This only justifies novae, of a the hyper variety to me.

Sabrblade wrote:Well, if the rumor of Nova Prime being Lio Convoy's clone proves true, I can live with the two of them having the same headsculpt.

Didn't IDW Nova Prime's head already resemble Lio Convoy's a bit?



We are talking the Nova Prime that was turned into (a) Nemesis Prime, not Prime Nova

We've seen in-hand images for most of the 2015 Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription figures, including the freebie incentive Lio Convoy, and other such as Car-Zap, Krok, Nova Prime, Nacelle and G2 Starscream - but it never hurts to show some more off, right? Especially in combination with the BotCon set reveal! Coming at us via Weibo users Lost-Zzl and 宝哥我们被劫, take a look below at mirrored images of all but Krok and Car-Zap (which you can see here instead). Did you join this year? Are you excited for these? Let us know in the Energon Pub!

I did join this year, and yes, I am excited for these!

Thanks for asking

Yer welcum.

I wanted to join but couldnt make the deadline

Ooooooooooh, that G2 Starscream's starting to get me hot & bothered, I'ma sucker for burnt orange. Though I'll be honest, I hope it isn't the first one to come in.

Yeah, I may be MOST excited about that G2 Starscream. It looks spot on.

Those seekers are boss.

Not liking the paint applications on Leo Convoy's eyes. Looks like someone isn't careful with their paint brush.

good lord. the paint on the heads of leo convoy and nova prime are god awful.

I was thinking it was just me or that I was being a bit picky, but I see everyone is agreeing that the paint on those heads looks very sloppy. For the premium price these command you would think the QC on paint apps would be a bit better. I don't mind so much fixing paint apps on retail releases, but when you fork out that much for a deluxe you'd expect the paint apps to not look like the painter was on their 5th pot of coffee for the day

Doubledealer93 wrote:good lord. the paint on the heads of leo convoy and nova prime are god awful.

With they way the eye's are painted; It looks like they're head molding doesn't include any eye, orbits, or any other structure around that area. It looks like they're painted on a flat surface. However if you look closely, eye "bone" structures are there, they're just really really shallow.

Hot off the heels of a recent batch of reveals, Weibo user Lost-Zzl brings us pics of another Transformers Collectors' Club exclusive figure - Tarantulas! He is based off the Reveal the Shield Wreck-Gar mold, and more specifically the E-hobby retool Scrapheap which has only been released stateside once before as the Shattered Glass Botcon Exclusive Scrap Iron. Tarantulas is sporting his original (pre-Transmetal) deco primarily purple with yellow/green accents. Keep scrolling to see the pics and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers news!

The bike looks nice, but in robot mode, it kinda just looks like a purple scrapheap, or the SG one without the black and less decals.
Pre cybertronian or not, there's allot more detail, and specifically texture, on season one tarantulas than most people think, here's a relatively accurate CG model

That looks much nicer than anticipated! Weird that there aren't pics of the Microns though.

Wow! Tarantulus looks amazing. He was the figure I was most critical of to start with, but now he might be my favorite.