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Va'al wrote:I keep track of everyone. Backwards.
There are atandarfs to maintain.
LOST Cybertronian wrote:Hey, If Mindmaster survived then you should do just fine.
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Some of these are neat. That Crosshairs makes far better use of that mold than Kup does.
Brainstorm works oddly well from that Cyclonus mold.
And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Some of these are neat. That Crosshairs makes far better use of that mold than Kup does.
Brainstorm works oddly well from that Cyclonus mold.
And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)
Carnivius_Prime wrote:And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Some of these are neat. That Crosshairs makes far better use of that mold than Kup does.
Brainstorm works oddly well from that Cyclonus mold.
And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
Now that you mention it, he does!Qwan wrote:Does... Brainstorm have FoC Vortex's head there, or am I just seeing things?
Just a quick and dirty mock-up using preexisting materials before any new headsculpts would be drawn up.Qwan wrote:Like I assume that he wouldn't have had that head in the final release (if nothing else, because Cyclonus' body has a swivel neck and Vortex has a balljoint), but it just strikes me as an odd choice for a Brainstorm mock-up.
My guess is, were they to have been made, they might have come with their own respective weapons and would have encouraged fans to switch them around to give each the "correct" weapon.Qwan wrote:Also I think it's interesting that Crosshairs-from-Kup has Cyclonus' weapon, and Brainstorm-from-Cyclonus has Kup's. I wonder if they were intended to be produced together somehow, and the weapons swapped? That or they just hail from a time when swapping accessories between figures wasn't as big a deal.
And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.Qwan wrote:Aside from those things, I don't have much more to say on these other than they look pretty good! I mean, I love the TR versions of most of these guys way more (where that's applicable, some don't have a TR toy - yet, please TR Nightbeat ), but if there's one thing I love to see it's creative mold reuse! And that's definitely what these guys are: creative, and surprisingly good fits to boot even if they're just mock-ups!
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
In his white and blue colors, yes.WreckerJack wrote:I could have sworn that Beast Hunters Smokescreen saw a release...
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Sabrblade wrote:My guess is, were they to have been made, they might have come with their own respective weapons and would have encouraged fans to switch them around to give each the "correct" weapon.Qwan wrote:Also I think it's interesting that Crosshairs-from-Kup has Cyclonus' weapon, and Brainstorm-from-Cyclonus has Kup's. I wonder if they were intended to be produced together somehow, and the weapons swapped? That or they just hail from a time when swapping accessories between figures wasn't as big a deal.
Deadput wrote:That FOC Seeker mold can rot in hell for awful figure it is except for the weapon the only decent part of it.
Sabrblade wrote:And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.
william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.
I dont think these are that old. They seem to have been done for the previous subscription series before they opted for the Combiner Wars molds. They were going for the targetmasters theme and they still gave us Spinister. By that time Hasbro was already doing Titans return and probably veto'd this. Thats what I am thinking.
2014 at the latest.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.
I dont think these are that old. They seem to have been done for the previous subscription series before they opted for the Combiner Wars molds. They were going for the targetmasters theme and they still gave us Spinister. By that time Hasbro was already doing Titans return and probably veto'd this. Thats what I am thinking.
I'd say they're at least 2014 given the age of the Smokescreen tooling and the time buffer between Hasbro and FunPub, but they may not all have been proposed at the same time. Nightbeat would have been nixed due to his planned T30 figure, but the rest...
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:It's been pointed out to me that the head of Triggerhappy in this mock-up is MP-1's head minus its side antennae. Still not sure about whose head Nightbeat's is, though.2014 at the latest.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.
I dont think these are that old. They seem to have been done for the previous subscription series before they opted for the Combiner Wars molds. They were going for the targetmasters theme and they still gave us Spinister. By that time Hasbro was already doing Titans return and probably veto'd this. Thats what I am thinking.
I'd say they're at least 2014 given the age of the Smokescreen tooling and the time buffer between Hasbro and FunPub, but they may not all have been proposed at the same time. Nightbeat would have been nixed due to his planned T30 figure, but the rest...
Well then, at the latest for Crosshairs, since he was shown at the BotCon 2014 panel.william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It's been pointed out to me that the head of Triggerhappy in this mock-up is MP-1's head minus its side antennae. Still not sure about whose head Nightbeat's is, though.2014 at the latest.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And since these mock-ups were most likely produced years before Titans Return was announced, they probably would have been pretty popular items had they been made back then, much like how TFSS Breakdown was a hot item before CW Breakdown happened to come about roughly one or two years later.
I dont think these are that old. They seem to have been done for the previous subscription series before they opted for the Combiner Wars molds. They were going for the targetmasters theme and they still gave us Spinister. By that time Hasbro was already doing Titans return and probably veto'd this. Thats what I am thinking.
I'd say they're at least 2014 given the age of the Smokescreen tooling and the time buffer between Hasbro and FunPub, but they may not all have been proposed at the same time. Nightbeat would have been nixed due to his planned T30 figure, but the rest...
2014 at the earliest. They couldnt have released figures of the targetmasters before.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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