D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Walks into thread. "Hey Guys, how bout them combiners?" Sees all the hate mail and craziness: Leaves
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:OK Guys: Late to the party but here we go!
Bruticus looks amazing! Love! Never saw Swindle or Brawl jobs coming, but very glad they did happen!
Sky Lynx is instant buy! So is Hound and Sunstreaker. Maybe ironhide, mirage and trailbreaker.
Devy looks good. will get Hasbro since they will be combined and Y'all will be buying takara
RiD stuff looks good. nothing i'll buy, but still cool.
looking forward to combiner wars next year. Bruticus, Sky Reign, Victorion, and maybe computron. looks good. I'm excited.
That's all folks. D-Mack: Out
william-james88 wrote:I am into transformers toys in general but I never look deeper into their fiction, aside from what I know of the show. So I am wondering, by having that White redeco of Prime actually be called Battle Core Optimus Prime, does this mean that this is the literal white prime who suits up into Magnus' armour? Or a relation to that?
Sowndwave76 wrote:Yeah, it would've been nice if Blast Off would've had a shuttle alt mode... Fair enough. It would've been cool.
But I don't think what's being used is bad. I understand using Slingshot's head scuplt.
They went to the trouble of making it, why not use it?
What I'm very surprised about is that more people are not complaining about the "new" Autobots.
I won't go any further than to say I'm beyond glad I have the past Universe/Generations figures already in my collection; because if I didn't, I'd be very letdown.
Anyway, there's enough goodness with this Bruticus that even if Hasbro doesn't give us a new mold for Blast Off, this is still a big, big win.
Yotsuyasan wrote:Thadicon wrote:Those Combaticons blew away my expectation. I was expecting just repaints and head swaps but they pulled your the heavy retools and a brand new mold.
Well, Vortex is just a repaint, but one I think we were all expecting and so I'm not bothered by it.
And Blast Off is also just a repaint, and frankly a (in my opinion) rather lazy one at that.
But the other three? Yes! I mean, I figured Onslaught would be a bit remolded to give him different heads and replace the ladder with the artillery cannons. But Hasbro went above and beyond here. And Swindle is hardly recognizable as Rook. And an all new mold for Brawl? Awesome looking Brawl!
So yeah, disappointed in Blast Off. But overall, a great looking team and gestalt!Thadicon wrote:Did anyone else notice that Onslaught's alt mode is backwards to Hotspot's
Yeah, that was noticed pretty quickly. Don't let that dampen your enthusiasm, though! It was a great design choice!
Stuartmaximus wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yotsuyasan wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Blast off to me works as a space shuttle because all space shuttles are military. Pilots of shuttles are Col. in the USAF.
While I prefer Blast Off as a shuttle myself, I feel I must interject, and point out that NASA is a civilian branch of the government. Yes, many of their pilots may come from the military, making things a bit murky there. But NASA itself is a civilian organization.
Or is that what they want us to believe? dun, Dun, DUN!
Since your on about space shuttles....what do you think of the new Sky Lynx then?
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yotsuyasan wrote:Thadicon wrote:Those Combaticons blew away my expectation. I was expecting just repaints and head swaps but they pulled your the heavy retools and a brand new mold.
Well, Vortex is just a repaint, but one I think we were all expecting and so I'm not bothered by it.
And Blast Off is also just a repaint, and frankly a (in my opinion) rather lazy one at that.
But the other three? Yes! I mean, I figured Onslaught would be a bit remolded to give him different heads and replace the ladder with the artillery cannons. But Hasbro went above and beyond here. And Swindle is hardly recognizable as Rook. And an all new mold for Brawl? Awesome looking Brawl!
So yeah, disappointed in Blast Off. But overall, a great looking team and gestalt!Thadicon wrote:Did anyone else notice that Onslaught's alt mode is backwards to Hotspot's
Yeah, that was noticed pretty quickly. Don't let that dampen your enthusiasm, though! It was a great design choice!
Um guys, 95% sure Brawl is a retool of Rook too. Look at the arms and legs.Stuartmaximus wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yotsuyasan wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Blast off to me works as a space shuttle because all space shuttles are military. Pilots of shuttles are Col. in the USAF.
While I prefer Blast Off as a shuttle myself, I feel I must interject, and point out that NASA is a civilian branch of the government. Yes, many of their pilots may come from the military, making things a bit murky there. But NASA itself is a civilian organization.
Or is that what they want us to believe? dun, Dun, DUN!
Since your on about space shuttles....what do you think of the new Sky Lynx then?
Loved it at first sight, although I think we saw the Sky and Lynx parts separate in at least one episode of the cartoon. Hate the torso and combined mode.
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:I could see them at least trying to make Brawl into Nosecone.
MemphisR56 wrote:I'm all for awesome retools, but now the dust has settled a bit and we've absorbed the weekend's excitement.
I'm a little worried that Has/Tak & Funpub are edging into 'Taking the cake' territory here.
Lets look at that alpha bravo mold here.
Alpha Bravo
Hasbro Blades
Takara Blades
FunPub Spinister
Hasbro Vortex
(Takara Vortex presumably TBA)
2X Victorion Arm Helicopter sister/twins
So that's 8 uses of the one mold. All with minimal retooling.
From the looks of things the Dead End mold will be going the same way.
Hence my use of the phrase "at least trying". The combiner peg does make things difficult. Perhaps they could try resculpting the tank's rear to turn it into Nosecone's front and put the drill there.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I could see them at least trying to make Brawl into Nosecone.
Putting the drill right in front would be problematic, as that's where the combiner peg is located and it forms the chest. Don't hug him
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.'
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:In theory, we could have a full, regular computron:
1) Brawl could be reused as Nosecone.
2) Afterburner could be a deluxe sized Groove retool or a legends class retool. (who knows)
3) Lightspeed could be a retool of Breakdown or Dead end
4) Strafe could be a redone aerialbot
5) Scattershot could be a redone Silverbolt.
6) A new recruit if Afterburner was a legends retool
Now, please take not that these are all extreme "maybes". I'm just throwing out some ideas. It is wholly possible that these could be original molds or even retools of molds we didn't think of (looking at you Swindle and Hound). We'll just have to see though. Patience is a virtue
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:I could see them at least trying to make Brawl into Nosecone.
Putting the drill right in front would be problematic, as that's where the combiner peg is located and it forms the chest. Don't hug him
MemphisR56 wrote:I'm all for awesome retools, but now the dust has settled a bit and we've absorbed the weekend's excitement.
I'm a little worried that Has/Tak & Funpub are edging into 'Taking the cake' territory here.
Lets look at that alpha bravo mold here.
Alpha Bravo
Hasbro Blades
Takara Blades
FunPub Spinister
Hasbro Vortex
(Takara Vortex presumably TBA)
2X Victorion Arm Helicopter sister/twins
So that's 8 uses of the one mold. All with minimal retooling and from the looks of things the Dead End mold will be going the same way.
ANYWAY,
I AM EXCITED
That Skylynx mold is blatantly Hun-Gurr waiting to happen. Seriously the torso mode really really visibly resembles Abominus's torso. I'm just waiting on some happy-go-lucky digibasher to make a photoshop of it.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Let's put the limit of shells per mold to 2, and heads to 3 per shell, and see what we can make
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