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Replying to this here.o.supreme wrote:Pics of a supposed Botcon 2016 Custom-Class Offroad unpainted with Ironhide and Offroad (Glavatron?) Head sculpts.
At one point, Checkpoint almost became the BotCon 2016 Customization Class figure. According to Shawn D. Tessmann, the Combiner Wars First Aid mold was chosen over a year prior, with Hasbro offering the unused Ratchet head. As the months rolled on, Ratchet was changed to Checkpoint when the Trailbreaker head was offered in its place (along with the Autotroopers as the year's troop-builder set). After a series of production issues, the figure was switched back to Ratchet. As a result, the figure still retains Checkpoint's base color scheme, allowing fans to repurpose their toy, should they be so inclined.
There was some difficulty in the pre-production stages of that custom class. Shawn's first samples had parts for both the pick-up and the ambulance... but only like half of each. So neither vehicle could be built.
Fun Pub sent the requested corrections, asking for just the ambulance (the full ambulance) but requesting all of the headsculpts to make for a crazy amount of customization possibilities (Offroad, Ironhide, First Aid, Ratchet, Hoist, Trailbreaker). This was where fans would have been able to make Checkpoint and Autotroopers. But, of course, the final kit arrived with just the Ratchet and First Aid heads.
In all that commotion, I can see the real possibility that a sample or more came out as the pick-up with those two heads. Whether in the confused communication, or an intentional run-off as a "lunch special". Fun Pub never received such a sample but... I'm not too surprised!
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-Maximal_Primal wrote:Nice! So it's just 2 more Ratchets right?
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 Car Robots/RiD, Baldigus/Ruination could only fly when Shuttler/Movor and Hepter/Ro-Tor were his arms, a configuration referred to only in Car Robots as "Flight Mission" (the other way around was "Land Mission"; RiD never distinguished between the two for Ruination like Car Robots did for Baldigus).Rodimus Prime wrote:I have a question and it has only kinda-sorta to with the toys themselves, but I wasn't sure where to ask.
Is there a specific configuration for a combiner to allow said combiner to fly? Like, if a couple of the limbs are flyers (such as Bruticus or Victorion) do they have to be either arms or legs to make the combiner be able to fly? IIRC in IDW Victorion was able to fly only if the helicopters were the legs. Is this an accepted theory to the others as well?
Or are we still going with the "Cons can automatically fly no matter who they are" concept?
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.'
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:Allegedly, SDCC Devastator was originally going to be in G2 yellow and purple before someone decided it should instead just be green and chrome purple.
To say nothing of the Build Team head pretools that Hasbro ended up never using.
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.'
Hmm I also found this.
It's... uh... NOT my creation. Should I show it?
Okay... well...
Remember how I name-dropped "Ironclad" in the one TCC prose story, because Hasbro had given us early mock-ups for the Technobots?
Well... uh... if you wanted to see...
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.'
Blame Afterburner and Nosecone for being the most drab of the Technobots, as Ironclad was likely colored to match them since he was replacing the former and was to be the latter's counterpart leg.ZeroWolf wrote:As much as I love the rook mold (hulk hands for the win) those colours and head...yeah, that's rough. That green on his legs looks out of place as well. Nice bit of history though
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.'
Theoretically, one could use the Battle Core Optimus and pretend it's Nova Prime.Seibertron wrote:Ironclad does look like a Technobot, but that much brown kind of makes me glad they passed. I love the non-G1 combiners from Combiner Wars like Blast Off (jet), Offroad, Rook and Alpha Bravo. I wish they had created a core body and combiner that was unique to the primary 4 exclusive Combiner Wars limbs.
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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