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News Credits: 6 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:00 am

So, all the talk of repaints into Thunderclash etc. got me all nostalgic about my childhood, so here's a bizarre wishlist:

Silverbolt => G2 Dreadwing
Skydive => G2 Windrazor
Firefly => G2 Afterburner
Air-Raid => G2 Eagle-Eye
Alpha Bravo => G2 Terradive
Powerglide => G2 Smokescreen

or if you're a Cyberjet fan...

Silverbolt => G2 Dreadwing
Skydive => G2 Skyjack
Firefly => G2 Space Case
Air-Raid => G2 Hooligan
Alpha Bravo => G2 Powerdive
Powerglide => G2 Ransack
Thundercracker => G2 Smokescreen (who just follows them around and shouts 'Go team!' I guess)

G2's probably had more than enough attention lately, but I have some sentimental attachment to these guys, especially the Cyberjets. The went everywhere with me when I was a kid, and for a while Dreadwing/Smokescreen was the coolest thing I had ever owned.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:48 am

Preorders up on BBTS for Motormaster & the 2 Megatrons

News Credits: 3646 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:35 am

SkyWarpt wrote:Preorders up on BBTS for Motormaster & the 2 Megatrons

Here's the link to our news story for this: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ger/32018/

Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:43 am

Yep got the email and just put down for the Two Megatrons.

YEssss.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:52 pm

G1 Megs already sold out. Have no interest in Armada version. Damnit

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:27 pm

prjkt wrote:G1 Megs already sold out. Have no interest in Armada version. Damnit

Its a popular toy, dont worry there will be more up for sure.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:30 pm

Love Powerglide and Bombshell, but really hate Windcharger!!

Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:45 pm

Would love a Sunstorm out of the Seeker Mold. Windcharager I'm renaming into "Turbo" from Gobots, and getting a 2nd one to call "Clipper" and have Cheetimus slightly recolor it. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Clipper_(Victory)

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:51 pm

JasonCanty79 wrote:Would love a Sunstorm out of the Seeker Mold. Windcharager I'm renaming into "Turbo" from Gobots, and getting a 2nd one to call "Clipper" and have Cheetimus slightly recolor it. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Clipper_(Victory)

You sure about that link, buddy?

Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:59 pm

william-james88 wrote:
JasonCanty79 wrote:Would love a Sunstorm out of the Seeker Mold. Windcharager I'm renaming into "Turbo" from Gobots, and getting a 2nd one to call "Clipper" and have Cheetimus slightly recolor it. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Clipper_(Victory)

You sure about that link, buddy?

it seems the way the html code of the boards works it "clipped" off the ')' from the URL.

News Credits: 241 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:08 pm

JasonCanty79 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
JasonCanty79 wrote:Would love a Sunstorm out of the Seeker Mold. Windcharager I'm renaming into "Turbo" from Gobots, and getting a 2nd one to call "Clipper" and have Cheetimus slightly recolor it. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Clipper_(Victory)

You sure about that link, buddy?

it seems the way the html code of the boards works it "clipped" off the ')' from the URL.

The auto setting has a bug. The [url] tags work a bit better:

Code: Select all: [url=http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Clipper_(Victory)]Clipper (Victory)[/url] on TFWiki

Clipper (Victory) on TFWiki

News Credits: 7 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:31 pm

Apparently I'm psychic. :lol:

News Credits: 41 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:40 pm

HI FIVE Noidea. :lol:

Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:41 pm

I wonder if there's a story reason for Ultra Prime having Drag Strip for an arm...

Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:43 pm

Noideaforaname wrote:

Apparently I'm psychic.

Hahah Awesome! :APPLAUSE:

Well Blackjack as Hotrod/Rodimus also works for the Starconvoy Homage too!

News Credits: 462 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:45 pm

OptimusPrimeval wrote:I wonder if there's a story reason for Ultra Prime having Drag Strip for an arm...

The story goes that Drag Strip was part of the first wave of Combiner Wars limb toys and was needed by Hasbro to fully illustrate the Ultra Prime toy's ability to combine with any of the Combiner Wars limb toys, since the second wave toys wouldn't be out yet.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:59 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
OptimusPrimeval wrote:I wonder if there's a story reason for Ultra Prime having Drag Strip for an arm...
The story goes that Drag Strip was part of the first wave of Combiner Wars limb toys and was needed by Hasbro to fully illustrate the Ultra Prime toy's ability to combine with any of the Combiner Wars limb toys, since the second wave toys wouldn't be out yet.

Though that montage image looks like Firefly in Dragstrip's colours

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:45 pm

Everyone is looking at the "Ultra Magnus" shot, but nobody is noticing something beyond it: One yellow arm and one blue arm, Mirage and Sunstreaker? Looks like he'll be released the same time as the four Autobot cars.

Sabrblade wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Not quite: exclusive Leader Class gift set with that White Prime, Rodimus and four other cars. That's always been my guess.
And as I pointed out before, a combiner is too big to be a Leader class toy.

Compare Menasor to Megatron:

While it's true that the combined forms are bigger than Leader class, that image really misrepresents the difference. Menasor is standing about four inches closer to the camera than the others. The person who compiled those photos together lined up the kid when they should have lined up the figures and corrected the scale. If that were accurate then the limbs would be Voyager size since they appear to be about the same size as Motormaster and Hasbro hasn't exactly mastered mass shifting technology yet.

This should be a little more accurate:

corrected scale.jpg

Emerje

News Credits: 241 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:18 am

Ok, I've been reading Ben Yee's review of Legends Bombshell, and it turns out he does have a "Weapon Mode"... which just looks like the Beast Mode with the arms sticking out in front. Nothing special...

Generations Combiner Wars Bombshell on BWTF.com.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:25 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, I've been reading Ben Yee's review of Legends Bombshell, and it turns out he does have a "Weapon Mode"... which just looks like the Beast Mode with the arms sticking out in front. Nothing special...

Generations Combiner Wars Bombshell on BWTF.com.

Indeed, this was exactly what I was getting at a few pages ago.

It didn't state in this review, but I found my pegs to be slightly undersized to fit in the combiners' hands. Bombshell flops around unless the fist is closed to pinch off the weapon holding hole a little...

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:52 am

The weapon mode is, however, not advertised on the packaging.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:56 am

Sabrblade wrote:The weapon mode is, however, not advertised on the packaging.

Is it in the instructions?

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 10:57 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The weapon mode is, however, not advertised on the packaging.

Is it in the instructions?

Dunno. Was going by the pics on BWTF, which include a scan of the cardback. Ben didn't post a scan of the instructions.

News Credits: 10 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:34 am

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The weapon mode is, however, not advertised on the packaging.

Is it in the instructions?
Dunno. Was going by the pics on BWTF, which include a scan of the cardback. Ben didn't post a scan of the instructions.

No, the instructions do not have a weapon mode shown. If no weapon mode was intended, then why those pegs on the butt of insect mode? Why the gun barrel looking fists? (Not trying to pick a fight. Just trying to infer the designer's intent.) I think this was clearly the intent in the design, even if not marketed that way. Or, perhaps this is an Easter Egg? Doesn't Hasbro have a pattern of providing us Easter Eggs (like the alternate heads on instructions)?

News Credits: 241 · Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:36 am

Agamemnon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The weapon mode is, however, not advertised on the packaging.

Is it in the instructions?
Dunno. Was going by the pics on BWTF, which include a scan of the cardback. Ben didn't post a scan of the instructions.

No, the instructions do not have a weapon mode shown. If no weapon mode was intended, then why those pegs on the butt of insect mode? Why the gun barrel looking fists? (Not trying to pick a fight. Just trying to infer the designer's intent.) I think this was clearly the intent in the design, even if not marketed that way. Or, perhaps this is an Easter Egg? Doesn't Hasbro have a pattern of providing us Easter Eggs (like the alternate heads on instructions)?

That's no Easter Egg (as it doesn't point to anything significant). Hasbro's tendency to drop or change intended features is a more likely explanation.