chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:I was interested in these before we found out ET will be the exclusive carrier AND Riccocet doesn't come with a Targetmaster.
Not necessarily so!
Big Bad Toy Store
Ricochet: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/84341
Red Swoop: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/84338
TF Source
Ricochet: https://tfsource.com/generations-selects/deluxe-ricochet-stepper/
Red Swoop: https://tfsource.com/generations-selects/deluxe-red-swoop/
Dude I got my hopes up, I thought the links would show a Targetmaster for Riccocet
MeGrimlock78 wrote:I was super excited for both of these. I've always loved stepper and while I like blue Swoop, red Swoop fits better with the team aesthetically (ironic that red Slag would fit less aesthetically?)
Two thoughts though:
1. Swoop looks like he's made of grey plastic, not silver like the other dinos.
2. If Ztepper has no targetmaster (which at that price seems a certainty), Siege Firebolt is a good stand in.
Wolfman Jake wrote:Hence, the strike-through of the part of your post I wasn't actually responding to.
Wolfman Jake wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:I was interested in these before we found out ET will be the exclusive carrier AND Riccocet doesn't come with a Targetmaster.
Not necessarily so!
Big Bad Toy Store
Ricochet: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/84341
Red Swoop: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/84338
TF Source
Ricochet: https://tfsource.com/generations-selects/deluxe-ricochet-stepper/
Red Swoop: https://tfsource.com/generations-selects/deluxe-red-swoop/
Dude I got my hopes up, I thought the links would show a Targetmaster for Riccocet
Hence, the strike-through of the part of your post I wasn't actually responding to.MeGrimlock78 wrote:I was super excited for both of these. I've always loved stepper and while I like blue Swoop, red Swoop fits better with the team aesthetically (ironic that red Slag would fit less aesthetically?)
Two thoughts though:
1. Swoop looks like he's made of grey plastic, not silver like the other dinos.
2. If Ztepper has no targetmaster (which at that price seems a certainty), Siege Firebolt is a good stand in.
1. I noticed that on Red Swoop too, but I'm not sure it's a real plastic color difference and not just a photography issue. With any luck, we'll get some side-by-side comparisons of the two Swoops (photographed together) in the near future. If it does turn out that Red Swoop has a very different gray plastic color, that will suck for anyone who wanted a more "united" color scheme for Volcanicus. However, that makes it easier for me, personally, to turn Red Swoop into a different character and use him as a limb on another combiner (probably Firestormer or Elita Infin1te).
2. I thought about using Firebolt as a stand-in for Nightstick/Nebulan too. Too bad the arms and legs of Siege Firedrive are brilliant white instead of gray. Also, Firebolt/Firedrive is a double barreled blaster. I think Ricochet/Stepper's Targetmaster partner is traditionally single-barreled. We might be able to do some creative parts swapping with some other Siege Battlemasters, though!
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Admit it: you all want G2 Sideswipe simply because the original "Generations-style" toy was a BotCon Customizing Class exclusive, don't you
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
Nemesis Maximo wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Admit it: you all want G2 Sideswipe simply because the original "Generations-style" toy was a BotCon Customizing Class exclusive, don't you
I just want G2 Sideswipe because I love G2 Sideswipe and his Snarl of Heavy Metal Hatred (Patent Pending).
o.supreme wrote:DecepticonFinishline wrote:I wouldn't mind that, actually. It could help me pretend that Red Swoop and Blue Swoop are different characters. Like Jet Blast Off and Shuttle Blast Off. *Shrug emoji*
I'm weird when it comes to things like that. If a repaint is clearly a new character, I'm all for it. If it is 2 toys with the *same name* but are clearly different molds, I can work with that too.
Its just that when 2 toys, have the same name, and are from the same mold (only the paint is different)...I can't work with it, unless I can easily re imagine it such as Golden Lagoon Starscream, I can easily pass as Sunstorm.
Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Emerje wrote:Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Acid Storm more so than Sunstorm these days for some reason. Considering the mold I suppose there's a lot of options they could go with, though.
Emerje
Emerje wrote:Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Acid Storm more so than Sunstorm these days for some reason.
MeGrimlock78 wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:2. I thought about using Firebolt as a stand-in for Nightstick/Nebulan too. Too bad the arms and legs of Siege Firedrive are brilliant white instead of gray. Also, Firebolt/Firedrive is a double barreled blaster. I think Ricochet/Stepper's Targetmaster partner is traditionally single-barreled. We might be able to do some creative parts swapping with some other Siege Battlemasters, though!
Firebolt's definitely not perfect, but pretty close. Unless Classics Nightstick was remolded in black?
Emerje wrote:Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Acid Storm more so than Sunstorm these days for some reason. Considering the mold I suppose there's a lot of options they could go with, though.
Emerje
Those pics look more like Nova Storm.leokearon wrote:Emerje wrote:Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Acid Storm more so than Sunstorm these days for some reason. Considering the mold I suppose there's a lot of options they could go with, though.
Emerje
I want Sunstorm!
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:Those pics look more like Nova Storm.leokearon wrote:Emerje wrote:Vic Zanzibar wrote:I'm guessing that Acid Storm/Sunstorm from the new Voyager Seeker mold is a pretty safe bet to occur.
Acid Storm more so than Sunstorm these days for some reason. Considering the mold I suppose there's a lot of options they could go with, though.
Emerje
I want Sunstorm!
Sunstorm's more golden orange than lemon yellow.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Why, though? Universe Nightstick is old, but the Battlemasters aren't exactly a huge improvement in articulation plus none of them are Nameswapped Toy-only Autobot Targetmaster (Porsche type)'s actual partner. Nightstick is, or is at least the closest we've got without straight-up using the recreated G1 mold.
Wolfman Jake wrote:
I still don't know how people are making themselves believe this. Why would that be a black Jazz redeco on the left side of the picture? It's some non-descript gunmetal gray thing, probably a gun if anything. Doesn't look especially like any part of the Jazz mold. Also, look at how the left leg is positioned over on the right of the picture. If that thing on the left is Elita Infin1te's right leg, that would be an awfully awkward position for the combiner to be contorting into, like some kind of a weird squat with one leg kicking out. Is she performing the Hopak?
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