MeGrimlock78 wrote:So one Swoop has the same silver colour as the other Dinobots, and the other has the same red colour? Neither one matches 100% with the rest of the team?
That sucks. I'm planning on swapping the arms and legs (and maybe dino-head) so Red Swoop matches the team and Blue Swoop can become a Shattered Glass bot or something...
william-james88 wrote:What's Crackin'? wrote:I haven't received my news credit for this.
Because you werent the first to send this in. best I could do is mention you in the article.
Alpha Weltall wrote:MeGrimlock78 wrote:So one Swoop has the same silver colour as the other Dinobots, and the other has the same red colour? Neither one matches 100% with the rest of the team?
That sucks. I'm planning on swapping the arms and legs (and maybe dino-head) so Red Swoop matches the team and Blue Swoop can become a Shattered Glass bot or something...
I'll be parts swapping Swoop as well. The blue Swoop will be Ravenus from Armada for me. Or you can go with Strafe from the movies.
What's Crackin'? wrote:william-james88 wrote:What's Crackin'? wrote:I haven't received my news credit for this.
Because you werent the first to send this in. best I could do is mention you in the article.
Oof. Guess I have to be quicker. Thanks for the offer but you don't have to if you don't want to.
Sabrblade wrote:Buy two Firedrives!D-Maximal_Primal wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm still sad Ricochet doesn't come with a battlemaster.
Repurpose Firedrive
But he works so well with TR Hot Rod!
Lore Keeper wrote:I've always wondered how these guys get the figures before they're actually released. I need to meet their hook up person.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
Alpha Weltall wrote:MeGrimlock78 wrote:So one Swoop has the same silver colour as the other Dinobots, and the other has the same red colour? Neither one matches 100% with the rest of the team?
That sucks. I'm planning on swapping the arms and legs (and maybe dino-head) so Red Swoop matches the team and Blue Swoop can become a Shattered Glass bot or something...
I'll be parts swapping Swoop as well. The blue Swoop will be Ravenus from Armada for me. Or you can go with Strafe from the movies.
BombshellDaBug wrote:Alpha Weltall wrote:MeGrimlock78 wrote:So one Swoop has the same silver colour as the other Dinobots, and the other has the same red colour? Neither one matches 100% with the rest of the team?
That sucks. I'm planning on swapping the arms and legs (and maybe dino-head) so Red Swoop matches the team and Blue Swoop can become a Shattered Glass bot or something...
I'll be parts swapping Swoop as well. The blue Swoop will be Ravenus from Armada for me. Or you can go with Strafe from the movies.
That's one way to go about it. Personally, I'm headcanoning Red Swoop as a clone of the original Swoop made by the Decepticons. The Dinobots liberated the clone, and started calling him Red Swoop to differentiate the two due to their color schemes.
That's just my personal take on it anyways.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm just gonna call Red Swoop "Maximal Ptero" and add him to Magnaboss with a Blue Maximal Swoop
Alpha Weltall wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm just gonna call Red Swoop "Maximal Ptero" and add him to Magnaboss with a Blue Maximal Swoop
Hadn't thought of that but I think I have my Magnaboss set already.
I made a hodgepodge BW Silverbolt using a CW Silverbolt and an extra UW Scattershot. Just the brown pieces from Scattershot as they had no business being on the figure anyway. Then I took CW Offroad, Ironhide and First Aid and swapped some parts around to make BW Ironhide (grey body & red limbs), Perceptor (red & teal) and Rest-Q (white and grey). I'm also gonna make an extra Unit-3 into BW Prowl. Tigatron is Tigatron. Lastly is a BW Airazor from CW Blastoff and G2 Slingshot. It's just a shame that there really aren't more brown pieces I can swap onto Silverbolt since both Ironhide and Prowl will almost entirely be in their BW colors. I guess I can try to paint some parts since I want to get some brown onto Prowl anyway and will need some for Airazor too.
My other option was using CW Motormaster as BW Ironhide and using CW Blastoff as Silverbolt. Then using Perceptor as the final limb as he sometimes is. Then I remembered how much I don't like the MM/OP mold as a torso and I really wanted Airazor to be with Tigatron. I can still go either way though as I only parts swapped so far.
I really should get around to finishing Magnaboss.
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm using the Botcon sticker set on Ironhide, Prowl, and Silverbolt. I had a stickered up Prowl as Prowl II and Sunstreaker as a Cheetor styled Sunstreaker, but those 2 have been removed and de-stickered, and the Maximal symbols are going on the 2 Swoops. I have a spare Blue already, just waiting on the red. Ricochet, Prowl, Sunstreaker, and a 4th limb I've yet to decide to buy will form a combiner separate with another torso, maybe Inferno, maybe Sky Lynx, and Inferno will get Sky Lynx's bits. Or Optimus Maximus, Elita Inf1nite, and the previous 2 will play some limb swap.
Elita will get Lancer and Greenlight when they come, so there will be 2 spare limbs when all is said and done most likely. Not sure who the 2 out will be, but I might also swap some in and out from time to time
o.supreme wrote:Chefatron lives in the Philippines which serendipitously has the good fortune of getting pretty much every release from both (Asia?) & before most of the world, even *exclusives*. He gets likes most often, simply for being first. I'm not trying to bash him, but there's little more to it than that. If you were to make a drinking game of how often he says *I don't know* about the toys he's reviewing, lets just say, it's not a safe game to play. I give him props for being honest, but if I really want to see a thorough review, I simply wait for someone more reputable to obtain said toy.
Of course, would I love to gave the good fortune to even ONCE be the first person to obtain a particular thing, and get the notoriety that comes with that, sure, but moving half way around the world really isn't an option for me, so I'm ok with letting that honor go to other persons.
*edit* ninja'd by Cobotron
Cobotron wrote:Lore Keeper wrote:I've always wondered how these guys get the figures before they're actually released. I need to meet their hook up person.
Stab in the dark here, but I think Chiefatron is in the Philippines?
A country made of islands on the way from China to to the US. I think they get lots of things before we do.
I'm guessing lots freight gets dropped there before it makes it State side.
Lucky Filippino collectors!
Rodimus Prime wrote:Amazon's preorder price for red Swoop is $34.95 with $12.95 shipping. I hope that comes down some after he's released.
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Amazon's preorder price for red Swoop is $34.95 with $12.95 shipping. I hope that comes down some after he's released.
That price is from a 3rd party seller and not Amazon itself. If Amazon carries Swoop or Ricochet themselves, then it should come back to the normal price whenever they open it for pre-orders or have it in stock.
Ultra Markus wrote:whats next for selects Slug with a cartoon accurate red head
william-james88 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:whats next for selects Slug with a cartoon accurate red head
No, next is Buster and Hydra.
He's wishful thinking.Ultra Markus wrote:william-james88 wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:whats next for selects Slug with a cartoon accurate red head
No, next is Buster and Hydra.
well alrighty then at least i can have my starscream combiner a team of jets
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.'
And Sideswipe would be super easy since Breakdown's head is already Sideswipe-y enough that a simple redeco with no new tooling could easily pass for Sideswipe (and which is what would have been done for CW Sideswipe had Fun Pub opted to do him instead of thinking that Hasbro was gonna).o.supreme wrote:1. ANY single Deluxe Autobot as a combiner Limb, to finish PotP Inferno (Sideswipe would be awesome as he's the only one of the 1984 bots not made into a combiner limb).
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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