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News Credits: 56 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:48 pm

ok, I'll bite. I have no idea who this is supposed to be. Looks like a Blue ER Cliffjumper Body with the recently revealed SG Goldbug head. I don't have a twitter, so I can't see if the link names it.

News Credits: 23 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:49 pm

o.supreme wrote:ok, I'll bite. I have no idea who this is supposed to be. Looks like a Blue ER Cliffjumper Body with the recently revealed SG Goldbug head. I don't have a twitter, so I can't see if the link names it.

The account doesn't mention a name, but it should be Glyph.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:53 pm

o.supreme wrote:ok, I'll bite. I have no idea who this is supposed to be. Looks like a Blue ER Cliffjumper Body with the recently revealed SG Goldbug head. I don't have a twitter, so I can't see if the link names it.

News Credits: 56 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 12:56 pm

Thank You. Never heard of that character, but great for fans of obscure repaints ;)^

. I'm just throwing this out there, not as a criticism, but as an observation. A LOT of people were down on CW because the same few molds were constantly being reused. WFC has certainly proven that Hasbro is still full speed ahead with this idea. I personally have no problem with it. I mean If we get every obscure deco of every character, that is great, and Hasbro/TT definitely gets more for their mileage. Heck I can STILL think of unused character potential for previous CW molds, though I seriously doubt they'll go back there again.

News Credits: 12 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:00 pm

Interestinggggg
I'm wondering if this would mean Tap Out is on the horizon as well

Either way, having her would add more cast members from the 3H Wreckers

News Credits: 462 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:01 pm

Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

News Credits: 23 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:02 pm

o.supreme wrote:Thank You. Never heard of that character, but great for fans of obscure repaints . I'm just throwing this out there, not as a criticism, but as an observation. A LOT of people were down on CW because the same few molds were constantly being reused. WEll WFC has certainly proven that Hasbro is still full speed ahead with this idea. I personally have no problem with it. I mean If we get every obscure deco of every character, that is great, and Hasbro/TT definitely gets more for their mileage. Heck I can STILL think of unused character potential for previous CW molds, though I seriously doubt they'll go back there again.

Combiner Wars was just a bit before I started collecting again, but from what I've seen most CW complaints were about the molds being hamstrung by the combining gimmick. So it was less about characters being repaints and more about the mold itself that was being repainted. I personally do not mind repaints at all provided the base mold being repainted is fun.

News Credits: 12 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:04 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

The image suggests otherwise, unfortunately

News Credits: 5 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:18 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

The licensing is one of two things:
The VW tooling can only be used for Bumblebee (which also excludes Goldbug)
VW wants a large share of any profits made from the VW tooling

Personally I wish Hasbro invested in making a third tooling that was a fake VW, particularly like the Classics Bee mold (maybe it could've included the jetski instead of the bazooka). Then we could've had at least two car designs to keep things from feeling samey.

News Credits: 191 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:18 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

I don't think obscure character lore really matters next to the fact she comes with a bazooka longer than she is tall

News Credits: 462 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:22 pm

Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

I don't think obscure character lore really matters next to the fact she comes with a bazooka longer than she is tall

So did Bumblebee.

Also, wow! Long time no see.

News Credits: 17 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:26 pm

Nuclearxpotato wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Glyph better have the VW tooling. There is no excuse this time. She's an Autobot, a good guy. She's not even a soldier but a civilian, making it even easier to use the VW tooling since she's not a war toy.

The licensing is one of two things:
The VW tooling can only be used for Bumblebee (which also excludes Goldbug)
VW wants a large share of any profits made from the VW tooling

Personally I wish Hasbro invested in making a third tooling that was a fake VW, particularly like the Classics Bee mold (maybe it could've included the jetski instead of the bazooka). Then we could've had at least two car designs to keep things from feeling samey.

Licensors generally don't appreciate it when you design products explicitly to skirt your licensing deal. I'm thrilled we got VW Bees at the deluxe scale in both WfC and SS; the odds were never good for anything else at that scale. I would love a proper Goldbug, but we've only had one other Throttlebot recently, so I'm not in a rush.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 1:40 pm

aronjlove wrote:
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Found on Twitter

To bad its fake

News Credits: 23 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 2:03 pm

william-james88 wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
20210707_103208.jpg

Found on Twitter

To bad its fake

Yeah, apparently it was a custom made for Cluttered Desk and the Morgan account used it for the lulz. My bad!

News Credits: 23 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 2:05 pm

aronjlove wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
aronjlove wrote:
20210707_103208.jpg

Found on Twitter

To bad its fake
Yeah, apparently it was a custom made for Cluttered Desk and the Morgan account used it for the lulz. My bad!

Sorry, made by Cluttered Desk, and there is a tweet discussing it.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:15 pm

o.supreme wrote:ok, I'll bite. I have no idea who this is supposed to be. Looks like a Blue ER Cliffjumper Body with the recently revealed SG Goldbug head. I don't have a twitter, so I can't see if the link names it.

It's Glyph. First released at the 2002 Botcon. Did not know she had so many fans.

News Credits: 17 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:19 pm

She had a breakout role in a 2020 IDW one-shot.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Va ... ay_Special

News Credits: 101 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:22 pm

AcademyofDrX wrote:She had a breakout role in a 2020 IDW one-shot.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Va ... ay_Special

To be fair, a featureless generic G1 bot can be updated into anything.
Even a RiD style wolfman while we're at it. ¯\_( ͡°ヮ ͡°)_/¯

They did it for Beast Wars Neo Skyla too.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:26 pm

Really sorry it's fake. I would really love a Bumblebee repaint as Glyph

News Credits: 11 · Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:01 pm

I'm getting Toyvatron, as it's a clean paint job. Looking forward to a cartoon-accurate version without cr@pple-damage in the future.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:36 pm

AcademyofDrX wrote:Licensors generally don't appreciate it when you design products explicitly to skirt your licensing deal.

Even though it's been proven fake, yes, this exactly. Also VW seems to have some very specific use cases for their Beetle design. We've heard it took a while for them to get clearance to use the design for Earthrise Bumblebee forcing him to get moved to Netflix once it was finally sorted out, and the Target exclusive "Scout" Bumblebee traded the VW for Bumper's G1 Mazda alt mode. Clearly it isn't as cut and dry as "good guys can be Beetles", there's definitely more going on here.

Hopefully with all the attention that the custom Glyph got Hasbro will take notice and actually make one. And if they can secure the VW mold then maybe do a two pack with Tap-Out.

Emerje

News Credits: 101 · Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:08 pm

Thinking about my finances and mostly, about the available real estate to display my collection, I cancelled both of my preorders for Kingdom Ark AND ER Scorponok. Unfortunately, I already paid and received the DNA design Scorponok upgrade kits so I dumped them on Ebay along Fasttrack. I have G1 Scorponok and that's enough.

Now I'm patiently waiting for the ONLY titan that truly matter, Select Black Zarak. I don't know if DNA Design will make an upgrade kit for him. Anyway, I'm back to my initial plan to get only him. Black Rorichi will be patiently waiting his master until the end of the year. Pass that delay, he'll begin to understandably freak out....

Is there many among you guys who preordered Black Zarak?

News Credits: 23 · Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:14 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:Thinking about my finances and mostly, about the available real estate to display my collection, I cancelled both of my preorders for Kingdom Ark AND ER Scorponok. Unfortunately, I already paid and received the DNA design Scorponok upgrade kits so I dumped them on Ebay along Fasttrack. I have G1 Scorponok and that's enough.

Now I'm patiently waiting for the ONLY titan that truly matter, Select Black Zarak. I don't know if DNA Design will make an upgrade kit for him. Anyway, I'm back to my initial plan to get only him. Black Rorichi will be patiently waiting his master until the end of the year. Pass that delay, he'll begin to understandably freak out....

Is there many among you guys who preordered Black Zarak?

Considering ER Scorp was my first, as I don't count my KO Predaking, I want Black Zarack to be my last. I used Amazon gift cards to pay for the Ark already so I only really have to worry about saving for BZ.