Jelze Bunnycat wrote:MeGrimlock78 wrote:True...since I already had Blue Swoop, I popped the silver arms and legs off, and put them on the red torso. The beak too. Solid as a rock.
O' course, my blue swoop is a floppy mess now, but whatcha gonna do?
That would mean the source of the floppiness is the sockets being too big on the Selects. Nothing that can be done with the wing colors tho...
I heated up the flat headed pins with a soldering iron to take them off and swapped the wings too. I have two of each version and only swapped the colors on one pair. So I have one red and blue Swoop pair in PotP grey and another pair in Selects grey. And yes, both of my Selects Swoops were floppy messes.
I'm not going to quote everyone but I'll add a few other things.
I also don't think the PotP Dinobots really sacrificed all that much to facilitate the combined modes. I mean, the limbs don't do anything weird to turn into a limb as it's just either their dino or robot modes other than maybe Swoops's leg mode. Even then, it's not really doing anything intrusive to attain the leg mode. Their combiner pegs are all in places that aren't needed for anything. You could say Sludge would've benefited from being able to put his head in his chest to allow for dino neck articulation though. Grimlock doesn't do anything weird either and that's why he sucks as a torso. It seems to me that he sacrificed the torso mode to have better dino and robot modes. What more as a stand alone Grimlock could it have done that was actually hampered by the torso mode? The leg transformation could just be based on the FoC version and not because of it being a combiner.
I too love combiners. I want more characters and molds. Slugslinger, Thundercracker, Cosmos, Monstructor, Dinoking, Landcross, Goradora and everybody else. Combiners of everyone has been my main want since I was a kid playing with Streetwise, First Aid and Hot Spot thinking why they couldn't be Prowl, Ratchet and Inferno instead. Now I can do that and I love it! The again, I kinda thought the same with the Micromasters Tote and Fixit being Ironhide and Ratchet.
I do also agree that some of the limb bots robots mode do look a bit awkward but since I love combiners, it doesn't really bother me.
For more Selects figures, do we know for sure why Bugbite isn't using the Bumblebee mold? I was thinking that if they couldn't use it for non-Autobots or non-Bumblebee in specific do to the deal they have with Volkswagon, then I might have a workaround. They could just name them all Bumblebee "something" type. Like Glyph could be Bumblebee cyber archaeologist type. Bugbite could've been Bumblebee universal spy type. Wasp could be Bumblebee attack type and so on. They could also have "bonus" faction sticker sheets so that we can put whatever we wanted on them but officially they'd all be Autobot Bumblebee figures. It's not like BB has to be yellow since we got MP red BB already and VW didn't have a problem. I know it bothers some people not having the actual name on the box but it's not that big a deal as to not go back on the deal. Then they could redo Bugbite using Bumblebee with some added purple and give him a white Hubcap head so we could swap them.
Otherwise though, maybe Lift-Ticket along with the already mentioned Tap-Out? Some other Diaclone decos with names? Black Ironhide, yellow and green Ratchet, blue and yellow Trailbreaker and everyone else. I imagine Road Rage and Loudpedal would be next year when the rumored Tracks is closer to release.
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