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News Credits: 462 · Mon May 09, 2022 6:15 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.

She

News Credits: 22 · Mon May 09, 2022 6:27 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She

It's a skeleton.

News Credits: 101 · Mon May 09, 2022 6:33 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.

Unless you're up for another bony trade? :-?

News Credits: 241 · Mon May 09, 2022 6:35 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

It could have a female build. I mean, some genera had sexual dimorphism.

News Credits: 42 · Mon May 09, 2022 7:39 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

The listing called her a she

Mon May 09, 2022 9:02 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

Kinda pointless getting defensive when the listing outright uses female pronouns :-P

Besides...it's actually a robot disguised as a skeleton!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon May 09, 2022 9:04 pm

My take on the Scattershot/Demolisher debate: Scattershot looks morel like Impactor than Megatron while Demolisher looks more like Megatron than Impactor. If we're already talking about extra parts for alt mode accuracy then why start with the wrong looking bottom half of the tank?

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

It's a robot with a skeleton alt mode not an actual skeleton. That's like saying Arcee isn't female she turns into a car. Alt modes have nothing to do with gender.

Incidentally isn't "Fossilizer" a misnomer? I mean if they exist at a time when there are real dinosaurs then there wouldn't be dinosaur fossils yet, just relatively recent bones.

Emerje

News Credits: 462 · Mon May 09, 2022 9:10 pm

Emerje wrote:Incidentally isn't "Fossilizer" a misnomer? I mean if they exist at a time when there are real dinosaurs then there wouldn't be dinosaur fossils yet, just relatively recent bones.

Emerje

Someone must have used a method of age manipulation to create them.

(In fact, there's a whole planet in Beast Wars Neo that can actually do that. It turned Break into a withered elder and Longrack into a chibi toddler. :-B

)

News Credits: 101 · Mon May 09, 2022 9:13 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Emerje wrote:Incidentally isn't "Fossilizer" a misnomer? I mean if they exist at a time when there are real dinosaurs then there wouldn't be dinosaur fossils yet, just relatively recent bones.

Emerje
Someone must have used a method of age manipulation to create them.

(In fact, there's a whole planet in Beast Wars Neo that can actually do that. It turned Break into a withered elder and Longrack into a chibi toddler. )

I see the Fossilisers as ZOMBIE Dinobots created by a mad Cybertronian necromancer. :twisted:

Mon May 09, 2022 9:29 pm

With all these recent redecos what's going on with the rumored Hot Rod redeco?

News Credits: 17 · Mon May 09, 2022 9:32 pm

Till-all-R1 wrote:With all these recent redecos what's going on with the rumored Hot Rod redeco?

The Walmart-exclusive Velocitron-themed line is rumored to include Override, retooled from SS86 Hot Rod.

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 09, 2022 9:53 pm

Nope, still prefer my IDW Impactor. O' course, that's probably because the ONLY Impactor stories I've read are IDW ones.

But I do appreciate that this one looks like the Marvel version. I never understood the football-helmet looking first release of the mould.

Spindle is pretty much what I expected, though not those colours. I assume the mammoth will match the colours of whoever he/she is packed with.

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 09, 2022 10:40 pm

And another Siege release is made less desirable. At least in my book.

Not worth rebuying, though. That fossilizer would be tempting if it was bone colored.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:04 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

Not sure I get this comment. It's a robot and in TF lore some are girls and some are guys and this one happens to be a girl robot, like Arcee and POTP Slash.

News Credits: 22 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:28 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.

Unless you're up for another bony trade?

Hmm...I'm not sure, I don't really have anything in mind. I'm working on shrinking my collection. Maybe a Galactic Odyssey Punch/Counterpunch? Or if you come across any goodies in your hobby shop that you visit.

As for the skeleton comment, everyone calm down. I was simply trying to imply that it's hard to tell what type of personality it has, just by looking at it. It's a skeleton, it doesn't have outright identifying features, such as a feminine face or other physical attributes. Like I said, I have no interest in the figure, so I could not care any less about what it identifies as.

News Credits: 4877 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:32 am

Emerje wrote:Incidentally isn't "Fossilizer" a misnomer? I mean if they exist at a time when there are real dinosaurs then there wouldn't be dinosaur fossils yet, just relatively recent bones.

Emerje

These characters exist when there are real dinosaurs? 100 million years ago? I never caught that. The fossilisers were in the Kingdom line where time is not really relevant since it has different eras all colliding. Could come from any time. I personally figured they were another Wheeljack experiment and to contrast with the Dinobots, he made new robots that actually looked like the Dinosaur fossils they found/saw.
I don't see how these are misnomers.

News Credits: 51 · Tue May 10, 2022 1:18 am

Stepping away from the Scattorshot thing for a second: one of the leakers has specified that the "build-a-hammer" mentioned in the description of these two is NOT a buildable accessory for the figures but rather a cardboard display piece similar to how the Netflix Deluxes came with those cardboard Ark diorama bits.

Also while I was finding that I saw a TFW user say that this Impactor's face looks like a Dark Souls NPC, and that is so disturbingly accurate in my opinion that I'm mad I didn't figure out phrasing it that way myself.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue May 10, 2022 7:48 am

william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:Incidentally isn't "Fossilizer" a misnomer? I mean if they exist at a time when there are real dinosaurs then there wouldn't be dinosaur fossils yet, just relatively recent bones.

Emerje

These characters exist when there are real dinosaurs? 100 million years ago? I never caught that. The fossilisers were in the Kingdom line where time is not really relevant since it has different eras all colliding. Could come from any time. I personally figured they were another Wheeljack experiment and to contrast with the Dinobots, he made new robots that actually looked like the Dinosaur fossils they found/saw.
I don't see how these are misnomers.

I wrote a long post... and then talked myself out of my initial line of thought and deleted it. :lol:

OK, so it was 5M, not 100M so I guess there would have been dinosaur fossils back then too.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Stepping away from the Scattorshot thing for a second: one of the leakers has specified that the "build-a-hammer" mentioned in the description of these two is NOT a buildable accessory for the figures but rather a cardboard display piece similar to how the Netflix Deluxes came with those cardboard Ark diorama bits.

I figured as much. If you read the description closely is doesn't say anything about it being anything you can equip a figure with, it specifically says it's for display. "Collect all 5 packs to assemble and display the hammer".

Emerje

Tue May 10, 2022 8:20 am

Shame. I like Spindle but I already have two versions of Impactor. I really don't need a third version. If Hasbro insists on triple dipping, could they at least use the mold for different characters.

News Credits: 19 · Tue May 10, 2022 11:43 am

william-james88 wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:This is the Impactor I've been waiting for. He's finally correct in every way. But I don't need that Spindle, so most likely up on eBay he goes.
She
It's a skeleton.

Not sure I get this comment. It's a robot and in TF lore some are girls and some are guys and this one happens to be a girl robot, like Arcee and POTP Slash.

An A-sexual skeleton. Even dinosaurs had prefered pro nouns.

Imapctor looks really good but not good enough to buy again even if the dino looks good too and might give the combined mode another head.

News Credits: 18 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:01 pm

next wreck and rule release, leadfoot

News Credits: 18 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:02 pm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QBKHNJ2?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp

hasbropulse's should go live any second

News Credits: 462 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:09 pm

It's live!

News Credits: 12 · Tue May 10, 2022 12:10 pm

I'm probably gonna get Leadfoot, just gonna use him as a stand in for Slapdash. Colors are inverted but it's better than nothing for updated Powermasters