Burn wrote:Move on from the poll discussion please, it's not relevant to the thread.
Skritz wrote:Still hoping in vain for Dinoking repaint of Volcanicus. Yes, I know Dinoking was a Monstructor repaint but an update would make more sense as the Dinobot combiner with new colors and maybe heads, either individual heads for robots or a new combiner head. Then add a 5mm port on top of Grimlock's dinohead to peg in a parts-forming yellow chest armor and he's good to go.
Sadly, it seems Takara's golden age of repaints and retools that make people feel smug about buying them is unfortunately over.
Emerje wrote:Burn wrote:Move on from the poll discussion please, it's not relevant to the thread.
I'm not trying to be contrary, but I'm genuinely curious, as I'm sure others are (hence not sending you a PM), why discussing the Power of the Primes poll in the Power of the Primes thread is off topic? It isn't exactly timely, but it seems topical with all of the Optimal Optimus talk that it spawned from.
Emerje
Sabrblade wrote:It could just be ToyWiz themselves selling all five individually-packaged Dinobots as a bundled offer.
steals_your_goats wrote:Rated X wrote:Why so much? Four $15-20 figures and a $30 torso figure shouldnt be more than $110 wtf???? Better be G2 deco
I wouldn't think too much about the price. Toywiz is notorious for majorly marking stuff up.
Possible Power of the Primes Volcanicus Box Set Coming Soon
-Kanrabat- wrote:Possible Power of the Primes Volcanicus Box Set Coming Soon
AH! Saw this coming from a mile away. However, make the set G2 colors. Then I'll be all over it. If it's the same deco, I'll skip it like the single dinos.
My top priorities remain Abobinus and Predaking.
Speaking of Predaking, why many people said it was "underwhelming"? Because from the pictures shown, it look quite awesome.
Wireless_Phantom wrote:There has to be something special about this box set. My bet is that it uses chrome, which would be part of the reason the price is jacked. Also, the listing says that Slash can augment Volcanicus. Does this mean we will have an official method for adding Slash to the combiner?
Relic0037 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It could just be ToyWiz themselves selling all five individually-packaged Dinobots as a bundled offer.
I seem to remember ToyWiz doing something similar with Superion & Menasor a few years ago. I double checked at the time & it wasn't a Unite Warriors set or a special box set, just the 5 separate figures sold as a bundle. I'm guessing they are doing the same thing here, but time will tell.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hey, Predaking and Devastator also have unified color schemes. OTOH they're also Titan-class when nobody else among the combiners is...
Skritz wrote:So, with Optimus Primal getting a new figure depicting him in his Optimal Optimus form can I bring up something which has always fascinated me with that design: his colors are so frickin' weird! Not that I mean it in a bad way, I find that it makes him certainly stand out from all other Optimuses (Optimi?) even more than all his previous forms, what with that bright orange but I cannot deny how odd a color scheme it is. It's just such a drastic departure both from previous Optimus figures and from Primal's own primarily grey/brown color schemes with blue accents, what with replacing most of what was previous grey or some shade of brown in his two previous forms with a bright orange and some metallic burgundy.
I like it, but I can't help but wonder wtf went through the designer's mind. It's so out of left field for a 'good guy leader bot' toy, where nearly all Autobot/Maximals leader characters had stuck to red and/or blue, even with Primal's original body using white, red and blue for accents and his Transmetal form having chromed blue for the main color of beast mode.
Can't help but think that, had Beast Wars somehow been made later, they would have opted for the more logical color scheme of Primal Prime.
kurthy wrote:Skritz wrote:So, with Optimus Primal getting a new figure depicting him in his Optimal Optimus form can I bring up something which has always fascinated me with that design: his colors are so frickin' weird! Not that I mean it in a bad way, I find that it makes him certainly stand out from all other Optimuses (Optimi?) even more than all his previous forms, what with that bright orange but I cannot deny how odd a color scheme it is. It's just such a drastic departure both from previous Optimus figures and from Primal's own primarily grey/brown color schemes with blue accents, what with replacing most of what was previous grey or some shade of brown in his two previous forms with a bright orange and some metallic burgundy.
I like it, but I can't help but wonder wtf went through the designer's mind. It's so out of left field for a 'good guy leader bot' toy, where nearly all Autobot/Maximals leader characters had stuck to red and/or blue, even with Primal's original body using white, red and blue for accents and his Transmetal form having chromed blue for the main color of beast mode.
Can't help but think that, had Beast Wars somehow been made later, they would have opted for the more logical color scheme of Primal Prime.
Action masters Optimus prime comes to mind as does gobot Optimus prime. OP completely messing with the classic color scheme does happen occasionally. Also, it could be meant originally to envoke another autobot leader that got a power up from getting something out of OP's chest. He also happened to be burgundy and orange.
Skritz wrote:Edit: I'd say my favorite 'wtf recolor' of Optimus in recent years has to be this guy:
Sure, I use him as Nova Prime but I have to admit that this is a very, very nice color scheme for Optimus Prime. It looks regal, almost holy.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Possible Power of the Primes Volcanicus Box Set Coming Soon
AH! Saw this coming from a mile away. However, make the set G2 colors. Then I'll be all over it. If it's the same deco, I'll skip it like the single dinos.
My top priorities remain Abobinus and Predaking.
Speaking of Predaking, why many people said it was "underwhelming"? Because from the pictures shown, it look quite awesome.
Wireless_Phantom wrote:There has to be something special about this box set. My bet is that it uses chrome, which would be part of the reason the price is jacked. Also, the listing says that Slash can augment Volcanicus. Does this mean we will have an official method for adding Slash to the combiner?
Skritz wrote:Still hoping in vain for Dinoking repaint of Volcanicus.
DecepticonFinishline wrote:
Thus, my hope for potential extra figures that no one has seen yet.
Bronzewolf wrote:There is still some hope of a combiner limb Sideswipe
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Still holding out hope for a PotP Scorn.
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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