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Excited for Inferno to add to my Protectobot collection. Nnot that I need him.

I might get Outback, n9t attached to Cundersaur but we'll see if I jump on him in stores

I'll take a G2 Volcanicus set please Settle once and for who red and who is green. SiGSiR, anyone?

I personally prefer the more common Green Slag and Red Snarl. The color layout is more pleasing to my eye on those than the other way 'round.

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.

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

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.

I'm definitely all for a Dinoking repaint of the Dinobots since that was an actual G1 dinosaur combiner that existed. I'm also wondering if there was ever confirmation of a Waverider Prime Master coming out. My Masterforce Autobot collection wouldn't be complete with just Metalhawk, Cloudburst, & Landmine.

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

Because when I was catching up, a good portion of said discussion centred around Trypticon and his lack of a premium release.

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.

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.

I agree, only a complete moron buys anything from them.

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.

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.

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?

-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.

But the nearly-identical (except for that weirdo, Swoop) deco is arguably one of the strongest points on Volcanicus, making him way more visually coherent than any CW/PotP team except Victorion.

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?

That was based on preliminary rumors, plus the lack of knowledge on the PotP Combiner setup (no 6th members for combining!). However...

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.

Despite everyone's hopes for a true box set, I find this to be the most likely scenario in all honesty, until other stores post listings for it.

Hey, Predaking and Devastator also have unified color schemes. OTOH they're also Titan-class when nobody else among the combiners is...

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Hey, Predaking and Devastator also have unified color schemes. OTOH they're also Titan-class when nobody else among the combiners is...

I count those separately as they are not Scramble City/Combiner Wars-type teams.

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.

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.

The real explanation: It was the 90s.

^That. So very much that. Just look at the Transmetals and Transmetals 2 across the board. So much 90s to the color schemes.

I suppose 'it was the '90' is a reasonable explanation. I certainly like it, especially when you realize that the final form of Optimus Primal and Megatron (not counting Beast Machine) are both very unique in their palette. In particular, Transmetal 2 Megatron is, to my knowledge, the only primarily red Megatron not counting possibly repaints. I'd say him being purple in the two previous forms is unique compared to G1 grey Megatron...but G2 Megatron is where adding purple to a Megatron design started and it stayed quite strong until the 2007, which brought grey back as his main color.

That's what I find cool of their later forms: when you put them in a crowd of their namesake you can instantly pick them out which really help establish them as unique and distinct characters from the others of that name.

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.

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.

He's my favorite to, for those same reason.
And the Star Convoy-esque head.

Kinda wish we'd see one more bizarre recolor and retool in PotP, but I suspect the sheer 'wtf factor' got eaten by the gorgeous Shattered Glass Rodimus Unicronus. Had this guy not been revealed early on during the leaks, I would have sworn that they would just have made a White Optimus and called it 'Dion and Ultra Magnus' to be lazy. A Rodimus in that color and a new head? Oh wow, did I not expect that at all and oh man am I glad we got that.

I also realize that it's a much more realistic color scheme for the kind of truck Optimus is supposed to be. Most trailer trucks I see tend to be black, white or blue: very few if any red.

Anyone remember the Target exclusive Beast Hunters Cyberverse Optimus and Predaking two pack? I still own that set... Twice. One open to play, one sealed for display. It's really kick-ass.

-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.

He does look awesome, but there are some aspects that leave me a bit underwhelmed. Like the long kibble backpack of the leg componenets in robot mode, the lack of gold on the predaking wings, Divemomb's alt mode looking pretty bad, the lack of a big sword for predaking and the lack of spike on the knuckles.

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?

We wont. All evidence points to this just being the 6 individual bots sold in a lot.

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.

Wow, so much hope.