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Emerje wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Repugnus still looks like the ugliest transformer i ever did see.

Just going to leave these here.





Now you've seen uglier Transformers.

Emerje

I actually like the sparkstalker repaint

With you on the others though and even then there is far worse out there

william-james88 wrote:About the prime armour, it cannot fit on the robot mode chest, so it is basically a weapon, as advertised on the back of the box.

A picture of the back of the box would have been nice.

william-james88 wrote:The other big difference is the head. And yes, it looks small, especially compared to the previous Wreck-Gar toy.

And the precious Wreck-Gar actually is Combiner Wars Wreck-Gar. A comparison with him would be nice, too.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:About the prime armour, it cannot fit on the robot mode chest, so it is basically a weapon, as advertised on the back of the box.

A picture of the back of the box would have been nice.

william-james88 wrote:The other big difference is the head. And yes, it looks small, especially compared to the previous Wreck-Gar toy.

And the precious Wreck-Gar actually is Combiner Wars Wreck-Gar. A comparison with him would be nice, too.

The back of the box has been seen for a while now:



and sorry, but those are all the pics I have available.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Groove, Afterburner and Wreck-Gar are the only ones to use this mold? I'm thinking about buying all of them to make a CW biker gang. But who would be the 4th member and who would they combine with?

Those are the three characters using the main mold, yeah. However, Aftrerburner has two decos to choose from, Hasbro's toy-accurate one (which resembles Wreck-Gar to a degree) and TakaraTomy's cartoon-accurate one, that comes with two new-mold guns.

As for the Torso, Inferno has a spot for a miniature bike...

Use lil' Wreck-Gar for total freakyness.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Repugnus still looks like the ugliest transformer i ever did see.

Just going to leave these here.





Now you've seen uglier Transformers.

Emerje

I actually like the sparkstalker repaint

With you on the others though and even then there is far worse out there

Eh I dunno. That first one is pretty ugly yeah in robot mode though as a gross bug thing the alt-mode works.

That second one doesn't look too bad and has a good beast mode...if you can consider each form a seperate mode and not just mostly standing up on two legs or standing on four legs..either way it's got some interesting shape design and a nice beast head, wings and claws... and as four legged beast modes go it's a hell of a lot better than the crappy Titans Return Wolfwire I only bought to repaint into Carnivac and I still hate it even after that. If I come across the Skystalker version for cheap I may get it

And the third one is a decent enough toy (if you like G1 seekers which i ain't that fond of) just done in that bizarre G2 colour scheme.

I just find Repugnus to look super-ugly from a design standpoint in blocky boring robot to blocky weird bug thing and in a colour scheme that just doesn't work at all. I find absolutely nothing appealing about him whatsoever and it's like barely any progress was ever made in the 30 years between the G1 toy and this one. At least the G1 figure had a sparky gimmick i could worry my mum with (i didn't have that one but i did have a couple of Firecons and she was always worried I'd set fire to the carpet with the sparks... ah good times).

Not my image bu here s a junkion combiner option



but yeah, there are 4 different deluxe combining bike bots out there plus the extra small one for a 5th member.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:"...crappy Titans Return Wolfwire..."

Carnivius_Prime wrote:crappy Titans Return Wolfwire

Also, The Takara version of Throne of the Primes is available to pre-order on BBTS!

Autobot N wrote:Also, The Takara version of Throne of the Primes is available to pre-order on BBTS!

I just posted that in the Pre-order thread too.

I'm going to be on vacation on Aug 13th. I'm willing to pay the extra $20 to preorder...

[Edit] Estimated to arrive n January, so I guess I could try to get him for cheaper at HTS...

Wow! 20 bucks more for Throne Primal than from HTS isn't SO bad. I bet he could be imported from JP online shops for a little better than that.

I got a shipping notice from teh 'Zon for Repugnus last night. He is arriving a day earlier than was originally projected

MAN! Amazon is killing it with these guys. With all of these Zon exclusives it's been like, "Your item will be delivered on the 15th". Order update, "Your item will arrive the 10th". On the 6th, DING DONG! Delivery for a Mr. Cobotron!
This has been a dramatization of real events.
I could really get use to this! So if P/CP has an estimated arrival of Sept 19th, that means he'll be here in like a week!

Agamemnon wrote:[Edit] Estimated to arrive n January, so I guess I could try to get him for cheaper at HTS...

I went ahead and pre-ordered him, so if I manage to snag him on HTS, then I can cancel the BBTS pre-order and save $20. But, if I don't manage to get him on HTS, then I can keep the BBTS pre-order and not have to pay scalper prices for him.

o.supreme wrote:Just changing gears for a moment. Does anyone happen to know how much "Throne of the Primes" sold for at SDCC? I'm just trying to consider purchasing options. The nice thing is making this a regular release will making scalping these hopefully less likely, if people are patient that is. TT PotP Leader Class are selling on 3P sites for $65 (as opposed to US $50 Retail). So even with the added Prime Masters, if people miss out on HTS on August 13th, where they will sell for $70, I cant imagine 3P pre-orders being more than $90 or $95 (which is what the last couple Legends Leaders were/are going for). It would be interesting to see if the pre-orders for the TT one are available prior to August 13th, if/how that will effect sales on HTS. I mean I know they will sell out in short order, but I know some people that are willing to be patient and wait 6 months to get them at a decent price rather than pay 2X retail scalper prices on eBay once HTS sells out.

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/V ... ails/77969

Well now we know what the scalping threshold will be

Would be nice if HTS was available on other continents, too

Cobotron wrote:Wow! 20 bucks more for Throne Primal than from HTS isn't SO bad. I bet he could be imported from JP online shops for a little better than that.

I got a shipping notice from teh 'Zon for Repugnus last night. He is arriving a day earlier than was originally projected

MAN! Amazon is killing it with these guys. With all of these Zon exclusives it's been like, "Your item will be delivered on the 15th". Order update, "Your item will arrive the 10th". On the 6th, DING DONG! Delivery for a Mr. Cobotron!
This has been a dramatization of real events.
I could really get use to this! So if P/CP has an estimated arrival of Sept 19th, that means he'll be here in like a week!

I'd love to see P/CP ASAP!

Gotta give it to the Hasbro Team on how they managed to work in the Battle Beast characters BACK into the Transformers line with the use of the Monsterbots. We now have 4 in canon Battle Beast characters, 3 originals and 1 new (thanks to Takara). (Or would that be 5?)

Cobotron wrote:Wow! 20 bucks more for Throne Primal than from HTS isn't SO bad. I bet he could be imported from JP online shops for a little better than that.

I got a shipping notice from teh 'Zon for Repugnus last night. He is arriving a day earlier than was originally projected

MAN! Amazon is killing it with these guys. With all of these Zon exclusives it's been like, "Your item will be delivered on the 15th". Order update, "Your item will arrive the 10th". On the 6th, DING DONG! Delivery for a Mr. Cobotron!
This has been a dramatization of real events.
I could really get use to this! So if P/CP has an estimated arrival of Sept 19th, that means he'll be here in like a week!

Was Primal ever available on HTS for actual purchase?

Ebonyleopard wrote:Gotta give it to the Hasbro Team on how they managed to work in the Battle Beast characters BACK into the Transformers line with the use of the Monsterbots. We now have 4 in canon Battle Beast characters, 3 originals and 1 new (thanks to Takara). (Or would that be 5?)

Twinferno: Pirate Lion / White Leo
Grotusque: Saber Sword Tiger / Platinum Tiger
Repugnus: Prickly Porcupine / Hedgehog

Shuffler: Sledgehammer Elephant / Elephan
Ramhorn: Rocky Rhino / Greysharp? (Bit of a stretch)

If we're gonna count Legends repurposings, Sawback was used for Tigerburn, with a theoretical Trizer redeco as Scope Cougar.

As an aside, how does Sky Reign look with Dinobot limbs?

Nemesis Primal wrote:Unpopular opinion: I like the HFGs better than these Prime Armors.

I actually do too, because, I like consistency. I'm actually sad that UW caved on the last one (Baldigus) and used the CW Computron fists and feet recolored, but at least it's only one.

Also what you have presents the problem of only having the feet with the voyagers in PotP. Unless you have all the voyagers, you are going to end up short of limb components, since the Prime Armor that comes with deluxes cannot be feet.

Ebonyleopard wrote:Was Primal ever available on HTS for actual purchase?

Not yet! He is suposed to become available on August 13th.

o.supreme wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Unpopular opinion: I like the HFGs better than these Prime Armors.

I actually do too

Yup! Me too. While the ankle tilt on the new feet is great, and the ability to beef up the feet by adding the hands is awesome. I still think the creativity in finding a reasonable solution with the CW HFGs trumps all that. I don't know if I like HFGs better, but I never had a problem with them, and am still able to get my Combiners into some great poses.

Count me as another that likes the HFG better than the prime armor. I have never used the armor as armor, it just looks dumb to me.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:As an aside, how does Sky Reign look with Dinobot limbs?

I only have half of the Dinobot limbs and don't intend on purchasing the other two, so this probably isn't exactly what you want, but this is my current Sky Reign configuration:

I'm actually intending to replace Snarl with Wreck-Gar and Swoop with Trailbreaker when I acquire them, but I don't know what I'll do about the foot situation when I do. Snarl is currently borrowing Groove's HFG, and Groove's going to need that back when I eventually get the other Protectobots I want...

Unpopular opinion: I like the HFGs better than these Prime Armors. I find they work better for action poses, the built-in weapon aspect appeals to me, some characters can actually use them for stuff in non-combined modes, and they actually work as hands AND feet, as opposed to the Prime Armors which are useless half the time because they can only be hands, have weird extra thumbs, and don't convincingly work as anything other than hands. Plus, the quality control on the Prime Armors I've gotten are way worse than the HFGs. Snarl's is super loose, while Swoop's is super tight, and the armor-gun bit on the back of Rippersnapper's keeps trying to fall off.

My Sky Reign has Snarl and Slag as arms and Nosecone and Strafe as legs (I bought Nosecone, Strafe, Afterbreaker, Scrounge and Cybaxx with Computron's feet on eBay). I think Computron's and the PotP combiner feet are great (as long as they are tight). The 5 mm pegs on my Elita-1's feet are super loose and the ratchets are not that tight, too. But !I! do have more trouble with the HFGs as feet to get the combiners into good poses. But as hands I think both, the HFGs and the Prime armors, are great as hands.
And I don't mind the two thumbs. Transformers don't need to have human anatomy. Why should they at all? And especially as combiners are such huge robots an extra thumb to grab heavy objects/weapons and a double elbow for more range of articulation might come in handy.
AND I put the PotP feet reversed onto the legs with the Prime armors being the front of the feet and their toes. Looks great especially on Abominus.


*And I use Swoop as a stand-alone figure. He looks too cool in robot mode to be a limb (to me at least).

*And I might give Sky Reign Moonracer and Novastar as legs with Elita-1's feet as soon as I got Novastar and tightned the feets 5 mm pegs. And think the Technobots suit Elita-1 better as I imagine her being the badass character she's in the IDW comics.

That abom is looking nice and lethal lunatic!

Love the fact you've given him fort max's sword.

ZeroWolf wrote:That abom is looking nice and lethal lunatic!

Thanks, man.
I'll also give him special edition Megatronus instead of the Enigma and maybe exchange Sinnertwin with Blast Off to make him darker.

ZeroWolf wrote:Love the fact you've given him fort max's sword.

Yes, that's the 3rd party version originally made for Nemesis Prime. It'll fit perfect to Megatronus and in my fanfic Megatronus gives Abominus the power to kind of "generate" the sword