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Lunatic Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Back to Tailgate, he looks decent. Good call on retooling the chest as well as the head.

I don't see any retooling of the chest.

And you are so right, just paint and stickers. Just goes to show how different Windcharger and Tailgate look on first sight.

william-james88 wrote:

MECHdirge wrote:I really like this Tailgate. I have a recent third party version, but I just received a G1 Tailgate for Christmas, one of the last inexpensive figures from the first three years I was missing. Anyway, I think this is a nice addition to the line and is better than the Combiner Wars version. Just my take.

What combiner wars version?

I think he means the T30 one. The CW one is his retool Windcharger.

Yup, T30 to CW went in the opposite direction

william-james88 wrote:

MECHdirge wrote:I really like this Tailgate. I have a recent third party version, but I just received a G1 Tailgate for Christmas, one of the last inexpensive figures from the first three years I was missing. Anyway, I think this is a nice addition to the line and is better than the Combiner Wars version. Just my take.

What combiner wars version?

I guess he means the Thrilling 30th one or its recolor Combiner Wars Windcharger.

Speaking of Minibots, Beachcomber's alt mode is pretty big compared to Brawn.

It must be a headmaster otherwise the trio will just look lame together. They can easily retool Grotusque. Just remove the tail and wings, give him a new head and hind legs and you are done.

DMSL wrote:It must be a headmaster otherwise the trio will just look lame together. They can easily retool Grotusque. Just remove the tail and wings, give him a new head and hind legs and you are done.

Remove the tail? So you want a Repugnus without legs in robot mode

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Back to Tailgate, he looks decent. Good call on retooling the chest as well as the head.

I don't see any retooling of the chest.

And you are so right, just paint and stickers. Just goes to show how different Windcharger and Tailgate look on first sight.

No stickers just paint.

Skritz wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:Does everyone kept waiting for Apeface and Snapdragon as of now?

Not for PotP, but I suppose it would not be impossible for them to be released as figures in a later Generations line. Either with or without their Headmaster gimmick intact, in the former's case they would simply have compatible engineering with previous Titan Masters.

I'll repeat myself but it still bugs me that in a line with mandatory headmaster and triple-changers at a Voyager class we never got Horrorcons. Hasbro was smoking some weird **** when they decided to skip these guys.

What do you mean?? There was the huge news post about an employee from amazon who said there will be beast wars box sets with Optimus Primal using the POTP ape face mold but not a headmaster and Megatron using the POTP Snapdragon mood also not being a headmaster and there would be 5-6 figures per box! The guy who claimed all this even saw pictures even though that’s not how that works in the slightest!

Oh wait that was a whole bunch of lies once we found out POTP line main gimmick was combiners. God I still think about that and how full of it that whole thing was.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

DMSL wrote:It must be a headmaster otherwise the trio will just look lame together. They can easily retool Grotusque. Just remove the tail and wings, give him a new head and hind legs and you are done.

Remove the tail? So you want a Repugnus without legs in robot mode

Nah. Just switch the pointy tail-bits with nubs so that it is more of an insect-abdomen.

DecepticonFinishline wrote:[Nah. Just switch the pointy tail-bits with nubs so that it is more of an insect-abdomen.

THIS! Took the ideawords right out of my brainmouth.

Cobotron wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:[Nah. Just switch the pointy tail-bits with nubs so that it is more of an insect-abdomen.

THIS! Took the ideawords right out of my brainmouth.

Now all we need is a third Battle Beast to be his head

Lunatic Prime wrote:Speaking of Minibots, Beachcomber's alt mode is pretty big compared to Brawn.

What do you expect? It's Brawn.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

bodrock wrote:Terrorcons, Horrorcons -- what about the Seacons?! I'd love a Tentakil update.

Same here. I guess they wouldn't look as cool as TFC Toys' Poseidon but I would buy them if doesn't screw up totally.

bodrock wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if they were an exclusive boxset later on....

That's pretty likely if they make them at all.
Snap Trap - Sky Lynx retool
Overbite - Rippersnapper recolor
Tentakil - Blot retool
Nautilator - Sinnertwin retool
Skalor - Rippersnapper retool
Seawing - Cutthroat retool or more just using the transformation scheme and assembling the beast mode backwards

I like your ideas, Lunatic Prime -- all the above would work, without a doubt.

And TFC's Toys Poseidon was definitely godly -- they made the entire Seacon crew look as cool as they should be, since they're all basically sea mutants.

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The upcoming Legends Tailgate looks good; I'll be picking him up, no doubt. I wonder when wave2 will start appearing....

Had a bit of fun with my toys today. I will admit, POTP Grimlock looks pretty good in this comparison

Yes, I meant the Thrilling 30 mold of Tailgate. I didn’t care for CW Windcharger either... prefer the 2010 scout class figure. I haven’t had my PoTP Windcharger shipped yet (BBTS loot), so I’m just going on the photos I’ve found, but they seem to be an improvement over the last incarnation. I picked up the XTransbot Boost and Hatch figures when they first came out, but I prefer having an official version on the shelf and these figures seem to be solid.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:[Nah. Just switch the pointy tail-bits with nubs so that it is more of an insect-abdomen.

THIS! Took the ideawords right out of my brainmouth.

Now all we need is a third Battle Beast to be his head

I vote this one!

Sabrblade wrote:

Black Hat wrote:Oh old Tailgate, with his iconic scene where he appears, gets stood on by Trypticon and never does anything again!

That was Swerve.

Cobotron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:[Nah. Just switch the pointy tail-bits with nubs so that it is more of an insect-abdomen.

THIS! Took the ideawords right out of my brainmouth.

Now all we need is a third Battle Beast to be his head

I vote this one!

Real-talk. I'm down. Gimme a giraffeeboi.

YES! Battle Beasts FTW

And to go with Cary's suggestion from earlier, the Nu Battle Beasts could have a Prime for their rubsign!

Rated X wrote:I hated that damn IDW tailgate. I was also upset that we never got one from the scout class Windcharger mold. So its great Tailgate finally gets some justice. Now all we need is a proper Huffer/Pipes original mold instead of a crappy prime repaint.

And a proper Warpath Legends class mold too! He needs his classic chest "cannon."

I want a Pipes which has Pipes not Blue Huffer

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Rated X wrote:I hated that damn IDW tailgate. I was also upset that we never got one from the scout class Windcharger mold. So its great Tailgate finally gets some justice. Now all we need is a proper Huffer/Pipes original mold instead of a crappy prime repaint.

And a proper Warpath Legends class mold too! He needs his classic chest "cannon."

Well for me Warpath is a grey area. Im a toon accuracy guy who puts scale first. So in my mind Warpath got a proper figure a long time ago with his deluxe mold. He was portrayed as being the same size as an autobot car in the cartoon consistently. While I would welcome a tank not shaped like an "H" if it wasnt deluxe scale Id be pissed. Then the KO guys would have to do him justice.

Also, Powerglide went back and forth in the cartoon from being smaller to being regular sized in different episodes. But theres a high quality upsized KO of powerglide that is on par with the quality of the original. So I have the best of both scales on display.

leokearon wrote:I want a Pipes which has Pipes not Blue Huffer

Im with you on that. But you gotta get the base mold right before you do the retool. Using a smaller scale Prime on the sole basis that he was a truck was a total fail. With Huffer/Pipes the main difference wasnt the pipes but actually his hood. Making them both cartoon accurate while using the same base mold might be difficult. I suppose you could retool the lower arms with fake "pipes" but where would they go in truck mode?

So what are the odds we'll get Blast Off in G2 colors, too? Slim, right?

Rated X wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Black Hat wrote:Oh old Tailgate, with his iconic scene where he appears, gets stood on by Trypticon and never does anything again!

That was Swerve.

Hey, not my fault the late-G1 Minibots were so utterly forgettable in the cartoon.