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Sjeng wrote:probably like Afterburner:

Annnd the Universal Greeting comes in mind.

Hothouse from Powerglide would make a lot of sense to do.

Though saving Micromasters for later isn't a bad idea overall.

I do expect they will eventually get around to making a new Mould Huffer/Pipes and perhaps Swerve/Gears too.

One they have a suitable set they can update the Minicon boxed set idea and the Gobots/E-Hobby set too. Rather than release Badboy as a retail toy.

But there was a Green Powerglide too I suppose the G2 Powerglide is a bit like Hothouse already though.

I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels... but what if we got another type of duocon?

RAR wrote:But there was a Green Powerglide too I suppose the G2 Powerglide is a bit like Hothouse already though.

You're probably misremembering things a little, the green Powerglide was from the Dark of the Moon movie line.



The five uses of the CW Powerglide mold are:

Original CW Powerglide (red and gray)
Exclusive CW G2 Powerglide (Reversed gray and red)
CW Viper (dark blue)
Takara Tomy Adventure Powerglide (red and gray)
Takara Tomy Adventure Exclusive Dogfight (two-tone blue)

The Viper mold in dark green would really make a nice looking Bad Boy. In white instead of the G2 gray could make a good Hothouse. I'd buy both of these.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

RAR wrote:But there was a Green Powerglide too I suppose the G2 Powerglide is a bit like Hothouse already though.

You're probably misremembering things a little, the green Powerglide was from the Dark of the Moon movie line.



The five uses of the CW Powerglide mold are:

Original CW Powerglide (red and gray)
Exclusive CW G2 Powerglide (Reversed gray and red)
CW Viper (dark blue)
Takara Tomy Adventure Powerglide (red and gray)
Takara Tomy Adventure Exclusive Dogfight (two-tone blue)

The Viper mold in dark green would really make a nice looking Bad Boy. In white instead of the G2 gray could make a good Hothouse. I'd buy both of these.

Emerje

Is that mold any good (DOTM Powerglide)? It looks pretty cool.

Black Hat wrote:

Emerje wrote:

RAR wrote:But there was a Green Powerglide too I suppose the G2 Powerglide is a bit like Hothouse already though.

You're probably misremembering things a little, the green Powerglide was from the Dark of the Moon movie line.



The five uses of the CW Powerglide mold are:

Original CW Powerglide (red and gray)
Exclusive CW G2 Powerglide (Reversed gray and red)
CW Viper (dark blue)
Takara Tomy Adventure Powerglide (red and gray)
Takara Tomy Adventure Exclusive Dogfight (two-tone blue)

The Viper mold in dark green would really make a nice looking Bad Boy. In white instead of the G2 gray could make a good Hothouse. I'd buy both of these.

Emerje

Is that mold any good (DOTM Powerglide)? It looks pretty cool.

It's a mild bit fiddly, but an okay mold overall.

Quick mockup of what I think Walgreens Wreck-Gar will look like.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The first repaint of CW Viper has to be in tiger colors.

Well In Japan The Takara Legends line had an exclusive Dogfight figure. But as for Hasbro POTP that would be another kind of cool little GI Joe nod...but having already had Legends Stripes in TR, not sure how many *stripey* guys Hasbro would want. Its all about making them stand out as unique, even if they are the same mold, or completely different.

RodimusRex, I would hope that Wreck-Gar turns out to instead be a new mold... but I guess a Groove retool wouldn't be too hard to kitbash to transform like Wreck-Gar actually does.

Regarding CW Viper, I would rather see him straight-up reissued under PoTP because Hasbro screwed up his original CW distribution. Sure, shortpack the guy you specifically designed as a mass-produced army-builder!

Regarding the discussion about the Dinobots' combat prowess... The cartoon pretty consistently treated them as fearsome powerhouses. They didn't defeat Devastator in Heavy Metal War, but they did fight him to a standstill - it's not like they got their clocks cleaned. The movie fight rates at about the same, and as someone else pointed out they kicked butt on Quintessa and (literally, in Grimlock's case) during the fight with Unicron. They trounced the Decepticons fairly consistently in most appearances (to the point that Grimlock comments on their repeatedly saving the Autobots' afts), their only defeats being (briefly) captured by Shockwave in "Desertion of the Dinobots", and being drained by Tornedron in "Call of the Primitives" - and even then, they held out the longest against him and Grimlock survived (including withstanding having Trypticon fall on him) to win the day.

I wonder if we'll get Spectro, Spyglass, and Viewfinder during PotP.

Kurona wrote:I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels

Um, Wot? When did this come and from where?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels

Um, Wot? When did this come and from where?

They were two legends class figures from the big leak. It didn't outright say that it was battletrap but their names made it pretty obvious.

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels

Um, Wot? When did this come and from where?

They were two legends class figures from the big leak. It didn't outright say that it was battletrap but their names made it pretty obvious.

Really? then cannot make voyager duocons?

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels

Um, Wot? When did this come and from where?

They were two legends class figures from the big leak. It didn't outright say that it was battletrap but their names made it pretty obvious.

Really? then cannot make voyager duocons?

Personally I think this is a better idea. Instead of needing two parts to make one character you have two all new characters that have the option to combine into someone else, but it's not necessary.

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'm just realising something. We're getting 'Battleclash' and 'Roadtrap' to form Battletrap, and of course we should eventually be getting Flywheels

Um, Wot? When did this come and from where?

They were two legends class figures from the big leak. It didn't outright say that it was battletrap but their names made it pretty obvious.

Really? then cannot make voyager duocons?

Personally I think this is a better idea. Instead of needing two parts to make one character you have two all new characters that have the option to combine into someone else, but it's not necessary.

Much like the Energon 'bots actually, now that one thinks about it.

But yeah, I was thinking that we might see some duo-Cassetticons as well if Hasbro goes down this road. Either we might see them as repaints of Battletrap/hypothetical Flywheels (particularly I would expect to see Slamdance from Flywheels, minus the cassette modes and plus robots), or even more crazily, there's always a small chance we could see them get their own molds. Personally I'd lean more towards the TR Overboard kind of thing, of matching at least one mode and making the homage still work despite the absence of a 'box-type' mode.

So are we getting cards with these figures like titans return?

Emerje wrote:You're probably misremembering things a little, the green Powerglide was from the Dark of the Moon movie line.

Not at all I was referring to the Character or the Moulds in general related to the Character and to A-10 Jet Transformers in general and not to a specific toy from a specific line. That was why I was on about the E-Hobby set and Hothouse I was just speculating on past uses and examples and how that they can be a reason for a future ones in terms of colour choices.

In this case the use of Green on a previous Powerglide Mould (and indeed the Green A-10 Gobot toy it's likely inspired by) is ample excuse for a green version of the Combiner Wars Mould.

I just mentioned green as a possibility for a future updated E-hobby set as the G2 CW Powerglide is already a bit like Both Hothouse and E-Hobby Minibot Bad Boy - and as such if they did even do something like that applying the colour green is a reasonable alternative - as they are Gobot inspired and the Gobot was green.

(Though the reason he's grey is due to the pre-Transformers Prototype being grey)

I wasn't saying there was already a green CW Powerglide - I was saying the Movie Mould green version is part of the excuse for their being a green CW one in the future if there was ever another repaint of it.

On a tangent, the green Powerglide with the red face on the nosecone, is more of an homage to him:



Beast Wars Sky Shadow, a Predacon Fuzor. That Powerglide was planned as a Decepticon as well.

Back to the Wreck-Gar listing, even if he is a CW derivative, which Voyager would he go to?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:On a tangent, the green Powerglide with the red face on the nosecone, is more of an homage to him:



Beast Wars Sky Shadow, a Predacon Fuzor. That Powerglide was planned as a Decepticon as well.

Back to the Wreck-Gar listing, even if he is a CW derivative, which Voyager would he go to?

Clearly, Sky Reign.

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Back to the Wreck-Gar listing, even if he is a CW derivative, which Voyager would he go to?

Clearly, Sky Reign.

Like the Legends originally was meant for?

Man if We need Flywheels then we need a Brawl Retool (Again) and a Firefly Retool



So.. any of you guys didn't know this gimmick?
[Image from TFW2005, not mine]

Glad i got CW Cyclonus on TRU and gets Discounted by about 25%, which is ok so i can wait for this series

Albatross250 wrote:So.. any of you guys didn't know this gimmick?

I didn't know about it, what's this?

That looks less a gimmick and more it's been opened along a join. Where it's not meant to open.

Omegatron. wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:So.. any of you guys didn't know this gimmick?

I didn't know about it, what's this?

Insurgent wrote:That looks less a gimmick and more it's been opened along a join. Where it's not meant to open.

Possibly a Slot for inserting Prime/Titan Masters?, not a common gimmick though but hey, As long as it works