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News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 2:41 pm

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I've finally gotten all of the Wave 2 Deluxes thanks to Amazon and Walmart. Sludge just arrived from Amazon today. Now I await Wave 3.

Volcanicus is pretty fun. I'm a sucker for combiners. It's so much fun to combine them.

I quite like Volcanicus too, despite his flaws. Do you have his "lovehandles" holding some of the excess guns?

News Credits: 194 · by **RodimusConvoy13** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 2:46 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:I've finally gotten all of the Wave 2 Deluxes thanks to Amazon and Walmart. Sludge just arrived from Amazon today. Now I await Wave 3.

Volcanicus is pretty fun. I'm a sucker for combiners. It's so much fun to combine them.

I quite like Volcanicus too, despite his flaws. Do you have his "lovehandles" holding some of the excess guns?

Haha. Yes, I do. If I hadn't accidentally thrown away Swoop's sword I would have that in his other hand. #-o

News Credits: 6 · by **AllNewSuperRobot** » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:37 pm

I don't see Paddles though...

News Credits: 1 · by **jungletron** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:00 am

Got the four deluxe Dinobots and checked to see how they look alongside Classics Grimlock (2006). I like it & might not get Voyager PoTP Grimlock anymore :-?

by **ThunderThruster** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 8:05 am

Looking good Jungletron.

I was trying to avoid getting Voyager Grimlock, and your pics have solidified that I don't need him.
Classics Grimlock fits in with the others nicely.

by **Skritz** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 12:46 pm

Volcanicus looks great. Which I have to say, may very well make him the breakout hit of the PotP line. Dinobots combiners always had a shifty or crappy history attached to them safe for perhaps PCC Grimstone.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:19 pm

jungletron wrote:Got the four deluxe Dinobots and checked to see how they look alongside Classics Grimlock (2006). I like it & might not get Voyager PoTP Grimlock anymore
Dinobots 3.JPG
Dinobots 1.JPG

To each their own, but I don't think I'd be satisfied with Classic Grimlock. The gray plastic colors are way different compared to the rest of the Dinobot team. Also, Grimlock looks a lot more "updated" than the extremely G1-faithful looking Power of the Primes Dinobots. However, having a deluxe sized Grimlock does solve the inherent scale issue with the team, at least when compared only among each other. If you don't like PotP Grimlock, might I suggest the Target exclusive Age of Extinction Grimlock and Optimus Prime two pack? It's a great G1 redeco of Fall of Cybertron Grimlock.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:16 pm

So... my Moonracer's rear wheels don't touch the ground... am I missing something, or are the pegs on her undercarriage way too long?

News Credits: 1 · by **jungletron** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:16 am

I think it's just the camera flash that's making Classic Grimlock's color shade seem different from the rest of the Dinobots but on hand, the greys and golds match perfectly. Here's another picture:

Same goes for Dreadwind and Blackwing in relation to TakaraTomy Legends Overlord; off-camera the purples, greys and cyans are almost exactly the same.

News Credits: 1 · by **jungletron** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:38 am

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:52 am

Some nice pics there jungletron! Love the destron godmaster group, you need a godginrai to tear them apart ;-)

I'm more than happy then to display potp grimlock with his buddies, scale like that doesn't bother me in the slightest :-)

News Credits: 1 · by **jungletron** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:05 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Some nice pics there jungletron! Love the destron godmaster group, you need a godginrai to tear them apart

I'm more than happy then to display potp grimlock with his buddies, scale like that doesn't bother me in the slightest

Thanks. I'm still on the fence between Hasbro's Powermaster OP & TT SuperGinrai; until I make up my mind, these Destron Godmasters will be battling it out with CW Optimus.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:55 am

I'm tempted by tt super ginrai but I know if I did that I'd have to get godbomber and that would end up being really expensive :-(

but even hasbro's pmop is expensive now, I just don't have the budget for things like that anymore.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:50 am

If only my camera didn't suck.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:31 pm

That is awesome, but who provided the wings?

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:51 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:That is awesome, but who provided the wings?

I'm guessing Construct-Bots Thrilling 30 Transformers Prime Predaking. Do I get a prize if I'm right? :-D

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:54 pm

Wolfman Jake wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:That is awesome, but who provided the wings?

I'm guessing Construct-Bots Thrilling 30 Transformers Prime Predaking. Do I get a prize if I'm right?

You are correct.

I don't have any prizes to give out though.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:55 pm

Caelus wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:That is awesome, but who provided the wings?

I'm guessing Construct-Bots Thrilling 30 Transformers Prime Predaking. Do I get a prize if I'm right?

You are correct.

I don't have any prizes to give out though.

Aw, shucks.

jungletron wrote:I'm still on the fence between Hasbro's Powermaster OP & TT SuperGinrai; until I make up my mind, these Destron Godmasters will be battling it out with CW Optimus.

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm tempted by tt super ginrai but I know if I did that I'd have to get godbomber and that would end up being really expensive but even hasbro's pmop is expensive now, I just don't have the budget for things like that anymore.

Save up your money and try to get the Super Ginrai and Godbomber Transformers Legends giftset from Takara Tomy. It's got the best deco of all the options out there, with some premium chrome accents, and a bonus of Minerva and Cab's Headmasters too. You'll at least save money over trying to buy the Super Ginrai and Godbomber components separately.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:02 pm

Thanks for the advice wolfman

and now that you've pointed out that it's construct a bots predaking I can spot the other pieces he donated. I'd never thought of adding bits like that, it makes a huge difference in appearance between that and the official version.

by **Skritz** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:05 pm

Legends God Ginrai is something I wish I could even, if it at times it doesn't appear all that good or even a mess. It's such a massive figure and it's almost an event unto itself, even arguably the culmination of the sadly-abandonned era when Takara did some crazy things with their releases.

So many reviewers have pointed out it's clunkyness, but goddamn does it look impressive and massive.

News Credits: 65 · by **Wolfman Jake** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 1:31 pm

Skritz wrote:Legends God Ginrai is something I wish I could even, if it at times it doesn't appear all that good or even a mess. It's such a massive figure and it's almost an event unto itself, even arguably the culmination of the sadly-abandonned era when Takara did some crazy things with their releases.

So many reviewers have pointed out it's clunkyness, but goddamn does it look impressive and massive.

Speaking from experience with the figure, that being the combined God Ginrai form, once you get everything just so, he stands really well. Just pick a pose you like and fiddle with it until you get everything snapped in tight and balanced just so. It's a beautiful figure in hand, but it does take a LOT of work to get everything properly aligned and secured. Individually, Super Ginrai is a lot of fun in and of itself. I just wish the G1 stump legs didn't look so funky. That's the biggest boon that Hasbro's Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime has over Takara's Legends Super Ginrai: proper feet.

In the interest of making sure the topic doesn't stray away from Power of the Primes, does anyone else think that the upcoming PotP Inferno makes a great stand-in for G1 Hosehead/Cab? I'd want to swap the head out, preferably for the Titanmaster Cab mentioned above from the God Girnai giftset, but it would require some major modifications to make the Headmaster gimmick really work well in robot mode. I assume Lug/Cab can just hang out in the ladder bucket it vehicle mode.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:40 pm

I was thinking about how PotP Rippersnapper could easily be a straight recolor into Overbite, and got to thinking about the other Seacons. Even though the toys are supposed to be headed back to Cybertron, I doubt that'd really stop Hasbro from releasing the Seacons - it's not as if they really had Earth disguises anyway.

The way I figure it:

Overbite => Recolor of Rippersnapper
Skalor => Retool of Slug or Sludge
Tentakill => Retool of Blot
Seawing => Retool of Divebomb
Nautilator => Legends Class weapon dude similar to CW Powerglide
Snaptrap => Shared engineering with Starscream/Elita One

That last part probably sounds insane, but bear in mind, I'm talking a similarity between them comparable to the similarity between Silverbolt and Hun-Gurrr. Snaptrap would look very different from his G1 toy, but I think the big forearms and boots would actually look better on him. He'd have heavily armored legs formed from the back half of his shell instead of spindly things tucked under it, and his tortoise head might fold back instead of forward. The transformation to torso mode would involve having the turtle shell pop up, spin around, and snap back into place to form Piranacon's chest the way the wings and fuselage of Starlita's jet mode do.

It also just seems really probable, because now that Hasbro has a solid combiner template worked out, it seems unlikely they'd drop it, yet we're running out of scramble-city Combiners. Hopefully, Hasbro will make up some new ones or expand outside of G1, but hopefully they'll still do Piranacon and Monstructor in the next couple of years.