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Skritz wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Just open and messed around with Elita-1. Sure, the bot is "snu snu" and the jet have MASSIVE undercarriage. But the torso mode is solid, the colors and sculp are pretty nice, the joints are tight, and it was fun to transform. Sure, She's not the "toy of the year", but for a transformers, Elita-1 do the job perfectly.

Assuming she's like Starscream you can remove her arm panels to slim down her forearms, which help her overall silhouette and while she still remain with an implied amazonian physique (but what else would you expect from Optimus' female counterpart in Generation 1, a skinny robo-waif?), it at least give her arms that don't look overly inflated.

I actually sort of like Elita's proportions for similar reasons, beyond it being slightly different from the norm and more of a bulky fem like Strongarm I think it makes sense for the leader of the "Fembots" (I hate this term, I would love for a new official name to be used for Elita's team) to be the toughest of the bunch, also makes sense to have her taller so that she can be closer in height to Optimus because lets face it that it would be weird to have a deluxe class Elita 1 interacting with a voyager or taller Optimus.

That's just me though, the guy who never has a problem with character changes for the most part.

Latebrus-K wrote:Hang on, have we ever seen this symbol before? I don’t have the original reference handy, but this not being one of the 13 we know or Optimus’s face suggests Unicron or something else entirely. Could this mean there are even more prime masters to be released?

Pretty sure that's just Prima, albeit a bit distorted by whoever did the art.
Doesn't help that since the Prime Masters attach to the scepter standing up, the symbols end up being upside-down.

Skritz wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Just open and messed around with Elita-1. Sure, the bot is "snu snu" and the jet have MASSIVE undercarriage. But the torso mode is solid, the colors and sculp are pretty nice, the joints are tight, and it was fun to transform. Sure, She's not the "toy of the year", but for a transformers, Elita-1 do the job perfectly.

Assuming she's like Starscream you can remove her arm panels to slim down her forearms, which help her overall silhouette and while she still remain with an implied amazonian physique (but what else would you expect from Optimus' female counterpart in Generation 1, a skinny robo-waif?), it at least give her arms that don't look overly inflated.

Her arms are not too bad. Seriously, it look pretty silly on Starscream along the giant boots. I will never buy PotP Starscream because that look is silly for him. But for Elita-1, it work perfectly. Maybe because she's more OC than anything else and she's not slave to a "definitive" look. Meaning she can get away with giant boots and giant gloves. Also, even if the vehicle scale is wrong, she fit perfectly well with Leader PotP Optimus.

I do have only one complaint though. Her tiny guns are ridiculous and look more like sex toys than anything else. Plus the combiner feet have nowhere to go without ruining the look of the figure. But I bet it's true for Screamers and Grimlock as well. However, they work for Hung-Gurrr.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Plus the combiner feet have nowhere to go without ruining the look of the figure. But I bet it's true for Screamers and Grimlock as well. However, they work for Hung-Gurrr.

Grimlock's combiner feet can make decent digger-claws on his robot arms or be augmented with two Dinobot hands to make giant 'hulk hands'.

Skritz wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Plus the combiner feet have nowhere to go without ruining the look of the figure. But I bet it's true for Screamers and Grimlock as well. However, they work for Hung-Gurrr.

Grimlock's combiner feet can make decent digger-claws on his robot arms or be augmented with two Dinobot hands to make giant 'hulk hands'.

Oh so they do. Well, Grimlock is a monster too. However, there's nothing redeemable for the jets. Unfortunate.

So, what, were the retailers so salty about all the shelfwarming Liege Maximo/Skullgrins that HasTak had to scrap the Decoy Armor concept?

Late to the SDCC unveiling party, but...

I love it. It looks way better than the miscolored standard release, and I give zero ****s about Prime Masters. Aside from the pretender shells, I've thought they were dumb since the start.

And seeing OpOp in S1 colors is something we've never been given before

Quick update!

Nemesis Prime's Amazon listing is now back up. It has the featured available on Prime Day launch badge on the image, & is currently unavailable.

The other Amazon exclusives are not up yet, however.

starrhero wrote:Quick update!

Nemesis Prime's Amazon listing is now back up. It has the featured available on Prime Day launch badge on the image, & is currently unavailable.

The other Amazon exclusives are not up yet, however.

Could you post a link please?

william-james88 wrote:

starrhero wrote:Quick update!

Nemesis Prime's Amazon listing is now back up. It has the featured available on Prime Day launch badge on the image, & is currently unavailable.

The other Amazon exclusives are not up yet, however.

Could you post a link please?

Of course, but fair warning, the link changed slightly, stating the price of the figure is $49.99 & as of now is only available through Amazon Prime. That probably explains how people were able to order the figure early.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076QWG87D?ta ... rtron07-20

Link to NEMESIS PRIME
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing ... BFOZXAYO26

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, quick question : is POTP Starscream any good? I’m looking for a CHUG Screamer and the POTP one looks kinda strange, but it’s probably the most available option.

Most people will think he's a horrible figure outside of the combined mode, what with his cheating Transformation, odd proportions and those terrible stickers. That said, I'm also a guy who bought three of those to make the classic seeker trio at a Voyager scale so go figure.

And now Baltmatrix has uploaded a review of the Prime Wars: Combiner Wars Shuttle Blast Off. My goodness, it is fantastic, but now Balt needs a new turntable. And Blast Off has gun nipples. My God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_tTLbFysk8&t=28s

starrhero wrote:So, any idea on what this version of Primal's name should be? are we going to stick with OpOp, call him just Optimus Primal, or something else? We can't call him Primal Prime, as he doesn't share the same colors.

Eh, I'm just going to call him Optimal Primal & pray to Primus (or in this case, Primal) that I can get him.

I see this as sort of an alternate universe morally corrupt supreme ruler type version of Primal, so I'm thinking he could be called something like:

• Emperor Optimus Primal
• Imperious Optimus
• Imperious Primal
• Lord Imperious Optimus
• Lord Imperious Primal

Etc. etc.

So the link to Nemesis Prime works but you can't add it the cart

Sabrblade wrote:

starrhero wrote:So, any idea on what this version of Primal's name should be? are we going to stick with OpOp, call him just Optimus Primal, or something else? We can't call him Primal Prime, as he doesn't share the same colors.

Eh, I'm just going to call him Optimal Primal & pray to Primus (or in this case, Primal) that I can get him.

I see this as sort of an alternate universe morally corrupt supreme ruler type version of Primal, so I'm thinking he could be called something like:

• Emperor Optimus Primal
• Imperious Optimus
• Imperious Primal
• Lord Imperious Optimus
• Lord Imperious Primal

Etc. etc.

Banana King

If the Prime Masters for Prima, Nexus, and Amalgamous get a mass retail release with the Pretender shell, this is what i think there shells might be.

Prima = Splashdown

Nexus = Finback

Amalgamous = Waverider

Thats just my theory of what there Pretender shells would be.

Nemesis Prime is working for me at least. I just ordered. Due July 17th.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Nemesis Prime is working for me at least. I just ordered. Due July 17th.

I still see no way to add it to my cart.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Hey, quick question : is POTP Starscream any good? I’m looking for a CHUG Screamer and the POTP one looks kinda strange, but it’s probably the most available option.

Unless you plan to make a Starscream combiner, avoid.
Better go with the good old seeker deluxe. There's plenty of versions to chose from.

Or you can go with the leader if scale is not an issue. I happen to have a spare brand new one if you are interested.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Nemesis Prime is working for me at least. I just ordered. Due July 17th.

I still see no way to add it to my cart.

I can't even find the listing.

Rodimus Knight wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Nemesis Prime is working for me at least. I just ordered. Due July 17th.

I still see no way to add it to my cart.

I can't even find the listing.

I had the listing saved in my list. I've been checking ever since a few others reported being able to order theirs. Most of the time clicking on the link went straight to "Page not found" and a photo of one of the dogs of Amazon. But last night, I lucked out.

Here is the link to the product from my order. Hopefully this will work for some of you. It says currently unavailable for me now. I'd keep checking, they seem to be releasing a few at a time.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076Q ... UTF8&psc=1

Has anyone had any luck with a UK listing? Ivery been checking but haven't found anything.

This would be something I’d keep MISB if I were to get it. A little disappointed the Prime Masters dont get their own Pretender shells. If they had, I would’ve gotten this set.

Kinda tired of seeing this figure, honestly. Just makes me angry thinking about how we got jipped out of a Leader class Star Saber.