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News Credits: 25 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:18 am

Easy pass. Just like Devestator, it's too big, and too plain looking.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:01 am

Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:41 am

I like him and I like the fact he’s a boxset. Collecting individual teams is getting tedious. Don’t mind the svelte look... he was quite solder in some depictions though, the toy was pure bulk.

Not as excited about anything in the potp series as I was for CW and TR but I’ll definitely be getting a few inc the dinobots, predaking and the legends toys. But many more figures are a pass than in the other lines

News Credits: 22 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:57 am

Even the box artwork has his spiked knuckles! Yet the toy's knuckles are flat. :-?

Will Onyx Prime get a Pretender shell, like the ones being released in stores? Initially I passed on them, but I might start picking them up, just for the shells and gunmodes.

News Credits: 241 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:03 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:Even the box artwork has his spiked knuckles! Yet the toy's knuckles are flat.

Will Onyx Prime get a Pretender shell, like the ones being released in stores? Initially I passed on them, but I might start picking them up, just for the shells and gunmodes.

He should get his own shell in the main line, in fact his detailing may reveal which character... unfortunately I have no idea:

I'm leaning towards Icepick, but I'm open to other suggestions.

News Credits: 4 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:16 am

Looks like Predaking has been hitting the gym in his time since the G1 days. I guess I'll pick this up at some point. Too bad Takara is doing a copy and paste on all the Hasbro products this time around. It would have been interesting to see what changes they would have made with a Unite Warriors version that would almost definitely include a sword.

News Credits: 8 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:34 pm

I like him. And the Preds sizes individually compared to the Leaders is encouraging. But I will say this Predaking looks a lot leaner than the beefy linebacker Predaking of yore. But I will take something over nothing!

Can he fit a Prime Master in him somewhere or is that for scale?

News Credits: 6188 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 12:47 pm

Flashwave wrote:I like him. And the Preds sizes individually compared to the Leaders is encouraging. But I will say this Predaking looks a lot leaner than the beefy linebacker Predaking of yore. But I will take something over nothing!

Can he fit a Prime Master in him somewhere or is that for scale?

Onyx Prime will be held/stored by Predaking, and in fact only come with Predaking!

News Credits: 12 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:13 pm

Ouch.

News Credits: 241 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:18 pm

Black Hat wrote:
Ouch.

Yikes... the whole leg including the hip!

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:19 pm

Guess it won't be so bad as no one is going to be displaying the figures that way round but still...yeesh

News Credits: 13 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:04 pm

Black Hat wrote:
Ouch.

They definitely should've gone the Devastator route and made Razorclaw close to leader size so this wouldn't have happened.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:37 pm

Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?

Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:51 pm

I had guessed at the leg/hip being a part of Tantrum and Headstrong was going to be a thing when I saw some photos where you could partially see something huge and black was tucked into them in beast forms. I wish I tucked in better for bot mode, but not a deal breaker. He'll be king most of the time and I like how Predaking looks still.

News Credits: 4 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:21 pm

SureShot18 wrote:Those Predacon altmodes give me actual physical pain.

I try not to make negative posts, but seriously it’s been 34 years, you’d think they could make something other than bricks on sticks.

Sadly, Yes you are right, and why is Divebombs beast mode so off?

News Credits: 241 · Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:28 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?

The size purists would, I'm sure. Again, all 5 G1 Predacons were the same size, and they combined. Sure, proportions were off on the torso like on FoC Bruticus (to be fair, Predaking wasn't designed by Takara proper, but an outside designer), but the novelty and characterization made up for that.

To replicate that and make a proportionate bot fit for this day and age, something had to give, in case relocating some of the torso's mass to his limbs. You know, I wonder if Leader with 4 Voyagers would even be possible, taking mass/weight, size and general construction in consideration. Anybody in here with a PhD in physics and/or architecture?

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:47 am

Va'al wrote:
SureShot18 wrote:Those Predacon altmodes give me actual physical pain.

I try not to make negative posts, but seriously it’s been 34 years, you’d think they could make something other than bricks on sticks.

I've been thinking about this, and I believe - but this is just me thinking as I've been looking at screen all day while on call with people in the US - that this might be the G1 a small lot of fandom has been asking for.. and the team has tipped too far into.

Meaning they effectively look the same as G1, just with maybe a couple more joints? I liked the general look of Devastator more, that also did a similar thing, but this just feels.. eh.

Part of me wishes it was G1 but with more joints, we would get better looking beast modes (those were the best part of the G1 toy). Like that Divebomb, it is very are off from the G1 version in terms of where the head is.

I think its the reverse. They went for a totally new transformation on Predaking (which they did, by making the bull and rhino the full legs and making divebomb and rampage part of the torso instead of just the arms) and then tried to fit that with the blocky G1 toy look of individual components. So things look off.

Here is what I mean.

G1 divebomb

POTP Divebomb

Parts are no longer where they used to be.

News Credits: 22 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:50 am

Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?

Yes.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:58 am

I am a bit disappointed with this...
Actually, Predaking looks okay, although the blocky rather than spikey/pointed pieces on the hips/crotch just look cheap to me... That design change is so drastic imo.

Is there any chance that the upper leg/hip portions can be removed from those figures that form the the legs??

At any rate, as someone else said, I'm most excited about Abominus in this line.

News Credits: 25 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:14 am

Black Hat wrote:
Ouch.

Dispite my initial negative reaction, after looking at pics if the combined mode for a day or so, I was really starting to warm up to this.

Then I saw your picture. That kibble is 109% stupid and idiotic, and lazy. At the very least, it should be removable kibble.

Super fail.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:14 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?
Yes.

Why?

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:56 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?
Yes.
Why?

Because they are all as threathening. One isnt more powerful than the rest. They are a team you dont want to **** with. Its kinda like with the Ninja Turtles, sure Leo's theleader but he isn't better than the rest. They are all equally bad ass and are all the same height and build.

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:15 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?
Yes.
Why?

Because they are all as threathening. One isnt more powerful than the rest. They are a team you dont want to **** with. Its kinda like with the Ninja Turtles, sure Leo's theleader but he isn't better than the rest. They are all equally bad ass and are all the same height and build.

Er, Raph's bigger than the others (and, this time, the leader) in the new upcoming series.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:17 am

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?
Yes.
Why?

Because they are all as threathening. One isnt more powerful than the rest. They are a team you dont want to **** with. Its kinda like with the Ninja Turtles, sure Leo's theleader but he isn't better than the rest. They are all equally bad ass and are all the same height and build.
Er, Raph's bigger than the others (and, this time, the leader) in the new upcoming series.

Does it look like i keep up with the turtles?

News Credits: 462 · Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:21 am

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Tell me honestly, guys. Would anyone here have been genuinely upset if they had made Predaking with Razorclaw being at least a little bigger (if not more than a little bigger) than the other four Predacons? Does Razorclaw being exactly the same size as the others really matter than much?
Yes.
Why?

Because they are all as threathening. One isnt more powerful than the rest. They are a team you dont want to **** with. Its kinda like with the Ninja Turtles, sure Leo's theleader but he isn't better than the rest. They are all equally bad ass and are all the same height and build.
Er, Raph's bigger than the others (and, this time, the leader) in the new upcoming series.

Does it look like i keep up with the turtles?

Twas your example.