by craggy » Fri May 31, 2013 1:34 pm
holy poop!
Tesco exclusives! I might be able to get these for retail price!
some great looking colour schemes as well.
lets run down the list:
Gummi Abominus - yeah, okay, if the price is decent and probably only if I can't pick up the rest of the regular coloured ones before this comes out.
Beast Fire Predaking - I don't see any difference? Probably pass.
Prime and Predaking Commander 2-pack - not really keen on Prime, but very tempted by the Giant Purple Griffon!
Shockwave and Bombsock Commander 2-pack - yeah, probably get it for the bug. Really nice colours. Casper Van Dien is scared! That Shockwave isn't bad either.
Deluxe Yellow Bee - Pass!
Deluxe Sky Lynx Beast! - Beast is right. Love those colours and had been considering the original just because it looks like an interesting toy. Now I can get a better looking version. Definitely not my Sky Lynx stand-in but I'm sure I can repurpose him or just make up a new name.
Bumblebee and Blight Legion 2-pack - Hell yeah! Bee isn't yellow, which is a start I suppose. Otherwise he's completely skippable, but dammit, Dat Blot! He looks like the Battle Beast Gorilla guy! Ave it!
Smokescreen and Cindersaur Legion 2-pack - More Hell! More Yeah! Smokey looks nice in his Retro-80s-G1-inspired ensemble, the wee fashion-plate he is, but this is all about the Cindy! I nearly went looking to see if I could get the Cindersaur Botshot because of Nostalgia(TM) so I'm very happy to get a nicely coloured homage, and one that's part of a combiner as well? EVEN BETTER!
Cryotek Predaking - looks nice. A definite maybe.
Dark Steel - very nice colours. A little off to be the Classics BW Silverbolt I might have liked, but that's a great paintjob, so I'll probably find a way to fit him into my collection somehow.
Overall, very excited by these. Colours on a lot of them that I like much more than the original releases, and will push me over the edge on buying, and some of those colours so nice that I now want toys I really didn't care for at all before. Really hope they do the rest of Abominus in wildly different colours. Now that we've got Cindersaur I'd love Air/wing/thingy (Cutthroat) to get the Flamefeather colours, which sadly does only leave Sinnertwin or Hungrr for the Sparkstalker colours, unless the red Blight is close enough?
assembling a Neo-G1/TF:TM cast. Please PM if you have (or know of) the following at a reasonable price: Classics or Henkei Astrotrain, Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, or 3rd Party iGear Ratchet and Ironhide.
Also looking for Universe Repugnus and Overbite, Frostbite and Longhorn and any Webdiver toys.