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News Credits: 8 · Mon May 07, 2012 12:08 am

Cuz I enjoyed wave 3 soooo much....... :roll:

Mon May 07, 2012 12:24 am

On second glance Airachnid isn't AS BAD as the first few pics led me to believe. I will say I'm still not digging the legs/propellars. If only they added another joint to keep them a bit longer it wouldn't look as strange. But yes I will indeed see if I can fiddle with this to make it more show accurate with the long spindly legs.

Am I correct in thinking Kup is just a repaint of Cyberverse Ironhide? That doesn't look like a deluxe to me. Rumble looks like a Cyberverse to me too. Anyone have any guesses?

News Credits: 8 · Mon May 07, 2012 12:44 am

dinojack86 wrote:On second glance Airachnid isn't AS BAD as the first few pics led me to believe. I will say I'm still not digging the legs/propellars. If only they added another joint to keep them a bit longer it wouldn't look as strange. But yes I will indeed see if I can fiddle with this to make it more show accurate with the long spindly legs.

Am I correct in thinking Kup is just a repaint of Cyberverse Ironhide? That doesn't look like a deluxe to me. Rumble looks like a Cyberverse to me too. Anyone have any guesses?

Kup is a repaint..Rumble is a cyberverse commander size..The title of the news post is slightly misleading but Kup is a repaint of cyberverse ironhide..

Mon May 07, 2012 12:52 am

Dead End - Looks gawd awful... might look good next to some G2 figs though.
Bumblebee - :BANG_HEAD:

Airachnid - I suppose it is too much to ask for a voyager, knowing Hasbro these days... worst part is she'll probably be as small as PRID Arcee.
Kup - For one I feel the Cyberverse Ironhide figure looks way better. Two: A green Ironhide does not a Kup make.
Rumble Frenzy(FIBRIR 4EVER!!1!) - That has to be the most terrifying torso I've ever seen in my life... it's like he ripped off the head of a gremlin and decided to wear it as a jacket. :SICK:

All in all, I'm only really sad for Airachnid, but at this point I should be expecting less.

NEXT!

News Credits: 668 · Mon May 07, 2012 12:58 am

It was mentioned at a con in Asia, I believe it's called Cybercon?? Anyway, they said Kup and Rumble are Deluxes, not Cyberverse.

Also, yes, we're receiving a Voyager Dreadwing.

Mon May 07, 2012 1:09 am

I really like the

Rumble

,and

Kup

.The

Dead End

is just odd .Sometimes I feel they just put a name on a repaint to sell it .

News Credits: 1 · Mon May 07, 2012 1:15 am

way to go Hasbro. It's one thing to screw the pooch but it's quite another to put a bullet in its head when you're through.

Airachnid is one that I'll add to my list and possibly rumble but i have to say that my list is not growing very darn fast.
As for "Seargent" Kup... :SICK:

That's not Kup! If anything that's Brawn and that's stretching it but the one thing it most certainly is...IT'S F***ING LAZY!! Seriously, The only thing that is going to possibly save Hasbro's butt in the Transformer line is the FoC figures and that's only if they can get more than just the collectors and die-hards to snag them. I suppose I should be thankful for all the money I've saved since I haven't bought more than 15 dollars worth of figures since DotM came out because everything so far has been under-inspired crap.
I know, don't like it, don't buy and that's cool but I guess what torques me is that Hasbro isn't even trying anymore and that just makes them appear even more two-faced than what they already are since they claim that they actually give a damn.

News Credits: 10 · Mon May 07, 2012 2:40 am

Autobot032 wrote:
Evil_the_Nub wrote:
Cobalt Prime wrote:Can't for the life of me figure out why they are releasing this mold as Kup first, seeing as how they just released the design as a Cyberverse Ironhide. You'd think Kup would have been the follow up repaint of Ironhide rather than the other way around.

I'm starting to think Hasbro is releasing the inferior figures first on purpose. They know people are less likely to buy a repaint or new mold of the same character if the first one was better. That might be the reason they screwed us out of the FE figures, they knew nobody would buy the PRiD versions if we already had the superior FE figures.

Here's a weird thought:

Figures that didn't receive First Edition treatment are almost crazy accurate.

Wheeljack? Pretty dang close.
Knock Out? Pretty dang close.
Airachnid? Body needs work, but that head? Dead on.
Dreadwing? Almost perfect. Even got the gun we wanted.

First Edition figures are almost exact duplicates of the show models. (Key word: almost. They're not 100% perfect)

Yet their PRID versions are almost painful to look at. It's almost like they're GIVING us a reason to buy FE figures. If you take FE plus PRID to fill in the gaps, the cast toys look almost perfect.

....I swear this was a sales ploy. Looks like it's working, too.

PRID Vehicon is better than his FE version IMO. :lol:

Although, he's only 1 to a case of 7 other figs. What's the point of making a good toy rare? I've been to many stores with waves 1-3, and Soundwave and Vehicon are nowhere to be found.

Mon May 07, 2012 2:50 am

WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?

Mon May 07, 2012 3:33 am

C - 310 wrote:For those of you who are Anime fans, does Rumble looks like he can be from Gurren Lagan?

lol On the transformers facebook page he's been dubbed Rumble Lagann. Others have called him Gunman Rumble.

News Credits: 36 · Mon May 07, 2012 4:24 am

Do we know what the wave 5 case assortment is yet? I'm hoping that the wave 4 toys will carry over, then I can just buy the wave 5 case and be done with it....

And for the record RIRFIB...

News Credits: 3 · Mon May 07, 2012 4:27 am

C - 310 wrote:For those of you who are Anime fans, does Rumble looks like he can be from Gurren Lagan?

No. More likely Starscream's face-on-chest syndrome(FOCS) is contagious.
Or did 'scream catch it from ROTF Skidz and Mudflap?

Makes me think of Brains as he was shown in the DOTM comic.

Also, Frenzy AND Rumble can be RED OR BLUE.

News Credits: 9 · Mon May 07, 2012 4:28 am

Kup and Rumble in bot mode look more like WFC/FOC designs to me.

Mon May 07, 2012 5:00 am

I think you guys have misread
Rumble is blue,
and Frenzy is red.

News Credits: 251 · Mon May 07, 2012 6:03 am

Rumble, Kup, and Airachnid are SO mine...

Mon May 07, 2012 6:31 am

korisifu wrote:What happened with Rumble? It's like they were going to make a figure of him but decided to miss transform him officially? A green paint job does not a Kup make.

What's wrong with Rumble? I think it looks fine...and it screams for a Gurren Lagann repaint. xD

Manterax Prime wrote:
C - 310 wrote:For those of you who are Anime fans, does Rumble looks like he can be from Gurren Lagan?

No. More likely Starscream's face-on-chest syndrome(FOCS) is contagious.
Or did 'scream catch it from ROTF Skidz and Mudflap?

Makes me think of Brains as he was shown in the DOTM comic.

Also, Frenzy AND Rumble can be RED OR BLUE.

HA Jazz has it too, don't forget.

It's just a little different.

Mon May 07, 2012 7:33 am

FIRRIB

Mon May 07, 2012 7:39 am

AnimeFreak505 wrote:FIRRIB

It's hilarious how inevitable this debate is, lol.

Also, FIBRIR :grin:

And this version of FrenzyRumble makes not getting the other scout-class version not so bad. In fact, I like this version a LOT more.

News Credits: 12 · Mon May 07, 2012 7:43 am

LiKwid wrote:Kup is a repaint..Rumble is a cyberverse commander size..The title of the news post is slightly misleading but Kup is a repaint of cyberverse ironhide..

False. Kup is Deluxe. That is NOT the Cyberverse Ironhide mold. Compare the pics and it's obvious. Cyberverse Ironhide doesn't have NEARLY that much detail or articulation. Rumble also appears to have way to much articulation to be a Cyberverse figure, and if he was, he'd be a Legion, not a Commander.