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News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:34 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
SeventhSage wrote:I can't get over those chicken legs!
Yeah, it takes a certain type to be able to easily get past them; they are fairly extreme in his case though

Yeah, they are very extreme. Its because for this toy, it seems the designers wanted to give something very new with having the limbs not be anything repeated from the alt mode (which is very hard to do with beasts), so he ends up having a lot of kibble in the back and on his shoulders with small arms and legs that can tuck away easily in alt mode. It was a bold decision and I give it merrit but I do admit that it would have probably been better to integrate some more alt mode into the limbs. I will still get this guy though, I am a sucker for original designs.

But if someone wants an awesome transforming Scorpion bot, Beast Wars Scorponoc offers an excellent and very modern transformation.

I love the design, loved the extreme's they went to in rotf and beast machines, so this is great - though, I would like to know just what his arms are supposed to be, tentacles? And to be fair, he can wear his claws as boxing gloves, so that's partial integration

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:43 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:I love the design, loved the extreme's they went to in rotf and beast machines, so this is great - though, I would like to know just what his arms are supposed to be, tentacles? And to be fair, he can wear his claws as boxing gloves, so that's partial integration

They look like biomechanical hooks to me, in the style of soemthign you would find on insects like the praying mantis:

His legs look a lot like praying mantis legs too.

News Credits: 174 · by **Hellscream9999** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:47 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:I love the design, loved the extreme's they went to in rotf and beast machines, so this is great - though, I would like to know just what his arms are supposed to be, tentacles? And to be fair, he can wear his claws as boxing gloves, so that's partial integration

They look like biomechanical hooks to me, in the style of soemthign you would find on insects like the praying mantis:

His legs look a lot like praying mantis legs too.

Hooks for arms... he's way more hardcore than animated lockdown was :lol:

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 3:12 pm

Thanks to the Action Robo Facebook page, we have confirmation that the 7th wave of Robots in Disguise toys have begun showing up in international stores! Action Robo found the new wave in Hong Kong, and the wave features Autobots Windblade and Power Surge Optimus Prime and Decepticon Scorponok, whom we had just recently got some new in-hand images of. With Wave 7 now showing up internationally, we can expect the wave to start showing up around the rest of the world very shortly. The lull in new Transformers is ending folks, so brace your wallet and your display cases!

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:19 pm

Sadly my eyes keep veering over to the new wave of marvel legends. Those look nice

News Credits: 4 · by **Slashercon** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:47 pm

lol I was looking at the Marvel Legends on the side too. I really want that Electro. the only RID figures here that intrigue me are Scorponok and Windblade.

News Credits: 1 · by **SeventhSage** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:14 pm

Can't wait to get my hands in those deceptions! I think the other two are a pass

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:22 pm

Anyone else notice Prime still comes with his axe?

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:37 pm

Slashercon wrote:lol I was looking at the Marvel Legends on the side too. I really want that Electro. the only RID figures here that intrigue me are Scorponok and Windblade.

bisk should also be part of this wave

News Credits: 2 · by **SureShot18** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:42 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Anyone else notice Prime still comes with his axe?

I didn't at first but it's definitely in there.(I too was a little more focused on the Marvel Legends 8-}

). It is probably in the same steel mold as some other parts needed for Prime so they decided to release it as well.

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 5:56 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Slashercon wrote:lol I was looking at the Marvel Legends on the side too. I really want that Electro. the only RID figures here that intrigue me are Scorponok and Windblade.

bisk should also be part of this wave

Bisk and Ratchet are in the next wave, Wave 8

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:09 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Slashercon wrote:lol I was looking at the Marvel Legends on the side too. I really want that Electro. the only RID figures here that intrigue me are Scorponok and Windblade.

bisk should also be part of this wave

Bisk and Ratchet are in the next wave, Wave 8

Oh well I guess I will have to settle with just scorpnok. I really need to see that Takara windblade before i make up my mind about picking the Hasbro one. The mold is fine but it has no painted detail.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:18 pm

Am I the only one that doesn't really get what all the fuss for Bisk is about? I'm not entirely sure why everyone's crazy for it...

Can't wait for Ratchet tho

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 6:48 pm

Bisk is a robot lobster with massive claws made from the whole front of his muscle car mode, he is a gamer at heart and everything is spoken as if it were a game, he has big googly eyes and he is orange. How can anyone not get the fuss about Bisk (He's basically the greatest thing ever) :lol:

News Credits: 1 · by **Lucky Logician** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:03 pm

Geez. I'm sorry for all you Windblade fans out there. They really phoned it in on this toy; the figure looks nothing like the art on the box. If it weren't for the kabuki makeup, I'd honestly think it was a different character. Even still, if someone told me this was a different cityspeaker, I'd believe them.

News Credits: 436 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:13 pm

Lucky Logician wrote:Geez. I'm sorry for all you Windblade fans out there. They really phoned it in on this toy; the figure looks nothing like the art on the box.

Oh, it does, sculpting-wise. It's just there's so much unpainted red plastic and little-to-no other colors on the figure that most of the figure's resemblance to the character model is lost or obscured by how monotone the deco is.

That's why most who want a decently-colored RID Windblade are waiting to see what Takara's Adventure Windblade will look like.

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:21 pm

I know Hasbro tends to be cheap with the paint aps, but this line has been especially miserable.

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:51 pm

Noideaforaname wrote:I know Hasbro tends to be cheap with the paint aps, but this line has been especially miserable.

Agreed though I will say that Megatronus and Fracture are on equal footing with Takara in terms of paint apps. I was thinking of getting them in the HLJ sale but when comparing to Hasbro, they didnt seem that much better. The paint is just arranged differently and in different places. And Quillfire isnt that bad either, Hasbro's take and colour mix is interesting. But for the rest, its a little sad.

News Credits: 125 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:31 am

Lucky Logician wrote:

Geez. I'm sorry for all you Windblade fans out there. They really phoned it in on this toy; the figure looks nothing like the art on the box. If it weren't for the kabuki makeup, I'd honestly think it was a different character. Even still, if someone told me this was a different cityspeaker, I'd believe them.

If Hasbro's people read through the boards as I'm told they do, then they need to start taking notes about **** like this.

Ya'll need to do a better job with these decos. It's a shame that we're back to the point in 2002 and 2003 where the solution is just to import in order to get nice looking figures.

Back with Classics, Generations, HftD, etc...there was an objective choice about how the figures were decoed, but now, the non-Japanese markets are really getting inferior product.

All eyes on the conversion rate boy'os.

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 10:10 am

Counterpunch wrote:
Back with Classics, Generations, HftD, etc...there was an objective choice about how the figures were decoed, but now, the non-Japanese markets are really getting inferior product.

All eyes on the conversion rate boy'os.

I love you counterpunch, you say it like it is and I totally agree. At least for Windblade here

But man, did you see the difference with Thunderhoof?

Makes me want to cry.

News Credits: 30 · by **DeathReviews** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:05 pm

Scorponok is pretty much the only RID figure I've seen that I may want to procure....

News Credits: 4496 · by **william-james88** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:07 pm

DeathReviews wrote:Scorponok is pretty much the only RID figure I've seen that I may want to procure....

Dear Death, I highly recomend Fracture. I think you will very much like him.

News Credits: 1641 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Tue Jun 21, 2016 9:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:
DeathReviews wrote:Scorponok is pretty much the only RID figure I've seen that I may want to procure....

Dear Death, I highly recomend Fracture. I think you will very much like him.

I second that with a Thunderhoof to boot

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 1:46 am

Fellow UK-based robot fan Hashim has sent us a sighting of the officially licensed Dickie Toys Transformers: Robots in Disguise die-cast vehicles priced at £2.97 and an R/C Bumblebee at £24.97 - all found in Asda. If you're in the market for these, with their light-up Racer feature, it looks like the assortment has Sideswipe, Strongarm, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, check them out below!