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Kurona wrote:That's a point, I didn't think about whether Top Spin might be a remold... I don't know who they could retool him from tho. If he is, my best guess is a scourge-highbrow level retool of Hardhead.

Huh? First time I've heard Scourge being retooled into Highbrow. Checking the Wiki... and I'll be damned. Still, with the amount of parts in common being minimal, it's more of a case of part sharing, like Blurr does with Chromedome.

SillySpringer wrote:I was thinking it would be cool of it was Krok, with the colors of Gatorade

Which one? Red cherry punch, blue raspberry or green apple?

Kurona wrote:That's a point, I didn't think about whether Top Spin might be a remold... I don't know who they could retool him from tho. If he is, my best guess is a scourge-highbrow level retool of Hardhead.

But Topspin isn't a tank, let alone a ground vehicle.

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

The Jumpstarter. This is a G1-centric line and no-one really knows the other two - one of them's even pretty much the same guy just in a different timeline.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:That's a point, I didn't think about whether Top Spin might be a remold... I don't know who they could retool him from tho. If he is, my best guess is a scourge-highbrow level retool of Hardhead.

But Topspin isn't a tank, let alone a ground vehicle.

Hence scourge-highbrow level.

Kurona wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

The Jumpstarter. This is a G1-centric line and no-one really knows the other two - one of them's even pretty much the same guy just in a different timeline.

I figured it'd be the Jumpstarter, with the other two being Combiners, along with the reasons you stated. Would be interesting to see an update to the Jumpstarter, and with all the other obscure Transformers getting new figures, now is the perfect time to re-introduce them.

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:That's a point, I didn't think about whether Top Spin might be a remold... I don't know who they could retool him from tho. If he is, my best guess is a scourge-highbrow level retool of Hardhead.

Huh? First time I've heard Scourge being retooled into Highbrow. Checking the Wiki... and I'll be damned. Still, with the amount of parts in common being minimal, it's more of a case of part sharing, like Blurr does with Chromedome.

Also topspin is an odd man out in that rumour list. We know Getaway is in the 1st 2016 wave, so that means there are 5 others and a wave only has 4. The redecos make sense and Kup was rumoured a while back. Plus we already have a perceptor head. But Topspin is the only figure we dont know of and he isn't an older "master" figure or an 86 movie bot. Plus that would make a total of 4 waves for TR, and I forget if it was said if it would go on for more than a year or not. Forgive this wild conjecture, but could he be the first in a line of a ruination combiner? Using the Strafe/Blastoff mold? Hasbro said combiners might make a return later.





Also, for Highbrow and Scourge, they were simply both concieved at the same time and engineered together. And Jelze here is a fun article you probably missed that is totally worth your time

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... box/35929/

Sabrblade wrote:FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up!

Sabrblade wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

No love for DotM Topspin?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

No love for DotM Topspin?

Nope!

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

No love for DotM Topspin?

Nope!

There was a DotM Topspin?

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:There was a DotM Topspin?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

No love for DotM Topspin?

He was asking about just G1, FOC, and the Club versions, so I simply answered about those three.

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I was thinking it would be cool of it was Krok, with the colors of Gatorade

Which one? Red cherry punch, blue raspberry or green apple?

All of dem.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:There was a DotM Topspin?

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

EmirateXaaron wrote:I think it's interesting that Topspin is rumored to be getting a new figure. Now, will it be the FOC Topspin that formed Ruination, the Decepticon from Classics, or the Jumpstarter?

FOC Topspin was an attempt to homage G1 Topspin with non-Topspin-looking mold, while the Classics Topspin toy was just a name reuse for an unrelated Club character.

No love for DotM Topspin?

Nope!

There was a DotM Topspin?

It's one of those things that needn't be known

A new Perceptor is rumored. Cool. Granted I'm not super excited because I really like their previous CHUG figures. I wasn't wowed by TR Scourge but Hot Rod looks amazing, I wonder what I'll think of these.

I feel like Hasbro is just going to pull a cop-out and repaint Highbrow for Topspin just because the mold has propellers that, well, spin on top.

But I think ideally they'd modify the Brainstorm mold with a new forked front and wings.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

camzilla51 wrote: and some employee looks online instead of on the floor (something I could have done at home)

I HATE when they do that.

So, were you able to find them during your hunt? Or are you getting them now that they are online?

I did, yeah. With patience, I found everything in wave 1 and the Titan masters in wave 2 across a month and 2 states Even saw two Fort Maxes in a tru in Napa Valley, CA.

SureShot18 wrote:A new Perceptor is rumored. Cool. Granted I'm not super excited because I really like their previous CHUG figures. I wasn't wowed by TR Scourge but Hot Rod looks amazing, I wonder what I'll think of these.

Hot Rod actually appeals to me way more than I thought he would. I guess a deluxe Hot Rod to me has to be REALLY good in order for me to actually like it, so this kinda goes to show you how great it looks.

Emerje wrote:I feel like Hasbro is just going to pull a cop-out and repaint Highbrow for Topspin just because the mold has propellers that, well, spin on top.

But I think ideally they'd modify the Brainstorm mold with a new forked front and wings.

Emerje

I really think there's a good chance he'll get a new mold. Although he isn't even rumored yet, they could easily retool him into Twintwist. Boom you got your two mold uses.

SureShot18 wrote:

Emerje wrote:I feel like Hasbro is just going to pull a cop-out and repaint Highbrow for Topspin just because the mold has propellers that, well, spin on top.

But I think ideally they'd modify the Brainstorm mold with a new forked front and wings.

Emerje

I really think there's a good chance he'll get a new mold. Although he isn't even rumored yet, they could easily retool him into Twintwist. Boom you got your two mold uses.

At first I was going to say that wouldn't work nearly as well as it did in the '80s, but something just occurred to me. Supposedly we're supposed to get Pounce and Wingspan in this line so what if Top Spin and Twin Twist are pre-re-molds of Fastlane and Cloudraker? It would take a lot of tweaking to make that actually work, but Hasbro and Takara Tomy have apparently learned magic to make this line so anything is possible.

Emerje

What if Top Spin is a Legends class?
Preceptor would be cool as a leader with a science station city mode.

Just thoughts. Typed out loud.

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