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Coptur wrote:Sorry guys tried both stores in Bletchley and they only had twimferno and trigger-happy

No worries, thanks for looking and following up.

Having fiddled around with each figure in the Chaos on Velocitron box set, here are my thoughts on each:

Rodimus Prime - a nice little Titanmaster, but the paint on mine's head mode has been really badly done, with white splashes either side of his helmet. I may still switch out Deluxe Hot Rod's head for this one.
Fastlane - I've never really had any attachment to the G1 clones, Fastlane himself is a bit basic of a figure, and the alt mode adds to my belief that 100% G1 toy accuracy is not always a good thing. Nevertheless, the transformation is simple enough so that my nephew would probably like him.
Nautica - I don't read the IDW comics, so again no real attachment to Nautica as a character, but I think she wears the mould a lot better than Blurr did, and the added turbine things on her shoulders are a nice touch.
"It's not a phase Mom!!" Prime - I've never owned a version of the Titans Return Voyager Optimus, but I had more fun with this one than I thought I would. The truck isn't that great, but I do love the robot mode, so much so that I may even track down the original and replace PotPie Leader Optimus with it on my main Autobot display.
Quickswitch - Bloody hell. Now I understand why Six Shot is shelf-warming in my area. While the robot mode is nice and the transformations aren't that bad, I don't like any of the alt modes at all. They all vary from meh to terrible. Though considering how much this figure has to do I won't hold it against him. Plus it's good to have a third big Autobot alongside Optimus and Ultra Magnus. I may just keep him in bot mode from now on.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rysquad wrote:For me, I assumed that because we time jumped and the humans knew about the Transformers (Autobot City, Earth Defense Command, etc.) the later Autobots didn't need to scan Earth modes as a disguise.

On the other hand, Earth vehicles by that point in time looked different from how they had looked in the 80s (and in our real world present time) anyway.

According to Floro Dery the altmodes for Hot Rod, Arcee, Springer, Kup, and Blurr were indeed intended to be future!Earth vehicles. And since Mr. Dery was the one who designed them, I would consider him a reliable source at least in this case.

And on that note, in one case I can identify a specific car the character is a futuristic version of. If you put T30 Arcee and G1 Tracks next to each other in altmode, it seems fairly obvious that Arcee turns into a future!Corvette.

On a different subject, I never got around to showing this off in this thread:



Made a custom Master Sword for my Fortress Maximus

I finally picked up Tryps at Ollie's last week. He's a delight. Glad I finally did it.

Taken from the Legends thread but it has even more relvance here:

Seibertron wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Wow. I really love the TR/LG Kup mold. What makes you so averse to it?

It's a bad figure, most noticeable from the side because his chest is flat (when it should be at an angle or there's something else off with it, but it doesn't look right regardless), he has no backpack, the back is too flat with the location of the back of his head/neck, lower legs are far too bulky, and so on. It's a good example of cost-cutting instead of doing a figure right. Hopefully Kup is on the shortlist of figures that should be redone in the near future.

No, it is NOT an example of "cost-cutting". It's an example of two things: Gimmick integration, and giving too much focus to IDW. The more straight torso shape, the square arms, and the bulky lower legs are all taken from Guido Guidi's design in the IDW comics. The lack of the backpack is a combination of accomodating that (the integration of the legs makes the backpack unneeded as bed storage) and accommodating the gimmick - due to the need for a working cockpit, the arms can't tuck inside the torso the way they did on the G1 toy, so they have to go somewhere else. So they go where the backpack would otherwise be.

Um, did you seriously just pull quotes from the end of September and another thread to post them here and debate/argue your point of view on this?

What is the bigger hobby, collecting TF's or arguing about TF's?

The quote may be from the end of September but it was new to me - I had only recently seen it while working my way back through the Legends thread looking for Grand Max photos. And I brought it into this thread because I honestly felt it was primarily relevant here because this thread specifically concerns Titans Return and its molds while the scope of Legends is more broad.

Collecting is bigger, but arguing is fairly strong too. *shrug* Especially when I see something that pushes my annoyance buttons, like the "Hasbro TFs these days have KO-quality plastic" malarkey or accusations I feel are unfair or inaccurate. If Seibertron feels that the design of Titans Return Kup make it not feel like Kup to him? Fine. But I take issue with him calling it the result of cost-cutting because as far as I'm concerned that's fingering the wrong culprit. As I see it the real cause is the designer favoring Guido Guidi's robot design from the IDW comics and the design tradeoffs necessary to accommodate both that and the headmaster gimmick.

Hi all,I'm wondering something.

I vowed never to get the Dinobots or Terrocons singly. I would only get them if they came out in a boxed set like all the other Takara versions of the combiners.

Are there any announcements, rumors, or confirmation about boxed sets of these figures in the works?

Optimutt wrote:Hi all,I'm wondering something.

I vowed never to get the Dinobots or Terrocons singly. I would only get them if they came out in a boxed set like all the other Takara versions of the combiners.

Are there any announcements, rumors, or confirmation about boxed sets of these figures in the works?

None, whatsoever. Volcanicus did get a box release in China, but it's simply a bundle of the individual packaging. Nothing like the G2-style sets, Victorion, Computron or Liokaiser.

Plus, thanks to brand unification, as of PotP all main Hasbro versions are identical to TakaraTomy releases. No box sets from TakaraTomy this time around.

Is it too late to say wrong thread?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Optimutt wrote:Hi all,I'm wondering something.

I vowed never to get the Dinobots or Terrocons singly. I would only get them if they came out in a boxed set like all the other Takara versions of the combiners.

Are there any announcements, rumors, or confirmation about boxed sets of these figures in the works?

None, whatsoever. Volcanicus did get a box release in China, but it's simply a bundle of the individual packaging. Nothing like the G2-style sets, Victorion, Computron or Liokaiser.

Plus, thanks to brand unification, as of PotP all main Hasbro versions are identical to TakaraTomy releases. No box sets from TakaraTomy this time around.

Is it too late to say wrong thread?

Too late? Nope. Is this the wrong thread? I wasn't sure. Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't quite sure which the best place for it would be.

I had heard about the China market box set. Which, I must say, sounds tedious and kind of painful. More boxes in bigger boxes in shipping boxes. <Facepalm>

I was hoping, but I guess so far, it's all just a pipe dream. With the brand unification, I'm not too concerned about the coloring. But bots on cards is a PITA, so I'd very much like to minimize that.

Thanks!

Hopefully a staff member will be along soon to import these over to the PotP thread....however, I like you held out hope that would release UW styled box sets. It was confirmed around this time last year, when TT started showing the Dinobots released individually. *Technicaly* you could get a released Predaking, but other than some japanese lettering on the box, it would be exactly the same.

I still think it would be cool if some 3p company created mock packaging in the style of UW for combiners that never had a proper box set Not only Volcanicus & Abominus, but also exclusives such as Thunder Mayhem and Wreckage

Got the Bumblebee Movie special edition of TR Soundwave yesterday, and decided to have some fun.


Combined with Overlord's base mode and Sixshot's tank mode. With plenty of people's heads and weapons joining the party!

And another shot, this time with everyone's body parked in the camp.

I thought TR Leaders needed a city-bot to connect to! They can connect their base modes together?!

Skritz wrote:I thought TR Leaders needed a city-bot to connect to! They can connect their base modes together?!

Yes, you can. It's the same connector for both. What do you think?

Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Not really.. Why?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Apeface is Puple and has a head crest similar to Galvatron's. But, he has a battle mask over his mouth.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Not really.. Why?

I don't like how TR Galvatron's head looks, especially with the flip-up face mask, so I'm thinking about replacing the whole head. I haven't been able to find a severed Galvatron head that I could use, so my next best option is a lookalike attachable head. I just don't know if it's large enough. Prime Masters are usually sizes of deluxe heads.

Apeface? Worth a shot! Thanks, Cobo!

Rodimus Prime wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Not really.. Why?

I don't like how TR Galvatron's head looks, especially with the flip-up face mask, so I'm thinking about replacing the whole head. I haven't been able to find a severed Galvatron head that I could use, so my next best option is a lookalike attachable head. I just don't know if it's large enough. Prime Masters are usually sizes of deluxe heads.

Apeface? Worth a shot! Thanks, Cobo!

No probs, Rods!
You know, there were some mods out there where they severed the flip up mask and glued it to the TM. It rendered the TM un-transformable, but usually looked pretty good. You could search the interwb for examples, or there might have even been some posted in our own Transtopia.

Just a thought. Might be worth looking at.

Both good options, thanks guys! I will look into the helmet first, I'd rather not mutilate the figure unless necessary.

Meanwhile I'm fine with the way the mask looks, although the spring carriage is overly fat. I might want to paint the sides (and back in the case of the legs) of the arms and lower legs of "Nucleon" purple though. On the other hand, I might just paint those in full Megatron colors like I plan for the rest of him.

Ravage2031 mentioned this in the Tribute thread, but I figured this belonged here. In addition to the Bumblebee 3-pack, TR Overlord has been showing up at TJMaxx for $13 - the lowest price yet if I’m not mistaken. I purchased one from my local store, but it had some box damage and the Titan Master was missing. I thought it was some really strange toy swapping until people mentioned finding overlord at other TJ maxx locations.

Would be nice if the UK TJ Maxx got this in as well

Cobotron wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Question. Was there a Prime Master released that was purplish and resembles Galvatron's head?

Apeface is Puple and has a head crest similar to Galvatron's. But, he has a battle mask over his mouth.

One of my go-tos