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carytheone wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Yeah, its smokey but clear plastic. I didnt notice that on Wheelie. If ou want a real clear plastic effect, check out the blizzard deco drift, his wheels look good enough to eat!

Seems like it's another Blurr repaint of a Drift figure?! Looks like it to me!

Clear plastic is cooooooooooooooo.

Nope, that's blizzard strike Drift, but if you wanna call him Blurr I won't tell anyone.

Paint those red accents yellow, boom RiD Blurr.

I NEED that Wheelie!

I NEED it to be June so the figures can start coming out!! Now if only I could find Sky Lynx before we do the Titan master shuffle

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I NEED it to be June so the figures can start coming out!! Now if only I could find Sky Lynx before we do the Titan master shuffle

What kind of shuffle now?

carytheone wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I NEED it to be June so the figures can start coming out!! Now if only I could find Sky Lynx before we do the Titan master shuffle

What kind of shuffle now?

Definitely not that kind of shuffle. I am so glad Rewind and Wheelie are up first. 2 very sought after figures for me

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I am so glad Rewind and Wheelie are up first. 2 very sought after figures for me

Rewind has been high on my want list since I started reading MTMTE and this figure looks pretty good with some fun modes. Wheelie just looks really cool and anyone who misses this figure is just a fool.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Definitely not that kind of shuffle. I am so glad Rewind and Wheelie are up first. 2 very sought after figures for me

Me too

I would like to point out (to everyone) that this release date is in line with everything Hasbro said so far and what I have been trying to say ever since this line was announced. People were wondering how we could have such a huge gap with nothing in between but that is exactly what we are getting. Combiner Wars 2016 wave 2 has been out at Entertainment Earth since February, the gallery is proof of that. So can there be no releases between February and June? Yes, there can be and that is exactly what is happening. And thats the case all the time, it was the case last year. So I still dont get why people were thinking we would get an extra combiner wars line between Sky Reign and TR. So the earliest online release will be in June, then they will start trickling at retail during the summer slowly and then reach saturation in the fall, as Hasbro said.

carytheone wrote: Wheelie just looks really cool and anyone who misses this figure is just a fool.

We should pity them

carytheone wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I am so glad Rewind and Wheelie are up first. 2 very sought after figures for me

Rewind has been high on my want list since I started reading MTMTE and this figure looks pretty good with some fun modes. Wheelie just looks really cool and anyone who misses this figure is just a fool.

And the fact that he has the MTMTE head with the camera is just plain awesome.

Something just occurred to me...









I'd buy that repaint.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:True, but as of right now IDW Fort Max isn't a Titan, just a bigger than average guy.

This set doesnt have anything to do with IDW. Fort Max is clearly a Titan in whatever fiction that Windblade belongs to. He's on the box, you can see the tip of his fingure holding the sword:



So yeah, she's just coordinated with the titan she is serving.

However, the Hasbro reps revealed that Brainstorm's deco is SPECIFICALLY an "IDW" deco in this set. You can tell with the paint apps on his legs. So, this may turn out to be a tie-in to something in the IDW stories after all.

Wheelie looks really solid, I'm definitely gonna try and grab one, even if I'm extremely indifferent to his character

Aw, Stripes gets the short end of the stick. He seemed pretty cool.

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Aw, Stripes gets the short end of the stick. He seemed pretty cool.

Hey man, if you like him, more power to ya, in all honestly the general dislike of the figures design means you shouldn't have too tough a time ordering one

Hellscream9999 wrote:Wheelie looks really solid, I'm definitely gonna try and grab one, even if I'm extremely indifferent to his character

I gotta get him to complete the 1986 movie guys. You however, seem to not care about being completionist.

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Wheelie looks really solid, I'm definitely gonna try and grab one, even if I'm extremely indifferent to his character

I gotta get him to complete the 1986 movie guys. You however, seem to not care about being completionist.

I buy great figures, and he is a great figure, no matter how I slice it, and at a great price, I'm goin' in on tr (not too much, but enough to justify getting a car to drive the head dudes around in) so he'll add some play value to the headmasters that I do get

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Wheelie looks really solid, I'm definitely gonna try and grab one, even if I'm extremely indifferent to his character

I gotta get him to complete the 1986 movie guys. You however, seem to not care about being completionist.

I buy great figures, and he is a great figure, no matter how I slice it, and at a great price, I'm goin' in on tr (not too much, but enough to justify getting a car to drive the head dudes around in) so he'll add some play value to the headmasters that I do get

Are you wanting Fort Max? Just curious.

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Wheelie looks really solid, I'm definitely gonna try and grab one, even if I'm extremely indifferent to his character

I gotta get him to complete the 1986 movie guys. You however, seem to not care about being completionist.

I buy great figures, and he is a great figure, no matter how I slice it, and at a great price, I'm goin' in on tr (not too much, but enough to justify getting a car to drive the head dudes around in) so he'll add some play value to the headmasters that I do get

Are you wanting Fort Max? Just curious.

I want him, but I have neither the money, nor room, nor extensive interest in him. He looks great, he wears the metroplex mold better than metro, but he's also lacking in my eyes because he's re-purposing metro's mold.

Now, once people get him in hand, and I see if he can pull off all of metro's modes, plus his own, that may shift me towards wanting him more, but, unless I have a job at that point, I will still be unable to afford him; beyond that, I would also need somewhere to display/store him

Kinda how I feel. I actually really like the look of Max. Like Devestator though, he falls into the "too damn big": category. They are just to big for display, and I simply won't pay a $100+ for a figure to go into storage.


Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

Ironhidensh wrote:Kinda how I feel. I actually really like the look of Max. Like Devestator though, he falls into the "too damn big": category. They are just to big for display, and I simply won't pay a $100+ for a figure to go into storage.

Yeah, and anyways, as I'm not interested in the leader class figures, I would really miss out on that aspect of the figure/line, so another thing against it (as much as I want pmop, if the sh|t plastic is being carried over from magnus, it wouldn't do me any good to buy him - ever)

Personally, I would love to get these guys and link up a bunch of bases, I would probably get several enjoyable afternoons out of playing around with them, but alas, this is the real world (besides, that's the sort of thing I expect from Cobo )

Ironhidensh wrote:
Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

I really wish they would have gone with a more IDW style Fort Max like in those early schematics drawings. I'm probably still going to get him but I would have prefered something a little more different than my Encore Fort Max.
I just need to make sure the SDCC version doesn't sell out instantly so I can get that sword...

Railbomb wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:
Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

I really wish they would have gone with a more IDW style Fort Max like in those early schematics drawings. I'm probably still going to get him but I would have prefered something a little more different than my Encore Fort Max.
I just need to make sure the SDCC version doesn't sell out instantly so I can get that sword...

Those huge treads would've made it impossible for him to stand up - assuming he has no heels, like metro - he wouldn't have been able to hold any pose at all I'm sure

Railbomb wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:
Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

I really wish they would have gone with a more IDW style Fort Max like in those early schematics drawings. I'm probably still going to get him but I would have prefered something a little more different than my Encore Fort Max.
I just need to make sure the SDCC version doesn't sell out instantly so I can get that sword...

If you want the sword, why not just get the takara version. It's already on preorder and it even comes with a smaller sword for cerebros. No need to gamble on getting the sdcc version, and at a decent price.

Railbomb wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:
Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

I really wish they would have gone with a more IDW style Fort Max like in those early schematics drawings. I'm probably still going to get him but I would have prefered something a little more different than my Encore Fort Max.
I just need to make sure the SDCC version doesn't sell out instantly so I can get that sword...

I agree on both accounts. I was very disappointed when the treads were dropped and he looks like he does now. I still like him, but would have preferred the IDW style

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Railbomb wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:
Besides, I prefer the IDW version of Fortress Maximus.

I really wish they would have gone with a more IDW style Fort Max like in those early schematics drawings. I'm probably still going to get him but I would have prefered something a little more different than my Encore Fort Max.
I just need to make sure the SDCC version doesn't sell out instantly so I can get that sword...

Those huge treads would've made it impossible for him to stand up - assuming he has no heels, like metro - he wouldn't have been able to hold any pose at all I'm sure

Prehaps that was the reason why the treads were scrapped. It would be a nice compromise if, at some point, they released a voyager sized fort max that turned into a tank and came with as much weaponry as you could fit onto him

I'm genuinely surprised at the love headmasters are getting I really am. Personally I like stand alone bots and combiners. I don't mind and I accept characters like chromedome, hard head, skullcruncher etc who've always been headmasters but I must say I'm incredibly disappointed to see sentinel prime, galvatron, astrotrain, blurr and scourge be headmasters. To each their own and if you love them good for you but I'm definitely going to save money this year and the disappointment is high with me that these characters won't be stand alone bots.