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william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

Nope, got my arcee, and she's great, it might work with blurr with a retooled torso

Yes! Only because it's SOOOO wrong!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

Nope, got my arcee, and she's great, it might work with blurr with a retooled torso

This is exactly what I think the Club exclusives should be like. If we only had a club. It's just a fun repaint but nothing that actually fills a hole in a collection.

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

Cheets got a lot of positive feedback for that, especially for its deviating from the (stereo)typical "super model" fembot look that Hasbro's been so accustomed to giving us over the years.

Stuartmaximus wrote:it's the same thing with RID Megatronus! he's not Megatron either

I don't get what you're saying, rid megatronus is The Fallen of the 13 primes, of course he's not megatron. Unless you're pointing out that there could be multiple characters running around with similar names, and would need an explanation...

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

HELL TO THE NO. That there looks more like Donut from RVB than Arcee.

And why would anyone want to double dip on Arcee when her previous Generations toy was just released a year ago?

*looks at Titan Force Brainstorm on the shelf right next the voyager Brainstorm released only two years ago*

Oh yeah. Gotta collect 'em all.

But seriously, Blurr would make a much better Arcee. Or Override if HasTak is feeling saucy.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

HELL TO THE NO. That there looks more like Donut from RVB than Arcee.

And why would anyone want to double dip on Arcee when her previous Generations toy was just released a year ago?

*looks at Titan Force Brainstorm on the shelf right next the voyager Brainstorm released only two years ago*

Oh yeah. Gotta collect 'em all.

Just like voyager seekers would sell even though we just got all 3 main seekers in deluxe, legends and leader classes.

But seriously, Blurr would make a much better Arcee. Or Override if HasTak is feeling saucy.

This is based on the G1 toy that was initially planned, which was based on chromedome:



Some fans "always" wanted this, but now that we have an actual Arcee toy and its her own mold, I have no clue why we would want to go back to getting her as a redeco.

I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

william-james88 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, a lot of people are quick to come up with ideas of redecos and retools for things they want, like a headmaser arcee. But would you really buy this if you saw it in stores?

HELL TO THE NO. That there looks more like Donut from RVB than Arcee.

And why would anyone want to double dip on Arcee when her previous Generations toy was just released a year ago?

*looks at Titan Force Brainstorm on the shelf right next the voyager Brainstorm released only two years ago*

Oh yeah. Gotta collect 'em all.

Just like voyager seekers would sell even though we just got all 3 main seekers in deluxe, legends and leader classes.

But seriously, Blurr would make a much better Arcee. Or Override if HasTak is feeling saucy.

This is based on the G1 toy that was initially planned, which was based on chromedome:



Some fans "always" wanted this, but now that we have an actual Arcee toy and its her own mold, I have no clue why we would want to go back to getting her as a redeco.

I don't give a sh|t what it's based on, making a headmaster arcee at all should be enough of an homage, that recolor looks like a broad-shouldered-bodybuilder, something arcee has never been... it just doesn't fit her at all. They should stick with the malleable blurr mold and get creative with that.

Insurgent wrote:I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

Where'd you see it?

Seibertronians, we've got a cool little piece today, thanks to user Cyberpath. Hasbro Transformers designer Emiliano Santalucia has recently shared some new toy concept art via his Facebook page. These are the early incarnations of the Titan's Return Voyager Galvatron and Leader Class Powermaster Optimus Prime. Check the rough drafts out down below, and then take a look at the finished products by swinging by Seibertron's galleries of the two figures. (We've included a couple down below already, just for comparison.)
















So what do you think of these new concept drawings? Do you think they look better or worse than what we got? What elements of the designs do you think Hasbro should have included that they didn't? What would you have left out? Tell us in the Comments!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

Where'd you see it?

A mate dropped it in a facebook chat. Don't know where he got it from. I can ask, though he doesn't know how ligit it is either.

Insurgent wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

Where'd you see it?

A mate dropped it in a facebook chat. Don't know where he got it from. I can ask, though he doesn't know how ligit it is either.

That looks severely fake

Still, works better than Chromdome.

Insurgent wrote:Still, works better than Chromdome.

Yeah, I guess, other than the weird face

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

Where'd you see it?

A mate dropped it in a facebook chat. Don't know where he got it from. I can ask, though he doesn't know how ligit it is either.

That looks severely fake

Because it is: she shares her project number, #345576, with Voyager Megatron:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:I saw one of those control art thingies suggesting her from the upcoming Rodimus mould. Don't know how ligit it is though.

Where'd you see it?

A mate dropped it in a facebook chat. Don't know where he got it from. I can ask, though he doesn't know how ligit it is either.

That looks severely fake

Because it is: she shares her project number, #345576, with Voyager Megatron:

Knew it, the words looked pretty weird.

Plus, it's literally a digibash of the Hot Rod stock art. I don't know why the hell Hasbro would use that for their design sheets, especially since every design sheet we've seen so far has the bots in a neutral standing pose.

Because I'm such a number nut, here are the project numbers for some more figures:

#336483: Mindwipe
#336484: Wolfwire

#345561: Hot Rod
#345562: Doublecross
#345563: Triggerhappy
#345564: Getaway

#345576: Megatron
#345577: Optimus Prime

If you spot any of these someplace else, it's fake

Kurona wrote:Plus, it's literally a digibash of the Hot Rod stock art. I don't know why the hell Hasbro would use that for their design sheets, especially since every design sheet we've seen so far has the bots in a neutral standing pose.

And really? No new head sculpt? Obviously fake even before all the other proof.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Plus, it's literally a digibash of the Hot Rod stock art. I don't know why the hell Hasbro would use that for their design sheets, especially since every design sheet we've seen so far has the bots in a neutral standing pose.

And really? No new head sculpt? Obviously fake even before all the other proof.

Considering exclusives are usually straight redecos, that wasn't really one of my concerns.

I never once claimed it wasn't fake. Just saying I saw it.


And I don't care enough to look at the project numbers, let alone remember them. Just thought folks would be interested in seeing Arcee from the Rodimus mould, since a fake bash of her from Chromedome was doing the round.

Bronzewolf wrote:

Wow, they took a massive chunk out of that. I mean, I don't know if the sleeper section really improves anything (where's it even go in robot mode?), but it's still rather startling to see they made such a drastic change.

Insurgent wrote:I never once claimed it wasn't fake. Just saying I saw it.


And I don't care enough to look at the project numbers, let alone remember them. Just thought folks would be interested in seeing Arcee from the Rodimus mould, since a fake bash of her from Chromedome was doing the round.

It's chill man, no one's accusing you of anything

While that does look terrible...there is potential there. With some good retooling, I think they could make that work.