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Emerje wrote:But those aren't stock photos, they're CG which is about as early in the production process as you can get next to sketches. That's why I'm saying there must have been a conscious decision at some point to flip them.

It had to be intentional, I can't believe both companies made the same mistakes over the course of a year without catching it.

Emerje

You mean like how a couple companies totally didn't screw up the onslaught molds' knee's across several iterations

Stuff like this can totally happen and not get fixed

griftimus prime wrote:never going to use six or any of those others as a base.

i think its fun


just got soundwave too to add to my metropolis

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:Don't know, both Go Shooter and Loudmouth, and Bullhorn and Terri-Bull are assembled the same way. Looking at more of my TMs it seems there is no rule about which side of the leg the mold marks can be on. Just another weird nuance with TM assembly I guess. Maybe at some point it was decided the details looked better on the top of the larger head? Just seems strange that both Hasbro and Takara Tomy would get it wrong on the same figures.

Emerje

Compared to stock photos, they're reversed. Figures can be misassembled from the first iteration on, and be kept as standard for later releases.

Well I can confirm that either Hasbro Stylor or Takara Stylor(I know its Chromedome) has backwards upper legs as they are both turned a diff way. I have both Chromedomes and just checked.

Double post, sorry so Prowl gets a punch in the face. Springer REALLY wants the new Kup figure.



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Talk to the hand...

william-james88 wrote:

I noticed before now that there's a space in the middle of this mode's name. I always thought it was "Wingwolf", but that space now shows otherwise. Go figure.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:But those aren't stock photos, they're CG which is about as early in the production process as you can get next to sketches. That's why I'm saying there must have been a conscious decision at some point to flip them.

It had to be intentional, I can't believe both companies made the same mistakes over the course of a year without catching it.

Emerje

You mean like how a couple companies totally didn't screw up the onslaught molds' knee's across several iterations

Stuff like this can totally happen and not get fixed

Unless I'm mistaken, only Hasbro had that error and it was on two of the nine total uses of the mold between both companies. Typically only one company or the other makes errors like this, not both. When both do the same thing it becomes more intentional.

Emerje

Just curious, any suggestions on who to pair the wave 1 & 2 Titan Masters with? I only have the wave 1-3 Deluxes to choose from, FYI. So far I've only gotten Nightbeat with Blurr and Apeface with Mindwipe.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Except it's not the company that makes the error: it's the factories, which are shared between TakaraTomy and Hasbro.

But somebody has to make an assembly plan that specifically says which side is the front, otherwise it would be a random problem rather than a consistent one.

Emerje

Sigma Magnus wrote:Just curious, any suggestions on who to pair the wave 1 & 2 Titan Masters with? I only have the wave 1-3 Deluxes to choose from, FYI. So far I've only gotten Nightbeat with Blurr and Apeface with Mindwipe.

I've found that color- and theme-wise, Brawn goes well with Hardhead in particular. Clobber can go well with either Chromedome or Twinferno; Loudmouth doesn't go that well with Highbrow in vehicle mode but his head looks really good on him and colors mix well; pretty much anyone goes well with Skullsmasher but Crashbash is probably the best; Terri-bull blends fairly well with Scourge's colors (and makes for a pretty good generically-different Sweep, if you've got more than one Scourge!), or similarly makes quite a good partner for Triggerhappy; and Skytread is harder to place but I tend to put him with Weirdwolf, mostly because they're the two left over.

Once/if you have the Wave 3 TMs, I'd recommend putting Ptero with either Hot Rod or Highbrow (switching Loudmouth to Hot Rod in turn); Sawback with ...? (definitely best with A3 but he's not an option); Fangry with, maybe Skullsmasher?; and definitely Overboard with Getaway (they're different factions, yeah, but they just work so well together!).

Apeface on mindwipe is amazing!

Qwan wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Just curious, any suggestions on who to pair the wave 1 & 2 Titan Masters with? I only have the wave 1-3 Deluxes to choose from, FYI. So far I've only gotten Nightbeat with Blurr and Apeface with Mindwipe.

I've found that color- and theme-wise, Brawn goes well with Hardhead in particular. Clobber can go well with either Chromedome or Twinferno; Loudmouth doesn't go that well with Highbrow in vehicle mode but his head looks really good on him and colors mix well; pretty much anyone goes well with Skullsmasher but Crashbash is probably the best; Terri-bull blends fairly well with Scourge's colors (and makes for a pretty good generically-different Sweep, if you've got more than one Scourge!), or similarly makes quite a good partner for Triggerhappy; and Skytread is harder to place but I tend to put him with Weirdwolf, mostly because they're the two left over.

Once/if you have the Wave 3 TMs, I'd recommend putting Ptero with either Hot Rod or Highbrow (switching Loudmouth to Hot Rod in turn); Sawback with ...? (definitely best with A3 but he's not an option); Fangry with, maybe Skullsmasher?; and definitely Overboard with Getaway (they're different factions, yeah, but they just work so well together!).

Does that work with the weapon modes, too? (Can't check myself until I get home)

william-james88 wrote:Apeface on mindwipe is amazing!

I know, right? The combined jet mode is really fun, too!

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Qwan wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Just curious, any suggestions on who to pair the wave 1 & 2 Titan Masters with? I only have the wave 1-3 Deluxes to choose from, FYI. So far I've only gotten Nightbeat with Blurr and Apeface with Mindwipe.

[blathering]

Does that work with the weapon modes, too? (Can't check myself until I get home)

Weapon modes are a lot harder to really define as to what works and what doesn't, since they tend to skew toward either the "generic weapon that'd work with anyone" side, or the "that's just a T-rex with a cannon for a butt" side - neither of which tend to work better with specific partners over others. (The only outliers I've found to this are Ptero/Hot Rod (thanks to Animated, energy-bow-type weapons tend to be tied to Hot Rod's character now) and Sawback/A3 (sword-and-shield combo, of course) - but both of those pairs feature a figure you don't have yet, so that's not much help.)

In general though, I've found that while the weapons don't match up so well visually due to the larger area making the color differences more obvious, it doesn't bother me too much since I actually like my weapons to not be the same color as the base figure if possible. Plus if you swap the heads as well, then the 'combined' weapon modes feature a splash of the larger figures' colors, so they tend to always look like they belong that way.

How wonderous...any one know when sixshot will be shipped by tfsource?

clobber and blurr are the bomb

GalvatronG1 wrote:How wonderous...any one know when sixshot will be shipped by tfsource?

Hopefully soon! I'm waiting on them too. Got a bunch of things from there and SS is holding it up.

I'm personally liking Clobber on Wolfwire.



But then, there's probably few Clobber doesn't work with...

Qwan wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Just curious, any suggestions on who to pair the wave 1 & 2 Titan Masters with? I only have the wave 1-3 Deluxes to choose from, FYI. So far I've only gotten Nightbeat with Blurr and Apeface with Mindwipe.

I've found that color- and theme-wise, Brawn goes well with Hardhead in particular. Clobber can go well with either Chromedome or Twinferno; Loudmouth doesn't go that well with Highbrow in vehicle mode but his head looks really good on him and colors mix well; pretty much anyone goes well with Skullsmasher but Crashbash is probably the best; Terri-bull blends fairly well with Scourge's colors (and makes for a pretty good generically-different Sweep, if you've got more than one Scourge!), or similarly makes quite a good partner for Triggerhappy; and Skytread is harder to place but I tend to put him with Weirdwolf, mostly because they're the two left over.

Once/if you have the Wave 3 TMs, I'd recommend putting Ptero with either Hot Rod or Highbrow (switching Loudmouth to Hot Rod in turn); Sawback with ...? (definitely best with A3 but he's not an option); Fangry with, maybe Skullsmasher?; and definitely Overboard with Getaway (they're different factions, yeah, but they just work so well together!).

Sawback seems good with Sentinel Prime. But Repugnus will be even better since SP is basically the same color layout as Repugnus' robot mode.

Ptero works well on Twinferno. Very close color matches. I think it works extra well since Ptero/Swoop's movie counterpart is Strafe who is a two headed dragon. Some part of me is tempted to pick up a second Twinferno for Clobber and more for any more Dinobots that get released. It's a pretty good Dinobot body.

Fangry is great on Mindwipe. Very close to his G1 robot mode. I'm thinking of starting a side collection of Bludgeon's cronies on Klo from Regen One/G2 for my G2 shelf. (Octopunch, Stranglehold, Fangry, Weirdwolf, Skullsmasher, Krok, and Quake, I think, were the main ones?) There hasn't been a Bludgeon that really fit in enough with CHUG for my tastes but the new RiD version may fit the bill despite not being comic accurate at all, with the scan decal removed.

Kurona wrote:I'm personally liking Clobber on Wolfwire.



But then, there's probably few Clobber doesn't work with...

heh
i've got Loudmouth
on
Brainstorm

very cool

Overboard on Mindwipe looks surprisingly good. (Heck, I bet any head would look good on Mindwipe, his transector is that good looking)
But I bet Crashbash or Cancer would look even better!

I was thinking Fangry with Mindwipe! At the moment, I have Skytread on him tho - not bad. Definitely dig Brawn on Hardhead, Terri-Bull on Scourge, Nightbeat on Blur and Loudmouth on Cerebros!

I also like Lione/Sawback on Hot Rod!

william-james88 wrote:

frogbat wrote:.. at times it feels like if they can't better the original g1 designs they shouldn't bother...

Do you feel that way about TR fort max as well?

Ah sorry wasn't clear. Although, yes Fortress max original figure base modes are better than the TR version, I appreciated nearly all the updates.. and the TR line has been my favourite so far.

by design i was referring specifically to the way the ramps interconnect between the bases - i have a hard time attaching them properly compared to the G1 micro master ramp designs

I bet Infinitus wouldn't look good on Mindwipe. Hehe.


I'm getting Sawback this weekend. Looking forward to seeing how he works on Sentinel.