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RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Hopefully a proper Repugnus is on the way. I hate how Hasbro released only the heads for some characters.

Yeah sure...only took 6 years to get a retail release for classics thunderscracker out of the seeker mold and 9 years after classics started to get a legit new mold of ultra Magnus and 29 years to get an actual G1 Arcee toy...ah I'm sure it'll happen

Just pretend that Repugnus is like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy. He was big. Got hurt real back and re spawned as a baby. So then you have the two full sized Monsterbots and Baby Repugnus.
http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... Insect.jpg

I am Repugnus!

Weirdly I kinda like the scaling. More bug sized, that and he was always my least favorite of the three anyway.

I'm one of those people who demands "hasbro make this" or "takara fix that" and I never say "well we got this so obviously we'll get that" what we got is what we get and I'm happy but with Takara doing Doublecross and now Grotesque revealed and a hardcore retool of doublecross I can see Repugnus getting made!...maybe. Especially using the engineering of Grotesque. New torso, arms that fold up in the chest and new giant stupid bug head to just go the back. It's entirely possible but I won't hope and pray for it.

Ebonyleopard wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Hopefully a proper Repugnus is on the way. I hate how Hasbro released only the heads for some characters.

Yeah sure...only took 6 years to get a retail release for classics thunderscracker out of the seeker mold and 9 years after classics started to get a legit new mold of ultra Magnus and 29 years to get an actual G1 Arcee toy...ah I'm sure it'll happen

Just pretend that Repugnus is like Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy. He was big. Got hurt real back and re spawned as a baby. So then you have the two full sized Monsterbots and Baby Repugnus.
http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... Insect.jpg

I am Repugnus!

Weirdly I kinda like the scaling. More bug sized, that and he was always my least favorite of the three anyway.

Make him the animated dirt boss of your monsterbots. Just sits in their shoulders yelling "YOU GOT A PROBLEM!?" Then when he gets fed up he rips their heads off and takes over their body


Lol

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Well this is a whole new level of "BLINK & YOU MISS IT". Now it's just YOU MISS IT. I saw this on the front page & it's already sold out. Didn't even have a chance.


NOT FUN AT ALL!

John Warden said it would be available at a Partner Retailer in a couple of months. So I assume it will be similar to Arcee being on TRU.com. You still have a chance.

.... Anybody who's tried to find decent exclusives at TRU knows that your 'chances' of finding one there are no better

DeathReviews wrote:Don't bother, it's already 'out of stock'. But looking at it, I don't think I want it. That alt-mode.... yuck

His alt mode was always yuck, I thought that was part of the point of it.

Oooooook, Grotusque is a thing now. Pretty interesting things to note:

- He is indeed a retool of Twinferno. How about that, my reservations about that have been shattered! The stock photo of Monster mode doesn't look that good tho.
- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? We had a similar thing going with Universe 2003 Repugnus, and almost Cybertron Repugnus. The former was due to the Decepticon Overbite he came with, so we can assume the same to be true here.
- Scorponok is yet another redone Fangry, with recolored Ultra Magnus art. I suspect the die cast chest and four faces are indeed gang-molded and thus can be slapped on whichever Titan Master Hasbro has handy thanks to the universal design.
- This set and Arcee's are possibly conceived at the same time if the product codes are any indication: Arcee is C3542 and Grotusque is C3541.

DeathReviews wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Well this is a whole new level of "BLINK & YOU MISS IT". Now it's just YOU MISS IT. I saw this on the front page & it's already sold out. Didn't even have a chance.


NOT FUN AT ALL!

John Warden said it would be available at a Partner Retailer in a couple of months. So I assume it will be similar to Arcee being on TRU.com. You still have a chance.

.... Anybody who's tried to find decent exclusives at TRU knows that your 'chances' of finding one there are no better

Arcee was available from TRU.com today. Shouldn't be too hard to find once you know the date it's going up.

Titans Return Grotusque with Fengul and Scorponok was revealed today at NYCC 2017. For those who missed him on Hasbro Toy Shop, Hasbro did say he would be available at a partner retailer in a month or so, so there is no need to panic yet.

Titans Return Grotusque is said to have extra deco compared to mainline figures. It comes with a die cast Scorponok head, which competes the 4 tech spec sets we would be getting in the Titans Return line, where each of the 4 die cast Titan Masters represents one of the 4 tech spec categories. The artwork found inside the box is by Marcello Matere.

Seibertron has a gallery ready for this reveal which you can see by clicking here or on any of the images below.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

Well, hopefully he'll be more widely available at a decent online retailer soon. I was delighted to get my Arcee figure directly from the Hasbro shop but missed this.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

I know but the stock image of the box has them as Decepticons... yet the final does not with "Fengul" without a prefix to boot. How about that.

btw "Fengul" as an anagram of "engulf" as in flames, makes more sense for the Monsterbot as they had sparking gimmicks, and flame breath in the Headmasters anime.

Grotusque went out of stock as I was finishing my last step to buy him ...I really wanted that guy and i'm not sure we will see him in Canada...This suck soo much

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

I know but the stock image of the box has them as Decepticons... yet the final does not with "Fengul" without a prefix to boot. How about that.

btw "Fengul" as an anagram of "engulf" as in flames, makes more sense for the Monsterbot as they had sparking gimmicks, and flame breath in the Headmasters anime.

The end of the day he's whoever you want him to be once you own him. He can be king of the minicons for you want. If he has a con symbol put a sticker over it

Randomhero wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

I know but the stock image of the box has them as Decepticons... yet the final does not with "Fengul" without a prefix to boot. How about that.

btw "Fengul" as an anagram of "engulf" as in flames, makes more sense for the Monsterbot as they had sparking gimmicks, and flame breath in the Headmasters anime.

The end of the day he's whoever you want him to be once you own him. He can be king of the minicons for you want. If he has a con symbol put a sticker over it

YES! THIS! I've already seen too much confusion/outrage over the Autobot/Decepticon stuff regarding Grotusque.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

I know but the stock image of the box has them as Decepticons... yet the final does not with "Fengul" without a prefix to boot. How about that.

btw "Fengul" as an anagram of "engulf" as in flames, makes more sense for the Monsterbot as they had sparking gimmicks, and flame breath in the Headmasters anime.

And, of course, the 'optic scorch' ability goes along with that. As does the card art!

Got the shipping notice on Grotusque already!!!

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- Fengul and Grotusque are Decepticons? .

No, you can see an autobot symbol on his shoulder.

I know but the stock image of the box has them as Decepticons... yet the final does not with "Fengul" without a prefix to boot. How about that.

btw "Fengul" as an anagram of "engulf" as in flames, makes more sense for the Monsterbot as they had sparking gimmicks, and flame breath in the Headmasters anime.

And, of course, the 'optic scorch' ability goes along with that. As does the card art!

Speaking of which, closeup of the little head please

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Still. As I frequently say -- More Decepticons would be nice!

I was thinking the same thing, until I realized that we got all the Decepticon Targetmasters (except for Scourge's partner), but they skipped the Auobots, so I guess as fans there will always be something Hasbro & Takara do (or fail to do) that displeases us.

Looks like I won't be completing my TR goals without spending a fortune for one **** figure.

This is outrageous! How was anyone outside of that room supposed to get one? Is this a thing now that exclusives will just magically appear?

Oh wow Grotesque's robot mode looks great! Too bad the beast mode is just as bad as it was in G1. Ah well I guess that's the point. He'll definitely be on my radar.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is outrageous! How was anyone outside of that room supposed to get one? Is this a thing now that exclusives will just magically appear?

It will be available at a partner retailer later, like Arcee was, so dont worry.

aw Chuck...you'll get one eventually...i know you'll be desperate to review it

Ebonyleopard wrote:

Aimless Misfire wrote:Well this is a whole new level of "BLINK & YOU MISS IT". Now it's just YOU MISS IT. I saw this on the front page & it's already sold out. Didn't even have a chance.

Day after day on these stupid sites & nothing ever happens. The one day I take a break & don't check this happens. How typical!


NOT FUN AT ALL!

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I know, right? At least I'm confident there will be opportunities to get it later on.

I was on my lunch break and saw it was available. And of course, HTS doesn't want to work on mobile web browsers for some odd reason and I ended up missing it. I really hope it gets restocked soon. I was looking forward to coming home and ordering it.

missed it by like 7 minutes it seems, glad it'll be online somewhere else though