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News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:24 am

Isnt G2 dragstrip a black redeco of that mold? Otherwise, it could simply be a custom.

News Credits: 4 · by **King Kuuga** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:51 am

william-james88 wrote:Isnt G2 dragstrip a black redeco of that mold? Otherwise, it could simply be a custom.

Yes, but not that deco.

Mystery figure has a white chest, white feet, purple weapon, and red combiner port. G2 Dragstrip has a black chest, black feet, aqua weapon, and yellow combiner port.

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:54 am

That Bot wrote:Mystery figure has a white chest, white feet, purple weapon, and red combiner port. G2 Dragstrip has a black chest, black feet, aqua weapon, and yellow combiner port.

I looked it up. Griffin said some fans brought custom figures and he included them in pics to mess with people.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:09 am

william-james88 wrote:
That Bot wrote:Mystery figure has a white chest, white feet, purple weapon, and red combiner port. G2 Dragstrip has a black chest, black feet, aqua weapon, and yellow combiner port.

I looked it up. Griffin said some fans brought custom figures and he included them in pics to mess with people.

That's just cruel :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:27 am

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
That Bot wrote:Mystery figure has a white chest, white feet, purple weapon, and red combiner port. G2 Dragstrip has a black chest, black feet, aqua weapon, and yellow combiner port.

I looked it up. Griffin said some fans brought custom figures and he included them in pics to mess with people.

That's just cruel

Cruel indeed! Skulduggery if you ask me. [-(

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:29 am

do those customs include Sideswipe too?

: 1458645002-2016atf21-1.jpg (22.16 KiB) Viewed 9168 times

coz i was really hoping for a CW Sideswipe

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:30 am

Stuartmaximus wrote:do those customs include Sideswipe too?
1458645002-2016atf21-1.jpg

coz i was really hoping for a CW Sideswipe

That's Takara Masterpiece Road Rage.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:13 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:do those customs include Sideswipe too?
1458645002-2016atf21-1.jpg

coz i was really hoping for a CW Sideswipe
That's Takara Masterpiece Road Rage.

Yep, Roadrage. Talk about trying to play the crowd :evil:

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:34 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
That Bot wrote:Mystery figure has a white chest, white feet, purple weapon, and red combiner port. G2 Dragstrip has a black chest, black feet, aqua weapon, and yellow combiner port.

I looked it up. Griffin said some fans brought custom figures and he included them in pics to mess with people.

That's just cruel

by **12345** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:57 pm

That Bot wrote:
Cobotron wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SynchroBunny wrote:I'm curious now. Who's the black and white repaint of Mirage? Kindof hoping it's Crasher, and that leads into a CW renegades combiner.
In which pic do you see it?

Left of the coffee cup?

http://static.seibertron.com/images/toy ... 6atf21.jpg

Well-spotted! Assuming it's Mirage and not Dead End or some other character, it could be G2 Mirage (http://tfu.info/1995/Autobot/Mirage/mirage.htm) or Electro-Disruptor Ligier (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mirage_(G1)#Henkei.21_Henkei.21)

Otherwise it could be some other black, white, and red F1 racecar transformer.

Thanks ^^ Sorry, but it was late and I forgot to post a link to where I saw it.

But in this image -> http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2016atf01.jpg it's middle-ish of the shot, and squinting it looks like Mirage's head.

It could possibly be the repaints of Mirage like someone later suggested. But part of me is holding out for hope on Crasher based off the decepticon coloured weapons. And she has been released off Mirage's mould in the past in the classics 2.0/Universe lines.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:07 pm

SynchroBunny wrote:
That Bot wrote:
Cobotron wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
SynchroBunny wrote:I'm curious now. Who's the black and white repaint of Mirage? Kindof hoping it's Crasher, and that leads into a CW renegades combiner.
In which pic do you see it?

Left of the coffee cup?

http://static.seibertron.com/images/toy ... 6atf21.jpg

Well-spotted! Assuming it's Mirage and not Dead End or some other character, it could be G2 Mirage (http://tfu.info/1995/Autobot/Mirage/mirage.htm) or Electro-Disruptor Ligier (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Mirage_(G1)#Henkei.21_Henkei.21)

Otherwise it could be some other black, white, and red F1 racecar transformer.

Thanks ^^ Sorry, but it was late and I forgot to post a link to where I saw it.

But in this image -> http://www.toycollectors.com.au/2016atf01.jpg it's middle-ish of the shot, and squinting it looks like Mirage's head.

It could possibly be the repaints of Mirage like someone later suggested. But part of me is holding out for hope on Crasher based off the decepticon coloured weapons. And she has been released off Mirage's mould in the past in the classics 2.0/Universe lines.

Yeah looks like Gobots Crasher/Universe Fracture.

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:11 pm

Guys, its been confirmed that the toy you see is just a custom, and not any toy we will ever see coming out. Here is the proof from the guy who took the picture:

Quote Griffin of Oz:
Originally Posted by Thundershot View Post
In the first picture, on the table in front of Lewis... Who is that, what appears to be, black and white and red version of Drag Strip?

It was a custom toy that one of the fans brought to the meet, and thought it would be funny to add to the photo to see if anyone would notice it, and think it was another upcoming toy.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:21 pm

william-james88 wrote:Guys, its been confirmed that the toy you see is just a custom, and not any toy we will ever see coming out. Here is the proof from the guy who took the picture:

Quote Griffin of Oz:
Originally Posted by Thundershot View Post
In the first picture, on the table in front of Lewis... Who is that, what appears to be, black and white and red version of Drag Strip?

It was a custom toy that one of the fans brought to the meet, and thought it would be funny to add to the photo to see if anyone would notice it, and think it was another upcoming toy.

I knew it was probably a custom. It's pretty boss though.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:46 pm

Plus, Hasbro most likely would not do anymore GoBot-based toys since doing so would be free advertisement for Bandai's Machine Robo toys. Hasbro wouldn't likely want to advertise their competitor's product. The main reason Movie Fracture happened was cuz Joe Kyde had to find a real world car with that Crasher-esque deco to push for Movie Fracture's getting made, after which he was basically told "We let you do this once, but let's not do it again, 'kay?"

I really wish people would stop bringing up Movie Fracture as a precedent for more GoBot-based Transformers toys when it was an isolated incident. The rights to GoBots are split between Hasbro, Time Warner, and Bandai, and all three parties may not necessarily know who owns what and how much of it, but Bandai at least is known to own the original Machine Robo toys that the likenesses of the Hanna-Barbera GoBots cartoon characters were based on.

Any new toys (Transformers or otherwise) made to resemble the looks of those Bandai-owned toys would be seen as advertising those Bandai-owned toys (regardless of how old they are), so it is highly unlikely that Hasbro would be willing to make any new toys that would bear any direct resemblance to toys belonging to one of their biggest rivals in the toy industry.

Now something like ROTF Deadlift, however, was able to happen since, despite his being a homage to Spoons, the homage wasn't a direct one since, unlike with Fracture and Crasher, Deadlift's deco wasn't laid out like Spoons' deco. He's just an orange forklift and anyone can make an orange forklift toy. The "MR-34" number on him is the only thing that really attempts to tie him to Spoons, but unless one knew about the significance of that number, most folks wouldn't twice about it, making it more of a small wink to the fans than an obvious giveaway.

In the end, Spoons and Deadlift both just happen to be orange forklifts with the number 34 on them, whereas Fracture was an obvious Crasher homage that Joe Kyde had to use a real world car deco to get around that fact.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:23 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Plus, Hasbro most likely would not do anymore GoBot-based toys since doing so would be free advertisement for Bandai's Machine Robo toys. Hasbro wouldn't likely want to advertise their competitor's product. The main reason Movie Fracture happened was cuz Joe Kyde had to find a real world car with that Crasher-esque deco to push for Movie Fracture's getting made, after which he was basically told "We let you do this once, but let's not do it again, 'kay?"

I really wish people would stop bringing up Movie Fracture as a precedent for more GoBot-based Transformers toys when it was an isolated incident. The rights to GoBots are split between Hasbro, Time Warner, and Bandai, and all three parties may not necessarily know who owns what and how much of it, but Bandai at least is known to own the original Machine Robo toys that the likenesses of the Hanna-Barbera GoBots cartoon characters were based on.

Any new toys (Transformers or otherwise) made to resemble the looks of those Bandai-owned toys would be seen as advertising those Bandai-owned toys (regardless of how old they are), so it is highly unlikely that Hasbro would be willing to make any new toys that would bear any direct resemblance to toys belonging to one of their biggest rivals in the toy industry.

Now something like ROTF Deadlift, however, was able to happen since, despite his being a homage to Spoons, the homage wasn't a direct one since, unlike with Fracture and Crasher, Deadlift's deco wasn't laid out like Spoons' deco. He's just an orange forklift and anyone can make an orange forklift toy. The "MR-34" number on him is the only thing that really attempts to tie him to Spoons, but unless one knew about the significance of that number, most folks wouldn't twice about it, making it more of a small wink to the fans than an obvious giveaway.

In the end, Spoons and Deadlift both just happen to be orange forklifts with the number 34 on them, whereas Fracture was an obvious Crasher homage that Joe Kyde had to use a real world car deco to get around that fact.

Yeah I am one to highly doubt Gobots homage characters too, just you explained why better.

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:38 pm

Speaking of Gobots, did the new Gokin Machine Robo toys ever come out?

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:48 pm

william-james88 wrote:Speaking of Gobots, did the new Gokin Machine Robo toys ever come out?

[image]

Oh man you're right! I forgot about those! :-?

I found full color images on toyark. http://news.toyark.com/2015/12/19/new-a ... ges-185635

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:51 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Speaking of Gobots, did the new Gokin Machine Robo toys ever come out?

[image]

Oh man you're right! I forgot about those! When were they announced?

Early last year.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:54 pm

william-james88 wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Speaking of Gobots, did the new Gokin Machine Robo toys ever come out?

[image]

Oh man you're right! I forgot about those! When were they announced?

Early last year.

I edited that post after you posted yours. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 4854 · by **william-james88** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:38 pm

Toy Dojo had a (now taken down) listing of Fort Max for 149.99$. So same price as last year's Devastator.

Also, I dont think any of us noticed but Fort Max' legs now have proof that they open:

Odd how none of the promotional material shows the use of this. There is hope for a city yet!

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:49 pm

william-james88 wrote:Toy Dojo had a (now taken down) listing of Fort Max for 149.99$. So same price as last year's Devastator.

Also, I dont think any of us noticed but Fort Max' legs now have proof that they open:

Odd how none of the promotional material shows the use of this. There is hope for a city yet!

YES!!!

Fingers crossed!

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 2:52 pm

of course they open, they're just the same as Metroplex's legs

mind you....in saying that....i'm now wondering if you can now kinda pull off a sort of G1 city mode with him :-?

maybe by leaving part of that leg section open

btw i was mucking about with Metroplex....trying to sort of get the legs to form towers(Fortress Maximus style) & i came across something else interesting....

now doesn't that sort of look like Scorponok :-?

so maybe the Metroplex mold will once again be reused for Scorponok! it's just a thought

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:18 pm

While it's a credible theory there's some problems. First is that scorponok's tail wasn't formed from his legs, as it just folded away in bot mode.

News Credits: 42 · by **Autobot N** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:20 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:While it's a credible theory there's some problems. First is that scorponok's tail wasn't formed from his legs, as it just folded away in bot mode.

Remember though, this is Hasbro we're talking about here.