BigRed wrote:Scaleface wrote:GetterDragun wrote:I don't understand the point of a combiner piece without the rest of his team. Also, why does he transform into a cop? Isn't that a good guy? They could have taken this mold and changed the paint scheme to something cool, like Hardhead.
Didn't Hasbro release all the energon combiner pieces in different waves? I didn't like it, but they did release a limb here, a body there. It took months to complete your combiner. Sadly it could be the same here, expecially since they probably want to have wave 1 have a variety of figures in it, and they are only having 5 figures in the wave. If they did a whole combiner, they wouldn't have anything else!
Don't know about a Hardhead repaint, he has to have a big artillery cannon for him to be Hardhead to me.
Scaleface, what I'm curious about is - if they do release the whole group and they do combine (two very big 'ifs' at this early stage) - how do Hasbro release the combiner's extra pieces (fists, head, breastplate etc). How did they do it with the energon combiners you mentioned? Do they come with the last figure released? Is there a separate pack?
With the Energon combiners each figure had a weapon that transformed into either a claw/hand, or a foot/claw for the gestalt. no chest plates or additional weapons since by design the combiners could not hold them.
We haven't seen fists and feet and accessories like the ones from G1 since G1.
The gestalt's head will probably be concealed in the larger robot somehow. For example in the Energon combiners, Stormjet had Superion's head inside the cockpit. Barricade had Bruticus's head in the truck cab, and Steamhammer had Devy's head inside the driver's booth.
If he is to combine, the head is probably concealed in his back somewhere, and we won't see it until we get more pictures.
The Energon combiners did a pretty good job of hiding the fact that they could combine. Take Barricade, unless yo know he combines, it would be hard to tell from a single front facing robot mode picture.
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