If only Optimus and Motormaster had been given the same kind of upside-down treatment that Silverbolt was given, with the combiner thighs being formed by the torso bot's arms instead of the torso bot's legs.
Here's the last of the Deluxe class Stunticons with Offroad. Not really liking that figure, but mainly cos I just wish they had included a Wildrider instead!
My Menasor arrived earlier today. I've literally spent hours fiddling with his legs and waist desperately trying to get him to look half decent. I couldn't, so I'll just be displaying them as a team.
MightyMagnus78 wrote:My Menasor arrived earlier today. I've literally spent hours fiddling with his legs and waist desperately trying to get him to look half decent. I couldn't, so I'll just be displaying them as a team.
The compromises needed to make him look half decent are things I'm probably not willing to do and leave him on display. So I'll probably be leaving them as separate individuals too, in alt mode most likely.
Cobotron wrote:So all this last wave has been pawned of to the discount stores? I'm going to look for Gears and Acidstorm. They never showed up here.
Not sure if this helps where you live, but in SE Michigan, those two were effectively Meijer's exclusives starting around Thanksgiving...and already got clearanced out.
I saw both Gears and picked up Acid Storm from Target just before they announced they were leaving Canada. They had them in mid-December, and Acid Storm was already on clearance when I got him.
Thinking next year in 2016, HasTak will give fans CW Bruticus, CW Computron and G1 animal combiners. Think it should be rather easy for CW to repurpose toys between Predaking, Abonimus and Piranacon. Think it should be easy to also Repurpose these as autobots or maximals combiners.
Don't think HasTak is going to be doing any CW G1 Dinobots combiner. Unless Combiners Wars go into the 2017 Third year. If 2017 happens for CW, Then I could see HasTak doing Monstructor and Dinoking first then a Repurposed G1 Dinobots combiner.
Think HasTak or TFCC might be able to do a Liokaiser toy. Using Three jets bots from Superion, I tank bot Brawl From Bruticus. One drill bot from CW Computron. CW Liokaiser's 6th member can be a legends class bot that looks the most like Jargua.
Don't think HasTak will be doing any new toys or repurposed CW toys for Raiden, Landcross and Road Caesar.
Here's my review of the final Stunticon in the current wave of TF Combiner Wars figures with Motormaster. Pretty much a retool of the Optimus Prime from Wave 1, but overall not too bad.
Where it all falls over I think, is when combined with the rest of the team into Menasor. Pretty terrible body proportions that kind of ruin the look, especially when compared to Superion.
Hope you can check out the review, subscribe, like, and comment with your thoughts on the the gestalt
Tsutsukakushi wrote:Thinking next year in 2016, HasTak will give fans CW Bruticus, CW Computron and G1 animal combiners. Think it should be rather easy for CW to repurpose toys between Predaking, Abonimus and Piranacon. Think it should be easy to also Repurpose these as autobots or maximals combiners.
Don't think HasTak is going to be doing any CW G1 Dinobots combiner. Unless Combiners Wars go into the 2017 Third year. If 2017 happens for CW, Then I could see HasTak doing Monstructor and Dinoking first then a Repurposed G1 Dinobots combiner.
Think HasTak or TFCC might be able to do a Liokaiser toy. Using Three jets bots from Superion, I tank bot Brawl From Bruticus. One drill bot from CW Computron. CW Liokaiser's 6th member can be a legends class bot that looks the most like Jargua.
Don't think HasTak will be doing any new toys or repurposed CW toys for Raiden, Landcross and Road Caesar.
Not that i doubt your veracity, but where was it said that we would be getting Abominus, Predaking or Pirahnacon?
We have heard rumours of an upcoming Ironhide figure in the Transformers Generations Combiner Wars line eventually. Adding fuel to the plastic fire, the in-pack comics that come with Wave 2 deluxes in the line, the Offroad one in particular, shows off an orthographic design for a toy sharing the same mold as the titular character.. but a slightly different head. Check it out below, thanks to chuckdawg1999, and let us know what you think!
But for those who don't wanna use the figure as Ironhide, he can be a stand in for a CHUG Micromaster Tote, having been given the same modern day pickup truck updated altmode treatment that Ironhide's gotten in recent years:
Huh, interesting. This means that the pretool scheme the figures have has gotten more interesting. Using Offroad as that example:
- Each mold potentially has two vehicle shells, given Offroad and First Aid. - Each mold potentially has three pretooled heads, in this case Offroad, First Aid and now Ironhide. Only Wreck-Gar shares that honor with the Junkyard and Scrapheap heads.
Hasbro and TakaraTomy are really planning ahead. Then again, having a line span 2 years you kinda have to.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Huh, interesting. This means that the pretool scheme the figures have has gotten more interesting. Using Offroad as that example:
- Each mold potentially has two vehicle shells, given Offroad and First Aid. - Each mold potentially has three pretooled heads, in this case Offroad, First Aid and now Ironhide. Only Wreck-Gar shares that honor with the Junkyard and Scrapheap heads.
Hasbro and TakaraTomy are really planning ahead. Then again, having a line span 2 years you kinda have to.
I totally missed every iteration of the Junkion figures and I am seriously sad about it.
I'm a little more open to the idea of the Autobot cars for Ultra Prime plus I would like a decent ironhide, still not sure if these will be exclusives or if slingshot and Wildrider will be next year
ZeroWolf wrote:I'm a little more open to the idea of the Autobot cars for Ultra Prime plus I would like a decent ironhide, still not sure if these will be exclusives or if slingshot and Wildrider will be next year
Well, we have:
- Offroad into Ironhide - potentially Drag Strip for Mirage - potentially Breakdown for Sunstreaker - potentially Dead End/Streetwise for Prowl
As we predicted earlier, all Stunticon (p)retools.
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:39 pm
