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Thanks to Bass X0, we have now discovered an auction on Taobao for an upcoming redeco of scout class Dirt Boss. The figure, now clad in gray and orange would bear a resemblance to GoBots Spoon. To view the auction click here.

Sweet fancy Moses!

My wish has been granted.

I love Dirtboss! This Spoon repaint looks good to me.

This one looks to me a lot better than the green version. I will get this one!

He's a bad guy and he has his MR-34 Renegade designation right on him. If he isn't released as Spoon, I see a lot of Nerdrage that will occur.

I had no interest in Dirt Boss, but Spoon is a definite grab. Finally it looks like BugBite's warning more would be crossing over may finally bear more fruit.

Good move on their part.

Now Bugbite and Crasher won't be so alone.

(I already bought Dirtboss for this reason...but, hey, upgrades are cool. And this time...he wanted to be the red one.)

I love the silver paint on the limbs. I hope the final retail version is as shiny as it looks in those pics.

That is awesome that they put the Machine Robot designation on the figure. Runs to ebay to buy a GoBots Spoons for future comparison pics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0389490452

Done!

I own every Gobot that has made it into the Transformers Universe plus Leader-1 and Cy-Kill. Now I've got Spoons. One day I'll bust out these Gobots for the galleries here on Seibertron.com. Maybe once Spoons comes out.

Looking forward to the pics Ryan, but honestly, with Hasbro owning the Go-Bots license and all, It would be nifty if Vector Sigma and the galleries were expanded to include the Go-Bots lines.

I didnt buy the green one cause I really dont like the mold but then again I just realized I had Spoons in the Closet with my Gobots. he's a little banged up cause I found him lying in the beach as a small child but maybe I should buy him just toy have the homage mold like I bought the Crasher homage since I have crasher too.

Rated X wrote:I didnt buy the green one and I wont buy this one. Im very selective about scouts and I just dont find a forklift to be very intimidating for a Decepticon's transformation.

The GIANT ARM BLADES don't do it for you?

color scheme reminds me of galaxy force cobybot
but based on the replys i'm sure its just a gobot homage

Not sure about the blades cause once something is too big, it looks out of proportion rather then threatening. Hey I pulled Spoon out the closet. Now that I see both together, I think the grey does not go with the original Gobot paint scheme to be an accurate homage. Anbody else agree ???

Must be one hell of a legal nightmare to get the trademark "Spoon".

Rated X wrote:Not sure about the blades cause once something is too big, it looks out of proportion rather then threatening. Hey I pulled Spoon out the closet. Now that I see both together, I think the grey does not go with the original Gobot paint scheme to be an accurate homage. Anbody else agree ???

The grey and silver is an acceptable addition to the adaptation. Because for one it makes the coloration in vehicle mode more realistic. We have similar looking forklifts at work, right down to the shade of red-orange, and it matches this pretty well.

The other is that a solid lump of orange isn't going to look very interesting or sell.

Rated X wrote:


Not sure about the blades cause once something is too big, it looks out of proportion rather then threatening. Hey I pulled Spoon out the closet. Now that I see both together, I think the grey does not go with the original Gobot paint scheme to be an accurate homage. Anbody else agree ???

The gray is fine seeing most Spoons had a gray chest and the robot mode is suppose to have the lift blades folded up on the leg not left sticking out.

Strange that yours had an orange chest. Are you sure it's an Original, seeing the archive says he wasn't remolded/recolored.

Hard Hacker wrote:Must be one hell of a legal nightmare to get the trademark "Spoon".

Maybe Spoons the 2nd?

This is so much win I just have to buy it.

it seems like everyone here knows who "spoons" is' could someone tell me who "spoons" is

Spoons is a Gobot from the mid-80's. Not sure if he was a good guy or bad guy cause I never had the original packaging. You guys got some good points...I do agree that the grey makes a more realistic looking forklift. I never knew a grey chest version of the original Gobot existed. I googled and all I got was the all orange version I have. I found this guy at the beach as a child so he is a little banged up. He is missing a clip-on piece at the waist and the forklifts are so loose they wont stay up at the legs in robot mode...LOL. Does anybody have a picture of the grey chest version of spoon to compare to the new homage figure ???

Rated X wrote:Does anybody have a picture of the grey chest version of spoon to compare to the new homage figure ???

It was in the first post. http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Renegades/Spoons/spoons.htm

OmegaPrime98 wrote:it seems like everyone here knows who "spoons" is' could someone tell me who "spoons" is

Spoons was a member of the Renegade faction of Gobots toys.

Rated X wrote:Does anybody have a picture of the grey chest version of spoon to compare to the new homage figure ???

check out the auction i won earlier today.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0389490452

Anyone else recognizing the homage to the first movie game's forklift drones?

If this is called Autobot Scrapper, I will get it. Or is it a Decepticon? Decepticon Scrapper? I doubt it would be Decepticon Scrapper, becuase of the ROTF Devastator combiner...but maybe this is why they're not making a Voyager Scrapper...

EDIT: It's a Decepticon - that narrows the names down to Scrapper, Spoons, Liftor...

Still not interested in the figure (I don't do repaints or figures that weren't in the film) but that is a really cool homage.

That's obscure and awesome. Too bad the kids and casual collectors will have absolutely no idea why this figure's awesome.

We seriously need a really cool Go-Bot revival. And no, I'm not kidding.

I will lol so hard if it really is called Spoons. It wont be a hard selling toy if it is. Kids will be like:

"Mommy, spoons!"
"No, honey, those aren't spoons!"
"oh, o.k! la-lala-lala..."


or something...