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Mindmaster wrote:Ratchet... that orange sherbert and weapon just doesn't work on him. Great, now I want orange sherbert.

As much as I don't want to defend that AWFUL retool, look at the drill...now paint most of it gold. They missed a prime chance at another Gurren Lagann homage with that one.

RAcast wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Ratchet... that orange sherbert and weapon just doesn't work on him. Great, now I want orange sherbert.

As much as I don't want to defend that AWFUL retool, look at the drill...now paint most of it gold. They missed a prime chance at another Gurren Lagann homage with that one.

Instead, we get two Beast Wars Dinobot homages in one (regular Dinobot and Transmetal 2 Dinobot).

Sabrblade wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Ratchet... that orange sherbert and weapon just doesn't work on him. Great, now I want orange sherbert.

As much as I don't want to defend that AWFUL retool, look at the drill...now paint most of it gold. They missed a prime chance at another Gurren Lagann homage with that one.

Instead, we get two Beast Wars Dinobot homages in one (regular Dinobot and Transmetal 2 Dinobot).

The weapon (regular Beast Wars Dinobot) and the head (Beast Wars Dinobot II), if there's no one who gets it.

I noticed, just didn't feel like pointing out.

As I look at Ratchet more and more, this thought comes to me: you know what he really looks like to me?



Not sure why the first Ratchet mold doesn't remind me of Team Fortress 2's the Medic, but Beast Hunters does.

Mindmaster wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Ratchet... that orange sherbert and weapon just doesn't work on him. Great, now I want orange sherbert.

As much as I don't want to defend that AWFUL retool, look at the drill...now paint most of it gold. They missed a prime chance at another Gurren Lagann homage with that one.

Instead, we get two Beast Wars Dinobot homages in one (regular Dinobot and Transmetal 2 Dinobot).

The weapon (regular Beast Wars Dinobot) and the head (Beast Wars Dinobot II), if there's no one who gets it.

I noticed, just didn't feel like pointing out.

As I look at Ratchet more and more, this thought comes to me: you know what he really looks like to me?



Not sure why the first Ratchet mold doesn't remind me of Team Fortress 2's the Medic, but Beast Hunters does.

The homage could have been done REALLY well, it truly could have. But instead of making the character Dinobot/II, they tried to make it...RatchetBot one-and-a-half.

Didn't I see Dreadwing in Galaxy Quest?

No side-by-side pics with Beast Wars Dinobot in the galleries ?

Sabrblade wrote:

RAcast wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Ratchet... that orange sherbert and weapon just doesn't work on him. Great, now I want orange sherbert.

As much as I don't want to defend that AWFUL retool, look at the drill...now paint most of it gold. They missed a prime chance at another Gurren Lagann homage with that one.

Instead, we get two Beast Wars Dinobot homages in one (regular Dinobot and Transmetal 2 Dinobot).

Not to mention the Beast Machines Silverbolt nods with Dreadwing. Here's hoping to some fun repaints later down the road.

Seibertron wrote:Not to mention the Beast Machines Silverbolt nods with Dreadwing.

Didn't know that one.

xyl360 wrote:No side-by-side pics with Beast Wars Dinobot in the galleries ?

Unfortunately no. I'm unable to do all of the homages and comparison pics while I'm behind on galleries right now. Now that I've got the latest Beast Hunters galleries all set, I'll move onto the latest Beast Hunters Cyberverse galleries next (most notably Abominus!) as well as finishing up TFP RID Dreadwing, Skyquake, Ultra Magnus, AM Ultra Magnus, Thundertron, Leo Prime, Cyberverse Ultra Magnus and Cyberverse Skyquake.

Plus I've got the Beast Wars Dinobots in my storage unit at the moment.

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Not to mention the Beast Machines Silverbolt nods with Dreadwing.

Didn't know that one.

His character model would show the feet and the "wings" nod better than the poorly executed toy will. Anyone have a good character model of Beast Machines Silverbolt handy?

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Not to mention the Beast Machines Silverbolt nods with Dreadwing.

Didn't know that one.

His character model would show the feet and the "wings" nod better than the poorly executed toy will. Anyone have a good character model of Beast Machines Silverbolt handy?

W-why would you do this to us? Cannot be unseeeeeeen!

Still don't quite see it, since Silverbolt's feet are tiny and his "wings" are more like little feathers.

Here's some fan art of a better pose.

There's elements of Beast Machines Jetstorm in there too, obviously.







Which kind of makes me wish we'd gotten a Waspinator/Thrust and Rhinox/Tankor homage too. It would have made for an interesting trio.



My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'

Okay, that is totally getting sig'd.

Though the instructions don't show this, the obvious best places for the shoulder guards are like in this picture. Bravo, Seibertron!


One complaint, though. I dislike how simple the transformations have become in some of the Beast Hunters line. We don't need movie-verse/alternators. But, I'd like to have a cool looking F35 that doesn't have the feet and arms so visible. I can understand and accept such stuff in the Cyberverse molds. But, can we have some clever transformations that don't look like a robot hanging under a set of wings? Soundwave and the First Editions were some of the best recently, in my opinion.

Ratchet is by far the best of the bunch. The custom paint possibilities that could make this figure look amazing are almost limitless with all that awesome detail this mold has.
I said before and i'll say it again. I really do think for me that Ratchet has the best bot mode in the entire line.
However i did see the Takara Shockwave at my local nerd store today and he looks pretty rad too.....but i still feel ratchet is the classiest of em all. Even in the beast armour. Which oddly enough isn't at all beast themed (accept for the dinobot homage gun and colour scheme). His armour looks more tech than the rest and not as goofy.

Sabrblade wrote:Still don't quite see it, since Silverbolt's feet are tiny and his "wings" are more like little feathers.

Oh k ...

They both have clawed feet and a unique "wing" design that is very similar. It's as much a nod as any of the other stretches people are making to connect these to Beast Wars figures. I'm just saying that with a different head, that Dreadwing could make a decent Beast Machines Silverbolt for BotCon, or the Club or something.

I didn't expect to, but I like all three. The Dinobot-thing on Ratchet sorta works IMO.

Having gone over the thread, I'm actually seeing hints of BM Silverbolt and BM Jetstorm in Dreadwing. And is it just me, or does his weapon resemble that of Silverbolt's toy? You know, the wing axe?

Ratchet... Don't like the colors on him. And why the Dinobot homage on this guy? Any specific reason?

And I still like Skystalker's simplicity. Reminds me of Energon Cruellock.

I'm painting all of Skystalker's yellow bits white and turning him into my Prime Backbite.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ratchet... Don't like the colors on him. And why the Dinobot homage on this guy? Any specific reason?

Because they probably wanted to throw us Beast Wars fans a bone.

It kind of worked...
NO! I do not want that thing!

Here's a pic demonstrating the 7 visual cues that say that Dreadwing would make a great Beast Machines Silverbolt homage repaint/remold at some point ...

Seibertron wrote:Here's a pic demonstrating the 7 visual cues that say that Dreadwing would make a great Beast Machines Silverbolt homage repaint/remold at some point ...

Wasn't one horrible figure of BM Silverbolt bad enough?

Strange way to homage the Beast Era.

RAcast wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Here's a pic demonstrating the 7 visual cues that say that Dreadwing would make a great Beast Machines Silverbolt homage repaint/remold at some point ...

Wasn't one horrible figure of BM Silverbolt bad enough?

That's the Japanese version, here's the original US one:

Noideaforaname wrote:Strange way to homage the Beast Era.

Quite strange, indeed.