Additional Images of TFC Toys Dino-Combiner: Robot Modes Revealed

Meh. I don't need my Dinobots to combine. I would rather see better robot and dino mold without having to sacrifice for the combiner functions.

So the tails have to be removed and set aside? That's disappointing, and makes these figures less attractive.

They are Waaaaay to small......They need to be upsized to at least the size the Hercules toys are at. I mean wtf?? Making merge groups so small is just dumb. It looks cool, but if there scout sized with a deluxe Grimlock, whats the point??? It wont sell very well.

Combined mode is looking pretty crappy and you have to remove the tails for robot mode.

gtfo of here.

SOLD! Unless whatever third party company charges unreasonable rape prices for this magnificent piece of work. Crossing fingers that it doesn't top....80...maybe 150 AT MOST!

Gorechyld wrote:SOLD! Unless whatever third party company charges unreasonable rape prices for this magnificent piece of work. Crossing fingers that it doesn't top....80...maybe 150 AT MOST!

hahaha, Not to be funny but its 5 bots, this thing will sell for closer to $200-400 from ANY 3rd party company.

--B-- wrote:Meh. I don't need my Dinobots to combine. I would rather see better robot and dino mold without having to sacrifice for the combiner functions.

Here's hoping for FOC figures.

(Hey, one can dream, right?)

EDIT: wrong acronym..

Swoop and Slag look good, Grimlock is mediocre, and as for Snarl and Sludge, scrap no! Neither of them are toy/cartoon-accurate enough for me. I get that they need to diverge a little so they don't have Hasbro on their afts, but I don'y like em'.

Looks good to me, just have to wait for a price though.

Not bad, but really awe-inspiring. Sacrifices to combine or not, unless Hasbro goes all out with FOC, this is probably going to be the closest to a decent dinobot team we're going to see in a while.

I don't mind the removable tales as a design choice all that much. It's clear they already mount on the combiner, so I'm hoping they either mount somewhere on the individual bots or can be wielded as shields. Another point of concern is the combiner feet apparently only having a peg to secure them.

My only real gripe is they stuck to the 5 bot style. Giving "the leader" body duty makes him suffer the most in scale and design. After the excellence (and hugeness) of Hercules, I would have preferred a 6th extra thing able to store the feet and become the waist so this guy could really measure up to Herc.

Speaking of which, this IS TFC, so why aren't there comparisons to Hercules?

I don't think I am going to be buying these guys. I don't think they look all that great so far and they are going to be silly-expensive.

Although, I think if they hook up a nice paint scheme my opinion might change.

I can't even tell which is Sludge or Slag from the robot mode. I'd buy them at Hasbro prices but not third party prices.

IDK, like the TFClub Devy, I'm just not feeling this. Maybe it's because having them as a combiner instead of individual bots forces their bot modes to be generic. I think the concept is nice, but I think I'd rather go for solo Dino's. Still, there is a market for this, but its just not for me.

Counterpunch wrote:Combined mode is looking pretty crappy and you have to remove the tails for robot mode.

gtfo of here.

These pictures do make him seem rather disappointing.

me like. me think hasbro not creative in making Dinobots.

amcgrath929 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Combined mode is looking pretty crappy and you have to remove the tails for robot mode.

gtfo of here.

These pictures do make him seem rather disappointing.

Same here. I'm just not feeling the love.

with all the effort into making dino combiners youd think someone would make an upgrade for classics devy as there are literally thousands of them out there whether theyre energon or the classics release.
now im starting to get combiner fatigue

allllllllll most there. i understand its still in development, but frenzyrumble set the bar pretty high for me. ill have to pass

are they planning on just keeping grimlocks head as the combiner head? kinda throws off the proportions. combined mode looks pretty good albeit kinda small(compared to herc). individual forms dont look good enough to buy it just to keep them in individual form. its still a prototype so heres hopin they can make some adjustments

I like that they combine.Feel that the combiner head is a bit small. Some complain but i like some changes here and there.Besides as others said you could just not combine them. I would like to see modern/classic take on the Stunticons and Menosor. Maybe Motormasters's trailer into a weapon station and then transform into the main body.

yeah swoop isn't bad, snarl is the next best of a bad bunch. the combined mode looks much better than the individual bots, but I wouldn't have bought this for the combined mode, so unless the coloured versions really kick ass, i'll not be sad to miss this lot.

must admit, that after looking at the pictures of the individual robots - i'm less than impressed with the individual robot modes.

yes this looked really impressive in its combined factor, but its individual components are less than satisfactory...i missed out on dino's the first time round....and unless Fall Of Cybertron delivers well on dinobots, I am deffinately missing out on this 3rd party offering

donnie_707 wrote:are they planning on just keeping grimlocks head as the combiner head? kinda throws off the proportions. combined mode looks pretty good albeit kinda small(compared to herc). individual forms dont look good enough to buy it just to keep them in individual form. its still a prototype so heres hopin they can make some adjustments

I noticed that too. I'm still on the fence on if I like it or not. Is the combined mode a new state or just a (PCC-style) tricked out Grimlock?

No thanks. Slag and Swoop look good in robot mode and all but Grimlock look really nice in dino mode. I don't like how all their tales are detachable. And please tell me that that is not the official place for the gestalt's feet when they're in alt-mode.

Here's a few more:

This set looks great! It retains a similiar transformation sequence as the original Dinobots plus let's them combine. In the community we here complaints of it not up-holding the G1-ness of a figure, guess what you have it right here and with a nice twist. I will be getting this set.

I was wondering where Swoops wings disappeared too. Now i know.

All that detachable kibble is quite bothersome to me. I don't like ANY of the individual bots either in alt or bot modes. The only thing i like about this figure is the combined mode.

I actually like what I'm seeing. Except for Grimlock; the proportions in robot mode seem off thanks to the combination gimmick.

I don't fault them for making the tails detachable. Classics Grimmy did that, as did other official TFs. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and think that there's some way to utilize them in robot mode.

Has anyone else noticed the crystal block under Grimlock in T-rex mode? He better be able to stand on his own.

Mkall wrote:Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...

Fair enough, that set is still my stand in. Honestly, it's my favorite set of combiner molds from Energon. They were just so much more solid than the others to me. You could also get the best range of motion from them with slight fiddling. I still love the set. That's why I'd love for FansProject to upgrade them. I'm fairly alone in that anymore. I'm looking forward to Giant but kits for that (on par with the Explorer and Munitioner) could be just as amazing to me.

Counterpunch wrote:Combined mode is looking pretty crappy and you have to remove the tails for robot mode.

gtfo of here.

I own nearly every combiner mold we've gotten in the states (Skipped ROTF Supreme Dev)and some we haven't. Only 6 of them are not parts-formers. RID Landfill, RID Railracer, BW Magnaboss, BW Tripredicus, ROTF Legends Dev and ROTF Supreme Dev. Not sure why removing parts would be daunting to you here. It's not an issue to me and I'd much rather remove giant pieces than have them hang off. Just a difference in taste I suppose. I'm liking the way this looks. I hope it turns out nicely. If not, well, no loss.

Unless hasbro doesnt make some Fall of Cybertron Dinobots,I'm actually looking forward to getting this. I guess that I gotta wait for a colored version and a revealed price before I make a decision.

But lets all pray for Fall of Cybertron Dinobots to be good so we dont have to spend so much on this

DOTMsoundwave wrote:Unless hasbro doesnt make some Fall of Cybertron Dinobots,I'm actually looking forward to getting this. I guess that I gotta wait for a colored version and a revealed price before I make a decision.

But lets all pray for Fall of Cybertron Dinobots to be good so we dont have to spend so much on this

Hasbro'll announce them right after this comes out.

Requiem Prime wrote:

DOTMsoundwave wrote:Unless hasbro doesnt make some Fall of Cybertron Dinobots,I'm actually looking forward to getting this. I guess that I gotta wait for a colored version and a revealed price before I make a decision.

But lets all pray for Fall of Cybertron Dinobots to be good so we dont have to spend so much on this

Hasbro'll announce them right after this comes out.

Fall of Cybertron? or these Dinobots?

This TFC 5 team of dinobots combiners SERIOUSLY needs some combiner gear. mainly this needs a gestalt combiner head & chest plate.

Thus far the tiny pin head & no gestalt chest plate make this TFC dinobots gestalt look un-finished & just weird looking.

Tidalwavex wrote:This TFC 5 team of dinobots combiners SERIOUSLY needs some combiner gear. mainly this needs a gestalt combiner head & chest plate.

Thus far the tiny pin head & no gestalt chest plate make this TFC dinobots gestalt look un-finished & just weird looking.

agreed. +1 on head and chest plate. chest looks like an electrical outlet lol. hopefully this is NOT the final product and they are still adding stuff to it.

User @FiguresToy at Weibo.com (Chinese version of Twitter) has posted the new prototype images of TFC Dino-Combiner. The new images showcased the Dinobots in individual robot and alternate modes as well as front and back view of combined mode.

No further details on the availability of these figures at this moment.



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I'm still interested, but I can feel this slipping off my radar.

Yeah, it's not bad... but I want more, especially after their Devastator.

Mach wrote:User @FiguresToy at Weibo.com (Chinese version of Twitter) has posted the new prototype images of TFC Dino-Combiner. The new images showcased the Dinobots in individual robot and alternate modes as well as front and back view of combined mode.

No further details on the availability of these figures at this moment.



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Are those the Infinity Warfare hands?

New full color images of TFC Toys Dino-combiner have surfaced on ACToys, and it seems they are not going for a G1 aesthetic. However, that should come as no surprise considering the original concept art for these figures didn't feature G1 colors either. The other combiner team in the images is another TFC Toys project based on the Star Cats Rescue Team cartoon, in other words not Transformers related, though they have hinted at a Denfensor-ish repaint of this team. A computer render of the Dino-comber's combined mode head has also been posted. Images mirrored below.

Someone having to hold up the T-Rex bot again...

The combined head render sucks too IMO.

I've lost all interest in this.

MASSIVE amounts of want here. be nice if it was better assembled for the second picturre though :/

SO MUCH WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope it the combiner aspect gets touched up a little or at least is shown with a proper transformation. I really like the head. Reminds me a bit of an undead, vicious Praetorian-style guardsmen with a lizard's face. Of course, that could be a lotta Dark Souls talking.

If I could buy it at retail, I'd jump. For 3rd party prices it needs to be really affordable for me to buy.

Looks cool, but it's flawed. Not that I could do better, but I'm being a lot pickier about what I buy now.

I'm not sure I'm liking these guys right now. If that's the final paint job, I'll definitely pass.........

With the colour combination on the Dinobots there, they remind me of Zords. Except, you know, with better articulation.

waiting for price, gotta finish Herc first.

With those colors, Grimlock sorta reminds me of Dino Tyranno from Dinozaurs.

Anyways, like most third party Dinobots I wouldn't really buy them unless they retool them into the Geisters from Exkaiser, mainly that Snarl, as he'd make a really cool Armor Geist.

I'm quite unimpressed with the colours. Incredibly bland. I'm quite partial to chrome on my dinobots. It just plain looks good. The colours they chose for those silly little accents are TERRIBLE. they just look very childish (oh the irony).

I don't know. They could do a lot better. They look especially bland in combined mode as well.