#Botcon2016 Transformers Collectors' Club:G2 Megatron and Masterpiece Ratbat
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Posted by Microraptor on April 10th, 2016 @ 3:20pm CDT
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Posted by Emerje on April 10th, 2016 @ 4:06pm CDT
Emerje
Posted by dragons on April 10th, 2016 @ 4:56pm CDT
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Posted by Rainmaker on April 10th, 2016 @ 9:15pm CDT
Posted by steals_your_goats on April 10th, 2016 @ 9:31pm CDT
Posted by Zeedust on April 10th, 2016 @ 10:25pm CDT
dragons wrote:Couldn't they pick better deluxe figure to be g2 megaton repaint that megaton figure never like ratbat is nice like how his wings are more poseable not stiff
That's not a Deluxe.
At first I was like...
But then I was like...
...Pardon the memes.
As for the Wheeljack mold? I think it might just be that the Dead End/Streetwise mold has seen nearly twice as much use, so it's kinda the Breakdown/Wheeljack mold's "turn".
Emerje wrote:As far as I'm concerned the only place for translucent plastic is lights and windows, nowhere else.
What about eyes? "Energy" weapons and/or projectiles?
Posted by Rainmaker on April 10th, 2016 @ 10:30pm CDT
Posted by RainyDayMan2k on April 10th, 2016 @ 11:25pm CDT
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on April 10th, 2016 @ 11:28pm CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:SLAG
Dude. A chill pill. Take one. Take ten.
Madre de Dios.
Posted by Rainmaker on April 11th, 2016 @ 12:02am CDT
Nemesis Maximo wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:SLAG
Dude. A chill pill. Take one. Take ten.
Madre de Dios.
Slagging slagging slaggers slagging telling me what to slagging do on a slagging monday slagging evening who do you slagging think you slagging are slagger.
But...the slagging G2 megs...
Posted by Emerje on April 11th, 2016 @ 12:05am CDT
Girl, apparently it's supposed to be Quickslinger. I actually thought it was Storm Cloud at first. TFWiki also says they're calling the medic Lifeline.
Good question, can't say I'm a big fan of that choice. He sure does grow a lot later on. The Energon Scorponok mold would have been the best choice, but probably too big for this set considering how many large figures are already in it. If they only did this figure because of the head sculpt then I'd rather they went for BotCon 2014 Canonball instead
Zeedust wrote:As for the Wheeljack mold? I think it might just be that the Dead End/Streetwise mold has seen nearly twice as much use, so it's kinda the Breakdown/Wheeljack mold's "turn".
I think it's really just a matter of the chest windows to look like the original figure. Mark my words, the mystery figure for 5.0 will be Punch using this same mold with a new head and the Breakdown chest if it fits in there.
Zeedust wrote:Emerje wrote:As far as I'm concerned the only place for translucent plastic is lights and windows, nowhere else.
What about eyes? "Energy" weapons and/or projectiles?
If it's a melee weapon like an axe or sword I'm fine with it, but no guns.
You have no idea how much I hate light piped eyes. I'll never understand why people would think it's a good idea to make half of a figure's head translucent just so they kinda look like they're glowing under direct light. I don't know why anyone would choose that over some well painted eyes that will look good all the time.
Emerje
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on April 11th, 2016 @ 1:16am CDT
Emerje wrote:You have no idea how much I hate light piped eyes. I'll never understand why people would think it's a good idea to make half of a figure's head translucent just so they kinda look like they're glowing under direct light. I don't know why anyone would choose that over some well painted eyes that will look good all the time.
Emerje
I hate light piped eyes too. It's so rare to get it working well without rendering the rest of the head in a sillouhette and the rest of the time you just end up with a nice looking figure with black-looking dead eyes and yeah I hate having the back of the head transparent in that eye colour too. I tend to open up the heads, paint the translucent eye section whatever colour is most suitable (like light blue on my Gen Springer) then paint the back of the head it should be (green on Springer obviously) and it just looks so much better with nice bright blue eyes and a more complete looking head. It really is something I absolutely loathe about modern Transformers cos so many otherwise great figures have that damn thing.
Posted by Zeedust on April 11th, 2016 @ 1:24am CDT
Posted by First Gen on April 11th, 2016 @ 9:20am CDT
RiddlerJ wrote:What does Ratbat have to do with Cobra?
Lol dude you're funny. Quit messing with the new joins.
Posted by VioMeTriX on April 11th, 2016 @ 9:36am CDT
First Gen wrote:RiddlerJ wrote:What does Ratbat have to do with Cobra?
Lol dude you're funny. Quit messing with the new joins.
well I think turning a masterpiece figure into any other run of the mill transformer is a crime.
Posted by Optimizzy on April 11th, 2016 @ 9:46am CDT
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Posted by Hero Alpha on April 11th, 2016 @ 3:44pm CDT
Posted by Counterpunch on April 11th, 2016 @ 7:52pm CDT
Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 12th, 2016 @ 4:53pm CDT
Counterpunch wrote:Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
Did they elaborate on that? I want him to be perfect for when hell freezes over
Posted by Sabrblade on April 12th, 2016 @ 5:01pm CDT
It was because the factory had the ball joint on the back of the head covered instead of exposed. It needs to be exposed in order for the new head to fold down into the body for the jet mode, otherwise the covered version blocks the ball joint from moving in the direction it needs to move in order for the transformation of the head to work.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Counterpunch wrote:Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
Did they elaborate on that? I want him to be perfect for when hell freezes over
Posted by Zeedust on April 12th, 2016 @ 8:34pm CDT
Counterpunch wrote:Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
How about the FSS? When is it expected to ship, and is it getting pushed back so that Ramjet can ship first or anything like that?
Posted by Counterpunch on April 13th, 2016 @ 10:03am CDT
Zeedust wrote:Counterpunch wrote:Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
How about the FSS? When is it expected to ship, and is it getting pushed back so that Ramjet can ship first or anything like that?
They did not say specifically, only that it shipped with the Botcon figures. I'm guessing it will start once they get back into the office following Botcon.
Posted by Hero Alpha on April 13th, 2016 @ 11:12am CDT
Counterpunch wrote:Moonshot wrote:Any word on when Ramjet will ship out yet?
At least a month. There were significant issues with the head construction on the sample.
I hope they stick with the wide open mouth, black background with the orange coloured "glowing" spots in it. Like the comic and concept art.
Posted by Zeedust on April 13th, 2016 @ 8:19pm CDT
Counterpunch wrote:Zeedust wrote:How about the FSS? When is it expected to ship, and is it getting pushed back so that Ramjet can ship first or anything like that?
They did not say specifically, only that it shipped with the Botcon figures. I'm guessing it will start once they get back into the office following Botcon.
Thank you. That tells me what I wanted to know.
Posted by TF_JW on April 14th, 2016 @ 9:44am CDT
The G.I. Joe Crossover set is meant to tell the story of the creation of Generation 2 Megatron - Cobra Commander holds the injured G1 Megatron in gun mode. He's working with Dr. Biggles-Jones to build her rail gun into the final holographic robot schematics. Scarlett is there as security/covert operations for the Joes (How Cobra actually thought she defected never really made any sense, but anyway...). Ratbat is a new addition to the story, his part to play is as a Decepticon negotiator with Cobra. Supplying Cobra Commander with the necessary Cybertronian blueprints to build G2 Megatron.
Posted by steals_your_goats on April 14th, 2016 @ 10:37am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 15th, 2016 @ 8:37pm CDT
steals_your_goats wrote:That's actually pretty cool about counterpunch's head, I wonder what other unused heads are out there.
At least 6, if we go by the "2 heads per shell" rule: Brawl, Rook, Silverbolt, Hot Spot, Motormaster and Cyclonus never had their alternate heads discovered via either prototypes, Fun Pub or TakaraTomy.
Posted by TF_JW on April 15th, 2016 @ 9:19pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 15th, 2016 @ 9:52pm CDT
TF_JW wrote:Toxitron uses the alternate head for Motormaster.
Interesting. Any other alternate heads that you guys are using we don't know about? Who was he supposed to be, anyway? Nemesis Prime?
Posted by Sabrblade on April 15th, 2016 @ 10:12pm CDT
I'm told that the TFSS Toxitron was originally going to be made into Nemesis Prime, but then Takara went ahead and did Grand Scourge out of the regular Optimus version, which made the Club's plans for Nemesis redundant, so they changed their planned Nemesis into Toxitron.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:TF_JW wrote:Toxitron uses the alternate head for Motormaster.
Interesting. Any other alternate heads that you guys are using we don't know about? Who was he supposed to be, anyway? Nemesis Prime?
Posted by Zeedust on April 15th, 2016 @ 10:32pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:That's actually pretty cool about counterpunch's head, I wonder what other unused heads are out there.
At least 6, if we go by the "2 heads per shell" rule: Brawl, Rook, Silverbolt, Hot Spot, Motormaster and Cyclonus never had their alternate heads discovered via either prototypes, Fun Pub or TakaraTomy.
We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 15th, 2016 @ 10:42pm CDT
Considering his head is the space shuttle cockpit and nose...Zeedust wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:That's actually pretty cool about counterpunch's head, I wonder what other unused heads are out there.
At least 6, if we go by the "2 heads per shell" rule: Brawl, Rook, Silverbolt, Hot Spot, Motormaster and Cyclonus never had their alternate heads discovered via either prototypes, Fun Pub or TakaraTomy.
We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Posted by Psychography on April 15th, 2016 @ 10:46pm CDT
Zeedust wrote:We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Liokaiser?
Also, Armada Demolishor was seen for Onslaught / Hot Spot.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on April 15th, 2016 @ 11:13pm CDT
Psychography wrote:Zeedust wrote:We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Also, Armada Demolishor was seen for Onslaught / Hot Spot.
Yes, but it was confirmed to be unused, it didn't make much sense...
Posted by Va'al on April 16th, 2016 @ 8:38am CDT
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Posted by Mkall on April 16th, 2016 @ 11:30am CDT
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Posted by Zeedust on April 17th, 2016 @ 10:54pm CDT
Psychography wrote:Zeedust wrote:We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Liokaiser?
I thought we were talking about individual robot heads rather than combiner heads. Sky Lynx's robot head would probably be hard to do anything with, given that it's part of his vehicle mode and there's nobody else who really looks like him, so I don't think that part's likely to change.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 17th, 2016 @ 11:40pm CDT
Zeedust wrote:Psychography wrote:Zeedust wrote:We also haven't seen one for Sky Lynx, but in his case I'm guessing there just isn't one.
Liokaiser?
I thought we were talking about individual robot heads rather than combiner heads. Sky Lynx's robot head would probably be hard to do anything with, given that it's part of his vehicle mode and there's nobody else who really looks like him, so I don't think that part's likely to change.
So the feline head is the more likely one to be switched out.
Posted by william-james88 on April 19th, 2016 @ 1:42pm CDT
The Club magazine arrived today, and they have a spread on the 6 TFSS 5.0 figures.
Notable bits include:
-Registration for 5.0 supposedly opens this week
-The Paradron Medic is called 'Lifeline'
-Toxitron, Fractyl, and Counterpunch are all designated 'Wreckers' and seem intended to combine
There's a bio for Lifeline (and TFSS 4.0 Impactor) towards the end of the magazine, I've included a shot of that as well.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on April 19th, 2016 @ 1:46pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on April 19th, 2016 @ 1:50pm CDT
Posted by RevTibe on April 19th, 2016 @ 1:52pm CDT
I think it's a callback to Beast War-era convention Wrecker fiction, which had a Wreckers team featuring 'bots, 'cons, Maximals and Predacons. Notably, Fractyl was one of those Wreckers.Hellscream9999 wrote:So Wreckers are a mix of and now? That seems a little weird, so who's stuff do they wreck now since they're comprised of a mix of allegiances?
The linked Impactor bio mentions he's rebuilding a Wreckers team from any survivor he can find - I assume he'll be leading this mixed Wrecker combiner.
Posted by G.B. Blackrock on April 19th, 2016 @ 1:53pm CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:So Wreckers are a mix of and now? That seems a little weird, so who's stuff do they wreck now since they're comprised of a mix of allegiances?
3H-era Wreckers were a mix of factions... And I think Carnivac even joined their ranks in the UK comic.
So having Deceptions on the Wreckers is just continuing the long tradition.
(EDIT: The bio referencing "Survivors" seems to be a decided nod to the UK stuff)