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Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia

Transformers News: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia

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Back in 2013, artist Emiliano Santalucia was working on concept art for the then yet to be announced Transformers: Generations Combiner Wars line. The piece he shared today on his Facebook page is one of those, featuring some very interesting takes not only on the figures we then got, such as Menasor, Superion, Alpha Trion, Ultra Magnus and more, but also on Transformers lore in general! Check out the image below, showing multiple faction symbols from multiple generations of Transformers fiction, along with Quintessons, Masterpiece Shockwave and Sideswipe and more!

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Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1884980)
Posted by Cobotron on May 29th, 2017 @ 5:08pm CDT
WONDERFUL! :APPLAUSE:
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885008)
Posted by Zeedust on May 29th, 2017 @ 7:17pm CDT
There's some faction symbols on those flags that I never expected to see again. Though I suppose since this picture is from 2013, it pre-dates the point that I never expected to see them after.

It's an odd effect. The battle is pure 80's guys with their 80's look, but above this throwback, Alpha Trion sits, in his new and vastly different Titans Return body, surrounded by sigils that have come and gone over the course of the franchise. It's like one picture using another, vert different picture as a frame. It's not a bad picture, it's just... a little strange.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885042)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 29th, 2017 @ 10:31pm CDT
Looks like Alpha Trion's the only one whose design is directly affiliated with a recent toy.

Everyone else looks like, well, Dreamwave G1.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885050)
Posted by Towline on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:14am CDT
What Alpha Bravo is a background charecter and not a part of Superion While Off Road isn't even a part of Menesor. No Rook, No Jet mode Blast Off.
NOOO combiner wars is ruined. :michaelbay:
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885065)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 4:24am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else looks like, well, Dreamwave G1.

Well that's just mean. The characters have correct proportions and there's an actual background :lol:
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885077)
Posted by Hydrargyrus on May 30th, 2017 @ 6:58am CDT
Umm... why is Sky Lynx so menacing?
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885112)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 9:56am CDT
Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else looks like, well, Dreamwave G1.

Well that's just mean. The characters have correct proportions and there's an actual background :lol:


As someone who actually liked DW I take it as a compliment...Oh what could have been...This one drawing alone is better than that awful Machinima series that was released.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885123)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:06am CDT
o.supreme wrote:
Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else looks like, well, Dreamwave G1.

Well that's just mean. The characters have correct proportions and there's an actual background :lol:


As someone who actually liked DW I take it as a compliment...Oh what could have been...This one drawing alone is better than that awful Machinima series that was released.
I mean, like, Superion, there, looks like he stepped right off the page of his Dreamwave MTMTE profile:

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Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885125)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:10am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Everyone else looks like, well, Dreamwave G1.

Well that's just mean. The characters have correct proportions and there's an actual background :lol:


As someone who actually liked DW I take it as a compliment...Oh what could have been...This one drawing alone is better than that awful Machinima series that was released.
I mean, like, Superion, there, looks like he stepped right off the page of his Dreamwave MTMTE profile:

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Aw c'mon man, I just got finished with all of Dreamwave's stuff; don't make me look at the artwork again :lol:
Still, I do get what you mean. Hyper-accurate to the original toys and such. Thankfully this looks way better than whatever War and Peace was supposed to be.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885130)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:17am CDT
For years I've wanted updated profile books for characters that have not been done, especially for Original Series Japanese Transformers. I know a lot of fans would rather have an updated profile books with personalities more conforming to IDW, but I'd rather get something we haven't seen before than just an update to appease fans of the personalities constructed by IDW.

The MTMTE series done by Dreamwave was a really nice update to what was done by the Marvel 4-issue Transformers Universe series back in 1986. Armada MTMTE was pretty good too, as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW. I would like to see more Profile/Sourcebook from other series, and the remaining original series characters that never got one.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885131)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:20am CDT
o.supreme wrote:as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW.
Including all of its errors, lies, contradictions, and selective bad artwork?
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885133)
Posted by william-james88 on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:23am CDT
Kurona wrote:Aw c'mon man, I just got finished with all of Dreamwave's stuff; don't make me look at the artwork again :lol:



:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

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Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885136)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:32am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW.
Including all of its errors, lies, contradictions, and selective bad artwork?


Like I said it was pretty good, not perfect. Besides, I've never read any 3P fiction, so I have no idea what's -what in BW anymore. I haven't read Gathering or Ascending since their original release. I tend to stick to what was in BW the animated series, BWII, and BW Neo -Botcon & club fiction I haven't really read, or even consider.

Also I've never understood all the hate DW gets. Yes Pat Lee is a criminal, we all get that, but The Transformers ongoing they had, as short-lived as it was, was for me, by far the most entertaining and excited I have ever been for Transformers in Print. It figures, the one story I actually fully invest myself in gets cancelled....
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885138)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:35am CDT
william-james88 wrote:
Kurona wrote:Aw c'mon man, I just got finished with all of Dreamwave's stuff; don't make me look at the artwork again :lol:



:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

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I can physically feel my soul trying to tear itself from this mortal plane. Thank god CW Devastator doesn't look like this monstrosity; there's better proportions and sense of art direction in the friggin' G1 Boxart.

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The worst part is? That's a joke, but I looked at the picture I just linked again and I think it's actually true. I feel like crawling into my grave 70 years early.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885141)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:41am CDT
o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW.
Including all of its errors, lies, contradictions, and selective bad artwork?


Like I said it was pretty good, not perfect. Besides, I've never read any 3P fiction, so I have no idea what's -what in BW anymore. I haven't read Gathering or Ascending since their original release. I tend to stick to what was in BW the animated series, BWII, and BW Neo -Botcon & club fiction I haven't really read, or even consider.
BotCon and Club fiction is barely a blip on the radar of the Sourcebook's inaccuracies and failings. The Sourcebook deliberately set out to trample all over the source material of BWII and Neo by completely rewriting nearly all of those series' characters from the ground up, willfully ignoring the Japanese characters' cartoon portrayals/personalities and instead making up near-entirely new ones that went against how all those characters originally were. In other words, virtually every single one of the Sourcebook's profile entries on the Japanese BW characters was a lie.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885144)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 11:48am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW.
Including all of its errors, lies, contradictions, and selective bad artwork?


Like I said it was pretty good, not perfect. Besides, I've never read any 3P fiction, so I have no idea what's -what in BW anymore. I haven't read Gathering or Ascending since their original release. I tend to stick to what was in BW the animated series, BWII, and BW Neo -Botcon & club fiction I haven't really read, or even consider.
BotCon and Club fiction is barely a blip on the radar of the Sourcebook's inaccuracies and failings. The Sourcebook deliberately set out to trample all over the source material of BWII and Neo by completely rewriting nearly all of those series' characters from the ground up, willfully ignoring the Japanese characters' cartoon portrayals/personalities and instead making up near-entirely new ones that went against how all those characters originally were. In other words, virtually every single one of the Sourcebook's profile entries on the Japanese BW characters was a lie.

To an extent though that does make sense. Even if we ignore cultural differences in regards to plot and character and how character portrayals have historically varied wildly in different material in Transformers (Cartoon Blaster vs. Marvel Blaster; Headmasters Chromedome vs Rebirth Chromedome), you've got the fact IDW was coming out with their own new Beast Wars comics that followed their own continuity coming out as well as the fact that Japan's G1 continuity by then had grown to be veeery different to Hasbro's. If you're going to include the Japanese-original characters in this context, they're likely going to have to be rewritten to some extent. I think calling it a 'lie' is a bit dramatic when we have much greater examples of characters differing depending on the source material.
And that's even before we get to the fact there are no official dubs or subs for Takara's original BW series. The book's error-ridden and has choices that border on the bizarre, that much is true, but calling new characterisation for imported characters that have to be made to work in a new continuity especially when this franchise has practically made differing characterisation tradition is something I highly disagree with.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885149)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:00pm CDT
^I kind of get it. I can see both sides of the argument. Of course my 10 year old self was writing letters to Marvel Comics Transmissions any time the characters portrayals were counter to the animated series, amazingly none of my letters were ever published LOL! But it is an opinion I still hold to this day, but I've come to accept that unlike most heroes who have an established comic-book origin, and animated series which followed after, The Transformers will always have "dueling origins" between animation and comics, neither of which is more legitimate than the other since they started at pretty much the same time. (I know the first issue of the comic came out in may 84, and the first episode of the series aired in Sept, but when you consider production time is much longer for animation than print, you can easily understand both mediums were developing around the same time)
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885154)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:06pm CDT
It's always frustrated me as well. While I can easily understand dueling origins like Blaster and Ratbat and Fortress Maximus - all of which later re-interpretations try to reconcile - I always hold to the idea of "why use the character and/or name if they're gonna be a completely different character". Armada Blurr, Movie Bonecrusher, TFP Smokescreen; a billion other examples. None of these are necessarily bad characters - tell a lie, no movie character is good - but it just confuses me why they have these particular names attached to them if they're not supposed to be a new version of the character(s) previously called that.
Still, once I get past it, I can finally just look at it from a pure story and character perspective and not care.

Smokescreen should have been red and yellow with a spoiler and called Hot Rod. He is so clearly a Hot Rod how did they miss that


REGARDLESS, Combiner Wars thread! Not the let's-debate-about-Dreamwave-and-sourcebooks-and-characterisation thread! Let's get back on topic before Burn hires a hitman.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885155)
Posted by william-james88 on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:06pm CDT
I thoguht that G1 box art looked pretty good
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885157)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:09pm CDT
Kurona wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:as was The Beast Wars Sourcebook from IDW.
Including all of its errors, lies, contradictions, and selective bad artwork?


Like I said it was pretty good, not perfect. Besides, I've never read any 3P fiction, so I have no idea what's -what in BW anymore. I haven't read Gathering or Ascending since their original release. I tend to stick to what was in BW the animated series, BWII, and BW Neo -Botcon & club fiction I haven't really read, or even consider.
BotCon and Club fiction is barely a blip on the radar of the Sourcebook's inaccuracies and failings. The Sourcebook deliberately set out to trample all over the source material of BWII and Neo by completely rewriting nearly all of those series' characters from the ground up, willfully ignoring the Japanese characters' cartoon portrayals/personalities and instead making up near-entirely new ones that went against how all those characters originally were. In other words, virtually every single one of the Sourcebook's profile entries on the Japanese BW characters was a lie.

To an extent though that does make sense. Even if we ignore cultural differences in regards to plot and character and how character portrayals have historically varied wildly in different material in Transformers (Cartoon Blaster vs. Marvel Blaster; Headmasters Chromedome vs Rebirth Chromedome), you've got the fact IDW was coming out with their own new Beast Wars comics that followed their own continuity coming out as well as the fact that Japan's G1 continuity by then had grown to be veeery different to Hasbro's. If you're going to include the Japanese-original characters in this context, they're likely going to have to be rewritten to some extent. I think calling it a 'lie' is a bit dramatic when we have much greater examples of characters differing depending on the source material.
And that's even before we get to the fact there are no official dubs or subs for Takara's original BW series. The book's error-ridden and has choices that border on the bizarre, that much is true, but calling new characterisation for imported characters that have to be made to work in a new continuity especially when this franchise has practically made differing characterisation tradition is something I highly disagree with.
Think of this way. Those books didn't just serve as a representation of the continuity that was created for The Gathering and The Ascending, but also served as a means to introduce all of the characters formally to the average layman who was unfamiliar with all of the characters, both American and Japanese, of the Beast Era. And instead of presenting each of the characters in a fashion that was true and respectful towards their original depictions that had been set in stone and in effect for nearly a decade at the time, they instead made several arbitrary changes to many of the Japanese characters for little good reason at all.

I get that they wanted to tone down the inherent goofiness of the Japanese series to better fit the tone of the American BW cartoon, but there was literally no reason to invert several characters' personalities into being the opposite of who they were (i.e. - making the cowardly Diver brave and fearless, the fiercely loyal Guiledart distrustful and scheming, the dimwitted and humorously bad swordsman Hardhead into an intelligent leader-type and master swordsman, the grumpy psycho loner Mantis into a super happy "friend-to-all" type, or the lighthearted and fun Moon all grim and humorless).
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885161)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:15pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:I thoguht that G1 box art looked pretty good

I kinda like it too, but its charm does come from the very odd and off proportions and body movement. It's not quite right but in a way that's very appealing?


Anywho, toys! What's the best Legends class from this line in you guys' opinion? Excluding Shockwave, he wins by default.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885162)
Posted by DedicatedGhostArt on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:15pm CDT
Personally, I think the combiners pictured there look better than the CW toys. Especially Menasor. This makes me so sad.

Also, was this done way before TR? Cuz that Alpha Trion looks surprisingly accurate to the toy! :shock:

Also, Burn hires HITMEN? :shock: :shock: :shock:

:lol:

Kurona wrote:
Anywho, toys! What's the best Legends class from this line in you guys' opinion? Excluding Shockwave, he wins by default.


I only have Warpath and Huffer because Minibots, and I like both of those. Not sure at this point which I like better though because both are fun for different reasons. They work well though even with some of their G1 cues missing. ;)^
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885164)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:17pm CDT
SillyMcGilly wrote:Also, was this done way before TR? Cuz that Alpha Trion looks surprisingly accurate to the toy! :shock:
Yeah, that Alpha Trion design was done ahead of TR. It was adapted into the toy design later.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885165)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:18pm CDT
SillyMcGilly wrote:Personally, I think the combiners pictured there look better than the CW toys. Especially Menasor. This makes me so sad.

Also, was this done way before TR? Cuz that Alpha Trion looks surprisingly accurate to the toy! :shock:

Also, Burn hires HITMEN? :shock: :shock: :shock:

:lol:

Well, aside from these toylines being planned way in advance; do recall that TR Alpha Trion and Galvatron were originally based on designs not intended for Titans Return. So if the use of the G1 bodies for the Combiners here is because the CW designs hadn't been made yet... that could very possibly indicate that the designs used for TR Alpha Trion and Galvatron predate not just TR, but Prime Wars entirely.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885168)
Posted by DedicatedGhostArt on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:20pm CDT
Kurona wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:Personally, I think the combiners pictured there look better than the CW toys. Especially Menasor. This makes me so sad.

Also, was this done way before TR? Cuz that Alpha Trion looks surprisingly accurate to the toy! :shock:

Also, Burn hires HITMEN? :shock: :shock: :shock:

:lol:

Well, aside from these toylines being planned way in advance; do recall that TR Alpha Trion and Galvatron were originally based on designs not intended for Titans Return. So if the use of the G1 bodies for the Combiners here is because the CW designs hadn't been made yet... that could very possibly indicate that the designs used for TR Alpha Trion and Galvatron predate not just TR, but Prime Wars entirely.


That is incredible, and now I am getting all tempted by that toy again even though the alt modes suck! :-x

Oh yeah, Combiner Wars.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885171)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:22pm CDT
I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....


Anyway...favorite Legends Class....Since I only have ones that interact with Combiners, its probably the Black-Jack/Rodimus design.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885175)
Posted by Cobotron on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:24pm CDT
Burn sent me.
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Actually I'm just glad this thread still has some life left in it.

I don't envy you fiction bangers. It's a hard job trying to string together a continuity where one barely exists.

Yes, Silly. that art is conceptual art for Combiner Wars. Simply meant to be a color piece to inspire the designers. I find it interesting too that Trion is in that form. Goes to show how long that design has been on the table.
I'm sure the illustrator who did this work had to pull reference from where ever they could. Remember, not all artists hired to do TF work are TF super fans.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885178)
Posted by Cobotron on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:32pm CDT
Oh! And my favorite CW Legends is hands down Huffer. That mold makes a better/sexier Huffer than Prime.
Powerglide comes in a fast second. They nailed it with that design, and he's a fun figure.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885180)
Posted by o.supreme on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:38pm CDT
Cobotron wrote:Powerglide comes in a fast second. They nailed it with that design, and he's a fun figure.


I would have said Powerglide, but, maybe its just a flaw with mine, but the back part wont stay together in plane or gun mode. Viper doesn't have a problem, and I haven't taken my TT Dogfight out of its package yet, though I will eventually.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885183)
Posted by Cobotron on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:42pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:
Cobotron wrote:Powerglide comes in a fast second. They nailed it with that design, and he's a fun figure.


I would have said Powerglide, but, maybe its just a flaw with mine, but the back part wont stay together in plane or gun mode. Viper doesn't have a problem, and I haven't taken my TT Dogfight out of its package yet, though I will eventually.
Yeah, mine does too, but he's so cool I'm willing to look past it/live with it.

You know, Blackjack is pretty dang sweet too. It's hard to pick a best. The Legends class has been killing it pretty much since T30 up to now.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885186)
Posted by DedicatedGhostArt on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:44pm CDT
Cobotron wrote:Oh! And my favorite CW Legends is hands down Huffer. That mold makes a better/sexier Huffer than Prime.
Powerglide comes in a fast second. They nailed it with that design, and he's a fun figure.


Yay! Your fave is one of the ones I have! :-P

And Powerglide is a definite want. Kinda hard to get sometimes when I go TF hunting though. I love collecting Legends scale Minibots.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885188)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:50pm CDT
o.supreme wrote:I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....
Maybe it's SG Alpha Trion. ;)
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885190)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:51pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....
Maybe it's SG Alpha Trion. ;)
I think you said this before, but remind me: didn't the TR A3 design get used as SG Alpha Trion? I remember you saying that somewhere
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885192)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:53pm CDT
For me personally it is a hard one - I kinda backed myself into a corner - but I think I'd have to go with Rust Dust. It was down to her and Groove; very close competition but I eventually decided I preferred Rust Dust's deco. Beautiful figure with a lot of personality, and it manages to do the best job at reviving the Breastforce :saint:
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Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:54pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....
Maybe it's SG Alpha Trion. ;)
I think you said this before, but remind me: didn't the TR A3 design get used as SG Alpha Trion? I remember you saying that somewhere
Yep. TR A3 did get repurposed as a new upgraded form of SG A3.
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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:55pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....
Maybe it's SG Alpha Trion. ;)
I think you said this before, but remind me: didn't the TR A3 design get used as SG Alpha Trion? I remember you saying that somewhere
Yep. TR A3 did get repurposed as a new upgraded form of SG A3.
Same colors?

also, who was TR Overboard repurposed as in SG?
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885200)
Posted by DedicatedGhostArt on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:59pm CDT
Kurona wrote:...Beautiful figure with a lot of personality, and it manages to do the best job at reviving the Breastforce :saint:


I still can't get over how lesbian that sounds.

Um, yay! Rust Dust for the win! Man Vicky and G2 Superion are probably the two box sets I want most. Not sure which I'd get! Superion is nostalgic and has an amazing color scheme, and the other option is a bunch of girlfriends! Okay not really, but still...
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Posted by Sabrblade on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:59pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
o.supreme wrote:I know its also just concept art, but it seems odd to see A3 sitting like Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat just watching an arena of chaos down below him, with a Quintesson on his right to boot!...Maybe this was a more ominous character, whos design was used as an upgrade to Alpha Trion...I don't know, just thinking....
Maybe it's SG Alpha Trion. ;)
I think you said this before, but remind me: didn't the TR A3 design get used as SG Alpha Trion? I remember you saying that somewhere
Yep. TR A3 did get repurposed as a new upgraded form of SG A3.
Same colors?
That's what makes it a repurposing. ;)

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:also, who was TR Overboard repurposed as in SG?
SG Squeezplay.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885203)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 1:02pm CDT
SillyMcGilly wrote:and the other option is a bunch of girlfriends! Okay not really, but still...

Actually...

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Jumpstream and Dustup were confirmed as the first official WLW couple in Transformers in the recent IDW annual :)
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Posted by Sarahthecutevixen on May 30th, 2017 @ 2:55pm CDT
Kurona wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:and the other option is a bunch of girlfriends! Okay not really, but still...

Actually...

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Jumpstream and Dustup were confirmed as the first official WLW couple in Transformers in the recent IDW annual :)

I...need to pick up the comics, this is so weird and I need context,
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885253)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 3:19pm CDT
GalvatronG1 wrote:
Kurona wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:and the other option is a bunch of girlfriends! Okay not really, but still...

Actually...

Image

Jumpstream and Dustup were confirmed as the first official WLW couple in Transformers in the recent IDW annual :)

I...need to pick up the comics, this is so weird and I need context,

Well, they're lovers, and that's it. We generally don't get much characterisation on the Torchbearers beyond Pyra Magna unfortunately - the one problem with this relationship - but they're still very cute together and I'm so glad IDW done this.
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885266)
Posted by Sarahthecutevixen on May 30th, 2017 @ 3:55pm CDT
Kurona wrote:
GalvatronG1 wrote:
Kurona wrote:
SillyMcGilly wrote:and the other option is a bunch of girlfriends! Okay not really, but still...

Actually...

Image

Jumpstream and Dustup were confirmed as the first official WLW couple in Transformers in the recent IDW annual :)

I...need to pick up the comics, this is so weird and I need context,

Well, they're lovers, and that's it. We generally don't get much characterisation on the Torchbearers beyond Pyra Magna unfortunately - the one problem with this relationship - but they're still very cute together and I'm so glad IDW done this.

same here, I just figured they were all friends,
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885271)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2017 @ 4:01pm CDT
So, because I was home and remembered, here are all of my combiners that I managed to get a hold of during Combiner Wars. I got Sky Lynx, but he is the one that stays by himself, choosing instead to be a mount for Arcee

Autobots:
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Decepticons:
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Mixed Faction:
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Maximal:
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All together
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Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885274)
Posted by Sarahthecutevixen on May 30th, 2017 @ 4:06pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:So, because I was home and remembered, here are all of my combiners that I managed to get a hold of during Combiner Wars. I got Sky Lynx, but he is the one that stays by himself, choosing instead to be a mount for Arcee

Autobots:
Image
Image
Image

Decepticons:
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Mixed Faction:
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Maximal:
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All together
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Nice
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885277)
Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 4:17pm CDT
I know it's undoubtedly Nightbeat, but I like to imagine that Titan Master on Lost Lightatron's shoulder is Tailgate :D
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Posted by Zeedust on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:38pm CDT
Kurona wrote:Anywho, toys! What's the best Legends class from this line in you guys' opinion? Excluding Shockwave, he wins by default.


I know I'm not gonna get much support on this, but I like Powerglide/Viper. Pretty nice triplechanger/targetmaster for ten bucks. Sure, the gun mode's not quite as good as Shockwave's, but that's because Shockwave doesn't have separate vehicle and weapon modes.
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Posted by nycPrime on May 30th, 2017 @ 8:59pm CDT
Zeedust wrote:
Kurona wrote:Anywho, toys! What's the best Legends class from this line in you guys' opinion? Excluding Shockwave, he wins by default.


I know I'm not gonna get much support on this, but I like Powerglide/Viper. Pretty nice triplechanger/targetmaster for ten bucks. Sure, the gun mode's not quite as good as Shockwave's, but that's because Shockwave doesn't have separate vehicle and weapon modes.

I'd probably 2nd that. I wasn't a huge fan of the CW Legends so to me, it's slim pickings. Powerglide is pretty cool, though I think the bot mode is better than the alt mode. I don't have a whole lot of other legends, but I also think Windcharger is ok. Far from the best bot mode, but the car looks good enough.
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Posted by Kurona on May 30th, 2017 @ 9:10pm CDT
I liked Viper. A little let down by his somewhat odd arm articulation - and his gun mode wasn't good, but I won't hold that against him - but all in all a pretty decent figure. Also you can mistransform him into having a very long neck. Useful for giving yourself nightmares for a month if you're into that sort of thing
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885363)
Posted by Zeedust on May 30th, 2017 @ 9:46pm CDT
Kurona wrote:I liked Viper. A little let down by his somewhat odd arm articulation - and his gun mode wasn't good, but I won't hold that against him - but all in all a pretty decent figure. Also you can mistransform him into having a very long neck. Useful for giving yourself nightmares for a month if you're into that sort of thing


I don't think the gun mode is as bad as people say it is, but that may just be me.

Also, the "long neck" think means if you have both of them, they can look like they're doing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.

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...Well, okay, sorta...
Re: Concept Art for Transformers Generations Combiner Wars by Emiliano Santalucia (1885365)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 30th, 2017 @ 10:07pm CDT
Zeedust wrote:Also, the "long neck" think means if you have both of them, they can look like they're doing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.

Image

...Well, okay, sorta...


That
Is
AWESOME!!!! :BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN: :BOWDOWN:
(I am so going down to the basement and grabbing those 2 as soon as I hit submit)

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