First Look at Transformers Club Exclusive Topspin
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 8:14PM CST
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Here is TOPSPIN - the 2008 Transformers Collectors' Club FREE Membership Figure!
This is the FOURTH figure in the five figure Club Combiner series. Any Transformers Club member who's membership
is active by March 16, 2008 will receive this figure FREE in the late spring/early summer. If you join after that deadline,
you will be eligible for the 2009 figure and you may also purchase the previous four figures from the Transformers Club store.
See the photo of the figure by clicking here
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Posted by Flux Convoy on January 10th, 2008 @ 8:21pm CST
Posted by Talous on January 10th, 2008 @ 8:27pm CST
Posted by Liege Evilmus on January 10th, 2008 @ 8:33pm CST
Glad I got them all the Combaticons(?) the first time around, it's the only Energon combiner set that I completed.
Posted by thedistinctroom on January 10th, 2008 @ 8:56pm CST
Posted by Nekoman on January 10th, 2008 @ 9:03pm CST
Posted by Megatron Wolf on January 10th, 2008 @ 10:04pm CST
Posted by Overcracker on January 10th, 2008 @ 10:25pm CST
Still having both of the Energon repaints of this mold, I have to say, its one of the better combiner limb molds.
I specially like the Purple and Gray Color scheme of Energon Blackout.
I'm still curious as to who the final gestalt is going to be, and who they are going to use as the center piece for it with the new Head they have announced.
I think Barricade would look cool in translucent red.
So we have 2 Planes: Breakaway and Skyfall, a Tank: Landquake, and now a Helicopter: Topspin as the final limb.
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on January 10th, 2008 @ 10:36pm CST
Oh good....from all these prototypes & such I was starting to fear he wouldn't be transparent. Glad to hear he will be.
Posted by TheMuffin on January 10th, 2008 @ 10:59pm CST
Posted by Flux Convoy on January 10th, 2008 @ 11:51pm CST
Overcracker wrote:I'm still curious as to who the final gestalt is going to be, and who they are going to use as the center piece for it with the new Head they have announced.
I think Barricade would look cool in translucent red.
It's already been pretty much confirmed from images in the club comic that it is going to be Barricades body. What the resculpted head will look like is still anyones guess though.
Posted by shortround on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:12am CST
Posted by zemper on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:30am CST
i kinda miss the blues and the spring-loaded action though.
Posted by Autobot032 on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:44am CST
Whew. For a minute there I thought you were just going to do a crappy repaint and use it to entice people out of $40.00 a year for pointlessness.
Oh wait, it *will* be a repaint, but translucent?
GEE WILLIKERS, BOB! WHERE DO I SIGN?! COME ON! THAT'S THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME!
Yeah....
I thought this whole "One per year 'til the set's complete!" mixed and matched combiner crap was ridiculous.
$40.00 a year for a crappy magazine, discounts for BotCon (iirc...) and a translucent repaint of a hard to find figure.
Where the heck do I sign up? I mean really, that's such a great deal, I think I might soil myself.
...bah. Who do they think they are? This is the best they could come up with as a perk for joining the club? Pathetic.
I know some of you out there, enjoy it and use it. (though I can't figure out why. There aren't enough positives to outweigh the CRAP to make it worth it.) However, people enjoy what they enjoy, so far be it from me to deny you your piece of the action.
I still don't get it though...what a craptacular sales pitch.
"Oh nay nay! For $40.00 American (and a disgusting amount more for you international types...), you'll get a translucent repainted figure that some will get and others won't due to our "shipping problems", a magazine that won't be on time for most of you, a discount in our online store which is actual store cost minus taxes (but you'll pay that back and then some in shipping. We're fart smell...smart fellers.) and you'll receive a discount to BotCon, which you still can't afford anyway! Not to mention, exclusive figures you can't get anywhere else, like a repainted and remolded Energon Slugslinger who's now Airrazor. Though you'll pay far, far, far more than what the original mold is worth... How cool is that? Isn't that worth $40.00 a year?"
NO. *cracks 'em in the kneecap*
Posted by kealthaz on January 11th, 2008 @ 3:51am CST
Posted by Wheeljack35 on January 11th, 2008 @ 5:12am CST
Posted by Aerrow on January 11th, 2008 @ 5:49am CST
Wheeljack35 wrote:A Decepticon with Primes coloring
Landquake was the same way. The color scheme is nothing new for this line/series of exclusives.
-Aerrow
Posted by Decepticon Spike on January 11th, 2008 @ 5:54am CST
Posted by Prime Evil on January 11th, 2008 @ 7:06am CST
Posted by Counterpunch on January 11th, 2008 @ 7:16am CST
Prime Evil wrote:You guys know that this combiner is a Prime right? I thought that was common knowledge.
Right.
It was a Prime broken up for some yet undisclosed reason.
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
The Club is absolutely worth the minimal $40 a year.
I suppose you can't convince everyone and that's fine. The comics, the toy, the shipping for all that included in the price, and then the BotCon discount...you almost break even for what you get. Go to BotCon and you come out ahead in terms of Club costs.
Next year I'm going to have a very cool complete Club combiner. Hard to believe it will have been five years at that point. I'm going to be dead sooner than I thought...
Posted by Predacon Rampage on January 11th, 2008 @ 8:49am CST
Posted by Prime Evil on January 11th, 2008 @ 9:23am CST
Counterpunch wrote:Prime Evil wrote:You guys know that this combiner is a Prime right? I thought that was common knowledge.
Right.
It was a Prime broken up for some yet undisclosed reason.
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
The Club is absolutely worth the minimal $40 a year.
I suppose you can't convince everyone and that's fine. The comics, the toy, the shipping for all that included in the price, and then the BotCon discount...you almost break even for what you get. Go to BotCon and you come out ahead in terms of Club costs.
Next year I'm going to have a very cool complete Club combiner. Hard to believe it will have been five years at that point. I'm going to be dead sooner than I thought...
Yeah, if you think about how much some of us do spend, the club is worth it in my opinion. I save $$ on Botcon, all club exclusives, free combiner piece each year, and I do like the newsletter that we get. For those of us that do get a lot of the club toys, and go to the con, it's actually worth it and we save waaay more $$ then we would if we weren't in the club. I'm not a fan of the movie line, and the club toys are more to my liking. So for me, it's worth it every year. Not only that, but it's only $40. Depends on everyone's income, but that's really throwaway cash for me.
I can't believe that the combiner will be done in about a little more then a year too!!
Posted by imotron on January 11th, 2008 @ 9:58am CST
Posted by imotron on January 11th, 2008 @ 9:59am CST
Posted by Flux Convoy on January 11th, 2008 @ 10:26am CST
Posted by Counterpunch on January 11th, 2008 @ 10:32am CST
Flux Convoy wrote:Yup, club's well worth it to me too. I left this site because of all the whiners, bitchers and complainers. I come back months later to find that they've damn near overrun the joint. Hoofreaking ray. Like I haven't already heard about a hundred other assclowns throw their rhetoric down my throat about why the club is a waste of money. If I can't spare $40 bucks a year for something I enjoy, wow, it's time for a new job.
Stick around my man. We need more ole G's around here.
Posted by Dagon on January 11th, 2008 @ 11:02am CST
Counterpunch wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:Yup, club's well worth it to me too. I left this site because of all the whiners, bitchers and complainers. I come back months later to find that they've damn near overrun the joint. Hoofreaking ray. Like I haven't already heard about a hundred other assclowns throw their rhetoric down my throat about why the club is a waste of money. If I can't spare $40 bucks a year for something I enjoy, wow, it's time for a new job.
Stick around my man. We need more ole G's around here.
I am surprised to see the "Movie line #1!!!!!" sentiments are still as strong as they were over the summer. Perhaps we will never be rid of others telling us our opinions are wrong because we don't share theirs.....
Anyway, Club member, never regretted it once, and Flux, fear not. Once the Club Seacons are released, all these people decrying the Club as a waste of money will be crying about why they either have to pay more for the Seacons or how unfair it is that they are not able to buy a set because they aren't Club members. Some assclowns never die.....they just still complain.
Posted by Autobot032 on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:04pm CST
Dagon wrote:Counterpunch wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:Yup, club's well worth it to me too. I left this site because of all the whiners, bitchers and complainers. I come back months later to find that they've damn near overrun the joint. Hoofreaking ray. Like I haven't already heard about a hundred other assclowns throw their rhetoric down my throat about why the club is a waste of money. If I can't spare $40 bucks a year for something I enjoy, wow, it's time for a new job.
Stick around my man. We need more ole G's around here.
I am surprised to see the "Movie line #1!!!!!" sentiments are still as strong as they were over the summer. Perhaps we will never be rid of others telling us our opinions are wrong because we don't share theirs.....
Anyway, Club member, never regretted it once, and Flux, fear not. Once the Club Seacons are released, all these people decrying the Club as a waste of money will be crying about why they either have to pay more for the Seacons or how unfair it is that they are not able to buy a set because they aren't Club members. Some assclowns never die.....they just still complain.
So...because I (and many others) don't like the club...we're "assclowns" and need to die because we don't like it? Because we have a difference of opinion?
You're whining about whiners, that puts you in the same camp. Regardless of what the reason might be.
You're an absolute moron and you need your kneecaps beaten with a spiked billy club.
Posted by Counterpunch on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:07pm CST
Dagon wrote:Perhaps we will never be rid of others telling us our opinions are wrong because we don't share theirs.....
What? You want me to leave?
(You know how many times I've told people their opinion was wrong flat out? )
Posted by imotron on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:24pm CST
Just share what's on your mind, you guys are taking it beyond of what means to be chatting... smile and be happy, if you don't like some one's post say it, but be respectful...
Posted by Dead Metal on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:28pm CST
And could you please for the love of all things holy stop complaining about the club?
If I could afford being part I would be part of it, I don't bitch about it so could this bitching please stop?
Posted by Flux Convoy on January 11th, 2008 @ 12:36pm CST
Autobot032 wrote:So...because I (and many others) don't like the club...we're "assclowns" and need to die because we don't like it? Because we have a difference of opinion?
You're whining about whiners, that puts you in the same camp. Regardless of what the reason might be.
You're an absolute moron and you need your kneecaps beaten with a spiked billy club.
Nice personal attack there. If you want to set yourself up as the perfect example of what I'm talking about, well good job.
Posted by Zeds on January 11th, 2008 @ 1:57pm CST
Posted by Cyber Bishop on January 11th, 2008 @ 3:12pm CST
#1 STOP FORCING OPINIONS ON OTHERS.
If someone does not agree with YOUR opinion so be it, do not flame them for it as they are entitled to their opinion.
#2 Stop the name calling.
#3 One more personal attack and that person will be banned for 7 days.
Thanks.
Posted by DISCHARGE on January 11th, 2008 @ 3:33pm CST
Hopefully they will have the other toy exclusives available
so I can pick them all up and not pay more for shipping than
I have too.
The club's forums are a nice bonus thrown into the other benefits.
It is really laid back and there isn't so much complaining about
toys. It's just another reason to join the club.
Posted by imotron on January 11th, 2008 @ 3:58pm CST
Posted by Prime Evil on January 11th, 2008 @ 4:39pm CST
DISCHARGE wrote:The club's forums are a nice bonus thrown into the other benefits.
It is really laid back and there isn't so much complaining about
toys. It's just another reason to join the club.
Tru that!! It's waaaay more laid back and easier to talk sometimes without the arguements. Not as busy as other sites, but I think since we all pay to be there, there's a certain amount of respect for each other's opinion. Wish it as like that here sometimes, but you gotta let people be people. Who are you there? Beside Seibertron, I only post there. Occasionally, I'll make a post at tfw. I'm still Prime Evil at the club.
Posted by Air Commander Starscream on January 11th, 2008 @ 4:53pm CST
Talous wrote:Not bad, almost hard to believe were 4 years into this set already.
Ditto.
I like how he looks, I can't wait to have the whole set completed.
Posted by DISCHARGE on January 11th, 2008 @ 5:02pm CST
I don't have a lot of posts,
but there does seem to be way more respect for
members, probably because people have paid so
much to be a member. Most members I've ever seen on there
at a time is like 7.Which is odd. It is nice knowing what is going
on before other sites get to showcase certain TF features though .
Posted by Blurrz on January 11th, 2008 @ 9:11pm CST
Posted by imotron on January 11th, 2008 @ 9:46pm CST
Any thoughts out there?
Posted by iron maniac on January 11th, 2008 @ 10:03pm CST
I have no complaints at all.
Posted by imotron on January 12th, 2008 @ 1:54pm CST
Posted by rhinox555 on January 13th, 2008 @ 12:00pm CST
Easy as that. T_T
Now go train your brain before you go in a coma.
Posted by imotron on January 14th, 2008 @ 3:14pm CST
Posted by Auto Bot on January 15th, 2008 @ 2:17am CST
Posted by Decepticon Spike on January 15th, 2008 @ 6:01am CST
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on January 15th, 2008 @ 6:35pm CST
yeah, of Energon Blackout & ....whatever the other helicopter was called....two of the limbs off of Bruticus Maximus.Auto Bot wrote:Is that a repaint?
Posted by Auto Bot on January 16th, 2008 @ 12:30am CST
Posted by Nemesis Cyberplex on January 16th, 2008 @ 4:35am CST
I think that's just the red paint. It seems to be rather glossy, which for some reason looks to add heft to it.Auto Bot wrote:He seem to look heftier than the Energon guys.
In any case, you know what they say about cameras adding weight.......
Posted by Dagon on January 16th, 2008 @ 8:47am CST