New Gallery: Transformers Collectors' Club Timelines Trans-Mutate

So cool. Mine should be arriving on Tuesday.

To think, 10 years ago, if you'd told me we'd be getting a proper, official Transmutate toy for the 10th anniversary of Beast Wars in two years, I'd have assumed it was a joke.

And if you'd told me that on top of that, we'd be getting a second Transmutate figure with a motorcycle alt and breast-articulation, I'd have assumed it was a joke written by manatees placing random idea-balls together. Or that someone in charge was taking Rattrap's "nutty erector-set" comment as literally as his nicknames for Vok relics.

And if you'd also told me that I'd be holding off on buying it because I needed to save up for an army of unofficial Allicons clearanced down to troop-builder prices the same summer a live-action movie about Dinobots fighting Frasier was coming out...I'd have probably responded, "WOAH, so if Transformers is going that strong in 2014, that means those Dreamwave comics must still be churning out a huge variety of awesome, right?"

Regardless, we live in blessed times. And I've heard just enough negative reactions to this toy that I'm going to risk waiting for it to go on sale, much as I want it.

Not really my bag, Scotty's right that it looks better in alt mode the robot. However I will say the box is really pretty

Ours showed up Friday.

I wish they would have used the shinier gold color like on the Transmutate BAF, but otherwise a nice representation. Now for a Flamewar and Firestar/Flareup (such an unfortunate name for a fembot) from that mold and BC2007 Alpha Trion can have his Alpha's Angels. There NEEDS to be a Botcon treatment for a story.

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Seibertron wrote:bump

I take it you mean this as a sign of a new and forthcoming TCC toy gallery?

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:bump

I take it you mean this as a sign of a new and forthcoming TCC toy gallery?

I bumped it to merge transmutate topic into this one and I'll be launching the barricade and frenzy galleries later tonight.

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:bump

I take it you mean this as a sign of a new and forthcoming TCC toy gallery?

I bumped it to merge transmutate topic into this one and I'll be launching the barricade and frenzy galleries later tonight.

Looking forward to the new galleries. Barricade arrived at my house this afternoon and I am really impressed with the paint apps on this guy. And Frenzy was already built.

necr0blivion wrote:And Frenzy was already built.

That's slightly disappointing.

Seibertron.com is pleased to present our gallery of the first figure in the Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 2.0, Barricade with Frenzy! The figure is a straight repaint of the previously released Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Deluxe Prowl with a grey version of Takara Tomy's Transformers Prime Arms Micron Sou. Enjoy the full gallery by clicking any of the images or links below:

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Convention & Club Exclusives Frenzy

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please put some color on franzy!! otherwise great figure

Frenzy needs a good fixin'.

(His thigh piece is on backwards, which seems to be a universal but easily fixable misassembly)

Now this is an excellent reuse of the Smokescreen mold. Even better than the Prowl redeco. Nice.

Finally got Rampage. I now desperately need Depth Charge to accompany him.

Enjoy my money, you bastards!

Mindmaster wrote:Finally got Rampage. I now desperately need Depth Charge to accompany him.

Enjoy my money, you bastards!

At least he's on sale until Friday, right?

Midnight_Fox wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Finally got Rampage. I now desperately need Depth Charge to accompany him.

Enjoy my money, you bastards!

At least he's on sale until Friday, right?

I'm kind of surprised they discounted Depth Charge and Cheetor as much as they did, to be honest. Not that I'm complaining, since it happened right when I was ready to buy Animated Cheetor anyways.

So it's basically just a redeco of Arcee from Prime... right...

A new day, a new Seibertron.com gallery. This time around it's Fisitron from the Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 2.0. Fisitron is currently shipping to members of the subscription service, so keep your eyes open and when you get him, feel free to share your thoughts!

Fisitron is a redeco of the Fall Of Cybertron Swindle mold. No remolding this time, unlike some of the previous TCCSS figures of the recent past. Since the mold is fully intact, combining ability with one (or all) of the various Bruticus molds is guaranteed. Fisitron is an homage to the G1/G2 Lightformers Ironfist action figure which is shown in some comparison shots within this gallery. He's currently seeing a character resurgence in the G1 IDW continuity comic storylines.

Click on any of the images below to be taken to the full gallery:

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Got mine a week ago, very excited. This is my first experience with the mold.

As a weapns designer, I wish he came with Roadbuster's secondary Harvester gun. Or a bigger gun of some kind... any kind. He needs his BFG.

Other than that, I truly love the vehicle mode and he's a fun little figure. I want another repaint, maybe we can get an AutoTrooper out of Botcon.

doesn't hold a candle to this:

MINDVVIPE wrote:doesn't hold a candle to this:

Disagree. too cartoony and blobular. Cool gun though, to each their own.

Flashwave wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:doesn't hold a candle to this:

Disagree. too cartoony and blobular. Cool gun though, to each their own.

Fair enough, I did find myself just this morning considering igear Hench to replace my dotm Brawn, but then deciding otherwise since I actually like the complicated look of the latter. Just seems to suck that this foc swindle mold has such a hollow back.

MINDVVIPE wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

MINDVVIPE wrote:doesn't hold a candle to this:

Disagree. too cartoony and blobular. Cool gun though, to each their own.

Fair enough, I did find myself just this morning considering igear Hench to replace my dotm Brawn, but then deciding otherwise since I actually like the complicated look of the latter. Just seems to suck that this foc swindle mold has such a hollow back.

I actually really, really like Fisitron. The colors are well done, and the Roadbuster head is close enough to a traditional Fisitron head to be an homage, yet far enough away to be an update. Plus, the hollow back issue isn't all that big an issue in-hand (IMO).

Continuing our streak of TFCC dedicated galleries, Seibertron.com is proud to present its high-quality look at the recent remold and redeco of Transformers Prime First Edition Deluxe Megatron: Maximal Rampage (or Protoform X, as you will)! Click on any of the images below to view the full works, and head here to take another look at its box companion Trasmutate.


Convention & Club Exclusives Rampage

Such a fantastic figure. Looks very awesome next to Depth Charge in-person. Can not recommend this guy enough!

I just think it's awesome how good these figures look as a group:

Yeah, Rampage is a great figure and I love the way they painted him. Really great use of colors. Just wish he had a bigger head, but they worked with the space they had. I usually turn his head the other way in alt mode.

Couldn't help but notice that he's miss transformed in the gallery. The "crotch plate" is on an articulated arm that brings it forward in alt mode to give him a longer "nose".

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In the midst of Botcon Seibertron (Ryan Yzquierdo) is hard at work to bring you exclusive content! We at Seibertron.com are proud to present the very first look at the Transformers Club Subscription Service Thrustinator and Rewind.
With Rewind coming from the never seen before here in the States the United Rumble and Frenzy mold and Thrustinator being an amalgamation of Beast Wars Waspinator and Beast Machines Thrust, using the Dirgegun mold from Beast Wars II be prepare for some amazing never before seen pictures and video and keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in BotCon news and updates, plus the best galleries around! Let us know what you think of these figures and join the discussion on ourSeibertron.com forums




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Convention & Club Exclusives Rewind

In other news revealed by these galleries, Thrustinator to arrive sometime in July and Rewind coming in October with the mystery figure. I'm gonna guess based off that information that Treadshot is August and Chromedome is September (I'll be happy if I'm wrong on this guess). Very excited for Thrustinator next, he was the one I wanted most besides Chromedome. I find it interesting, fluffwise, that Rewind's guns are actually "Dataspikes". It does fit the character more than picturing him as being armed to the teeth. Still probably going to buy that one from shapeways and paint it up, but that's just cuz it's absurdly comic accurate and I like it. Very curious who the mystery figure will be, and whether it will be another scout or a deluxe. (Do we have actual confirmation it's a scout? I've seen alot of people making that assumption, but no hard evidence)

Rewind looks decent, but doesn't speak to me...

Thrustinator, on the other hand, I must have. It's gloriously insane.

Umm, so who's the yllow scorponok in the bckground?

Flashwave wrote:Umm, so who's the yllow scorponok in the bckground?

That's Botcon 2014 Scorponok. Unless you're talking about something else. Ehich you might be, since that Scorponok looks green to me rather than yellow.

mooncake623 wrote:

"Thruzzzztinator wazz doing Gunfazzze before it wazz cool."

At the risk of derailing the thread, how many molds can do a gunface mode?

Noideaforaname wrote:At the risk of derailing the thread, how many molds can do a gunface mode?

Depends. missile-spitting guys like Transquito count?

Nemesis Primal wrote:Rewind looks decent, but doesn't speak to me...

Thrustinator, on the other hand, I must have. It's gloriously insane.

Sadly, none of the subscription figures have caught my eye enough to buy 'em, but Thrustinator is certainly fun looking. I love this part of your post: "It's gloriously insane." That's the best way to sum it up. lol

Rewind looks pretty good, but I'd much rather we have the original Frenzy and Rumble as this mold was intended to be. *sighs* What could've been. (I just can't justify the import price of the set from Japan. As nice as it is, I just can't pay $80.00+ for two $7-10.00 figures.)

Thrustinator's next? Hell yeah, I can't wait !

Flashwave wrote:Umm, so who's the yllow scorponok in the bckground?

That's just a second Scorponok in beast mode. That light in the hotel room there is yellow tinted so it changes the way the colors of the plastics photograph.

In a new TFCC dedicated gallery, Seibertron.com is pleased to present to you a high-quality look at Transformers: Timelines Deluxe Depth Charge. Click on any of the below images to take you directly to the gallery.

Convention & Club Exclusives Depth Charge

As truly awesome as that looks. I can't help but look at a much different "Transformer" and see Depthcharge.



Star Wars Transformers Emperor Palpatine (Imperial Shuttle) Gallery



Star Wars Transformers Emperor Palpatine (Imperial Shuttle) Gallery


While it's not the better figure, the alt mode does capture the look and feel of a manta ray space ship. Also the wing placement in bot mode is reminiscent of the wing placement on BW Depthcharge. You can even have a little protoform Depthcharge pilot himself lol.

Nice repaint. I wonder how many more toys will be repainted with the Terradive mold.

That Takara Terradive has so much win... I wish I could find one for less than $100.

megatronus wrote:I just think it's awesome how good these figures look as a group:

Too true.

Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on .

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on .

More like vice-versa. The Motorcycle Drone was based off the CGI model from the previous year. Beast Machines's second year had toys based off the show models since its first year toys barely resembled them due to the show and toys not being on the same page for that first year.

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Why is Thrustinator's wasp eye yellow when it was supposed to be changed to blue?

Because it's homage to the yellowish orange eyes of the motorcycle drone toy from 2001,

No it is not. We were told the Club would be correcting it to blue. His robot mode Waspy eye is blue, it only makes sense for his wasp mode eye to be blue too.

And Thrust had a red visor in the cartoon, just like his robot mode Thrust eye is.

It's possible it's a production error, But it makes more since for the club to give wink the toy the CG model was based on .

More like vice-versa. The Motorcycle Drone was based off the CGI model from the previous year. Beast Machines's second year had toys based off the show models since its first year toys barely resembled them due to the show and toys not being on the same page for that first year.

Actually The thrust figure proper came out in 2000, with the toyline starting in 1999. The motorcycle drone would've been from beast machines third year I always heard the rumor that mainframe used hasbro's in production concepts of the drones for both the drones and generals due to budget constraints.

No matter the Details, I like the Yellow Eyed version better, it's reminiscent of the motorcycle drone figure, which was the most accurate interpretation of thrust at the time, and to an extent still is. plus that would be three/four homages in this toy, and the more there are, the better the toy is (that part was snark).

Thrustinator's yellow eye is a production error. Pete's response was to find a customizer if you want it blue. I can't make that up.

ScottyP wrote:Thrustinator's yellow eye is a production error. Pete's response was to find a customizer if you want it blue. I can't make that up.

Typical.