New In-Hand Images of Transformers Subscription Service Double Pretenders Optimus Prime and Megatron

Sabrblade wrote:For clarity, those bio cards aren't mine. I just saw those pics of them and shared'em here.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:For clarity, those bio cards aren't mine. I just saw those pics of them and shared'em here.

It wouldn't let me leave the pictures so I couldn't see which Facebook it was from. Can you clarify and I will update?

RAR wrote:So I really want to know where they got those shells from did Takara reproduce them for a planned reissue of Grand Maximus and then not release it so the shell mould was going spare ?

Or are they ancient moulds someone found in storage somewhere ?

Break wrote:I had been wondering if Pretenders were coming soon, what with first the Combiners ala year 3 of G1, and then rebranded Headmasters ala year 4 of G1. Not a large scale thing, but nice to see.

Break wrote:It does give me the idea how they could explain away why Transformers would have Pretenders shells...it could be a way to protect them from an overdose of radiation ala Beast Wars.

Break wrote:These make me wonder how much it costs to subscribe, as I like the looks of both.

WreckerJack wrote:The colors on Spacewarp and the helm shape remind me of Skyshadow (Blackshadow) from Titans Return. I thought that it may have been the same character but upon further inspection, Spacewarp is a she. The one thing on her card I don't understand is how she can smirk with that battle mask on. (Well ok, maybe we just can't see it.)

Name: Spacewarp

Function: Adventurer

Motto: “All I ask is a neutrino wind at my back, a nebula to dodge, and the flung spray and blown spume of a supernova, and you'll find me a satisfied wanderer.”

STRENGTH: 2 INTELLIGENCE: 8 SPEED: 10+ ENDURANCE: 5 RANK: 4 COURAGE: 10 FIREBLAST: 10+ SKILL: 9

Bio: A card-sharping, engex-guzzling, rough-and-tumble Cybertronian, Spacewarp has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything. She's plied the spaceways as a pirate, found work as a soldier-for-hire, even engaged in the occasional bout of freelance peacekeeping. She loves spinning yarns of her past exploits, and her tales grow with each telling. To hear her tell it, she's broker a peace between angry gods, saved the galaxy three and a half times, charmed tribes of primitive Cybertronians on long-lost colony worlds, accidentally destroyed an entire solar system, won all the gold the Galran Khanganete on a single roll of the dice, and even gone toe-to-toe with not one but two of the Thirteen. She claims her current, Mini-Con stature is but a temporary impediment, the legacy of a run-in with a time traveler wielding a Tissue Compression Eliminator device.

Regardless of her size, she's a force to be reckoned with. When binary bonded with Megatron, whom she finds fascinating in a case-study-of-a-tyrant way, she can utilize his connection to a black hole to power a space bridge to anywhere in the universe. In her spaceship configuration, she can achieve FTL velocity and even, under the right circumstances, pierce the dimensional veil between universes. Her most versatile form, the Transwarp Blaster rifle, can rewrite the fundamental properties of reality itself, tear a hole in space and time, or simply unleash a massive geyser of energy able to overwhelm all but the most heavily-shielded of targets. Despite her potent capabilities, or perhaps because of them, she tends to be overconfident; her physical strength is low, and she's not quite as clever as she thinks she is. She enjoys her partnership with Megatron, who has proved invaluable in extricating herself from the situations she blithely walks into. She's aware that he sees her as a tool, and intends to skedaddle should he ever push her too far. For now, though, she believes her abilities make her too valuable for him to carelessly exploit. She just may be right about that.

Sabrblade wrote:Here's an unpublished bio that was written just for the little Spacewarp figure in this set, but ultimately didn't make it into the final product:

Name: Spacewarp

Function: Adventurer

Motto: “All I ask is a neutrino wind at my back, a nebula to dodge, and the flung spray and blown spume of a supernova, and you'll find me a satisfied wanderer.”

STRENGTH: 2 INTELLIGENCE: 8 SPEED: 10+ ENDURANCE: 5 RANK: 4 COURAGE: 10 FIREBLAST: 10+ SKILL: 9

Bio: A card-sharping, engex-guzzling, rough-and-tumble Cybertronian, Spacewarp has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything. She's plied the spaceways as a pirate, found work as a soldier-for-hire, even engaged in the occasional bout of freelance peacekeeping. She loves spinning yarns of her past exploits, and her tales grow with each telling. To hear her tell it, she's broker a peace between angry gods, saved the galaxy three and a half times, charmed tribes of primitive Cybertronians on long-lost colony worlds, accidentally destroyed an entire solar system, won all the gold the Galran Khanganete on a single roll of the dice, and even gone toe-to-toe with not one but two of the Thirteen. She claims her current, Mini-Con stature is but a temporary impediment, the legacy of a run-in with a time traveler wielding a Tissue Compression Eliminator device.

Regardless of her size, she's a force to be reckoned with. When binary bonded with Megatron, whom she finds fascinating in a case-study-of-a-tyrant way, she can utilize his connection to a black hole to power a space bridge to anywhere in the universe. In her spaceship configuration, she can achieve FTL velocity and even, under the right circumstances, pierce the dimensional veil between universes. Her most versatile form, the Transwarp Blaster rifle, can rewrite the fundamental properties of reality itself, tear a hole in space and time, or simply unleash a massive geyser of energy able to overwhelm all but the most heavily-shielded of targets. Despite her potent capabilities, or perhaps because of them, she tends to be overconfident; her physical strength is low, and she's not quite as clever as she thinks she is. She enjoys her partnership with Megatron, who has proved invaluable in extricating herself from the situations she blithely walks into. She's aware that he sees her as a tool, and intends to skedaddle should he ever push her too far. For now, though, she believes her abilities make her too valuable for him to carelessly exploit. She just may be right about that.

The author of this bio likes to think that the Doctor whom Spacewarp encountered was the Ninth Doctor.

Flashwave wrote:Authorial intent though it may be, was it 9 or 10 that ended up shrinking Death's Head?

*goes to Wiki to look*

EDIT: Neither. Death's Head encounterz Doctor #7 in The CrossRoads of Time who uses a TCE on him to shrink DH to human size. (The Doctor seemingly was hoping for a little more...)

Still, its a nice nod in Spacewarp's bio to obscure muktifandom canon

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Authorial intent though it may be, was it 9 or 10 that ended up shrinking Death's Head?

*goes to Wiki to look*

EDIT: Neither. Death's Head encounterz Doctor #7 in The CrossRoads of Time who uses a TCE on him to shrink DH to human size. (The Doctor seemingly was hoping for a little more...)

Still, its a nice nod in Spacewarp's bio to obscure muktifandom canon

The reason the author picked the 9th Doctor is, simply, because that's the author's favorite Doctor.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Authorial intent though it may be, was it 9 or 10 that ended up shrinking Death's Head?

*goes to Wiki to look*

EDIT: Neither. Death's Head encounterz Doctor #7 in The CrossRoads of Time who uses a TCE on him to shrink DH to human size. (The Doctor seemingly was hoping for a little more...)

Still, its a nice nod in Spacewarp's bio to obscure muktifandom canon

The reason the author picked the 9th Doctor is, simply, because that's the author's favorite Doctor.

I'm very fond of the 10th and 11th myself

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That Optimus Prime has to be ultimate fandom in-joke produced, I love it! Megatron based on unrealised concepts (Spacewarp, the G2 Hero redeco) is good too. I can't place the weapons though...

Zeedust wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That Optimus Prime has to be ultimate fandom in-joke produced, I love it! Megatron based on unrealised concepts (Spacewarp, the G2 Hero redeco) is good too. I can't place the weapons though...

Titans Return Voyager Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Authorial intent though it may be, was it 9 or 10 that ended up shrinking Death's Head?

*goes to Wiki to look*

EDIT: Neither. Death's Head encounterz Doctor #7 in The CrossRoads of Time who uses a TCE on him to shrink DH to human size. (The Doctor seemingly was hoping for a little more...)

Still, its a nice nod in Spacewarp's bio to obscure muktifandom canon

The reason the author picked the 9th Doctor is, simply, because that's the author's favorite Doctor.

I'm very fond of the 10th and 11th myself

Amelie wrote:Very sad I couldn't get these. They're awesome. Looks like they're going to have to be a very expensive eBay purchase for myself this Christmas time...

WreckerJack wrote:The colors on Spacewarp and the helm shape remind me of Skyshadow (Blackshadow) from Titans Return. I thought that it may have been the same character but upon further inspection, Spacewarp is a she. The one thing on her card I don't understand is how she can smirk with that battle mask on. (Well ok, maybe we just can't see it.)

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: Thanks!

Flashwave wrote:But a figure I was so sure I would put on Ebay suddenly was waiting for me to find a shelf to Display him on.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:So, this answers one question, but raises another. We now know it'll be Toxitron and Counterpunch in the last box. Now the new question is, who's the final bonus figure?

Counterpunch wrote:I've decided to end up selling off Prime and keep Megatron.

I just don't have much of a need or want for Prime in this form. The referential nature of the design doesn't really further any of the collections I have and in a way, makes Oil Master less unique as a figure.

mazingaspidey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:So, this answers one question, but raises another. We now know it'll be Toxitron and Counterpunch in the last box. Now the new question is, who's the final bonus figure?

I didn't get the last two issues of the fan comic, but there's not really any indication that I can tell, other than it's a "head not used in the U.S." That's pretty specific though. We can rule out the new molds used for Takara's Computron and Bruticus, since why would they advertise a new head and not a new mold? I think that leaves us with either the seeker head from UW Grand Galvatron, or Thrust from the same set. I'd imagine we won't get Starscream out of the set, but any number of other seekers are likely.