Spotlight Blaster Cover with Colours!

It's a truly beautiful cover.

Is that a Cybertronian music band in the background?

Is that Legout and Decibel grooving with Grand Slam? Cool!

Steeljaw looks to be in his Cybertronian form which is more noticeable than Blaster. But Ramhorn definitely looks like an actual cassette.

Uhh...

Love that the band is Slamdance, Decibel, and Legout. That was not apparent to me when it was just black and white.

Truly cool.

Holy crap! It's a piece of Alex Milne art where all the massively unnecessary detail that over-complicates the image ISN'T worsened by shrouding it in murky colouring!

You wag, McFeely!

The pencils alone were great. The colors make it truely amazing. Blaster doing what he does best. I love the band in the background, and Blaster's smirk just says it all. Nice job!

Probably one of the best covers I've ever seen in the IDW series.

heh i like it it his human nature really like the 3 bots in the background ontop of the speakers playing gutiars kinda funny loooking.

i dont know about you guys but since blaster has his own story i would like to see a soundwave issue coming to release

dragons wrote:heh i like it it his human nature really like the 3 bots in the background ontop of the speakers playing gutiars kinda funny loooking.

i dont know about you guys but since blaster has his own story i would like to see a soundwave issue coming to release

Soundwave has already had his own issue! Spotlight: Soundwave came out earlier in the year.

Nice coloring

Hey what's Blaster doing on the deck of the SDF-1?

Hmm, too bad DeviantArt is blocked at my workplace...

Nice. And I see Blaster is IN a band, but where is it that he IS a band?

Brilliant artwork, but as usual, WHERE'S THE F'N DRUMMER??? Dag-Gummit! Why does the drummer ALWAYS get left out??? Like Robots even need to play musical instruments anyway! Flippin Guitar Players an their stoopid Amps...

...Just kidding. This is a great piece! I love it when they put Blaster and Soundwave in realistic musical situations. Why is SlamDance on Bass? and who are the other two mysterious Guitar-Bots? Come to think of it, a Cybertronian Rock Band must use some serious sound equipment! I wonder what the guitar Center on Cybertron is like(*chuckle*) But seriously, MarkerGuru must pay for leaving out the drummer. I'll shoot one of my concussion missiles at him!

Is that really Steeljaw? I thought it was a new Cassetticon. I love all these Spotlights. Ramjet, Blaster, Arcee, I just want Megatron to have one (The Origin is nice, but I'd rather have another story line) This is an awesome cover!!

Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

Looks like a Masterpiece Blaster.

Leonardo wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

I though the cassettebot 'pre-powerlink' combiner was Grandslam and Raindance making Slamdance...

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

I though the cassettebot 'pre-powerlink' combiner was Grandslam and Raindance making Slamdance...

Ooh...I thought they were both combiners...maybe TFU.info has some information.

Leonardo wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

I though the cassettebot 'pre-powerlink' combiner was Grandslam and Raindance making Slamdance...

Ooh...I thought they were both combiners...maybe TFU.info has some information.

it sorta does... Legout and Decible are likely the repaints like Soundblaster then... given ther function.

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

I though the cassettebot 'pre-powerlink' combiner was Grandslam and Raindance making Slamdance...

Ooh...I thought they were both combiners...maybe TFU.info has some information.

it sorta does... Legout and Decible are likely the repaints like Soundblaster then... given ther function.

Yes, I couldn't find any pictures to be certain. I do note, however, that TFU.info doesn't say that they are recolours of a pre-existing mold, though, and there seems to be no mention of one combining with the other.

The TF Wiki says this of Legout, "Legout is the younger brother of Decibel. What relationship this gives his components Dial and Zaur to Decibel is unclear," and this of Decibel, "Decibel is the older brother of Legout. What relationship this gives his components Noise and Graphy to Legout is unclear, possibly they're half-siblings. Ha!"

They must be combined forms of smaller robots (Dial & Zaur and Noise & Graphy, respectively). I thought that Legout and Decibel combined but it appears I was mistaken.

Leonardo wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

AxiomScion wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Sentinel Pax wrote:Who are Decibel and Legout?

I think they're Twincast's combiner cassettes.

I thought the cassettebot 'pre-powerlink' combiner was Grandslam and Raindance making Slamdance...

Ooh...I thought they were both combiners...maybe TFU.info has some information.

it sorta does... Legout and Decible are likely the repaints like Soundblaster then... given ther function: Cybertron Information Gestalt Warrior.

Yes, I couldn't find any pictures to be certain. I do note, however, that TFU.info doesn't say that they are recolours of a pre-existing mold, though, and there seems to be no mention of one combining with the other.

The TF Wiki says this of Legout, "Legout is the younger brother of Decibel. What relationship this gives his components Dial and Zaur to Decibel is unclear," and this of Decibel, "Decibel is the older brother of Legout. What relationship this gives his components Noise and Graphy to Legout is unclear, possibly they're half-siblings. Ha!"

They must be combined forms of smaller robots (Dial & Zaur and Noise & Graphy, respectively). I thought that Legout and Decibel combined but it appears I was mistaken.

So did I. Wondered what there combined name was too. Deciout, Legibel, Outibel or Belout...

If they are from 1987 I'ld think the cassette mold would have been used outside of Japan once. Then again, there are a few cassettecons (though they could be 4 bots) that price over $400 and i've only really heard there names once on this board...

I guess it's possible.

From J.E. Alvarez's "The Unofficial Guide to Japanese and International Transformers," Decibel is formed by Gurafi (pterosaur) & Noizu (t-rex), while Legout is formed by Dairu (brontosaurus) & Zauru (lizard). The book has a few pics of Decibel, Gurafi, & Noizu, but none of Legout/Dairu/Zauru. The book makes no mention of whether Decibel's components can interchange with Legout's.

Looking at the cover, Decibel is to the left of Slamdance.

i_like_starscream wrote:From J.E. Alvarez's "The Unofficial Guide to Japanese and International Transformers," Decibel is formed by Gurafi (pterosaur) & Noizu (t-rex), while Legout is formed by Dairu (brontosaurus) & Zauru (lizard). The book has a few pics of Decibel, Gurafi, & Noizu, but none of Legout/Dairu/Zauru. The book makes no mention of whether Decibel's components can interchange with Legout's.

Looking at the cover, Decibel is to the left of Slamdance.

Those would be the four $400 cassettebots then. surprisingly they've been applied for on the Seib's RPG here with psuedo reference links.

good find

Is that made of gold?

Auto Bot wrote:Is that made of gold?

No but there may have only been about 1000 of each made. With easily twice that number of Soundwave/ Broadcast fans among the collector community they could be considered the holy grail of TF Cassettes.

How many Autobot cassettes in all are there?

Auto Bot wrote:How many Autobot cassettes in all are there?

Unless i miss counted that sums up to 10

2 mechs
2 mammals (rhino and lion)
2 vehicle combiners (tank ang jet)
4 Dino combiners (the expensive one mentioned here)

10... 10 Autobot Cassettes

Note:Flipside is likely a Con

Combiners? You mean these cassettes combines like Devastator?

Auto Bot wrote:Combiners? You mean these cassettes combines like Devastator?

Yes and No.

They combine more like the Energon Powerlinking combination, rather than a Gestalt combining.

i_amtrunks wrote:

Auto Bot wrote:Combiners? You mean these cassettes combines like Devastator?

Yes and No.

They combine more like the Energon Powerlinking combination, rather than a Gestalt combining.

One on top of the other?

yeppers Auto Bot, like the other animal cassettecon combiner SqualkBox, or Duocon BattleTrap, or even OverLord.

Two dino cassettes combine into one mini dinobot. Not in Grimlock's ranks though

It's a pity i haven't seen this series. Not even on tv.

Nice piece of work, that cover.