TF Subscription Service Krok and Carzap in-hand images

Krok will go well with RoTF Bludgeon on my neo-G1 shelf. Krok, as Ted DiBiase used to say, "You will be bought!"

those both look better than i expected! im really looking forward to the rest!

I know I give the club a hard time, I do, because Im fickle. However, I'm going to be amazingly pissed if the secret figure is G2 nightracer from generations tailgate. That mold sucks, so hard, and I genuinely adore nightracers character design from before timelines #9 where they screwed it all up by giving her a new body based on generations tailgate.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I know I give the club a hard time, I do, because Im fickle. However, I'm going to be amazingly pissed if the secret figure is G2 nightracer from generations tailgate. That mold sucks, so hard, and I genuinely adore nightracers character design from before timelines #9 where they screwed it all up by giving her a new body based on generations tailgate.

They should use the Animated Arcee mold. That's what it looked like before the Tailgate switch.

Of course, they could wait a few years and just use the new Generations Arcee mold.

On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

RiddlerJ wrote:They should use the Animated Arcee mold. That's what it looked like before the Tailgate switch.

No, she just looked like her G2 toy but stylized in the art of the comic.

And the Club likely won't use Animated molds for anything that isn't Animated.

RiddlerJ wrote:On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

Agreed. They are some of my most favourite Club offerings in recent years.

Mkall wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:On another note, TFCC really needs to produce new figures for the rest of the Action Masters that never had transforming figures before. I think those are the most inventive of their repaints.

Agreed. They are some of my most favourite Club offerings in recent years.

100% agree - the Club's action masters have been some of their strongest work.

Crook and Carzap are really looking great. I really hated on 3.0 when they first revealed the characters, but it's turning out to be a fairly cool subscription line. I'm very happy I signed up.

Sabrblade wrote:And the Club likely won't use Animated molds for anything that isn't Animated.

In my opinion, the Jackpot repaint was aimed to fit either on a classics or Animated shelf. The head isn’t too far off from the G1 toy even with the Animated aesthetic. I also use Toxitron on my classics G2 shelf. The faceplate gets rid of the goofy face and the toxic “mutation” helps justify his animated aesthetic as being deformed.

Krok and Carzap are the main reason I signed up for the Subscription service this year after skipping last year. Color me very impressed with the work on these two. Krok's altmode looks like it was made for him- his original toy has a starship bridge chest thing going on. And I'm digging Carzap's new head and what is that? A chromed weapon? Very nice.

eBay seller lena81822 has come through again, this time with the upcoming Transformers Collectors Club free membership figure for 2015 - Lio Convoy



The auction can be found here or by clicking the image above.

Gotta wonder whose side he's on if he's part of Uprising.

Ugh. I'm excited for this guy, but getting two predominantly white versions of this mold really makes me want a "Nemesis Pax." I know that makes sense in no continuity, even the name makes no sense... but I just want it.

As a side note, I do wish we'd have gotten a more traditional Orion Pax (read "gheee-wuuuunnnn") head on that mold... maybe as a Takara release.

BUT gotta agree. So glad I subscribed to 3.0. While I was skeptical at the start, these have come out looking really nice... and the deep-rooted, well-researched, sometimes-obscure choices were like a slow-starting now out-of-control wildfire. I'm really, really excited about those... especially the action masters and unreleased character reduxes.

Lio Convoy looks fantastic as well. As long as I keep those two white trucks FAR apart on the shelves... all will be cool. heh.

Great to get some BW vehicle bots to flesh out that lineup/shelf. (I know people say they are different universes, but hey... it's my shelves. I'll put them where I wanna.)

anyone know how orion pax scales next to Robot Masters lio convoy?

interesting though. Seems like they are close to the same height by my memory. Orion Pax was a painfully short deluxe. (yeah, I said deluxe) Like Trailbreaker/Hoist, I could have had that guy a head taller. Sigh.

Looks horrible should have kept him as lion

Nice. Im happy with this. I bought the subscription service but Ill be skipping the nova prime since I already own an original mold for the character.

Rated X wrote:Nice. Im happy with this. I bought the subscription service but Ill be skipping the nova prime since I already own an original mold for the character.

I am impressed by the level of diplomacy here.

Headsculpt looks small.. meh to be expected i guess.

Probably had to be small to fit in for transformation.

Looks kinda cool, looking forward to the Nova Prime version too strangely enough. I know it's too small to really be and IDW Nova Prime, but the mockups looked pretty cool.

eh. Looks in proportion and pretty good to me. I'd like to see it from some other angles before judgement.

lena also has carzap!

That Lio Convoy looks pretty cool.


I may hafta keep an eye on one of those auctions.

I'm so getting this Lio Convoy. I love how he's been baptized into full machine ditching the beast alt-mode.

Oooooh, that headsculpt's hella gummy.

Looks like this is a day for new TFSS (Transformers subscription service) images. On the same day, the Transformers Club official facebook page has posted a picture of the upcoming Serpentor figure while E-bay seller lena81822 has posted images of Carzap and Lio Convoy, the later we've already reported earlier.

Here are the mirrored pictures of Serpentor and Carzap who use the Generations Ratbat and Generations Bumblebee (deluxe).

I like that Serpentor.

I would totally eat up a Botcon set with G.I. Joe Transformers.

Carzap looks great...I hope we get a repaint of him as Windbreaker.

Sepent O.R. looks worse than his first revealed pictures. His "gold" is the color of earwax. Cannot unsee that.

Bounti76 wrote:Carzap looks great...I hope we get a repaint of him as Windbreaker.

Sepent O.R. looks worse than his first revealed pictures. His "gold" is the color of earwax. Cannot unsee that.

I didnt know that was gold till you mentioned it

Carzap is nice, though a little less interesting than was first teased.

I like Serpentor's chest painted to look like a serpent's face.

Sepent O.R. looks goddamn atrocious, if it were actual gold, and now wax in color, I might change my tune; but Takara Tomy's Senator Ratbat is probably the best use of the mold in general.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:Sepent O.R. looks goddamn atrocious, if it were actual gold, and now wax in color, I might change my tune; but Takara Tomy's Senator Ratbat is probably the best use of the mold in general.

while my feelings arent quite as strong, i do agree. the preliminary photoshopped gold was a lot nicer.

That Carzap is looking awesome... Not sure how I feel about the chromed weapons, but that chromed helmet is sleek.

Serpent O.R. is less to my liking... Why did they have to replace the gold with that brown? Ugh.

Serpent O.R. is my Number 1 Want of this year's subscription service, so much so that I specifically bought the pink versions of the Gacha Arms Microns Gob and Zad so that they could form his Serpent Scepter.

Sabrblade wrote:Serpent O.R. is my Number 1 Want of this year's subscription service, so much so that I specifically bought the pink versions of the Gacha Arms Microns Gob and Zad so that they could form his Serpent Scepter.

Pics??

megatronus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Serpent O.R. is my Number 1 Want of this year's subscription service, so much so that I specifically bought the pink versions of the Gacha Arms Microns Gob and Zad so that they could form his Serpent Scepter.

Pics??

Pages 11 and 19 of the comic show the best looks at it - http://transformersclub.com/Timelines9_2014.pdf



As for toy pics, I don't have any of my own, but Jesse Wittenrich Tweeted how to do with the toys, using Generations Scourge and the black versions of the Microns as a demonstration:

I think I have transparent versions of those a microns, but not much interest in Serpent.O.R. Might reserve judgement until I see in person.

... is it too late to beg for the snake "eye" tampos to be changed? I can live with the less stunning colors because I figured that the beautiful metallic deco they teased us with was too good to be true. I think the yellow will look better in person. But those eye tampos... for the love of god, at least remove the black outlines or do SOMETHING to make them look less like they were drawn on in MS Paint.

heh, so it turns out my Microns were actually purple, not blue. Still not pink, but I kinda like it...



It's not like I have any other use for any of that micron set...

Mkall wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:I'm so getting this Lio Convoy. I love how he's been baptized into full machine ditching the beast alt-mode.

I love a nice repaint as much as the next bot but I have never been a fan of the 'Beast Era' of Transformers but I like the idea of integrating older fiction/eras as current earth based alt modes.

I would like to see more of this happening. Im surprised the much loved Dinobots never got a alt mode vehicle make-over?
That would have been so easy to do, so easy..!

War within Titanium Grimlock

Some sort of tank thing

prjkt wrote:War within Titanium Grimlock

Some sort of tank thing

Yeah, and no one liked it



There was also Alternators Grimlock

And this isn't an Earth vehicle mode anyway.

megatronus wrote:Serpent O.R. is less to my liking... Why did they have to replace the gold with that brown? Ugh.

Let's travel to a different universe where Serpent O.R. did get gold plastic:

"Will it have Gold Plastic Syndrome?"
"OMG! GPS! This figure is doomed just the G.I. Joe original!"
"Why didn't the club go for a safer color, like light brown?"

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:Serpent O.R. is less to my liking... Why did they have to replace the gold with that brown? Ugh.

Let's travel to a different universe where Serpent O.R. did get gold plastic:

"Will it have Gold Plastic Syndrome?"
"OMG! GPS! This figure is doomed just the G.I. Joe original!"
"Why didn't the club go for a safer color, like light brown?"

So you have a problem with gold paint?

Besides, gold plastic syndrome has not been an issue in recent times.

megatronus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:Serpent O.R. is less to my liking... Why did they have to replace the gold with that brown? Ugh.

Let's travel to a different universe where Serpent O.R. did get gold plastic:

"Will it have Gold Plastic Syndrome?"
"OMG! GPS! This figure is doomed just the G.I. Joe original!"
"Why didn't the club go for a safer color, like light brown?"

So you have a problem with gold paint?

Besides, gold plastic syndrome has not been an issue in recent times.

Some people are just that scared of GPS happening and watching their figures crumble into dust. Personally I'm glad FunPub went with that brown.

And no, gold paint does not cause, or affect GPS.

I'm failing to see the appeal in this figure, though I can say that about a number of the Clubs Subscription figures. I just don't get it.

I have to say... if they could work out the deal and release a set of GI Joe crossover transformers... I'd buy the whole line. Just not changing into a giant Baroness, Wild Bill, etc. That's ridiculous.

By preference, I'd love to see a couple of leader characters — tank megatron, truck prime in camp (like Bape Prime) to lead them — plus a full line of new characters that transform into the classic Joe vehicles... all with great bulky mech designs and accessories, missile batteries, etc. (Kinda like some of the Power Core bots looked.) I can dream.

Meanwhile, Serpentor is an excellent first venture into that crossover world. Bravo.

And I'd add that there are more things that control the color than just picking it out of some swatch books. Toys are made from different plastics, each with its own tolerances, brittleness, ability to accept paint (or not at all, sometimes. See the unpainted side panels of the Million Publishing GoShooter for instance.)

I'd wager they chose the best gold color they could choose given the plastics the toy has to be made from.

Remember how the top hood of G1 Scrapper is a duller green than the rest of him? This is the same issue. Softer plastic has different color restrictions.

So as the other options, we might be looking at bright gold parts mixed with "earwax" parts... or painted bright gold with oddly-placed unpainted panels.

You have to know they are making the best choices available to deliver us a great looking toy (that won't break.) Let's cut them some slack. It's not like someone there just prefers a duller brown. I'm sure it's a necessary evil, if anything.

Still looks really good. If it bothers me, maybe I'll get some gold paint and try my luck. Heh.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:Serpent O.R. is less to my liking... Why did they have to replace the gold with that brown? Ugh.

Let's travel to a different universe where Serpent O.R. did get gold plastic:

"Will it have Gold Plastic Syndrome?"
"OMG! GPS! This figure is doomed just the G.I. Joe original!"
"Why didn't the club go for a safer color, like light brown?"

So you have a problem with gold paint?

Besides, gold plastic syndrome has not been an issue in recent times.

Some people are just that scared of GPS happening and watching their figures crumble into dust. Personally I'm glad FunPub went with that brown.

And no, gold paint does not cause, or affect GPS.

You're reading me incorrectly. I do understand that gold plastic system is a problem with plastic, not paint.

If you're THAT scared of gold plastic, gold paint is a solution that will fix that ugly as sin LPSS (Linkin Park Soundwave Syndrome).

You mean that LPS set that came with the Mustard Sentry???? LOL.