TFC Toys Dino-Combiner Prototype Images
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 12:50AM CDT
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Just in case you're wondering who the other combiner is in image three, it's another TFC Toys project based on Star Cats Rescue Team, a Chinese cartoon. While not a Transformers related project, it appears a Denfensor-ish repaint may be in the cards based on the last image mirrored below.
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Posted by Megatron Wolf on October 23rd, 2011 @ 12:56am CDT
Posted by No One on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:11am CDT
Posted by JaffleMaker on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:16am CDT
Posted by No One on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:26am CDT
Posted by Flux Convoy on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:39am CDT
Posted by Cybershark on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:43am CDT
MR Optimus Prime wrote:How about a drone dinosaur that becomes all the pieces for G1 Dinobots to combine?
i think drone pieces are lazy and they all suck, look at the failed PCC line and any other drone bots. They suck.Keeping them individual and all transforming adds value.
And for people complaining about NOT having add on pieces. Its much better to have add on pieces that fit, then once again the lazy and UGLY Energon combiners that do not have true hands or feet. Its why 3rd parties make upgrades for them.
This combiner looks pretty good especially since its coming from a 3rd party. It could use a larger head, unless this isnt the final product. The feet are actually cool, like the Predacons feet cannons but with 3! cool. What I wanna know is what the combiner is to its left in the pic? A DEFENSOR??
Posted by El Duque on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:48am CDT
Cybershark wrote:What I wanna know is what the combiner is to its left in the pic? A DEFENSOR??
El Duque wrote:Just in case you're wondering who the other combiner is in image three, it's another TFC Toys project based on Star Cats Rescue Team, a Chinese cartoon. While not a Transformers related project, it appears a Denfensor-ish repaint may be in the cards based on the last image mirrored below.
Posted by Cybershark on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:51am CDT
El Duque wrote:Cybershark wrote:What I wanna know is what the combiner is to its left in the pic? A DEFENSOR??El Duque wrote:Just in case you're wondering who the other combiner is in image three, it's another TFC Toys project based on Star Cats Rescue Team, a Chinese cartoon. While not a Transformers related project, it appears a Denfensor-ish repaint may be in the cards based on the last image mirrored below.
lol, Yea I seen it after I hit send, I was being lazy reading, thanks.
I also think the Dino former could be larger it seems rather small as well as the head could be larger too. And it needs some kind of chest shield. Just what I think.
Posted by ShadowGinrai on October 23rd, 2011 @ 1:53am CDT
Posted by dabattousai on October 23rd, 2011 @ 2:47am CDT
Posted by fenrir72 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 3:15am CDT
Posted by El Duque on October 23rd, 2011 @ 3:17am CDT
Posted by DMSL on October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:01am CDT
These prototypes i don't like at all. The Dinobots look awkward in their Dinosaur modes. They look more like cheap plastic figures that you get for a Dollar and are always inaccurate looking and most of those share the same heads with jaws open showing teeth. If they want me to get these they have to either design them so they look like the Dinobots from G1 or the real thing.
Before anyone else beats me to it, Dinosaurs are not lizards and a Pteranodon is not an official Dinosaur, it's a flying reptile. Dinosaurs are land based animals.
Posted by dinogeist on October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:43am CDT
Posted by griftimus prime on October 23rd, 2011 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by NTESHFT on October 23rd, 2011 @ 8:50am CDT
fenrir72 wrote:Very nice! But I have to agree with some of the opinions that the Dinobots aren't meant to merge. They're not like the Predacons' bio/personality. Bruisers who do it one on one
True dat. If I buy them *and it's only depending on my money situation at that time) I most likely will only combine them once, but leave them stand alone figs. They will be the Dinobots Hasbro never created...........
Posted by YoungPrime on October 23rd, 2011 @ 9:27am CDT
Megatron Wolf wrote:that pretty cool. why cant hasbro buy the rights to produce some of these 3rd party figures, most of them are better than what hasbros putting out these days and it would save the fandom some money. Not to mention make hasbro more money.
That would be like admitting defeat or at the most part revealing that they're dropping the ball on the supply and demand game.
Posted by Optimusfan79 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 9:46am CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 10:08am CDT
The colors they showed for these guys erarlier didn't impress me either. And why does Swoop have a visor? But ... maybe I'll get 'em since I love the Dinobots and want updated versions of them. We'll see when they come out, I guess. Who knows, maybe there'll be another 3rd party Dinobot set in the works by then.
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 10:59am CDT
Posted by karellan on October 23rd, 2011 @ 11:14am CDT
And yes, Hasbro is moronic for not doing this themselves. They made Grimlock into other gimmicky stuff like Pretenders, etc., but never made the dinobots into the original gimmick -- a combiner? Utterly stupid.
Posted by Rated X on October 23rd, 2011 @ 11:33am CDT
Gotta see more of the Defensor team before I comment.
Posted by Mkall on October 23rd, 2011 @ 11:48am CDT
Posted by Cyber Bishop on October 23rd, 2011 @ 11:52am CDT
Posted by zodconvoy on October 23rd, 2011 @ 12:10pm CDT
Optimusfan79 wrote:With dinobots combining every single TF fan can't say they didn't want to see that when you watch Heavy Metal War, The Movie, & Call of the Primitives, seeing Devestator get the best of them or watching them not begin able to handle Predaking & Abominus. Look @ that custom dinobot custom everyone would want that. Next to a city TF the dino's r suppose to be the badest bots out their. I'm happy somebody went above & beyond to give us want 90% of TF fans always wanted to see hasbro do. It looks great so far can't what to see the finished product!
karellan wrote:Even if you personally don't like the idea of dinobots combining, it's obvious that most people do. Do a search on ebay for "dinobot combiner" and see how many crappy customs there are and what people are willing to pay for them. It's about time a third party made one that was actually GOOD.
I for one don't want the Dinobots to ever combine again. Seriously, cut this sh!t out. Saying they should combine is like saying the Wreckers should combine or the Sweeps or the Headmasters. It's all just unnecessary. Most fans actually don't want a dinosaur combiner. Or at least not that one.
karellan wrote:And yes, Hasbro is moronic for not doing this themselves. They made Grimlock into other gimmicky stuff like Pretenders, etc., but never made the dinobots into the original gimmick -- a combiner? Utterly stupid.
The original gimmick was transforming and only the Actionmasters didn't do that which is a gimmick in itself "yo dawg" style.
Posted by Optimusfan79 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 2:03pm CDT
Posted by MGrotusque on October 23rd, 2011 @ 2:03pm CDT
Posted by Mkall on October 23rd, 2011 @ 2:25pm CDT
Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.
I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them
Posted by Sodan-1 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 2:38pm CDT
Posted by Optimusfan79 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 4:04pm CDT
Mkall wrote:Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.
I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them
More of that 10% huh Mkall...LOL! If you get them you gonna merge them once its human nature LOL.
Posted by Mkall on October 23rd, 2011 @ 5:04pm CDT
Optimusfan79 wrote:Mkall wrote:Optimusfan79 wrote:@ Zod you cut it out homie you make up that 10% that don't wanna see that & majority rules. If didn't nobody wanna that we would be having this discussion or this toy being made. Like i said that custom Dino combiner Extinction was amazing! If this company is smart enough to make them I think they aren't finished makin them into the way we always pictured. The wreckers, hm, & sweeps noone wanted to see them combine but they do & have wanted to see the Dino's that's a fact.
I'm not a fan of the Dino combining, so if these look good in robot mode, I'll buy them and just not combine them
More of that 10% huh Mkall...LOL! If you get them you gonna merge them once its human nature LOL.
Once to see what it's like perhaps, but IMO (and only IMO) the Dinobots are seperate characters, not combiners.
Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Posted by donnie_707 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 5:39pm CDT
Posted by Covenant on October 23rd, 2011 @ 6:08pm CDT
Posted by Geekee1 on October 23rd, 2011 @ 6:08pm CDT
Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Posted by Flux Convoy on October 24th, 2011 @ 5:37am CDT
Geekee1 wrote:Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.
Posted by YoungPrime on October 24th, 2011 @ 6:20am CDT
Posted by Mkall on October 24th, 2011 @ 11:46am CDT
Flux Convoy wrote:Geekee1 wrote:Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.
Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...
Posted by Baneblade on October 24th, 2011 @ 11:51am CDT
Mkall wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:Geekee1 wrote:Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.
Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...
mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?
lol
seriously - its an impressive looking piece - seems these 3rd party buggers are upping the ante with each production
Posted by zodconvoy on October 24th, 2011 @ 10:52pm CDT
Baneblade wrote:Mkall wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:Geekee1 wrote:Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.
Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...
mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?
lol
It doesn't hurt that I didn't even see Victory until the Madman Headmasters/Victory/Masterforce release in '09. In fact, aside from having a couple of them as a kid, I only know the Pretender Monsters from Marvel's Rhythms of Darkness! when I was 10. Jim Lee did the cover and it was the first issue I got when I really started collecting comics and was blown away by it! Still, they never even combined in the issue!
Posted by Baneblade on October 25th, 2011 @ 6:21pm CDT
zodconvoy wrote:Baneblade wrote:Mkall wrote:Flux Convoy wrote:Geekee1 wrote:Mkall wrote:Now if these were coloured to be reminiscent of Dinoking then things may be different.
Now that could be a capital idea.
Except that Dinoking and Monstructor were six characters each. Still, cool idea.
Well, for the longest time my Classics Devastator was the Green Energon repaint, so I'm not TOO picky on my stand ins...
mkall not being picky.. ~sprays my hot mug of tea~ ...what universe did I wake up in today?
lol
It doesn't hurt that I didn't even see Victory until the Madman Headmasters/Victory/Masterforce release in '09. In fact, aside from having a couple of them as a kid, I only know the Pretender Monsters from Marvel's Rhythms of Darkness! when I was 10. Jim Lee did the cover and it was the first issue I got when I really started collecting comics and was blown away by it! Still, they never even combined in the issue!
sad thing is that on the dvds the dinoforce/dinoking were a bunch of bungling morons - really cant see these figs being repainted to represent that facet of the tf universe
Posted by El Duque on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:04am CDT
Posted by --B-- on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:19am CDT
Posted by GuyIncognito on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:37am CDT
Posted by Cybershark on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:39am CDT
They are Waaaaay to small......They need to be upsized to at least the size the Hercules toys are at. I mean wtf?? Making merge groups so small is just dumb. It looks cool, but if there scout sized with a deluxe Grimlock, whats the point??? It wont sell very well.
Posted by Counterpunch on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:40am CDT
gtfo of here.
Posted by Gorechyld on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:44am CDT
Posted by Cybershark on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:47am CDT
Gorechyld wrote:SOLD! Unless whatever third party company charges unreasonable rape prices for this magnificent piece of work. Crossing fingers that it doesn't top....80...maybe 150 AT MOST!
hahaha, Not to be funny but its 5 bots, this thing will sell for closer to $200-400 from ANY 3rd party company.
Posted by Va'al on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:57am CDT
--B-- wrote:Meh. I don't need my Dinobots to combine. I would rather see better robot and dino mold without having to sacrifice for the combiner functions.
Here's hoping for FOC figures.
(Hey, one can dream, right?)
EDIT: wrong acronym..
Posted by phase on October 26th, 2011 @ 9:21am CDT
Posted by crossblades on October 26th, 2011 @ 9:28am CDT