Transformers Collectors' Club Trans-Mutate for Sale!

Got myself a Trans-Mutate ordered.

durroth wrote:I think they could have fixed it by molding them backswept along the sides of the head. It would allow the head to be bigger, if not perfectly megs head size, and pretty close to the illustrations in the comic.

Pete Sinclair has chimed in elsewhere to reassure us that the head does look acceptable:

Pete@BotCon wrote:Well... Here's the kicker. Due to the design, the head DOES look smaller. If his head extended all the way out, to where the horns on each side reach, then you wouldn't even notice. As it is, the horns really mess with the perspective, and while it is not the most in scale head we have done, it definitely looks fine on my shelf. Does that make sense?

Let me put it this way. I never even opened my P/CP. Rampage sits on my shelf with all the other exclusives in robot mode. So, there ya go...

President-prime wrote:figure is extremely small.

Have you seen the Prime First Edition Arcee figure? She's roughly tall for a Deluxe. Taller than all other FE Deluxes minus Starscream (and maybe Vehicon, haven't sized her up to that one yet).

President-prime wrote:That's why I forego most Prime deluxe figures. Just preference. But they are pretty small, nonetheless.

No smaller than the average Generations Deluxe figure (since that is the line that the FE molds were originally designed for).

President-prime wrote:I just think a figure at that price should stand out a little more with the coloring. I guess a few stickers should do the trick.

To be fair, the original Transmutate design wasn't exactly awash with color beyond teal and silvery beige.


This one pretty much gets that deco down to a tee, and even adds more color to it with its translucent red plastic.

Sabrblade wrote:Pete Sinclair has chimed in elsewhere to reassure us that the head does look acceptable:

Pete@BotCon wrote:Well... Here's the kicker. Due to the design, the head DOES look smaller. If his head extended all the way out, to where the horns on each side reach, then you wouldn't even notice. As it is, the horns really mess with the perspective, and while it is not the most in scale head we have done, it definitely looks fine on my shelf. Does that make sense?

Let me put it this way. I never even opened my P/CP. Rampage sits on my shelf with all the other exclusives in robot mode. So, there ya go...

I wasn't a collector yet when that release happened so... I'm guessing Punch/Counterpunch had a particularly horrible head?

Seibertron wrote:If I understand what President-prime is saying, he's just stating that the figure is small for the $60 price tag. Exclusives aside, I agree. This figure and it's price aren't for everyone out there. Sabreblade, did you purchase the figure yet?

Okay, that I can agree with. $60 for a Deluxe is too much in a general sense, but it's fairly standard practice for a TCC figure so I'm used to it.

But it sounded like to me he was only against this figure because of it being a Prime mold and because of its fairly simplistic deco (which was what the original Transmutate design had, so this figure evoking that can't be faulted for that).

Yeah, I placed an order for it (my wallet's still screaming in pain since I had to make a few other payments alongside it).

I agree they should have gone with the backswept horns design choice. The actual horns actually look a whole lot more pronounced on the in-hand figure than on the mocked up one, so I'm not sure why they did what they did.

Either way, I think he'll be a really neat addition.

megatronus wrote:Anyone else notice "Maximal-Rampage" on the box? Does that have to do with the Timelines universe?

He was a Maximal experiment, that's it. His bio card says "Cybertron Protoform X" with his unique faction symbol.

And by the by guys, the first two Subscription figures are on their way:

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Sabrblade wrote:

Take notice of Optimus Primal's line of, "It was originally an attempt to replicate Starscream's mutant indestructible spark with a Maximal."


Though this toy represents a different universe version of him, the experiment that brithed him was seemingly kept the same.

Huh, so it's alright that he's labeled a Maximal.

He's still going to be a Predacon to me, though. It helps that he lacks a Macimal faction symbol, too. Though now I need to invest on getting Predacon faction symbol stickers.

Mindmaster wrote:He's still going to be a Predacon to me, though. It helps that he lacks a Macimal faction symbol, too. Though now I need to invest on getting Predacon faction symbol stickers.

What's cool is that he got his own unique X insignia on his bio card:



though, he got an even cooler one in his bio in one of this year's magazines, issue #55. Shame they didn't put that one on his card.



Though, speaking of magazines and Rampage, here's some nightmare fuel for ya, kids.

Mindmaster wrote:I know, dude... I know.

Hey, can't blame a guy for admiring a neat nice touch.