Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Spinister Concept Art
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 1:32PM CST
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Posted by no-one on January 22nd, 2020 @ 3:48pm CST
Also, can anyone with a FB account post the rest of the pics here? I tried to follow the link but got caught in a not logged in loop. Thanks
Posted by aronjlove on January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:06pm CST
Posted by no-one on January 22nd, 2020 @ 4:08pm CST
Awesome hanks, I could only see a flash before the log in popups and prompts (never seen FB so aggressive before), but saw a +3.aronjlove wrote:[img]Spiniprint[/img]This is the only other "blueprint" style image.
After seeing the alt mode sketch, I have to assume the bot mode was just off/wrong/incomplete. Makes me want to print them off and bust out the color pencils.
Posted by Stargrave on January 22nd, 2020 @ 6:59pm CST
Spinister is...is....disco fabulous...the fly mauve shirt just cements it somehow.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on January 22nd, 2020 @ 7:30pm CST
carytheone wrote:Awesome hanks, I could only see a flash before the log in popups and prompts (never seen FB so aggressive before), but saw a +3.aronjlove wrote:[img]Spiniprint[/img]This is the only other "blueprint" style image.
After seeing the alt mode sketch, I have to assume the bot mode was just off/wrong/incomplete. Makes me want to print them off and bust out the color pencils.
To me it looks like they were going for a split cockpit with both legs mashed together for copter mode. That would have actually worked with the current upper torso without having to change much since the other leg with the fake cockpit tucks into the bottom where it is hidden pretty well. Really just adjust the bottom of the tail/torso section to have a finished look on the bottom if both legs were going to be the cockpit. I'm guessing they just couldn't get the proportions to work. I suspect the split cockpit would have ended up with too skinny of legs for a pretty tall bot, or too fat of a cockpit if they increase the leg thickness.
Posted by cackman17 on January 22nd, 2020 @ 7:33pm CST
I could’ve swore in one the Earthrise rumors a few weeks ago there was a post about Sky Lynx being a rumored release later this year??
Do y’all recall that?
Posted by Jeddostotle7 on January 23rd, 2020 @ 5:15am CST
cackman17 wrote:Hello all!
I could’ve swore in one the Earthrise rumors a few weeks ago there was a post about Sky Lynx being a rumored release later this year??
Do y’all recall that?
That'd probably be more appropriate for the Earthrise thread.
Posted by Immortal Starscream on January 24th, 2020 @ 12:34pm CST
Posted by cackman17 on January 24th, 2020 @ 12:37pm CST
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on January 24th, 2020 @ 12:44pm CST
cackman17 wrote:I missed it already!!!
It is still in stock, online only, but, you need to have a Target RedCard in order to purchase. That might be why you can't complete a purchase. I went through getting a Redcard specifically for this reason when he first came out.
If you plan on getting a Redcard yourself, I would highly recommend applying in-store instead of online. You won't be able to use the card online until it actually arrives, and the in-store application/verification process seems to go quicker than online. On top of that, Target often gives some type of incentive when you apply in-store that they don't give online. In my case it was a $40 off your next purchase coupon, so my Redwing (plus a small gift for my daughter) ended up being free. That deal is no longer going on, but they may have another to make the hassle a little more worth it.
Posted by cackman17 on January 24th, 2020 @ 12:46pm CST
Thanks for the heads up though!!
Appreciate it.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 24th, 2020 @ 1:32pm CST
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on January 24th, 2020 @ 2:23pm CST
cackman17 wrote:Already a red card holder- so I keep refreshing the app.
Thanks for the heads up though!!
Appreciate it.
Hmm, maybe try from a computer. That is what I was looking it up from, and it still shows available, and let me at least try to complete an order. I already have one I didn't go any further.
Posted by cackman17 on January 24th, 2020 @ 3:16pm CST
Seeker Seige collection now complete.
All 7!
Posted by Wolfman Jake on January 24th, 2020 @ 3:27pm CST
cackman17 wrote:Got one!
Seeker Seige collection now complete.
All 7!
Awesome! Taste the Tetrajet Rainbow!
Posted by Stargrave on January 24th, 2020 @ 5:27pm CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:cackman17 wrote:Got one!
Seeker Seige collection now complete.
All 7!
Awesome! Taste the Tetrajet Rainbow!
That’s a flavor explosion that’ll blow yer head off man I tell ya.
Posted by M. Spector on January 25th, 2020 @ 1:32pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on January 25th, 2020 @ 2:06pm CST
He's still available at both RobotKingdom and Action Robo, circumventing the Red Card altogether.M. Spector wrote:Y'all better knock it off with this Redwing crap, youre going to tempt me into getting a Redcard
Posted by Sentinel_Primal on January 25th, 2020 @ 2:59pm CST
M. Spector wrote:Y'all better knock it off with this Redwing crap, youre going to tempt me into getting a Redcard Speaking of things im tempted by, my local walmart has two Soundblasters yet and I am debating if its worth it. Im quite happy with my Titans Return/Bumblebee movie Soundwave, but that different size and black/gold/red color scheme is looking really slick. Is he worth it?
I just grabbed Soundblaster today. He's a pretty good figure. My only issue is that the chest door is designed to hold two of the cassettes, but it's a VERY snug fit and makes it hard to remove if you put two in
Posted by Hellscream9999 on January 25th, 2020 @ 3:39pm CST
Sentinel_Primal wrote:M. Spector wrote:Y'all better knock it off with this Redwing crap, youre going to tempt me into getting a Redcard Speaking of things im tempted by, my local walmart has two Soundblasters yet and I am debating if its worth it. Im quite happy with my Titans Return/Bumblebee movie Soundwave, but that different size and black/gold/red color scheme is looking really slick. Is he worth it?
I just grabbed Soundblaster today. He's a pretty good figure. My only issue is that the chest door is designed to hold two of the cassettes, but it's a VERY snug fit and makes it hard to remove if you put two in
Yeah, almost broke a new ratbat trying to get the cassettes out, definitely not a good idea
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 29th, 2020 @ 2:23pm CST
The user has added that there appears to be plenty in stock at the time of the photograph.
Want to see more of this toy? Then check no further then Seibertron's own gallery of Apeface and his partner Spasma
Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Apeface Gallery
Good luck hunting UK fans!
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Posted by blackeyedprime on January 29th, 2020 @ 3:24pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 29th, 2020 @ 5:58pm CST
Posted by partholon on January 29th, 2020 @ 8:24pm CST
Seen him today along with seige optimus prime. Looks to be part of a batch that's following a further release of megs and springer.
Was kinda surprised as usually this late means we won't get em at all.
Bought my own on amazon ages back but its great to see him in brick and mortor stores.
Posted by STngAR on February 4th, 2020 @ 9:46pm CST
Posted by blackeyedprime on February 6th, 2020 @ 11:06am CST
Not transformeed them yet, but first impressions is spinister is awesome and can easily fir with what few g2 style decepticons I have or go with hos Japanese series buddys.
Crosshairs, gonna have to stick some wheels on him in bot mode. The white chest area kind of reminds me of Kenners Joker figures with blue faces when they should be white.
One slightly looser knee but no leg panel problems and hides his hollows well (or better than a lot of siege figs anyways).
Apeface,,Galvatron asked him if he could paint fences, he can but also gets it all over himself, probbaly the worst battledamge look of all siege figures. Those elbow joints look scary. im sure he's competing with mindwipe by having hypnotism mirror love handles (the pins). Whilst it has some of the potp features to plug a pink tm/prime into his butt, the siege style of a faction symbol on a raised surface just ruins the symbol (on a leg in robot mode). I'm glad to have him, just hope he grows on me and he's not a figure that has to hide in shame.
Hopefully Amazon comes through on the Amazon exclusives and then i Just need the three big buys (omega, rainmakers,sdcc micros) and a few battlemasters to finish what Im wanting of Siege -unless they decide to do the missing members of the micro teams.
Posted by Sabrblade on February 6th, 2020 @ 11:28am CST
I also found Rung last Sunday at a Target that's pretty far out of my way but I just happened to be driving that direction that day, so things worked out. That Target also had Singe, but I didn't buy it.
Posted by Counterpunch on February 10th, 2020 @ 9:26am CST
He really benefits from the chest sticker.
Inside of the tank...
I really like the command center layout and choices here...
Basemode: I did not use the various window decos for the rocket. It didn't make sense to me to have windows along the side. I also did not put the front sticker on the tank as I was happy with the existing yellow and faction symbol.
Tracks look spectacular.
I also really like the building-like features of the base.
Posted by no-one on February 10th, 2020 @ 9:37am CST
Posted by Stargrave on February 10th, 2020 @ 6:18pm CST
Duuuuude I love the base mode stickers. I love how teeny windows make that whole other play scale.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 10th, 2020 @ 6:42pm CST
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on February 11th, 2020 @ 3:24am CST
Speaking of the Rainmakers, I'm enjoying having them in all their day-glow glory. I got Thundercracker for Christmas, the Rainmakers with recycling money in between, and Starscream for my birthday. I quite like the SIEGE Seeker mold, it does a decent job at having an F-15 based robot mode and a pyramid-ish jet mode. The weapon sockets on the shoulders did need some tightening, but that was easy enough.
It was also easy enough to swap Starscream and Thundercracker's faces with the screws removed. A good thing, since the smirk works better for the smug, scheming Starscream than it does for the dour Thundercracker.
Tempted to get another Thundercracker to turn into Skywarp, because of the actual Skywarp being hard to get a hold of, pricy when he does show up, and Greenlight being higher priority for me as far as the online exclusives go.
Because since I got Lancer and Novastar (still debating whether to turn her into a truck or treat her as a separate character to Firestar) with Christmas money, she's the only piece of Orthia I'm missing.
I also got Ratchet, he's fun. It'd be nice if someone made his dual pistols from the movie (that would be more fun than pointless filler panels). Also if someone repro'd his laser and launcher/box-on-an-arm so that Ironhide could have one at the same time.
My local Targets seem to have had a hard time getting the later-wave stuff in. I have yet to see Astrotrain, Apeface, Spinister, or Refraktor in stores, and I've seen Brunt and Barricade only once (and on the trip I saw Brunt on, Springer was higher priority). Seen plenty of lingering earlier-wave Deluxes (quite possibly restocks in the case of the Wave 1-ers), as well as plenty of lingering Megatrons (I think Hasbro should have skimped on the battle damage in order to use the paint budget for his silver chest decal, make him less bland looking), Starscreams (possibly because of PotP having already given us a Voyager Starscream), and Shockwaves. Kinda has me wanting Earthrise to be delayed so that stores can actually finish getting SIEGE stuff in.
Posted by blackeyedprime on February 11th, 2020 @ 5:00am CST
Transformed Spinister. Copters back heavy on a flat surface (extra landing gear might have helped) but seeing it has a display stand port no reason for it to be flat when it can be displayed in the air. The unsightly hole on one side of the cockpit kind of spoils it a little bit. the hands might be on display but at least the fore arms arent hollow so there would be no place for them to hide. The two holes behind the rotor dont seem to have a purpose for this use of the mold as nothing can really use them.
Transformed Apeface to Ape mode, not sure if it's worth turning into jet mode. I say transformed, I'm way too lazy to make sure everything is pegged in with it being overly finnicky. The last figure I had problems like this to a lesser extent was TR Repugnus. The wings seem like they could get a lot of stress on them/banding the plastic if not pulled out to avoid bending when tabbed in. Kind of wish Ape mode was taller but that's my own prefferences more than anything else. Side note, robot mode doesnt suffer from not having the TR spring pop ups to make heads look wider as some of the TR voyagers display fine with the pop ups up anyways so he doesnt look out of place other than the glitter he has been rolling in.
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on February 11th, 2020 @ 11:56am CST
Posted by no-one on February 11th, 2020 @ 11:59am CST
That is a weird question. You'd need a caliper with metric settings to know for sure or just try and shove his neck into a known 5mm hole.Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is going to sound very weird, but has anyone measured the ball joint on Spinister's neck? I got 5mm but I'm going to need a second opinion.
Follow up question:
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on February 11th, 2020 @ 12:12pm CST
carytheone wrote:That is a weird question. You'd need a caliper with metric settings to know for sure or just try and shove his neck into a known 5mm hole.Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is going to sound very weird, but has anyone measured the ball joint on Spinister's neck? I got 5mm but I'm going to need a second opinion.
Follow up question:
Custom idea, want to swap out heads. I did use a caliper, which is how I got my 5mm measurement, but now I'm starting to think it's actually a different size.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on February 11th, 2020 @ 12:49pm CST
Decepticon Stryker wrote:carytheone wrote:That is a weird question. You'd need a caliper with metric settings to know for sure or just try and shove his neck into a known 5mm hole.Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is going to sound very weird, but has anyone measured the ball joint on Spinister's neck? I got 5mm but I'm going to need a second opinion.
Follow up question:
Custom idea, want to swap out heads. I did use a caliper, which is how I got my 5mm measurement, but now I'm starting to think it's actually a different size.
Have you tried sticking the ball into a 5mm port for another figure or accessory? That would at least tell you how close the diameter is to a 5mm post.
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on February 11th, 2020 @ 1:03pm CST
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:carytheone wrote:That is a weird question. You'd need a caliper with metric settings to know for sure or just try and shove his neck into a known 5mm hole.Decepticon Stryker wrote:This is going to sound very weird, but has anyone measured the ball joint on Spinister's neck? I got 5mm but I'm going to need a second opinion.
Follow up question:
Custom idea, want to swap out heads. I did use a caliper, which is how I got my 5mm measurement, but now I'm starting to think it's actually a different size.
Have you tried sticking the ball into a 5mm port for another figure or accessory? That would at least tell you how close the diameter is to a 5mm post.
I tried with a 5mm fist, and it didnt go in smoothly, I stopped out of fear that forcing it would break the neck. I'll have to check again later tonight.
EDIT: Finally was able to check it, turns out it's about 5 1/2 mm. Finding a head is going to be very difficult.
Posted by Rainmaker on February 12th, 2020 @ 12:15am CST
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on February 12th, 2020 @ 1:02am CST
Rainmaker wrote:It's really disappointing that they didn't use the same size for the blast effects as the titanmaster pegs
Eh, not really. That would have been a bit too tiny to work with the soft plastic reliably, I think.
What I think is a shame is that they never made grab bags of the blast effects. Especially when combined with the fact that the Decepticon Battle Masters largely came with orange and red blast effects rather than purple.
Posted by aronjlove on February 12th, 2020 @ 1:29pm CST
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on February 13th, 2020 @ 1:02pm CST
There's still so many figures I need... Including three Refraktors (never seen him in a store even once), Spinister, etc... I wonder if T30 Springer for a SIEGE Deluxe would be a fair trade.
And I hope Hasbro reissues Greenlight.
Posted by Counterpunch on February 13th, 2020 @ 2:31pm CST
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on February 13th, 2020 @ 3:31pm CST
The kit for Galaxy Upgrade Optimus, on the other hand.. That's making me actually kinda want the figure. Galaxy Upgrade's still not a patch on the real deal, but... Would be more fun with something that made him feel like less of a cheesy knockoff of it.
Posted by Counterpunch on February 13th, 2020 @ 3:38pm CST
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I find the DNA kit for Magnus utterly uninteresting. Now, if they were to do make a whole new trailer that could fit 4 deluxes and turned him from Leader-class to Commander-class, that would be something. But since they can't even be arsed to do a new foot upgrade for Fort Max that accounts for Cog, I shouldn't be surprised. HasTak will probably make such a trailer themselves before any of the 3P layabouts get to it.
I don't understand the agro...
It's $20 for two accessories and wholly new transforming legs. In the kit world, that's like a Swiss army knife.
Posted by aronjlove on February 13th, 2020 @ 3:44pm CST
I'm avoiding labels, only because I know I would screw up the application so ain't gonna bother, but the DNA kits intrigue me. How hard was swapping the legs?Counterpunch wrote:DNA kit on him, with Reprolabels, and DR. Wu fillers.
Posted by ZeldaTheSwordsman on February 13th, 2020 @ 3:58pm CST
And it's frustrating that they still haven't refined their Fort Max foot upgrade kit to account for Cog.
Posted by Rainmaker on February 13th, 2020 @ 4:51pm CST
Posted by Ebonsaber on February 13th, 2020 @ 6:07pm CST
Posted by Hellscream9999 on February 13th, 2020 @ 6:46pm CST
Ebonsaber wrote:Kinda think Jetfire's chesplate is a subtle homage to Macross' Armored Valkyrie and now wish there's a 3p add on made to complete the look. Utilizing C.O.M.B.A.T. feels inadequate...
We live in a dark world where that many guns on one giant robot is inadequate