Video Review - Transformers Collectors' Club Thrustinator

grimdragon2001 wrote:does anybody know who the free figure for next year is, didnt hear anything about an announcement yet

The 2015 FREE Transformers Collectors' Club Membership Incentive Figure is... Lio Convoy!

Lio Convoy will feature an ALL-NEW head sculpt! The alt mode is fantastic!

Also! Stay tuned for not one, but TWO club exclusives! First reveal next Thursday.

2nd reveal in two weeks and will send shockwaves across fandoms!!!

durroth wrote:odd, but beautiful. only concern: possibly another sacrifice of head size for clearance?

Mkall wrote:It's interesting, but not thrilling.

Who want's to bet we'll see a Predacon mold repainted into Galvatron II?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Mkall wrote:It's interesting, but not thrilling.

Who want's to bet we'll see a Predacon mold repainted into Galvatron II?

I actually would not. None of them match his overall profile, plus I think the Voyagers would be too big for the club to consider at this time.
And who says he'll paired with another release? That only happened twice in non-consecutive years. Didn't the club say they'd make one of the Beast Wars: Uprising characters if one got popular enough?

gothsaurus wrote:Beast Wars "Uprising" ??? Gotta find out what this is....

SW's SilverHammer wrote:So is he working with the club, or are they finally that creatively bankrupt?

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:So is he working with the club, or are they finally that creatively bankrupt?

I on't think he's working with them, but he at least good buds with them.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:So is he working with the club, or are they finally that creatively bankrupt?

I on't think he's working with them, but he at least good buds with them.

Good enough buds to have the club borrow his ideas? He should be asking for perks!

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

How should we take it otherwise though? An alternate "Beast Era" without Beast Modes?

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

How should we take it otherwise though? An alternate "Beast Era" without Beast Modes?

Pretty much.

I'm still not even sure it was a good move of them to use the name "Beast Wars" in the title since it's more like a "Beastless Wars".

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Wow people care about Uprising!?

TheVenocWarlord wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Wow people care about Uprising!?

You kidding? I can't get enough of it. I'm a huge fan of Beast Wars and their Transtech forms.

These Transtech guys are gold to Beast Wars fans, IMO. At least to me. They're almost as good as the BW figures themselves. Now if we could get more guys than Rhinox, Waspinator, and Rattrap, that would be great. Improved Dinobot and CHEETOR would be fantastic.

ScottyP wrote:It's all DofP to me.

Sabrblade wrote:

ScottyP wrote:It's all DofP to me.

Even if they make the Rattrap and Dynobot ones?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TheVenocWarlord wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Really hoping they hop off the pre-Beast Era party boat soon... it was a neat idea at the start, but now it's starting to get a little stale.

Uprising =/= "pre-Beast Wars" (especially not with Trans-Mutate).

Wow people care about Uprising!?

You kidding? I can't get enough of it. I'm a huge fan of Beast Wars and their Transtech forms.

These Transtech guys are gold to Beast Wars fans, IMO. At least to me. They're almost as good as the BW figures themselves. Now if we could get more guys than Rhinox, Waspinator, and Rattrap, that would be great. Improved Dinobot and CHEETOR would be fantastic.

They're not TransTech. Uprising is simply an all-new Universe, with separate versions of our Beast Wars characters. Nothing more.

TheVenocWarlord wrote:Heh, that's still Transtech to me. Beast Wars characters before they get their beast bodies; or in this case, instead of getting beast bodies.

Pete@BotCon wrote:Coincidence this time...

Cheetimus Primal wrote:Does my word count?
It's a coincidence. I know that for a fact.

Cheetimus Primal wrote:For the record I know well in advance when FP is going to use anything I've done. They aren't jerks.

Both Krok and Lio Convoy came from conversations that Pete and I had a while back - Lio Convoy actually came about VERY shortly after the first Orion Pax photos went public (I still have the first proof of concept mock-up made from the hand-painted Hasbro publicity shots) and Krok was right after Megatron was released. Just about this time last year, actually.

Lio Convoy came from me, since I saw a lion's head in the truck mode almost immediately. (My first thought then was Under-3 but I couldn't get the plastic layout to cooperate the way I wanted it to.) I don't remember who had Krok as an idea first, since as Pete mentioned it was a fairly obvious idea to both of us. Him being the huge Actionmaster fan that he is, it was probably him though. And then I added Gatoraider.

Alpha Trizer was another one that came from a conversation between Pete and myself. All the way back to like a week after BotCon 2012 when Hasbro first had shown Thundertron. I remember frantically looking for the best photos from BotCon and the SDCC so that I could make a mock-up for him.

Pounce and Wingspan were all Cheetimus though. Repeating it here in case it hasn't been said.

Sabrblade wrote:

TheVenocWarlord wrote:Heh, that's still Transtech to me. Beast Wars characters before they get their beast bodies; or in this case, instead of getting beast bodies.

But that's not what Transtech is, nor is it even relevant to those examples you mentioned.

TheVenocWarlord wrote:Well, I've only heard the term applied to Beast Wars figures before they got beast modes.

TheVenocWarlord wrote:What else are you going to call these guys?

TheVenocWarlord wrote:But anyway, there are a lot of us happy that Beast Wars and it's extensions are getting more attention.