What to look for from the Club this coming year

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 11:18AM CDT

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On the Transformers Collectors Club Forums, Pete@Botcon has posted about what to possibly expect from the club this coming year. Though it is pretty vague for the most part, one part does stand out:

As far as the incentive figure, right now we are still hashing out the story. Once we have done that we will decide on the toy. We have a few ideas in mind and I really can't say much as far as who or what we are looking at. Part of it depends on the direction the brand is going as well, so as always, there are a lot of factors. I can say that the ideas we have been throwing around are pretty wild and would be doing something that would kind of throw people for a loop (we like doing that )

Now Club Exclusives. I know it is the standard response, but we are working on them. The guys and I got together and came up with some very cool ideas. One of them is WAYYYY out there, way out of the box lol. One is an automatic in my opinion. So we'll see. They will go to the Bro' and then we will go from there...

So the short answer is yes, we are working on more plastic crack, that is for sure. Brian and I have talked about us needing to get the club toys up to speed and we are working on it. We are always open to suggestions too. If you have an idea or two, post them. I have read through the idea threads many times...

Now, other improvements. We are looking at new board software. I will actually be getting back to that here this week.

I have some ideas for the Members only page. That is on my list as well.

Hope that answered a little bit. I will take more questions in this thread...

- Pete

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Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896849)
Posted by Prime Evil on March 11th, 2009 @ 11:24am CDT

The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896856)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 11th, 2009 @ 11:46am CDT

Prime Evil wrote:The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Nah, I was thinking that he meant Classics Cyclonus into Classics Strafe. That's an obvious one isn't it?

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896859)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 11th, 2009 @ 11:48am CDT

tigertracks 24 wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Nah, I was thinking that he meant Classics Cyclonus into Classics Strafe. That's an obvious one isn't it?

I really doubt they'd do that when they could go for SG Cyclonus.

But I do think that we're looking at Punch...finally.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896862)
Posted by Mkall on March 11th, 2009 @ 11:49am CDT

tigertracks 24 wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Nah, I was thinking that he meant Classics Cyclonus into Classics Strafe. That's an obvious one isn't it?

I was thinking Hound into Swindle, but I suppose what I would see as automatic wouldn't be the same the Club's thought.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896870)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 11th, 2009 @ 11:59am CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Nah, I was thinking that he meant Classics Cyclonus into Classics Strafe. That's an obvious one isn't it?

I really doubt they'd do that when they could go for SG Cyclonus.

But I do think that we're looking at Punch...finally.

^sarcasm^

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896873)
Posted by Prime Evil on March 11th, 2009 @ 12:08pm CDT

Oooor, we can get Detritus from the Hound mold.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896879)
Posted by Editor on March 11th, 2009 @ 12:22pm CDT

Prime Evil wrote:Oooor, we can get Detritus from the Hound mold.

Ooooor, we can get Overcharge from the Animated Blitzwing. :twisted:

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896890)
Posted by godmagnus1 on March 11th, 2009 @ 12:50pm CDT

G2 Stunticons and/or protectobots would be nice. But with better plastic/quality control than the seacons.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896892)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:00pm CDT

godmagnus1 wrote:G2 Stunticons and/or protectobots would be nice. But with better plastic/quality control than the seacons.

They would not only be nice, they would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

I would by like 5 sets of each...well maybe two.

Still, I don't think they are the 'obvious one' that Pete was talking about. The out there ideas are kind of scary, but you have to imagine that they would not do anything that they did not think would have a high possibility of selling a lot of items.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896894)
Posted by Mkall on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:01pm CDT

tigertracks 24 wrote:
godmagnus1 wrote:G2 Stunticons and/or protectobots would be nice. But with better plastic/quality control than the seacons.

They would not only be nice, they would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

I would by like 5 sets of each...well maybe two.

Still, I don't think they are the 'obvious one' that Pete was talking about. The out there ideas are kind of scary, but you have to imagine that they would not do anything that they did not think would have a high possibility of selling a lot of items.

I think Optimus Primal said it best: "Sometimes crazy works"

I guess time will tell.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896898)
Posted by Savage on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:13pm CDT

tigertracks 24 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:The comment "One is an automatic in my opinion" makes me hopeful that we're gonna get a Punch/Counter punch from cls/uni Sunstreaker/Sideswipe mold!!

Nah, I was thinking that he meant Classics Cyclonus into Classics Strafe. That's an obvious one isn't it?

I really doubt they'd do that when they could go for SG Cyclonus.

But I do think that we're looking at Punch...finally.

^sarcasm^

If the Club did Classics Strafe, it would be BotCon07 Seekers all over again. "I had to pay $$$ and jump through five fiery hoops to get this thing from Japan, and now it's worth crap!"

Seriously though, if they do PCP I will take back every bad thing I ever thought about the Club.

PS- Read that sentence again without the TF connotation of PCP.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896901)
Posted by UltraPrimal on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:18pm CDT

Basically, that whole thing is a long way of saying, "We're working on stuff, but we won't tell you what."

And if they're looking for ideas I gave a couple in my posts in the Landshark thread. :roll:

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896909)
Posted by Scaleface on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:40pm CDT

Since the pattern for a $40 club exclusive each year has been a Deluxe with a new head, I figured that's be what we will get. The obvious choice is the most popular minor character to pop up in club fiction lately who fits that description - Shattered Glass Ratchet, who appeared in Dungeons & Dinobots! I'd love to get him and a mini-comic, with a story spotlighting him in it. Evil doctor Frankenstein theme story. Maybe he could make the Shattered Glass Autobot X in th comic?

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896918)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:54pm CDT

Savage wrote:Seriously though, if they do PCP I will take back every bad thing I ever thought about the Club.

I'm married now. Which means only one person gets to just 'do me' any ole time they want.

I through whoring myself out to the bored housewives Club!

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896921)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 11th, 2009 @ 1:58pm CDT

Maybe Animated Prime in Ultra Magnus colors?

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896923)
Posted by Savage on March 11th, 2009 @ 2:01pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
Savage wrote:Seriously though, if they do PCP I will take back every bad thing I ever thought about the Club.

I'm married now. Which means only one person gets to just 'do me' any ole time they want.

I through whoring myself out to the bored housewives Club!

lol, I was actually going for PCP the narcotic there. I somehow got the mental image of the Club guys running up and down walls and benchpressing cars.

Although, by buying the Club figures, aren't we all whoring ourselves out to the Club? We're crackwhores. Our crack just happens to be plastic.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896931)
Posted by Scaleface on March 11th, 2009 @ 2:12pm CDT

If the club takes a lesson from the "wizards" at Hasbro who came up with two different sets of movie Constructicons, they can just make two different remolds of Classic Sunstreaker. One turns into Punch, the other into Counterpunch. You just have to purchase both figures and then play with the one that fits which form you want to use. ;-)

Watch out for Hasbro's new line of "Robot Copouts" next fall, where they completely forgoe transforming toys all together and just put a non-Transforming robot and a non-transforming car in the same box and tell kids to just pretend it changes back and forth.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896946)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 11th, 2009 @ 2:42pm CDT

BTW guys, the 'obvious' figure will be Universe Leo Prime done up as Predicon Razorclaw.

bet it.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (896990)
Posted by Burn on March 11th, 2009 @ 3:40pm CDT

nah, it's clearly obvious they're going to do a repaint of Cybertron Defense Red Alert into Stalker.

Forget the fact they've already used the mold.

Oh and I also expect the club to continue to alienate it's foreign members. But hey, it's nice to see they're looking into new forum software. The current one they have sucks.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897042)
Posted by Editor on March 11th, 2009 @ 5:45pm CDT

After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897277)
Posted by SJ21 on March 12th, 2009 @ 10:27am CDT

Editor wrote:After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Good call. I thought the same thing when I read that comic this morning.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897281)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 12th, 2009 @ 10:48am CDT

SJ21 wrote:
Editor wrote:After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Good call. I thought the same thing when I read that comic this morning.

I seriously hope not.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897299)
Posted by Editor on March 12th, 2009 @ 11:43am CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
SJ21 wrote:
Editor wrote:After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Good call. I thought the same thing when I read that comic this morning.

I seriously hope not.

Can you seriously think that after that comic was posted and they gave him that body that the Club can't be thinking about it?

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897303)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 12th, 2009 @ 12:00pm CDT

Editor wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
SJ21 wrote:
Editor wrote:After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Good call. I thought the same thing when I read that comic this morning.

I seriously hope not.

Can you seriously think that after that comic was posted and they gave him that body that the Club can't be thinking about it?

Elita-1 is my answer to that.

"hrm? What Elita-1? What are you talking about?"

Exactly.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897309)
Posted by Editor on March 12th, 2009 @ 12:13pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:Elita-1 is my answer to that.

"hrm? What Elita-1? What are you talking about?"

Exactly.

A valid point.

Have they ever said what the deal with her was?
Attempted Bot-con release that got snafu'd?
Possible Club release?

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897318)
Posted by Prime Evil on March 12th, 2009 @ 12:17pm CDT

Editor wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
SJ21 wrote:
Editor wrote:After looking at "The Desert Heat"

My money is on Shattered Soundwave redeco of Classics Ironhide.

Good call. I thought the same thing when I read that comic this morning.

I seriously hope not.

Can you seriously think that after that comic was posted and they gave him that body that the Club can't be thinking about it?

You guys aren't around the clubs much are ya?

That's nothing new. They do that all the time with their fiction. Did you know that they have E-Energon Inferno/Roadblock as SG Ratchet in their fiction? E-Shockwave redone as Cryotek? So this Soundwave that you see is just one of many that the club just tosses around. Hell, they have a whoole squad of characters that use the Cyb Swerve mold, as their Max Cops corp. Not saying that it's not gonna happen, but I highly doubt it.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897328)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 12th, 2009 @ 12:27pm CDT

Prime Evil wrote:You guys aren't around the clubs much are ya?

There's only so many times I can punch myself in the face you know...

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897335)
Posted by Prime Evil on March 12th, 2009 @ 12:37pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:You guys aren't around the clubs much are ya?

There's only so many times I can punch myself in the face you know...

We talking about the overall club or that one particular annoyance that keeps on posting pointless nonsense? Cause that kid is startin to annoy me.

I personlly enjoy a swift kick to the nads everyso often. :p

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897351)
Posted by Scaleface on March 12th, 2009 @ 1:17pm CDT

Pete said on the Club message board they have no current intention to make a toy for this Soundwave. They just thought it would be nice to have his earth form look like an existing mold rather than make something up. If somehow there is demand for it in the future they can consider it though.

So of the deluxe sized characters who appeared in the club fiction with new head molds we have seen Classic Elita One, Deluxe Ratchet and now SG earth mode Soundwave. Could be any of those guys or someone else.

Re: What to look for from the Club this coming year (897355)
Posted by Editor on March 12th, 2009 @ 1:25pm CDT

Counterpunch wrote:
Prime Evil wrote:You guys aren't around the clubs much are ya?

There's only so many times I can punch myself in the face you know...

Ditto, the attitudes of many, plus the stupidity of others, matched in a fourm that thank god will finally get updated, coupled with the fact they can't find my original account so everything was reset when I re-upped, equals headaches I just don't need.