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New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak

Posted by D-Maximal_Primal Nov 21, 2016 at 10:54pm CST 88,804 views
With the Club Subscription Service slowly drawing to a close, we bring to you tonight our latest galleries, that of the Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak!

Impactor is a retool of Combiner Wars Rook with a fresh new headsculpt that captures the shear determination in the Wrecker Commander's face. He is the second official Impactor toy, behind only his Fall of Cybertron counterpart - who was also part of a combiner - and is the club's sixth subscription figure.

Bluestreak is a repaint of Combiner Wars Prowl and Smokescreen, and this is his first time as being a combiner limb. This Bluestreak also uses the rarely seen "blue" Bluestreak paint job, and he fits right in with the Wreckers as well, considering his personality is that of a sniper. He is the club bonus figure for the 4.0 service.

Check out the preview of the galleries below, and you can go to the full galleries by clicking any one of the images below!

Subscription Service Impactor (158 images) - Combiners, Deluxe Class, Subscription Service

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Subscription Service Bluestreak (109 images) - Deluxe Class

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Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 22, 2016
Can't wait to see Impactor's new team of Wreckers all together once the rest of them get released (Counterpunch, Fractyl, and Toxitron, while Alpha Bravo and Offroad are both deceased now).

And then they shall Wreck and Rule once they combine into the mighty monstrosity created to fight Thunder Mayhem: Wreckage!!!

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His gallery's gonna be so epic once the rest of his components get released. 8-)
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by RNSrobot Nov 22, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:Can't wait to see Impactor's new team of Wreckers all together once the rest of them get released (Counterpunch, Fractyl, and Toxitron, while Alpha Bravo and Offroad are both deceased now).

And then they shall Wreck and Rule once they combine into the mighty monstrosity created to fight Thunder Mayhem: Wreckage!!!

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His gallery's gonna be so epic once the rest of his components get released. 8-)


I'm also really looking forward to Wreckage, especially Fractyl and Counterpunch.

So, does Fractyl not come with an HFG? I remember reading that Terrorsaur didn't come with one; does that carry over? And negated by using the sword as the Impactor-esque harpoon.

Does Toxitron have a new robot head, while using the Optimus Maximus combiner head on the Motormaster body? Can't recall.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 22, 2016
RNSrobot wrote:So, does Fractyl not come with an HFG? I remember reading that Terrorsaur didn't come with one; does that carry over? And negated by using the sword as the Impactor-esque harpoon.
Fractyl should have a HFG. The use of Toxitron's sword as Wreckage's own Impactor-esque harpoon is just a little creativity on the Club's part. When Wreckage was previously formed with Alpha Bravo and Offroad instead of Impactor and Bluestreak, he had two normal hands.

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RNSrobot wrote:Does Toxitron have a new robot head, while using the Optimus Maximus combiner head on the Motormaster body? Can't recall.
Toxitron uses the Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus combiner head on the Motormaster body, and had a Hasbro-made pretooled standard robot head that was originally intended for a potential CW Nemesis Prime. But when Takara went and made their UW Grand Scourge figure, any plans for a CW Nemesis Prime by Fun Pub were scrapped since Grand Scourge was essentially the same concept, so Fun Pub went instead with using the Nemesis head for a different evil Optimus lookalike: Toxitron.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by RNSrobot Nov 22, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:
RNSrobot wrote:So, does Fractyl not come with an HFG? I remember reading that Terrorsaur didn't come with one; does that carry over? And negated by using the sword as the Impactor-esque harpoon.
Fractyl should have a HFG. The use of Toxitron's sword as Wreckage's own Impactor-esque harpoon is just a little creativity on the Club's part. When Wreckaged was previously formed with Alpha Bravo and Offroad instead of Impactor and Bluestreak, he had two normal hands.

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RNSrobot wrote:Does Toxitron have a new robot head, while using the Optimus Maximus combiner head on the Motormaster body? Can't recall.
Toxitron uses the Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus combiner head on the Motormaster body, and had a Hasbro-made pretooled standard robot head that was originally intended for a potential CW Nemesis Prime. But when Takara went and made their UW Grand Scourge figure, any plans for a CW Nemesis Prime by Fun Pub were scrapped since Grand Scourge was essentially the same concept, so Fun Pub went instead with using the Nemesis head for a different evil Optimus lookalike: Toxitron.


Beautiful!

The Counterpunch head is also a pretooled head that went unused, correct? Has anybody identified who it might have been for?
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by WreckerJack Nov 22, 2016
I like the colors on Impactor. I always thought his mohawk looked really neat. Kinda bummed he doesn't have his construction stripes though.

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Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Hydrargyrus Nov 22, 2016
I always thought Bluestreak would be nice as a sniper (with blue energy ammunition), which seems to be kind of what they're going for here (albeit with his name coming from stealth technology rather than a sniper rifle).
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Nexus Knight Nov 22, 2016
TFwiki.net wrote:Part of the fifth portion of TFSS 5.0 toys, Fractyl is a redeco of BotCon 2016 Terrorsaur, who himself is a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Air Raid, who is in turn a retool of Skydive, and he transforms into a green F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. He is also capable of turning into an arm or leg for any Combiner Wars Voyager Class figure, but does not come with the usual hand/foot/gun accessory. Fractyl comes with Scorponok, who is a redeco of Generations Scamper.


If TFwiki is to be believed. But there's nothing that says you couldn't use someone else's HGF bit. ;)
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 22, 2016
Nexus Knight wrote:
TFwiki.net wrote:Part of the fifth portion of TFSS 5.0 toys, Fractyl is a redeco of BotCon 2016 Terrorsaur, who himself is a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Air Raid, who is in turn a retool of Skydive, and he transforms into a green F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. He is also capable of turning into an arm or leg for any Combiner Wars Voyager Class figure, but does not come with the usual hand/foot/gun accessory. Fractyl comes with Scorponok, who is a redeco of Generations Scamper.


If TFwiki is to be believed. But there's nothing that says you couldn't use someone else's HGF bit. ;)
I'll look into that and check that line's validity.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by RNSrobot Nov 22, 2016
I need to dig out the impactor instructions with the pic of wreckage, but iirc the instructions show impactor's "rook" hfg positioned as a shoulder cannon --- not as wreckage's foot (in lieu of fractyl coming with his own). The two cars have their appropriate hfg.

Why exactly did terrorsaur NOT come with one?
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 22, 2016
RNSrobot wrote:Why exactly did terrorsaur NOT come with one?
The simplest answer given was that the factories simply didn't include it when they produced the figure.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Kurona Nov 22, 2016
RNSrobot wrote:I need to dig out the impactor instructions with the pic of wreckage, but iirc the instructions show impactor's "rook" hfg positioned as a shoulder cannon --- not as wreckage's foot (in lieu of fractyl coming with his own). The two cars have their appropriate hfg.

Why exactly did terrorsaur NOT come with one?

My assumption would be that unlike every other single-carded Combiner Wars limb releases, Terrorsaur simply doesn't have a designated/intended team to go with.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Emerje Nov 22, 2016
Nexus Knight wrote:
TFwiki.net wrote:Part of the fifth portion of TFSS 5.0 toys, Fractyl is a redeco of BotCon 2016 Terrorsaur, who himself is a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Air Raid, who is in turn a retool of Skydive, and he transforms into a green F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. He is also capable of turning into an arm or leg for any Combiner Wars Voyager Class figure, but does not come with the usual hand/foot/gun accessory. Fractyl comes with Scorponok, who is a redeco of Generations Scamper.


If TFwiki is to be believed. But there's nothing that says you couldn't use someone else's HGF bit. ;)

Kinda strange that he'd come with Scorponok and not Sandstorm isn't it? What's the relationship with Scorponok? Just another piece for the Dawn of Future's Past set?

Emerje
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Nov 22, 2016
I love the artwork. Wish the toy looked that awesome
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 22, 2016
Emerje wrote:
Nexus Knight wrote:
TFwiki.net wrote:Part of the fifth portion of TFSS 5.0 toys, Fractyl is a redeco of BotCon 2016 Terrorsaur, who himself is a retool of Generations Combiner Wars Air Raid, who is in turn a retool of Skydive, and he transforms into a green F-14 Tomcat fighter jet. He is also capable of turning into an arm or leg for any Combiner Wars Voyager Class figure, but does not come with the usual hand/foot/gun accessory. Fractyl comes with Scorponok, who is a redeco of Generations Scamper.


If TFwiki is to be believed. But there's nothing that says you couldn't use someone else's HGF bit. ;)

Kinda strange that he'd come with Scorponok and not Sandstorm isn't it? What's the relationship with Scorponok? Just another piece for the Dawn of Future's Past set?

Emerje
The purpose of including Scorponok was to finally complete the cast of pre-beast Beast Wars characters from the show, as Scorponok was the last one needing to be done. The Scamper mold is considered an accessory, rather than a whole figure on its own, by Hasbro, so that status enabled Scorponok to be included in the TFSS 5.0 as an accessory to one of the six main figures rather than taking up a whole figure slot of its own.

As for why Scorponok was included with Fractyl specifically instead of with any of the others, Fractyl's the only character in the set who was originally a Beast Wars character, so I guess it made sense to package one BW character with another BW character.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by TF_JW Nov 23, 2016
With how many times I've pushed for the correct color for it, Fractyl had better come with a HFG!!
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Nov 23, 2016
On the subject of Counterpunch's head, did Hasbro ever tell the Club who those heads were originally planned to be for? Reflector and "Nemesis Prime" were easy to guess, but Rook's (Brawl-like head) and Wheeljack's (used for Counterpunch) are less so.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by RNSrobot Nov 23, 2016
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:On the subject of Counterpunch's head, did Hasbro ever tell the Club who those heads were originally planned to be for? Reflector and "Nemesis Prime" were easy to guess, but Rook's (Brawl-like head) and Wheeljack's (used for Counterpunch) are less so.


Which Rook had a new head?

Yeah, I've been wondering the same for the Counterpunch head.
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Nov 23, 2016
RNSrobot wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:On the subject of Counterpunch's head, did Hasbro ever tell the Club who those heads were originally planned to be for? Reflector and "Nemesis Prime" were easy to guess, but Rook's (Brawl-like head) and Wheeljack's (used for Counterpunch) are less so.


Which Rook had a new head?

Yeah, I've been wondering the same for the Counterpunch head.


CW Rook has an alternate head that resembles Brawl's. So far it has only seen use in Club fiction, look up Shattered Glass X-Brawn:

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Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by TF_JW Nov 23, 2016
Counterpunch was designed as Counterpunch. Like Reflector and Ratchet, he was one of the suggestions made by the design team to Fun Pub.

As far as Rook's alternate head... OMAM and its prose stories were sort of like the Club's take on Combiner Wars, weren't they? I wonder if there were any hints in there?
Re: New Galleries: Club Subscription 4.0 Impactor and Bluestreak (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Nov 23, 2016
TF_JW wrote:As far as Rook's alternate head... OMAM and its prose stories were sort of like the Club's take on Combiner Wars, weren't they? I wonder if there were any hints in there?
Ironclad, yes.
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