New Galleries: Club Subscription Service 3.0 Nightracer with Shakar and BotCon 1995 Nightracer

What gun is that?
Also, on the Seeker mold subject: They need to come out with a suitable updated mold, yeah. This one got alot of use but it's time to let them cook up a worthy successor.

Rated X wrote:We should have gotten Redwing...

But instead we got this...

Yes, because a generic who existed for all of ONE PANEL in a comic with no lines, characterization or anything else, and only got a name because of the nagging of an overly obsessed fan TOTALLY deserves a new toy more than one of the first ever female Transformers toys, who also happened to be the creation of Raksha, one of the organizers of BotCon 1995. You'd get on just fine; she's a major GEEWUNer who hates Beast Wars and everything that followed it.

Delta Magnus wrote:

Rated X wrote:We should have gotten Redwing...

But instead we got this...

Yes, because a generic who existed for all of ONE PANEL in a comic with no lines, characterization or anything else, and only got a name because of the nagging of an overly obsessed fan TOTALLY deserves a new toy more than one of the first ever female Transformers toys, who also happened to be the creation of Raksha, one of the organizers of BotCon 1995. You'd get on just fine; she's a major GEEWUNer who hates Beast Wars and everything that followed it.

Don't forget that Red Wing was also shot in the back of the head and was not shown again after that.

This mold for Nightracer is starting to grow on me. Too bad they couldn't remold the head. I like the round helmet she had in the comic as opposed to this pointy square one.

Botcon 1995 Nightracer: one of few toys I have no plans on ever opening because, I mean, why? Own so many Spychangers! Might grab that Whizbang version one day to have one out, and leave the real deal sealed up. Guy I bought it from had set it up like a bagged/boarded comic and that's been a great way to keep it nice!

The gun I gave Nightracer is an extra Action Master Jackpot gun I had in my gigantic tub of extra/miscellaneous Transformers parts from the Seibertron.com Store. The smaller peg is actually broken on it, but the larger 5mm peg is still in tact which worked out perfectly for ol' Nightracer here. It's a really close shade of blue to the blue plastic used on Nightracer. Not a 100% match, but it's really damn close.

megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?

Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?

Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?

Who said they have to match, period?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

megatronus wrote:It's interesting that the Club chose that Nightracer not match Krok's color scheme. I guess they wanted her deco to match the comic rather than the original toy?

Why would Krok and Nightracer have to match, period?

They should both have the yellowish green plastic, like Krok has. Instead, they went with the color scheme that Raksha apparently wanted originally for Nightracer, but Hasbro presented them with the yellowish green with black instead of blue and black like she had wanted.

With that said, I would have preferred to have the yellowish green myself because that's what the original toy was. I'm not sure I understand the point of doing it like Raksha originally wanted/intended for Nightracer to be because now the new toy doesn't really look like the original toy, which is all I care about and I'm assuming most of you would have preferred to have it look like the original toy as well. I also think it's odd to have made an anagram of Raksha's name for the Mini-Con/Micromaster figure. I'd get it more if Raksha was was still a prominent person in the Transformers community after the 90s or if Transformers names were commonly derived from prominent people involved with the Transformers brand.

Altogether, it strikes me as an homage that is a real big stretch with some very odd fandom ties to people who, to the best of my knowledge, aren't involved with Transformers much any more.

Though I will second someone's comment above that Raksha and Rated X have some similar views regarding their passion for G1, though Raksha's take on the Decepticons being the real good guys is definitely a different angle, one which I don't think Rated X would care much for.

If you aren't familiar with Raksha, check out this article she wrote for my Trans-Forum fanzine that I did pre-Seibertron.com during the late 90s. Her article from the June 13th, 1997 issue of Trans-Forum was titled "The Real Heroes of the Story".

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/the-real-heroes-of-the-story/18267/

Seibertron wrote:With that said, I would have preferred to have the yellowish green myself because that's what the original toy was. I'm not sure I understand the point of doing it like Raksha originally wanted/intended for Nightracer to be because now the new toy doesn't really look like the original toy, which is all I care about and I'm assuming most of you would have preferred to have it look like the original toy as well.

I think it's neat that we finally have a toy of Nightracer in the deco she was meant to have instead of the one she got. Sure, it means that this character now has two decos to her name, but her new toy having the original planned deco gives her a look that we never got in toy form before and doesn't take away from the 1995 toy still having its deco.

I liken this situation to the Tripredacus Council toys we're getting for BotCon next year. Sure, they aren't in the decos of their original toys, but they are in a deco based on something else that we never got before and doesn't take away from the original toys having the decos they had.

And, well, there is the 2012-2014 TCC comic fiction that had her in the original planned deco, both in the G2 GoBot body and in the Tailgate body, so there is some fictional precedence:



Plus, Shakar's deco does pay some homage to the 1995 Nightracer toy deco with its yellow paint apps.

Seibertron wrote:I also think it's odd to have made an anagram of Raksha's name for the Mini-Con/Micromaster figure. I'd get it more if Raksha was was still a prominent person in the Transformers community after the 90s.

Altogether, it strikes me as an homage that is a real big stretch with some very odd fandom ties to people who, to the best of my knowledge, aren't involved with Transformers much any more.

I'm told she's still friends with some of the Fun Pub Club staff and has been a dealer at the BotCons of recent years.