Old Fun Publications Figure Concepts - Nightbeat, Brainstorm, Crosshair, Triggerhappy

Zeedust wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Zeedust wrote:Although the mystery figure could theoretically turn out to be someone who was in the story, so I'd hold off on placing it.

I honestly can't think of who, though. I mean, I can't think of anyone who appeared in either the prose stories or the comics who had a CW toy body and wasn't one of the already-known TFSS 4.0 or 5.0 figures.

Me either, but it's certainly possible that we're forgetting someone. Alternatively, they could throw us a curveball; it could be someone whose body type was left unspecified or vague, or someone from outside the "Of Masters and Mayhem" storyline (all that comes to mind are the Shattered Glass Knights of Unicron, but again, I may be forgetting someone). I don't think it's particularly likely, but improbable doesn't mean impossible.

Yeah, at this point, a curveball is what I'm expecting, rather than someone known from any of the final TCC fiction (OMAM, BWU, SG, etc.).

Those all look really good! For the time these would have come out and the molds available then, they are great-looking figures, and I would have been all over them.

I think my favorite is Brainstorm from Universe Cyclonus. That just seems to nail the figure as well as you can without a new mold. I love how the colors look.

Those Crosshairs and Brainstorm concepts are frickin' amazing!

Bumblebee21 wrote:probably didnt come out because of the tr versions

Considering the molds that were chosen, and that the Crosshairs one was conceived prior to 2014, I'd say these were all conceived long before Titans Return was known to be a thing.

these look great, but im satisfied with the figures we've received at retail
i'm 70% certain we'll get Crosshairs as a retool of TR Kup

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Some of these are neat. That Crosshairs makes far better use of that mold than Kup does.

Brainstorm works oddly well from that Cyclonus mold.

And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)

you dont like triggerhappy
what...........
the best deluxe of the line

Interesting but the smokescreen repaint I want is a blue one from Beast Hunters and also i'd like a RID 12 or First Edition Bumblebee in his show accurate black (no spikes) I keep hoping Takara will slip those into the adventure line of millionaire publishing line or something like that.

If you don't like TR Triggerhappy I suggest a new hobby may be in order like Macrame.

Well just got an idea for a TR Digibash

Nightbeat: The Smokescreen car mold is seriously sexy (I never had the issues with transformation that some people complained about) and looks better than the Musclebee retool worked out. The robot mode works as a Prime version of Nightbeat but if it was intended to be G1 it doesn't look right to me.

Crosshairs: This looks about as good as a non-original mold for Crosshairs could look; I could kind of imagine this is how Crosshairs looked on Earth during whatever he was up to before The Rebirth. And I'm a sucker for repaints of Universe Nightstick. And I don't have either of these molds to hand but I'd love to see how Nightstick's robot mode looks lounging in the truck bed.

Brainstorm: I appreciate the concept here but the head, general shape and gun just don't work for the character. Maybe I'd be less fussy if there weren't 2 good versions of this guy released recently. I'd have loved to have seen the spacejet mode for this mockup. On a sidenote, I really love how Cyclonus, probably the most character-specific, unrepurposable mold from Universe was intended for like 4 different guys.

Triggerhappy: In a universe where there wasn't the recent release of a near-perfect original mold Triggerhappy this would have been a neat-ish release.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)

You are of course entitled to your own opinion but I fear you may have done yourself a mis-service by judging this figure by its cover. Triggerhappy is an exemplary figure with a very sophisticated deco for a retail release, a novel transformation (which is impressive for a figure nowadays), two fantastic modes, and a wealth of 5mm sockets. Pretty much the only thing keeping this guy from perfection is the lack of a socket on the top of his spacejet mode.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Some of these are neat. That Crosshairs makes far better use of that mold than Kup does.

Brainstorm works oddly well from that Cyclonus mold.

And that Triggerhappy looks much more interesting than the rather boring Titans Return figure. Sorry the TR figure just didn't even appeal to me enough to open the packaging before I quickly sold it on (as I bought it as the 2nd figure in a buy one get one half price promotion)

Wow...

This is the equivalent of only looking at a movie cover and immediately saying it's crap without watching it I mean opinions and such whatever but you just passed on the best deluxe in years without even opening it up I don't even have a connection with the character and I still have had a complete blast with him over some figures of characters I love.

Why did you buy it in the first place instead of just you know not buying it and picking a different figure instead?


That FOC Seeker mold can rot in hell for awful figure it is except for the weapon the only decent part of it.