Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Onslaught Hip and Neck Mold Tweak Found

Raintime Rainmaker wrote:Only Onslaught? What about other uses of the mold?

From the official pictures, it looks like UW Onslaught has the fix. I can't tell as far as G2 Onslaught because the pictures don't show him in a static pose, and they could have with Hot Spot but I have no clue, I only ever bought one Hasbro version and he didn't have a fix. Based on a couple pictures I found, the UW version doesn't have it, and they stopped making Hot Spot a while before Onslaught came out.

ZeroWolf wrote:So when do we think we'll get official pictures then? Though if it does turn out to be a platinum, then we have some chance of it turning up in the UK

I am pretty sure official pics will be shown at SDCC

Those pics don't really show anything, am I missing something?

Raintime Rainmaker wrote:Only Onslaught? What about other uses of the mold?

I don't see anything on each figure that is different

Seibertron wrote:I'd also love to see Devastator done in this scale so that he's not the odd man out as a "Titans Class" sized figure.

Same here. I never understood what the problem was with this. It's not difficult. All they had to do was shrink the dimensions of the mold, and press 6 deluxe-size figures instead of 6 voyager-sized ones. The figures themselves are fairly simple, Hasbro wouldn't have had to sacrifice accuracy or functionality to downsize them. And even with 6 deluxe members, Devastator would be bigger (but not by much) than the others.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'd also love to see Devastator done in this scale so that he's not the odd man out as a "Titans Class" sized figure.

Same here. I never understood what the problem was with this. It's not difficult. All they had to do was shrink the dimensions of the mold, and press 6 deluxe-size figures instead of 6 voyager-sized ones. The figures themselves are fairly simple, Hasbro wouldn't have had to sacrifice accuracy or functionality to downsize them. And even with 6 deluxe members, Devastator would be bigger (but not by much) than the others.

I'm on the fence with this issue.
Part of me feels Devastator most definitely deserves to be a huge figure, even if he isn't in scale with the others.
Then I also wonder if Hasbro could've added elbow joints if the figures were scaled-down...
Even with 6 figures instead of 5, they'd be saving a little on less plastic, etc.
Dev's wrists and hands are probably a wash with CW hand & feet parts...

I don't know... Probably would be cool to have a set that's relatively in-scale with the rest.
But, what we got is pretty dang awesome.
Even though I'm keeping mine combined, the individual bots are incredible.
I'm saying this about the Hasbro version sans some elbow joints!
Yeah, there are a couple things I wish could be better,
but overall I'm extremely happy with this set.
Think about the "Classics" Devastator. And no offense to anyone who likes that set.
But comparing it to this CW release... That's kind of a joke.

Next time we get Constructicons, I bet it will be a smaller set.
"Next time" meaning 6-8 years from now... You know, a few years after we get Abominus and Piranacon!

Rodimus Prime wrote:No, never cared for Classics Devy. And I'm not saying Titan Devy is bad, he's not. Especially with the PC-06 Prowlastator add-on, it's awesome. But I don't see why he couldn't have been also deluxe-sized. I understand Hasbro did the Titan Class for the collectors, but I think deluxe-sized would have sold just as well in stores, the pieces would have been more affordable.

Yeah, the add-on sets I have make the set even sweeter... Not completely necessary, but does take it up a notch.
Deluxe-sized figures were of course possible, but again, I can't really complain about what we got.
Me personally, I wouldn't enjoy this set more if it was in-scale with the other combiners.
Even once I get to display these guys, I think it's going to look just as cool.
And yeah, I'm a bit bias because he's my favorite. I'm sure that plays into this a bit.

In terms of price, without the add-on sets, I spent $130 (before shipping)...
I have to wonder what the cost would've been for 6 deluxe-sized figures, and presumably still a slightly larger figure overall than the others. Probably bigger/more packaging as well.
Compared to the $100 price tag of the others, I don't see how a smaller Devastator would've been any cheaper than $120 anyway.

Fingers crossed for these two things:

1. We get an awesome Omega Supreme that's Titan class that kinda helps balance-out Dev's size for those who are concerned about scale.
2. We get both Abominus and Piranacon sooner than later (I'm betting at deluxe limb-figure size), that uses the EXACT same combining system to increase the scramble-bility of all of these other sets. Also keeping in-scale with all of these CW/UW sets.

I have absolutely no doubt the other combiners would be one Voyager + four deluxes and maybe a legend. Combiner Wars 2 looks like a stark possibility and I'm expecting Predaking and Abominus from it up front.
Something I'm indirectly excited about though is that they have to fit some autobots and repaints in there and they've done all three G1 Autobot combiners outside of some obscure japan-exclusive guys. And what easier repaint would there be than Razorclaw into Leo Prime? Leo Prime combiner

Kurona wrote:I have absolutely no doubt the other combiners would be one Voyager + four deluxes and maybe a legend. Combiner Wars 2 looks like a stark possibility and I'm expecting Predaking and Abominus from it up front.
Something I'm indirectly excited about though is that they have to fit some autobots and repaints in there and they've done all three G1 Autobot combiners outside of some obscure japan-exclusive guys. And what easier repaint would there be than Razorclaw into Leo Prime? Leo Prime combiner

Agreed... As much as I thought maybe Predaking would've been Titan class, I don't think that will work with a 5 member team. I don't think Razorclaw being a leader-class figure would work.

And yeah, we all know there will be re-paints. Which makes me think they could do some out-of-left-field Beast Wars combiner with Maximal characters somehow. Which maybe doesn't make logistical sense for us, but--
It enables Hasbro to get their $$$ out of molds.
More figures that can combine with our current/past releases should help increase sales.
It may help justify releasing "beastformers"; these may not be the best, most accurate representations, but Hasbro can say, "We wanted to finally make some of these characters, and at the same time, we were looking into the future...bs.....bs.......bs...".
And just like Groove's alt mode isn't in scale with his teammates', I guarantee the same thing will happen with limb figure alt modes for animals or "beasts".
And we'll deal with it!

I just hate that any of this is definitely on hold for at least a couple years...
I have to start telling myself that maybe something from the Last Knight line will be good.

ZeroWolf wrote:I would be down for more combiner wars stuff and two new animal bot/maximal combiners but you know who else I would like to see? Monstructor.

I'm all for a Monstructor as well, and it would fit into the "Beastformer" line perfectly.
The alt modes would definitely need an updating, but I think that would be really cool.
Not to mention, it would be more molds to potentially work with.
I would think they'd need to take one of the 2 torso figures and scale it down to Legends class, but if that's what has to happen to get this guy, I'd be okay with that.

edit: Also, I don't know how Hasbro could pull-off the different colored upper legs in combined form assuming they use the current combining system.
But if that didn't happen, I wouldn't mind too much.