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Transformers |OT| Transform and roll out...
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DeaconKnowledge
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It would be a neat trick if this new Trypticon could transform into the Nemesis.
No chance of that. But seeing this reminded me on checking out what became of Planet X's FOC Trypticon which actually did transform into the nemesis. Turns out they're splitting it into two parts for some reason. First part is out now for $180, while the second part should come within a couple of months. Looks nice, especially with all the LEDs, but I'm still not 100% sure I want it and I have no idea where to put it.
Weltall Zero
Member
Yeah, I really, really hope there is some way to get her otherwise. I get that Hasbro knows that most MTMTE fans are adults and therefore have more cash, but come on.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Overlord is looking good. Seems like a mixture of the IDW and G1 designs.
Not really liking the look of Nautica's head. I guess her design doesn't translate super well to Titan Master form. No antenna
Metalhawk looks dope, though.
Not really liking the look of Nautica's head. I guess her design doesn't translate super well to Titan Master form. No antenna
Metalhawk looks dope, though.
Yeah, Nautica's awful head really ruins the figure for me. Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll be singlepacked elsewhere down the line with another head. Not holding my breath though.
On the other end of the spectrum, new Windblade seems like a massive improvement over her awful first mold:
On the other end of the spectrum, new Windblade seems like a massive improvement over her awful first mold:
HammerFace
Banned
So I swear a new third party devastator was announced, and it looked amazing but I can't find anything about it. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Weltall Zero
Member
Oh god, that Nautica is terribad. Hard pass even if she's one of my favorite characters. That doesn't even look like her anyway, that's Blurr with two wings glued and an ugly head. On the flip side, now I don't have to worry about that giftset.
This is quite disappointing as I was really looking forward to her, but the cynic in me already knew she would be a half assed retool. This is even below my expectations though.
That Windblade is pretty amazing though. Is it a new mold?
Edit: Windblade's alt mode in case anyone is interested. It does look like a new mold, although it's kind of funny that it has the exact same problem as her original mold, with her legs being rather conspicuous in jet mode.
This is quite disappointing as I was really looking forward to her, but the cynic in me already knew she would be a half assed retool. This is even below my expectations though.
That Windblade is pretty amazing though. Is it a new mold?
Edit: Windblade's alt mode in case anyone is interested. It does look like a new mold, although it's kind of funny that it has the exact same problem as her original mold, with her legs being rather conspicuous in jet mode.
Weltall Zero
Member
Closer / higher res look at Nautica:
Kinda amazing that they have the balls to try to pass this as her. Pretty much the only even vaguely recognizable thing about it is the chin guard.
Windblade works amazingly well as a Titan Master because of her already kind of squarish "hairdo". Also Twin Twist looks great as you guys pointed out. Another new mold? It's hard to keep track considering the crazy deep remolds Hasbro sometimes do when they don't rubberband two puny wings to a character and call it a day.
Kinda amazing that they have the balls to try to pass this as her. Pretty much the only even vaguely recognizable thing about it is the chin guard.
Windblade works amazingly well as a Titan Master because of her already kind of squarish "hairdo". Also Twin Twist looks great as you guys pointed out. Another new mold? It's hard to keep track considering the crazy deep remolds Hasbro sometimes do when they don't rubberband two puny wings to a character and call it a day.
So, uh, check out the lower left there.
Windblade is a retool of TR Highbrow.
That Windblade is pretty amazing though. Is it a new mold?
Edit: Windblade's alt mode in case anyone is interested. It does look like a new mold, although it's kind of funny that it has the exact same problem as her original mold, with her legs being rather conspicuous in jet mode.
Windblade is a retool of TR Highbrow.
There are so many accessories I would love for them to include.So, uh, check out the lower left there.
At the very least, I want the Voyager golden disc and an alternate face with green eyes.
I'd expect the golden disc, a green eye face plus beam effect, maybe battle damage pieces a la Megatron. For super obscure scene recreation bonus points, maybe the severed Tarantulas legs from his "stalked many a victim" Hamlet paraphrase speech.
So, uh, check out the lower left there.
Windblade is a retool of TR Highbrow.
Oh hey Dinbot!
Be nice to get a good quality version of him.
Most of the Hasbro stuff looks pretty good but still suffers from the empty arms/guns issue that drives me batty. The Japan stuff is so much better since they don't have that issue.
Weltall Zero
Member
Wat. I have Highbrow and I don't recognize a single bit of him in her. You mean she has the same transformation scheme?
I hate Bayformers with all my soul but if that's a Deluxe and translates accurately from render to toy, that's nothing short of amazing.
Tizoc
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Lost Light #3 Preview is up! Not 5 pages into this issue and it is already book of the month <3
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/02/17/lost-light-issue-3-full-preview-333591
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/02/17/lost-light-issue-3-full-preview-333591
While I prefer MMC's offering, that Overlord's still pretty nice. Biggest flaw is that like most Headmasters his helmet looks too big for his head.
And I wish Metalhawk looked more like his IDW incarnation, I loved that design.
And Nautica is a travesty. How could they get the head so wrong?!
I love MTME/LL too much
I mean Windblade is a Highbrow retool. There are no new Deluxe molds left in TR. Every single new TR Deluxe being shown at ToyFair is a retool, and Windblade is a retool of the Highbrow mold. This has been known for a while.
Weltall Zero
Member
Yeah, I got your meaning, but what do they have in common? I see not one single part from Highbrow in WIndblade.
Edit: And apparently Highbrow himself is a retool of Scourge, which officially means I'm not capable of recognizing retools even when they're literally staring in my face. Hats of, HasTak.
Weltall Zero
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I only watched the first episode but it felt like I'm a few decades too old to be in the target demographic, more so than with Prime or Animated. However the one thing I really dislike are its toys. Animated had really great toys and some truly amazing ones (I own a large percentage of the entire line), and Prime had some pretty nice ones, but virtually all of RiD's feel cheap, oversized and super simple (when not straight autotransforming... or not transforming at all), almost like preschool toys.
This is unfortunate as it means I have no interest in three of Hasbro's four current lines (Rescue Bots, RiD, and Bayformers). Worse, often they are all you can find in local Spain shops, sometimes forcing me to import Titans Return figures that have technically released here.
It is definitely a kids show but keep in mind that Beast Wars did have that episode where Rhinox farts Megatron to death.
Yeah, I watched the first two seasons of Littlest Pet Shop and found a lot more to appreciate in that show than I did in RID, which I bailed on after the mid-season break of S1, because it just felt so empty.
SFDebris just reviewed that episode a couple weeks ago, and my main takeaway was that I was really hyped to watch Beast Wars again.
Something about RID just didn't click with me.
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
*shrug* IT looks kinda like it to me. I mean, in at least the way a lot of transformers designs are pretty fluid for each character anyway.
Granted, the Titans Return line has been pretty accurate for the most Part I suppose. I don't really follow the comics much, I just like to get cool looking toys.
Holy shit that looks good, and I don't even like Bumblebee.
Weltall Zero
Member
I actually didn't watch Beast Wars, never liked animal shellformers (ducks for cover).
To note, I'm not criticising RiD, I think it's a fine show for its age group. I just wish it also had that "adult watchability" quality that some shows like Phineas and Ferb or Steven Universe have.
Very true that. We've gone from not even having a toy of Arcee to getting females regularly released.
If Nautica was released standalone I might get her to see if I can mod her to look more like herself.
DeaconKnowledge
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I feel like with RiD they tried to break away from Prime, but the gravity of that show is just too great. I've watched every episode of RiD and really tried to give it a chance, but the best episodes always default to the ones that reference Prime in some way.
I wish Hasbro would do more to explain why seemingly every new Cybertronian in RiD is an animal/vehicle hybrid. It REALLY bugs me. Especially since I just finished Fall of Cybertron today, and they way Grimlock and the Dinobots were handled was awesome.
Nothing wrong with that opinion, shellformers suck and a lot of the early Beast Wars toys were pretty ugly.
But quite a few of the Beast Wars toys were really damn good. Transmetal Tarantulas is one of my favorites and he still holds up well (It helps he's 100% show accurate).
Barrow Roll
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Except for the headsculpt.
Goddamnit I forgot
And that's a pretty glaring problem when the facial animation was such an important part of Beast Wars.
Barrow Roll
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I wish more third party company would tackle Beast Wars upgrade kits or retools like that recently released Optimal Optimus. A lot of the Transmetal figures could use some new headsculpts. Or how about a Transmetal Megatron figure that doesn't crumble in your hands unless you buy the JP version. Or a TM Rattrap whose backpack actually spins around, with a proper gun and bombs and that shield from his wheel rims he used that one time. Maybe when they're finally done mining G1 they'll look at Beast Wars some more, there are a lot of possibilities.
I never cared for that part of the show. I was always confused as to how that worked, and the show didn't seem to have an answer... or care. It took some willful suspension of disbelief to get me to go with the flow with them on that.
And I never thought the graphics were impressive. I understood that it was technically ambitious to try and make organics with CG, but I didn't care for the end result, and I thought the show looked way better when it was dealing with robots. Fortunately the animals took a backseat in season two when the Transmetals became Hasbro's newer desire.
But I did like the way the beast modes lent themselves to short, episodic skirmishes in robot mode, with the need to transform back to beast mode and retreat to base by the time the episode was over. Something about that concept made a lot of sense to me and seemed brilliant.
Beast Wars is mostly just great for its enjoyable characters and epic cliffhangers.
At this rate Takara will probably beat the third parties to most of that.
Barrow Roll
Member
I have a gut feeling that Takara will only do Season 1 figures, and even then, we won't get the whole cast.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
Was Beast Machines as awful as I remember or am I deluding myself?
It's not great. It was the worst TF series at the time, but then it was followed up with the first RiD-titled series, which... Wasn't great either, but it was a return to more old-school designs, so it got a bit of a pass it seems.
Then the Unicron trilogy happened, so BM was inadvertently elevated to maybe low mid-tier.