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Post by Bogatan on Sept 16, 2020 21:29:34 GMT
Exhaust is here and Im liking it. Car mode is tops.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 18, 2020 20:08:25 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2020 21:59:34 GMT
It's weird you know, Bluestreak is Prowl in different colours but that's fine because he's Bluestreak. Tigertrack just looks like Sideswipe in funny colours. Must be the lack of fiction behind him.
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Post by Benn on Sept 20, 2020 18:36:50 GMT
I've been mulling over this, and I think I've worked out why these Diaclone repaints aren't grabbing me.
See, with the Diaclones we got, there were no straight flat colour swaps. Inferno and Grapple got different crane assemblies, Hoist and Trailbreaker different heads and back ends and Prowl got an interesting paint job, and the body limbs were different colours. You didn't just swap Bluestreaks grey for white, you painted a police car deco, swapped out the red limbs for black.
This is just a dull red/yellow swap, it's the laziest option. Tigertrack still has Sideswipes white limbs, so he just looks like Sideswipe in a yellow jumper.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2020 20:09:53 GMT
More! More! I'm trying to find every reason possible not to buy this, that was a good one.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2020 20:29:09 GMT
If you don't buy it, Phil will cast you into The Pit.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2020 20:31:31 GMT
Mo- er, is that a good or a bad thing?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2020 20:37:26 GMT
The Pit is where Phil throws people who buy less than 5 Micromaster Weaponiser bases.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 20, 2020 21:04:14 GMT
A good thing then. At least financially.
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Post by Benn on Sept 21, 2020 9:07:39 GMT
I guess I am in the Pit already then.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 21, 2020 9:18:39 GMT
We're all going in The Pit.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 21, 2020 18:37:03 GMT
I think I've sussed Hothouse's tank mode from Airraid It's basically the carrier mode with the chest front pegged into the top of the rear section of road - there's holes there for the blast effects ports to recess into which aren't used in other modes - the upper legs pegged under the rear section - there's pegs there unused by Airraid - and then swing the chest peg up, put the control tower bit in upside down and mount the combined gun parts on that facing forward |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 22, 2020 6:29:40 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 22, 2020 20:44:52 GMT
I think that comic is missing the speech balloons.
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Post by Toph on Sept 22, 2020 21:10:06 GMT
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Post by Benn on Sept 23, 2020 8:00:51 GMT
No.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2020 21:10:22 GMT
Selects T-Wrecks for 2021? |
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2020 21:55:47 GMT
If they're desperate. I think Selects BW Grimlock is way more likely.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 23, 2020 22:01:12 GMT
BW Grimlock would be done from Dinobot <cough>if<cough> they do one, as per the original BW surely?
Love my original T-Wrecks.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 23, 2020 22:02:57 GMT
My T-Wrecks was fed to Toy-Fu long ago.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2020 22:30:41 GMT
BW Grimlock would be done from Dinobot <cough>if<cough> they do one, as per the original BW surely? Love my original T-Wrecks. I'm pretty sure I have T-Wrecks, but I honestly can't remember. I was in a weird place back then that I now regret where I usually wouldn't pick up a repaint if I had the original. If they did T-Wrecks from this, I insist they give him the original toy head with the mutant mask/wings! |
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2020 23:21:28 GMT
Okay so I was thinking about a potential Selects T-Wrecks needing the toy head to make me really happy, then I started thinking "what about Grimlock?"
I certainly don't personally want him to be just a straight up repaint of Dinobot.
So what here would be the best?
1) Straight repaint of a potential Kingdom Dinobot
2) New head based on the toy's robot head
3) New head based on the toy's mutant mask
4) New head based on Grimlock's head?
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Post by Llama God on Sept 23, 2020 23:36:49 GMT
Confused as to the second and fourth options there? Are they not the same? Or do you mean a particular Grimlock for option 4?
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Post by Toph on Sept 23, 2020 23:39:02 GMT
4 is Grimlock as in based on G1 Grimlock.
Since the toy was just a repaint of Dinobot, it's Dinobot's head that BW Grimlock had.
So 2 would be the Toy Dinobot's head, which is very different than Mainframe's animation model.
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Post by Llama God on Sept 23, 2020 23:55:35 GMT
Ah, right, gotcha, yes. Sorry, long day.
But it’s have to be option 4 in that case. Just to highlight that this is actually Grimlock, and not a re-skinned Dinobot.
Or, option 5 - Bayverse Grimlock’s head. Because why not?
Although in seriousness something like that would be necessary, I think. G1 Grimlock’s head wouldn’t necessarily look quite right on Dinobot’s body, so some stylisation would be needed to make it work. Maybe.
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Post by Benn on Sept 24, 2020 7:29:38 GMT
Furmans Beast Wars comics had a Grimlock. How accurate was that head?
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Post by Llama God on Sept 24, 2020 8:16:41 GMT
The Wiki speculates that T-Wrecks was in fact meant to be Grimlock, but they ended up not going with that name. So a Grimlock from Megatron isn't totally unlikely, although a Grimlock from Dinobot would be more interesting, and thus my preference. This being Selects, though, the repaints that they'll give us will be something that we weren't even thinking of. So they'll clearly re-paint and slightly re-tool these Beast figures as Animorphs. |
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Post by Llama God on Sept 24, 2020 8:25:32 GMT
I don't think we ever saw his robot mode, did we?
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Post by Benn on Sept 24, 2020 8:34:32 GMT
I don't remember. The Sourcebooks, maybe?
<edit> no wait we did, because i remember him having a green visor
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2020 10:20:10 GMT
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