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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2020 9:07:59 GMT
If there's one thing I DO hope Sunstreaker shares with Wheeljack, it's looking better in hand than in photos Same here. Both don't look great to me in pictures but when I get round to seeing them in hand I hope they pop more. Thing is, over here, Generations is only sold in toy shops rather than supermarkets. So the only way to see them in person is to order them online and have them delivered. I don't see them in toy shops to see what they are like as said shops are now several miles away on public transport that I am not using during a pandemic! -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 10:01:12 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 10:07:44 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2020 10:24:42 GMT
Did we know about Bluestreak?
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 8, 2020 10:30:21 GMT
Is Runamuck a Wheeljack?
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2020 10:32:28 GMT
No idea but I think it looks nice.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 8, 2020 10:33:56 GMT
He does. I was hoping to not want the Battlechargers but... oh well. Good thing I've been housebound and not spending money for months, isn't it?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 10:43:52 GMT
Did we know about Bluestreak? -Ralph We did, rumoured for a bit then found in a firm's computer listings: This is the first time there's been a publicly available listing for it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 10:45:28 GMT
No, but his transformation, especially the chest/roof, may well be similar.
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Post by Jim on Jul 8, 2020 10:56:44 GMT
is nobody here a Wheeljack?!?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 11:41:25 GMT
Exhaust, but they're in Selects.
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Post by Toph on Jul 8, 2020 11:55:19 GMT
No, but his transformation, especially the chest/roof, may well be similar. It isn't. His chest is faux kibble. It's too small to be the real roof, and there are details on it that don't exist on the real roof. Particularly the door frame being doubled.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 12:11:48 GMT
Yeah you're right, I recall us discussing it before when the renders were shown.
Long morning, slightly trying in places.
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Post by Toph on Jul 8, 2020 13:25:02 GMT
Looking at him and Sun from behind, Runamuck seems to be wholly unique in his engineering. The jury may still be out about whether Sunstreaker is a retooling of Wheeljack or not, but at least they're based on the same engineering. But I don't think now that Runamuck shares any of that. He seems to achieve a very similar robot through very different means.
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Post by Jim on Jul 8, 2020 13:57:11 GMT
Looks like lockdown has had the same effect on Sunstreaker as on me
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Post by Jim on Jul 8, 2020 14:00:25 GMT
I keep wavering on Runamuck. He looks like he's crudely built up out of boxes, which is in some ways charming but in others looks kind of lazy.
Also missing the orange.
I will probably get him though.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2020 17:51:31 GMT
One of the things that has been good about a lot of the recent Deluxes is the solidity of them - particularly in the legs. This looks bloody awful from behind.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 8, 2020 22:27:35 GMT
If you look VERY carefully at the rear pic of Runamok you can see the car's actual front window, complete with windscreen wiper, peaking out from under the rear of the car which forms his back
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Post by Toph on Jul 8, 2020 22:39:37 GMT
Okay so like... It's a really valid point that if Sunstreaker is a retool of Wheeljack, so much is different that he may as well be a completely new mold.
So with that, It makes even less sense as to why he's not a remold of Runamuck. It would largely just require a reshelling of the vehicle to get it. Could use almost all the same robot parts, except the head.
The only real reason I can think of is that Runamuck is a pretool for an as of yet unknown Tracks.
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Post by The Huff on Jul 9, 2020 2:30:34 GMT
Now watch Runabout be a very similar-but-not-the-same mold as Runamuk.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2020 8:49:02 GMT
I just realised those names are puns!
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 9, 2020 8:52:04 GMT
Oh no
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2020 9:15:18 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2020 9:18:12 GMT
How does Phil spot these things???
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jul 9, 2020 9:19:49 GMT
I think the head on the render is better as well, for some reason. More defined.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2020 9:26:26 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Jul 9, 2020 11:32:25 GMT
Looks like lockdown has had the same effect on Sunstreaker as on me Your skin tone no longer matches all over, you've developed 5mm ports all over your body and you're missing your iconic red shoulders?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2020 16:16:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2020 16:29:48 GMT
Oh no, not rubbery parts!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2020 16:49:35 GMT
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