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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 7, 2021 17:05:24 GMT
Towline is good - same as, I kept mine. How hard would it be to make a Ratchet like this? Not a recolour (as I now there was one) but just a new toy in this style with MARB sled and thus no need for fitting all the excessive bulky kibble on the robot. It would not be hard at all. The bastards. |
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Post by The Huff on Jul 7, 2021 18:59:00 GMT
Absolutely. W*nkf*cks.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 7, 2021 20:43:47 GMT
DOUBLE W*NKF*CKS!
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Post by Llama God on Jul 8, 2021 7:14:24 GMT
Towline is good - same as, I kept mine. How hard would it be to make a Ratchet like this? Not a recolour (as I now there was one) but just a new toy in this style with MARB sled and thus no need for fitting all the excessive bulky kibble on the robot. The hardest part about that is breaking the need to be strictly animation model-accurate - and that's something that it doesn't seem possible to overcome. |
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Post by The Huff on Jul 8, 2021 7:29:18 GMT
Are we talking robot mode?
Because Ratchet & Ironhide were pretty basic robots with no vehicle kibble apart from their bellies. Surely this look would be easier to achieve going the sled route?
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 8, 2021 17:37:10 GMT
Deffo. Pull the top of the van off and you've got a 'toon accurate robot right there. The sled would then have all the foldy ins and outs. Boom. Hasta lasagne.
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Post by The Huff on Jul 8, 2021 19:04:59 GMT
Throw in a sliding windscreen that can shift from body to face and I'd be as happy as Beast Wars Megatron entering a 'who can say Yes the most' competition.
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Post by Llama God on Jul 9, 2021 6:56:58 GMT
Oh yeah, it would definitely be incredibly simple to achieve an animation-accurate model doing what you suggest. Unfortunately the sleds didn't appear in the cartoon, which is why they'll never do it. Or something. I don't know - all I know is that the Masterpiece versions of these figures was the perfect time to do that, and they didn't, so... yeah. All we have is our dreams...
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2021 9:25:14 GMT
Did we not see Ratchet's sled briefly in the Ark in either the pilot or S1 Sunbow? Or am I imagining it?
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Post by Benn on Jul 9, 2021 9:57:58 GMT
Yeah it was in the pilot, when they rescue Hound, I believe.
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Post by Toph on Jul 9, 2021 16:01:29 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2021 16:44:10 GMT
Ah ha!
So a Sunbow-inspired Ratchet toy *could* have a sled if the desire to design it is there!
Philip Ayres: was there a listing for a Leader Ratchet a while ago or was it just a rumour?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2021 17:09:42 GMT
Not that I can recall
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Post by The Huff on Jul 9, 2021 17:45:15 GMT
There was a rumour or listing a while back (before the Seige one was actually revealed) but I assumed this turned out to be the Shattered Glass pack due to the price.
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Post by The Huff on Jul 9, 2021 17:48:01 GMT
And this was the first time we see Ratchet transform - along with the sled detaching. So all subsequent transformations were clearly animation errors. |
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Post by Toph on Jul 9, 2021 19:36:05 GMT
Ratchet looks like the infamous Rob Liefeld Cap with Boobs drawing.
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Post by Benn on Jul 9, 2021 20:29:30 GMT
In a lot of cases, cartoon Transformers never looked better than that opening episode.
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Post by The Huff on Jul 9, 2021 20:41:17 GMT
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Post by Toph on Jul 9, 2021 20:51:28 GMT
That suddenly makes his bumper and grill look like eyes (or cheeks) and a mouth
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2021 22:14:08 GMT
Towline is good - same as, I kept mine. How hard would it be to make a Ratchet like this? Not a recolour (as I now there was one) but just a new toy in this style with MARB sled and thus no need for fitting all the excessive bulky kibble on the robot. The hardest part about that is breaking the need to be strictly animation model-accurate - and that's something that it doesn't seem possible to overcome. I always thought a MARBless Ratchet/Ironhide would be easy to do if the made the arms from the roof of the van. Boom sorted. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 9, 2021 22:16:11 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2021 22:18:05 GMT
Could that be a re-release of Siege Ratchet?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 9, 2021 22:27:27 GMT
Certainly Siege Ratchet in the picture.
Where's the Thrust reissue? We so need that.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2021 22:40:36 GMT
Oh my goodness yes. Thrust please!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 11, 2021 16:57:47 GMT
Oh my goodness yes. Thrust please! -Ralph Well, alright then. Better hold onto something. (Come on, someone had to say!) |
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