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Post by Toph on Jun 30, 2015 18:44:39 GMT
The two biggest fails on that tarantulas are
1. Not basing it on the transmetal colors
And 2. Not using Generations Crosscut.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 30, 2015 18:46:02 GMT
Indeed. Can't see any desire to own these at all. Have Fun Pub ever sought any input from fans on the kind of thing they'd like to see in this line? or are they purely just making stuff up from what Hasbro throws them?
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Post by Toph on Jun 30, 2015 19:59:00 GMT
It's debatable on how much imput they actually take from fans, to how much they decide tgey know what fans want.
Brian Savage is full of himself, and an egotistical prick, who does not like interacting with fans, and has no interest in transformers at all.
Case in point, he rejected animated several times when the TF "council" tried to convince him that animated season 4, or beast wars animated would be extremely popular.
They only managed to convince him to greenlight it when they came up with animated stunticons.
They've also tried to do other beast wars sets, which brian rejects.
But, that is not to say Brian is the only problem. Back when they had a message board, they were notorious for ignoring us, and more so took VALID criticism* very badly.
Pete Sinclair doesn't take criticism well.
Rik Alverez was the best one of them all at taking ideas that the fans actually talked about, and trying to get them made. He also listened to criticism, and absorbed it.
Honestly, I think all the current ones tend to sit on their high horse and bestow upon us what they THINK are coveted concepts, with very little research in what fans actually want.
*By criticism, I mean genuine criticism. Not the typical "this sucks because its not exactly what I want at all times forever!" That a lot of people on other boards calls "criticism."
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 30, 2015 20:22:02 GMT
Who is Brian Savage? And this Council??
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 30, 2015 20:27:15 GMT
Brian Savage is the head of Fun Publications who run the TF & GI Joe fanclub. They got the TF gig through already running the Joe one.
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Post by Toph on Jun 30, 2015 20:27:22 GMT
Brian OWNS Funpub. It's his company. He's a big Joe fan.
I don't know what they're called now, but back in the proverbial day, the people who run the TF half of FP referred to themselves as the council, or something similarly pretentious.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 30, 2015 20:31:03 GMT
Right. Hmm.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2015 21:25:47 GMT
I hope they have leadership elections and comfy thrones.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Jun 30, 2015 23:05:04 GMT
And all wear cloaks and face-obscuring masks.
Damn. Now I want to work for them.
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Post by Kingoji on Jul 1, 2015 0:39:10 GMT
Gots to say, prefer Tarantulas from this to Cross-Skids. His TM form was bi-cycular after all, and the colours kinda work.
Course, I'd much rather see a brand new one... but he *is* in my top three Cons.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2015 9:47:16 GMT
And all wear cloaks and face-obscuring masks. Damn. Now I want to work for them. They could wear those funky hats that the cult of Unicron wore in Marvel TF. -Ralph |
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Post by Llama God on Jul 1, 2015 10:03:01 GMT
Those hats are cool, but I'd want to be able to wear a cloak, too.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2015 10:08:31 GMT
They are James Roberts' inspiration for the Functionalist Council and I claim my five pounds!
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Post by primenova on Jul 1, 2015 11:20:47 GMT
I would of expected FP to use TF4 or RID toys with them being cheap like & not using the better CW toys which we see they are using.
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Post by Toph on Jul 1, 2015 13:00:29 GMT
They can't use AoE toys.
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Post by Kingoji on Jul 1, 2015 14:44:19 GMT
what I'd like to know about Tarantulas is, can those minicon/micron chaps he comes with be used as claw hands on each arm? And if so why are they not showing us that?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2015 15:18:49 GMT
I have a couple of Ida and there's a number of projecting 5mm posts so yes, the Wreck-Gar bike mould that's been used to make Tarantulas should be able to hold them and use them as claws. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2015 15:25:03 GMT
Gots to say, prefer Tarantulas from this to Cross-Skids. His TM form was bi-cycular after all, and the colours kinda work. There is the weapon, with the bike mode, and the general thin limbed shaped all of which add up to suggest Tarantulas. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 1, 2015 20:00:44 GMT
Those hats are cool, but I'd want to be able to wear a cloak, too. What colour do you think the cloaks should be? -Ralph |
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Post by Toph on Jul 1, 2015 21:04:31 GMT
Nacelle is the next one released, in a surprising turn of events.
Kinda feels very cheaply made. I'd swear this was a knockoff.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 21, 2015 20:03:51 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 21, 2015 20:07:24 GMT
Not all that impressive but still doomed to own it at some point.
Andy
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Post by Bogatan on Jul 21, 2015 20:12:53 GMT
Step up on FOC Impactor, but is going to work out at close to the 3P one so yeah...
Might have madea good Xaaron though. Still might theres still the 7th figure that wont be revealed.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 21, 2015 20:22:31 GMT
I need that toy in my life.
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Post by Kingoji on Jul 21, 2015 20:59:17 GMT
It's actually not terrible. Since he's now a combiner I hope that he comes with a big pig-sticker rather than a giant hand.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 21, 2015 22:42:30 GMT
Step up on FOC Impactor, but is going to work out at close to the 3P one so yeah... Good point indeed. Unusual situation from that point of view. I wonder if they've done a new Impactor head or are just reusing the FoC one. Deluxe just seems too small for Impactor, but I like the way a UK originated character is considered important enough to get two releases in the last few years. |
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Post by Benn on Jul 21, 2015 22:48:26 GMT
A quandary and no mistake.
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Post by Toph on Jul 22, 2015 0:17:29 GMT
It's interesting. And not terrible. I'd be interested were MMC not doing an absolutely perfect one, which would probably be at most $20 more than this will cost. (FP price gouges on the more popular characters, so I can't see this costing less than $70). Step up on FOC Impactor, but is going to work out at close to the 3P one so yeah... Good point indeed. Unusual situation from that point of view. I wonder if they've done a new Impactor head or are just reusing the FoC one. Deluxe just seems too small for Impactor, but I like the way a UK originated character is considered important enough to get two releases in the last few years. New head. They have *never* used a completely different head attached to a completely different mold, before. It would require running some, or all of the FoC Impactor/Onslaught mold, just to get the head, plus engineering an entirely new connection to get the head to work on and attach too the Rook body, and that's assuming it can even fit in the spot in the first place. All and all, just significantly easier to make a new head from scratch designed to work on the rook molding. |
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Post by Benn on Jul 22, 2015 9:29:06 GMT
Yeah, he's official and I'd rather support official, but if the third party one isn't going to be much more.... damn.
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Post by Kingoji on Jul 22, 2015 9:34:04 GMT
I already have the third party guy pre-ordered and have no regrets, since he's more accurate and apparently Generations Springer size. But I'm still tempted by this whole year and might plump up for the set, and would have no issue with owning two.
*Notices multiples of popular characters already owned*
I'm also thrown a bit by the news that the mystery 7th fig will be deluxe. I'd assumed that Barrage would be coming from Legends Bombshell to make the weapon for the combined form.
Looking at the actual set, the two obvious candidates would be Crankcase and Quake. crankcase could come from First Aid, but would they be willing to put two retools of the same toy in one year? And Quake would probably come from Brawl if anyone, and that would be too recent a release for inclusion. Assuming all figs are CW reuses I'd assume that either Dragstrip, Breakdown, or Dead End would be chosen, but who they'd become to fit the theme I have no idea.
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