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-Kanrabat- wrote:I'll improvise some fan modes.
Yeah, he's small, but he's meaty and I like it.
Worth the full price? I guess it is.
Overcracker wrote:Another try at a robot that turns into a tank and a jet, and another fail.
Seems it’s just hard to make a tank turn into a jet.
G1 Blitzwing is still surprisingly the best at it.
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
First-Aid wrote:If they are now doing Concept art figures, does that mean we can get those Transtech figures we saw for the sequel to Beast Machines?
Emerje wrote:First-Aid wrote:If they are now doing Concept art figures, does that mean we can get those Transtech figures we saw for the sequel to Beast Machines?
Probably not in Studio Series since they didn't actually get any media behind it (outside of some club stuff), but they could probably do something in the main line.
Emerje
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
Emerje wrote:Overcracker wrote:Another try at a robot that turns into a tank and a jet, and another fail.
Seems it’s just hard to make a tank turn into a jet.
G1 Blitzwing is still surprisingly the best at it.
But hopefully not the last.
The unproduced Animated Megatron figure that everyone wants to see appear in Legacy or whatever replaces it and the design team didn't say no to.
Emerje
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Overcracker wrote:Emerje wrote:Overcracker wrote:Another try at a robot that turns into a tank and a jet, and another fail.
Seems it’s just hard to make a tank turn into a jet.
G1 Blitzwing is still surprisingly the best at it.
But hopefully not the last.
The unproduced Animated Megatron figure that everyone wants to see appear in Legacy or whatever replaces it and the design team didn't say no to.
Emerje
One can only hope. That design was almost perfect.
-Kanrabat- wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:First-Aid wrote:Okay, did anyone else notice that we all get a wonderful shot of Starscreams crotch anytime he sits in that throne? That's unnerving. Couldn't they have put n extra flap in there? It's....weird.
Its kind of like Basic Instinct, but not in a good way...
Goddammit, now I can't unsee it.
In this case G1-ification would be an improvement. That old concept looks terrible in the 2 vehicle modes. The robot mode looks halfway decent.Sabrblade wrote:You guys do know that if they ever actually do do that Animated Marauder Megatron that it's just going to get G1-ified and won't actually look as good that old test shot, right?
Overcracker wrote:Another try at a robot that turns into a tank and a jet, and another fail.
Seems it’s just hard to make a tank turn into a jet.
G1 Blitzwing is still surprisingly the best at it.
Cheesinator wrote:Overcracker wrote:Another try at a robot that turns into a tank and a jet, and another fail.
Seems it’s just hard to make a tank turn into a jet.
G1 Blitzwing is still surprisingly the best at it.
I know G1 nostalgia is a powerful thing, but is this a widely held belief?
As someone who only got into Transformers around the Beast Wars era, I always thought G1 Blitzwing was pretty bad. The jet looked good from the top down but mass of junk under the wings was visible from any other angle (which IMO is the same for pretty much every jet mode we've seen in a jet-tank triple changer since) and the jet cockpit just brazenly sticking out in tank killed the whole look for that mode too. And of course the robot mode suffered heavily to accommodate the other two.
Totally subjective of course, I'm just curious as to which one is generally considered the best mass-produced attempt at a jet-tank transformer.
DeathReviews wrote:Though that only raises the question in my mind that many bring up when Legacy Blitzwing's flaws are challenged. When the issue of the jet cockpit at the front of the tank is raised, defenders often point to the G1 figure and say 'G1 accuracy' was paramount to the designers. But if that's the case, why didn't they also have the jet fins as his only feet for the same reasons? Why was the flaw of Blitzwing's dinky, dainty feet worth fixing for the Legacy version, but not the horrible jet cockpit sticking out from the front of the tank....?
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF4 Widow Maker
Product Number: G0857
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
TF-fan kev777 wrote:DeathReviews wrote:Though that only raises the question in my mind that many bring up when Legacy Blitzwing's flaws are challenged. When the issue of the jet cockpit at the front of the tank is raised, defenders often point to the G1 figure and say 'G1 accuracy' was paramount to the designers. But if that's the case, why didn't they also have the jet fins as his only feet for the same reasons? Why was the flaw of Blitzwing's dinky, dainty feet worth fixing for the Legacy version, but not the horrible jet cockpit sticking out from the front of the tank....?
I think you are mixing up toy and toon. G1 Blitzwing had actual feet in the cartoon along with the cockpit in tank mode, the cockpit's appearance in the toon tank mode is what gives it a pass for some. I would have been fine without it if it meant a better jet mode.
Sabrblade wrote:EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF4 Widow Maker
Product Number: G0857
TFWiki wrote:The Pagani Huayra that eventually ended up as Stinger was at one point intended as the alternate mode of a female robot with the working name "Widow Maker".
There were three versions of the scorpion modeled for the movie: Sandstorm, Scorponok, and Double Punch.o.supreme wrote:Double Punch is an interesting pull, but I guess to keep the name going. No doubt this will be a SS107 Scorponok repaint, basically because every other Double Punch has been loosely based on alternate versions of Scorponok.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:We have Studio Series 2025 listings from JTPrime, and there's some very exciting stuff!
Tra Gen Studio series A level DLX TFONE B-127
Product Number: G0619
Tra Gen Studio series A Level DLX DEV Optimus Prime
Product Number: G0620
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF7 Double Punch
Product Number: G0533
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF3 Hatchet
Product Number: G0539
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe MV6 Bumblebee
Product Number: G0564
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe 86 Perceptor PR
Product Number: G0565
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TFONE Starscream
Product Number: G0566
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF3 Que
Product Number: G0567
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe 86 Bonecrusher
Product Number: G0568
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe 86 Jazz PR
Product Number: G0569
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe 86 Scavenger
Product Number: G0570
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe WFC Autobot Soilder
Product Number: G0571
Tra Gen Studio series Deluxe TF4 Widow Maker
Product Number: G0857
Tra Gen Studio Series Voy WFC Skywarp
Product Number: G0534
Tra Gen Studio series Voy TF7 Optimus Prime PR
Product Number: G0536
Tra Gen Studio series Voy WFC Ironhide
Product Number: G0559
Tra Gen Studio series Voy TFONE Sentinel Prime
Product Number: G0560
Tra Gen Studio series Voy WFC Thundercracker
Product Number: G0561
Tra Gen Studio series Voy 86 Scrapper
Product Number: G0562
Tra Gen Studio Series Voy 86 Mixmaster
Product Number: G0563
Tra Gen Studio series Ldr TF7 Apelinq
Product Number: G0480
Tra Gen Studio series Ldr TF4 Optimus prime
Product Number: G0482
Tra Gen Studio series Ldr TF3 Shockwave PR
Product Number: G0483
Tra Gen Studio series Ldr 86 Grimlock PR
Product Number: G0485
Sabrblade wrote:There were three versions of the scorpion modeled for the movie: Sandstorm, Scorponok, and Double Punch.o.supreme wrote:Double Punch is an interesting pull, but I guess to keep the name going. No doubt this will be a SS107 Scorponok repaint, basically because every other Double Punch has been loosely based on alternate versions of Scorponok.
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