william-james88 wrote:Haha, Bodrock:
bodrock wrote:My only complaint about the upcoming Primal....dat alt mode.
bodrock wrote:
Kanra has some great pics with the two flavors mixed! I've had a lot of fun with the Skullgrins.
With the Petender-esque PotP Optimal comin', I'm a bit more tempted...perhaps MP-32 could stand-in until his evolution.
ZeroWolf wrote:bodrock wrote:
Kanra has some great pics with the two flavors mixed! I've had a lot of fun with the Skullgrins.
With the Petender-esque PotP Optimal comin', I'm a bit more tempted...perhaps MP-32 could stand-in until his evolution.
Thanks kanra and bod great pictures as always...and slightly jealous that you have the original pretenders. When I was young I had one of the ultra pretenders (the ones who hid inside a transformable shell that hid inside a shell of a vehicle which had a feature that interacted with the inside robot), can't remember his name but he had a green vehicle with a gun placement up top, and the inner robot looked a lot like a redco of landmine but had an awesome looking pretender shell that turned into a flying car...thing. I miss him, my parents sold him at a car boot sale without my knowledge.
Madeus Prime wrote:Please tell me someone will sell that Onyx alone...
ZeroWolf wrote:Roadblock! Yes that was him!he was fantastic and regularly beat up the good guys (be they other autobots or power rangers or marvel figures )
As for optimal...I think he's a good take for a pretender of a sorts (inner robot hides in outer shell which can transform on its own and interact with the inner robot in alt mode...just no larger shell for the big monkey mode to hide in)
I think there is potential for a full look into the pretender gimmick, especially if it meant we got a proper monstructor out of it!
Black Bumblebee wrote:To be fair, their whole unpcoming line is pretty much a big mystery. It might contain more prime masters, or it might not. I find it fishy that IDW comics are ending at the same time as the newest toys, and yet, we haven't seen much as to the direction yet..
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Deadput wrote:Black Bumblebee wrote:To be fair, their whole unpcoming line is pretty much a big mystery. It might contain more prime masters, or it might not. I find it fishy that IDW comics are ending at the same time as the newest toys, and yet, we haven't seen much as to the direction yet..
Considering wave 4 only has one new figure just like TR wave 6 I think POTP is going to be a shorter line.
(The line in general seems rather rushed compared to the other two)
bodrock wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Roadblock! Yes that was him!he was fantastic and regularly beat up the good guys (be they other autobots or power rangers or marvel figures )
As for optimal...I think he's a good take for a pretender of a sorts (inner robot hides in outer shell which can transform on its own and interact with the inner robot in alt mode...just no larger shell for the big monkey mode to hide in)
I think there is potential for a full look into the pretender gimmick, especially if it meant we got a proper monstructor out of it!
I'm definitely hoping for Monstructor! I'm certainly happy to get an update for Abominus, but I'd buy a boxset for Monstructor in a heartbeat.
I'm surprised they haven't announced more Prime Masters...you'd think Diver would be an easy choice for them. :/
ZeroWolf wrote:I think he was referring to the war for cybertron line, but I agree with you that PotP has been rushed out of the door. The significance of this though is unknown (other than Hasbro wanoting one liberal to last just twelve months)
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
ZeroWolf wrote:I suppose they could have carried on the two themes (like how they have carried on with combiners) so we could of had combiner limbs that were headmasters or something along those lines.
Va'al wrote:Deadput wrote:Actually I don't know my mother's name is Valerie so is Va'al actually my mother?
Yes. Now go to your room and don't play with yourself.
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I find these more worthless personally. At least with previous TM's I could ignore them cos they weren't based on characters I cared about but these? They is spitting on my Pretender dreams.
Seibertron wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:I find these more worthless personally. At least with previous TM's I could ignore them cos they weren't based on characters I cared about but these? They is spitting on my Pretender dreams.
FYI ... I accidentally clicked "edit" on your post instead of quote, hopefully I restored your post as best as I could!
I feel the same way. I keep telling the brand team that I want Pretenders. They probably think I'm crazy. But I really want to see the Pretenders done with modern toy technology, whether it's the traditional concept for with a modern action figure type "shell" with inner robot, or with an "inner" robot that can transform into a vehicle AND becomes armor to upgrade the action figure "shell" character (in lieu of fitting in an actual shell). I really don't care about the robot actually being able to go inside a "shell" as long as the robot somehow can "hide" away by either integrating inside of the shell or by becoming an upgrade set for the "shell". I quoted the word "shell" because I'm referencing the humanoid shell character/figure versus the inner robot character/figure.
I think someone will come up with an exciting way to redo these characters at some point that will honor their heritage properly. The Pretenders really struck a chord with me on many levels from their introduction in the comics, to being the first mainline concept to be excluded from the Hasbro cartoons (excluding Mini-Spies and Decoys), to just really inspiring me as a kid. I loved playing with them and I loved having 2 toys in one. I even used to count them as 2 separate Transformers in my figure count when I was a kid. My mom wouldn't let me spend my Christmas and birthday money on Fortress Maximus, but she let me buy all 6 of the wave 1 Autobot and Decepticon Pretenders. While I was disappointed with not getting Fort Max, I loved playing with my Pretenders as a kid. Imagine my joy 7 years later in 1995 when I discovered Masterforce thanks to a bootleg VHS dealer at a comic convention!
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