Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
RAR wrote:I think that Sentinel Prime looks nicer stickered up.
Bumblebee21 wrote:really adds color and detail to highbrow.
another 100 posts in a week. i think i may have a problem
Big Grim wrote:Ah, I remember being News Crew. That was many moons ago. I remember a convention was ongoing and I put up a pots while America slept. I updated that post as new news came in. Links, pictures, the whole damn biz.
I got an email outta the blue from Ryan, praising the post and my updates. "What he liked to see when he woke up." Made my goddamn month! God, how many years ago was that?!? Had to be during the Energon/Cybertron years, it's that long ago.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:It's prob been mentioned before, but the reason for the mysterious peg hole on the @$$ of most of the TR figs is for the Takara Clear Flight Stand
just in case anyone was still wondering, or if wondering at all?
I thought Takara didn't sell stands like that. They're mostly from Bandai.
primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:It's prob been mentioned before, but the reason for the mysterious peg hole on the @$$ of most of the TR figs is for the Takara Clear Flight Stand
just in case anyone was still wondering, or if wondering at all?
I thought Takara didn't sell stands like that. They're mostly from Bandai.
Takara sold them (and might still sell them) officially at their "takaraTomy mall" site. Be careful with them, as they do not fit EVEY peg-hole designed for display stands on a TF. The bags have a list showing which toys will work with the stands. Not EVERY MP or Combiner Wars figure, for example, work with the stands, even if said figure has a peg hole.
This is probably because some (older) molds had holes designed for the "standard" Bandai/Gundam stands (easily available in Japan), while "newer" molds are designed for the Takara proprietary stands. Unfortuntely, Takara failed to imclude adaptors to allow the narrower official pegs to fit into the wider holes on the older figs, so you will need to make one yourself. Also, EVERY stand has a silver Autobot symbol on it, which is a bit silly, too.
Kurona wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:It's prob been mentioned before, but the reason for the mysterious peg hole on the @$$ of most of the TR figs is for the Takara Clear Flight Stand
just in case anyone was still wondering, or if wondering at all?
I thought Takara didn't sell stands like that. They're mostly from Bandai.
Takara sold them (and might still sell them) officially at their "takaraTomy mall" site. Be careful with them, as they do not fit EVEY peg-hole designed for display stands on a TF. The bags have a list showing which toys will work with the stands. Not EVERY MP or Combiner Wars figure, for example, work with the stands, even if said figure has a peg hole.
This is probably because some (older) molds had holes designed for the "standard" Bandai/Gundam stands (easily available in Japan), while "newer" molds are designed for the Takara proprietary stands. Unfortuntely, Takara failed to imclude adaptors to allow the narrower official pegs to fit into the wider holes on the older figs, so you will need to make one yourself. Also, EVERY stand has a silver Autobot symbol on it, which is a bit silly, too.
Cons always get shafted
primalxconvoy wrote:Kurona wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:It's prob been mentioned before, but the reason for the mysterious peg hole on the @$$ of most of the TR figs is for the Takara Clear Flight Stand
just in case anyone was still wondering, or if wondering at all?
I thought Takara didn't sell stands like that. They're mostly from Bandai.
Takara sold them (and might still sell them) officially at their "takaraTomy mall" site. Be careful with them, as they do not fit EVEY peg-hole designed for display stands on a TF. The bags have a list showing which toys will work with the stands. Not EVERY MP or Combiner Wars figure, for example, work with the stands, even if said figure has a peg hole.
This is probably because some (older) molds had holes designed for the "standard" Bandai/Gundam stands (easily available in Japan), while "newer" molds are designed for the Takara proprietary stands. Unfortuntely, Takara failed to imclude adaptors to allow the narrower official pegs to fit into the wider holes on the older figs, so you will need to make one yourself. Also, EVERY stand has a silver Autobot symbol on it, which is a bit silly, too.
Cons always get shafted
Considering that only Autobots can look authentic on a display stand that involves a peg going up their exhaust ports, then maybe it's the Autobots that are getting shafted here?
I also forgot to mention the inconsistency of the peg holes. For example, some members of my TT Aerialbots can't work with the pegs, while my UW Starscream CAN (which shares the same mld as the arialbots)...
william-james88 wrote:If ever Sabrblade decides to go on vacation, I am glad to know we can rely on you.
Burn wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Let's get back to talking about Burn's mammoth snout flopping...
Well I am Australian. It's kinda what we're known for.
King Kuuga wrote:Kurona wrote:Stuartmaximus wrote:I hope that we get a new Cosmos, and that he's at least a Deluxe sized character, and that he has the TM gimmick
The rumour said legend. Which is unfortunate, since I'd love a Voyager.
He'll almost certainly have the TM gimmick as all TR Legends have so far though.
As far as we know, Gnaw has no Titan Master integration, and of course the Deployers (who admittedly make up about 2/3 of the Legends class this line) have only basic integration, rather than the dedicated cockpits of the other figures.
Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
King Kuuga wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
Funny you should mention that, a Gnaw with Gnash listing along with a Brawn with Mudslinger one was found for the Thrilling 30 line, both Legends Class. Never came to be, maybe he was a holdover?
King Kuuga wrote:I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:- The Beast Wars Mutants were originally Animorph toys, but were retooled when that line bit the dust
- Beast Machines ended with toys still in development: Air Attack Optimus Primal, Megatron Megabolt and Bruticus were shifted to RiD 2001, with the last seemingly having incomplete features.
Makes you wonder if Legends Brawn is still possible... I'd say 50/50, because people probably thought "Hey, Gnaw is getting released, so Brawn must be too!"
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:King Kuuga wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
By the by, if this is indeed the case, it wouldn't be the first time Hasbro released a toy designed for an older/different line into the current one:
- The Beast Wars Mutants were originally Animorph toys, but were retooled when that line bit the dust
- Beast Machines ended with toys still in development: Air Attack Optimus Primal, Megatron Megabolt and Bruticus were shifted to RiD 2001, with the last seemingly having incomplete features.
Makes you wonder if Legends Brawn is still possible... I'd say 50/50, because people probably thought "Hey, Gnaw is getting released, so Brawn must be too!"
primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:King Kuuga wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
By the by, if this is indeed the case, it wouldn't be the first time Hasbro released a toy designed for an older/different line into the current one:
- The Beast Wars Mutants were originally Animorph toys, but were retooled when that line bit the dust
- Beast Machines ended with toys still in development: Air Attack Optimus Primal, Megatron Megabolt and Bruticus were shifted to RiD 2001, with the last seemingly having incomplete features.
Makes you wonder if Legends Brawn is still possible... I'd say 50/50, because people probably thought "Hey, Gnaw is getting released, so Brawn must be too!"
Looking at recent toys, I believe that CW Devastator, CW Skylynx, most of the non-Headmaster TR figs (Blurr, Galvatron, etc) were in the same boat, design-wise. Looking at them, it's clear to see different sizes (Devvy), redundant, gimped or missing parts (Galvatron's extra jet mode, the cavity seemingly designed to take a full head in alt mode), etc.
Kurona wrote:Galvatron and Alpha Trion were both confirmed to be designed before Titans Return but got moved into it.
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Have you changed your username since then? I've been cruising the old forums (staff and all) going all the way back to the beginning and I'm curious.
Emerje wrote:Kurona wrote:Galvatron and Alpha Trion were both confirmed to be designed before Titans Return but got moved into it.
But just how far into the design process are we talking here? Alpha Trion, according to the artist, was drawn before Titans Return without the triple changing concept in mind, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was in the process of being made into a figure when the guy submitted the designs. These artists don't really get to know how their art will be used, if at all, that's just the nature of freelance work. One big example is the guy who designed Torca and Bantor didn't know his designs were turned into figures until many years later when someone told him. I think you'll find Hasbro has a large cache of character designs that they put to use when it fits their needs for a series and it's rarer for freelance artists to be called in to design specifically for a line.
Emerje
Kurona wrote:primalxconvoy wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:King Kuuga wrote:Emerje wrote:Gnaw was likely designed long before even Combiner Wars for a 2014 release so it makes sense that he wouldn't have any Titan Master interactivity, same may be true for Legends Brawn who was originally supposed to be Gnaw's wave-mate. However, it makes no sense for the new Legends Cosmos to not be able to hold a TM since since we already have a normal Cosmos.
Emerje
I know Gnaw was designed for an older point in the line, before Titan Masters, but he is nonetheless being released among the Titans Return figures with no Titan Master integration (that we know of) aside from literally biting down on them. I'm counting it on a technicality.
By the by, if this is indeed the case, it wouldn't be the first time Hasbro released a toy designed for an older/different line into the current one:
- The Beast Wars Mutants were originally Animorph toys, but were retooled when that line bit the dust
- Beast Machines ended with toys still in development: Air Attack Optimus Primal, Megatron Megabolt and Bruticus were shifted to RiD 2001, with the last seemingly having incomplete features.
Makes you wonder if Legends Brawn is still possible... I'd say 50/50, because people probably thought "Hey, Gnaw is getting released, so Brawn must be too!"
Looking at recent toys, I believe that CW Devastator, CW Skylynx, most of the non-Headmaster TR figs (Blurr, Galvatron, etc) were in the same boat, design-wise. Looking at them, it's clear to see different sizes (Devvy), redundant, gimped or missing parts (Galvatron's extra jet mode, the cavity seemingly designed to take a full head in alt mode), etc.
Galvatron and Alpha Trion were both confirmed to be designed before Titans Return but got moved into it. Saying everyone who wasn't a headmaster before being designed before TR and just getting moved to it is something I'd say is more than a little insane though, considering the original 1987 Headmasters can at most make up two deluxe waves.
Devastator is bigger because they needed a Titan Class and because if you want to do him accurately he's going to be incompatible with the rest of CW, so you need to go this route.
I think Sky Lynx was just a case of them going all-out and having fun.
I'd say Legends Brawn is a stark possibility; assuming the recent leaks about a few previously Titan Master-only characters (Nightbeat and Apeface) apparently getting actual toys later in the line. Which does make sense, I remember that originally a lot of the Titan Masters were instead designed to be original characters with original designs but got turned into guys like Nightbeat for some star power. Which is a shame, because while I do love the Titan Master class regardless it'd be cool to see some new guys. Rook, Alpha Bravo and Offroad made CW tbh.
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