New Images of e-Hobby Limited Exclusive Convobat

Never trust anyone who's name starts Mega...

RAR wrote:Never trust anyone who's name starts Mega...

So that's why the third and fourth movies didn't have Megan Fox

Dr Va'al wrote:

Y'know, I feel like every figure that comes with swords should have that hand tilt articulation, that way they can point the sword forward like that. Really helps with cool poses.

Still can't find mindwipe, might cave and just get this.

I would get this if Mindwipe wasn't such a horrible mold.

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I would get this if Mindwipe wasn't such a horrible mold.

The mold is great the heck are you talking about?

Deadput wrote:

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I would get this if Mindwipe wasn't such a horrible mold.

The mold is great the heck are you talking about?

I can see Maximal Rainmaker's point. I personally like the bot mode, and the transformation is clever. But that alt mode has some real problems, in my opinion. I might not call the whole mold horrible, but I can understand someone having that opinion...

Agamemnon wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I would get this if Mindwipe wasn't such a horrible mold.

The mold is great the heck are you talking about?

I can see Maximal Rainmaker's point. I personally like the bot mode, and the transformation is clever. But that alt mode has some real problems, in my opinion. I might not call the whole mold horrible, but I can understand someone having that opinion...

I think it has its merits but of all the deluxes in the first 2 waves, it is easily the one I like least. I really dislike that headsculplt too.

While I had no intention of getting Combobat (funds, no real place for it in the collection), after playing with Mindwipe this morning I'm really off this mold.

I really happen to enjoy Mindwipe. Convobat is looking good imho.

william-james88 wrote:
I think it has its merits but of all the deluxes in the first 2 waves, it is easily the one I like least. I really dislike that headsculplt too.

I just got Mindwipe yesterday is there any issues I should be aware of or is it just that the mold is not fantastic?


Only problems with Titans return I have had is Skullsmasher's loose legs, tail and his stupid hatch as well as Scourge's loose head (Fix please?)

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
I think it has its merits but of all the deluxes in the first 2 waves, it is easily the one I like least. I really dislike that headsculplt too.

I just got Mindwipe yesterday is there any issues I should be aware of or is it just that the mold is not fantastic?


Only problems with Titans return I have had is Skullsmasher's loose legs, tail and his stupid hatch as well as Scourge's loose head (Fix please?)

For me, it's that the bat head is not articulated at all. Plus the "tail" is just awkward. I keep Mindwipe in bot mode all the time now.

And really, that is how I want to display Convobat, so I'm still getting him.

On Scourge, a thin piece of plastic or some card stock in the TM head socket seems to help a lot.

Which is a shame when his two comrades nail the Beast Mode so well, and arguably said beast modes are their largest selling points. I know it's why I got Wolfwire and why I want Skullsmasher.

To be fair, how often do batformers get toys with beast modes that are both well-articulated and look good?

Sabrblade wrote:To be fair, how often do batformers get toys that have good, well-articulated bat beast modes?

How often do batformers happen?

Seriously the only other examples that come to mind are Ratbat, Car Robots Gigatron, Optimus Primal and BW Soundwave.

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:To be fair, how often do batformers get toys that have good, well-articulated bat beast modes?

How often do batformers happen?

Seriously the only other examples that come to mind are Ratbat, Car Robots Gigatron, Optimus Primal and BW Soundwave.

Using the Wiki to help me with this, there have been:

Kōmoribreast
G1 Mindwipe
TR Mindwipe / Legends Convobat
BM Nightscream (Ultra)
BM Nightscream (Happy Meal)
Batscout / Nightshriek / True One
Noctorro (partially)
Optimus Primal / Onyx Primal
G1 Ratbat / e-HOBBY SG Ratbat / Encore Wingthing
Masterpiece Ratbat
G1 Wingthing
Skar / Clouder
BW Sonar
BW Soundwave
RID 2001 Megatron / RID 2001 Galvatron / BotCon 2005 Deathsaurus (minus his bat muzzle) / BotCon 2016 Megatron (minus his bat muzzle)
Animated Ratbat / Knights of Unicron Ratbat
Arms Micron Hades
FOC Ratbat
Construct-Bots Ratbat
RID 2015 Ratbat / Psychobat

Sabrblade wrote:To be fair, how often do batformers get toys with beast modes that are both well-articulated and look good?

I cant think of both at the same time. For the Bat mode at least.

Deadput wrote:

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I would get this if Mindwipe wasn't such a horrible mold.

The mold is great the heck are you talking about?

Lets see all the things I can list that are horrible about it...

The legs...
The headsculpt
The transformation... (I can't even transform it properly)
The head connection... (So hard to just remove Vorath from it and nearly impossible to connect another head)

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:
Lets see all the things I can list that are horrible about it...

The legs...
The headsculpt
The transformation... (I can't even transform it properly)
The head connection... (So hard to just remove Vorath from it and nearly impossible to connect another head)

1: An opinion I think the Transformation of the legs is clever and I have no problems with mine.

2: Also an opinion I think the head sculpt is fine and looks cool

3: This I can see but I have been able to Transform mine like the instructions says.

4: I guess that's a problem with yours my Mindwipe's head connection is pretty snug and decent unlike my Scourge


The problem I have with most with Mindwipe is the fact that his "Tail" does not fit in well and it is also kinda lazy so I don't bother with the tail.

Good Day My Fellow

Just a heads up of the package look of Transformers Legends E-Hobby Exclusive Convobat from E-Hobby Shop Twitter.



Krapicon

Fellow Seibertronian Krapicon has spotted on the official e-Hobby shop Twitter account new images of the packaging for the upcoming exclusive Legends/Titans Return Convobat, using the Mindwipe mold, the Titan Master Infinitus, Ape-X Arms, and a Megalligator head, including a comparison with other similar exclusives (Deadlock and Scourge). Check them out below!

Beautiful!!!!

Dr Va'al wrote:

The design for that comic cover in the middle sure looks familiar:

I don't know, something about that face reminds me of Armada Prime...

Rellko wrote:I don't know, something about that face reminds me of Armada Prime...

Not the design of the head, the design of the cover art.

I was hoping it would be out before Christmas.

Via fellow Transformers fan, and regular toy photographer Tagoal, we have a small series of in.hand image for the e-Hobby exclusive deluxe figure Convobat! Using the Titans Return Mindwipe mold, with the Titan Master Infinitus head, and with added Ape-X Armor drone (from Apeface) and an extra Megalligator Headmaster (from Nucleon), you can check out this Beast Wars Optimus Primal homage below!

Freaking beautiful! I am so glad they included the faction stickers for both deluxes, although Optimus Primal's chest is technically a Maximal symbol itself.

I love him! Wish I could afford him. I hear my wallet crying right now

COMIC! - https://twitter.com/cypher963axgx/media

The online one we saw before was a separate comic from the pack-in one.

Via fellow Seibertronian Sabrblade, who found the news on Twitter account #AXEL, we also have the pack-in comic that accompanies the recently released Takara Tomy Legends e-Hobby Exclusive Convobat - which is not the same as the one we've seen previously - with both Japanese and English scripts, and due to continue in the Magna Convoy release. Check it out mirrored below!

Who's a good three-headed doggy? Yes you are, you all are

At one point, Bruticus's deco switches to resemble that of BM Cerberus, which I think there might be something more to than a mere color change. As Megalligator refers to the "Spark Circuit" in (The) Bruticus's chest, perhaps that is similar to the Spark Engines of Car Robots that enabled the color-changing Power Up of the 3 Car Robo Brothers to occur. The guy's even got a flaming aura around himself when the color change happens as well.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Who's a good three-headed doggy? Yes you are, you all are

I believe it's Bruticus

I have to buy Magna Convoy to see the end of this story? Boo!

In case you're curious, the three Transtectors Megaligator manupulates are those of Hardhead, Brainstorm and Galvatron.

Pretty clever in making Bruticus an amalgam of three of Straxus' clones.

Nice nod to War Within on that cover

My ConvoBat/Optimus Primal and Megalligator/Megatron just shipped from HLJ for $68.11. Much cheaper than BBTS and the other importers charging $89.99!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In case you're curious, the three Transtectors Megaligator manupulates are those of Hardhead, Brainstorm and Galvatron.

That's Weirdwolf, not Hardhead. I wonder if that Brainstorm Transtector is related to the one (Voyager) that appeared as a monument in the Magna Convoy comic? Maybe Straxus was trying to clone Blue Corps. Brainstorm after his death?

There's also been a theory that after the events of Unite Warriors that Galvatron II would end up here and seek a new body, a repaint of Legends Galvatron. Perhaps the Transtector showing up there is foreshadowing? And if that's the case what could that mean for Weirdwolf? Predacon Wolfang? Carnivac (Hasbro is rumored to be making one and Takara Tomy probably wont for Legends)?

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In case you're curious, the three Transtectors Megaligator manupulates are those of Hardhead, Brainstorm and Galvatron.

That's Weirdwolf, not Hardhead.

Weirdwolf doesn't have a circular orb protruding from the center of his chest. Hardhead does.

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In case you're curious, the three Transtectors Megaligator manupulates are those of Hardhead, Brainstorm and Galvatron.

That's Weirdwolf, not Hardhead.

Weirdwolf doesn't have a circular orb protruding from the center of his chest. Hardhead does.

You're both right, in fact we see three sets of Transtectors:

- the first set manipulated by Megs had Hardhead, Galvatron and Brainstorm
- after Bruticus going kablooey, the second set has Weirdwolf and Blurr thrown into the mix, with Brainstorm and Hardhead missing.
- during the duel, a third set has Skullcruncher (or Megaligator's), Highbrow and Chromedome.

Where does he keep getting them?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In case you're curious, the three Transtectors Megaligator manupulates are those of Hardhead, Brainstorm and Galvatron.

That's Weirdwolf, not Hardhead.

Weirdwolf doesn't have a circular orb protruding from the center of his chest. Hardhead does.

You're both right, in fact we see three sets of Transtectors:

- the first set manipulated by Megs had Hardhead, Galvatron and Brainstorm
- after Bruticus going kablooey, the second set has Weirdwolf and Blurr thrown into the mix, with Brainstorm and Hardhead missing.
- during the duel, a third set has Skullcruncher (or Megaligator's), Highbrow and Chromedome.

Where does he keep getting them?

Oh yeah, I didn't even notice the second trio was different from the first trio since they both had Galvatron and didn't realize Blurr was in the second set instead of Brainstorm. So yeah, all of the regular sized Transtectors are represented here (plus Blurr and Galvatron) with Convobat using the Mindwipe body type. I wonder why the Scourge body was left out? Could a Scourge repaint be coming? I like reading too much into things.

Emerje

Magna-Convoy comes with the claw-shield to complement the Convo-bat mould so it looks like the only part that is missing now is the pistol.

Speaking of Magna-Convoy that sword of his is useful for anyone wanting to add symmetry to Lio-Prime / Alpha Trio too in his Carrier/spaceship mode.

I guess they didn't want to use the same mould again so quickly after Grand-Scourge but I really would have preferred they used the United Warriors Optimus mould in blue instead. Then they could have left themselves some room to release the odd extra character too.

I'm sure eventually there will be a Fire-guts God Ginrai repaint of the Latest Japanese Optimus perhaps as an E-hobby exclusive - it's appropriate for them to do that.

I have been wondering if Hasbro might do something surprising and make that whole set as a special kind of Ultra Magnus and then sell the Apex Armour as something to use with that (as it surely will not fit on TR Optimus due to the different chest & arms).

A Delta Magnus based on God Ginrai would certainly be interesting - but perhaps they will just stick the Headmaster gimmick on a slight variation of the Generations Ultra Magnus after all (it still might be the other colours though).

I suppose Hasbro could also beg Takara for the japanese version and sell it as a Platinum set too.

RAR wrote:I guess they didn't want to use the same mould again so quickly after Grand-Scourge but I really would have preferred they used the United Warriors Optimus mould in blue instead. Then they could have left themselves some room to release the odd extra character too.

They should have used the Battle Core Optimus Prime mold instead since Takara Tomy has yet to use that head sculpt.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

RAR wrote:I guess they didn't want to use the same mould again so quickly after Grand-Scourge but I really would have preferred they used the United Warriors Optimus mould in blue instead. Then they could have left themselves some room to release the odd extra character too.

They should have used the Battle Core Optimus Prime mold instead since Takara Tomy has yet to use that head sculpt.

Emerje

But then the Powered Convoy cab robot homage wouldn't have been as strong since the Powered convoy cab robot didn't have a Star Convoy-based head.

Although, I do agree that Takara/e-HOBBY/Hero-X/whoever should use the Battle Core OP head mold for something. The Japanese ought to get at least one use out of it.

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Nik Hero, probably this figure's biggest awaiter, we have the first English language review (by Primal Sabbath) of the e-Hobby exclusive set of LG-EX Convobat, with Megalligator's head/Titan Master and Ape-X drone - all using Titans Return base molds and figures! Check out the embedded video below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

e-Hobby has released two diorama images of Combobat and his crew from the comic. We also have the entire comic to read (in english) coutesy of Powered Convoy aka Randy. One important thing to note is that the tail accessory for the Mind Wipe mold does not come with Combobat but with e-hobby's blue Classics Optimus redeco (aka Powered Convoy) instead. Combobat is out now so let us know how you find yours!

Why do you keep calling him "Combobat" when the official spelling on the packaging and comic is "Convobat"?

King Kuuga wrote:Why do you keep calling him "Combobat" when the official spelling on the packaging and comic is "Convobat"?

We don't any longer. That's just the one post which was not intended to be newsed, so still in draft form.