New Photo of TFSS 3.0 Krok
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 12:03PM CDT
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Posted by megatronus on March 24th, 2015 @ 12:40pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 12:51pm CDT
Putting the Microns together is fun too, but I'm A-okay with pre-built ones.megatronus wrote:He looks great! I'm a huge fan of the pre-built Microns. It's such a nice value-add.
Posted by Desslok2201 on March 24th, 2015 @ 12:55pm CDT
Posted by jogunwarrior on March 24th, 2015 @ 12:58pm CDT
Posted by gothsaurus on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:12pm CDT
Just. Excellent.
Bang up job, TFCC.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:24pm CDT
https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 5851765760
https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 2734570496
https://twitter.com/The_TF_Club/status/ ... 7497962496
Also, more auctions from Taobao show more pics of G2 Starscream and Nacelle:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a23 ... =13#detail
http://2.taobao.com/item.htm?id=4429313 ... =13#detail
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a23 ... =13#detail
Posted by gothsaurus on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:27pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:34pm CDT
Save for the black paint on the sides of Starscream's white head.gothsaurus wrote:Those look pretty flawless as well.
Posted by Counterpunch on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:51pm CDT
Posted by gothsaurus on March 24th, 2015 @ 1:59pm CDT
Either way, paint thinner party for something like that. NO problem. LOL.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 24th, 2015 @ 2:06pm CDT
gothsaurus wrote:where have you seen a robot mode pic of starscream?... or are you going by the black square on side of plane nose?
Either way, paint thinner party for something like that. NO problem. LOL.
Hang on while I double check the layout of the Classics Seeker tooling...
Posted by shockblast2 on March 24th, 2015 @ 2:20pm CDT
Are they even trying anymore, or are they just naming these things based on noises they heard in the bathroom? I mean, come on people. At a $45 minimum, you should be insulted.....
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 24th, 2015 @ 2:28pm CDT
shockblast2 wrote:LOL....Krok?
Are they even trying anymore, or are they just naming these things based on noises they heard in the bathroom? I mean, come on people. At a $45 minimum, you should be insulted.....
Again, the history gets you:
Transformers G1 1990 Krok with Gatoraider Gallery
In-fiction, he's a soccer player (no kidding) with a kick so hard he could send Autobots into orbit. "Krok" probably stems from his crocodilian partner Gatoraider (Gatorade...).
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 2:31pm CDT
Top of Page 59 of this thread.gothsaurus wrote:where have you seen a robot mode pic of starscream?
The helmet's white, yet the sides (as seen in jet mode) are black.
Jesse Wittenrich and Pete Sinclair explain what happened better than I can:
NightViper wrote:The Starscream mock-up was correct - the helmet was colored gray. But the angle of the image had the top of the visible head piece covered in shadow, which was left black.
NightViper wrote:Perhaps easier to misinterpret than intended, but the black was photo manipulated a lighter shade (sans the shadow, of course).
Pete@BotCon wrote:So, we got samples on every TFSS and BotCon toy this year, just like last year for the most part. Of the 6, Krok and Carzap were pretty much spot on. That is why we were able to show pics early. Nacelle, Tarantulas and Serent O.R. were close. We did ask for some color edits, a missing tampo here or there to be added. Starscream was a mess.
Sometimes, as we deal with the factory, they are sometimes stuck in the mindset that we are Hasbro, so they are confused as to why we area asking for SO many tampos as that adds a lot of cost to each figure (and they know, with general retail, you have to keep costs at a certain level). We do not have the same tight restrictions. When we price these for our club retail, we take in to account the added tampo's. That is part of what makes these EXCLUSIVE.
So, we got Starscream, and he was very bare bones. No camo on the wings. No tampo by his shoulder vents. We had to come back and ask for all of that stuff to PLEASE be applied. We made some minor modifications, but the head was suppose to be painted.
We do NOT always get a "final" sample. If the head was NOT painted, that was missed by the factory. It was suppose to be painted. That said, it still works as is and when we get the production versions we will update the site accordingly to the final version.
This is why we state FINAL PRODUCT MAY VARY.
Pete@BotCon wrote:Anyways, looks like it was a combination of things. Everything else I said was accurate and what we provide is what the factory wants, but there was a missing line between head and color it turns out on the call out guide. Had so many tampo's not been missed, maybe we would have caught it. Had we received a second sample, we would have caught it. The factory will catch these things as well, they don't even always NEED a clarification if the part is colored that way. The final sample picture we DID get was in vehicle mode, and an email request for clarification on the head was not sent.
Just seems like it was a mix of things, but yeah, we missed it. Apologies.
NightViper wrote:Gods bless SG Thundercracker for showing us how the plastic trees break down!
Yes, all of that gray on Starscream is on a single tree. Although so is the nosecone (that bit that hangs off the back of Starscream's head). Apparently it was decided that all of the wings and vertical stabilizers would be easier to paint gray over white than it would be to paint white over gray on the nosecone. The factory has the experience with the paint they use, so something like that does become their call.
Also apparently what Pete just said.
Pete@BotCon wrote:But I will emphasize this, what we do send IS what the factory wants. Those guides are the proper way things are done. Though I'm not sure if you understand WHAT we send them. We don't just send the mock ups you see on our page. We have visual guides that detail everything we want/need and this works very well for both parties.
Posted by gothsaurus on March 24th, 2015 @ 3:30pm CDT
Posted by shajaki on March 24th, 2015 @ 4:07pm CDT
Your distaste of these figures and price is duly noted. Please refrain from insulting those who are interested in these figures.shockblast2 wrote:LOL....Krok?
Are they even trying anymore, or are they just naming these things based on noises they heard in the bathroom? I mean, come on people. At a $45 minimum, you should be insulted.....
Posted by Noideaforaname on March 24th, 2015 @ 6:16pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:In-fiction, he's a soccer player (no kidding) with a kick so hard he could send Autobots into orbit. "Krok" probably stems from his crocodilian partner Gatoraider (Gatorade...).
What an utterly ridiculous backstory. Now I'm extra disappointed he's out of my price range.
Posted by YoungPrime on March 24th, 2015 @ 6:20pm CDT
Posted by Desslok2201 on March 24th, 2015 @ 6:50pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 7:10pm CDT
Unlike Lio Convoy, Krok isn't the star of a new series of well-written, substantial text stories. But, he did get to feature in the free "A Common Foe" comic that was put online awhile back.Desslok2201 wrote:The club's concept of taking the 'actionmaster' out of the action masters is a real winner. I hope they eventually do the rest of them, but I wish Krok had been the freebie for this year. That would have got me to sign up again.
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on March 24th, 2015 @ 7:19pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Unlike Lio Convoy, Krok isn't the star of a new series of well-written, substantial text stories. But, he did get to feature in the free "A Common Foe" comic that was put online awhile back.Desslok2201 wrote:The club's concept of taking the 'actionmaster' out of the action masters is a real winner. I hope they eventually do the rest of them, but I wish Krok had been the freebie for this year. That would have got me to sign up again.
Too bad lio convoy and Nova prime are just going to be pallet swaps of each other
Posted by gothsaurus on March 24th, 2015 @ 9:10pm CDT
AND I'm kinda cool with the paint swap idea. Those two characters are directed at two vastly different groups... Japanese Beast Wars fans and early G1ish lore. It's a good way to throw each of those a bone without huge costs.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 24th, 2015 @ 10:21pm CDT
Either way, I look forward to having Lio Convoy squaring off against his doppelganger in a manner that's both akin to the traditional "Optimus Prime/Nemesis Prime" scenario and yet more original since this Nova is neither Nemesis nor a black Optimus repaint. This time the evil lookalike sports holy colors and fights for order and justice as a "lawfully evil" character, rather than being a blackened, "chaotic evil" force of darkness and destruction. It's a nice spin that puts our hero in a perspective of disorder and anarchy as a "chaotic good" character instead of making him a paragon of virtue like the "Optimus/Nemesis" typically portrays the two forces.
That's part of what makes the Uprising universe so fascinating. There isn't a concrete "light/good vs. dark/evil" theme, with virtually everyone being morally gray to a degree. No "Autobots/Maximals vs. Decepticons/Predacons", but rather "Maximals and Predacons vs. Autobots and Decepticons". Factions and characters we know to typically be on one end of the spectrum or the other are now all somewhere in the middle. Autobots are as oppressive and domineering as Decepticons, Predacons are as much freedom fighters as Maximals, and then you got those like Rampage who find no desire for involvement with either side of the conflict yet were given no choice in the matter, with his case finding himself captured, incarcerated, and launched off planet, all because he was different. And then there's the organized crime rings like Cryotek's that only further the levels of corruption.
If Axiom Nexus is a Cybertron that never experienced civil war and maintained a (admittedly awkward) peace between all factions, then Uprising's Cybertron is the polar opposite. A world made worse by the cancer of war. A world in which freedom is but a fantasy, as all Maximals and Predacons live and fight as dogs to their masters, the Builders, while said Builders (the Autobots and Decepticons of old) have been reduced to states of stagnancy and immobility, confined to the structure of the planet itself, always watching and overseeing the Maximals and Predacons that serve them. Even Builders serve other Builders, as the only ones who can all still move on their own, the Micromasters, act as militarized enforcers who keep all the Maximals and Predacons under the Builders' thumb. Things are as grim as they seem.
Posted by mooncake623 on March 31st, 2015 @ 12:41pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 31st, 2015 @ 12:55pm CDT
Posted by Bounti76 on March 31st, 2015 @ 2:09pm CDT
Posted by Shockwave7 on March 31st, 2015 @ 4:54pm CDT
Posted by Tigertrack on March 31st, 2015 @ 6:15pm CDT
Repeat: like Carzap...hate the weapon even if it is shiny.
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on March 31st, 2015 @ 7:27pm CDT
Posted by prjkt on March 31st, 2015 @ 8:50pm CDT
i also want that backdrop/display
Posted by Powered Convoy on April 1st, 2015 @ 6:57am CDT
Randy
Posted by grimdragon2001 on April 1st, 2015 @ 7:20am CDT
Customizers will go wild for Carzap trying to make a Minerva out of him. His plastic colors almost perfectly match her color scheme
Posted by robotmel on April 1st, 2015 @ 7:25am CDT
Powered Convoy wrote:You're welcome for searching all the TaoBao Fun Pub related auctions and finding these pictures.
Randy
Is there a chunk of text missing here as this doesn't seem to make much sense? Are you trying to suggest folk should look to Taobao.com for the photos? Why or who are you 'welcoming'?
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:11am CDT
robotmel wrote:Powered Convoy wrote:You're welcome for searching all the TaoBao Fun Pub related auctions and finding these pictures.
Randy
Is there a chunk of text missing here as this doesn't seem to make much sense? Are you trying to suggest folk should look to Taobao.com for the photos? Why or who are you 'welcoming'?
I assume he's the one who found the images? If not, then yeah I've got nothin'...
Posted by mooncake623 on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:34am CDT
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:38am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:39am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:40am CDT
It's the same headsculpt as Lio Convoy.MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Heads look so similar I don't see the point in doing a new mold...
Posted by mooncake623 on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:44am CDT
MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Heads look so similar I don't see the point in doing a new mold...
similar to pax or lio convoy? cause its the same head as lio Convoy
Posted by megatronus on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:52am CDT
Posted by mooncake623 on April 1st, 2015 @ 8:54am CDT
megatronus wrote:Not loving that head. Not at all.
What else is new? Great looking design, small little head... Reason why I didn't renew my membership this year.
Posted by megatronus on April 1st, 2015 @ 9:00am CDT
mooncake623 wrote:megatronus wrote:Not loving that head. Not at all.
What else is new? Great looking design, small little head... Reason why I didn't renew my membership this year.
I don't think the head is small, necessarily - just not a great fit for Nova. Leo Prime is fine, IMO.
Posted by mooncake623 on April 1st, 2015 @ 9:02am CDT
megatronus wrote:mooncake623 wrote:megatronus wrote:Not loving that head. Not at all.
What else is new? Great looking design, small little head... Reason why I didn't renew my membership this year.
I don't think the head is small, necessarily - just not a great fit for Nova. Leo Prime is fine, IMO.
Looks like squished compared to this
Posted by rpetras on April 1st, 2015 @ 9:22am CDT
Their server had my CC info all screwed up ... AGAIN, and I decided I was done dealing with these clowns.
If there are any figs I REALLY want, I'll pay the two-bits to get them through BBTS or at a convention.
Posted by gothsaurus on April 1st, 2015 @ 9:28am CDT
Posted by Crosscheck on April 1st, 2015 @ 9:34am CDT
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 1st, 2015 @ 10:19am CDT
mooncake623 wrote:MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Heads look so similar I don't see the point in doing a new mold...
similar to pax or lio convoy? cause its the same head as lio Convoy
Obviously. Similar to Pax
Crosscheck wrote:I kinda want to see what Orion Pax would look like in Optimal Optimus colors.
I would LOVE to see that!
Posted by Mindmaster on April 1st, 2015 @ 10:26am CDT
Will probably put it on my Legends shelf. That scale pairing is about right... right?
Posted by Crosscheck on April 1st, 2015 @ 10:30am CDT
MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:mooncake623 wrote:MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Heads look so similar I don't see the point in doing a new mold...
similar to pax or lio convoy? cause its the same head as lio Convoy
Obviously. Similar to PaxCrosscheck wrote:I kinda want to see what Orion Pax would look like in Optimal Optimus colors.
I would LOVE to see that!
Makes me wish I knew how to digibash.
Posted by MartianSpyGirl1996 on April 1st, 2015 @ 10:46am CDT
Crosscheck wrote:MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Crosscheck wrote:I kinda want to see what Orion Pax would look like in Optimal Optimus colors.
I would LOVE to see that!
Makes me wish I knew how to digibash.
Same All I can do are Paint scribbles lol