Titans Return Trypticon Boxart

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Courtesy of fellow board member MadProject, we have from DaimChoc's Facebook page an image of the upcoming Titans Return Trypticon's Boxart! Featuring the big Decepticon dino alongside what appears to be tiny iterations of Sky Shadow and Sixshot (not included), take this with a grain of salt since the original source is still unkonwn. Nevertheless, check it out below! This toy is scheduled to be released in the fall, as was the case with every other Titan Release, so expect it to hit stores around August 2017.

Credit(s): DaimChoc on Facebook

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Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871317)
Posted by g1transformers on April 3rd, 2017 @ 9:47am CDT

A thing of beauty. Love this line no end ;)^

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871318)
Posted by DeathReviews on April 3rd, 2017 @ 9:48am CDT

The box art makes him look a little SQUAT, there...

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871337)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:38am CDT

william-james88 wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:Also, Dinosaurer II is a bad guy. His release is sure to be limited. Not that I'm sure if that is applicable to the Hb world wide market.

Devastator was a bad guy and he wasnt limited in any way.

If by not limited, you mean available online everywhere, because I never saw one at a B&M ever. Fair enough CW Dev is still available at BBTS for retail price, but if you are in the U.S. looking in stores, he was not in my area at least.

Also I’m surprised nobody is talking about the fact that since the TT mall video broke this weekend confirming Trypticon’s height as only 45 cm (just under 18 inches) –Basically the same size as CW Devastator, that he will not scale in size properly to Generations Metroplex or Fort Max.

It appears the blunder of the 80’s (Scorponok and Fort Max size mismatch) is about to be repeated in 2017!

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871341)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:40am CDT

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:Also, Dinosaurer II is a bad guy. His release is sure to be limited. Not that I'm sure if that is applicable to the Hb world wide market.

Devastator was a bad guy and he wasnt limited in any way.

If by not limited, you mean available online everywhere, because I never saw one at a B&M ever. Fair enough CW Dev is still available at BBTS for retail price, but if you are in the U.S. looking in stores, he was not in my area at least.

Also I’m surprised nobody is talking about the fact that since the TT mall video broke this weekend confirming Trypticon’s height as only 45 cm (just under 18 inches) –Basically the same size as CW Devastator, that he will not scale in size properly to Generations Metroplex or Fort Max.

It appears the blunder of the 80’s (Scorponok and Fort Max size mismatch) is about to be repeated in 2017!

We did see that and it was commented on. The thing is though, he is over 2 feet long. He is a heck of a lot beefier than the other city titans, and he stands at more of an angle than straight up, so unless we paid another $50 his height alone would not have equaled Plex or Max

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871342)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:42am CDT

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:Also, Dinosaurer II is a bad guy. His release is sure to be limited. Not that I'm sure if that is applicable to the Hb world wide market.

Devastator was a bad guy and he wasnt limited in any way.

If by not limited, you mean available online everywhere, because I never saw one at a B&M ever. Fair enough CW Dev is still available at BBTS for retail price, but if you are in the U.S. looking in stores, he was not in my area at least.

Also I’m surprised nobody is talking about the fact that since the TT mall video broke this weekend confirming Trypticon’s height as only 45 cm (just under 18 inches) –Basically the same size as CW Devastator, that he will not scale in size properly to Generations Metroplex or Fort Max.

It appears the blunder of the 80’s (Scorponok and Fort Max size mismatch) is about to be repeated in 2017!

Yes, thats what it means to not be limited, Hasbro is not limiting the stores that can sell this toy. how they sell it is up to them, and Hasbro cant do anything about that.

About the height, we knew that a little while back when we posted this image:

it was even the thumbnail for this news story:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... 230/37584/

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871343)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:42am CDT

He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871344)
Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:44am CDT

Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871346)
Posted by MadProject on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:49am CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

I agree that Trypticon should be bigger than Metroplex, but funny thing, while foot to head is smaller (45 cm, like Devastator), the lenght from head to tip of the tail is 65 cm, like (if not even something longer) than Metroplex and Fortress.
Also, for me is not so much problem, since I loved the Trypticon vs Omega Supreme from the WfC game, and if I'll ever do a diorama with Trypticon, I'll use YotS Omega Supreme (probably because I also don't have Metroplex)

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871347)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:49am CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

For accuracy to a few scenes in that one cartoon, maybe. But what my point is is that whether he 'should' be or not, it simply wouldn't be possible without raising the price. Parts count, plastic mass, etc. I'm sure if you measure the two figures you'll find they have similar amounts of those due to that being what the budget would provide. If you want a bigger Trypticon you'll have to hope on third parties coming through.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871349)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:49am CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

Hasbro wrote:TOO BAD

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871350)
Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:52am CDT

Kurona wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

For accuracy to a few scenes in that one cartoon, maybe. But what my point is is that whether he 'should' be or not, it simply wouldn't be possible without raising the price. Parts count, plastic mass, etc. I'm sure if you measure the two figures you'll find they have similar amounts of those due to that being what the budget would provide. If you want a bigger Trypticon you'll have to hope on third parties coming through.

but wasnt mettroplex 120 and hes the tallest and fort max was 150.

still un sure if i will get him

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871351)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:54am CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

For accuracy to a few scenes in that one cartoon, maybe. But what my point is is that whether he 'should' be or not, it simply wouldn't be possible without raising the price. Parts count, plastic mass, etc. I'm sure if you measure the two figures you'll find they have similar amounts of those due to that being what the budget would provide. If you want a bigger Trypticon you'll have to hope on third parties coming through.

but wasnt mettroplex 120 and hes the tallest and fort max was 150.

still un sure if i will get him

If you're letting scale keep you back from getting him, I'd really recommend against that. You can still pose them to a point they look somewhat right, and there really isn't another option for Trypticon unless you want to go for Planet X's which is a completely different look and continuity. Try and consider him without comparing his size to Metroplex because focusing on that is just going to detract you from how amazing the rest of him is.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871352)
Posted by MadProject on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:55am CDT

Kurona wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

For accuracy to a few scenes in that one cartoon, maybe. But what my point is is that whether he 'should' be or not, it simply wouldn't be possible without raising the price. Parts count, plastic mass, etc. I'm sure if you measure the two figures you'll find they have similar amounts of those due to that being what the budget would provide. If you want a bigger Trypticon you'll have to hope on third parties coming through.

exactly. Tail-to-head Trypticon is 65 cm long, while Metroplex is 60 cm tall.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871353)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 10:55am CDT

Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot :lol:

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871355)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:01am CDT

william-james88 wrote:Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot

Never gonna happen LOL!—hence forth I’ll be referring to Trypticon as “shorty”. Besides we can always vote with our wallets not to buy this thing…
ON the plus side, I guess if you want to make the “9 great Destron generals” from TF:Zone, we now have 2 of them as *titan* size.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871356)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:02am CDT

william-james88 wrote:Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot

OBLITERATED

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot

Never gonna happen LOL!—hence forth I’ll be referring to Trypticon as “shorty”. Besides we can always vote with our wallets not to buy this thing…
ON the plus side, I guess if you want to make the “9 great Destron generals” from TF:Zone, we now have 2 of them as *titan* size.

... why? It's not exactly like they're using corrupt business practises or this is even a bad figure, everything shown about it so far looks incredibly. The only problem whatsoever is that he's not Metroplex's size. It's not exactly like they can whip up a bigger one with the Titan-class budget, they done the best they possibly could and brought out something amazing.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871357)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:04am CDT

Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot

OBLITERATED

pic is not accurate though, plus we know short & tubby aint got no hops like that

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871358)
Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:05am CDT

Kurona wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

For accuracy to a few scenes in that one cartoon, maybe. But what my point is is that whether he 'should' be or not, it simply wouldn't be possible without raising the price. Parts count, plastic mass, etc. I'm sure if you measure the two figures you'll find they have similar amounts of those due to that being what the budget would provide. If you want a bigger Trypticon you'll have to hope on third parties coming through.

but wasnt mettroplex 120 and hes the tallest and fort max was 150.

still un sure if i will get him

If you're letting scale keep you back from getting him, I'd really recommend against that. You can still pose them to a point they look somewhat right, and there really isn't another option for Trypticon unless you want to go for Planet X's which is a completely different look and continuity. Try and consider him without comparing his size to Metroplex because focusing on that is just going to detract you from how amazing the rest of him is.

its not really the size since he would be with fort max because i dont have metro
wish he was a mix of foc and g1. did hasbro ever promise that. probably not

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871359)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:09am CDT

o.supreme wrote:
Kurona wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Plus scale doesnt mater when Metroplex is begging for his life under trypticon's foot

OBLITERATED

pic is not accurate though, plus we know short & tubby aint got no hops like that

Not accurate to what? And he's easily got a chance against skinny and spindly :lol:

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871361)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:12am CDT

Kurona wrote:Not accurate to what? And he's easily got a chance against skinny and spindly

Cut, shrink Trypticon by 25%, & paste then repost that pic and see how believable it is

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871364)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:21am CDT

o.supreme wrote:
Kurona wrote:Not accurate to what? And he's easily got a chance against skinny and spindly

Cut, shrink Trypticon by 25%, & paste then repost that pic and see how believable it is

Nah, the only things out of proportion there seem to be the legs and head - the former should be a bit shorter, and the latter should be a bit bigger.

In any case, what I'm trying to get at is that saying we should vote with our wallets against this figure just because he's slightly shorter than another figure (whose proportions are much worse, in retrospect) is just silly when everything else about Trypticon looks amazing and it's doubtful we'll ever actually get an official Trypticon again - at least, certainly not for a long time. Harping on a figure like this for one very minor problem is a bit ridiculous when third parties are probably already working on the problem anyway and it ignores everything else good about the guy. This isn't Fort Max; Trypticon is not a lazy retool that looks nothing like the character. He's astonishing and impressive and possibly the best Titan yet. You can work around Metroplex being too lanky; don't let this little matter make you hate the dino.

... besides, if you're that desperate for a Decepticon Titan that's that big due to being little more than a big dude, Scorponok should be coming next year or 2019.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871365)
Posted by RiddlerJ on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:23am CDT

August? But I want it now! :-(

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871367)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:29am CDT

Kurona wrote:... besides, if you're that desperate for a Decepticon Titan that's that big due to being little more than a big dude, Scorponok should be coming next year or 2019.

I'm reacting strongly just because I'm a little disappointed that's all. To be sure Trypticon is a very nicely engineered toy, its just that you would think Hasbro would want some fan buy in when to comes to scale... and likely next years Scorponok will be a heavy retool of Trypticon. So my thoughts of having 4 city-sized titans to scale is just down the drain that's all.

Same with CW Devastator. He is a great toy, to be sure, but what I wouldn't give for one that is actually smaller, scaled to the other CW combiners.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871368)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:37am CDT

o.supreme wrote:
Kurona wrote:... besides, if you're that desperate for a Decepticon Titan that's that big due to being little more than a big dude, Scorponok should be coming next year or 2019.

I'm reacting strongly just because I'm a little disappointed that's all. To be sure Trypticon is a very nicely engineered toy, its just that you would think Hasbro would want some fan buy in when to comes to scale... and likely next years Scorponok will be a heavy retool of Trypticon. So my thoughts of having 4 city-sized titans to scale is just down the drain that's all.

Same with CW Devastator. He is a great toy, to be sure, but what I wouldn't give for one that is actually smaller, scaled to the other CW combiners.

Yeah I understand that and my reaction to you was probably a bit too strong, come to think of it. I apologise if I came across like a bit of a git.

I think we just have to accept as fans that due to their budgeting, we can only have two of these three - a Trypticon that looks like Trypticon; a Trypticon bigger than Metroplex; and the same price tag as the other Titans. We can't have all of those, and I'm personally glad that they went with 1 and 3 rather than any other combination. The fact we don't just have a consistent Generations line, but accompanied by remakes of the old Titans that dwarf every single other previous figure not called Fort Max is something we're extremely lucky to have - it'd have been unthinkable just a few years ago. So I just feel it's best to count our blessings and realise why something is the case rather than complaining that it is. This Trypticon would have been thought an impossibility in 2012 - I'm not gonna look a gift horse this beautiful in the mouth.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871372)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:48am CDT

They just really shouldn't have made Metroplex as tall as they did since it is so painfully obvious that making him reach the milestone of being "the tallest TF toy EVAR!!!" was their highest priority with that toy, resulting in a very lanky, floppy, anorexic-looking robot mode with so little mass overall when Metroplex is traditionally a rather beefy-looking dude.

Had he been made a little shorter (instead of Hasbro doing everything in their power to make sure his height superseded that of G1 Fort Max above all else), then Hasbro could have better budgeted more into his overall body mass to make him look more like how he's supposed to look, and would have made it easier for Trypticon to be better sized to Metroplex's height.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871373)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:48am CDT

What I like about Trypticons size is that his snout is at the level of Metroplex's chest where the ramp comes out, so you can pose Tryp tearing into Plex's chest with his face and eating his spark out :twisted:

Anyway, I really can understand the complaints of him being a bit too short, but for $150 and how big and chunky he is, I love it and I personally think it is perfect. Devastator is my favorite Titan class figure so far and Tryp is right up there ready to fight him for that spot.

And I cannot possible see Trypticon into Scorponok. I just can't. They aren't even remotely the same with regards to body styles or anything

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871374)
Posted by Kurona on April 3rd, 2017 @ 11:52am CDT

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:What I like about Trypticons size is that his snout is at the level of Metroplex's chest where the ramp comes out, so you can pose Tryp tearing into Plex's chest with his face and eating his spark out

Let's not forget the cannon that comes out of the top of Trypticon's head so he can blast Metroplex's head while he's at it. Dude's brutal!

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871377)
Posted by Randomhero on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:12pm CDT

Who cares if he's smaller? He's a giant dinosaur! That's like saying I can fight a panther because its 3 feet shorter than me or a pitiful because it's smaller than me. I don't know anyone else but I ain't gonna win a fight with either of those things. And that's how I look at Trypticon and metroplex

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871378)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:26pm CDT

^ But this isn't the real world, these are fictional characters. It's much like the upcoming Legendary film Godzilla vs Kong.

Many fans were rightly concerned that Kong normally being so small would not match up well with Godzilla. In the 2014 film he was 350ft (or 106M), while Kong in Skull Island, while still large, was only 100ft, less than 1/3 the size of Godzilla. Now they did thrown in a line by John C. Reilly that Kong is “still growing” plus the fact that it takes place during the early 1970’s, so by the time these two meet in 2020, Kong will hopefully be at least close to Godzilla size. I don’t expect him to be exactly the same, but I’d say at least 80%.
Trypticon and Metroplex have traditionally always been roughly the same size across most media (toy, comics, animation etc…). In fact, as Omega Supreme is my favorite Transformer ever, even I acknowledge his rivalry with Trypticon in TF: WFC was a very…farfetched, Omega Is Awesome, but is no city-bot IMHO

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871381)
Posted by Randomhero on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:39pm CDT

Exactly it's not real! It's make believe he's still a giant awesome looking dinosaur that turns into a city and space shop. so use that thing had to do when you were little with your g1 toys with no elbow and knees. Use your imagination. Put them in poses that make him look menacing. It's fine it's not like comtinously complaining about it is going I make him a whoppin 3-5 inches taller or have Hasbro and takara cancel the whole thing and take it bake to the drawing board to please the vocal minority.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871383)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:51pm CDT

Randomhero wrote:Use your imagination.

Got it...man is Trypticon going to be in trouble when he battles Cheetimus Maximus (aka Supreme Cheetor) :lol:

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871384)
Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:52pm CDT

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:And I cannot possible see Trypticon into Scorponok. I just can't. They aren't even remotely the same with regards to body styles or anything

i see it.
just spread out his legs and move his tail to the top and move his head up.
their basemodes are very similar.
maybe redesign the tail to have it split and become legs

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871386)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:56pm CDT

Guys, just remember what your wives tell you: its not the size that matters, its how you use it!

:lol:

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Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 12:59pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:Guys, just remember what your wives tell you: its not the size that matters, its how you use it!

but i dont haz a wife :-(

and that was wrong on sooo many levels

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Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 1:04pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:Guys, just remember what your wives tell you: its not the size that matters, its how you use it!

There's just no winning this...the world , it's so confusing...

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Posted by Cobotron on April 3rd, 2017 @ 1:39pm CDT

Randomhero wrote:Use your imagination.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. The cure-all!

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Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 1:45pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Guys, just remember what your wives tell you: its not the size that matters, its how you use it!

There's just no winning this...the world , it's so confusing...

Just think of it this way, which of those was a better film?

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871399)
Posted by Randomhero on April 3rd, 2017 @ 1:58pm CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:And I cannot possible see Trypticon into Scorponok. I just can't. They aren't even remotely the same with regards to body styles or anything

i see it.
just spread out his legs and move his tail to the top and move his head up.
their basemodes are very similar.
maybe redesign the tail to have it split and become legs

You can totally do it with the Metrotitan mold. There's that fan mode of fort max where you rotate the legs to face his back and fold them down. It makes him look like a mobile base. Honestly if you get rid of the tower, give him a tail, give him pinchers for hands and toss the ramp for a helmet like scorpinok, there's your Generations scorponok.

https://twitter.com/matty0984/status/772272229161639936

I think it totally works for a blueprint for scorponok and it evokes Energon as well.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871406)
Posted by DeathReviews on April 3rd, 2017 @ 2:22pm CDT

I admit I kind of wanted Trypticon to be 'as tall' as Metroplex, just so the Decepticons could say they had a Titan just as big. But if that isn't happening, then I'd certainly settle for him having more overall MASS than Metroplex. If he's heavier and bulkier, than that'll be fine. Metroplex is kind of skinny, and there are some aspects of him as a Transformer that I find were lazily implemented, such as his arms not really 'changing' at all (not even hiding the hands), they didn't do anything to hide the head, and you pretty much just sit him down on his butt to turn him into a 'city'.

Trypticon's transformation looks a little more involved (a little, I say), if not too far removed from his G1 roots.

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Posted by Randomhero on April 3rd, 2017 @ 2:53pm CDT

DeathReviews wrote:I admit I kind of wanted Trypticon to be 'as tall' as Metroplex, just so the Decepticons could say they had a Titan just as big. But if that isn't happening, then I'd certainly settle for him having more overall MASS than Metroplex. If he's heavier and bulkier, than that'll be fine. Metroplex is kind of skinny, and there are some aspects of him as a Transformer that I find were lazily implemented, such as his arms not really 'changing' at all (not even hiding the hands), they didn't do anything to hide the head, and you pretty much just sit him down on his butt to turn him into a 'city'.

Trypticon's transformation looks a little more involved (a little, I say), if not too far removed from his G1 roots.

I agree and also if people are wanting to base him off fiction, he's not a Titan. He's titan class when it comes to a toy but he doesn't share the same origins as Metroplex. In most he was built not born. In dreamwave he was millions of years old where as metroplex wasn't even built yet. In IDW we still don't know who came first but if Trypticon is related to Mortilus then it's possible he came before the Titans did. For all intended purposes you can look at it as Trypticon came first and metroplex came later so you can justify Metroplex being bigger because he's a plan against Trypticon. It's takes a lot of personal fanon but it's a way of looking at why Metroplex would be bigger.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871415)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 2:57pm CDT

when was the last time we saw Trypticon in IDW?

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871416)
Posted by Cobotron on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:01pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:when was the last time we saw Trypticon in IDW?

TF vs. GI Joe? Maybe?

I'm sure nobody counts that though. :lol:

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871419)
Posted by YoungPrime on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:03pm CDT

Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

Exactly! People who voted for him didn't have him being a shrimp to Metroplex and Fort Maxx in mind, regardless of his girth....

That being said, Hasbro's version is still not a deal breaker. But I don't see Takara selling a lot of these over in the US or anywhere else that the Hasbro version at $75 less is available.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871420)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:08pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:when was the last time we saw Trypticon in IDW?

I think his only active appearance is in the Monstrocity series, (though I could be in error)he's been seen inactive as recently as Redemption last year. I'm sure as a tie-in however they will bring Trypticon back online for a modern-era appearance.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871421)
Posted by william-james88 on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:08pm CDT

YoungPrime wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
Kurona wrote:He's not that much smaller than Metroplex; and his being shorter is simply to be expected given Trypticon is very bulky compared to how... it feels weird to say this about a Titan; but how spindly Metroplex is. Seriously look at that waist, he needs some malnutrition.

Meanwhile his rival's a big fat lumberer of a dino; he's got a huge amount of mass from head to toe. If anyone was expecting Trypticon to be the same height as Metroplex, they were really getting their hopes up.

trypticon needs to be bigger than metroplex

Exactly! People who voted for him didn't have him being a shrimp to Metroplex and Fort Maxx in mind, regardless of his girth....

That being said, Hasbro's version is still not a deal breaker. But I don't see Takara selling a lot of these over in the US or anywhere else that the Hasbro version at $75 less is available.

isnt that how it should be though? Hasbro makes toys for their market and takara does toys for theirs and there is no need to import on either side because we have quality toys coming from both companies?

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871422)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:11pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:
william-james88 wrote:when was the last time we saw Trypticon in IDW?

I think his only active appearance is in the Monstrocity series, (though I could be in error)he's been seen inactive as recently as Redemption last year. I'm sure as a tie-in however they will bring Trypticon back online for a modern-era appearance.

He is set to reappear this July in the sequel to Punishment and Redemption titled Salvation

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871425)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:18pm CDT

That's right...they are going to do the whole Dinobots vs Trypticon thing again. Also just to let you know this is not a new thing for me. Of course I know the original series toys had zero scale sensibility, but seeing the Dinobots battle against Trypticon (who was supposed to be city sized) in Marvel Transformers #27 was an inconceivable joke even as I read it when it was newly published.

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871426)
Posted by Cobotron on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:20pm CDT

See! Nobody counts TF vs Joe.

I love it! :lol:

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871427)
Posted by o.supreme on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:27pm CDT

Cobotron wrote::lol:
See! Nobody counts TF vs Joe.

I love it!

I think the question inferred mainline IDW continuity. Not offshoots...

Re: Titans Return Trypticon Boxart (1871429)
Posted by Randomhero on April 3rd, 2017 @ 3:34pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:when was the last time we saw Trypticon in IDW?

He popped up in Redepemtion with the dinobots and he's coming back thanks to Bludgeon in the summer for the final part in Johns and livios Dinobot story

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