Tranformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 5.0 Registration Now Open

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

In the next few weeks we will be offering an option for ANY past member of the Club to order the TFSS 5.0 as well. Stay tuned to TransformersClub.com for information on when that is available.

That's pretty cool!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

Unless it isn't a CW Deluxe mold. As the 4.0 mystery figure is said to be a CW Deluxe, the 5.0 figure needn't have be one as well.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

This bonus 7th deluxe figure features a head sculpt not yet released at U.S. retail

U.S. retail, eh? So this means any unrevealed and Japan-only pretools are fair game. So these figures are strong contenders:

- Ghost Starscream
- Curse Armada Thrust
- Rook's alternate head
- Brawl's alternate head
- Trailbreaker's alternate head aka Hoist (if we're to believe FunPub's fiction)

Unless it isn't a CW Deluxe mold. As the 4.0 mystery figure is said to be a CW Deluxe, the 5.0 figure needn't have be one as well.

Since Wreckage only needs one more limb from either year... it's gonna be a long wait.

strange that i never get these emails even though im an active member. need to wait to make sure i can afford to subscribe. bad idea for them to try and charge for both subs in the same month

Sorry if this is stupid but where do you order? I don't see a link or anything.

steals_your_goats wrote:Sorry if this is stupid but where do you order? I don't see a link or anything.

It's not on the web page yet. Just in the e-mails.

EDIT: I had the link here, trying to be helpful, but a post elsewhere suggests that, if you use that, you might find yourself trying to buy a shipment to be mailed to MY address. So I took it down to be safe. Sorry.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:Sorry if this is stupid but where do you order? I don't see a link or anything.

It's not on the web page yet. Just in the e-mails.

EDIT: I had the link here, trying to be helpful, but a post elsewhere suggests that, if you use that, you might find yourself trying to buy a shipment to be mailed to MY address. So I took it down to be safe. Sorry.

No problem, I'll just keep my eyes open for the email. Thanks!

I'm a little disappointed they're going to start 5.0 billing before 4.0 gets the 2nd in. May is a huge month for large releases with UW Bruticus, Victorion, tfss 4.0, armada skywarp, TR probably seeing initial distribution, cyclonus set, and all immediately following Botcon. Great time to be a well bankrolled collector.

kurthy wrote:I'm a little disappointed they're going to start 5.0 billing before 4.0 gets the 2nd in. May is a huge month for large releases with UW Bruticus, Victorion, tfss 4.0, armada skywarp, TR probably seeing initial distribution, cyclonus set, and all immediately following Botcon. Great time to be a well bankrolled collector.

I wish there was an option to receive all 7 figures at the end of the service period. I don't need to be the first person to get the figures, but I woul like to save $30-$40 on shipping, which is over 10% of the entire subscription cost.

kurthy wrote:I'm a little disappointed they're going to start 5.0 billing before 4.0 gets the 2nd in. May is a huge month for large releases with UW Bruticus, Victorion, tfss 4.0, armada skywarp, TR probably seeing initial distribution, cyclonus set, and all immediately following Botcon. Great time to be a well bankrolled collector.

It's less than ideal, but it's all a race to get finished by December 31st at this point.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

kurthy wrote:I'm a little disappointed they're going to start 5.0 billing before 4.0 gets the 2nd in. May is a huge month for large releases with UW Bruticus, Victorion, tfss 4.0, armada skywarp, TR probably seeing initial distribution, cyclonus set, and all immediately following Botcon. Great time to be a well bankrolled collector.

It's less than ideal, but it's all a race to get finished by December 31st at this point.

I completely understand that aspect.

It's just I've agreed with my wife on a budget for my spending on collecting so that I don't go overboard and I don't like having to ask if I can go over my budget.

Is anyone else getting this error from the link?:

Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service V.5
The subscription service period has now expired.

I'm unable to order, so I've emailed TCC about it.

Afterlife07 wrote:Is anyone else getting this error from the link?:

Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service V.5
The subscription service period has now expired.

I'm unable to order, so I've emailed TCC about it.

I'm getting the same error. Did they sell out their expectations in a day?

kurthy wrote:

Afterlife07 wrote:Is anyone else getting this error from the link?:

Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service V.5
The subscription service period has now expired.

I'm unable to order, so I've emailed TCC about it.

I'm getting the same error. Did they sell out their expectations in a day?

I'm betting it's just another technical problem, as the order period is supposed to last four weeks.

So, if you are like me, you were probably thrilled to see you received the email from Brian Savage at the much beloved Transformers Collector Club which stated the TFSS 5.0 order period was now open for active TCC members. Well, MAYBE it's just me, but when I go to try to log in to order, what do I get, but a nice screen telling me that the subscription period has now expired. Really?! I don't know the whole reason why Brian Savage and gang are not doing BOTCONs and any more TCC after this next go around, but this is probably a big reason. They cannot get simple things right like their web-based ordering service. Every year they had to change it and put out more and more excuses about why BOTCON registration was later and later. I know I am complaining, and it's unfortunate, too, because I really love the exclusive figures. I haven't figured out why they ever sold retail figures online when their selection was so crummy--you could just go to your local Target, Toys R Us, or Walmart and get a 1000% better selection on retail figures. But they were it for the BOTCON and TCC exclusives. Really a shame. I did the "I'll just shut up and please take my money!" bit for years, but now I can't even do that anymore. Brian, you made this so much harder than it had to be!

Let me hear your gripes and complaints!

P.S. I'm still waiting for my Universe 2.0 Voyager Class Tread Bolt figure I ordered from the TCC back in 2008 that I never received, but that Brian Savage himself PROMISED ME I would get.

Uh huh...sure.

Okay, TFSS 5.0 is actually up, and I successfully registered.

I remember hearing quite often back in the day that people were having to flip their convention sets, to cover the cost of the trip and buy what they really wanted. That never really made sense to me but, there ya go.

I posted on their Facebook page about the "expiration", and to their credit, they replied saying they'd temporarily taken the link down to remove the "Sign Up Here" link, because they're no longer accepting memberships. I was able to successfully register.

Okay, I can't even log into the club period. I'm at the member's login screen. My email and password are in and I click 'go'. And nothing happens. What the hell is going on?

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Okay, I can't even log into the club period. I'm at the member's login screen. My email and password are in and I click 'go'. And nothing happens. What the hell is going on?

No need to log into the club, as far as I know. You just click onto the club website, click on the banner that has Figure Subscription Service 5.0 and the gold Autobot and Decepticon logos, and it should take you to the login screen. I logged in just fine a few minutes ago, no issues.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Okay, I can't even log into the club period. I'm at the member's login screen. My email and password are in and I click 'go'. And nothing happens. What the hell is going on?

Again, this is a known issue. You're not a member right now. FunPub is working to grant people like you (who were members as of March 18th, but whose memberships have since expired specifically, but it sounds like it will be anyone who's ever been a member when it's ready) access to the club store.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Okay, I can't even log into the club period. I'm at the member's login screen. My email and password are in and I click 'go'. And nothing happens. What the hell is going on?

Again, this is a known issue. You're not a member right now. FunPub is working to grant people like you (who were members as of March 18th, but whose memberships have since expired specifically, but it sounds like it will be anyone who's ever been a member when it's ready) access to the club store.

Yeah, we discussed this in the 4.0 thread. But hopefully they get this fixed. I really want to order these figures and complete the 4.0 line.

BBTS has preorders and holy crap that's some prices I don't want to have to pay!

No kidding. It's $260 usd for the three toys I want a la carte, or $330 for the whole sub. Got a couple TF friends in who want the other three between them...

I only wanted Thrustinator from an earlier sub, so that was fine, but if you want even TWO you might as well do the whole sub and sell the ones you don't want. Kind of wish I did that with 3.0. Didn't want to pay the BBTS price for Serpentor and Tarantulas... realllly didn't want Carzap. ^^

the individual prices only add to the pressure of getting the full sub, i just wish the timing would have been better. this is a slow month for finances

As a reluctant precaution against the worst... I've preordered those from BBTS. Although I hope to god the TFSS gets this whole thing situated so I can order them direct. And so I can continue with the 4.0 line.

Ugh, why is it this year I want all six from both lines?!

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:As a reluctant precaution against the worst... I've preordered those from BBTS. Although I hope to god the TFSS gets this whole thing situated so I can order them direct. And so I can continue with the 4.0 line.

Ugh, why is it this year I want all six from both lines?!

I did something similar, pre-ordering the two figures I actually wanted from BBTS. I figure this way, if things fall through, nothing is lost. If FunPub delivers, I pay a slight markup for the ones I want and while I might miss out on a special seventh figure, I think I'll be able to live with it.

Since there seems to be no response on the facebook page, I have questions to pose here. Lifeline, the newest image shows her with green hands. All of her appearances
(including the club comic) show her with the lavender or pink. Is this a final change?

Toxitron, why is he an Autobot? He's never been an Autobot anywhere else. If he absolutely has to be an Autobot, can the symbols be hidden under his arm flaps or the panel for the robot head? Why paste it in the middle of his chest where it can't be ignored? I liked the first mock up because it didn't show any symbols at all. I don't care at all that the combiner is a mixed faction thing. This bugs the hell out of me though. Ideally he's a con or a Wrecker as a compromise. Worst case scenario, an Autobot. He's the one I'm most excited about and to have such a completely off-character change makes no sense to me.

Flux Convoy wrote:Toxitron, why is he an Autobot? He's never been an Autobot anywhere else. If he absolutely has to be an Autobot, can the symbols be hidden under his arm flaps or the panel for the robot head? Why paste it in the middle of his chest where it can't be ignored? I liked the first mock up because it didn't show any symbols at all. I don't care at all that the combiner is a mixed faction thing. This bugs the hell out of me though. Ideally he's a con or a Wrecker as a compromise. Worst case scenario, an Autobot. He's the one I'm most excited about and to have such a completely off-character change makes no sense to me.

Umm... think of it as Toxitron being a Bizarro Optimus Prime. You know how Bizarro Superman has the backwards S symbol? Well Toxitron has a backwards Autobot symbol.

(Yeah, I know the Autobot symbol looks the same when reversed. But I don't know what else to suggest.)

Lucky Logician wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:Toxitron, why is he an Autobot? He's never been an Autobot anywhere else. If he absolutely has to be an Autobot, can the symbols be hidden under his arm flaps or the panel for the robot head? Why paste it in the middle of his chest where it can't be ignored? I liked the first mock up because it didn't show any symbols at all. I don't care at all that the combiner is a mixed faction thing. This bugs the hell out of me though. Ideally he's a con or a Wrecker as a compromise. Worst case scenario, an Autobot. He's the one I'm most excited about and to have such a completely off-character change makes no sense to me.

Umm... think of it as Toxitron being a Bizarro Optimus Prime. You know how Bizarro Superman has the backwards S symbol? Well Toxitron has a backwards Autobot symbol.

(Yeah, I know the Autobot symbol looks the same when reversed. But I don't know what else to suggest.)

The bio says he was captured by Shockwave, subjected to experiments, and locked away... Doesn't mean he couldn't have started out as an Autobot, even if his identity has since morphed and warped into something unrecognizable.

Flux Convoy wrote:Since there seems to be no response on the facebook page, I have questions to pose here. Lifeline, the newest image shows her with green hands. All of her appearances
(including the club comic) show her with the lavender or pink. Is this a final change?

Toxitron, why is he an Autobot? He's never been an Autobot anywhere else. If he absolutely has to be an Autobot, can the symbols be hidden under his arm flaps or the panel for the robot head? Why paste it in the middle of his chest where it can't be ignored? I liked the first mock up because it didn't show any symbols at all. I don't care at all that the combiner is a mixed faction thing. This bugs the hell out of me though. Ideally he's a con or a Wrecker as a compromise. Worst case scenario, an Autobot. He's the one I'm most excited about and to have such a completely off-character change makes no sense to me.

I'm still not convinced Toxitron's Autobot symbol isn't a mistake, although I'm hard-pressed to explain why that mold (previously a Decepticon, since the existing Autobot variations used a different chest) should have been given an Autobot symbol by mistake.

It wouldn't be the first time there was a symbol mix-up, but usually it's something less distinct - G1 v. G2 'con instead of 'bot v. 'con.

Toxitron could work as an Autobot, although I'm surprised that no one has realized his true calling is to be a Junkion.

RevTibe wrote:It wouldn't be the first time there was a symbol mix-up, but usually it's something less distinct - G1 v. G2 'con instead of 'bot v. 'con.

Oh, I can think of several "'bot v. 'con" mix-ups. The problem is, every one of the ones I can think of could be explained by a previous use of the mold. That wouldn't apply here.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

RevTibe wrote:It wouldn't be the first time there was a symbol mix-up, but usually it's something less distinct - G1 v. G2 'con instead of 'bot v. 'con.

Oh, I can think of several "'bot v. 'con" mix-ups. The problem is, every one of the ones I can think of could be explained by a previous use of the mold. That wouldn't apply here.

Why does it matter that the Motormaster tooling is used? How is that in any way pertinent to the Con vs. Bot debate?

megatronus wrote:

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

RevTibe wrote:It wouldn't be the first time there was a symbol mix-up, but usually it's something less distinct - G1 v. G2 'con instead of 'bot v. 'con.

Oh, I can think of several "'bot v. 'con" mix-ups. The problem is, every one of the ones I can think of could be explained by a previous use of the mold. That wouldn't apply here.

Why does it matter that the Motormaster tooling is used? How is that in any way pertinent to the Con vs. Bot debate?

It's not too much, since the Decepticon logo is a tampograph (and the Optimus Prime version has no molded logo, either). The point is more that there's no pre-existing Autobot logo that's part of the mold to explain it.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

megatronus wrote:

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

RevTibe wrote:It wouldn't be the first time there was a symbol mix-up, but usually it's something less distinct - G1 v. G2 'con instead of 'bot v. 'con.

Oh, I can think of several "'bot v. 'con" mix-ups. The problem is, every one of the ones I can think of could be explained by a previous use of the mold. That wouldn't apply here.

Why does it matter that the Motormaster tooling is used? How is that in any way pertinent to the Con vs. Bot debate?

It's not too much, since the Decepticon logo is a tampograph (and the Optimus Prime version has no molded logo, either). The point is more that there's no pre-existing Autobot logo that's part of the mold to explain it.

I see what you're saying now.

Also important to note is that he uses the Nemesis pre-tooled head. Which is awesome.

It doesn't matter to me so much that he's an Autobot. What I do wonder is if the combiner head will be any different.

megatronus wrote:

Lucky Logician wrote:

Flux Convoy wrote:Toxitron, why is he an Autobot? He's never been an Autobot anywhere else. If he absolutely has to be an Autobot, can the symbols be hidden under his arm flaps or the panel for the robot head? Why paste it in the middle of his chest where it can't be ignored? I liked the first mock up because it didn't show any symbols at all. I don't care at all that the combiner is a mixed faction thing. This bugs the hell out of me though. Ideally he's a con or a Wrecker as a compromise. Worst case scenario, an Autobot. He's the one I'm most excited about and to have such a completely off-character change makes no sense to me.

Umm... think of it as Toxitron being a Bizarro Optimus Prime. You know how Bizarro Superman has the backwards S symbol? Well Toxitron has a backwards Autobot symbol.

(Yeah, I know the Autobot symbol looks the same when reversed. But I don't know what else to suggest.)

The bio says he was captured by Shockwave, subjected to experiments, and locked away... Doesn't mean he couldn't have started out as an Autobot, even if his identity has since morphed and warped into something unrecognizable.

I don't think that's nearly enough to make him become an Autobot. IDW Overlord is a Decepticon despite bucking the entire chain of command. It just seems totally incomprehensible to turn a traditionally Decepticon character into an Autobot. I don't think ANY possible story could make that work for me. Mindless clone, zombie, Bizarro or otherwise. It just seems to be trying, needlessly, to shoehorn an Autobot torso into a ragtag combiner. Just let it be crazy. It doesn't have to unify them other than them being a multi faction robot.

Would a reprolabel help out with Toxitron? Just slap a 'Con symbol over the Autobot symbols?

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Would a reprolabel help out with Toxitron? Just slap a 'Con symbol over the Autobot symbols?

The Autobot symbol has unique mangling/staining/splotching;

I'm not opposed to him being an Auto (even though I was predicting he'd be built from Nemesis Prime/Scourge on account of some Ask Vector Prime fiction), but this would be an obstacle for someone trying to change his faction.

RevTibe wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Would a reprolabel help out with Toxitron? Just slap a 'Con symbol over the Autobot symbols?

The Autobot symbol has unique mangling/staining/splotching;

I'm not opposed to him being an Auto (even though I was predicting he'd be built from Nemesis Prime/Scourge on account of some Ask Vector Prime fiction), but this would be an obstacle for someone trying to change his faction.

or you can do an Armada Wheeljack and put a con sigil under the spattered out badge

grimdragon2001 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Would a reprolabel help out with Toxitron? Just slap a 'Con symbol over the Autobot symbols?

The Autobot symbol has unique mangling/staining/splotching;

I'm not opposed to him being an Auto (even though I was predicting he'd be built from Nemesis Prime/Scourge on account of some Ask Vector Prime fiction), but this would be an obstacle for someone trying to change his faction.

or you can do an Armada Wheeljack and put a con sigil under the spattered out badge

As stated above, it has a pattern. I'd probably not care at all if it could be hidden entirely in bot mode. Better yet, leave it off and offer a few symbol choices as stickers. Since this is the one I am most interested in from my favorite CW mold, it ruffles me most. I mean, he's a con. It's right there on his name plate!

megatronus wrote:The bio says he was captured by Shockwave, subjected to experiments, and locked away...

Flux Convoy wrote:I mean, he's a con. It's right there on his name plate!

The nameplate reads Decepticon Experiment Toxitron. But he wears a Autobot sigil instead...

The term 'experiment' sounds familiar. I wonder if there have ever been any other 'experiment' transformers in the past. Maybe there could've been a time where a good guy experiment went rogue and wore the bad guy sigil. *cough*Rampage*cough* Could Toxitron be the reverse case where a bad guy experiment goes rogue and wears the good guy sigil?

Lucky Logician wrote:

megatronus wrote:The bio says he was captured by Shockwave, subjected to experiments, and locked away...

Flux Convoy wrote:I mean, he's a con. It's right there on his name plate!

The nameplate reads Decepticon Experiment Toxitron. But he wears a Autobot sigil instead...

The term 'experiment' sounds familiar. I wonder if there have ever been any other 'experiment' transformers in the past. Maybe there could've been a time where a good guy experiment went rogue and wore the bad guy sigil. *cough*Rampage*cough* Could Toxitron be the reverse case where a bad guy experiment goes rogue and wears the good guy sigil?

You have to keep in mind that as a scientist, Shockwave does not care who the subject of his experiments is, be it Decepticon or Autobot. Toxitron may have started out as an Autobot in this continuum (or any, Animated never really delved into his history that far), but became a Decepticon Experiment, as in experimented on by Decepticons.

As far as comparisons are concerned, BW Rampage was crazy from the get-go and was only created out of a desire to recreate Starscream's mutant spark. Dubious intentions from the "good guys". Plus, Rampage was neutral, holding no allegiance, until pressured into BW Megatron's service by having half of his spark cut out and put in a cage lined with pure Energon crystals. One squeeze, one jolt of pain, that's all it took to put him in line, so it's a bit of a reluctant service unlike Inferno

Everyone, it works! I just registered and everything! God, I don't have to pay nearly twice the amount from BBTS!

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Everyone, it works! I just registered and everything! God, I don't have to pay nearly twice the amount from BBTS!

Toxitron I don't know much about but it'd make sense if the mangled Autobot symbol was there to mock the Autobots by toxitron himself. Alternatively perhaps the symbol was mangled by shockwave during his experiment on an Autobot. After all shockwave was responsible for the dinobots in foc and IDW iirc.

Prowl4 wrote:Toxitron I don't know much about but it'd make sense if the mangled Autobot symbol was there to mock the Autobots by toxitron himself. Alternatively perhaps the symbol was mangled by shockwave during his experiment on an Autobot. After all shockwave was responsible for the dinobots in foc and IDW iirc.

Think of it like how Bizarro wears a messed up Superman symbol, Toxitron in this case wears a messed up Autobot symbol.

It's no different than Armada Wheeljack having a scratched out Autobot symbol. Toxitron has a sludged over Autobot symbol but he's a Decepticon.

Well, Twitter would seem to confirm that Toxitron's Autobot logo is here to stay. When I pointed out that the artwork posted this morning conveniently obscures the logo (while dropping my two cents worth that the Autobot logo is wrong), they pretty quickly responded. "Not wrong. Different universe."

To which I responded: "You can explain it any way you want. It's still wrong."

G.B. Blackrock wrote:To which I responded: "You can explain it any way you want. It's still wrong."

Eh? He's not the first TF to have his faction differ depending on the universe - Animated Strika comes to mind. That, and it's not like Toxitron has anything really "set" about him, in a multiversal sense - his only halfway significant appearance was as a joke character in a convention-exclusive comic.