Transformers Collectors' Club Subscription Service 3.0 - Carzap and Blackrock

Sabrblade wrote:Carzap looks as crazily-decoed as the final days of G2 were, as he should be!

Sabrblade wrote:Carzap looks as crazily-decoed as the final days of G2 were, as he should be!

ScottyP wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:Too many different topics in this thread.

But yeah, if anyone has a good way to swap around Stylor's limbs ... please post. I'm afraid to go pulling on things given the price of these things.

There really isn't a good way to take apart and reassemble arms microns. That mold can especially be quite fragile.

Mine are "backwards" as well, but can someone fill me in on why it matters on this mold? He's symmetrical either way, all it does is swap which end a peg ends up on in weapon mode.

shajaki wrote:sorry if its already been explained but...

i get that carzap is a cancelled G2 proto. but what was the original mold?

either way im liking it. bought.

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:sorry if its already been explained but...

i get that carzap is a cancelled G2 proto. but what was the original mold?

either way im liking it. bought.

G2 Windbreaker (A.K.A. "Zap" in Europe, and "Carzap" on a Japanese poster)

megatronus wrote:Also, originally (IIRC), it seemed like the Carzap mold utilized Nightbeat's head - here it looks like an entirely new head. Is that new?


EDIT: in other news, I fixed Stylor's legs. You get a bit of stress mark once you pull the legs off (make sure you pull straight down), but a little heat (hair dryer) makes it fade fast, and it's covered up regardless by the lower leg pieces themselves.

Conclusion? Win.

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:Also, originally (IIRC), it seemed like the Carzap mold utilized Nightbeat's head - here it looks like an entirely new head. Is that new?


EDIT: in other news, I fixed Stylor's legs. You get a bit of stress mark once you pull the legs off (make sure you pull straight down), but a little heat (hair dryer) makes it fade fast, and it's covered up regardless by the lower leg pieces themselves.

Conclusion? Win.

Yup, new head.

And now you gotta fix the arms. Be very careful when yanking those off the shoulders.

ScottyP wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:If it makes any of you feel better about missing out I read on twitter a scalper bought up a ton of stuff.

While I'm sure some folks got in on these just to resell at a premium, 1) I ain't mad and 2) You'd have to be an insanely quick handed and well prepared scalper to have gotten in on a "ton" of that stuff since they were limited to one per membership. I think of the dozen or so Megs/Wasp sets, you can go count up posts here and elsewhere and account for half of them. Same goes for much of the 08 stuff.

So yeah, if someone ends up with a big haul of multiple super valuable things, good for them, but it'd have taken a small miracle to pull that off and the timing window was just too small for me to buy into some theory of Grubby McNeckbeard Scalpsmith IV keeping anyone else from having a shot at stuff. These were high demand items and pretty much everyone got the club's email/tweet at the same time. You can buy stuff on phones these days pretty quick, it makes total sense that everything they had worth jumping on would be jumped on quickly.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:sorry if its already been explained but...

i get that carzap is a cancelled G2 proto. but what was the original mold?

either way im liking it. bought.

G2 Windbreaker (A.K.A. "Zap" in Europe, and "Carzap" on a Japanese poster)

ScottyP wrote:

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:sorry if its already been explained but...

i get that carzap is a cancelled G2 proto. but what was the original mold?

either way im liking it. bought.

G2 Windbreaker (A.K.A. "Zap" in Europe, and "Carzap" on a Japanese poster)

Carzap is one of those cases where I feel hypocritical. If they released this, the original G2 mold, just like this, I'd think it was an amazing release and it'd be one of the tops in the FSS for me. But as it is? Total yawn and I just don't care. Is that weird?

megatronus wrote:It's one thing to homage an official release, it's quite another to homage a non-release or cancelled product.

ScottyP wrote:

megatronus wrote:It's one thing to homage an official release, it's quite another to homage a non-release or cancelled product.

That's a good way to put it. I feel the same way about Nacelle. Use the encore G1 seeker mold and make it look like that catalog image, and that's a freakin' huge win. As it is, it feels like a weird addition to a Classics shelf when there was never any original version of it to begin with.

Sabrblade wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

megatronus wrote:It's one thing to homage an official release, it's quite another to homage a non-release or cancelled product.

That's a good way to put it. I feel the same way about Nacelle. Use the encore G1 seeker mold and make it look like that catalog image, and that's a freakin' huge win. As it is, it feels like a weird addition to a Classics shelf when there was never any original version of it to begin with.

The way the Club seems to be approaching this toy is as its own character separate from Windbreaker rather than as a new version of Windbreaker. So it can go on a Classics shelf as Block Town Carzap rather than as G2 Windbreaker.

Alternatively, with the Club's products being so fiction-oriented, this is technically meant to be a Wings Universe toy rather than a Classics toy, as the Classicsverse and the Wingsverse are separate places, but I think the first point I made might be more compelling/appealing than this one.

gothsaurus wrote:did you twist/angle or anything special... or just pull straight out of the C-clip?

The Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service (TFSS) for version 3.0 is at the half way point, and we only have two reveals left! A very interesting figure that has appeal to fans of both Transformers and G.I. Joe, this character is a mix of the greatest military minds from throughout human history meshed with Cybertronian technology - Serpent O.R.! As a reminder, the order period will be open through October 2nd, 2014.

The service is available to anyone who is a member of the Transformers Collectors’ Club. The cost of this additional service is $297 (plus shipping). You can pay all at once or in 3 installments. The 6 toys that make up the TFSS 3.0 are: KROK, NACELLE, TARANTULAS, CARZAP, SERPENT O.R. and G2 STARSCREAM. In addition to that you will receive a BONUS 7th figure to be mailed out with your final shipment.

Keep it locked in here and on our official Facebook and Twitter pages for additional details. You can order now or wait until you have seen all six final mock up figures. The choice is yours as again, anyone who orders by Oct 2nd (11:59 PM cst is the cut off) is guaranteed the complete set of toys upon completion of full payment.

Va'al wrote:I prefer my Senator in Purple.



(But the redeco does look quite nice!)

Hiboman wrote:And he can totally double as the first Deathcobra figure! He can join Liozack from the Wings Of Honor Botcon exclusives!

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

Va'al wrote:I prefer my Senator in Purple.



(But the redeco does look quite nice!)

Real quick aside, I adore everything about the senator Rattobatto figure, I think it is the single best use of the neo-classics scourge mold. One of my favorite takara figures this side of Telemocha Waspy.

Hiboman wrote:And he can totally double as the first Deathcobra figure!

Hiboman wrote:And he can totally double as the first Deathcobra figure! He can join Liozack from the Wings Of Honor Botcon exclusives!

Transformers Collectors' Club wrote:With a little over a week remaining to sign up for the The Transformers Collectors' Club Figure Subscription Service (TFSS) for version 3.0, today we show off our final reveal! Everyone’s favorite number two (and the Deception who for thirty years has strived to be number one) - G2 Starscream! As a reminder, the order period will be open through October 2nd, 2014.

Transformers Collectors' Club wrote:Tomorrow, exclusively on the TCC website http://www.transformersclub.com . A full 22 page comic spotlighting the #TFSS3point0!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:LOL at Prime's and Galvatron's expressions. That's really something unexpected.

And this cements TFSS 3.0 in Wings, as Jhiaxus uses his RiD-based form.

Seibertron wrote:

dragons wrote:Hate there expresions it makes them look to humanoid looking robots dont have wrinkles

dragons wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:LOL at Prime's and Galvatron's expressions. That's really something unexpected.

And this cements TFSS 3.0 in Wings, as Jhiaxus uses his RiD-based form.

Hate there expresions it makes them look to humanoid looking robots dont have wrinkles