I understand he's to be TWICE as tall as G1 Prime.
Since I can't find a G1 Prime for my collection, this'll do...
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Cool. Be adding that to my collection provided SOMEONE (LIZ!!) doesn't get one first.
Oh, and be careful if you buy the Unicron that's on the shelves now. The pall that holds the chest missile launcher in place is defective and can fail without warning.
Good thing I had my glasses on otherwise it would have poked me right in the eye.
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Wow. Comes with the Matrix and even has independently moveable fingers. That's really neat.
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Question: When it transforms, where the hell do the front wheels, bumper and headlights go? And just how dose the radiator grill manage to change shape and size?
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Reverend, I'm trying to figure that out as well. It looks like everything from the waist swivels around based on how Optimus is standing in the second link and the legs/tires on the legs. It also looks like the feet flip around, too. On those same pictures, it looks like the panels with the headlights in vehicle mode and the waist/pelvic panels in robot mode are on hinges. I also noticed that the radiator grill in robot mode is pushed in further than the one in vehicle mode. Maybe a removal front panel? It looks like the vehicle mode's bumper and radiator are one chrome piece. The front wheels look like they could be removable as well.
I really like the detailing on this model. It looks like there are working pistons connected to the elbows and ankles. I can also see little flip-open panels in the arms (in one picture it looks like he's using it as a communicator. Plus, there are tail lights in the front edge of his feet. Really neat.
I've noticed none of the pictures show his trailer. I hope that's included with the model.
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It looks great but I'll stick with my Mega SCF Transformers figures (look em' up, they dont transform but look just like they do on the cartoon!)
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: Buy it and find out. This is what I wanted the frikkin' toy to be/do back in '84.
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It'll kill your teachers, make your freinds envious and let you get under Lonni Anderson's blouse?
Put me down for two.
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FWIW, Prime was shown to have a wrist communicator in one episode of season 1. Pretty nice detail to include.
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P.S. God, I hope this is just the beginning of a G1 revamp... Larger, more posable, better detailed toys. Die cast parts, rubber tires. I did a write-up on this back in '95. Wouldn't you just love to see the Decepticon Seekers or Ironhide or Wheeljack done up this nicely? Hell, even Bumblebee!
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Some of the G1's cant look this good and still transform though. Megatron would always suck in robot mode (the gun's proportions gave him a super woodie on the toy in robot mode).
The ones that would be insanely cool this way and till transform correctly would be Soundwave, the Jets, All the cars, the dino dork...e...bots,....well shit!
Almost everybody EXCEPT Megatron would work! Huh.
OTOH, you could just get the 6" metalic SCF Megatron and have something straight outta the cartoon to fight with Prime. He comes with Lazerbeak (to perch on his arm) and even the energy moringstar he used all of once on the show! http://bigbadtoystore.com/images/tf102big.jpg
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Saw that. I mean true G1 -- he should be a Countach. And Megatron's cartoon model was patterned after the toy prototype -- which had a better head and arms, and no woody.
Personally, I want Skyfire.
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I have a Tamiya car model of the Lancia Stratos Race Car that Wheeljack was. It has every decal the same as Wheeljack's markings. I bought it to cut apart and make a 1/24th scale model of a robot mode Wheeljack that looks as close to the cartoon look as I can. I have a Jazz-type Porsche for the same thing.
quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: Saw that. I mean true G1 -- he should be a Countach. And Megatron's cartoon model was patterned after the toy prototype -- which had a better head and arms, and no woody.
Personally, I want Skyfire.
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Jetfire. And how can Megatron have been based on the toy prototype? Wasn't the Walther PK-38 transforming toy already at least a year old before Hasbro created the Transformers line? Are you sure that you're not thinking of Galvatron?
Actually, Galvatron could do with being redone too. The original toy was surprisingly posable for the period, but he looked pretty wimpy compared to his cool cartoon and comic counterparts. And the sandcastle head was just stupid.
Anyway, yeah, they're doing a few of these. They'll be expensive though (for obvious reasons). Probably at least as much as Unicron is now. Still be nice though, since a lot of the Armada toys are really, really awful. There's not much point doing it to any other TF lines though, since Car Robots/Robots in Disguise were pretty accurate, and a lot of the Beast Wars toys were nigh on identical (especially the Transmetals, although I'd love a TM Megatron where the tail attached to his arm like it did on the show). Beast Machines toys aren't too show accurate bar some exceptions, but Beast Machines was rubbish, so that doesn't matter.
I can't see how they can possibly make Soundwave and his tapes show accurate and still have them fit inside him, but that would be cool. That, or Cyclonus. Or Hot Rod. Or Death's Head.
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It indeed looks cool. I've always favored Soundwave myself.
I like the art of the recent TF comics based on G1 by Pat Lee. The best way to do Transformers is the original way, the way that made them so damn popular.
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"I can't see how they can possibly make Soundwave and his tapes show accurate and still have them fit inside him, but that would be cool."
Why not? Can't they make the tapes in such a way that, in tape mode, they are the same size as the opening in SW's chest? I'm not sure what that would make the size ratio of the robot modes. But, then, it's not like everyone was always drawn the same size every time. Individual parts of a single robot weren't always drawn the same size...
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