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Raoul got whitewashed between his appearance in "Make Tracks" (Hispanic skin tone) and "Auto-Bop" (Caucasian skin tone). :eek: Moreover, Raoul's lighter skin tone also appears to reflect his more heroic persona. In RPG terms, Raoul is basically Chaotic Neutral in "Make Tracks," but by the end of the episode he grows to become Chaotic Good, and in "Auto-Bop" he appears to have levelled up to Neutral Good.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psvvk5q3hm.jpg
And remember that the G1 cartoon was no stranger to racial undertones, as this was the very reason why Casey Kasem quit the show. :(
I had no idea the whole time thar they were the same guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
God damnit!!!!
Why didn't tell me Screamer and friends (MP-11 onwards) had "heels"???
Have noticed them on Ramjet (and pics of thrust) and thought it was a conehead remould/extra. But looking at pics, MP-11 started it.
In my defense.... had 5 versions of Screamer v1 out and about for a long time... So MP-11, never looked at it, never even bothered to lift the engine covers! MP-Sunstorm has never been opened, nor has Hasbro TC.
And Tak MP-11SW and MP-11TC were opened, eyeballed, and packed away...
Beast Wars Scourge is a cool looking Transformer in a wicked paint scheme that I didn't know existed until it was front paged on seibertron recently. http://www.seibertron.com/transforme...courge/4094/1/ :cool:
Sadly the chrome quality on this toy is rubbish and highly prone to flaking. :( This toy was a bit of a peg warmer, so I'm surprised you never noticed before. :confused:
I didn't get back into TFs until the year 2003.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
I don't own MP11 Starscream, but I just Google searched an image of his tech specs card and discovered that his function isn't Air Commander (航空参謀) but actually Neo Emperor of Destruction (新破壊大帝)! :eek: Which of course makes sense since he does come with the coronation kit... so ya know... Neo Emperor of Destruction for a whole minute. :p
For those who may not know, Megatron's function in Japan isn't Leader, but "Emperor of Destruction." Galvatron's function in Japan is not "City Commander," but "Neo Emperor of Destruction." So MP11's tech specs establishes Starscream as being Neo Emperor of Destruction for a brief moment before the title was taken by Galvatron. I guess this means Galvatron did attempt to fill in his shoes. :p
Never saw this until Windsweeper arrived yesterday....
The vertical fins on cw skydive/air raid/thrust/g2skydive/g2 air raid/cicadacon/terrorsaur/windsweeper can be folded down to the horizontal!
CW Hound has nostrils
When playing as Swindle in FOC, his vehicle machine gun auto aims for you. I just discovered that yesterday. I never used the machine gun, always his missiles. Made me realise how little Swindle needed his vehicle mode in that game aside from the start of the level.
This is why I'm appreciative of Devastation giving players a far greater impetus to switch between robot and alternate modes.
MP Grimlock has, in dino mode a snapping jaw button ... on his left cheek... I only learned of this after I was playing with my KO OS version and thought, hmmm if the OS version has it mebbe the original has it too? Checked the original and yep, its there..... albeit weak snapping action which is why I barely noticed there was one and just managed the jaw opening and closing manually when I played with it. ;p
The first two series of Microman were called Microman Zone and Microman Victory respectively. The final two series of Transformers G1 in Japan were, of course, called Transformers Victory and Transformers Zone.
Apparently Voyager Arcana can binary bond with G1 Brainstorm! :eek: Which means that he should be able to binary bond with any 1987 Headmaster and any 1987 Headmaster Nebulan should be able to binary bond with Voyager Brainstorm!
Can't wait to try this out. ;)
Unfortunately the head switch didn't work. That guy's G1 Brainstorm must have a defective spring mechanism. G1 Arcana's shoulder tabs (which activates Brainstorm's tech specs meter) makes it impossible for him to binary bond with Voyager Brainstorm.
:(
Just realised that titans return has no spring loaded missiles and that CW megatron was the only toy to have a spring loaded missle :eek:
There is an Arcee hand variant. So I haven't opened mine... was the closed hand one rare?
Yeah that's the first release. It looks better/more natural when she's holding her weapons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaxius._
It's Generations Head with G1 body..... not G1 head with Gen Body as your post says you tried....Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
There's 5mm hole under Skullsmasher's gator head!
It's Wreck-Gar, not Wreck Gar.
P.S.: Just to make things clear, this comment was aimed at myself. I got CW Wreck-Gar yesterday and noticed it had a hyphen. I then went and checked and realised that Wreck-Gar has always had a hyphenated name! Made me feel like a massive dope for not noticing all this time! :p
I've long known that Kasper Gutman (Maltese Falcon) was the inspiration for Gutt in G1's Matrix Quest story, "Bird of Prey" (as the references to that film abound ;)), but I didn't know that Gutman was also the inspiration for Deceptitran and Cryotek! :eek:
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I just took a look through TFwiki's list of G1 toys. To my surprise the vast majority of 84, 85 and 86 G1 toys have CHUG representations either released or coming soon.
Here are the ones that don't.
85 Bots
Slag, Sludge Snarl, Swoop, Topspin, Twintwist, Omega Supreme, Power Dashers and Omnibots
85 Cons
Barrage, Ransack, Venom
86 Bots
Hubcap and Outback.
86 Cons
Predacons and the individual robots that make Reflector.
87 has a lot more gaps but HasTak seems to be doing a good job of plugging the gaps with the Titans Return line.
See this thread. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DELTAprime
P.S.: Something I never realised before... if you negative-invert Omega Supreme's colours you end up with the colours for GADEP/Guardian Robot.
Until I was actually looking at the figure in hand, I didn't realise the single release repaint of RiD Sawtooth had different clear energon parts to the Battle Pack release
Sadly these parts can't be plugged into Strongarm. But it at least helps to give the single release Sawtooth more reason to pick it up if you already have the battle pack version
I've decided to rename the single release Ripjaws
Daburu
TRDoublecross^Twinferno's Titan Master's name is Daburu, which is the Japanese version of the English※ word "double." Doublecross is called "Daburukurosu" (ダブルクロス) in Japanese, so really... Twinferno's Titan Master's name is literally "Double." And if you're having trouble pronouncing "Daburu" correctly (no stress on any syllable and all short vowels; which is hard for most English speakers) then just say "Double," because that's actually what it is. :)
I think that this is a neat nod to Doublecross' original name since Hasbro evidently weren't able to secure the rights to the name "Doublecross," they've instead homaged it by Anglocising the Japanisation of the Anglophone name! *phew* :o
Throttle
TRGetaway^Breakaway's Titan Master is called Throttle, which strikes me as odd because Throttle was originally Darkwing's Nebulan partner, and Getaway's partner was Rev. And Hasbro had the rights to the name Rev (or at least spelt as "R.E.V."). Granted it's been 13 years since they last used that name, so it's absolutely possible that Hasbro's lost the rights to that name, but I wonder why they couldn't have approximated it differently or just used a wholly different/new name? Heck, do another Japanese homage call it Lightfoot or Zetca. The problem with using the name "Throttle" is that if Hasbro ever decide to release a TRDarkwing^Darkwind later on, then what are they going to call his partner? :confused: Or does this mean that Hasbro have no intention of releasing a TR Darkwind? :(
Autobot Hot Rod
Eeeeeyyy! Hasbro's FINALLY managed to secure the rights to the name "Hot Rod," even if it's with "Autobot" in front of it! Huzzah! :D We've been waiting for this since 2002 when Hasbro released their version of reissue Hot Rod as "Rodimus Major," then just "Rodimus" which as become the staple and accepted Hasbro version of that character's name ever since. It even became canonically official that Hot Rod changed his name to just "Rodimus." Does this mean that The Last Knight's Hot Rod will actually be called (Autobot) Hot Rod and not Rodimus? Eeenteresting...
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※From the French word "double" (say "doo'bl"), which came from the Latin word dūplus meaning "twice as many." The Latin word for "double" (as in "two of something" (e.g. having a spare)) is duplicātus and the word for "double" as in multiplying something by two is duplex.
That's the beauty of owning your own toys, you can toss officiality (ha! I made a new word!) out with the packaging and still call them by whatever name you choose.
Obviously you'd still call them by their designated names to avoid confusion when dealing with others, but if Hasbro were to release a Darkwind, I'd still call his partner Throttle. Just like I'd call Highbrow's partner Gort, rather than Ecks-ort :p , or however you'd pronounce Xort*.
*yes, I know it's pronounced with a Z.
I actually pronounce "Xort" with an "X" (ksort). Some might argue that it's pronounced as "Short"; similar to how Xi'an is pronounced "shee-ahn" and Prince Xizor from the now unofficial Star Wars EU is pronounced "shee-zor." Although a lot of Star Wars fans mispronounce it as "Zee-zor," or weirder still, "Zicks-zor." I don't know where they got the "cks" from. :confused:
I'm actually thinking about making a fan profile for the Emergency Green G1 Ratchet and calling him "Jeff." :)
lol @ Jeff.
Do eeet!
As soon as I finish writing these @#$%^&* yearly reports! :rolleyes: (so mebbe next week)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
Just saw that FOC has a PS4 version, has anyone bought it? I was very surprised. $50 though. Yowsers
The voice actor who played Ratchet in TF Prime also played Shran/Weyoun in Star Trek Enterprise/DS9
Yeah its very cool... Jeff Combs what a legend :DQuote:
Originally Posted by prjkt
Today I learned that there was indeed a Bluestreak from the CW Prowl mould, from the TFSS. It's a blue Bluestreak however. Completely slipped my knowledge.
I never knew this either. TFwiki states that the toy is still scheduled for release in 2016, but atm it looks like the release date will either be pushed back to 2017 or the toy may be cancelled.
The toy was part of series 4, which was released back in August.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/coll...ofoz/1608g.jpg
At least someone thought to release one. It's weird to me, since I'd seen at least a few images of Impactor before/known of his existence. Still wish we got a cartoon/toy coloured Bluestreak from Dead End with the Prowl head though. One can dream.