I suspect that they're there to simply add bulk to his forearms. Any other theories?
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I suspect that they're there to simply add bulk to his forearms. Any other theories?
thanks jay, i cant seem to find a use for them :P
new one:
whats the going price for an overlord (complete) these days?
You can get a good boxed one for around $450-500 USD. Loose is about $200USD.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackie
Well there's actually one in the Australian Ebay Im watching now ( in my watchlist) :D:D but yeah price is what STL mentionedQuote:
Originally Posted by blackie
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Originally Posted by blackie
Yeah, that's around about what I paid for mine :)Quote:
Originally Posted by STL
(but the current state of the dollar may mean yours might set you back a fair bit more... :()
blackie: got Masterforce? ;)
(if so, do you think Mega's hot? I'd (censored) her. ;))
*shudder*Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
SilverboltQuote:
Originally Posted by JuzMel
Hasbro
- Light grey plastic on jet, lower arms and legs
- Burgundy torso
- Bright red biceps, landing gear and missile
- Dark grey shoulders, thighs and head
TakaraTomy
- Bright white plastic on jet, arms, legs and head
- Red torso, biceps landing gear and missile
Onslaught
Hasbro
- Green/grey plastic
- Black head with silver decos
- Single pulse siren (defective)
TakaraTomy
- Dark blue/green plastic
- Green/blue head with silver face plate (like the cartoon)
- Siren will now play as long as you hold down the button (fixed)
Powerglide
Hasbro
- Predominantly white plastic with red trim
TakaraTomy
- Reverse coloured, so it's red plastic with white trim
Packaging is exactly the same. USA Edition just means they don't want to make new Japanese packaging.
Oooh! Didn't know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by FFN
Damn. Onslaught is the only one I was prepared to skip, as it wasn't different enough with the colours to me. The sound feature on the Hasbro one sucks though, as I figured it was meant to have a longer sounding siren.
Thanks for the list though FFN, as I saw the request, but wasn't keen on trying to find the answers, or guess at them without having the JP ones yet to compare.
oh yeah gok shes HOT :PQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Looks blue to me?Quote:
Originally Posted by FFN
It's interesting to read about the "fixed" siren on Onslaught. I don't especially care for electronic gimmicks in general, but it's nice to know that Takara either 1) realised that there was a defect or 2) realised the idea needed some... encouragement.
Looks pretty grey to me.
If you're happy with how Universe Onslaught looks and don't particularly care about his siren in the first place, then just get whichever one fits your budget. Unfortunately, the way the dollar is now you'll pay far more than you would have a couple of weeks ago :(Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
From what I can tell, the Japanese versions of these toys use more or less the same paint operations, layouts and tampographs (well, other than Onslaught's head), though the colours may be different.
C'mooon! Okay, I don't like Mega's hair cut - and it's not because it's green... animé chicks can look good with green hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyle
e.g.:
http://mx.geocities.com/ben_zaa_mx/macross/miriya.gif <--HAWT! :D
I just don't like the style... looks too much like... Guile! :p
But she's got a mad bod. :D
That's what I'm talkin' about! *high-fives*Quote:
Originally Posted by blackie
I don't like her hat though... the rest of her "Hogwarts" get up is okay. d:
You know she had to be in Slytherin House. ;)
QFT!Quote:
C'mooon! Okay, I don't like Mega's hair cut - and it's not because it's green... animé chicks can look good with green hair.
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5...odite01yo2.jpg
yo, can you use the robot replica's accessories on the corresponding character deluxe (or voyager) figures.
I saw the barricade rotating wheel and wondered if you could somehow attach it to the deluxe figure, thanks
when will universe cheetor and dinobot be released?
According to the Hasbro Toy Shop, Cheetor is due out 22 Dec in the US. Dinobot will not be out until next year at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Autocon
I have a G1 Shockwave in excellent condition. Almost pristine I would say. To say I really love the figure is a bit of an understatement as it is just about one of my favourite all time moulds.
Anyways he always had this little whiny noise going on when I pulled the trigger so today I finally lashed out on a brand new Duracell alkaline 9v battery.
Whoa!:eek:
The siren sound burst my eardrums while the light up gun burnt my retinas out. I am now blind and deaf but it was so totally worth it. I love my Shockwave just that much more now.
Anyone else love their Shockwave so much?
Since 1985! I had lots of fun running around playing with my Shackwave. I got told off by a security guard at Woolworths once because I was "shooting" people with Shockwave. Bah!
Yeah, it's pretty loud. Super Fire Convoy is possibly louder (if not on par) though. FIRE!
Yeah, brand new batteries really wakes a TF up from its snooze... :D
(There was this one time where I hit the trigger when I was upstairs & I remember getting told off from the person downstairs... :o)
Yep, this from a MacrossWorld member. He didn't post pics of alt mode after the mod tho, even when I asked :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jaydisc
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Originally Posted by cube date=Jul 28 2008, 08:39 PM
I love my Shockwave too he's great fun, nice and loud too so i can annoy EVERYBODY with him :D
Soooo, the other day I was thinking about getting the Beast Wars "Sourcebook(s)". I looked around for good prices and found some. But first, I checked a few sites, and apparently it's not what it was ment to be (and by that I mean a disappointment). So my question is, are these worth buying or not?
tbh... not really.
Items of notes and errors
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Art and coloring errors
* Blackarachnia's images are solid gold-orange and black.
* BB is similarly colored in nothing but gold-orange, with a little white.
* Dinobot's colors are based on the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary release of the Dinobot toy, minus the blue kneecaps and face. In the trade version, Dinobot was given completely new art for robot and beast modes.
* Gimlet, Lio Junior, Magnaboss II, and Motorarm are all incorrectly colored as their Hasbro mold-partners Sea Clamp, Prowl, Magnaboss, and Ramhorn.
* The hind legs of Magmatron's combined-beast mode are incorrectly colored as if they belonged to Skysaur, when they are actually the robot-mode arms from his Seasaur portion.
* All of the robot modes drawn by Frank Milkovich are drawn almost entirely mechanical, including all of the organic beast mode parts.
* Speaking of which, Milkovich's renditions of both versions of Rhinox, Scissor Boy, Silverbolt, Tigerhawk, and Tripledacus all have visible pencil sketch lines remaining. Additionally, Tigerhawk even has the edge of a comic draft page left underneath, as the word "issue________" can be clearly seen in one of his wing cannon barrels. Tripledacus has an edge guide corner visible in his foremost foot. It is conveniently covered by the IDW logo on the cover of Sourcebook 4.
* Ravage's "original" Predacon body has his Transmetal 2 head.
* Not really an error, but certainly bizarre: Scissor Boy is just a mirrored version of Powerpinch's art, with his minor detailing changed. At that point, why not just draw entirely new art?
* Silverbolt II has his beast mode head for a face in robot mode. His robot head is omitted entirely.
* Transmetal Tarantulas is colored in the black and white hues of his later "Fox Kids" repaint, instead of his original show-accurate colors. (actually the Fox!Kids colours were Tarantulas' colours after he was reanimated by the Vok power he'd absorbed, so it is canonically correct although more obscure - Gok)
* And why are K-9's robot mode parts showing in the undercarriage? (toy accuracy? - Gok)
Divergence from original sources
* The books consistently misuse the term "technorganic" to describe Beast Wars-era characters, when the term should only properly apply to post-reformatting Cybertronians from Beast Machines or later.
* Despite a stated policy to not diverge from the names of originally Japanese characters, some names have been altered, such as Elphaorpha to "Elephorca", Blentron to Blendtron, and Tasmania Kid to "Tasmanian Kid". The Ascending disregarded "Tasmanian Kid", but kept "Elephorca".
* The book makes alterations to the personalities and intelligence levels of a fair number of the Japanese characters. Understandably, the cartoonishly stereotypical "Frito Bandito" aspect of the Jointrons was dropped, but their core personalities stayed basically the same. However, there are numerous instances of fundamental changes to characters. Mantis, a cold-blooded killer, is described as a smiling friendly guy. Diver is no longer a skittish coward. Hardhead is no longer dumb as toast. Infinitely loyal Guiledart is described as an utterly distrustful schemer. Moon isn't even remotely comedic. Ben Yee is on record as saying these changes were intentional and designed to fit certain characters better into the overall feel of the merged Japanese/American Beast Wars universe the books were creating.
* Airazor's motto is listed as "She swoops to conquer!", but her actual line of dialogue from the episode had been "She stoops to conquer!" in "Call of the Wild", a reference to both the 18th-Century romantic Irish play of the same name and the hunting dive used by peregrine falcons (her altmode), called a "stoop" only in reference to that specific breed of falcon.
* Despite being Scuba's cousin in the original material, Sourcebook states that Ikard is his brother.
* The book contradicts Injector's original toy bio by saying he puts on a show of liking his beast mode, but really thinks it is ugly and he's ashamed of it.
* Magmatron's three individual beast modes are claimed to have "only loose connections to actual reptilian lifeforms", seemingly ignorant of the existence of Giganotosaurus, Elasmosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus.
* Ramulus is described as "even-tempered," whereas his toy bio and previous comic appearances portray him as a hot-headed jerk.
Editing errors
* The artists' credits sections in the front of the books have numerous inaccuracies. Notably, Dan Khanna is credited with numerous pieces he did not draw (Dan himself confirmed this), including Blackarachnia, Dinobot, Hardhead, K-9 and Killerpunch. Blackarachnia was likely drawn by Nick Roche, and the Trade Paperback version identified Simon Williams as the artist for K-9 and Killer Punch with Jamie Snell as the artist behind Hardhead.
* The alphabetical order of characters gets out of whack in numerous places. For instance, Scourge is absent from the third issue, even though it ends with Silverbolt, who should be many characters down the list in alphabetical order. He was included in the fourth issue instead.
* Characters are not consistently placed in subgroups. Drancron is apparently not a Blendtron, nor is Longrack a member of the Pack. The Trade Paperback version meanwhile neglected to list Autostinger as an Auto Roller. On the flip side, Scourge is given the subgroup Transmetal 2, in both versions.
* The entries of Beast Wars II characters are inconsistent on whether the factions are Maximals and Predacons or "Cybertrons" and "Destrons". The trade attempted to explain this by including different meanings for the terms in its glossary.
* Issue 2 has a disproportionate number of pointless and incorrectly used parenthetical asides and additions, and sections of sentence between dashes for no good reason. For example:
Hydra: "The trouble is, everyone-who's ever had anything to do with Hydra-knows what to expect..."
Injector: "...his ungainly new (Fuzor) form..."
* Gigastorm's "Abilities" section ends with a bizarre sentence fragment: ".. . built into its fists.built into his right arm."
* Not so much an error, but the first two issues feature cover images of characters not in those issues. Magamatron is on #1, but his bio is in #2, Torca is on #2 but in issue 4. (However, "Elephorca" is in #2, so it's entirely possible the art is supposed to be him, and it's just miscolored.)
* Ravage's cassette mode is labeled "NAME".
* The back cover of issue 3 states profiles are listed from "Optimus Minor" to "Silverbolt" when the volume in fact starts with Onyx Primal.
* Terrorsaur's name is misspelled as "Terrosaur" in his page's header.
* Wolfang's name is misspelled as "Wolfgang" in his page's header and on the back cover. ("Mozart, Maximise!" - Gok)
* The trade paperback version leaves out Galvatron's weakness, and made Break's Primary function "PRIMARY FUNCTION." For God's sake.
* That's right, they got rid of some mistakes but made more. Sheesh.
Omissions
* A glossary similar to that of the final issue of Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye was promised by Ben Yee to explain oddities like the inclusion of Moon with the absence of Artemis, but no such index was included.
* The Egg Beasts are notably and intentionally absent from the book, as is McDonald's "the 'Lion Head Optimus Primal' figure". Boo.
* Claw Jaw's bio is also lacking any mention of his "Transmetal" form (which was a pack-in redeco of his original toy and included a Beast Wars video in various European markets).
* Quite a few characters with triple-changer abilities do not have their tertiary mode pictured, though art was often produced.
* Characters who have had multiple bodies, such as Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Blackarachnia, and Megatron, are depicted with an inconsistent mishmash of their respective bodies' modes, with absolutely no profiles managing to include artwork of every mode of each body. This issue was apparently fixed in the trade for everybody (including Cybershark, of all 'bots) except Megatron, who still lacks any post-Season 1 artwork.
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Honestly... you can find more accurate (and correct) information about BW characters through Google - hell, even TFwiki is more accurate!! :p
Wow thats a lot of info. So many mistakes, the whole thing seems like a huge waste of time. Thanks gok. Guess its a no for me, though I did like where they were going with the idea....
aii.. :D any1 have any answers for me?? before the BIGW sale ends ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by autobreadticon
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Originally Posted by King Atlas
dont get the individaul ones!!! the combined one takes alot of errors out
Yes but apparently the collected version is still full of lots of uncorrected mistakes and new mistakes! Honestly, save yourself the money and use Google... or post a question here if you want to know anything about Beast Wars. :)
This thread isn't as purty...
This thread doesn't have BB coloured like Bumblebee! :p
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/tr...urcebookBB.jpg "Even IDW confuses me with Bumblebee!"
Not that I wouldn't mind asking questions, but I just want a BW focused version or similar to Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. I love these kind of books.
NEW MISTAKES!!! how can that be:eek::eek::eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
angry fist
With the right skills any kitbash is possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by autobreadticon
It's possible, but doesn't stay if you move the figure at all. The Robot Replica figures have one replaceble limb, which usually unplugs the entire lower arm from a post at the end of the arm stump (which is the opposite of accessories having the post to plug into a fist hole). The hole at the end of the RR 'accessory' could plug onto the end of Barricade's thumb, but it sits there fairly loosely. I don't think other RR's could do anything with their toy counterpart though.Quote:
Originally Posted by autobreadticon
Thanks Tober. Mission accomplished. Here's alt mode:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tober
http://lindalane.com/temporary/tf/DSC04323.jpg
If only I could ditch the turret. Although I quite enjoy the gimmick of Bulkhead talking so it's a worthy sacrifice.
I think it looks awkward without the guns/missiles.
I can't decide. I'd like to see it side by side with one with the missiles.Quote:
Originally Posted by STL
It only looks awkward because it still has the turret on top. If you were to gut the torso and mod it so it works kind of like the Voyager head reveal and it would be streamlined and look better.Quote:
Originally Posted by STL
I agree with STL, I think it looks awkward because of those oversized "Mini-Con port" like holes on the side. Maybe if you could file them down and then cover the holes somehow.