Collector Club Subscription set 3 now open for orders

[griffin]

A third character art/image has been released on their site - Tarantulas... now missing a LOT of paint apps on the robot and Microns that we saw at BotCon (in the first post above).

[griffin]

Hearing all the negative feedback over all the missing paint apps on this second version of Tarantulas, the Club have released a third version image, that changes a lot of the colours on the robot (including more striking greens), but still leaves the Microns as plain purple.
They've also fixed up the allegiance symbol on the artwork, which the artist put a Decepticon symbol on the leg instead of a Predacon symbol.

Since there are only two figures with new heads in this set, the more iconic Tarantulas should have got a new head instead of Carzap. Carzap, or Zap, is not well known enough to need a new head - it could have sufficed with Nightbeat's head, and no one probably would have complained about it not looking like the original Zap head. Most people know what Tarantulas' head looks like, but how many would know what Zap's head looks like?
A Tarantulas head would have helped push this motorcycle mould over the edge into "must have" for the robot mode.

[MayzaPrime]

Hearing all the negative feedback over all the missing paint apps on this second version of Tarantulas, the Club have released a third version image, that changes a lot of the colours on the robot (including more striking greens), but still leaves the Microns as plain purple.
They've also fixed up the allegiance symbol on the artwork, which the artist put a Decepticon symbol on the leg instead of a Predacon symbol.

Since there are only two figures with new heads in this set, the more iconic Tarantulas should have got a new head instead of Carzap. Carzap, or Zap, is not well known enough to need a new head - it could have sufficed with Nightbeat's head, and no one probably would have complained about it not looking like the original Zap head. Most people know what Tarantulas' head looks like, but how many would know what Zap's head looks like?
A Tarantulas head would have helped push this motorcycle mould over the edge into "must have" for the robot mode.

I agree, Nightbeat's head would have worked if, but isnt the mould still in use or alteast would have been when Zap would have been developed. However Zap could have been used in subscription service 4

[griffin]

The Club site has updated with the fourth figure - Carzap.

Carzap is actually the name of the unreleased Japanese white redeco of Zap & Windbreaker, which I did not know until I looked it up today. (I thought the JP toy was either called Zap or unnamed because it was never released... and thought that FunPub called theirs Carzap because they couldn't end up using the name Zap - which was what they called it at BotCon.)


I still haven't seen a plausible reason why they preferred to give this toy a new head instead of Tarantulas. Not many people would be able to pick the original Zap's head out of a line-up to have this toy need it... but most people would be able to pick Tarantulas' head from a line-up for a "Tarantulas" toy to need it. And with Carzap coming with a Kreo Blackrock and mini-buildset, the toy already has something unique, so shouldn't be "greedy" with a new head as well.

[Tober]

So how do I go about getting Carzap if I'm not a TFCC member...

[griffin]

BBTS is probably the cheapest option on its own.

[Tober]

BBTS is probably the cheapest option on its own.

Thanks.