Thinking of making Rearend my screensaver lolOriginally Posted by philby
If I knew how to shrink images I'd make it my new Ozformers avatar
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Thinking of making Rearend my screensaver lol
If I knew how to shrink images I'd make it my new Ozformers avatar
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Some galleries for the SDCC Transformers toy exclusives - Devastator and the 3-pack Combiner Hunters.
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The Combiner Wars line has been very exciting with the start of Superion Menasor, Defensor and Devastator but after that it is slowly getting redundant with only lazy repaints and minimal remoulds with only Bruticus seems to be the last to reignite the excitement
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Perhaps they had a certain budget for Combiner Wars, and as stated on Hasbro pulse website, they make a second head for every mold but don't necessarily use it. CW will most likely lead into Titan Wars? Just spit balling.
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Well we may not understand what Hasbro's budget or target profit is but there seems to be no other toy line with so much redundancy than the CW line. Also we may notice how TFs become smaller and lighter (and weaker plastics) when we compare TFTM toys to TF DoTM/AoE toys.
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I can't disagree that there's a good deal of redundancy. Reusing the stunticon moulds for the third or fourth time for Sky Reign, for example, is starting to wear thin. That said I do disagree that the repaints are in any way lazy; reimagining those moulds as G1 characters who haven't had toys for a while is at least inventive.
But for me Bruticus is actually one of the biggest missteps. Superion, Bruticus, and Devastator are the three combiners that always get made whenever Hasbro returns to the combiner well. We had a new Bruticus toy only a couple of years ago. For me, to see that Hasbro are churning out another new Bruticus yet again, but all we get from Computron is a Scattershot repaint with little new moulding and no new combined mode is heartbreaking. I can't bring myself to be excited for Bruticus when that slot could and should have gone to Computron.
On the other hand, Sky Lynx looks awesome, and while not the most breathtaking of released, the G2 repaints are at least fun. I can see why opinion is divided on Victorion, but I for one am looking forward to her. I just wish we could have got Computron instead of Bruticus #512.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a proper complete computron is revealed down the road. after all they called this one betatron, it's almost like they are trolling the fandom.
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I live in hope. Three out of the four deluxes can be done relatively easily with existing moulds (Afterburner being a repaint of Takara's Groove), but I can't see Nosecone coming from anything we've already seen unless they completely redesign the alt mode. Also, with the recent kerfuffle about his name being assigned to a Dinobot, I'd bet Strafe would be the most likely to be replaced with a new character. That said, unless Hasbro have really decided to go whole hog for NYCC which they normally don't, I think they're done with Combiner Wars after Sky Reign. Which is sad.
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Well there are supposed to be four full Combiners a year plus box sets and "extra" torsos, we know of Bruticus and Sky Reign for 2016, Victorion and the G2 sets are box sets, so there's still a chance of Computron being one of the other two.
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I think one thing I dislike about CW is that only some Legends and the Leaders don't actually combine. Why can't we have more normal deludes and voyagers?
#waitingforcomputron
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