(fan-custom) TFC-004 Gear-of-war weapon set

[TheDirtyDigger]

And if they're going to go to all the trouble of making a new cassette (which is a great idea) why did they make it something random and non-representational instead of something... well... good? Like...



or

http://flickr.com/photos/jackszwergold/1557518471/

Very, very nice! What and where is that from Sky Shadow?

[Sky Shadow]

Very, very nice! What and where is that from Sky Shadow?

They're the Micro Change cassettes from the 80's that weren't turned into Transformers (unlike Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Soundwave, Reflector, Megatron, Bumblebee, Brawn, Gears, Huffer, Windcharger, Cliffjumper, Bumper etc.)

See:

http://www.microforever.com/MC08&MC09.htm

[STL]

Extremely cool ladder. The rockets as others have said are far too big to not look ridiculous on the TFs. Don't feel much for the tape though. Will get this without a doubt though.

[llamatron]

Love the Autoscout and the ladder. Will be getting for sure.

[autobreadticon]

"made by fan for fans" - thats.. like so cliche

[Gutsman Heavy]

And if they're going to go to all the trouble of making a new cassette (which is a great idea) why did they make it something random and non-representational instead of something... well... good?

*Ahem*

[TheDirtyDigger]

*Ahem*

What's that from, Gutsman?

[Sky Shadow]

What's that from, Gutsman?

Oh... it's apparently an auto-scout cassette from the G1 cartoon episode 'A Prime Problem' (which I haven't watched since the nineties, but I'm surprised it turns out that Soundwave has another tape, since it seems like the sort of thing that would come up more often in discussions of the cassettes and thus have a higher online presence and fan-following rather than me finding out about it now). I withdraw my "why did they make it something random and non-representational". I'm not convinced that I withdraw my "instead of something... well... good" though, but I guess we'll see when it's more than a digital image.

[griffin]

I'd always hoped that Hasbro or Takara would do an Auto-scout, even if it was only in a short scene of one episode. I mean, surely the toy pre-existed somewhere for Sunbow to use it on the cartoon, and I'd hoped to find the pre-TF toy, or an official release of it in TFs.
It's almost tempting to get this (unofficial) one just for the heck of it...

[lcz128]

Because random acronyms always indicate that something must be fan made.

;b
True, but there's already been a series of TFC-*** releases That was my personal reasoning anyhoo

also....

the size of the missile launchers look like the size of the g1 ones.. anyone got the old ones to put with the universe toys for comparison?