Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[roller]

Which inconsiderate bot left his weapon unattended that led to Megatron mortally wounding 1986 Movie Prime? You know that purple gun that MP Megs has as an accesory.

i always thought it was either an insecticons or Blitzwings

but on further watching and arguing with dirge

it was decided that it was not known whos gun it was

[Geminii]

i always thought it was either an insecticons or Blitzwings

but on further watching and arguing with dirge

it was decided that it was not known whos gun it was

It doesn't help that there are at least two different designs in the movie, depending on which second of screen time you're looking at.

[GoktimusPrime]

i always thought it was either an insecticons or Blitzwings

Blitzwing has a rifle, not a hand-pistol and the Insecticons' guns are all chrome (white in the cartoon), not purple.

[dirge]

It was Hauler's.

[kup]

Wow Kawamori you really stuffed that one up! The fact that I can't stand my seekers on their legs really gives me the irrits.

Thanks Gok, btw who did the gun belong to? The one that Megatron mortally wounded Optimus Prime with in the 1986 movie?

I am also not a fan of Kawamori's modifications as they essentially cripple the robot mode in favor of the jet mode as far as the mold is concerned. Thankfully the most severe of his post design decisions were only implemented with Greenscream such as the color and plastic used.

Anyway there are ways to get around the Kawamori mods since the base prototype is still there:

[GoktimusPrime]

If only MP Starscream had been designed more like the Macross Plus YF-19 - that's my personal favourite transforming Macross toy (although it's freakishly hard to transform, but so is MP Starscream ).



P.S.: I don't mean that Starscream should be designed to look like a YF-19 or any Macross Valkyrie, I mean that I wish the engineering effort was similar in terms of having a good looking jet mode and solid robot mode. Having said that, the jet mode isn't realistic so in fairness MP Starscream did have an extra level of difficulty in terms of achieving a realistic F-15 mode. Kawamori argued that at a Masterpiece level the jet mode shouldn't be just an oversized version of the G1 toy and betray robot mode kibble. On the other extreme you have MP Grimlock - but then again, you're never gonna be going for alt mode realism with a G1 Grimlock tribute/homage.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Does anybody know anything official about these guys?


Latino Twintwist

Latino Topspin

Apart from being made in Argentina I can't find anything else on these guys.

[roller]

Blitzwing has a rifle, not a hand-pistol and the Insecticons' guns are all chrome (white in the cartoon), not purple.

yeah i based it on when they all get rammed and when Blitzwing jump in the air

[Sky Shadow]

Does anybody know anything official about these guys?


Latino Twintwist

Latino Topspin

Apart from being made in Argentina I can't find anything else on these guys.

Latino Twin Twist likes big butts. Consequently, in 1985, Twin Twist took correspondence courses in Spanish and Portuguese. He called himself Salt-Man Z, went to Argentina to trawl the beaches and got himself a gnarly navy-blue and yellow tan. Salt-Man Z recently took a break from sunning himsef to hang out in Axiom Nexus but returned soonafter to hang with his Argentinian honeys. He is awesome.

For some less-helpful information: http://www.toyarchive.com/Transforme...Argentina.html

(And I would say that's not a bad price if you want an unusual G1 Transformer. I'm tempted myself.)

[roller]

Latino Twin Twist likes big butts. Consequently, in 1985, Twin Twist took correspondence courses in Spanish and Portuguese. He called himself Salt-Man Z, went to Argentina to trawl the beaches and got himself a gnarly navy-blue and yellow tan. Salt-Man Z recently took a break from sunning himsef to hang out in Axiom Nexus but returned soonafter to hang with his Argentinian honeys. He is awesome.

(And I would say that's not a bad price if you want an unusual G1 Transformer. I'm tempted myself.)

you forgot to mention that they kicked him out when his visa expired

yeah they look great, if you boys want to buy them for me as a christmas present i wont mind