January's stuff

[Slag]

Like "Terminate. With extreme prejudice." I quite like Cicadacon's robot mode - the best looking out of the Tripredacus Councillors IMHO. Overall Tripredacus is one rockin' set of sweet figures though.

I see. I didn't realize he was part of a combiner. so he is basically the Magnaboss opposite.. ?

[Verno]

I see. I didn't realize he was part of a combiner. so he is basically the Magnaboss opposite.. ?

Spot on. None of these Voltron-esk combiners of G1 when it came to BW, give me some impossible combination!

[Vector Sigma 13]

Haven t posted on here for awhile so i thought id show off Roadbuster. Ive been lucky with my local Big W. Roadbuster was the only one of his kind on the shelf this week and last week i managed to get a deluxe Topspin that i was sure i would never ever find locally!

[liegeprime]

Ok thanks to Zippo and Logician for the littluns and the extra Gen Cyclonus. Also posting pic of prev mentioned Cyberverse Shockwave and Legion Topspin. And finally caved and got the Deluxe versions of the Wreckers Topspin and Roadbuster, shame they aint making the 3rd fella in Deluxe size, but that's Hasbro for yah...


Edit: added new photo.

[klystron]

So Griffin told me he was going to revoke my membership if I didn't buy some new figures. Since I value my otca membership highly, I ran out and quickly bought the first bit off rubbish I could find...




Ok. That's not all entirely true. I didn't actually run out anywhere - I used ebay instead.
Also neither of those figures are rubbish. They are in fact both brilliant and I really like them. Optimus blew me away. Looks fantastic in robot mode, & I dig the matrix gimmick. He fills a hole in my collection - I don't really have a "movie accurate" prime. (I only have the first movie voyager which while it is a good figure, is hardly screen accurate).
And in case anyone is wondering, no I do not like the moon & stars paint job!


...and Griffin didn't really tell me buy stuff either.

[Slag]

Spot on. None of these Voltron-esk combiners of G1 when it came to BW, give me some impossible combination!

FORM ARMS AND LEGS... FORM..... .. No scratch that..
Form spine and crotch.. Form lats and elbows.. Form abdomen and inner thighs..... And I'll form... the back of the head. And can someone form the face
frowny preferred

[GoktimusPrime]

Spot on. None of these Voltron-esk combiners of G1 when it came to BW, give me some impossible combination!

Tripredacus is the better BW gestalt IMO.

FORM ARMS AND LEGS... FORM..... .. No scratch that..
Form spine and crotch.. Form lats and elbows.. Form abdomen and inner thighs..... And I'll form... the back of the head. And can someone form the face
frowny preferred

The great thing about the BW gestalts is that they all have complete self contained components and parts. So unlike G1 gestalts (with the notable exception of Lio Kaiser) where the gestalt form is reliant on detachable (and losable) accessories, everything you need to combine Magnaboss and Tripredacus is built into the individual figures themselves! Even if you lose all their accessories/weapons, you can still combine them to form Tripredacus and Magnaboss (it just means that they have no weapons). This is really different from G1 gestalt teams like the Constructicons who absolutely cannot combine with accessories and even the Scramble City gestalts which can still interconnect without accessories can't truly complete their gestalt robot forms without the head, chest panel(s), fists and feet ('cept Defensor's head which is built into Hot Spot).

1989's Lio Kaiser was the first Transformer gestalt to introduce almost all of its gestalt parts being self-contained in the individual figures - only the head is a detachable component... but everything else is in-built, which was a really clever design feature, especially for its time. The Beast Wars gestalts took this concept and improved on it further since ALL of its gestalt parts are in-built (and even its weapons have storage compartments anyway); so there's really nothing for people to leave lying around.

The original Car Robot/RiD gestalts also carried on with this concept - JRX/Railracer & Build King/Landfill all have self-contained gestalt parts... but then it kinda took a backward step with Super Link/Energon where their gestalts went back to using detachable "Energon" accessories for the hands and feet (allowing the limbs to be interchangable - but then again, Build King/Landfill's limbs are interchangeable too without the need for detachable accessories). IMO we haven't really had any decent gestalt figures since CR/RiD (except ROTF Legends Devastator, who's a very nicely designed gestalt figure for its size IMO -- a helluva lot better than the fail-gestalt that is Combiner Class Devastator). Yeah alright, the Power Core Combiners all have self-contained parts too, but the individual limbformers are just lame toys (being more like drones than proper TF action figures).

I personally miss the days when we had awesome gestalt toys like Magnaboss, Tripredacus, JRX/Railracer and BuildKing/Landfill.

[Verno]

Tripredacus is the better BW gestalt IMO.

From a technical point of view I'd probably agree with you, but I like Magnaboss more, probably because he has hands.

[GoktimusPrime]

From a technical point of view I'd probably agree with you, but I like Magnaboss more, probably because he has hands.

Yeah... Tripredacus isn't gonna be playing the piano any time soon.

[i_amtrunks]

Thanks to mknells sighting, nabbed myself a Hunt for the Cons Leader Prime with hooks.

Don't have a leader movie prime, so fills a hole, plus it was dirt cheap for $25.

Now to see if it was worth it!