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[bowspearer]

Also, I just checked my tracking for the third shipment and it looks like it's currently in transit from Dubai (presumably a stopover or something). I'd be surprised if we don't have them by the end of the week.

[reillyd]

So which one is the 7th figure from?

Seems to be the 2008, but I wondered if earlier in continuity because Megatron should be Galvatron.

Either that or they were just phoning the bio details in. Look at the instructions for the Pretender.

[Krayt]

No, fig 7 is all alone in the new G1/Sunbow SG universe...

And again BowS... how'd you get tracking numbers?

[prjkt]

No, fig 7 is all alone in the new G1/Sunbow SG universe...

And again BowS... how'd you get tracking numbers?

I think he had the more expensive shipping option

[griffin]

Backtracking a bit to figure 3 & 4...

Subscription Optimus and Megatron are in the middle, with their original versions next to them - Gen1 Grand (Maximus) is on the far left, while BotCon 2015 Oilmaster is on the far right.



The gorilla shell, for those who don't know, was solicited by FunPublications two years ago as a brand new Pretender shell, some 26 years after the last Pretender shell was produced and sold by Hasbro and Takara.
It is based on an unproduced Double Pretender Shell that was seen with two different decos - red/grey, and dark grey/brown - both of which FunPub managed to replicate before the end of their run with Transformers.
The inner robots for those unproduced Pretender shells were never known, and I personally don't know if they were originally intended to be "double" Pretenders (as the tfwiki article notes "combiner" but that could be like the Pretender Monsters with single inner bots that combine), or if that was what FunPub decided to turn them into.
And as I had come to realise in a facebook posting on these two toys, the JP Pretender shell was just the third time a 1980s mould was used in the 23 year history of the Club and endorsed Conventions, and the first/only use of a Japanese exclusive 1980s mould (that I know of). The first two were G2 Breakdown in 1994 (which wasn't really sought after by the BotCon team so doesn't count as an achievement), and the Nebulan head for BotCon 2014 Scorponok (which was actually a modified Spike head from the recently reissued Fortress Maximus toy). That's pretty impressive, because that probably took a lot of effort to achieve.

[Krayt]

The inner robots for those unproduced Pretender shells were never known, and I personally don't know if they were originally intended to be "double" Pretenders (as the tfwiki article notes "combiner" but that could be like the Pretender Monsters with single inner bots that combine), or if that was what FunPub decided to turn them into.

Here is the interview that you use to extrapolate the double pretenders being 2 bots into the "spider" shell, and likewise the ape shell.

http://obscuretf.com/hhk/BC04interviews.html

Read the middle of page 2

[griffin]

Here is the interview that you use to extrapolate the double pretenders being 2 bots into the "spider" shell, and likewise the ape shell.

http://obscuretf.com/hhk/BC04interviews.html

Read the middle of page 2

I wonder why I never saw (or read) that before. That has a few nuggets of info in it that was news to me.

[Krayt]

Ok people...... THAT'S A WRAP!!!

Aka... THEY'RE HERE!!!!

What the hell funpub..... MODULUS???

Looks like, no ones opened 7s instructions... Coz no-one has mentioned the suggested combiner.... Ratchet, rook, Medix, Scattorshot and 7

Griffin, can you make Modulus up when your box arrives

[bowspearer]

I think he had the more expensive shipping option

No, cheaper shipping this time, but I selected insurance, meaning that I think they went with a trackable "LZ" tracking number, rather than an untrackable "LC" one.

[CHILENO20]

Got mine Man it's awesome!