Fantastic pics, especially the last one!  

 

YES!!!! Bid sniping scored me a Trash-talk for my first Tf bot!!! Perfect way to restart my TF collecting from scratch again!!

Hmm, I wonder if I should sell the gears from the set as I honestly only purchased it for the badass Swerve in the set.

 

That's my problem. I want trash talk but not the Gears.

 

I think that's just about everyone's problem with this set. I pretty much gave up on trying to sell Gears as no-one really wants him. Swerve though is amazing.
Their Tailgate is also great but again comes with a pretty polarising partner - the Cyclonus add-on set. The set really only works is you can get your hands on just the right Cyclonus mould in just the right deco. I ended up doing a complete repaint of the Generations Cyclonus and this add-on kit and it looks great, but for many it would be another "meh" inclusion.
Really hope MT continue's this series.

 

I think Gears is great. I get stressed messing with Swerve-- that white plastic is just begging to get discolored from over-handling. This way, I can admire Swerve and play with Gears.

 

If they made swerve into a single release I would definitely get him. I feel like they're missing out on a lot of customers by not doing it.

And speaking of their tailgate/Cyclonus set I wish they'd just do a full Cyclonus as I got rid of my generations toy several years ago and don't feel like tracking down a new one but I really want an IDW-accurate Cyclonus. Just some odd choices on their part.

 

I'm the opposite. I bought the Gears off someone because I just wasn't interested in Swerve. I'm hoping they someday do a Pipes/Huffer set, and I'll split the package with someone. I'm a sucker for a Huffer, but don't care about Pipes. Let someone more worried about getting a collection of important MtMtE characters have Pipes.

 

Actually I like Gears too and their Tailgate is great too, I happy I managed to find someone who only wanted the Cyclonus add-on from the set  

 

Yeah. I am also just not that interested in my Gears. But love my little IDW Swerve.

As the the parts for Cyclonus - they look awesome on him. But he's still a deluxe and way too small. Also, hilariously enough, MT's Swerve and Tailgate aren't even in scale with the BiS/RtS Cyclonus. They're in scale for voyager characters and up. My Cyclonus isn't even displayed with the rest of my comic collection. No tiny dudes allowed.

Yeah. I'd love a MTMTE Pipes. Should be an "accessory" that comes with Overlord......... Lol  

 

Heh, hopefully mmc will make an entire idw cast, I mean ALL of them, especially headband rodimus. If you preorder them all, you should get like $100 or 200 off of them.

 

I forgot, what accessary I you talking about? His spine? I just forgot, also this was my first day of high school. SOOO much information, oh WAIT, he should come with a squished version of him.

 

Epic - thanks for sharing.   I visited both those sites in 1999, and I can imagine Swerve enjoying both locations ...  

I'll just add my   - Maketoys' Swerve is a very good iteration of the figure. The Hasbro Generations version does have a certain smug presence that makes him fun, but putting Trash-Talk with his My First Blaster is epic.  

And Tailgate - ! There's no comparing the Hasbro Generations version. The MT version is, IMHO, light-years better than the Generations version (ironically, I think the CW Windcharger is a brilliant retool of that Tailgate).

I can see the debate over whether to use the Cyclonus "IDW-fication" kit with MT Tailgate; I think it worked well with the Cyclonus I found, but I also like the CW Cyclonus. To each their own.

 

Hahaha. Yeah that's what I meant. A poor flattened version of Pipes >_< I could use a nice articulated "before" version also though!  

 

Took the figure with me for my first trip of 2016, so it's only fitting I took it with me four hours away for my last trip of the year to Kure Beach, NC.






Swerve: "Got the drink you requested."
Alpha Bravo: "Excellent, set the tray down."

 

I rebought this set last week and it'll be here on Monday.


Such a shame they didn't feel like continuing it.

 

Love those beach shots! Wish I could get my hands on a trash talk.

 

MMC is doing a CHUG scale IDW Cyclonus. It's a retool of their Lockdown.

 

It looks horribly inaccurate though so it's far from the best representation we could hope for.

 

I like MMC Cyclonus quite a bit more than IDW Cyclonus so the inaccuracy doesn't bother me but I understand the contradiction between it and the purpose of the Reformatted line.

 

Yep. I'm a known hater D:

I think it looks absolutely atrocious. Need a proper MTMTE version.