Man I hope that's not the final color scheme. He's too plain up top and too fabulous down below. I mean, my dumbass is gonna buy him regardless, but I ain't feelin' that paintjob.

 

im 24 and know who he is because im also a historian and do my research lol

 

I've been disappointed with FP's almost-but-not-quite G1 approach, but Broadside looks amazing. It helps that the G1 toy looks like a steaming pile of red-and-gray turd.

Even though I've stayed away from a number of "close-enough-but-not-quite-there" Classics and 3rd-party figs, I'll make an exception for this one.

 

Was Broadside ever that big of a deal, its not like we're talking about Jetfire? I don't recall him from the G1 cartoon, but I never saw the Rodimus Prime era cartoons after the movie. I didn't know they made Transformer comics in the 80s either. My small town wasn't exactly the hub pop culture info.

 

Except that Fp said he is an original character. Whatever u do in ur own transformer world, is on you.

 

Isn't that almost the same price as Steelcore? We got a discount but it was allegedly $80 for non FPC members. Doesn't seem right that this costs $10 more....

 

He never was. That was a custom mock up someone did for the show. Steelcore does not intentionally homage any known Transformer and was designed as such.

You can think he's Waspinator for all I care, but the fact remains he was never designed to homage anyone.

 

Honestly, I think we should be happy it's *only* $10 more. Assaulter is much bigger than steel core and has diecast.

 

Yeah, a $10 markup seems like nothing for what you're getting.

 

...too... soon...

There's too many things coming out... why must all the 3rd parties go crazy these next three months? >_<

 

dude when you get this thing in hand you will think $90 is us ripping them off.

i was blown away when they said that was what they were shooting for.

 

I think that's what deaculpa meant? That's how I read it anyway, that $10 doesn't seem enough.

 

Reading his comment again, you could be right.

 

That's what she said.

 

FP gives fans the best prices. Let's not try to convince them otherwise  

 

there's an alternate robot mode for him-you can spin the color on the legs right off. Youll see.

 

Yeah, I can see it reading that way. Whoops if that was the case.

Here's a shot I took at TFcon showing them all together.

 

All FansProject toys are "original characters".

 

I have the money in my bank account waiting to jump on this as soon as it goes up. I really hope it's actually $90. For a toy this size with die-cast and more than one alt mode that's almost on par with official prices.

 

i'm still debating on getting a steel core off the secondary market or waiting for them to do re-release him in a new deco. It seems like a fun toy but I wasn't gonna be buying direct...I don't like playing the guinea pig.

Assaulter looks pretty cool but I'm still kind of on the fence with him.