In Hand Titans Return Hot Rod & Twinferno/Doublecross

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by payres, Oct 21, 2016.

  1. Autobot Burnout

    Autobot Burnout ...and I'll whisper "No."

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    Yeah, because it isn't like Brawn completely shut down this argument when it was about him all the way until it was revealed he was getting a Legends release, right?

    FOC Blaster, FP Defender, and Kup is standing right in front of Blaster (look around Blaster's waist).
     
  2. payres

    payres Well-Known Member

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    Ugh, that grey piece in the middle of Hot Rod's body that forms the set in car mode so needs to be red. Really sticks out it robot mode and looks odd in car mode with the roof raised.

    Chest could do with a red border round it too.
     
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    Hopefully Doublecross' arms are on a simple mushroom peg, and some 3rd party can come up with a simply engineered swiveled replacement.
     
  4. IgnikaMarcus

    IgnikaMarcus Need new Legacy G2 Leadfoot.

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    I really like Doublecross, but he needs wrist swivels, badly.
     
  5. SouthtownKid

    SouthtownKid Headmaster

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    Whoa, take it easy there, Plastic Man.
     
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    I don't think Classics Rodimus is in any danger of being usurped in my collection. Hot Rods' torso is just all sorts of wrong...and people are complaining about Getaway?
     
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    SouthtownKid Headmaster

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    I don't have Classics Rodimus, but I think I'll be trying to get one rather than this.

    Or wait until the inevitable next version a few years down the line.

    Well, at least I knew who Hot Rod was supposed to be without being told, just by looking at him.

    If I wasn't told who the Getaway figure was supposed to be, I would never have guessed on my own.
     
  8. Bass X0

    Bass X0 Captain Commando

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    Its easy to tell who Getaway is supposed to be. His head is accurate to the original 80s head, just in lighter colors. And he loosely has the same colors in vehicle mode. But he is still lacking a lot of paint to make him perfect despite being a repaint.
     
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    Then wait (or get the MP, which makes a kickass Rodimus Prime for a classics scale). The calssics toy is simply not good and lacks things that we would just expect toys to have these days, like 5 mm ports in his hands.
     
  10. Fenrys

    Fenrys Formerly Tigatron2002

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    How tall is the mp compared to a voyager?
     
  11. Exinferis

    Exinferis Liberate me Ex Inferis!

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    I like Doublecross, I'll likely get him. Don't care for Rodimus at all. But I have the Rodimus Vs. Cyclonus set and the MP so don't really need another one. Really not liking the Headmaster gimmick on non-Headmaster figures, it looks weird to me.
     
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    Its unlikely but not impossible that Titan Masters class characters will get full toys. Maybe once they do the 1987 Targetmasters, they will go back and do the 1988 Headmasters as Deluxes.
     
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    well there are a limited number of original Headmasters and they made the gimmick based around Headmasters. some characters have to be headmasters even though they weren't originally. I'd have prefered the remaining 1987 and 1988 Headmasters to have been done before non-Headmasters though. Apeface and Snapdragon have been rumored to be Voyagers in 2017. But no sign of Nightbeat and the others from 1988 I believe.
     
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    artiepants Transformers '84!!!

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    Nightbeat was in the same set of "take them with a large pile of salt" Asian Social Media rumors that offered up Apeface and Snapdragon (but none of the rest of the 88ers) ~ all rumored towards being wave 6 of TR.
     
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    Hot Rod is a skip for me. He just looks too strange, like every single Hot Rod we've ever gotten outside of the Masterpiece lines. Why do they keep designing these with gorilla length arms? I love Hot Rod and he was my favorite character growing up but these just look odd.

    Doublecross is a must buy since he was one of my main toys I had growing up. I took him on road trips and everything.
     
  16. IgnikaMarcus

    IgnikaMarcus Need new Legacy G2 Leadfoot.

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    I've said this in other TR Roddy threads, so I'll say it here to.
    Hot Rod is a definite buy for me. Why?

    So he can give MP Prime his face.
     
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    Why would you put a TR headmaster on Masterpiece Optimus Prime??!!!
     
  18. Max Tower

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    His colours remind me of the Gift set version of the 2006 mould - I may have to go Takara on this one if they have done darker colours and painted the wheels. But he's not terrible - I just like the darker tones on him - I really liked the colours on the Combiner Wars little one for example.
     
  19. IgnikaMarcus

    IgnikaMarcus Need new Legacy G2 Leadfoot.

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    No, so I can have MP Prime cut off Hot Rod's head.

    But I think you got that already. If you didn't, well now you know.
     
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  20. Max Tower

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    Isn't it Movie Prime who collects Faces ?

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    I can see some spots on his body ideal for the inevitable label sheet's stickers to be placed.

    If they'd been bit more clever with the Titanmasters the idea of them powering the guns rather than sitting in them could be more applied to the likes of Hotrod's weapons too - and not just to the Mini-vehicle's gun modes.

    At least with the 'headmasters' being so small they are barely even noticeable as an abnormal head from the front in some cases.