New TFCToys - Project Uranos Mega Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by aniline, May 16, 2012.

  1. flywheels

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    Looking forward to finishing this guy off!
     
  2. Rotoraptor

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    That's personal opinion. Hercs plastic is nicely matted and textured, which I'm sure I'm not the only one to prefer.

    Shiny plastic to me screams "CHEAP KO," I'll take Herc's plastic over Uranos' any day.
     
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    Sorry if this has already been asked, but do we know if TFC is going to do a combiner set for Uranos like they did for Hercules?
     
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    I got my Blackbird today. With so many bad reviews, my expectations were so low on him that I'm actually impressed with this toy now.

    And with the new pictures of the combiner mode I can't wait for the last two. This set is great.

    Anyway this is the last combiner I get from TFC. The other companies completely owned TFC in terms of combiners.
     
  5. opt1musaber

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    Final version is looking better than I expected.
     
  6. Rotoraptor

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    That seems a little harsh, considering this is only their second combiner, and their first attempt at a 5-bot combiner. Herc is amazing, Uranos seems just slightly better than Good. That still put them in pretty good standing....
     
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    I must be lucky. As a combiner the connections hold together rock solid, the back kibble I've never noticed be overly loose and I have never taken Phantom Ray from the box and don't intend to. I have to say he is alot more solid then Herc IMHO.
     
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    For me Uranos is good. He has small problems, but for me, not enough to write TFC off. IM still learning about scale, aesthetics, and stuff, but for me TFC version of superion is good for me.
     
  9. CVprowl

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    I will have 2 tfc combiners in my collection after this. im going mmc for predaking and fp for menasor, maketoys is doing computron, but I will seriously consider any other combiners made by tfc.

    I hear we need a herc sized bruticus... come on guys :) 
     
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    It all looks good til you get to Blackbird. Apart from Skydive's feet. Red, really? Bleh. Overall, I'm happy with my decision to sell out on this one.
     
  11. Turnman

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    Except that if you go some pages back you can see pics of how Uranos plastic breaks easily and how the paints can be very sloppy.



    Final form looks a bit Frankenstein with all those colors floating around when it really shouldn’t. The overall silhouette is very similar (the arms are 90% exactly the same and the legs 85%) but the ramdom transition between the colors break up the combined form.

    BB matches better with the first two limbs compared to the other two. Only TFC could make an almost mirrored combiner look like it has parts that don’t belong together. Their really random color choices have also dragged the project down.

    Maybe if you add the Phantom wings to have more white you could bring the arm schemes closer together… by the way, for a plane combiner TFC sure likes to send the wings to the phantom zone when comibined; I prefer to use everything:

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    Right now I kinda like the last leg by itself but after my bad experience with Eagle I will only go forward if it turns out that these pieces will have some GOOD “rage” parts included for “free”.
     

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    OOOoo, that would be awesome too.
    I think I'd rather someone do the guys no one's attempted first, however;
    but no one's done a full Brute from scratch yet.
     
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    That's looking good.
     
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    Do it, do it now. Man, this thread exploded after that pic.
     
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    Wow turnman, IM impressed with what you did with ray. It really looks good that way.
     
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    Never thought I'd have to view this site without third party news, but this is ridiculous. Too unbelievably cool.
     
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    Find me buyers and you're on :lol 
     
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    this ^^
     
  19. alex1984

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    Combined pics look great, and the proportions are reasonable. To be fair, BB is already quite a bit bigger, so I think they've tried, but the short thigh is more of a consequence of his leg bending in half to make the gestalt thigh.

    Wonder if anyone'd be crazy enough to attempt to remove the SR-71, and attach a Concord back to BB? :p 
     
  20. Raiju

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    Proportions are still a little weird but I think the overly long legs do give a more heroic feel to the final combined form. The stock configuration of the 6th member as the chest piece is kinda ho-hum but I do like what some of the folks here have done with him fan-mode-wise. (The gestalt face has got to go though, and the SR-71 Blackbird alt mode will most likely be separated and displayed by itself from not-Silverbolt. XD) Gonna wait for final reviews of all 5-6 releases combined and will probably pick them up at a discounted bundle package price if I can; he looks decent but not really high on my priorities.