is cybertron metroplex's minicon a remould of armada leader 1? |
02-10-2008, 08:21 PM
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#1 | | Banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,674 Collection Count: a lot News Credits: 1 | is cybertron metroplex's minicon a remould of armada leader 1?
i was reading on here and i looked that the guy's sig where it says i am leader1, this is not leader one, and it showed a pic of armada leader one in vehicle mode and i instantly thought, hey that is drillbit (i think that is his name)
is cybertron metroplex's minicon a repaint/remould of armada leader-1? | 
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02-10-2008, 08:24 PM
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#3 | | Captain Fantastic Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9,946 Location: The land of small parking lots Collection Count: I'm supposed to know? I can see 9, plus sammich bot. News Credits: 8 | From what I understand, it is a completely new mold that is based off Leader-1 in some ways.
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02-10-2008, 08:27 PM
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#4 | | Animated tops it all! Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 20,450 Location: Somewhere beyond the sea... Collection Count: ...Somewhere waiting for me... News Credits: 1 | No. It's like Soundblaster1 said, he's just very similar.  XBL GT: SPLITTLIP
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02-10-2008, 08:48 PM
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#5 | | Avatar by KA!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,955 Location: Boise,ID Collection Count: 1000+ | Yep, some very similar design elements, but it's a new mold. Drillbit is bigger than Leader-1 as well | |
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02-10-2008, 08:50 PM
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#6 | | The Plastic Addict Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 4,579 Location: Southwest Florida Collection Count: 1040 - Newest: MP Skywarp News Credits: 3 | Every so often Hasbro will take one existing mold and essentially remold every part, that is use the existing engineering as a template for a new figure. It's a cost cutting move like repainting and remolding is, though to a lesser extent. This is how we got Cybertron Hardtop, based on Energon Sledge, and Energon Starscream, based on G2 Smokescreen. 
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02-11-2008, 02:49 AM
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#7 | | Keiner versteht mich. Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,510 Location: Germany News Credits: 40 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Omegus Prime Every so often Hasbro will take one existing mold and essentially remold every part, that is use the existing engineering as a template for a new figure. It's a cost cutting move like repainting and remolding is, though to a lesser extent. This is how we got Cybertron Hardtop, based on Energon Sledge, and Energon Starscream, based on G2 Smokescreen. | "Remolding every single part" is what gave us K-9 and Dark Crumplezone.
The likes of Cybertron Hardtop, Armada Mini-Con Swindle etc. are simply based on the same basic design. 
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02-11-2008, 09:06 AM
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#8 | | Argumentative TF Wiki guy Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,158 Location: Sydney, Australia Collection Count: Some. News Credits: 4 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Omegus Prime Every so often Hasbro will take one existing mold and essentially remold every part, that is use the existing engineering as a template for a new figure. It's a cost cutting move like repainting and remolding is, though to a lesser extent. This is how we got Cybertron Hardtop, based on Energon Sledge, and Energon Starscream, based on G2 Smokescreen. | As Aaron Archer said back in 2003, retooling every single part ends up being an entirely new toy, so it isn't practical if one is using the term 'retool' in the strictist traditional sense of changing parts of an existing tooling. So more accurately, it is designing all new parts for a basic transformation that has been used before. | |
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