Combiner Wars Victorion Official Reveal

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, Jul 9, 2015.

  1. calvin0

    calvin0 Well-Known Member

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    this cant sell more poorly then windblade, generation windblade is a mess before takara fix it..
     
  2. Autobot Spike

    Autobot Spike Original Gangstabot

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    Has anyone else noticed yet that the copter twins have re-tooled alt modes? Check the arms where the missiles should be.

    Winglets!

    -A.S.
     
  3. Probe

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    It's the second fan built toy...
     
  4. jayman118

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    They should have added Drag strip mold into this combiner, i still think its look cool as long as your not tired with repaints.
     
  5. FanimusMaximus

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    I find it ironic that the fans hate the fan built combiner.

    At least it's a fembot.
     
  6. GUIGUI

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    I'll repeat what I have said in an other thread, but those new pics confirm it.

    Fu**, that was a pointless poll if anything. Had male combiners win, it might have probably looked the same

    I mean, they could have tried to make the central part bot look a bit like Strika, come on! That one was easy to do.

    They don't need to all look super female looking but at least put some effort into it. The whole point of voting for a Female Scramble-city type Combiner team was to see some new and interesting engineering, just like we got with Windblade, to see something way more different than what we already got, make the engineers work on some new Robot mods instead of them just making some easy retooling. Instead, they clearly decided to not even try. They said, were are going to take some male bots, call them female and be done with it.

    I know they never promised new mold for the combiner team, but after what we got with Windblade, I had some expectation. Windblade was a new Transformers in every way. Is the CW series so expansive to produce that they could not afford new mold to turn profits?

    Here is an advice to those who are thing this look is okay. It's your right it's okay, but just take some of the CW figures you already have and decide they are female. Here is your Victorion and you just saved yourself $100

    No need to thank me.
     
  7. Renidragon

    Renidragon Toys on my table!

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    I just hate that part of her fiction is that she uses the helicopter rotors as a means of her gravity powers, depending on which limbs they're used as.

    That mold can't use its rotors in any mode but vehicle mode, and that annoys the crap out of me in all of its incarnations. Otherwise, I kinda like her. That sword is BAD ASS, and I like the headsculpts. I like the masked face for a character named "Dust Up." That feels appropriate.
     
  8. Laser_Optimus

    Laser_Optimus Currently no longer giving a shit about the MCU. TFW2005 Supporter

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    Eh, it looks alright. The new heads are anywhere from cool to eh and the paint scheme is terrible. Teal and red. Ugh. The teal is what's making me consider passing. I do prefer it here with it being more muted and not as garishly bright. I'll have to see the final version before I commit to a purchase on my end though. I really want to support this, but this color scheme was a terrible choice and I'd like to slap the crap out of every one of you who voted for it.
     
  9. Roanoke Convoy

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    I was really excited and looking forward to this set....until I saw it. The colors hurt my eyes, and I can't help but wonder what a more garish, G2-inspired deco would look like.

    Who would have thought that a team of women would have the worst "outfits" of any of the combiners?
     
  10. shumworld

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    If the teal was a bit more lighter and the red was abit more darker then it's a sell for me.
     
  11. Exinferis

    Exinferis Liberate me Ex Inferis!

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    Well, that's the second female figure I've been disappointed by today, the first being MOTUC's Menopause Perfuma.

    As for this attracting more girls, I'm female and have been collecting TF's since I was 8 years old, waaaaay back when. I've always hated pink and it's over-use in "girls" toys and I hate seeing it on TF's (with the notable exception of Arcee; although if that wasn't a cue for girls to pick up a "girly" TF, I don't know what was!) but I can tell you, this colour scheme will likely put young female collectors off.

    To be honest, it's not just the colour scheme, it's the whole set. Even a girl with little knowledge of the currant CW line would look at those pictures and wonder why they're all "boys" with slightly-girly heads. If it doesn't appeal to a female collector of my age and experience with all-things-TF, I can't see it appealing to the Barbie Brigade.

    I think Hasbro have shot themselves in the foot with this. It could have been really sleek, but instead it's just... ugly.

    I'm not saying all female figures should be thin and leggy! I'm also not against female figures that aren't immediately identifiable as female, al-la Strongarm. But to tout a figure as female but use existing male moulds... That's like putting She-Ra's head on He-Man's body and saying, "This is your She-Ra!". If the male moulds had been re-tooled into something less blokey I think this would have been so much better.

    If Takara do get to pay with this I'm hopeful they'll do better. But Hasbro's stick-it-in-high-heals-and-you-got-a-girl mentality just ruins this for me.

    Real shame.
     
  12. bagofshhh

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    Leave it to hasbro to provide high heels for their first female combiner... :rolleyes2 
     
  13. Rakzo

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    Okay, these do look a bit better than the initial reveal.

    HOWEVER, better than "terrible" is basically "ugly". Seriously, this has to be one of the most hideous combiners in terms of paint jobs, the combination and distribution of colors simply don't work, it not only screams bad, it also screams LAZY.

    They really need to release another version of these with decent looking color schemes, preferably where each individual figure has its own paint job.

    Please Hasbro, Takara, anybody, save this thing!
     
  14. Kaisugi

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    Anyone else think they had this 95% done before the fan polls even started? The remold parade continues... All the poll did was create a few heads, pick a team and add a back story.
     
  15. FanimusMaximus

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    Accurate summary is accurate.
     
  16. MegaDolrailer

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    The torso robot's head would be really good for a custom Prowl.
     
  17. Exinferis

    Exinferis Liberate me Ex Inferis!

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    It's possible they expected the result to be male. Seen it happen time and time again in MOTUC where the fan-vote goes in completely the opposite way than expected!

    I knew nothing of this vote having only recently come back to TF forums, so I had nothing to do with it. I don't think I'd have voted for Teal and Crimson though!
     
  18. mrgalvaprime

    mrgalvaprime IDW2019 Stan

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    I hate the dead end and breakdown molds as arms, but apart from that I love it for the colour if nothing else
     
  19. DC2k5

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    Hmmm. Not too bad. I think it just needs a few paint highlights (aka Takarafied) to break up the blue and the red and flesh them out some more.
    Will be getting it and taking a Gundam marker to it.
     
  20. shumworld

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    If these fembots came from the sea of rust... wouldn't a color deco of tan, brown and yellow work more better than... teal and red?