Allspark Power Warpath, Storm Surge and Crosshairs Pictures/Bios

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Super_Megatron, Dec 13, 2007.

  1. Grimwing

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    whohoo! I love scouts. Might be just that their affordable troop builders but scouts brighten my day. I'll be getting all 3 of these. The only ones I've passed on were the arcee repaints.

    I like the mold they used for warpath, it's fitting do to the torso cannon. The arms are'nt the best but you can get some motion out of them.
     
  2. SKowl

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    Storm Surge is a must-have - anyone who passed on Shortround the first time around needs to pick this guy up. He's one of the best scouts ever!

    Crosshairs has a really great paint scheme, so does Warpath. The mainline repaints are so horrible, I wonder why all these Target-exclusives look so good?
     
  3. Bryan

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    Man, you just can't beat these little guys. Great molds, great repaints decos.

    I hope they keep going with this for a whiles.
     
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    You know, ironically, to me Crosshairs looks more like Outback than Fallback did. The shades of tan and brown looks more similar, and they've got the lighter tan as the "outer" color and the darker brown as the "inner" color. Fallback was backwards in that respect, though his silver head is more "Outback-y."

    Not to mention, Crosshairs has about the right distribution of blue to tan... whereas Fallback's weapons went overboard with the blue.
     
  5. Bass X0

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    I'd think after all these years that people would be familar with name reuses on completely different characters with completely different alternate modes to the original.
     
  6. Sycia

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    Ack... more decisions to make! >_o;
     
  7. Powersa

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    pass!
     
  8. Ziero

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    ...but they really don't look the same

    Gimme CD Scattorshot or Red Alert with more military colors and I'd buy them up. Doubley fast if they were made into D-Cons. But I'm fine with my Botcon Springer CD hotshot repaint.

    If anything I'd just be happy that they can officially use that name again...especially with the new Classics rumor milling about. Though my guess is that the tank is going to be a new mold Galvatron...

    Edit: So exactly how many Basic repaints have we gotten so far?
     
  9. Baltan

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    I don't know why I forgot that about Hardtop. He is indeed a Decepticon.

    If by "many" you mean two spider tanks and two beasts out of 11 Scouts, ok. :p  Point taken on Energon, but Hasbro does already have one arachnid in the movie toyline. That could be enough to get them to do a certain spider tank repaint in blue to resemble a certain G1 character people go nuts over. :)  Being blue, it'd work great with the Allspark blue gimmick!
     
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    that'd be great.

    as it stands, i will be picking these up. i forget who posted it but the chest cannon on the overhaul mode is a good point!

    plus i've got all the T-Scouts so far, why the hell not. Just no more Arcee repaints, please.
     
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    I adore Scouts I get more excited by buying one of these than any normal Movie toy - bar perhaps a Real Gear which I also like lots.

    I don't mind the idea of Warpath as an SUV - he's still tough heck like a red tank ever made sense anyway.

    And Storm Surge we saw before he's neat.

    Cross Hairs is good - Sure he's very similar to the Botcon toy but I like the idea of him being the Autobot Armorer.

    My only slight concern is I'd prefer that they make each version of a mold have a different color so you get different Energon axes.

    I hope Hasbro bare that in mind when they use Energon Molds.
     
  12. Mumble-bee

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    hmm. I never got that mold 'cos I didn't like the decos so far, but was considering it for these colors until I read that.
     
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    all are molds not worth buying again IMO.
     
  14. domientius

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    Crosshairs looks a bit like one of the past Botcon exclusives to use that mold, just with some color rearrangement.
     
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    i'm confused. is stormsurge autobot or decepticon, packaging says autobot as does the restof the subline but his bio says he's decepticon
     
  16. Eric

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    WTF!? Warpath's a truck!? TANNK NOT TRUKK!

    But I'll get him and Storm Surge anyway. :p 
     
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    He's a Decepticon. Even the packaging say's it. The only thing that hints towards an Autobot is the card, which has a huge Autobot logo on it. I don't remember this sized packaging haveing the different logos like the Deluxes, as there haven't been many Decepticons in this sub-line of repaints.
     
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    Nice colors on the Cross Hairs, but I can't help but think how good the mold would look in G1 Crosshairs' colors. I echo the desire for a true Seaspray homage out of the Shortround mold tho Stormsurge makes sense as a Coast Guard ship. And I think I'm the only fan in the world who would want to see one more repaint of the Overhaul mold in G1 Gears colors.

    I only hope that we will see another round of the Scouts before they're done. Lugnutz, Scattershot in green as Hardhead, (since he won't be a Warpath now why not Hardhead) and maybe one of the Cybertron Beast Scouts as a Decepticon. (Skorponok can't be the only Beast type TF)
     
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    well i am sure stormsurge will be repainted in to seaspray


    nice all around but no go on warpath for me
     
  20. Beastbot X

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    Warpath and Storm Surge are instant buys, GREAT deco jobs and it's nice to see even this exclusive line is following the "bright blue paint somewhere on the figure" Allspark Power gimmick.

    Crosshairs I was originally unsure about getting, as I thought he looked almost identical to Fallback (whom I have) minus the camo deco on the front, until I saw the comparison pic and saw he wasn't as similar to Fallback as I remembered. He's bought, too.

    Whee!