Henkei Dirge and Thrust pics

Rubbing alcohol and a q-tip...

Originally Posted by Ephland Quote: Originally Posted by mondo Is there a difference between Blackout and Grindor? One was at the bottom of the ocean while the other was getting his stuff ruined by Optimus Prime.

All I gotta say is my Seeker collection will finally be complete! Now the only question remaining is: how much they gonna be? It sounds like they should be on par with TC and Skywarp, but if I remember correctly some online sites are asking around 170 for the both of them, which seems like a severe markup.

I've always been curious about this. Does doing that damage the plastic at all? Fades or discolors it or leaves any kind of marks?

Darn it! I shouldn't have come into this thread! I am so tempted to pick both of them up now!

$165 at BBTS
$145 at TFsource

Overdrive has preorders for $50 each + shipping. They are exclusives so contact is through email LINK

Fan to Fan has preorders for $49 each + shipping. All orders through F2F are by email through their siteLINK

Robotkingdom.com will probably have a preorder up soon too.

Otherwise there's that Bodhar2000 guy.

Wow, I think I liked the plain black shadow versions better. Not digging the funky wing stripes. And the Thrust VTOL engines are weird. Even if they can be moved. Eh, I was set to buy these, but now I'm not so sure. Count me disappointed with the final product. BotCon versions are nicer.

Oh hell yes I hope that can happen because that looks 1000x better than the picture we're seeing.

These are not up to the overall quality I expect from TakaraTomy but I'm sure Hasbro put some pressure on them after they saw how well Skywarp and Thundercracker did. The 2 biggest problems I have aren't the new patterns on the wings but rather how the robot modes follow Ramjet's lead, which is not how Thrust and Dirge were represented on the show. It isn't horrible but it bugs me. Also, looks like Thrust will be the only seeker not to have the side of his chest/landing gear painted to match the rest of the chest. I really liked that feature on the Henkei releases and I think that bugs me here the most. I am hoping that will change...

Thrust having the gray face though? Niiiiiiiiice.....

this = win for me. i was hating the whole aesthetic... but yes. guns attach to the back, VTOL engines up front...
course i might just mod the wings... cut out the pegholes altogether and just attach the vtols permanently.. tack the outside edge of the wing to the... well you get the idea. it's a quick and easy mod.. just don't know if i want to do that to a $50 toy... Dirge suits me just fine weird paint and all.

-A.S.

Originally Posted by Janitor Oh, Moist and your Hollywood dreams! Will this be the closest you'll get to becoming a movie star?

I'd like to think I'm pretty up on the G1 knowledge, but I'm not really following you here. Save for a couple of nuances here or there like face & eye color differences, I always considered the coneheads more or less clones of each other the same way SS/TC/SW were. Same heads, same wing placements in bot modes, same general alt modes, etc.

Can you elaborate?

Sure can. Ramjet's Henkei release was pretty much spot-on to how he was depicted on the show vs the original toy. The original toy had black toes, black lower arms/fists, etc, but the show had white lower arms (black hands), and white toes with a black interior just like the Henkei release. The only real liberties taken were with the lower legs.

However, for the show both Thrust and Dirge follow the toy pattern more closely, with black lower arms and black toes. The Henkei toys don't follow this and instead copy Ramjet's pattern. They just seem to take 1 too many liberties for a Henkei release.

It should be noted though that Thrust's pelvis is red and not black on the show, but the original toy had a black pelvis so the Henkei toy having one doesn't bother me as much.

Those things are not a huge deal though. Thrust's unpainted landing gear bother me the most.