Shortly after the announcement that the fan built combiner character would be an Autobot, the second round of poll voting has begun! This time, the following choices are offered:
• Color scheme
• Limb alt modes
• Origin
Be sure to get your votes in!
Toolverine
An all female autobot combiner team from Caminus actually would make a huge amount of sense in the comic storyline when you consider the story with Windblade's people now taking an active role in Cybertrons affairs, plus the Enigma of Combination being sort after by Galvatron's forces and his uneasy ally, Arcee.
MasterZero
Sea of Rust? Damn. I voted for Kaon.
(Shrugs) Ah well.
spiritprime
Her's was Iacon, Metroplex recides in Iacon. That is where she lives.
Bass X0
Origin is the least important thing to vote for. I forget what was chosen for Windblade, but the comics changed it without a second thought.
johaneggink
Sea of Rust in the winner of the origin
Just saw it in the app.
Fort Max
It'll only be concept art. The figures won't be out until probably 3rd quarter of 2016.
IgnikaMarcus
Ultra Prime isn't even an official combiner AFAWK, it's a one-off combiner for Wave 1, just as I suspect Galvatronus is a one-off combiner.
With that said:
Autobots
-Superion
-Defensor
-Optimus Maximus
-Computron
-Fan built
Decepticons
-Devastator
-Menasor
-Bruticus
-Possibly Monstructor, Abominus, Predaking, and Piranacon
If we do get the last 4 Con teams, the Cons will still outnumber the bots in terms of official combiners.
Powerglide1991
Surprised the Origin revealhasn't been on the front page like the faction reveal was :\ ooh well.
also…
Fixed.
Thing is, the cons have always had the most combiners, if we are getting computron, i would of thought Abominus and probably Predaking aren't far off, especially with this line running into next year.
Plus the addition of Galvatronus means the cons, on top of all known G1 combiners, now have an extra one.
ZeroiaSD
See, my thinking is if things were set up for all-or-nothing, we'd have gotten all-jets or all-cars, and we didn't. What are the chances that the plane fans and car fans happened to cluster? Probably not that great, but if it's being tallied as a group more than just individually, it'd explain a lot.
Also, people should stop saying 'rigged'. If they don't want to allow something they don't have to make it an option to begin with. They don't need to rig votes, they set up the selections so that all options are acceptable ones, and they may simply be doing things by weighing total proportion of votes and not each one separately.
IgnikaMarcus
NOPE? What do you mean?
I'm talking about toys, not character models.
Blackarachnia's first toy was just a redecoed Tarantulas.
And yes, I have watched Beast Wars. It got me into TFs in the first place.
GreyRouge
Currently we are getting a ton of Autobot combiners which include
Superion
Defensor
Ultra Prime/Masquerade
Optimus Maximus
Fan-built Combiner
Decepticons include
Menasor
Galvatronus?
Bruticus
So we have 5 Autobot Combiners to 3 Decepticon Combiners.
We need more Con Combiners.
orangeitis
I think I missed something here.
WilyMech
Damn….I am picking to go to TFCON in July.
GrimlockPrimal
Plus, it'd be an IDW comic; so it's not like "lol teh femme combainar!" would be the only character they'd get.
And the way I see it, the more Autobot combiners we have, the better; the only Autobot combiners in the line are Superion (well, excluding that Drag Strip was stuck onto Superion for some reason) and Ultra Prime; the Decepticons have Menasor, Devastator and possibly a new one called "Galvatronus"; Having this new combiner be an Autobot evens up the Combiner Wars combiners to an even 3-3 ratio.
Even in terms of overall American canon, the Decepticons have more combiners than the Autobots do, so making the new combiner an Autobot (and thus integrating it into the IDW G1 continuity) would be quite nice;
AgentOrange
These don't have a show behind them, but they're very likely going to have a comic behind them to flesh them out and explain their characters. So, you know, theres that.
Rakzo
More to the point then.
Fort Max
It'll be revealed at SDCC in July.
orangeitis
There was no new tooling, it was a straight up new deco.
Rakzo
Isn't the Blackarachnia mold just a slightly retooled Tarantulas mold?
thunder117
1-agreed
2-NOPE. I guess you haven't watched Beast Wars yet?
3-agreed