Mark Maher on Instagram: "Now that some time has passed, I’m able to share with you the Creatures Collide Buzzworthy Bumblebee four pack! I had a really great time working on this pack and I hope all of you have had a chance to scoup it from Target. . So I’ve seen a lot of great pictures being posted of these great characters, but I did not see many mention the black hardware that was issued on all of the creatures in the pack. I thought the black hardware was essential to relay how evil these are. I tried for copper hardware for the main man Goldbug but alas, that hardware does not meet our current safety standards. . As you swipe you can see I was able to keep all the extra heads for the creatures. My idea behind this was just lil old Goldbug going up against an army of insecticons and predacons, obviously he triumphs defying all odds. The extra head with ransack was to utilize your Legacy Kickback for that sweet G1 look with the black visor! For the Waruader Parasyte you have the alternate head that is linked to the Skywasp horrorcon prototype that was never released back in the day of beast wars. The other head of Scorponok was paying homage to his first toy release mutant battle mask. I did my damnedest to try to match that crazy pearl essence metallic blurple color on his OG toy but I ended up leaning more towards predacon purple and I even matched the partial transparent look with the metallic fleck the original rocked. . Ive been really trying hard to have secret features hidden in the first molds of character releases to sweeten the deal for their redeco releases. That mod section torso was the idea me and Kunihiro san worked on together to give the redeco Ransack as much love as possible. Be on the lookout for more features such as these! . This pack also delivers the #netflix Bumblebee licensed VW mold which was also my plan up front when we did the Shattered Glass BB. This place moves incredibly fast and thoughts such as these always don’t come to fruition, but the fact that this release happened, gives me all the warm and fuzzy feels!! . Still trying to answer comments when I can, apologies for all that I miss! Pulsecon soon!!!!"

Another BTS this time in the creatures collide set!

 

“Now that some time has passed, I’m able to share with you the Creatures Collide Buzzworthy Bumblebee four pack! I had a really great time working on this pack and I hope all of you have had a chance to scoup it from Target.
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So I’ve seen a lot of great pictures being posted of these great characters, but I did not see many mention the black hardware that was issued on all of the creatures in the pack. I thought the black hardware was essential to relay how evil these guys are. I tried for copper hardware for the main man Goldbug but alas, that hardware does not meet our current safety standards.
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As you swipe you can see I was able to keep all the extra heads for the creatures. My idea behind this was just lil old Goldbug going up against an army of insecticons and predacons, obviously he triumphs defying all odds. The extra head with ransack was to utilize your Legacy Kickback for that sweet G1 look with the black visor! For the Waruader Parasyte you have the alternate head that is linked to the Skywasp horrorcon prototype that was never released back in the day of beast wars. The other head of Scorponok was paying homage to his first toy release mutant battle mask. I did my damnedest to try to match that crazy pearl essence metallic blurple color on his OG toy but I ended up leaning more towards predacon purple and I even matched the partial transparent look with the metallic fleck the original rocked.
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Ive been really trying hard to have secret features hidden in the first molds of character releases to sweeten the deal for their redeco releases. That mid section torso was the idea me and Kunihiro san worked on together to give the redeco Ransack as much love as possible. Be on the lookout for more features such as these!
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This pack also delivers the #netflix Bumblebee licensed VW mold which was also my plan up front when we did the Shattered Glass BB. This place moves incredibly fast and thoughts such as these always don’t come to fruition, but the fact that this release happened, gives me all the warm and fuzzy feels!!
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Still trying to answer comments when I can, apologies for all that I miss! Pulsecon soon!!!!”

-Mark

 

Neat that they painted the spare Kickback head instead of just tossing it out. I'd have passed on a selects "toy Kickback", but that freebie head got me to buy a 2nd retail Kickback dagnabit!  

 

The swords becoming the insect “torso” was designed for Ransack and not an advertised feature for Kickback.

 

I wish that they'd been able to do SG Goldbug as the bug.

 

Which IMO was quite lame, but whatcha gonna do?  

 

I wish a 3rd party would take advantage of that insect "torso" and design a better one that doesn't look like an organic tumor hanging off Kickback and Ransack's rears.

 

Yeah, it would seem Mark is using 'torso' interchangeably with 'abdomen', in a way that I don't want to say is outright wrong but, at least from my education in the UK where that is correct usage for the human form, AFAIK it's not usually so swappable terminology on insects, as generally their abdomens do not form a coherent central "trunk" of their bodies the way the human thorax & abdomen form the torso but rather extend out from their higher waists?

 

I really wish these had been released individually.

 

Would’ve been nice if they would’ve included the bumblebee head along with the other 3 spare heads…

 

yeah, they could have painted it metallic blue and silver to reference legends gold armor bumblebee

 

I just recently got a loose goldbug off a guy for a really good price. only one in the group i wanted anyway and i enjoy it a lot. head sculpt, colors, and vw alt mode are great.

 

That's what I did.

 

Nice job

 

I'm 90% sure it's meant to look like a katydid's abdomen. katydids are related to grasshoppers so it kind of makes sense? why not have a gun that looks like a grasshopper's abdomen instead the world will never know.

 

At least the price at Target is a little less than 3 standard deluxes. As someone who doesn’t mind owning all 4 figures, it’s nice that I got to “save” around $30 as opposed to if Hasbro did do individual releases.

 

I adore the love that Mark and the other engineers put into these minor releases. There are so many features in them, it's wild! Maybe even enough for some to buy 2 sets.