Promo Art For Optimus Maximus Lower Body Shows Prowl And Ironhide

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  1. peaces

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    lots of tfs don't look the way they're supposed to. what's your point? cw all look great to me. if you don't like combiners what are you even doing here?
     
  2. ultramagnus1

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    Ironhide is definitely an Offroad mold.

    Looks good. Just hope the torso is a bit more solid then we got with Ultra Prime and to a lesser extent Menasor
     
  3. Infosaur

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    The thing about Masquerade, wasn't Windcharger part of the deal? It was his magnetism powers that allowed them to form 'non-Menasor'.
     
  4. Starscream Gaga

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    Yeah, the Masquerade team was Optimus, Jazz, Sideswipe, Windcharger and Mirage, so the only two being carried over are Optimus and Mirage.

    Of course, if you really want to, Legends Windcharger can sort fit in the chest cavity of Ultra Prime, just loosely.
     
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    Given IDW Prowl's current alt-mode...is it at all possible we see him as the debut of a *new* mold instead of a Streetwise repaint?

    Like, as a new jeep/hummer mold that gets reused as Swindle? Wouldn't be the first time (Alpha Bravo/Blades)
     
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    Swindle will be Off Road using the originally shown version of the toy with the 5mm peg hole on the flatbed

    [​IMG]
     
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    I'd noticed that too, but I'd wager that the art was just drawn before the mould was finalised.
     
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    That's not art, that's an actual photo.
     
  9. Murasame

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    made a quick improvement
    [​IMG]
     
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    what if that's sideswipe using off road and not ironhide? :ev: 
     
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    The art of Ironhide, I meant. That stock photo of Offroad looks to be a hand-painted resin prototype, and I suspect that the 5mm port was just replaced with the tab when they actually created the mould. I doubt there's an alternate version that retains it.
     
  12. Beastwarsfan95

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    I wish off-road was black on the final figure. Grey looks kinda, unfinished.
     
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    You state that like it's a fact. Do you know this as a confirmed fact? Or it's just your speculation/assumption?

    Of course I was always guessing Swindle could be a re-use of that mold since it was first shown. (Though the actual existing mold with the bed tab could still be used with a cannon mounted on the holes formed by the underside of his fists.)

    But... since the reveal of a computer listing for a CW Trailbreaker, I'd lean towards expecting Swindle to be a new-mold (or First Aid-level re-mold) with Trailbreaker being a reuse of Swindle.

    http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/1040187-computer-listings-reveals-combaticon-limbs-wheeljack-wreckgar-rid-decepticons.html

    Off-Road, First Aid, Ironhide will all be released from this base mold plus there's a potential Ratchet re-use of First Aid. So I think there's room for Swindle/Trailbreaker to be a new mold.

    It's red. But it's a pick-up truck. And there's art showing an Ironhide-esque head on the Off Road body.
     
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    Wish it would actually have a waist like that...
     
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    Y'know, part of me wants to be excited for these guys. But another part of me thinks "How many times am I expected to buy these molds now?"
     
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    I think the same.

    That wouldn't make any sense. Sideswipe has not been previously announced for Combiner Wars.
     
  17. payres

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    Speculation/Assumption. That hole in the middle of the flatbed screams mounting point for Swindle's gun to me.

    I can't see them going new mould for Swindle when this is close enough.

    I can see this toy ending up as most of the toys you've mentioned above:

    Off Road
    First Aid
    Ironhide
    Swindle
    Trailbreaker (especially if the car front is retooled to swing onto his robot chest)

    and from there

    Ratchet
    Hoist - with proper towing gear this time please!
    Hound

    I can see Breakdown being Sideswipe & Red Alert especially if he too gets a swing the car front onto the chest retool. I'd like to see the same adaptation to Dead End to give us the Fairlady Z Triplets and Jazz.
     
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    Yes I am keeping up with the comics. But I was hoping for a voyager combiner Prowl. I understand the turn the of story...But honestly....Which would you rather have...Devastator...Or badass Prowlstator. I'm sick of seeing G1 homages. This was a completely unexpected concept and at least the MAJORITY who saw it for the first time were like "I. NEED. THIS. NOW!"
     
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    Anyone notice that in issue #62 of the TF Club comic Ironhide gets reformatted back into a vehicle mode after returning from the SG Beast Wars, and his body design looks vaguely like a Combiner Wars Off Road now? He had a truck hood on his back, wheels on his legs, shoulder wings, etc, just like this:

    [​IMG]
     
  20. Scaleface

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    Anyone else want to combiner Silverbolt torso with Ironhide and Prowl and make a Combiner Wars Magnaboss?