First Party Toys FPT-01 "Quin-Predicus"

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Maximus Danz, Aug 21, 2019.

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Which Cyberian color should we make?

Poll closed Aug 31, 2019.
  1. Green

    11 vote(s)
    40.7%
  2. Blue

    16 vote(s)
    59.3%
  1. Skrunklemin

    Skrunklemin Well-Known Member

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    I really want to check out these molds but dislike both the "kinda Computron" and this color scheme (I know the reference but three red bots? Yuck).

    I would rather see WJ or FPT embrace the fact that this a mostly unique design/combination scheme and make it something a little less straight up TF. They combine like a Brave combiner, would love to see something more in that direction.
     
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  2. Maximus Danz

    Maximus Danz Trying to achieve something

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    noted
     
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  3. Scaleface

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    Sorta...

    Some guys are taking the Wei Jiang not-Computron and getting it remolded and recolored into a not-BotCon Predacus. New colors, new heads, new weapons.
     
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  4. Maximus Danz

    Maximus Danz Trying to achieve something

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    Update: Offical names

    Panthera
    Theraphosa
    Nephropsis
    Katoa
    Allomyrina

    First post updated.
     
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  5. Oniconvoy

    Oniconvoy The other black repaint

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    Is there still time for you guys to reconsider this as the first release of this line?

    I love pre-BW stuff in general, but this was by far the weakest of the toys available from Botcon.

    No interest here, but looking forward to future releases. Megatron and Primal will be much, much higher in demand.
     
  6. destrongerlupus

    destrongerlupus Well-Known Member

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    My understanding :: shiftyeyes :: is that the team working on this is NOT WJ themselves, but a design group who's trying to push WJ in more fan-centric directions...a custom run, like a BotCon toy without Botcon BS and Overprice
     
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  7. MegaMoonMan

    MegaMoonMan OFFICIAL MMM REP

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    So this IS still coming out in a "normal" color scheme, right?
     
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  8. Fenrys

    Fenrys Formerly Tigatron2002

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    That would have been so much better, as is though dawn of the predacus contradicts pretty much all bw material including the much better dawn of futures past
     
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  9. destrongerlupus

    destrongerlupus Well-Known Member

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    Well since I wrote the damn KAT 02 Mini Comic, I guess it wouldn't hurt to explain the concept a little.

    Some Parallel-G1ish-Universe
    Timeframe is LAAAAAATE G1 Star Convoy, European Motivators, proto-G2 nonsense
    Earth is largely abandoned and forgotten, one little ol' team of Rescue Bots (Guard City) remain...umm Guarding what remains of the now-dead Metroplex.
    Star Convoy insists they stay and guard the dead dust ball, and fair enough, they do get attacked by a bunch of Decepts Battle Gaia and the Jet-Corps guy led by Scrash
    And just when Fire Chief thinks he's done and can rest, and mourn his dead friends, a BW-NEO style Glass-Shatter hole breaks open the universe
    Out Pours a bunch of Headmaster Bodied Predacons, led by Gator Megs who's acting like there's a major wave of bad shit coming, and he's just happy to have gotten to the buffet first
    Meggy makes a mistake though, and sends in a wave of Inferno Drones to burn the place to the ground, which pisses off Fire Chief, because he HATES pyromaniacs, and that rage ignotes his hidden matrix and POOF he turns into a scramble city style version of Fire Convoy

    The ACTUAL comic, as produced is a squashed truncated sad little echo of the actual script, but it was all the KOncept Guys could pay for.
     
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  10. destrongerlupus

    destrongerlupus Well-Known Member

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    I suppose I could have looped back to Impactor and Strika somehow (KAT 01) since that was also a BW(Machines)/G1 mashup situation, but no idea if they'd ever get back to making her.

    I WANTED THAT THING SO BAD, HOWEVER.
    post-16931-0-88639900-1399547589_thumb.jpg Koncept Art Toys to Make Not-Strika from KO Onslaught (1)__scaled_800.jpg
    A boy can dream

    Nice to be able to talk about all this damn work openly at last, at the very least
     
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  11. edgs2099

    edgs2099 Optimistically realistic. Moderator

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    Questions.

    1. Is this a KO of these WJ molds? At the beginning you say this is in conjunction with WJ, but later another affiliated person says that "the team working on this is NOT WJ themselves"
    2. Is this a WJ/KO product that you are selling as your own after doing custom paint work/headswap work like the previous stuff?
    3. Is this an actual remold of the WJ toys or painting the existing toy?
     
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  12. Maximus Danz

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    Thanks for the questions edgs, sorry it wasn't clear.

    1. This is not a KO of the WJ molds to set that clear, this is in collaboration with The WJ factory and the team that designed this.
    2. I'm not 100% sure, my plan is to include them in but we will have to see what we can do, you will DEFINITELY be able to get Alternative heads and guns
    3. They are remolds with the new color plastics based on the molds.
     
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  13. edgs2099

    edgs2099 Optimistically realistic. Moderator

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    Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!



    What about this though?
     
  14. Maximus Danz

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    I'm not entirely sure, I've been under the impression it was just another team connect to WJ.
     
  15. Fenrys

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    I actually commissioned a custom strika a few years ago based on that unreleased figure
     
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  16. itMFtis

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    The Tarantulas figure works wonderfully, especially appropriate considering he had a motorcycle-like vehicle mode in the show.
     
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  17. Max Tower

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    Nice to have a pre-earth Tarantulas and a Batmobile in the proper colour.
     
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  18. General Tekno

    General Tekno Lugnut Supremor & Arkivist

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    Is Cicadacon's head going to be based off of the Botcon toy head (which was just Skydive's) or will it be a new sculpt based off the cartoon model?

    For that matter, are the heads themselves new CAD renders/sculpts or the Botcon ones? As Ravage's was kinda bad, as we all know. (And in fact I'm VERY curious to see how Ravage's turns out given that.)
     
  19. Maximus Danz

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    I'll look into that batmobile...
    We are doing og style heads so fear not.
     
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    This Seaclamp almost makes a better Scattershot than the first release, which is mostly white. Would be nice to eitherinclude the original head and weapons from Scattershot, or release a recolored but NOT remolded into Seaclamp edition.