Part of today’s pickup at the TFcon in Reston va:

The two OS’d cassettes includes an upside down steel jaw. 



And while not a KO, and not something I picked up, but here’s a creative custom... can’t tell if it was in the slightly OS’d potp, but WHO CARES!!! The creativity is something else.

 

that's pretty "boss"

 

Wait, what? But...Like, which series do you mean?

 

the undersized hasbro one.

 

The undersized CW one that was shown off alongside the red Defensor and other multicolored CW combiners several months ago.

 

Wasn't that one out already?

 

Undersized cw yellow devs has never been out, except for that one toy fair we were shown pics from.

Same as the skittles superion and skittles bruticus.

Oddly enough... the yellow one was shown, yet we got the green one everyone was demanding be made instead.

 

I can’t wait for those and yellow Devastator.

 

Yes 1-1 scale.
I think they have a variety of appealing aspects not just as individual robots - but in interaction with Victorion too. as couple of those cars or a couple of those helicopters exchanged with Victorian would make for an interesting play pattern.
Other potentials it unlocks is to have a Junkion combiner of sorts with someone having all Motorcycle limbs.
They also give a use to Transformers Adventures Override too. and you can also use them with POTP Inferno as his own personal rescue team. I like them a lot. It's also somewhat amusing that The Blades in red is just like Universe Blades, and the Red First Aid is kinda like some of the repaint colours of Movie Ratchet's toys are. The Deluxe Red Groove also looks passably like Override too.

I'm very tempted to buy 2 of them. - I don't think you'd have any trouble selling on the ones you don't want.
The skittles coloured ones were also sold in individual packaging too - so who know these may not be unique to a giftset format.

I would like to know if they come with their individual robot weapons though. This set would look so cool with a set of replacement hands and feet on it. not to mention the core body not only matches Wei Jiang's existing style of red-rescue themed combiners to a tee it also is potentially great custom fodder for a more accurate version of Guard City too. I hope the other ones show up too - a complete set of 4 the multi-coloured jets (from the other sets) is going to look so neat with POTP Starscream. Not to mention we won't be to far of being able to do Machine Robo like things by having characters have 4 limbs of the same design but - in this case in different colours with the cars, Bikes and the Helicopters too.

I can see they turned Headsstrong into Rhinox, Divebomb into Silverbolt, Razorclaw into Prowl/(Leo Jnr), Rampage into Ravage, & Tantrum or another Headstrong into Ironhide - i'd be curious where they got the stray Elephant head from. Perhaps a Power Rangers toy ?

Anyone recognise the head ?

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It works exceptionally well - so much so that Hasbro or Wei Jiang would be crazy to not immediately steal the idea. The only slight thing I'd change is making Rhinox have a little brown on him.

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I've been thinking for some time now about buying a spare Headstrong and customising him into The inner robot of Pretender Strongarm and doing the same with Tantrum by turning them into Horribull. So perhaps its possible to come up with a whole new team of Decepticon beasts that way too. If one could find a suitable head Tantrum could be modded into Snarler and Rampage into Carnivac or Catilla too.

Perhaps a T-beast combiner is possible too.

 

Yup   Probably not out yet but maybe soon. I sent messages to all suppliers.

That's a good haul. Especially that old and in that condition. 10+ years. Usually the old KOs I find covered in dust in the back of the shops have browned and brittle card bubbles. They must have been stored well.

 

Speaking of KO's that have yet to show up that I still want :

That is the Predacons I keep going on about saying i'd liked feral rex in colours based on the white limbs (not the parts that are more or less the usual colours) just a whole team in that white and orange or White and red (though white and yellow is ok too) basically I think what you'd be doing is just changing the black to white on Razorclaw and Divebomb and reworking Headstrong a bit more. I think that would look neat ; sort of like a slight variation on the Beast Wars 2nd Seacon colours

 

I don't actually know that this one or the preceding Grimlock are KOs. I do know, however, that they're both part of the MatrixPrimeToys MPT-01 combiner, with an expected release of May 2016 (which it clearly missed) but never saw any wide-spread availability (I hear it showed up in a few stores in China). Which is a damn shame because, while the Dinos aren't necessarily great, I really, really want that Prime!

Their Weibo also doesn't appear to have been updated since August '16, where they showed some kind of weird VW Type 2 (Kombi/microbus) that was also scheduled for an August '16 release. Again, I've no idea whether it did or didn't show up.

 

Well it's a KO in the context of it being IP infringing and something of interest to this thread. I realises it's in reality more like a low tier 3rd party item. But it seemed like something people here would be interested in.

I'd still like to buy the whole set though. - Here is the robot modes for those interested.

 

Don't forget the Slag that goes with them:


And the gestalt:


Kinda neat for a 3-piece combiner.

 

There’s not enough 3 figure combiners.

 

Wow, some blasts from the past there!

The Predaking is pretty junky in places. I have one and he's broken several parts. Also, the sword and gun pegs are smaller than 5mm so they don't really fit other figures, sadly.

Those multicolour Constructicons are pretty nice. They used to sell them at Dollarama here... so $6 for the full set was an awesome deal. I got a full set, but I wish I'd picked up more than one.

Oh, I've seen that one... I think here in the Radicons forum, even!

There is no "slightly OS" KO of POTP, though. There's the original, and there's the WeiJiang version. They're both exactly the same size, and you can even swap parts between them without too much trouble. The WJ version does have some remolded parts (like a bigger wingspan)

Yeah, it reminded me a bit of Victorion, but with a less UGLY deco.  

Overall, the heavy use of red just doesn't feel interesting enough to me, and doesn't scratch an itch for certain characters out of those molds.

I WOULD be interested in seeing some of those Victorion remolds surface in less awful colours.

I mean, we already have a Wreck-Gar from that mold in more traditional Junkion colours, but this wouldn't hurt... especially since that Groove mold got an uneven distribution.

Well, if Inferno is just a direct repaint of Hotspot (with a new head) why shouldn't he form his own all-red Defensor. Or you could skip Inferno entirely, since this set already comes with a red Hotspot.

But overall... low interest in this one (for me).

So it's a... truck + 2 dinosaurs combiner? Odd, but kind of cool looking at least.  

zmog

 

Anyone know if there are an not OS Siege KOs in the pipeline, especially Sideswipe?

 

He's asking about 1:1 KOs. None announced that I know of.

 

So they are. In that case "Shrugs."

 

I think I've seen yellow version somewhere around at AliExpress, though it is "branded" (lol) as MFT and bundled with "Diaclone" figure with exosuit. I have no idea if it's 1:1 or OS. The green version, WJ, is easy to get, though I don't think you are interested in getting it  . There is other yellow version which has a gun which splits into guns for all small figures, I bought it some time ago (Ben reviewed it at his KO YT channell), it's trash. Loose joints all over the place, "Scavenger" doesn't transform correctly into excavator mode, crotch panel for combined mode is molded as one part (die cast) - prevents any forward leg movement.
I've seen green version which seems to be 1:1 with DX9 (it's "branded" as BXH), it seems to have no die cast (unless it's painted, but I doubt, because it's cheapest one  )

Can anyone tell me if NBK KO Gravity Builder can hold gun from JJ KO (you know, will it fit into tab holes on NBK hands)? Shame that it seems green version comes only as the set, I'd gladly replace NBK's "Hook" with JJ one.