Fans Toys FT-31A-E Marauder (Masterpiece Menasor/Stunticons)

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  1. Blazing Mewtwo

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    Overheat’s yellow doesn’t really bug me.....but I do like Smokey’s look a bit more overall
     
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  2. mikeszekely

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    I'm looking forward to Magnum and Smokey a lot more than I am to any more of FT's Aerialbots.
     
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    Never realised up to today how much I needed an astrotrain :p :p 
     
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    Hope Fanstoys will reveal some release dates for their Stunticons soon. I am soo ready to buy them :D 
     
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    Actually only the cartoon version of xtb Overheat is 2 tone, as that's accurate to the source. The toy version of XTB overheat is 1 tone, as that's accurate to that source.
     
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  6. Ryan F

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    I think the two-tone effect was far more subtle in the cartoon than it was on the XTB figure. I think XTB made the darker shade a little too dark.

    Pic credit: D.M from the Allspark forums (reconstruction based on actual Toei paperwork, colour codes and the known cel-vinyl colours that Toei used to work from).
     
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    dragstrip is missing his purple ears!! someone didn't put it together properly
     
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    I wouldn't call that subtle (especially alt mode, it's nearly 50/50) but that's not the point. The point is the cartoon is 2 toned. As you perfectly demonstrated but I'm merely pointing out there's a version of XTB Overheat that's also 1 tone of yellow so a blanket 'xtb Overheat is 2 toned' isn't actually true.

    Maybe ppl arent aware that they're doing a toy accurate set too and we'll just ignore the black g2 version. Specifics ppl! Specifics!
     
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    I agree. Just to be clear, when I said ‘subtle’ I was referring to the difference in shade between the two yellows (which isn’t that great), rather than how much of the darker shade should be present on the character.
     
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    Naw, by my eye that is way more noticeable there than on the actual figure:
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    The other yellow looks way darker in the other pic (again, at least to my eye).
     
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    Yup, but it stands out more on that drawing than it does on the xtb figure. I wouldn't say that drawing is subtle at all either in shade or amount.

    Looks like I'm not the only one:

    Tbf I'll be very surprised if they don't go 2 toned on Dragstrip, pretty much everything else they've done has been very close to the toon source, bar their use of silver instead of white in a few places.
     
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    Looking good, like Deathshead said, Drag Strip is missing his toon accurate purple ears. I just can't wait to have this set in my hands, by the looks of it next year September we should have all of them. Astrotrain is looking mighty fine as well. Where the hell are the pre-orders anyway? If I have one criticism of FT's stunticons is that they look too lanky, they don't capture the relatively bulky and dumpy look their counterparts had in the toon like the pic below demonstrates perfectly. XTB's is closer to the source in this respect but everything else FT's trumps them all day, everyday in every other way.


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  13. gaseous clay

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    I mean, I'm guessing that's not the finished product, so he'll probably have purple ears when it actually comes out. After all, unless its a trick of the light, he doesn't seem to have any ears at all, which makes his head look weird. If they had made a mistake, I would think it would be he'd have orange ears. But the lack of ears makes me think its not the final head design and its going through tweaking.
     
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    I just bookmarked this, thanks! I'm terrible at posing figures.

    My figures typically look like they were posed by Minecraft Steve!
     
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    The ears are folded in the head, or they’re just not there at all
    In the combined mode picture, you can see the head of Dragstrip DCFD974F-53DD-48C1-AC08-FEC3DF703080.jpeg BF4AD3FB-F525-4B78-8FD2-1BA684946A60.jpeg
     
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    If it were this subtle (the top part), I would have no problem with it.

    I did not pay attention that it was two-tone in the cartoon until XTB came out with Overheat. :D 

    Yes, the toy version is one tone, but it is a darker yellow and the front part just before the cockpit is black. Toy accurate, I know. :) 
     
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    Happy to hear, and hope it improves your display and enjoyment of the figure, sure does for me
     
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    Interesting, it does look like the ears fold out. I mean, I was theorizing the head was shaped like that for clearance to fit in the nose cone/cockpit wherever in alt mode. Hopefully we can get a pic of the display from another angle then to better see his head.
     
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    I can't wait to see Smokey's alt mode.
     
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    I hope too