Looking for box and insert for MMC R-30
Nitro. Please pm. Thanks

 

BBTS is taking orders for Nitro coming "this month" ?

Reformatted R-30 Nitro

In case anyone is interested. I just stumbled across it kind of randomly.

 

Is this a reissue or president to no stock?

just wondering on the viability of one of those alternate color schemes, like the GTS one, we discussed back when Nitro was first released.

 

so i'm curious- was there any release of this mold (or Calidus for that matter) where the fins actually STAY IN?!

Love it but it's an annoying flaw.

 

Still so disappointed with this figure and what it could have been with perhaps some better retooling — instead of just a different (terrible) head/face.

I mean, she could have still been... quasi-sorta-kinda-but-still-not-really-passable, with a proper, accurate IDW head/face. But nope. They didn’t even bother. Instead giving ... her ... this weird, original creation of a face/head instead.

At least after all the complaining, Byrin (and I hate saying this, because Byrin is awesome), gave us a new (bad) head for the crappy Cyclonus repaint. But the effort didn’t happen here.

As of now, in my opinion of course, this is up there with one of the laziest of MMC’s releases.. ever. As it stands, she looks like their terrible Rodimus in drag.

Nice photos tho.

(what could have been:

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I put a couple coats of future polish on his fins and they stay in just fine. Same for Rodimus/Calidus.

I’m glad they didn’t try to give the figure a more feminine head. Because then it wouldn’t evoke Nitro Convoy, who is male and my preferred version of the character. Hasbro decided at the last minute to make him female.

 

This is still a very bizarre complaint of yours given its you n all and you also lambast this same mold for its inaccuracy to Rodimus

The only parts of the toy that can be replaced, as is inherent to how it was designed are the upper chest piece (not the overall torso piece), the upper shoulder pieces, the head, the forearm panels and the back wing inserts and maybe the shin panels and hood scoop, so you can imagine how much the Getaway version still just looked like Calidus.

Swapping all of these in to any number of new shape variations would not give you an IDW override toy that looks the part so I'm not sure why you're so interested in the idea. And certainly a mere head swap alone would have been that much further from achieving this.

It would be wasted effort resulting in a fairly mediocre representation of her. You would have the same core frame of toy, the same fairly masculine broad upper body physique. Mostly same alt mode etc when IDW Override is very clearly overtly feminine in shape and stature and has more in common with the likes of a TFP Arcee. Her head to torso ratio alone is radically different to that of this mold, keeping in mind its head has to slot in to the tiny compartment at the back of the torso.

This is the fundamental nature of retooling sometimes. Some toys are better designed for it or specific kinds of character types than others and have vastly more options for what can and can't work. I think you both misunderstand retooling, body archetypes and how important they are and undervalue your own arguments and your own past criticisms of mmc's efforts by making such an exception for this toy and what you think should have been done with it. I don't think you actually want what you think you want in this instance.


I think it was much smarter to do what mmc did with Nitro specifically because of how the Cal mold works and looks.




No its not some mind blowing effort, the retooling was modest indeed, but it resulted in the best looking version of this toy and is quite a nice representation of the original character as intended.

 

Override is a better character, just way more entertaining and memorable. I disagree that the other person said the face sculpt was bad. This was never attempting to be IDW Override, it was a retool of IDW Rodimus into a Cybertron Override or Galaxy Force Nitro Convoy modern reinterpretation. The headsculpt works great for the original intended character, and allows people to choose if this mold is male or female. I'd love for someone to do a dedicated IDW Override, but I'm not gonna get upset that this isn't something it was never trying to be.

 

I finally decided to order a copy since it was available on BigBadToyStore. Now to just get a Galaxy Meteor which is going to be a pain because of how rare that figure has gotten. I really regret selling my original copy.