Exclusive Galactic Odyssey Botropolis Rescue Mission now on Amazon

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  1. T-Hybrid

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    So? That's the fun of the homage.
     
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    Both components can’t be named Storm Jet, aha...
     
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    Okay, that doesn't mean it's not still an homage.
     
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    I didn’t say it wasn’t an homage to Storm Jet.

    I said that if they needed new names, Storm Jet wouldn’t work because that’s one name and the figure is two characters.
     
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    Autobot Micromasters Storm and Jet!
     
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  6. Densetsu

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    That’s a good answer!
     
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  7. Fafnir72

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    One can be Storm, the other one Jet.
     
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    I really like the deco on these guys. They work BEAUTIFULLY with the molds they have. They really need to take Earthrise Doubledealer's Rocket, redeco it slightly, and give it to them to wield as a giant 2-person rocket launcher in their separate robot modes. Then, they just need to give them Trailbreaker's radar dish accessory that came with the Centurion Drone in silver or gunmetal grey. If they really want to add new accessories based upon the accessories they have at their disposal, they can release the Sideswipe jetpack from that same accessory pack with a new blue with gold paint deco. With all those extra accessories, they could REALLY make them look plain swell (using that kind of ironically). The idea behind all these accessories is that just by repainting accessories that they already have, they can turn this set from "Cool" to "GREAT".
     
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    Change the colors and brighten up the deployer's pain apps!:thumb 
     
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    Yeah, would be neat to see Mototron from ER Sunstreaker with some redeco of Fasttrack.
     
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    I wish Hasbro cared more/did a better job of explaining their products...

    I am assuming, because the colors are different, that a white/grey redeco of DoubleDealer's missile is included in this set?
    It's just weird that it's only in one picture with the launchpad set up, but not pictured with any of the other modes...
     
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    There will be more soon. Count on it. As for color consistence.......cough cough, Takara and their promo images..........that's another story
     
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    Love the look of it. I don't care about what they homaged or if they got it right. This looks like a fun set and I like how they put together a bunch of unrelated pieces to make a coherent theme. It's my favorite after the Paradron Medic set.

    That said, let's see if I got this right:

    Set 3 (Biosfera Clones) already releasing in November.
    Set 1 (Paradron Medics) releasing in December.
    Set 2 (Micron Micromasters) releasing early February.
    Set 5 (Botropolis Rescue) releasing mid-February.
    Set 4 (Dominus Pursuit) releasing in March.
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    Part of me goes "meh." which is followed by the rest of me being grateful that it's not compelling enough to buy ONE MORE exclusive box set.
     
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    I really like this set. I haven’t bought any of the deluxe molds in this set as I had no feelings towards them. This set makes me glade I skipped them this looks amazing. I wish I would have skipped the shuttle micomasters (ironically the only earthbound set I bought) as now I’m double dipping on figures I’m not fond of. This is a great use of all this molds. The combined set looks great.
     
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    So I went and fanmoded myself a rocket base mode. Theres room for improvement but i think this is what I'll run with.

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    We could name them Stormjet and Raker, since they were redecos of each other.
     
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    Nice. I couldnt figure out a wider version more like the original so instead I did this:
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    It’s almost leader size. Still waiting on the other MM set.
     
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    Man, I can’t express how excited I am. With the news that Micromasters are out next year, I was al ready to give up on my hopes for a MM Countdown base homage. And I am glad I kept my Siege Countdown (sold off Omega); he’s gonna be the captain of this team. On a personal note, I ended up skipping three of the four original releases and the repaints, so this is also gonna be a mostly new experience for me, yay!

    So Takara, how about a Generations Selects Galaxy Shuttle?

    Oooh-oohwowu Toransuformah Zo-hone!



    I don’t think we’ll be getting a Doubleclouder. But...assuming we can’t get that CD Red Alert either, how about a Universe Countdown instead? Another Universe homage, it’d be perfect.

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    I think I'm going to pass on these. They seem like some fairly interesting Micromaster homages, with two dialled-in larger bots with uninspired print schemes.

    If they released the Micromasters by themselves, and/or released the missing team mates to the regular Micromaster teams, I would be interested, but this whole set is "out of place" than "outer space".
     
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