Possible Legacy Ransack

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Jacer, May 29, 2022.

  1. TargetmasterJoe

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    Actually, it hits me that official art makes Ransack have black forearms, but I guess that would've given the toy's bug mode an adverse side effect?
     
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    I am good with this. Sure, it would have been nice to get more remolded parts than just the head. But if getting the deluxe Insecticons as easy repaints is how we get them, it’s a heck of a lot better than nothing.
     
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    Ooh, that'd be nice! Thanks for the reply, I've been wanting to give my Legacy Blaster a little Marvel referential bug buddy.
     
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    I wasn’t expecting that but I was hoping for it
     
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    Oh poop, this is a little bit too tempting. I'm not a fan of buying a 4-pack for one figure. I hope Goldbug turns out better than I'm expecting.
     
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    Nah, it looks like he has a Jolly Rancher in his chest at most. Airheads would have terrible structural integrity in the elbows and knees.
     
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    I've put him in the back of the collection away from view. Thanks for reminding me...
     
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    I'm in the process of returning my Kickback, just because I personally found the figure kind of dull. Seeing it in these colors really makes the mold pop though, I might want to get this.

    I do wish that Target would knock off this multipack nonsense however. I'm going to have find a BW fan who only wants Scorponok and Parasite from this pack. Anybody out there like that?
     
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    It’s not defective? Did you open it? You shouldn’t be able to return it because you just don’t like it once you opened it. I think Kickback is a fun figure to tinker around with and is second to Drag Strip on best legacy figure released so far for me. I can’t wait for Ransack.
     
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    I wouldn't even count on Goldbug being a real draw since he'll just be using the Cliffjumper mold yet again.
     
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    Yeah, retooled regular Insecticons + Waspinator is what I was expecting to happen. Every time the Deluxe Insecticons have come up on the forums, I pretty much knew that Hasbro was not going to be able to do closer approximations due to the legal situation and I knew there's going to be a lot of disappointment.
    But what else can you expect? Hasbro has to recover tooling costs for the Insecticons and want to provide the characters, so these retools are pretty much the best we can expect.
    However, since I went in with low expectations, I'm pretty impressed with Ransack. I like the Kickback mold and the new colors pop. Unfortunately, that means I'm going to have to go Target hunting again for just 2 bots. :( 
     
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    That and he's most likely 100% the SG Goldbug mold / head combo, just in g1 colors. So much like the 1st target 4pack the remolded g1 guy is the biggest draw.
     
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    He looks nice. Wish they would remold the chest plate (at least get rid of the clear plastic and paint more yellow on the torso) and/or remold the wings. Can't wait to see Goldbug, wish we could get these two without having to deal with more Waspinator and Scorponok repaints. As for a possible Legacy G1Venom, I could see that made from L. Kickback as well.

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    As fans most of us understand that with certain characters "good enough" is about the best we can expect, with the alternative being Hasbro never doing anything with that character.
     
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    I think I'll just pick up another Kickback and have someone customize it into a Ransack. It would actually be cheaper to do that than try to get this boxset.
     
  19. Neko-bot77

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    New head and a new paintjob is all you need, since the abdomen is made of the weapons already included with Kickback
     
  20. mx-01 archon

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    I'm not sure how much I'd go out of my way to get this set for Ransack, anyways, considering how unlikely it is we get Venom.

    And by some odd chance we do get a somewhat passable version of him, I might just spring for only him to join my FansProject DX Insecticons instead.
     
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