reminds me of watching adult entertainment on pay per view and not paying so it was all blurry but you could catch 3 to 4 second bits

 

Apologies for an on-topic post here. I have FT-31* sorted now except for Bandit and the mysterious combiner bits. I guess I can join the extremely impatient where the hell is Bandit? club.

 

You can try to join, but the wait list alone is 2 years.

 

And then there were the people who got the big dish before scrambling was a thing and saw EVERYTHING!

 

This probably explains why you have the quickest hands in the West, CowboyFromHell.

I hope this story will someday be featured in future textbooks to show kids the difficulties of adolescence in the late 20th century.

P.S. Fans Toys diecast…to keep it on topic.

 

I haven't done a cross-line height comparison, or one within the CHUGS... but it seems to me that these FT Stuntacons are out-of-scale tall in bot mode at least. I will do an alt-mode scale comparison with TT Masterpiece carbots at some point, but my initial impression is that these guys are too big. I know making this point triggers all sorts of replies like "check out this animation where Dead End towers over Optimus, therefore toon accurate", "the car mode is perfect, Datsuns are just comically tiny", and "Takara got it wrong, here's the official Sunbow scale chart" etc.

Are they too big? Just right? Do I just need to keep them on a separate shelf and stopping being OCD about it?

 

I know people usually probably point to the sunbow chart when this is brought up because the Stunticons are in fact bigger than the typical carbots on the chart. And though that might be correct, I think the simpler answer here is that FT wants all their combiners to scale with each other, which is why they’re closer in size to the FT Aerialbots than any Car that they or anybody else has made.

 

Presumably they also gave some thought to the already released Terminus Giganticus, but who knows.

 

Combiner team scale never had anything to do with alt modes. It always had to do with a member's role in the combiner team (torso bot or limb bot).

The only member of the FT stunticons who is out of scale is Motormaster, who should be the same height as Optimus Prime. DX9 is the one that had the most accurate robot mode scale for all five members.

 

Yeah I think you’re probably right, because Devastator should scale with Omega. And then the other combiners should scale with Devastator. Which obviously means that they will be announcing their Devy any day now.

 

Sky channel back then.

 

Fu-Fu-Fu-Fuuuuuuun factory!!!

 

Not exactly a new image, but...

 

I think Devastator still only exists in FT's design documents and the designer's heads right now.

 

Yes. Except I believe the combiner bots that already exist are bigger than that that silhouette would suggest.

 

Lol the good old days. Iirc, Robotech and Denver the last dinosaur were also on there? Think it was presented by Linda de Mol from endemol productions. Her daddy billionaire. Maker of programs like idols, voice, big brother and other types of programs aimed for women.

 

Cant renember ever seeing Linda present Fun-Factory. That said, didnt know de Mol had any stakes in the Sky channel.

I do recall her presenting something right before telekids took off.

 

Mega blubber power race!

 

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How long has it been since the last FT Stunticon released and the wait for their Dead End began?