This.

 

Plus they can sell kibble arms as an add-on later for the extreme G1ers just like Rage of Hercules!  

For me, I'd want the car to become the entire arm, and the hand too if possible. I would also accept the car becoming most of the arm if the hand/forearm was a part of the set that integrated into the toys in other modes like FP Bruticus - his hands/arms become guns for the robots and part of Onslaught's alt mode. So if the hands/forearms could convert into weapons and be part of Motormaster's trailer, I would accept it.

Basically, I accept parts-forming in combiners much more than useless-in-other-modes combiner kibble.

 

The problem is what design do they use for Dragstrip that is still a F1/Indy style car (I fucking hope they don't give him 6 wheels btw, always hate that) that still has enough mass to become an entire arm without looking either completely stupid as either a car or an arm, whilst remaining in scale with the other members? I think with Menasor you have to accept that there's only so much you can squeeze out of a car without uber compromising all the modes.

Personally what I would do is still have everything from the elbow down as a seperate partsformed unit that can do something cool on Motormaster (if you're using IDW design than those shoulder pods would make perfect forearms imo) but have parts of the cars shell shift around to make it look more like an actual arm, rather than a car tacked onto the side of a torso (again IDWesque)

 

Agreed - I'd love a design based off Don Fig's ongoing design, honestly, where the combiner kibble is formed by Motormaster's trailer.

Say what you want about the art style Don went with, but the designs were VERY solid.

 

Contrary to my earlier statement about hoping Dragstrip has his six-wheel look; I'm fine with FP going their own way with each individual vehicle (as post #28 seems to indicate- modern vehicles in place of slavery to a G1 look). As long as the overall aesthetic and quality are up to FP's usual standards... I'm good.

 

I like this idea...mostly due to the Dragstip dilemma you mentioned...if he was to transform into the WHOLE arm, that side would be either anorexic/skeletony looking or grossly over scaled for compensation...

Transforming into just the upper/arm (maybe also elbow) and shifting around to look more arm-y or maybe into some kinda small shoulder pad, the right arm would retain its bulk...

 

I went back and had a proper look at Don's design for the first time in ages, the pic of Menasor actually forming, and I think it would be a perfect way to do it.

Motormasters arms become the fore-arms, Dragstrip and Dead-End sort of shift around a bit to become a more armly looking arm, and something I noticed for the first time, MM's feet come off and sort of fold into themselves to become Menasors feet, which is awesome. All your components are there then, they just need to be shifted around a bit.

Throw in the FP aesthetic, updated vehicle modes like that cool looking Lambo and it's a winner in my book.

EDIT: Of course I could've just posted the bloody pic!

 

I don't know...Deadend, Breakdown and Wildrider look pretty much unchanged from their alt modes...they still mostly look tacked on...I can see some very subtle panel shifting, but not really enough to say they "transformed" into a limb...

I hope FP/MT is a bit more creative...

 

I like it when the limbs are obviously vehicles. that's the charm of it for me, they don't need to transform in a fancy way. just have the lower leg be a car  

gotta say it's interesting that this has almost 450 posts, with absolutely NO official word or even teasing.  

 

Behold, the power of Fansproject!

 

Yeah, I find it quite lame when a combiner is just the center guy with the others in vehicle mode as armor, not complex and intrincated enough for an expensive toy imo. Also tend to make the robot combined look more weird than it could with something more smooth.

Surely I don´t want things to go Bayformer and fragment the alt modes so much that the alt mode parts are not visible, just don´t need to feel like a guy wearing cars XD

 

Oh absolutely, as do I...but I'm kinda thinking how TFC did it... the limbs are clearly still recognizable as their alt modes, but they have also become their respective limb...

It's why I love what TFC did so much with the tread forearms...the entire vehicle became a limb as opposed to the original design of Devy with tacked on vehicles as arms

This, this so much!...you get it