The New Official Hidden Features Thread (Please Read First Post Before Posting)

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  1. rikkomba

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    SS86 Scourge comes with no targetmaster, but it has a rifle.
    There is no way to attach Titans Return Scourge's targetmaster (from Siege) to SS86 Scourge's alt mode.
    However, SS86 Scourge's rifle has a peg for the alt mode... and a port which doesn't seem to have much meaning, except for this:

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    It's great they designed the rifle to allow giving Scourge its targetmaster, compensating for the alt mode.
     
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    How is that even a perfect fit. Lol.
     
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    Preeetty sure that's not a hidden feature.
     
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    I’m just a casual observer of this thread, but I’m beginning to wonder what IS a hidden feature.
     
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    rules are on the first page.

    not really hard to figure out what's actually hidden and what's not. a normal play feature, fanmode, or cramming something into an open space isn't hidden. missing transformation steps like TR perceptor's tank mode and studio series lockdown's chest and arm steps are.
     
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    While entertaining i have to say that this thread is one of the douchiest threads on the interwebs.
     
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    why? because there's defined rules on the first page and people want to actively keep it on track?

    it's no different than any line specific thread or the 'super clean pictures' thread.

    i can cram a headmaster into soundwave's chest....that's not a hidden feature that's utilizing empty space. sorry not sorry.
     
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    I think it's more of an example of how reading comprehension and objective reasoning is a lost cause.
     
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    Because that's frustrating to repeat always the same things. Just read page 1 before posting, as mentionned in the title.



    Time for an actual real hidden feature. (Even if I admit, not an extremely impressive one)

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    Not in the manual, and few people (if not nobody) noticed it when it was released, all reviews did it wrong, I don't remember pictures showing it transformed like this.
    I know it's on purpose, because the articulation in the middle of the arm has absolutely no other purpose.

    However, nothing for the helicopter on the other side. (or I didn't found it)

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    huh...i never noticed that hinge before. granted energon optimus wasn't one of my favorites but still.

    EDIT: so i'm doing a google search and i'm seeing some pictures of it this way and others the other way (mostly fan pics). so some people must have figured this out while others haven't. seems you definitely got something with this. i'm even seeing year of the snake versions with the front not folded in either. good find.

    too bad the helicopter arm can't do it.
     
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    The extra bit of articulation is needed for the transformation. It was shown transformed that way in the first Energon catalog.
     
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    No, it's not. Neither for arm, truck or leg.

    It's used only for hidding this panel.

    (and the helicopter which cannot hide the panel but shares the rest of the transformation does not have this extra hinge)

    Good point, it may be were I saw it first.
     
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    I recall seeing that extra flap get tucked away in a couple reviews (bert the stormtrooper I think), but there's nothing for the Helicopter. In show model has it like that too
     
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    In the show, the helicopter is hidden too.

    Sans titre 1.png


    But differently, it somewhat seems "retracted", with a sliding hinge. It's probably not only animation simplification, it looks like some dropped/discarded feature.

    Sans titre 2.png
     
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    Oh good catch!
     
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  16. rikkomba

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    I just checked the instructions.
    The transformation involving the extra joint is also shown in the Super Link instructions, but NOT in the Energon instructions.
     
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    That's another good info.

    It's also quite funny as Energon Optimus is probably one of the very few of the unicron trilogy that I prefered to get the Hasbro version instead of the Takara one.
     
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    I posted this in the trailers thread, but it's worth mentioning the near interchangeability of chronicles g1 (with a hole in the hitch), dotm deluxe and earthrise Optimus Prime cabs and trailers. I dug them out for pictures today. Also dotm deluxe Prime's trailer has holes inside to seat some Asian Mcdonalds toys. I had to unscrew/flip a panel, but it's 100% molded in and made for it. Pretty obscure.
     

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    the last one is a hidden feature... I think, the others are not
     
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