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Sabrblade wrote:

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Calvatron wrote:I still can't get over her being purple. The shared colour scheme despite everyone being a mismatch of non matching parts is pretty much the defining characteristic of what makes a junkion a junkion. Have to pass on this one just cause she don't look right in a group. Just don't understand why they didn't just make her look like a girl rather than screw up the team colours. Or is she supposed to be an decepticonish junkion?

She's not just a Decepticon-ish Junkion, she is a full fledged Decepticon Junkion. A Junkion who has joined the Decepticons. A defector.

If it helps, the head is based on Nancy, plus the colors may seem off, but they're based on a separate set of Junkions:

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But those were Insecticon colors.

True, but:

Mark Maher wrote:I did always appreciate the shattered glass colorway on the junkions for a Decepticon look, but once I had the inverted color idea and saw it on the computer screen, I just fell in love with it.

Axlegrease Design Notes from Mark Maher on Instagram

There's more than one way to color a Junkion, which is good otherwise parents may pass on her saying "you already have that one"

That sounds more like he's saying that's not the Shattered Glass colors but had come up with something new based on inverted colors.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:she now has thinner thighs to go with the feminine face and bikini top.

Emerje

So very feminine

Amazon's IDW based Transformers Legacy subline is going for some really deep cuts. Thanks to JTPrime17, we now have a product code for an upcoming two pack featuring Javelin and Kaskade. Both these characters were first introduced in the new 2019 IDW continuity which is probably why an extremely small number of you reading this news are aware of their existence. These are both female characters and we have images of them below.

Tra Gen Ecom Capsule Comic Javelin & Kaskade 2pck
Product Number: F6958

This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

If these girls are just basic repaints of the deluxe Prime Arcee and Legacy Elita-1 molds, it would be an easy pass. But if the retooling is heavy and creative like the previous Legacy IDW 2 packs, it may be worth getting.

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I did that for GI Joe Soundwave and got no credit.

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william-james88 wrote:Submit the news to us through the contact us button.

I did that for GI Joe Soundwave and got no credit.

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:checks emails: I do see that, but someone else did several hours beforehand, thus the new credit went to them. Sorry! I know it can be hard to know when it takes awhile for stuff to go up, but if you're interested in helping us be better at that we pretty much always need new volunteers for news staff. Anyway, the submission is much appreciated regardless, so thank you

Very interesting, so this is the next set to go with the current two? I've got some ideas for molds if they go as heavy with the retools as they have the other sets.




New head, backpack, shoulders, maybe feet too? In the end it comes down to parts layout but I think they could do something convincing with this mold making it unrecognizable from a movie figure (which I think would actually be required and probably would entirely derail this whole idea).

For Kaskade... I'm really trying to resist saying a Shadow Striker repaint, but I'm sure that's where they're headed. Surprise me, Hasbro.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Very interesting, so this is the next set to go with the current two? I've got some ideas for molds if they go as heavy with the retools as they have the other sets.

New head, backpack, shoulders, maybe feet too? In the end it comes down to parts layout but I think they could do something convincing with this mold making it unrecognizable from a movie figure (which I think would actually be required and probably would entirely derail this whole idea).

For Kaskade... I'm really trying to resist saying a Shadow Striker repaint, but I'm sure that's where they're headed. Surprise me, Hasbro.

Emerje

I think Velocitron IDW Blurr is the more intuitive starting point for Javelin. I also would like anything other than a Side Burn Kaskade, but with such a deep fembot cut, I'm not going to complain in any event.

ScottyP wrote:This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

Javelin is actually a design by Alex Milne from MTMTE.

Omegatron. wrote:

ScottyP wrote:This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

Javelin is actually a design by Alex Milne from MTMTE.

Then why don't we see her until 2019?

william-james88 wrote:

Omegatron. wrote:

ScottyP wrote:This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

Javelin is actually a design by Alex Milne from MTMTE.

Then why don't we see her until 2019?

She was in MTMTE 41 and Unicron 1.

Omegatron. wrote:

ScottyP wrote:This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

Javelin is actually a design by Alex Milne from MTMTE.

My bad, this is correct. I forgot because she did basically nothing and was in like 3 issues.

Still, this should've been Velocity.

Not going to pretend that I liked that universe, but I did like Javelin. Despite being a minor character she managed to have more personally then most of the main characters in the book and I would be happy to get a toy of her.

Not my cup of tea. Though it will be interesting to see what the reuse will be for them.

ScottyP wrote:This is peak monkey's paw stuff. Wanted more figures of IDW original fembots, Hasbro answers with Ruckleyverse nobodies.

Meanwhile, Stormbringer Thunderwing and Tidal Whale (Two of IDW's best redesigns) lay [officially] forgotten. Alongside even updates of neglected/forgotten G1 figures like Blue Bacchus and/or the Firecons (original moulds, not retools). I know in contrast to HasTak, I have an eye for completing sets. But at least some attention should be paid to reinventions of popular characters before barrel-scraping redecos.

Aww man... that alt mode screams Velocitron Blurr to me. Do we need another another Blurr?

So...they went with these nobodies over the likes of Stalker, Skyquake and the rest of the Predators.

Cool...

Burn wrote:So...they went with these nobodies over the likes of Stalker, Skyquake and the rest of the Predators.

Cool...

One set of nobodies vs. another set of nobodies.

Sabrblade wrote:

Burn wrote:So...they went with these nobodies over the likes of Stalker, Skyquake and the rest of the Predators.

Cool...

One set of nobodies vs. another set of nobodies.

My nobodies have been around longer than these nobodies!

Not cool...

Burn wrote:So...they went with these nobodies over the likes of Stalker, Skyquake and the rest of the Predators.

Cool...

I could see those being a future exclusive capsule, maybe for Amazon, since we basically have analogs for each of those characters out or coming, all the way down to how Needlenose connects to Skyquake.

Emerje

I am not going to say no to these new comic bots, but the lack of Velocity is truly disappointing. Kaskade is especially random.

Burn wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Burn wrote:So...they went with these nobodies over the likes of Stalker, Skyquake and the rest of the Predators.

Cool...

One set of nobodies vs. another set of nobodies.

My nobodies have been around longer than these nobodies!

Not cool...

Exactly this. As per my example earlier:

Black/Sky Shadow has had three figures since his debut (1989, 2011, 2017)
Blue Bacchus has had one (1989)

This is ridiculous, considering within fiction they are a pair/team:



It would be like only ever remaking one of the Horrorcons. Or Battlechargers. But don't worry fans, we've got Kaskade...

To be fair, that was only one episode.

In the years since, Black Shadow has gone on to be either a solo act or a member of a different team, like the Phase Sixers.

Sabrblade wrote:To be fair, that was only one episode.

In the years since, Black Shadow has gone on to be either a solo act or a member of a different team, like the Phase Sixers.

Don't forget he has a pedigree that works really well in his favor, unlike Blue Bacchus. The latter did appear as a virtual redeco in a BotCon comic, better than nothing...