In-Hand Images: Transformers Generations Deluxe Whirl
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Whirl along with the rest of the team will make up Transformers Generations Deluxe Wave 4.
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Posted by Cyber Bishop on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:11pm CST
Posted by Henry921 on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:13pm CST
Cyber Bishop wrote:Not feeling this at all for some reason..
I blame the orange, myself.
Not gonna bother with this one; not gonna bother with Ruination. Just gonna get Impactor and Roadbuster and leave the rest to die a slow death shelfwarming.
Posted by GuyIncognito on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:18pm CST
Posted by mattwhite924 on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:23pm CST
Posted by lowman_x on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:23pm CST
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:25pm CST
Does use of these moulds come with a stipulation that they must ALSO have a crappy colour scheme?
Posted by Rated X on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:25pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:26pm CST
Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Posted by dirk2243 on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:28pm CST
Posted by kirbenvost on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:42pm CST
I was considering grabbing him to do the old part-switcheroo with Vortex too, but there's too much paint removal involved.
Posted by lowman_x on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:49pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?
Posted by Megatron Wolf on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:51pm CST
Posted by Super Megatron on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:56pm CST
Posted by Mkall on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:56pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on March 4th, 2013 @ 3:58pm CST
lowman_x wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?
Vortex redeco from Robots in Disguise.
Hence the combined form being named Ruination.
Posted by Blurrz on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:01pm CST
Posted by griftimus prime on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:18pm CST
Posted by lowman_x on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:24pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:lowman_x wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?
Vortex redeco from Robots in Disguise.
Hence the combined form being named Ruination.
Ah. Indeed. Thanks for the clarification. Never watched RID. Well, that's a lie. I did. Once. Well, I tried anyways. The "Autobot Brothers" just annoyed the hell out of me. Brawn-X? To the EXTREME!! Is that what that was meant to be?
Posted by lowman_x on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:26pm CST
griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.
I'll second that (on both counts).
The middle TF needs to be a voyager size. It's way too spindly looking when combined and there's no bulk to it.
Posted by Mkall on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:39pm CST
griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.
Simple, they're not official Transformers products.
If you wish to keep up with Predaking, or any other 3rd party product, here's the forum in which to do it.
Posted by Bumblevivisector on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:41pm CST
Wait, it just dawned on me! Since even Twin Twist has a blue-orange deco, which makes just as little sense (unless I'm forgetting a Diaclone or Salt-Man color scheme), could the whole point be to give Ruination a more unified look, to better homage Emirate Xaaron?!? It'll largely fail, but considering he was gold and really-light-blue-for-silver in most comic appearances, that would almost make sense. Of course, the resulting Ruination will only be accurate to that one Condor Verlag cover scale-wise...wait, that means these colors will actually make PERFECT sense!
Posted by njb902 on March 4th, 2013 @ 4:45pm CST
Posted by Rated X on March 4th, 2013 @ 5:02pm CST
kirbenvost wrote:The head might be useful for custom purposes...
I was considering grabbing him to do the old part-switcheroo with Vortex too, but there's too much paint removal involved.
91% isopropyl alcohol will take that crappy orange paint off in 30 seconds. If you only want to remove certain parts, then dip tissue in the alcohol and lay it on those parts for 5 minutes then wipe carefully. Use a pencil eraser to remove any paint stains, then shine up the area with more alcohol. Then get the purple parts from Vortex and begin the de-Hasbro-azation and make the G1 gods proud.
Posted by Kibble on March 4th, 2013 @ 5:19pm CST
Wait, no they didn't. Who gives a rip that the paint job sucks to match? Whatevs...
Posted by sabrigami on March 4th, 2013 @ 7:53pm CST
Posted by padfoo on March 4th, 2013 @ 8:47pm CST
Cyber Bishop wrote:Not feeling this at all for some reason..
Neither am I!
Posted by Sinnertwin on March 4th, 2013 @ 9:31pm CST
Posted by emeraldbeacon on March 4th, 2013 @ 9:50pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:lowman_x wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dual homage to both Whirl and Ro-Tor, maybe?lowman_x wrote:What the...? What's with the orange?! Why orange? Seriously, at what point has Whirl ever had orange as a main component of his colour scheme?
Ro-tor? Is he a Go-Bot?
Vortex redeco from Robots in Disguise.
Hence the combined form being named Ruination.
Look at the decos on all five of the Wreckers... they are almost direct 1-to-1 translations of the RiD Combaticons. Roadbuster is Rollbar, who was Green and Orange. Top Spin is Movor, who was White and Orange. Twin Twist is Armorhide, who was Teal. Only Impactor doesn't follow the pattern, being Purple and Orange instead of Mega-Octane's Green and Orange.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 5th, 2013 @ 12:11am CST
Ding ding ding! Houston, I think we have a winner!emeraldbeacon wrote:Look at the decos on all five of the Wreckers... they are almost direct 1-to-1 translations of the RiD Combaticons. Roadbuster is Rollbar, who was Green and Orange. Top Spin is Movor, who was White and Orange. Twin Twist is Armorhide, who was Teal. Only Impactor doesn't follow the pattern, being Purple and Orange instead of Mega-Octane's Green and Orange.
Posted by Sinnertwin on March 5th, 2013 @ 12:41am CST
Posted by MGrotusque on March 5th, 2013 @ 12:46am CST
Posted by Sabrblade on March 5th, 2013 @ 12:50am CST
'cept for Impactor being more his own colors instead of Mega-Octane's colors. and don't forget the Emirate Xaaron head.Sinnertwin wrote:So let me get this straight, they took the combaticons, painted them in their RiD colors, gave them Autobot names and called their combined form it's original Decepticon name?
Though, if one really wanted to get technical, Twintwist isn't quite the same color that Armorhide's toy was, being a much darker blue instead of Armorhide's teal. And despite Armorhide's show color being tan instead of teal or dark blue. Oh, and Armorhide was the only one who didn't have orange on him (save for his visor) in either of his decos.
Posted by Segor on March 5th, 2013 @ 9:50am CST
Mkall wrote:griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.
Simple, they're not official Transformers products.
If you wish to keep up with Predaking, or any other 3rd party product, here's the forum in which to do it.
Why thank you good sir
Posted by Segor on March 5th, 2013 @ 9:56am CST
Mkall wrote:griftimus prime wrote:why have those 2 new 3rd party predaking combiners not been getting any press here but this crap is? this thing is even uglier than the combaticons when combined.
Simple, they're not official Transformers products.
If you wish to keep up with Predaking, or any other 3rd party product, here's the forum in which to do it.
Why thank you good sir
Posted by mooncake623 on March 5th, 2013 @ 4:32pm CST
Posted by dirk2243 on March 17th, 2013 @ 10:34am CDT
http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-11/metrople ... er-created )
I realize now this combiner in the left hand corner is the wrecker combiner, I didn't pay much attention to it earlier and missed it. Still not interested in it though.
Posted by MagnusPrimal on March 17th, 2013 @ 7:17pm CDT