I've been on a kick with turning old Botcon guys into vehicles, my next victim-Onyx Primal. I used the Cyclonus mold, partially because it's just a swell mold, but also to stick it to the people who swore it could never be used as a base for anyone else because of the "ears".
Anywho, because he's a Primal/Prime, I gave him a Prime head, it amuses me.
For absolutely no reason other than having a small stockpile
of extra Classics Kups sitting around, I started looking for some
characters that would fit these wonderful molds.
First up is Barbearian/Grizzly-1. I was torn on this guy
because I think he’d work upgraded to both the Generaions Kup or Universe
Dropshot mold. I like how massive Dropshot is-it suits a big burly bear and
Barbearian is already packing a small arsenal even in his Beast mold, so it
would make sense. But on the other hand, the generations Kup mold really gives
that “bear” impression both in truck and robot mode. Tough call. In the end I
decided to just digibash them both!
Jeezum, I've been gone long enough to have a baby!
In that time a ridiculous number of Generations figures have popped up and been begging for new paintjobs! I saw the new mold for Skids pop up and remembered how much I wanted a Generations version of the Million Publishers Skids/Screech two pack that came out a couple of years ago. At the time the best match was Classics Ironhide, but with a new Skids rearing its head, the time has never been better to revisit and update that old digibash with some newness.
The coolest news is that Generations Crosscut has been announced, complete with a new head to match the original. It makes want repaints of these figures into an exclusive two pack all the more.
The eHobby Skids and Screech exclusives...
This is what we got:
This is what I wanted:
Bought some lime spraypaint yesterday >:)
Dammit eHobby, you could have saved me some time and effort if you'd have just repainted the Classics mold! Oh, and you would have been guaranteed my moolah.
Edit: My God, why is it a battle to insert images and text in Blogger without it freaking out and shifting things all over the place? I shouldn't have to type in direct html to make sure the damn thing doesn't spaz out. Too bad, I'm not in a rush to move this back to Livejournal, but at least their setup doesn't punish you for wanting to post pictures. Arg.
Re: Transformers 2. I was going to do a long, drawn out whatnot about it, but everything that can be said has been said, and every stupid argument that there is to be had, has been had. Not much more for me to add to it other than restating how encouraging it is to me to know that you don't need talent to succeed, just boatloads of confidence and drive. Skill means nothing. $800+ Million dollars worth of nothing. Yikes.
Oh, and, was I the only one who hoped f
or a brief moment that Mikeala's dog was going to transform and smash Wheelie after he shouted "Sonuva bitch!"?No? It was just me thinking it would have been legitimately funny to hear him reply "You talkin' about MY mom, little man? Ah well.
Aaaanyway...
Damn it all, I actually *want* to pick up Wreckage in Bludgeon colors, but I do *not* want that cruddy repainted Blackout/Grindor/whatever he comes packaged with. I may have to bite the bullet though, maybe someone will actually be willing to pay money for Grindor/Blackout/whatever and I can recoup some of my loss. I just saw them in Toys R Us marked down to $26 or so, but even so… $26 for a deluxe? Like I said, maybe I can convince someone to buy him or trade…
I finally broke down and ordered one of those Aveo Swerves I've been eyeballing for the last year and a half. He arrived today! Not a bad deal, the ebay Buy-it-Now was relatively reasonable, coupled with the Ebay bucks I’ve racked up over the last few months and a 15% purchase discount Ebay threw at me, I think I wound up only shelling out a little more than $50 for him. Not a
s good a deal as driving into a dealership, filling out a survey and getting him for free, but better than the psychotic amounts of money he was going for when they were offering him through that U.K site last year.
He never stops looking neat, and I don't care what anyone says, that bad boy is a perfect upgraded version of Turbo as far as I'm concerned.
Turbo vs Crasher, round 2.0
Turbo and the only mold I’ve seen so far that I feel would make a nice Leader-1 upgrade: Energon Storm Jet.
Speaking of GoBots, I really need to get back into doing some more customs. With the molds dropping from Classics it’s been getting easier and easier to do. For example, something simple.
Love Skyjack? So do I!
There we are!
Credit for the picture of course, goes to Seibertron.com. Their toy archive is tops!
I know, I know, a lot of what I envision are straight up repaints. To be honest, I like the challenge of trying to bring out the most of a specific character without having to do a lot of heavy modding. A big thumbs up to those that do, but I like simple repaints with a mod or two here and there. I don’t think an upgrade has to be 100% throwback to the original, just enough to pay homage while being progressive at the same time. And let’s face it, realistically speaking, any and all GoBot references in the Transformers line is just going to be repaints, so I like to think my ideas are a little closer to the realm of actual possibility than a 100% new mold that they’ll never get.
And I keep trying to figure out what would make a decently upgraded transport for the Renegades and Guardians. Hasbro has already said they have no plans on making any of the citybots, so no hope of recoloring anything like that. Of course, they DID make one mother of an Omega Supreme for Energon. A gray base with some red highlights and detailing I think would make for a great CommandCenter. They can even combine like I imagined in my way too long fanfic ;P I think for something like this, to really play off how large it's supposed to be, you could go the same route as Megalo Convoy from galaxy Force, and include a smaller Prime so you can really see what the scale should be. There's a big cluster of minicons floating around that can easily be repainted into some Guardians that can hang out on this thing. Too bad Takara threw a hissy fit and swore all the *good* minicon molds all simultaneously combusted, resulting in the horror shows of KO quality plastic monstrosities they released during the initial run of Classics.
As for Thruster, I was poking around galleries of the Armada molds and think that Jetfire would actually work pretty well. And man, I really wish Jetfire could merge with someone besides Prime in this line, like another shuttle-type robot. But he can't, so there he is. Again with my fanfic craziness, I think there should be some sentient Thrusters, and other Thrusters that aren't called Thruster. I’ll have to mock up some pics at a later date.
