New Images of New TF:Crossovers
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 1:32PM CDT
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Additionally, Hasbro has already provided pre-orders on Hasbrotoyshop.com for Ghost Rider and Spider-man.
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Posted by Valandar on September 23rd, 2010 @ 1:54pm CDT
Posted by GuyIncognito on September 23rd, 2010 @ 2:00pm CDT
The Marvel ones are terrible looking.
Posted by Forgotten on September 23rd, 2010 @ 2:04pm CDT
Posted by Captziltoid on September 23rd, 2010 @ 2:18pm CDT
Posted by RiddlerJ on September 23rd, 2010 @ 2:25pm CDT
(Yes I know about that Titanium Megatron and Snowcat, but c'mon where's the rest?)
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on September 23rd, 2010 @ 3:25pm CDT
Posted by craggy on September 23rd, 2010 @ 3:35pm CDT
RiddlerJ wrote:When are they going to do G. I. Joe crossovers. Everybody has mashed the two together except the toy designers.
(Yes I know about that Titanium Megatron and Snowcat, but c'mon where's the rest?)
Oh, Testify!
TF characters, that become vehicles in-scale with GI Joes. Megatron as a HISS, Starscream as a Nightraven or Rattler, Prime as a...umm...one of them tanks or a Hummer, or even the truck from MASK since that's been in GI Joe now. It'd be brilliant to get a pack with Screamer and Cobra Commander. Oh, and we could get Joe versions of Spike, Daniel, Marissa (taking after her Granddad) and Old Snake.
Oooh, ooh, Baroness and Slipstream!
Posted by Lapse Of Reason on September 23rd, 2010 @ 3:40pm CDT
Valandar wrote:The Spider-man figure is just the figure that was part of the 2-pack with Iron Man last year.
I don't think so. It looks different to me.
Posted by Liftgate on September 23rd, 2010 @ 4:07pm CDT
As usual, the SW figures continue to look awful, while the Marvel ones look pretty good to acceptable. There HAS to be two separate design teams that work on these lines, I swear. They're just too different from each other other.
Posted by Liftgate on September 23rd, 2010 @ 4:16pm CDT
Captziltoid wrote:i mean im a SW fan as well and these are just atrocious. i actually bought the millenium falcon 2 piece and it actually looks good in falcon form but seeing chewies fat head come out of the top of it is just ridiculus.
I made the mistake of buying a Magnaguard and the Y-Wing. They looked cool in the package to me somehow, but after opening them omg what pieces of poo. :----( Flimsy, awkward, won't stay transformed, kibble that won't stay on, etc.. I don't know how kids could play with these things without breaking em or loosing all the parts. The marvel ones arn't like that, they're more study, easier to transform and look better too.
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 23rd, 2010 @ 4:34pm CDT
Ah well, as long as I have the Death Star/Darth Vader! (Which is really quite awesome!)
Posted by Overcracker on September 23rd, 2010 @ 4:55pm CDT
Lapse Of Reason wrote:Valandar wrote:The Spider-man figure is just the figure that was part of the 2-pack with Iron Man last year.
I don't think so. It looks different to me.
Its the very same Spider-Man.
Here's the 2 pack.
http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Transforme ... B0028Y5SQW?tag=seibertron07-20&
Ghost Rider is ot too bad except for the left arm/ front axel of the bike mode.
Forgotten wrote::-x They need to just leave Ghost Rider out of this. Always has been my favorite Marvel Character(if not favorite altogether) first they make that GR transformable mech, now this. What blasphemy!
The transformable mech was not made by Hasbro, I believe that was Toy Biz when they had the license.
All in all these are very meh figures. Unless the Star Destroyer is really really big.
Big pass.
Posted by Evil_the_Nub on September 23rd, 2010 @ 5:09pm CDT
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on September 23rd, 2010 @ 5:43pm CDT
I might have to get the Ghost Rider. I don't have any Marvel crossovers so it will be my first.
Posted by Dr. Caelus on September 23rd, 2010 @ 6:58pm CDT
As far as the SWTFs, I don't think it's inherently a bad idea to put the two together, but I think it was a bad idea to use SW characters for the robot modes.
TF characters - or new characters for that matter - would have granted them more flexibility in technical and aesthetic design, and would have captured both Star Wars fans (who have shown themselves willing to buy non-3.75"-scale figures in the past) and Transformers fans, who'd want new incarnations of favorite characters.
If you wanted to get really wild, you could release battlepacks that paired SWTFs with rereleases of old Action Fleet toys - e.g. Wedge Antilles in X-Wing vs. TIE Advanced Starscream! Luke & Dak in Snowspeeder vs. AT-AT Onslaught! Princess Leia in Y-Wing vs. Sandcrawler Longhaul! Or something like that.
Maybe there was something about their agreement with Lucas that prohibited that, though.
Posted by Covenant on September 23rd, 2010 @ 8:42pm CDT
RiddlerJ wrote:When are they going to do G. I. Joe crossovers. Everybody has mashed the two together except the toy designers.
(Yes I know about that Titanium Megatron and Snowcat, but c'mon where's the rest?)
I wish I could lay a "^THIS^" upon the world so loud it would resonate in the very brains of Hasbro's design department until they did so..
Posted by AshesOfPain on September 23rd, 2010 @ 8:52pm CDT
Posted by Dagon on September 23rd, 2010 @ 8:53pm CDT
GuyIncognito wrote:The new SW figure is an improvement, as the "bot" mode is chunky instead of lanky. But it's still a failure.
The Marvel ones are terrible looking.
Yeah, I agree. But I think I may end up getting that Star Destroyer, as I am a sucker for Star Destroyers.
Posted by Varia31 on September 23rd, 2010 @ 9:24pm CDT
Posted by First-Aid on September 23rd, 2010 @ 9:49pm CDT
Ghost Rider I think is suffering from the same issue I mentioned above. Unlike the others, Ghost Rider is most definitely associated with a vehicle. In order to get the vehicle right, they had to make some sacrifices on the bot mode. That being said, $20 says it's mistransformed.
Posted by Liftgate on September 23rd, 2010 @ 10:25pm CDT
He also has freakin skulls on his knee caps, that's just kick a$$! And he's on fire! He looks like The Fallen too, dunno if anyone else has noticed that.
First-Aid:
The SW line (and some marvel, and TF in general) is hampered by bad design, period. I know what you're saying, but there's many examples of spot on vehicle modes that still have decent bot modes. I dunno, maybe not all the SW line is junk like the two I bought, but not from what I gather from photos.
Posted by DMSL on September 24th, 2010 @ 10:23am CDT
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 24th, 2010 @ 4:25pm CDT
LOST Cybertronian wrote:The Death Star Darth Vader is a really great figure. Lots of playvalue, it has awesome features. It is a very well thought out toy.
Indeed! And I got mine for £15 (from £40)!
Caelus wrote:That looks more like an ARC Trooper than a Clone Pilot to me...
As far as the SWTFs, I don't think it's inherently a bad idea to put the two together, but I think it was a bad idea to use SW characters for the robot modes.
TF characters - or new characters for that matter - would have granted them more flexibility in technical and aesthetic design, and would have captured both Star Wars fans (who have shown themselves willing to buy non-3.75"-scale figures in the past) and Transformers fans, who'd want new incarnations of favorite characters.
If you wanted to get really wild, you could release battlepacks that paired SWTFs with rereleases of old Action Fleet toys - e.g. Wedge Antilles in X-Wing vs. TIE Advanced Starscream! Luke & Dak in Snowspeeder vs. AT-AT Onslaught! Princess Leia in Y-Wing vs. Sandcrawler Longhaul! Or something like that.
Maybe there was something about their agreement with Lucas that prohibited that, though.
Funny you should say that, because the SW:Ts are (obviously) set in an alternate Universe where characters' vehicles Transform into visages of the said characters; this is why they used to include little figures of the actual characters (apart from cost, I'm not sure why they stopped them when the mechs/vehicles are still able to accomodate the said figures).
You know, I always imagined that the SW:Ts were created in their SW Universe (especially with Jedi/Sith) with use of the Force combined with All-Spark power! (Ah, perchance to imagine...)
Posted by Cyberstrike on September 28th, 2010 @ 8:57am CDT
Spider-Man-double yuck
Ghost Rider-triple yuck
I might have considered buying Ghost Rider if it had been Ghost Rider 2099 instead of the current one.
Posted by --B-- on September 28th, 2010 @ 10:58am CDT
The fact that these things are closing in on $20 a piece is pretty bad too!
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 28th, 2010 @ 3:17pm CDT
--B-- wrote:These are all wastes of plastic. My son got the Spiderman/Ironman 2 pack, and the whole thing is just crap. Loose joints, poor design, kibble, you name it. I do have the Cody/turbo Tank, it's pretty good.
The fact that these things are closing in on $20 a piece is pretty bad too!
Probably because Cody was released before the Clone Wars and as such, was more complex (Have you got the Grievous/Wheel Bike? It's impressive to see it stand on it's own!)
Agreed; I loved it when they were £12/13, but of course the economy tripped and prices went beserk, but now things are levelling out, you'd expect them to follow the film TFs and start reverting back to the original prices...Ah well, they may do soon!