Toy Images of Generations Darkmount
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 8:48PM CDT
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In the recent BotCon convention, it was announced that this toy will be repaint/remold into Skullgrin (a Generation 1 Pretender).
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Posted by Solrac333 on June 27th, 2010 @ 9:50pm CDT
Posted by NuclearConvoy on June 27th, 2010 @ 9:56pm CDT
What is the logic behind the name Darkmount though? I know there's a connection, and I think it was where Straxus had his base, but my mind is tired and frazzled.
Posted by CybertronHotShot on June 27th, 2010 @ 10:03pm CDT
The basics about him: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Straxus_%28G1%29omega666 wrote:Not familiar with this character and only looks ok to me. Pass.
Posted by CybertronHotShot on June 27th, 2010 @ 10:05pm CDT
NuclearConvoy wrote:Man, Straxus has needed a toy for so damned long. I just wish I was actually in a place in my life where I could go about getting all the toys I want... I really wanna cut it down to pretty much Classics/Universe/Generations and Animated and a few other random toys. **** man, this is awesome. I can also easily imagine what they will do to make him Skullgrin, as long as they use his Monster Pretender head a a basis for the toys head.
What is the logic behind the name Darkmount though? I know there's a connection, and I think it was where Straxus had his base, but my mind is tired and frazzled.
Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.
Posted by Convotron on June 27th, 2010 @ 10:33pm CDT
Posted by Dr. Caelus on June 27th, 2010 @ 10:38pm CDT
CybertronHotShot wrote:Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.
The whole fiasco dredges up fears originally invoked by Zombieland, but I guess all things considered, if I have to give up my name at some point in favor of a place I have lived, I have some reasonable choices; could be a lot worse.
Posted by NuclearConvoy on June 27th, 2010 @ 11:06pm CDT
Caelus wrote:CybertronHotShot wrote:Hasbro lost the trademark for Straxus and since Darkmount was the name of his fortress in the comic,i think it`s a good choice.
The whole fiasco dredges up fears originally invoked by Zombieland, but I guess all things considered, if I have to give up my name at some point in favor of a place I have lived, I have some reasonable choices; could be a lot worse.
Going by places I've lived I could be called Hudson or Montreal.
I think I'd go with Hudson.
Posted by Bumblevivisector on June 27th, 2010 @ 11:33pm CDT
And whether or not you've heard of him, no toyless G1er deserved this Generations treatment more than Straxus, period. There were indeed better characters in the toon and comic, but all of them would be at least possible to take a stab at kitbashing a toy of. Straxus was too unique. Despite having an alt mode likely based on Galvatron's, until now the only toy that had one close to it was Energon Shockblast/Sixshot, but his Shockwave homage was so good that it made his upper body unworkable for Straxus (though appropriate, since Straxus ran the show on Cybertron in Shocky's absence in Marvel continuity). Yet his lower body is still debatably closer to Straxus' than this Darkmount toy's. If only Generations had room for Voyagers...
Say, since you guys at KO Toys were first to post this, you'd also be first to tell us if some Chinese enterprise was cranking out some unofficial 2X "reproductions" of lil' Darkmount here, right? That'd be about in scale with those Shockblast legs. Heck, make it 3X or 4X so he could really beat up Blaster, and not just the Action Master! I'll buy a whole case of real Darkmounts anyway so HasTak can't complain I'm somehow stealing from them! I just need Straxus bigger! BIGGER I tell you! He's the Lord High Governor of Polyhex, and shall tower over my collection!!!
Oh, and this new Skullgrin's bio had better mention his movie career. I wonder if there's a big Marrowack or Cubone toy I can hollow out into his pretender shell...
Posted by X3ROhour on June 28th, 2010 @ 1:28am CDT
super groovy!
true for all aspects of life.
Posted by Thinktank on June 28th, 2010 @ 2:17am CDT
I think I'd go with Hudson.[/quote]
Where I've lived:
East Ridge(TN)
Red Bank(TN)
Oceanside(CA)
Chattanooga(TN)
Cleveland(TN)
Kearney(NE)
Where I'm going with if the "Slag" hits the turbine(#):
Breckinridge(CO)
RE: Straxus. It's been a long time comming.
A long time.
(#) Zombie or Captain Trips type)
Posted by No One on June 28th, 2010 @ 6:04am CDT
Posted by SLUGSLINGER81 on June 28th, 2010 @ 6:28am CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on June 28th, 2010 @ 8:56am CDT
Posted by Convotron on June 28th, 2010 @ 9:42am CDT
Mindmaster wrote:I have a feeling no one likes his third mode but me. Why? Because except a few photos from BotCon, the only turret images we're getting was the very first image we got! The hell, man?!
I must have missed the photo of the third mode. So Darkmount is a triple changer? Sounds good to me!
Posted by AutobotJazz on June 28th, 2010 @ 6:31pm CDT
Posted by Amelie on June 28th, 2010 @ 6:46pm CDT
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4uj_ZPHvY[/youtube]It will be mine.
Oh, yes - it will be mine.
Posted by Droptested Thrice on June 28th, 2010 @ 10:47pm CDT
Hope I can hold off buying him till Skullgrin comes out before I decide which version of this mold I'd prefer picking up.