 TFCon Stronghold Revealed, With Reprolabels Applied |
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 Jul 7 2011, 09:21 AM
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 Mine is an evil grin! Group: News Manager Posts: 30,304 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 268 Faction: RIBFIR  |
http://www.tfcon.ca/tfcon-2011-exclusive-stronghold-revealed
Cool idea, but unfortunately I'm not seeing it :/ This post has been edited by NightViper: Jul 7 2011, 09:22 AM -------------------- |
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Jul 7 2011, 10:06 AM
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 Spaceship Kittybird! Group: Citizen Posts: 2,974 Joined: 21-November 06 Member No.: 9,388 Faction: Predacon |
Me neither.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:23 AM
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 because i needed my posts to sound MORE sarcastic Group: Citizen Posts: 27,533 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Columbus, OH Member No.: 245 Faction: RIRFIB |
Man, my favorite part of Fort Max has always been the giant red stickers that tell me what number he is.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:25 AM
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 God of a Thousand Forms Group: Citizen Posts: 22,901 Joined: 26-February 06 From: Tartarus Member No.: 7,941 |
Ew.
-------------------- Zi gong, a disciple of Confucius, asked: "Is there any one word that could guide a person throughout life?" The Master replied: "How about 'shu' [reciprocity]: never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself?" --Confucius, Analects XV.24 |
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Jul 7 2011, 10:37 AM
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 Group: Forum Moderator Posts: 8,418 Joined: 14-December 08 From: The Blasty Zone Member No.: 12,164 Faction: Cannonball's Pirate Crew |
Protip: When trying to evoke a character, it helps if the end result in some way actually bears the slightest resemblance to that character.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:40 AM
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 Yep. Group: Retired Staff Posts: 23,427 Joined: 23-December 01 From: Columbus, IN Member No.: 110 Faction: Free Agent |
Square peg, meet round hole. I think you'll be good friends.
It would be one thing if I had a spare Universe 2 Onslaught sitting around that was just 25% away from being in passable Fortress Maximus colors, and just needed a different head and some detailing to drive it home, but this doesn't even come close. I have to squint and concentrate really hard on what Fortress Maximus looks like to even kinda sorta see it. There's just not enough blue, no white at all, and that olive green throws the whole thing off horribly. Plus I'm never really a fan of sticking pictures of molded detailing on modern toys, it just looks cheesy. But it's okay, someone out there will enjoy it. I wish Reprolabels would concentrate on getting their faction symbol stickers to come out nicely, rather than coming up with weird stuff like this. This post has been edited by Jeremy: Jul 7 2011, 10:41 AM -------------------- "Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." - Cato the Elder "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." - Larry Flynt |
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Jul 7 2011, 10:44 AM
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 super-duper spikey-pokey Group: Citizen Posts: 3,766 Joined: 10-July 06 From: pittsburgh, pa Member No.: 8,464 Faction: Maximal |
Nice idea but this really doesn't work for me.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:46 AM
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 You humans are so weird.  Group: Supporter Posts: 14,992 Joined: 30-March 04 From: 123 Carenden Road Member No.: 4,369 Faction: Cannonball's Pirate Crew |
Hahahahahahaha oh wow that is baaaaaaaaaaaad.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:53 AM
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 These little ponies really drive us bats. Group: Citizen Posts: 18,809 Joined: 8-February 03 From: Cybertron Member No.: 2,250 Faction: Decepticon |
Yeah, this is about what I expected from it when I learned it was just a black repaint of Hot Head. This is just terrible.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:56 AM
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 All Hail God Neptune And His Water Breathers Group: Community Manager Posts: 21,623 Joined: 13-January 02 From: Indiana Member No.: 304 Faction: RIBFIR |
It took me several minutes just to figure out WTF they were going for. No thanks, nice try but I'd almost rather have a kit that keeps it as Onslaught with a mini-comic telling why he became a Headmaster.
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Jul 7 2011, 10:57 AM
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 Group: Supporter Posts: 337 Joined: 11-November 04 From: Miami, Florida; USA Member No.: 5,375 Faction: Autobot |
Stickers won't cut it...Onslaught's green base color is just way off. You need to repaint the entire figure for this to work and then you have to repaint the weapons and backpack to match since they match the original green.
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Jul 7 2011, 12:04 PM
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 Group: Supporter Posts: 297 Joined: 18-August 08 From: Nl Member No.: 11,931 Faction: Decepticon |
Seems an odd choice, since the base mold is by now old and hard to get a hold of. Decent head and guns, though, would be nice if you had a Headmaster body in need of a new cranium, but as an 'upgrade' and as a homage, it falls on it's face.
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Jul 7 2011, 12:04 PM
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 Group: Citizen Posts: 529 Joined: 16-September 08 From: Northern Ireland Member No.: 11,991 Faction: Autobot |
Wait, this is meant to be Fortress Maximus?!
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Jul 7 2011, 12:29 PM
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You humans are so weird. Group: Supporter Posts: 14,992 Joined: 30-March 04 From: 123 Carenden Road Member No.: 4,369 Faction: Cannonball's Pirate Crew |
QUOTE(Redshift @ Jul 7 2011, 01:04 PM)  Seems an odd choice, since the base mold is by now old and hard to get a hold of. From what I've been told, the logic behind the decision is that "everyone's perfectly happy with their Fansproject Bruticus upgrade for Onslaught, so this mold's useless to everyone". -------------------- QUOTE You're far too young to be this bitter and angry at the world.... |
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Jul 7 2011, 12:33 PM
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Mine is an evil grin! Group: News Manager Posts: 30,304 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 268 Faction: RIBFIR |
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Jul 7 2011, 12:40 PM
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Yep. Group: Retired Staff Posts: 23,427 Joined: 23-December 01 From: Columbus, IN Member No.: 110 Faction: Free Agent |
Henkei Onslaught is my main Onslaught since he turned out to be much prettier to me, but I already got rid of the Hasbro version a couple years ago. The purple and gray guy in the ROTF combiner set doesn't look like Onslaught, and is just there to be part of the combiner for me really. Kind of the same with the new DOTM Vortex, he's better as a stand alone, accurately colored version of the character than the one in the combiner set is.
This post has been edited by Jeremy: Jul 7 2011, 12:41 PM -------------------- "Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." - Cato the Elder "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." - Larry Flynt |
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Jul 7 2011, 12:41 PM
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You humans are so weird. Group: Supporter Posts: 14,992 Joined: 30-March 04 From: 123 Carenden Road Member No.: 4,369 Faction: Cannonball's Pirate Crew |
QUOTE(NightViper @ Jul 7 2011, 01:33 PM) ... What? My thoughts exactly, but it's what a TFCon staffer told me. -------------------- QUOTE You're far too young to be this bitter and angry at the world.... |
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Jul 7 2011, 12:50 PM
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 Group: Citizen Posts: 1,827 Joined: 3-February 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 2,165 |
And with this upgrade, you become "Fortress NotReallymus"
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Jul 7 2011, 01:13 PM
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All Hail God Neptune And His Water Breathers Group: Community Manager Posts: 21,623 Joined: 13-January 02 From: Indiana Member No.: 304 Faction: RIBFIR |
They should have just added some yellow missiles to a set and made the head of Minicon Dualor. The colors aren't an exact match but, well, they aren't a match here either...
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Jul 7 2011, 02:00 PM
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You humans are so weird. Group: Supporter Posts: 14,992 Joined: 30-March 04 From: 123 Carenden Road Member No.: 4,369 Faction: Cannonball's Pirate Crew |
Or better yet, they could've done the head in dark green with grey robot parts and made it a Japanese-Headmaster-style upgrade to Groundshaker:
http://tfu.info/1989/Autobot/Groundshaker/groundshaker.htm -------------------- QUOTE You're far too young to be this bitter and angry at the world.... |
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