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excited. but this means now i have a classics optimus and rts optimus as custom fodder for nothing (scrapped classics prime as scourge when they made sdcc nemesis prime). but hopefully he's the free figure

I forsee a lot of complaints that Hasbro isn't making this repaint in the main line. It seems like an obvious repaint choice from Hasbro. Plus this means the club is making three recolors of this mold (SG Magnus, SG Optimus and RiD Scourge), which is a lot of repaints for a not-Seeker mold.

At this point, I'm really, really over "Evil Optimus" repaints. Even with a new head.

So long as Hasbro does some kind of Nemesis Prime (even/especially with Crystal Skull), I'll be ok. It's not like a hasbro release was going specifically be Scourge/have the upside-down G2 logo anyway.

You obviously don't follow our Twitter (I tweeted it 3 hours ago) or looked a the other thread where I mentioned it.
http://twitter.com/AllsparkNews/status/195948615187963904

YES YES YES

It stands to reason that whatever hasbro has planned for the RTS Laser Prime mold includes the skeletor head, So Id rather my Scourge have a prime head.

I hear a lot of chatter of people thinking that Scourge will be the freebie, on account that this is the clubs way of apologising to the members for the CC snafu.

I, however belive it will not be the freebie, and will be one of the ones we buy. Simply because A: Those of us who want it (me included) are more than willing to pay through the nose to get it, and B: We've seen what may very well be packaging art.

I would be really surprised if he was the free figure.
Considering how much of a fan favorite he is I think they wouldn't have any trouble with him selling out.


Personally, I'm still waiting for the G2 Ultra Magnus version of the mold.

G2 Ultra Magnus... whaaaat

Oh. Now I remember.

*shrug*

They just released 3 versions of the RtS Jazz mold at the 'Con, so it's not like mold-reuse is a foreign thing to them.

Sorry, I could have said E-hobby, but that might get people thinking of Alternity toy.

Yeah, I still want G2 Magnus from this mold too.

Auuuugh, I really didn't want to have to pay over 50 bucks for this...

Same here.

By way of comparison, I paid $40 for my textbook for next semester.

Yeah - I'm just buying a Prime off of E-Bay and introducing it to that giant bottle of black paint I bought but never got around to using.* It'd be a heck of a lot cheaper, and I wouldn't have to go to the hassle of trying to get a pre-paid credit card just to register and pay for everything.





*I got a Microman Kicker, and wanted a Misha to go with him. My original plan called for me to purchase a Microman Rei Ayanami School Outfit figure (the vendors I was going through at the time couldn't get rid of her) and paint her up like Misha in her lab attire, but Smalljoes.com found a Microman Acro Elsa in its inventory and I was able to snag it. I just say that Misha's got her own armor now.

Dangit, I want it, but not 50$ want it...shoot...

I agree with others, I want him, but not $50 want. Especially with a mold I don't really like and I still have the original RiD release.

To quote Daniel Bryan...

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

I too can live without this, original Scourge is a far superior mold compared to this puny little thing.

If RID Scourge is the incentive freebie, then I'm selling him.

If he's one of the guys that's being sold through the club store next year, then that's fine and excellent. But I won't be getting him.

Awwwwwwwwwww yeah

SWORD OF FURY!

With how many people were upset (on other sites) that SG Optimus and SG Ultra Magnus weren't RID Scourge, this should come as no surprise he's on the short list of figures for the Club to do.

Randy

And it looks like they're doing him specifically as RID Scourge, in keeping with the hint they gave awhile back that RID fans would get some love soon.

Doing an RID sendup doesn't seem like it was high on Hasbro's list of priorities.

Yeah who is to say Hasbro's version would have followed that paint scheme at all and not just been generic Black Optimus.

I'm willing to bet a Club one will go as far as they can to keep the colors as much like the original as possible.

Randy

Not sure I'd ever put my cc# on their website again. Not even for RID Scourge.

You don't have to. I keep preaching VISA giftcards. I buy all my online stuff that wont take paypal with giftcards. I pay an extra $5.95 but I had zero worries when the credit card issues arrose.



Also I am doing backflips right now with a RID toy reveal. If Funpub is bringing a RID theme next year I am all over it. I still think they need to use the Energon Constructicons to make the Build Team.

come on Onslaught into Mega Octane!

I do love RiD, but not for Decepticon repaints. I want new mold Autobot Bros. and Spychangers, if we're gonna go there.


-ZacWilliam, is it wrong to imagine an alternate reality with deluxe class RiD cartoon design Spychangers that have Magnetic wheels as their gimick?

I just want a Mega Octane that's taller than Scourge. Is that too much to ask? ;-;

So far the club's been fitting the RID characters into the Wings universe, which is Sunbow toon based, and already has a Prowl and Brawn.

That said, it also already has a Scourge, so I'll be interested to see how they're going to fit RID Scourge in there without a name clash.

Well with this new mold EVERYONE will be bigger then Scourge.

"I'd buy that for a dollar" (hopefully somebody gets that joke)


I originally wanted an Ironhide into X-Brawn but using the Stockade mold I think would look amazing

The Club couldn't use Stockade being from the first Movie and not from the 2nd or third.

Well, if he's gonna be the club freebie I'll renew my lapsed membership posthaste.

That's just fine.

RID Scourge was a stocky chap.

Which this mold isn't that either. It's just small.

eh. close enough.

Dammit all..glad I went ahead and painted up my own Prime as Scourge, then. I was looking forward to eventually buying a real version of the guy, but not this way.

I actually liked the RtS G2 Optimus, but I can't see spending the money on the club this year. I already allotted my budget on the convention toys and I have finally...probably...reached my limit on Transformers for awhile. Spending forty dollars or more for the club will only open myself up to all the Botcon toys for next year...which I am trying to avoid.

I'm afraid Scourge doubly doesn't do anything for me. Both because I have the original and the RTS Prime mold isn't in any way an imrpovement in my eyes, and because I could never figure out a use for the RID one in the first place (as I also already have Nemesis Prime).

Well that is frustrating.

I just want some version of the mold... not particular as far as character goes.

Would have gotten Prime at Christmas, but had to save my money for gift buying... pity, as I did see one cheap. And of course, Toys Toys Toys had to not only overcharge, but raise their price over the overcharge after the holiday... (I think they want $30 for it now).

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

If it's the freebie, great, but if it's not, I'll have to wait and see.

If I may make a bold prediction?

Scourge is the freebie for 2013.

The five years after that? One repaint after another of the FoC Bruticus components in Ruination colors.

I doubt they'd ever do that again. I predict the 2013 box set is Ruination.

Boy I hope not.

I'm just not that interested and I'll need a kick in the pants to renew. The freebie not interesting me would kinda kill my momentum as it were.


-ZacWilliam, is hoping one of the other exclusives thrills me. Not sure who would do it, but it'd be something...

well this news just put a hold on me buying the reprolabels g2 prime sticker set for battle tanker

Well that is very frustrating. There would have been more than enough demand for a mass release, and I certainly won't ever give Fun Publications any money.

I really thought Hasbro had learned from the seeker debacle.

Because making a single popular character from a tangential continuity that has had no retail attention for several years is exactly the same as making three popular characters from a group originating in the main and most well-known continuity and which had seen the rest of their number released at retail the previous year.

Don't misunderstand... I agree that it could have been a retail toy. I'd prefer that too. But comparing it to the Botcon Seekers is silly exaggeration.

No one actually thinks Hasbro was going to make an RID Scourge toy, do they? Hasbro makes Nemesis Primes. Not RID Scourges. That wasn't something that was going to happen. I mean, yes, you can imagine your Nemesis Primes are actually Scourges all you want, but if you want an actual, new, intended Scourge-from-an-Optimus that purposefully honors Robots in Disguise, FunPub was the only way that was going to happen.