Just a nice heads up, but:

a) Voyager Class Ironhide is kinda weaksauce. Nice looking truck, cumbersome transformation, and really weak robot form.

b) Longarm is actually pretty neat. Goes great with Dropkick.

c) Concept Camaro Bumblebee is cool, but the version with battle damage from the Evolution of a Hero pack is extremely cool. Classic Camaro Bumblebee looks nice as a car but robot form is fairly shitty.

d) Ratchet is extremely hot. Rescue Ratchet is the best followed closely by the Best Buy Exclusive metallic finish Ratchet. Autobot Ratchet's paintjob is fairly dull in comparison to the other two redecos, but the figure itself is still pretty rad.

> a) Voyager Class Ironhide is kinda weaksauce. Nice looking truck, cumbersome
> transformation, and really weak robot form.

I found Ironhide to be better than Jazz.
Jazz paintjob is dull grey, it should resemble silver.
And the arms panels that doesnīt close, kinda threw me off, i really wanted jazz.
But yeah, Ironhide is kinda weak.
In fact, most Autobots are. The Decepticons figures seem way more planned, to me.


> b) Longarm is actually pretty neat. Goes great with Dropkick.
I was thinking about picking up DreadWing, any thoughts on that ?
I just saw the closed box.

> c) Concept Camaro Bumblebee is cool, but the version with battle damage from the
> Evolution of a Hero pack is extremely cool. Classic Camaro Bumblebee looks nice
> as a car but robot form is fairly shitty.
The problem is the price. Here the Deluxe Classic Camaro is Us25,00, the Deluxe Concept Camaro is Us$65,00, The Evolution Hero pack goes for Us$100,00, but itīs more worth it, if i had the money.
The Ultimate Bumblebee goes for about Us$250,00.

I am probably picking up Deluxe Classic Bumblebee next week, i want a Autobot to stand next to StarScream. I would like a Optimus, but i only saw Leader Class (is there even a Voyager or Deluxe version?) and i really canīt afford them.
The problem with Classic Camaro Bumblebee is the car mode, really, it looks weak, and the doors doesnīt open, and the windows are all painted blue. The robot mode is a lot better, imho.


> d) Ratchet is extremely hot. Rescue Ratchet is the best followed closely by the
> Best Buy Exclusive metallic finish Ratchet. Autobot Ratchet's paintjob is fairly
> dull in comparison to the other two redecos, but the figure itself is still
> pretty rad.
>

Ratchet rules, but the Green paintjob is REALLY weird to me, and i canīt find any of the redecos. So, probably no go for me.
I would like to pick up Jazz and Ratchet, but iīm probably getting Bumblebee first.

After that, is probably Blackout or DreadWing, not sure yet.
I really would like to see a video or pics of DreadWing..
The idea of having another jet is cool.

one can never destroy the power of evil

> But yeah, Ironhide is kinda weak.
> In fact, most Autobots are. The Decepticons figures seem way more planned, to
> me.
>

That and there's a shit load more Decepticons released, too. It's weird how lopsided the releases have been.

> I was thinking about picking up DreadWing, any thoughts on that ?

Dreadwing is neat, but his arms are a little too limited in movement and it prevents a fairly large number of neato poses that you'd think he'd be able to hit. His legs are fairly awkward/unique, too.

> The problem is the price. Here the Deluxe Classic Camaro is Us25,00, the Deluxe
> Concept Camaro is Us$65,00, The Evolution Hero pack goes for Us$100,00, but itīs
> more worth it, if i had the money.
> The Ultimate Bumblebee goes for about Us$250,00.
>

What. The. Fuck. If I see another Evolution of a Hero pack, I'm buying it and mailing it to your ass.

> I am probably picking up Deluxe Classic Bumblebee next week, i want a Autobot to
> stand next to StarScream. I would like a Optimus, but i only saw Leader Class
> (is there even a Voyager or Deluxe version?) and i really canīt afford them.

There's a Voyager class Optimus that I've been trying to hunt for (looks like he's not too hard to find online), though it looks like he might be a bit wonky compared to the Leader class version.

The classic Bumblebee is a serious letdown...watch out for those retarded feet and poor mobility :(

> Ratchet rules, but the Green paintjob is REALLY weird to me, and i canīt find
> any of the redecos. So, probably no go for me.
> I would like to pick up Jazz and Ratchet, but iīm probably getting Bumblebee
> first.
>

Hold out for Rescue Ratchet. He's totally worth it. I've got my hopes up on them realizing how badly they fucked up with Deluxe Jazz and releasing a Voyager Jazz that is the completely opposite of suck. That'd be hella cool.

> After that, is probably Blackout or DreadWing, not sure yet.
> I really would like to see a video or pics of DreadWing..
> The idea of having another jet is cool.
>

Dreadwing pictures

I'll probably set up a page full of box scans this weekend. Gotta clean up the scans of the headshot inserts (on the front of the deluxe packages) and the Voyager boxes (I may cut them open just to scan them better) first though.

> That and there's a shit load more Decepticons released, too. It's weird how
> lopsided the releases have been.

Yeah, i was mentioning it to my girlfriend last night, one would think they would release the Concept Camaro Bumblebee and Optimus in as many versions as possible, after all theyīre the fucking protagonists of the movie.
But you can find way more easily Blackout, Bonecrusher, Ratchet and Ironhide.


> Dreadwing is neat, but his arms are a little too limited in movement and it
> prevents a fairly large number of neato poses that you'd think he'd be able to
> hit. His legs are fairly awkward/unique, too.

In the pictures he looks cool but i donīt think the small legs than balance the upper body in too many poses, hell, if i find it cheap, i will get it.

> What. The. Fuck.

My thoughts exactely. Almost 3 times more than a regular Deluxe, because its, a, oh yeah, a fucking Deluxe.

> There's a Voyager class Optimus that I've been trying to hunt for (looks like
> he's not too hard to find online), though it looks like he might be a bit wonky
> compared to the Leader class version.

Leader Class is unfortunately out of my price range, between all my bills and expenses, i canīt afford to pay almost Us$200 for a figure. I will probably be picking up Deluxe figures only. Now that i have my favorite Transformer in a figure that iīm happy with, i can bare with stuff i donīt like about the others.

> The classic Bumblebee is a serious letdown...watch out for those retarded feet
> and poor mobility :(

Yeah, whatīs up with the clown feet on it ? The mobility is not that much of a problem to me, if thereīs 1 or 2 poses, thatīs enough. But yeah, i would rather buy the Concept figure, but for the price, is not a option. Its more expensive than the Voyagers, and its still a Deluxe in size, complexity and looks.

> Hold out for Rescue Ratchet. He's totally worth it. I've got my hopes up on them
> realizing how badly they fucked up with Deluxe Jazz and releasing a Voyager Jazz
> that is the completely opposite of suck. That'd be hella cool.

Yeah, i would love a Voyager Jazz that doesnīt suck.
And yeah, so far iīm holding to get a better redeco of Ratchet.


> I'll probably set up a page full of box scans this weekend. Gotta clean up the
> scans of the headshot inserts (on the front of the deluxe packages) and the
> Voyager boxes (I may cut them open just to scan them better) first though.
Dude, do this. Also, take some pictures of all your figures togheter. A huge family shot.

one can never destroy the power of evil

> Dude, do this. Also, take some pictures of all your figures togheter. A huge
> family shot.

Uploaded some shrunk down deluxe class front insert scans:


Almost done with the Deluxe class backings and then I'll finish up the Voyager stuff.

Then I have to make a damn page for it all, which I guess means churning out some thumbnails (easy) and then throwing them all on a page (time consuming).

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> > Dude, do this. Also, take some pictures of all your figures togheter. A huge
> > family shot.
>
> Uploaded some shrunk down deluxe class front insert scans:
>
>
> Almost done with the Deluxe class backings and then I'll finish up the Voyager
> stuff.
>
> Then I have to make a damn page for it all, which I guess means churning out
> some thumbnails (easy) and then throwing them all on a page (time consuming).
>

one can never destroy the power of evil

You should totally log onto ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo/Whatever post-haste

Or check your privates. I went to Target today :)

> Just a nice heads up, but:
>
> a) Voyager Class Ironhide is kinda weaksauce. Nice looking truck, cumbersome
> transformation, and really weak robot form.
>
> b) Longarm is actually pretty neat. Goes great with Dropkick.
>
> c) Concept Camaro Bumblebee is cool, but the version with battle damage from the
> Evolution of a Hero pack is extremely cool. Classic Camaro Bumblebee looks nice
> as a car but robot form is fairly shitty.
>
> d) Ratchet is extremely hot. Rescue Ratchet is the best followed closely by the
> Best Buy Exclusive metallic finish Ratchet. Autobot Ratchet's paintjob is fairly
> dull in comparison to the other two redecos, but the figure itself is still
> pretty rad.
>

I'm thinking about going in and cleaning up all of the creases once I get done with everything. I've been scanning in to bmp, realigning and cropping w/ XnView, then combining in Photoshop (v6 ftw) before saving as a PNG. The PNG gets converted to JPG and reduced in resolution by 4x in XnView before it gets uploaded, but I still have the full resolution lossless versions on my side just in case.