Toy Question

[Screwtape]

As a Big Dork, I was recently in Target and noticed the Hasbro has updated the old Combiner Transformers, and I had to have one (which I now do). My question is this, to all you closet YABS toy collectors out there: can I buy, say, a Constructicon foot and put it on an Aerialbot torso? Does anyone know?

Is this totally the wrong place to ask this question?

[PatrickG]

You can and people have.

ALSO... one disappointing but potentially cool thing about the combiners is that ANY of the $6 figures can be used as hands OR feet. In fact, there are only two molds for the smaller toys, each with two paintjobs.

So if you want an all-green Devestator, just buy two of the green arms and two of the green legs. The legs can be transformed into arms and vice-versa.

I THINK Hasbro's big convention exclusive figure this year is going to be a combiner that uses repainted pieces from the various new sets. My bet is that it will be Defensor or Computron.

[Screwtape]

Computron would make me very happy (and broke, too!). Thanks for the help!

BTW, if anyone would like a link to a site with really great photos of Transformers, here it is. http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act300/

I can't help but think that these are shot astonishingly like porn pics (soft focus, painstaking detail to every part of the process), but hey, people have had weirder kinks.

[Static-Pulse]

My question is this, to all you closet YABS toy collectors out there: can I buy, say, a Constructicon foot and put it on an Aerialbot torso?Are you talking about Gen1 gestalts or Energon gestalts? Gen1 Constructicons, I'm fairly sure, will not combing with Gen1 Arielbots; the Arielbots -- like Protectobots, Terrocons, Stunticons, Technobots, and Combaticons -- were Scramble City models. All of those were interchangeable. The Constructicons were a different style, six equally sized bots as opposed to four equally sized bots and a larger center.

I'm not sure about the Energon ones. I know that Devastator and Superion use interchangeable bots -- two molds for four bots for four limbs -- but I'm not sure if you can, say, use SkyShadow in place of Dustcloud. (The only two names I can recall.)

Or were you asking something else?

[PatrickG]

What (http://tfkenkon.com/g/?mode=view&album=Collection/act210&pic=kicker28.jpg&dispsize=1000&start=0) could ever (http://tfkenkon.com/g/?mode=view&album=Collection/act200&pic=arcee26.jpg&dispsize=1000&start=0) make you say that (http://tfkenkon.com/g/?mode=view&album=Collection/act280&pic=Energon-Kicker34.jpg&dispsize=1000&start=0)?

[Screwtape]

Are you talking about Gen1 gestalts or Energon gestalts? Gen1 Constructicons, I'm fairly sure, will not combing with Gen1 Arielbots; the Arielbots -- like Protectobots, Terrocons, Stunticons, Technobots, and Combaticons -- were Scramble City models. All of those were interchangeable. The Constructicons were a different style, six equally sized bots as opposed to four equally sized bots and a larger center.

I'm not sure about the Energon ones. I know that Devastator and Superion use interchangeable bots -- two molds for four bots for four limbs -- but I'm not sure if you can, say, use SkyShadow in place of Dustcloud. (The only two names I can recall.)

Or were you asking something else?I was asking about the Energon toys, which I think Patrck has addressed. It looked like they had universal connectors (much like the G1 Scramble City versions), but I wanted to be sure.

And the new Constructicons appear to use the Scramble City 2.0 connectors as well, so we can finally make that Devastator/Superion hybrid.

Hooray! Toys!

[Lunar Daydreamer]

As an anime fan i'm a massive fan of Gonzo Digimation ... and cant wait to see the new Transformers cartoon the're working on :)

[blast_front]

You can indeed mix and match, as long as you remember that the accessories are what make the hands and feet. I got one of each of the four limb figures (A-10 jet, the other jet, helicopter, and tank) and both the bigger torso figures. Of the two, I think Barrage (the missile truck) makes a better body than Storm Jet, although both are pretty cool.

[Screwtape]

Barrage is the one I bought; I'm going to try to find the A-10 and one of the helicopters this afternoon (aren't Transformers wonderful?).

[Paploo the Ewok]

I don't have any of the center figures yet [ie-StormJet, SteamHammer,Barricade], but the limbs I have [the 1st 2 of Superion and 2 of Devastator] have identical plugin points.

Also, if you want to have 4 different limbs, the 2 extra decepticon molds for Bruticus/Barricade's combiner [Helicopter/Tank] should mix well with Devastator's 2.