I may get one, only to give it the yellow & purple-camo treatment.

 

That was his worst color scheme IMO. It was just over the top gaudy. I mean really? Neon yellow and bright purple?

This bot would like to have a word with you....

 

:tflaugh

Exactly.

 

A note about the MONZO "12782" markings. That's Monzo's birthday.

From TFArchive.com:

Onslaught sports markings saying "MONZO 12782" in vehicle mode. 12-7-82 is Monzo's birth date.

 

For those who don't know, Monzo is a longtime member of the Transformers fandom who is known as the master of the obscure. Feed him weird Transformers trivia and he is a happy man. He's also one of the two guys behind the Obscure Transformers website.

So why did Hasbro feel the need to reference him? One of Monzo's many hobbies is researching trademark information. He maintains a list of Transformers-related trademarks, and at least once year he submits a list of available trademarks to Hasbro. Presumably, this has resulted in quite a few names previously held by other companies getting reclaimed by Hasbro once they had become available again. So Hasbro apparently thought that a little "Thank you" was in order.

 

Just thought I'd share that bit of information...

:ghey

The left leg panel (inside of the leg) does not stay together.

 

Ditto - neither of those Cage-looking panels stay shut in robomode (on mine). Despite that and the missing paint app (one side of the cockpit's roof is missing that green), he's still one of the coolest Cons ever. Balanced. Menacing. Armed & mean.

 

Though I'd love to see a combiner team done PROPER; it would be awesome enough to have coordinating 'teams'. They could EASILY repaint the upcoming Hound into Swindle (new head please! kthx)

Each of the "cages" are held to the leg by a pair of pegs. Are the pegs just not holding or something? Because it's not a problem with my figure.

Each of the "cages" are held to the leg by a pair of pegs. Are the pegs just not holding or something? Because it's not a problem with my figure.

 

It's pretty well documented in this thread: http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/u...5209/page3.html

 

Just search for the word "legs".

 

If your onslaught doesn't have this problem, consider yourself extremely lucky. I think i might return mine and try my luck with a new one. Appearently there are some good ones out there.

It's like I said from the beginning, these should have been voyagers.

 

Ultra for the sake of added electronics is just wrong on so many levels. Had they been good SFX I'd say fine, but as is none too impressive.

 

Onslaught looks to be the best of the lot but the more I see of it, the more I'm thinking pass.

Cadogen:

OK, so he's not a missile transport. He's also not the main connection point to a gestalt team. However, he is Onslaught. He's still a strategist, but this time he doesn't wallow in his failed tactics... he charges head on! Check out the second of the Ultra class reviews by using this link.

 

Here you say he charges head on, on the 'bio' it said he likes to be on the sidelines and command with tactics. They contridict each other ;)

 

Kidding aside, this figure looks really great and your reviews have that 'jolt' i need everynow & again. Keep up the good work!

 

JustLOKIPLVY:

It's like I said from the beginning, these should have been voyagers.

 

Ultra for the sake of added electronics is just wrong on so many levels. Had they been good SFX I'd say fine, but as is none too impressive.

 

Onslaught looks to be the best of the lot but the more I see of it, the more I'm thinking pass.

 

To be fair, these are BIGGER then voyagers anyway, plus i dont agree. :roll

To be fair, these are BIGGER then voyagers anyway, plus i dont agree. :roll

 

Are they?

 

*hides Lugnut and Bulkhead*

 

~Matt Booker

It's like I said from the beginning, these should have been voyagers.

 

Ultra for the sake of added electronics is just wrong on so many levels. Had they been good SFX I'd say fine, but as is none too impressive.

 

Onslaught looks to be the best of the lot but the more I see of it, the more I'm thinking pass.

 

god i agree with this so much. i love this fig, and i love it that he's alot bigger than i thought he would be, but the electronics are entirely unnecessary and completely suck. the gunfire is ok, i like how the eyes light up, but the single whoop siren is ultra fail and the engine sound is just.... stupid.

 

i would have gotten him if he had hand articulation to rotate but because hi didnt it was a maybe but because of is wheel sound its an "i doubt it"

 

uhm, his hands do rotate.

I ended up liking this Onslaught figure a lot more once I finally had him in hand than all the pics I'd previously viewed. The detail & colors look better...he's just overall bad@$$! My only wish is that they would have made him, as well as Galvatron, voyager sized figures...I think the design team really f'd up the sizes on this batch of Decepticon Classics (with the exception of Octane)...Onslaught's just a little too big, and Galvatron's not nearly big enough...

If ever I do actually bother with any of these.

 

I think Onslaught's the best.

 

Wish I could get some comparison shots of him and Red Alert from Cybertron.

 

If Onslaught's anywhere as awesome as that he shouldn't disappoint.

 

Didn't know the wrists turned. Thanks for pointing that out BK. :thumb