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:tflaugh Was this G2 Darkwing, or the Beast Wars II Starscream & BB release? It was a repaint of G2 Darkwing and Smokescreen as a new form for G2 Megatron and Starscream, later repainted in BWII Starscream and BB, and even later repainted into Gigant Bomb and Smokejumper (Smokesniper, heard it both ways) I know the history of the figure. ;) Forgot the RiD versions Dreadwind & Smokejumper, though. I was just curious if this custom was done with the G2 set, or the BWII set as I've heard the BWII set is near identical to the cancelled Megatron & Starscream release, with an exception of the Predacon symbols. Derp. It is the BWII one. Just remembered the G2 guys were blue / blue camo. :redface

:tflaugh Was this G2 Darkwing, or the Beast Wars II Starscream & BB release?

I seem to recall somewhere reporting Aaron Archer hated the Robot Masters line, when someone asked him about possibility of domestic release (which would majorly affect release, as he was the head of US Transformers team at the time.) Hasbro did plan on releasing WST Soundwave as an accessory to a redeco Energon Megatron (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28Armada%29/toys#Energon ), but the entire product was cancelled.

Oh, that's true. He was with Sideswipe, wasn't he?

They did that for years. Hasbro opted to start shipping them in robot mode when they were seeing a better reaction to the figures in bot mode, than when in the alternate modes.

Never. ;) He's always been a redeco. If Megatron could ever get the Dark Energon figured out, I'd love to see them bring in Terrorcons based off the G1 and Energon terrorcons, instead of just zombies.

Wal-Marts here carried them for a spell, too. However, I don't think these are actually slated for US release as the Tomica line is handled by Tomy, not Hasbro. (Though, I still think Hasbro's "Speed Stars" was testing the waters for Tomy to release Tomica domestically, so I could be wrong. :shrug ) I'm more curious about the other cars in the line. Have they been shown off?

Voted "yes" as well. As Hellscream said, they're being sold separate from the bigger figures.

Mirage Fighters looks like Beast Wars Scorponok, a little bit. :tflaugh

Nice! They're fun little kits. I think I tried cleaning out BBTS when they had them on a clearance sale. :tflaugh (just a warning, though. some sockets don't like to keep ahold of the balljoints. I built a little mini-custom, and it's limbs kept popping out of the sockets. XD )

Yay! Welcome to the geneblock addiction! :thumb Who's carrying them, these days?

I use Intermetro shelving components for my collection: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/shelvingSale/interMetroreg/bestSellingSolutions The only thing is I can't seem to get the pipe sleeves to properly grip to get all the shelves to appear level. :( but that's what holds the majority of my collection.

It's Armada....Skywarp, I think. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skywarp_(Armada)

I'm sure he requires a dinner and maybe some wine first. a romantic movie might help, too. :tflaugh Serious answer, take Shockwave to a hardware store like lowes or home depot. I was switching some chrome plastic knobs on an organizer with some nice metal ones. Only problem was the screws that came with the metal knobs were too long, and the plastic knobs' threading was too thick. (good lord, if that isn't an opening for a "That's what she said" or two, I don't know what is.) Ended up taking the long ones down to Lowe's in search of bolts or replacement screws. They had a board where you could plug your screws in and figure out the size threading you need.

Doh! I was hoping Takara'd release these as part of Arms Micron. (Jazz could of been a Stepper release easy. Optimus could of worked as Nemesis/Scourge/Black Convoy.)