Henkei Strafe and Minicons club exclusives

secretcode · Post by **secretcode** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:39 pm

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... mp-166783/

As well as announcing a new Collector's Club-style store, they have announced Strafe (Cyclonus Repaint) as a club exclusive.

Depending on the side you sign up and register on, you get a different membership card and a Minicon. Autobot members get Slingshot (Minicon Thunderwing repaint),and Decepticon Members get Vorter (Minicon Divebomb repaint).

UPDATE

Images of the upcoming Henkei exclusive Strafe have recently surfaced on a ganbo-store blog entry.

Treadshot A1 · Post by **Treadshot A1** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:11 am

Great minicon Sling, bot vorter ad Strafe aren't that appealing. Strafe has two cannons at the front, ffs.

That's why i'm bashing Saviour Gundam instead.

wyze2099 · Post by **wyze2099** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:35 am

Wow. Uni-Cyclonus as Strafe. I so called that! Not on any forum, mind, but in my own head when I was trying to come up with Uniclassics Technobots.

Post by **Blackjack** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:52 am

Cyclonus as Strafe? That's unusual.

I expected SWTF Snowspeeder used as Strafe, but never Cyclonus.

Treadshot A1 · Post by **Treadshot A1** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:59 am

wyze2099 wrote:Wow. Uni-Cyclonus as Strafe. I so called that! Not on any forum, mind, but in my own head when I was trying to come up with Uniclassics Technobots.

Uni Tech: moulds i came up with a while ago:

Lightspeed: CLA Hot Rod
Scattershot: Voyager Cybertron Screamer (TRU excl)
Strafe: 1/144 scale Saviour Gundam (3rd pic will explain why.)
Nosecone: Modified Ultimate Battle Megatron (spinning gimmick, just add drill)
Afterburner: Some scout class bike, probably a heavily modified Arcee.

@BJ: What's the point of using SWTF molds they sucked anyways.

Post by **Blackjack** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:53 am

I'm just saying the alt modes are similar. The molds suck. And they're more expensive than deluxes at that.

Megatron for Nosecone? Never thought of that.

borg72 · Post by **borg72** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:49 am

just to clarify, RE the minicons, you need to take out a japanese credit card to get one of these? maybe not. Although I'll happily run a book on how much they're gonna cost at the dealers tables by next botcon...

oh, and once again, TFCC comapres as 'unfathmobly cr*p' when held up against any other club-style website / organisation.

Treadshot A1 · Post by **Treadshot A1** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:10 pm

Blackjack wrote:I'm just saying the alt modes are similar. The molds suck. And they're more expensive than deluxes at that.

Megatron for Nosecone? Never thought of that.

Yeah, i know, mate. Just joking, is all.

As for Megs, I just thought that it would be better for Nosecone's drill to spin. So: Spinning + Tank = Ultimate Battle Megatron.

@ Borg: Yeah, the whole idea of getting a credit card for these is a bit annoying. the annual fee of the credit card is basically the cost of the minicon.

secretcode · Post by **secretcode** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:25 pm

borg72 wrote:just to clarify, RE the minicons, you need to take out a japanese credit card to get one of these? maybe not. Although I'll happily run a book on how much they're gonna cost at the dealers tables by next botcon...

oh, and once again, TFCC comapres as 'unfathmobly cr*p' when held up against any other club-style website / organisation.

Nononono. These are points cards for the club or something. They aren't technically credit cards.

Treadshot A1 · Post by **Treadshot A1** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:00 pm

You sure? If i'm reading it right, you sign up for their credit card, and then get a minicon and points card along with it.

secretcode · Post by **secretcode** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:14 pm

Hrrmmmm... It's a bit unclear, isn't it?

Post by **zigzagger** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:16 am

Images of the upcoming Henkei exclusive Strafe have recently surfaced on a ganbo-store blog entry.

Mirrored

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Huh. Interesting.

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:41 am

Just doing straight repaints of characters with really distinctive heads never works anyway, so perhaps they decided it wasn't worth any real effort?

Civ · Post by **Civ** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:13 am

Yeh, Strafe's not doing it for me. I'm going to take a pass on this one.

Post by **Blackjack** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:19 am

I'm not liking this at all. Mostly due to the lack of a head remold.

Whatever happened to the classic 'Golden Cyclonus' 'Dark Cyclonus' 'Reverse Color Cyclonus' and all that stuff?

RID Scourge · Post by **RID Scourge** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:57 pm

Hmmm . . . not terrible. I probably wouldn't pay more than the $10 deluxe price point for him though . . .

Post by **zigzagger** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:29 pm

inflatable dalek wrote:Just doing straight repaints of characters with really distinctive heads never works anyway, so perhaps they decided it wasn't worth any real effort?

Pointy-headedness aside, if the head were white it could have pulled off a Strafe-ish look a teeny bit better. Mind, this also requires a little bit of imagination.

Still, if you always wanted to know what Ratchet would look like as a jet, than here you go.

Detective Barricade · Post by **Detective Barricade** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:20 pm

The deco isn't bad. But it's not worth the extra cash for being exclusive, IMO. (Henkei Cyclonus and Universe Cyclonus look better)

Rattrap's tail · Post by **Rattrap's tail** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:20 pm

I would say happy Kitbashing...

Post by **Clay** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 4:50 pm

Well that's an easy pass.

On seeing it in color, the vehicle mode would have worked for Scattershot better.

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