Now we just need four smaller ones in various colors.
Oh my merciful lord, I actually have a new toy to talk about!
My Recon Ravage arrived in the mail today, the one I sent away for with my proofs of purchase and shipping and handling and what have you a number of months ago. Yay, mail-in toy exclusive! (For the US, anyway. Elsewhere he’s exclusive to Toys”R”Us.) He comes in a big white cardboard box with N.E.S.T. markings, with a letter from Optimus Prime and a coupon inside.
They're fighting, not mounting!
He’s friggin’ pretty, is what he is. The colors are stolen from the Voltron Black Lion, and used to great effect with the chrome-plated silver they gave him. This is just plain-ol’ vaccum-metalized chrome with no additional coloring, so I can rest easy that it’s not gonna spiderweb and flake off. Other chrome-related hazards may happen in due time, but flaking is crossed off the list.
(Oh, hey, and he’s retooled a tiny bit. There used to be an extra joint in his tail, a tiny balljoint just above the middle hinge. It’s gone now. Guess tails were popping off too much? It was kind of an inconvenience on the original version of the mold, and the articulation added little.)
And, hey, guess what, he’s a Mini-Con. What, you say! Today Hasbro began unveiling the five fan-choice nominees for their new Transformers Hall of Fame, and Soundwave was nominee #1. (Surprise!) He got a entirely new bio for the occasion, and, uh, hey, his little animal partners are apparently Mini-Cons now. Ha ha. Weird, but not something that bothers me. In fact, the impotent rage from others who ARE bothered will be fun enough in itself. I’m an asshole like that.
So. Biggest Mini-Con toy ever? Naw, I guess that’d be Alternators Ravage.
“They’re fighting, not mounting!”
I DON’T BELIEVE YOU.
Stop motion Ravage incest porn. You’ve hit a new low or high here.
Plus, you’re just giving Michael Bay ideas for the next movie!
Biggest Mini-con ever? If they’ve been retconed into Mini-Cons, then wouldn’t that make Alternator Ravage the biggest one? (Or Rumble? I never got Rumble so I can’t compare.)
Aha! You are correct and I am not!
Is the ability to plug into a bigger TF a prerequisite to being a Mini-Con though? Sure, the ROTF Ravage toy can’t plug into anything, but fictionally he plugs into Soundwave.
OTOH, maybe in the Alternators timeline, Soundwave turns into a truck and Ravage can drive in Knight Rider style.
In Japan’s Binaltech stories for the Alternators toys, (the first) Alternators Ravage is an excavated Beast Wars-era Ravage that’s powered by G1 Ravage (who plugs into the dash in cassette mode form).
So, basically, Ravage is his own Mini-Con.
Like Mini-Con masturbation.
Kinky!
I don’t know, it looks like he’s making his best effort at plugging into himself up there…
I’m not bothered by the mini-con thing (lets face it, it was practically an inevitability).
However, I am bothered by the “completely loyal” thing. Soundwave is way more fun when he’s a sneaky backstabber. Though I suppose he could still be loyal to Megatron and a sneaky, mind-reading sunnuvabitch to every other ‘Con.
When was Soundwave a “sneaky backstabber” though? That impression is almost entirely rooted in the Tech Specs AFAIK, and doesn’t represent him as he was in most incarnations.
Soundwave was a “sneaky backstabber” in just about every continuity but the cartoon.
Where he is absolutely freaking awesome.
Man, I posted pictures of Real World Ravage mere moments before Willis abandoned those choads at LJ. This nightmare is even bigger than the one in RotF.
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3607/jiyonghoravage.jpg
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3607/jiyonghoravage.jpg
Looks pretty “Mount-ish” to me…
I am more weirded out by the Mini-Cons = Deployers declaration.
I guess when got the next step to “Deployers = Targetmasters” (specifically JP cartoon Targetmasters) it makes a bit more sense… reducing Mini-cons in mainline continuity to the not-negligible performance boost from a Binary Bond.
…does this mean Soundwave is more powerful the more tapes he has inside? And weaker the more he lets out?
You know, I actually like that idea. It would mean that rather than rely on brute force, Soundwave prefers the tactical advantage of numbers.
So, the eject button is the ejaculate button.
I knew it.
Those two need to get a room. All I can here in my mind is “Jungle Fever”.
Twisted Thought: Maybe that spiked thing isn’t actually his tail. Maybe he is just very well endowed.
And the more I look at the pics, the more it looks like top Ravage has the O face.
Now you need another one to repaint as Shattered Glass Ravage.
Aggghhhhh, applying white paint to one of those things. Flailing. Tears.
Part of me is thinking that would have to be a clear mold rather than white.
Awe, they’re not fighting.