Design features that never made it to the final release

Noble · Post by **Noble** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:40 am

Hi guys thought this would be an interesting topic for the G1 figures, anyway here's one to start this topic off; Octane was originally designed to have a waist that slid forward in robot mode so as the chest didn't seem to protrude so much. This feature was cancelled very late in the design phase and if you open up his waist the sliders are there, you just need to cut out the pieces of plastic blocking the track and presto. design feature reinstalled ! I did this to my Octane figure and it is a subtle but helpful mod. If anyone wants pics on how to I can post up
cheers

Post by **Minerva** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:58 am

I'm quite curious. If you have pictures, please post them.

Overlord · Post by **Overlord** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:14 am

G1 Scorponok was originally designed to be as large as Fortress Maximus, but was changed due to unexplained (though readily guessable) reasons.

At least, that is what I read on alt.transformers.toys way back in 1998

Post by **Time Traveller** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:24 pm

Drivers, launching missiles, and the full-stroke trailer launcher for '84 prime. Diaclone version's pusher sides the entire length of the black slot.

Instructions for attaching the four '86 gestalt leaders to metroplex.

The fuctioning radio inside blaster. Why do you think he was so big?

Retractable fists on PM prime's trailer part. of course, Japan got these...

Onslaught, Motormaster, and Silverbolt were all supposed to have vehicle launchers. In Onslaught and Motormaster, all those different colored panels on their truck beds are just fillers for the holes that were intended to house the launchers. On Silverbolt, the long slidey thing in his chest was supposed to be spring loaded. I have a KO that is, actually.

'84 Megatron's bullet shooting capability. Again, japan had this...

If that's not enough, there are even MORE in post-G1 toys!

Noble · Post by **Noble** » Sun May 24, 2009 4:54 am

Time Traveller wrote:Drivers, launching missiles, and the full-stroke trailer launcher for '84 prime. Diaclone version's pusher sides the entire length of the black slot.

Instructions for attaching the four '86 gestalt leaders to metroplex.

The fuctioning radio inside blaster. Why do you think he was so big?

Retractable fists on PM prime's trailer part. of course, Japan got these...

Onslaught, Motormaster, and Silverbolt were all supposed to have vehicle launchers. In Onslaught and Motormaster, all those different colored panels on their truck beds are just fillers for the holes that were intended to house the launchers. On Silverbolt, the long slidey thing in his chest was supposed to be spring loaded. I have a KO that is, actually.

'84 Megatron's bullet shooting capability. Again, japan had this...

If that's not enough, there are even MORE in post-G1 toys!

yeah it was when i was reading up about pre tf's that gave me the idea for this post. I think we should put up as many as possible including pre tf's and since we're doing pre tf's the original soundwave-"cassetteman" (part of the microchange series) had a fake headphone set that plugged into the bottom so it seemed like he was a walkman tape player rather than a tape recorder as he seems in transformers.

Noble · Post by **Noble** » Sun May 24, 2009 5:11 am

Minerva wrote:I'm quite curious. If you have pictures, please post them.

here's instructions on how to and the end result. I've made as simple as I can its real easy to do !

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step3:

Step4:

Post by **Minerva** » Sun May 24, 2009 1:43 pm

Interesting! Thank you for posting pictures.

Banzai-Tron · Post by **Banzai-Tron** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:41 pm

I"m probably being thick, but could you post a couple pictures of this more proportional Octane? I'm having a hard time seeing the benefit... though I'm admittedly too lazy to actually dig out my Octanes and look at them.

Noble · Post by **Noble** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:08 pm

Banzai-Tron wrote:I"m probably being thick, but could you post a couple pictures of this more proportional Octane? I'm having a hard time seeing the benefit... though I'm admittedly too lazy to actually dig out my Octanes and look at them.

well basically as you can see on the last pic instead of the waist being flush with the rest of the back, it is moved forward about a centimetre. it doesn't really change the way it looks unless you have another unaltered version next to it for comparison, it just makes the chest seem flatter is all. I'll post up a pic for you tomorrow

Noble · Post by **Noble** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:03 pm

heres comparison pics as requested, the first pic is the unmodded version and the second pic is the modded version.

Brawn · Post by **Brawn** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:04 pm

wow i never new this stuff. cool post.

ghostinthemachine · Post by **ghostinthemachine** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:07 pm

yeah you can see the difference but not much

Post by **Time Traveller** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:34 pm

how about side shots? those would be the real tell.

Design features that never made it to the final release

Design features that never made it to the final release

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