The Transformers Collectors Club has added new pages to their website showcasing the 2014 Membership Freebie figure Rampage / Protoform X as well as Transmutate, who will be sold exclusively through the Collector’s Club store in 2014 and will serve as a companion piece to Rampage. Both Rampage and Transmutate use the Transformers Prime First Edition toys as their bases, Rampage is a redeco of the Deluxe First Edition Megatron with a new head, while Transmutate is a straight-up recolor of First Edition Arcee, and presumably represents what Transmutate could have been, had she not suffered the tragic accident that defined her episode of Beast Wars.
Rampage will be available free to all Transformers Collector’s Club members who have an active membership through March 16 2014. Transmutate will be offered through the Collector’s Club store at some point in 2014. Both characters will be featured in the Transformers Collectors Club comic strip for 2014.
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[Wing_Saber-X]
meh. gotta be new moulds..
squawkbot
Rampage has a good color scheme mock up but i wouldnt buy simply because the original is so much more bad ass. Just not the same without his crab legs and what not. Transmutate looks good too but not enough to justify the price theyre gonna ask. The character just wasnt that memorable as well.
VE Telus
Transmutate, for me, is a beautiful figure. I applaud the club in resurrecting a character that would NEVER see the light of day pass the build-a-figure Hasbro release. Great colours, and compliment the Arcee mold well.
We now need Silverbolt, Quickstrike, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, and Scorponok, and we'd have a pretty updated BW team. As a fan who grew up in the beast era, this is all kinds of exciting.
Vaikyuko
Absolutely in love with the Rampage and going to get it.
Transmutate I'm more iffy on. Unlike the others I can't really repurpose her as the actual Transmutate from BW, given Transmutate had a pretty clear start and end. I like how the figure looks, but I typically buy figures based on my personal attachment to them (so not many redecos, etc). Just depends, I guess.
Dragonclaw
For me to justify the kind of $$$ these exclusives go for I need to hae an attatchment to the character. It may be a different reality version of Transmutate buit that just doesn't cut it for my wallet
Bass X0
And how does this new Transmutate have anything to do with that episode?
If anything, this new Transmutate is for those who didn't like the original Transmutate.
MrSoundmeister
How bout we just call her Zygnus? i mean… Zygnus sounds pretty cool.
Bass X0
20th anniversary of Beast wars?
Is it 2016 already?
Anguirus
Not a fan of Transmutate. I would have just left her alone.
I really like the idea behind Rampage but the head shouldn't look so organic, and I wish they'd been able to switch up the weapon.
Thundershot
Well, none of the other Maximals were named in the fiction for the 2006 set. Just the toys. Maybe they should call her Axalon Transmutate.
Galaxy Convoy
Hopefully. If it's supposed to be the BW character in an alternate universe where the accident never happened, then it makes absolutely NO sense to still call it "Transmutate" right?
Hell, let's freaking name it ourselves if FunPub won't. Hmm, let's build on "Sandy", her colors, and her alt mode being a motorcycle and come up with something off road or motorcross related for a name? Sandstar? Sandblast? Dunerunner?
Master Prime87
I have the original rampage and 10th or 20th anniversary beast wars trasmutate there just a tf prime repaint cant say im impressed being a beast wars fan :/ but the new waspinator rhinox I am hyped for thou
megaplex001
pass
TCJJ
Well, the Rampage headsculpt looks great so far. Hopefully the final product actually looks as good as the digital mockup. The paint job is nice, but why did they have to choose the deluxe version of the mould? I think it kinda ruins the figure. I'm still not completely sold on it, though, because at the end of the day, it's Megatron with a new head and paint job. It kind of works, but only just.
I still don't get Transmutate. The colours are nice, but….. I dunno, it just doesn't do anything for me.
Risko_Vinsheen
I suspect the fiction included with her will provide a new name and they're just using Transmutate to refer to her because that's who people know.
If they said "Next year we're releasing Maximal Sandy!" People would wonder who the heck is Sandy?**
**Disclaimer: I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility that Transmutate's real name is, in fact, Sandy.
calvin0
if animated have a female red alert, prime can have a female rattrap ^_^
i kindda wish they give transmutate a new name.. i mean her body no longer a mutated pile of mess, so why keep calling her transmutate…
Thundershot
No, this is Transmutate in an alternate reality (or pre BW if you prefer) where she didn't become the freak we saw in that one episode. Or it's who she was or could have been if her pod hadn't malfunctioned.
T-Hybrid
But Transmutate can't transform…
DrGrim
I dig TFP Megatron, and I dig BW Rampage. I'm down with this guy.
sh002
Those look pretty cool.