More third party news for you today as we get looks at a large amount of Iron Factory’s tiny takes on IDW-style characters. A few are now at the stage of colored prototypes, others near completion, and the rest are just starting in the grey prototype phase. The list we have includes IDW-style Prowl, Bluestreak, Smokescreen, Arcee, Black Shadow, Blitzwing, and Deadlock, and War Within/Stormbringer Optimus, Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, Swoop, and Snarl. Holy Legends-class, Batman! That’s a lot! The Three Brothers seem to be final production samples, Blitzwing and the Dinobots are either colored testshots or final production samples, and the rest are resin prototypes much earlier on in the development game.
Iron Factory’s Three Brothers and their Ashura Knights (Dinobots) are up for pre-order as 3 and 5-packs respectively and are available via our various sponsors. The rest have yet to be listed, but be sure to check back at TFW for that info. In the meantime, check out all the pics after the jump and chime in on the various discussion links below!
RandomGuy
Love it. Love all of it. IF really has a knack for the Legends stuff.
Gojira101
That God Ginari is looking more like Victory Saber the more I look at it.
edgecrusher
There are at least two or three more that were recently seen in early pre-production versions but the threads have gotten buried and they aren't in the official index thread.
One of them was Deadlock: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/1055844-iron-factory-deadlock.html
Switchblade
Oh, right. I forgot they interact with that figure that I don't have.
Susha
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edgecrusher
Let's just hope these are available individually and not packaged together.
Scaleface
You missed them. Arcee and Blitzwing have had threads since October, and I started one for Deadlock when we saw the first prototype images.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…ssion/1053615-iron-factory-legends-arcee.html
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-3rd-party-discussion/1055844-iron-factory-deadlock.html
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…n-factory-legends-cybertronian-blitzwing.html
Susha
RC, deadlock and blitzwing don't have their own thread or did i miss them?
Stygian360
This and combination threads are always best; especially for a similar offering set like these guys.
Scaleface
Yeah, and I realize the author didn't want to make 4+ threads at the time, but now they exist. This should probably be merged with one of the other threads, so we have one thread for each, not one for all the toys, and individual threads too.
Robogeek28
Probably because this thread came first.
Scaleface
Why does this thread exist when there are threads for all the figures?
Lord Dcast
Quick question: aqua or deep blue for IF's city commander?
Susha
you know they're also made to interract with FOC prime/magnus, blaster as a backpack, and the cassettes as.. rollerblades/big shoes
unicronic
These are looking very promising.
Blitzwing in particular seems to be very well done for such a small figure.
The Dinobots look great too.
Lord Dcast
Why is everyone calling the Optimus a War Within Optimus? He looks like the Autocracy/Monstrosity/Primacy Prime to me.
Lord Dcast
The datsuns looked terrible before the colour was added, now they look great. Also, the paintwork on those with colour isn't final. I'm sure Blitzwing will look even better in good time.
Switchblade
Which is totally fair. And some of the space things do look pretty cool – I'm all over that Blitzwing and part of me is still tempted by the Space Datsuns. At the same time, I have Blaster but am passing on Soundwave and Perceptor because they all turn into something that doesn't actually look like anything (they're amazing little robot toys, but if I'm going to have three of them I need them to be more than that).
Lord Dcast
The old 'I don't like space things' reason. Totally valid.
I don't mind my guys transforming into space things though.
Chaosbringer
Blitzwing is War Within right? … looks like it…. LOVING WW designs!