Thanks to 2005 Boards user Nevermore, we have some Transformers: Robots In Disguise Crash Combiners Stock Photos that have surfaced on Amazon.com.
We have stock photos for:
- Crash Combiners Dragstrip and Wildbreak
- Crash Combiners Lunar Force Optimus Prime and Strongarm
- Crash Combiners Shockdrive and Warnado
So far, all these toys are out in Singapore. You can click on the bar to see the picutres and then share your thought at the 2005 Boards.
WishfulThinking
Those really don't look THAT much better. Plus, they don't have individual robot modes.
Look, these are basically the modern equivalent of Throttlebots, Sparkabots, what-have-you. Overall, very G1-esque gimmick wise. If someone is looking for super-articulated, super-painted combiners, this is not the place to look. But if you're looking for a little bit of G1 nostalgia in that these are brickbots with a fun little gimmick, these hit the proverbial nail on the head. Seriously, I mess with these guys more than the rest of my small collection of nuRiD figures.
ZapRowsdower
Does the stock photographer know what a truck looks like? I mean, I understand mistakes happen, BUT THIS IS OPTIMUS PRIME. A TRUCK. Surely, he would have noticed he forgot to do something?
Did Hasbro steal the crash-combiner idea from that Chinese company????
Nevermore
The packaging shows an Autobot insignia though…
DeletedUser_119270
Lunar Force Primestrong is a deception?Whoa.
BB Shockwave
For me these things are epic fails. How is that Optimus Prime even has an alt mode? He looks like a nondescript slab on wheels. The Stunticons are slightly better, but the individual toys have almost zero articulation.
And for the price of a TR Deluxe (at least here they cost about the same), you are better off buying those.
I just hope that at least the Stunticons get non-combining warrior toys. Would be a simple matter since 4 of the 5 are just 2 molds with different heads.
Yes, but that was 30 years ago now. Toys have evolved since then. The Energon Powerlinx feature was essentially the same as Duocons, just done much better. The simplified toys of the movies and RID feel like a step back from what kids have had for the past 15 years, even.
And if you want spring-activated TFs, ever seen these? "Beast Soul" they are called and they are spring-activated like Crash Combiners, but the end result looks so much better, while the individual vehicles have better detailing and paint as well.
Wisp
Honestly if I see the Lunar Force set around here, I'll probably buy it? The colors look good, looks good combined. Wisp likes.
Blot
These remind me of the G1 Duocons, except these at least have individual robot modes. The Duocons were also barely painted, springloaded, and unarticulated (the commercial even had the Autobots talking about how the jet was going to crash into the tank). I kind of want to get Shocknado to fiddle around with and share with my son.
Nevermore
Overreactions on internet message boards give me cooties.
shin03
That's awesome. My daughter (4) and my son(2) are starting to get into the toys. They love the legends titans return figures.
ljacone
The only PRID toys I buy for myself are Legions, and I have quite a lot of figures from all lines in that size. But the Prime and PRID toys that the kids have are quite nifty as actual playthings. The Hyperchange 3-Step Grimlock, for instance, is popular with my kids specifically because he is easy to change and he is huge.
As an aside, the boys' gifts from my wife and I this year were the G2 Combiner Wars boxed sets. They also got the new Voyager OP and Grimlock, and my middle boy and my daughter (4) got Rescue Bots as well. So our house is a sort of miniature Cybertron at the moment…
Deadend
I love these. It's such a combination of ideas like Botshots and how many kids play with hot wheels crashing them together. But done in a constructive fun unified way instead of destructive/combative.
AirjitzuRonin
These look fantastic. Lunarforce Primestrong is the weakest mainly because it's a repaint. Dragbreak is better than I hoped and Shocknado looks great. I wonder why Optimus and Strongarm would become Decepticons just because of some Lunar Force. Maybe the show will explain it.
I collect it and others do as well so I think that's just your opinion.
combaticonsfrvr
I think the most maddening part for me regarding the colors of Dragbreak isn't the swapped alt modes, but the fact that he's almost completely show accurate in regard to the molded details, meaning he'd be perfect if the colors were as they should be.
The individual bot modes are the same way. Wildbreak clearly has Dragstrip's head and Dragstrip clearly has Wildbreak's.
shin03
And that's all that matters. These are toys for the kids and they a perfect for what they do. When I was 8, I would have counted down the days to get these. At 32, I don't see any RID figures as collector fodder in any way either. I used to be a completionist, but the way Hasbro has split up the targeting for demographics, great idea by the way, has fixed that. Generations, some movie, and when I sell enough plasma, masterpiece for me!
TCJJ
Why not? If we're only talking about the Warrior toys, they're all actually quite good toys, despite what all the idiot fear-mongerers would have you think (yes, I bought most of them). Steeljaw is garbage but the rest range from decent to actually pretty good toys. They're simplistic and overpriced for what they are, sure, but I don't think they're any less collectable than, say, Armada or G2 or some arguably weird things like those.
Now, if we're talking Crash Combiners or really anything that isn't RID Deluxes (a few of the Legions aside, such as Fixit)… Yeah, they're pretty garbage. Combiner Force is a mess, and if I had been given Crash Combiners as a kid, I probably would have crashed them straight into a hammer.
I grew up with the original RID and those toys were far more interesting to me. Heck, even the Armada toys were more interesting because even though most of them were bricks, they still had proper transformations and little gimmicks, plus you got Minicons with each of them, and some Minicons or larger Transformers even combined.
Crash Combiners and Combiner Force as a whole are just crap in comparison. Sure, RID Landfill, for example, is not an amazing combiner, but it's unique, each individual robot is lots of fun on its own, and there's a lot you can do with them when they're combined too.
I don't want to generalise but whether it's a generational thing or just a result of our society, where everything is at out fingertips these days, kids (and people in general) tend to prefer instant gratification these days, something that I personally cannot stand.
That's what we were saying about the limbs for the Power Core Combiners when they came out. Most of the Scout figures were actually good but the limbs were a mess.
Apparently they didn't learn.
netkid
These toys are not worth the $15+ they're asking for them. $8-10 is tops. The toys basically do nothing. They have incredibly simple transformations, barely any articulation or paint in all modes, and most don't look good when combined together.
I think this line would've been better if they ditched all the spring mechanisms involved and just made combining legend class or basic class toys (whatever class the figures that come with clear armor pieces are), that featured more articulation and transformation steps (which would now exist because the spring mechanisms wouldn't be doing all the work for you), and better team choices color-wise so when they combine, the combined form looks like one single entity. (Bumblebee doesn't look like he's wearing his red pants today).
rapid_fire
Oh god the RID line is not collectable by any means
TCJJ
I believe these are inspired by actual car crashes, hence the name "Crash Combiners" and the horribly-designed gimmick.
ljacone
My boys (8 and 6) got Beeside and Primestrong as birthday presents over the weekend, and they both really like these. The auto-transformation gimmick really tickles both of them. So even if they are not good collector fodder, in my experience they make kids looking for toys to play with happy!