Third party group SXS Toys updated their Weibo account earlier today to reveal prototype images of their Hot Flame figure. Hot Flame is SXS Toys representation of a Rodimus styled figured from his appearances in the More Than Meets The Eye comic book. Although no alternate mode is shown here, the robot mode looks very faithful to the character model we’ve seen on the comic book pages.
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KveTar
Maybe somebody did any improvements of his wrists to make him able to hold weapon well? I've nailpoloshed grips and it works out well enough, but maybe there are other hints?
harrismonkey
I agree. I display him with my MP bots (the lovely IDW corner of the collection). Strictly speaking he and Chromedome should be bigger, but both are bigger than some of the MP carrots and do just fine there. Just depends how determined you are to have a large Rodimus.
imfallenangel
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Megatron118
IMO Hot Flame falls into the CHUG/MP hybrid category. He can work with both scales. He comes up to about Ultra Maxmas’ chest, which is reasonably accurate to the comics; so he’s definitely MP scale too
KveTar
Well, not exactly. He's about MP carbots sized. A little bit higher than MP Sideswipe and a little bit lower than MP Hot Rod.
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Treadshot 2.0
He's perfectly sized to MMC Megatron and looks great with CW Magnus.
imfallenangel
I'm using mine in my story as an "advanced" Hot Rod that now goes by the name of just "Flame".
So this is how he scales with WFC and such figures:
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Manuel Taker
He is not mp size i can tell you that much, is too thin and short, but he looks really good, is good for chugs
Maximus Danz
KveTar
That one: GCreation GDW02 Rebel (IDW Prowl)
Stranger2306
Nice! What Prowl is that?
KveTar
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Glarryg
It's roughly voyager-sized; there's a pic a few posts up with it standing next to MP-28, so you can see it's not quite that tall. It tends to look better with the Thrilling 30/Combiner Wars-era Hasbro figures if you don't have a specifically IDW-themed collection.
Glarryg
Stranger2306
Thinking of picking him up….if I wanted to get some other IDW style characters to go with him – is he like Voyager CHUG scale like MMC stuff is?
Any recommendations on who he looks good next to? I like how he looks next to CW Magnus
cultofkraken
Ugh I really want that Magnus.
Maximus Danz
Thanks!
Jhund
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Anyone got a pic of him with CW Magnus? Scale reasons.
timcourtois
Hey! I've always found the alt mode on Hot Flame to be a bit squishy, and I finally figured out why. There's actually a way that it's supposed to tab together more solidly, but the tolerances are such that the canopy of the car doesn't stay tabbed-in fully. I was able to do a very minor mod to fix it, and now the alt-mode is more solid.
Here's a video to show what I did for anyone who's interested:
Manuel Taker
thats a good point, so might fit, thanks for the tip