Comments on: The MOAR You Know – HFTD Deluxe Ironhide

By: caked-up

caked-up — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:26:52 +0000

I know a lot of people dislike the axe on the BBBB, however the reason for the blade facing that direction is for bringing the blade accross the body in a sideways motion. Think about Wolverine’s claws and how he attacks, it is the same for this blade. If you swapped the blade around it would resemble a real axe like animated prime or an actual wood axe and wouldn’t be as useful for close combat mounted on his arm like that.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:58:34 +0000

lol

I’ve still got a hopefully entertaining book on the way. :)

~Matt Booker

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:39:42 +0000

Damn you and your lapse in OCD! You’re seriously putting a drag in an entire genre of my entertainment. Well, hopefully you’ll find some toys that are almost awesome sometime soon in the future.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:58:39 +0000

That really helps hide the feet in alt mode, Piggy!

John, I’ve got a Bludgeon guide that I have written up but will need a few days just to take pictures for. Other than that, nothing really new that I’ve found needs fixing.

I’ll have a few posts coming up, though.

~Matt Booker

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:47:43 +0000

Dude, update with some mods already!

By: Piggy

Piggy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:47:46 +0000

Nice write up, Matt. I’m loving this little guy. Waaaay more screen accurate than the Voyager mold. I black Sharpied the sides and back of the feet that are exposed in alt mode, and he looks %100 better. I’ll post some pics over at TFINO when I can.

By: Jon Mallari

Jon Mallari — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:30:00 +0000

I think after reading the FIRST paragraph of what the axe procedure would have been like, I’m definitely not going to proceed with any plastic surgery on ‘Bee. He’ll just have to make due with the Hatchet Uppercut as a special move…

…even better if he had a sound bite that had that move yelled out with a Japanese voice… :D

By: legendhiro

legendhiro — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:08:30 +0000

not really a huge fan of the deluxe ironhide or even the deluxe ratchet. scale(ish-ness) is a bigger issue for me than it probably should be, seeing how i’m a tf fan ^_^

besides, i don’t like the weapon drone.

By: Bitter Cold

Bitter Cold — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:10:28 +0000

Haha, you say you won’t give us a guide and then you explain all the steps. =P

Could one swap the forearm doodads? But then you’d lose the paint apps..

By: matt

matt — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:02:10 +0000

I’m not going to do a guide on flipping the axe around, because there’s too many things you’d have to change about the way it works. It’s designed so that it fits that way.

Like, lets say you flip the axe and remove the spring (probably using the twist tie method in the Rampage guide) so the ax doesn’t get floppy. Well, then you have to remove the screws from the forearm piece, hollow out where the screw holes are, and glue it back together. You’d also have to remove the trigger piece and glue the button in to retain the look of the arm guard, but the end result would be a working ax but a really hollow guard.

And you can’t just chop bottom of the tube off, flip it and the ax around, and then glue it to the other part of the tube, because the ax is designed to fit around the inside of the forearm.

So, I’m okay with Bee just using the ax with uppercuts.

As for Ironhide, I’m still hoping they take some of the concepts of the deluxe and make a new voyager for TF3.

Rahkshi79, Ironhide is not in scale with deluxe Ratchet cause he’s too short. They do look nice together, though. I don’t have the new voyager Prime yet, so I don’t know about that one.

Battle Blades Bumblebee is way too tall for the new voyager Prime, though.

I know that cause in robot mode he’s just about spot on in scale with ROTF Leader Prime. Bee should come up to just below Prime’s crotch and about to Ironhide’s chest.

(In vehicle mode, Leader Prime is 1:30 and Bee is about 1:33, so he’s actually smaller, but closer in scale than the HA figures.)

~Matt Booker