Fun with Motormaster, Energon & Quick Change
Autobus Prime
I was playing around with the cheapie Quick Change trucks
(which combine Mixmaster and Hook's chassis with Scramble
City heads) and discovered that their heads fit quite well
in the original holes, resulting in this monstrosity:
http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/MTTSUVM.jpg
There are holes in the trucks' rigid grill structures to
accomodate fists and feet, too...which also happen to be
the same (5mm?) size as the pegs on Energon weapons --
which, if you drill them maybe 3/32" deep with a 3/32" bit,
become Mini-Con hardpoints -- total combining madness!
I took the trucks off and used two Payloads to add giant
Sky Blast cannons to them.
Then I noticed that Motormaster's hand holes are also 5mm.
He is now standing on my fridge, wielding the Energon
Sabre and Skyboom to fend off evildoers with a hankering
for stale spaghetti sauce.
At this late date I imagine others have discovered this
stuff -- but it sure is neat.
Cordially yours,
Autobus Prime
Orson "Sidecutter" Christian
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> Ladies and gentlemen:
>
> I was playing around with the cheapie Quick Change trucks
> (which combine Mixmaster and Hook's chassis with Scramble
> City heads) and discovered that their heads fit quite well
> in the original holes, resulting in this monstrosity:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/MTTSUVM.jpg
Actually, there's a reason for this. There's a bootleg set out there, which
uses four of these Mixmaster retools, all redone into fire vehicles of four
different types. Along with them goes a red Onslaught figure. But not just
ANY Onslaught. This Onslaught has had the cab section replaced with...Hot
Spot's cab/arms, and a thing added that sits on the back truck bed in
vehicle mode to make him a fire vehicle. It also comes, of course, with the
Bruticus combiner parts. It's really quite surreal, and goes by the name
Fire Golem, IIRC. Sadly, I can't find the pics of it anymore...
Autobus Prime
Did they use the long-nose Hook knockoff chassis, or just the
Mercedes cab-over Mixmaster knockoff?
Were the limb fire engines similar to some of the trucks
in the Quick Change 2-packs or were they completely different?
Autobus Prime
Orson "Sidecutter" Christian
The limb bots were all remolds of Mixmaster. Same long-nose style you
showed. They basically just enlarged them, added holes for the hands/feet
to attach, and retooled the heads to be Scramble City style. They're the
same exact trucks as in the 2-packs, just in red, with fire equipment rather
than construction gear.
Marshall
"Orson "Sidecutter" Christian" <sidec...@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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Is that the "Space Warriors:Machine Fighters" line that Big Lots had/has?
Did all five pieces come in the same box?
Autobus Prime
had/has?
> Did all five pieces come in the same box?
No, these come in 2-packs as
'Quick Change X Robot', where X stands for either Construction,
Emergency,
or Transport; also in 1-packs as 'Space Warriors Truck Tech Fighter',
with
some changes and recolorings. 'Truck Tech'...that would, I suppose, be
a
fighting style consisting mostly of ramming things...
Here is what they look like:
Vehicle mode:
http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/qc_alt_truck.jpg
(Please note that 'Crane' was not originally a dump truck.
That would be silly. He was a ... cement mixer.)
Spooooooooky robot face:
http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/qc_truck_head.jpg
Robot mode of Mercedes cab-over:
http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/qc_sling.jpg
Robot mode of Peterbilt longnose:
http://www.geocities.com/autobus_prime/qc_crane.jpg
(If you look at the molding of the Peterbilt's torso,
it really looks more like Hook's than Mixmaster's...
the Mercedes is definitely a Mixmaster knockoff, though.)
The changes made for the 'Truck Tech Fighters' gave them a less
psychotic
grin, and let the cab of the Mercedes fold out better - it tends to pop
off
its metal pivot pin on the 2-packs.
The 'Space Warriors Machine Fighter' combiners are actually knockoffs
of Bandai's 'Machine Robo Rescue' teams -- which have been discussed on
this group from time to time.
Cordially yours,
Autobus Prime.
Orson "Sidecutter" Christian
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Simple answer is, I don't know. It's clearly made by the same company,
however, I'm not aware that this modified bootleg set has been released
domestically as yet, or of how they were packaged, as the pictures I've seen
of the set didn't show that.