Blazemaster Transformers ROTF mod - foldable landing gear + blades as weapons

[StInG268]

Most likely irrelevant but we have a Channel 7 news station/channel in australia so bit of shake of the head moment and lol for me when I first saw him

[chris24jc]

@StInG268 LOL! Yea, I'll bet! Ya never know... inspiration comes from everywhere!

[Hotshotmech38]

WTF is channel 7

[chris24jc]

@Hotshotmech38 I know, right? Well, here in Cali it's ABC. I guess this is supposed to be it's news chopper. "The eye in the sky!"

[pokemonrox1000]

much beter blade weaponss =)

[chris24jc]

@pokemonrox1000 Thanks! Glad you like!

[mondoqracker]

i tryed to fold up the front landing gear, and it worked with out the mod

[joshuamauldin10]

his front landing gear does fold up

[chris24jc]

It seems like some of them didn't. Both mine and my friends didn't until modified, but I hear other ones worked fine out of the package. Weird, huh?  I'm just glad it was an easy fix.

My friend had a Classics Sideswipe where his thighs were backwards in package! whoa!

[ohhshaanat123]

hes like black out exactly like him cuz black out can do the same thing

[Bionicice324]

GET ON WITH IT!

[chris24jc]

LOL! I love the Holy Grail! I just saw Spam A Lot this year actually. Terrific!

[DeoxysLv100]

It's Blazemaster in refrence to Blaze Master of G1 who flew low over enimies and used a napalm-like substance to burn and melt them. His ROTF bio is very similar to the G1 bio. His G1 toy had his blades attached to his left arm.

[chris24jc]

Thanks for the awesome reference. I guess it's a pretty good homage after all.

Now they're making an Evac colored one too.

[K4rt80y]

Really? No kidding? When I first got it, I noticed that it was the same helicopter as the Coast Guard uses. Why would a news chopper need a hoist winch off the right side anyway? Good call on the blades. Mine never stayed put, too.

[Shazidcc1]

this video sucks! You keep pulling in and out the wheel

[chris24jc]

LOL. Yup. That about sums it up. LOL

[TheAden101]

he is in the movie for more info contact

[chris24jc]

Really? ooooh... Do tell! : )

[Viewer012395]

Blasemater's vehicle mode looks like the news copter in the Transformers Autobots/Decepticon game for Nintendo DS

[chris24jc]

Oh really? He made it into the game, eh? I haven't played any of the ROTF games.

Does he transform in the game too?

[Viewer012395]

it's not a ROTF game, it's the original

Yea for course he transforms lol

[chris24jc]

Oh really? Wow. I played the PC version of the first movie game, but didn't see any copters like him. Course, the DS games were different. I didn't realize they were THAT different though.

Is he an enemy you can fight?

[Viewer012395]

no, he's a hidden vehicle form found in Casino Strip, and you cant battle him, only the decepticons, Megatron,Starscream,Barricade,­Brawl

[nocturnal30]

lolz you dumbass(im not bein mean) the front landing gear could always fold up, so you modded it for nothing lol

[chris24jc]

LOL. Nope. Not on mine or my friend's. I've heard from several others that theirs folded in naturally, and others that it didn't, like with ours, so there must have been a variance in a production run or something.

So, I didn't even really mod it, just 'fixed' it. haha.

I demand you retract your dumbass. LOL.

[nocturnal30]

lol hmm i guess there is some variation. he looks like a very cool helicopter too

[chris24jc]

Yea he does... nice and sleek. I expect some repaints of him as some kinda stealth chopper or something militaristic.

I'm just looking forward to some color on his blades. The stark white is terrible. I'm tempted to paint them myself...

[9mandazi9]

can you tell me how to give ROTF FAB prime elbow articulation? his knees bend slightly but i nkow why, i just have to take off some plastic that's on the sides of his thighs.

[chris24jc]

Sorry 9mandazi9, but I don't have any FAB figures, so I can't help ya on this one. I don't know what the existing joint looks like, otherwise, I'd be happy to help ya.

Best of luck!

[9mandazi9]

no prob, but i think i could be able to cut off the arm and leave the upper arm sides, put pegs on the inside of the upper arm and dremel some holes in the sides of the lower arms so that the arm can bend.

[chris24jc]

Sounds like a good plan to me! Good luck on it! Let us know how it goes! : )

[9mandazi9]

sure man, when i know how to post videos on to youtube from my phone I'll post a video on the finished product and make a review.

[lunglad]

yeah mine doesnt fold in like

[clp120591]

Jazz arms!

[chris24jc]

Haha... you're so right.

They sucked on him, and they still suck on Blazemaster. Almost more so!

[Benboy207]

I actually had did this a couple weeks ago, close after it came out. The difference is though that I didn't even have to file anything. I pushed really hard for a couple days just trying randomly and eventually it jut folded up

[chris24jc]

LOL. Whatever works, right? : )

Some people have noted to me that theirs folded up okay straight out of the package... that's interesting. I guess there might have been a slight variation in assembly when manufacturing waves.

[reluttr2]

very cool mod. It does seem to conencidental "since it fits in that slot in robot mode", its like they was planning on having the wheel that way. I guess they just forgot to implement it

[chris24jc]

Thanks. Yea, sometimes they come so close... yet it's not quite there... This was such a tiny mold difference. Maybe it was put in backwards on assembly, it might still fold back that way. Who knows...

Or sometimes it's implemented, like my video on Dead End, but it's not included in the instructions, so many people never realize it.

Thanks for commenting!