Click here to see the creation of the customized figure.
To transform him into how he might look hanging from a familiar peg at Toys 'R Us, I fiddle with pictures of the tri-lingual packaged Ramjet to get the appropriate images with which to work. In the end, I went to seibertron.com and made use of their extensive photo reference of the English packaged orginal. Once I had a packaged background, I manipulated a number of pictures of the custom figure to line them up with the existing art, including the flip-mode gimmick, and created the applicable text.
The result: what could have been. At least in 2007. All evidence seems to point to a re-imagined Dirge for the Japanese market from Takara-Tomy.
What is amusing of course is that, because I used a MOC figure as the background (as oppose to a picture of the blank card), the final Dirge artwork still contains the toy image of Ramjet. Kind of a reversal of the standard "what would this new toy look like on this pre-existing control art." Which I just find funny.
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| Ramjet - Front of Package | Dirge - Front of Package | |
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| Ramjet - Front of Flip Card | Dirge - Front of Flip Card | |
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| Ramjet - Inside of Flip Card | Dirge - Inside of Flip Card | |
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| Ramjet - Back of Package | Dirge - Back of Package |
(Special thanks to seibertron.com for their ever-helpful photo references).