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Knormal posted:I think their Streetwise looks decent, but the I don't like the weird sci-fi bike they chose for Groove. I know they had to do something, since a motorcycle's just not bulky enough to make a good three-mode figure, but what they chose totally clashes with the rescue vehicle theme. I'd rather they just chose some other alt mode altogether. But at least you can't say it's blah I guess. Yeah, I definitely don't get "rescue vehicle" out of that, although I suppose a white/black paint job and a red/blue lightbar can make just about anything a rescue vehicle. With Streetwise I'm mostly unimpressed by the very plain paint job. Tons of blank, dull white, and he lacks Streetwise's trademark black spoiler. At the very least, it looks like these guys are going to need serious Reprolabeling.
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Blackheart posted:Peaugh seems like a good guy and his reviews are generally informative, but yeah he could use more editing. Sometimes he's fantastically clumsy with the figure (he pops balljoints off like it's his job even when the toy isn't particularly loose). I think he even straight up broke a figure mid-review, Leader Brawl if I recall correctly. He just snapped the turret off from forcing the drat thing. What the loving christ, Optibotimus reviewed a toy with a loving puppet? That dude is loving off. Everybody I know who has met him loving hates his guts, and just listening to his voice, you can tell the dude ain't right in the head. He almost speaks in like... baby talk. Like he's talking to a dog or something.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Everybody I know who has met him loving hates his guts... Any particular reason given?
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Gammatron 64 posted:What the loving christ, Optibotimus reviewed a toy with a loving puppet? https://www.youtube.com/user/felzbug Pretty sure he's talking about this guy. I buy Optibotimus being an rear end in a top hat since the top comment on a lot of his videos is him being a huge bitch to someone.
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Jan 12, 2014 09:54
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Knormal posted:I think their Streetwise looks decent, but the I don't like the weird sci-fi bike they chose for Groove. I know they had to do something, since a motorcycle's just not bulky enough to make a good three-mode figure, but what they chose totally clashes with the rescue vehicle theme. I'd rather they just chose some other alt mode altogether. But at least you can't say it's blah I guess. It's a Tomahawk. 
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Keldroc posted:Yeah, I definitely don't get "rescue vehicle" out of that, although I suppose a white/black paint job and a red/blue lightbar can make just about anything a rescue vehicle. With Streetwise I'm mostly unimpressed by the very plain paint job. Tons of blank, dull white, and he lacks Streetwise's trademark black spoiler. At the very least, it looks like these guys are going to need serious Reprolabeling. Wow you are not kidding. I think I like the robot mode, but from a distance that alt mode looks like the latest Legends-class Prowl. Also that leg mode looks awfully...empty. Hopefully it attaches to some other leg portion for thickness? I kind of soured on not-Superion three figures in, so I'll definitely wait and see with this. I'm probably going to sell them soon, along with a few other bots.
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SpazmasterX posted:It's a Tomahawk. TFC is good at picking real life alt modes that most people mistake for fictional vehicles.
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I kind of wish BBTS would get off their rear end and ship the Goldfire/Waspinator wave of deluxes. The reason I preordered the wave was because I was confident I wouldn't see the entire wave at retail, and just last night I saw Skids and Dreadwing at target and had to leave them on the pegs because I'm gambling that I won't see the other two somewhere else. [/FirstWorldProblems]
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Xenomrph posted:I kind of wish BBTS would get off their rear end and ship the Goldfire/Waspinator wave of deluxes. The reason I preordered the wave was because I was confident I wouldn't see the entire wave at retail, and just last night I saw Skids and Dreadwing at target and had to leave them on the pegs because I'm gambling that I won't see the other two somewhere else. I found them the other day at Toysrus and bought like the entire wave, they probably had like 3 full cases on the pegs. I was debating about Goldfire but figured since Generations is probably going to continue past the movie there's going to probably be other deluxe throttle bots. I still haven't seen Rhinox and Double Dealer and Swerve and Cosmos out in the stores though. That being said the comics they came with were certainly much better than the first IDW wave. Although I hate the comics because they're showing us toys that we'll never get(i.e. a real Generations Ultra Magnus and Thunderclash). Is Rung supposed to transform into one of the horn spikes of unicron though? The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Jan 12, 2014 |
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So, is there any word On when the Swerve/Cosmos wave is supposed to be coming out? BBTS doesn't even have them available for pre-order.
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Peter Bazooka posted:https://www.youtube.com/user/felzbug Pretty sure he's talking about this guy. I buy Optibotimus being an rear end in a top hat since the top comment on a lot of his videos is him being a huge bitch to someone. AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH what the loving gently caress?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0J4raxEVYk This guy sounds just like the old guy on Family Guy who loves molesting children. "HAAAAA THERE Y'ALL CHILDRIN', I'M FELZBUG, AND I'MA GONNA TOUCH YOUR PEE PEE IF YA DON'T MIND!"  Also yeah, long story short Optibotimus is just a huge dick to people.
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Gammatron 64 posted:AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH what the loving gently caress?! He's also a furry.
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The Taint Reaper posted:He's also a furry. Hey 2002 what's up Wow, this is actually unwatchable.
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Rei_ posted:Hey 2002 what's up Yeah it's pretty bad. What's even worse is that he apparently writes transformer fanfiction about himself too from what I understand. On another note though apparently they're going to be showing off actual AOE transformer toys and newer generations figures soon in the UK. I really hope they bother showing the Dinobots. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Jan 12, 2014 |
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My favorite Optibotimus MemoryTM was when he started stitching ads for Coca-Cola onto the front of his actual reviews, defeating adblockers - that is, until it came out that he never entered any partnership with Coca-Cola and they sent him a cease-and-desist notice. It boggles the mind, it really does.
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You're sort of misrepresenting it - He made fan ads for Coca-cola, unsolicited, which were part of the video. Also where's the thing about Coca-cola C&Ding him? That doesn't even make sense, but American law is pretty weird nowadays.
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My favourite Optibotimus story is him getting Cyclops for free, early from Kapow toys and spend the entire time complaining about how much he hated it and how he was going to send it back, implying he recieved it for free from MMC themselves. MMC replied 'Who is Optimusbot?' it basically came out that Kapow sent him an early copy of a toy they weren't supposed to, and he pissed it away because he couldn't stop talking about the toy.
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Rei_ posted:My favourite Optibotimus story is him getting Cyclops for free, early from Kapow toys and spend the entire time complaining about how much he hated it and how he was going to send it back, implying he recieved it for free from MMC themselves. MMC replied 'Who is Optimusbot?' it basically came out that Kapow sent him an early copy of a toy they weren't supposed to, and he pissed it away because he couldn't stop talking about the toy. And then he just kept it and sold it.
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The new target listings are showing that the Deluxes are back up to 15 bucks each, Voyagers are going to be 25 bucks, and leader figures are going to be 45 bucks. Here I thought everything was going to be cheaper because they were going to use simplified tooling.
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I've never actually seen an Optibotimus review, but I read his twitter profile and he claimed to be a "TRANSFORMERS COMMUNITY SHOCK JOCK!!!!!!!!!!!" and I figured I wasn't missing much.
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Gammatron 64 posted:AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH what the loving gently caress?! Oh yeah sorry, I didn't mean to say optibotimus is the puppet guy, that's a different terrible reviewer and I worded it poorly. Optibotimus sucks for different, unrelated reasons. Wow, I remember the coca cola "ads" and thinking "wow, this guy somehow got sponsored by cocacola?" I can't believe he did it completely on his own  About third party combiners: despite going for Giant instead of Herc, I still believe Hercules is a fantastic combiner. I love the initial approach for the arms (the rage set is nice, but feels unnecessary to me). The individual Uranos robots are pretty nice (silverbolt a little less so) but Uranus himself feels... off. The combiner head looks silly and there's just something about the whole package that made me decide to just pass on him. Their Predaking looks very nice so far I have to say, except Razorclaw's robot mode is a bit strange, I don't know what it is. Also it shows what for me is TFC's greatest weakness: they can't seem to get their colors to look nice. What they've shown of Defensor so far is interesting but not enough to make me consider it. Never liked Defensor too much after all.
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Blackheart posted:About third party combiners: despite going for Giant instead of Herc, I still believe Hercules is a fantastic combiner. I love the initial approach for the arms (the rage set is nice, but feels unnecessary to me). The individual Uranos robots are pretty nice (silverbolt a little less so) but Uranus himself feels... off. The combiner head looks silly and there's just something about the whole package that made me decide to just pass on him. The Wings of Uranos set does wonders for the look of the combined robot, but of course that's an extra $40 spent on a $500 robot. God knows how they'll intentionally mess up Defensor so they can sell the Flames of Prometheus add-on set. quote:Their Predaking looks very nice so far I have to say, except Razorclaw's robot mode is a bit strange, I don't know what it is. Also it shows what for me is TFC's greatest weakness: they can't seem to get their colors to look nice. What they've shown of Defensor so far is interesting but not enough to make me consider it. Never liked Defensor too much after all. I like the TFC Predaking but not enough to switch off from MMC Feral Rex. As nice as TFC's is, Feral Rex is the Predaking of dreams.
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Rei_ posted:Hey 2002 what's up Are furries cool now or something? Rei_ posted:My favourite Optibotimus story is him getting Cyclops for free, early from Kapow toys and spend the entire time complaining about how much he hated it and how he was going to send it back, implying he recieved it for free from MMC themselves. MMC replied 'Who is Optimusbot?' it basically came out that Kapow sent him an early copy of a toy they weren't supposed to, and he pissed it away because he couldn't stop talking about the toy. I recently put Cyclops back into boat mode for the first time, and now that it's been a few years and Quakewave is out, I'm really regretting the purchase. He's pretty cool in both modes, but the transformation is such a bitch, and i defy anyone to switch it back and forth a few times without busting off a few tabs.
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Knormal posted:weird sci-fi bike they chose for Groove. Actually that's a Dodge Tomahawk, which is my favorite bike ever. It's also hilariously unsafe and never went into proper production. 
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No Your Other Left posted:Actually that's a Dodge Tomahawk, which is my favorite bike ever. It's also hilariously unsafe and never went into proper production.
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therealjon_ posted:I broke a Cyclops so transforming one scares the hell out of me I had one and I picked it up to put it in boat mode and the leg just fell off. MMC must have taken the criticism of Cyclops to heart because everything they've made since then has been really solid.
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Was Optibotimus the dude who went into major debt buying prototype transformers for their massively inflated prices so he could be the first to review them?
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I'd heard that bike was a real-world concept bike, the point still stands, it's nothing like a police bike. Just make Groove another kind of police car or something. At this point they could make him an F1 racer and it'd make as much sense as a rescue vehicle.
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That's one of the problems with combiners in general though, very few of them have a sensible theme to all four limbs and yet they have to stick very close to the original ideas forever and ever. On that note, everyone should own BH Abominus. It is the best worst thing. Is there another combiner whose limbs look actively upset at being attached to him? They seethe with disappointment at their robo-life choices. EthanSteele posted:Was Optibotimus the dude who went into major debt buying prototype transformers for their massively inflated prices so he could be the first to review them?
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All I know about that dude is that going by his reviews, he's got a supremely annoying, natural born rear end in a top hat voice, zero charisma, and hilariously ugly fat & hairy ham-hands/wrists. Hearing about all this other stuff is just the poo poo icing on the rancid cake. In happier news, Smokescreen arrived yesterday and he's gorgeous. The paint job really pops delightfully. Now begins the long wait for Wheeljack...
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EthanSteele posted:Was Optibotimus the dude who went into major debt buying prototype transformers for their massively inflated prices so he could be the first to review them? That was Sean Long, who had a 11-minute long rambling breakdown on Youtube because his viewers wouldn't help him pay the rent after he spent all his money on toys.
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3 posted:That was Sean Long, who had a 11-minute long rambling breakdown on Youtube because his viewers wouldn't help him pay the rent after he spent all his money on toys. And then Internet Personality Vangelus responded with a brilliant parody.
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Speaking of Vangelus and Cyclops, the pinnacle of Internet Toy Reviewing was when he tested Cyclops's ability to float on-camera and it was a total disaster. Vangelus and Thew are the only good reviewers.
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Knormal posted:I think their Streetwise looks decent, but the I don't like the weird sci-fi bike they chose for Groove. I know they had to do something, since a motorcycle's just not bulky enough to make a good three-mode figure, but what they chose totally clashes with the rescue vehicle theme. I'd rather they just chose some other alt mode altogether. But at least you can't say it's blah I guess. This owns.
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I've been googling and looking for any good write ups about rare/unreleased/japanese exclusive Animated figures, What are some good sites for this? I've come up with diddly-squat so far (I have the Almanacs pages).
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