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Captain Magic posted:I don't know that I've heard a single even-slightly negative thing about Quakewave. I regret missing out on him. ??? http://www.toydojo.com/fans-toys-ft-03-purple-quake-wave/ ???
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Guess I'm gonna put in an order for a dang dinosaur. Thanks y'all.
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SpikeMcclane posted:I finally have a good use for that 1/12th scale bathroom stall. Oh poo poo. I was just thinking that I'm going to have to get a little toilet for my G2 Sideswipe to sit on. I need to get one of those now.
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therealjon_ posted:Kinda want that gray one now ... I have both side by side, they are amazing. And if anyone is wondering about Toy Dojo, the owner is a personal friend of mine, top notch customer service.
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Walked through TRU on the way to somewhere else in the mall, and found a Skids hiding behind a whole mess of Dreadwings and Goldfires.  E: I will always kind of regret not getting the slab of beef from the Rocky action figure line a few years back. Not enough to hunt it down on eBay, mind. Phy fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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So if any of you have YOTH Optimus Prime, stand the trailer up in repair mode or whatever and have a bunch of blue LEDs or ultra violet lights shine through it in a dark room. It's  incarnate. Like the opening to 2001 but the details of the trailer interior are projected everywhere it's a monolith of lightpiping, awe inspiring, breathtaking.And I don't have a proper camera to capture it's majesty.... But yeah imagine the entire movie of tron as an action figure. I'm almost convinced that the clear trailer and weird plastic choices was meant to be shown as a piece of art and not just a toy. Because the Light reflects perfectly off of optimus as his stands infront of the trailer all silhouette like in robot mode. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Feb 22, 2014 |
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Ah, shucks, okay. Thank you. Okay well between clearance Legos (already bought), the Sea Cow and SpaceshipspaceshipSPACESHIP! (probably next month's big purchases), and a sort of unofficial moratorium I have put on big TF purchases...I am probably still going to miss out on him.
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With all that toyfair news I'm really happy we can be back on minibot watch. ...and the money saved not having to import Swerve, I suppose that...um, justifies getting My First Blaster, right?
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Good news the Cloud version of Brawn looks like garbage, and is pretty much indistinguishable from Bulkhead in vehicle form(they're both green where the green is and no other major differences). Brawn's head is also smaller than his hands and his head and arms are all flat gray. He does not have the same color applications as the GDO version and actually has less. Mind you this guy is going for 90 bucks.
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I wonder if sometime soon, the comics are going to do a major population boom or somehow magic back all the dead characters(or most of them)? The current theme seems to be that there really aren't all that many Autobots and Decepticons left. It's said somewhere I think that 'millions' of unaligned ones left at the start of the war, but RiD at current suggests a population of maybe I dunno...500-600 tops? Luna 2 had that dormant hotspot that apparently consisted of around a billion sparks, and there was the revelation that the matrix can indeed be used to create life - if it's ever fixed. I mean they can keep repopulating the main/supplementary casts with endless characters from Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy, redesigned Micromasters & Minicons, etc etc etc. But it would be interesting to see it on the backdrop of a bustling planet somewhere.
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I guess that depends on how accurate Ironhide's vision of the future was.
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I've never been 100% sure that it was Rodimus carrying the Matrix that reignited the hotspot. Because someone else manages to touch down at the same time.
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Voyagers for $19.99 at TRU? Crazy. That said, I wish my local TRUs had some 14.99 prime Voyagers, they're still $26.99 or something here. Also, wish my TRUs had that many TF figures in general.
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Anora posted:Voyagers for $19.99 at TRU? Crazy. That's £19.99, which is about $30.
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I didn't know about the Ultra class Energon Starscream re-issue. I have the voyager and unless that one is massively more complex, and not just blown-up with a crown, I have no clue how you justify that cost. Better than TRU Hayes yesterday anyway, no MPs for sure, a few FoC guys, some FoC and BH Voyagers, thank that was about it.
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BizarroAzrael posted:I didn't know about the Ultra class Energon Starscream re-issue. I have the voyager and unless that one is massively more complex, and not just blown-up with a crown, I have no clue how you justify that cost. That's exactly what it is, and quite simply you can't justify the cost. There's just no way. That's a $50 figure tops, all day long.
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Son of a bitch I wish ANYWHERE near me had Metroplex. I refuse to buy a Costco membership just for one toy.
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The_Doctor posted:The state of TRU Brent Cross: Glad I didn't bother going the other week then. It's still £30+ for a Skids on ebay too. I'll see what I can find in New York when I go next month but I don't hold out hope.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Son of a bitch I wish ANYWHERE near me had Metroplex. I refuse to buy a Costco membership just for one toy. You should get a Costco membership because buying giant pallets of food is awesome. A toy is just a bonus!
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Son of a bitch I wish ANYWHERE near me had Metroplex. I refuse to buy a Costco membership just for one toy. None of the Costco stores around me have them any longer, anyway.
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All kinds of MP sized third party Dinobots being announced. Only one I'll preorder before reviews is Acoria though.
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Yeah, a Costco membership is really worth it. Not worth it for Metroplex, but for huge boxes of food and beer for low prices.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Yeah, a Costco membership is really worth it. Not worth it for Metroplex, but for huge boxes of food and beer for low prices. That and they're the one big box retailer that actually treats their employees like human beings.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Yeah, a Costco membership is really worth it. Not worth it for Metroplex, but for huge boxes of food and beer for low prices. The $1.50 hot dog and drink combo is tough to beat, and the very berry sundae is delicious. My Costco unfortunately never got Metroplex though :-/ It looks cool but I didn't want to spend more than a $100 for something tgat barely has an alt mode.
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404GoonNotFound posted:That and they're the one big box retailer that actually treats their employees like human beings. That too. I feel better buying stuff from Costco than Wal-Mart. I got my Metroplex way before it was announced that Costco was getting them for $80, and I haven't ever seen one in there. Costco doesn't usually have toys anymore. Although years back when Cybertron was still going, I got this badass two pack of RiD Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus there. I think what we can take away from this conversation is that y'all should get a Costco card, just sayin'.
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404GoonNotFound posted:That and they're the one big box retailer that actually treats their employees like human beings. I worked there almost a decade ago, and I can confirm they are a great company to work for and have policies that are actually beneficial to employees, which is sadly very rare.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Son of a bitch I wish ANYWHERE near me had Metroplex. I refuse to buy a Costco membership just for one toy. You bitched about this when it was announced too, and they've been up at HTS for months. Just order one dude. They've been gone from Costco for awhile. http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/transformers-generations-titan-class-metroplex-with-autobot-scamper-figure?BR=496&ID=32177
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Metroplex is going to cost you a ton of money no matter how you get it. It's a 2 foot tall transformer. And there's people who bought 12 of them just to take 11 apart and make into terrible customs of characters nobody gives a poo poo about. Also it serves as a nice place to display transformers once you run out of room. For full effect it can merge nicely with the new Castle greyskull so you can have even more room to put your classics guys.
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Look I want Metroplex as much as any fan, but $190+ in shipping costs is unheard of, even where I live.
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therealjon_ posted:All kinds of MP sized third party Dinobots being announced. Only one I'll preorder before reviews is Acoria though. Yeah, sticking with Fans Toys on this one.
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Ka0 posted:Look I want Metroplex as much as any fan, but $190+ in shipping costs is unheard of, even where I live. That's ONLY shipping and not counting the actual figure, is it?
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I forgot I had already complained about it a long time ago. Oopsie I have a Sam's membership through work that I really don't use anyway. Thanks for the link to it on HTS, I had seen it on Amazon as well. I guess it would be easier for me to impulse buy it if it was in front of my face.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:I forgot I had already complained about it a long time ago. Oopsie Don't get me wrong, when I saw them at $80 I immediately bought two. At $125, it definitely makes you pause.
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We have one of those Metroplexes sitting on the 'toys too big for anyone to care about' shelves at my local Big W for $149AUD. Maybe a little less, and the box is a wee bit scuffy from probably just being ignored and manhandled for so long. I didn't know they were so in demand. Are they actually a cool figure or is it just 'OH GOD IT'S SO BIG I MUST OWN ONE' fever?
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Aaronicon posted:We have one of those Metroplexes sitting on the 'toys too big for anyone to care about' shelves at my local Big W for $149AUD. Maybe a little less, and the box is a wee bit scuffy from probably just being ignored and manhandled for so long. I didn't know they were so in demand. Are they actually a cool figure or is it just 'OH GOD IT'S SO BIG I MUST OWN ONE' fever? I think he's pretty awesome, he's got all my Generations Legends figures fighting all over him right now, and he's standing behind my monitor holding either side of my screen.
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Aaronicon posted:We have one of those Metroplexes sitting on the 'toys too big for anyone to care about' shelves at my local Big W for $149AUD. Maybe a little less, and the box is a wee bit scuffy from probably just being ignored and manhandled for so long. I didn't know they were so in demand. Are they actually a cool figure or is it just 'OH GOD IT'S SO BIG I MUST OWN ONE' fever? He's a pretty awesome figure and has a ton of articulation. Being huge is just an added bonus. Yeah base mode is the weakest of the bunch, but vehicle mode is sturdy and robot mode is amazing.
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therealjon_ posted:All kinds of MP sized third party Dinobots being announced. Only one I'll preorder before reviews is Acoria though. The new Snarl, for anyone who hasn't seen it: 
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Knormal posted:The Fanstoys Slag is the only one that looks to make major improvements on the dinosaur mode over the G1 guys. I don't think we've seen dino-mode images of the other two, but from what's showing they don't look to have any of the awesome tail or neck articulation Fanstoys worked in. Yeah, this one looks to be similar to the UT Predacons in that it's just the G1 figure made larger and with the bare minimum of modern articulation. Much more interested to see what Fans Toys does with the character. And, of course, Sludge.
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