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Yeah, could be a Takara-only thing, but there could also be dinobot repaints or even offscreen characters. I was talking about this listing btw.
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The problem with the toy for my eye is the position of the legs. See the the gap before the hinge for the torso in front of the leg? If the legs were there (so like one leg width forward) instead of where they are the split of his body would be much better. I'm awful so excuse the ms paint, but something like this seems better proportioned in terms of torso length  compared to 
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Blackheart posted:Yeah, could be a Takara-only thing, but there could also be dinobot repaints or even offscreen characters. I thought that was assumed to be the Voyager Grimlock with a smaller Prime that can ride him, but I guess it could be a previously unknown one. Probably not Paddles, I'd say.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Chrome can be neat on say, bumpers and hubcaps and things there it makes sense, but on a lot of Henkei figures it just looks weird and bad and the chrome is way out of place. On the Leader Grimlock and Optimus, the chrome looks awful and makes them look like dollar store knockoffs. Chrome looks nice on say, G1 toys, but on modern figures it more often than not looks pretty bad. Yeah, if it were like detail work, then hey that's pretty neat, but those huge swaths of chrome on Leader Grimlock just look out of place and it really looks bad like that. What they could have done to make it look a lot less ugly (and albeit infinitely gaudier) would be to just put chrome everywhere on that fucker and just give him detail work so he gets a g1 look. This just looks BAD, which really disappoints me. I dig the copper color scheme he had (and has for the voyager).
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Age of Extinction is brining back Sparkbots, except they don't transform and they're just non transformable Autobots riding on non transformable dinosaurs. But they scoot across the floor and they spark. Although I'm certain that they would never do actual sparking sparkbots for generations. They would just be normal non-sparking transformers. Leader Grimlock is pretty sad, Ultra Megatron from beast Wars was way better than him, not to mention Transmetals Megatron did the whole chromed T-Rex thing and made it work in both robot and beast mode. Grimlock is quite a few big steps back, he's not even that accurate to his movie form.
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Apr 13, 2014 03:55
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Wow that looks A LOT better! Even with the weird green blob. Another thing that would help is if he had 2-3 more pairs of useless T-rex arms.
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TheDK posted:Wow that looks A LOT better! Even with the weird green blob. Yeah, my immersion is broken already with whatever the hell Strafe is, why not take that ball and just run with it? Give him a creepy centipede chest.
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Nobody knows why Strafe has two heads. I don't even think it gets mentioned in the movie to why he is the way he is.
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TheDK posted:Wow that looks A LOT better! Even with the weird green blob. Yeah I'm colourblind and forgot the colour match tool existed when I did those two blobs, but I hope it illustrates the point of the leg position!
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The Taint Reaper posted:Nobody knows why Strafe has two heads. I don't even think it gets mentioned in the movie to why he is the way he is. All the dinobots are mutant dinos like Slug has horns on his mouth and sharp teeth and Grimlock's face is a bit more like a dragons
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interesting finds today (not purchases, mostly) Whirl at TRU, which is boring really. But the two big ones: Up-scaled Voyaged Predaking at Target, or at least what I assume is up-scaled, looks like the Legends class one, but comes with an Infernus Sword? It looked really different from the other predakings and had series 003 on it. Series 4 Kreons at Walgreens, priced at $1.99. I actually bought these, but I couldn't find 38-40. I want Kup, Rhinox and Hot Rod out of the set, so feel free to laugh if those are the three I missed, I haven't checked a guide to see which are which number. Still waiting for that legends Cosmos. Had a TRU employee open a box of legends that I thought was that wave, and more Megs/starscream/bumblebee/OP. Purchased the one optimus, as I wanted to get an Optimus figure (didn't have one, go figure), and got a messed up paint ap on the left knee, a left arm that doesn't fit in the chest window right, and a head that doesn't stay up. So pretty much Hoist 2.0 in construction there (seriously, why is it always the left knee that's hosed up on the paint apps?). Though I found out you can turn his head around, peg Roller into it, and make Prime the worst headmaster, that's kind of fun.
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Rita Repulsa posted:All the dinobots are mutant dinos Making them a little more spikey I can understand as a design flourish; with Strafe the only possible explanation is that the production crew just forgot what dinosaurs were there for a while.
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The explanation for Strafe is actually really requires neither incompetence nor idiocy: Two-headed Pteranodons are  to the max!
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G1 Strafe looks like he has two nosecones, sort of. Or those are guns. I don't know, I can sort of see the visual inspiration. Kind of. If there were something that could possibly break MY IMMERSION it would be a two headed dinosaur. Not my childhood father figure demanding faces.
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I Don't mind 2 headed dinosaurs, it's just that he's not Sinnertwin, Snapdragon, Doublecross, Hungrrr and such. Also his deluxe figure looks like rear end with it's paintjob. It ruined the figure almost as much as Grimlock. He doesn't look as nice as the others. Like if he got a good repaint and a new bot mode head he would look worlds better. As of now he honestly look like a Dinozaurs guy. So far Spinosaurus and Triceratops dudes are the best of the bunch.
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I just hope someone in the film points it out, that's all.
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The_Doctor posted:I just hope someone in the film points it out, that's all. I doubt it, they couldn't even be bothered to get the character names right for the other 3 movies. And you also had stuff like suddenly blackout rising from the dead and tackling optimus prime in the forest.
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The Taint Reaper posted:I doubt it, they couldn't even be bothered to get the character names right for the other 3 movies. That was "Grindor," his brother or whatever. Same model/toy.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:That was "Grindor," his brother or whatever. Same model/toy. But a different helicopter, oddly enough. In the films, Blackout is a Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low, while Grindor is a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion. Meaning Grindor is actually slightly larger than Blackout, at least in vehicle mode. Obviously the toys are identical to one another.
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We should have all just walked away from this bullshit when they called Brawl Devastator, and just realized how little they care about this poo poo.
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The Rage posted:We should have all just walked away from this bullshit when they called Brawl Devastator, and just realized how little they care about this poo poo. Care about what exactly?
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:G1 Strafe looks like he has two nosecones, sort of. Or those are guns. I don't know, I can sort of see the visual inspiration. There is 100% no way anybody on staff even looked at G1 Strafe. They have a big list of trademarked names they can use, and they were told "make a pterodactyl robot," and somebody thought Strafe sounded cooler than Swoop.
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Keldroc posted:But a different helicopter, oddly enough. In the films, Blackout is a Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low, while Grindor is a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion. Meaning Grindor is actually slightly larger than Blackout, at least in vehicle mode. Obviously the toys are identical to one another. Come to TFCon so I can slowly shake my head at you in person, please.
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Rei_ posted:Come to TFCon so I can slowly shake my head at you in person, please. Come to TFCon in Chicago so that I'm not lonely.
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strangehamster posted:Come to TFCon in Chicago so that I'm not lonely. I wanted to eat deep dish while talking about robots life, etc
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Did Lighter Grey Blackout even transform in DOTM? Didn't he just show up out of nowhere so there could be a third bot around Optimus could decapitate who wasn't Starscream or Megatron?
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It's ROTF, and yes: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_4ZqukpcA (About 30 seconds in)
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Sire Oblivion posted:Care about what exactly? Getting details correct.
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HiriseSoftware posted:It's ROTF, and yes: He's also the helicopter that abducts Sam and the others in their car and flies them to the New Jersey warehouse that's adjacent to the forest, I believe.
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So what happened to those Illegal Generations Leader Megatron Pictures? I'm hearing that he might be worth my money but every single board insists on being Hasbro's white knight and scrubbing any trace. Where's a transformer board that takes life by the horns and shows pictures of future toys without a sense of consequence or apology? I want my G2 Megatron has he was always intended, with knee articulation and moveable arms. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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The Taint Reaper posted:
Transformers fandom outside this thread is a vortex of nightmares. Or oubliette of suffering. Or childcoffin of darkness. Or some other Stephen Moffat-esque turn of phrase.
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Other posted:There's been leaks of Gen Megatron? Not that I've seen or can find reference to. Those are some very efficient forum mods, if they're really nuking pics that fast.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Transformers fandom outside this thread is a vortex of nightmares. Or oubliette of suffering. Or childcoffin of darkness. Or some other Stephen Moffat-esque turn of phrase. Because it does amaze me how each different path you can take out of this thread into a different branch of the fandom leads you into a different kind of Hell, each completely different except for all being quite dreadful.
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Spiderdrake posted:So is the vortex of nightmares the /co/ thread and tumblr, the oubliette TFW and the childcoffin /toy/? Don't forget allspark.com, the "American McGee's Alice" of TF fandom hell.
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The Facebook page for TFWiki has this one really insufferable guy on it.
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Spiderdrake posted:So is the vortex of nightmares the /co/ thread and tumblr, the oubliette TFW and the childcoffin /toy/? At least the /co/ thread seems o genuinely like Transformers, albeit in their own....special way. /toy/, however, is the worst hell imaginable.
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Keldroc posted:Not that I've seen or can find reference to. Those are some very efficient forum mods, if they're really nuking pics that fast. Doesn't one of them constantly edit articles to tfwiki if the continuity is only slightly out of place for something? I mean it's not out of the realms of possibilities, Rattrap, Tankor, and Crosscut are already able to be gotten in Asia, Tailgate and Skrapnel too. The Leaders have to be coming sometime soonish. I only heard about the possible leak when I was waiting for the Chase figure and the convention exclusive on Matty collector. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Well, the nutjob behavior of the TFWiki clique is a whole different kettle of fish. If GenLeadMegs had leaked, I feel like someone would be saying something somewhere. I can't find anything at all. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist/didn't happen, but suppressing information like that on the internet is kind of impossible in most cases.
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