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Blackheart posted:
Hasblow just keeps making them smaller and smaller!
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May 19, 2014 22:41
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DoctorWhat posted:If that isn't a joke: From the background it was taken at a store, so I fear it's a real deal. Yup, this fandom has some tremendous assholes on it. e: GIVE ME YOUR OREOS! Blackheart fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 22:55
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ForeverSmug posted:I love how third party chat is consistently "this toy is better than anything hasblow would make" and "you better be careful and not transform it very often because it'll break in half if you look at it wrong" and those two ideas never ever meet. I love third party stuff, but when its fans go wrong, they really get twisted and weird. It's like high-octane capitalism: the unspoken assumption is that it's their privilege as a fan with extra money to have the very concrete shape of the abstract form of desire in their hands, and if anything is not just right, then the entire ordeal is worthless. Everyone is so invested in their own concept of the fandom that any designer intent with a toy is immediately disregarded as extraneous. I get it, they are putting up a bunch of cash for this poo poo. At the same time, I wish they would shut the gently caress up already and just post more pictures of cool toys. Edit: I hope it's clear that I like everybody here and I enjoy when we talk about our different aesthetics. I am being pissy about the tfw forums. Captain Magic fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 23:15
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Back in the Alternator days I was always worried I'd take one home and find out it was a Bburago or Maisto model swapped in. Not that those aren't cool too. The first movie wave is out here. I guess I'm not buying any! None of them really interested me, even the dinobots. Evasion Prime looks like a neat transformation, I might pick him up if he gets an interesting repaint.
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May 19, 2014 23:16
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Dude Slog and Scorn are mad cool, buy them and they will grow on you tremendously.
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I see repackages all the time. I was at Target once and all the Marvel Universe 2-packs had been repacked with dirty GI Joes replacing at least one figure.
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Speaking of third party stuff, OH MY!
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I know I'm dumb, but who is that supposed to be? Tarantulas?
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So if one wanted an AOE Grimlock, is there a clear winner between the Voyager and the Leader? The TFW review threads are an incomprehensible mess of people saying both are superior/sub-firecon level terrible.
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Back as a kid in G1 I LOVED the insecticons, both regular and deluxe, but for some reason Scorponok never interested me. I guess Trypticon looked way cooler to me. Not that I ever even saw either in person, but boy did I like looking at them on the toy catalogs. Why cookie Rocket posted:So if one wanted an AOE Grimlock, is there a clear winner between the Voyager and the Leader? The TFW review threads are an incomprehensible mess of people saying both are superior/sub-firecon level terrible. To me it'd be the voyager, I think it looks cool in T-rex mode (unlike the leader) and the robot mode is neat enough. I'll have to give him a new weapon, which is easy enough since those construct-bots I bought earlier are an arsenal of cool 5mm peg weapons for everybody. Like docwhat says below this post, the standard transformation does leave him with gorilla arms but the hands do swivel if you detach a bit of the kibble. Note that I don't own either Grimlock yet, I was waiting for the platinum "tupac" to be available but sadly it's a toys'r'us exclusive and those never, ever find their way over here. Blackheart fucked around with this message at 00:59 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 00:54
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Why cookie Rocket posted:So if one wanted an AOE Grimlock, is there a clear winner between the Voyager and the Leader? The TFW review threads are an incomprehensible mess of people saying both are superior/sub-firecon level terrible. The Voyager has a better dino mode despite its oversize head, just by virtue of not having its legs waaaay too far towards the tail. The Voyager DOES have the problem of kinda-sorta having Gorilla Arms, in that the wrist swivel locks in robot mode, and unlocking it brings a ton of kibble along for the ride. That's all I know.
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Optimus doesn't even eat it, he just gets his strength from stealing food out of the hands of children 
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3 posted:Optimus doesn't even eat it, he just gets his strength from stealing food out of the hands of children Terry's gonna have a field day.
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3 posted:Optimus doesn't even eat it, he just gets his strength from stealing food out of the hands of children Transformers: Age of Theft
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I think the AOE leader Grimlock has been universally panned. Even peaugh hated it, and he's nice about almost everything.
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He's just going to crush it in his unyielding metal grip, too. More like "Age of Hydrox-tinction"
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Why cookie Rocket posted:So if one wanted an AOE Grimlock, is there a clear winner between the Voyager and the Leader? The TFW review threads are an incomprehensible mess of people saying both are superior/sub-firecon level terrible. Neither is particularly great, but I'd say the Voyager is better in terms of least problems plus better price point. At the very least, it has the better T-Rex mode, which is what a Dinobot is generally all about.
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therealjon_ posted:Speaking of third party stuff, OH MY! Ah Perfect Effect. It will only cost ~$599 and be composed of a billion small parts and accesories.
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Who wants to spend $125 on a G1 painted AOE Grimlock? http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK11900&mode=retail
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It would be funny if Grimlock's robot mode in the movie turns out to be similar to the Flip & Change toys more than the Generations ones. This happened with Long Haul in ROTF, where the Fast Action Battler is more screen accurate than the voyager.
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Joe Fisto posted:Who wants to spend $125 on a G1 painted AOE Grimlock? I'm not usually one to believe the BBTS price-gouging accusations but, uh...that's pretty ridiculous. Then again, if the GEEWUNners will pay it, why the hell not?
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GEEWUNners will pay it, let them have it. It's good for hasbro and tomy in the end.
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It's going to be a real kick in the pants when they're released for like 13 bucks for America in Generations. YES EXTRA PAINT APPS ARE WORTH THE 112 EXTRA DOLLARS!!  I'm really thinking that at this point since they've shown all of them that Slag,Slug,Swoop and Snarl are going to come in a Platinum giftset or something. Maybe it will include Scorn and Slash too since 6 bots is the maximum that the platinum releases have come with? The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 04:04 on May 20, 2014 |
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A lot of fans will forgive anything takara does (like selling the new version of Battle Blade Bumblebee as a voyager, since it's kinda big) while accusing hasblow of being literally hitler if they did the same.
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Speaking of Hasbro being hitler, why didn't anyone know that Undermine, Wreckloose, and Backstop had resurfaced but this time on an official Generations card? Looks like nobody's generations collection shall be complete without Backstop and Wreckloose(undermine is a straight re-release again). But I'm gonna be mad if Rhinox becomes Voyager backstop. That and why not re-release a bunch of the other scouts as market 6 dudes and give them better paint jobs. Like that axed green and white Breacher. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 06:02 on May 20, 2014 |
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May 20, 2014 05:59
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Current series Generations cards? Any deco differences or just the same as back in 2010?
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I saw the movie leader classes in a store for the first time today, for anyone who's bought leader Prime, are his arms mis-transformed in the box or do they really sit that far forward on his torso? I'm on the fence about that figure, and it looks like his shoulder joints are almost even with the front of his chest. But considering how crunched up the deluxe dinos were in their packages I'm wondering if it's just an issue of box space. Also I'm really surprised how similar Hasbro made the packaging for all the sublines, every store I've seen has seen the conventional deluxes and the simplified deluxes all mixed together, and a lot of them have the non-transforming shampoo bottle figures above the price tags for the voyager and leader classes. I pity the parents and grandparents looking for a certain figure.
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therealjon_ posted:Speaking of third party stuff, OH MY! Oh. Oh great. Thanks for not announcing this BEFORE the loving Botcon sets went on sale. Assholes.
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Other posted:Current series Generations cards? Any deco differences or just the same as back in 2010? They look the same as the 2010-2011. Backstop and Wreckloose are the ones who were repainted and undermine remains the same. Transformerland amd TF2005 both have them listed under the Generations collection. I'm still looking for the rumored redone classics legends guys from universe 2.0. There's Bumblebee and a rumored Prime and Starscream from RTS. but I'm hoping that a Dollar store Cosmos or Brawn Shows up just like how America got 2 guys out of the 8 pack Euro exclusive minicons in the market six exclusives for Generations without warning.
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JediTalentAgent posted:He's just going to crush it in his unyielding metal grip, too. More like "Age of Hydrox-tinction" The joke's on you, Hydrox is already extinct.
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therealjon_ posted:Speaking of third party stuff, OH MY! I wonder which one will be more expensive, this or the Botcon one. That said, I'm glad I didn't drop four bills on the set this year.
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Well Warden was what? About $150? I'm gonna say $200 because I think if they go above that they will lose a subsctancial amount of buyers.
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Because I am a fool with far too much disposable income, I now have MP Ratbat*, the first Ratbat I've ever had. He's really rather brilliant, the whole cassette gang are like some kind of magic trick of how to take a tiny rectangle and make something nifty and cool out of it but drat, Ratbat and Lazerbeak are just in a league of their own. I hope they do Blaster and his crew some point soon, cassettebots are the best bots. (*Soundblaster's not too shabby either)
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Why would you not get Soundblaster, when clearly black, gold, silver and red is the superior color combination.
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Ka0 posted:Why would you not get Soundblaster, when clearly black, gold, silver and red is the superior color combination. Uh, Soundblaster? Who even is that. Is that a Japanese-only thing?  is that, Soundwave and Blaster's loveprotoform?This coming from the guy who loves the Year of the Horse MP-10 color scheme.
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MP Grimlock spotted at a TX Toys R Us!
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therealjon_ posted:MP Grimlock spotted at a TX Toys R Us! What's the official price?
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