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Other posted:MP Grimlock's up, 80 bucks Massive thanks for this. Chances of finding him when he hits Australia are close to zero, and even with shipping and $80 price tag he is probably the same price as getting him here. Again, massive thanks for the heads up.
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I want to know how TRU UK is justifying £99 ($165) for MP Grimlock. Aside from 'Ha, gently caress you fanboy', that is.
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May 28, 2014 16:42
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Well, it's a specialty item, you see, and there's really no demand for it and...
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May 28, 2014 17:03
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Just ordered my Grimlock. So hyped about this dude. I can stop harassing my local TRU employees until MP Prowl drops.
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May 28, 2014 17:03
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Just posting to say that I did not order an MP Grimlock because I already own one. Sure, I want that little crown and my Takara one has hosed-up chrome on the eyes. And I could resell it for a profit even without the crown and part I need swapped. But I had enough will power for once and I'm posting this instead of being a greedy fucker. Keepin myself honest.
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May 28, 2014 17:09
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...and it's gone before I can check out. It's MP Soundwave all over again. 
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May 28, 2014 17:25
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Walked into local TRU, walked out with MP Grimlock. Today has been acceptable.
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May 28, 2014 17:39
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I don't particularly like Grimlock so I'd like to see what Fanstoys version will look like.
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May 28, 2014 17:44
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Is Galvatron getting a evolution 2 pack? Because that Optimus Prime one looks very similar to the Cloud one, so I was kinda hoping we could have gotten G1 Voyager Tank Megatron.
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May 28, 2014 18:35
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Okay, wow. So a couple notes on MP Grimlock: 1) This is the loosest loving toy I've ever had. I have Beast Wars toys from when I was a kid that have tighter joints than this. 2) While his hips are practically dangling, his knees ratchet joints. Tights ratchet joints. DANGEROUSLY TIGHT rachet joints attached to small, thin plastic posts. And I thought MP Soundwave's hips were bad... 3) His tail accordions into his feet, which is cool, but nothing actually pegs in, so the chrome tips of his tail are always going to flop inwards. 4) Speaking of chrome, mine had some discoloration/fingerprint marks already- while it was still in the plastic. So uh, good luck with keeping that poo poo shiny. 5)This one isn't a dealbreaker, but unlike most MPs, Grimlock has a light-up gimmick. It's not bad, but it's not that great either, and it makes his weapons look strange when they aren't using it. FoC Grimlock's lights were more impressive looking. So.... I guess he's passable? Definitely not $250, maybe not even the $80 I paid. He's impressive looking, I guess, but I'm just constantly let down by the Masterpiece line as actual toys. Also, on AoE Deluxe Strafe: those of you worried about "gorilla arms" needn't worry. His fists don't actually rotate back into his wrists; in fact they have little to no horizontal motion at all. Instead, you can move them up and down slightly. I'm hoping they find a way to retool the head into a single head that splits apart, give it a new tail (the whole tail piece is a single soft plastic part), a new gun, an orange splash of paint, and give us a Generations Terrorsaur. He's a great figure and I'd love to see this mold get reused on something interesting.
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May 28, 2014 19:33
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Grimlock is also a relic from back when the MP line was still figuring it out. I'd say anything after MP 10 is both a good Transformer and toy.
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May 28, 2014 19:43
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I have the first Hasbro release of MP Grimlock and I've never noticed anything being too tight or loose. Try loosening/tightening some screws if that's an option
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May 28, 2014 19:44
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Geez, my MP Grimlock from the first North American release was a little loose at the hips - no dynamic posing on a smooth shelf without a rubber mat or something - but not anywhere near as bad as you're making it sound. Mold degradation/lower tolerances/different materials in this production run?
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May 28, 2014 19:46
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I still don't see why rid had to go back to Earth and dredge back up all the dire continuity of pre rogers idw. Thundercracker is still really funny, though.
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May 28, 2014 19:57
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I have the first US release of MP Grimlock and I never noticed any problems with extreme looseness or tightness.
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May 28, 2014 20:11
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My Takara Grimlock certainly isn't overly loose anywhere, although untabbing his dino chest halves always feels like he's going to snap something. Seems a bit soon for the mold to be degrading to that degree, but some have also said that the plastic on the new Grimlock feels different, so maybe a lower grade of plastic is to blame.Why cookie Rocket posted:Beast Wars Neo is all shellformers. Hence my statement "None of the lines are perfect" that you conveniently removed so you could make your post about something that was already over.
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May 28, 2014 20:58
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therealjon_ posted:Grimlock is also a relic from back when the MP line was still figuring it out. I'd say anything after MP 10 is both a good Transformer and toy. Do you think MP Magnus might be a "step back". Half of the photos I've seen make it look so awesome, the other half, not so much.
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May 28, 2014 21:05
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Ka0 posted:Do you think MP Magnus might be a "step back". Half of the photos I've seen make it look so awesome, the other half, not so much. Maybe I'm easy to please, but the photos shown so far I think are fantastic. The height, bulk, and not being just a white Prime are pretty exciting to me. Sure something COULD go wrong going into production for it, but what I've seen is very satisfying.
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May 28, 2014 21:18
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Yeah, nothing I've seen from Magnus has disappointed me yet, I don't even think the buttflap's that bad. I'm not going out of my way to get him since I've never been that much into Ultra magnus but the design itself is very cool so far. I think foreversmug might have gotten a particularly bad Grimlock, I've been kinda following the feedback on that and it seems to be a pretty decent release, mostly.
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May 28, 2014 21:44
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Magnus' legs are hot garbage, the ramps just sitting straight up instead of flush against the bulk of them is the dumbest looking thing in the new MP line to date. Sure if you stare at him completely dead on he's alright but as soon as you get any kind of angle he just looks loving awful. Really disappointing after the amazing job done on MPs 10 - 21.
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May 28, 2014 22:05
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Sentinel Red posted:Magnus' legs are hot garbage, the ramps just sitting straight up instead of flush against the bulk of them is the dumbest looking thing in the new MP line to date. Sure if you stare at him completely dead on he's alright but as soon as you get any kind of angle he just looks loving awful. Really disappointing after the amazing job done on MPs 10 - 21. Magnus is just a small man in a giant suit, he's as 1980's as you can get.
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May 28, 2014 22:07
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Ka0 posted:Do you think MP Magnus might be a "step back". Half of the photos I've seen make it look so awesome, the other half, not so much. He's definitely the first MP since MP-10 that I have serious misgivings about from the photos, so yeah, maybe. The legs aren't great, but mainly I don't like the butt flap, which I think ruins his head-on silhouette. I would prefer that panel be able to fold up into the backpack somehow.
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May 28, 2014 22:08
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The Taint Reaper posted:Magnus is just a small man in a giant suit, he's as 1980's as you can get. 
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May 28, 2014 22:15
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Keldroc posted:Hence my statement "None of the lines are perfect" that you conveniently removed so you could make your post about something that was already over. I made that edit for brevity, not to cast your statement in a different light. Because even if you first state that all lines are flawed (you did, and I totally agree), the "BW was all tail guns and arm mouths" stereotype is completely ridiculous.
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May 28, 2014 22:21
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Why cookie Rocket posted:I made that edit for brevity, not to cast your statement in a different light. Because even if you first state that all lines are flawed (you did, and I totally agree), the "BW was all tail guns and arm mouths" stereotype is completely ridiculous. It was intended to be, to match the implication made in the post I responded to that somehow G1 figures are inherently inferior because they are of their time. We all know G1 has its shortcomings, and that so many of the figures in that line are almost literal bricks with arms, but as the Bard said, when you diss the Dinobots you diss yourself.
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May 28, 2014 23:27
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Rita Repulsa posted:I still don't see why rid had to go back to Earth and dredge back up all the dire continuity of pre rogers idw. To give Prowl another excuse to be a huge jerk? Thundercracker really is the best part of this though.
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May 29, 2014 00:36
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The_Doctor posted:I want to know how TRU UK is justifying £99 ($165) for MP Grimlock. Aside from 'Ha, gently caress you fanboy', that is. Yup, it's not even the classic "swap the $ for the £" this time.
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May 29, 2014 01:28
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Gammatron 64 posted:I have the first US release of MP Grimlock and I never noticed any problems with extreme looseness or tightness. Same with me, never noticed anything like that. After reading this thread, it made me really glad I picked up MP Grimlock on a whim the first time he was around.
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May 29, 2014 02:57
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God drat it. I spent a few hours working on the car and I miss MP Grimlock! And I like how it's removed from the drat system.
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May 29, 2014 03:01
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So the new legends guys waves after Gears and Acidstorm seem to be having their partners be named after G1 Targetmasters. The repaints will also be switching up their partners so it's not a straight up repaint either. Like Cliffjumper coming with the Roller repaint and Scourge/Nemesis prime coming with Bumblebee's Helicopter. Still no word if Brawn is going to be a repaint of Swerve or if it's going to be an entirely new guy. I would love a new Brawn and Outback considering that Universe 2.0 Brawn was hard as hell to find and RTS Fallback/Outback used the Brawn deluxe movie mold.
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May 29, 2014 05:00
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Yeah, MP Grimlock's knees are way too tight, but his hips aren't THAT loose. He doesn't fall over when posed, and that's the point where I stuff something in the joint (gotta get me some of that liquid latex or whatever it was that was mentioned earlier in the thread for my KO Fansproject Not-Bombshell's shoulders.) I fixed Grimlock's knees, though. Very easy. I am reasonably sure this is what the problem with everyone's new MP Grimlocks is. It's very easy to fix if so.  That's what it looks like before modification. There's nowhere for the spring to go. It's far too thick and it doesn't really compress much if you squeeze it between your fingers. You need to cut it a little shorter so the ratchet has room to move when you bend the knee. One "ring" of material will be plenty. *Edited for picture and succinctness.* CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 06:13 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 06:02
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The Taint Reaper posted:I would love a new Brawn and Outback considering that Universe 2.0 Brawn was hard as hell to find and RTS Fallback/Outback used the Brawn deluxe movie mold. If the reason is that they're not G1 enough I'll understand, but I hope you're not criticizing the super awesome Brawn/Fallback mold, my friend!
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May 29, 2014 16:40
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Is Legends Tailgate out yet? I need him to be totes adorbs next to Cyclonus.
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May 29, 2014 17:00
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Honest Ray posted:Is Legends Tailgate out yet? I need him to be totes adorbs next to Cyclonus. He and Skrapnel have been sighted at US retail apparently. Edit: 
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May 29, 2014 17:04
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I'm liking a lot of the movie toys so far. Skorn as everyone knows is great and probably the best in the line so far. Slug is okay, his triceratops mode is cute, just wish his dino legs went somewhere in bot mode. Evasion Prime is really fun to transform, but I'd like it more if the upper arms were red and silver and his robot mode smokestacks were painted (which also makes him having one smokestack in bot mode pretty odd). Leader Prime looks cool in both modes, if only they had broken up the truck chassis chillin on his back. I think there's gonna be some really cool paint jobs done with this guy. If you look at the back of his feet, the transformation actually works really well for a G2 styled Prime. I've passed on Bee so far cause despite loving 1st gen Camaros his bot mode is the same one we've had a billion times at this point (if they can pull off his new bot mode well I'll definitely buy that though). There's a lot of praise in the thread for Crosshairs, but he just looks too much like a robot with a whole car on his back.
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May 29, 2014 17:07
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Honest Ray posted:Is Legends Tailgate out yet? I need him to be totes adorbs next to Cyclonus.
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May 29, 2014 19:06
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What the hell?
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May 29, 2014 20:12
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Hahaha, people are already raging at the super blurry, mistransformed Hasbro MP Sunstorm picture that popped up. quote:Fly too close to the sun and you'll get burned. Get too close to Sunstorm, and you'll be dissolved into a puddle of liquid scrap. The maniacal warrior's radiation-emitting armor has the power to melt the metal of nearby bots, disabling their circuits and scrambling their brain module in the process. Some might say this is a quirk of science - a glitch that triggered a reaction when Sunstorm was forged. Sunstorm himself would say it's something more: a gift from higher power that he must use on those who deserve to feel his wrath. That might be a little much, but do you really want to argue with him? e: this is also pretty cool I think: 
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May 29, 2014 20:14
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I just saw there are 4 MP Grimlocks at my local TRU. I bought an extra one along with the one for myself in the mail. If any goons want one at cost plus shipping so about $86 plus whatever the shipping cost is, let me know. My email is ryuk8488@yahoo.com. More than happy to help some guys get a toy they want.
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Blackheart posted:Hahaha, people are already raging at the super blurry, mistransformed Hasbro MP Sunstorm picture that popped up. Given the paint job looks like pure hot garbage and there are actual knock offs that look better, I can't say I blame them.
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