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Blackheart posted:Roadbuster's lookin' pretty legit: Recon Ironhide, Whirl, AoE Hound, Skids and now Roadbuster. Hasbro sure loves giving Autobot characters loads of weapons. Maybe the Bay movies are getting to them. edit: 360 view 
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Blackheart posted:Roadbuster's lookin' pretty legit: I wonder if you can get Roadbuster into a 3rd mode. Whirl's cannon mode makes for an excellent 4th.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:03
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Picked up voyager Galvatron at Target today and I'm glad I didn't watch any reviews for him because I was pleasantly surprised by his transformation and how fun it was. Plus he's a pretty solid-feeling figure all around. The backpack is not that big of a deal. Voyagers and leaders on sale 5% off too! The vehicle mode absolutely dwarfs Evasion Mode Optimus too.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:06
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Blackheart posted:Roadbuster's lookin' pretty legit: It looks pretty good, but I'm not in love with it. May just wait to see what the Takara one looks like (and of course I'll probably buckle if I actually see it in a Target).
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Jul 1, 2014 05:13
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The Taint Reaper posted:I wonder if you can get Roadbuster into a 3rd mode. Whirl's cannon mode makes for an excellent 4th.
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I was in a comic shop recently and saw that they have a box of IDW Transformer comics for a dollar an issue. I have a bunch (all?) of the MTMTE and RID tpb's, so I just picked up the ones that said just "Transformers" (they all have movie inspired designs, guess this was the series before it split into RID and MTMTE?). Are the MTMTE or RID comics worth picking up at only a dollar each just for future flipping value? Also got Scoria today!  He's fantastic, except his shoulders are terribly loose. Getting Future where it needs to be seems like it'll involve taking his chest apart, which may be a real pain in the rear end.e: That Roadbuster is decent, not crazy about the head catch22 fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Jul 1, 2014 05:18
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:You can easily write the character out of the script by saying she went to college or something. The screenwriters deliberately made her break up with Sam in a way that hurts him deeply. All this thinking around such a trivial point, but I have to ask: does Michael Bay ever call himself "Mike?" Folks I know who call themselves Michael have gone through some trouble to NOT be known generally as Mike.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:25
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That Roadbuster is a Hasbro joint? That's freaking sweet, gotta keep an eye out for that. I was totally unaware he existed.
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Rhyno posted:That Roadbuster is a Hasbro joint? That's freaking sweet, gotta keep an eye out for that. I was totally unaware he existed. Yep, it's Hasbro's. He should be released soon in the US along with Sky-Byte. Comes with a lotta stickers like Whirl.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:33
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Blackheart posted:Yep, it's Hasbro's. He should be released soon in the US along with Sky-Byte. Comes with a lotta stickers like Whirl. Freaking excellent. I'm back on the TF wagon all of a sudden, might be finally getting MP Grimlock that did it.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:35
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Whirl had a LOT of stickers. I gave up.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:47
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TheDK posted:I'm digging Roadbuster's big rear end Autobot symbol. Yeah I thought his legs were garbage but it seems they were mistransformed in the promo pics. He looks real solid in those newer pics.
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Jul 1, 2014 05:56
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I must be the only person who doesnt care for Roadbuster. Standard robot mode with nothing standing out about it.
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Jul 1, 2014 06:17
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That Roadbuster (especially the legs) is giving me some rad-as-hell Fansproject-Y vibes.
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Jul 1, 2014 06:22
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Have the IDW titles gone down the shitter in the wake of Dark Cybertron? You guys don't talk about them much any more, and I never bother to catch up until I see gushing in this thread. This thread has pretty much always been more about the toys than anything else for as long as I've been in here. Which sucks because I can never afford them. In any case, MTMTE has only been improved by the inclusion of Megatron, and as was mentioned earlier, Windblade is great. TC's return in RiD was great, but everything else so far has been pretty average at best I think.
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RID had Spacebus and multiple posts about Spacebus so I don't know why you're dissing RID.
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Age Of Extinction is pretty solid. The fascinating thing is that the characterizations are totally reversed, and the good guys now behave almost-exactly like the Decepticons did in prior films. Optimus behaves almost-exactly like Megatron. The bright green robot behaves almost-exactly like Starscream. Meanwhile, the new villains are literally the Autobots. They are Autobot clones who work alongside a NEST-like black ops group to hunt down the new Decepticons (i.e. Optimus). Also, the film directly equates transformers fandom with brony-ism. The autobots are literally depicted as Rainbow Dash turning into a machinegun while nerds cackle. I think this might be satirical.
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Jul 1, 2014 07:56
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No-one bite. I'm guessing there's a room at Hasbro with a bunch of the third party stuff and they're taking notes.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Age Of Extinction is pretty solid. I agree except for the first and the last line. If you think any of this is satirical and not just inept writing and storytelling, you're completely out of your loving mind. Everything you say is the worst kind of baseless masturbation disguised as film criticism. I stopped reading CineD so I wouldn't have to read drivel like this, and it sucks that it's infected this thread now.
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Peaugh reviews Daca Toys Kronos and is incredibly forgiving http://youtu.be/bdKwPvx3Z_0
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catch22 posted:Peaugh reviews Daca Toys Kronos and is incredibly forgiving Wow that jet mode is a complete shitpile. Pretty impressive size and a reasonably good robot mode though.
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Christ, that guy is enormous! That's like combiner huge, drat. But yeah, that jet looks blah, and the robot pretty ordinary as well, and where's the massive flippy shoulder cannons?
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The_Doctor posted:No-one bite. I've assumed this for awhile now. Maybe they even order some of it and reverse engineer it, because that Hasbro brainstorm is better than any of them. Here's hoping that the Generations Stunticons are real, because having a voyager be the leader bot for a team greatly helped the FOC bruticus with the 3rd party addon. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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Jul 1, 2014 12:35
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Hasbro announcing an Heroic Autobot Megatron toy is just the bees knees. Boring tank mode be damned.
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The MSJ posted:Recon Ironhide, Whirl, AoE Hound, Skids and now Roadbuster. Hasbro sure loves giving Autobot characters loads of weapons. Maybe the Bay movies are getting to them. Don't forget the first Classics Jetfire! The guy has like... 12 guns. He's made of guns. Roadbuster is looking good! Keldroc posted:I agree except for the first and the last line. If you think any of this is satirical and not just inept writing and storytelling, you're completely out of your loving mind. Everything you say is the worst kind of baseless masturbation disguised as film criticism. I stopped reading CineD so I wouldn't have to read drivel like this, and it sucks that it's infected this thread now. CineD is a cesspool that's become drat near unreadable because of this poo poo. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, guys. Just ignore SMG and maybe he'll give up and crawl back into his hole.
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Ka0 posted:Hasbro announcing an Heroic Autobot Megatron toy is just the bees knees. Boring tank mode be damned. Wait I thought that was the same Megatron figure we saw already but you can change the faction symbols. I'm hoping for a Voyager or Leader Galvatron now since they did Megatron Justice.
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Which AoE firstwave Dinobot was the one everyone liked in this thread? Slug or Scorn? Cause I picked up Scorn, and while I think he's not terrible, I'm just not feeling him. His lance arm doesn't seem to fold up right in Dinomode, and leaves a somewhat messy gap. His robot head needed a mod to function, and his dino mode head is just constructed weird (which I get why they did it, but it seems like they could have done better with less parts, or just made that flappy thing into his tongue, which could cover his wrist gap.) His knees are weird and his calves really don't need that extra folding in robot mode. And I hate the weird gap in his alt mode between his head and spines that just leaves holes and smooth plastic. Also that weird square gap in his robot torso. It's also weird that his tail is one piece when it was shown as super flexible in robot mode in the movie. Maybe i spoiled myself on AoE by getting Hound first, but I'm just not feeling Scorn, was Slag better? As for Hound, holy crap did they learn from the Vehicon, cause there is not reason for Hound to be anything but a shell former, and he just folds it all up perfectly. The only kibble is on his arms, and part of it just gives him boxing glove hands, which is pretty cool. Plus those guns are sweet, I just wish the shot guns had better pegs for storage/combined gun mode. It really shames that Galvatron with his cab as a backpack. Edit: Hold up, is that a spring loaded missile launcher on Roadbuster? Anora fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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I like Scorn quite a bit better than Slag. Slag's Triceratops mode is okay, but he's pretty limited. Slag's robot mode is kind of odd and I'm not a huge fan of it.
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I am partial to Slug but TBH that's mostly because I have a relentless enthusiasm for purple transformers.
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While I don't usually like the movie toys, I got Grimlock, Scorn and Slug and I dig them. I think it's because they have a somewhat different aesthetic than the other movie bots. I put them with my Beast Hunters Predacons and they fit fairly well. Been hunting for Slash and Strafe but haven't been able to track them down yet. I feel like I need some more colors for my Dino Sentai.
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Keldroc posted:I agree except for the first and the last line. If you think any of this is satirical and not just inept writing and storytelling, you're completely out of your loving mind. Everything you say is the worst kind of baseless masturbation disguised as film criticism. I stopped reading CineD so I wouldn't have to read drivel like this, and it sucks that it's infected this thread now. Optimus wakes up in a vivisection lab screaming "I'll kill you!!!" and then spends most of the film openly declaring how much he hates humans. He is hunted by a NEST group, and told outright that the old factions are meaningless. How do you propose this got in the film by accident? Age Of Extinction is almost a remake of Transformers 1, from Megatron's POV. A tow truck is even employed as a weapon at the end. It's a good movie.
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Gammatron 64 posted:While I don't usually like the movie toys, I got Grimlock, Scorn and Slug and I dig them. I think it's because they have a somewhat different aesthetic than the other movie bots. I put them with my Beast Hunters Predacons and they fit fairly well. I'm hunting around Target and Wal-Mart stores, they're on sale for $10 but ... no distribution!!!
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Are those Beast Wars repaints out yet? I wanna get the Blue Terrorsaur and Purple Guiledart(that is not Killerpunch), I'd love some weird gold and orange Beast Wars Megatron repaint but that doesn't seem like it's in the cards.
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Some of them were out, in Canada I think? It's how people got their first Strafes since his pack came out before the individual deluxe.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:
Is his ringtone part of the Transformers theme?
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Is Hasbro going to show new stuff at SDCC? That leaked list from awhile back had had almost everything be revealed for it with the only exceptions being Outback, Brawn, and the Legends Megatron Repaint. We're getting pretty close to having a full team of minibots because we're just missing Huffer,Pipes, Wheelie, Warpath and Seaspray. But I bet the Megatron repaint is going to be Warpath.
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While I honestly understand can appreciate not enjoying the way someone views items and ideas we hold dear to our hearts, outright demonizing a person for attributing a different viewpoint than yours--one that holds valid reasoning and employs evidence from a text--is not really the reason I come to any forum of discussion. It's not as if SMG is presenting the information in a manner that makes it impossible to see how he is creating his points (quite the opposite, in fact). Not to get all composition teacher, but when someone says, "A represents B, because X is influenced by Y, and X is creating the backdrop for both A AND B" and your sole response is "A isn't B, there's no way that's true, and how could you even SEE that when I SEE something different (which I won't go into nearly as much detail in explaining my reasoning or influences because I don't need to because it's SO OBVIOUS) and how could you possibly HAVE TIME to see all that when you are ruining things left-and-right all day" is basically way, way more harmful to the health of a forum than someone saying stuff is fascinating for "weird" reasons. For chrissake, he's enjoying the thing we all enjoy and people are mad at him for "doing it wrong." I received Scoria yesterday. He is very large and we are getting married soon. I love MTMTE lately. There's a lot of good stuff happening but it's a lot of set-up, too, which is good. Lots of things are being set up for a slow burn and I'm loving it. I stopped reading RID--but I only read that by trade, and picked up the last six issues or so (however many Dark Cybertron had) because they were on sale at Comixology. Captain Magic fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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I'm catching up on the last mtmte and noticed "EQUAL RIGHTS FOR KNOCKOFFS" written in Megatron's jail cell. These comics are about a million times better than the movies.
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Captain Magic posted:I received Scoria yesterday. He is very large and we are getting married soon. Have you experienced any of the reported QC issues? For those of you that own Voyager Hound, how in the world do you fold his head away in vehicle mode? I keep stuffing it up there, and it keeps falling out. Finally looked at the review of Roadbuster. He seems weirdly "flat". Like I'm not usually in favor of the "dipped in glue and rolled in model parts" look, but the lack of detail just feels odd in his case.
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I haven't played with him enough to really test out his shoulders, but they seemed fine? What I DID notice was that his sword had a few cracks in it. Nothing major, though. My one complaint about him so far is that his legs are REALLY heavy, and so transforming him can be a bit awkward because his legs want to swing down when you lift them away (and his legs are full of big swingy-parts that need room to expand). But yeah otherwise he is pretty fantastic. Captain Magic fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jul 1, 2014 |
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