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DoctorWhat posted:DOTM Skyhammer, motherfucker! Best helicopter until GEN Springer! BEST HELICOPTER. No since. Springer's got better weapons though, and by far the better car mode and head sculpt.
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HFTD Tomahawk is a nice helibot too. My Skyhammer's rotor chest assembly seems to be busted and it's a pain to transform now. Maybe I twisted it the wrong way once or something? Maybe this is a sign that I should get voyager Drift, the colors and weapons are cool I guess.
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Thew's review finally sold me on Springer. All the photos I'd seen of him had the drat gun attached to the alt modes and it ruined the whole thing for me. Seeing him without the weapons completely changed my mind. Also order DotM Megatron off Amazon. Woo.
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Blackheart posted:HFTD Tomahawk is a nice helibot too. Yes, the rotor assembly plastic will wear down eventually. After a while transform him properly. I had to take mine apart and do a little damage control to the stressed plastic there. The bit that used to turn 90 degrees doesn't lock into place now like it used to, but it's not loose or floppy or anything that makes it unfun to play with. In fact, if you didn't know it was supposed to lock in place you'd never miss it.
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Springer is fantastic, and I really need to pick up a Sandstorm. I actually just noticed a week or two ago you can top or bottom mount Springer's sword as a giant bayonet on his gun. 
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Captain Blaargh posted:I actually just noticed a week or two ago you can top or bottom mount Springer's sword as a giant bayonet on his gun. One day, Springer Almasy is gonna tell you about his ROMANTIC dream!!! And hopefully, it'll involve his elbows actually being strong enough to handle turning his weapons into a Gunblade. That was something I did on Hour One with mine, but had to abandon because it'd droop in seconds. I forget if there's enough clearance around the pins to just Future them up...
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Phy posted:BEST HELICOPTER. No since. Springer's got better weapons though, and by far the better car mode and head sculpt. Well, yeah, Skyhammer makes for a better helicopter, but Springer remains the better toy overall. Still, both are some of my favorite figures of all time. OF ALL TIME! Captain Blaargh posted:Springer is fantastic, and I really need to pick up a Sandstorm. I actually just noticed a week or two ago you can top or bottom mount Springer's sword as a giant bayonet on his gun. Not only that, but you can use the port on the top of Springer's gun to mount the partially-transformed sword in such a way as to create a sort of "crossbow" weapon. Lastly, in robot mode, you can open up the flap at the base of Springer's backpack to expose the port used by the [gun in car mode/sword in copter mode], plug the gun in facing upwards, and then plug the sword into that same port on the gun to allow for double weapons storage!
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Aug 13, 2014 14:33
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 Me Scorn don't know why everyone upside down?
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Aug 13, 2014 16:31
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If the actual retail ones looked like that I'd actually buy them.
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Blackheart posted:
Everyone mis-transforms that neck flap on Scorn. It's supposed to cover the flat plastic under his "elbow," it even sorta locks into place if you do it right.
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I got some SDCC toys in the mail, AMA. The answers to all the questions are "I'm fairly sleepy, maybe I'll open them in a couple years?" Come see me in Chicago in October, I will have mini-bottles in my pockets. Be my roommate or even my part time temporary employee, I have an extra badge and a table.
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Knormal posted:...Wait the black parts are transparent plastic. drat it, unnecessary transparency is my gorilla arms. To make matters worse, Slog, Strafe, and kinda-sorta Grimlock have gorilla arms. TRANSPARENT PLASTIC GORILLA ARMS
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Aug 14, 2014 05:19
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And man they hosed up Scorn, not only is the head up-side down, but his legs are mis-transformed. You can see that butt gap, that awful, awful butt gap.
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Aug 14, 2014 05:48
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DoctorWhat posted:To make matters worse, Slog, Strafe, and kinda-sorta Grimlock have gorilla arms. WELCOME TO THE CLUB! _/ 
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Aug 14, 2014 05:54
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DoctorWhat posted:To make matters worse, Slog, Strafe, and kinda-sorta Grimlock have gorilla arms. At least Slog can have big shoulder cannons so the wrist angle can work for a big Tekkaman shooty pose. If your big clumsy dinobot is in to that.
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 A real customizer would probably hang me for what I have committed, but a couple metallic sharpies can really make your Galvatron pop! I painted his face and lots of tiny silver, gold and bronze details here and there. The toy is such a sea of gray out of the box that I feel you can't really do much wrong here. Now on to the mold itself, I'm liking it a lot whole more than I expected. It's a respectably-sized voyager, chunky and very decently poseable (balljointed head on a big chunky neck, wonderful poseable ankles, double-jointed elbows). It's weird that his knees are super high on the leg, but it doesn't impede him much. He looks powerful and pleasantly bulky, and the weapon has a good arm-extension feel to it. The truck mode is super nice and big and is decently painted on its own. The cab-backpack compresses impressively and it's neat how you tend to not notice it in hand. Given what the toy designers had to pull off for the character design, it's a fairly amusing transformation. Which they could have solved some of Leader OP's problems as well as this.
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Generations Springer and DoTM Megatron came in the mail today  Springer just doesn't seem to want to piece together into his car mode at all. All the tabs and slots are there and are just a hair off of actually fitting into place. Or if you get one in, suddenly the other all pop out. Really quite annoying. DoTM Megatron is... uhhh... it feels like I got a chinese knockoff or something. All of his important joints are super loving loose so he's really hard to balance, but then the erroneous joints like his grill and his shoulder... uh, grills, are stiff as hell. And putting him into vehicle mode is weird as gently caress because there's so many chinsey little bits. Is this what all the movie toys are like? Evasion Prime is a solid loving rock in both modes and then one movie back and this dude just feels super cheap. On the bright side, he holds Evasion Prime's gun and looks badass doing it, so there's that. Now I guess I wait for new bots to come out 
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I got MP Prowl today. I never imported the Takara version so this is my first exposure to the mold, I'm a little disappointed that I had to fumble my way through the transformations backwards because he comes packed in robot mode but the instructions only show car to robot. It wasn't too bad, but for a masterpiece figure you'd think they could afford to print both. Maybe they could save some money by not shipping him in a box twice as big as necessary. The figure itself is good, but I just can't get too excited about a thirty year alt mode. We're getting pretty close to the point where a Cybertronian alt mode would be less conspicuous for the "in disguise" portion than someone still driving a 280Z.
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Knormal posted:Maybe they could save some money by not shipping him in a box twice as big as necessary. As for Prowl, I agree I'd rather have him in a Cybertronian mode, though I have no plans on buy that MP. I did order a Streak KO for the alt mode, though, but as a police car Prowl doesn't rub me as a 'classic car' like Streak or Lambor does.
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Knormal posted:I got MP Prowl today. I never imported the Takara version so this is my first exposure to the mold, I'm a little disappointed that I had to fumble my way through the transformations backwards because he comes packed in robot mode but the instructions only show car to robot. It wasn't too bad, but for a masterpiece figure you'd think they could afford to print both. Maybe they could save some money by not shipping him in a box twice as big as necessary. The figure itself is good, but I just can't get too excited about a thirty year alt mode. We're getting pretty close to the point where a Cybertronian alt mode would be less conspicuous for the "in disguise" portion than someone still driving a 280Z. The "disguise" thing was never actually important anyway. It's not like a police version of a 280Z was going to be a disguise anywhere outside of Japan, or a fire chief version of a Lamborghini Countach was going to be a disguise anywhere. The initial IDW comic launch with Furman's "-ation" books were really the first time anyone took a serious shot at integrating the "robots in disguise" concept into the premise in a literal manner.
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I just compared the Japanese MP box to the US MP box and it's actually less than half the size. Pretty bad. Probably close to 1/3, actually.
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Keldroc posted:The "disguise" thing was never actually important anyway. It's not like a police version of a 280Z was going to be a disguise anywhere outside of Japan, or a fire chief version of a Lamborghini Countach was going to be a disguise anywhere. The initial IDW comic launch with Furman's "-ation" books were really the first time anyone took a serious shot at integrating the "robots in disguise" concept into the premise in a literal manner. Yet another reason that Furman's initial run with the IDWverse was awesome. The reason for it made a lot of in-universe sense, too.
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It is a pity the Furman awesome setting (covert war on endless worlds, dead cybertron, elite squads fighting on the ground with orbital command holding most of the gentler types) which I think does honestly set the high bar for G1 re-imagination had to be impregnated with a bunch of awful furmanisms like skywatch, 'headmasters', the dead universe and worst of all the reapers. There is no worse moment in the IDW lore than the scene with the reapers, Sixshot and dead universe Galvatron using his zombie powers to kill a bunch of them. That is it, that's the bottom.
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I'll often stand up for the early IDW comics because Furman did legitimately have a lot of really cool ideas. For the first time, the Transformers were really robots in disguise and that played a big role. He had a lot of fuckin' lovely ideas too though - namely his Headmasters and Arcee. Another problem with them is he had about a million different story arcs all going on at once and it was a loving mess. You had the arc on earth with Optimus and Megatron, Shockwave's involvement with Ore-13, Scorponok and the Headmasters, Nemesis Prime and the dead universe, Thunderwing and Monstructor, Rodimus's backstory and Doubledealer's betrayal, Sixshot, and a million other things. Like, slow down, hoss. It's like Furman wanted to feature as many characters as possible, but Transformers has a LOT of loving characters, man. The IDW timeline is also confusing as all hell with the Spotlights, Megatron: Origin, Autocracy, Monstrocity and a bunch of other flashback things. I really can't tell you what order things occur in or what the timeline is, because I don't know. I'm not sure if anybody knows. The Furman -ation minis, All Hail Megatron, the Costa Ongoing and then the current ongoings all happen in order, but the rest of the stuff jumps forward and back in time and I just dunno, man.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Another problem with them is he had about a million different story arcs all going on at once and it was a loving mess. You had the arc on earth with Optimus and Megatron, Shockwave's involvement with Ore-13, Scorponok and the Headmasters, Nemesis Prime and the dead universe, Thunderwing and Monstructor, Rodimus's backstory and Doubledealer's betrayal, Sixshot, and a million other things. Like, slow down, hoss. It's like Furman wanted to feature as many characters as possible, but Transformers has a LOT of loving characters, man. Or, if you're a long-time TF fan, it's one of the few TF stories that doesn't drag rear end while explaining who everyone is. It's definitely a TF story on "Expert Mode" but man it's nice when compared to most TF media, which assumes you've been a fan for a few months, but haven't bothered learning who any of the post-1986 characters are. Gammatron 64 posted:The IDW timeline is also confusing as all hell with the Spotlights, Megatron: Origin, Autocracy, Monstrocity and a bunch of other flashback things. I really can't tell you what order things occur in or what the timeline is, because I don't know. I'm not sure if anybody knows. The Furman -ation minis, All Hail Megatron, the Costa Ongoing and then the current ongoings all happen in order, but the rest of the stuff jumps forward and back in time and I just dunno, man. I own all the comics (in TPB form) but a few years ago I also downloaded a torrent of them because they were re-ordered correctly, and I could read them straight through without fuss.
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Oh on that note is any reading Primacy or whatever the spelling is? Because Roberts apparently announced an upcoming story arc that caps the trilogy of Chaos Theory / Shadowplay with a final set of flashbacks. I don't understand why the Dille/Metzen team is even writing stories in that era. Couldn't they have done a G1 style set up, previous to AHM but after the Furman stories? They never really laid down how long that was.
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Spiderdrake posted:Oh on that note is any reading Primacy or whatever the spelling is? Because Roberts apparently announced an upcoming story arc that caps the trilogy of Chaos Theory / Shadowplay with a final set of flashbacks. I don't understand why the Dille/Metzen team is even writing stories in that era. Couldn't they have done a G1 style set up, previous to AHM but after the Furman stories? They never really laid down how long that was. Roberts' trilogy happens way before Dille/Metzen's ones and I don't really see how there might be any clashes occurring between the two storylines. Dille/Metzen are doing an okay job in my opinion, and RID is satisfying my need for a "bots on earth" story. But then again I didn't get into Transformers comics until MTMTE came out so I missed out on pretty much all the former series so I might be missing out on something.
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Blackheart posted:Brainstorm's coming in October! And Arcee and Chromia in September. So, read that as "in US stores by Sept and Oct, and on BBTS for October-November". So Chromia's a monster retool of the RID Prime Arcee, yeah? The FE mold of her was really well done and didn't turn out to be nearly as fragile as it felt like when I got it, so I never got the RID version. Speaking of MTMTE, when's the next one due out?
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Phy posted:And Arcee and Chromia in September. So, read that as "in US stores by Sept and Oct, and on BBTS for October-November". edit: also to ^, the answer appears to be August 27. link TheDK fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Phy posted:So Chromia's a monster retool of the RID Prime Arcee, yeah? The FE mold of her was really well done and didn't turn out to be nearly as fragile as it felt like when I got it, so I never got the RID version. I have the BH retool of the RID mold and it is so much worse than the FE mold, but it is still pretty solid. I really wish they'd made a Flamewar out of that mold, though. Crazy flaming dragon wings and the like. Also: I really hope those figures land before the holidays, because if they "show up" later than Nov welcome to buying from the BBTS-zone. (Save me saint hamster)
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Spiderdrake posted:I really wish they'd made a Flamewar out of that mold, though. Crazy flaming dragon wings and the like.
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SpikeMcclane posted:I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they already did.
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Spiderdrake posted:When do you say 'they', do you mean Hasbro the friend of all men and women of good taste, or do you mean they who can not be trusted with our credit cards? It was a botcon exclusive.
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Rita Repulsa posted:It was a botcon exclusive. It was a Botcon exclusive twice!
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Keldroc posted:The "disguise" thing was never actually important anyway. It's not like a police version of a 280Z was going to be a disguise anywhere outside of Japan, or a fire chief version of a Lamborghini Countach was going to be a disguise anywhere. The initial IDW comic launch with Furman's "-ation" books were really the first time anyone took a serious shot at integrating the "robots in disguise" concept into the premise in a literal manner.
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I loving love Furman's IDW run (well, most of it), enough to own it in multiple HC formats. Speaking of, I own the two $100 OSHC collections but have since bought the "IDW Collection" HCs since that's the format that they decided to run with and I wanted my bookshelf to match. Any interest in the two HUGE HCs? It's these books http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-...sformers+idw+hc http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Premiere-Edition-Volume-Numbered/dp/1600104371/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1YJK9Q340FP31NMXXHRZ
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