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I'm curious how the poll combiner is going to work out if the female option wins (I'm going to be very sad if it doesn't). Like, the impression I got is that they're going to be more retools rather than new moulds, and, well, the CW bodytypes aren't exactly effette. I guess Victorion (that's gotta be the winner) is going to make Strongarm look positively dainty by comparison, though I wonder if there's maybe steps they could take to mitigate that.
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Isn't the reason why people have that impression just because of what they showed during the vote? But it's also possible that those are only to show a type rather than 'this is the mold we're gonna use'. Slim chance of being fully new, I reckon.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 20:35 |
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He sits down okay. That's neat I guess.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 21:07 |
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I'm going to vote for the option of 3 males and 3 females combiner member team. The first combiner that's married to itself. *edit* So Galavtronus does resemble Galvatron and he has mind control powers which forces other robots to become his limbs. The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Rhyno posted:I'd be down for that. You still got the box and everything? Did you still have that Waspinator comic? (was that you?)
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 22:08 |
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Whoa, Superion is somehow more huge than I was expecting. These dudes are large. Can't wait for deluxe wave 2 now!
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 22:13 |
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Well...money saved, I guess.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 22:31 |
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Keldroc posted:Well...money saved, I guess. ....what
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 22:41 |
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Is it like some hyper-obscure reference? Did they just have surplus off-color plastic?
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 22:43 |
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I still don't know what I'm looking at. Are they knockoffs? Zaa Boogie posted:So what's the quality like on those things? He's bigger than I thought. They all seem pretty mighty big. I can't say I'm thrilled about some of the design choices (no elbooooooooows!!!) but Long Haul is probably my favorite of the 6. He just works as some big stocky fat bastard.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 23:01 |
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Pulled the trigger on Warbotron. I bought them all at once through TFSource, so that'll be a fun package once they all are in stock!
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 23:51 |
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I still don't know what I'm looking at. Are they knockoffs? That's Hasbro's reissue being put out this year. Why they're red, white and orange nobody seems to know.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 00:07 |
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Y'know I was starting to have doubts because of the general first impressions on this guy, but now that I have it in hand I can confirm that actually Menasor is a kickin' Rad dude. His And now that I look at the picture, I can also confirm that his proportions feel a lot better in 3D, for example his head isn't really tiny.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 00:17 |
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that blitzwing could make a flywheels
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 00:21 |
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Blackheart posted:Y'know I was starting to have doubts because of the general first impressions on this guy, but now that I have it in hand I can confirm that actually Menasor is a kickin' Rad dude. His The head is a lot better in person, yeah. And I think angling the legs down like that rather than splayed out at a 90 degree angle like in the Hasbro photos really helps his proportions. I also think he looks better without Blackjack stuck to his chest.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 00:43 |
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I'd buy the re-issue Blitzwang/Spacebus but not in those colours, gently caress were they thinking? The Plat re-issue Insecticons came out in the original colours no?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 00:48 |
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Sentinel Red posted:Re: the new MTMTE preview
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:17 |
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emgo has the new Leader Megatron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpQEXW4_S8k
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:17 |
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Endless Mike posted:Yep and yep! Shoot me an email again at butiplayoneontv AT gmail.com so I can send you cash
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:29 |
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Legends class megatron has a rotating turret. He does look really cool though, the shoulders are kind of neat.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 01:48 |
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Anora posted:Legends class megatron has a rotating turret. One of my only serious criticisms of Warbotron (so far) is that Brawl's turret only turns in about a 45 degree cone to the front of the tank. The shape of the body prevents it from rotating past that, which is pretty silly considering the turret itself is a removable piece. And actually, now that Vortex has arrived, another criticism is that in helicopter mode the main rotor blades smack into the tail rotor when you spin them. Without carefully positioning the tail rotor, there's no way to smoothly spin his main rotor around, which is, like, the whole point of a toy helicopter. It would be easily fixable, too, since the tail rotor assembly is a totally self-contained piece that unplugs from the rear/legs, and if the fin the tail rotor is mounted on was moved back even a quarter inch, the problem would be solved. Who the hell picked up the prototype of this thing and didn't say "Hey the loving rotor hits the loving tail, move the tailfin back a bit so it does the one thing a helicopter is supposed to loving do."
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 02:33 |
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Leader Megatron's turret DOES rotate. poo poo, it's even in the promo pics.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 02:49 |
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Blackheart posted:Leader Megatron's turret DOES rotate. poo poo, it's even in the promo pics. In the review video you can even see the big platter in the middle of his chest that serves as the turret rotator. It's a lot like the one in the Cybertron Defense Scattershot mold.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 03:18 |
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Not that i'm saying the name Victorion is a bad choice, but in my opinion doesn't really fit something that comes from the Sea of Rust. For the Nemesis thing i'm choosing Devastator because Menasor seems to be already going against Superion and Galvatronus seems more fitting against one of the Optimus repaints. At least that's how see things. Also, did I miss out on the vote for what powers the team will have or has that happened yet?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 03:34 |
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The more that I futz with these guys the more I like them. And now I can't wait for my KO Stunticons and I really hope that a Diesel surfaces.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 03:36 |
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Rhyno posted:
Woah, I didn't even know that there were oversized Stunticons. Where did you say you ordered them? Also, what's going on with that recolored Metroplex?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 05:36 |
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I got the from SirToys. I'm assuming that's a custom MetroTitan.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 05:47 |
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The Taint Reaper posted:I'm going to vote for the option of 3 males and 3 females combiner member team. The first combiner that's married to itself. Keldroc posted:Well...money saved, I guess.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 06:08 |
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Knormal posted:I hope that whichever gender wins it's all of one or the other, because I really don't want to see TFW2005 tackle the transgender gestalt debate. We've already had combiners with male and female bots, it's just that the 4 members were male and the 5th was female. I want an even split.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 07:09 |
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There was also the original Overlord.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 07:18 |
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I still don't get Blitzwing's red colors and Astrotrain's schoolbus orange. Like they're not even like e-hobby exclusives which were entirely different characters. They're the same guys just repainted in colors we have never seen before, they're not even references. Yet the Insecticon and seeker re-releases remain unchanged.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 07:36 |
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Yeah, I'd really like to hear an official explanation for those colors. Blitzwing doesn't look half bad, but he sure doesn't look like Blitzwing.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 07:58 |
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Answer is China likes gaudy colours like that and they're the target audience here, us all are just potential bonus wallets to empty
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 09:07 |
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Other posted:Answer is China likes gaudy colours like that and they're the target audience here, us all are just potential bonus wallets to empty I might buy that as an explanation if they were an action movie.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 09:12 |
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Blitzwing is rocking Terrorsaur's color scheme, so someone needs to comb through Beast-era characters to figure out what Astrotrain is homaging.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 10:09 |
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Do we know if the Trypticon reissue is actually happening, or was that just a rumor? I think all the other reissues from that leak are the ones that are being revealed now though, so I'm still pretty optimistic. I'm really looking forward to that one since it seems unlikely we'll ever get an all-new Trypticon at an appropriate scale.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 11:32 |
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It's not a "Year of the X," thing, is it?
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 13:29 |
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The Taint Reaper posted:I still don't get Blitzwing's red colors and Astrotrain's schoolbus orange. A) School buses are yellow B) Spacebus Also that Astrotrain color scheme reminds me of a G1 guy, maybe scattershot, and that I don't know how to spell "scheme" off the top of my head.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 13:44 |
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It's probably for the best that they're in really lovely colors. I mean, the Insecticons were $90 goddamn dollars, I hate to think how much these two would cost.
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# ? Feb 27, 2015 14:39 |
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I got Firefly and Alpha Bravo, and seeing them and the pictures of the other aerialbots, it seems like they all really have the same transformation, even if they don't share a mold. The legs split apart and cover up the knees, something folds up to cover the head, and arms go to the side. I think I'm gonna pass on the rest of them. Maybe there'll be a G2 themed repaint somewhere along the line that'll get my nostalgia brain really going. I don't need more red and white guys.
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