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Ah, see clearly he hosed up there. As you can clearly see its "The Trans ( Which is why it makes me furious to read anything from this pretender line of "Transformers." Doctorwhat, what did you do to Menasor's calves there?
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Apr 9, 2015 06:19
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They capitalize the T and F in the movie logos too, does that mean they're officially G1? Will he kill himself when he realizes?
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Apr 9, 2015 06:21
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Not a lot. I used one of the more advanced Blackjack fan-modes while keeping the Motormaster legs in the Motormaster-robot-mode configuration, with some knee-and-hip adjustments.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:22
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Man, every photo I see of Menasor shows him having some dinky feet.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:47
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The_Doctor posted:Man, every photo I see of Menasor shows him having some dinky feet. That's a product of the handfeet being, well, dinky as feet.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:53
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DoctorWhat posted:That's a product of the handfeet being, well, dinky as feet. Yeah, now that I have the two completed, I am rethinking my pass on the third party hands and feet. The hand/feet really don't do the job as feet very well.
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Keldroc posted:Yeah, now that I have the two completed, I am rethinking my pass on the third party hands and feet. The hand/feet really don't do the job as feet very well. Not only that but Breakdown's handfoot is colored a slightly different shade of purple than the others.
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Apr 9, 2015 08:50
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Guys. Guys. Blackjack is awesome. Man, all of this size class (whatever it's called now) is awesome. Powerglide, Bombshell, ect. Very nice. I'm sad I haven't picked up more of them.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:11
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Yeah, that whole line has been pretty great. If Hasbro dedicated itself to making every TF in that scale with that level of engineering I would never buy a deluxe again.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:49
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Knormal posted:TFW2005.txt The apollyon thread is particularly funny with all the  going around trying to compare this MP-level figure to Hasbro's incredibly inferior offering for poor people with no real taste. I mean, I think both are very good figures but they're trying to fill different niches, have different budgets and aesthetics and it's OK to just pick up one of them, you don't need to justify your purchase by being a dick about the alternative. Reminds me of what I said a while ago about being content with Leader Magnus while admitting that the MP is an incredible product that fills a different place in any collection. It's like these dudes can't choose between two things without first fully convincing himself that the one they don't choose is complete garbage (see the 3p devastator wars... but actually don't even look it up because it was embarrassing).Moving on, about the guy looking for a Prime Breakdown, I only managed to pick up the Silas version and I have to say, I was a bit let down with it. It feels oddly brittle and (this was common in the silas version it seems) it has some worrying QC issues, like some of the clear plastic that goes inside his abs was horribly warped and i had to straighten it using pliers. It's only visible during transformation but yeah. The transformation is cool but you need to be careful during it and he scales nicely since he's a pretty squat voyager. The animal weapons were a bit dumb (I also have the takara Prime Frenzy and Rumble). His head sits weirdly in the balljoint but I'm afraid to pop it off because it's clear plastic and it might break. Still I don't regret getting it and it's not a bad toy, but the mold isn't as wonderful as I was led to believe.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:05
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The Legends figures are pretty uniformly great. Except Tailgate/Windcharger, he's a hot kibble mess. They all feel nice and solid, good posability on all but Tailgate. I like how he looks, but there's very limited mobility with his shoulders and I guess I am a chafe-snob.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:28
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:The Legends figures are pretty uniformly great. Except Tailgate/Windcharger, he's a hot kibble mess. They all feel nice and solid, good posability on all but Tailgate. I like how he looks, but there's very limited mobility with his shoulders and I guess I am a chafe-snob. Heheheh, you said chafes knob. I suppose I'm a weirdo for not getting Bombshell and Powerglide, given the opportunity? I feel like I'm really frontloading my purchases this year with Superion and Menasor, and Leader Megs coming here soonish.
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Phy posted:Heheheh, you said chafes knob. Yup, you are a weirdo. Actually I was of the same mind as you, but I saw how much people liked those guys so I grabbed them from Hasbro cause of all the sales they keep having. I have absolutely no regrets. They are really drat nice little guys.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:09
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Yeah, Bombshell was so good I had to go and get Skrapnel just in case they make a third figure.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:48
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Legends at full Canadian retail are a pretty hard sell. 15~ for a tiny little dude is meh. Also that Tfw2005 front page article freaking out about Amazon giving the saturation date is hilarious. It's like everyone is so accustomed to being lied to by the e-tailers that someone giving the actual Hasbro date fucks up their brains. Or it's a typo, but still, aaaaa freak out! But they don't even blush when Robotkingdom promises wave 2 deluxes in mid-January.
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Apr 9, 2015 18:48
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The current legends class are all amazing. I have Tailgate, but not Windcharger, on the grounds that they did a better Windcharger not so long ago in the same scale. They've still yet to top this guy though  
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Apr 9, 2015 18:51
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The_Doctor posted:The current legends class are all amazing. I have Tailgate, but not Windcharger, on the grounds that they did a better Windcharger not so long ago in the same scale. They've still yet to top this guy though What is that dude exactly? And yeah agreed, all of the Generations Legends figures are absolutely fantastic. Tailgate/Windcharger is kinda iffy cause he's kind of a brick, but even then he's pretty rad looking.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:06
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XavierGenisi posted:What is that dude exactly?  That there, my son, is Breacher. From the section of the movie line where they were basically making fantastic Classics\Generations toys like Lugnut, Seaspray, and our little chum Breacher here. He's a scout/legends class toy, and is the most posable guy you're ever going to get. He's pretty much universally loved around these parts.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:25
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The_Doctor posted:
He was also repainted as Brawl under GDO Generations. Also Lugnut and Breacher were under different lines.  Breacher was from the HFTD part.There was going to be a third breacher repaint to go with RTS Deepdive but it was canceled.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:57
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Breacher's only sin are his hands. Otherwise, he's rather fantastic.
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Apr 9, 2015 19:59
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There was some insane production materials math that went on when hasbro repainted beast Wars molds and sold them as movie walmart exclusives at a regular deluxe price point. But apparently older molds(even those made with more plastic) turn out to be cheaper still to manufacture because they have less advanced tooling and they already have that poo poo on hand. This is why we got Protectobots Red Hotspot a Universe 2.0/RTS mold released last year under generations which I think was also made so the copyright doesn't lapse. More Breachers dressed as better guys can easily be done. Grappel was released the same year as breacher.
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Breacher's only sin are his hands. Otherwise, he's rather fantastic. But you can peg his cannon and give him a blaster arm.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:09
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Scout Hubcap and later Windcharger were pretty fantastic as well.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:36
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And you can clip his arm kibble to his hand as a shield and turn him into a little robot Captain America.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:36
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Inexplicably colored re-releases! Takara Menasors! (Dragstrip is almost entirely yellow and they painted part of his arms black so... it looks like the extra set of wheels maybe? If you're drunk.)  Awfully mistransformed Devastators the size of a toddler!  What the gently caress 
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Apr 9, 2015 20:47
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Is he trying to make the same face as Devy And man that Menasor is ... Not really much of anything
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Apr 9, 2015 20:53
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The Taint Reaper posted:the re-issue blitzwing is apparently scaled up from what I understand. You understand wrongly
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Spiderdrake posted:Is he trying to make the same face as Devy Menasor has the best deluxes out of the first two waves. and Motormaster looks really good by himself. The Prime mold's torso mode really needed more work. Even Hotspot's torso mode is rock solid from what I understand, they really should have used a unique mold instead of retooling a guy. Not only that Blackjack just doesn't stay in which really does show that the mold needed to be developed more. Blackheart posted:You understand wrongly What's this then? 
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The Taint Reaper posted:What's this then? That must be a WST or something because while all my G1 stuff is packed away at my folks and I can't confirm\deny his size, I'm pretty sure he's bigger than the individual Combaticons.
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Yep it's the WST. TFW mentions the colors might be inspired by Flywheels for Blitzwing and Machtackle (never heard of him) for Astrotrain. The only question left is WHY
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Blackheart posted:Yep it's the WST. Sure seems like it. As for why, no loving clue, dude. The Blitzwing actually looks pretty good, but that Astrotrain looks kinda rear end. Like it's a knockoff. I already own the originals so this doesn't bug me or anything. Hell, part of me is tempted to get it for that Blitzwing if I could ever find room for my G1 poo poo in my apartment.
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I'll have to admit that I don't really hate Astrotrain in those colors. I've had and liked more weirdly colored transformers. And yeah Blitzwing does look very cool like that. It won't happen but if I ever caught that set for cheap I'd totally buy it for nostalgia. I just looked at machtackle over tfwiki (it's actually a combiner?) and yeah it makes a lot of sense now. e: guy makes completely innocent question, ppl get mad about IDW Blackheart fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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The Taint Reaper posted:Menasor has the best deluxes out of the first two waves. and Motormaster looks really good by himself. Motormaster is the original, though. Prime is the retool. I agree that a little more work could be put into both, though.
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Between that Blitzwing repaint and the Botcon Springer remold, this year is the most action the Duocons have seen since the '80s.
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I mean you have two points of interest: IDW stuff really isn't that popular, but then again I don't think Generations in general is a hot selling line anyway, so you have people being really angry that their dream G1 comic book of the exact same story being retold isn't being shipped out. Which leads to point two: God the salt. So much salt. Unrelated but the whole "They can't make the DJD because of the altmodes" thing is so ridiculous. So turn them into a plane and a truck but make the robot modes authentic. People will buy them anyway. The bigger point is the DJD just isn't that popular and doesn't have that much G1 overlap. But I guess the fandom doesn't really want to hear that. I'd be shocked if Roberts doesn't kill them all by the end of this arc anyway.
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Spiderdrake posted:I mean you have two points of interest: See, you say that, but it's the movie and RID15 stuff sitting on pegs, while the CW/Generations waves vanish as soon as they go out.
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He is going through the "process" with them. First make them interesting, then make them "lovable" with antics, then brutal murder.
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