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Acne Rain posted:Pretenders are kind of the last G1 thing that hasn't really been revisited and probably won't be. There's nothing particularly exciting about them. I mean, you can put a robot in a shell. So? The shell looks fine without the robot in it. Which reminds me, I oughta fish Bludgeon out of storage. I'm worried about his sword being bent to poo poo. Mine was always pretty straight.
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Also I cannot fully enjoy The Event that is Combiner Wars Leader Ultra Magnus until I have a G1 inspired Rodimus Prime that is Winnebago. Magnus is just not complete without him, yes you have your pinks from Arcee, your greens from Springer, but we need a large red guy who is not optimus prime.
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Sep 1, 2015 16:13
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The Taint Reaper posted:a large red guy who is not optimus prime Leader Rescue Roy confirmed 2016. Hitting the red stuff with the wet stuff for 15 years and counting.
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Sep 1, 2015 16:38
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Deceptive Thinker posted:What is with you guys and pretenders? Look, I don't want every Pretender. But that guy is a rhino whose shell is some sort of Muscle Mustache Man. That's the thing with Pretenders, the shell is usually more interesting than the inner robot. I guess Hasbro already knows this based on the Bludgeon and Skullgrin toys we had, as well as that Longtooth in the comics.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:16
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Pretenders are what killed my fandom as an adolescent. "Wait, okay, the Decepticons are hiding the fact that they are Decepticons by posing as weird giant monsters from other planets... oookay, I guess I can buy that. What are the Autobots pretending to be? Um... GIANT HUMANS IN SPACE SUITS? Who in the blue hell do they think they're fooling? THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LOGIC OR SENSE THAT CAN BE MADE OF THIS I GUESS TRANSFORMERS ARE STUPID AND I AM IN HIGH SCHOOL NOW AND NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET GIRLS TO LIKE ME ENOUGH TO GO TO PROM WHICH MEANS FAILING MISERABLY AT JUNIOR VARSITY BASEBALL AND OTHER SUCH SOCIAL MISCUES." Wasn't a huge fan of the Skullgrin Goes Hollywood issue, either.
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Sep 1, 2015 17:20
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Skullgrin has really nice colours though.
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Sep 1, 2015 18:21
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Thewsplaining the removal of the "10 Shot/10 Bots" video.
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Sep 1, 2015 18:29
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I don't care much about the concept of Pretenders, but as was stated before, the Decepticons had some really cool monsters with some really good color schemes. I also fondly remember the end of the Marvel comics run with Bludgeon and friends in a pretty major role. We have a great Bludgeon already, and a good enough Octopunch from FunPub using the Seaspray mold. All I need now is a Voyager Stranglehold, and that Rhinox would fit the bill nicely. My love of the tail end of the Marvel run even has me wanting to get the latest subscription set from the Club, even with that dumb Thunderwing combiner form.
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Sep 1, 2015 19:55
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I mean if you think about it, a video where the de facto coolest TF guy online gets absolutely wrecked might not be good re: impressionable nerdy teens watching his vids but still, I feel bad for anyone who missed out on it. All I want out of life anymore is to get wrecked and Play Robits with Thew, hit knockoffs with blunt objects, and such like that.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:35
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I watched like 1-3 then got bored and intended to go back to it. Oh well.
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I watched it, at around about 6 he's obviously drunk, and by 8 it's cringey
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Sep 1, 2015 21:48
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He did the right thing. In removing it, I mean.
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Sep 1, 2015 21:56
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Yeah, Thew vids are good because of how quick his wit is. I watched 2 and then skipped to 10, it was awful. He couldn't review a rescue bot. From someone who has a fairly traumatic reason why they don't drink, I sort of get the appeal for why people drink. But man, people who do drink need to know how they look drunk before doing things like that. Red Letter Media can get away with it because it seems like they drink all the time and have a tolerance, Thew admitted he never drinks and it shows.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Ah, Circuit Breaker, the one character Marvel kept/IDW had to edit out of the G1 comic trades. She would probably be good buds with Blackrock these days. Hah really? What's the story behind that? Reading the G1 comics from the start at 7 years old, I even knew then a semi naked circuit covered paraplegic with a ginger rat tail mullet was terrible, especially when she went back to being in a wheelchair now and again, despite being able to enjoy full circuit mobility. And pretenders always sucked in toyform. Except Octopunch, he owned, not that I've ever seen the toy in real life.
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Blackheart posted:He did the right thing. In removing it, I mean.
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Sep 1, 2015 22:38
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Did he talk poo poo about a particular product or company? Maybe he went too far and didn't want the blowback?
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Sep 1, 2015 22:43
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He has a job outside of reviewing toys, and I'm sure he doesn't want his current (or any future) employer watching a video of him getting drunk. People frown upon that.
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Rhyno posted:Did he talk poo poo about a particular product or company? Maybe he went too far and didn't want the blowback? Nope. He stayed good-natured throughout, but was visibly quite drunk by the end and rambling a lot. His inner-Thew is apparently exactly the same as his outer-Thew. Ten shots of hard liquor is a pretty ridiculous amount to consume in what appeared to be a very short span of time, especially when you realize that Thew is a normal-sized dude and not a nine foot tall death metal god. Maybe change it to 10 bots/10 sips of Merlots and retry.
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Sep 1, 2015 23:01
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Goldskull posted:Hah really? What's the story behind that? Reading the G1 comics from the start at 7 years old, I even knew then a semi naked circuit covered paraplegic with a ginger rat tail mullet was terrible, especially when she went back to being in a wheelchair now and again, despite being able to enjoy full circuit mobility. Circuit Breaker worked for Blackrock in the Marvel comics, she was left paralyzed in the legs and one are after she was collateral damage from a Shockwave plot. She had an interaction with The Beyonder in Marvel's Secret Wars so Marvel could definitely say she wasn't a Transformers character, but a Marvel one. I think it was her first appearance. Nobody would guess poor crippled Josie Beller was actually a superhero with a  haircut, after all!After the Skullgrin shenanigans, she led a team of Blackrock's anti-Cybertronian superheroes to help out with Unicron, which put her in a coma. She never recovered in Marvel G1, but Blackrock merged her tech with Spike Witwicky, who was Fortress Maximus's head's head, into another guy with a hairstyle.
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Sep 1, 2015 23:03
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GOT EQUIPPED WITH HOT SPOT He's real nice, makes me excited for Onslaught who looks even better. I lucked into finding him locally, now I just need the protectobots, so I ordered 'em on BBTS and they happened to go in my POL even though they were scheduled for mid September so that's cool. Should be here in about 9 days. I even figured his secret knee transformation without watching a video!
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Sep 2, 2015 00:14
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Blackheart posted:
I accidentally did one knee right and it took me forever to figure out what I did to get it that way. Poor bastard had one leg shorter than the other for a day.
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Blackheart posted:I even figured his secret knee transformation without watching a video! It isn't really where you'd expect it to be, though.
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Sep 2, 2015 00:28
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At least you guys got the right instruction booklets, at least I know how to Transform Rook now, twice...
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I had read comments about his knees not being properly explained in the booklet, so I was prepared for it at least. I transformed him according to the instructions at first, then noticed that if you do it like that his knees ended up higher than the official pictures, and also loose as hell. Love the torso mode though, even if he's a lil' bit shorter than the others he's also strong-looking and the headsculpt for Defensor is fantastic, which really didn't show properly on pictures. While hunting for Hotspot yesterday (I walked like half the city) I found a... can't remember what's it called, but that Black and Gold repaint of First Edition voyager Prime Takara made. It looks FANTASTIC in person and I was really really tempted but, yikes, they wanted like [the equivalent of] 100 dollars for it.
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Do his legs sort of sit tight for you in Torso mode, or is that just more of my not having the booklet?
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They stay in place and the ratchets are plenty tight if that's what you mean, but the little tab in one of them is noticeably better than the other. No problems to speak of really. Speaking of ratchets, if you still don't have Motormaster you might want to look up some of the newer serial numbers since the one that comes in wave 4 has fixed hips like his wavemate BC Optimus.
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No, mine's legs sit fairly tight around the ladder on his crotch. Not sure if that is as intended, or if I'm not transforming it right.
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Latest mtmte: alright? I guess. Not a bad issue. Just kind of unremarkable.
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Battlecore Optimus Prime arrived. The New Leg gears work wonderfully and he definetly feels more solid, in chest mode however Rodimus still can't stay in place(why did they not fix this too?). It's a weird repaint that is not quite thunderclash and not quite Ultra Magnus cab. His regular head really does look like Star Convoy, but he's not even colored to resemble him. It also would have been nice if the combiner head was something else instead of the same as the regular CW Optimus.
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Asphyxious posted:Latest mtmte: alright? I guess. Not a bad issue. Just kind of unremarkable. felt kind of like filler to me. I've basically caught up on pretty much everything now except Dark Cybertron and have convinced myself that Megatron is perpetuating the mother of all long cons and his change is just misdirection. But those last two pages? Maybe he's actually genuine
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I'm thinking Megatron accepts and regrets what he has done but whereas initially he was defeated, resigned and tired of it all, I get the impression he's starting to enjoy himself for the first time in millions of years, just hanging around 'regular' people and leading a relatively normal life for once. It's still entirely possible all this ends with him taking up arms again because hey, that's comics but who knows.
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I love Megatron in mtmte. I think he shows both the ruthlessness that helped him gain power but also a lot of his good qualities that made him able to hold together his men. I really liked his backstory in the mines as well. He comes across a one of those people with a dream and the willingness to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Also exactly like most of the crew of the Lost Light he's been fighting for so long just being at peace is a foreign concept. Basically I love Megatron.
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When you talk about Motormaster's Better Hips, is that just the outwards motion being more Nonnef-esque or is it the forwards/back motion too?
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Blackheart posted:They stay in place and the ratchets are plenty tight if that's what you mean, but the little tab in one of them is noticeably better than the other. No problems to speak of really. It's probably not the tab. I had to shave down the screw posts on one of my Hot Spot's legs to tighten up one leg in torso mode. Also, apparently I have not been doing his knees right. Also also, lurking this thread got me all nostalgic and I found a complete Defensor set at my local Walmart a few weeks ago. Now I have a Devastator on order. So, thanks?
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Sep 2, 2015 15:01
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You know, Superion is pretty cool too.
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Sep 2, 2015 15:29
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Canadians, the MP-11 Starscream is up for preorder on toysrus.ca.
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Phy posted:Canadians, the MP-11 Starscream is up for preorder on toysrus.ca.  and they don't expect to get anymore in stock.
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Sep 2, 2015 16:21
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Agent_grey posted:Yeah man, I can do that for ya. When will you be back? Hey mate, did you manage to put one aside for me? (If they came in, the release schedule has been spotty of late)
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DoctorWhat posted:When you talk about Motormaster's Better Hips, is that just the outwards motion being more Nonnef-esque or is it the forwards/back motion too? Forwards baclwards and the outward motion. Battlecore has such tight hips, But I'm leaving him in his regular robot mode, the limbs are all going to the far more worthy Galvatronus(unless they announce Groove) The Taint Reaper fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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TheDK posted:This is up on the US one too but is sold out Their preorder allocation is gone but individual stores will still get some around the beginning of October. May the Force be with us.
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