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So out of nowhere I got a replacement Reprolabels Scorponok set in the mail today. It's still not a perfect replica of the G1 stickers but the colors are much, much closer than the one I got from them earlier. The blue is too dark but overall it's about 95% accurate, versus basically not even close before. Good effort.
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Speaking of Reprolabels, how long does it take for them to send poo poo out? I literally got an order in from SirToys in less time. From China! I'm still waiting for my decals.
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May 24, 2016 06:10
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Speaking of Reprolabels, how long does it take for them to send poo poo out? I literally got an order in from SirToys in less time. From China! I'm still waiting for my decals. Sometimes I get stuff in under a week, sometimes it takes three weeks or more. There is no pattern to it that I can discern.
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May 24, 2016 06:12
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I'm really digging the various IDW comics, so much so that I'd say they're my favorite Transformers funny books since Furman's marvel poo poo. They can be extremely silly at times though and I can get some people not liking that though. I prefer transformers as comics though more than cartoons or films, and am an ancient old fart who bought the first marvel issue at 7-11 when it came out. There have been a lot of just heinously bad transformers comics printed over the years I've suffered through and I'm just glad these are as good as they are. I also appreciate the fact they've shaken up the status quo as much as they have with Starscream, Optimus, Megs, etc. It doesn't always work out but I'm just glad they're trying to do new things. My only real gripes are pretty minor, I think Barber's just got too many plates spinning at once in his book and would like him to either get a second title or go bi-weekly. With the galvatron, prime, starscream, and Soundwave stories all going in that book it takes a while for the main focus to come back around to say Soundwave. I want to see more of what he's up to in his commune. Is he curating music festivals there headlined by a Mantronix Reunion yet? Maybe the starscream story-line will move into All are one and there will be more room for everyone else to breathe a bit? My other complaint is they've made death a bit meaningless since everyone with two major exceptions has come back to life pretty quickly (and those two I'm sure will turn up sooner or later since they are marquee characters). The only character deaths that really last are for those that don't have toys made and so for me those tend to be much more powerful moments. Some decepticon being fed to the DJD or that scene of the Flower garden the Necrobot made for Megatron worked pretty well I thought. I'm enjoying the dying of the light but at the same time I'm not really buying the idea that something horrible is going to happen, because if say they do kill any of the major characters they'll likely be back just like the times before. Unrelated, Hasbro Sg is dumping combiner wars stock all over the island, several of the specialty shops have received complete combiner wars sets now for about $75 U.S.D (normally they're $200) so I'm guessing we'll be getting Titan's Return stuff here in the next few weeks. Sooper Gila fucked around with this message at 06:52 on May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 06:49
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Arsenal_12 posted:http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/...ng&utm_content= Dammit. Stop Hasbro, you're killing me.
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May 24, 2016 07:08
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Arsenal_12 posted:http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/...ng&utm_content= Dang, already sold out.
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May 24, 2016 13:16
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drrockso20 posted:A Rod-Pod, I'll Steal It, NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!! HEEELP OPTIMUS! HEEELP RODIMUS! HEEELP ULTRA MAGNUS!
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May 24, 2016 20:34
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Gammatron 64 posted:Dang, already sold out. Rhino, you're our only hope. Or the HTS I guess.
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May 24, 2016 20:34
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Rhino, you're our only hope. I managed to get one off the chosen prime.
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May 24, 2016 20:45
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Sooper Gila posted:My other complaint is they've made death a bit meaningless since everyone with two major exceptions has come back to life pretty quickly (and those two I'm sure will turn up sooner or later since they are marquee characters). The only character deaths that really last are for those that don't have toys made and so for me those tend to be much more powerful moments. Some decepticon being fed to the DJD or that scene of the Flower garden the Necrobot made for Megatron worked pretty well I thought. I'm enjoying the dying of the light but at the same time I'm not really buying the idea that something horrible is going to happen, because if say they do kill any of the major characters they'll likely be back just like the times before. case in point:  waved off with  okay, I can live with the survival but seven pages into the very next issue! Actually, that last image has pretty much soured me on the book since it was published and yeah, while I think someone is going to snuff it in Dying Of The Light, I can't imagine them actually staying dead
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May 24, 2016 21:21
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Rewind is dead The old rewind anyways Until he's not, and then we can have a love triangle arc
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May 24, 2016 21:44
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How quickly you all forget Trailbreaker, Pipes, and Ambulon.
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May 24, 2016 21:55
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Anora posted:How quickly you all forget Trailbreaker, Pipes, and Ambulon. Actually Trailbreaker was sad, Ambulon was inappropriately hilarious and Pipes was pretty obvious. And has Barber been more pro-active when it comes to actually killing people off? I mean apart from Bumblebee and Shockwave who are a little higher on the list than Ambulon, Pipes and Trailbreaker ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 22:03 on May 24, 2016 |
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May 24, 2016 22:00
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I love rewind. I love the dead gay robot
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May 24, 2016 22:06
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Literally The Worst posted:I love rewind. I love the dead gay robot he's just in love with someone that (I suspect) is no good for him
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May 24, 2016 22:08
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I always enjoy the simultaneous complaints of killing too many characters and too many characters not being killed off. I think it shows a balance of "who the hell knows what will happen."
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May 24, 2016 22:51
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Only this arc has suffered from a lack of death. I mean considering the odds #TeamRodimus is up against, it seems pretty asinine that they only escaped with a few minor injuries and one major injury. And the main complaint we have is that, well, mostly it seems completely arbitrary whether a character who seems to be dead says that way. Rewind came back through timey wimey bullshit, but Red Alert decapitated himself, Rung was shot in the head, Cyclonus was shot up pretty bad, Tailgate got robocancer, Overlord was obliterated by the Lost Light's missiles and yet here they all are, still alive and kicking. So now whenever I see someone "die" in MtMtE my initial thought isn't "oh poo poo, they're dead" but "when are they going to be magically resurrected with no narrative exposition?"
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May 24, 2016 23:06
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Gammatron 64 posted:Dang, already sold out. as of right now they've opened preorders back up, but given how quickly the first batch went they may be gone by the time i'm done typing this
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May 24, 2016 23:38
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HST still hasn't put their stock up so it might be worth it to check thee every half hour. As of right now I am still slated to get a case in 4 weeks but they canceled the last two exclusives so who knows what will happen.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Actually Trailbreaker was sad, Ambulon was inappropriately hilarious and Pipes was pretty obvious. And has Barber been more pro-active when it comes to actually killing people off? Other than that I can't think of any recent high profile stuff.
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Honestly, it's G1-accurate for them to all be basically indestructible. The movie was the one big exception where they're shooting guns at each other like normal, but all of a sudden they're dying somehow. It's not like I really love the idea of characters dying left and right or anything, so I'm fine with the stakes being relatively low. It's their drat insistence on using character death to heighten the drama that makes the fact that the characters not dying a problem.
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Yeah the panel shown wouldn't be so bad if the "dying" panel hadn't been such a perfecting ending to that character. It's the opposite of "this character died so anyone can die". This character's perfectly crafted death scene was a fakeout so now anyone's death could be fake.
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so my mom brought home a couple totes of my old toys from the cabin today, and i already found a couple of my old transformers. a couple RID Build Team dudes, Vector Prime from Cybertron, and an updated die cast rerelease of G1 prowl that hasbro did fuckin ages ago. there should be a few more Cybertron figures somewhere in there and the headmaster from Armada and a bunch of sweet action figures that were basically the predecessor to those superhero mash-up dudes you can get now but those aren't really germane to this thread! anyway i dug out the build team ones and man these are not good 'bots why was grimlock an excavator and why did i like this piece of poo poo
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May 25, 2016 03:42
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if you don't want the build team i know someone who would... it's me. it's always me
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DoctorWhat posted:if you don't want the build team i know someone who would... i only have two of them, i never managed to get the other two i owuld be interested in the not grimlock/dump truck man owns though and if anyone has a line on Energon Rodimus, mine busted at some point and i would like one so i could combine him with Energon Prowl edit holy poo poo only forty bucks on amazon for rodimus, time to figure out the names of the two build team guys
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May 25, 2016 04:07
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also my headmaster trailer armada guy still makes the transformers sound when you push the head in, i'm hype as gently caress about that
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May 25, 2016 04:11
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New MtMtE is out and... I'm totally back on board and one mystery is finally solved: Dominus Ambus was agent 113, exposed by the DJD and "domesticated" ala the Roboids from the last scavengers arc as revenge
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:New MtMtE is out and... I'm totally back on board and one mystery is finally solved: Dominus Ambus was agent 113, exposed by the DJD and "domesticated" ala the Roboids from the last scavengers arc as revenge I like the answer to the mystery, but that really was the dumbest way to end that subplot. So in the end Dominus is dead because Rewind has 'let go' and now this is supposed to make him and chromedome stronger? The thing is, Dominus isn't a character for any of us, he's a plot device that doesn't do anything. It just feels... pointless. Good answer to the mystery though, one that makes sense as well. I do like the fusion cannon as well, I fully expected it to happen. Including Megatron turning it down at first, and most likely eventually taking it up and entering the battlefield. I'm just curious if this is the end of the DJD. I mean... it makes sense, they've been built as villains two two seasons now, If they lose, they're never going to have the impact they did. Thematically this is the clash between Megatrons old creation and his new crew that represent his new ideals. I have a feeling though that they will survive as an example of Megatron's "Mercy" Onmi fucked around with this message at 15:57 on May 25, 2016 |
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A few more thoughts: - There is no way Rodimus can remain as captain. Getaway told the truth about how awful he was, but Rewind sneaking in that epic burn and punch on him coupled with Ratchet practically begging him to order Chromedome to stop has just reinforced it. If he somehow gets the crew back, he's going to get them all killed - Whirl and Cyclonus' heart to heart was amazing, with Whirl refusing to admit that he likes and admires Cyclonus, while Cyclonus is just a whole barrel of conflicting emotions. Superb stuff - So what was up with Skids getting his sulk on when Rung went off with Nightbeat? - Brainstorm acting as some sort of psychopathic tailor will never stop being funny, nor will Minimus' reaction to his new suit - No idea what Megatron's up to. I hope he's going to have a change of heart, strap that fusion cannon on and go down in a hail of gunfire - The last panel gave me flashbacks to the very last scene of Blackadder Goes Forth And as for the Dominus stuff, it was exceptionally well played. I thought Dominus was going to be Tarn on account of his being a loadbearer and that "Tarn" was simply some sort of twisted Ultra Magnus type deal, but I was half right in that he was in the DJD just not the right member. And Rewind suddenly having a change of heart seemed strange as all through the series it had seemed that if Dominus turned up he'd drop Chromedome in a heartbeat. However, with Minimus revealing all he did, I can understand Rewind changing his opinion as he never really knew Dominus at all in the end.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:- So what was up with Skids getting his sulk on when Rung went off with Nightbeat? Bet you a Coke he's butthurt about being put in the Locus Amicus.
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Phy posted:Bet you a Coke he's butthurt about being put in the Locus Amicus. That seems very likely to me.
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I liked the moment with Nautica. I thought it was really nice 
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Here's Dominus Ambus as Agent 113/Vos from #44: He was the previous Vos, the one with with hooks for fingers. I wonder what Chromedome will do when he finds out Overlord is still alive and the other Rewind's death was basically for nothing. Or is the other Rewind still alive too?
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Action Jacktion posted:Here's Dominus Ambus as Agent 113/Vos from #44: Just speculating. Probably is alive, and would probably choose Dominus over Chromedome.
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They already laid it out that two quantum versions of the same person/bot can not exist in the same universe so it's doubtful there's another Rewind running around.
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But it turns out he wasn't Rewind to begin with, it was Eject the whole time!
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May 26, 2016 01:56
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Captain Invictus posted:But it turns out he wasn't Rewind to begin with, it was Eject the whole time! Oh no, I'm not getting taint reaped today.
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May 26, 2016 02:00
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I'd like to think I'm slightly more coherent than taco.
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While I'm fine with the rest of the DJD surviving and indeed want pretty much all the named Decepticons on Deathsaurus' group to survive as well(except maybe Overlord), I really hope Tarn gets his rear end killed hard by the end of this, cause in the several years he's existed he's been nothing but a boring edge-lord who's done nothing but be responsible for the deaths of characters who are infinitely more interesting than he is
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