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Keldroc posted:That's just TF fan paranoia. It sets in every time we get a streak of good toys for more than a year. I feel it, too, but I'm hoping that's a false positive due to another movie line looming in the distance and Power of the Primes will keep the streak going. Even though the movies are poo poo films for retards some of the toys are loving kick rear end to be fair. Anyone tries to take my RotF Bludgeon? IMMA CUT YOU. Possibly the same for DotM Shockwave. (I would merely be very upset if any of the Extinction Dinobots or the first movie Voyagers were taken from me.) Shocky and DotM Megs almost make up for DEEP WANG. Almost.
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Spiderdrake posted:I feel like the next line is going to be a horrendous stinker, though I can't pin down why. Just somehow whatever follows combiners and headmasters just won't work right. I already said it's garbage. I'd just never watched all of it before so I am suffering. I made it through the Unicron trilogy, this is nothing.
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Hey, the Unicron trilogy is 40% watchable by volume.
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Captain Rufus posted:Even though the movies are poo poo films for retards some of the toys are loving kick rear end to be fair. Anyone tries to take my RotF Bludgeon? IMMA CUT YOU. Possibly the same for DotM Shockwave. (I would merely be very upset if any of the Extinction Dinobots or the first movie Voyagers were taken from me.) Shocky and DotM Megs almost make up for DEEP WANG. Almost. RotF was a great toyline, but it was a long time ago. The DotM line was 95% garbage and the AoE line wasn't any better. I got the Dinobots because I'm a Dinobot mark but I only really like one of them (Snarl). That TF5 Voyager Prime looks awful so at least the ol' wallet will get a rest next summer.
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DoctorWhat posted:Hey, the Unicron trilogy is 40% watchable by volume. Eh.......
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Rhyno posted:Still watching Masterforce and realized one of my cats was missing. He's my most social and loving cat, if I'm sitting down he has to be in my lap. I found him curled up in a closet, picked him up and went back to the couch. He stayed there with me for about 10 minutes and then he got up and left. I found him back in the closet. He's not racist, he just doesn't have time for subtitles/can't read. Spiderdrake posted:Maybe he's more into shoujo Maybe this?
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the guy from Semisonic posted:Glad you like it! This was my first Secret Santa, so I'm glad it was stuff you like. Yay new people doing a good job! Makes up for you getting all the good stuff from the TRU on Veterans before I get there when I'm in town 
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Keldroc posted:That TF5 Voyager Prime looks awful so at least the ol' wallet will get a rest next summer. Are you out of your goddamn mind? The thing looks like a FANTASTIC toy (of an ill-advised design).
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The_Doctor posted:Yay new people doing a good job! Hell, I don't even get anything from there. I suspect insider connections going on at that location.
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the guy from Semisonic posted:Hell, I don't even get anything from there. I suspect insider connections going on at that location. I'll get the occasional goodie there. Best thing I got lately was the Miles Morales Marvel Legends figures a few months back, just sitting on a peg.
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Keldroc posted:On the flip side, I've been considering paring the collection down to just Masterpieces and G1 vintage. I really do like the Titans Return line, though, so this probably isn't the year I decide to do that. Me too. I still have a ton of generations stuff, but I managed to cut down almost everything that isn't G1 \ G2 \ Beast Wars \ Car Robots \ Generations \ MP. I have a ton of Generations figures in boxes in the basement that I really don't need, I think. Likewise, I think the Titans Return toys are pretty neat. 
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Captain Invictus posted:a hundred transformers: $2500 I just moved again and haven't put up my detolfs lol
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Be thankful if you don't live in a seismic area, that shelf would terrify me.
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stop moving!
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Captain Invictus posted:stop moving! I plan on it, it really sucks moving a bunch of toys and video games around.
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The handy thing about packing away transformers is that they are designed to fold up into a smaller form by design!
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I only own a handful of movie toys but I think ROTF Mindwipe is top notch. I got him off a buddy earlier this year and he is like really good feeling and easy to transform. Especially compared to the ROTF Soundwave I bought cuz he looked kinda cool or the Evac I bought a friend because he's in the coast guard.
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What happens with Mindwipe's ankles? I remember reading something about it years ago. My Mindwipe and Strafe are fine however. A lot of people don't even notice he has an ankle tilt.Captain Invictus posted:The handy thing about packing away transformers is that they are designed to fold up into a smaller form by design! With cars or trucks this is the case but things that turn into planes and such are often easier to store in bot mode.
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Blackheart posted:What happens with Mindwipe's ankles? I remember reading something about it years ago. My Mindwipe and Strafe are fine however. A lot of people don't even notice he has an ankle tilt. The beige ankle spar can develop a crack where it attaches to the foot. Unsurprisingly, I think I posted about it in the old thread. I remember having an entire section of that loop bust off.
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I was unaware of this. Thanks for the heads up!
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My secret santa present is in the mail, it should get there just before Christmas assuming no gross inefficiencies in our national mail services (if it's late I'm sorry duder)
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DoctorWhat posted:Are you out of your goddamn mind? The thing looks like a FANTASTIC toy (of an ill-advised design). No? It looks like a slightly improved version of the lovely Leader class from AoE that hides the shellforming better, which still puts it well below anything acceptable. The fact that it's based on the current psychotic Optimus is the nail in the coffin. I have no idea what you're even looking at.
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The current psychotic Optimus owns.
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DoctorWhat posted:The current psychotic Optimus owns. I'm not into ironically enjoying dogshit films, so I can't get with you on that one. The new poster really drives home how far they're pushing the "knight" idea. Optimus doesn't even look like a Transformer anymore. He has pretty much no kibble on him. He's just a big humanoid robot built like an NFL player. It's basically Male Insecurity: The Poster. I hope they don't forget to put some running gag statutory rape jokes in this one.
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Keldroc posted:The new poster really drives home how far they're pushing the "knight" idea. Optimus doesn't even look like a Transformer anymore. He has pretty much no kibble on him. He's just a big humanoid robot built like an NFL player. It's basically Male Insecurity: The Poster. I hope they don't forget to put some running gag statutory rape jokes in this one. Also, maybe I'm in the minority, but there has never been a bayverse movie optimus, toy or otherwise, that interests me. Evasion came close, and I did eventually get a KO Nemesis evasion prime for  or something, but they all look like poo poo (to me, of course).
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The_Doctor posted:I'll get the occasional goodie there. Best thing I got lately was the Miles Morales Marvel Legends figures a few months back, just sitting on a peg. Oh, I just go for the TFs. I don't really collect much else, besides Comics and Star Trek. 
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DoctorWhat posted:The current psychotic Optimus owns. I'm willing to see how far this hosed up rabbithole goes, but I'm admittedly kind of weird. (a Goon.) TheDK posted:Ha, I just saw the poster and came to post exactly this. He looks like Cleatus, the FOX NFL robot mascot. Jesus. Yeah. I really like the IDW stuff more than the movie stuff.
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The movies are these weird fever dreams that I feel compelled to see when they come out because they're such an absurd and darkly twisted view of the Transformers things I grew up with. I mean, there are other versions of the property I didn't like or were just trash but nothing that seems to kind of poo poo on itself and the people who really love the movies at the same time. I mean, I worry for all the little kids who blindly eat this poo poo up with no guidance from their likely just as oblivious parents. Optimus is a monstrous prick by the time you get to the last film in the series and there's really no apologizing for it unless you're only barely paying attention to what's happening -which may be intentional.
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Keldroc posted:I'm not into ironically enjoying dogshit films, so I can't get with you on that one. I think you're reading way too much into this (I think it's mostly "lol armored knights and swords are cool*") but I agree 100% on the kibble thing. Having some vehicle parts on your TFs is a good thing, like drat it man slap some wheels or wings somewhere to remind you that this robot transforms into a vehicle. It gives the designs an unique silhouette. I happen to think that voyager looks pretty cool and the actual kibble is a part of it, as well as what seems like an amazing transformation. I actually think a lot of movie designs would be way cooler if they 1. didn't have those horrible faces, especially the deepticons, and 2. If they made the robot design at least plausible for something that is supposed to transform into a vehicle. Starting with the latest one (I think) they're just like big dudes in a suit like you mention. That said I just care about figures, I don't think I've even seen the third and fourth movies save for some clips. *well to be honest, they are
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The general rule with movie toys is the on-screen characters, where they have to work around the impossible Bay designs, suck, while the off-screen characters where they get to actually design the thing from scratch can be good. They still usually have ugly heads and weird skeleton limbs, but at least they can have innovative transformations and don't usually end up being shellformers.Gammatron 64 posted:I plan on it, it really sucks moving a bunch of toys and video games around.
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Blackheart posted:That said I just care about figures, I don't think I've even seen the third and fourth movies save for some clips. The third one has some decent stretches to accompany Deep Wang; it's better than the second movie and there are a lot of explosions and Chicago is in it... for a while. (When a movie has a large city that's isn't stupid New York or Los Angeles, it makes me happy. Plus I've lived in Chicago most of my life.) There are a lot of good parts in that movie equaled by the kind of dumb. In Age Of Extinction, all the Transformers you care about are murdered offscreen and then there's statutory rape evasion on a technicality, Marky Mark assures us constantly that he's a scientist, and The Largest City (it's in China, shockingly) is mentioned several thousand times while Megatron is remade out of Lego (living on THROUGH THIS ARM or something) and Evil Red Bumblebee is an actual character because gently caress using an Interesting established character when another mute fella will do. Real Bumblebee is STILL a mute Rodimus stand-in. There is a fat ballerina (Hound,) a terrible Japanese honoraburu samurai stereotype (Drift,) and an rear end in a top hat loosely based on Mirage (Crosshairs.) And a guy with a gun for a face. Also there's Dinobots for a little bit.
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one odd thing is that the original "bayformer" design was to make the robots look like they really transformed from cars, they are made of car parts. they are alien car robots. they got away from the alien part - making them into metal humans, like sentinal prime has facial hair millions of years before the first human and aoe's cast is a bunch of robots each sporting their own human culture stuff - and now they're getting further away from the part where they look like they came from an alt mode I kind of think that ROTF had the best designs. Some of the Decepticons were so loving bizarre and off the wall and impressive.
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TFRazorsaw posted:How is Crosshairs in any way like Mirage? He's an rear end in a top hat (sniper? I don't remember) that kind of hates being an Autobot, but when pushed will do the right thing. Loosely based on Mirage.
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Megs may as well just link up to another black hole and make the biggest explosion of all time, just to be sure. Kinda funny how the gang has its own Doctor Aphra now, and how quickly they wrapped up the cliffhanger from the last proper issue. And more Magnus piss-taking is always welcome. As for the Prime book, a decent enough opener I guess, and I dug the old school look and colouring style, wasn't expecting it at all. Can't really buy the notion of Outback ever being a hardass cop tho.
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Thing about the new movie that's driving me mad is that logo, some goofy looking overlap Gill Sans bullshit that simply does not fit with any kind of previous TF design ethos. Which is probably some kind of ironic troll by Bay too. Or completely poo poo design, you decide.
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