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The Beast Wars 2/Neo version was named "Powerhug". He also had a friend named "Scissor Boy".
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Nodosaur posted:Retrax is amazing. I got retrax as a birthday gift as a kid because my aunt knew I loved bugs and also transformers and I didn't have the heart to tell her it's a garbage loving toy it's the equivalent of someone knowing you like video games so they got you X-MEN for the NES(another bad gift I got) The MSJ posted:The Beast Wars 2/Neo version was named "Powerhug".
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Dec 31, 2018 04:24
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retrax fuckin rules
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Dec 31, 2018 04:26
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I'm not trolling. Retrax is a great design and not every toy, especially one decades old, has to be a super articulate, hyper pose-able toy with amazing engineering. He's a pillpug that can transform and ACTUALLY ROLL INTO A BALL His recolor's name is Powerhug He's a great toy in the same way that kids fell in love with Armada. Where everyone else saw a weird yellow not car with weird shoulders, kids saw a cool car guy whose helicopter buddy creates a bazooka for him to shoot people with.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:29
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Also Beast Machines had lovely toys I think we can all agree on that
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Dec 31, 2018 04:34
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Bud, I'm not gonna say no to the only fully articulated roly poly action figure. BW2 even redecoed the mold into a new character and turned the limited arm poseability into a fun core character trait. It's the same balancing between robot and alt-mode design as toyline has always done. The franchise had 90s attitude, but it was also full of experimentation. Making actual realistic animals in the first place as opposed to the weird robot simulacra of biological life that G1 did was a real weird idea to begin with. And not only did the animals look more realistic than ever, the robots looked more human than ever. I had a razorback that looked exactly like Erik the Red from X-men.  
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Dec 31, 2018 04:34
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Captain Magic posted:Like a week ago, my Secret Santa gift came in from The Doctor! The dragon robot is actually Goldran from Brave of Gold Goldran.  Here is his combination sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pIydCYFNtg
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Dec 31, 2018 04:35
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Burkion posted:Also Beast Machines had lovely toys The vehicons were all pretty solid, Air Attack Optimus Primal is great, Night Slash Cheetor was good, the deployers were solid, and Blackarachnia is a better spider toy than any of her BW counterparts.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:41
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Wait Quick question, did Gold Plastic Syndrome only affect American toys, or was that a global thing Follow up question, is that Goldran more recent or should you have to worry about it falling to pieces I basically get really nervous any time I see a golden toy from the 80s/90s because of that poo poo
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Dec 31, 2018 04:43
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Captain Invictus posted:that's not necessarily a good thing While G1 toys being associated with the 1980s is? You kind of missed my point of allowance for nostalgia in a thread about franchise that has currently three new continuities going that have been rebooted to evoke as much nostalgia for the 1984 lineup as possible. Captain Invictus posted:okay, okay, you got me. you've just been trolling this whole time, I get it. Retrax was always cool because my older sister found him revolting.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:45
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razorback is so great and he has a toupee of doomBurkion posted:Wait
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Dec 31, 2018 04:54
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Burkion posted:Wait I think GPS was because of the specific polymer Hasbro chose to use so it shouldn't affect any toys not made by Hasbro, but I could be wrong about that. Also Goldran was a 90s show with 90s toys, but that looks like a bootleg so it's difficult to determine its age.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:56
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Droyer posted:I think GPS was because of the specific polymer Hasbro chose to use so it shouldn't affect any toys not made by Hasbro, but I could be wrong about that. Also Goldran was a 90s show with 90s toys, but that looks like a bootleg so it's difficult to determine its age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjAUN5Ssj8&hd=1
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Dec 31, 2018 04:57
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and then there's beast wars neo randy poor poor randy I saw a video of someone transforming him to robot mode, just... waiting for the part where it broke in his hands. Here it is: https://twitter.com/uzumasa3/status/757180512490233861?s=21 He makes it.
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Dec 31, 2018 04:58
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I'm sure he was but I don't understand how that relates to my post?
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Dec 31, 2018 05:01
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I thought you were saying that since it was a 90's thing and a lot of gold plastic stuff was more from the 80's(though certainly continued on I believe even now, albeit not as prevalent) that it wasn't affected
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Dec 31, 2018 05:03
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GPS is very much more than a 90's thing. It affected movie Protoform Starscream as late as 2007, and a variant of it called "gunmetal plastic syndrome" afflicts UW Motormaster.
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Dec 31, 2018 05:05
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Drill Nuts, that was the other one. Beast Wars 2 had a trio named Powerhug, Scissor Boy, and Drill Nuts.
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Dec 31, 2018 05:05
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The MSJ posted:Drill Nuts, that was the other one. There was also Mantis and Bigmos, but those two are less attention grabbing.
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Dec 31, 2018 05:08
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I've said it before but my favorite thing about the Beast Wars era toys is that since the show established a fairly set in stone scale for Beast era Transformers, it has the interesting side effect of making the toys scale pretty accurately with GI Joe figures
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Nodosaur posted:The vehicons were all pretty solid, Air Attack Optimus Primal is great, Night Slash Cheetor was good, the deployers were solid, and Blackarachnia is a better spider toy than any of her BW counterparts. I'd only agree on Air Attack Optimus Primal. And he wasn't part of the Beast Machines line. Beast Machines is lucky KISS Players exists.
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Dec 31, 2018 06:57
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What is that Coast Guard bot? I have a buddy in the Guard I showed it to and he is confused as heck.
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Dec 31, 2018 07:36
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Littoral Combat Ship, apparently.
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Dec 31, 2018 07:41
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The vehicons were cool and good and I'm sorry we didn't get more
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Ah, the seagoing equivalent of the F-35 program E: still firmly of the opinion that BM Deluxe Jetstorm and his copious repaints were one of the most solid transformers ever designed
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Keldroc posted:I'd only agree on Air Attack Optimus Primal. And he wasn't part of the Beast Machines line. That morphing effect they had for the Maximals was the kiss of death to the toys of the series. It wasn’t impossible to deal with, but the toy designers of the time clearly weren’t up to it.
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Captain Magic posted:I would like to weigh in on partsforming. Absolutely this. Leftover parts are super annoying.
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Speaking of Beast Wars, I remember one year at GenCon (and it may have happened after) there was a panel called "Why Beast Wars Objectively Sucks" or something like that. They were also at DragonCon at least one year, too.
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Dec 31, 2018 16:44
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Dawgstar posted:Speaking of Beast Wars, I remember one year at GenCon (and it may have happened after) there was a panel called "Why Beast Wars Objectively Sucks" or something like that. They were also at DragonCon at least one year, too. Was it just some Genwunner whining or did they do real literary analysis to support their wrong opinions?
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Dec 31, 2018 18:22
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I'm not entirely convinced that Beast Machines existed. I saw Beast Wars on TV, but it never segued into Beast Machines (maybe I was only watching reruns?). I had toys as a kid from G2 and Beast Wars and RID, but nothing from Beast Machines. You all talk about it like a monumental failure from Hasbro, but if it was, they scuppered the whole thing incredibly quickly. The only evidence I have that it existed is the RiD rerelease of Obsidian (which is great). Something like half of RiD was reusing old molds.
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Dawgstar posted:Speaking of Beast Wars, I remember one year at GenCon (and it may have happened after) there was a panel called "Why Beast Wars Objectively Sucks" or something like that. They were also at DragonCon at least one year, too. Definitely sounds like Michael from Retroblasting. Because he's a huge oval office who hates anything newer than 1989.
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Im glad that even though you're all wrong about which TF cartoon is the best (it's Animated, BTW) we can all unite in our disdain for goddamn Beast Machines being awful. Except Botanica. Make CHUG Botanica hasbro, you loving cowards.
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Please tell me there was also a meerkat beast wars transformer at some point.
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Dec 31, 2018 19:01
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Man I wish Transformers Prime didn't get poo poo on and got its final season. Transformers Prime is the only series that can honestly challenge Beast Wars and if they hadn't gotten screwed over so hard, I think they could have.
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Dec 31, 2018 19:18
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Burkion posted:Man I wish Transformers Animated didn't get poo poo on and got its final season.
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Dec 31, 2018 19:25
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Why IS that a common thing with Transformers
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Dec 31, 2018 19:27
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Burkion posted:Why IS that a common thing with Transformers The cartoons aren't actually that popular so execs just keep hoping that the next reboot will be the one that hits
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Dec 31, 2018 19:29
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Burkion posted:Why IS that a common thing with Transformers Old men in conference rooms probably going "Hurry up and end that show. We need something new and flashy to attract the kids."
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Animated has awesome toys but the show is hot garbage. Sari might be the worst human character outside of a Unicron Trilogy series.
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Burkion posted:Why IS that a common thing with Transformers RiD 15 got more seasons then it should have. You could tell in season 3 and 4 that they wanted to do more, but the characters and plots just failed. The Decepticon designs were great, but poorly designed toys and way too many 1-step changers killed any interest I had in the line. Plus they switched out the voyager scale toys for some weird hybrid of the 1-step changers. Speaking of 1-steps, seeing Razorbeast just kinda made me aware of why I hate them so much, BWs already made decent 1-step changers, with decent basic articulation, yet the new ones are all just bad looking G1 style bricks.
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