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I have the toy version set preordered. It was also bonus day at work so I'll probably order MMC Vortex and Planet X Star Saber because YOLO. Edit: MMC Frumble set hits TCP tomorrow so it's them and Vortex. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Aug 13, 2019 |
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So when the Unicron fake kickstarter fails who want's to bet they sell it through online retailers as some sort of exclusive anyway. Still can't believe they had the stones to think this had any chance of sucess. In the future perhaps they coulld release products in exchange for money, instead of asking the consumer to front it like some indie company.
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Fsmhunk posted:So when the Unicron fake kickstarter fails who want's to bet they sell it through online retailers as some sort of exclusive anyway. Still can't believe they had the stones to think this had any chance of sucess. In the future perhaps they coulld release products in exchange for money, instead of asking the consumer to front it like some indie company. They did it this way because the Sail Barge was successfully funded.
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Fsmhunk posted:So when the Unicron fake kickstarter fails who want's to bet they sell it through online retailers as some sort of exclusive anyway. Still can't believe they had the stones to think this had any chance of sucess. In the future perhaps they coulld release products in exchange for money, instead of asking the consumer to front it like some indie company. Rumor has it they're counting preorders outside of Hasbro Pulse as well, they just aren't tracking them publicly yet
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Aug 13, 2019 21:59
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Rhyno posted:They did it this way because the Sail Barge was successfully funded. Part of me hopes this doesn't suceed because I hate the precedent it sets. I think they'll make the Unicron regardless, no way they put that much work into it just to scrap it.
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Aug 13, 2019 23:34
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Fsmhunk posted:Part of me hopes this doesn't suceed because I hate the precedent it sets. I think they'll make the Unicron regardless, no way they put that much work into it just to scrap it. Precedent of what? Preordering something? It's a completely acceptable way of funding a specialty item. Unicron was just too much for most people. They should have implemented a payment plan or given it 3 months or something. Assuming there isn't a big FOMO rush closer to the deadline, of course, which also happened for the Sail Barge.
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I'll say this, while six hundo really floored me at first, I was looking through a catalog the other day and saw the Millennium Falcon at $800 and now it's a little more in scale. Some people got money to burn. I think that's the Lego set that I saw James Buckley talk about as his big purchase when the money from The Inbetweeners started coming in before realizing he was in severe financial jeopardy and had to try returning it.
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Aug 14, 2019 02:04
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Keldroc posted:Precedent of what? Preordering something? It's a completely acceptable way of funding a specialty item. Unicron was just too much for most people. They should have implemented a payment plan or given it 3 months or something. Assuming there isn't a big FOMO rush closer to the deadline, of course, which also happened for the Sail Barge. I know that certain third-party sets have extremely high price-points, it would just be unfortunate if that same precedent was normalized through first-party manufacturers as well. It's lame enough that the WFC stuff saw the whole line get a ten-dollar price increase in Canada. I get that at the end of the day these are toys in large part sold to adult children desperate for that sweet release of nostalgia, and that literally nothing is lost without buying any of it, mind. DJ Fuckboy Supreme fucked around with this message at 02:15 on Aug 14, 2019 |
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Aug 14, 2019 02:13
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18 more days of avoiding being drunk with a credit card, and I'm homefree
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'll say this, while six hundo really floored me at first, I was looking through a catalog the other day and saw the Millennium Falcon at $800 and now it's a little more in scale. Some people got money to burn. DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:It's lame enough that the WFC stuff saw the whole line get a ten-dollar price increase in Canada.
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Aug 14, 2019 02:43
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DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:I know that certain third-party sets have extremely high price-points, it would just be unfortunate if that same precedent was normalized through first-party manufacturers as well. It's lame enough that the WFC stuff saw the whole line get a ten-dollar price increase in Canada. Inflation is a thing and prices go up. Especially prices on things using increasingly scarce and expensive petroleum products. Deluxes are now at the price point Voyagers used to be, and that sucks, but it's inevitable. I don't see what that has to do with the high price of a low-production high end limited edition collector's item. You think the next line would just be all $500 citybots or something? The Sail Barge didn't change how mass retail Star Wars figures are made or priced, Unicron wouldn't have changed anything about the rest of Hasbro's TF output. I find that line of reasoning, if you even want to call it that, bizarre.
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It's just irritating that the window was so short and for a $600 item they didn't offer a payment plan.
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Rhyno posted:It's just irritating that the window was so short and for a $600 item they didn't offer a payment plan. The idea of Hasbro coming to repo your Unicron makes me laugh way more than it should.
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Rhyno posted:It's just irritating that the window was so short and for a $600 item they didn't offer a payment plan. I feel like an extension with payment plan might be in the cards come August 30th. They've done a hell of a lot of R&D and prototyping work to just throw up their hands and say "Oh well, guess that's not happening."
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Aug 14, 2019 05:32
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Keldroc posted:Inflation is a thing and prices go up. Especially prices on things using increasingly scarce and expensive petroleum products. Deluxes are now at the price point Voyagers used to be, and that sucks, but it's inevitable. I don't see what that has to do with the high price of a low-production high end limited edition collector's item. You think the next line would just be all $500 citybots or something? The Sail Barge didn't change how mass retail Star Wars figures are made or priced, Unicron wouldn't have changed anything about the rest of Hasbro's TF output. I find that line of reasoning, if you even want to call it that, bizarre. 
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Aug 14, 2019 06:28
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Rikimaru posted:The idea of Hasbro coming to repo your Unicron makes me laugh way more than it should. It's not shipping for over a year after it closes. They could easily have made a $50/month payment plan and I bet it would have made it's minimum sales and everyone would be paid off by the time it ships. There's literally companies that do nothing more than have payment plans for web sales. Hasbro wouldn't even have to put much effort beyond having an Affirm button in the checkout (which I assume requires some level of payment to Affirm, but still).
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How are the Fansproject Dinobots? A lot of them are super cheap today. I was thinking of getting Echera and Comera because they're like $40 each.
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Dawgstar posted:How are the Fansproject Dinobots? A lot of them are super cheap today. I was thinking of getting Echera and Comera because they're like $40 each. If you're ok with being the person who bought the tittiesauruses, sure why not?
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Aug 14, 2019 17:11
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Phy posted:If you're ok with being the person who bought the tittiesauruses, sure why not? Well that seems needlessly mean what could they be Oh Well that's atrocious
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Aug 14, 2019 17:42
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Burkion posted:Well that seems needlessly mean what could they be Indeed. I have been properly shamed. And it's probably for the best as I was then tempted to get the other FP Dinos, but fortunately I was held back because Pinchar is out of stock.
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Aug 14, 2019 17:44
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TFNation this weekend in the UK! Anyone else going to be there?
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Aug 14, 2019 19:00
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Probably not many of us Americans! So I've been playing with my new arrivals. The Final Victory trio are not the best options but for the $64 I paid for three MPish bots I can't complain. They'll totally work as placeholders for low priority characters. Paid for MMC Frumble earlier, FT Cyclonus is due on Friday so I should have those by next Tuesday. This is getting a little out of hand. I think I'm gonna have to quit buying OSKOs of stuff I already own or else this room is going to be overflowing with Chinesium.
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Dawgstar posted:How are the Fansproject Dinobots? A lot of them are super cheap today. I was thinking of getting Echera and Comera because they're like $40 each. If you do end up being interested just pick one. They are nearly the same figure with a few differing parts. I did get them out of compulsion to complete the set but they're pretty redundant and in dino mode they can't really stand up on their own. Easily the weakest figures of the set even disregarding the uh design choice.
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Dawgstar posted:How are the Fansproject Dinobots? A lot of them are super cheap today. I was thinking of getting Echera and Comera because they're like $40 each. I didn't get the ladybots, but I did get the other five. I don't really remember what they're all called, so forgive me if I don't even try to. Sludge is pretty dang good, though his dino rear legs don't fold inside his robo legs like Slag's or Snarl's. He's the second best of them IMO. His bladed mace is the worst of the weapon masters though, due to it's lopsidedness in weapon mode and super awkward hilt in robot mode. Slag is great. I think he's the best of all of them. He can't really swivel his waist a huge amount without unpegging this tail from his shoulder wings, but he's actually the only one I still have out on display. His battleax is actually pretty nice, both modes are decent. Swoop is kind of uninspired and liable to fall over. Can't move his head too much because the back of his head will knock into his rocket pack, and if you use the rocket pack as guns or whatever, his back becomes hollow in a boxy way. The ratchets on my joints have too much wiggle between lock positions, but that could just be mine. His gun/crossbow/sword thing is okay. Grimlock is okay, but his rotating shoulder things in robot mode don't lock like Slag's, so when you move his arms around they are likely to slide forward, making them [i]way to far forward, proportionately. This may also be due to his shoulder wing things, which interfere with normal arm movement. Looks good enough with a decent pose. Has the best weapon, but I have the deluxe version with the extra weaponmaster which makes a huge hammer instead of a mace when combined with the mace. That throne with all the swords is a nice seat for Despotron. Snarl is pretty good, but has a weird barrel chest and his shins slope in a more noticeable way than any of the others, which makes posing him in a pleasing way hard. His sword weapon is pretty sweet though. Hope this helps somewhat. TL;DR: Only Slag and maybe Sludge are worth getting unless you want them all.
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Aug 14, 2019 20:25
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"I'm only going to do up through the movie" he said a few months ago
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Burkion posted:Well that seems needlessly mean what could they be Considering how big the sexy anime figurine industry is, it's a little surprising how boobs-averse this thread is.
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We've been buying slightly better versions of the same toys over and over again since the mid 80's. We need to look down on someone around here.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Considering how big the sexy anime figurine industry is, it's a little surprising how boobs-averse this thread is. Look dude we like robits what turn into cars and jets here, not gross pervy stuff okay? Also we're all pushing 40 and otaku pervazoid shenanigans is a young man's game.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Considering how big the sexy anime figurine industry is, it's a little surprising how boobs-averse this thread is. It's all about context, boobs on transformers are weird. They're robots. I do also look down at people who buy sexy anime figurines, though.
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Captain Invictus posted:dicks on a Dyson That's not what they mean by dick sucking. But maybe it could in the near future.
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Captain Invictus posted:dicks on a Dyson
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Keldroc posted:I feel like an extension with payment plan might be in the cards come August 30th. They've done a hell of a lot of R&D and prototyping work to just throw up their hands and say "Oh well, guess that's not happening." Wouldn't be the first time it's happened, it'd be poetic if it's yet another shelved Unicron figure.
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I just bought the reissues of Ravage and Rumble, and I had not noticed til these 2 that the rub signs are all red on all 4 cassettes. I swear the original rub signs were red and purple for the factions? I"m going nuts, aren't I
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DisposableHero posted:That's not what they mean by dick sucking. But maybe it could in the near future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2EMGmv0FqM
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sigher posted:Wouldn't be the first time it's happened, it'd be poetic if it's yet another shelved Unicron figure. This figure has had a lot more put into it than any previous aborted Unicron attempt. Making two functional hand-painted prototypes to display at SDCC is not nothin'. I can't imagine they'd sink this much time, money, and promotion into this and not have some kind of Plan B. The notion that people wouldn't be willing or able to cough up $600+ inside of 60 days had to enter their minds at some point.
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Daaku Shinsei posted:I just bought the reissues of Ravage and Rumble, and I had not noticed til these 2 that the rub signs are all red on all 4 cassettes. I swear the original rub signs were red and purple for the factions? I"m going nuts, aren't I
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Keldroc posted:This figure has had a lot more put into it than any previous aborted Unicron attempt. Making two functional hand-painted prototypes to display at SDCC is not nothin'. I can't imagine they'd sink this much time, money, and promotion into this and not have some kind of Plan B. The notion that people wouldn't be willing or able to cough up $600+ inside of 60 days had to enter their minds at some point. Yeah I figure if nothing else they might try again to get it funded in a year or two if this attempt fails
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This showed up today: Really digging the colors on Skywarp. Also  for more blast effects!
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