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i have the diaclone black omega supreme (incomplete though) kicking around somewhere. like most of my toys i picked it up at a car boot sale somewhere. he's got his arms, legs, head, hands, but not the wings that form the track.
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Droyer posted:I don't do KOs so yes it's real. This is DA-11 rather than DA-1 (all Diaclone releases get a DA number) from what i can tell the main differences are a few color differences, a connector on DA-1 which was prone to breakage was fixed (this is why I chose 11) and differently colored dianauts and bike. Not sure what you mean by extra accessories? If you mean the different backpack and arms those are Cosmo Battles 02, a separate purchase I found on Ebay bundled with the Powered Systems. Cool, thank you. And I've seen the Cosmo Battles 02 knocked off as well. Haha, I'm actually good friends with the guy who runs Transformerland. We went to college and played in a band together, over 20 years ago! His collection has to be seen to be believed.
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Sep 2, 2019 02:34
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i have the diaclone black omega supreme (incomplete though) kicking around somewhere. like most of my toys i picked it up at a car boot sale somewhere. he's got his arms, legs, head, hands, but not the wings that form the track. Omega Supreme was never a Diaclone toy.
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Sep 2, 2019 02:40
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Droyer posted:Omega Supreme was never a Diaclone toy. huh i guess I was wrong, he was a different brand of pre-transformers toy that hasbro bought 
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Sep 2, 2019 03:02
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Captain Invictus posted:and the mechtech skids gun missing half the parts juggalo baby coffin posted:idk if i am on crack but I pretty strongly remember seeing overlord in a shop in the uk at some point, I got a weird flashback to childhood when I first saw the character as an adult. It doesn't make a lot of sense cause iirc he was a japan-only transformer in G1, but I dunno who I would be confusing him with.
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Sep 2, 2019 04:04
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For my money the most skulduggrous return was the reports I heard back in the Alternators days of those being replaced with regular 1/24 models
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Sep 2, 2019 04:25
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My favorite was a build a figure piece that was replaced with a tomato.
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Sep 2, 2019 04:45
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juggalo baby coffin posted:I like MMC Carnifex's face & glossy plastic the best, but I ended up buying double evil by fans hobby for a couple of reasons: MMC stuff isn't cheap, true. As to the size...  (Shockwave is standing on something for height.)
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Sep 2, 2019 04:50
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They're both great bots. Gigapower teased their own version last year and you can bet your butts that I'm gonna own that one too.
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Sep 2, 2019 04:56
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Cyberverse Soundwave provides background music for the Decepticons. He is now the best incarnation of that character to ever exist.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:MMC stuff isn't cheap, true. As to the size... man, the face with the grin and the missing eye is so cool. overlord has to be one of the coolest transformers ever. I would've paid the retail price for MMC overlord, double evil actually retails for more, but double evil is still in stock some places, whereas for carnifex i'd have to pay secondary market prices. I still want to pick him up some day. I wish any of the MMC decepticons were in-stock anywhere, especially the DJD guys
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You guys, something happened. I came up with a project idea for a Transformer, and a started it, and then I finished it! I've never made it to that last step before for anything even slightly complex. And I'm even pretty much satisfied with the result. I didn't really like Galaxy Force Optimus, the lack of a waist taper and thin chest windows on the regular robot mode made him look really fat, and his vehicle mode was fairly garbage, so I dyed Ultra Magnus red. All the blue and grey bits are straight transfers from a Galaxy Force Prime, as fortunately none of the them were remolded.  I also made a few other tweaks. Turns out Galaxy Force Prime's front wheel bits have a wedge that can be cut out to line up perfectly with the front bumper and fill that unsightly gap behind Ultra Magnus' front wheel. This does limit backwards leg movement in robot mode, but then major backward leg movement isn't really a thing in humanoids since mode people aren't regularly doing forward splits so I don't mind.  And since the Galaxy Force "trailer" didn't really serve a purpose in this mode since the super mode head/chest doesn't fit over the Ultra Magnus mode, I was able to remove the hand cover and greeble it up with various other bits cannibalized from the Galaxy Force parts to make a little mini-trailer/weapons holder thing.   And because of my irrational hatred of partsforming it can even stay on during transformation, and be carried around as some kind of ridiculous backpack.  Of course it also pops right off for the sake of a reasonable robot mode, but I couldn't stand to have something that absolutely has to be removed and set aide. This trailer's the weakest bit since it's noticeably other random bits superglued together if you look too closely at it, but it's removable so I can overlook that. And now that I've gone through all this work some kind of Generations Select Ultra Magnus > Optimus red repaint is inevitable.
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How did you dye it red?
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Holy poo poo, FT Quietus is so drat good! That alt mode is blowing my mind.
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Droyer posted:some more diaclone stuff arrived! The one that can carry around all the mech suits in those little boxes is so cool. I need to get some of these ASAP. Also love the slow head rising action on Dia Battles.
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Knormal posted:You guys, something happened. I came up with a project idea for a Transformer, and a started it, and then I finished it! I've never made it to that last step before for anything even slightly complex. And I'm even pretty much satisfied with the result. that looks really good, I had to re-read the post to figure out which one was the one you recoloured. also man, i tried to watch the japanese G1 headmasters cartoon earlier today cause i wanted to see overlord in action there, and it's just loving terrible.
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Sep 2, 2019 18:31
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Overlord isn’t in Headmasters. He’s in Masterforce.
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Sep 2, 2019 18:43
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Nodosaur posted:Overlord isn’t in Headmasters. He’s in Masterforce. oh, dang. is masterforce any better than headmasters?
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juggalo baby coffin posted:oh, dang. is masterforce any better than headmasters? Headmasters rules.
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Its more of a sentai-styled series because most of the characters are humans and pretenders, but I enjoy it.
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i'll give it another chance, i'm overall less of a fan of the human-focused stuff. I still don't fully understand the headmaster gimmick, beyond the broad strokes of a human turning into a head for a transformer. a lot of my transformers as a kid were headmasters (missing their heads, naturally) i got second hand. It took me a long time to find out their names, I had chromedome, fangry, scorponok, and snapjaw. Fangry was in the marvel comic, in a form that looked exactly 0% like his toy, he looked more like a pretender of a werewolf with bat wings. I hope a third party or even hasbro does an updated version of him and squeezeplay sometime, they are both very cool.
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I did some Walmart and Target hopping today and found my Siege Smashdown and Caliburst which is wild because I couldn't seem to find them anywhere else, and then I found 4 of each at two Targets in a row. I almost grabbed as much as I could carry and stopped myself because I don't want to be That Guy (and I also hate the hassle of eBaying stuff). Also found two of the Rainmaker sets in the wild and and almost grabbed them before I realized, wait, dude, you think those are ugly and you'd be mad at yourself the moment you unboxed them. I am way happy with what I've picked up so far. The transformations on some of the figures are tricky but it's totally worth it, everybody looks cool as poo poo and everyone is really poseable?? Like the last time I had Transformer toys was when I was a kid; I had a Gen 2 Optimus, a few of the early Targetmasters (I still have Kup here chilling on my desk, though I've long since lost his little partner, and Crosshairs was my favorite when I was a kid so you know I'm fuckin' amped for Siege Crosshairs), and a few of the Triggerbots and some of the second set of Targetmasters?? probably?? It's been a long time. Anyway, none of those old toys could do anything but unfold their legs and maybe move their arms up and down so some of these Siege toys are absolutely incredible by comparison. Siege Springer and Optimus are on my desk, posed like they're firing at incoming Decepticons and only if I actually pick them up do I realize they're not models, they're actual goddamn toys I can transform with my hands. Megatron and Red Alert and Hound are hanging out in vehicle mode until I get a little more time to hang out with them but man. Nostalgia overload. Also after kind of checking online I guess I may be in the minority but I think the scuffing and combat damage looks extremely cool and I am all-in on the dirty, drug-out war-theme this series has going on. It is so wild to be excited about toys again.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:oh, dang. is masterforce any better than headmasters? No. All the Japan-made shows are unwatchable trash.
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I paid actual cash monies to rent the Japanese Headmasters series when I had no job and even then I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole thing.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i'll give it another chance, i'm overall less of a fan of the human-focused stuff. I still don't fully understand the headmaster gimmick, beyond the broad strokes of a human turning into a head for a transformer. a lot of my transformers as a kid were headmasters (missing their heads, naturally) i got second hand. It took me a long time to find out their names, I had chromedome, fangry, scorponok, and snapjaw. The thing about Headmasters and Masterforce, it’s not a tinier robot or human becoming a larger person’s head, it’s that the tiny robot is attaching to what is basically a lifeless drone and using it to get on the same level as their enemies. Keldroc posted:No. All the Japan-made shows are unwatchable trash. That reminds me, give RID/Car Robots a try. It’s a hoot.
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Studio series Hightower is so adorable with his little head and tiny widdle t-rex arms.
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Nodosaur posted:The thing about Headmasters and Masterforce, it’s not a tinier robot or human becoming a larger person’s head, it’s that the tiny robot is attaching to what is basically a lifeless drone and using it to get on the same level as their enemies. that is extremely lovely. does it even count as transformers if its just humans in mech suits? i remember RID when it was on fox kids back in the day, and it was the worst loving show ever also, the japanese VA for transformers is pretty bad. normally i like japanese voice acting but the characters all sound basically the same. I was hoping Overlord would sound like Dio from Jojos, but he is just generic.
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Triple-Kan posted:I did some Walmart and Target hopping today and found my Siege Smashdown and Caliburst which is wild because I couldn't seem to find them anywhere else, and then I found 4 of each at two Targets in a row. I almost grabbed as much as I could carry and stopped myself because I don't want to be That Guy (and I also hate the hassle of eBaying stuff). Also found two of the Rainmaker sets in the wild and and almost grabbed them before I realized, wait, dude, you think those are ugly and you'd be mad at yourself the moment you unboxed them. One of us! I think the reason that the Rainmakers (who are sold out online and near me) don't look that great is because they don't seem to have the scuff paint applied. Some of the figures like Slamdance and Prowl (and the Seekers, I guess) look out of place because they're too clean.
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i got Brunt yesterday and although he is an accursed parts-former, he is very cute and poses well and can hold a lot of stuff in his claw hands. He both goes with Trypticon, and looks like the robots Bludgeon uses in the IDW comic, so I had to have him. i think my next third party purchase is gonna be the garatron thunderstorm, aka thunderwing, to complete the triad of cool IDW guys (bludgeon, overlord, and thunderwing)
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I mean, his purpose alongside sixshot and cog are to BE partsformers. it's literally their entire gimmick, to turn into a pile of weapons for other bots! or to combine with themselves into a bigger buffer version of themselves 
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Captain Invictus posted:I mean, his purpose alongside sixshot and cog are to BE partsformers. it's literally their entire gimmick, to turn into a pile of weapons for other bots! i think its cool, he can turn into a big backpack with claw arms. i just know a lot of people get mad about partsformers for some reason edit: does anyone have any opinions about MP-scale astrotrains or octanes? juggalo baby coffin fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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juggalo baby coffin posted:
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:One of us! They actually do have a pretty good amount of scuff paint applied when you see them in person, but it's just not enough to break up their big monoform blocks of neon colors. I wouldn't mind if they used some kind of dark color to break it up, but they look like someone just hit them with the MSpaint fill tool. Is there any reason I can preorder Siege Impactor and Mirage off Amazon, but Siege Barricade doesn't seem to be listed anywhere on the site, or on Hasbro Pulse? Is there any rhyme or reason or have I been cast by the whims of fickle and laughing gods?
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Arquinsiel posted:How did you dye it red? juggalo baby coffin posted:edit: does anyone have any opinions about MP-scale astrotrains or octanes? You likely want the "C" comic-accurate version of the figure, the earlier versions have really ugly heads. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/24552
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Dawgstar posted:Oh no, they're posting pictures of the Generations Select Nautilator and Seawing. RIP wallets
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Triple-Kan posted:They actually do have a pretty good amount of scuff paint applied when you see them in person, but it's just not enough to break up their big monoform blocks of neon colors. I wouldn't mind if they used some kind of dark color to break it up, but they look like someone just hit them with the MSpaint fill tool. I dont think Barricade has gone up for preorder anywhere yet.
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I really like that they're more modular, but that's kinda getting into a play gimmick that Transformers isn't usually about. Starts becoming something like Xevoz, which I also like, but dang, pegs are not enough to hold all these big complex things together, especially since there are issues with holes being too loose or too tight. I got Brunt and Cog the other day, and they're real good.  Not really fully interchangeable either, although I'm willing to deal with this since it means these guys are way more varied than the Combiner Wars figures that wound up sacrificing a lot for interchangeability.  I have issues with Cog's butt too. I wish it had some kind of paint app to make it look more like an independent vehicle when not attached, especially since its tab is a pretty weak connection to drag it along by, and the "cab" looks better as a little independent buggy anyways. I can't figure what the handle is for either, can't make this butt look much like a gun.  Yeah booyyyyy pew pew pew blam vroom  Also all those diaclone things made me remember these guys I had as a kid. I think I got them at like a gift shop once and never saw the likes of them anywhere else. They have their own kind of modular junk going on. There's just this kinda SL logo on the bottom that I can't get a good picture of. 
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Rhyno posted:I dont think Barricade has gone up for preorder anywhere yet. Sorry, I don't mean to spam a bunch of a dumb questions, but: is there any kind of timeline towards when figures of the same "wave" come out or, or are we left wondering when a figure releases or goes up for preorder up until it actually appears?
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Knormal posted:Hot water, Rit dye, and quite a bit of acetone. I plan to make a thread on it on TFW's customs forums to document the process, mostly so I have something to remind myself what I did in case I ever want to dye something again, I'll link it here when I do. hmm that one does look really nice, I like the amount of detailing on the robot mode, and it has the cleanest jet/train modes i've seen on any of these. I was looking at one called Chigurh or something, but it had a really lovely looking hip setup. how tall is this one? Rhyno posted:Is awesome bot, can confirm. that's good to hear, i gotta wait a lil bit cause i've spent too much the past couple of weeks. IDW did the impossible deed of making pretenders actually cool (bludgeon had been cool prior but pretenders as a whole sucked).
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