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Did anyone pick up the Iron Factory Final Battle Ultra Magnus? It's back in supply so I'm considering it unless there's horror stories?Arquinsiel posted:Have you considered just buying a spare Brawn and shooting it?
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The_Doctor posted:Oh, like a CW scale one maybe?  Front left: TFC Hercules, the first third-party combiner ever released and shows his age a bit, but fits well in a CHUG collection. About a head taller than CW combiners, might be kind of hard to find now. As far as I know, never knocked off. Back left: Toyworld Constructor, very big, MP-detailed and decently G1-accurate, but one of the pantsformer combiners where the entire hip and thighs portion is a separate bit that has to be just set aside in all the other modes, which is a dealbreaker for me. I don't think it was ever knocked off either. Front center: DX9 Hulkie, legends scale so probably not what you're looking for. It has been knocked off and slightly oversized, but even the oversized ones are way smaller than a deluxe figure, and look very under-detailed at that size. Back center: Maketoys Giant, the second third-party Devastator so it'll probably also be hard to find, like Hercules it's more CHUG styled, and is about a head shorter than the CW combiners. I don't think it's been knocked off. Front right: Generation Toy Gravity Builder, kind of MP scaled but more CHUG-like in detailing. This one is the most widely knocked-off Devastator and the easiest to find some version of. I think this one in the picture is the original version, there are two oversized knockoffs that make it more MP-scaled, JinBao and NBK. The JinBao version is identical to the original, the NBK version is slightly simplified in the individual bot modes. I think there are also original-size knockoffs, but I think they're also simplified. Back right: CW/UW Devastator, there's an undersized knockoff that makes it to scale with the other CW bots but it's of the Hasbro version where some of the individual figures are missing elbows. I feel like this is missing a Devastator that's come out since that thread was posted, but if so I can't remember who makes it. Everyone please correct me on anything that I got wrong, that was mostly from memory.
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DX9 Hulkie is pretty great but yeah legends scale and tiny. Here's an old pic: 
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May 4, 2021 01:44
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Spiderdrake posted:Did anyone pick up the Iron Factory Final Battle Ultra Magnus? It's back in supply so I'm considering it unless there's horror stories?
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May 4, 2021 03:04
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TFC Hercules is kind of a legend at this point. Its worth owning just for the history
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May 4, 2021 03:19
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I like that the Unite Warriors/Combiner Wars Devastator is as close to an official Masterpiece Devastator as we're likely to get. The DNA Designs kit is pretty dang good for it, too.
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May 4, 2021 04:06
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There's like four different KOs of Hercules.
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May 4, 2021 04:48
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:I like that the Unite Warriors/Combiner Wars Devastator is as close to an official Masterpiece Devastator as we're likely to get. The DNA Designs kit is pretty dang good for it, too. I mean, it’s a decent toy, but Masterpiece? Masterpiece figures tend to have elbows.
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May 4, 2021 12:20
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Unite Warriors Devs has elbows.
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May 4, 2021 12:32
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Homora Gaykemi posted:Ooh, listings show a deluxe Perceptor coming in SS86 next year according to TFW2005 Cool, Perceptor is another old favorite of mine, and I skipped his Titans Return version due to my anti-Headmaster bias.
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May 4, 2021 15:56
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Kid Fenris posted:Cool, Perceptor is another old favorite of mine, and I skipped his Titans Return version due to my anti-Headmaster bias. Preach it, brother. 
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May 4, 2021 16:35
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I mean, it’s a decent toy, but Masterpiece? Masterpiece figures tend to have elbows. Yeah, he did say "as close as we were likely to get", not "they are MPs". Shogo Hasui designed many of the earlier carbot MPs, as well as CW Devastator, and he's mentioned in an interview or two that when he noticed that Takara's intended size for CW Devs would put it close to MP scale, he decided to use some of the ideas he'd been saving for an MP version. Apparently he intended to have all the combiner kibble incorporated if he got to make the full zoot version, but of course any designer would say that. If Raiden goes over well we might see a genuine MP Devs down the line, but I'm not holding my breath.
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May 4, 2021 16:58
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:I mean, it’s a decent toy, but Masterpiece? Masterpiece figures tend to have elbows. I have the Unite Warriors version, which does have elbows on the component bots. I would only REALLY recommend the Combiner Wars version if you didn't care about the elbows or if you had an elbow kit.
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May 4, 2021 17:28
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To be honest, Perceptor was the worst conceived headmaster in the line.
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May 4, 2021 17:43
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Even with elbows the CW/UW individual Constructicons are far from MPs. Most of them have weird proportions and very visible hollow limbs. They really were designed as a Devastator first and individual bots second. I'm still hoping if SS86 stuff does well enough they'll eventually reconsider a Devastator in that line, released like the other movie stuff over a year or two.
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May 4, 2021 18:10
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SlothfulCobra posted:To be honest, Perceptor was the worst conceived headmaster in the line. He's delightful, you monster.
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May 4, 2021 19:33
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 galvatron has succeeded in finally reuniting the five stunticons! there's something wrong with my phone camera also. that scarf they're standing on is hot pink in real life.
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Knormal posted:Even with elbows the CW/UW individual Constructicons are far from MPs. Most of them have weird proportions and very visible hollow limbs. They really were designed as a Devastator first and individual bots second. I'd be down for that.
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May 4, 2021 22:51
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Seems the China branch put out an amusing stop motion vid of Cyclonus VS Hot Rod and it totally goes in a way you don't expect. It's quite charming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY5go1VoiZw.
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Kid Fenris posted:Cool, Perceptor is another old favorite of mine, and I skipped his Titans Return version due to my anti-Headmaster bias. I'm v excited for the 86 series. Better engineered nostalgia.
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The Last Call posted:Seems the China branch put out an amusing stop motion vid of Cyclonus VS Hot Rod and it totally goes in a way you don't expect. It's quite charming. Nice animation there. I saw two Arcees on my hunt for Huffer today.
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May 5, 2021 02:31
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SlothfulCobra posted:To be honest, Perceptor was the worst conceived headmaster in the line. This can't be true when Galvatron exists.
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May 5, 2021 05:01
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Spiderdrake posted:Did anyone pick up the Iron Factory Final Battle Ultra Magnus? It's back in supply so I'm considering it unless there's horror stories? It's big and bulky and surprisingly posable despite it. Ratcheted hips, other joints are quite solid. No issues with mine at all.
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May 5, 2021 11:02
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Medullah posted:
Quoting myself, I listed these on Facebook marketplace and some guy is blowing me up calling me a scammer trying to sell knock offs. I got these in a huge bundle lot I bought in around 2003 - was there a re-release of the Seacons or a KO of them that happened between original release and that time?
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May 5, 2021 19:13
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i think shitheads just do that to try and lowball people
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May 5, 2021 19:21
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i think shitheads just do that to try and lowball people That's what I figured but I want to make sure they're not ripoffs.
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May 5, 2021 19:56
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i dont think there was a high quality KO scene in 2003, and the first reissue of the seacons was in 2010 as far as i can tell. FWIW those look exactly like my seacons, down to the yellowing of the blue plastic. nobody in 2003 was knocking off authentic looking transformers, a lot of the molds got knocked off but they were all done in weird colours and plastics and sold to discount shops. i have a giant orange Ravage that I got in poundland in like 2005. but yours have the stickers and all the accessories too, so that dickhead on facebook probably just knows that what you have is valuable and wants to get it for cheap.
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May 5, 2021 21:09
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juggalo baby coffin posted:i dont think there was a high quality KO scene in 2003, and the first reissue of the seacons was in 2010 as far as i can tell. FWIW those look exactly like my seacons, down to the yellowing of the blue plastic. nobody in 2003 was knocking off authentic looking transformers, a lot of the molds got knocked off but they were all done in weird colours and plastics and sold to discount shops. i have a giant orange Ravage that I got in poundland in like 2005. Thanks that makes me feel better.  The lowballs have already started rolling in as with anything I sell on Facebook.
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What would be the best option for a G1 Starscream? Masterpiece with the crown and cape? Classics?
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Earthrise
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radlum posted:What would be the best option for a G1 Starscream? Masterpiece with the crown and cape? Classics? Wait for the studio series 86 one.
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I can't find the tweet from earlier, but another MP Optimus Prime? Why...
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Anora posted:I can't find the tweet from earlier, but another MP Optimus Prime? Why... Wait what That can't be right
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They’re doing a bumblebee movie MP prime which is different enough I guess, is that the one you saw?
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Scooped up another color-changing G2 Stormtrooper mint on card on eBay, thankfully for not totally ridiculous money.  Now I’ve got 3 of the 4, all of which I’ve bought MOSC. And I only had to pay stupid money for two of them.  I also managed to snag the other two Motorvators I needed.
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radlum posted:What would be the best option for a G1 Starscream? Masterpiece with the crown and cape? Classics? I have a MP Starscream with the crown and cape that I'm looking to sell. PM me if you're interested in discussing this.
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i still dont have an MP starscream either cause friggin maketoys havent reissued theirs and the new takara one is very expensive
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Reviews are coming in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI4idgyfJ1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAnj3diStA
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he looks great, I have a real soft spot for the potato dino, which is why he was my first gigapower dinobot purchase. it is very impressive how much bulk the dino mode manages to manifest out of a much smaller robot mode.
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Oh, those tiny stumpy back legs on the triceratops mode are bad.
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