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Strolled through the Transformers aisle on my nigh-once a month trip to a store that isn't for groceries and saw, I believe Ravage? Little legends class fella. Flipped the box over to see what he transforms into and... I dunno just kinda folds up into a cube? Was the silliest dumbest transformer I've seen in a while. e: I can't find this anywhere on tfwiki. What the hell was I looking at? Sockser fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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That's Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Core Class Ravage. he's for fitting into the drop ship cargo bay of a new Soundwave toy that turns into a kind of crablike hovertank, also from the CG prologue segment of the Bee Movie.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:59
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Yeah there are enough challenges in doing a decent motorcycle alt-mode; but doing it in Core class, especially with a big ol' lizard head and tail to deal with, is just... I don't think it could have turned out any other way than that. For whatever that's worth. I hope it's fun to transform at least.
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Mar 14, 2022 01:18
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Yeah there are enough challenges in doing a decent motorcycle alt-mode; but doing it in Core class, especially with a big ol' lizard head and tail to deal with, is just... I don't think it could have turned out any other way than that. For whatever that's worth. I hope it's fun to transform at least. G1 Iguanus' bike mode looked like dog rear end anyway so this is in the finest tradition I really liked both Hot Rod and Rodimus this year, though I'd probably have to call Cyclonus better than both, if only because both Rods are the product of lavishing the budget of a larger size class on a smaller toy
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Mar 14, 2022 01:59
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Phy posted:G1 Iguanus' bike mode looked like dog rear end anyway so this is in the finest tradition If anyone's in the market for shelf organization stuff I stumbled on some real good options at Target. They have these fancy-looking wooden ones for $20, and these cheaper plastic ones for $12. The wooden ones are pretty slick so they won't be great for any figures that have a problem standing up, but the plastic ones have rubber tops so they'll be great. I've been looking for some kind of tiered shelving option like this that isn't a drastically overpriced display stand for years so I'm stocking up on these things while Target carries them.
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Mar 14, 2022 03:31
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Arquinsiel posted:It's not terrible as a motorcycle in that size class... but it's also not exactly good. I find it kind of charmingly stupid TBH. Best anyone can hope for, yeah, basically my point. Knormal posted:All the Pretenders had horrible inner robots that were just a lanky robot that folded up into something vaguely resembling a vehicle. Yeah absolutely. It would have taken a superhuman level of effort to kill my obsession with Transformers in the 80s and the Pretenders line actually managed to do so for well over two decades.
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Mar 14, 2022 04:33
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DoctorWhat posted:That's Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Core Class Ravage. he's for fitting into the drop ship cargo bay of a new Soundwave toy that turns into a kind of crablike hovertank, also from the CG prologue segment of the Bee Movie. poo poo that's actually super tight Just ordered both Sigh.
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Mar 14, 2022 05:05
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Best anyone can hope for, yeah, basically my point.
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Sockser posted:poo poo that's actually super tight In vehicle mode the tape door is pointed towards the ground so if you swoonce Soundwave about going "nyoom" you can hit the button and Ravage will drop down like a bomb.
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Mar 14, 2022 08:44
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The_Doctor posted:gently caress sake, it’s all the terrible things maelstrommed together It should have been Swindle
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Mar 14, 2022 12:14
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Arquinsiel posted:I have vague memories of Bumblebee and Grimlock being pretty good. Bumblebee I'd say was probably the best of them because his toy was basically the same as his original toy transformation wise. Grimlock was pretty fun too, cute lil trex with gun tail. Also the MOST hosed up thing about the Pretenders was that Jazz's shell was a white dude.
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Mar 14, 2022 16:33
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It should have been Swindle sensiblechuckle.mp4
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Mar 14, 2022 18:11
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It should have been Swindle NFT Bros aren't that smart.
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usenet celeb 1992 posted:Yeah absolutely. It would have taken a superhuman level of effort to kill my obsession with Transformers in the 80s and the Pretenders line actually managed to do so for well over two decades. The only Pretender I had was Octopunch, who is rad and has a rad crab inner robot. It was the Action Masters that put me off for a while. Gravitas Shortfall posted:It should have been Swindle 
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Mar 14, 2022 18:26
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Good Listener posted:Also the MOST hosed up thing about the Pretenders was that Jazz's shell was a white dude. Didn't the Marvel comic have a panel where Spike (or Buster? I can't keep my Witwickies straight) told Pretender Jazz that he thought he'd look different?
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Mar 14, 2022 21:02
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Knormal posted:All the Pretenders had horrible inner robots that were just a lanky robot that folded up into something vaguely resembling a vehicle. Gunrunner was the worst: he's supposed to transform into a jet, but you just fold up the robot and attach it to a completely separate jet piece. http://www.tfu.info/1988/Autobot/Gunrunner/gunrunner.htm
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I remember the Iguanicus robot sticking around longer than a lot of my other Transformers. And like Pretender Bumblebee, I didn’t have the shell for either, so they were just Transformers to me.
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Pretenders Grimlock's transformation had a certain elegance to it. Way fewer moving parts and in the end all the pieces end up in pretty much the same places as the original
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:The only Pretender I had was Octopunch, who is rad and has a rad crab inner robot. This reminds me I still really want a new version of Bludgeon. Octopunch and Strangehold optional but welcome. My lowkey favorite Pretender is Pincher. His robot/scorpion form is really neat and I have oddly fond memories of him when I was a kid because he was the only Autobot I had that was a scientist so he was my Perceptor. 
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Some of the pretenders were kind of at the level where their transformation suffering from all the play features, but that was kind of okay, because they had enough extra play potential to kind of just become another kind of toy. I still remember the Mega Pretender song from some old VHSes, and those got really complicated. I guess with a lot of the other weirder gimmick transformers they've managed to do modern versions of, they've either managed to update them into "proper" transformers fixing their flaws to make up for the loss of the gimmick or preserve and extend its gimmick to make an even cooler toy or give a new gimmick to add to its potential or make an entirely new robot out of nothing to be able to remake the old toy but still fit into the current line, so it's disappointing they didn't do the same kind of overachieving with Iguanus.
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Arquinsiel posted:I have vague memories of Bumblebee and Grimlock being pretty good. 
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Mar 15, 2022 02:43
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Pretending to be a good toy, Classic
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Knormal posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about the Classic Pretenders. Bumblebee was indeed an improvement on his original figure mostly because he was bigger, but I'm surprised people are fans of Grimlock. Even as a kid I thought he was a horrible replacement for the original. He was the only Grimlock a lot of kids I knew had.
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Dawgstar posted:He was the only Grimlock a lot of kids I knew had. He was the only one I had until G2 came out. The one I had didn't come with the pretender shell, neither did my Bumblebee, Starscream and Jazz. Looking into it now, they were K-Mart exclusives.
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Either that or you got them from flea markets and garage sales like I got most of my Transformers. Being born in 85’, by the time 89’-90’ rolled around, I was swimming in second hand Transformers.
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Yea that's pretty much how I did it too being also born in 85 haha lotta weaponless bots picked up at the local flea market type area.
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One of G1's weird things they had going is just they didn't reissue or remake characters for a while (with a few rare exceptions). That's why they needed to literally kill the cast in the movie to introduce a new cast. I guess since the toy company side of the franchise just figured it was doing its own thing and it didn't need to pay attention to and follow the show. TMNT didn't hesitate to remake the four main turtles every year. I like some of the "purity" of the toys just defining the franchise, but it's still really weird.
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Phy posted:Didn't the Marvel comic have a panel where Spike (or Buster? I can't keep my Witwickies straight) told Pretender Jazz that he thought he'd look different? Buster was the Spike equivalent in the Marvel comic (the name Spike was a late addition/change to the cartoon during production), and then when it came time to Sell Toys with Fort Max, Spike was dragged in as Buster's previously unmentioned older brother who came back from college or something like that and accidentally became a Headmaster.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Either that or you got them from flea markets and garage sales like I got most of my Transformers. Being born in 85’, by the time 89’-90’ rolled around, I was swimming in second hand Transformers. Nah, I remember opening them at Christmas.
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SlothfulCobra posted:One of G1's weird things they had going is just they didn't reissue or remake characters for a while (with a few rare exceptions). That's why they needed to literally kill the cast in the movie to introduce a new cast. I guess since the toy company side of the franchise just figured it was doing its own thing and it didn't need to pay attention to and follow the show. TMNT didn't hesitate to remake the four main turtles every year. Speaking of new versions of the same characters over and over again looks like they finally found a home for Blue Bluestreak.  Pretty funny we're back to having a non-blue Bluestreak and now a (mostly) non-silver Silverstreak.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Either that or you got them from flea markets and garage sales like I got most of my Transformers. Being born in 85’, by the time 89’-90’ rolled around, I was swimming in second hand Transformers. Transformers I had as a child pre-beast wars: Bumblebee, whose tires I tore off at some point. I believe he's still floating around in a bin of lego somewhere Most of Scattershot, from a thrift store. Not the rest of Computron, just Scattershot. I could tell, even at the age of like, 5, that something was janked or missing with this toy, He still had legs and a goofy gun proboscis, so he pretty much stayed in goofy gun mode A dollar store bootleg of Devestator, I think in yellow. It was too complicated and fiddly for a child my age And natch, a bitchin G1 grimlock, from a yard sale, whom I still own and cherish to this day. Lots of his panel lines still have shades of pink from all the silly putty I wedged into him. And then when Beast Wars came out I started getting some new toys, though all I really remember owning was Tripredacus, because Tripredacus owns.
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Knormal posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about the Classic Pretenders. Bumblebee was indeed an improvement on his original figure mostly because he was bigger, but I'm surprised people are fans of Grimlock. Even as a kid I thought he was a horrible replacement for the original. That ..."guntail" looks very unwieldy. Birds had better look out.
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You misunderstand. There are no good pretenders, but some gas station hot dogs are better than others
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Sockser posted:Transformers I had as a child pre-beast wars: I guess I was lucky as I had a decent chunk of the G1 cast back in the day. Started with Prime and from there picked up Jazz, Mirage, Prowl, Hound, Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, Ratchet, and the OG minibots except Gears and Windcharger. I guess it's why I didn't mind repaints so much as no, I could never find Ironhide, Bluestreak or Sideswipe but Smokescreen and Red Alert and Tailgate were totally fine replacements. Jetfire and the Dinobots (bar one) were awesome too. As for the Decepticons, Megatron and the 3 seekers (plus Ramjet later, lame), Ravage and Lazerbeak, Rumble and Frenzy, and Blitzwing as my sole triplechanger but that was it, had a huge Soundwave shaped hole. And the likes of Shockwave, Swoop, Reflector, Blaster, and the Constructors didn't seem to get released here so missed out on those. Always wanted a Swoop... Thinking about it, the Dinobots held up better than pretty much any of the others. I think the only issue I had with any of them was a tab on one of Snarl's legs breaking, otherwise rock solid the lot of them whereas most of the others fell or broke apart, became floppy messes, etc. While I still read the comic, I mostly dipped out of the toys when the movie hit. The new designs were way bigger and didn't fit well with the older ones, things like Jumpstarters, Headmasters and Targetmasters were super dumb to me, and Pretenders were the final nail in the coffin. Terrible idea, terrible toys. Nothing says incognito like a 30 ft tall human in space armour, or whatever the hell Skullgrin was supposed to be..!
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I had a decent amount of G2. The Aerialbots, Constructicons, big green Megatron, little green Megatron, purple Megatron I got in trouble when I bought into show and tell because it had a gun (even tho another kid brought in a Star Wars speederbike toy that had guns), Mirage that I couldn't figure out how to transform, Bumblebee, Optimus.
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Thew's back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFoCHfRUxMs
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Picked up Buzzworthy Kup yesterday. Putting him next to my Studio Series Kup, I have to question the color choices for the Studio Series one. Like, if anything THAT one should have been the BB version. Plus, no dead eyes due to poorly implimented light piping.
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It really does look like a high quality toy. I just can't accept Galvatron's gun. Why does it look like that?
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Dabir posted:It really does look like a high quality toy. I just can't accept Galvatron's gun. Why does it look like that? Same. I’ve hated the big orange tube forever.
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