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Nodosaur posted:https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/10/13/buzzworthy-earth-mode-hound-dotm-hatchet-revealed-467901 That's a nice looking Hound. Siege Hound is what got me back into the toys properly so I definitely want one. Also, SS86 Ironhide is a delightful lad, but is anyone else finding that getting the last bit of his vehicle mode to tab in properly is a lot more stiff and awkward than it ought to be?
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You mean clipping the front and the middle together right at the end? That's a bit of a harrowing moment for sure, especially with the clear plastic. But once it's done he holds together fine.
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Oct 14, 2022 09:45
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Dabir posted:You mean clipping the front and the middle together right at the end? That's a bit of a harrowing moment for sure, especially with the clear plastic. But once it's done he holds together fine. Yeah, it's just getting those clips in there, really feels like you're going to snap something.
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Oct 14, 2022 10:24
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I thought I was doing something wrong at first, but nah, you just gotta apply some force.
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The Bay Saga as I see it: * TF: kills Jazz, worst film ever * TF2: did not see until after I saw AoE simply because everyone warned how bad it was. Thus when I finally did see it, it was shite but not as bad as I expected * TF3: first one I saw in a cinema, a dear but obviously insane friend suggested we go and we ended up Statler & Waldorfing through the entire thing. Utter garbage * TF4: Back once again to hatewatch and heckle but it was at this point I realised these films were Bay's satirical masterpieces of American 'culture'. The R&J scene is clearly to reveal to international audiences the full depths of American insanity, which ramps up to the point where I think eventually entered a hallucinogenic state and imagined it ends with Optimus Prime killing Frasier before flying off to kill God. Incroyable! *TF5: the most deliriously batshit loving thing I've possibly ever seen at a cinema, an absolute comedy masterpiece while also serving as Bay's final condemnation of 21st century Earth - we are literally in Hell and Robot Satan slumbers below. It's precisely what we as a culture deserve, absolute febrile cinema It sure ain't the Transformers I grew up with and the designs are all ugly as vomit-covered dogshit but overall, it's some of the best satire the US has ever produced and I love it for that.
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The Bay Saga as I see it:
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TF1 is a perfect teen comedy up until the moment the rest of the Transformers show up.
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My kids got me Legacy Knockout for my birthday and he's pretty great. Hooray for toys
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War and Pieces posted:TF1 is a perfect teen comedy up until the moment the rest of the Transformers show up. Sam's theme being lifted from American Beauty is one of those weird little windows into the thought process behind the movie. American Beauty isn't the kind of movie you would usually go to when looking for temp track music for your action blockbuster about alien robots, so at some point someone had to connect the dots between Sam's weird hyper-saturated suburbia and the weird fakey pre-9/11 suburbia from American Beauty. Like, Sam Witwicky is definitely the kind of kid who could grow up to be Lester Burnham if he didn't have his life up-ended by killer space robots. Hell, he might have done that anyway - he pretty much dropped off the map after Dark of the Moon, where his big character defining moment was essentially him deciding "I'm not a mail boy... I'm a mail MAN".
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Bumblebee is the only live action TF movie worth watching, and it's actually a Fun and Good Movie™
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Silhouette posted:Bumblebee is the only live action TF movie worth watching, and it's actually a Fun and Good Movie™ yeah, can't disagree with this
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https://twitter.com/hongniang1/status/1580993196883968000
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Oct 15, 2022 02:15
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Go bishonen, you cowards.
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Oct 15, 2022 03:12
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Y'know, not the first time I've seen Starscream's design stretched into something like that. Although I don't get what the horns are there for.
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This is an elaborate fake.
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DoctorWhat posted:This is an elaborate fake. Great, now I have to find a Plain, Ordinary Tailor to help me blow up your ship as you go back to Romulus.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Y'know, not the first time I've seen Starscream's design stretched into something like that. Although I don't get what the horns are there for. the horns are the shoulder stacks, but yeah it's fake
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Technowolf posted:Great, now I have to find a Plain, Ordinary Tailor to help me blow up your ship as you go back to Romulus. Can you live with that?
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Good that it's a fake, she's got the drat fang so you know she'd be trouble
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making GBS threads hell, watching a video of a third party movie Drift and it looks utterly incredible. The robot mode is super tidy and looks how I remember (though it’s been a few years), and the car mode is neat too, a few panel lines and the odd gap maybe but undeniably a Veyron. Hip articulation is kinda limited but not the end of the world. And it seems there’s a copter mode too but I can’t imagine how it’s going to work. It blows my mind that anyone is able to design such accurate and good looking ‘toy’ versions given all the cheating the films have to be doing. I remember that Lockdown from a few years back similarly being some kind of witchcraft in terms of accuracy in both modes. Edit: Hah, okay yeah, the ‘helicopter’ mode is a hell of a stretch but eh, two out of three ain’t bad. And props for trying.
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Dates confirmed for TFNation next year! I still haven't made my mind up whether to go to the Manchester event in March, but knowing the big event in August is definitely on is reassuring in case I decide no. Forbidden Planet had Skids in today, so I picked him up. Cute lil car! Nice lil dude! Transformation is nice and straightforward. I like 'em!
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I’m probably not doing the Manchester thing, it’s a bit of a schlep for just a day. Hopefully TFN sort themselves out next year w/r/t tickets and schedule releasing. This year was an absolute joke. Until about 3 weeks before the con, there were no listed events/panels for Sunday, and if you’re making people buy tickets by the day (rather than just a whole weekend ticket), where’s the incentive?
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On holiday in Torquay and man there's a weird selection in The Entertainer here. Multiple Lift Tickets, a Netflix packaging Hotlink along with a Megs and Prime, old prime masters...
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Similarly, while traveling with work today I stopped by a toy store in a small town and found pretty much nothing but Kingdom Voyager and Leader class sets I that’ve been sold out everywhere. Way overpriced though, otherwise I would’ve probably picked up Cyclonus.
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https://twitter.com/3PTFmoments/status/1582090074795446272 Saw this, and someone linked this video in the replies that showed it off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EVwJDnu4sA That's a lot of work to make something that garish.
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Electrophotonic posted:Similarly, while traveling with work today I stopped by a toy store in a small town and found pretty much nothing but Kingdom Voyager and Leader class sets I that’ve been sold out everywhere.
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They’re JinJiang, I see them a lot around here (Sweden) but I have no idea what they’re like. The plastic seems kinda cheap and gross.
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Fil5000 posted:On holiday in Torquay and man there's a weird selection in The Entertainer here. Multiple Lift Tickets, a Netflix packaging Hotlink along with a Megs and Prime, old prime masters... The one in Birmingham has a weird assortment too. A few old Liege Maximos, a few Titan Changers, some recent Core-class, some Kingdom stuff, I think there's Lift Tickets there too. I know Nick from Toy-Fu picked up a ridiculously cheap Black Zarak there a few weeks ago. Is Siege Springer's backpack supposed to tab in securely? The instructions say you can peg the weapons in there but almost anything is enough to make it flop back down.
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Dabir posted:The one in Birmingham has a weird assortment too. A few old Liege Maximos, a few Titan Changers, some recent Core-class, some Kingdom stuff, I think there's Lift Tickets there too. I know Nick from Toy-Fu picked up a ridiculously cheap Black Zarak there a few weeks ago. Mine pegs in pretty securely but overall I think that toy is ambition overreaching manufacturing tolerances.
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Anora posted:https://twitter.com/3PTFmoments/status/1582090074795446272 Holy poo poo, it has Voltron lions for legs, plus voltrons sword and shield, a random f15 for a chest piece, vehicle Voltron/dairugger arms and omega supremes head I need this monstrosity Edit: the main legs are giving me ultra Magnus vibes too
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Fil5000 posted:Mine pegs in pretty securely but overall I think that toy is ambition overreaching manufacturing tolerances. Could be. I remember getting it back into robot mode was weirdly difficult and confusing, especially around the chest. That's one place where the instructions going "now just do it backwards" really don't help. To clarify, the part I'm having trouble with is here.  That little bit on the black hinge looks like it's supposed to be a tab, and it has a corresponding spot on his vehicle mode cockpit, but there's just no grip there. It's not that anything's missing, because the notch in the cockpit is the exact size and shape of that "peg", but it just seems to rest in it rather than actually holding in place. The grey plate holds in place much better in its vehicle mode configuration, but that leaves Springer with an rear end plate the size of a pizza box.
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 Coming at Transformers from a gunpla perspective rather than having much actual nostalgia (having grown up during the awkward Action Masters phase of the franchise) I’m a sucker for Toyhax weird conversion sets. This is their Diaclone homage conversion for Netflix Ironhide with some extra panel lining.
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Dabir posted:Could be. I remember getting it back into robot mode was weirdly difficult and confusing, especially around the chest. That's one place where the instructions going "now just do it backwards" really don't help. That's definitely supposed to fold up how you think it should and it does on mine - is yours the Wreckers one? If so I wonder if there's been some change somewhere that makes it fit worse or something.
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Yeah, this is the Wreckers one. Is the notch on yours the same shape? Maybe it used to be longer or maybe the tab used to be deeper. I don't know why they'd make a change like that, though, if it just makes the toy not hold together.
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I'm away from home but I'll check it when I get back - unless anyone else has the non regular version and can check in the meantime?
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I have both and the little post is the same on both, however on the Siege one I feel it pop into the groove a little bit, the Wreckers one has no resistance. Also, the U-shaped piece that connects the backpack is much tighter on the Siege one making everything more stable as well. Overall the Wreckers one is more floppy/loose.
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DrChu posted:I have both and the little post is the same on both, however on the Siege one I feel it pop into the groove a little bit, the Wreckers one has no resistance. Also, the U-shaped piece that connects the backpack is much tighter on the Siege one making everything more stable as well. Overall the Wreckers one is more floppy/loose. Out of curiosity, how do the ankles compare between the two? They're fine on mine, but the wiki says people have had trouble standing the Siege one up.
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