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The_Doctor posted:UK peeps, check your TKMaxx, they’ve got Legacy Laser Prime for £20! Just SS Scrapper here.
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The_Doctor posted:UK peeps, check your TKMaxx, they’ve got Legacy Laser Prime for £20! All these years and I had no idea at all they sold anything but clothes.
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Oct 22, 2022 17:19
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Oh mate, they’ve been getting surprise toys in for years! Way, way back, people were finding MP-01 in TKMaxxes like 10-15 years ago?
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Oct 22, 2022 17:30
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Yeah you've really been missing out. I was getting stuff all the way back to Prime there.
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Oct 22, 2022 17:51
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I had decided not to get it on preorder but I caved when I saw it on the shelf. I didn't have a complete Devastator as a kid and who doesn't love Tonka trucks? This thing is slick.
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Oct 22, 2022 18:23
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Y’all are gonna poo poo for Fanstoys Margh, their upcoming Ultra Magnus. Pics will be up on TFW soon.
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Oct 22, 2022 22:37
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Fanstoys is making a MP scaled Ultra Magnus. It has an inner robot. EDIT: beaten.
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Joe Fisto posted:I had decided not to get it on preorder but I caved when I saw it on the shelf. I didn't have a complete Devastator as a kid and who doesn't love Tonka trucks? This thing is slick. Did you use the circle offer to get it?
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Arquinsiel posted:Yeah you've really been missing out. I was getting stuff all the way back to Prime there. Got some random Animated figures, definitely Wreck-Gar and Grimlok.
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Oct 23, 2022 01:23
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I just had a look at the website and saw this knockoff Starscream. Anyone recognise it as something specific? https://www.tkmaxx.com/uk/en/kids+toys/toys+books/vehicles+action-toys/car+vehicle-toys/transformable-airplane-robot-figure/p/45421988
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Oct 23, 2022 01:25
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today I learned that TJ Maxx exists in europe but with a K instead of a J because I guess of some european chain with TJ already in the name
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Rhyno posted:Did you use the circle offer to get it? I assume so. I use Target's card so there's a discount.
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Dabir posted:I just had a look at the website and saw this knockoff Starscream. Anyone recognise it as something specific? Having said that I've never actually seen proof of the knee-ed version and I think people might just be getting fooled by misleading boxart, so if you pick it up I'd be curious to see if that one actually has knees. I have the kneeless version and it's okay for what it is, but nothing notable now that we have mainline voyager-sized seekers. Edit: I should mention the original figure has non-functional knee details molded into the legs, so you probably won't be able to tell by looking through the packing bubble. Knormal fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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Oct 23, 2022 02:26
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Joe Fisto posted:I assume so. I use Target's card so there's a discount. There's a 25% off one toy offer currently, it stacks with the Red card discount.
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Oct 23, 2022 02:31
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Rhyno posted:There's a 25% off one toy offer currently, it stacks with the Red card discount. Oooh I may have to contact customer service
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Oct 23, 2022 02:43
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I was gonna burn it on the BB/BG set but it was the same price on Amazon. I also grabbed the DKR Super an for $17 thanks to another Amazon coupon deal.
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Wrong thread Joe Fisto fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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Oct 23, 2022 03:02
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My parents found Legacy Metroplex in a Goodwill for $99.99. They bought it, but I suspect it’ll be cheaper than that at some point.
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Hell yes, it's finally here (and not broken!)  This thing seriously rules. Better than most of the stuff HasTak has made recently. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 15:18 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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Oct 23, 2022 15:16
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Can you take a pic of the robot in the daytime like you did the tank?
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Rhyno posted:There's a 25% off one toy offer currently, it stacks with the Red card discount. Got 26 bucks back, thanks!
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The_Doctor posted:Can you take a pic of the robot in the daytime like you did the tank?   Very tidy backpack as well. Paint job is very nice, has metal in all the important places, so no worry of breaking. Perhaps too many screws, I can't/don't want to take apart as much of it that it appears I'd have to if I wanted to flip the crotch piece that's upsidedown.
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Joe Fisto posted:Got 26 bucks back, thanks! Awesome, glad to be useful. Found the Magic Square MP Prime at the show, so the display is nearly there.
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Joe Fisto posted:I had decided not to get it on preorder but I caved when I saw it on the shelf. I didn't have a complete Devastator as a kid and who doesn't love Tonka trucks? This thing is slick. I didn't realize before now that that set of toys was supposed to be a set of new Autobot characters and not just Devastator in Tonka coloring.
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Tonka wasn’t going to turn heel. A friendly Tonka Devastator is kind of adorable.
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A good poster posted:I didn't realize before now that that set of toys was supposed to be a set of new Autobot characters and not just Devastator in Tonka coloring. And they have such wonderful names.
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I have been to TK Maxx. I didn't find, regrettably, the knockoff Starscream. I did find the knockoff Thundercracker though.  And yes, it looked like it through the box and I can confirm, it has knees!  E: There was also this but I didn't go for it.  Yes, the slogan on the left is "Quick to collect your robot." I couldn't begin to speculate. Maybe a typo for 'convert'? Dabir fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 13:11
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Attempting to figure out the "English" on knockoff cards is often a futile endeavor
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Phy posted:Attempting to figure out the "English" on knockoff cards is often a futile endeavor SEND THE BOOKS oh my god, someone did a song about this, all I remember is a voice screeching SEND THE BOOKS and the chorus being "Robo R Car!"
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Phy posted:Attempting to figure out the "English" on knockoff cards is often a futile endeavor I thought we do know what's going on there, there was a big fuss about an art book and a bunch of people on tfw2005 had SEND THE BOOKS in their sigs, so whichever underpaid non English speaker they got to google Transformers phrases figured it must have been significant in the lore or the branding somehow. I've got the thing home.  The inner packaging was damaged in the box but that's not a huge deal. His knees don't bend very far. Without getting my protractor out to check, you've got maybe 60 degrees of motion. He can sort of hold a cool pose. His ankles tilt all the way forward for his transformation, which would help him out in a cool fighting stance type deal, but they're very loose, so he doesn't really like to stay there. Jet mode looks alright from the top and very hollow from the bottom, but these were upscaled from Legends class, right? I like his grumpy face. Plastic is solid enough, doesn't feel great to the touch. The guns are unpleasant, feel like they'll snap in half as soon as look at them. Paint is on there well enough too, he had a clear factory label stuck to one of his wings and it didn't take anything with it when I peeled it off. E: Almost forgot, the packaging consistently has him in a much more accurate Thundercracker paint job, but shows this look on the back as well. Wonder what that's about? Maybe this is Ion Storm after all. Oh yeah I guess I picked up SS86 Arcee too. She's fine. Dabir fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Dabir posted:I thought we do know what's going on there, there was a big fuss about an art book and a bunch of people on tfw2005 had SEND THE BOOKS in their sigs, so whichever underpaid non English speaker they got to google Transformers phrases figured it must have been significant in the lore or the branding somehow. Somehow I managed to not hear about that at all until today! I just thought it was, at best, a really bad mistranslation of a phrase I wasn't aware of. Weird that the most relevant return for googling "'send the books' transformer" is a tweet from last week
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Phy posted:Somehow I managed to not hear about that at all until today! I just thought it was, at best, a really bad mistranslation of a phrase I wasn't aware of. Pretty sure that's where I heard about it. That book had a truly cursed production. E: Tweet in question https://twitter.com/Gryphman/status/1582023450599694336
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Dabir posted:Jet mode looks alright from the top and very hollow from the bottom, but these were upscaled from Legends class, right? Here's the original Hasbro figure, which was Voyager-sized:  And here's a Legends Starscream from a year or so earlier:  It's a separate mold in that all the detailing and parts are different, but it uses more or less the exact same transformation, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Legends figure was the starting point of the design.
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The transformation scheme, that's what it was. It looks like this KO has stolen and upscaled the upper arms from that Legends class, though - it's got the distinctive shoulder shape, ball jointed elbow and slightly-too-low null ray mount. The lower arms must be from a third toy. Maybe original, but I doubt it. E: or it's just a similarly shaped upper arm. The details don't line up Dabir fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oh yeah, the knock-off replaced the weird clip-on elbows of the original figure with a balljoint. That's ultimately an improvement because those original elbows sucked, but it does make it look a lot more like an upsized legend.
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Well, it's not bad for the cost and what it is. i was thinking I'd send it to Thew, but I might just keep it.
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I am saddened to learn that there was a legends waspinator at some point and I missed it
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Dabir posted:Pretty sure that's where I heard about it. That book had a truly cursed production. Man, the transformers fandom is wild.
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flavor.flv posted:I am saddened to learn that there was a legends waspinator at some point and I missed it It's from the T30 Legends class. That Waspinator is also a weaponizer, so it's technically a triple changer and very small, about half to 1/3rd the scale of Starscream. They were only like $10 at the time so it should still be semi-cheap. the real sad thing is that a year later they were re-releasing them either unchanged or repainted without the little guys, so if you wanted a set of Seekers you'd get Starscream with Waspinator then Skuwarp and Thundercracker solo.
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