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How to say you haven't owned a Cyberverse toy without saying you haven't owned a Cyberverse toy.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:31
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I've seen them on shelves, I know how hollow they look.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:34
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It's the inner upper legs that are hollow. Cyberverse gimmick toys are usually hollow from toe to tip. A part that's typically always hollow on modern Generations/SS is nowhere NEAR on the level of a Cyberverse toy and is dismissive hyperbole.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:37
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Gonna side with Nodosaur on this one. These look pretty good. Not going to replace my Deluxe WFC Prime, but I appreciate the different gun mounting options and the inclusion of the big axe.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:40
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i literally saw a wfc optimus in-person for the first time less than an hour ago & without having hands on either figure i prefer the aesthetics & proportions of the original. i have no doubt the new toy will be more posable, accurate to the game (i havent played) & generally better engineered however
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Mar 7, 2023 19:45
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Well I don't know what to tell you. Maybe it's the colour or the posing or the lighting, but I almost can't see anything else about it. It's the elbows too, and the design of the lower legs makes them look like they're built entirely out of empty boxes.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:48
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Oh neat, the lower arms come off so you can do the thing of having the weapon look like it's morphing out of the arm.
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Mar 7, 2023 19:51
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Time to install and beat Fall of Cybertron again I guess
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Mar 7, 2023 19:52
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These just make me wish that multiplayer was still online 
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Mar 7, 2023 20:23
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I missed out on War For Cybertron, both the game and the toys, but these figures look pretty rad. Optimus's head almost looks a bit too tiny for his gigantic body in some of these shots and his matrix is hilariously small, but I honestly love it?? also, the "Gamer Edition" branding on the packaging is really loving funny to me
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Mar 7, 2023 20:29
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If you can get them to work on a PC or track down an Xbox and some disks or something I'd highly recommend trying the games. They tell a reasonably entertaining story and the gameplay is fun, if slightly less good at encouraging transformation than it could be. The multiplayer was also pretty great.
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Mar 7, 2023 20:43
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I wonder if they'll do a good version of Bruticus. The other figures had their flaws, but I feel like combiners have definitely had the most advances in "making them not poo poo" technology since the original came out.
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Mar 7, 2023 22:56
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The original deluxe Optimus has hollow thighs too so it’s the same in that regard
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Mar 7, 2023 23:45
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that barricade looks so good
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Mar 8, 2023 01:27
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I think they look good, I just don't know how much interest I have in figures from a decade-old and dead game series. I think it'll come down to how desperate I am for new figures when they hit the shelves.XavierGenisi posted:also, the "Gamer Edition" branding on the packaging is really loving funny to me
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Mar 8, 2023 05:56
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I never played the games but I like the look of that bee and I will buy it
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Mar 8, 2023 13:47
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Fall of Cybertron is, like, the perfect game, IMO.
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Mar 8, 2023 16:38
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Fall of Cybertron is, like, the perfect game, IMO. I really missed the co-op element from WFC, but yeah, it was very very good
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Mar 8, 2023 18:01
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My Tarn arrived. I thought he was a factory fuckup or something because of how flat he was laying in the packaging, but nope. Tarn's just got no backpack! He looks great, the transformation is pretty neat, he poses like a dream and his giant imposing shoulders, all around S-tier toy.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:56
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Knormal posted:Agreed, pretty cringeworthy. Yes, I agree, advertising to the audience it's for is cringeworthy indeed
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Mar 8, 2023 21:35
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The Star Wars Black Series has a "Gaming Greats" subline, so it makes sense for Transformers to do something similar. Neither name is particularly good, but it gets across the point of the line. I imagine if they were just doing War for Cybertron, they'd give it a more specific name, as well. The 86 subline is specific to that movie because it's (so far) the only theatrically released animated movie, but just going with a general "Gamer Edition" name implies it'll be more broad. There aren't really enough TF games out there with unique enough designs to call for specific Video Game versions of characters, but maybe that upcoming Reactivate game will have some associated figures as well. It's a shame that Transformers Universe never made it to release, because some of those designs were pretty cool. 
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Mar 8, 2023 22:01
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Will we get a gamer edition of Ultra Magnus from Transformers: Mystery of the Convoy?
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Mar 8, 2023 23:10
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I was wondering what other “gaming” figures they’d do other than remakes of WFC/FoC toys (although Barricade is new, which is neat). They could remake some of the old ‘07 movie verse toys that were based on the movie videogame, like Dropkick and Swindle I guess? Like it’s not like Transformers has a deep wellspring of games to draw from unless I’m forgetting a bunch.
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Mar 8, 2023 23:21
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Xenomrph posted:I was wondering what other “gaming” figures they’d do other than remakes of WFC/FoC toys (although Barricade is new, which is neat). Eight foot tall Tidal Wave
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Mar 9, 2023 00:02
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There's been a few unique characters in games over the years that they could do. Devastation very briefly featured Nova Prime as a sequel tease, so maybe he could get a figure (which could be twofer since he's pretty similar to Combat Hero Optimus Prime). There were also some generic enemies they could do repaints for - battlecharger-style cars, conehead seekers, and a tank enemy that reused Blitzwing's model without the plane kibble. Thunderwing was in the Transformers Prime video game, and while it's not a particularly beloved game, the character in general is probably due for an update. The movie games had a few interesting characters that didn't really appear elsewhere. A movie version of Warpath showed up in Dark of the Moon's game, and both the ROTF and DOTM games featured Breakaway, who had a pretty neat toy in the original ROTF movie line. The Beast Wars games had a pretty limited cast, but still managed to sneak in a chome "Megatron X" using Transmetal 2 Megatron, and Windrazor as a Silverbolt texture swap. The High Moon games definitely have the biggest cast to draw from, though maybe they're just establishing the line so they can use it for any other games that come out in the future as well.
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Mar 9, 2023 00:39
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 Come on cowards give me toys from the best Transformers video game.
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Mar 9, 2023 00:55
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Remember those cell-shaded repaints of Siege figures? They could probably repaint existing G1-style figures as Devastation characters. Re: Breakaway and Warpath from live-action tie-in games. They sort of did this with SS Dino and Sideways already. Joke option: SS GE N64 Beast Wars figures are Kingdom/Legacy characters retooled to have low polygon count. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 01:03
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Phy posted:Eight foot tall Tidal Wave Do a crossover with Gi Joe and make USS Flagg Tidal Wave
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Mar 9, 2023 01:06
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Devastation was a fantastic game, and I think they could homage it pretty well just by doing a paint job to denote the cel-shading, but sadly it no longer exists. For a while, it seemed like Hasbro was on track to dive deep into all the crazy gimmicks of late G1 and G2, but after only briefly trying pretender shells, it seems like they've decided to take a diversion into entirely unrelated weird gimmick territory. I guess the fact that the fiction has apparently decided not to bring back any of the pretender characters besides Bludgeon and Thunderwing doesn't help them at all (I think the G1 throwback fiction hates most gimmicks). Who knows if Hasbro will ever take a try at them again. And to be honest, I don't really...get the pretender gimmick for the most part. I respect it for being utterly bonkers, but I'm not sure you could get away with most of those pretender shells by current toy standards. The only ones I'm really interested in returning are the Mega Pretenders, and not just because one of their commercials was burned into my brain by a childhood VHS tape, but because the shells do something extra to justify themselves. They're more than they pretend to be.
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Mar 9, 2023 01:31
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Two toys in ooooooone though
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Mar 9, 2023 01:38
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Have they done a Bludgeon that I've missed? Mass market, not special Hasbro club or whatever.
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Mar 9, 2023 01:43
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Dawgstar posted:Have they done a Bludgeon that I've missed? Mass market, not special Hasbro club or whatever. This one: 
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Mar 9, 2023 01:45
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Also this one, wherein he wields a pagoda. Dabir posted:Two toys in ooooooone though The math gets weird. Transformers are already two toys in one, mega pretenders are like...5?
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Mar 9, 2023 01:50
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There were rumors/listings about a Studio Series ROTF Breakaway that might be part of a Gamer Edition line now.Dawgstar posted:Have they done a Bludgeon that I've missed? Mass market, not special Hasbro club or whatever. There's almost certainly a Bludgeon in the works off of Tarn.
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Mar 9, 2023 02:03
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SlothfulCobra posted:And to be honest, I don't really...get the pretender gimmick for the most part. I respect it for being utterly bonkers, but I'm not sure you could get away with most of those pretender shells by current toy standards. The only ones I'm really interested in returning are the Mega Pretenders, and not just because one of their commercials was burned into my brain by a childhood VHS tape, but because the shells do something extra to justify themselves. They're more than they pretend to be. Pretenders always cracked me up. "Okay I know an Autobot came this way, do you see anything?". "No, just that 100 foot tall human over there".
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Mar 9, 2023 02:35
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Lmao forever at Skullgrin in the comic. An actual giant skeletal monster stomping around being in movies as himself, nice job blending in idiot
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Mar 9, 2023 02:40
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Dabir posted:Lmao forever at Skullgrin in the comic. An actual giant skeletal monster stomping around being in movies as himself, nice job blending in idiot The real funny thing is it worked for a while.
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Mar 9, 2023 03:17
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Masterforce did Autobot Pretenders better where they just shrink to become humans. I can see a future live action movie merging this concept with Powermasters so they can have Dwayne Johnson play "I'm Japanese" SlothfulCobra posted:Also this one, wherein he wields a pagoda. That's actually a samurai war club, making this the first time he actually embodied the name Bludgeon. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Mar 9, 2023 |
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Mar 9, 2023 03:38
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Years ago when Animated was still relatively new(though after it had finished), my take on an Animated version of the Pretender concept was pretty much just Prometheus Black further refining his "Human Transformer" experiments into a more perfected form(probably by somehow tapping into Allspark energy and/or by capturing Sari and studying her hybrid physiology), though these Pretenders would have been based only on the outer shell designs* and their transformation abilities would be limited to just going from a normal human appearance to a monster or armored form(which in turn would have size shifting abilities) *I think we can all agree that the inner robot designs for the Pretenders have never really been particularly great
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Mar 9, 2023 03:46
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I'm always so distracted by how bonkers the shells are, I never really thought to judge the inner robots all that much. I think by the standards of G1, they're probably pretty good. Better articulation than the earlier days, some have waists, hips, and even knees. They have a tendency to be thin, wiry guys instead of the classic G1 big rectangular chunk.
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Mar 9, 2023 04:42
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