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Fil5000 posted:It's a shame the Combiner Wars one only has a single Minimus but I dunno that they could have fit an even smaller one in. I guess they could retool the Siege mold inner robot into a headmaster.
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give me a power-head-tar-getmaster
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Dabir posted:I mixed Cog with Ironworks and Scraphook. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I PRESENT ROBOCOP...TWO!
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https://twitter.com/quillobyte_/status/1702973938140057964?s=46&t=idHOluBX7WY76GN9uEVUwg The second to last of my verse’s Constructicons before Devastator.
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That's a sick robot mode, I loving love the exhaust pipes bordering the torso and head, and the mixing barrel becoming giant sleeves. He looks like some kind of robot wizard
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Thanks. The head area in particular is designed to make it look like he’s wearing a hazmat suit and gas mask.
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Nodosaur posted:https://twitter.com/quillobyte_/status/1702973938140057964?s=46&t=idHOluBX7WY76GN9uEVUwg I appreciate that his head's recessed into a fuckin thing like the original toy despite a completely different vehicle-to-robot body plan thing. I always really liked Mixmaster, I don't know why. He did nothing. He was basically a rectangle in both modes. Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection?
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Joe Fisto posted:Bendy boyz How are you liking Armada Prime? Diet Poison posted:I appreciate that his head's recessed into a fuckin thing like the original toy despite a completely different vehicle-to-robot body plan thing. I always really liked Mixmaster, I don't know why. He did nothing. He was basically a rectangle in both modes. Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? Heh, thanks. Like I said above, it’s meant to resemble a hazmat suit and that’s the “hat” part. I’m personally thinking the windshields go up to protect him from his own creations. As for stupid Transformers I love, I have sadly way too many…
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Diet Poison posted:Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? all of the pretenders especially the ones whose shells broke
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Nodosaur posted:How are you liking Armada Prime? Kick-rear end bot. A couple of minor quibbles, but nothing major. Nothing is perfect anyway. Looks great with the other Armada figs we have gotten recently. I remember how cool Armada was when the toys were first released. If I recall there hadn't been many (or any) truck Primes since Beast Wars started, so it was super exciting to see the OG Armada Prime on shelves.
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Diet Poison posted:I appreciate that his head's recessed into a fuckin thing like the original toy despite a completely different vehicle-to-robot body plan thing. I always really liked Mixmaster, I don't know why. He did nothing. He was basically a rectangle in both modes. Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? Scoot
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Well, Snarl is the first of these core-class Dinobots that I'm genuinely kinda disappointed with. I've tolerated a lot that other people don't in these dino modes, but what the hell is that? Why is he dragging his head on the floor like he's done a poo poo on the carpet and he's having his nose rubbed in it? Is this the compromise they made to give him elbows? I don't think it's worth it.
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Diet Poison posted:I appreciate that his head's recessed into a fuckin thing like the original toy despite a completely different vehicle-to-robot body plan thing. I always really liked Mixmaster, I don't know why. He did nothing. He was basically a rectangle in both modes. Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection?
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Joe Fisto posted:Kick-rear end bot. A couple of minor quibbles, but nothing major. Nothing is perfect anyway. Looks great with the other Armada figs we have gotten recently. RiD 2001 Prime was a fire truck and was superior 
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Tighclops posted:RiD 2001 Prime was a fire truck and was superior That was out in the states before Armada? I remember importing the Car Robots version way back in the day. Looks like tomorrow I can answer the eternal question, trashmaster or play doh? 
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Diet Poison posted:Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? Not even a Transformer, but the GoBot Pincher. The head broke off it, so in robot mode I just used the hawk head. He was a weird lil guy.
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Diet Poison posted:Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? For me it’s BW Depthcharge. Great Robot mode, really striking headsculpt, colours. The chromed Gold and teals etc. Unfortunately hanging off his back is about 2 lbs of gimmicky kibble with a footprint that makes him hard to display. Also shouting out Scorpionformers as my fav even though most transformation = stand up a little
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Diet Poison posted:Anyone else got a really lovely Transformer they loved despite being obviously inferior to the other ones in your collection? McDonalds Panther was as much a Maximal as Rhinox or Polar Claw (I only had the bat Optimus so the giant polar bear who shot a bat out of his arm was clearly the leader).
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I have a Skullcruncher I loved growing up who had no tail sword or even his head. Just this robot gator boy who could turn into a headless guy.
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Wasn't expecting to find Legacy Brawn today He's great, cute as a button, high oot-de-doo factor
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Good Listener posted:I have a Skullcruncher I loved growing up who had no tail sword or even his head. Just this robot gator boy who could turn into a headless guy. I too have this exact Skullcruncher
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Robot Style posted:McDonalds Panther was as much a Maximal as Rhinox or Polar Claw (I only had the bat Optimus so the giant polar bear who shot a bat out of his arm was clearly the leader). Oh poo poo, I also really loved the McDonalds Beetle. Would love to have one on my desk.
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Battle Unicorn Come on, that guy is cool as hell
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Legacy Animated Bumblebee's leaked. Whoever it was who wanted him to be a faithful update to the Animated look should be happy. https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/09/17/transformers-legacy-animated-bumblebee-494625 
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Oooh! Time to decide what to do with my KBB Hornets Agent...
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Chris McFeely seems very unhappy about it, but he also pointed out that he's a mark for the inevitable Wasp repaint.
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flavor.flv posted:Battle Unicorn Honestly would love to have this guy, I could never find him anywhere even back in the day
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It's weird - the shoulders seem to behave in roughly the same way as the original, but they feel a lot worse to me. 
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So, wait. Is all of IDW Transformers just one guy's fanfic? The guy who wrote the fanfic where Shockwave gives birth? The guy who wrote the fanfic where Star Saber gets down dirty because this guy hates the Japanese transformers stuff?
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That's what comic books are like. A lot of the greatest Batman and X-Men stories were technically fanfiction about those characters by Grant Morrison.
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Fivemarks posted:So, wait. Is all of IDW Transformers just one guy's fanfic? The guy who wrote the fanfic where Shockwave gives birth? The guy who wrote the fanfic where Star Saber gets down dirty because this guy hates the Japanese transformers stuff? I simultaneously want to and don't want to know more
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Tighclops posted:I simultaneously want to and don't want to know more Yeah, James Roberts wrote a fanfic that led to him getting picked up to write for IDW, and a lot of ideas from that fanfic- like Star Saber being a fascist- were brought into IDW. This sucks, because Star Saber is rad.
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It doesn't count as fanfic if it's officially licensed, and there were a lot of guys. I don't remember if there was anything about James Roberts hating japanese characters in specific, I think he mostly did Star Saber dirty because he likes doing dirty. I guess he didn't exactly do right by Deathsaurus either, but then again he also did wrong by Pipes. A couple of the characters in MTME were formerly most prominent in anime, but generally he chose most of his main cast for being obscure enough that he could just write them however he wanted. I don't know what UK-anime connections usually are aside from one weird dub. Doesn't seem like there's very many intersections.
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I don't mean MTMTE, I mean Eugenesis. But I dunno, It seems weird- I've totally noticed that in the Transformers fandom, the UK fans seem to really just absolutely hate the japanese stuff, and not just in a "Hahaha KISSPLAYERS and ENERGON bad" way, but in a way that feels like "We're mad the Japanese are so involved in it when they don't care about it the way WE DO!" way.
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I could see European G1 fans feeling more ownership over the brand than other places. They not only got some of the otherwise Japanese exclusive toys like Overlord and (most of) Breastforce, and also got their own unique toys like Skyquake and Thunder Clash. And even in the fiction, the modern Transformers backstory with Primus and all that owes more to the stuff Simon Furman was doing in the UK comics than anything that was on TV around the world. Transformers also never really stopped in Europe, while other markets had thrown in the towel until G2 kicked things off again.
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Robot Style posted:It's weird - the shoulders seem to behave in roughly the same way as the original, but they feel a lot worse to me. *G1 figures excluded
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I mean transformers having Mpreg dates back to the G2 comics. Also Roberts isn't the sole auteur and architect of the 2005-2019 IDW continuity. He had pretty free reign over his side later on but John Barber is responsible for a lot of it, including the really excellent musings on empire and colonialism that animate the final arcs of the universe.
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Robot Style posted:I could see European G1 fans feeling more ownership over the brand than other places. They not only got some of the otherwise Japanese exclusive toys like Overlord and (most of) Breastforce, and also got their own unique toys like Skyquake and Thunder Clash. And even in the fiction, the modern Transformers backstory with Primus and all that owes more to the stuff Simon Furman was doing in the UK comics than anything that was on TV around the world. Transformers also never really stopped in Europe, while other markets had thrown in the towel until G2 kicked things off again.
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Fivemarks posted:Yeah, James Roberts wrote a fanfic that led to him getting picked up to write for IDW, and a lot of ideas from that fanfic- like Star Saber being a fascist- were brought into IDW. Counterpoint: It's great, because Star Saber is barely a character outside of an unwatchable show from almost four decades ago so who loving cares? Frankly having the toy that was one of the most obnoxious "Oh my favorite G1 toy? You probably haven't HEARD of him he never came HERE" things in the old days of the online fandom used as a representation of blind hostile religious fervor is a pretty solid creative choice.
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