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They're not CW pegs. They're a similar design but a completely different size.
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https://twitter.com/TheGDPod/status/1707697768637059542 it looks like it has a german shepards head also give us quickstrike please
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I don't know how I feel, I can't see the loving thing behind the big red text
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Now everyone is just waiting for what we really want, Transmetal Megatron.
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Anora posted:Now everyone is just waiting for what we really want, Quickstrike.
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Anora posted:Now everyone is just waiting for what we really want, Transmetal Megatron. with the AUTHENTIC disintegrating plastic
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My SS Magnus has arrived and he is a delight. A big chonky boy that is absolutely up to the job of Operation Volcano, and can join my Wreckers crew.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:https://twitter.com/TheGDPod/status/1707697768637059542 gently caress yeah
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For weirdos like me TransArt have put out renders for Silverbolt and Quickstrike. They’ve only missed once and it was a minor miss for me. They’ll be MP scale most likely. Their TM Tarantulas is on its way from China right now.
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Sep 29, 2023 20:03
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That Velocitron Crasher has been found at a Ross in Orlando.
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Sep 29, 2023 20:16
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Ugh, I hate Ross hunting but I did miss out on that Crasher...
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Sep 29, 2023 20:30
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Knormal posted:Ugh, I hate Ross hunting but I did miss out on that Crasher... Everyone did. I saw One in a Walmart in Baton Rouge and passed it up thinking this meant they were about to be everywhere
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Mine had already been picked over. Managed to get Scourge & Buzzworthy Cliffjumper together for $25, so not a total waste. The nearby Ollie's still had the reissue BW Primal & Megatrons.
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Sep 29, 2023 22:10
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People are finding Cosmos at Ross
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Pulse charged me for Bombshell, but they sure are taking their sweet time shipping it... Complaining on Internet will surely solve this dilemma.
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Joe Fisto posted:People are finding Cosmos at Ross RossCosMos
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Sep 30, 2023 13:22
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When the heck are they making the Dinoking gift set, they aren’t fooling anyone
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I've been staring at it here on my desk, I think Commander Ultra Magnus is bot of the year. There are others I bought that I like quite a lot, but this guy can finally deal with it I think.
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Joe Fisto posted:I've been staring at it here on my desk, I think Commander Ultra Magnus is bot of the year. There are others I bought that I like quite a lot, but this guy can finally deal with it I think. You guys are killing me. I've got it on pre-order and I keep telling myself "You have Siege UM and Combiner Wars UM, you don't need another..." But then, I don't really like either of those.....
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Medullah posted:You guys are killing me. I've got it on pre-order and I keep telling myself "You have Siege UM and Combiner Wars UM, you don't need another..." The Kingdom one is meh, the CW one does a good job of being the specific IDW version of Magnus it's trying to be. SS86 absolutely nails being the archetypal Magnus in both modes and the transformation has so many fun little bits to it (especially the concertina-ing arms and the incredibly satisfying way the chest basically turns inside out to make the cab). I'm with Joe, I think it's toy of the year, and that's with it sat next to Armada Prime on my table.
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Ugh if anyone finds Scourge at Ross please pick one up for me
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Some new old Sunbow documents just got uploaded, and apparently Fortress Maximus almost made it into the 1985 season. And in a really weird way.  I'm guessing this is actually the Metroplex mold since it would be weird to have Fort Max that much before any other Headmasters were a thing.
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Yeah that name was kicking around for a while, I think the name made it into an earlier treatment for the movie as well iirc
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It probably cost a shitload more to produce than it would have sold for, which is why it was a mail order exclusive. Reflector has a fuckload of parts, and wouldn't sell in the numbers it would need to to be a positive ROI unlike Megatron, who also had a fuckload of parts but was the lead bad guy, so every kid wanted one.
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Too bad the animation made Reflector boring, which resulted in them always getting new toys based on the animation model instead of their much cooler original toy designs
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I think Reflector was also more prominent because of how earlier on the Decepticons were really desperate to fill out their numbers earlier on. Even later on in the show, you have issues with the decepticons having less characters to fill out crowd scenes, especially as there were way more Autobots. Taking the characters from already existing toys and deciding to split them by altmode makes vague sense, but very quickly that becomes a problem when there's far, far more cars than there are planes. I don't know if they purposefully held back characters to have dedicated episodes or if they just didn't have them ready at the time they were making the pilot. And weirdly I don't think there's ever any story relevance to the Autobots being mainly cars and the Decepticons having all the planes outside of the stunticon and aerialbot episodes and that one time Galvatron says Autobots can't fly. Even when IDW had stories about the prewar society being divvied up by alt-mode, it never commented on planes v. cars, it just focused on the lowest class workers being mining equipment.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think Reflector was also more prominent because of how earlier on the Decepticons were really desperate to fill out their numbers earlier on. Even later on in the show, you have issues with the decepticons having less characters to fill out crowd scenes, especially as there were way more Autobots.  I don't think I've ever heard a firm reason why Reflector became a mail-in though. Production cost would make sense with all the accessories. He also had a fair amount of diecast for if I remember right.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think Reflector was also more prominent because of how earlier on the Decepticons were really desperate to fill out their numbers earlier on. Even later on in the show, you have issues with the decepticons having less characters to fill out crowd scenes, especially as there were way more Autobots. There's a reason I made that post a while ago speculating which of the 84 & 85 Autobot molds would have been Decepticons instead if they had been more concerned with the factions being more equal in numbers rather than segregating them by Alt Mode
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Eh, everybody knows the Good Guys get a sales boost, making all the cool vehicles be the villains is just good marketing
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flavor.flv posted:Eh, everybody knows the Good Guys get a sales boost, making all the cool vehicles be the villains is just good marketing 
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Some company in Japan is building an Insecticon. https://www.reuters.com/technology/japan-startup-develops-gundam-like-robot-with-3-mln-price-tag-2023-10-02/
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The new TF comic sure does hit the ground running.
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I enjoyed it. I like DWJ and he made Optimus do a back body slam on Starscream so I’m in.
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Pulse cancelled my Bombshell. They cancelled my Nacelle. Hmm.
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Knormal posted:Yep, the 1984 Decepticons in the toy catalog were literally 10 guys, 5 of whom were cassettes. Leading to situations like this: Kinda shocked we haven't had ten million orange, yellow and teal repaints of rumble/frenzy
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Two of them could be called Crumble and Envy. One's made out of Gold Plastic and the other has a real chip on his shoulder about never getting a toy.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Pulse cancelled my Bombshell. Here's the rumor mill: "According to the people I've talked to what they're hearing was that the pallets that bombshell and bludgeon came on suffered horrific damage. They won't say if it was water, crushing, or something else. Only that they've been trying to salvage what few figures they could but most of them simply are not going to cut it. And they have no ETA of when they'll be able to get more in to replace these so they're just going to cancel all the orders"
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