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The Last Call posted:I recall quite a few sites putting up notices saying this would be done due to safety rules and regulations otherwise it would be impossible to import it at all. That's my recollection.
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I remember getting V1 masterpiece Megs with that plug and it was very loosely used in and very easy to remove. I can't remember if V2 Megs had the plug too but I might have ordered him from Amazon Japan.
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Meanwhile the nefarious decepticons laugh because at this point, at least in america, it is far more easy to get a real gun than a Megatron that turns into a gun toy.
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This is interesting - Legacy United Wave 5: Tra Gen legacy UNI Core BW Dinobot Product Number: F8519 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Dlx G1 Sureshot Product Number: F8531 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Dlx G2 Breakdown Product Number: G0134 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Dlx Armada Wheeljack Product Number: G0135 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Dlx Cosmos PR Product Number: G0133 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Voy Ramjet PR Product Number: G0136 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Voy Tarn PR Product Number: G0137 Tra Gen Legacy UNI LDR G1 Overcharge Product Number: G0139 Tra Gen Legacy UNI Galaxy Shuttle PR Product Number: G0138 A very interesting assortment. We've got:
This almost feels like a Victory Lap for Legacy. I wonder if that means the next phase is going to take a bit to ramp up next year.
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SlothfulCobra posted:It's the other way around. That's actually one of the main reasons that toy guns are restricted. Since it's plausible that anyone, even a child, could get their hands on a gun, that means anyone with something gun-like could be a major threat, either causing a panic or giving the police a reason to shoot the potential attacker.
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Actually, yeah. Bring on garish neon yellow Megatron.
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Arquinsiel posted:They do NERF guns based on Fortnite guns which are just real guns. It makes no loving sense that Megatron is not just a gun now. In the US he'd have to be colored wild colors and have a blaze orange tip affixed. If you're doing G1 accurate, that doesn't work. So they don't. Shiftypenguin posted:I remember getting V1 masterpiece Megs with that plug and it was very loosely used in and very easy to remove. V2's tip was solidly glued in the metal barrel piece. You had to heat it up with a hair dryer and pry it out with pliers.
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And it was worth it.
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Robot Style posted:Actually, yeah. Bring on garish neon yellow Megatron.  They later recolored it to a grey version.
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The Last Call posted:
Hah, I still have that version of megs crated in storage. Love those hideous colors.
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The Last Call posted:
They also did a red version
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Robot Style posted:This is interesting - Legacy United Wave 5: YES ARMADA WHEELJACK Time to plan on buying three Overcharges meanwhile…
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Could that be a core TM2 Dinobot or am I just spitballing?
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The leak indicated it's regular Dinobot.
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Tighclops posted:Could that be a core TM2 Dinobot or am I just spitballing? to this day i wonder if show BW Megs wanted him to look that hosed up, or he just made do with whatever scraps he had on hand to Frankenstein up his old buddy.
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Robot Style posted:Actually, yeah. Bring on garish neon yellow Megatron.
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The Last Call posted:Probably cheaper too. There’s a MiB G1 Megs at my local comic shop going for about 800 bucks, so yeah I could easily get a gun for less. drrockso20 posted:They also did a red version I have the original as well as the chromed Takara Tomy one. Rhymenoserous fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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Rhymenoserous posted:so yeah I could easily get a gun for less. They're free in trucks with a "Molon Labe" sticker on the window, all you need is a rock
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Would Apelinq with a top hat and beard be Ape-linqon?
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https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-masterpiece-mpg-08-trainbot-yamabuki?_kx=DaL9RBEj74p5bOyvoCtrOkDtbr_zAGLIlw477JJEJxg.LqpvWS So, like, is the plan to eventually have enough train guys to make a second Raiden?
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Probably - seems like they're doing the Diaclone Recolor thing and will combine into a new character called G Liner.
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Robot Style posted:
2 years ago, when this stuff was being set up and finalized, Lenny Panzica who had been in charge of Transformers at Hasbro briefly, suddenly departed for GI Joe. So it seems likely to me that the planned end of LegUni/what comes next wAs disrupted by this change in such a way that we're now seeing this filler wave.
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Four or five hundred backers happened between today and yesterday. 15,379 Backers now for RID Optimus. 16, 000 for that second unlock. Would Hasbro do a secret tier? It still has twenty days to go. This appears to be one of the better responded Haslabs. Time of the year probably helps.
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Most common response I saw when it got revealed was "Who asked for this?" Especially when compared to something like Unicron which had struggled so hard.
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And yet not only did it succeed, it’s the fastest TF HasLab yet. Keldroc will get after me for saying this, but there IS an appetite for these characters to come back. The TF incarnations people dismiss had a bigger impact than people think.
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Nodosaur posted:And yet not only did it succeed, it’s the fastest TF HasLab yet. Are there any “vintage” RID toys that belong in my collection and worth tracking down?
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It doesn't hurt a lot of people who grew up with that version of the character are now teens or older with their own money.
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Xenomrph posted:Are there any “vintage” RID toys that belong in my collection and worth tracking down? The Autobot Bros., Build Team, Team Bullet train, Unite Warriors Baldigus/Ruination, any version of Scourge/Black Convoy, the Predacon trio, Gigatron/Megatron…really you can’t go wrong with any of them.
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Just seeing the YouTube thumbnail of the painted Omega Prime the other day was pretty impressive, I'm sure that's snagged a few hunnerd more backers
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Nodosaur posted:The Autobot Bros., Build Team, Team Bullet train, Unite Warriors Baldigus/Ruination, any version of Scourge/Black Convoy, the Predacon trio, Gigatron/Megatron…really you can’t go wrong with any of them. Build team and the bullet trains were pretty drat cool, same with the car bros.
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yeah and Skybyte and the three Predacon brothers are the best color schemes those molds have ever had Unchanged in Gas Skunk's case, but still technically true
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The three Autobot Brothers are all pretty unique in the ways that they transform, Sideburn might be the cooler figure since his kibble lifts out of the way cleanly, but X-Brawn has probably got the most iconically weird transformation with his hood arm and spare tire holder feet and undercarriage missiles, and I like how his head is in the driver's seat in vehicle mode. The Build team is alright, and Wedge is by far one of my favorite figures for both his articulation and his design that has very little kibble and when I was younger I also imagined like a starfighter mode. Grimlock is pretty neat for how weird he is, but Hightower and Wide Load are literally interchangeable (same mold with minor retools, but Hightower does have cooler guns). I'm not generally into combined modes, and boy while RiD was a step past the G1 bricks, there was a very long way to go. But it is kinda fun how it's the one torso robot that is smaller than the limbs, and you can have Wedge in full on-robot mode just hanging off the limb structure if you want. Very different from how things are typically done, and the whole Transformers franchise has an issue with not having enough takes on construction vehicles, despite those being some of the most interesting vehicles out there. Gigatron I suppose some people would be into for the complexity and uniqueness, but he has that problem that many-mode robots where he can turn into a lot of things that kinda look like a jumble of parts. He's got an okay crane mode I guess. There's a lot of reissues and recolors you might like. Obsidian from Beast Machines got a more tasteful Desert Storm paint job. Even counting all the reissues of molds, RiD was a pretty short and small toyline.
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Picked up Studio Series ROTB Wheeljack and Scorponok today. Wheeljack has an extremely demanding order of operations with significant clearance issues, weirdly mostly in the car-to-robot direction. He's charming enough in both modes and significantly different from the "Coreboy" mainline Wheeljack, but apart from the licensing he's honestly worse. Pick him up if you're a completionist, there's not much novelty here. Scorponok is an absolute delight. He has an extremely clever and fun transformation that preserves an astonishing amount of articulation in both modes. Pro buy. Also a few days ago I got Concept Art Megatron and I don't know if I mentioned him already but he's goddamn spectacular. His alt modes are sketchy but he has so much charisma, articulation, and polish you won't mind.
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