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Prawn Salad posted:I still think Creepy White Van is the perfect altmode for Soundwave, and I don't understand why it's never been done before. There was this concept art  Looks good and is close enough to a van. e: hell you could change it into that creepy van and still have the same basic transformation catch22 fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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HiriseSoftware posted:What's so fun about playing with a box van? Sorry, a skyscraper transformer would be awesome 
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Apr 3, 2014 17:14
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Blackheart posted:Sorry, a skyscraper transformer would be awesome I want a line of awesome buildings (Empire State, Sydney Opera House, etc.). Then I want a line of historical transformers (trebuchet, trireme, etc.). Then I want a crossover of the two (Pyramids, Himeji Castle, etc.). That is all.
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Apr 3, 2014 17:16
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Then I want a crossover of the two (Pyramids, Himeji Castle, etc.). http://sirtoys.com/toys.php?c=10&p=66&t=Shrine_Warrior_Pyramid.html
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Apr 3, 2014 17:21
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That poor little guy has been stuck in my sirtoys cart for so long...
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Apr 3, 2014 17:24
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Prawn Salad posted:I still think Creepy White Van is the perfect altmode for Soundwave, and I don't understand why it's never been done before. I feel like some times they don't do certain alt-modes because of too much kibble, or they'd have to parts form, like the old Ironhide toy had a 30% robot to 70% base kibble ratio, roughly. With how anti-parts forming they've been, it'll probably be awhile before we see another one, short of Bulkhead, and even he was more SUV then Mini-van.
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Blackheart posted:Sorry, a skyscraper transformer would be awesome Metroplex is kinda made up of buildings? v  v
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Apr 3, 2014 18:37
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Nah, he's made up of kinda buildings.
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Apr 3, 2014 18:45
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I love to hate Botcon toys, I want thissssss one https://twitter.com/BotCon/status/451767178287521792/photo/1
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Apr 3, 2014 19:28
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strangehamster posted:I love to hate Botcon toys, I want thissssss one What happened to their dedication to not using UT molds (which is why that red alert with a missle didn't get made into machine wars soundwave for the machine wars set) Also wasn't there supposed to be a theme here? Cannonball's the only one part of the pirates/knights theme from what I can tell...
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Apr 3, 2014 19:33
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Rita Repulsa posted:What happened to their dedication to not using UT molds (which is why that red alert with a missle didn't get made into machine wars soundwave for the machine wars set) Don't forget the #1 Botcon toy theme, whatever the hell we want on our shelf at home.  
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Apr 3, 2014 19:37
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Energon toys are just so flagrantly ugly.
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Apr 3, 2014 19:40
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"Soooooooooo.... Does a Headmaster Scorponok figure celebrate the 30th anniversary adequately enough?" No. Especially when that is a literal quote from their PR.
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Apr 3, 2014 19:49
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Upside, this should inspire some 3P company to make a sweet Scorp
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Apr 3, 2014 20:02
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Look, I don't like FunPub either, but let's be fair. It totally does.
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Apr 3, 2014 20:03
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strangehamster posted:Don't forget the #1 Botcon toy theme, whatever the hell we* want on our shelf at home. *Funpub It's cute and all but it's going to cost an arm and a leg, especially because anyone selling it will have to offset the cost of being stuck with an otherwise poo poo box set this year. Plus, though it's not really fair to Funpub, it feels like too little too late because: SpikeMcclane posted:"Soooooooooo.... Does a Headmaster Scorponok figure celebrate the 30th anniversary adequately enough?" I'm pretty sure Metroplex celebrated the 30th Anniversary sufficiently. This is just an old Energon mold (not even the superior Cybertron version with the better tail!) with an admittedly dandy head.
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I'm really hard on FubPub but so far this is one of the best sets they've ever done. I would love to have Devcon and Scorponok. I'm happy with my Cybertron Cannonball and never really wanted another but this one is certainly fine. Yeah Ferak is pretty unexciting but he doesn't look bad per se. The Pirates vs. Knights theme is extremely loose, and that's a good thing. Rather than taking existing molds and forcing them to be things they don't work as, they finally learned to just redeco molds into things that work for that particular mold, even if it doesn't fit in the theme. I'm not going to lie... I kind of want this set.  Of course, the big question is, am I going to be willing to pay however much it costs?
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I don't get why that Devcon is at all appealing to Devcon fans. If I were a Devcon fan I would want a figure of, you know, Devcon, not an overpriced repaint of Scourge in Devcon's color scheme. At least Scorponok looks like himself, but that much money for an Energon mold is less a celebration of 30 years of Transformers and more an insult to people who wanted something recognizable to more than 0.4% of the fandom.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:I'm pretty sure Metroplex celebrated the 30th Anniversary sufficiently. This is just an old Energon mold (not even the superior Cybertron version with the better tail!) with an admittedly dandy head. And that is what they should have said (well, no, they probably should have said nothing), instead of their constant insistence that this botcon set is totally a 30th anniversary celebration and constantly being snarky about it. Funpub PR being an example of everything not to do is nothing new.
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Keldroc posted:I don't get why that Devcon is at all appealing to Devcon fans. If I were a Devcon fan I would want a figure of, you know, Devcon, not an overpriced repaint of Scourge in Devcon's color scheme. At least Scorponok looks like himself, but that much money for an Energon mold is less a celebration of 30 years of Transformers and more an insult to people who wanted something recognizable to more than 0.4% of the fandom. I'm not really a big Devcon fan to be honest. I just think that Devcon is a good looking toy and the Scourge mold works for the character well. Hell, if they were ever going to repaint Scourge, Devcon was the first thing that would pop into my head. (Although the Ratbat is surprisingly cool and arguably cooler than Scourge.) That and I think it would just be cool to have a Devcon. Sometimes I like getting those weird little obscure characters like him and Straxus. gently caress I can't believe I'm defending loving Funpub, what the hell
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Gammatron 64 posted:I just think that Devcon is a good looking toy and the Scourge mold works for the character well. Hell, if they were ever going to repaint Scourge, Devcon was the first thing that would pop into my head. I agree, and if it had a retail release is be all over it, but I just don't get paying 3P prices for a redeco of a Hasbro figure.
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catch22 posted:I agree, and if it had a retail release is be all over it, but I just don't get paying 3P prices for a redeco of a Hasbro figure. Yeah, that's often the case for a lot of FunPub releases, tbh. I really like Devcon and Scorponok, but the question is, am I willing to pay however much people are going to charge? They're almost definitely going to cost more than usual on the secondary market because they're the ones everybody wants. If they're going to be $100 a pop it'll be hard as hell to justify them. Ferak and Cannonball look decent and I would probably pick them up at retail if I saw them, but I don't need them and could certainly live without them.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Yeah, that's often the case for a lot of FunPub releases, tbh. I really like Devcon and Scorponok, but the question is, am I willing to pay however much people are going to charge? They're almost definitely going to cost more than usual on the secondary market because they're the ones everybody wants. If they're going to be $100 a pop it'll be hard as hell to justify them. If I buy the box, then get an extra bag you could buy the bag set, keep what you want, and ebay the rest.
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All this love for Devcon (not really from here admittedly) and no-one's ever done a 3rd Party or what-have-you for Snapdragon? A Triplechanging headmaster from robot to Dragon to loving awesome looking jet? Anyway, once I sat down and figured out PE Warden's instructions Holy poo poo is he the most badass looking robot on my shelf.Like Jesse Ventura in Predator made out of robot.
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Apr 3, 2014 22:50
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That's not the first headmaster in 25 years; there were a couple back in Armada.
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SlothfulCobra posted:That's not the first headmaster in 25 years; there were a couple back in Armada. Not nebulans/humans, doesn't count.
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SlothfulCobra posted:That's not the first headmaster in 25 years; there were a couple back in Armada. There were three bitchin ones from Fansproject over the last couple years. I always think it's funny how the official TF entities try to live in the TFWiki bubble. The fact that Hasbro is overly worried about alienating kids with losable pieces doesn't make Botcon Scorponok the first *anything* in 25 years.
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If nothing else, there's the Minerva from just a couple years ago. Headmaster, human, official, and you could stick her on a Maximus. Speaking of them, there's Brave Max from RiD time. Also off the top of my head, there's the recent Kabaya versions of various headmasters, that Armada/Energon bike with the weird headmasters, and the Energon Omegas. I hope I'm leaving out a bunch, because I don't want to somehow have known all of them.
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I still agree with Hasbro's "we don't want kids stuck with a headless toy if they lose an accessory" policy in theory, but surely than can find a way to add in a fold-away Spare Head that doesn't look silly,.
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Goldskull posted:All this love for Devcon (not really from here admittedly) and no-one's ever done a 3rd Party or what-have-you for Snapdragon? A Triplechanging headmaster from robot to Dragon to loving awesome looking jet? Hoping Fansproject gets around to him at some point. He was by far my favorite Headmaster as a kid, even if his dragon mode was more of a dragon suggestion.
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strangehamster posted:If I buy the box, then get an extra bag you could buy the bag set, keep what you want, and ebay the rest. I may have to take you up on that. Plus I think Canonball and Ferak look all right, so if I wind up stuck with them I may not be too bent out of shape about it. I may have to see who the last character is, but that Scorponok might just seal the deal. I'm surprised it's taken so long for them to do that mold up in G1 colors. When I think about Scorponok, I usually think about the one from the Marvel comics and IDW, neither of which were that big, so an Ultra class G1 Scorponok actually works really well for me. The toy was big and he was huge in Headmasters, but I try to forget about that show.
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Found this on Josh Burcham's DA: edit: Fixed because I'm an idiot. RaspberryCommie fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Apr 4, 2014 |
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I ordered a non-ko MP Jaguar and Rumble from some guy from China, and lo to my amazement, it's the genuine deal. I'm popping a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
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RaspberryCommie posted:Found this on Josh Burcham's DA: You're trying to image a webpage? Also I love the face, and the clenched fist is good too.
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Spiderdrake posted:
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Yeah, I'm probably going to have to shell out for that Scorponok, I'm a little worried about the head though. It looks like they added a platform for the headmaster to plug into, but that platform's not going to leave enough room for the shoulders to fold up, and if I remember that mold right there's nowhere for the platform to fold away to. If he partforms with a little purple platform that just has to sit on the side while he's in scorpion mode that might be enough to tip me over the not-worth-aftermarket-prices edge that I'm already pretty close to. I wonder if the regular head's still under there?Why cookie Rocket posted:This is just an old Energon mold (not even the superior Cybertron version with the better tail!) with an admittedly dandy head.
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Knormal posted:Yeah, I'm probably going to have to shell out for that Scorponok, I'm a little worried about the head though. It looks like they added a platform for the headmaster to plug into, but that platform's not going to leave enough room for the shoulders to fold up, and if I remember that mold right there's nowhere for the platform to fold away to. If he partforms with a little purple platform that just has to sit on the side while he's in scorpion mode that might be enough to tip me over the not-worth-aftermarket-prices edge that I'm already pretty close to. I wonder if the regular head's still under there? The platform (like the original head) just folds away into the chest cavity.
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Scorponok's flat head kind of makes him look like Frankenstein but I am OK with this.
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