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strangehamster posted:Everything is up, you heard it here first Thanks! Got Nightbeat who is awesome, and Jhiaxus, who is the worst miscoloring tragedy since that blue guy died of colloidal silver poisoning. I saw him at QFC once. RIP, blue guy.
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therealjon_ posted:I have the Vintage color one and am not sure if I'm going to keep him. Cool, thanks. Yeah, I've pre-ordered a Columpo (along with Arcee and Chromia), and I'm not sure how much I want to keep him. Mania King is about the same price, but the issues you list above make me hesitate, and Hegemon is cool, but with a Hasbro Leader Megatron on the way, I don't think I want to pull the trigger on him.
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This obviously means BBTS will finally stock Roadbuster and Skybyte and Crosscut's wave soon, I hope. Might order them all together if they're in stock since apparently HTS doesn't ship to my hellhole.
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Wow, the Deluxe four-pack is already sold out (Jhiaxus, Windblade, Crosscut, Nightbeat). I managed to snag a Jetfire and Roadbuster (and Voyager Hound! Yay!) though, so I'm happy.
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Blackheart posted:This obviously means BBTS will finally stock Roadbuster and Skybyte and Crosscut's wave soon, I hope. Might order them all together if they're in stock since apparently HTS doesn't ship to my hellhole. Roadbuster has been sitting in my Pile Of Loot for the past couple of weeks.
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Captain Invictus posted:Alrighty. What of the IDW series deals with the war on earth, chronologically? I see a shitload of miniseries like Megatron Origins and poo poo but I want to see IDW's take on the earth war because apparently poo poo gets right hosed up and winds up with Thundercracker living in a shack secretly making terrible attempts at terran scriptwriting with his dog, Jazz killed a guy, and like 20% of the human population was wiped out by the war. It has been a while since I've gone over the Earth stuff, and when I did it I skimmed most of it. But from what I can gleam online, the basic reading order for Earth stuff (skipping spotlights and some mini-series) is following: Infiltration Escalation Devastation Maximum Dinobots All Hail Megatron Last Stand of the Wreckers (not Earth, but very much worth reading) Transformers (1-4) Bumblebee (1-4, not spotlight) Rest of Transformers (5-31) I might be forgetting something, but I don't believe that it will impact much.
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Keldroc posted:Yeah, the '86 movie cast are actually supposed to be Earth vehicles of the far flung future of 2005, not Cybertronian vehicles. It's not entirely unfair to lump them into the Cybertronian category, though, just given the aesthetics of the Cybertronian vehicles that came later, and the high likelihood that human tech in the G1 2005 would be based heavily on shared Autobot tech. When the post movie cartoon went back to Earth, were there off-colour Kup and Hot Rods driving around? Because that'd be sweet. Also I like all the original Autobots keeping their old all-modes and consequently becoming just as old and busted looking as Soundwave The Obsolete Media Player.
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Iced Cocoa posted:It has been a while since I've gone over the Earth stuff, and when I did it I skimmed most of it. But from what I can gleam online, the basic reading order for Earth stuff (skipping spotlights and some mini-series) is following: You could skip all the Earth-based stuff after Maximum Dinobots and save yourself a lot of time, money, and heartache. I've never read TF comics as bad as the era of Spike murdering constructacons or whatever.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:You could skip all the Earth-based stuff after Maximum Dinobots and save yourself a lot of time, money, and heartache. I've never read TF comics as bad as the era of Spike murdering constructacons or whatever. It has nothing on Heart of Darkness or Autocracy. And possibly Montrosity, I could only stomach two issues of that.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Roadbuster has been sitting in my Pile Of Loot for the past couple of weeks. I know, I just preordered too late.
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Spiderdrake posted:The ongoing was bland and meandered. I enjoyed those but only because the art was so weird. Heart of Darkness because everyone looked like they were stung by a lot of bees, and the others because I like that Sienkiewicz-influenced nightmare look.
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Spiderdrake posted:The ongoing was bland and meandered. As bad as the ongoing was, at least it had Chaos Theory.
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RaspberryCommie posted:As bad as the ongoing was, at least it had Chaos Theory. I like the first six part arc (I love that Menasor "we need a sword" "NO NOT THE SHIP"), I enjoyed the Thundercracker issues (I think thats like 7 and 8?), Heart like a Wheel is good, Chaos Theory is excellent and Police Action is good. So yeah 12 good issues. China/Korea sucked, Chaos itself sucked in the exact same way Dark Cybertron sucked but with a worse ending. Although the revenge of the Decepticon issues were pretty weak, it did muster up some great scenes, like Prime blasting Soundwave in the face, Megatron getting hit with an orbital strike and that bit where Prime thinks Magnus is apologizing and he's actually like "no I meant to tell you earlier about the tracking device I put on him". I actually think Costa did a really good job with Magnus. Oh and Brawn just giving Starscream the business was fantastic.
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Iced Cocoa posted:It has been a while since I've gone over the Earth stuff, and when I did it I skimmed most of it. But from what I can gleam online, the basic reading order for Earth stuff (skipping spotlights and some mini-series) is following: Thanks man!
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you might want to check Half Price books for All Hail Megatron, I found a few across multiple stores for like $15.
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Knormal posted:I'm interested in this, I like the design but I don't like Galvatron enough to pay full price and the original version is close enough. Keep me in mind if you decide to sell. I'm in I'm still not 100% sure if I want to buy the newer one and sell the one I currently have, but I'll keep you in mind. My finances are looking a little rough this month with MP Wheeljack, the new wave of Generations, FP Mindwipe and Sludge, and maybe even that Onslaught add on thing. I thought last month was going to kill me, but all my preorders got pushed back.
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FP Sludge is pretty cool, but his hands on mine are a teensy bit too big to have his sword or gun fit properly with them closed (in the case of the gun, it slips out, no pegs like the MP cars, and in the case of the sword, the crossguard kind of makes his forearm want to split back open, as it does to get the robot hands out.) Drepan is a neat little poseable guy, but his axe mode is pretty clunky, and there's a peg, for attaching to Columpio's wing or shoulder for storage, that gets in the way of the axe haft folding down properly in robot mode, so he's got a big ol' handle just jutting off at 90' from his back. I may have to amputate the peg, we'll see. The joints are loose without being overly loose. Nothing really bad. Otherwise, Columpio's is a pretty good MP Sludge.
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You know what, another rework of the Springer/Sandstorm mold would be totally cool by me. These bots are just the raddest, even if the vehicle modes don't quite fit together right 
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Sockser posted:These bots are just the raddest, even if the vehicle modes don't quite fit together right ARE YOU JUST IGNORING MY POSTS? They fit together FINE if you follow a specific order of operations.
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DoctorWhat posted:ARE YOU JUST IGNORING MY POSTS? Mine still don't, even doing the wheel covers last. The windows just refuse to tab into the windshield.
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strangehamster posted:Everything is up, you heard it here first Welp, there goes about $300 spent on plastic crack.
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Springer works fine for me Wreck Gar has never become a bike again, though.
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Is Lockdown's robot mode as ugly in person as he is in pictures? And why does his not-gun face look like BM Primal?
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Phy posted:Is Lockdown's robot mode as ugly in person as he is in pictures? And why does his not-gun face look like BM Primal? You can reconfigure his chest plates to make him look pretty good, but his arms are always gonna be a little iffy, and the legs are pretty much bland by any stretch of the imagination.
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Sockser posted:Mine still don't, even doing the wheel covers last. The windows just refuse to tab into the windshield. I'm gonna have to make a video or something.
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There can be small variances in each copy of a toy, you know. Some people's individual copies sometimes are looser/tighter or peg together/don't peg at all. I seem to have extremely good luck in this regard, overall. Either that or I don't seem to have common TF fandom problem of having axe hands.
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Preview for the next MTMTE is up: Skids gently tries to reassure Rewind everything's okay and normal. Apart from Megatron the Autobot. And Nightbeat the undead guy. And Nautica, who isn't a guy. And the ship full of corpses they're on.
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Blackheart posted:There can be small variances in each copy of a toy, you know. Some people's individual copies sometimes are looser/tighter or peg together/don't peg at all. I seem to have extremely good luck in this regard, overall. Either that or I don't seem to have common TF fandom problem of having axe hands. Yeah and speaking of Lockdown I'm having a heck of a time with the gap between his front end and doors in vehicle mode. It's a fantastic vehicle mode and the gap is just annoying. I've read that it's a common issue and people are saying to push down HARD and wait for a click, but I get no such thing. I wish they'd package the toys in vehicle mode so at least I could see if it's fitting together well and there's no paint screwups.
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Blackheart posted:There can be small variances in each copy of a toy, you know. Some people's individual copies sometimes are looser/tighter or peg together/don't peg at all. I seem to have extremely good luck in this regard, overall. Either that or I don't seem to have common TF fandom problem of having axe hands. The one shoulder on my Sandstorm is too weak to hold up the blaster so I can't have him dual wield his blaster and Springers 
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Sockser posted:The one shoulder on my Sandstorm is too weak to hold up the blaster so I can't have him dual wield his blaster and Springers I have the exact opposite problem, Springer has weakish shoulders (seriously hasbro it works for deluxes but don't give your voyagers balljoint shoulders) and Sanstorm's shoulders are OK. Strangely nail polish didn't work as well here as it does on other figures.
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Here's a question about HTS: I think I recall in the past stories from someone here where they placed an order, but then got an email later on saying the item wasn't actually in stock when they ordered it. They would get a refund, etc, but the item itself was not to be had. Am I just making this up entirely? Anyway, I'm just asking about this because I put down an order for Roadbuster with HTS yesterday, and I have another pre-order at BBTS. I'd like to cancel the one at BBTS, but I am wary of shenanigans. My apologies if I'm just accidentally making poo poo up and adding to anxiety.
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DoctorWhat posted:ARE YOU JUST IGNORING MY POSTS? On mine, in robot mode, the chest pegs in super loose and flops out when you try posing him. You've kind of solved one issue in one mode, it doesn't solve the whole toy's issues.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:On mine, in robot mode, the chest pegs in super loose and flops out when you try posing him. You've kind of solved one issue in one mode, it doesn't solve the whole toy's issues. Unlucky plastic tolerances. Not a problem on my Springer or my Sandstorm.
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DoctorWhat posted:Unlucky plastic tolerances. Not a problem on my Springer or my Sandstorm. That's....great. But hopefully you see what we're saying; your Springer works well, your fix works well with your Springer, but it's still a flawed design if it can't cope with inconsistencies in manufacturing.
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Sorry for the outburst, yeah. I have a tendency towards the melodramatic.
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DoctorWhat posted:Sorry for the outburst, yeah. I have a tendency towards the melodramatic. A guy who dresses like the 6th Doctor, and not even the classy blue suit from his non-tv appearances, having hammy dramatic outbursts is not a surprise to me.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:A guy who dresses like the 6th Doctor, and not even the classy blue suit from his non-tv appearances, having hammy dramatic outbursts is not a surprise to me. The blue suit is boring. What's the point? You might as well dress up like Captain Beige at that point.
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Just read the preview for MTMTE #33. With every new issue the wait between them becomes more and more intolerable.
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DoctorWhat posted:The blue suit is boring. What's the point? You might as well dress up like Captain Beige at that point. Is that also why Colin Baker stapled a fright wig onto his head?
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Is that also why Colin Baker stapled a fright wig onto his head? It was also the mid-80's. That was the height of sexy back in those days. This thing with ladies obsessing over how cute the Doctor is isn't a new thing by any means. In the 60's they were all about grandpas. Tastes change.
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