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He looks.... like Swoop. I don't know why this feels anticlimactic, that's exactly what everyone wanted and what we knew we were going to get, a big Swoop.
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The phrase big Swoop now has me picturing a fat version of Swoop doing the Big Smoke Order
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Mar 31, 2024 10:31
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Still with the high pitched voice and Dinobot syntax though right?
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Mar 31, 2024 10:35
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Fil5000 posted:He looks.... like Swoop. He is very blandly Swoop. But the other dinobots have also been bland too.
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Fil5000 posted:Still with the high pitched voice and Dinobot syntax though right? Probably depends on how much effort someone would put into that kind of shitpost if someone were to hypothetically make this into a reality
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Mar 31, 2024 11:20
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The_Doctor posted:He is very blandly Swoop. But the other dinobots have also been bland too. Yeah and I've been A-OK with that. I was always jealous of my friends who had the Dinobots I didn't as a kid. Now I'll have them ALL and they have NOTHING except a loving FAMILY and a PURPOSE IN LIFE.
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Mar 31, 2024 13:12
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He has two swords, and that’s rad.
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Medullah posted:Yeah and I've been A-OK with that. I was always jealous of my friends who had the Dinobots I didn't as a kid. Now I'll have them ALL and they have NOTHING except a loving FAMILY and a PURPOSE IN LIFE. The '86 Dinobots are cool and good.
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Dawgstar posted:The '86 Dinobots are cool and good. Undeniable truth.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:03
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I really hope no one thought I was saying anything negative about the Dinobots, God love 'em. It was just very odd personally to have been anticipating what this release was going to look like and then it looked exactly like it was going to look all along. Like, general anticipatory excitement overrode the bits of my brain that knew he was going to be a blue flappy boi.
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Mar 31, 2024 16:06
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One very good thing about the Transformers is if you don't like how a particular figure comes out, you can often wait and they'll do another. Stuff like the Dinobots will be made and re made over and over again. It helps get you a version you love at some point even if some are not so impressive.
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Mar 31, 2024 18:56
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It's just funny that the other 4 Dinobots look like actual animals, albeit inaccurate ones, but Swoop is a box with wings. Making a Mindwipe out of Swoop is something no one has tried before despite both characters having literally identical shapes.
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Loving Swoop and definitely want one. I am still on the lookout for Snarl, too.
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Apr 1, 2024 02:34
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Whatever went down with snarl's wave is insane. I know people who got their pre-orders from Big Bad toy store 10 months ago, but the toy didn't make it to American shelves until this past February.
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Apr 1, 2024 02:41
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Considering what they did with Devastator and Menasor, I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Dinobots gift set at some point in the next year or so.
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DoctorWhat posted:Whatever went down with snarl's wave is insane. I know people who got their pre-orders from Big Bad toy store 10 months ago, but the toy didn't make it to American shelves until this past February. I never even saw him at retail. I’ve got him on preorder with Entertainment Earth, who knows if he’ll ever ship.
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The Last Call posted:One very good thing about the Transformers is if you don't like how a particular figure comes out, you can often wait and they'll do another.
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Apr 1, 2024 05:12
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There definitely seem to be different tiers of characters when it comes to how often they release them. There's your annual characters like Optimus and Megatron, then your once-per-phase guys like Arcee or Soundwave. After that you start to get into stuff like wrestling's 7 Year Rule, where they wait until there's been enough fan turnover to justify putting out a character that's popular, but most people won't want more than one of in their collection. I know I skipped Kingdom Waspinator because the T30 version was still perfectly fine. And then there's the characters that get a random new figure 30 years later and are never seen again. Grimlock seems to be pretty safely in the "once per phase" category these days, though seems to be an annual character with how much use they're getting out of his SS86 mold.
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There's also the increased frequency of repackagings both within and across years, sometimes with minor to moderate deco changes or slight tooling adjustments.
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DoctorWhat posted:Whatever went down with snarl's wave is insane. I know people who got their pre-orders from Big Bad toy store 10 months ago, but the toy didn't make it to American shelves until this past February. I feel like some lines of dialogue are getting crossed between Core and SS here, but if we're now talking about Core Snarl, mine shipped from EE a few days ago
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We are talking about SS86. I got mine at a local Target along with Gamer Edition Prime, who suffered similarly bizarre distribution.
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Apr 1, 2024 09:04
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I've had Core Snarl from Amazon for months now.
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Apr 1, 2024 09:19
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I’ve never seen core Snarl in stores.
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Xenomrph posted:I never even saw him at retail. I’ve got him on preorder with Entertainment Earth, who knows if he’ll ever ship. Yeah, I have Bombshell on preorder with them and I could've bought him a couple of times over in stores now.
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Heads up if you missed Studio Series Concept Art Megatron. I have been watching the Amazon page for a bit and they finally have a listing back up from Amazon itself at retail. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CFZ9R1ZH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If you see the $84 price just scroll down a bit and you should see a listing with Amazon as the seller. It may say "temporarily out of stock" but from experience this just means they haven't yet got a shipment in they are already expecting to get and you can go ahead and order. It's been reliable for me in the past.
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oh, he turns into a metal slug! isn't that cute.
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The_Doctor posted:I’ve never seen core Snarl in stores. For a couple of weeks the Targets here had dozens. Never before, never again.
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Captain Invictus posted:oh, he turns into a metal slug! isn't that cute. Oh, that's what he's supposed to be.  
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Robot Style posted:Oh, that's what he's supposed to be. It is awful. There is no denying it. The secret gun mode is also awful. The robot mode is what you buy this Megatron mode for really but there is no escaping how horrid the alt modes are.
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I think the tank mode is cute. They put a shitload of work into creating an articulation suite that doubles as transformation joints, and the physical process of going into tank mode has great handfeel. The problem is that the jet mode's arm-and-gun transformation is undercooked.
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Captain Invictus posted:oh, he turns into a metal slug! isn't that cute. an actual Transformers X Metal Slug would be amazing, especially if the robot modes had the same exaggerated almost-chibi proportions as Metal Slug characters.
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I always liked Animated Blitzwing for being a stubby Metal Slug looking tank.
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drat, that really is a Metal Slug, look at those tracks
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:an actual Transformers X Metal Slug would be amazing, especially if the robot modes had the same exaggerated almost-chibi proportions as Metal Slug characters.   
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The Last Call posted:It is awful. 
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Knormal posted:Enh, better than It's horrible as well.
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Knormal posted:Enh, better than
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So we're showing off Megatron, are we? Beg for mercy!     I love my smol Megatron, he even gets a small blaster that may or may not be a smaller megatron...
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Captain Invictus posted:oh, you mean like this one? 
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