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>>11922550Props like that sound like fertile ground for 3D printers
>>11922562Good bake
>>11922564I really wish I had bought the old iGear Ark playset.
>>11922562This is the only figure from today's listings that interests me, but it still looks like a sidegrade at best from the voyager. Think I'm going to skip him.
>>11922034Galvatron canon inflated in the show, so any size is possible.
$30 deluxes are rough, man . . .Makes me wonder is hasbro is treating Cyberworld as the "cheaper" scale since we don't get legends/cores anymore. I kind of wouldn't mind if they continued with these $20 prime changers as well.
>>11922589The cartoonline has been the cheaper alternative for over a decade now. Since RiD15 and they've been downgrading in quality ever since. Everything is getting more expensive its the hellscape we live in and while I hate that they're getting more expensive I'd rather prices go up then have something as cheap and bad feeling as the Combiner Wars and Thrilling 30-era toys felt.
>>11922558also, while they are trying their best these days, transformers still don't have a TON of articulation. It's rare that one can just sit in a chair, and if he can, it had better be exactly the right height. Hell, these days, a lot of transformers can sit on their own calves, they have such tiny short thin thighs and huge bulky calf kibble.. so like, beyond standing and using their arms, there's not a ton they can 'use'
>>11922564in theory.. but it's hard to make stuff at that size, and it'd cost a mint. and nobody but the richest can afford a room big enough to house a ship diorama like that. especially since it would surely be MP scale
>>11922597>these days, a lot of transformers can sit on their own calves, they have such tiny short thin thighs and huge bulky calf kibble"These days" he saysThat's been normal for years
>>11922605at least that guy has decently-sized thighs, and the knees aren't at the very front of the legs.but yes, it's been a problem as long as knees have existed. even in other mecha stuff.
>>11922597Transformers articulation is inconsistent since its so dependent on their engineering and sometimes we don't get wrists because budget had to go elsewhere. Or there's no waist swivel since it would impact the figure's structural integrity.
>>11922609indeed.also good LORD >>11922605 those are some tiny hands. Even that OSKO Bluebolts is like 'jesus, get bigger hands'
>>11922597>tiny short thin thighs and huge bulky calf kibbleThat's kinda how japanese transforming robot toys have always been. The ones from Takara, at least. Short thighs, giant shines/calves.
>>11922619Well he compensates with big gunsBut yeah, not exactly 5mm>>11922621Hey I got both of those preordered
>>11922570It's a big fat wait-and-see for me.
>>11922621SORT OF. but not typically the idiot-y way they do it now. For one thing, the torsos were usually smaller so it fits. for another, the thigh joints usually went up UNDER the skirt armor, not just starting at that point.. you can see how these robots could.. well, not sit, but at least get into a power stance.
>>11922619>>11922624
>>11922631as usual
>Got my Mirage, Bluestreak, Ironhide 3-pack>Ironhide has a big white stressmark front and center next to the Autobot symbol and other unsightly scratches on the chest>Bluestreak is already split apart at the waist before removing him from the ties and has a really noticeable scratch on the bumper>Mirage looks fineI don't know whether to be aggravated at the consistently horrible QC from Hasbro or feel like I won the lottery that one of my figures in a 3-pack was actually acceptable.
>>11922629I've always hated the color breakup of most Bayverse designs and this really reminds me of why. Its just a hunk of silver with little drops of red and dull gold. None of the details pop, everything blends together. It looks like a fine overall figure but its drab. The Autobots aren't as bad but the Decepticons are bad. Most of them are just hunks of silver. It makes for a boring toy.
Has it ever been discussed why Hasbro chose to make two decos of the shitty Diaclone van mold for the first year of Transformers? There were still figures from a variety of lines they could have released before them. It was an odd choice to do these two instead of releasing the Firetruck mold in year one or doing a second figure from the Sunstreaker mold.
>>11922671They wanted two big guys, and it went better than expected to be fair but that was mostly marvel and sunbrow’s writers carrying it
>>11922682I mean don't get me wrong I love Ratchet and Ironhide but it seems like an odd choice to prioritize those molds for the first year and to use it twice.
>>11922657yeahhh it works a lot better in the actual movies, where they tend to have a solid light-over-dark look. but in the toys... there's a reason the mainline releases added more color.>>11922687I have to think they knew there was all this anticipation 'how are they going to Missing Link the vanette guys?' and figured, get it out of the way.I also wonder if maybe they're no longer able to keep molds around for years and years like they used to. warehouses have gotta be skyrocketing in price.
>>11922693I'm not talking about Missing Link I mean back in 1984 where they chose the van mold over other options when it was easily the worst mold of the bunch. I wanted to know if anyone has ever talked about it in an interview.
>>11922703ohhhprobably because it was cheap. plus vanettes are cool, even if the robut isn't.
>>11922657The colors look better in hand, renders always look dull
>>11922687>>11922703The real answer is probably that the Vanette had already been released in Takara's American Diakron line so Hasbro probably saw it as an obvious release. Tie that to the idea of the good guys having a medic which would obviously be an ambulance and you have Ironhide and Ratchet
The Decepticons should have an ambulance too.There's a Decepticon medic who should turn into one but I don't recall his name now.
>>11922740Flatline?
>>11922740ENTER
>>11922743Yeah, that's the one! Idk what his official altmode is but an ambulance seems appropriate. Or a hearse I guess.
>>11922746I would not trust this guy to reassemble my circuits.
>>11922740A decepticon medic should transform into a sketchy conversion van with a filthy mattress in the back
>>11922757Great idea for a Scalpel remake
>>11922746G1 Oilslick also transformers into an ambulance though he's only repurposed character. I would really like a Decepticon medic who turns into a hearse.
>>11922757A Decepticon medic should turn into a trustworthy looking ambulance, and then when a wounded person gets put in, the bot transforms and mangles all occupants inside him
>>11922776>Barricade: "To punish and enslave">Smolder: shows up to house fires to spray more fuel on the fire>Flatline: Picks up wounded only to wound them moreI love this reverse-Protectobots theme
>>11922790So if you pick a random heli like Blackout and... Oil Slick maybe, you could make a whole team.
>>11922776>>11922790oh I guess you're rightbut a junkion medic..
>>11922790>reverse-ProtectobotsWhat if they also combined...
>>11922792>Blackout: locates disaster zones then shuts down power/comms to prevent rescuers from coordinating>Oil Slick: Shows up at the scene just to gas first-responders, he thinks it's funny every time>>11922794OFFENSOR
>>11922763I surprised Hasbro never tried a Preceptor repaint as Scalpel
>>11922796give this man a promotion!
>>11922797I suppose it'd just be a name-reuse at that point, kinda hard to translate the spidery bastard into a regular-shaped guy.
>>11922797>>11922801It'd be a good name re-use.
>>11922801He would be white with a different head, and Hasbro would call it a day
>>11922621Duke Fire and Fire Convoy have a lot in common
>>11922802Agreed, I keep waiting for them to recycle it since it's such a good "bad guy medic" name but they refuse to. Maybe Paramount owns it or something idk.>>11922805I'd settle for a Ratchet retool, haven't they done something like that before? I swear there's been an Evil Ratchet already.
>>11922810That's what Oilslick is. He's Ratchet with an eyepatch in his movie colors. Also Go Hunters Ratchet was a Decpticon version of the character and that figure was the other inspiration for Oilslick.
>>11922810There was Shattered Glass Ratchet
>>11922811Yeah that's the one I was thinking of, though pic related is my preferred Oilslick.>>11922814He is THE Evil Ratchet
>>11922796... make more Tad Danger
>>11922817I prefer him too. I love that guy and I think he should have gotten a legacy figure in the Toxitron subline. He's not G2 but he and Toxitron would go so well together. I really do like the Go Hunters Ratchet design though and I like the concept of G1 Oilslick. I just wish he had another name.
>>11922740Smolder from PCC is kind of an ambulance. He's meant to be a first responder or fire utility vehicle, but he's clearly an ambulance and was recolored into one.
>>11922740It is really funny that the three top Decepticon medics are a construction worker, a cat, and a guy whose name means “to die”
>>11922842What about Knockout? He's probably the most famous Decepticon medic. Hook is more iconic but he's not well known as an individual.
>>11922845It’s probably not a coincidence that Knock Out is also the only one of them to switch sides
>>11922837that is such a creative way to almost make a good combiner torso
>Please refer to this building logic for all figures.No, fuck you Blockees, give me an instruction booklet that shows the pieces for the figure I actually bought and not the figure I could have gotten but didn’t!
>>11922562You know, if you gave him a visor, change his colors, and made the sword clear...
>>11922850I ordered some random single packs and pulled the Super Megatron Plus and Shiny BW Megs from them.Gotta say I don't get Wheels though, Astrotrain is cool and Tracks is a car but uh. Might grab Motormaster to serve as a base.
>>11922629I can forgive the backpack. I cannot forgive those fugly gaps near his shoulders however.
>>11922849"creative and ALMOST good" is power core combiners in a nutshell
>>11922747The hearse is a much better an much more creative choice and fits the decepticons far more.
>>11922693The one thing I don't like about Missing Link is the lack of pilots. If they can bring back scrapped diaclone elements like with Ultra Magnus they should at least have pilots like the original diaclone figures did
>>11922840At that price it better give amazing hanjobs.
>>11922562WOW these bayformers look ugly as sin!
>>11922916Missing Link has been coming with pilots though?
>>11922926Sin is cool.
>>11922944They are the same ugly metal smashed together, every single one of them!Who likes that look?
>>11922621I wish Transformers had a single piece of media that was half as GOAT as Brave Police.
Went to Smyths yesterday, they had Skyward, nice enough, but don't get the hype
>>11922837PCC was fun
>>11922916Uhh...Grimlock? Cordon? Sunstreaker? Ultra Magnus? Delta Magnus?
The mustard bastard.
Also Jihaxus has finally yellowed. Last year it was still a pale green.
Post figures with cool autismo engineering for the transformation
>>11923037I'm a few episodes into J-Decker nowThe human villains would be legit scary if they weren't so goofy, very Eggman in that wayDidn't expect McCrane and Dumpson to have wives
>>11923045The only Skywarp I ever had was the FoC one (and pic related if he counts), so I'm eager to get this guy and the other two to go with him. After years of kicking myself for not getting the Classics Skywarp/Magnus 2-pack, I'm finally gonna have them together.
>>11923095I also had that skywarp, very fun
>>11923095This mold's planet key gimmick always bothered me. I give a lot of leeway to questionable things in altmodes, you can potentially explain away a lot of shit that looks like it'd be an issue. But you cannot tell me that having giant flap open up that's going AGAINST the air would not be catastrophic while in flight. I'm not a physicist or anything, but that sucker is going to crash.
>>11923107I had it and it was not a good toy. They fucked up the cyberjet transformation in every way so he was unstable and jank.
>>11923107It's just a really big airbrake>>11923115The bottom half of the robot mode is fine, it's the shoulders where the whole thing falls apart imo.
>>11923115I liked him
wow I forgot how bad shockwave looked in tfone
>>11923093>I'm a few episodes into J-Decker nowReally? That's cool. I won't spoil anything, but it's a show with a lot of heart, if you're into that sort of thing.And a banger OST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czgFLwllJUA
>>11922562can I get the new deco but on the old mold? thanks in advance habsro
>>11922862fuuuuuuuck I didn't even notice that shit. probably a compromise so they could throw in the mediocre dragon form.
>>11923146The dragon IS the compromise, it's so they don't have to work around the jet kibble when you can just take it off.
>>11922853h ah ayea
>>11923221This. The old Voyager had the jet wings wrap around his legs and give him a bulky backpack, which was great for making his transformation actually functional but left him with bits hanging off that weren't visible in the movie. This new one fixes that issue by having the kibble detach completely, with the added bonus of being able to combine the bits to make a reference to his originally intended dragon mode, but the dragon wasn't the reason the kibble was made detachable in and of itself. Those grooves on his chest are presumably where his jet landing gear bits plug into when in alt mode (in robot mode, they either plug in behind his shield or form his pet dragon's legs).
>>11922817Such a sick toy. The ONLY thing I don't like about him is the fact that a Donkey Kong barrel with a chain in it is a shit weapon.
>>11923037So like, if they did Car Robots 5 more times?
>>11922562Fuck, man. I really like the head and the red but the torso is rough.
>>11923037Animated is at least half
>>11923231Honestly, I'm down for the kibble dragon idea, but I expect an immaculate robot and alt mode if they're going to do something like that.I mean, they cheat the transformation but they still can't hide the arms in jet mode?
>>11923227This Brawn is forever my Robot Doom Guy on my shelf.
>>11923259I'm praying he has a functional waist swivel, but honestly...it doesn't look like he even has room for one with those big hinges near his belly.
>>11922916that is a little odd, yeah.>>11922932oh, phew.>>11922954That's only because your brain can't handle the complexity. it's okay. In your defense, a few of the designs really ARE just ugly metal smashed together, like the dragon. They were clearly aware of the criticism, and occasionally stepped in a bit.
>>11923091boo. sorry to see it.>>11923107kek, that IS kinda stupid.
>>11922793Put the Junkion “medic” with a romanian accent, and make him a futuristic tow truck kek
>>11923308>I called for a medic, and when I woke up I was in a shipping container full of ice and my catalytic converter was gone!
>>11923280He has a waist swivel.
>>11923045I have Thundercracker and I like him, the waist swivel makes a huge difference, but I think I do prefer the look of the Earthrise version. The mold doesn't feel as expressive as its contemporaries like 86 Megatron and Prime.
They should release a Marvel deco Blaster, and his accompanying cassette should be Scrounge. Yes I know Scrounge wasn't a cassette.
>>11923340Well, it's no less accurate to his actual canon alt mode than his existing toy. Though, come to think of it, he turns into a wheel... why don't we have a CD player transformer who spits out transforming CD minions?
>>11923345Because circles are hard
>>11923340>>11923345Hear me out
Everybody's here :)
>>11923345Archer's era very clearly tried to avoid the household objects (except for Armada Laserbeak and we know how that turned out). That Real Gears in the 07 were showed they might have warmed up to the idea (especially since the film had a scene where regular objects turned into transformers), but by then an MP3 player was already more in vogue than a CD player.
>>11923345
>>11923389>we know how that turned out)How did that turn out?
>>11923394the attempt was made
>>11923340Make him a shield ala his Combiner Wars figure.
>>11923394I really did love the idea of the minicons transforming into data discs, but the shaping definitely seems to be a lot more limiting than the usual cassette tape
>>11923394I wish they'd try these again. I like the Bakugan-inspired gimmick, I like that Soundwave and Blaster can launch them, they're kind of fun to transform back and forth. The issue is none of it works well. The discs are too sensitive and they get jammed up in the big bots when launching. Also Rumble/Rewind mold can't pop up and stand on its own.
>>11923402Circles are hard but the spring loaded gimmick for those data disk cassette fellas was the bigger issue IMO.
>>11923405The idea is fun>eject from Voyager Soundwave>land on button>transform automaticallyBut reality is often harsh
>>11923394I had the buzzsaw version of this, fun toy but he looked very goofy
>>11923394>>11923363It clearly can be done, the technology is advanced enough now! Assemble Walkman Prime and his legion of Discrons!
>>11923411>Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first CD man. Rumble will be that man. Better than he was before. Better... stronger... faster.
>>11923423correction, the second.
>>11923090>>11923091Gice it a bit itl unyellow and fix itself like mine did
>>11922837I had a lot of PCCs as the were almost always on clearance or discount. If instead of the auto morph that had made the limbs into proper fists and legs they would've been even better.
>>11923435wa
>>11923432>Lemme just verify your address so I can send you my weight in free sign-up CDs.
>>11922837A lot of people only bought this toy to give his mini-con partner to Optimus Prime. What good memories.
>>11923443which is also how much halloween candy he wants to get. a hundred l'bs.
>>11923447Then he's gonna have the green gobolin spin all those candies into gold.
>>11923445Which Optimus was it, the 2007 one?
>>11923453I feel like it depended on personal taste. I gave mine to WFC Prime back then and right now Legacy G2 Laser Prime owns it. Its still a really good axe partner.
>>11923462gotta say, transformers has done an amazing job of keeping a lot of things consistent for years, like 5mm shit. it's not EVERY figure of course, but the fact that some figures today can use weaps from 40 years ago...
>>11923469Standardizing ports and weapons to 5mm was one of the best things Transformers did. I wish more third party companies would print interesting stand alone guns and melee weapons for Transformers.
New Legends Gigatron and I will kneel
>>11923538The original figure is really, really solid and still holds up. I'm not sure what else I would want them to do with it. Still I do think Hasbro is going to do him at some point.
>handling Big Convoy>generally don't touch the center of his chest, gently flick his not-rooflights to open his chest>a bit of missing blue paint, not sure if it was scratched off at some point by me or the factory or how it happenedI am so sad, does anyone happen to have the exact color for this, I was being so careful
>>11923093>>11923143Good taste, for me it'shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-zEptcaXZ0
I've spent the past like 3 hours going over stuff and have a long list now of IDW to collect
>>11923554show me the color, I can try to help.
>>11923565It's just the Hasbro Big Convoy's blue on his chest, looks like it's around 2mm by 4mm underneath his grey chest crest, next to the red grate looking thing
>>11923340If you want a Scrounge casette, might I propose waiting for Gamer Edition to have WFC Soundwave & Blaster? That way there's something to accomodate his shape.
>>11923566oh, okay. That looks like ultramarine blue. Ultramarine blue is easy enough to get, though it's hard to get a nice bright saturated one in the form of the typical model paint e.g. vallejo. But that just means more thinning and more coats. And with what you have left, youll be able to customize Netflix Cheetor, maybe. Is it metallic? hard to say from here.
>>11923571I own zero Cheetors, but the fact that ultramarine blue exists is a bit relievingAnd it's slightly metallic yes, would I need primer for this, and where would I test the paint on, since it would have to be the right colour and kind of plastic that somehow isn't this figure, and could I just wipe it off or would I risk making things worse as someone who owns zero paints and zero brushes
>>11923576the worse paint you use, the more you're gonna need primer. and like I said, the GOOD paint.. never seems to have proper bright blue (vallejo makes an ultramarine, but it looks more like a navy jacket). Considering it's metallic, you might actually do well to go with something transparent, so you can lay down a layer of silver first. That'll also help with brightness.. but it's a tough call, and a bit of an investment to start getting paint and brushes just for this tiny fixnow that said, that's literally what got me into painting and customizing. Netflix Cheetor's fucking shins, and a positive ID on their color. But I also did the stupid, and got _paint_ paint. like paint for a canvas. that isn't the best on a toy. What color is it beneath the scrape? That makes a difference.Additionally, if this actually did scrape off from normal handling, then you'll probably want a topcoat. though I'm told there are some primers that will just fucking GRIP paint and not let go. The likes of MTN Plastic Primer? So.. hm.In any case, if you need somewhere to test the paint, I suggest the bottoms of his feet, or some really well-hidden kibble piece.This is a lot of investment for one little scrape, but I dunno how big it is, how much it's bugging you... you might be better off just grabbing a blue sharpie and saying 'good enough' I mean if it's white underneath. Iunno. Sorry I couldn't give you really direct instructions, but that's kinda how it is, and I've had to find it out myself the hard way in the last 7 years (my old customs fucking sucked, even when i had like, that Testors enamel kinda paint)
>>11923580Man...do they even have blue sharpie>it's a tough call, and a bit of an investment to start getting paint and brushes just for this tiny fixThis has happened every few years of my life, but I should get at least a gold sharpie although it won't help here, albeit sometimes sharpie just seems to slide off plastic while other times it adheres quite wellThere's no way that sharpie will melt paint or take paint away if I decide to wipe off what's hopefully just the sharpie right
>>11923587oh yeah, honestly sharpies look great these days. they've removed that weird purple metallic sheen, I've been using them more and more, particularly for joints that will scrape otherwise. or for filling in existing paint scrapes.>gold sharpienow in that situation (and yes, those exist and are okay), you could go for a gold paint marker. Those suckers are incredible, and really shiny chrome if used properly, and on a smooth surface (never 'scribble' just smooth strokes). but that might actually be too much to replicate most figure plastic>meltno way, that's more of a concern for the likes of lacquer-based paint (the kinda shit that requires thinner to remove from brushes. like fuckin.. plastic cement)>take paint away... I can't promise it won't. it is alcohol-based, but... as long as you don't immediately rub hard on the sharpie'd part, I can't imagine it would.
>>11923595>sharpie may in fact take paint away rather than add it, for it is alcohol basedOk now I give up
anyone remember a TF meme where it was a head put on a single leg, and the text read "leg"?I tried to find it before and couldn't find anything. I'm not even sure where it was from (here or the TF discord)
>>11923283>ARE just ugly metal smashed together, like the dragon. They were clearly aware of the criticism, and occasionally stepped in a bit.All of them are.I did never get the hate for bayformer movies and liked most of them until I realized that outside of 3 decepticons I have no fucken idea what is going on. There is megatron(becasue he talks and is named) star scream and the rest are ugly metal smashed together.Same for the other movies all decepticons look like trash metal.However to be fair is form alien race showed up they probably look like total trash and you will have problems detecting who is who as a human.However I never imagine that people actually like that shit face look.
>>11923283>>11923660OH shit forgot! The Bayformer movies have problems like lots of them.One that I found was that the character names are not overused. In all media you overuse someeoens name.There was this space bounty hunter movie and I literally needed to look up online what his name is. His name is lockdown. Here is the thing this name is spoken 1 time in the entire movie and it is by some human who shouts lockdown and the canon for face robot shoots. I was fucken thinking that the human was talking about creating a lockdown in this operation or something because it is not a real sentence.Or was it>We have lockdownTo some humans? I have no idea why Michel Bay is like that.
>>11923662I feel like part of the problem is how cartoony and childish some of the Transformers naming is. Overusing words like Decepticon, Bumblebee, and Starscream in a live action setting just sounds even more ridiculous. I almost feel like they should use the Japanese term Destron instead, and then give all the Transformers “civilian” names like Pax, Tronus, Bii, etc (and their traditional names can be used sparingly as military titles).
>>11923664NTA, but literally anytime I hear one Transformer refer to another by name in any TF media I assume it's because the writers were obligated to remind the kids what toys to ask for.
>>11923664You should be killed.
>>11923664>is how cartoony and childishRealistically they actually are not, some special ops use code names all the time.So that is for reality.As for the in universe they are alien names or aliens the handful of lines can be made into deep lore (that no one planed!) where their english names are actually attempts to localize their real name (who are a bunch of mechanical sounds) who mean something like "the crushing one" or "the one who destroys by motions of inner kinetic force" or"vigilante song of the stars in rage" and this gets translated into crusher or starscream.So no I do not have a problem with their names. And wait until you find out that in real life some normal names in other languages are actually curse words or sound silly.For example Immanuel Kant is actually pronounces Immanuel CUNT (People try to hide this by saying it differently like KaaaNt)> just sounds even more ridiculous. This brings up multiple questions like how the fuck is Hasbro allowing these movies?You have no name drops and no iconic looks.This leads to the problem that like 50% of the main cast are literally smashed together metal that has no name.>Literally who?Is a question you often will ask yourself if you are not deep into the brand.Or try to fan fame them>Dread lock deepticon in this battle>The evil police car robot>Evil scorpion robot >Evil bird robot
>>11923664>>11923671Obligatory picture.Daily reminder that SyFy is a cringe way to call your TV channel!
>>11923664>>11923673Anon did you go to the fart store in poland today?Fart means luck in polish!
>>11923664>>11923676Don't forget to at east once travel to HELL! It is a peace on earth! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Norway
Remake one day
>>11923662your commentary is as stunning as it is brave but I thought you should know we all came to the same conclusion like a decade ago
>>11923671>PicDick, which is short for Richard in English, is a slang word for penis...also in English.Words are fun.
>>11923687GO buy things in the FART store! >>11923676Then go to HELL >>11923677
>>11923681Do it in core class scale and I'll think about buying it.
Finally got a Swindle after the last shop went under and good god is a lot of him far too tight that it feels like I will snap something off just transforming him but I got my Bruticus all set up now and I love the way he looks and feels, especially since my last combiner were stuff like beast wars magnaboss as a kid, but I think I will start to wrap up collecting the figures after I get Swoop since this latest price increase is really pushing It for me.
>>11923702Alright, if the drones are core class, how big does Optimus - and might I add - Omega Supreme have to be?
>>11923664Transformer names are cool.You don't have a cool name, your name is lame.Fucking dork.
>>11923397They had to paint it bright colors to avoid getting hit by gun law regulation
>>11923736I remember seeing the original colors in one of those fold-out ads they used to include with figures, only to be disappointed when I finally saw one on the shelf at Toys-R-Us and it was dayglo-orange instead. That toy would've looked much better in black/red/silver.
>>11923664There are people with names like Donovan that sound weird in English, so it is fine.
>>11923720Yeah, i get what you mean... I was balking at $43 for a voyager, but this next hike teally takes the cake. I can afford Bruticus' legs, but I certainly don't think the price is fair! At this point, i could just go 3rd party entirely. I *like* mainline figures, but the QC and price tags are getting unacceptable.
>>11923664>the name Decepticon is too silly >the name that is basically destruct-tron is more serious
>>11923725Optimus is core class, the drones are smaller, there's a trailer. Whole thing is sold as a voyager.
>>11923767>the component bots aren't actually the limbs, you just slap them onto a flat skeleton like fucking decorative greebleComplete and utter lazy dogshit.
In addition to Flamewar I've been making my G2 Ramjet with badly yellowed arms into a Voyager sized Slipstream. Arms are done, just gotta verify the new hipskirts and chest work and then print them in resin (and paint them of course).And yes, she will transform.
it's gonna be like 2028 before we get skybound fembots if they're just getting to this shit now
>>11923831Anon 2028 is less than 15 months away. Of course it's going to take them that long.
>>11923831What, no Atari joystick accessory?
lol
So if I got this right, that reissue of SS86 Sludge it’s just for the European market?
>>11923872Based?
>>11923872>The Decepticon is immunized against all dangers
>>11923831Hasbro knows that Kirkman's rape of the franchise is unpopular with normies and propped up by variant covers. We will get the barest of bare minimum from them toywise.
>>11923831I'm not sure if Arcee's first design is viable since it retains the usual robot mode while having a very different vehicle mode, Arcana Magnus might be but would probably end up relying on the vehicle mode being vague to half-ass it, Elita's is godawful and best avoided, and Blackarachnia and Moonracer are basically the same as the old ones.
>>11923899*Arcee MagnusI forgot the name changed less than the theoretical toy from a few years back
>>11923892>already confirmed we're getting four Skybound Studio Series figures in 2027Dumb IDWtroon.
>>11923892it's no masterpiece but "rape of the franchise" is a wild exaggeration
>>11923598that's very unlikely though, and again, only if you rub REALLY hard. think about using alcohol to remove paint. it isn't like paint thinner.
>>11923852Atari can use my joystick if she needs one.
>>11923872do you want Link inside you? Because that's how you get Link inside youno seriously it even has two of the branches thicker than the others
>>11923899Elita is essentially just a Jet Vehicon with a sword accessory
>>11923948Latest issue shows that her motorcycle splits from her jet and she has a hammer made from her jet engines.
fembots aren't cool
Another successful Ross run
>>11924065They are sexy
>>11924065they can be. they just usually aren't.I would like to see slender fembots used more to make sleek altmodes like jets, who traditionally have issues with too much robo undercarriage.also? they should be sleek and deadly kunoichi types
>>11924065You're right. They aren't cool. They're HOT.
>>11924072I got him searching for Nemesis. I'm going to pretend he's Zeta Prime.
>>11923852
>>11923789Micromaster-sized drones and... Voyager-sized Omega Supreme? Eh, I might buy it. Actually, if this Omega Supreme ends up being in the Deluxe to Leader size range, let his Headmaster Omega be compatible with the Titan Masters and all related stuff, since they're still trying to push that.
>>11923831i want a blokee of my favorite character: wheelchair
>>11924189Or Tread Jack
>>11924156Oh.Good.
>>11924189I didn't know Johnny 5 was in the comics.
>>11924106Rare genuinely good /tfg/ idea
>>11924218people usually hate my ideas, so that is nice to hear.
>>11924106There's a good reason there have been so many motorcycle fembots over the years, but yes make new Cyberjets who are all hot fembots and I'll buy every one.
Now that I have TFOne Sentinel prime, should I get the DNA upgrade?
Say, if we do get Studio Series WFC Soundwave (& Blaster), what are the odds that the disc casettes will be the same size as Micronus, thereby allowing one to slot them into his exosuit and Micronus into Soundwave's chest?
>>11923872>>11923888>think "there's no way that can be real">check the facebook, no image there but they do love posting ai slop>search more>it WAS there and it got deleted>it's actually up on all their other socials and still up on them>and apparently their own discord?Holy shit, full scorched earth company
>>11924261The post has more laughs and likes then it does little angry reacts. I think they'll be just fine.
>>11923884For now but Sludge and Slag should be reissued eventually.
>>11923915i think it is cute how atari has not physically grown from her KP days to how she is in Train Wars.
>>11924265Takara just did
>>11924239thing is, a motorcycle isn't really all that sleek. it's more like half a convertible. really, it's more like half an ATV. That's why cycleformers always come out kinda shitty, with fat chassis and tiny wheels.. I feel like bikes need to always be binary transformers, where two bikes fuse to make one robot. The bitch seat is OBVIOUSLY a pauldron, and now you could have like, both rear axles become legs, both front axles become arms...
I still haven't gotten any of the SS86 Dinobots because I'm still waiting for them to do the G1 toy decos. They'll make them... any day now...Right...?
>>11924286Is that not what DCS is doing right now?
>>11924288NTA but he'll probably say "muh red eyes"
>>11924289I also realized that DSC Slug has the cartoon red head instead of the toy black
wtf is amazon smoking to charge 65 for TLK Megatron
>>11924298that's only a price increase of 5 bucks for leaders, compared to like 15-20 extra for deluxes and voyagers, isn't it?
>>11924267She's Asian. They look young until they hit their mid 30's-early 40's, then they hit the wall and look like they're in their 70's-80's.
Thunderbirds would be a really good collab theme, Thunderbird 2 with a cassette gimmick and FAB 1 being a elegant robowomen would be awesome
>>11923872>Try to see if it's real>First instant search is the Dr Lockdown troon seething>He's getting entirely bodied in comments by his own peopleL M A OMAO
>>11924331Deserved
>>11924337TLK did bad but then the next followups have been absolutely abysmalBB was pretty badRise of the Beasts did horrid and didn't make it's budget backThen TF One ENTIRELY wasn't even fucking CLOSE to breaking even and became the worst in the entire franchiseI genuinely don't think Bay could do any worse
>>11924331it's still on their x account page lol
>>11924339>>11924337people forget Transformers is about toys and not whatever story or plot people think is good or bad. TLK had cool toys and designs so it wins by virtue of that alone regardless how people shit on the story.it's also why TFone sucks so bad because the toys were pretty medicore outside a few like Sentinel PrimeBB and ROTB were okay with toys, BB more than ROTBstory doesn't mean dick for these movies people need to learn that. give them cool designs/toys and it'll succeed.
>>11924339>The damage Transformers The Last Knight did to the brandThis is just overstated cope from people who hate Michael Bay. The real damage from the brand came from Hasbro blowing all their money trying to tie everything into one universe with the whole binder of revelation/aligned shit back in 2011 that ended up causing a snowball effect for everything else. Hasbro also relied too much on one particular avenue of media (cartoons and movies) instead of creating a brand that people of all generations would continue to buy into. This is why theaters showing the next slopformers movies are always empty and people only talk about capeshit no matter how bad it gets. The Last Knight is a shit movie but it wasn't this uniquely shit movie that tanked everything. Kids stopped going to theaters because gaming was a better alternative, nerdslop movies were/are still dying and VFX diminishing returns have been clear as day since the first avengers movie>>11924349>TLK had cool toys and designsTLK had shit toys and a bunch of reused designs but your initial point is correct
>>11924331>He's getting entirely bodied in comments by his own people
>>11924354Yeah, the only post I could find "bodying" them was made by some guy called AshPizzaWitch, and it was in a thread made by Sixo. So I guess hi Ash. Might want to get a tripcode or something.
>>11924355>SixoWhy do people talk like this. it's so fucking cringe. "this has no place in our fandom" who the fuck is this guy to be some arbiter of what "the fandom" is or can allow.
>>11924359It has no place in our fandom, nazi.
>>11924350The movie toys have sold less and less units over time because of TF2's toyline and a lesser extent TF3's toyline.TF2's toys were widely criticized by parents for being too complicated and hard for young kids to transform properly. This resulted in TF3 and beyond having super dumbed down kiddy toys the 95% of each subsequent movie line. Combined with the fact that, for TF 2 and 3, Hasbro went hog wild with Bumblebee, with him being 3 to 4 per case. Resulting in shelves being filled with unwanted Bumblebee toys.
Dug up some old toys I had in storage after re reading MTMEE.
Current Deluxe Swerve sucks donkey balls. T30 Swerve is pure perfection!
On the negative side, T30 Tailgate sucks. The crotch piece doesn't lock in meaning his lower torso is floppy as hell. And the figure is super plain white plastic and the flame decals are WTF since neither the IDW or G1 version has them. Almost makes me want to buy the new CHUG version.
>>11923815(IMO) shoulder width really effects how feminine a figure looks, more than limb thickness.Hip width / thigh thickness is also important.
Kind of wish Chromedome had a better color scheme. The brown and tan and red look is blah city
>>11924367That's why it came with a walking aid
>>11924364It is really funny that these are probably the only time Tailgate and Swerve will get dedicated molds. Every toy before and after is basically guaranteed to be Windcharger and Gears first>>11924365I’m really hoping Swerve gets a Retro retool that removes the white parts from the sides of his head since that’s not on his original toy
>>11924362>The movie toys have sold less and less units over time because of TF2's toylineNo, the toyline sold less because Marvel was becoming the new big thing for reasons I already mentioned. Nearly every kid back in 2009 that had ROTF figures didn't care about how complex they were because kids are good at figuring out shit like that due to the way their brains work>TF2's toys were widely criticized by parents for being too complicated and hard for young kids to transform properly.They said the same thing with Pokemon games around that time, the types of cartoons they were showing on TV got heavily scaled back to being more advertiser friendlyIt's very convenient that every single company decided to heavily scale back and dumb down all their products so heavily within the same 2-3 year (2010-2012) and all had the same excuse of "parents complained their kids didn't like it" right after one of the biggest global financial crashes in history.
Chromedome getting rid of his toxic ex
>>11924365Hideous toy>>11924367Failgate
>>11924368I have tried to narrow the shoulders as much as I can, but obviously I am limited by the base mould a bit. To be fair the shoulder blocks aren't pushed all the way on in that photo, once she's finished I will post more pics with her properly transformed.
Really wish we could have gotten more of Ratchet and Chromedome together as a duo. Especially given that they ended up turning Ratchet into a faggot anyway to prop up Drift, via making the two date and marry.
>>11924367The only reason I haven’t bought the new CHUG version is because I know Hasbro already has an alternate visor head ready both for a Retro release and a Wipe-Out/Nightracer redeco. Ironically, despite being clearly based on Tailgate, the closest Wipe-Out we’ve gotten are a Windcharger redeco and a Titan Master
>>11924376Forgot photo
Still don't know why they didn't just straight up reveal that Rewind didn't die ala Overlord. The whole "the ship's warp engine creates duplicates of the ship every time they are used" crap they used to bring Rewind back was a huge ass pull of convolution.
"WE WANT FROSTIES! WE WANT NUGGIES! WE WANT WENDIES, NO GOLDEN ARCHIES!!!!!!!"
>>11924359Honestly it's cringe and pathetic.
>>11924354>the wannabe fascists are mad at a swastikaLMAO
>>11924359I wonder what his opinion would be over a hammer and sickle
>>11924156I dont know if I will ever read any transformers comics, or if I ever even should but damn do I need this. It's so funny.
>>11924377Get the current toy, it's based on the original Tailgate who is infinitely better than the IDW gay pedo one.
>>11924391NTA but if it had the toy head I'd get him, I like the mould and it looks good in white, also his "cars are people too" toy bio is funny as fuck. The toon design, head especially, is both ugly and is drawn from all 30 seconds of screentime wherein he gets stepped on by Trypticon and nothing else.
All parts printed, just need to finish paint now.
>>11924406Nice
>>11924337Looking forward to it but still disappointed that TFOne bombed.
>>11924354I really like the idea that people are sitting there refreshing social media pages minute by minute to see if the image is still up.
>>11924337Really not looking forward to more bay toys if this is true
>>11924433I wonder what they think about China
>>11924367I actually really like this mold, although I did overpay for the gussied-up Takara version. Dunno if they fixed anything from the Hasbro release, but the crotch tabs in fine on mine. It's not the best transforming robot ever, but the transformation-mandated ankle joints make it fun to pose, and it does a great job of capturing IDW Tailgate's unique proportions.
>>11924450Also I genuinely love the cartoonishly-proportioned alt mode. The Takara paint job helps here, too.
and he goes great with Swerve and Ultra Magnus, obviously. I remember hoping the toys would take a stab at some of the IDW designs way back when MTMTE started, and then they did. And now all of that was a decade-and-a-half ago. Jesus.
>>11924450>>11924452one of these things is not like the other.
>>11924460>little white and teal trans-am guy who hides one of his colors away in alt modeMy headcanon is that spychanger silverstreak is just G2 tailgate.
>>11924264The world is healing
>>11924379>Pipes dies underfoot after bumping into wrong bot>Trailbreaker gets eviscerated for being a nice guy>Skids dies of shame after never scoring with Nautica>Ravage gets bisected and dies (how did that never happen before, he's tiny and millions of years old)>Metalhawk gets got for trusting Starscream (deserved, really)But don't worry, Rewind gets to live because he's big gay, Lug too because gay
>>11924478Didn't Rewind die and they found, like, a time clone of him later?
>>11924490Quantum duplicate asspull.Same out they used to have the Lost Light continue on with adventures after the series' end.
>>11924360Decepticons?
>>11924379>The whole "the ship's warp engine creates duplicates of the ship every time they are used" crap they used to bring Rewind back was a huge ass pullThat's the point. It's a fucking comedy/sci-fi/melodrama. The fun of everything is the ass pulls.>convolutionIt wasn't very convoluted. You explained it quite succinctly, actually.It's weird to me that people read the comic book about giant alien robots on a quest to find ancient space knights, then got miffed at fantastical things happening.
>>11924506I've never read IDW, I thought it took itself pretty seriously?
>>11923872they should follow Their Leader
>>11924359We should've done what Russia did with their nazi leftovers, gulag or firing squad
>>11924516For the most part. But James Roberts' MTMTE/Lost Light was one of the two ongoing series that launched following the end of the Autobot-Decepticon war, and it was fashioned as an irreverent space adventure, in contrast to its counterpart, RID, which was a more straightforward political drama set on Cybertron.
>>11924518>>11924521Go back to /leftypol/ disgusting tankies.
>>11924406Cute!
>>11924518>Their LeaderMegatron?
>>11924455I have this fucker stored and somehow it still yellowed in parts.
>>11924521>Commies: "erm you're dumb, if we were in a monarchy or Nazi Germany you'd be a peasant or holocausted.">Also Commies: "erm I would be an NKVD agent sending hecking rightoids to the gulag in Soviet Russia, but also that wasn't real socialism."
>>11924405Wonder how a tsukumogami would interact with his beliefs.
>>11924506>The fun of everything is the ass pulls.Yeah I’m sure a fag comic where everyone is gay has a lot of fun putting and pulling things out of its ass.
>>11924582Robots don't have asses, retard.
>>11924598Checkmate, gaytheists
>>11924380N-word please. What kind of kid wants Wendy's instead of McDonald's???
>>11924602If you lived in the Mid-Atlantic/South in the 80s and early 90s, you probably experienced a childhood of no McDonalds but there being Wendy's and Carl's Jr/Hardee's instead. McDonald's is big but not omnipresent and they didn't really make a huge push into rural America on the lower part of the East coast until the mid 90s to combat Taco Bell moving into areas were there were no McDonalds
>>11924391To be fair, if I wasn't for IDW, no one would give a shit about Tailgate
>>11924523The worse thing about Roberts as that he was a wholesale character horder who even when made aware that the original IDW TF continuity was ending, refused to do the relight thing and have his characters, IE the movie cast plus Megatron and Ratchet, participate in the battle against Unicorn.
>>11924609It was unironically better that way
>>11924614Yeah. RiD had such a garbage selection of characters, especially after Windblade and Starscream got their own spin off. And we were stuck with sad sack loser Optimus Prime and Jazz getting routinely manipulated and made fools out by tranny Arcee (who openly engaged in treason with big brother Galvatron) and Prowl, the later of which did not even hide the fact that he was bribing Sky Lynx into publicly fucking Optimus, refusing to follow his orders and engaging in straight up insurrection
idw is the worst thing to ever happen to transformers
>>11924602Having visited a Wendy's when I was in the US getting married, presumably a kid with taste. Both pale in comparison to Culver's though.
>>11924072They should use that mold to make Nominus Prime. One Sentinel Prime is basically halfway there already.
>>11924354Lmao I thought this was just a shitpost from an anon not a real store
>>11924531What's wrong with tankies?
>>11924668Kek
>>11924619>tranny arcee and gay prowl are traitorous bad guysYou almost made it sound worth checking out
>>11924347>"TF One bombed because Michal Bay"Insane cope>>11924354>>11924355>>11924359>>11924384>>11924433Sixo and his followers are actual unironic RedditcommiesI'm not surprised their pearl clutching and support group crying over a China based store doing a dumb memeIt's not that serious
i have a lot of transformers blokees but i’ve never watched any of the show(s)
>>11924708From a business perspective, there is nothing good that can come from an online store posting that.
>>11924709That's coolPost pics
>>11924347bayformers is good unlike most dumb cartoons made
>>11924712China doesn't fucking care and doesn't have a president pissing off people and making deals with russia for diesel. You do realize trump completely fucked up your country and no one fucking cares about swatiskas on chinese toy markets? you do realize that symbol is all over east asia because of buddha and if anything whitey hitler stole it from them?
>>11924616Bullshit. You most likely didn't read the post Dying By the Light issues of MTMTE and Zlost Light rebrand>>Last couple of issues of MTMTE was garbage Prowl wank to set up Sentinel Prime's return, which was Has to mandated, resulting I writers revolting and turning him into a Trump stand in and then getting pissy when fans loved this take on Sentinel Prime (as they used him to shit on critics of the increasingly woke aspects of the line and garbage plots fans had been criticizing for being shitty)>>Most of the first year of Lost Light revolved around OC characters including a tranny character that no one wanted. And Rodimus suddenly being purple.>>We also didn't get any answers about the coup until LL 10-12 and even then we don't revisit Getaway for another ten issues.>>Lost Light in general was utter garbage the entire length of the rebrand showing that Roberts should have been fired, the Knights of Cybertron crap abandoned as a tune waste, and the characters sent back to Earth to beat Oriel and Arcee to death and her Prime back on track and help kick Unicorn's ass.
>>11923892IDW unironically faggot molested everything about this franchise and ruined it forever. Just like the video game industry, the TF fandom has been completely taken over by lunatic gays doing the absolute bare minimum possible to claim they are women. GROWING YOUR HAIR OUT AND WEARING A LITTLE GIRL’S TSHIRT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A WOMAN AND YOU NEVER WILL BE
>>11924359>who the fuck is this guy to be some arbiter of what "the fandom" is or can allowI would bet my left nut he’s a jew. Sooo many kikes and trannies in this God forsaken “fandom”. I also realized that everyone who runs these franchises at Hasbro..it’s all jews
They even turned Star Convoy into a fucking jew. They changed this art before release.
>>11924709I enjoyed some but now i'm at a "I just don't care"I wasn't into them to start so i guess i'm not surprised I got tired of them
>>11924734God DAMN the DNA kit improves him so much
>>11924730For IDW to ruin transformers it would have to be relevant. It's not like it's a movie.
>>11924739There was a few years where IDW basically was transformers. Thrilling 30th. The dark ages
>>11924726Can you not read? I said it was better when him being in IDW wasn't a thing
>>11924320it takes way longer than that>>11924354all of these people need to be deported to England.
>>11924382I wish hitler had done more like mobutu sese sekowhen you FORBID anyone from using your personal indicia, then after you're deposed, people using it counts as defiance.>>11924391those do not go together
>>11924772Not everyone can be as interesting as Mobutu.
>>11924506>It's weird to me that people read the comic book about giant alien robots on a quest to find ancient space knights, then got miffed at fantastical things happeningThere's a limit to how "fantastical" happenings can be, and that doesn't mean it's immune to critism.
>>11924599>That thin pancake shit is supposed to be an ass
>>11924379I guess you can say his life was rewound
>>11924787i'll admit it was tonally wrong for the franchise, and it TOTALLY whiffed the weirdly-good plot setup of the 4th movie, but I will say it had the best human moments of the entire pentalogy.
>>11924730Fucking Simon Furman ruined it for everyone. He said there can't be girls so that meant everyone was canon gay. It's all his faggy fault.
>>11924379That was Roberts original plan for reviving him but Rewind should have just stayed dead. His death is one of the best moments of the comic. I stopped reading MTMTE sometime before Combiner Wars when Roberts started to get really self indulgent and up his own ass but I really did love everything before Dark Cybertron. Hasbro getting more involved with the comics was such a death sentence for IDW.
>>11924797They really should've just rebooted with All Hail Megatron. Furman was trying to write them as if they were true robot-robots , i.e. they wouldn't have relationships, period. his IDW set up was also meant to avoid any spiritual elements and have them actually need to have their war in disguise
>>11924801>his IDW set up was also meant to avoid any spiritual elements
>>11924797His Spotlight Arcee sure didn't help
>>11924797>He said there can't be girlsGross, but that doesn’t mean they had to be gay. Have them reproduce in some asexual alien way I dunno.
>>11924817That is what they were already doing. They are gay because human audience likes romance.
>>11924450I fucking hate Failgate from the later part of MTMTE/LL (although I liked him initially)But I think the original bio is endearing, and I'm glad the latest figure distanced itself from the IDW designWe need more kind schizos
>open Armada Jetfire>jet mode nosecone is shoved in a protective cardboard tube like a dog sniffing around
>>11924842hehehe
>>11924803Specifically meant as a subversion, it’s not tied to Primus and D-void wasn’t meant to be a deity but some cosmic entity.
>>11924846D-Void wasn't under Furman
This might seem random but what scale figures fit on Prime Arcee? APC toys finally made a Transmutate after their Rampage and I finally get to complete the duo so I'm really excited. But bike formers are more fun with drivers and I never had this mold before.
>>11924854Also I don't even know wtf comic she I'd from I just wanted her and Rampage because I'm a BWfag and I thought they looked cool. And we STILL haven't gotten an actual new show accurate Rampage which is crazy so this is close enough.
Remember when Hasbro brought back Micromaster combiners for all of two teams and gave them nonstandardized connection points so you couldn't mix and match them?
>>11924862Yeah and they sucked
>>11924858>Also I don't even know wtf comic she I'd fromShe was just in a Botcon exclusive "Timelines" comic, which was an AU where things happened slightly differently and she didn't get horribly deformed and lobotomized by her stasis pod; she was always a bit autistic, apparently, but not completely mentally retarded like she ended up on the actual cartoon. Both she and Rampage retained their Cybertronian bodies, and they ended up falling in love, though I don't remember exactly what happened to them in the end.
>>11924858gotta admit, this mold looks great, I can see why you'd want her.>Rampagehe just.. needs so much work. but I've seen 3p guys working on him
>>11924862you really wanted that fire shuttle huh>>11924866that's sweet.. I hope they keep giving us alternate transmutates in chug scale.
I wish more beast wars alt/original/whatever characters picked up on what you're supposed to get vis-a-vis their colors: that their inner robot is their cybertronian form.. like transmutate is green and gold, a Prime/al is probably red and blue, etc... but then the beast parts are a DIFFERENT color, assigned by the scan, unless you muck with it.
>>11924712China is actually great, I just think it’s funny that commies unironically praise the country when its actually closer to that image posted
>thinking transformers are getting too expensive >Friend sent me a link to the new statue pre order>height of 18cm with no articulation >41,800 yenYou know what. I think I am getting an excellent deal from hasbro and I will do my best to get more transformers
>>11924862Dr Wu is making Micromasters so here’s hoping they do more of the teams And they have proper posability
>>11924886He's been getting crazier as he goes on so i'm almost glad he hasn't done Hound or Mirage yetHopefully they're just as great as the recent Datsuns or Lambos
>>11924882that photo came from a chinaman?also, why do you believe that? don't answer btw
>>11924895The armada Weirdwolf might be the deepest cut I ever saw on a transformer toy 3p or otherwise. Maybe there's more that went over my head though
>>11924875McDonald's Panther is my favourite example of this because his red blue probably are from Prowl's police Sirens.
>>11924907I think this one is more obscure
>>11924367>The crotch piece doesn't lock in meaning his lower torso is floppy as hell.Did you let your Cyclonus near him? Because that's usually how you get floppy torso.
>>11924923
>>11924359Its our duty as /toy/ to ALLOW this in the fandom, and start posing our transformers in the shape of swastikas.
>>11924933look it's just a great symbol. it's fuckin... the 'cool S' of asian religious symbolry.we all still like the weapons and vehicles the nazzies made, why shouldn't we enjoy the shuriken thing.
>>11924939nobody's heiling, ivan
>>11924939No, its not that you buffoon. I just cant stand the performative faggotry they all have. Somebody posed a toy and it accidentally was a swastika, maybe. Everyone has a chuckle and moves on. But these "people", just have to post how sickened they are by it. How OFFENDED they are by it. They need to let everyone know of this great offense! Muh hobby! This cannot be allowed in da fandum!Its all perfomative hoop jumping and hand wringing. They are basically karens.
I blame /pol/ for somehow turning conservatives against jewsask any jew how you treat nazi shit, they'll say "make a joke". because that's what you fuckin do. you don't build it up as a monolith of evil waiting around every corner, you tear it down as a bunch of ridiculous goose-stepping.
>>11924941Oh, so like every time they bitch about Kiss Players despite it not even releasing in their country and the so called fandom agreeing to forget about it, by their own words
>>11924944Literally everybody is and has been against jews since the dawn of time retardThis wasn't a /pol/ thing
>>11924922Who is he?
>>11924945Kiss Heilers, like Kiss Plays but you have to Heil to power them up
>>11924952youll get it someday, anon. talk to your dad.
>>11924952Not the trannies - they used to be Pro-Jew! They kinda still are.
chaos
>>11924961I'm here to kill Chaos
Hitler just flew over my house. He said "Till all are one......race.", then he flipped me off. It happened for realsies, and Im just letting you all know this cannot be allowed in the fandom.
>>11924957SG Lockdown
>>11924960Kinda. Pro-jew anti-zionist
>>11924960Who do you think created troons?
>>11924971LMAO, horseshoe theory is crazy accurate
Takara makes all the good toys anyways
>>11924406You gonna do the thighs? de-blockify them?
>>11924862love these little guysi'm still not sure if popping the gun off of the mushroom peg was an intended feature or not on this original version of the mold
>>11924941>accidentally
>>11924939take your sensitive ass back to twitter
>>11922562The cock sucker bastard who took these photos neglected to take and post an image of the barcode to TFW2005. Does anyone have an image of the barcode or the DPCI for these keshi figures yet?
>>11925062pardon my ignorance but why do you want the barcode? also what the fuck is a keshi
>>11925086So i can get it from the back
>>11925086So he can find them and scalp them easier.
>>11924935>we all still like the weapons and vehicles the nazzies made, why shouldn't we enjoy the shuriken thing.They're not the ones who made it. It's a Buddhist symbol - they just stole it for their own purposes (like they did everything else).
>>11924862Siege really was the best line. They brought back>Micromasters>Targetmasters (Battleizers>DuoconsIt had the new standard articulation.Shame they all faded out.
>>11925107>DuoconsTitans Return had Overlord (and Black Shadow for what he's worth) and Power of the Primes had Battletrap.
Which Shattered Glass cassette do you expect in the Decepticon pack? They already did Ravage and Laserbeak from the Siege molds.
>>11924883Sometimes I feel Transformers fans don't realize how good they have it compared to other toylines and IPs. It aint perfect but some people would not survive in other fandoms that struggle to even get new figures at all
>>11924933Death to normies
>>11924854Don't really like how her hands just kinda hang out in robot mode, though I guess it's no worse than the Legacy mold. How big is she, anyway?
>>11925115I don't expect one. Blaster likely got a SG cassette because he doesn't have as many cassettes as Soundwave and three of the four regular cassettes left already had their molds used in this set. They probably could have done Blockrock/Flashback from the bird mold but Blockrock isn't really a cassette its his mini-con partner from his Cybertron Soundwave repaint. Also Blackcat is a gag character. Soundwave has a lot more options to chose from.
>>11925115I don’t.I expect we’ll get the Cobalt Sentries, Skugfest, overkill, and either Ratbat or Wingthing and one of Rumble/Frenzy/Enemy.Or they may surprise us with a Flipsides
>>11925062Do they do DCPI checks? I stopped using that method because 10 years ago target told me there was "new policy" that prevented them from giving me stuff from the back.
>>11925062Exqueese me can I please haveMuh supper seven Keshi dolls from the back now???
>>11925180I too love buying toys where I don’t get to choose which one I’m getting. Getting doubles and triples is just a side effect of the awesomeness and collector rush!
>>11925181Kys
>>11922562What is the reason for him not being able to do the battlemask?
>>11924965kek>>11925106precisely my point. if you can enjoy a volkswagen, then..
>>11925127that just makes it hurt worse, thoughthere's a reason our generation is so depressed. we had everything AND promises of much more. And we spent that entire time thinking we didn't have it good enough, so we didn't even savor it. we were just delving into escapism and waiting for a future that never came.Now nobody even relates because nobody else had even the categories of things we had.
>>11924737Given the garbage shit that is frameslop and bullshit Thirteen Primes and garbage repaints of literal who's, I stopped buying the Hasbro crap and switched 100% to buying just Galaxy and Defender Blockees. Way better figures and superior character selection
>>11925251You know what also weirds me out? everyone's so fucking paranoid about anyone seeing your kids... ever. in any context. like even in burqas. So almost nobody who, say, does internet videos about video games or toys or tv shows for a living or whatever, includes their kids in it..so here the kids today have the potential to live our DREAMS, where our parents have cool jobs and are actually interested in stuff, but... they're shooed away like it's 1910 and kids should be locked up in a nursery til they're ready to go fight in the war. So kids aren't interested in toys, or tv, or anything. Not saying causative, but it's truly a bizarre outcome. Obviously the vast majority of us didn't have kids at all, but every so often I'm watching a toy review, or a game map deep dive, and the guy mentions his kids and I'm just like wtf. no skits or anything with them.. no co-op gameplay.. of course, because then youtube would ban you.
>>11925252>Way better figures and superior character selection>better figures>dont even transform>better selectionWhat figures have Blokees done that Hasbro hasn't?
blokees proportions suck
>>11925274Depends which line you’re going for
>>11925268It's a troll, since he's mad Hasbro is making combiners that use a frame but will happily buy toys of Transformers that don't transform. Nobody could be that retarded.
>>11925254Because people know peds are out there, anon. There’s plenty of kids on YouTube doing videos and it just comes off as exploitive.
>>11925323Anon i'm not having this discussion with you. Please readopt the prior norms, and for christ's sake, stop watching the news.
>>11925062>Wanting super7 scamshit
Been rewatching some Beast Wars episodes and I just noticed Kingdom Optimus Primal was holding his swords backwards the whole time.
>>11925375eh... no, i'm afraid it's canon Primal who had his swords backwards. those are scimitars. they make less than no sense curved AWAY from the target. That part of the blade he's got facing forward isn't like a Sokka club or anything, it's called the 'yalman' and while it can be sharpened, it's definitely not supposed to be like, hitting you.. it's supposed to be sliding in as you slide the tip into someone, and cutting them worse. essentially giving you a taste of being a double-edged sword despite being a curved sword.
>>11925375wait a minutedoes he do this in later episodes? because maybe he was reverse-wielding on purpose, to damage Dinobot less.
>>11925391aha, sure enoughapologies for reddit, but it's the only real website left you can actually google.yeah I think they did that on purpose. mainframe are tricky lil bastards.
>>11925390UHM ACKTUALLY
>>11925252Weak disingenuous faggot post
>>11925393anon, not everyone knows the subtle ins and outs of swords the way some of us seem to automatically.I was trying to congratulate anon for noticing an inconsistency (and agree with him that Kingdom was ass) while reluctantly pointing out it was a Mainframe mistake.Only maybe it wasn't.
>>11925397AUTISM
>>11925390Aren't scimitars also for horseback fighting so you can slice but keep going->RhinoxOh yeah, rightI think he was always ape escaping when he was on him thoughLove how they never talked about it but Rhinox is just cool with that
>>11925399that would be if I wanted to barge in on your conversation and talk to you for hours about the intricacies of swords, despite the situation clearly only warranting a brief exchange, and having been given zero indication of a desire for elaboration.>>11925400I think the really long scimitars are for that, yeah. The thick kind with the classic 'pirate cutlass' shape, I think is more for rough, hard chopping. The rumkah or whatever it's called.. provides extra weight at the tip.>Rhinox is just cool with thatindeed, he's a bro. The preds got two flying guys, two all-terrain scuttlers, and two potentially fast theropods, but the maximals basically had one fast scout, one hole-wriggler, one guy who can operate buttons in beast mode, and one whose job is to be the mule and carry everyone around.. and on top of that, he's actually pretty small for a rhino. If you compare a gorilla to this game warden...
>>11925403Oh right, pirates have cutlasses too, I don't know how that shape was determinedMan, I wish Rhinox had a good toy, he wasn't like, a gigachad king aside from when he went evil, somehow wasn't picked as interim leader although I guess you could have just relied on him to keep Rattrap advised and accountable, but he was a reliable friend
>>11925404everybody needs a Rhinox. I fancy myself a Tigatron, but if I'm real, I'm a Rhinox. I never leave the computer, I have no aspirations for leadership, I never had a love interest, and I get a lot of gas.>wish he had a good toyT30 doesn't count to you? is it because of the weirdly narrow non-fake jaw chest?
>>11925405Geez>T30I missed it and I can't find it, I don't know how he is, his chest looked fine to me because I'm fine with some deviations from accuracy as long as it's fun. Or at least as long as it's not dogshit like "Tigatron has a fake chest, his real tiger head turns into his feet and gut gun"I've seen Kingdom (Rhinox) sometimes go for cheap but never that cheap, and I think it's over now
>>11925413huh, T30 was still affordable a little while ago. damn. Someone bootleg him. and give him proper full guns this time. yes, t30 is better than most, but they still aren't big enough. They DID have very clever weapon storage, thoughor start bootlegging MP but scaled down and simplified. cmon, china. do it. you won't. I couldn't afford it regardless.
>>11925415Anon T30 was 30 years ago
>>11925422I fucked your mom 30 years agonow get me a beer, son
>>11925424You're not the dad of me
>>11925429damn, I almost got a beer.
>>11925405>everybody needs a Rhinox.I prefer when he's Tankor.
So what happened with the Optimus nazi post? People still freaking out or did it get deleted?
>jobby got on the ozempic trainlmao
>>11925456Literally nobody but Redditors and the usual faggots on Twitter/Bluesky caredEverybody else laughed and scrolled by
>>11925456caring that much about a shitpost whether you love or hate it is just embarrassing
>>11925465>whether you love itH-hahaha who would do that>nervously looks at the flag of it that I had custom printed
>>11925466how is your relationship with your parents, anon?
>>11925465
>>11925476Better than the relationship I have with yours
>>11925415>huh, T30 was still affordable a little while ago. damn.It still is. There's one on Ebay right now mint in box for sub 45 dollars with shipping. Personally I like Kingdom Rhinox better. I think T30 Rhinox is really finicky and not fun to mess around with at all.
>>11925457he says he just worked out, I believe him.>>11925465and asking about it is gossip>>11925495Ah! Rhinox Anon, you hear that? 45 on ebay! get it. Get it right now!>this anon likes Kingdom Rhinox betterhuh. I've heard bad things, but I don't have one. I would buy a recolor of him.I will admit T30 has some issues around the pelvis, but I think once you settle him down, he works.
>>11925254Why do you want to see other people's children?
and then there's always that reprobate asking those questions. not understanding, or not caring that it makes HIM the pervertstop having current day views.
>>11925456They deleted it off all the platforms.
>You know what else deeply weirds me out? The modern, all-consuming paranoia surrounding the absolute invisibility of children in the digital sphere, regardless of context. We have reached a point where societal anxiety over a child being seen online is so intense it borderlines on the absurd.This hyper-vigilance creates a bizarre disconnect, especially among creators who make a living producing content about video games, toys, or pop culture. These creators have accidentally stumbled into what should be a child’s absolute dream scenario: parents with cool, creative jobs who are genuinely passionate about the same media their kids consume. In theory, this should be the ultimate golden age of collaborative, multi-generational bonding. Instead, the reality looks shockingly regressive. Children are routinely shooed off-camera and scrubbed from the narrative, treated less like a part of the family and more like a liability that needs to be locked away in a 1910s nursery until they are old enough to enlist. We have weaponized "protection" to the point of complete alienation. While it might not be a direct case of cause-and-effect, this enforced isolation has yielded a tragic outcome: kids today seem detached from toys, traditional television, and tangible hobbies. The vast majority of the community didn't have kids at all, but for the few who did, the dynamic is truly baffling. You watch a toy review, and the guy mentions his kids in passing—yet there are no fun skits, no collaborative unboxings, and no casual gameplay videos. The tragedy is that this isn't even entirely the parents' fault. The corporate ecosystem has institutionalized this paranoia. Creators are forced into compliance because the moment a child steps into the frame, corporate rules threaten to ban them.
Toys?
>>11925488Weird, my relationship with anon's parents is great. I let his dad watch.
>>11925534just r***** and ignore
>>11925522I got Rhinox in the boxset recently and I admit he's not the star of the set but I like him quite a bit. Near double articulated knees, a really good butterfly joint and good movement in his shoulders, backpack doesn't really get in the way. Guns are a bit small but they are painted, and his fake chest is a bit disappointing. Still a solid figure that you can get a lot of good poses out of. T30 Rhinox meanwhile is a series of really awkward joint placement. The waist swivel is awkward, the arms are awkward, his shoulders are awkward. He has a really poor center of balance. The guns have a neat gimmick though.
>>11925533Anon, is there some way I can hire you to rephrase everything I say so it sounds smarter?Now I'll need to pay you in reflected glory, but... There's gonna be a lot of it.
>>11925540Hm, valid.I think the tiebreaker for me is that the Kingdom mold was based on a mobile game, so there's just a lot about it that's.. subtly wrong, especially around the face.Now let's brainstorm recolors for this mold knowing we'll never get them. Hard mode: no existing 'fox kids' repaints or whatever.I think the rhino would look good either jet black or snow white, something about those colors on a rhino feels cool. and then the robot mode would be purple or... hmm what's a good robot mode color for a white rhino.
>>11925534Soon, I'm waiting
>>11925545I am really worried about that wide A-stance.
>>11925545I say his name GalBatron because B for beast.
>>11925539>rape and ignoreAlright, but only because you told me to>>11925545>missed out on Magmatron>like him more than Galvatron>have Lio and Big Convoys>this thing is 18 trillion yenEh
sex with robots
>>11925457>ozempicNah, he looks healthy
>>11925547more like Garbatron haha
>>11925551Magmatron is so ugly compared to him
>>11925564in his dinosaurgy mode, sure. and the individual modes have questionable proportions, especially landsaur. but combined? what part's ugly to you, the random neck hanging off? the head wings? I can see disliking those.
>>11925566The individual modes are the best ones. And yeah the head wings are stupid looking, also the color scheme is just not good
>>11925569red blue green has to be done just right, if you're gonna pull it off, true.but I think they almost did it perfectly, just seasaur should have been darker teal. the blue being indigo works great.
>>11925545Made a quick edit to see how the eventual Megastorm and Dirge/Thrust might look next to him. Megastorm is based on Laser Prime's height while Thrust is based on Kingdom Cheetor since he’s generic Deluxe sized
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>>11925581I'm still seein $59.99
>>11925584It’s because he’s Canadian
>read the filename OR draw 25
>>11924288No, DCS is always detailed cartoon decos. As the replies said, yeah I want the red eyes and other changes (like Swoop's red body, or the different colors on Grimlock's bot legs) because I think they look the coolest.Was so let down when they announced comic Grimlock, because hey that was basically the toy deco already! And then it was a gimmicky baby blue with no transparent parts and fake "comic" shading. Blehhh.
>>11925330When you have kids, you can raise them as you like.
>>11925400I wonder...
>>11925564>Magmatron is so ugly compared to himYoure out of your mind. Galvatron is pink and gold with no "cool" features, no big gun, no sword, no cool vehicle kibble, nothing. Magmatron is made of dinosaurs.
>>11925581(((amazon)))
>>11925581"New The Last Knight Megatron"Yes Hasbro"$78+Tax+Shipping+Tip+Tariff"No HasbroI will keep my original
>>11925545I bet you unironically enjoy being fucking in the ass too
>>11925710Isn’t that cheaper than commander these days?
>>11925714Converts out to $118 USD, so pretty much.
>>11925735that's $20 more not even accounting for shipping and tariffs
>>11925737Not where I live it’s not
>>11925735$118 is a reasonable price actually
I’d LOVE a new Sixshot in the price point of that BWII Galvatron.
>we reached the point non titan mainlines are cheaper than fucking MPs
>Shipping notice for the Dramatic Capture Jetfire Combine I forgot I orderedWithin a week I'm going to get 2 different Optimus & Jetfire combos.
>>11925737I'm getting Galvatron for ¥19,502 shipped from Hobby-Genki, that's £92.60. Commanders here are £91.99.I think I'm okay with this.
What's BWII Galvatron got for accessories?
>>11925801The hatchet blades.
>>11925801His blades, his wing/pincer thing, and a pair of horns from that time he was Unicron. So same as his original toy plus the horns.
>>11925737I just bought it from a site with free shipping and no tariff fees
>>11925633right, because you have such a history of non-interference and NEVER demand others adopt your norms.
I can't believe commanders in aus are $200 now.
commanders are more expensive than MPscant make this shit up
>>11925857Hasbro has lost their minds
>>11925572Think we'll actually get a Megastorm? There hasn't even been a G2 Megatron yet that wasn't just a redeco of the G1 Megatron which has a completely different aesthetic, and the upcoming Gigastorm comes with the Gigascouter who's basically decoed to BE Megastorm.
>>11925876G2 Megatron is part of the Rise of Megatron line next year.
>>11925913>>11925876Not only that but MW Megatron was repainted to Dirge so we could get him from that too
>>11925857MPs became shit anyway
>>11925942They might recover from the Style Gen slop but I doubt it, especially with tards praising them.
>>11925928Mark is a G2fag and we seem to be getting all the G2 Megatrons. Machine Wars, Gobots, and regular G2 are confirmed so far. Hero Megatron is an easy repaint from G2 Megatron (Plus that cancelled tiger strip camo redeco of said mold), and that just leaves Advanced Tactical Bomber Megatron.
>>11925857To be fair, Commanders have consistently been Hasbro's more high quality releases, except maybe the combiner leaders depending on how you look at them.
>>11925942At the price commanders are going i very much rather an MP no matter how shitty it is
>>11925857They aren't though. Commanders are 99 dollars and Masterpieces lack a fixed price but are often 200 dollars.
>>11925857>"cant make this shit up">makes shit upMPs cost on average between 150 to 200 bucks nowadays.Only the smaller ones like Rattrap go as low as Commander prices.
>>11925942Ginrai and the beast wars MP’s are really good
>>11925976Reminder not to buy a first run Ginrai
>>11925857MPs arent even one price point
>>11925979Luckily I got the Nucleon Quest GinraiHe’s perfect
>>11925811What site, anon?
>>11926018They still haven't changed the hip joints of the small ginrai no?
Be honest /toy/If Hasbro is the one who made this, can they keep the price at 34.99?
>>11926048does it transform?
>>11926049no
>>11926048Doesn't really seem to be much point in this thing existing, honestly, especially if it can't even transform. Are they at least going to make a Megatron for him to fight?
>>11926055Put it with your 1/12 figures
>>11926048I do not understand the appeal of Transformers that do not convert.
>>11926069Right? fucking heathens.
>>11926048It's a glorified dollar store toy and isn't even worth the $35 the have the nerve to ask for it
>>11926067Make Circuit Breaker without censoring her design and I'll consider it John Hasbro.
>>11926079I want a goddamn gimmick where large scale Transformers come with small scale pilots of human allies across the franchise. Like Human Alliance but with characters people care about and a little smaller so they scale with regular figures. Circuit Breaker, Melissa Fairborne, Old Snake/CC, T-AI, the Cybertron and Armada kids, Kicker, and even Spike and Sparkplug. Maybe some IDW holo avatars too and the human bodies from the Cobra Commander crossover episode. Fucking do it you cowards.
>>11926069a cool robot that doesn't transform is still a cool robot
>>11926069No transform, no buy
>>11926085But not when its a TRANSFORMER. The entire point of these robots is that they transform and convert into alternate modes. A Transformer that does not change forms is not a Transformer and thus is most fucking lame. Its why Action Masters used to be laughed at by fans but these these days people love their non-transforming Transformers for whatever fucking reason.
>>11926094>but these these days people love their non-transforming Transformers for whatever fucking reason.Because shit like blookes is not charging you nearly 40 bucks for a voyager
>>11926095So what? They don't fucking transform and model kits aside they're ugly super deformed shit.
>>11926094>but these these days people love their non-transforming Transformers for whatever fucking reason.because they're cool robots. simple as.
>>11926069I agree to some extentThough those huge, super detailed figures are really cool
>>11926096This actually matters because nobody is willing to spend $120 at best for like 3 or 4 essential characters when you can spend half of that and get the same or more the amount
Any new cool dinosaurs?
>>11926096don't transform and are lacking in articulation, absolutely never
>>11926104i wish.I am (re)customizing my Dinobot right now, but it's kinda slow going. I need to start masking more.
>>11926104Next year we're getting a Gen 1-styled Slash to go with the SS86 Dinobots. Its rumored to be a heavy Kingdom Dinobot retool.
>>11926079I would 100% buy a Marvel Legends 2-pack of her with Death's Head in the green outfit.
>>11926096It's a Chinese shill. Blokee shills are fucking everywhere. If they made something a shill is in a thread shilling it. Sure people genuinely do enjoy them but they never post pictures of it because they dont own any.
>>11926135>theyas in shills I mean. Shills won't post pics of blokees. Prove me wrong shills come at me.
>>11926048I really want it to recreate the scene of BW Megatron blowing up Optimus head but I'm canadian so lol lmao no target exclusives here
>>11925949What the fuck I didn't know this toy was going to be Megatron until now
>>11926085He has somewhat of a point. All other mecha have some appeal that justify them not being transforming figuresBlokees and Furai are cheap model kits Yolopark and ThreeA are hyper detailedThe Flames Toys sub line Kuro Kara Kuri are stylized and very premium.It's why RED and Super7 are so egregiously dogshit. They offer genuinely nothing besides being simulacra of some fat boomer's childhood.>>11926095>>11926096Blokees kind of confirmed something that I kind of always knew is that the vast majority of collectors and "fans" never really gave that much of a shit about what makes Transformers appealing if they're considering it to be a genuine alternative.
>>11926142For those people it's more about the character and their own nostalgia than anything else. They'd rather buy a cheap Optimus/Megatron than get something they're not even going to transform. Maybe that's why Hasbro has them in robot modes in the box, because they know some people don't even care about the alt mode.
>>11926045They still have the same teeth on the ratchets if that’s what you mean
>>11926142>the vast majority of collectors and "fans" never really gave that much of a shit about what makes Transformers appealinganons will always say this but never post their go-bot collections...
>>11926142Most people aren’t buying blokees as a substitute for actual transforming toys
>>11925949>>11925960The real question is if they're just gonna settle for the Prime Dreadwing/Skyquake mold or ACTUALLY use the real G2 Dreadwing.
>>11926154>anons will always say this but never post their go-bot collections...Because Transformers and its offshoots, derivatives and such (Brave, Shinkalion etc) are all superior to Machine Robo.
>>11926161Yeah, I buy them because they're just lil guys
>>11926161Blokees wheels are coolAnd the full size toys as well, the rest might as well just be funko pops to me
>>11926142>It's why RED and Super7 are so egregiously dogshit.no, those are dogshit because of terrible quality and shitty sculpts. if they'd been well made and actually looked good they'd have been just fine
>>11924787>There's a limit to how "fantastical" happenings can be,The concept of FTL travel creating time/space shennanigans isn't really that "fantastical". It's basically a core tenet of sci-fi writing at this point.
>>11926142>Blokees kind of confirmed something that I kind of always knew is that the vast majority of collectors and "fans" never really gave that much of a shit about what makes Transformers appealing if they're considering it to be a genuine alternative.i wonder what the crossover between them and IDW fans are
>>11926142I've considered getting a blockee baybee because none of the studio series ones quite satisfy me, but at this point I might as well wait and see if hasbro does a mold I like better for the anniversary year.The weird thing about transformation is that even if I'm not actually ever transforming a bot, I expect the feature to be there. That's the only reason I haven't picked up the blockees one yet.
>>11926193For you
KO Starscream arrived today, Thundercracker is a few days away and Skywarp won't catch up 'til the end of the month. I haven't transformed him yet but Starscream looks awesome, he's the first seeker I've picked up since the Classics trio way back when.They're gonna do SS86 coneheads to go with these guys, right? I'd buy three more (knockoffs) of this guy.
>>11926085Maybe, but it's not a Transformer - at that point, you may as well just ditch the franchise entirely and just start buying generic robot toys. The transformation gimmick is the franchise's entire identity, the thing the whole concept is built around.Personally, I transform a few of my 'bots every week - one shelf this week, another next, and so on - plus I tend to keep one or two characters with simpler/more fun transformations right by my computer as a sort of fidget toy to quickly mess with when I'm bored (right now it's KSI Widow - something about how her entire roof collapses into her legs is pretty satisfying).
I finally opened the Alternity and GTR I found and Optimus has a broken foot joint which was expected but disappointing, and Fort Max has a really fucked up torso that is really disappointing. (I knew about the broke mirror.)And I cant put his doors right without scraping paint. Amazing looking figures with amazing alt modes but they have too many issues. I wish we still got a sequel to Altenators/Binaltech/Altenity though. Legends comica do carry on the insane lore at least.I also bought a 1:32 Jada optimus to go with them because they're also 1:32. Except it's not. It's just long enough to fit in a 1:32 box unless I severely underestimated the size of a mack truck. I also bough their Nissans to go with these guys cause they're the same model and they're slightly more smaller so fuck me for trying to care about scale I guess.
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>>11926138my favorite toy as a kid.
>>11926197>no, those are dogshit because of terrible quality and shitty sculpts. if they'd been well made and actually looked good they'd have been just fineIt's very nice that you think that but the fact they're built like shit really is the icing on the cake.If they were well made they would just be a glorified action figure i.e. there would be no reason to get one as your average transformers figure could do all of that as well especially since everything is gearing towards cartoon accuracy. They would still offer virtually nothing.
>mfw reading this argument as someone who never transforms his transformers but never buys action figure transformers because I want them to be able to transform anyways so I cant say anything either way
>>11926292>>11926332I don't know why the idea that people might like non-transforming action figures of the cool robots they know and love upsets you people so much
>>11926348Sounds like you're projecting. Vast majority of people getting non-transforming version of figures would have bought the ones that I have already mentioned which is why those are the ones people buy and RED is irrelevant (and also why Hasbro are considering copying Blokees too). I even own some blokees and furai kits so I don't know where you got that gay assumption from anyway.
>>11926337thats why I stopped buying masterpieces. I like to transform my figures and realized masterpieces suck ass to transform and I always need to pull up an emgo video to do it. I'll stick with mainline generation toys. having a desk bot like beachcomber to mess with and is easy to transform is fun.
>>11926360I feel the same way about third party stuff. yes it's very impressive you've made a toy that looks perfect in both modes, no I'm not going to spend an hour transforming between the two. I long for a third party company that makes CHUG-style toys of characters that hasbro refuses to make
>>11926372this is funnier if you read it right to left
fuck wheelie for no particular reason
>>11926348I bet you loved these - seems right up your alley.
>>11926372i cant tell if this is pro or anti tranny. the woman appears to be happy they're there to groom kids and is only upset they're late to do so.
>>11926362I'd love 3P CHUG scale stuff that is as complex as like, Alternators at worst.
>>11926379see it's things like this that give me the impression you're upset
>>11926379I thiiiiink I can see what they were going for here. Obviously kids would rather just have the full transforming package even if this kinda works better as a toy car.>>11926386Get lost newfag.
>>11925849You don’t even know who I am anon.
>>11926069Ideally to look more like the fiction than a transforming figure could. But also because people can just think a robot mode looks really cool.
>>11926399It's called stereotyping. if I'm wrong, you've still learned that you come off like one of those, and then we both learn something.
>>11926391>Get lost newfag.nah
>>11926375>>11926372Lol
>>11926379If I was into Hot Wheels I could see the appealJust an IP attempting some cross-pollination
>>11926360Same except sometimes I feel this way even about the mainline stuff, at least the higher price point (ie. more complicated) ones.Meanwhile I can transform this asshole within seconds and I love doing it every single time.
>>11926476>>11926460These two posts together reminded me how much I loved RiD 2001 Spychangers which were basically Hoyt Wheels that took a second to transform.Cyberjets and basic size BW figures were great too. RIP core class.
>>11926485I had those and I always wish that they had more than just the arm swivel
>>11923563It hurt but he's here along side the Origin One Off Comic
>>11926493Sick toy from a better time.
>>11926496the end of the good times
>>11926360Look into Giant Legions toys. They have a devastator set with bruticus and volcanicus on the way. The transformations are about on par with mainline despite being MP sized.
>>11926496>>11926497IDW War Machine Car arrived with him so he's not entirely a lone Ronin wandering
>>11926485>RiD 2001 SpychangersWeren't those redecoes of a G2 line?
>>11926492The Spychangers? Considering their whole gimmick was a single axle that'd let them roll like Hot Wheels cars, I don't think that was ever going to happen.
>>11926360>>11926498Man the Devastator turned out so fucking good too with built in Combiner parts and LED options for the HeadsThe Bruticus already entirely has my interest
>>11926376"Three on one makes me feel sick.Get this piledriver off my dick!"
>>11926287Did they fix the doughy face TC had? Also you haven't installed the wing tips, I assume he came with them.
>>11926499I like the ambassador Crosscut repaint. Get any other IDW regulars yet? Got Whirl?>>11926526The face looks fine to me so far, and I haven't had much time to do more than transform it once. It's my first time with the mold, the tolerances/alignments on the wings seem a little off in jet mode. I'll get around to adding the upgrade bits in a few and trying out the faceswap thing.
>>11925254I don't necessarily disagree with you anon but it made me remember one time Peaugh had his daughter appear for a moment in a video to do her "review" of a figure, like just as a cutesy bit, and there was more than one absolutely filthy post in the comments section. Which, yeah I know that's what I get for ever looking at the comments but, well.
>>11926514hey that's pretty damn funny
>>11926535that can definitely turn your stomach, harmless as it is. but ask yourself: is it better if that guy's just... in the audience, being quiet because nothing of that nature appeared? I'd rather know. And given the moderation climate on basically every site now, there's no way that guy didn't get some kind of immediate and crushing repercussions.I tell you what, you know who got some very lovely comments? that Townsends 18th century cooking channel. He included his adorable little daughter from the start, and we watched her grow into a lady right before our eyes. Everybody always comments on how she looks just like her dad, and he must be so proud... Ahh.. brought up the pain water.
>>11926534That's a good one, I forgot they also made the Rally Car in Age of Extinction into a random Rollbar versionI got a few like Sandstorm and CW Magnus. Working on a Springer and Perceptor from friendsStill trying to hunt another alternative site to re read stuff
>>11926485>RiD 2001 Spychangers which were basically Hoyt Wheels that took a second to transform.Yeah, but see, those at least made a bare minimum attempt at actually doing the thing Transformers were created to do. I'll settle for a two second half-assed transformation over none at all - otherwise, why bother buying something called a 'transformer' at all?
>>11926553batcave hosts a ton of comics, I'm sure they're there.Also find yourself a T30 Brainstorm, he's cooler than the wimpy TR one they did a few years later.
>>11925127>>11925251We used to have so much soul and fun with even older releases. It feels like it's getting harder to just do goofs and weird fan alt mode stuff
>>11926562Wish I got some version of Cybertron Downshift
We KNOW his AotP remake probably won't be good but I genuinely do hope it will be
>>11926616For a while there his Blurr repaint was the only Blurr I had. It was a different time, now he seems as remote from the G1 character as GDO Swerve or T30 Nightbeat.
>>11926616>We KNOW his AotP remake probably won't be goodSays who? Fuck you.
>>11926616If it's not based on his earth car mode I'm passing
What's wrong with getting Blokees stuff? They're cheap, tiny and decent for photography purposes.
>>11926635I like transformers who transform.But then again this isn't new, Heroes of Cybertron was like 20 years ago, Action Masters 30ish, and we had that whole playskool line called Robot Heroes that went on for ages. Not to mention the age of the Kreo, I still have a bin of those fuckers knocking around somewhere.
>>11926501Yeah Gobots, so named because Hasbro wanted to make it clear they owned the rights to the name Gobots now.
>>11926501>>11926645How many of the RiD Spychangers were total remolds? I remember having Sideswipe and Ironhide from G2, a blue/yellow sportscar and a silver pickup truck. I know those two got repainted for RiD, but I don't remember ever seeing Daytonus or Mirage during G2.
>>11926619It's so nice looking too>>11926620AotP hasn't really produced a remake release based on an older release that's been good so far, At least to meI'll give them Cybertron Sideways, Beast Wars Quickstrike and Armada Red AlertMaybe RID Skybyte>>11926628I want it to be IDW/Cybertronian style but I feel like the Earth Car version is more recognizable.With Nautica existing and somehow looking interesting enough that i'm willing to be on board i'm hoping it means Drift is also IDW Cybertronian style
>>11926655I think it was only the spychanger optimus and scourge?
>>11926655None of the spy hangers got remolded, Side Swipe,Side Burn,Prowl 2 and Daytonus were all unreleased G2 molds they managed to get produced and redecoed. There are still two other unreleased Gobots that never saw release. They also made the new X-brawn, Scourge, Ultra Magnus, and Optimus molds/
>>11926661>optimus and scourge>>11926662>X-brawn, Scourge, Ultra Magnus, and Optimus moldsSo that's why those ones were so different, that makes sense. Also that green jeep looks sick, they should've made that one mainline.
You now remember that Family Dollar carried real transformers once.
>>11926671$2 was a pretty solid value for these. I thought it was bullshit they did the two sychangers for the basic price of the era ($6-7, $5 in some places)
>>11926673I remember them having minicons single-packed for cheap too, I got Suppressor that way.
>>11926671The fact that this fucker had a gun is so funny to me
>>11926656>AotP hasn't really produced a remake release based on an older release that's been good so far, At least to meYou just listed four right after this. I love the original Drift but his shoulders really fucking suck. Age of the Primes has been really solid. The worst of the 13 is still a solid figure. I think my only big complaint is Onslaught (not Bruticus) is a bit of a let down. No gun and no wrists is inexcusable.
>>11926677How else would he pewpew the bad guys?
>>11926673Whatever they were priced they sold well enough that Hasbro created 4 new molds and continued releasing them in dollar stores for years afterwards. I really hope Gobots Megatron leads to some modern releases for the RiD Spychangers. I want R.E.V and Crosswise.
>>11926678Yeah, I still own Drift and while I like how he looks, he's so awkward to handle:-Bulky feet, and the actual foot is tiny (and the foot is clear plastic)-Hip sccabards get in the way of everything, it needed another hinge to move them all the way to the back for easier posses.-Bendy swords (not even sure why this was a thing, Blurr's guns were hard plastic).-The shoulders getting in the way of everything.I don't expect Hasbro to make a better toy though.
>>11926677explain
>>11926678Yea hence why I said personally I don't really think we've gotten good remakes so far except those 4 who DO stand out. I'm loving the original Drift even tho absolutely his shoulders are kinda stiff. Not as bad as this Skids mold thoI've genuinely enjoyed almost all the Primes so far too but absolutely agree, The Onslaught is so disappointing with no wrists, no weapon and feelin kinda clunkyI HAVE still found fun in messing with him but fuck, Hinged hands on a peg would go absolutely wild on him
>>11926686I love messing with mine too but the hands are a real let down. More so than the gun, I can get a gun, but the hands suck. Bruticus is a total 10/10 though. Very expressive and nails pretty much every pose I put him in. I wish I could take pictures right now but my set up is in shambles due to moving.
What has Shockwave so happy?
>>11926662shame that jeep never made it to production, that's a nice mold
>>11926662The jeep could easily have been Hound when they were doing those Classics Spy Changers.
>>11926671Funnily enough, the Hoist from this range was my first ever Transformer and I still have it to this day>>11926680I know they’re obviously going to make them Deluxes, but a part of me wishes they had made them Cores instead>but Hasbro doesn’t do Cores anymoreThen just sell a 2 pack of them at a Deluxe price like RID and then a gift set at $80ish like with Dinoking/Monstructor
>>11926706I'd prefer core-sized too but at this point I'll take what I can get.
>>11924450APC Prime Tailgate popped up and it made me think of you
>Start diving back into IDW>Only two fucking in>Wreckers>Already miss my Wreckers I used to haveWelp good thing I still have Sandstorm, TR topspin and some others. It's just the Whirl that'll be expensive to get again I feel
People are still going on about Onslaught's gun?
>>11926711this is how the prime toyline should have been.. i love unusual proportions like this.
>>11926715What gun?Lol
>>11926715>"People are STILL bitching about a $100 figure with zero accessories?"Actual sackhuffing shill energy
>>11926715inexcusable for the lack of weapon and wristsits $100 fucking bucks you faggot
>>11926683See >>11926715A $2 cheapo toy back in the day with minimal articulation still managed to come with his own gun, while Hasbro apparently couldn't be assed to include one with a modern $100 figure.
>>11926742oh that. so anon should have said 'even this fucker'
>>11926683It's funny that his sole points of articulation are for him to lift his arms and shoot
>>11926748that's pretty standard for T-formers though
>>11926723Lmao
>>11926720Isn’t that a modified KO of the prime toyline?
>>11923660>>11923662>I did never get the hate for bayformer movies and liked most of them until I realized that outside of 3 decepticons I have no fucken idea what is going onI feel like if you can't tell what's going on in those movies you might be autistic or retarded. Even when I first watched the first movie as a kid the movements of what was going on and could tell who every character was because despite being overdesigned they had very clear silhouettes and/or very distinct features that separate one another.Stuff like the 3rd act of ROTF and arguably DOTM does have this issue but that's less of a design issue and more of a pacing/cinematography issue where too much is going on at once.
>this latest offering from Takara has arrived>It has an almost prefect paintjob, completely clean gold paint and no loose jointsIs it so hard to ask for the same level of quilaity control as this for the transformers line (I would even include the MP considering the barely tolerable design choices for Gen Optimus and Ginrai and the gimped knees from Hot Rod) Yes I would be willing to pay $35 for a deluxe if I get this level of quality and not fucking playing with QC roulette every time I open a new figures.
It's nice that these comics actually do something with Hot Rod/Rodimus and Arcee as a couple.
>>11926383Anon replaced the text, it originally said this.
>>11926383>>11926810The whole point is that Optimus stops thinking that the woman is sentient after listening to her, it's not difficult to understand. It being an edit doesn't change that, just the stance.
>>11926810This was way funnier
>>11926823I think the whole point is every trans punchline is killing someone
>>11926799That things $200 of course it turbomogs a $30 deluxe
>>11926799Yeah I'll freely shill for Takara and Toyrise/most of T-SparkThe stuff definitely costs a premium but you can feel where the money went when you're handling it
>>11926810
>>11926799If you’re willing to pay, sure, but you know most people here would go insane over $50 deluxes.The whole point of toyrise is that it’s premium playable toys.
The cheapest transforming toyrise figure is $75, looks like a voyager at best. Transformers fans could not survive this.
>>11926910It's okay, SS84 Bumblebee will be a "small voyager" for only $74.99
>>11926912...what is leader then
>>11926910I own the regular GaoFar and it's smaller that most Voyagers and also the red one that is sold by itself is a Takara Tomy mall exclusive, your average Transformers fan mind will implode at this.
>>11926910Anon no! Stop pointing that out! Takara is based they wouldn't scam anyone!
>>11926799>>11926829I own GFG and GGGG and they're not free of problems though. Something really weird is that they messed up the mold of Stealth Gao III and one of the spaces for the black spikes of the helmet is not there, so when you store it it's slightly crooked and you can potentially scratch paint. It also makes the deployable joint for Liner Gao II to not line up perfectly in hypersonic flight mode, so you are slightly forcing it. I had to fix that and also one extremely tight transformation joint of Gadget Gao that made me feel I was going to end up snapping the whole bird belly mechanism. Speaking of Gadget, it has two pegs that should connect to the blue arms that hold the intakes (Genesic's forearms) in bird mode, looking at the prototype there's round recesses were the pin joints are that line up perfectly with the pegs, but they're flat in the final product. Most of those are minor things but they just feel like changes and oversights in the designing process.Also Genesic's hip ratchets are way too soft for the one with the heaviest backpack, and the elbow connections could be better.They really would benefit from being bigger too, I have no problems transforming them but they still feel somewhat finicky due to the size. Had these two been double the size or even match the original GGG DX toy they would cost a fortune but damn, they would have been super fun to handle and way more impressive.
Rate my Autobots
>>11926929I'll take a company that scams sometimes to one that scams constantly
>>11926922My mind implodes when I look at THE GATTAI Duke Fire being $200 + shipping.
>>11926948That company doesn't exist.
>>11926947Seems like a straightforward mix of usual guys. 7/10. I really hate your background though.
>>119269478/10 average lineup but with jetfire, nice bumblebee choice also
>>11926888They went insane over Masterpiece toys being a premium line and now Takara hard pivoted to mainline slop figures in MPG packaging
>>11926951>I really hate your background though.Why tho?
>>11926929You’re right, toyrise is worth $75
>>11926955Not that anon but it's totally out of scale with the Autobots.
>>11926947Jetfire is fucking huge holy shit
>>11926956>A toy less complex than a deluxe and smaller than a voyager is worth $75You said it not me anon. I'll just keep it in mind next time you complain about $30 deluxe pricing price.
>>11926947boring sunbowshit all released within the last 5 years/10
>>11926964Siege Jetfire and Ratchet came out more than five years ago.
>>11926949Wait, Duke Fire by itself is 200? How much is J-Decker then? And not only that, but I can't say that THE GATTAI plastic feels all that good, at the very least on the Dynazenon releases I have. Red plastic specially feels super thin and lightweight, reminds me of a model kit.
>>11926711Well, I'm glad SOMEONE somewhere is thinking of me. I should get that guy.>>11926742>A $2 cheapo toy back in the day with minimal articulation still managed to come with his own gunProfit margins get tighter as toys get bigger, since it's an exponential increase in plastic, but not an exponential increase in cost. Tossing a tiny piece of plastic in with a tiny toy is negligible. Tossing a larger piece of plastic in with a larger toy becomes more of a hit. To you, it's just a case of "why the heck wouldn't you?" but a CEO has a report that tells them the exact dollar amount they would lose by doing this.
>>11926970Actually, we know that Core class had the smallest profit margin
>>11926965Siege Ratchet is pretty mediocre
>>11926957Fair, it was either that or them all sitting on my kitchen table.
>>11926964How is it boring?
>>11926947>bluestreak behind primeWhats he doin back there?>>11926961I pulled out my jetfire for the first time in a long while and was kind of shocked his height was comparable to aotp bruticus'.
>>11926989It is an incomplete set of recently released guys who are mostly in neutral pose. About as close to stock as possible, but not in a way that would be impressive like actually completing the 1984-1986 Autobots as far as they got starting from WFC.
>>11926789APC is a 3rd Party that is doing 1/1 reproductions of Prime figures but with some of the older 3P adds like gap fillers, accurate weapons and better accessoriesTheir Wheeljack is nicer hands, extra head, Extra set of Swords, Grenade and handguns and some other detailsThey've been so good since Prime had that First Edition shit for the "good" molds so getting them easier and improved is just a win
>>11926947Not bad, Need a Ratchet like the new Ironhide so I'm hoping another 3 pack with them sometimeIs kinda wild now that I think we don't have SS86 style Inferno, Grapple, Hoist, Gears, Swerve or the others
>>11926792it's funny, this was the first guy we saw, and he looked SO perfect and cool to mebut the more I look at his model, and the accurate toys of it, the less I like it. his feet are ten times the size of his legs.. the formerly cool looking hunched-over back hump now just looks like it messes up the head and shoulders area.. eh. Still neat to see creative designs at all, but.>autistic or retardedif anything, wouldn't autists be better at keeping track of it? Naw, it's that these people were not raised on complex designs and robots and shit. their brains don't get it, the way some people don't get what makes Sonic different from Bubsy. We're lucky. And actually, I had to look at some designs before I watched the movies, to help me. that's mainly because of the shakycam, though. Fuck the shakycam.
>>11926799Do YOU want to work stupidly, soul-crushingly hard for barely any money? No? Then yes, it's too much to ask for quality. None of us put any quality into our work, because we're tired and lazy. we just want to go home and enjoy fun toys and games and shows. We need to start putting robots in charge of everything hard, and we need to do it YESTERDAY. Because nobody is putting up with this toil anymore, except asians, who are more like ants/bees than people.
>>11926829I wish their OG Getter's design didn't look so fucking wonky
>>11926792I thought this was supposed to be soundwave the first time I watched it.>>11927025I got their 2.0 megatron, he's cool as fuck though the back piece doesn't fit into the torso quite as well as it should. Not a big issue and would have bought it regardless because he's my favorite version of the character.
>>11926671They were also at Dollar General. I managed to grab the entire Six-Build Devastator decades back.
>>11926918the closest thing to a mortgage gen y and alpha will have
>>11927025I know, I was replying to someone that said we should’ve gotten these toysWhich we did
>>11927031Where does your money come from in this scenario, anon?
>>11927031>Put quality into product>It sells>Corner cut Design and Production, Outsource it to vietnam or some shit and price jack>Stops selling"Yea people need to embrace AI and replace people with AI"Go be a retarded faggot somewhere else
>>11927076You mean Gen Z, Gen Y are Millennials
>>11927025oh snap, in that case what I said was fucking stupid
>>11927076there is no A>>11927101not when the term first came out they weren't. Nor does gen Y line up with 90% of the pre-covid discourse on 'millennials'. Z does.>>11927093Haven't figured that out yet. But where did the money come from before? It was just magic. You had one guy working and somehow 10 people got fed. It was loaves and fishes.
>>11927098You're right, anon. let's stop even using conveyor belts, why shouldn't people carry each piece of the toy by hand across the factory? Why even have a factory? just hand-whittle it allor we could continue the automation we've been gradually increasing for the last century and change, until the toys practically make themselves, and lack human errors. I suppose you've got a problem with face printing?
>>11927107>Being hyperbolic like thisOkay retard
>>11927113if his brain works this poorly it's no surprise he wants AI to think for him
>>11927113okay smart guy, what do you think the solution to the issue of only asians wanting to work like robots for a pittance?
>>11927114Lmao
>>11927114Real shit
>>11926966J-Decker is also $200 before tax or shipping.
>>11926964>>11927017Post your toys
>>11927104>But where did the money come from before? It was just magic. You had one guy working and somehow 10 people got fed. It was loaves and fishes.Those people weren't buying toys and playing video games. They went to work at 13 years old and ate less lavish diets.
>>11927129No. You asked for an opinion, I told you it was 7/10. I'm not exposing myself to criticism I'm not interested in.
>>11927133genuinely unsure if you're this wrong or doing a bit
>>11927142Are you doing a bit? How well do you think a family of 10 lived off of one salary?
>>11927150extremely well. They had the highest standard of living in history, that's when we peaked.and obviously it's not 'a family of 10' like in one house, what I mean is, the guy working supported himself, his wife, his 2-4 kids, his parents, her parents, and at least one or two poor people via his taxes. and it worked. until soviet feminists fucked it up.
>>11926810>trans "comedy">it's just murder fantasynever refuting the allegations
I am done with the artifact hunt. Just lazy to slap on the star convoy one in.
>>11927152This is a relatively brief time in human history, and largely just in a few nations. The post war boom is a terrible example to use for money coming "magically", the boom years happened because of a massive uptick in population, businesses, technology, etc. You pay these people to work, it puts money into the economy. Your NEET fantasy is unsustainable because robots don't need money. Your desire for automation isn't going to lead to you having more toys and more free time. Why would it?
>>11927153but remember, if you draw someone 17 years old kissing, you belong in prison!
>>11927167I literally just said it was brief, what the hell. why are you repeating my point for me?then at the end you just start saying nonsense. why WOULDN'T it? Look what cheap asian labor did for toys and shows in the 90s. except, it sucked for them. So this time, it would be great for everyone.
Got Kingdom Tracks today. What a fucking mess of a figure I really hope they redo him ASAP.
fresh thread to discuss leaks since this one is almost at image limit anyway>>11927199>>11927199>>11927199
>>11927200Spam slime
>>11927217yeah that thread does not seem worth leaping to
>>11927200Can we get a REAL thread that isn't made off completely made up AI slop?
>>11927263>completely made up AIThese are Hasbro internal documents, the employee who leaked and left his name all over them has been fired.
>>11927308Why is everything like this?
>>11927324why wouldn't it be? Think of the basic levels of human intelligence and professional competence and overall personal responsibility required for a society to work. And that's before getting into the bare minimum to stay on the good side of the guy in the cosmic attic who hands out blessings.Now do the math and notice we're not even halfway to those bare minimum levels anymore.
>>11926792The fight between Barricade and Bumblebee is genuinely terrible.
>>11930780>Fuck youI'm highly curious about how your brain works... what makes you think that these designs are cool...?
