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Ive been buying Optimus Primals.
>>11930627the red on the forearms was always really weird to me. It should've been a gradient if possible. Love those early Universe energon scar effects though
>>11930634seems weird to have him named Optimus Primal in general, but it's interesting. looks almost like a prototype
>>11930617inorite. it's just little things, weird limb placements, weird everything
>>11930634yeah, between that and the war paint and the yellow shit on his face, he's just.... weird. but you know, it's a good mold, I like seeing recolors. if I had one, I'd definitely just try to fix the colors to a bit more natchy, like I did with Sandstorm
>>11930638How so? He's basically meant to be a post-Beast Machines Primal. Beast Wars characters changed colors often and Primal more than anyone. All of his forms have totally different decos.
>”Everyone loves DJW and animated” Animated” LMAO! Not even inside this tiny echo chamber let alone the real world. Animated is easily the ugliest, gayest, shittiest Transformers has ever been. Only Beast Machines gives Animated a run for its money in awful designs and only IDW outdid its faggotry.
>>11930640A lot of that going on in JP mecha at the time. A lot of BM's toyline had concepts done by anime mecha designers and that post-Eva "lets get weird" attitude is there. Nightviper is designed by the same person who did the super popular Gundam Astray, which is kinda bizarre to me
>>11930647Animated and Beast Machines at least feel like intentional styles. Cyberverse and to an extent Earthspark are the worst to me because they don't even feel like what the style should be, but someone's misinterpretation of better drawn designs. Animated and BM were both made by people who know how to draw, even if the designs are weird or ugly. Cyberverse and Earthspark are like, people who can't grasp mecha.
>>11930649>people who can't grasp mecha.You're in a Transformers thread, you're just repeating yourself.
SS86 Screamer’s such a nice figure, but it’s just my luck the only one of him I’ve ever been able to find has some stress on one of the pins by his wing. I think it was from some excess plastic that was there that fell out after I poked at it, but I’m worried this’ll eventually be an issue later on…
>>11930648Disagree. JP mecha has always been amazing and looked cool, until pretty recently, where it's started to look kinda goony and overproduced. kinda like your example here, actually. that's newer, isn't it?even as weird as Eva was, they still had style. everything 'agreed' with everything. BM looks more like... the studio that did Men in Black / the Godzilla 98 movie tv series. Way more abstract biology.
>>11930649this guy gets it.we're fucked.
>>11930656Anon that design is over 20 years old now. I would say it’s more polished than Beast Machines designs, sure, but the point is the weird proportions sort of start from that.
>>11930627Insane that they never put out the Universe deco with the Kingdom mold.
I have applied the DNA Kit and Toyhax decals and can't think of any other improvements to do so my Vector Prime is finished to meI THINK Micronus may be my next one but I need to double check over the kits I might have wanted for him
>>11930669That would require them to remember Universe 1 existed
>>11930666Hmm, maybe. This one here is a much better example, with his shoulders attached so high and his head so buried into his shoulders. the only thing the previous one was guilty of is the arms being kinda long, which is fine if you do it right.You would be hardpressed to find me examples that do the kinds of things BM was doing, with the pelvis hanging way down below the hips, legs having extra joints that don't make sense, and attachment points seeming about as random as can be. And that's before getting into the beast modes, which.. robot animals are their own snarl. even fewer can do them well.
>>11930669it's such a meh mold. it did a few things very right (arm guns yay!), but a couple perplexingly wrong (why do his toes bend DOWN, but can't swivel around to form the little elephant toes he's supposed to have in robot mode as his heels?)and a few others sorta half right, but still off (nice to have a belly cover, and clever job tucking it away in robot mode, but you made it a FURRY belly cover, which is a different kind of gorilla entirely)
>>11930681also: human toes. very strange.
I wasn't all that bothered with Onslaught not including a weapon, but I decided to search for a gun for him on a whim. Surprisingly enough I immediately found what I consider the most perfect one for him on sale. I wasn't expecting to like how it looks with it as much as I do, it's amazing what a single piece of plastic can do for a figure. It just looks so RIGHT now.
>>11930685It really does hurt his presence but I ended up liking him a lot more than I thoughtHe definitely needed better hands and Million $ problem solver, Paint the insides of the Combiner Frame Arms or just color them in general so it'd color match Vortex and Blast offThey go face to face and aren't visible in Trailer mode ANYWAYS so at worst you would have one side facing outward under the Trailer that's the default Grey/Silver
>>11930647you sound like a big baby
>>11930696somehow I'm not surprised you are constantly surrounded by the cries of children in pain
>>11930649Nah, that’s bullshitAlso who’s excited for mad max wildwheel
>>11930707Isn't that the ai slop convention? Can't be excited for something that probably isn't even real.
>>11930612I hate that they couldn't give this guy a trailer with the right length
>>11930707He's entirely right tho hey Wildwheel was actually a cool design that we got a fucking gimmick shit toy ofMMC is really great too so hoping this maybe spins into some others. Like a RID 2015 Strongarm or Bee
>>11930656I chuckled when I saw a post on twitter once by a guy in Japan who remarked something like "man, while we had the slick stylish anime like Victory and Zone, Americans had robots that looked like old men in cosplay!"
>>11930713Actual brainrot retardation
>>11930723hahahaha, can't disagree.I wish I could befriend more jappinies.
>>11930725This is how they're upselling their convention so I assumed it was just for sloppers.
>>11930729right because they should have just paid someone to make this.. i'm sure they have 800 dollars just lying around.
>>11930731if they can't manage to have a human make them some half-decent promotional material then why should they be trusted to run a convention?
>>11930718>MMC is really great too so hoping this maybe spins into some others.It's confirmed that Wildwheel is at least a retool of something else
>>11930735because it's prohibitlvely expensive.couple hundred years ago, you'd be calling movable type a heresy because you don't have to pay a scribe to hand-calligraph each letter.look, I'm an artist, and a voiceover guy, and it's frustrating that just as I got good, I got replaced by machines. But all that proves is that I was never really 'in demand.' they just wanted cheap, throwaway garbage, not real products. Because the majority of this kinda thing is garbage. this is a promotional ad, it's going to be tossed after the con happens.
>>11930739>couple hundred years ago, you'd be calling movable type a heresy because you don't have to pay a scribe to hand-calligraph each letter.saaaar...
>>11930731>right because they should have just paid someone to make thisYes, I'm glad you agree.
>>11930731>i'm sure they have 800 dollars just lying around.It doesn't cost 800 bucks to make a decent promo image. And they've had no problem making real promos for every convention in the past, so cost definitely isn't an issue here. On top of that, if you even find yourself complaining about cost in order to justify this, you're basically giving a tacit admission that this sort of AI slop sucks horrendously bad, because if it really was all that great, you'd be able to brag about its supposed awesomeness instead of coming up with excuses for its existence.
>>11930729That is pretty fucking dogshit. Christ that's cringeI guarantee they got dunked and blown out on socials and still ran it
>>11930747they don't want a decent promo image, they want an 800 dollar one.
>>11930685Which gun is that? I ordered the Toyhax one since I had a discount I could use for it. Still waiting for it. The longer I dwelled on it, the more inexcuseable it was for him not to have what is seriously like 2 square inches of plastic included in the full release.>>11930627Very nice, Got any others? I really wanna like the Universe deco but idk it doesn't do it for me. I guess works as an Apelinq for me maybe. Anyways the original Beast Wars toy is awesome, guy was absolutely packed with play features.
>retards whining about being replaced by AIYou are obsolete and deserve to be replaced by a machine.
>>11930729>Organic tongue >No arms They didn't even bother to get a decent AI generated picture.
>>11930680you're pretty dented if you can't recognize a kawamori design
>>11930754huh, now that you mention it, those are problems.>>11930755my anime tastes are almost entirely 70s to the very early 2000s, with a few very recent ones, but almost nothing from 2006-ish through 2018ish.
>>11930751>Which gun is that?Onslaught's.
>>11930737>>11930707Okay wait a minute
>LONG-RANGE TARGET ACQUIRED; MATRIX CANNON: ENGAGED
>>11930729That is fucking rancid
>>11930751>Which gun is that?His very own, pic related. Found a loose one and after haggling got it for ten euros shipping included. Too much for a piece of plastic, but not bad for 40 years old vintage plastic I guess.And I know it's silly, but I can't help but smile when I think I reunited this old weapon that lost his owner decades ago with the newest version of that very same dude that never had his own weapon. And they look perfect together to boot, like they were always part of a set.
>>11930773Oh wow the original G1 gun fits his hand? Shit I shoulda just gotten one of those. Oh well. If I had, I'd end up making a G1 Bruticus. Which isn't a bad idea since I've got AoTP Bruticus and a 99% complete G2 Bruticus (I'm missing Onsloughts little yellow chest shield and can't find one anywhere)
>>11930638Did you read the comics that go along with it? Unicron rebuilt everyone and they have energon radiation (the silver stuff on robot modes face) It kills me how literally no one in America/China/Jaoan ever made a new version of this color scheme.
>>11930731they could've easily made an agreement with some artist in the area to pay them a more modest cost while including tickets to the con and whatever perks to make it worthwhile. Id be honest, If a con offered to comp me a weekend pass plus cover my lunch at the con and a little cash on the side to do some art, i'd take it.
>>11930779Where can I find these comics? I always wondered about the odd color schemes.
>>11930424Ruination repaint incoming? It just fits in Legends logic to me somehow. Scourge was on the same sub faction thing as him in RiD and they're emphasizing combiners.
>>11930739we still have calligraphers, anon.
>>11930783Yo I did NOT know about this weapon config, does this work? I feel like the G1 toys had all kinds of odd undocumented play features and configurations. Then again while I grew up with G1 toys, it was not during G1s time.
>>11930751I have the 2020's reissue boxed, but I have the original Primal that should get here tomorrow. and i found a bootleg prime that is black and white.
>>11930648Beast Machines concept art is amazing to me. This reminds me the most of a Japanese mecha.
>>11930737> somethingAnon, it’s obviously Lockdown
>>11930761Yeah, that wasn’t in question, it’s why I said Mad Max>>11930718He just needs a Poncho instead of a cape
>>11930775>Oh wow the original G1 gun fits his hand?Yeah, I checked before buying it, a good bunch of G1 weapons used 5mm ports, Scramble City combiners included. Nonetheless it was a tad too tight of a fit so I slightly sanded it.Something cool that I didn't expect is that it's big enough to look good in Bruticus hands too.
>>11930723Yeah, but old war vet dudes is exactly why it’s appealing
>>11930647Earthspark says hi and Nightshade's pronouns are they/them.
>>11930723To be fair the follow up was something like “ it’s quite charming in a way, isn’t it?”
>>11930647Animated was decent story wise.Derrick J. Wyatt could not design characters to save his li--um...get out of a wet paper bag.
>>11930781can you do something that good? I mean aside from the massive errors I'm now realizing are in it>>11930784and yet you worry
Feels great to finally have leader-1 from that Red Alert box set to combine with Megatron.
>>11930788Would enjoy pics of that bootleg, i'm curious now>>11930790yeah, see? that is way cooler. that's from BM? It looks more Transtech-ish. I mean that's an autobot symbol...
>>11930802I wanted those minicons but I don't care enough about Red Alert to get him again in uglier colors so I had to pass.
>>11930803Its definitively Beast Machines. I dont know the context but I'm trying to find it. I think its Thrust. Here's another really Japanese one I found bit it looks really early.
>>11930805fascinating.
>>11930788I recommend spending the like $20 on getting Deluxe BM Primal, you won't regret it. Makes for a fun lil desk toy. Transmetal Primal too of course, hes really fun.
>>11930806https://iachronicle.neocities.org/pages/bm/bmconceptmight as well just post the link
>>11930809I love Beast Machines but man what the fuck were they thinking here lol
>>11930811Its cheetors face as a plant. I have no fucking idea man.
>>11930811We were eating rotisserie chicken. Can you just buy the toys, please?
>>11930801Yes, I can.
>>11930822that's fuckin awesome, anon. I hope you get hired.
>>11930801>and yet you worrywhy are you fucking stupid that you straight up flipped on your own argument that this is the future and these older methods are obsolete and have been passed aside due to technological advances. cant even stick to your own argument.
>>11930824How do you figure?
>Still waiting for Hasbro to ship my minicons>Set is now out of stock, so I'm fucked if it has any issuesI really hate exclusives.
Is there a reason we don't get a third party set with random transformer weapons? If feels like this should be easier than upgrade kits. Just make them 5mm compatible and they'd sell.
>>11930828my ratchet and minicons shipped out a few days ago. hope you get yours
>>11930803the one i found needs some work so it's kind of an experiment but heres the one i got and where I think it came from.
>>11930731Biggest loser in this thread
>>11930831It's been stuck on label created for days. It's really pissing me off.
>>11930647The only reason we didn't get a fourth season is because Hasbro wanted to focus on their new network channel and the Prime series since that was closer to the movie's continuity which were successful.
While doing some cleaning, I found my Spoiler Set Siege Ultra Magnus. Decided to free the White Prime inside of it for a spell.
>someone in my town found a $20 Scorponok at Ross today after I went there yesterday and there wasn't anything Okay, now I'm pissed
>>11930844region?
>>11930844Ouch. It's best to ignore Ross and just check when you can. Don't count on it for anything rare. Hell, I recently bought a slightly cheaper Armada Nemesis because I knew I'd never see one at Ross.
>>11930627I got this guy without the gorilla face for $3 at a thrift shop years ago, I always meant to fix him up but never got around to sourcing parts.
>>11930844Damn, now that's a good deal.
I found two armada nemesis primes at ross, used up all my luck I don't think i'll find a normal priced Scorponok
>>11930847Tennessee >>11930850I usually hit them up once or twice a week, but they've been so flush with product lately you've about got to go every day
>>11930786>the G1 toys had all kinds of odd undocumented play features and configurationsThe combining guns were a retool added for CR.
Also found my OG Windblade plus Thrilling 30 Armada Starscream
>>11930858>>11930857I don't even bother, scalpers swarm Ross all day. One of the few times I went, a guy filled 8 shopping carts with toys, and actually got in the way of shoppers so they wouldn't grab anything in the toy section. The store didn't care either. It's the only time I've seen something like this and it was disgusting. The other times also had scalpers, but they toy section was barely stocked at that time. They aren't close either, so it's not worth it.
Anyone know if it would be cheaper to buy the mini cons from the Super Form Red Alert separately via eBay or would it just be cheaper to get them/Super Form Red Alert for $80?
>>11930832ohhh fascinating. yeah it looks like they tried to just get the color-count down. Definite bootleg tactics.. HIlarious to see an Ultra on a fucking bubble card, too.
>>11930802Hasbro are cowards for not giving us generations Mightly Robot and Mighty Vehicle.
>>11930862Buy the pack and just sell the red alert to make back some money
>>11930859And then they shortened it for the RID release, and Encore Onslaught ended up using that mold.
>>11930860I dislike that Windblade but T30 Starscream is great.
>>11930862The pack will always be cheaper. Even on the reveal, most sites had people posting they'd off load Red Alert, and keep the minicons. So far, I've never seen the modern minicons cheaper on Ebay. You could wait, but there's no guarantee you'll find it cheap or that you'll find it.
Think I'm just lucky since I've never seen a scalper at ross just other toy collectors
>>11930831Hope you get yours soon.
>>11930863Idk why but Bootlegs are so interesting to me, so i felt like i had to have it. I'll post more when it comes in.
>>11930852best of luck. i'm trying to find accessories that aren't wildly expensive. I may have to resort to 3d printing them.
>>11930876they really are. I used to enjoy Phelous's bootleg reviews a lot, and I still kinda do. Just seen a lot of em.
>>11930707>Nah, that’s bullshitI mean I can see people wanting new,high quality Beast Machines or Animated toys.I can never imagine anyone wanting an MP cyberverse figure, even kids who grew up with it.
Yea we manipulativeWe straight up evil
>>11930731It's just kinda lame because TF conventions have always had a big fanart culture since the beginning. I will guarantee you there's TF fanartists out there who would make you a flyer for a few toys. It wouldn't be as cheap as free, but it promotes community, the artist can be a personality fans might want to support or meet like how Dan Khanna and Don Figueroa came up in the fandom, and it's just nicer overall. This is just 2002 era photoshop of a drawing of Cryotek's beastmode in a photo of Chicago, but it's charming and memorable. The jankiness that human confidence provides gives it it's own charm. The TFCon Orlando poster is just kinda forgettable,Grimlock isn't really on model to any design and looks like a generic robot t.rex, the Decepticons he's damaging are a mess. The rendering is really nice, but it's missing something. that sort of passion for the subject that ensouls the best art.
>>11930908>I can never imagine anyone wanting an MP cyberverse figureI know right, who would want this?
>>11930912Certainly not me...
>>11930811The flower in particular is a nightmare sequence Primal has, IIRC.>>11930790Knowing what Archer's said, it's really clear Hasbro was chomping at the big to bring the Autobot/Decepticon factions back.
>>11930913No one could possibly like cyberverse designs
>>11930911oh true, I would prefer that, too. it's just obviously not what THEY want. and I gotta say, most conventions do just that, and they tend to look... like they should have been pickier.
>>11930912>>11930913>>11930915My man i'm gonna be realWhy? Like I really like Studio 01's stuff but where the fuck is the properly Cybertron series colored Primus?Who asked for THIS? Over numerous other things
>>11930912I was ready to eat crow, then I looked at Cyberverse Snarl and see it looks nothing like it proportionally for the better. It looks cool here, but it's because it specifically avoids the Cyberverse style
>>11930926>>11930912And then I stumbled on this. Remember how I said that cyberverse felt like worse drawn versions of better designs? Well turns out it's kinda true, given this was concept art for it. I would say this is indeed pretty cool.
>>11930911>>11930919for posterity's sake, here's the image I forgot. Would've been for Botcon 2003 before it was renamed.
>>11930921>Who asked for THIS?Me
>>11930928Flirting>>11930926Sexual Harassment
Remake one day
>>11930930that is pretty cool
>>11930750And instead, they ended up with AI slop far worse than a promo image that was merely decent.
>>11930930This is honestly great. Probably took half an hour or less and has tons of soul.
Do I love the Optimus to wanna buy (four) more of him?I AM really wanting the Magnus next tho
>>11930647All transformers is shit so who cares?
>>11930731Looking at the website, a premium weekend pass is $150. $800 is like, six people. So, yes. They would have that lying around, easily.
They actually made him a lot better
>>11930729That wasn't even tfcon themselves, that was just some dealer who had some tables there.
>>11930972I’ve got sentinel and he’s really good
>>11930991a more realistic anti-aircraft turret for Killbison would go a long way too, his alt is shite
>>11930718>He's entirely right tho hey Wildwheel was actually a cool designHe's not even the best of his archetype. Without the hat, gun and poncho he would literally just be another guy. His vehicle mode is the most generic cybertronian car ever, but you probably wouldn't know that because he doesn't even have fucking wheels or anything. It's a testament to how even when they "try" its still shitty, uninteresting and gay. That other anon is right, none of these people actually understand what makes transformers designs work, even bayformers got this right in the earlier years.Now look at this design. Take a good look at how the wild west outlaw motif is baked into his design, How the cobra's hood forms the poncho or how the alt mode being a king cobra ties together bot the western desert themes and the robot cowboy theme with the arm being serving as a whip/lasso. All you need to do is take a look and you immediately know everything about him. You can't take the aesthetic out of him because it's a fundamental aspect to the design where it's a supplementary aspect of the former
>>11931017the funny thing is character wise Cohlada isn't really a cowboy type. He's an arrogant rookie cadet type.
>>11931021>He's an arrogant rookie cadet type.He and Break both do however the lone wolf western archetype adds to it too. Break is much closer to the arrogant rookie/shonen protagonist which is why is design with the spiky tuft and bright colors is so flamboyant
I pray someday they find a cure for whatever kind of spazz spergery Perspectives End has. It pains me that hes one of the only people I saw who (somehow despite being him) DIDNT sperg about the AI mockups.
>>11930767could the original ultra magnus/powered convoy do that gun-hands thing? All the old diaclone-based toys seem to always have some sort of play functionality that was never widely shown off.
>>11931037Yes, but not quite the same way. The original's hands could pop off via 5mm peg and you could just put the cannons on instead. This only really works with the forearms collapsed for robot mode, so you wouldn't be able to have them at the end of the arms like in >>11930767
>>11930937I just found out Energon had an unreleased Prime and Megs recolor that I wish got released. Red and black G2 ish colors look sick.
>>11931055I wish I got this platinum back in the day too. But the unreleased one has matching limbs which I like and no other repaints did.
>>11930937>>11931055>>11931058Blokees is your only hope now
>>11931058This is the one I have, always surprises me how big he is when I bust him outHim and Omega both
>>11931055Black and red just work as colors every time. I know it can be bland or too edgy to some but I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it.
>>11931066No I dont like non transformable small model kits
>>11931023Break is just Naruto before he was a thing, down to the same voice and inflection >>11931034Perspective's like that because he’s a contrarian. He physically has to disagree with whatever someone says to him
>>11930647The preview image of animated generated insane amounts of hate. The initial response was basically universally negative and the toy reveals where treated much the same. When the first couple episodes came out though it was a different story. Reception was very positive. There were still people that disliked the designs, but they look way better in motion, and the pretty dark undertones from the introduction of the deceptions to how badly the autobots got brutalized by just Starscream had people wanting to see more. Then they got let down. Season one was slow as fuck villain of the week stuff that was generally boring outside some occasional nice character introductions. The turning point though is when Megatron comes back. The shows quality increases substantially, and the stakes ramp up steadily all the way to the end.We all knew it was canceled pretty much off the rip, so there was a whole lot of dissatisfaction at how the ending was extremely quick, and with how open it was there are people that want it to continue to this day.The big thing with animated is that many fans from the peak of the franchise (2002-2012~) see it and prime as the last real transformers shows. Anything after was just rescuebots or evergreen kidslop and the garbage quality of the "for adults" shows has made that gap way worse.
>>11930718>>11930707Good lord I hope he has a more accurate poncho...
>>11931109*Lord
>>11931119*Lard
>>11931107>Season one was slow as fuck villain of the week stuff that was generally boring outside some occasional nice character introductions.>The turning point though is when Megatron comes back. The shows quality increases substantially, and the stakes ramp up steadily all the way to the end.It was a risky choice but the slow season 1 start was important.Yeah the human villains kinda suck but at least they're the ones losing every week and not the Decepticons. When they do show up it remains significant and they don't stop seeming powerful until Season 3 when a bunch have been captured.
>SS86 Springer reissueEarthrise Doubledealer reissue please.
>>11931134Where the fuck is the doublecrosser repaint
Dipping my feet into the Weaponizers. Brunt makes for an awesome backpack weapon, are any of the others any good? I had Micronus Prime but his weaponizer bits felt half assed.
>>11931152Forgot my pic
>>11931152>>11931161Ironworks is good
>>11930966so you're okay with stealing and remixing existing assets in one capacity but not another
>>11930985you do make a good point. plus table fees and junk.. still, it feels wasteful to just use it once like that. AND keeping in mind it's an IP they don't own, so high-profile payment of fanart is.. iffy. typically they go OC for that shit.
>>11931021I like how old transformers would have one theme visually and another as a personality. it's like, this is just.. their body, man. it isn't that important. they can change bodies.>>11931107This. This guy gets it entirely.It's so weird to me as a huge weeb, how much better I think the western TF shows are.
>>11931165>photoshopping two images together is the same as using the torment nexus that steals literally everyone's art to spew garbage
>>11931152>>11931161THIS HAND OF MINE BURNS WITH AN AWESOME POWER
>>11931152I'm fond of most of the "-izers" I bought. Cog and Sixgun were a hoot. Paleotrex is genuinely just a cool/unique transformer in its own right, but also makes some sick boner weapons. Ironworks isn't so great at the "weapon" part, but he's really fun to build little bases out of, especially if you have micro/titanmasters to occupy him.
>>11931188Neat
>>11931107>see it and prime as the last real transformers showsI mean, they sort of are. Everything since has been low budget streaming fodder of some variety.
>>11931197man, Sixgun's power gauntlet was so rad.>>11931161That looks rad. Also, nice purple match-up. I've heard that purple is one of the colors that the human eye can distinguish the strongest, so as a result it's REALLY hard to color-match purple. Unless it's your camera flattening it out.
I got Paleotrex right around the same time I got Wedge. It was a fun week.
>>11931165nta but for all we know that photo of Chicago was original, licensed or in public domain. The photoshop may or may not have been legally purchased. And even if not the unique idiosyncrasies that comes from a human choosing to use whatever assets they chose makes it more charming and memorable. It's more interesting to me when there's a mind behind creation, you can't interact or converse with a machine in the same way without feeling it's all smoke and mirrors.
>>11931190basically, except it doesn't look as goodin fact, photoshop had AI image generation a decade before any of you guys had heard of 'ai'. smart selection, smart filling behind something you removed, all of that
>>11931212I meant more the cryotek part, but surewe're not talking about multiplayer games being inherently superior to singleplayer with AI opponents, here.
>>11930767This is fucking awesome I want him now
>>11931107>>11931200TFRiD 2015 did a lot better than Prime in sales and rarings, which makes me wonder if soon we're gonna have a wave of fans who will talk about how it's overhated and how it's their nostalgic series that got them into TF.Right now the youngest fans truly active in the fandom seem to mainly be kids who grew TFP and got massively disappointed that RiD was a kid's show when they became teenagers. But RiD15 did well with actual kids, younger ones maybe but still a big audience.
>>11931214Eh? It's a licensed convention...the piece of Cryotek art was either licensed or likely drawn by someone like Dan Khanna.Are you going for the angle that Cryotek was a redeco and thus a remix of an existing asset? Even so he was a redeco done in house and even his name comes from another IP Hasbro owned. It's not anywhere close to a gotcha, nothing is stolen.
Man the connection between the new Runway and Jerstorm doesn't hold. Did they barely test it? Just touching it sends Runway flying.
>>11931213I really shouldn't be surprised that an AI shill isn't very good at using his brain
>>11931212>And even if not the unique idiosyncrasies that comes from a human choosing to use whatever assets they chose makes it more charming and memorable.Well said. The thing that matters more to me about art than actual technical proficiency is that the artist is a unique person who made certain choices for specific reasons. AI shills don't understand that because they lack the curiosity/passion to do so in the first place, and thus do not care (or even comprehend) that a machine is doing the most essential and rewarding part of "art" in their stead.This is why real artists sneer at AI shills. It isn't because they don't draw. It's because they don't care.
>>11931188wish I had space to set up all my baseformers and micromasters
>>11931228missing the point pretty hard, but it doesn't sound like it's on purpose.you're whining that people should make their own thing instead of a computer amalgamation of others' work, yet he's reusing an asset deliberately
All art is gay.
Transformers is gay
You're gay
So, I was thinking about repurposing my Blockee Defender BW2 Galvatron as Senator Proteus aka the the corrupt Senator and villain who's responsible for the corruption and tyranny of the Functionist policies that started the Cybertronian Civil War. As well as repurposing Purple SG/Evangelion Prime as Sentinel Prime, who was mortally wounded during the war to liberate Cybertron from the Quintessons and who Proteus kept alive on life support until he managed to break free long enough to give the Matrix (which Proteus promise the Quintessons).For his "court", I will give him Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Goldbug (SG version), Sound cast (my name for SG Soundwave), Sky Garry, and Big Convoy. He is an evil third party villain out for control over Cybertron.
>>11931271I didn't ask.
>>11931226>TFRiD 2015 did a lot better than Prime in sales and raringsAnd shit, I kind of of fully forgot about it. I guess it was the last proper TV series. And it was alright, from what I watched of it.
>>11931275>And it was alright, from what I watched of it.Yeah its a decent Transformers show in its own right, but it was a HORRIBLE followup to Prime. Them sometimes connecting it back to Prime is also to its detriment, despite some of those episodes being the best.
FINALLY!
>>11931283fuck I might actually get this
>>11931273rude, but you have a point. to wit:>>11931271that's kinda weird as a declarative statement, anon. You didn't even say like "let me run this idea past you guys, is this a good headcanon?" or "I've been working on this headcanon, I think it works" just.. telling us the story, who starts a post that way?
>>11931244>This is why real artists sneer at AI shills.No, "real artists" sneer at AI gods because they're coping that their years of time spent learning a "skill" has been a waste now that machines can do their job better and faster. "Artists" deserve to go extinct.>inb4 SAARI curse Vishnu and think the entire Indian race should be liquidated and their homeland built into a massive data centre.
>>11931288>I curse Vishnu and think the entire Indian race should be liquidated and their homeland built into a massive data centreSo you're Pakistani I take it?
>>11931289Nope. White as can be.
>>11931275Cyberverse aired on cartoon network.>>11931283Can we have the Botropolis set next?
>>11931161When the fuck are they going to release Brunt in pink so I can have one that matches the newest Trypticon?
>>11931287It's... interesting to say the least. Always thought Proteus should have been brought back given how he did Shockwave super fucking dirty and him dying off panel as part of a larger massacre of the Senate by Starscream of all people, in a story that wasn't even compatible with the RiD/MTMTE revisionist version of the pre War Cybertronian lore
>>11931247No you're just really bad at making a point. >yet he's reusing an asset deliberatelyyes that's the operative word, it's a deliberate use and everything is fairly used. There's a million little judgements leading up to how a person does art that a machine replicates but will never feel the same. Cool trick but not much more.
>>11931279>Yeah its a decent Transformers show in its own rightEven as a basic monster of the week show it wasn't I don't know where this revisionism is coming from. RID 2015 sucked. The artstyle sucked, the characters sucked and nothing ever really happened. I'm starting to think everyone's standards just fell off a cliff or you forgot just how bad everything after Prime was (and I don't even like Prime)
>>11931283Fuck yes
>>11931293If I had to repurpose someone as Proteus, I'd just make him be SG Megatron, who's unique enough to pass as a new character
>>11931283when are they going to release MORE micromasters?
>>11931283>Still have this somewhere in totesHuhThis was wanted?
>>11931304Came out during COVID and was internet only
>>11931290You lack a pioneering spirit. Art is among one of the whitest virtues of civilization. Self-improvement, expression, the act of putting the work in oneselfDelegating the act of creation to a machine because you don't want to do so yourself is spiritually brown.
>>11931288
>>11931283These look so bad though
>>11931306>SpiritNo such thing.>ArtNo such thing either.
>>11931311Oh, so you're Jewish.
>>11931300Technically they just did with Super mode Red Alert
>>11931292They should do a two pack of him and a redecoed Tailgate as Wipe-Out
>>11931304Siege micromasters are oddly expensive second and and there have been a good number of new fans who started collecting after they were off the shelves (I am an example).
>>11931283Those zone colours?
>>11931312Absolutely not. It never happened, but it needs to.
>>11931319Yes, though Powerbomb and Gunlift are instead Decepticons named Cratermaker and Fireline
>>11931322I wish they didn't add the faction symbols so they could be who I wanted them to be. They did the same with Overair instead of Airwave
>>11931322StrangeI think I’ll just get the Dr Wu guysThis seems too hodgepodge for me
>>11931316wonder how more expensive they'll be this time.
>>11931324Forgot pic
>>11931283>Red Alert minicon pack>Siege micromaster 10 pack reissueDare I hope? Are the little guys making a comeback?
>>11931305>Came out during COVID and was internet only This came out in 2019 and was Target exclusive you fucking tard
>>11931325They were originally $40 so I’m guessing they’ll probably be around $50-55. It’s still leagues better than their secondary market prices
>>11931331Yes, yes (you) are.
>>11931329plus the cassette packs. I guess they arethough I imagine they'll only appear in these rape priced box sets
>>11931328I'd go 3rd party more often if they would do guys Hasbro isn't doing. They all keep redoing the same characters
>>11931292Brunt's purple doesn't match regular Trypticon either, it's darker. But they still look good together so I get what you mean.
>>11931152All the Fossilizers, Fasttrack.
>>11931340Kind of hard to doSay what you will about Hasbro but they are covering a lot of characters right now
>>11931283I would pay up to $30 for this set
>>11931307ya think?
God I wish wild king had been the US toyline instead of cyberworld, the extra budget could have been so much for the variety here. Rexblade is fucking weird as hell. He's got darn near full articulation, though posing can be a little jank with how compressed he is, he's definitely very cluttered. The arms coming out of the wheels is cool and all, but the result is that his arms are teeny tiny stubby little guys. He has tons of shoulder range thanks to a dedicated upward and forward and back hinges, though thanks to the way his arm connects he gets little actual outward movement, just anything you can imagine so long has his arm isn't lifted more than 60 degrees. Legs are much of the same, in theory he has pretty good articulation, it's just that a lot of... stuff... gets in the way constantly, meaning while all he's missing is thigh rotation the hip spread is very limited and the knees can be kinda clunky.His wild docking is also very interesting. He has several extra ports for more than five energy beasts, and his sword can hold many more energy chips than the other energy masters. His feet also have ankle tilts this time, so he stands way more firmly than Optimus and Megatron can. An odd result of the way he enters torso mode is that he technically somehow manages to have less movement than the previously mentioned pair. Correctly positioned he looses elbow and knee movement. While the elbow movement is easily solved by just taking advantage of how the energy beasts are built the knee joint is another story. You can futz the knee back by mistransforming the leg, and you can get more range by further changing how the energy beast forming his shin is oriented to use the hips of the energy beast as a sort of mid shin compound knee bend or even a high up ankle pivot. Conveniently you can also use the energy beasts waist joint as an ankle swivel too, meaning while on paper he is a bit of a brick it isn't too difficult to get lots of range out of him.
Rexblade is also much bigger than I thought he would be. He dwarfs Optimus and Megatron mass wise. They felt like fairly cheap modern transformers, he feels like... selects Halfshell? Maybe saying he feels like a better quality potp terrorcon would be easier to understand. It's definitely a nicer feeling than what's on store shelves right now.
>>11931382How much that costs? that looks bigger than some commanders
>>11931379>God I wish wild king had been the US toyline instead of cyberworldYeah its wild (king) to me that Hasbro is totally ignoring this line's existence. I guess they feel no need to since, unlike Takara, they aren't having to deal with the looming threat of colorful chinese/korean robot toys.
>>11931382Bit of a clusterfuck but I suppose that's the point
>>11931389>they aren't having to deal with the looming threat of colorful chinese/korean robot toys.But those korean robot toys are ALSO coming in the USA
>>11931355I want my Throttlebots
>>11931392They're probably betting on people not caring because it's not [G1 Character Name] so people won't buy it.
>>11931304Yeah, mostly for overair and Ironworks. God, the planning for micromasters was so incredibly shit.
>>11931407If they keep making characters like that cheetah girl they will
>>11931415Cheetah Girl?
>>11931305Only reason I own it was that I saw it at target and slurge purchased it.
>>11931392I'm honestly hoping that Cardbot and others do well in the US so that Hasbro will finally have some decent competition. It might get them to put more budget/effort into franchise. >>11931417Tachy from Metal Cardbot W. She was a bit of a phenomena earlier this year. Her toy is about as big as SS86 prime and just as well articulated.
>>11931392Good luck to them getting space on modern retail shelves
>>11931379>>11931382This just genuinely looks nothing like a Transformers Series. This is just SamG stuff
>>11931419Dangerously cheesy
>>11931428From the moment I saw Rexblade it was clear that Korea has Takara shaking in their boots
>>11931431Why would they though, takara makes so much more than TFs (of which are extremely niche there)
>>11931387I'd describe optimus as a tfp voyager with the plastic of the weird oversized commander beast hunters voyager and Rexblade is roughly a cybertron ultra. Wild docked optimus bulks up to feeling more like dotm leader sentinel, and rexblade like savage claw mode cybertron optimus. As for pricing... the energy beasts are roughly 15-20 bucks, though Abyssrain specifically is like 150+ sometimes for some reason. As time goes on I expect most of them to be extremely expensive.Optimus and Megatron have two packs with either Lightlong or Captian Volka. I recomend getting them that way, although single lightning and captian volkas are super cheap. The single packs are around 25 and the duo pack is commonly under 40. Shadow Megatron and Nemesis Prime only come as a pair with their own unique energy beast and they go for under 40 to 50.World Dragnus is the big crazy big ticket item for the first wild king season, he comes with two unique energy beasts that lack the element chips. His set goes for the higher end of 50 dollars.Rexblade is the new big popular release. Like optimus and Megatron he a two versions, one with or without an energy beast, you can find either version for as low as 30 to as high as 60.Consider that as time goes on the energy beasts are going to get pretty rare. Some are already trying to creep up. Also that shipping and tariff fees need to be factored into any purchase, so while on the outset they are pretty cheap, completing an energy masters set of beasts can get kinda expensive compared to easier to get figures.
>>11931428I'm going to have to vehemently disagree. The energy masters are individually very basic Transformers, with Rexblade evoking some design language from the transformers go designs with a hint of combiner wars optimus maximus.The energy masters have some vague simplified stuff going on because they are basically triple changers with one mode needing to be abstract enough to not look like an arm when plugged into a leg. The vast majority of the energy masters also feature the heads of various recognizable transformers. Thunderbeak for instance has starscreams head.What throws people off is the kibble management of how the animal parts tend to jut off uselessly and how the lack of uniform colors makes it very difficult to pull in a coherent view of the combine modes as a whole.
>>11931428>arise, koreamus prime
>>11931438>The energy masters are individually very basic Transformers>evoking some design language from the transformers go designsLol
>>11931440Are you telling me this doesn't look like a basic Transformer.
>>11931441That kinda but it's more saying it's "very basic transformers" and then "Transformers Go" which is also very much not Transformers style and felt like Mugenbine and this
>>11931441That looks like megatronlooks better than siege/ER molds
>>11931283Based and micropilled
>>11930928Damn so no female swoop? sucks.
>>11931479No
It's starting to annoy me how Takara keeps doing these banger repaints, and hadbro hasn't even hinted that they're also doing their own take. The Thundertron mold had two awesome repaints and hasbro ignored both. At least Takara is doing Go Prime.
>>11931502Thundertron had three, Leo Prime, Go Prime, and Alpha Trizer. I’m honestly shocked that the Star Raiders subline wasn’t followed by a Cybertronian Knights subline, with Trizer, Flareup, Devcon, etc.
Good spot to get Missing Link Ultra Magnus under $200 shipped?
>>11931505Amazon JP?
>>11931505JPFans maybe?
>>11931502>Takara is doing Go PrimeI missed that
>>11931502Too bad he'll have a stupid eyepatch because hasbro were fucking retarded and put an eyepatch on the toy style head with all the repaint potential instead of the ugly concept art head no one cared about.
>>11931419Sick Autobot Cheetor
>>11931551She also has a battle mode.
>>11931441>>11931461this is one of my favorite megatron designs, wish we could a version with more articulation
>>11931561does she have a wife mode?
>>11931419We can't have sexy car robots in the West otherwise the troons will kill themselves.
>>11931419>>11931583DOUBLE THE BOOBS! NO, TRIPLE THE BOOBS!!!
>>11931585a six-titted bovine transformer?
Neat
>>11931596Strongarm with bigger breasts.
>>11931596I always wanted to see Spychanger Ironhide as a fembot with huge milkers for obvious reasons
>>11931606Great, now I've got to fap. Thanks anon.
>>11931612You can also try this.
>>11931419>Her toy is about as big as SS86 prime and just as well articulated.I'd be more interested in Cardbot if they WEREN'T so large.I miss Basics/Scouts/Cores.
>>11931600AN ABOMINATION!!!!!!
>>11931618>>11931419bunnygirl transformer when?
>>11931621Well, we were close.
>>11931626
New Legends choosing to spare my wallet for one month with a new Go Prime figure
>>11931633The original
>>11931627That's not what I mean and you know it!
>>11931626>Get a little upset she was omitted from lio convoy's release>remenber that she looked like utter shit
>>11931523>>11931528Man
>>11931633>>11931634So what's this guy's story?
>>11931671Space pirate
>>11931672That's Thundertron.>>11931671One of the leaders of the Primus Vanguard's Black division in the universe that predated the JpG1 world
>>11930930>>11930939>>11930966the botcon '96 poster is SOVL. Probably drawn by pausing an old VHS of G1 for Arcee reference and having a shockwave toy in front of him. Barely any understanding of perspective and line weight. Goofy ass concept. But it was made with a desire to make such a ridiculous image.
>>11930805This looks like an oversoul.
>>11931671His original backstory before being retconned was that he was the Samurai Ninja master that trained the two teams featured in Transformers GO!
>>11931696>Samurai Ninja masterWeird thing for a mold designed to be a pirate.
>>11931706Well, there wasn't an existing mold that looked like it would fit, and what else're you gonna do to the guy with the big beard in a Jap-themed line? GO! was an emergency cash-in when Takara were at their lowest.
>>11931697This mold really does not work as MW Starscream/G1 Skyquake.
>>11931710Okay, he can be Scrash then.
>>11931681>But it was made with a desire to make such a ridiculous image.It's not just the poster Onyx Primal was supposed to be Jules from Pulp Fiction too, for some reason. I wish core class didn't die I wanted a new Bat Primal.
>>11931710Making it look like Skyquake and Prime Quake combined made it a worse version of both molds. It would be kind of noteworthy if we eve got another Skyquake but they'd rather do Machine Wars than Euro G1 for some fucking reason. Mark lost the plot
>>11930612anons should i just go and say fuck it and buy SS86 Shockwave just for his "gun for Bruticus/Devastator" gimmick?i dont care about shockwave and i dont like his alt mode.But damn... i'm a completionist and i think i HAVE to get shockwave to have a "final full set of Bruticus"but yeah i dont think i will be doing anything with them other using as a shoulder bazooka-gun/thing
>>11931717I've got plans to eventually turn a Bomb-Burst into a custom Convobat. I see no reason you couldn't do the same with Onyx.
>>11931717That didn't age well looking at future Beast Wars cartoon episodes.
>>11931721I understand it and I know it was a thing but I genuinely don't fucking remember Shockwave being a Shoulder Cannon in fucking anything BUT G1I mean he looks cool and the Shockwave himself IS nicer than the Siege
>>11931739im so confused with my completionist-autism... Im not sure i even like how he looks as this sticking out shoulder gun. But i need it so badly just to have an ultimate Bruticus toy...
>>11931717Oh I know, I just love the ridiculous concept of a Pulp Fiction themed Transformers convention in general.
>>11931747The shockwave is pretty fucking good as is too if that helpsI ended up liking him a lot more than even the DCS one
>>11931718Nah it works fine as Prime Skyquake.
>>11931756I wish they would've made his feet able to fold up. I hate seeing those big heels stick out from the back of his alt mode.
>>11931757No it doesn't, it lacks all the zombie detailing that would make it recognizable as Prime Skyquake.
>>11931760Making the back inner thicc at a part so it could fold inward on itself a bit would have been great
>>11931763OK, yes, but it's ALIVE prime Skyquake
>>11931739It was not a thing, Shockwave has never been a shoulder cannon before, it's toy original. There was a breif scene in the g1 cartoon where a rampaging Bruticus snatches up Shockwave, forcefully transforms him and starts brandishing him in gun mode. That's what it's a reference to.
>>11931767Yessir, just more proof that referencing the cartoons is the superior option
>>11931767That’s most of it, yeah, but I believe the retarded shoulder cannon is actually a reference to how that scene ends, with Bruticus shoving Shocky into his back cannons and shooting him out into space. Not exactly his shoulder, but anything for another reference, I suppose.
>>11931772this is so half-assed...There wasnt a single time when Bruticus used Shockwave as his giant shoulder cannon... (in a way when Shockwave changes his size and grows really huge enough to be used as a shoulder-cannon)...but it's a fun toy-gimmick.
>>11931739>the Shockwave himself IS nicer than the SiegeEh, I'm in no rush to replace my Siege Shockwave. I kinda prefer the darker purple and extra details of the Siege, also the extra super-mode parts are cool.
>>11931767>>11931769>>11931772Classic "but da cartoon" retardation. That's really funny actually"Okay but he KIND of did it in this one frame/scene of a cartoon 40 years ago"It's such a specific type of tism that's just funny to me everytime>>11931775Yea I like the DCS for it's darker color but the pinkish threw me off
>>11931778Wouldn't even be a feature without the cartoon, stay mad.
>>11931726When you do please post it here. Convobat/Bat Primal (and Megs) were my first Transformers and I love seeing updates and customs of them.
>>11931739How does Shockwave attach to their shoulders exactly? I wonder if it's possible to use him for fan combinations or something if he has 5mm pegs and holes.
>>11931822Two thin tabs on Shockwave that attach to two grooves on Bruticus shoulder frame. It isn't going to work with any other toy unless they start adding these grooves on every future frame.
>>11931773>>11931772It's just an excuse to have some fun with the toys, no need to think that hard about it. It's funny how this is both a cartoon nod and a toy original gimmick and people on both sides of the accuracy debate seem bothered about it.
>>11931778Imagine being so bothered that a toy has the option to have a shoulder cannon if you want to. Why are you people like this?
I'm really looking forward to seeing who's in this years Black Friday 2-packs at walmart.
>>11931816It wasn't even a feature in the cartoonThat's the point of why it's funny>>11931822There's a notch on the back of the right shoulder and front so Shockwave fits into it to clip onto the shoulderDespite having the notch on the back of both shoulders because the Trailer mode, they DIDN'T just give it a little front notch so you could have him on either shoulder>>11931841I get you're mentally impaired but come on manNobody was bothered. I thought it was funny they made it a feature and the reason was "Oh yea see it did it in the cartoon"[Didn't actually do it in cartoon]
>>11931855I like how I specifically removed file, then picked a pic and it still threw the last one outThis site is such a weird anomaly lately
>>11931859indeed
>>11931852Yeah those were fun last year, I grabbed a bunch of cheap deluxes that I either missed or would have passed on normally and I liked them all.I'd bet on seeing Animated Wasp in one of them for sure.
>>11931835>It isn't going to work with any other toy unless they start adding these grooves on every future frame.Mark if you're reading this add those to the retarded Megatron combiner. I need it to go further beyond
>>11931859Thanks for the pic. I missed out on every single CW combiner and I havent bought a new combiner yet and kinda feel like I'm missing out. I wish there was more silly stuff you could do like the old CW toys but I'm not following it enough to know what's even possible.>>11931600Like this. I love this shit. The colors remind me of the mystery machine.
>>11931899The versatility of CW was great but at the end of the day they were really kind of shitty. The plastic felt cheap to touch and they can not get a good pose. Right now I only still have Defensor and I can't get him in any where near as many cool poses as I can the new Bruticus. I wish they could have found a way to do scramble-city style transformers with the frames but even without it the frame adds so much stability to the toy. The newer combiners without frames like Devastator and Liokaiser are great too because they just feel so secure. A lot of things tab together across multiple pieces to make Devastator feel right. Though I'm not a fan of how Scrapper forms the foot I can't deny it still feels secure.
>>11931653Sorry anon, I got him last month for 200 audHe’s obviously Not that price any more
What the heck are the two minicon dildos that come with Jetfire for
>>11931944Dildoing
>>11931944Requiem Blaster. One of three god tier weapons made from three sets three mincin teams. Star Saber is a God tier sword that brings out the users true power/potential. Requiem Blaster is a god tier energy blaster. And the Skyboom Shield is the only thing that can block both the Star Saber and Requiem Blaster.
>>11931961If I killed one of the componants of those legendary weapons, could you just make another minicon to fit the role? Or do I permanently fuck up the Blaster by blowing up Astroscope?
New wild king limbs
>>11931974This one is a new mold
>>11931967Basically yes But no one wants to destroy them, because they are THAT fucking powerful, especially if you get all three weapons/mine Minicons together as the Decepticons eventually build a doomsday canon that is powered by putting all three weapons on a box to serve as its power supply
>>11931967You kill one of the three, the weapon can't be formed. But their purpose and McGuffin power is so high that no one dares destroy them
>>11931974I wanna know who thought any of this was okay.>>11931976everything is just fucking stacked on top of everything.
>>11931983Someone who wanted to make a fun toyline.
>>11931984better designs wouldn't have interrupted the fun
>>11931990The designs are fine. They're toyetic and are appropriate for the gimmick.
Do they have the balls to make this?
>>11931983>everything is just fucking stacked on top of everything.Just like our GOAT; Mugenbine
>>11931767>>11931772They probably wanted to reference the bit where Bruticus uses Shockwave as a gun, but since SS86 Shockwave is way too big for Bruticus to hold on his hands they came up with the shoulder cannon as a compromise.
>>11932002They could probably retool Prima Prime into this Sentinel. Surprised they haven't yet. Probably saving it for a future exclusive.
>>11932002He's like a Hollywood tour bus from hell>if you look to your right you can see John Lennon burning in the lake of fire
>>11932002Gaurd rail shins.Not a fan.
>>11931983Its combiner wars but animals
>>11932002One day. A 5FOD capsule or multi-pack would be pretty cool.
>>11931983The energy beasts on their own are just fine. They are like energon or cybertron scouts. The only thing they seriously lack is neck articulation.The partsforming is 100% understandable given that they have to turn into a forearm and shin without being too obviously an arm in shin mode. You have to remember how cheap these figures are. They do a whole lot for what they are. They also all pretty much share the same torso shoulders and thighs, all while managing to turn into a pretty significant variety of animals.
>>11932006The could have done both. Hell, they could have had bruticus hold him Ideon style.
>>11932005It really is.
>>11932000how does having legs on your legs, and wings on your wings, and your tail sticking up higher than the rest of your back, increase the toyetic fun?these are obviously going for a 'sentai mecha' feel, but sentai mecha used to look great. the first four sets of power rangers shit we got were amazing, and they kept being at least okay after that.
>>11931961No I mean the two loose parts that aren't the minicons. I looked it up and apparently you just peg them into the front Jetfire's wings? So weird they were just floating loose in the minicon bags.
>>11932020>The could have done both.They did. Bruticus can use the Shockwave-shaped gun included with 86 Shockwave.
Powerful image
>>11932055NiceI hope we keep getting more Japanese mecha crossovers like Macross and Evangelion.
>>11932002they're reissuing the orion pax and alpha trion set so maybe they'll do more g1 flashback characters
>>11932064Thank fuck. i'm not dropping almost $100 on it now
>>11931974lmao at that beast mode
just ordered this bad boyI think this color variant Blitzwing is peak Synth Wave aesthetic.+ my devastator will get a pair of new gloves
>>11932110Kinda still prefer the DCS but may get SS86 on discount
I don't care whether this cannon is canon. It looks fucking badass, that's all that matters.
>>11932112I just want a better head and hands for him honestlyAn actual weapon for Bruticus would be nice too
>>11932055Fuck I want the new Gigastorm so badbut I have neither the wallet or the shelf space for itI'll just have to settle for just Galvatron and remain bitter about it
>>11932112>I don't care whether this cannon is canonWho cares about canon? They're toys, we're supposed to play with them!
>>11932125If it’s any consolation, we’re basically guaranteed to get a new Megastorm in a couple of years using the new G2 Megatron
>>11932168The new G2 Megatron will be severely compromised by Mark's autism.
>>11932055>>11932058Cool.
>>11932002Jizai made a prototype.
>>11932112im annoyed we cant plug-in shockwaves cable to bruticus; there are holes like they planned it but its not a 5mm port.
>>11932136Fuckin real
When are we getting Cryotek?
Welp, last thread convinced me to rebuy a beast machines deluxe primal. Got one carded for 22.
>>11932301I don't know but it better come with a repaint of that Airrazor targetmaster from RotB.
>>11931718>but they'd rather do Machine Wars than Euro G1 for some fucking reason. Mark lost the plotIt really shouldn’t surprise you that an American company would rather do homages to toys America actually got over some obscure Euro releases
>takara T-sparks special event at where I liveShould I go and take a look?
what's a fun to transform figger I can get relatively cheap?
Somehow, Kicker returned
>>11932334Generations Legacy Core class Soundwave
>>11932337already got core soundblaster
>>11932334I ended up liking him a lot more than I thought I would
>>11932253Damn, that's flawless.
>>11932347NTA but who's this handsome prince
>>11932351The TF One Thundercracker, One of the only good TF One designs I likedSeekers and Soundwave are good and I mostly like Soundwave cause he's like the BB Movie Soundwave and they're both like prototype Goblin Glider designs lolHe doesn't have ankle joints sadly and could do with separate wrists on a peg but he's great as it is. Was surprised I liked him as muchI'm aiming for a cheap Starscream cause there's a 3P kit to turn him into IDW Pharma
>>11932355>I'm aiming for a cheap Starscream cause there's a 3P kit to turn him into IDW PharmaNeat idea, though I still don't know why he turns into a first-responder fighter jet. I guess it's fine since Red Alert gets to be a first-responder sportscar.
I shouldn't have gotten the haslab
>>11932371>idw>won't have a victory leoBlegh
So with Jetfire we got the requiem blaster, Nemesis Prime and the recent Red Alert repaint got both star sabers, who's getting the skyboom shield?
>>11932307Huh. That would actually work perfectly for a new Chro.
>>11932029What the fuck did they do to Sky Blast
>>11932387The most logical choice would be Smokescreen but that guy is probably at the very back of the line when it comes to armada updates.
>>11932342Well, get Soundwave too.
>>11932372The bottom of the combined mode feet have ports.
>>11932110I saw him on shelves for the first time today and was very surprised to see that Hasbro finally fixed that ugly seamline across the visor, that alone makes him worth getting. Too bad my order is being held up by Cyclonus.
>>11932355>TF OneI slept on that completely but he looks alright, rather tidy albeit small. Definitely wouldn't pay deluxe or even full deluxe prices for him, but he does look fun and aerodynamic!
>>11932395Assuming when they do Overload, would that be a possibility? I could see it happening. Mostly depends on what class they dump him in, guessing commander if they do
>>11932407>>TF One>I slept on that completelyThe film or the toys? I liked the film but never bothered with any of the toys as I have too many shelves as it is.
>>11932371>Machina or w/e style Modified Haslab Victory SaberEhhhhh?Wasn't their Predaking QC issues? and paint wear?I heard some stuff about the Rodimus too. I'd just get the MMC or another version for that thoI'm just gonna keep my Victory Saber and get some additional bits for him
>>11932407>>11932413"I slept on the film"It's okay. So did everybody elseThat's why it died for 2 years or so before getting Bay back
>>11932253>>11932002Shit, I think I would actually get this.
Fiddling with the new Armada Jetifre, never had the original because I was buying Alternators instead. This fat fuck is a nice figure though, I like how you can't tell he's a super mode for Optimus just looking at him. I don't know when I'll combine him with Prime, I'm so used to that super mode as it is, I don't know if I like how Jetfire Pants after Labor Day will look.
>>11932411No way they're stupid enough to try and sell that giant hunk of nothing alt mode at commander prices.
>>11932418Why didn't they paint his nose? Such an odd thing to have missed.
>>11932447Nobody nose.
>>11930627>>11930876 30 year old KO of Optimus Primal has arrived. Honestly kind of surprised how close to the original it is for the age.
>>11932335Transformers has so many deep cuts O love it
I hope we get KOs of the new Armada figures one day. I already have Optimus, but I legit really don't wanna get Jetfire unless someone completely redesigns the chest to be accurate.
>>11932168I want a Reverse Convoy out of a G2 megs so bad.
>>11932055can the toy's wings even do that? looks pretty cool here
>>11932457>deep cuts>the fucking main human character of one of the TV shows
>>11932468I mean, the original's certainly can. I would presume it would be even easier with the new one, given it doesn't have the flapping/pinching gimmick anymore.
>>11932459Yes FUCKING please
>>11932253>chest flips aroundperfect!
>>11932301hopefully not til I have two thin dimes to rub together again
>>11932451
>>11932452do you suppose it has yellowed? or was it always bone white
>>11932451Oh Anon[Audience Laugh Track]
>>11932168>If it’s any consolationit's not since it's obviously not the same toyI mostly collect vintage G1 but I've accumulated enough modern Transformers that all happen to be Predacons for some reason so I think they could use their own base, but, like I said...
>>11932418Everyone gets a turn on the casting couch
>>11932494I think it has yellowed over time. cheap Chinese plastics of the time after all.
So if humans have names based on where they come from, would the Dinobots following those naming conventions be called Hilarybergs since they came into existence in a place called Mt. St. Hilary?
The ideas they went with in Beast Machines seem such bizarre a misstep compared to the company trends and fandom zeitgeist at the time. It was clear by the end of Beast Wars they were gearing up to go back to vehicles, and the constant allusions to G1 felt like the waters were being tested to see if there was still an audience. Then they go and make a whole show about how technology bad, vehicles bad. Transtech, conceptually would have been the better intermediary before a total reboot. What would you call a cheetah themed racecar, or a gorilla themed truck? A Beast Machine. Even the name fits better.
>>11932589I always got the distinct impression that the writers knew the series wasnt going to land so they threw all caution to the wind and wrote what they wanted as opposed to what the franchise needed in the moment. If you go back with a magnifying glass you see plenty of missteps like that over the years, but it's just the result of how the sausage is made.
Has anyone found any luck with these transformers vs figurines? Every target I've visited is drowning in just starscream and shockwave packs. I never once saw the Optimus or Bee sets.
>>11932393>What the fuck did they do to Sky BlastCircumcision
>>11932623I dont know what you're talking about.
>>11930782RCO used to have them I don't know I'd batcave or the Russian one does >>11932469Except that's not Kicker it his dad so lol and no one really does much with Energon now I think the most was Shockblast in Legends
>>11932589It was the weirdest hippy shit I have ever seen and I dont know what to make of it to this day. Heavy spiritual overtones but it comes across as a militant insane cult monkey on hallucinogenic/meditation fueled prophecies.
>>11932661>Except that's not Kicker it his dadNo way Kicker's dad is a Jr.Also it's High Kicker now
>>11932663i like how they actually acknowledged that Primal was going too far with that, I found that very unexpected, especially in the 90sgranted, militant centrism is worse than any extreme, and the fusion of organic life and our vague concept of 'technology' is hardly.. an inherently appealing thing, but still
>>11932589>Then they go and make a whole show about how technology bad, vehicles bad.Retarded Beast Machines hater once agains hows they didn't watch the show
>>11932589The message wasn’t technology bad or vehicles bad, granted it was handled a bit clunky but Primal going all in on organic purism was meant to be a bad thing too and blinding him. They really should’ve shown them use more tech, rattrap’s gadgets blending tech and organics were the closest thing. Also conceptually it’s really clear the vehicons were meant to be Beast Machines, with animal featured in vehicle mode
Anecdotal take but I think Megazarak should've been an exclusive because no one is buying him. I still see him in stores along with the Unicron Herald, and online being discounted. He should've been another Armada reissue.
>>11932681I watched the show, I had all the optimus primal figures. I had vehicon mirage and deluxe Jetstorm as a kid. I even bought Air attack optimus primal when it came out to round out the collection. There's never a point in the show where technology is being used for good, only sabotaged to impede the villains. Rattrap trying to arm himself is presented as a bad thing. Optimus Trying to interface with hologram fucks him over and gets him nearly shut out of the oracle. Taking control of the Grand Mal with all its defenses is never shown to give them an upper hand, and instead they have to fight tooth and nail to keep it secure. Ironically, as they tried to do this, they ended up making oragnic life look even worse by comparison. Eating oragnic food makes them turn into simple brained animals. All their organic modes are good for is hiding and running, and are constantly at a disadvantage physically. Just reformatting one robot takes Optimus off the field for weeks. At no point does the show every intentionally convey oragnic life as a good thing, only as a pathetic helpless thing that needs to be constantly coddled to get it to function. This show didn't know what it wanted to be and it's a tragedy it sours the perception of the Beast Era almost as bad as the Star Wars Sequels did to the OT.
>>11932696Yeah I always wonder if they release some of these guys knowing they're not going to sell well.
>>11932698>All their organic modes are good for is hiding and runningThey also regenerate any damage they took so long as they're in Beast Mode (which is essential to their survival, given they no longer have access to a CR Chamber).Anyway, the takeaway here was supposed to be that "All Machine Bad, All Organic Bad, Some Machine + Some Organic In Harmony Good". Taking the pluses from both sides to make a previously unsustainable situation work - in this case, being partially organic allows them to have a variety of fuel sources (so long as that doesn't become their EXCLUSIVE fuel source) and a means of repairing themselves without needing more external materials, thus solving the resource crisis on Cybertron while remembering to keep their identity and culture as mechanical lifeforms.
>>11932708that's probably the one thing that's least compatible with G1.. wasn't energon something you could make out of literally any energy source? like, geothermal even. they should have infinite energon with ease. just harness a star.
>>11932709That should have been viable in G1 already.
>>11932710what? I just said that
Dusting this boy and all them off and cleanin them made me mess with him again
>>11932713You are trying to subvert the premise of G1. Stop.
>>11932717explain. what part did I get wrong? I didn't watch much G1, hence the hesitance of my statement that energon can be made out of basically any energy source. Was that not true?
>>11932696I don't think I've seen them in stores yetI still got Big Convoys and Razorclaws to get through
Happy Halloween
>>11932726pumpriffic! Course, it only looks good from that one angle, I assume
>>11932726Now I kinda want to make a Sunstorm one. It's a little too late for it this year, but maybe next year...
>>11932413Bof>>11932420>Bay backBlech
>>11932745You can seethe and piss and shit yourself over Bay. Nobody cares anymoreHe's just the big name that has "worked" for them before. Of course they'll default back to basically what worked before
>>11932696And on the other hand I've NEVER seen him on a shelf, so.
>>11932661>>11932670Brian called Kicker, Junior a few times in the anime.
>>11932657The culturefly figures. I was hoping my nearby stores wouldmget new cases in but its just a sea of the shockwave and starscream packs.
>>11932698The Beast Era is already as bad as the prequels right down to having its own Jar Jar Binks so it's not like it can go any lower.
>>11932726Ooh very nice. A small smoke machine in there would be perfect.
>>11932790Shit I didn't notice the Junior. High Kicker is great. I love when the Japanese side did stuff like this it reminds me of Alternators/Alternity/Kiss Players and Legends
>>11932709Beast Wars always said they had some sort of depleting resource energon issue.
>>11932794>those figuresLmao what the fuckthese are like if Blokees were stupid looking and had less articulation>40th anniversary packsyeah whatever
>>11932820I like how their rubsigns are already peeling off in the package
>>11932670Did you get Overgear Ironhide?
>>11932850NahI took stole this pictures from discord which stole them from twitter
>>11932794>>11932820My reaction too. I mean, you know what you're getting but that doesn't help.
>>11932670>OracleOh lord is this a Beast Machine's reference
>>11932696He's almost all I ever see now next to the dark Tigerhawk, Unicron Soldier nobody wanted and MORE Big Convoy shelf warming
>>11932794Okay but for realIf you're gonna get this just get Blokees
>>11932940>dark Tigerhawk and big convoy Those are Robson returns. They hit em at Ross and return them to Walmart for $$$. Also going out once every six months or going to only one location of a store over and over isn’t a good gauge of “all someone ever sees”
>>11932818anon, I don't know how to tell you this, but you're just repeating me, and acting like you're arguing. That's literally all I said. "hey BW had a resource issue, and it's in G1 continuity, but can't they make energon out of anything?"following from prior discussions (perhaps this is the part you didn't grasp onto) about how BW is supposed to connect to G1, but a lot of people think it can't.
>>11932961If they could make it out of anything freely, then there is no conflict. Remember that this was created by people in the 1980s and the political climate of the time.
>>11932954every company is so fucking retarded in all the opposite ways of what they are criticized for
>>11932954That works?
>>11932964so why do I think that? were there a couple poorly-written, misleading episodes and I just saw clips from those?The impression I got was that, while energy production is easy (you can literally just start a big fire), it's somehow.. inherently bad? and we should just all stop having energy. which was VERY 80s, and the goofball idea has sadly come back.
You know, at first I was pissed at the retarded ways they were handling releasing the minicons but after seeing more of them, they're mostly kind of shit updates. Now I only really want the Star Saber and maybe Leader-1.
>>11932985The retarded handling made them more valuable.
>>11932954Holy shit that's wildI mean they don't get cash but they get Walmart gift card which they promptly just use on whatever other shit
>>11932978Cybertron was running low on Energon. Earth, however, was unusually rich in the stuff, and there were a number of different ways it could be extracted from the planet. Nobody was making Energon from nothing - it was in Earth's soil, its oil, its plants, etc, and the same methods for gathering it on Earth wouldn't work on Cybertron, where the actual shortage was happening. We find out in Beast Wars that the reason there was such an unusually high amount of the stuff on Earth was because the Vok seeded it here for...whatever the hell they were doing before the BW crew showed up and messed up their plans. When the Planet Buster was destroyed, it refined it all into an inert state where it was harmless, but also integrated the Energon into everything, thus putting the planet in the state it's in for the G1 cartoon.
>>11933047ohhhhthank you, anon, I was the tard this time.
>>11933049To be fair, the G1 cartoon didn't explicitly spell things out - all we knew was that the Decepticons wanted a magic substance called Energon, and that they were trying to harvest the stuff from Earth using very destructive methods. It wasn't until Beast Wars that the situation was outright stated - Cybertron was running out of Energon and other valuable materials needed to keep the Cybertronians alive, and things had gotten so bad that everyone had downgraded to smaller, more energy-efficient bodies to try to conserve what little they had left (hence why the BW crew are so much smaller than the G1 cast). Megatron had somehow gotten his hands on a map that would lead him to the motherlode of the stuff (The Golden Disk from Earth's Voyager probe, though he also had another agenda thanks to the hidden message from G1 Megatron that only he, Tarantulas and Dinobot knew about), and Primal's mission was to make sure Megs didn't get his hands on enough of the stuff to fuel a Predacon uprising. No one expected there to be anywhere near as much Energon as there actualyl was at the coordinates Megatron had jumped to, nor did they realize it was actually primitive Earth until after the Planet Buster incident; while the Maximal High Council apparently knew about the Energon map on the Golden Disk (but not G1 Megatron's message from just before his attack on Autobot City), they never pursued it despite needing it because the area and time period the coordinates led to had been deemed off-limits due to Earth's pivotal role in the Autobot/Decepticon war.
>>11933057I mean, Primal's mission was to dump X, but yeah his new self-imposed mission was definitely to stop Megs from fueling an uprising..
New Legends 10 is Go Prime & Vector Sigma
>>11933073Good news for anyone who wants a slick black repaint, but I'll stick with my original
>>11933073sigma balls
>>11932371This one probably won't even have the brainmaster, and its transformation is weird, seems star saber's jet has a fake nose cone instead of using saber's?
>>11933080Yellow convoy is so fucking cool
>>11933097Feel free to explain why
>>11933103not him butthings that are the same as other things, except a different color, are just fucking awesome. at least to 90s kids. we canna explain it.
>>11933080The OG is just so fucking goodYea I do like like the Legacy but the OG can pop the foot off for Pegleg AND the foot can double as a mecha Parrot
I made a very smart and totally sane and planned purchase today at a local Comic Shop
>>11933114I've still got mine sitting in the HLJ PW, should probably have him shipped next month...or is that this month??
>>11933120He's been out like 2 months?I found him at a Comic Shop for basically $20 or so over what it'd be on BBTS.
>>11933114>>11933121I wanted him but then I saw the DCS Dinobots which uses the similar metallic and G1 toy look so I dunno if I should get the Missing Link with that one coming out now
>>11933122The SS86 is a damn good mold so it really depends if you want nice big boy or great smaller oneI would say SS86 is more poseable on like all levels and feels easier to mess with if that's what you like
>>11933121private warehouse, he's already been there since like June
>>11933126I sometimes miss HLJThen I remember
>>11933123I like when the dinos sit cutely
>>11933128Must be an American thing, for me it's like $15
>>11933136That was 2024 and was for almost everybody. Worse for EU/UK and AUS at the time apparentlyThey cleared it up but not until an absurd amount clapped the fuck out of them on socials and were pushing to refund entire warehousesAnd today in addition to Missing Link Grimlock I got another boyHe was on saleI did not listen to friendsHe is funny but honestly absurdly disappointing
>>11933103it's just a good colorso bright and so different from the more common optimus-related decosthis sentinel prime is cool as fuck too
>>11933140Damn didn't notice background didn't blur enoughBut hey Soundwave DOEs keep the BB Movie Green goblin ass alt mode
>>11933145>this sentinel prime is cool as fuck tooIndeed he is
>>11933145I personally wish that Sentinel was closer to the orange of the G1 truck he’s pulling from, but I still think it’s a good deco on its own
