Transformers General

>Online memers made Hasbro make a Liokaiser
>They lose untold levels of money
>Prime Wars gets cancelled and the only 2017 releases are movie line
RIP

>>5395704
Really curious what Hasbro's gonna do with Deathsaurus. Will he have a bot mode and dragon mode? Or a dragon and vehicle mode?

Is a bot mode even possible from that mold?

>>5395729
>Is a bot mode even possible from that mold?

Unless the plane part can go from vehicle to robot, then no.

>>5395729
What about names? Can Hasbro feasibly have a robot named "Killbison"?

>>5395747
By being a boxed set and being "Decepticon Killbison" like how "Decepticon Hook" works.

>>5395747
I'm sure they've used worse.

>>5395748
>>5395749
Then what about Hellbat?

>>5395729
I assume it's going to change from Leozack jet mode to Deathsaurus monster mode to Liokiaser torso mode.
And back again!

>>5395750
He's probably getting renamed. While names like Killbison, or Cutthroat may pass, Hell might put a damper on things.

>>5395750
Call him Mindwipe.

>>5395753
Cutthroat probably won't.

>>5395753
Cutthroat got changed to Windrazor.

>>5395753
Didn't Hasbro release some chick called Satana Hellstrom in Marvel Legends?

>>5395758
>>5395760
Forgot that one got changed. Well, they use Onslaught, and Bludgeon.

>>5395772
Yeah but that's not as violent sounding as cutthroat. Kids aren't always going to have the lexicon to know exactly what onslaught and bludgeon means as compared to cutthroat which is made of 2 words they will more likely know and realize how it sounds.

>>5395776
Okay, then why did Swoop get changed? That is less violent than those guys.

>>5395792
From swoop to what? Strafe?

>>5395792
Some names,like Shockwave, get changed due to issues copyrighting the name, or if another company is currently using the name for a toy.

Thoguh Swoop is a weird one, specualation is that Hasbro wanted to separate the AoE character from G1 Swoop because he had two beast heads. But in time people just considered him G1 Swoop's counterpart anyway.

>>5395802
I can't blame them. Imagine all the "SWOOP DOESN'T HAVE TWO HEADS" that would have happened with AOE Strafe.

>>5395803
They could have called him Terrorsaur lol

>>5395803
That did happen though.
I remember during the pre movie buzz I wanted Strafe in the movie to be like "Hello, my name is Strafe. Glad to make your acquaintance."
And the other head to be like "ME SWOOP!"

>>5395765
That's different. Marvel characters are Marvel's can of worms.

They're supposed to release Daimon Hellstorm soon too, who is the literal Son of Satan.

Does anyone care if they retain their names? At the end of the day, you'll still call them Killbison, and Hellbat.

>>5395813
That. That I would've been tickled about.

>>5395817
Its a rights/honour/childhood thing like how americans cling to their second amendment.

I'm not american but I would prefer for them to keep their old names, but I'd still call them that, and surely takara would too.

Based takara

>>5395765
She was only in an SDCC exclusive boxset, and they didn't use the name "Hellstrom" on the packaging.

>>5395817
Only is I get to still use the name Take-Off.

>>5395817
It's what I do unless I like the new names more.

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Doesn't this just look abysmal?

Look at it.

The hollow limb thing doesn't usually bother me, BUT JESUS

and the rest of it too...

look at it

>>5395817
Not really. I call Darkmount Straxus and I've never picked up a comic book.

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Finally got Defensor and absolutely love him.

Only thing is, I know First Aid's handfootgun should be able to peg on top of his vehicle mode, but I can't make it work.

From what I've seen online, I guess there's supposed to be a small opening between the hand's fingers? Because I can't find any opening of the sort on mine. I hope I'm just dumb and missing something obvious rather than this being a QC issue.

>>5395854
What I wanna know is why even call him a powermaster

>>5395854
Would have worked better if instead he had wings and shoulder cannons than the panels on arms and legs

>>5395862
NO WAY! MINES LIKE THAT TOO

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>>5395862

>>5395854
Doesn't bother me. There's been much worse looking transformers out there.

>>5395817
I call CW Blastoff "Slingblast"

>>5395870
Yeah I noticed that space there but... it doesn't seem to actually tab on or anything?

>>5395880
Sounds like a 90s water balloon launcher.

>>5395862
>>5395870
I'm still very much angry Ironhide didn't get a remold of this instead of Offroad.

>>5395854
...I think it looks okay.

>>5395881
It does. Right there. On that tab on the top. It's exactly why both of those are there.

>>5395883
Should've used the 4 wheel retool of rook, but with a van top.

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So according to former Fun Publication people on Allspark, seems that Hasbro will be running Botcon 2016.

That feel when you get your shit fest taken away from you to be done right for once.

https://twitter.com/underrave/status/686350464426881024

>>5395883
>Ironhide with a lightbar
You know what would happen.

>>5395817
Preservebison and Purgatoryfledermaus.

>>5395854
I want to like it, but it's hard

>>5395892
Are the Predacus exclusives still happening or not then?

>>5395868 So Generations Cybertron Optimus Prime and sticking it in the same wave as a Deluxe Leobreaker that combines CW style?

>>5395880
I became less annoyed when I saw that in universe Blast Off didn't WANT to become a Jet but Onslaught forced him to after his rocket mode got him seperates from the team for so long that it crippled the team since now they couldn't form Bruticus.

Still would like the rocket but I can live with the in universe explanation.


And should I keep buying CW Bruticus parts or just sell Blast Off and Swindle (and maybe even CW Menasor) so I can get UW Bruticus?

>>5395892
>Botcon 2016 has tron lights version of Victorion and Optimus Maximus.

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>>5395887
Well it doesn't seem to work on mine. And I'm just looking at images online, it looks like the gun should sit much more forward than just tabbing it at the gunbarrels.

Either way I guess it's not a big issue even if I can't figure this out.

>>5395908
...it doesn't tab at the gun barrels. As shown in the pic with the circle it's on the fingers. Holy fuck.

>>5395901
Everything is still happening, just it seems this year it's run by Hasbro and not Fun Publications

There will still be a box set, I don't know if they said anything about the exclusives they have at the show or anything like that

>>5395892
It's funny to see butt hurt Allspark people not talking shit about Fun Pub after being part of them for years

>>5395925
Will they have decent hotel accommodations this year then?

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>>5395917
...like I said in my original post, I know there's SUPPOSED to be something on the fingers, but hopefully you can tell from this finger that there isn't enough space on mine for that tab.

Appreciate you trying to help any way.

>>5395933
No idea, this is all coming from posters M_Sipher and Jim_S

>>5395892
Well ding dong the witch is dead

Spread the word.

>>5395939
Oh in the other pic it looked like it was there. Qc issue for you. Id say contact Hasbro, but they'll want you to send the whole figure back and they will send you something(s) of equal value.

>>5395958
I see. I honestly didn't think it could be a QC thing since no one else online seemed to have encountered anything of the sort.

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>>5395908
You are legitimately retarded

>>5395892
This could be really good or really bad. And as shitty as FunPub's exclusives are at least they do kinda think outside the box. I could Hasbro Botcon sets just being "Platinum" versions of regular releases.

>>5395129
>Brawl's been a manlet for two consecutive Bruticus molds

JUST

>>5395328
Walky hates AVP, ergo AVP is good.

>>5395939
>>5396002
Nevermind, you have a qc problem

>>5396002
If you paid attention look at what they posted here >>5395939

>>5395747

If they can't, you can always call him that anyway

>>5396014
And if you paid attention, you'd see what I posted here >>5396013

>>5396037
Do you see the time stamps? Obviously I was replying when you posted. But it's okay. Foot in mouth and all makes you think weird.

>>5395854
Glad im not getting it.

>>5395880
I call him slingoff.

>>5395776
>that's not as violent sounding as cutthroat.

Are they afraid kids will become Jefferey Dahmer or need therapy because of a scary sounding name?

None of use who were kids during the time of the original Cutthroat needed therapy because the name scared us. Im pretty sure the name didnt scare any of us.

We were in the era of Madballs. gross edgy shit was in vogue

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>>5395854

Turds called.

They want their greeble back.

>>5396051
None of this thinking is that new. The US is different with what's allowed, but we now live in a country ran by minivan moms and their defeated husbands. Names like that are too violent for little Billy.

Just like leia in her slave outfit, which has had figures on normal retail shelves for over 30 years, is all of the sudden offensive and lewd.

>>5396043
The same applies to me

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>>5396053

Fuck wrong image.

>>5396053
I get your point, but that notrod doesn't look greebly at all.

>>5396059
Sigh.

You posted that over 10 minutes after the already showed the defect.

When are Blizzard Strike and Patrol Mode Clampdown coming out?

>>5396076
Cause I'm was making the image, my phone is shit, I'm sorry

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>>5395862
>>5395870
>>5395908
>>5395939
>>5396002

Looks like they swaped the fingers with Streetwise.

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>Voyager scaled, has translucent windshield, and cooler card art
Wew lad

>>5396147
Yeah but how well does it hold together?

>>5395854
>Not using Prime's Twin Guns
>Chest not based on Classics Prime
>Not using the panels on the arms to cover the hollowness
>That awful head

What a terrible update.

>>5396147
Dat card art

Ko?

>>5396150
Yep.

>>5396150
>wei jiang
>"Transformers" nowhere on box
I'd say so.

>>5396149
And people will still defend it.

>>5395946
MSipher is a know-nothing cretin.

>>5395817
I had a fat, super aspie and near blind vietnamese friend on MSN back in the da that would have complete conniptions if I ever called a particular toy its non-name. Even to the point of trying to correct me on using Jazz and not Autobot-Jazz.

He eventually started being one of the main editors of the tfwiki and becoming one of Walkys cronies. I think he's dead now.

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>>5396169
>I had a fat, super aspie and near blind vietnamese friend on MSN back in the da that would have complete conniptions if I ever called a particular toy its non-name. Even to the point of trying to correct me on using Jazz and not Autobot-Jazz.

>>5396155
Shit I don't know what all of it says.

>>5396169
Sounds like a lot of the guys who edit the tfwiki

>>5396169
"Battle Armor Optimus Prime, what do you need me for?"
"Great timing, Solar Storm Grappel. I need a new building added on to to our base. Get with Autobot Scoop for more details."

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>>5395854

Cry moar, bitch nigga

>>5396196
>You cannot hope to defeat Autobot Assault Devastator!

>>5395866

Because if they didnt you'd complain "Why isn't he called Powermaster Optimus Prime?"

>>5395880

I might get four and give them to Cyclonus to use as limbs

They would be known as "Cyclonus' Armada" or "Armadacons"

And the combined mode would be Cyclotron or Cyclotronus. Because carrying aroud Galvatron's head is retarded.

>>5395904

Making Blastoff a jet was retarded.

What? Shuttles are not used a lot by real life military? Undoubtedly. I won't argue that. But last I checked, Transformers weren't realistic.

If we can have a flaming Winnebago, a Fairlady Z as a Highway Patrol car and a Lamborghini as a fire chiefs car, a military space shuttle really isn't straining the limits of credibility any further

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>>5396274
>flaming Winnebago, a Fairlady Z as a Highway Patrol car and a Lamborghini as a fire chiefs car
Not in combiner wars ;^)

>>5395854
That head looks awful, and the boob windows are tiny. Did they just reuse the cab from Magnus?

>>5396283
yes

>>5396044

Great! Now you can use the money you saved to renew your subscription to "Transfaggot Illustrated"

I hear that you're gonna be next months cover story

>>5396291
They actually altered a good chunk of it so it's even worse.

>>5396310
Why didn't they just paint the cab red and call it a day? A bunch of Ultra Magnus are just white/blue Optimii.

>>5396058

But none of these names have ever actually CAUSED anything. Look at all the violent tragedies since 1990. Did ANYBODY ever say they killed and ate a person because a Transformer was named CUTTHROAT? Did anyone ever steal a care because a Transformer was named Wheeljack?

If youre afraid of your child getting the wrong idea, just sit him down and explain it to him. Hasbro is run by idiots, but it's not their job to raise your damn kids. Take some damn personal responsibility in your role as a parent

>>5396329
My uncle damaged his eye playing with GI Joes as a kid. Does that count?

>>5396156

And people will still cry and whine about it

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>9 eyes
Why is this allowed?

>>5396169

I remember some retard on Allspark back in 2000. I think he was named Beastbot X or something.

At any rate when the Car Robots toys hit the States, he insisted on calling RID Megatron Gigatron. He got all snotty and claimed that he was "Being faithful to the original mold".

When he bought a bad guy toy he would call it part of his "Robots in Diguise Destron" collection. Even though there WEREN'T any actual Destrons in the original "Car Robots" line.

What a faggot

>>5396359
Destronger is a meme name to begin with, so it should be pitched

>>5396310
>>5396320


If they had just "repainted the cab red" (Even though the color change would actually be in the plastic, not the paint) you would have bitched about it for precisely that reason anyway

I swear to Christ. If they only redeco it, you whine about repaints. If they actually make significant physical changes to the mold, you STILL whine.

Remind me again why Hasbro should ever bother doing ANYTHING for the fans?

>>5396333

Your Uncle was most likely a dumbass

>>5396374
They could have not made a square peg fit in a triangle hole. Ultra Magnus and Powermaster Optimus Prime worked completely differently and have different design, so should have been a new mold.

>>5396378
true.

>>5396348

Are you going to buy it? No you say? Then why should it be an issue to you?

>>5396379

Well it's not. This is they way it is and no amount of your whining will change it.

So suck it up you faggot

>>5396386
I'm going to buy it and sand down the front and repaint it with correct eyes just to spite you.

>>5396392
Post pics.

>>5396348
Accurate to the original toy, and show model

>>5396329
You're telling the wrong people this. We here know it's not an issue, but little miss let-me-speak-to-a-manager Susan thinks it'll affect her gluten and vaccine free children.

>>5396427
I say gluten free and meant to say by choice. I know that shit is legit to some. You get the point though.

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I'd buy it.

>>5396422
So it is Kenner's fault.
I'm glad Hasbro closed them.

>>5396433
Armada Overload was such a brick, but I still had a lot of fun with him. Especially the power shit thing.

>Bludgeon
>doesn't kill people with clubs

>Road Caesar
>doesn't rule Rome or the road

>Lio Kaiser
>doesn't rule Russia

>Omega Supreme
>he actually isn't supreme and get stomped by combiners and citybots

Why is this allowed?

>>5396438

What the fuck are you even talking about? If you're getting down to semantics, most transformers names aren't true to what they are/do.

>>5396434
None of the early beast wars figures looked anything like real animals.

>>5396438
Bumblee doesn't fly and he's nothing like a bee except in colors.

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>>5396438
> kaiser
> Russia

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>>5396438
>>Omega Supreme
>>he actually isn't supreme and get stomped by birds

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Never had these as a kid. I am really liking these cute little dorkuses. More articulation than I was expecting, too.

>>5396449
Make a webcomic about their daily lives in your home

>>5396447
>taking anything Marvel did with Transformers seriously

>ever

>>5396453
Better than drilling to the core of the Earth for "Unlimited energy"

>>5396452
They'd probably just piss into my coffee cups, drink all my booze, detune my musical instruments and make all of my apples into weed-smoking devices.

Little bastards.

>>5396468
To anyone who has the CW Combaticons, is there any sign of mold degradation from the more heavily used members? Particularly Blast Off and Vortex?

>>5396475
Didn't mean to reply to >>5396468 please forgive me.

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So, I was forced to get this guy to get ahold of my Onslaught. He is the reddest motherfucker I have ever seen. He doesn't look nearly as bad in bot mode, but body is just too red.

I really hope they release his limbs outside of the box set. It's gonna suck ass if I need to essentially rebuy this guy just to get a full Computron.

>>5396475

Not that I've seen. Their legs were a little loose at the ball joints for my taste, but even the new molds were like that. Futureshine to the rescue.

>>5396479
You could buy 4 Fireflights and have Hate Plague Superion.

Should I buy the rest of CW Bruticus' parts or sell my Blastoff and Swindle and get UW Bruticus?

>>5395866
More like hollowmaster, amirite?

>>5396478
It's cool, my dude. Hope you find your answers. I'm waiting it out for the Takara versions.

>>5396486
I say sell them. But im gonna get the Hasbro onslaught as well the UW one.

>>5396485
>4 of Superion's limbs

Ehh...I don't think thats happening if Hasbro never reissues them, they're scalped way too hard.

>>5396486

Up to you. Do you like cartoon deco Bruticus? Because if you don't, you're not going to like the UW one.

>>5396479
...why did you open him? Shoulda just returned him to a walmart

>>5396486
Keep Blast Off. He'll be the fourth component for Galvatronus.

>>5396010
>I could Hasbro Botcon sets just being "Platinum" versions of regular releases.
This in my opinion would be our 2 worse case:
1.Combiner War Cyclonus, Scatter Shot, and many/all of the G2 gift sets would have been club rather than mass retail.
Im not saying they fill the gap but I'd wager they use the club as a testing ground for shit and use it to platform off of.

2.Early access. I could see them giving the club a month+ head start on mass retail toys with the most natural issues being scalping and endless bitching about club members getting a head start. That said for worse case situations this would help Hasbro see how many dedicated Buyers there were early on and that for good or ill would effect case ratios

>>5396010
>>Brawl's been a manlet for two consecutive Bruticus molds

That bothers me a little, but it doesnt bother me as much as Swindle being the biggest limb for two consecutive molds!

>>5396544
It is because Brawl has those big tits which lower his vertical size.

>>5396548
Exactly, just like Lugnut and Blackout

>>5396490
I prefer the molding on UW's fliers, but I prefer the colors on CW.
And I will try and get the eventual Ruination we all know will happen.

>>5396496
I started liking Transformers in 2001 at the age of 6. I have to attachment to the G1 cartoon. I just want the rocket and 4 rotors.

>>5396507
I don't own Rook or Cyclonus and never got them in my shitty area. Nor do I really want Galvatronus.

>>5396571
> in 2001 I was 6

Aww look at the baby

>>5396503

Meh. I figure my choices are try to return him somewhere (which would require a Helluva drive), open him and hope we get limbs, or open him and maybe buy the Computron set later.

Honestly, I'm not losing out on much by opening him. It's 26 bucks for a Voyager. I'll just set him up with some of my extra limbs or keep him just in bot mode, and he'll be fine, and if Computron is nothing BUT a boxed set, I'll decide if I want him then. He's probably not going to be out for months anyway, plenty of time to see whats coming.

Plus it's really only his body mode thats terrible. Jet mode looks cool, and bot mode is alright.

>>5396571

Honestly, the best Bruticus would probably be a mash of CW and UW parts. CW grey chest Onslaught, UW 4 rotor Vortex, whichever Blastoff you like (but if you're buying UW, might as well use the shuttle right?), Swindle probably won't vary much if at all between the 2 regions, and Brawl MIGHT get a fixed waist, who knows?

>>5396579
I'm 21 jackass. I was in 1st grade in 2001.

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>>5396579
dude he's at least 20
2001 was 15 ago.

>>5396579
I've always wonder what the average age of TFG is
I know /toy/'s average age is 19

>>5396600
I'm 20.

>>5396600
>>5396604

You kids are making me feel like a grandpa up in here.

>>5396607
RiD15 is ruining my childhood. Grimlock isn't even built by Megatron using an animatronic dinosaur.

>>5396611
Fuck, how old were you when Animated aired?

>>5396600
>>5396604
>>5396607
29 this year
gotta cut back on toys to pay for the house mortgage

>>5396614
Don't worry, it was a joke.

>>5396600
33. My first TF was a Jetfire. Now he has no arms or tailfins.

>>5396600
>I know /toy/'s average age is 19
That's my age. Grew up with Beast Wars and Energon.

I really appreciate the G1 cartoon though

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>>5396600
I'm 31. The first Transformers I remember having are Pipes, Pounce and Wingspan.

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Jet Blastoff is G1 cartoon accurate

>>5396636
>Onslaught isn't a manlet like the cartoon
I hope Takara fixes this

>>5396600
27.
First TF was an unknown small green jeep (could've been hound) that I found at my dad's radio station
First time I saw TFs on TV was a busted vhs of the animated movie
First REAL dose of transformers was Beast Wars and my first Beast Wars toy was Terrorsaur.
My first vehicle series was Armada because our town didn't have whatever channel had RiD

Before I actually go in to the mythos and only kind of knew names from other generations I thought the beast era characters were already established characters. Like prime was now primal and so on until I caught the episode where they found the ark one day.

>>5396640
Hiro themed fembot? I'm down if there's a baymax animated bulkhead.

>>5396640
>31 years later Nautica and Firestar STILL haven't gotten a toy

>>5396646
I mean we all kinda thought that to some degree until Primal found the Ark. I remember being around 13 or so when that episode aired and it blew my mind.

Maybe some of the heavy Usenet users knew Primal definitely wasn't at all Prime, but I could only use the internet half an hour a day maximum back then. So it wasn't easy to research/know everything like it is now.

I actually kept a word file on Beast Wars when it aired to jot down everything I knew to try to connect it to what I remembered of G1 and the Animated movie. Granted, that only took up like 10 minutes a week but I was more into it than I should have been.

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>>5396600

Early 30's.

First Transformer was a G1 Optimus Prime. I was spoiled rotten and had so many fucking bots as a kid and it was amazing. Only things I was ever missing was Swoop, Jetfire, and Predaking.

And then my asshole parents threw all my shit in my grandparents attic where it was swiftly fucking destroyed by the ravages of heat, cold, and time.

>>5396653
Yeah I didn't have internet until BW was in to the TM2 stuff because I remember making a homestead website about transformers and i think max steel saying shit like "forget barbies and Polly pocket. Prepare for the best toys to exist"

Didn't really know how to browse then and find this animation.

I also thought James Avery voiced Primal for a very long time and would tell friends this to blow their minds.

>>5396600
25

>>5396600
31

BW was the first toyline I started to buy with My allowance and personal money, so that holds a special place.

I think the bat Optimus Primal and croc Megatron was the first toy I bought on My own.

I had a few G1 toys when I was young. I remember having Micromasters, Pretenders, and Powermaster Prime.

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>>5396600
22 here.

>>5396659
I had to Google James Avery. never watched Fresh Prince or any of that stuff, really. I was an odd duck and watched Taxi and Mary Tyler Moore on Nick at Night instead when all of that stuff was going down.

I definitely had a Geocities page, complete with spinning Star Wars gifs, fan fiction and roleplay chatroom logs.

I remember discovering bwtf.com when I was 14 or so and using my whole half hour to read as many reviews as possible one Saturday afternoon before my friends picked me up for band practice and then a party.

I have been into this shit for way too long.

28

as a kid I didn't grasp the fact you couldn't find G1 toys in stores during the early to mid 90s

>>5396669
>>5396669
I'm the other 31 year old. The first TFs I bought with my money were also BW. They were Rhinox and Terrorsaur. I remember bringing them over to my nextdoor neighbor/friend's house. He was SUPER into TFs as well but around that time he got more into playing JRPGs on his SNES instead. I remember him not caring about them at all and I was bummed. Then again, he was a couple years older.

That was actually when I knew we didn't have too much in common anymore and we drifted apart.

>>5396600
Why not find out?

http://strawpoll.me/6507989

>>5396600
22 year old Beast Wars baby reporting. I know I had a bunch of toys at the time but my earliest memory is being 2 and playing with BW Iganus

>>5396600
21 here. I feel like the odd one out because I only got into Transformers a little more than a year ago, through Animated and the comics.

>>5396675
I was completely a nick at nite kid also. Learned to tell time by dick van dyke episodes. I also watched that TGIF stuff so I knew Uncle Phil.

Funny enough he voiced shredder which was even more of my childhood than primal.

I will always love Terrorsaur because he was my first Beast era figure. Too bad he was the starscream of the series which means little bitch.

>>5396600
32 here

>>5396692
Animated and the IDW comics (post-Furman) are both cool. Animated revived my interest (watched it a couple years late) after the Bay movies killed it. Never really bought any of the toys, though.

>>5396600
32
First Tf was G1 Optimus, most recent Tf purchase was the legion class Fixit. We've come a long way.

>>5396646
33.

First TF was a bootleg Jr. Optimus Prime with the cardboard trailer.

Started hardcore collecting post-Beast Machines, about early RiD. I fell in love with my Gigatron, Black Convoy, God Magnus and Fire Convoy and was ecstatic when they imported RiD over and I've kept collecting since.

>>5396694
Oh yeah, Terrorsaur for me too. See >>5396684. I didn't think his show character was as cool as his toy, either. but I still love that toy. When I saw they used the mold as Strafe in that recent Walmart pack I had to have it.

I also loved the shit out of Dick Van Dyke.

I didn't know about him and Shredder, either. Obviously TMNT was my shit too (since I am of that age), so that is extra cool. I was obsessed with TMNT for a few years, but Transformers were more enduring. Liking some of the current TMNT lines tho.

>>5396700
GREAT TOYS. I loved BW but always missed vehicles, and Beast Machines didn't exactly scratch the itch. I saved up so much money from allowance and odd jobs to buy RID Prime, Magnus, Scourge, the Predacon trio and the Autobot brothers. Never had RID Megatron til recently and I still haven't opened him. Saving it for a special occasion.

Needless to say, my high school girlfriend thought I was nuts for being so stoked about those toys. Whatever.

>>5396600
33

Only had 3 tfs as a kid, g1 Smokescreen, Grimlock and Metroplex, can't remember the order, I was more into G.I. Joe back then..

>>5396646
>>5396659
>>5396694
>>5396701
Forgot to add the first lines I actually collected as an adult was animated and classics/universe.

Got at least one of each deluxe/voyager/leader mold for animated because i love animated then and now.

I felt I had to get all the classics and shit because I thought that's what real collectors did even though i barely knew these g1 characters at all. There's some good figures I discovered, but I would totally go back and tell myself which to avoid if I could.

>>5396653
>>5396659
Man I'm gonna get told to get to /vg/ but I remember just getting a computer and internet when beast wars came out. One of the first games I got was Jedi Knight. I remember discovering mods for it which was a brand new world, you know unheard of shit for my playstation. And some dude made a bunch of beast wars and g1 characters for multiplayer and I would run around one level for hours with friends playing as bw megatron with a lightsaber. A few years ago I looked that shit up hoping i could find it but all the links were broken.

>>5396708
Ah, well I think we have all fallen into that at least a little in our collecting lives. I thought I was done with TFs after the movie stuff, so I sold my classics Starscream, Skywarp, Astrotrain, Rodimus, Mirage, Bumblebee and a few others. I wish I hadn't, and I wish I'd bought Sideswipe, Hound, Ironhide, Ratchet and some of the others.

Not a big deal in the end. But I am attached to those G1 characters and do really like the classics line.

>>5396709
I can actually relate to that. One of my really good friends was super into modding Jedi Knight and Jedi Knight 2. He made chrome stormtroopers, Boba Fetts with Black Flag shirts and all sorts of stuff. I would have been 18 at the time. Had just moved to the big(ger) city and he was my roommate. He'd be up til 5am, just yelling into his headset playing that shit online. I kid you not, his room was knee deep in cigarette butts, cigarette packs and store brand cola cans. All he did was play that game.

I would have played it too if I knew about those Bw/G1 mods. I'd never heard of those til now. Even though my friend did make me a snake eyes skin for the game.

>>5396708
I started collecting with RoTF, the complexity and some of the design atract me, then re-watched the old cartoon and started reading the wiki, just browsing names and liked a lot of characters, wich made me start with classics, only regret is overpaying for Ratchet.

>>5396600
I'm 19. I grew up watching the 1986 film religiously. My parents would rent it for me every time we went to block buster. I've probably seen it about 100 times. I watched some Unicron trilogy stuff as a Kid but I always preferred what little G1 content I could find when I was younger.

>>5396718
It was just multiplayer skins and you couldn't transform or anything but at the time it blew my mind because all their sounds were ripped from the show, I had some other skins like Boba Fett or whatever and they just used the same stuff as the default game but Megatron said crazy shit from the show when he got hit or killed or whatever. I was like 11 at the time and it was mindblowing. I forget what all characters there were but I know my friend liked to play as Quickstrike and the Beast Wars Ravage.

>>5396732
I rented the 86 movie a billion times too.

>>5396736
I remember them just being multiplayer. Seems like that modding community was way bigger than I remember.

I can't imagine playing any online game at age 11... though I guess I found online text-based RPGs (MUDs, MUSHes, etc) around age 13.

I think I was probably just playing Stunt Race FX with my stupid friends on my SNES at age 11.

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Does anyone have the other Computron puzzle pieces?

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>>5396756

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>>5396756

>>5396732
>>5396744

I owned the 86 movie as a kid on VHS. Blew my mind the VHS release was censored when I picked up the uncensored DVD version years later.

>>5396766
Damn it.

>>5396600
22

>>5396775
Blew my mind when I bought a letterbox release of the DVD only to realize that the movie was formatted for fucking TV so the theatrical release chopped off the top and bottom of every scene.

>>5396654
how are you early 30s but had roves of g1 stuff?
You should be closer to late 30s at youngest.
Unless you had a bunch of hand me downs
Also never mind that means when you 7~10ish G1 TFs would have been phased out completely.

>>5396775
Weird. The VHS version I always rented was never censored, to my knowledge. The first VHS copy I bought was censored though. And then I think the first DVD copy I bought was censored, too.

I own like 4 separate DVD versions because I'm an idiot.

>>5396800
87 and 88 year released copies were uncensored
89 and up were censored

>>5396798
different guy but I'm 30 and I lived through the tail end of g1 and bought a lot of second hand stuff at fleamarkets and yard sales

>>5396798
I'm 31 and I had more than a dozen G1 figures. Most of them were late G1 (pretenders and micromasters especially), but I somehow had some Minibots, Headmasters and Throttlebots. I came from a small town though, so they might have hung around on the pegs longer.

>>5396798

It wasn't hand me downs. My grandparents just bought me that shit as a young kid because...I dunno. I watched the show as a kid, had a ton of tapes off the TV of it.

>>5396798
Most definitely anon's G1 toys were hand-me-downs, or flea market finds. I haven't heard of any stories of people who got almost every G1 figure as a child in the 80s.

>>5396812
I had g1 Transformers at the age of 2, my parents must not have given a shit

>>5396600
Turning 25 this year, first transformers were a few G2 guys and I grew up with Beast, RID, and UC

Guys!

I'm really enjoying this origin story stuff.

It's nice considering all the hostility lately.

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>>5396865
And forgot pic...

>>5396798
Your maths are wrong.

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>>5396865
I know. Sometimes I just skip a bunch of text-only posts when catching up with a /tfg/, but this one's been really good.

Would love to hear from someone who grew up with Animated as their first show, I wonder what those kids think of the new and older stuff.

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>>5396896
I don't want to say he looks bad, but he does look boring.

I do like that he looks like just a robot and not a robot that transforms.

>>5396896
Sculpt looks pretty good, you can't even tell that he's a Headmaster with the way that head is shaped.

Hopefully he's better painted (or has more plastic colors in the final release.

>>5396902
He does look pretty boring, I wish the colors were a bit more interesting and the expression were different

>>5395704
i grew up in a poor family in a third world country, the first official transformer my parents bought me was skullcruncher for christmas but i donated him when i was in my "too cool for toys" phase. regrets

>>5396905
Yeah like a background filler in a battle scene or a drone that's there's hundreds more of.

>>5396896
Who wants to bet we'll see Kup as a retool of this mold?

>>5396816

To be fair, good parenting can make up for children being retards. I never tried to eat shit off the floor or little pieces of plastic, because my parents would watch me and make sure I wasn't being a little retard.

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>>5396896
Less bisected pic of Blurr.

>>5396865

Because people here like this stuff or else they wouldn't be here. Anyone who claims otherwise is just a shitter trying to troll.

The only reason theres a lot of whining is because everyone has a different definition of what is "good" for any given figure, beyond a few near universally recommended figures, like Generations Springer.

>>5396896
i like it
but a bit more colours to break the dark blue do it much good

>>5396896

I hope thats not a production figure, he needs some paint. Looks good otherwise though.

>>5396911

Theres been rumors the 86' cast is going to be getting a lot of new molds in TW, so I'm hoping we get Kup, Arcee, Hotrod, etc. Especially Hotrod, I only started collecting recently and the only HR I have is the CW Legends . I want a good Deluxe or Voyager.

>>5396913
I actually have very clear memories of being that young and don't remember gnawing on toys, kids these days are morons, I remember my third birthday and being disappointed that I didn't get a Powermaster Optimus Prime, I'm in this fucking fandom for life... oh god help

>>5396915
Why is he all dark blue instead of light blue? The lack of paint apps is also kinda disappointing. I seriously hope this is just an unfinished prototype. I kinda liked Generations Blurr unless this one has a sleaker vehicle mode.

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>>5396928

Yeah, G1 had darker blue bits, but he was mostly grey/light blue.

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>>5396932
>>5396928

He needs more grey/light blue around the chest and crotch for robot mode, basically.

>>5396928
You gotta remember this pic is of horrible quality also. We might see different shades further on.

>>5396927
There was one figure that I had a weird oral fixation with. I didn't crunch on it or try to eat it because I knew better but for some reason I really liked the texture of the tail from the tmnt triceraton figure.

I think I stopped butting toys anywhere near my mouth when I once thought I could do a cool trick, no clue what the trick was, and ended up with an astronaut Ralph helmet lodged in my throat like an idiot around 5 or so. Probably a bit younger.

>>5396936
nothing is gonna fix those hollow arms... ugh, you know I wasn't so tough on hollow shit until this past year when you guys convinced me it's shit

>>5396947

Maybe something folds in there, like the fists. Who knows.

Shit, those $100 Feral Rex figures I'm looking at have hollow forearms even...

>>5396947
I'm waiting to see. I can handle how hollow looks, but it's how it feels that matters. FoC grimlock's are a good example of how hollow shouldn't be handled.

>>5396952
Yeah I know, I know the 3p has hollow parts too argument and I agree, I'm not trying to be an asshole about this like some people on the board it just irks me when a major part of a figure is so vacant now especially since in my area deluxes are 18 bison dollars.

>>5396954
Never bought FoC Grimlock for whatever reason, so I'm not sure what you mean.

>>5396960
The shoulders are not only hollow, but also feel brittle. Like dollar store KO brittle.

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>>5396956

$18!? Shit man, that sucks. Here they're about $16 after all.

>>5396960

I love FoC Grimlock, but he's literally a hollow shell. It houses his bigass dino head in robot mode, but he is mega hollow.

>>5396971

After all taxes, I meant.

>>5396971
Damn man. Yeah $18, and at TRU they are like $21.99 but TRU prices always blow. Seriously a year ago $21.99 was the cost of a voyager, wtf happened?

>>5396981

Around here Walmart's got most stuff for IIRC $14.95 for Deluxes, $24.95 for Voyagers.

Why's TRU overcharging like that?

>>5395894
What would?

>>5396992
Because they are a specialty store. Their only reasoning.

>>5395747
>Destroy Bison
>Shadowrealm Bat

>>5396600
27

Firsts were Beach Comber and Cosmos

>>5397033
>Going to Live on a Farm Bison
>Just the Worst Bat

>>5396896
What do you know, looks even worse.

>>5396915
That sure is a grayscale prototype digitally colored!

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>>5396600
28 currently, but with the way I look and act I might as well be 18.

>tfw you can throw your money on toys and essential bills without a woman asking for stuff or a kid needing stuff

Oh how long can this bliss last

Who's the worst combiner team (all up, including all individuals and the combined mode) from Combiner Wars and why?

>>5397096
Optimus maximus.

>Literally a repaint with new heads on menasor mold and team
>chest guy on same truck mold type doesn't stay secure
>looks like an ogre in default leg stance
>same combiner mode head is used 3 times
>battlecore optimus doesn't homage anyone due to star convoy shaped head but white body making it a bizzare fusion of not-ultra magnus and star convoy
>did I mention all limbs and torso parts are just repainted menasor bits with new heads?
>design is based on an IDW one shot take where the combined optimus team just suddenly gets a color shift from red and blue to white for no fucking reason

I own this toy so I am aware of how stupid a choice it is.

>>5397096
Vicky.
>OC Donut Steel: The Team

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>>5395854
>Retooling perfectly fine arms into hollow pieces of shit for no reason
Just Kup my shit up.

>>5396896
ehhhhhhhhhhhh I need to get the United Blurr

Does a fix exist for Leader Magnus being unable to hold his guns?

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>>5396896
>tfw Wheelie recolor is inevitable

>>5397123
Such a stupid thing for the designers to not pick up on, why didn't they do it like MP-10's gun?

>>5397114
I honestly dont mind the arms.

What i do mind is retooling the thighs. Magnus' hollow bits faced back, but optimus' face inwards, making them more visible!

>>5397123
>>5397125
Mine holds the guns just fine? what's the issue?

>>5397125

I have no idea. All the MPs have that little square peg so their weapons stay in. I don't know why they didn't think of the same thing.

They could even have added more of a curl to his fingers and it would have been fine. But noooo

I've got a bit of a suspicion that Hasbro is giving the designers extremely short deadlines to make these recent figures, which is why they get a lot of easily spottable errors. They're probably just not getting tested properly

>>5396600
23.

It all began with Beast Wars, don't remember exactly who I got first (Terrorsaur I believe).

Most recent one is Combiner Wars Legends Skywarp.

>>5397128
Mine can hold the gun aswell, but it's not stable and is likely to fall out if moved.

>>5397124
Nope, Wheelie is getting a new Legends mold (or maybe is a Bumblebee retool, dunno)

>>5397136

Yeah, that's the problem. That's not holding the weapon. That's precariously balancing the weapon in his hand

>>5397043
>Put-on-a-bus-Bison
>New-Jersey Bat

>>5396600
25. First Transformer was collectively Magnaboss in August 1997. Didn't get it combined until about 10 years later. I started really collecting with RiD and the few Beast Wars stragglers from Deka stores that were in the process of going out of business at the turn of the century. I bought several Armada toyd, before dropping the line and picking it up sgain in 2007 with the movie Legends and Barricade. Now I buy Combiners, Cyberverse toys and larger toys if I like the look of them or the character.

>>5395711
How much do they think they invest into each combiner? Or do you think they'll lose more money than they actually invest into this particular one?

>>5396798
34 Ausfag here. Had shit loads of G1 stuff. Still remember getting Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime and Blurr for Christmas one year.

And the only combiners I ever finished were Defensor and Predaking.

>>5397169
This one uses the Brawl mold twice, and unless they fix it it's going to shelfwarm longer than Injector.

Brawl is shit, even if you get one where the waist locks. His forearms are laughable, and if the waist isn't lined up exactly right, he won't go into tank mode and you have to take the whole thibg apart ans start again.

>>5397169
Considering there's minimal new tooling for the release, it's probably going to be all cream.

Unless there's actually new hands and feet, and his spear/flail weapon is included too.

Then I think it's completely open to wild speculation.

>>5396896
He looks odd, its as if he was a third party figure.

>>5397177
Agree. And according to the awesome inside attention whores, these will be slightly bigger than the CW deluxes so they will look even cheaper than CW does.

>>5395711
Depends, do people get the combiners because they're individual characters or chase up the combined forms?

They'd want to get as much use out of a mold as possible, who else could they remold skylynx into really?

So far every body type has least 1-2 reuses, some being better (cyclonus) than others (optimus prime)

My only hope is skylynx can be made into a liozack and not a deathzaras...thing with 3 characters merged together.

I need a skylynx and to see what the possibilities for retooling a quadruped into a bipedal robot, though I got a feeling hasbro is aiming at mostly kids here who'd see "new" robots while us adults see same bodies but new heads.

If action figures can get away with new heads and accessories so can robots, just a shame its harder to do because of how picky we've become.

But who cares, I'm a seeker fag so I've embraced repaints as the norm.

https://youtu.be/RGptXtd8Dz4

I love the retooling for wheeljack but the paint apps are fucking weak.

What good is a retooled alt mode if the robot mode paint apps are so weak it might as well be totally unpainted!?

>>5397182
Most people get a combiner for the combined figure, but that doesn't mean they should neglect the individual figures. Even then, they still technically got Leokaiser wrong by not giving him the correct color for the head, and not using a second Skydive mold for maximum accuracy to the original Leokaiser. We'll have to wait and see if they really are including those extra combiner weapons, and special hand/foot parts.

>>5397187
Most likely takara would fix that head, I mean...look at bruticus, that head ain't right, good chance its to separate the head from the leozack head but looking at battle core OP I could be wrong.

As for the jets maybe they wanted some variation so its not 2x2 like with Victorion, all cw's try hard to break up the limb count.

Hold on tight anon, if you can't wait grab the inaccurate CW like many people no doubt would, I on the other hand WILL wait for the UW.

I fucked up with bruticus and defensor, am not going to fuck up this time.

>>5397193
I'm fine with Hasbro's Defensor, but I'm definitely getting UW Bruticus if they fix Brawl.

>>5396600
I'm the old guy here I guess at 36.

I distinctly remember my first transformer was G1 Optimus Prime. We were pretty poor growning up, so my toy choices were limited and treasured the few I got at Christmas and on my Birthday. I had Op, that weird grey Shockwave that wasn't an actual branded Transformer, Skylynx, Broadside, The two Decepticon battlechargers, and Doubledealer.

Eventually a I got considered "too old" for toys by family, so I started getting books, video games, etc. It wasn't till I got a job after college and making my own money that I started to buy my own toys again, so right around 2001? '02? Right when RiD and Armada the Alternators were coming out.

>>5397201
Hasbro's defensor has ALOT going for it, rook was a smart move with mini groove as an apology to some fans, mostly got him as at the time I couldn't get him cheaper than importing from the US to my shithole.

I still can't work out why I chansed up the rest of the limbs of hasbro bruticus, yes it'll have more paint apps but considering 2 limbs are lazy repaints and that rather boring chest leaves a sour taste in my mouth, I might sell 2 (brawl and vortex) and keep what's left for original combiners.

This way my galvatronus will have some dignity next to grand galvatron and gives my future skylynx some friends to play with, speaking of which what can we expect from a UW skyreign?

>>5396600

21.

UT and Beast Wars reruns on YTV got me into the franchise.

>>5397185
Tranny reviewer.

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I think the best hope for sales from liokaizer is if IDW gave the team some spotlight, I do want a liozack and starscream partnership, or perhaps leozack reprise starscream's role as scheming backstabber and starscream realizing how much shit megatron used to cop off him, since rattrap is just too nice to do anything like that.

I know I'm stepping into /co/ territory but I'd pick up IDW again if they can give both leozack and starscream some much needed "screen" time

>>5397231
This is a cool idea. The "Starscreams" Transformers never interacted with one another. Unless you count that one BW episode were Starscream's ghost shot Terrorsaur

Terrorsaur was such lost potential, man. Cool Starscream type, but then they kill him off

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>>5397244
I found him annoying but I guess I was too much of a starscream fag to realize how...exact he was to him, killing him off may of helped since there were plenty of backstabbers in the crew.

That'd make for a cool legends comic too, all the backstabbers together fighting for top slot from different universes and timelines, I believe there was an old comic that had screamers from different universes fighting to be the "main" one so they could homage that too.

All of these fan ideas of ours, and I bet someone did it but turned the shit from cool to deviant oc

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Speaking of deviant art oc, remember those g1 modded cw's that homaged megatron starscream soundwave etc?

Someone tried to copy him, if I were the owner of the original soundwave I'd kick his ass for this abomination

>>5397215

>YTV

My nigga eh

>>5397260

I get irritated by those people who bitch that customs don't look like they came straight from the Chinese sweatshops, but that is fucking awful and deserves harsh words.

>>5397267
Never seen a harsh word said on that radicons section.

>>5397270
>TA-88v3
Those would have a soft mod by now.

Fuck I'm getting too old for this shit

>>5396915
I kinda like it. It's very G1 aesthetic, that being a minimalist block thing. It's got a very old school sensibility, kind of like Generations Whirl.

>>5397273
Is that the thing where you just need to reload it each time? Thanks for the help, out of all the places I've asked, TFG is the only one to give me a proper answer.

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>>5397270
>TFW
>Not bitching about something undeniably horrible

>>5396766
Hah

>>5397283
Wouldn't want to hurt somebodies feelings, anon.

>>5397282
I used to charge people to soft mod psp's (because I was an asshole who knew alot of dumb cunts) years ago but I'm fairly out of the game

But you can soft mod those, it won't be permanent but its workable, load up the soft mod, and just keep it in standby mode for all eternity.

I had a Grand Turismo psp slim and before I gave it away I used the soft mod on it, back then not everything worked but games were possible to run, by now surely everything would work on it homebrew and emulation wise.

Don't mind me, you reminded me of my younger years.

>>5397294
Again thanks for the help, I'll leave it here since it's not really relevant to the discussion.

>>5395750
Batblast.
Shockbat.

Shockblas-- oh wait.

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>>5397114
Eh, the original version had hollow spaces in its arms too, and armor that didn't even wrap the whole way around so they looked ever worse.

Also the entire torso is hollow for no reason.

>>5397337
I dunno but this UM never did anything for me. I prefer white optimus with power armor, that attribute made him unique, but alas, he is tiny mustache guy. Still I commend them for working in the fact that the UM appearance is just a shell.

>>5397329
Just think, 30 years from now kids that are in kindergarten now will be on the newfangled VR brain internet complaining about the name Rookblast on thier nostalgia toys.

Of course they'll have to back to being made of diecast cause we'll have run the fuck out of oil to make plastic with by that point, so they'll bitch about that too.

>>5397337
But least the gaps in the arms look stylized and sorta filling, not as noticeable as its retool which is just an empty half shell.

The original as you're showing is hollow but has a slotted panel, the other is very much exposed, even the inside of the legs are worse seeing how UM has tiny gaps here and there while OP has the same issue as the arms

>>5397345
In the lore he's almost never white optimus guy so I can forgive it, but that would have really pushed this figure over the top

>>5397351
Only in dreamwave did we really see the white optimus and...I remember the generations one got into a comic but can't remember if it was a botcon exclusive or what, I only remember him being refereed as...think optimus's little brother or something

>>5397337
people care too much about if its hollow, so what its still a good figure.

probably my favourite figure released last year.

>>5397365
>people care too much about if its hollow

This

It's extra annoying when the hollowness is actually necessary for the transformation, but people still complain.

People complain about MP Bumblebee's hollow forearms, but that's where his fists go in vehicle mode! lots of transformers do that!

>>5397390
If the hollowness is covered that's fine, was quite pleased what they did with lambor's arms and legs and the panels.

If they're exposed it annoys me

>>5397394
>was quite pleased what they did with lambor's arms and legs and the panels.

me too! put people still complained about even Lambor's legs

On TFW, there's actually a guy who makes leg fillers for Lambor's legs, and i'm like... how superficial can you get?

>>5397390

Bull shit.

It's fucking Masterpiece.

He should have had slide out hands or little flip open and close panels to over the gap.

The ENTIRE POINT of Masterpiece is to make spare no expense version of characters and sell them at a premium.

>>5395704
new thread >>5397403

>>5397401
who gives a shit? are you gonna cry over a focking gap in your toy? im sure you have better shit to fret about.

Live your fucking life

>>5396600
18, My first Transformer was Cybertron Muflap(I got him for Christmas), He's been badly beaten through my rough play. I still have him though. I laughed when I learned he shelfwarmed HARD.

>>5397408

No I am not.

I don't even buy MPs and I am certainly not interested in a glorified Generations toy.

>>5397405

We aren't even at the bump limit are we, cut that shit out.

>>5397419
it's autosaging you motherfuck ass monkey, it's convenient for later

no one's forcing you to use the new thread either, do whatever you want man

>>5397345
>I prefer white optimus with power armor, that attribute made him unique
>white optimus
>unique

>>5396600
29. Totally hyped for the 20th BW anniversary this year. I've finally convinced my wife to sit down and watch BW with me.

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>>5397231
Leozack and the Breastforce are already comfirmed in IDW, they're members of Deathsaurus' crew when the DJD stop by for a visit, you can pick all the members out from the background in a few different pages, possibly even Deathcobra (Vortex retool when?)

>>5397337
>Also the entire torso is hollow for no reason.
But Magnus has a reason...

>>5397401
If they spare no expense it either be a rare as fuck limited run or would break their bank because they need the sales to reflect the cost

>>5396274

You. I like you.

>>5396274
>"Space stuff is popular now, how about one of them Combaticons turn into one?"
>"But they're supposed to be military based, sir."
>"Idgaf, just say that one had crashed where they got their alt modes".
Literally the reason Blastoff became a shuttle.

>>5396072

...and he shall be named Greebwing.

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>>5395704

>>5396600
I'm 26.

I was big into Beast Wars as a kid. I also had some G1 bots thanks to my brother: Metroplex, Jetfire, and Wreckgar being of note. I didn't come back to Transformers regularly until the classics line was almost out the door.