Transformers General

Victorion's all over eBay right now. Why the fuck don't any of the usual online shops have her yet?

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It's almost May. So how come we haven't heard much about the CW Deluxe Groove yet?

>>5628024
It's probably being announced on May. Pray you're online when they start showing up, this is going to be worse than Breakneck, and Quickslinger.

>>5628022
Any links to some video reviews?

>>5628031
Why do you need a review of a combiner set completely made of retools of toys we've had for a while?

>>5628037
To see what changes, anything that fucks up clearance or plastic tolerances, QC isssues, etc.

>>5628022

Simple.

No one wants it.

>>5628039
The changes are paint heads and boobs. Done.

Does anyone else use the combiner peg on Swindle as a chest cannon like how Animated Swindle had one?

>>5628044
AB sure had thin gun arms

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>>5628028
>wanting Vicky

>>5628048

I think you replied to the wrong post, anon.

>>5628047
>boobs

Pretty sure they didn't even bother to give them remolded chests/boobs.

>>5628047
You still get the same experience.

>>5628048
>his shirt matches Vicky

>>5628054
They did.

>>5628057
>>5628054
See? This is why a review is important.

>>5628060
i'm not seeing any boobies in the product shots

>>5628048
>>5628041
Why? It looks pretty good. Is it just because the people who voted for the character don't buy toys to begin with?

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>>5628066
What is Google

>>5628067
>looks pretty good
Spend the money on a vision check instead.

>>5628069
nigga those ain't even robo tiddies

>>5628070
>Using stock photos to judge anything ever instead of the actual production version

>>5628067

Question: if the people who voted for it are not going to buy it, and the people who didn't are also not going to by it...then for what purpose was it actually made?

Genuinely curious here.

>>5628067
>It looks pretty good
I really wish it did, I just can't get into that color scheme though. I know the finished product has mor muted colors than the early shots, but it still doesn't look good at all.

Two Alpha Bravos in the same set is really pushing it too. For what purppose?

>>5628074

They're just not overly pronounced, but they're there. Any bigger and they'd interfere with the transformation.

>>5628080
The intent was making a popular thing through market research polling.

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I feel like they started working on Vicky way too early. They should have waited with the poll until most of the molds were out there.

Just for fun, if you now got to pick 5 existing molds for Vicky then which ones would you choose?
They would ofcourse still use the same colors.

Fan polls were a mistake.

>>5628081
Same reason why Superion has two Fireflies and Menasor two Dead Ends
Hasbro actively hates you

>>5628086
A shame it wasn't used to make something cool, but instead, to futher peoples agendas...

>>5628093
That's true. I've seen it stated they do what they can to piss off the fans.

>>5628089
-Still Hot Spot (shame the cool combiner head is comic only)
-Replace one of the cars with the Swindle mold
-Replace a copters with the Airraid mold

>>5628089

Onslaught, Rook, Groove, Nosecone, and Blastoff, with the 6th figure being a female Shockwave with new head.

>>5628089
JP Vortex, Rook, Onsalught, Offroad, Air Raid, Bombshell.

>>5628081

.....the more I think about it, a lot of the CW teams had 2 of the same mold for them.

Menasor = Dead End and Brakeneck
Superion = Fireflight and Quickslinger
Upcoming Liokaiser = 2 Brawl mold characters (don't know their names)


As much as I want to criticize Victorion for blatant mold reuse, I can't.

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>>5628102
>Shockwave with new head
Something like this?

>>5628089
Onslaught, Swindle, Nosecone, UW Vortex, Afterburner, legends Groove.

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>>5628109
Gor blimey.

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>>5628106
>>5628093
>Fireflight and Quickslinger
I don't mind those because they both look cool and different enough, color wise. I actually have Off Road instead of Brakeneck so no problem there to me at least.

Vicky's choppers look almost the same save for a visor and a couple mirrored details. Maybe Vicky wouldn't look so bad if she had a little more white to break all that red.

>>5628089
No cars they're too bulky

>>5628109

What the shit is that.

>>5628118
>Comic drawing ones are built for sex
>Toy is bleh
Combination ports were a mistake

>>5628086

>The intent was making a popular thing through market research polling.

Well they failed miserably there, I feel.

>>5628127
Being entirely retools did not help in the least. A poll for just a limb or torso with budget and new mold which wasn't one of the same generic altmode ones would have helped, but may have been hard engineering-wise since the only one to really not be samefag had difficulty holding together.

>>5628118
I would be so okay with Vicky it they actually looked like that. Even the twins look like they have enough personality to be fun for double use.

>>5628041
I'd want it if it was cheaper than what Hasbro's box sets are going for.
The G2 combiners are nice deals, but Victorion and Computron just aren't worth it.

>>5628134

>>5628134

What also didn't help was how they presented the voting options.

Google "Transformers Combiner Wars Voting" and you will see what I mean.

It's almost as if they were afraid to just have write-in options be tallied.

>if nothing else, a write-in vote for color scheme would have been appreciated for fucks sake.

>>5628144
The G2 combiners are good deals because they're shelfwarming and on sale everywhere.

>>5628022
Stolen from Chinese factories, I'd assume.

>>5628152
She has shown up at a few US Targets too.

>>5628144

>Computron
>not worth it

You're getting the Takara version, aren't you?

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>>5625931
>hips/thighs like that
Her hips are thin and unimpressive. Her thighs however are massive and delicious.

>>5628168
How did they approve such a lewd body for a children's show?

>>5628176
because it's not lewd until chandwellers start jerking off to it

>>5628176
Because bodies aren't lewd. Only thoughts and actions are.

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>>5628156
>You're getting the Takara version, aren't you?
Ofcourse.

>The G2 combiners are good deals because they're shelfwarming and on sale everywhere.
Really? The stores here haven't gotten them, and they seem to still be the same price online.

I can only imagine the massive shelfwarming that Hasbro's Computron will do.

>>5628184
Meant to quote this guy on the second part >>5628152

>>5628184
They've only gotten a price cut on amazon (at least I haven't seen other sites reduce their prices).

Superion went back to 99 recently, but Menastor was still at 80

>>5628184

Superion for weeks was $80, I think I saw him as low as $77 one day. He shot back up to $90-ish recently, but Menasor's still around $80.

The G2 combiners are shelfwarming hard as fuck apparently.

>>5628222
That's odd, I think they look way better than Vicky and Compy.
If any of them drop down to $70 then I might pick one up.

>>5628168
Not gonna lie, I can dig slimmer hips on a body like that as much as I dig wider hips on a more pronounced body type

Basically, anything with robogirls and hips, wide or slim, is right up my dirty-minded alley. [spoiler]even if i find it more cute than sexy or junk like that

>>5628184
Computron will sell due to morons and casuals, people who don't care/know what he's meant to look like. A few of them dwell in these threads I believe.

>>5628232

Not really odd. People just don't have fond memories of G2. I mean, shit, even when I was a kid and saw them on the shelves I thought they were fucking bootlegs of real Transformers figures.

>>5628245
The point was that if the G2 sets shelfwarm then the others should be even worse.

>>5628097
>actually believing that copypasta

>>5628256
Or maybe ironic indulgence in G2 hilarity doesn't justify blowing 100 USD on figures that most people who care already have AND one of the worst combiners in an otherwise decent line.

>>5628244
or people that genuinely prefer how it looks compared to the takara one. those people are idiots, but they do exist.

>>5628282
That'll be the casuals that don't care.

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>people are calling Victorion "Vicky"

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>>5628304

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>>5628304
So go back to Allspark where it's in the swear-filter.

>>5628318
>"vicky" is in the swear filter
Proof? Why would they do that, anyway?

>>5628318
lol is it? Damn. One good thing that place did.

>>5628322
Probably some stupid misgendering robots bullshit or something equally retarded.

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>>5628022

We didn't vote for those gaudy and godawful colors.

>>5628080
>>5628127
They didn't fail. They're just following the polling. This is why most things are designed with a unified vision in mind and not have separate parts determined by a poll.

>>5628355
Because the online shops stock partially based on consumer demand. No one wants the fucking thing, especially after the g2 sets shelf warming for a few months

>>5628384
No one wants the Ebay listings because most of them are overpriced as fuck when anyone with restraint can just wait for the amazon listings that'll be 100 bucks and free shipping.

G2 superion sold on amazon like fucking hotcakes because of the free shipping and consistently low price. The listing was periodically going down and back up to process the demand.

>>5628304
It is a diminutive form.
Like Mags, Megs, Roddy, etc.

>>5628450
My least favorites are Grimmy and Shocky. Theyre just dumb.

>>5628455
I just use Grim and Shock usually.

G2 combiners look like shit, why are you guys even surprised they're sheflwarming?
They're supposed to be nostalgic, but most veteran fans don't have very fond memories of G2 at all, and then there's the new fans and casuals who don't know about G2 at all so the colors just look garish and off-putting.

I think they're a fucking waste. I'd like to see combiners packaged with new, yet cool colors, or even just the regular releases but in a pack, some molds like Motormaster and Dragstrip never made it to my country so that'd be my chance.

If they're gonna nostalgia pander to things that aren't from G1, gives us some actual cool things from later eras. I would have loved Rid Ruination, but what we get is fucking Fruiticus.

>>5628022
$100 doughnut steel team set with awful colors.

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>>5628468
I mean, hell, look at this

>>5628476

dafuq did you just post, dat ain't no g2 bruticus

What homage is that digibash meant to be, looks worse than this

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>>5628476
Who's that?

>>5628482
Robots in Disguise 2001, Ruination.

>>5628359
I have to wonder how they'd look with a rusty red and oxidized green colorscheme

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>>5628481
>>5628482
It's RiD 2001 Ruination, the toy I just said I'd rather see homaged than G2 Bruticus.

>>5628460
>>5628460

I usually cut them down to two syllable letters, like GL and SW, though it needs to be within context, otherwise, which SW am I talking about?

>>5628481
>>5628482

I want casuals to leave, reeee, etc.

>>5628492
It's actually Car Robots Valdigus, since Ruination has a different colour scheme.

>>5628499
Scarlet Witch?

>>5628492
Featuring Greg the Leg!

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>>5628468
>>5628476

I want Batle Gaia.

>>5628511
They had a year for convention exclusive combiners and didn't go for those.

>>5628507
No, it's SW.

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Anyone else think this deco looks hideous? I'd buy the UW but (combined mode only) onslaught and blastoff look pretty lousy, and brawl and swindle aren't that different from their hasbro counterparts (which i already own).

>>5628514
It'd be inaccurate if it didn't have the UW corrections, nobody wants a halfbaked sausage..

>>5628514
Hey, it might show up for the Tokyo Toy Show since last time they used Scourge.

>>5628523
Repaint it then.

>>5628523
UW Vortex's deco is the only one I actually like out of the rest of the Combaticons, but even then I actually like the coloration CW Vortex has enough to just ignore UW. The colors work for me because they're outlandish without being obscene like a G2 set.

>>5628528
Doesn't disassembling the copter mold involve pushing pins out of the torso and crap?

>>5628537
Probably, think of it as a project to do when your bored.

>>5628540
Yeah.

I need to practice painting figures, on that note.

>>5628552
You posted smokescreen last night and the price tag (which is from tru which iover charge as it is) didn't you?

No need to repeat it again

>>5628552
No, that was me. I didnt post this wheeljack one.

>>5628552
>>5628574
So, that makes three of us who posted a pic of the $23 deluxes at TRU(I posted a pic of just the price tag on Saturday morning). Considering we may all be from different areas, that may just mean TRU is jacking up the price everywhere from now on(as oppossed to just certain, more well-off areas)

>>5628523
yes. Just get UW. All of them look better anyway.

>>5628574
>>5628585
Its a chainstore, their prices are usually universal, why would anyone think one store will go up but not others of the same brand?

They aren't franchised shops like smaller independents who, while under the same name are privately owned

>>5628552
This is fucking hilariously sad.

>>5628610
I have stopped at multiple TRUs in the same day and seen different prices for things. It's definitely not the norm, but it does happen. This Transformers price hikes seems to be pretty universal though. Luckily they'll still price match to Kmart where they were like 13.49.

>>5628610
That's actually what TRU does, though. Stores in areas with higher traffic/higher income raise the prices of certain things.

>>5628179
>>5628183
>Those lewd reflective eyes
>Effective joint design that would allow great range of motion
>That lack of a mouth
>Thin waist and breasts
>THOSE FUCKING THIGHS
There is no way that she wasn't intended to be lewd

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>>5628523

No, I think it looks good because it's basically his G1 deco, with the yellow missiles standing in for the yellow sticker on his arms.

>>5628492
I'd prefer Ruination, I like the grey combiner bits and urban camo Armorhide over Valdigus' colors

>>5628655
I'm surprised I didn't pick up on that, I always thought they just added colors to make it attractive, but now that it isn't random, doesn't look to bad, shame about the rotors though.

>>5628659
I can see the reasoning, but I prefer Valdigus - the gold is striking, and we never got a show-accurate deco.

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>>5628118
Huh. So they do have not completely box torsos, just messed up by the backpack.
Still dubious, but at least it makes sense why drawn like that.

>>5628668
If these were colored like this >>5628118 I would buy them in a heart beat. The toys are so red it hurts my eyes.

>>5628511
Him and Guard City please

>>5628674
There still might be the Takara version.
If follows the logic of Windblade might go under the "redrawn to look good" version instead of the "designed by toy designers" version for coloration.

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>>5628674
>>5628678
I guess it's worth noting that that image is edited by a fan to make the color scheme look better. Should have clarified that when I posted it.

Pic related is their actual designs in the comics.

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>>5628668
The comic designs still take alot of liberties.

Here they are with their intended outlines.

>>5628686
>Huge tits fire truck of justice
Fuck, why didn't they get one more looking like that?

>>5628686

Yeah, two colors for a combiner team is just not enough. There needed to be more black and/or white, then they would've looked leagues better.

>>5628693
Weren't there three colors in each option in the poll?
In any case, making them all the same instead of having variety in coloration was a mistake.

>>5628701
I still think they'd look better with a rusty red and oxidized green colorscheme, I'd like to see a shoop of that.

>>5628701
white was actually part of the poll option
It just got underused in the finished product, but it's supposed to be there

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>>5628693
>>5628701
>>5628726
Grey was the third colour, and you can see it in both the comic and toy designs.

The colours are all fucked up anyway. It was supposed to be vivid teal as a major colour and dull red and grey as minor colours, but the finished toy has both dull mint and vivid red as major colours and barely any grey.

>>5628727
>Mango Victorion

>>5628727
Also, I'd like to see a digibash of all the vote options, since we didn't get ANY of them for the actual toy.

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>>5628728
>FUCK THE VICKS

>>5628318
It is? Holy shit, that's amazing. 0% self-awareness over there.

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Why is this fucker so god damn expensive?

Soundwave figure for RiD when?

>>5628795
For the most part one isn't really needed.
It's kinda like how the crew for Animated had no plans for making a Cyclonus figure because it would've just been Universe Cyclonus again, only even more egregious because it's Literally The Same Character

>>5628686
Would it be possible to do a partswap so you have a titty truck with Onslaught cannons instead of firetruck ladder?

>>5628836
The ladder is still needed for the head. Remove that and the combiner head would need a new way to attach.
But yea with the right tools you could switch out the ladder

Anyone know when the Sub Club Mayhem Squad is going to start coming out?

>>5628727
I fucking voted for Teal, Red and White. What the fuck was this silver shit in the final release?

>>5628552
>TRANS GENER

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So MP-08X is on sale for $150. Should I dig that much out of my health insurance deductible fund and replace it later? I spent my budget already on stuff and wasn't expecting this sale. Is the mold worth it?

>>5628890
Transformer that goes from female alt mode to male robot mode when?

>>5628916
Next incarnation of sideways.

>>5628916
Plenty of Beastformers have done that, actually. Mostly the Predacons, since female bugs are often the more kickass ones - Waspinator and Inferno, for instance.

>>5628908
>health insurance deductible fund
>or a toy
Dude. Think.

>>5628928
I'm a healthy 21 year old male. No illnesses. I have the full $1200 in the fund already. Not like I wouldn't replenish the $150.

>>5628928
Yeah, seriously think. Health Insurance is a scam. It's better off to spend the money on a toy.

>>5628935

I wouldn't take it out of the fund Anon. Thats not worth it.

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Why hasn't there been a Delorean transformer since the Micromaster?

>>5628109
source?

>>5628948
Because if they did one that was not time machine inspired, the fans would not buy the stupid grey wedge car.

>>5628688
Its like a team of Sarah Silvermans

>>5628935
Keep it in your fund. You think you won't need it, but wait till you're in a wreck or something.

I used to be like you. Being smart with your money is more fun than enjoying a toy every now and then.

>>5628935
Spend your money on toys. You only live once.

>>5628727
I never paid attention to this poll, was the combiner's gender ever put as an option?

>>5629067
Yeah, and tumblr crashed the poll to prove to Hasbro that there was demand for female transformers. Unfortunately, even tumblr is not actually buying them.

>>5629071
This. The tumblr side only wants bad fan art and gay love stories. They don't care for the toys or who the characters have been for 30 years.

>>5629083
You are tfw incarnate.

>>5629088
Nah. I have just been frequenting tumblr for years and you can't really search for transformers related posts without being bombarded by the gay porn fan art. I have zero issue with anything related to homosexuality, but the tumblr side of the fandom is awful.

"Hey maybe I can find a cool picture or gif of Wheeljack on tumblr to use as a wallpaper
>200 posts of prime wheeljack with a huge organic cock in the asshole of every character on the show except arachnid and Arcee

It gets old.

>>5629091
Oh. Well you are kinda at ground zero there.

>>5629096
Yeah I enjoy the site for the laughs and sometimes art, but I follow maybe one or two blogs about particular media I like and its only when it's just screencaps or something because I know I'd hate everyone in the tumblr side if I looked up more popular things I like.

>>5628482

I really wish it had G2 'Con symbols

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>Really like how Victorion looks
>Don't buy it because of the gender
Who else here /cis-scum?

>>5629121
Did anyone ask them about that fuckup at the botcon Q&A? I doubt they did since most of time those things are useless.

>>5628772
It's from the older waves.

>>5629146
>really like the overall design
>hate the color

who else here hates it unironically?

>>5629184
Just reprolabel the fuck out of it.

>>5629186
>reprolabels can change the color of paint
Fas'nating.

>>5628743
Not sure honestly. Considering they filtered FOC back when Fall of Cybertron came out, I wouldn't put it past them.

Wow I didn't realize the Neca general was full of Valve apologists.

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>>5629199
You're in the wrong thread, pal.

>>5628134
I'm not sure if you acknowledged it right after you said a remold was a bad idea, but it's already a huge engineering task to do, and yet that was the theme of the line at the time the poll was out. While there were non-gestalts at the time, I think they wanted to play on the main theme.

>>5628149
I think the way they did the poll was the problem, not that they had a poll.

I personally had a problem with voting when I didn't know what the previous results were, so the choice might be good for one of the previous results but not another. It's just too messy.

They could have done Four Horsemen's Fantastic Exclusive style voting where they had pre-planned concepts and you vote for smaller details, but also take user-submitted suggestions.

They wouldn't have even have had to process lots of user submissions if they had handled them the same way they handled the Hall of Fame voting where each major website narrowed them down by themselves and gave Hasbro the final 5.

>>5628222
Bleh. Now G2 Menasor is $90 shipped.

>>5629203
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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>>5628018
For anyone in the Philippines still looking for Protectobots: Toy Kingdom Megamall has a few collector card First Aids and Streetwises left.

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>>5629220
For those looking for Voyagers, they have everyone except Motormaster. They also seemed to have all the Leaders besides Skywarp and G1 Megatron.

No Shockwaves.

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>>5629223
Also I gotta say, I much prefer these cards to the comics. They should've just packed cards in with all the Deluxes, instead of changing it up depending on the region.

>>5628476

Isn't that Ruination?

>>5629225
>it's a "REEEEE why am I being forced to pay for IDW" episode

>>5629232
toys > comics

>>5629223
>that many Transformers in a single store
>having current waves

where the hell is this? The most I've ever seen is 4 pegs of Deluxes, two pegs of legends, and racks of Voyagers (all Silverbolts)

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>>5628957
>time machine inspired

Mattel owns the rights to that

>>5628948
close enough

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"Welcome to /tfg/, where everyone is autistic and the toys don't matter."

>>5629234
>being a secondary

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>>5629235
>where the hell is this?
Major toy store in a busy mall, somewhere in Southeast Asia. I should've taken a picture of the store layout, the shelves are beautifully stocked.

>>5629232
The comics are okay, and considering the cost of those issues on their own (200 PHP per issue), it makes for a good value proposition for your Transformer (CW Deluxes are 800 PHP).

I love the cards so much though, and every other size class already has them.

>>5629242

Toys are for children.

>>5628492
>not liking G2

kill thyself

>>5629160
Of course not. They never actually ask real questions.

>>5628318
>Vicky
>swear filter

wut

>>5629247
Wait, really?

>>5628468
G2 colors are cool though.

>>5629253
minecraft is cooler

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>>5629253
Some of the G2 colours are great and some not so much, though there's no accouting for taste.

Personally I think the Stuinitcons look great as individuals and shit as Menasor in G2 colours. I find the opposite with Superion though that may be because I find his G1 colours rather boring.

G2 bruticus is awesome though but like >>5628468 it'd be nice to have gotten the original colours first.

>>5629260
Where are the two other Stunticons?

>>5629267
Dunno, maybe they're off getting painted or something?

Did we ever find out if the new G2 air-raid has GPS?

>>5629274
too early yet for gps to show

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>>5629193
You can cover it up until it's bearable.

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>>5629278
>buying over priced stickers
>not learning how to paint in any capacity

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Which to get first?

They're both the japanese versions and I can only get one this month.

The only cons I'm aware of is that the paint on Magnus could be a bit too thick and sloppy in places.

>>5629289
They're both the same price where I'm buying from, I probably should have added that.

>>5629285
Which character do you like more? Do you have more nostalgia for Armada or the '86 Movie?

Do you already have a Megatron or an Ultra Magnus in your collection?

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>>5629295
wat

>>5629295
Maybe Seib can use its friendship with FunPub to make demands on Takara.

..Oh wait

>>5629294
I like them both equally and don't have any other incarnations in my collection.
The main decider is quality issues and stuff like that.

>>5629294
Yeah, quality-wise i think they are similarly good/bad. So it's up you.

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>>5629311
The two are on equal footing in terms of quality, I'd say. Since you like them about as much, I think you should go for Armada Megatron first.

Not that he's better, but Ultra Magnus won't be a loss if he goes out of stock; I have a feeling that the G1 character will be getting more rereleases than the Armada one.

>>5629314
>Ultra Magnus won't be a loss if he goes out of stock; I have a feeling that the G1 character will be getting more rereleases than the Armada one.
That's a very valid point, thanks man.

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Bought the United EX 2-pack mainly for Tankmaster years ago, didn't like Marinemaster much, but it turned out to match the rescuebot boat quite well.

>>5628925
Legends Blackarachnia has a male spider mode.

>>5628908
No, not worth it. You can get the OS KO for less than that regularly price anyway, and the KO has better quality.

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>>5629328
>High Tide
I like the fact that the big guy's essentially a Headmaster. Hopefully one day we get a toy of him that properly presents that functionality.

>>5629295
what do they have against light purple?

>>5629320
Also Powermaster Optimus Prime in TR is a retool of Ultra Magnus

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>>5629295
>Please stop using these colors that are accurate to what they looked like in the cartoon as opposed to their toys

I can understand a desire for a dark purple MP Shockwave, but there is nothing wrong with the color palette of the MP Shockwave we got.

So, I just decided to go ahead and buy Thunderhoof and Quillfire off of HTS.

Patience paid off for once.

>>5628552
>PRICES ARE TOO HIGH REEEEEE
>posts pic from TRU
Lol. Everyone knoes they are shit.

>>5629146

>hate the designs
>hate the colors

do I win?

Question from a non frequent lurker: Wuts up with the combiners currently in stores now anyways? Hasbro decided to get some g1/g2 transformers and turn them into combiners cause people still know these bots? Appealing to the 'i had those as a kid!' crowd or is it actually based on something? (comics perhaps?)

>>5629251

>Vicky
>blatant female name
>banned because not wanting to say Victorion, or "Victory On" is triggering

That's my theory anyway.

>You will say her full name and like it, shitlord

>>5629444
If you're talking about the g2 sets the ones currently out are just recolors of existing combiner transformers, the rest is all "hur dur I know them" with a few originals...very few

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>>5629444
Someone at Hasbro's Transformers team really loves combiners, and pitched the idea of an entire toyline based on G1-style combiner teams. Pitch probably went as follows:
>each wave is made up of an entire team of combining robots, urging buyers to buy the whole selection
>leftovers will still be purchased, because the style of combiner is totally interchangeable
>it doesn't matter if kids don't know who the character is, they will love combining robots
Hasbro saw the potential, and created the Combiner Wars line.

It appeals to the nostalgic crowd who grew up with the original combiner teams, it appeals to kids because of the fun gimmick, and it appeals to Hasbro's profits.

(There's also a comic for Combiner Wars, but that was initiated by Hasbro, not the comic team.)

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>>5629444
>cause people still know these bots?
There will always be people who still know whatever obscure Transformer character you can think of. Do you think a whole line of combiners is weird? Just check out what comes next.

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>>5629400
it's that weird on model but never look that rich in the show.
All the model shots and a few of the scenes in the show he was a very light purple.

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>>5629480
>but never look that rich in the show.
Only in season 1 is he a very dark purple.

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>>5629482
Season 2 he was on model for colors.

>>5629480
>>5629482
Can we even get purple in these shades?

I suppose one way around it is to paint the entire thing but that can have serious consequences...maybe I wouldn't have a clue

>>5629484
Wow, that's cute.

Could anyone with Bruticus and Legends Shockwave recreate that shot?

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>want to get hasbro headmaster teams
>want takara fort max

Will my collection look really odd, should I stop being a cheap ass or should I cheap ass the whole way?

>>5629491
Your collection will look just fine. Paintwork is gonna be different, yes, but all of the figures will have passed through the same team of designers. They're gonna look right together no matter your combination.

>>5629495
Even with the different heads on a few?

Hard head will be very noticeable

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>>5629491
I have Takara Metroplex and my Legends-scale figures are all Hasbro. Nothing looks weird

>>5629491
Im not seeing the issue.
Same molds different paints
I have UW and CW stuff together and you can't really catch a difference.

>>5629501
If the only thing you're getting from takara is the titan, who's head won't fit on the others, then youre fine. Literally no one is going to care.

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>>5629344
His armored form is basically what Omega Supreme would look like if it had an Earth mode.

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I fucked up and missed the rest of the Defensor deluxes. Do any of the Sky Reign bots work as the fourth Protectobot limb?

>>5629400
>but there is nothing wrong with the color palette of the MP Shockwave we got
This might blow your mind, but some people value aesthetics over accuracy. Light purple, ESPECIALLY unpainted light purple plastic looks kinda like shit.

>>5629531

Groove.

>>5629531
If you are willing to remove the racing numbers Smokescreen looks close to a chines fire rescue squad car.

>>5629531
there is groove coming...

>>5629507
I guess apart from the chrome he's kinda plain otherwise, makes me glad about my hasbro one.

>>5629508
Mostly in the heads for some of them

>>5629512
KEK, this is true, cheers, think I've made my choice

>>5629400
>Please stop using these colors that are accurate to what they looked like in the cartoon as opposed to their toys
Well, why would they be accurate for Shockwave when they've taken liberties with many of the new MPs? It makes Shockwave stand out in the display, but not in a good way.

G2 Superion is back down to $75 Shipped on Amazon.

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>>5629538
>>5629540
Oh fuck I totally forgot

Thank god for May Madness.

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Holy grail masterpieces?

> galvatron+team
>megatron 2.0
>g2 tank megatron
>warpath
>blitzwing
>astrotrain
>sunstreaker
>arcee
>springer
>kup
>remaining cone head seekers
>beast wars megatron
>victory leo
>overlord
>bludgeon

I know we won't get many of these for various reasons but they'd make my day.

I'll quit collecting with just an mp galvatron/megatron 2.0 alone

>>5629550
Not really. The new MPs are focusing on show accuracy. We're no longer stuck with the days of "Make the best jet ever lol what's a Starscream" hacks.

>>5629567
G1:
- Victory Leo
- God Ginrai
- Hound
- Sunstreaker

BW
- Transmetal Megatron

RiD
- Scourge

Movies
- Bumblebee: '07, Dotm
- Ironhide
- Ratchet
- Optimus Prime
- Sideswipe
- Hound

>>5629567
Mine are

>G2 Color accurate bumblebee (gold face, blue arms)
>Jhiaxus (not a shitty starscream retool)
>Waspinator
>Horrorcons
>Galvatron
>Scourge
>Cyclonus
>Kup
>Springer
>Dreadwing
>Grotusque
>Rupungus
>Counterpunch
>Lockdown (as a wheeljack retool)
>Megatron 2.0
>Seaspray

I know a handful of these have good 3rd party releases, especially X-transbots versions of Scourge and Cyclonus, but I still would like HasTak official MP's.

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>>5629577
>MP Movie Optimus

>>5629567
In order of feasibility, I think these are most likely to be made from your list:
>remaining cone head seekers
>galvatron+team
>beast wars megatron
>sunstreaker
>megatron 2.0

>>5629591
That's just a nicely painted leader toy.

Take out the electronics, give it something like the redone AoE face swap gimmick, remove swords, add in some rubber tires and thinner too, and have it to where the backpack can compress into the now electonicless torso to make him slimmer.

Then maybe you can call it a Masterpiece.

>>5629567
>Deathsaurus
>Beast Wars Megatron
>G1 Cyclonus
>Armada or Cybertron Starscream

>>5629591
Not gonna lie, the RotF Leader Optimus Prime mold and the HftD Leader Starscream mold are masterpieces without a doubt for the movie characters.

>>5629247

It's a consumer culture. Stuff of "for" anyone who buys it and likes it.

>>5629295

Dude, that lavender repaint of G1 Galvy is one of the three best transformers ever made. If you don't like it, you are objectively stupid.

>>5629597
>add in some rubber tires
So they can rot and fall off and get replaced by third party plastic tires anyways? Okay. Sounds good. There is a reason rubber tires aren't used anymore on toys.

I want a retool of the new Mindwipe mold, where instead of a bat alt mode has a Vic Viper like mode
also, where are my Seacons?

>>5629567
Super Ginrai
Victory Leo
Sixshot
Tarantulas
Snapdragon
the mini-cassette combiners

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>>5629610
I didn't make it, ripped it from seibertron galleries, but I agree

>>5629611
I want them as an option personally, if optibotimus's mp10 tires have rotten already then this worries me

>>5629612
>Tarantulas

Hnnnnggggg I'd cut my dick off for an MP Tarantuals. In all seriousness an upscaled version of the Transmetals 2 tarantulas with better arm articulation and some basic finger articulation would make it.

>>5629614
>optibotimus
I'm going to go with being a slob might have sometime to do with premature wear. My MP-10s are perfectly fine.

Also, I suggest using a rubber dressing to keep your items from drying out.

>>5629491

Love each figure for what it is; judge each on it's own terms, not on how it looks with others.

Your wallet will thank you, and your collection will be varied and eclectic, the way all the great collections of the world are.

>>5629491

a thousand times this >>5629622.

Buy what you like, judge on your own. Watch reviews and look at pictures before you purchase, make sure that version is the version for you. If you like the light colored Hasbro blurr over the takara one with the dark blue trim, get the hasbro one. No one can tell you how to spend your money for your collection.

>>5629630
>suggesting hasbro's

>>5629622
>>5629630
These are the choices I've made, though only for the original head master team.

I feel in love with scourge and blurr from takara already, just felt worried mixing up guys from an actual team around is all

>>5629638
>Putting your team first before what the person might actually prefer

>>5629591
Someone needs to make a set of functional tires that collapse inwards for him. As well as ditch those steps on the sides of his knees

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>>5629645
If you're worried about mixing within the team, remember how Hasbro gave Brake-Neck and Quickslinger their own decos, but Deluxe Groove is a straight UW import.

>>5629648
The RotF Megatron is getting an upgrade kit sometime soon that makes his whole solid plastic arm cannon something a lot nicer. I wouldn't doubt but that an upgrade kit will come out for Prime too.

>>5629653
we really don't have any solid proof he is even being imported yet. For all we know it could be a mexico exclusive.

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>>5629659
Botcon confirmed that he'll be released in a similar fashion to Wildrider and Slingshot next month.

>>5629659
Which is why some of us have taken to online dealers to avoid complications.

Here in Australia we never for quick slinger and brake neck for example

>>5629666

Hail satan.

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>>5629486

>>5629184
I think the head is fucking ugly and yes, the colors are awful. If it looked anything like the comic designs in this thread it would at least be passable.

>>5629235
>where the hell is this? The most I've ever seen is 4 pegs of Deluxes, two pegs of legends, and racks of Voyagers (all Silverbolts)

Pegs?! I'm lucky to see 4 Deluxes and 2 legends period!

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>>5629480
>>5629482
>>5629484
my problem with the MP is the proportions, he's not as intimidating as the show. also the MP follows the long forearms of the toy and character model, rather than the normal arms in the actual show

>>5629751
one on the right looks like he is constipated or in pain.
>"why my shoulders hurt"

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>>5629751
He's a handicap Cyclops that gets his ass kick all the fucking time. retarded military guys, midgets, fembots, humans has all beat his ass, he never one had a moment to shine. There is nothing intimidating about him.
And frankly he is show accurate and your shop doesn't improve things.

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>>5629756
oh i agree, he's a total wimp, but it's nice to have the option to make him look cool

i bought him because of TF Devastation though, where he was quite badass and looked even more like the show than the MP

>>5629756
He was way more intimidating in the comics. I don't think I'd ever push for Marvel-accurate MPs, though.

>>5629756
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ItfWY3xMQ

Anyway, I'm still waiting for that delivery of the CW Combaticon limbs. Ordered on the 11th and shipped on the 12th. Afraid to go outside case I miss the delivery.

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>>5629812
He got completely memed on by Galvatron

Which should I get first: UW Bruticus or Computron?

>>5629838
Computron's more unique in tooling compared to the Hasbro one so maybe him?

>>5629838
Bruticus, since UW Computron is estimated to get released more than a month after him.
Or are you talking about Hasbro's Computron?

>>5629569
Most of the newer MPs have nice glossy finishes and Shockwave is a matte purple. It's jarring.

>>5628640
>Those lewd reflective eyes
>There is no way that she wasn't intended to be lewd
Circular reasoning is a blatant and very embarrassing logical fallacy. You'd better be glad you're posting anonymously there, son.

Again, bodies aren't lewd. Bodies are just the physical manifestation of people(or in this case, little plastic robots). It is thoughts and actions that assert lewdness onto said bodies that is lewd.

>>5629246
>Smegma Mall
Can't unread.

>>5629567
>Holy grail masterpieces?
MP Cybertronian females, all with original molds. No exceptions.

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>>5631641

So these girls plus Elita-1?

I'm really tempted by TFCC's line up for Subscription Service 5.0. (I like it in a "so bad it's good" kind of way.)

I never got bothered with the club before. Should I go through the the club or a third party like BBTS?

>>5631678

You can't go through the club. They're closing up shop and halted any new members from joining a few weeks ago. BBTS or another seller is your only option.

>>5631681
oh.. okay

Did a bunch of posts get deleted from this thread? We're above bump limit

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Should I get him, Brushguard and/or Warpath?

I like rugged little jeeps.

>>5631773
It's kind of a shitty toy. The arms suck and the gimmick is weak.

>>5629449
Maybe because giving it a female human nickname is autistic.

>>5631762
Yep, par for the course from these morons.

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>>5631829

You seem upset.

Maybe take a break from the internet?

Or at least realize that saying 'Vicky' is no different that calling Optimus Prime just 'Prime', or Nova Prime 'Nova'.

>>5631886
No, it's not the same thing. Calling Optimus Prime "Opty" would be on par with calling Victorion "Vicky". And just as autistic.

>>5631654
No, every female who is from the planet Cybertron.

>>5632006

the only autist I see is the one insisting that nicknames are bad.

>spoiler: it's you

>>5632290

and there were only these 4 + Elita-1 in the cartoon, so that is all you are going to get in the MP line.

>but Road Rage wasn't in the cartoon either!

Since she is a Tracks retool, that was easy to do.

Now, kindly see >>5628318.

>>5632308

>inb4 you forgot about Arcee

Welp.