/tfg/ - Transformers General

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Someone use this for something

>>5846396
I don't like this because Nautica is pure.

>>5846419
Allah hail Optimus.
or
Jihadimus Prime.

>>5846425
Jihadamus Prime rolls of the tongue nicely.

>>5846426
*Off

>>5846426
Introducing
New Robot Jihadimus Prime
Only for 19.99$
Explosives
47 Virgins Action Feature

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>>5846419
Why don't you use the actual sandy truck.

>>5846435
Introducing
New Robot
Sandy Vagina
Upset that he wasn't picked for a bad joke.
Only for 19.99$

>>5846435
What gun is that?

>>5846396
Are these memes popular on /co/ at all?

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>>5846440
Loss is a way of life

>>5846437
Gun that was included with the Evasion Optimus Prime mold from AOE. It's meant to represent DOTM Meg's shotgun and even has tabs for that toy to hold it.

>>5846396
>using a walky meme with fagbots

You are pure cancer.

>>5846446
Oh cool. Might find KOs of both. Thanks.

>>5846447
>>>/t/fw2005
Go back pls

>>5846440
memes are popular at first and then they just keep getting reused until they lose any meaning or even humor they once had.

>>5846457
You first.

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>send all forum memes back

If elected sentinel trump will bring his own cancerous memes and make us all pay for them, all for 19.99$.

Batteries not included, but maybe, we like batteries, oh I was kidding, get out of here

>>5846483
You first.

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>tfw just ordered TR Brainstorm
I'm not taking any chances this time since Groove sold out in literally a day.

>>5846515
The set? Or Walgreens?

>>5846516
Walgreens. The set is shit.

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Here, have a fixed scourge

>>5846520
Where? The Robot Kingdom thing?

>>5846522
Kapowtoys.

>>5846521
The only thing in that image that needs fixing is the camera

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>>5846521

what's fixed?

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>>5846544
he painted some of the details in silver.

Because of the shitty pic I can't tell if he meets hasbro qc or middle school standards

>>5846564
middle school is actually a higher standard than what Hasbro can handle in their paints.

>>5846521
There's still a midget hanging off the back of his head, and the soap mode probably hasn't changed, so nah.

>>5846534
it's a crap phone, some of us aren't able to afford a dslr and 500 watt lights for a lightbox.

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>>5846580
This camera cost me $150aud no light box no effort

>>5846585
and how fucking bright is your room?

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>>5846587
I got my bedside lamp not less than a meter away

I decided to take it again with my LG L70 as a comparison, quality may of dipped as I uploaded it elsewhere before hand and then cropped it

>>5846580
I use my iPhone camera on a bayside window and my pictures don't look like absolute fucking dogshit

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>>5846588
>>5846585
I dare say looking at them both looking at them back my phone is nearly just as shit, and it cost more than the camera.

Oh well I paid for the phone not the camera, never was a fan of all in one devices, coulda saved money and bought an ishit to do it all but I had transformers to buy when I made those 2 choices

>>5846594
daylight is FUCKING BRIGHT.

you take a picture in the dark of night with your phone, see if you get better.

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>>5846604
I actually take photos at night most of the time. Pic related

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>Platinum Edition Blitzwing and Astrotrain
>For $31

Emmm,
should i?
It seems like a good price and not to mention might be nice next to the new figures

>>5846611
If you like chunky g1 figures and like/don't mind the colors go for it. I had both those molds as a kid and they were loads of fun. Anyone know if their weapons are on 5mm pegs?

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TF Yuki tweeted this. Minerva confirmed?

>>5846643
>Minerva confirmed?
That's Victorion's head mate

>>5846643
That's evil Vicky from SkyReign's comic.

>>5846643
Ain't that Victorion? I mean I guess Minerva is possible for the gestalt.

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>>5846521
I redid a pic with daylight, maybe one of these damn days I will get my camera to work better in darker settings.

maybe this will shut up this bickering you folks are on about because i took a quick pic with a tablet+flashlight.

>>5846656
protip: use natural light. best lighting there is.

not sure if the risidual blurryness is because of the low light, or if because you're a sally-shakyhands.

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>>5846653
Has there actually been any info on it?
I don't think she's evil, they're just shadowed out to not show the color scheme.

>>5846656
Stop jerking off too much to your toys that's why your pictures are blurry as shit.

>>5846660
Torsobot says she's Emperor of Destruction's waifu.

>>5846657
unsupported tripod to try and stop my shaky hands, but you at least see my detailing better...

still wish there was a more solidly sleek cyclonus at this size, such a swooshable design, and neither this, nor the classics mold are very swooshable without things getting smooshed out of place...

>>5846660
This teaser here >>5846643 strongly suggests otherwise.

>>5846656
cyclonus turned out better blur wise.

Maybe step back, your camera seems to suffer when things get too close, your detailing is nice btw, hand paint or spray can may I ask?

The chest area has a bit of excess silver on the sides of the abs (as in the inner wall) but the crisp nature suggest spray can with minimum masking, not knocking, just curious because I'm doing a similar thing to my skull cruncher

>>5846668
Really? I don't see anything pointing to her being evil other than the fact that Decepticons often have red eyes.

>>5846669
It's off-focus. The focal length of his camera is about where Cyclonus is.

>>5846670
see >>5846663

>>5846671
Well, there we go.

>>5846670
The comic has been translated, torso bot/pyra magna mentions she's the wife of the grand emperor of destruction aka galvatron.

Its evil, and the paint scheme ain't gonna be as boring with some luck

>>5846675
>torso bot/pyra magna mentions she's the wife of the grand emperor of destruction aka galvatron
Well damn. That's gotta be one complicated relationship considering he's stuck inside Cyclonus.
Anyone got the translated version?

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>>5846675
>paint scheme ain't gonna be as boring
So have they ever explained in the comics why the Vicky girls are in Perceptor's colorscheme?

>>5846682
None, but remember its the fan vote that decided their colors, guess they saw no need to explain the colors

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>bought sentinel prime online seeing it was $14 cheaper than retail
>think hard
>"ah the exclusive head will suit me fine"
>turned out that same head was being used on the ehobby optimus primal pack
>wanted refund but couldn't do it because no refunds
>see sentinel prime in a store
>"i-i guess I'm ok with this"
>wasn't because I remembered I managed to out in a pre-order for the legends astrotrain knowing they use the same body
>ask for store credit instead
>noticed they had mp cheetor up for pre-order
>tried to apply credit
>no code in email they sent
>turns out the code was part of the sentence of telling me my code
>now have mp cheetor $30 cheaper all up on pre-order

Shame I couldn't get free shipping but now I don't have to settle for sentinel prime, admittedly I wanted the SDCC set but since I went full takara on the deluxe headmasters/hate the windblade colors more than a clear orange astrotrain I think this works out nicely

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>you are a designer at hasbro
>you are tasked with coming up with a brand new gimmick for the newest toy line
>an all new show will be used to carry said gimmick with the usual leader, deluxe, voyager and legion lines, possibly renamed classes as thanks to rid2015
>the cast is entirely new with the usual optimus prime megatron type characters in place but in a different universe allowing for full creativity
>there are limits for the gimmick
>rule one-YOU CANNOT USE AN EXISTING IDEA FROM ANY PREVIOUS TRANSFORMERS LINE-no g1 call backs such as pretenders
>rule two-NO ELECTRONICS OR MOTORS as they are not cost effective, can be applied to larger toys (leaders ONLY) but CANNOT be the main entire line gimmick
>rule three-MUST ADHERE TO INTERNATIONAL SAFETY STANDARDS, no sparks must be emitted, etc
>rule four-WHATEVER GIMMICK IN PLACE THERE MUST BE SOMETHING THAT INTEGRATES IT INTO THE ENTIRE LINE SO EVEN THE LEGIONS HAVE A PART IN IT
>rule five-IT MUST BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE USED IN THE SHOW FREQUENTLY AS TO HELP SELL THE TOY
>rule six-THE MAIN GIMMICK CANNOT, I REPEAT, CANNOT BE A DECENT TRANSFORMER WITH DECENT ARTICULATION, you don't win friends with salad

>>5846682
I wish they had perceptor's colorscheme completely. They don't have enough colors to break up all that red and teal.

It makes be made because there was supposed to be a third color included but someone either fucked up or though those colors with no separation was a great idea.

>>5846704
There are silver accents and white.

They needed something that didn't just blend in

>>5846701
No. Since all TF gimimick for the first part were already used in the 80's and AEC finished off anything else.

So with the no call back rule it pretty much makes it so transformers are the fucking gimmick.

because no call backs means:
-no combining
-no micro/minicon
-no spark gimmicks
-no motors means no auto change gimmicks
-no auto-moph gimmick
-No rock launchers
- No color changing
- No Masters
-no beasts

List goes on.

>>5846709
The silver and white aren't used to break up the color though.

Perceptor uses the black on him to at least seperate his torso and legs, the bearers don't even get that. Its just red and teal just flowing together and it doesn't look good.

>>5846701
No callbacks make this impossible

>>5846701
You first. Those rules are horseshit.

>>5846701
>>5846714
>>5846723
How about a Transformer that doesn't Transform that is not even a Robot? Oh wait that's a G.I. Joe figure...

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>>5846701
Swappable limbs with integrated weapons, like Hero Mashers but able to be integrated into the figure's transformation.

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>>5846701
Sounds like whatever meeting that came up with these Dickie Toys licensed stuff.

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>>5846714
>motors means no auto change gimmicks
Motors as in something that causes the transformer to roll under its own power are out as that may be too expensive and wouldn't work for a legion class toy, something with gears/springs could work as that isn't a motor.

But we had automorphs/mech tech already so that's out

>>5846723
>>5846726
The idea of this exercise is to get something "fresh", something never thought of, so how about this.

>customization
No heads coming off or diy combiners, what about interchangeable armor, legions can become pieces of armor/have their own armor sets (included or in blind bags) with the ability to use between all classes, you could give optimus prime "stealth" armor that can work for bumblebee or whoever else, and it can be use in vehicle mode (folds up into a weapons rack).

Been building alot of gunpla lately, and with the build fighters they put alot of thought into the whole mix and match, so just simple pieces of plastic that turns into armor, just simple armor frames, could we go as far as having them stick on as they transform, don't think so, but as a parts forming gimmick they could work as weapon storage, would leave room for blind bag options.

>seek out all of the legendary power armor!

Its not quite pretenders because they change the entire thing by encasing it into a shell, this is just something akin to body armor/barbie clothing in a sense, just my idea, would work in hasbro's favor since its cheap

>>5846728
That can work, I honestly hate using my little pony as an example but I'm an ass anyway, that show where the ponies became school girls?

Make a show where the transformers are infact humanoids in boot camp, an excuse to have articulated human reditions of optimus prime shooting megatron?

>>5846732
Sounds a bit like mech tech but you know what, I like this one, I was hoping for ones like this, whole arms and legs coming off and being integrated weapons, using spring loaded gimmicks or conversions

>>5846440
/v/ mostly.

>>5846754
Construct-bots has you beat.

>>5846755
More like r9k

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>>5846743
That is just a simple cash in and nothing to do with the show apart from the name and likeness, that said they look kinda nifty and would be something I'd buy after getting extra work pay out of impulse

>>5846760
On one hand you're correct, on the other they don't fit into any toy line as they mix movie stuff with g1, and mostly a cash in on the line.

My idea is based on armor attachments on already playable toys, those constructobots are convertible bionicle, you don't need to "build" armor that goes over a pre-constructed toy (they'd have a base body so loosing the given armor would only loose a small feature not like headmasters where they loose heads or combiners without hfg's can't combine), of course this might be used in said hasbro meeting as a reason for why it shouldn't exist so its a fair call

Trying to inject create innovation in a world full of budgets, and the need to "step back" into proven ideas is the easy way out, bit like why cars keep resorting to fossil fuels, because it works, but the need to go forwards is hard and scary for new adopters.

Purpose of what I'm trying to see if there is hope for the brand in the future, we can't keep pumping out combiners forever and ever (as much as, admittedly, I LOVE combiner wars), people would get sick of power masters and minicons, sometimes an old brand needs a new push

>about to go out for another fruitless search for TR in local TRUs
>check mail
>2 tax credit checks totaling $360 CAD
>praise Trudeau Jr and cash them in
time to order the fuck outta these TR toys onlline

SDCC stuff is up, HTS is on dial-up speeds as is tradition.

>>5846669
Paint pen in hand, acrylic painters silver, any accidental bleed is removanle with a wood toothpick and no scratches left behind, the silver around the abs works just slightky to me, makes it look less "bare belly" and more "armor variance"

The red on the headgun was a small bubble out of an acrylic paint tube i put on and wiped off the outside before letting dry, the black beard, just go with a narrow point, sharpie works, but can easily fuck up things if you mess up, i prefer paint pens, but black never comes in stock around me

I would love to see your skullcruncher

>>5846701
I had a very similar armor idea to what you described. Bots would come with armor bits you can swap but vehicle/vehicle attachment drones and even a few characters could transform into armor attachments like jetpacks or gun-harnesses.

Another idea I had would be a "battle mode" or "adrenaline mode" or whatever. Some stuff on one of the modes turns into cybertronian weaponry and the like, maybe a facemask pops up or lights and sound gimmicks activate.

>>5846781
>praise Trudeau Jr

Kek.

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When will he get an MP?

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Might anyone have a suggestion as to how I could tighten the hip joints on my CW Mixmaster without taking it apart?
I spent a good half hour yesterday piddling around with him and it looks as thought if you were to take apart his torso, then the hip section is literally the last piece that comes apart and I'd really rather not deal with that considering how difficult most of the screws are to access.

They're just barely tight enough for him to stand up in robot mode but in combiner mode when they form the back/forward ankle articulation it's unposeably floppy when it tries to support the entire weight of Devastator.

>>5846771
It's still already been done. You said no callbacks, now you're breaking your own damn rule
>>5846813
DOTM already did the cybertronian weaponary with Leader class Bumblebee.

>>5846701
First off, new factions, totally seperate from the great decepticon autobot war, let us try to fill in all transformers history with more species offshoots and worlds.

Female villian commander of an autobot offshoot species, all the villians are bland cars trucks wetc, but modified like lockdown or mad max, every transformation gives an asymmertical robot.

Heroes are fliying craft, but transformation for them is onky a last resort, everyone seems to wear the flying xraft as clothing of sorts in robot mode (tfa blitzwing, rid starscream, crosshairs, spockimus prime and rotf breakaway type)

Everyone heroic has no built in weaponry, but uses a self built tool to fight.

Linewide gimmick is a build-n-bash gimmick, villians get more mad max things added from legion figures, heroes use the parts to make hammers whrenches axes and swords.

All of it uses the old c clip system, but in reverse, the vehicles have the clips, the gimmick brings the rods.

Leaders get lights and missile firing weapon/tool bits

When first meeti the known transformers factions, the heroes ally with megatron mistakenly, before seeing how horrible he is to his subjects, then the villians show up and trick the autobots into attacking heroes, our old leader gets nearky kiled, a young autobot (strongarm say) defects to the heroes, exposing the autobots having been trixked, and reveals the new villians, who outdo all but megatron, moving strarscream over to becoming an autobot ally because he gains more power on that side.

Have the humans be explorers of space, and earth is in the future with a viable space operation and has been an ally to the autobots for some time.

>>5846701
Transformers: heavy duty.

Basically: parts of the transformers can be rotated or removed to portray battle damage.

>>5846823
Already done in beast wars, even had him again in dotm in purple.

>>5846818
Q-tip/brush/toothpick with future shine?

>>5846826
Not battle damage, that was a "dead" mode.

>>5846815
I trash talk that guy whenever my life gets hard.
And then praise him whenever my life gets better.
Such is life in Canada.

>>5846819
We counting individual gimmicks now? I was under the impression we were thinking of line-wide gimmicks.

>>5846834
If it's been done before it counts as a callback.

And wasn't the weaponizer thing also done in Prime, and also with the other Leader class DOTM figures?

>>5846822
>Female villian commander of an autobot offshoot species, all the villians are bland cars trucks wetc, but modified like lockdown or mad max, every transformation gives an asymmertical robot.

I'm already sold. Good idea anon, shame there's no way HasTak would go that far out with the franchise.

>>5846828
That would probably work but I'd need to work out a way to actually get it in inside, I'd probably just have to outright soak it.

Does any bran of floor polish work for that or does it need to be pledge floor finish?

So what's /tfg/'s headcanon justification for Headmasters?

Mine's like the Titans Return storybook, where the headmasters give the individual bots special powers. In addition, headmasters can switch between each other during combat and on the fly. If a headmaster is not connected to a bot for more than 10 seconds the bot is incapacitated until a headmaster fuses with it. However when in head mode the headmaster does not have any personality, the main robot is the one in control.

>>5846580
I have a 4s, two 10 dollar lamps I got at the thrift store and foamboard from walmart and even I can take a decent shot every now and then.

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I just CANNOT believe that they didn't use this form as the jet mode for TR Galvatron.

>>5846822
Ooh! Last thoinh, titan class figure forms playset and spaceship (not robot in space dammit, better than tidal wave!) And if you collected all of the legion class bits, he gains a third mode (tank, battlestation or research/repair base with mining drill, deoending on budgets )

And if i didn't make it clear, the villians should have a feral fighting style, with built in weaponry.

Asked in the last thread

I ordered skullcruncher off of hlj with standard shipping, is there any way to track it or will I just have to wait?

>>5846430
>47 virgins
yeah, the racist or perverted 13 year olds who think family guy humor is funny.

>>5846855
What's it like being a 13 year old racist family guy humor?

>>5846842
Eh, rid gave us furry cons and an optimus free story (for leadership at least) and with gayformers in comics, tranny arcee being retconned as a lost subspecies and windblade, i think it could happen... Remote possibility, but it could...

If nothing else, some third party should take the idea and make it work as a subfiction.

>>5846845
My headcanon is that Vos-type transformers became so effective in the battlefield that the both sides came up with the Titan Master system to mitigate getting neutralized by getting headshotted.

>>5846850
Hlj, no tracking.

Least, it didn't used to do any two years ago.

>>5846850
I'm honestly not sure I think if they gave you any sort of package number at all, you can check online and may get something. Then again, that was an American package (but it didn't have tracking, I'm certain of that).

>>5846855
>posting in a children's toyline thread
>thinks allusion to watching a 14+ cartoon is an insult
smhtbhfam

>>5846845
Depends on the character, for gfalvatron, the head is his essence, but his spark is in his body, he controls both simultaneously, can't be killed easily, scourge, he was refit with simikar tech after kosing the sweeps, hardhead, built by humans and then classic cartoon headmasterization, but no soul in the body, just a remote control system.

Blurr, he neded a copilot due to failing reflexes.

Thoughts on the titan return line so far?

>>5846701
A vintage vehicle line set in the 1910s.
With old timey cars, train and biplanes. They could even get some steamboats and sailboats I guess.
And maybe they could have a transformer that was a horse drawn carriage with a horse that turns into the transformer's gun.

I don't fucking know, they this series has done every gimmick imaginable.

>>5846874
fanfuckingtastic.
I actually have a reason to buy the toys together and play together.
I can literally play my own Transformers tabletop game.

>>5846877
Are transformers that are made out of wood instead of metal and plastic even a thing?

>>5846880
actually, yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18BX_MVl7i0

>>5846845
Titanmasters are Cybertronian parasites that eat the insides of larger Transformers. The tiny guys hollow out the larger transformers, controlling them as vehicles or re-purposing them into bases. The strongest titanmasters replace the heads of their hosts.

>>5846878
>HYPERFIRE casts fist!

>>5846701
NFC chips in their feet and a skylanders ripoff tie-in game

>>5846848
Looks like a X-Wing.

>>5846884
AH YES
I'M DEFINITELY GONNA DO THAT

>>5846882
>Turn Party

>>5846845
Basically the Japanese continuity where the real robot is the headmaster and the body is a power suit. Except that the bodies are also simple drones when in altmode. I liked the idea of the Decepticon Headmasters being trainers to their beast drones in the US series.

>>5846860
This is a really cool idea. Something like the Headmaster system simply existing to lower "critical" points on a TF?

>>5846874
>>5846878
It's seriously the first line where I'm buying all of Wave 1 for every size class.

And even the straight repaints of the Tiran Masters because I need an army of them

>>5846850
It should still give tracking, I think, did it say it was shipping already?

And by standard shipping you mean you didn't use ems right?

>>5846897
>I liked the idea of the Decepticon Headmasters being trainers to their beast drones in the US series.

Same, too bad it was only in the commercials.

>>5846848
Huh, neat.

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>legends transformers now on amiami

Oh boy the prices look much better here.

>>5846701
Fully original characters and designs like in the Unicron Trilogy, with various Brave-style combining gimmicks throughout the line. The main character of the show gets upgrades when new members join the team to further power up his super mode, like in many Brave shows.

Most characters also have themed altmodes and have hat/helmet designs to fit this. For example, a construction vehicle character that wears a hard hat in robot mode.

>>5846897
yeah pretty much.
plus in my headcanon both sides were running low on manpower so they started to recruit/kidnap their smaller diminutive brethren and reformat them into Titan Masters.

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So which titan masters and their vehicle throw ins best homage the original toys?

Deciding between legends or hasbro offerings, I got hasbro crashbash since I had shockwave x3 already, and since I'm getting wheelie and rewind (want him to match my takara blaster) I got go shooter and nightbeat as well.

But I have little need to get terri-bull or apeface from the takara offerings (still deciding on soundwave), and ape face's vehicle from hasbo homages him pretty well, so which out of the current hasbro cast has the best vehicle accessory homage to their old toys other than pic related

>>5846874
Such a nice change from samefag mold reuse in CW. Not to mention I love the Headmaster gimmick, beastformers, and the fact that there's so much more interactivity between titan masters besides forming the head of a robot and riding in the cockpit. I love these little piloted turrents and pegs that let the titan masters stand on vehicles.

>>5846902
I'm a bit pissed the shipping date is December, instead of November. I have no reason to get them from Amiami, now.

>>5846911
Except that TR does just about as much of mold samefagging as CW did.

Misinformed twat.

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>>5846912
I'm waiting on hlj myself, just for brainstorm.

>tfw you paid slightly more from premium collectables

If only I knew the price drops amiami (and potentially hlj) would do, no matter, brainstorm is my priority

>>5846899
I used SAL, they gave me an order number, but not tracking number

I was thinking if I could track it once it came to the states but I'm not sure how I'd be able to find it in the first place

>>5846917
but it's a GOOD kind of mold reuse
Mold reuses like Brainstorm/Blurr and Scourge/Highbrow are very okay in my book

>>5846917
Yeah, it's also doing the Alpha Bravo<->Vortex, releasing the literally-who trick with Sentinel Prime <-> Astrotrain

>>5846917
Currently its not as bad though, sure we got shit like blaster to soundwave (slight retool) and astrotrain and sentinel prime (new head only) and chromedome to what's his name, but we got scourge to highbrow, if we had more retools like that I'd be happy

>>5846922
...er not so much blurr to brainstorm, blurr was clearly made for blurr with brainstorm as the after thought, if they changed the vehicle tail section to have 2 wings rather than the one I'd be just ok, now I'll look at it knowing who its from

>>5846920
Did you just literally place the order now?

They give order number first, then ship it once its packed, log into your account and check around in "my orders" to see its status, it might just be paid for, not moving.

>>5846928
Yeah, Brainstorm being a Blurr retool was kind of stupid, and made worse by the Triggerhappy they're planning to release in wave 3, since Triggerhappy would have made a better base for a retool.

>>5846928
I tell you man, all these construct-bots and Kre-Os have made something click in the collective heads of the design team when it comes to mold reuse.
Soon we'll be able to buy some shelfwarmer to disassemble it and then use the parts to fix our favorite transformer toys.

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>>5846936
What's stopping us now?

>>5846682

They're from the sea of rust. So they're in a rusty red and oxidized copper color scheme.

>>5846939
AW SHIT WE'RE ALREADY THERE?
I thought that was just a fan repaint

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>>5846917
Yeah, because TR has had so many head-only retools and straight repaints. Getaway, Astrotrain, and the cassettes are the only ones so far. Everything else that is reusing a mold retools the shit out of it, like Blurr/Brainstorm, Blaster/Soundwave, Scourge/Highbrow, etc.

>>5846948
....it is just a fan repaint.

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>>5846948
Its a fan repaint, calm down.

I'm doing a similar thing to a hasbro skullcruncher, won't be as good since I'm only doing the pink sections with minimal disassembly

>>5846931
No, it shipped two days ago, and I'm not seeing any extra info other than an invoice number, which I'm not sure will help

>>5846950
It's still mold samefagging, retooled or not.

>>5846950
Most of the titanmaster vehicles already have straight repaints. Some of those titanmaster like Crashbash/Clobber have the same titanmaster body with swapped faces.

>>5846958
So they sent you a shipping notice?

Because they're supposed to send that too

...before I go on have you used hlj before, just to make sure

>>5846848
Keep the legs together and it looks like cowboy bebops red ship, anon.

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>>5846974
the booster would have to be round to look like the Swordfish II

>>5846962
Yes they sent me an email saying it shipped, but no tracking number, and I bought bruticus from them using ems and that came with a tracking number

>>5846987
Hrm, I used SAL with other companies and they sent tracking, mind you they were limited tracking and not comprehensive like ems, ordered some sh figurarts mario thing from "nippon japan" and despite it being sent alone they gave me a number

Maybe shoot them an email and ask if sal is supposed to have tracking, its all I have, sorry man

>>5846643
If anything, that white extra "eye" on the head crest makes me think even more that this definitely involves Esmeral.

>>5846947
And beyond that, there were a sort of religious task force before that. I consider the colors to basically be a uniform.

>>5846704
>>5846709
>>5846719
What they needed was to not use all of the colors everywhere on everyone. Think of the Constructicons, for example. you have Bonecrusher who is almost all green, Long Haul is green and black mostly, and then the others mix green and purple mostly. It gives more variety. If one of the twins was all red and the other green it might help, for example. Rust Dust (Groove) stands out a bit in the set because she has a lot of black on her and not much red-orange. It helps make her a bit less busy.

>>5847006
I'm getting Breastforce vibes out of that Victorion, but I'm probably imagining things.

>>5846910
Apeface, naturally. Skytread (Flywheels) does a nice job of being a tank and jet, although neither are perfect matches for his G1 look. The jet with treads does resemble his IDW look a bit. Fangry looks to be another good one too.

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>>5847015
>gender-flipped Breastforce comic drawn by Sakamoto

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>>5847015
>>5847028
The dialog on the legends minicomic suggest the Pyramagna counterpart to be Lyzack, Leozack sister.

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When's Brainstorm gonna start flooding US shelves so I can stop seeing shitters trying to sell them for $85 fucking Freedomerica Eagledollars and people sell them for more reasonable prices?

I mean, no one seriously thinks they're gonna sell those for $80+ right? Even $25 would be stretching it.

>>5847043
but the pyra magna counterpart is supposedly the wife of the emperor of destruction, she was more or less a maid if I'm not mistaken?

I'd love to have her but not as a car chopper or firetruck

>>5847043
She refers to herself as the wife of the emperor, which fits Esmeral, Deathsaurus' wife, better imo. I would not be shocked if Lyzack ended up in there too though.

>>5847046
Can't remember if it was on the 10 or 30 that some reviewers said.

>>5846939
>>5846954
Looks nice anon, that's not the Clobber headmaster is it?

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>>5847055
It is

>>5847055
It is but it looks like he painted, or switched the hands since they match clobbers colors more (they're dark brown on the actual figure).

Anyone have the tablet soundwave? Is it worth it?

>>5847071
no, but I've seen enough reviews.

If you want something that can stand along the megatron megadrive and optimus prime featuring playstation/modernized soundwave and can withstand the pars forming (though the backpack kibble can be repurposed as laserbeak) he might be worth it, I honestly wish he had a backplate to cover the robot kibble in tablet mode.

>clear out junk boxes from USPS/Amazon/BBTS/etc. from buying all your shit online because there is nothing around here that sells TF's
>literally an entire bigass garbage bag full of packing materials

Jesus. How do you handle all of the paper/packing goods waste from buying shit online easily Anon's? Hope my asshole trashman takes all this shit.

>>5847095
You throw that out weekly and don't let it accumulate

>>5847095
>trashman

Dunno my recycleman handles packing materials, if it fits in the bin its cool, its handled bi-weekly due to council regulations ie they don't expect me to hoard shit from overseas

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>>5847095
flatten them
I can't stress this enough
if they won't fit in your recycling bin then get a pic related and tie them up

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Remember to feed your croc's some mints every now and then to prevent energon breath, /toy/.

>>5845573
Man, I wish Combiner Wars had been planned in advance to include room for more homages to flipchangers, spychangers, European Predators, G1 seekers, etc.

If they had put the front vehicle kibble on a ball joint, they could have swung it to point down for a typical kibble chest in robot mode. Would have given us a better Mirage, Prowl, etc. and opened the door to like a RID set, European Predators {would be better as an exclusive with a new-mold Falcon, since nothing makes a good Falcon}, and anything that makes a good Talon would also be good as G1 seekers. The Armada Thrust we got isn't the same, though I suppose it's better for G1 seekers to have a flat chest with faux alt mode cockpit on the chest rather than a protruding cockpit.

and if they had planned better for LioKaiser, they could have opened the door for Micromaster gestalts like SixWing and SixTurbo.

Really pathetic how they dropped the ball. You see it in how Takara did Blast Off and Hasbro didn't even wait long enough to use the mold in their G2 set, and now we're fucked. They've only gotten as far as releasing Groove. I have doubts they'll bother releasing G1 Blast Off let alone G2 Blast Off. A G1 Blast Off in better colors would be nice.

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So I made a difficult choice, seeing how I'm trying to quit collecting while still getting what I want out of it, at this stage I''ll be hanging around for trypticon.

I decided not to get legends/TR soundwave simply because of the fact he carries far too much of blaster in his retooling, granted he looks good (apart from the head) in robot but his cassette form is shocking.

Sadly, I have another clause which I'm following, "if there is an mp of it lower class toys are not required" and apart from CW buzzsaw (impulse purchase at discount) guess who my soundwave is?

It is the cheapest most complete set to get of him, it just sucks the proper one is insanely priced, *might* grab soundblaster if he gets stupidly cheap but I doubt it, I'll just pretend goat here is a ghost, least...the overall form is the same...

I'm gonna regret this aren't I?

>>5847104
I'm tired of this meme gator toy, already.

>>5847125

He's a fun toy.

>>5847106
I get this feeling that someone was pretty shocked CW lasted more than 3-4 waves and then they were stuck with a bunch of molds without the flexibility needed to justify how many they made.

Hindsight is 20-20, after all.

>>5847119
clear plastic also ages horribly and with the mold already being a few years old you are going to suffer some fractures and cracks very easily, doubly so on the little guys

It's a big reason it's price dived.

>>5847119
You sound like a fucking faggot and should kill yourself you cancerous niggerlipped cuckboi

why do you think anybody fucking cares about your stupid ass buying habits

>>>/soc/

>>5847130
well you're a /pol/ fuckhead going to the toy board, so you have no right to insult others, you race traitor. Hasbro is run by a Jew.

>>5847130
Did someone break your heart recently anon?
Or is shitposting all you have left now?
Here's your (You) I hope it gives you the peace of mind

>>5847128
Also it's clear plastic meaning it will have a chance of discoloration even in a clean lightless home

>>5847106
To be fair the Takara Blast Off is pretty shitty looking and CW Blast-Off is the best version of that mold.

Considering all the other problems Takara Bruticus has he's definitely not worth the extra $80 compared to what you can get the Hasbro one for.

If Hasbro brings over Blast-Off like they did Groove he might be worth picking up, but he's certainly not necessary

>>5847130
Somebody's autism is triggered.

>>5847127
The brand has been around so long that they should have better foresight by now.
New employees? Again, the company has been around a long time. How have they not smoothed this transition process? Are they just failing to pass on these lessons to the next batch of people?
I dunno. Fuck 'em. I'm getting tired of it. It's become a curiosity to me now. That they sometimes manage to get it right is ... ok.

>>5847119
you're gonna miss out the whole base play gimmick

>>5847106
>I wish Combiner Wars had been planned in advance to include room for more homages to flipchangers, spychangers, European Predators, G1 seekers, etc.

The European guys are simply not well known characters. Even Botcon balked at doing Turbomasters when their Machine Wars line flopped. I simply don't think Hasbro would touch them unless they desperately needed a mold mate for something. And apparently the Jpn characters trump the euro ones in that category.

>>5847151
>Again, the company has been around a long time. How have they not smoothed this transition process? Are they just failing to pass on these lessons to the next batch of people?

Hasbro did a line wide purge of most of their old tf division employees around the time of Thrlling 30 was being designed. So there was no incentive of passing the torch when all the old guard lost their jobs.

>>5847125
He's getting his buddies soon, so it's only getting worse.

>>5847158
Not to mention that a number of them left on bad terms.

>>5847095
Find a big apartment complex. They'll usually have their big recycling boxes outside. Dump them there

>>5847095
flatten boxes

Just ordered CW Bruticus. Redpill me on this toy.

>>5847178
It's aight
Like literally every other CW the hip articulation sucks but the rest is aight.

>>5847182
>every other CW*
Except Superion and any that uses the Silverbolt mold/remold.

>>5847057
I am now realizing this mold is destined to be customized into a panthercrawler.

So, looking at the TR bio cards, they show the robot's normal stats along with the "power boost" they get from the Titanmaster head...
Wouldn't that imply they're supposed to function independently from the heads? Or have a head other than the TM one?
Nightmarish to think this is actually a line of decapitated sentient robots that can be hijacked by any head that wants them...

>>5847050
I wonder if it'll turn out that victorion is just the waifus of the legends version of leokaiser

>>5846396

So whats with that deco of Rodimus?

Would make a great deco for the TR Rodimus mold

>>5847142
CW Blast Off is not at all sufficient for G1 nostalgia. Even the head is shit. I love new stuff, but I love old stuff too. I'd really like a toy deco on Takara Blast Off, and a G2 Takara Blast Off.

>>5847158
I'm aware of that employee change. They've had changes before.
What do you mean "there's no incentive"? How about profit and passion for your job? Are you suggesting that they are just assholes who figure they can make just as much money no matter what they do? Are there no employee-independent records of these valuable lessons?

Eh, like I said, I'm starting to care less. It does seem like, even if it's not as bad as the worst of what Aaron Archer {and some of the others?} said, that things have gotten worse, and it's not something I have any control over.

>>5847205
I think the idea is that they swap out heads to get different boosts based on the head.
Or more specifically, the heads swap out bodies.

But also, it appears that the personality off the robot plus head is different than the personality of the pilot during vehicle mode.

>>5846576
>There's still a midget hanging off the back of his head,

No there isn't. His head is supposed to convert into a smaller robot that operates the vehicle mode

>>5847209
We don't know yet
he's the only one with a radical new paint job in the new series.
It's entirely possible the plot will actually be shattered glass universe related, but I suspect it'll be more related to him mourning/repenting

>>5847205
I find Alpha Trion hilarious, both his TM, and him have 20 in everything. Since when was that old guy so strong?

>>5847209
>>5847217

As far as I know, this deco comes from the recolor of the original Rodimus Masterpiece toy. It's different from SG, as that didn't have the blues, IIRC.

>>5847119
Probably. That's a pretty shitty alternative. I got Soundblaster a year or so ago when he was around $100, so I at least have that, but I also missed the boat on normal Soundwave and Grimlock.

>>5847152
Ehhhhh.

>>5847154
Yeah. Yeah. I guess it's no good as a mainline release. still... Minimal remolding needed for 4/5 of them as an exclusive. Plus when you can reuse one homage as another that could be popular enough to be mainline, it justifies it's value.
Though I guess ball-joint kibble would be prone to popping off and getting lost. All for the purpose of potential repurposing.

>>5847198
Ironic considering his hips are the smallest.

>>5846643
I hope it's interesting.

>>5847212
>Are there no employee-independent records of these valuable lessons?

Usually there is a "employee culture" for dealing with this. Except in this case the excessive bloodletting pretty much put an end to this and all the previous guys were only kept around on a contract basis to finish their ongoing projects. It wasn't like they bought in new guys and had the old guys teach them everything and then fired them. They fired them first.

>>5846643
thats vicky you cuckboi

>>5847205
It doesn't matter.

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>>5847178

He's great, you made a good choice.

>>5847205
>Wouldn't that imply they're supposed to function independently from the heads?

Vehicle mode, and base stats in case another head gets in them.

>>5847205
While they can function independently, I doubt those are the tiny dudes actual stats when they're working independently, otherwise, Alpha Trion's little dude can kill anyone by himself.

>>5847218
Never underestimate the power of fiber and cyberprunes

>>5847249

The stats have never meant anything anyway.

>>5847229
It sounds believable but what's the source?

It's also surprising that the current toys aren't much worse if that's the case. We've seen what happens when unskilled people make Transformers. ... although maybe I'm thinking of Hasbro projects independent from Takara, which is completely different. They still have Takara for this. Though they tend not to do much more than engineering.

>>5846619

I can tell you for sure that Astrotrains gun has a 3mm hole in it's fist.

>>5846845
The head robots are the true entity and the vehicles turn into powered armor for them

The head robots can assume a human look like Alice in RotF to live amoung humans. For instance Brainstorm is a college science professor named Rutger Arcana

>>5846855

Is this supposed to be a meme?

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>>5847130

>>5847267
I would watch that show.

>>5847279

The highest rank of the Nebulan scientists is called the Hi-Q. The current holder of that rank is named Ginrai.

On Earth he takes the human alias of truck driver Hiram Q Ginrai

Scourge's human alias is Fracas, a bounty hunter who stars in his own reality show ala Dog.

Blurr does voice over work. He's gained tremendous popularity for his work in commercials for micro scale toy cars. He also works auctions

>>5847119
>mfw I have MP Soundwave, displayed him for a few months, then boxed him up when I realized I don't give a shit about the character

He's just been sitting in a box in my closet. Same with my MP seekers. I have them all, but only give a shit about Starscream, so they're boxed up too. Been thinking about selling them all off (along with Grimlock probably), but I just can't wrap my head around selling an MP for some reason.

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I'm not going to say I ruined a perfectly good toy.

I ruined TWO perfectly good toys.

>>5847301
i'm more upset at your sloppy paintwork.

>>5847301
Yes you did, now wash it and use masking tape with a smaller brush and take your time, if yu want it to look good its a slow process of 3-4 paint coats.

>>5847303
First timer.

Needed to pop that cherry paint somehow. But yeah I shame my family.

>>5847178
Brawl is shit, blastoff is just brown slingshot, and vortex has a really thin handfootgun port (be careful, try sanding it)

>>5847301

From /tg/, with love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c

>>5846701
Plants have taken over Cybertron. With the help of human farmers and farm based vehicle modes and real popout gardening tools, destroy the evil plant mechanoid hybrids.

>>5847313
Yellow is a bad color for a 1st timer. It's not very opaque so the color underneath bleeds through it. You need a white primer coat for it to look good.

>>5847300
Not even that anon but please sell Soundwave off.
He's my favorite character and I can't find his MP anywhere for lower than $240.

We need a reissue already, either that or a Soundwave that can actually compete with the MP. Legends a shit due to that ugly head sculpt and Blaster body.

>>5847323
Yea, he'd probably be better off with someone who'd actually display him.

Honest question, what do you think is a fair price for him? He's complete, but one of the cassette tape cases came damaged (tapes still fit in there fine, but it looks like the 2 little sprue things on the inside of the case were removed somehow).

>>5846701
Transformers with squishy breasts, butts and buff muscular pecs and abs and cast off clothing.

>>5846426
So does Jihad Rod.

>>5847329
2nd'd

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>>5847301

>>5847301
Scrubbed the shit out of it with thinner. More of a blank slate than before. Gonna re attempt tomorrow bit by bit.

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>>5847338
>That filename

Having grown up on Beastwars and not the shitty G1 cartoon, I approve (and literally had the same reaction when trying to watch the G1 Movie all the geewunners fawn over).

>>5847329
I want them with squishy dick crotches too.

>>5847344
>Impliming Beast Wars good

>>5847326
>what do you think is a fair price for him?
You're probably asking the wrong person in regards to pricing but personally, I would be willing to pay $210-$180 for him.

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>go to local walmart in Canada
>find this guy on shelves for $40
>the original was my first transformer as a kid
>upon closer inspection the grey is this horrible light brown, as if it's passed around a local dive bar and died shit brown from all the cigarette smoke
>limbs are more hollow than the transformer fanbase's heads
>paint apps were done by some blind Chinese amputee with parkinsons
>cab doesn't transform into solo Optimus anymore

What the fuck happened? I stopped collecting around the time generations Springer came out.
Did we lose all sense of standards or something? The G1 version is a solid brick of plastic, but at least it's fucking solid, shit I still have mine with only the trailer peg broken.

Everyone major store I've been in has shrunk their transformer section to 1 quarter section of a shelf, like seriously it was months till we got anything.

idk if it's the clear DIP in quality or the high prices in Canada, or both.

You can only pander to autists who lack a sense of monetary value for so long I suppose.

>>5847329
This.

>>5847349
It is a fucking children's toy

>>5847353
>children deserve only to be sold 80's nostalgia pandering garbage at prices they can't afford.

How many kids born post 2000 even know about headmasters?

>>5847347
It was, which is why I'm thinking about selling off my G1 MP's to replace with upcoming Beast Wars MP's. I only watched a few episodes of G1 as a kid, and honestly the only characters I gave a shit about were Starscream, the Combaticons, Optimus, Megatron, and to some degree, the Dinobots (because dinosaurs are fucking cool). The show was pretty shit and there was little incentive to get attached to any characters other than Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Starscream because there was ZERO character development. At least Beast Wars made you give a shit about what happened to it's characters.

>>5847348
>I would be willing to pay $210-$180 for him
Yea, if I were to sell him, I'd probably do $170 shipped or something. Can't see myself scalping him TOO hard or anything. Need to pay off a credit card, so I've really been considering parting ways with a lot of my shit that's in storage.

>>5847358
That is why they have cute toy gimmick to appeal to young audience.

>>5847370
That's why the only people keeping TF alive are the adult fans right?

The only time normal people every actually by them is when a Micheal Bay movie comes out.

>>5847372
Allegedly RiD exists.

>>5847377
That was the line meant for younger kids.
Anyone have the pic showing the targeted age ranges? it had RID, Generations for the older crowd and something else.

>>5847338

I need a template of just the computer monitor and desk.

>>5847379
It is a ruse. A lot of online retailer reviews for Generations toys have people talking about them being gifts for children/grandchildren.

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>have a bayformers 1 Voyager Optimus Prime
>not really a bad toy but it's nothing spectacular, seeing it on my shelf kind of bugs me though
>decide finally to have a look at some other bayformers Optimus figures to see what's better
>what I already have is the best one

I guess Im just extraordinarily picky but I just don't like any of the other ones. They either have weird arms or legs, even worse backpacks or their torsos are just incoherent messes. The evasion Optimus is nice but I'd rather an Optimus that's actually a peterbilt as seen in the film.

Oh well, I suppose

>>5847362
>Yea, if I were to sell him, I'd probably do $170 shipped or something. Can't see myself scalping him TOO hard or anything.
That sounds great dude. I'll keep an eye out for it if you decide to go through with this and sell him.

>>5847383
The ROTF Leader is generally seen as a really great toy. A bit on the fiddly side, but he's pretty cool.

>>5847383
>what is the leader class
>what is the battle blades version
>what is buster prime

Either you're lazy or retarded.

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>>5847347
>Impliming

>>5847358
Probably lots, dude, the internet exists and all. I was born after G1 and I know G1. I was excited for Wing Saber as a kid because I knew of Star Saber and wanted my own super cool Japanese Autobot leader.

>>5847382
That's cover for the shame of buying toys.

>>5847313
Pop it on a junker or a dollar store toy. It doesn't even look like you tried. No good technique at all.
-signed, idea guy who never tried, thus never failed, who's life is full of regret

>>5847353
generations is aimed at older collectors

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>>5847353
>Children have no standards and can't be disappointed
I wouldn't want you for a parent.

>>5847383
That Voyager doesn't get much love anymore, but it was one of the highlights of the movie line. I still feel prefer the movie 1 toy's whole look to the final movie look.

>>5847301
Make it TR Legbeat.

>>5847347
Hi John.

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Too bad Fun Pub isn't around to make this happen.

>>5847470
Huh, that actually looks pretty good.

>>5847470
Small favors. They'd find a way to Funpub that shit up.

>>5847470
That's pretty nice, and you wouldn't get your facesculpt all Funpub'd up.

>>5847477
They only Funpub new heads. This would be a straight repaint.

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australia

>>5847481
And it would have the wrong head once it arrived in mailboxes. But it would be the 'factory's fault."

>>5847483
And I thought $150 in Canada was robbery.

>>5847483
Only good one there is Superion and he's not even worth 200 dollery-doos.

>>5846701
Transformers with integrated battle damage, like in the movies. Pieces of their torso or an arm and leg are attached via ball-joints, pegs, clips, or whatever and can be pulled out, slashed out, or shot out.

>>5847485
Technically, it would be. Fun Pub doesn't work at the factories.

>>5847487
Heavily considered G2 Menasor but that price hurts.

>>5847501
Shame. I saw a video where a turd guy had mentioned out he examined the factories to make sure they were correctly making them. FunPub is worse than turd.

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>>5847349
Yes, yes it is all very, very good but what exactly is your point good Daniel sir?

>>5847488
That's a strange way to spell Bruiticus.

>>5847526
>no G2 symbols
>misassembled Onslaught
>Take-Off
kek

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>>5847526
Are people actually buying G2 Bruticus?
I picked up G2 Menasor on sale so I figured I'd wait to see if Bruticus drops as well.

>>5846701
Transformers genesis
The team is a batch of protoforms lost in space. No memory means new factions. They adopt new forms for each new planet they reach.
The toys are basic blank skeleton types with their transformation scheme built in.
Car type, jet type, truck type, tank type, etc.
Swap out parts for "upgrades" and thus you can sell packs that are just the armor sets.
The small line become armor saint seiya style.
The voyagers basically combine a deluxe set and a legion set. Leaders combine two deluxes.
Titan classes/base classes are giant arming platforms

>>5847530
>2 of the same mold in a set
>Silverbolt vehicle mode literally robot hiding under a jet body

kek

>>5847300
I think I paid about 150 for a Soundwave from an anon like you. His prevalence in the recent comics made me appreciate him more as a character, so I decided I had to have him.

>>5847178
Onslaught is good
Brawl is shit
Blast Off is a good toy but a shit Blast Off
Vortex is just another CW helicopter
Swindle is OK unless you get a horrifically loose one like I did

Bruticus won't stop leaning annoyingly forward unless you bend the legs back a notch, which looks weird.

>>5847540
This is truth.

>>5847538
>His prevalence in the recent comics made me appreciate him more as a character,
This.
He's pretty much best boy there.

>>5847532
I'd buy a line like this in a heartbeat

>蜂の悪い泣きっ面に蜂
Japanese is weird

>>5847540
>Brawl is shit
I like brawl

Vortex and Take-Off are the disappointments for me

>>5847513
Ever call their phones? They're all hillbilly Texans, none of them are hopping on a plane to China to inspect plastic robots.

>>5847587
The only problem I had with my set was my Vortex's hips were loose as fuck and one leg kept popping off. But I swapped the hip joints for the ones on Alpha Bravo (first use of the mold) and now it works just fine.

And yes, before that I did future floor, but it still kept popping off even after multiple coats.

>>5847301
Why didn't you disassemble the legs?
Why didn't you tape off areas you know you wouldn't want paint on?
Why didn't you use a brush that clearly isn't fucking huge?
Why did you try to repaint Blurr into Nightbeat when they have completely different altmodes you fucking idiot?

>>5847267
Congratulations, you've just described both the Japanese shows Headmasters and Masterforce

Goshooter, Minerva and Cab are literally teenagers who become the heads.

>>5847534
>>Silverbolt vehicle mode literally robot hiding under a jet body

Welcome to 90% of all jetformers.

>>5846701
A Transformers version of Skylanders/Amiibo. TF figures with microchips somewhere on their bodies that plug into the accessory that comes with the new Tranformers video game, but will work on all TF video games going forward.

The gimmic as displayed on the TV series would manifest as The TFs themselves plugging in to a Matrix-like core of Cybertron to combat a non-Cybertronian viral threat.

The figures themselves however would be decent Transformers with decent articulation and detail, because fuck you.

>>5847718
>The figures themselves however would be decent Transformers with decent articulation and detail, because fuck you.

The point of that last statement isn't that you can't have that, it's that the gimmick specifically can't just be "make them good"

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Remodeled Barricade. I will miss his face.

>>5847726
I know, but it's there just in case.

>>5846701
Running out of ideas already, HasTakTomy?

>>5847731
That actually looks good wtf.

>>5847731
I'm noticing a lot of great little details in his design

>>5847737
The most complained thing is that is face looks like evil Bumblebee, which I guess means he'll survive up until the next movie.

Also I don't like how bent the police parts on his arms are, might not translate to toy well.

>>5847731
I'm not really a fan. Barricade is one of my favorite movie designs and this is just so much more generic. His proportions are totally normal now, no monster claws, no window "wings", generic as fuck face, no high shoulders, normal legs, etc. It's not a bad design, and makes a decent generic trooper design, but it's a bit boring to me. The small details are neat though.

I'll reserve judgment until I see it in motion though.

>>5847755
At least his back looks decent, but yeah I will miss the old one.

>>5847731
So glad they got rid of the stupid legs from the original design.

>>5847780
I'll post a comparison in the next thread. Him standing up straight in HD is hard to find.

>>5847530
>take off
Nothing wrong here

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>>5847731
so, this is accurate after all...

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>>5847790
I LIVE, I DIE, I LIVE AGAIN.

FOR IMMORTAN TRON

>>5847781
Wasn't it always the try-jointed legs that they loved to give to the decepticons?

>>5847795
In the video games and toys, yes but in movie 1+3 he was hunchback walking.

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All this talk of bringing back Decepticons reminds me of this old thing. God, this must be from the earliest days of /toy/

>>5847799
had a chuckle. Wish I was there.

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>>5847798

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>>5847799

>>5847799
>>5847807
Man, these are some vintage memes

>>5847807
Well he did say OPTIMUS and Bloody Hell

>>5847799
I dun getit.

>>5847804
Compared to Starscream that's more normal.

>>5847820
I think it's the ROTF jungle redeco of his deluxe

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>>5847820
Bonecrusher got a jungle redeco that said he survived.

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>>5847833
So glad he got a decent toy with accurate paint apps in the 4th movie line

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>>5847842
Yep, and the whips double as moe twintails in car mode.

>>5847846
That from futurama?

>>5847822
Yeah. But stop looks bad. I hate those kind of legs. Especially when it comes to action figures. Causes balance and articulation problems.

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>>5847540

>Blast Off is a good toy but a shit Blast Off

I would have to agree on both counts. I want to get the G2 version. Maybe even 4 so I can do this with it.

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>>5847850
I can't remember if the "neither of us will be virgins" was first seen in Futurama or if the Robotnik comic edit predates it.

>>5847526

Wasn't trying to spell Bruticus, dipshit.

>>5847530

The G2 symbols issue can easily be taken care of with an inexpensive set of Reprolabels

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>>5847534
>>2 of the same mold in a set

So what? The decos are different. The heads are different. And it's all the original team. If they had used Alpha Bravo you probably would whine anyway

>>>Silverbolt vehicle mode literally robot hiding under a jet body

It's one of the realities of Transformers. Along with lack of scale. Only faggots still make an issue of it.

>>5847540
>Vortex is just another CW helicopter

It's still a pretty good figure

>>5847734

In this day and age of 3rd party TF toys, there's nothing stopping you from stepping up to the plate yourself and being the innovator you want them to be.

>>5847807

A lot of Frank Welker's work is doing sounds for dogs and cats. Yet he always gets credits

I dont see how Bonecrusher is really any different