/tfg/ - Bayformers General: Oy Vey! edition

I'll only be buying movie masterpieces.

>>6126366
I wish we'd get an MP Blackout for the 10th anniversary of the first movie.

>>6126370
>you get a MP Blackout
>but it's a MP Bumblebee retool
How mad would you be?

>>6126372
How would that even work?

I mean if it's an absolute madman tier reshell like some of the stuff we've been getting recently it could be okay.

>>6126362

Boycott this shit until they realize you can't make people buy what should really be $20-25.

>>6126378

Paint his colors police car colors.

Add lights to the top of the car.

Boom, Barricade.

>>6126381

Boycott's don't work anymore. Anything that doesn't make money isn't re-evaluated and improved, that costs even more money.

No, it's cut.

So please, don't go see the new Bayformers, or buy Bayformers toys. It's the only way to stop this shit from polluting all of the franchise anymore.

>>6126384
I meant the helicopter guy, blackout, not barricade.

>>6126378
>How would that even work?
It doesn't
It's just a Camaro painted grey
With helicopter blades slapped on top of it
Only $99.90 (online exclusive)

Fuck.. so will voyagers be $35 in Canada now?

>>6126387

Blackade, Barrout, whatever.

What is the best place to buy an MP Hot Rod?
I am kind of new to buying Transformers online.

>>6126390
We've had our Voyager price for so long, it'd be criminal to change it. Voyagers have been $29.99 despite all the price changes to deluxes over the years. Leaders have also been pretty set.

>>6126392
Yeah, the names are kinda similar, aren't they? And their both original characters from the first movie. And decepticons

>>6126362

So what's next, $25 deluxes?

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>>6126388

>>6126397
Deluxes went from 20 to 30 dollars and Voyagers went from 30 to 40 on my land of Alpakihztan.
I wouldn't bet on it.

>>6126406
>Only79.99
Too cheap

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These new RB sets have been sighted recently, with no prior announcement, leaks, previews, nothing.

The gimmick this time is minicons that partsforms in various ways. The eagle can combine with the rear of the cat to become a Griffin or a glider for the human, the yeti's arms can be attached to the human or Boulder, etc.

>>6126438
rescue bots bayformer movie when

>>6126438
>The eagle can combine with the rear of the cat to become a Griffin or a glider for the human
Sounds fucking awesome
>19.99
Yeahhhhhhhhhhh no.

With prices like that and "quality" of TLK... I am switching toi third party.


MAKE TRANSFORMERS GREAT AGAIN.

>>6126508
Then you can discuss your knockoffs elsewhere.

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>>6126384
I'm going to see the movie and extra time every time one of you say you won't see it. :)
Totes gonna need two bee's of every iteration, one car mode one robot mode. Maybe an extra for salt.
pic not related but i'm not sure if i posted it before BECAUSE THE TFG'S FILL UP WITH CHAT LOGS LIKE YOU WERE NEGOTIATING FOR MP3'S ON KAZAA :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

>>6126513
3Ps =/= KOs

>>6126546
You know what would really spite me? If you smashed all your toys with a sledgehammer!

>>6126561
And shit = tastes good. Looks like we're middle schoolers playing opposite day now, huh?

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>>6126562
ONLY TO MAKE A CUSTOM
IMA R R RADICON
ug here

>>6126555
>>6126562
We collectively have nothing better to do hey? I'll try to only see it twice. Not even out of spite, I'm sorry there's no alternative from the baysplosions.
and sorry iphone makes pictures sideways

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>>6126513

>>6126572
Oh look, it's the butthurt hastakcuck shitposter again

>>6126574
Man, this wolf mode is great. Shame about the robot mode.
And I find it annoying that it's the same thing I thought of Skullsmasher
>Man, that crocodile mode looks amazing. Shame about the robot mode.

Why are they so bad?


Mindwipe can fuck off, though.

>>6126631
Literally who are you referring to? I haven't posted in this thread for months.

>>6126646

Whats wrong with their robot modes?

Besides QC stuff anyway.

Back in last August we received a word from Simba Smoby (UK), that the company has acquired license to produce Transformers: The Last Knight Diecast vehicles and R/C vehicles from Hasbro.

Today, we learned that the vehicles will make their debut this January 24th at Kensington Olympia during this year’s London Toy Fair.

Several toys were mentioned:

1:18 Scale ‘Giant Robot Warriors’ Bumblebee Diecast Vehicle
1:18 Scale ‘Giant Robot Warriors’ Barricade Diecast Vehicle
1:12 Scale Ultimate RC Bumblebee – controlled and transforms from vehicle to robots via a mobile app.
We also received info on their new Transformers: Robots In Disguise range based on the animated series.

Diecast Optimus Prime with Trailer – includes two diecast vehicles.
Diecast 2-Pack – with an additional articulated Transformers figure.
To check out the toys, visit the Simba Smoby booth (Hall 12, Stand B-03-02) at UK Toy Fair.

Stay tuned with TFW2005 for more info.

>>6126655
You have to go back.

So BBTS is selling the MP Megatron with the orange barrel tip, and they have a huge warning about customs seizing orders from overseas of one that is not modded.
Will this actually happen if I order from HLJ or Amiami?

>>6126655
>controlled and transforms from vehicle to robots via a mobile app

man kids toys these days are advanced

>>6126654
I feel they are not up to par with their beast modes.
You have these amazing beast modes with a lot of articulation and personality that turn into boring background mooks.

The one that frustrates me the most is Wolfwire due to its similarity to Command Wolf.

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>>6126655
>Simba Smoby


You bongs an your names. The fuck, that sounds like Smibbly Bibbly

>>6126654
Not him, but

Skullcruncher:
>Awkward shoulders that don't make good use of ball joints
>Huge backpack that is just the croc head hanging off with no tabbing or integration
>Teensy trump hands
>Feet are hollow on the inside which means no ankles, exacerbated by the backpack
>also the gator feet look like they could fold in to fill the calves and add support but they just st there
>Spotty thigh QC that leads to loose hips
>Tail is a terrible weapon and never look good outside of being a titan sled
>RUBBER

Weirdwolf
>Bad color matching between paint and plastic
>Limited shoulders with huge restrictive blocks
>No wrists, which really sucks since he has a sword
>The red paint on the face bleeds together and looks like a vague mush
>RUBBER

>>6126684
b-but it's toy accurate!

>>6126684
>>Bad color matching between paint and plastic

The Takara Weirdwolf doesn't have this issue. I got Takara's before even seeing Hasbro's in the store and I was fucking disgusted at how badly the yellow matched when I did see it. Didn't know Hasbro's shit was that bad.

>>6126684
HOL UP NIGGA
Weirdwolf has rubber? Where?

>>6126690
The teeth and the clear cockpit plastic.

Also ignore his posts. He's a known shitposter who always whines about Weirdwolf's rubber even though kt's ridiculously minimal.

>>6126546
lol challenge accepted. I won't be paying to see this at the theaters and I won't be buying any of the movie toys.

>>6126694
That's not minimal at all. That shit will rot in months.

>>6126699
If you say so, kiddo. Stay deluded.

>>6126694
Weirdwolf has rubber?

>>6126703
It's not so much rubber as it is soft malleable plastic but yeah, he does.

>>6126694
That's not true, I whine about ALL rubber. My RiD Optimus Prime's rubber tires and RotF Bludgeon's swords have scarred me beyond ever trusting it again. It might not be 'as' bad on wolf, but it's still rubber and it's going to suck when his teeth dry and crumble off.

It's especially infuriating since there's no consistency. TR Doublecross has huge wings that can catch on the dragon arms during transformation, but they're a stiff translucent plastic. Meanwhile Mindwipe has huge swaths of it on his bat head and robot wings, which doubly sucks because it means that the eHobby Convobat has it too. I wanted that shit when when mindwipe was revealed, but fuck paying 100+ value meals for shit that's going to dry and rot in a few years.

>>6126707
>fuck paying 100+ value meals
>100+ value meals

Nigger what the fuck a McDouble is not a form of currency ahahahaha

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>>6126707
>That's not true, I whine about ALL rubber. My RiD Optimus Prime's rubber tires and RotF Bludgeon's swords have scarred me beyond ever trusting it again.
That's strange. I got my RiD Prime back when the show was airing on Fox Kids and the rubber tires are still intact.

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>Hands on the shuttle are colored differently
Upcoming Energon Omega Supreme or just an error?

>>6126733

$120 e-hobby exclusive redeco probably.

>>6126681
>Simba Smoby

Smoby is a French company which was taken over by Simba Dickie, a German toy manufacturer, about 10 years ago. They've been trying to establish a foothold in the UK toy market in recent years.

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>>6126581
striker manus was ok but that fuckertron is shit tier

>>6126659
HLJ with mp05 had a separate listing for an orange tipped version for purchase, amiami never did such a thing.

If hlj doesn't say shit now good chance no tip

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>>6126370
okay I chuckled

>>6126655
>Diecast Vehicle
>Diecast Vehicle
>includes two diecast vehicles.
>Diecast 2-Pack
sounds like inexpensive metal will be used as an excuse to drum up prices

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>>6126384
Nah, that don't work either.You forget that the Bayformers, take it as it is, does have a fandom within the TF fandom. Add it to international venues, household name being known and so on and "don't see it" doesn't work as well as it did on Ghostbusters, or TMNT.

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>>6126800
It's just cheap-looking cash-in hotwheels like the RID line they did.

>>6126729
Bullshit.

>>6126827
my g1 prime's tires are still holding up, perhaps its the environment that does them.

I know youtube fuck face optibotimus's mp10's tires have cracked, he mentions in his ultra magnus review and any time he shows it you see he literally glued the tires back together, my g1 toys despite being crammed into a toy box for most of their lives still have intact rubber tires, perhaps because where I am the weather is a tad on the cold side with little fluctuation.

I know my mp10's tires are still holding up but he sits in a box until I get one of those high end temp control cabinets

>>6126390
Try 40$
Or maybe 45$
Hell why not even 50$

I mean what the fuck is an exchange rate anyway.

>>6126829
My room is fairly humid and I have old RID shit with rubber tires good as new that have been sitting on a shelve since I got them.

It really just depends on the climate. If you live in a furnace with air so dry it practically sucks the moisture out of surfaces, then yeah your rubber is probably gonna crack.

>>6126402
Scandinaviafag here. Our CW Deluxes were around $50 at the major retailers.

>>6126381
There will still be a shit ton of parents who, for some reason, don't mind spending a ridiculous amount of money.
The CW Deluxes I mentioned above still sold out.

>>6126827
Not that anon, but I also got RiD Prime when it was new and it still has intact rubber tires.

>29.99

Hahaha
We are finally paying for less for transformers than the American.

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Need more cassettebots

>>6126888
MP Slamdance and Squawkbox when?

>>6126900
Probably never

I don't get why 3Ps never got any cassettebots made (or at least as far as I know)

Or even just some KO recolors.

>>6126916
What? there was a 3p slamdance and squawkbox, maybe overkill I forget.

>>6126919
there was?

>>6126362
your lucky living in the usa, cause if ypu live in the UK most retailers will instantly swap all generations goodness with movie figures until about a year or too later.

>>6126923
KFC did them. The quality is absolute shit and they feel like knock offs.

>>6126923
They weren't great, but they weren't bad either. I got Squawkbox in Shattered Glass colors for like $10 at a convention last year, definitely worth that price even if the colors are stupid and wrong.

>>6126384
>>6126807

Basically if you want to stop Bayverse movies from making money you need to destroy China. Or at least get the US to go to war with them thus shutting down any international movie releases in China.

>>6126930
Oh it was not, they weren't as nice as official MPs or fucking Fansproject shit, no, but they didn't feel like dollar store toys either.

>>6126930
>>6126931
"Squawkbox" looks like shit but "Slamdance" actually looks pretty good.

does anyone here own both generations devastatior and the the oversized feral rex, cause I wont to know how the quality is between them

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>>6126384

Its been an entire DECADE and you *STILL* haven't gotten over it?

That is so, so sad.

I'm gonna go see it at least twice. For the sole reason that it makes fags like you unhappy. And I will walk out of that theatre with a grin on my face that the forces of Hell below and Heaven above combined could never remove.


You deserve to be unhappy

>>6126562

Nice try. Cry moar.

>>6126785

What's so bad about it? I was going to get one..

>>6126785
>>6126942
They both have their faults mainly due to stress marks.

>>6126684

Im just going to get Krok and remove the beast kibble to make him a Action Headmaster

Probably unscrew the beast legs and reverse them for stability

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>>6126932

I have a novel idea.

Get the fuck over it. They have been whining and crying for an entire decade and what has it accomplished? NOTHING.

Bayformers is NOT going away.

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Has anyone tried fitting a titan master in this guy's cockpit?

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Bending Ravage's back up without bending his head back back down makes it look like he's trying to "nonchalantly" avoid being petted.

>>6126807
>"don't see it" doesn't work as well as it did on Ghostbusters

Except Ghostbusters flopped hard anon

>>6126969
Ghostbusters did horribly because it was banned in China.

I think it almost broke even with its "western" sales. It probably would have made at least some money with a chinese audience.

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>>6126546
>>6126940
Oh boy is it that time again where people come out in droves to be contrarians about the movies?

Y'all ain't spending $15 a pop to see the movie multiple times don't even pretend like you will.

Movie theaters are closing down and y'all think you're gonna see a bad movie multiple times to "spite" some people online.

Like wew lad that's like people who bought Metroid Prime Federation Force for $40 plus tax to spite people on twitter which is probably where you came from.

>>6126964
Probably not since no one bought him on account of being a piece of shit.

>>6126964
Don't have him, but I doubt a TM would fit.

>>6126978
>I think it almost broke even with its "western" sales.

It didn't. The director said how much they needed to make to break even and they didn't make that much. They also closed down the studio they set up to make future Ghostbusters movies so if that doesn't tell you it flopped I don't know what will.

>>6126978
>banned in China.
Really?

>>6126988
I stand corrected then, I somehow never knew about that (surprising considering how much people talked about the film)

It can be really hard to tell when a film is profitable or not at a glance.

>>6126993
Not banned, they just didn't decide to release it there because the original films weren't successful there either.

>>6126964
It's too small for a TM iirc

>>6126964
I was so sad when I realized that HO scale people fit in it but like the headmasters dont but I pretend they all scale to HO lol ho

>>6126438

I kinda like the look of that Boulder.

Seriously We need these characters in a more complicated looking line.

>>6126942
Mostly, folks hate the non-g1 design.

Personally, I like it.

>>6126969
That's what I meant. Ghostbusters had a "Don't see it" campaign because Sony was too high up the horse to think that insulting the fanbase and the male gender was a good idea. Paul Fieg's bloating feminist head had it coming.

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>>6126981
He's really not bad. In fact, I love a lot of things about him. I absolutely despised his chicken-walker legs and those black feet, but if you turn them around and use his heelspurs as feet, well, then I'm on board. They are a tad small, but luckily I like that look. His headsculpt is aces, I love his colors, he is nicely poseable, and the gaps in his chopper mode don't bother me.

tl;dr: Whirl is a nice toy and probably one of my faves that year.

>>6126964
Sorry man. I own Whirl and I'd love to help you, but I don't own any Titanmasters. From what I've seen in stores though, I don't think one would fit.

>>6126932
China made TF4 successful as fuck but no, China's not the main fandom for the Bayformers. It just so happened that it was heavily marketed because China was the spot for the final battle.

Eitherway, China's doing god's work on remaking movie molds.

>>6126646
I watched part of the headmasters episode one, Mindwipe is an ass.
top notch beast modes tho, also I'm looking forward to twinferno.

>>6126998
Funny thing was that the director wasn't supposed to say how much it needed. His actions just made him the least-desirable director to hire under any studio.

>>6126980
>movie theaters are closing down

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

good one. Next you'll tell me newspapers don't exist anymore

>>6126362
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>>6127028
Actually, movie theatres in this area have been shutting down.

>>6127028
What's a newspaper?

It's time to bring back The Bay Cycle again I guess. Normally reasonable people are going to act unreasonable the closer we get to the release of the film to "spite" other people, maybe get into some heated arguments that ruin friendships over what we all know is going to be a terrible movie with no redeeming qualities, and than everything will go back to normal and everyone will admit the movie is shit and than repeat it all over again come the next movie.

It's tiring at this point. You think maybe people would learn to sort the reasonable from the unreasonable and that not everyone who dislikes this films is a foaming at the mouth retard who was born in 1979. I mean fuck I was 16 when the first movie came out, grew up with Beast Wars, and when i said "Eh it was okay but the lack of Transformers kind of made it boring" I got fucking hounded by grown ass adults screaming "GEEWUNNER!"

Maybe it's time to stop because now I'm seeing that happen to 16 year old IDW fans.

>>6127048
>16 year old comic readers
Yeah, tell me another one.

>>6127039
in my country Philippines there are little to no movie theatres because every mall is required to have at least two-four theaters at minimum, and we have a shitton of malls

>>6127049
>what is tumblr

>>6127053
That thing Batman drove in Batman Begins?

>>6127048
Well the most critical I've seen of IDW works ARE geewunners, mostly because comics are niche and I don't think a lot of normal people know that there are TF comics, much less that those who passively know would think that IDW continues on from G1 cartoon continuity (which technically is almost correct in regards to Marvel G-1 for Regeneration One, and Deviations oneshots).

The others are the normal critics who are pretty rare because eventually an argument falls to "NOTMUH" than "shit writers ruined it."

>>6127049
tumblr doesn't actually read comics

>>6127048
>trying to have a reasonable point in the transformers fandom
>trying to have a reasonable point on 4chan
>trying to have a reasonable point in a Transformers thread on 4chan

Well you tried anon. These faggots are just going to keep getting mad and shouting Geewunner at everyone who doesn't like bad movies. It's impossible when we're near peak movie contrarian.

Although the fandom really does need to have a stern talking to about this shit

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I used to be accepting of the movies because the amount of money they made for the brand meant that engineering got to increase with it. RotF is my favorite movie because it meant 2010 had some of the best figures ever.

Now Hasbro is committed to making shitty springloaded transformers and pull-back cars instead of awesome designs. AoE was really bad with this and I have reason to believe Lk is going to be any better.

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>>6127048
It's no secret that Bayformers never stood as high as any of the other TF series to the point where it's only a bit highly regarded in comparison to Kiss Players.

The thing is there are people who grew up with them, and there are fans whom, despite not liking them, ended up liking the designs because of the CG making the transformations look fantastic in one and three.

Bayformers for me are a mixed reception. I liked the third but it clearly has a great many faults and disappointments all around, and the designs are getting worse by the post trilogy. I'd still collect the toys granted it's worth the cash and at worst the only butthurt I usually get is when some geewun fans acts way too pretentious in proclaiming how Bayformers is the worst, Michael Bay ruined everything, raped my childhood copy pasted into every bayformers topic thread or whatever.

>>6127069
>ROTF IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE

don' you mean favorite movie line?

>>6127066
>>6127019
>>6126807
>fandom
>>>/t/umblr

Also whoever came up with that word should be shot.

>>6127074
okay.

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>>6127073
That's a better choice of words since I hate every movie as movies, so I only like them as much as their toylines.

Really though it was Nest and Hunt for the Decepticons that was absolutely ace. The original line had some good ones, but Sidearm Sideswipe was a huge improvement over the first mold, Battleblades Bumblebee is possibly the definitive toy before the Masterpiece, and what could possibly compete with Mindwipe Sky Stalker, Bludgeon, Seaspray, Lugnut, Hailstorm, and so many others?

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>>6127085
That's more like it. Lug's the best.

My neighbor's a huge collector but he can't find Takara Sidearm Sideswipe that doesn't cost like a hundred or so bucks on resell. ROTF did so well with its molds that people *complained* that the molds were too complicated and had to skim it down.

I think out of the DOTM line Jolt became my favorite. What a fucking improvement over the abomination from ROTF.

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>>6127069
>>6127085
Fuck man....you're making me think about the golden age again. And that shit makes me sad. That's around the time I got into Transformers, when Animated and ROTF were just starting to hit shelves, and oh man, for a couple of years there, times were so fucking good. Hasbro was even taking chances with some truly bizarre designs like Hailstorm and Blazemaster, which I appreciated seeing. I think the DOTM line was really when I started feeling the beginning of the end--transformations were getting simpler, sculpts and paint apps suffering, and gimmicks taking over. For the most part, I really haven't been totally happy with any TF I've bought since those times aside from MPs.

>>6127094
Loved playing as him in ROTF, but he was underpowered as fuck

>>6127090
>tfw always likes jolt and kinda want the newer retool but absoloutely was fed up with carformers for so long

why don't they just make good toys again

>>6127115
Complaints from the yesteryear, plus they cut costs for profit.

>>6127094
I think my biggest regret as a tf fan was skipping out on the non-main character toys.

I missed out on so many of the good movie toys because I'd just sneer at anything that wasn't Bumblebee or whatever like the fucking faggot I was.

>>6127115
What the guy above me said, plus the customers have proven that they will pay increasingly high prices for increasingly mediocre toys, so what motivation does Hasbro have to ever try harder again?

>>6127124
If you look at everything from Energon to TFP, a lot of the hidden gems belong to non-show characters.

http://toyhax.com/for-titans-ret/2244-parts-and-labels-for-titans-galvatron.html

Oh joy, the cost of the toy itself for some stickers that don't add much extra detail and a helmet that's honestly rather oversized and plain. Yet they can't make repro stickers for older toys that still need them.

>>6127090
>transformation tabs on the bottoms of the feet

yeah, those won't break.

>>6126938
I've heard people say that OS Feral Rex has plastic that feels like a Sonokong Brave toy, but I can't confirm.

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>>6127050

wait why?

>>6126993
Chinese people don't like ghosts, that's seriously it.

>>6127028
Anon, Blockbuster will NEVER go out of business, where would people rent their tapes?

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>>6126362
At least you don't collect Star Wars stuff. The price jump on Hasbro's vehicles has been, literally, insane.

I thought oil prices had gone down the gutter. Why the fuck are they gouging us so much now?

>>6127071
>RoTF.
>Every part of the front grill folds away.
>AoT.
>Rubber grill.
I still consider the transformations dumb and complex just for the sake of it.

>>6127158
Nobody knows

But it's still the number one friends hangout because of how much pop culture shit is easy to sell here.

>>6127190
Demand is lower and greed is higher. In some products buying one item from a case pays for the case

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>>6127191
gotta have a big screen crowd pleaser. If it were as simple as Bayscream's spinformations, it wouldn't have sold as well.

Granted a lot of other transformations were really too needlessly complex, like Ironhide's 360.

>>6127191
Flatnose Prime was half-assed fanservice anyway

>>6127190
I'm thinking of buying one of the Bandai model kits but apparently they're alot smaller than the box would make it seem.

>>6127199
>21 seconds of screen time is just one transformation.

every frame truly is just so dense.

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>>6127208
They were trying to make the Ironhide version of this scene, but black colors at night plus Ironhide's clusterfuck design outside of his chest makes it very ugly.

>>6127190
The good ole business tactic of

"if we make it worse and expensive they'll buy it anyway"

>>6127216
Lightsabers are doing fine on their own and they already have a simple design going for them.

>>6127155
um, I dont know what that is

Is there an add-on for ROTF Bludgeon that's just the swords made in non-shit plastic?

>>6127279
The blood upgrade kit.

But it also comes with an extra head

Transformers Robots in Disguise

Some of the figures with no release dates against them mirror the listings of the January releases. We are unsure why.

Transformer Robots in Disguise Warrior Bumblebee
Transformer Generations Legends Class Assorted
Transformers Generations Titan MAssorted ers Assorted
Transformers Minicon Battle Pack Assorted
Transformers Recue Bots Mini Con Assorted
Transformers Recue Bots Adventure Assorted
Transformers Recue Bots Bot Headquarters
Transformers Generations Deluxe Titans Return Assorted
Transformers Generations Voyager Titans Return Assorted
Transformers Generations Legends Titans Return Assorted
Transformers Generations Leader Titans Return Assorted
Transformers Recue Bots Team Assortment
Transformers Robots in Disguise Team Combiners
Transformers Robots in Disguise Crash Combiners
Transformers Robots in Disguise Activator Combiner Pack
Transformers Collector 7 Pck
Transformers Character N Vehicle Assorted
Transformers Recue Bots Bot Tango Bumblebee
Transformers Generations Trypticon
Transformers Optimus Peek A Bot Rollin Rig
Transformers Rubiks
April 2017

Transformers Recue Bots Bot Tango Bumblebee
Transformers Movie 5 First Edition Helmet
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Blind Bag
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer
Transformers Movie 5 3 Step Turbo Changer
Transformers Movie 5 Deluxe
Transformers Movie 5 Role Play Helmet
Transformers Movie 5 Legion Figure Assorted
Transformers Movie 5 Voyager
Transformers Movie 5 Leader
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Feature
Transformers Movie 5 RC Earth
Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Figures
Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Starter Kit
This list confirms some details which have been previously been announced, as well as including other items which have not. The list also confirms that the Genertions Trypticon figure will indeed see a UK release and there there is an RC (Radio Controlled)? Earth planned as part of the Last Knight toys.

>>6127287
Turbo changer blind bag....what the? Micro machines?

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>>6126940
>Its been an entire DECADE

Yeah, an entire decade of a shit film series shitting up a franchise with it's ugly designs and retarded stories that are somehow worse than a 20 minute long 80's toy commercial and the other 20 minute toy commercials made since.

Shit, it's worse than fucking Kiss Players. Let that sink in. Kiss Players had a better story.

>>6127284
>But it also comes with an extra head
I don't understand the obsession with changing the head. Just paint it, the sculpt is fine.

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>>6127284
neat

>>6127025

Good, he makes shit movies.

>>6127059
>mostly because comics are niche and I don't think a lot of normal people know that there are TF comics

Actually, the problem with the current comics is that normies ARE knowing about them, and it's ruining comics because they're trying to pull a Marvel and "appeal to the genderfluid nu-male who watches over his tri-kin asexual fox spirit wife's kids while xhe fights the oppressive white CIS patriarchy".

Thats why we keep getting stories about gay robots, and not adventures in space while searching for the Holy Grail or interplanetary wars.

>>6127290
More like tiny titans.

>>6127287
What is turbo changer?

>>6127115

But they did. It was called Combiner Wars. And it was so successful they decided to try another line, and called it Titans Return.

Thats so successful we're gonna see a third one soon enough.

>>6127292
>expecting a coherent story and good designers from a summer blockbuster

>>6127301
Nah man, only Marvel's getting the push for that sort of shit. Gayrobots aren't really a big push in TF since there hasn't been fembots in the early IDW issues and there was the debate on HOW to introduce them with explanation (no, having no explanations won't work as well as it does in cartoons and movie) and since none of them actually procreate, gayrobots are as straight as they can be. As of today there's only two "couples" in the main team.

Just be glad that the comics don't actually adapt to the extreme from the live action movies besides Bee getting a black stripe and Barricade getting promoted to "corrupt cop with a spark of gold".

On the side note, MTMTE's crap was entirely Roberts fault for going to Tumblr too much.

>>6127146

At that point you're better off saying "Fuck it" and buying a 3P MP Galvatron, because if you're gonna waste $50 on one toy with Voyager tier engineering/paint/looks, you might as well just go balls deep and get a professional product for another $100 and just pretend the first $50 you were gonna spend was spent on hookers and coke.

>>6127310
>Just be glad that the comics don't actually adapt to the extreme from the live action movies

Don't you remember the Bayformer's design phase after All Hail Megatron, where everyone had the super fucking creepy overly detailed faces/bodies? It doubly sucked because the stories were good but the art took a fucking dive right into the dumpster because everything looked so fucking hideous.

>>6127312
Does any 3P Aspergos have a Gradius mode?

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>>6127318
Yeah, for less than a year. Can't blame them for trying, but they bounced before it became a regular thing. I can say WFC saved it, but then again they would've just come back to G1-inspired updates because they wouldn't want to alienate the ongoing buyers.

>>6127318
Eh. Most American comic art is hideous and actively obscures expressions anyways.

Transformers Rubiks
Transformers Movie 5 First Edition Helmet
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Blind Bag
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer
Transformers Movie 5 3 Step Turbo Changer
Transformers Movie 5 Deluxe
Transformers Movie 5 Role Play Helmet
Transformers Movie 5 Legion Figure Assorted
Transformers Movie 5 Voyager
Transformers Movie 5 Leader
Transformers Movie 5 Turbo Changer Feature
Transformers Movie 5 RC Earth
Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Figures
Transformers Movie 5 Power Cube Starter Kit
Movie toy line starts in April.On 6 april is my
birthday so I need to be ready .

>>6127320

No idea. About the only good thing from the TR Galvatron is the faux 80's side scrolling space shooter mode, but thats new enough I don't think 3P's would consider it, especially on an MP-style 'bot, which is what most 3P Galvatron's are.

>>6127322

Fuck shit that art is legitimately creepy.

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>>6127324
ALL HAIL THE EAST

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By off chance you are near the Morgantown WV the Walmart by itself here just stock two sets of wave 3 Legends. 6 gnaws, 4 kick backs and 6 bees.

>>6127328
That's a shame.
I like that enough to prioritize Hasbro over any 3P atttempt at a Galvatron MP, no matter how successful.

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>>6127287
the hell is this movie merchandising

where are the "toys"?

>>6127350
Indeed.

I do enjoy thighs.

>>6127146
15, maybe
But 25? That is like the price of the figure itself. And even the shapeway stuff is like 7 (yes hax looks slightly better but still)

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>>6127350
>thighs should be seductive

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>>6127350
>thighs should be seductive

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>>6127350
>can also rotate under armpit

...armada repaint confirmed?

Also, the range on that leg articulation isn't that great. Minimum should always be at least 45 degree.

>>6127371
That cannon took influence from the original g1 toy

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Has the new Henkei Magnus been bootlegged?

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>>6127371
Nah, G1 did it first.

>>6127375
>>6127384
Damn, well I guess I can count out an armada repaint then.

...I don't think anyone would have wanted that though why would I even bring it up.

I still want to see a "MP" version with shiny silver though. If toy Primal is any indicator we could get it.

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>>6126362

I just pulled out some of my voyagers in storage from the HFTD/Prime first edition era. I just transformed Bulkhead and Seaspray while watching a few reviews of the new TR voyagers. What the fuck went wrong?

>>6127339
I hope my local Walmart decides to stock that many gnaw

I would buy them all

>>6127399
Seriously. I'll be making the rounds tonight and I'm gonna snag as many Gnaws as I can (hopefully).

>>6127398
>make the toys cheaper so we can make more money
>okay

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>>6127390
I'd take an Armada Megatron retool of pic related.
It sucks that TR Tidal Wave will be out of scale with CW Armada Megatron.

>>6127418
Unless the new Tidalwavewows me somehow, I don't figure I even need it. The old one's pretty solid, I could just do the leg mod on it and it would fit in just fine.

>>6127418
Was about to say you'll ned a leader helmet to get armada Megs antenna, but you could remold the pilons.

>>6127423
Yeah, after seeing all the issues on Broadside, I completely lost interest in that mold, and Tidal Wave would have those same issues.

>>6127432
>all the issues on Broadside
Whats wrong with him besides the shitty jet mode?

>>6127423
It's part of a box set anyway, there's bound to be some wow and some shit.

>>6127438
Lacks an axe, sticker over molded detail (so they'll peel off faster), and paint in many areas that are prone to scrapping.

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>>6127446
Oh yeah, I forgot about the box sets. Who's all in those? Anyone remember?

Seriously though, once you give him some knees, how are you going to top this guy?

>>6127458
I'll only care about the one that has Magnus Prime (or whatever the blue PMOP was called) in the hope that it looks decent compared to the PMOP toy, and they actually mold most of the important parts in color (who thought it was a good idea to mold the arms in grey instead of red, when the only parts that share that color are the sides of the truck where the arms connect to?).

>>6127458

One set is Strength, the other is Speed. I forget who exactly is supposed to be in which sets, but Tidal Wave (Broadside with a new head) and that one boat chick (Thundercunt? Fuck if I remember her name) are supposed to be in the sets, I remember that much. She'll probably end up a Scourge redeco though.

>>6127447
C'mon those aren't real issues, I was thinking on loose joints or easily breakeable spots. Tidal would work better because you could ignore the plane mode... wonder if they'll homage Ramjet purple deco there.

>>6127467
Nautica according to the rumors

>Being named after a clothing line

>>6127469
The entire battleship section has paint, and tons of those sections come off pretty easily so it's an issue. In terms of articulation, it has no waist but you already knew that.

>>6127474
Nautical: of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships <a dictionary of nautical terms> <nautical flags> <nautical skills>

Shes a submaine.

>>6126981
Nice

>>6127408
I want to go to a home hardware store and get a grey bucket to put them in

Then I'll throw in cuck rod

>>6127500
I hope she's a retooled Scourge. I'd be happy if they just retool part of the torso, head, and the shell.

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>>6127512

>scourge without the goy face and molded on funbags

Sign me tf up

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>>6127520

We can't even get a 3P toy with big robo funbags, how the fuck do you think Hasbro's gonna shit one out?

>>6127530
He didn't say "big".

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>>6127531

They're not funbag's if they're not big. Then they're disappointment sacks.

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>>6127458
Pic related plus Star Convoy.

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>>6127530
well we did get big fat tf titties from Takara

>>6127147
Surprisingly no, they won't. The plastic is very strong on that part and the tab is very thick. I ended up just nipping it off so the feet sit flat, you really don't need it for vehicle mode.

>>6127232
Sonokong is a Korean company that does rereleases for Brave toys, which is the franchise Takara moved onto in Japan instead of Beast Wars, that's why Kenner made the BW toys instead of Hastak.

>>6127399
>>6127408
>>6127505
See I think that sounds fun but I'm wondering if I'll buy buyers remorse down the road owning 10+ gnaws. That's a hundred bucks for samefagging

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neat. We almost there.

>>6127554
But because they are only in one wave and are so popular, they will most definitely increase in value over the years

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>>6127554

I kinda want to get another Gnaw myself. The little guy is just so expressive.

>>6127339
>morgantown
Damn. I'm all the way on the opposite end in Huntington

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You guys think ROTF Swerve's head could pass as movie Sunstreaker? I'm thinking of getting a Sidearm Sideswipe and a ROTF Swerve to make it, once I decide if it'd look better on black or gold.
Some guy is selling me Sidearm for like 12 dollars, but it's missing one of the side mirrors.

>>6127458
THIN
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>>6127378
>new
I think kos have existed for a while. Unsure of the quality, though.

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>>6127560

>>6127571
>movie Sunstreaker
Was there ever a design for such a thing?

If not, you should find a head with little ears/fins. That's kind of one of Streaker's main characteristics.

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>>6127571
Why are you even asking? you could put a mono eye and paint it green and still say it is movie Sunstreaker, nobody besides prime takes cues from their clasic design.

>>6127559
If I'm selling them then it's more pointless.

‘Tis the Toy Fair Season and we recently saw the conclusion of Hong Kong Toys And Games Fair where Movie Masterpiece Bumblebee and Shadow Spark Optimus Prime was revealed for the first time. UK Toy Fair is to take place near the end of January as well.

Next in line is Spielwarenmesse: Nuremberg Toy Fair 2017 which is mostly known as German Toy Fair by many. Taking place this February 1st for the 68th time, the fair is held at Messezentrum, Germany.

We have received word that several exhibitors will participate with Transformers Toys and Merchandise. However, as always, the fair is infamous among the toy community for keeping reveals under wrap until officially revealed to the public during New York Toy Fair taking place this February 18th.

The Transformers product exhibitors list is as follows:

Hasbro
Hauck
The Cookie Company
INVENTO GmbH
MUNECAS SAICA
Stor
Undercover GmbH
HTI
Cartamundi
Find out more on what each exhibitor is bringing to the show floor (there’s quite a lot), after the jump. Stay tuned with TFW2005 for the best Transformers Toy Fair Coverage.

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This mold isn't that good but I'm having more fun playing with it than most MP releases. I don't know if it's the safety in knowing I don't have to sweat it breaking or the G1 toy style but I'm loving it.

Hasbro (Hall 12 – Stand F10-H5)

As the official manufacturer of Transformers toys, the company will showcase Transformers: The Last Knight toys at this year’s German Toy Fair. However, we did not receive what toys will be featured. It is possible to see Voyager Class Optimus Prime as well as Movie Masterpiece Bumblebee during the event. If any luck, Generations Trypticon will be present during the event.

Hauck (Hall 02 – Stand B05-C04)

We mentioned about Hauck before. The company is confirmed to showcase its Generations Bumblebee Go-Kart (News Post image) during this year’s German Toy Fair. We cannot be certain if TF5 Go-Karts will be available this soon.

The Cookie Company (Hall 12 – Stand I21)

The Cookie Company is a merchandising company for the Transformers Franchise in Germany. The following list of Transformers items are listed to be available on the show floor: Baby and Infant Articles, Costumes and accessories, Hair jewellery, Roleplays and accessories.

INVENTO GmbH (Hall 06 – Stand C29)

Invento is known as the Hexbug Robots distributor in Germany. Back in AOE, Hexbug manufatured toys based on the movie robots. Invento will also be showcasing the following Transformers merchandise: Building and construction toys, Handicraft sets, Juggling articles, Kites, Metal models, Model buildings, Model kits, Puzzles, RC model aircraft, RC model cars, RC model ships, RC robots (characters), Slackline, Frisbee.

MUNECAS SAICA (Hall 08 – Stand B06)

Munecas Siaca will put on display their Transformers doll prams and related plastic toys.

Stor (Hall 06 – Stand A19)

On the show floor, Stor is said to showcase licensed Transformers baby and infant articles.

Undercover GmbH (Hall 04 – Stand A05-C04)

Undercover is stated to showcase Transformers backpacks and accessories, Drawing materials, Folders, File binders, Organization aids, School bags and accessories, Water bottles, Lunch boxes and Writing utensils. All TF5.

HTI (Hall 12.2 – Stand P09) and Cartamundi (Hall 10.1 – Stand B06-C11)

HTI and Cartamundi are both official Hasbro License Holders. Though they have previously showcased Transformers related merchandise such as Go-Karts, RC Cars and Board Games, the brand is not listed for this toy fair. The products may be under wraps to avoid spoilers.

>>6127458
>box sets

Hey.

That's an anagram of 'sex bots'.

>>6127621
Both alt modes are good, and it's not a hollow mess like some of the older Generation Leader toys, granted the Blaster versions better, but it's not a terrible mold.

>>6127610
I don't want to be like those guys that just shove a Classics/Cybertron/Armada head on a Movie figure and call it a day.

>>6127610
The side view looks as flat as a Funpub head.

How legit is RobotKingdom? Is there any way to check where they are able ship?

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>>6127646
I don't agree Blaster is better. His head is not as good and his own default TM looks poor with the mold. Also while he has more color I feel it's not broken up well and makes him look plain.
That said to each their own. It's the charm of toys you can buy what you like.

>>6127660
Has anyone made a better helmet for Soundwave?

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>>6127631

>>6126384
>It's the only way to stop this shit from polluting all of the franchise anymore
Bayformers is basically the reason hasbro can do the generations line.
Its easy money and brings in new fans every time.

>>6127660
I find it a little silly honestly that a mold that was very definitely built for Blaster ended up working better as Soundwave.

I still really hope he gets an MP some day.

>>6127670
Monkey's paw angle, they wind up clogging shelf-space we'd all rather be given to Generations. Hopefully they do plenty of fun non-movie characters in the upcoming line, we all loved the RotF side-tier stuff, and the Real Gear line before the '07 movie is what got me back into collecting as an adult. Last movie all I wound up getting was Scorn.
Good with the bad I guess.

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>>6127621

>lg version
fuuuccckkk yoooouuuu

>>6127071
>because of the CG making the transformations look fantastic in one and three.
I thought it looked garbage back then and it still looks garbage today. Everything is its own moving part with zero thought about where it ends up in robot mode, so the transformations are deceptive parts-layering. It's the cgi equivalent of drawing a random card from a deck, placing it on top, repeating, and subtly slipping the first card out of the deck. I suppose that's fine if you're a fan of sensory overload, but the robots got less screentime because these trashy transformations cost so much to render.

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>>6127695
Its just the TR with a dash of paint. Was a gift and it's yellow was badly warp/smudged By the corner of his eye so I shaved it down and stroke over it with a really cheap red paint pen.

>>6127706
Since you own a Soundwave I'd like to know your opinion. Do you think Soundwave would have turned out better if he was done closer to Sixshot's face, (essentially dedicating the whole face to the helmet?), or is the helmet not good enough anyway?

>>6127016
The only thing that really bugs me is his assortment of weapons and the fact that his clamps obviously can't hold any weapons.

>>6127684
and Hasbro gets basically nothing off the actual ticket sales, or any royalties from the movie studio beyond the initial licensing fee. They have to rely on toy and merch sales to make money off these films.

Sucks for Bayformers, but probably worked in their favor for all their other franchises which bombed in theaters. Probably also fortunate they never made SJemW movie dolls or those would've put Hasbro in the black and fired people.

>>6127735
Did they ever rework the movie deal, or was it a stupid "keep the license until the end of time, or you stop making movies for X period of time" sort of deal?

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>>6127719
I'm not sure I understand the question. The flaw was how both the LG and TR version was painted, they didn't frame it right and the colors were to bright leaving him with that deer in headlight look. I'm not sure what else could have been done to the head to keep the TM gimmick to work and look correct. All the heads are rather force to stay to a certain size so the only other helmet option would have been a narrower face/no flaps on the helmet.

>>6127741
I wonder how you'd look that up. I find license deals to be very interesting subject matter, especially with stuff like this.

I doubt they'd ever want to end the deal anyway. Regardless of how much they make off the films themselves they get absolute shittons of publicity. Behind every TF collector that says "yeah I got into transformers because I like TF1/ROTF/DOTM/AOE" is a smiling hasbro exec counting his money"

>>6127744
Basically, I find that Soundwave need two things to improve the head:

-Change the face of the TM, with a larger face plate that's also wider and move it a bit higher, while also moving the visor up to where the forehead is.

-The helmet would need to move the crest and ridge higher, while also moving the sides of the helmet closer.

It felt like they were trying to make SW's head work with any figure, and have the helmet work with everything, which ended up making the head subpar.

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>>6127761
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Copyright
>The live-action film series is not Hasbro's sole property. The licensing agreement with DreamWorks and Paramount makes anything related to the movie-verse (including any toys based on characters that appear on-screen) at least partially their property as well.
Basically Paramount can do as they please with the movie license to the point they could even outsource the film characters to other companies to make merc/toys going completely around Hasbro. That said that's a lot of wasted work when you could just Hasbro do all the leg work while you just focus on the film project. It's a major reason the brand is staying so strong. They might not be sharing profits but they are not dealing with each others shrinkage, budgets or costs, they stand on their own as autonomous businesses creating a synergy of power neither would have if they had to negotiate the brand license.

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>>6126964

>>6127786
To split hairs both Sixshot's parts still work with any TR. Also I'm not seeing the issues presented, what you describe I feel would make him either look like a pencil/eraser head or that deer in headlights look would look like he was screaming in horror.
Ultimately they could have tried what they did with PM Prime and just have a helmet that cover the TM with a visor open for the eyes but much like Prime that would just ruin the gimmick even more so.

>>6127789
Glad to see I'm not the only one with a Whirl-shaped dust collector.

>>6127560
How does MP Hot Rod look next to this Optimus?

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>>6127904

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>>6127906

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>>6127908

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>>6127902

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This looks breddy gud.

>>6127904
How solid is the connection?

>>6127916
It's decent. I can hold it with the back facing down and it doesn't fall off

>>6127918
I'm tempted to get those two just to do this.

>>6127913
>all these helmets from shapeways and 3rd parties.
>not just making a new head

>>6127924
That's what I'm waiting for, everything about Galvatron is fine for me except that godawful gimmick, wish they'd just left him out of TR and scrapped the master.

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I can't wait for Titans Return to end so people can stop posting shitty photos of their autistic headswap OCs.

>>6127560
>>6127574

Which Optimus is this? The KuBianBao Voyager MP?

>>6127931
>Complaining about the intended play pattern
It is you who is the autist

>>6127931
Whatever, I loved that guy that posted Hardlock (that's what I'm calling him) with FoC Grimlock weapons and Clobber+big-ass cannon. He made me go out and buy two Clobbers and I've never been happier

>>6127931
Agree.

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>>6127806
We are many, we are legion.

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I wonder if there will be toy overstock with the new line? I don't recall much from AOE apart from Grimlock overstating his welcome for like a year. During DOTM all kinds of overstock found its way to dollar stores and I found myself impulse buying random nobodies like pic related for cheap.

>>6127931
I can't wait for it to stop so that autistic shits like you will stop complaining about how other people enjoy their toys.

>>6127969
Most stores are kinda wary on movie stuff. They either order a bit or not enough.

I remember the releases and it gets depressing as the toys get simpler.

'07 - Nearly the size of you Star Wars section

'09 - Huge amount of stuff, nearly a half an isle

'11 - Maybe had a case of everything, not put out until I asked about it

'14 - Maybe a bit more but small amount of product

My main concern is the amount of shelf space. Maybe the stores spring resets will be kinder but my local stores have barely any TF shelf space. I'd love to go see a huge amount of new things come April or May, whenever the toys come, but I also know I won't get a lot now, especially with MP movie bots coming out.

>>6127990
>'07
Christ it feels like a different universe sometimes, even in my dinky town there was half a goddamned aisle devoted to TFs, these days there are like 3 deluxe pegs and a couple legends pegs with a single shelf space below for voyagers.

>>6127990
Last I checked my Walmarts and Targets didn't even have a single shelf dedicated to Transformers.

Was great during the holidays though. Happy I got Triggerhappy and Hot Rod for 9.99 each.

>>6127931
Better than the guys who bought 4 Blastoffs/Rooks to use as meme limbs.

>>6127990
07 and 09 were truly the best of years

>>6128021
I did that with FOC Brawl, to make FOC Brawlticus.

>>6128051
four heads are better than none

>>6127931
I can't wait for the heatdeath of the universe.

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rediscovering stuff I've had in storage for the past few years, finding stuff I was hype to buy once but fell out of display eventually. Do you rotate your collection, or have you whittled it down to what you can fit on your shelves?

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>>6127934

Yeah, KBB MP-10V. Love this thing. Wish it didn't have diecast, but oh well. Definitely worth the price.

>>6127000

>Not banned, they just didn't decide to release it there because the original films weren't successful there either.

No. You are not allowed to release movies in china that have ghosts. Its an actual real law there. If you DO have ghosts in a movie it has to be explicitly stated in the movie that it was just somebodys dream or imagination, and the ghosts did not actually exist, and even then they are super picky about what is allowed and what isnt.

Like, a character having a dream and seeing dead relavtive, or a character hallucinating and seeing a ghost is okay.

But a character encountering a ghost and implying that this ghosts is real and exists outside of imagination/dream is not allowed and literally illegal.

>>6126851
Oh god I remember this, this is why I basically stopped buying any transformers via actual Swedish retail, it's pretty bad when importing from Japan was cheaper.

Also seems they're skipping Titans Return here, I guess they're not even bothering with Generations here anymore.

>>6128067
I'll splurge when I need that new toy fix but most of the time I end up selling, or trying to sell them off.

I used to be one who wanted to complete the line, then one who just wanted my favorites, now I just want the best versions.

I've got a big pile of boxes of things I need to sell just too lazy to write it up.

>>6128074
What's wrong with the diecast again?

And yeah I have this motherfucker and he's become my favorite Transformer fig that I own, with Roadbuster coming it at a close second. He's great, and I love how hefty he feels.

Things that annoy you about TR:

>Some of the Box art either uses better colors, or have cooler heads

Soundwave, and Mindwipe look great, but their actual heads look so different.

>>6128102
Everyone is such a samefag in feeling and really bland transformations

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What are the chances of a TM Metalhawk? he was the "main" character in Masterforce before Ginrai.

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>>6127904
>>6127906
>>6127908
>>6127910
This was harder to do than I thought.

>>6128102
Inconsistent neck joints for the masters, some of the heads turn decently and tightly while others either have to look straight forward or off to one side entirely with no wiggle room in between.

>>6128112
I don't think it's impossible.... but it seems INCREDIBLY unlikely.

>>6128102
The heads themselves, specifically for Galvatron. Sometimes the coloring on the side is off.

>>6128085
>What's wrong with the diecast again?

Shit tier garbage metal that holds paint poorly, destroys joints (both plastic and metal joints, since it makes a shit metal for joints and metal fucks up plastic joints), can rust, and basically is only there to fool retards into thinking something is valuable because it has weight to it.

Instead of making the chest, crotch, and feet diecast, they should've kept it all plastic, given the crotch hip skirts, and if they wanted to add weight to the feet, just have put some diecast inside of the feet, or on the bottom only.

It's a great figure, but really, they shouldn't have put any diecast into it. Same with the rubber tires, they should've just made them plastic, since rubber is a shit material too for toys.

>>6128128
You know what I don't understand. Why not put diecast weights inside the plastic limbs (legs) to give weight. That way nothing gets fucked up paint or joint wise and the stability and weight is still there.

>>6128138
Heavier toys cost more to ship? Unless they're gonna charge more, why would they bother?

>>6128143
I mean, it has more to do with 3rd party stuff. Official figures haven't had die-cast in ages. 3rd parties can really do whatever.

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Predict the Rotten Tomatoes score
>52%

>>6128112
Nah, I'd want him to have his own mold.

>>6128151

69 hehehe

>>6128149
>>6128138

See, thats exactly my thought. Why bother putting that shit metal as actual parts, why not just put a fucking lead weight inside the hollow-ass feet or something if you REALLY want to add the feeling of heft to a toy?

That way you get stability and weight, without sacrificing anything by actually using diecast as a part/joint/painted area/etc.

>>6128151
That's generous.

>>6128151
>21%

>>6128151
>caring about RT after the blunder score of Nubusters
Lmao

>>6128175
Stay mad DCuck. Baytrash>Snydershit

>>6128178
??????
I was bashing RT for giving the new Ghostbusters a high score you retard, I never mentioned DC

>>6128151
If it's good, that's about right

>>6127904
>>6127906
>>6127908
>>6127910
Ok how in hell did you get AT and Mindwipe to link up to even make that abomination.
>It's really cool none the less.

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>>6127547

>>6128224

Sakamoto TF hentai doujins when?

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>>6128230
not soon enough.

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>>6128224
>>6128239
>I fell for the "Robot spider tiddies" meme
Literally the worst Transformer I have, but it looks cool and I liked Blackarachnia in the cartoon so I don't want to part with it either. Feels hoarder man

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>>6128247

>>6128112
Stop making me want the shit molds.
I'm still contemplating getting the beast headmasters and Scourge because of it.

>>6128247
whats bad about it? I almost ordered one today.

>>6128224
>>6128239
>>6128250
>Stop! STOP!!! Stop, making me want THICC fem bot with interchangeable costumes!
I already think Busou Shinki fags that dress up their toys are the scum of the Earth, don't make me one too.

>>6128298
You collect colorful toy robots aimed at 5 year old children. You don't get to look down on any other toy collectors.

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>>6127530
>We can't even get a 3P toy with big robo funbags
Anon, needs to know what the fuck he is talking about before he speaks.
>Dino funbags HO!

>>6128299
Exactly this

>>6128312

A good 3P toy. That thing is pretty shit.

>>6128331
>A good 3P toy
>good
That's really up to taste and the anon never made that qualifier in his original statement anyway.

>>6128223
Look at the pic and copy it by fanmoding stuff.

>>6128340

[nospoilerontoy]I am that anon. I know that titty lizard is coming out. Still a really shit toy honestly, especially for it's price[/nospoilerontoyyetwhyhiroshimootwhy?]

>>6128312
It turns into a skinny headbutt dino and the head+neck just hangs off the back instead of forming shoulder armor and a faux-helmet?

>>6127789
Good enough for government work

New thread

>>6128410
>>6128410
>>6128410

>>6127654
My first shipment from them recently came without problems. Shipping is by Hong Kong postal service so you have to check there for prices and locations. They recently ceased small packet SAL (<1kg) so there's no economic option for small shipments. Note that RK will add 200g~400g when calculating their shipping quotes due to packing material. My parcel came padded with styrofoam on all six sides.

>>6126438
related:Valor, Swift, and Fireplug, single carded, are at TRU.com