Transformers General - Sixshot to the Heart Edition

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So who's everyone's favorite standalone titanmaster?

Mine's Sawback, although I can see Shuffler dethroning him (if I could ever find him).

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Link in prevIOUS ThREAD REEEE

>>6169388

So far, any of the lil' t-rexes or Sawback, because the t-rexes are nice lil' figures, and Sawback because I always liked robot lions.

Has anyone ordered any of the Unite Warriors sets from Mandarake?
How did it go?

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So you've already pre-ordered your set of TAKARA WINS AGAIN heads, right boys?

>>6169607
>$40 for uglier paint
It's like you weren't even trying with this bait

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>>6169613
at least Takara can afford more than 2 drops of paint.


>we make it for kids, like fuck we care if adults think it's cheap- Brian Goldner

>>6169626
Hello Subjectautist! New to /tfg/, are you?

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>>6169626

>>6169607
>takara
>wins
pick one takaracuck

>>6169607
Where do you preorder?

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>>6169613
>titanmaster robot modes actually look like something other than globs of unpainted plastic
>uglier

>>6169640
the chosen prime for $32
robotkingdom for $25

>>6169652
>terrible paint schemes and ugly colors
>better

>>6169631
How? That pic is pretty damning

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Current Gnaw listing on Amazon.

>>6169388
>>6169374
I've been to three Toys R Us, three Targets and two Wal-marts, I haven't even seen a single figure from Wave 3.

>>6169664
Walmarts seem to have only gotten TM, and Legends (unless you're in the Leaf Kingdom). Some TRU got W3 deluxes first (somehow), but nothing since the holidays, and Walgreens are getting W3 deluxes in droves.

Getting Masterpiece Soundwave today, how much does he suck?

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No respect

>TR Bumblebee/Chase would be much better if the piece holding the head section and arms was on a mushroom peg so you could have the the arms flipped over.

>>6169681
He's complete garbage and will look like shit on your display. Send him to me.

>>6169693
Okay, I'll redirect the mailman.

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>>6169688
Yep.

If you're just keeping him in bot mode I'd suggest reversing the upper arms.

>>6169607

Where do i order this

>Brian stated that a strong line-up of figures are planned for TLK and we will get to see it during New York Toy Fair 2017.

Finally watched a video on Kup- His transformation looks aces, but he is incredibly boring in both modes, and the older Generations Kup does me fine.


Is there any hope for a Kup repaint by the end of TR? Into something with a bit more life to it, maybe?

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>>6169730
He just needs a bit of paint, I'll get him and move Gen Kup to my idw/wrecker shelf.

>>6169730
Japan will definitely have one with cartoon colors. You'll just have to wait a while for them to release it.

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>>6169730
He might get repainted into Crosshairs.

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>>6168439
Where is the full source friend

>>6168718
It might be a bit burdensome to get all 6-7 headmasters, even with the 2-for-1 deals. Know if Krok has the same problem(s) as Skullcruncher? Getting Perceptor for sure, and I'm mulling over between Triggerhappy (no attachment to the character unfortunately), Twinferno, Kup, Quake, and Krok

GOD look at that beauty

>>6169738
I can see it, and yeah, I think that'd be much more tempting to me.

Here's hoping for an announcement from Toyfair.

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>>6169740
>Where is the full source
Mavs tumblr, address on the corner.

>>6169740
Yeah I'm not getting Doublecross
Dragon looks a bit derpy and arms aren't as posable as I'd like

>>6169755
YOOOO I remember you
[spoilers]I love you[/on toy]

>>6169740
I want the toy on the right built using the materials of the toy on the left.

>>6169769
You and many others reposted such a sentiment and I have to say it brings a tear to my eye every time

Hopefully 3D printing will develop so by 2030 we can make good-quality toys for ourselves, for free!!!!

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>>6169658
Uh huh. Keep telling yourself that.

>>6169740
perceptor looks pretty good...

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>>6169790
You should get him and we can be Perceptor buddies anon
Just two perceptive shitposters doing science and having fun

>>6169789
>cherrypicking this hard

>>6169777
>3d printing figures for free
>doesn't realize that all the good 3d printers use plastic that's more expensive than 2d printer ink
>that shit won't get cheaper, ever

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>>6169738
I can't believe they never redecod Cybertron Defense Hot Shot into this guy

>>6169803
really, you can't believe Hasbro didn't redeco a non-Bumblebee toy into something with the game general colours and layout?

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>>6169794
It's not cherrypicking if it applies to all of them, boyo.

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>>6169740
K so

>Perceptor is goat
>Kup is really really really iffy but I have no other figures of him
>Krok's altmode looks amazing but his head sucks ass
>Triggerhappy has a fun transformation and has a lot of personality, just a bit of an obscure character for me to immediately jump to
>Quake's altmode looks great and an overall neat-looking figure but idk too much about the Hardhead mold's pros/cons

Please help, skipped out on most of combiner wars save for some legends and I'm trying to get back in the game, relatively affordably

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>Deck is much better looking without stickers

Fucking Hasbro
Why bother using the stickers?

>>6169814
So the back bit of the runway is unpainted grey?

>>6169810
>but his head sucks ass

Conveniently, that is a VERY solvable issue in this particular line.

>>6169810
Headhead's issues are:

-TM head damages the tiny pincers over time
-No waist swivel
-Shoulders and knees could be loose out of package.

>>6169810
Hardhead is the only toy I got so far only because it was literally all I considered giving a chance from wave 1 and 2.
It has pretty good playability, the cannon can be moved in robot mode so you can not only aim it but also store it on the back if you are posing it on stand by, the shoulders have good range of movement but the chest is too fucking square to let you use them to their full extent; though it doesn't matter than much because you can still do all you need with them, the legs are kind of shitty IMO but they are still solid and there's no issue at all with getting it to stand and pose though more dynamic poses are hindered by the lack of any articulation on the feet; which is something you can remedy by getting a Tamashii stand as it has a hole on the back to peg one in.

Be wary that the QC on the line has been really hit or miss. Mine came with some details from the calves botched, its right arm has some trouble pegging in place for tank mode, and the slot for the titan master was floppy as shit.

>>6169821
>-TM head damages the tiny pincers over time
First I'm hearing of it.

>>6169823
The ridges on the TM head get caught up in the pincers, and they can damage them over time if you remove the head every now and then. This doesn't happen if you flip the head TM head over, but the TM head will end up with stress marks if you do so.

>>6169817
The back is unpainted and is covered by the sticker.

Which is weird for if they want to save paint, they shouldn't paint the other part of the deck- but they did.

If they keep the way the back is with the other part, they got a pretty much perfect carrier deck, with the difference in colors and proper molded details.

>>6169735

Be nice if they made a Titanmaster Kup withcartoon colored faceplate. vehicle doesn't really matter as the head is the point. Almost any redeco of an existing vehicle mold will do. Maybe the Jeep / Airbike

>>6169686
>No respect
Not as bad as Beast Machines.

>>6169738

Id rather have Orion Pax out of this

>>6169836
>buy deluxe Crosshairs
>put US PMOP's head on it
Badda bing badda boom.

>>6169836
What, two Optimuses in Titans Returns isn't enough yet?

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>>6169660
>those prices

Fuck.

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>>6169660
More expensive than my Asian Gnaws.

>>6169845
No anon, we need:

-TM Optimus
-Orion Pax
-Hero Prime
-New Leader Armada Prime that actually looks like Armada Prime and has an inner robot.

>>6169852
Monkey Prime from Apeface
Leo Prime from Sawback
Big Prime from Shuffler
Rescue Bots Dino Prime from Crashbash

>>6169853
Optimus EXPrime from Twinferno
Croctimus Prime from Skullsmasher

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>>6169820
What how
>>6169821
>>6169822
It has playability but also QC issues - is it really worth paying extra for an obscure character and minor playability

I guess that's the main issue with Triggerhappy also, except he's been near-universally praised. I'm just trying to get the most out of the 2-for-1 deal at TRU Canada.

Hot Rod, maybe....? Or I can take a look at Topspin again

>>6169852
>>6169853
>>6169857
Snapdragon when

>>6169858
>What how

Just use a different head.
It's the linewide gimmick! But one of the Titan Masters, and just use IT as the permanent head.

Should I get Kickback or another Gnaw

I have Bombshell but I have no hopes of ever getting Shrapnel for a decent price, and I'm not a hardcore Insecticon fan - Bombshell was neat and I'll complete them out of convenience

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>>6169861
I'm really not good at customizing my figures anon, what if I accidentally break the head or the body while trying to get the head out
Not sure if I even have the right tools, might have a screwdriver somewhere

>>6169863
You need to remove the head to transform most TR figures. it's the linewide gimmick.

>>6169863
are you... are you talking about the robot head, or the gator head?

>>6169862
Kickback.

>>6169810
what's the problem with krok?

>>6169873
his head sucks ass. can't you read?

>>6169864
>>6169868
Why?

>>6169865
The one that sucks ass

>>6169862
Gnaw. Sharkticons were always better than insecticons.

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>>6169883
are you serious, it's the whole gimmick of the line

don't like the head? pick another head

there's no customizing

it comes off and is a smaller dude

>>6169862
John "Only 90s Kids Shall Go To The Showers" Warden presents Kickback's Rubber Soul.

>>6169888
nobody gives a shit about the autistic oc donut steel headswapping.

The point is the KROK head is shit and there's no better KROK head.

>>6169862
Both have problems, Kickback just has more.

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>>6169888
Oh cool, I didn't know that, thanks anon

>>6169886
>>6169892
>>6169899
Yeah apparently Kickback has rubber and clear plastic issues, while Gnaw has just clear plastic issues?

But do I really need two (2) Gnaws? It's not even three (3), not even an army

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>>6169899

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>>6169904
>Kickback has rubber and clear plastic issues
?

>>6169906
Is that one of the new RID predacons?

>>6169904
Gnaw's clear plastic is annoying, but bearable, his main problem is his really shitty legs in robot mode, and the fact that those clear halves end up there instead of staying on his back.

>>6169908
Kickback has zero black plastic. The head's yellow rubber and the rest is clear-yellow plastic painted black.

>>6169924
>rest is clear-yellow plastic painted black
You sure about that?

>>6169664
Try Walgreens. I got all of Wave 3 from them while everyone else is sitting on their hands.

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>>6169929
Yeah you can see from the unpainted part of the screw holes and also from the inner bits of the knees.

>>6169934
Seriously, how the hell did this happen? They're even loosening up on having cockpits stick to being transparent plastic, yet kickback was done all wrong for no reason.

>>6169940
It's done so you can have the clear chest window (i think it's unnecessary...) without machining another mold for the black parts...just put all of the parts on the clear-yellow runner.

Anyway, the black coating is actually not too bad...I had trouble identifying it as clear yellow plastic. I wouldn't use the 3mm stand hole though...it's probably too small with all the paint.

>>6169941
Stop using ellipses.

>>6169941
The annoying this is that we KNOW they can use more than one sprue for these guys. Buzzsaw has grey, yellow and black, Action Master Shockwave had grey, purple, and red, so having a separate piece for the yellow would have worked, and the head didn't even need to be rubber, the antenna wouldn't snap that easily if the head used regular plastic.

>>6169725
>believing a press release

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Takara rerelease comparisons

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>>6169978
eech

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>>6169979
U-Unf

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>>6169980
okayish

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>>6169607
>Takara still hasn't used the Alpha Trion head
What could they have in store for us?

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>>6169980

>>6169980
fuck that's nice

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>tfw local retailers are finally at the last wave of Combiner Wars
About fucking time we can start Titans Return here.

>>6170087
Anon, Shia Lebidoof is not one of the returning Titans.

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>>6170072

hey someone saved one of my Inferno memes.

>>6170108
He's too busy protesting against an invisible boogeyman and beating up/licking everyone who says things he doesn't like.

>>6170115
I still kek at some of his supporters tweets
>this guy stopped the decepticons, ain't no jail gonna hold him

>>6170115
m8, Shia Labeouf, who is Jewish, just pushed the neo nazi after having nazi shit shouted at his face. The only thing he did wrong was NOT beating up the guy.

>>6170117
kek

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>>6170117
I'm rather surprised Simmons is back for the fifth.

>>6170162
me too, iirc he was mad at bay after dotm.

>>6170144
>after having nazi shit shouted at his face
So you didn't watch the video then? And now it's ok to rough people up for saying things you don't like?
>who is jewish
Truly, what a (((coincidence)))!

>>6170117
>>6170162
Jesus christ my sides are in orbit

>>6170162
So.

It is only now that I realize Yelnats is just Stanley backwards. I've never read the book, only seen the movie, and I guess I'd never seen it spelled out before.

Huh.

>>6169664
Canuck here
In the Ottawa/Gatineau area, all TRUs are still TR Wave 1&2
Several Walmarts are starting to push Wave 3 deluxe, voyager & leaders, and I found one that had three Wave 3 titanmasters, but no Wave 3 TMs anywhere else, and absolutely no Wave 3 legends anywhere, at all

>>6170144
Fuck off Shia

>>6170198
I feel your pain.

Canuck here, as well. Same general area. The Wal-Mart I go to has Voyagers Megatron and such, and I think I spotted a Sixshot there as well, but the one I want is Triggerhappy.

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New Big Convoy figure when?

>>6170229
I would absolutely love this, although I think the original still holds up just fine. I've never heard of any cases of it, but I do worry about gold-ish plastic of his mammoth parts. I hope they hold up.

Maybe if Primal wins the election and we get a whole new round of beastformers.

Who could he be repainted into? Scourge? Copy the club and do Magnus? Elephant-Ironhide homage?

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>>6170229
1 repaint of Shuffler coming right up!

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>>6170233
This is still one of my favorite Nemesis Primes. One of the few "Evil Optimus" that gets what made RiD scourge so cool. Its not enough for it to be a black "Optimus", its got to look like an Optimus with more firepower and weapons. That Japanese TF Go! redeco of Beast Hunters Optimus was another good Nemesis. Always wanted Cybertron Optimus as Nemesis Prime, too.

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>>6170229
if only they heavily retool alpha lion mold

>>6170170
>And now it's ok to rough people up for saying things you don't like?

If you're doing roughly the equivalent of strolling into, say, a black neighborhood and saying "nigger" over and over, or walking in on a church service while dressed like the devil and shouting "hail Satan", or whatever else you might say or do that is clearly intended to provoke whoever you're trying to piss off?

Yeah, pretty much.

This isn't like that poor lady who got pepper sprayed at Berkley while talking to a reporter. This guy had no other purpose to what he was doing other than being an asshole.

>>6170249
Oh shit, I didn't even think of that. I want that right now. Maybe I'll get an extra and do it myself.

My source from Hasbro told me that Optimus Primal won.But this was they plan,they will release Star Saber and Deathsaurus.

Aliens are real? How would be if TRANSFORMERS, Grays,Reptilians or Nordics were real?
I would bang an Nordic Alien,don't you?

>>6170277
i wonder what would they do if magnus won? rerelase cw um in new deco?
unless they release mp, but if that's the case, deathsaurus is fucked

>>6170285
>unless they release mp
Almost all but 2 of those to vote for had MPs. I don't think that was a coincidence.

>>6169607
>>6169626
>>6169652

>paying +50-100% markup for what are literally childrens' toys with extra paint slathered on

Takara only wins when it comes to Diaclone, dumb transformercucks

>>6170294
>Almost all but 2 of those to vote for had MPs.
you mean one?
ultra magnus, star saber and optimus primal had at least one each (magnus has op redeco and his bigger armor).
only unknown evil hasn't.

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>>6170198

also Ottawa hear.

Christ, this one Wal-Mart last week was suppose to restock but they haven't done it yet, last i checked which was Saturday.

>>6170345
I mean from the first poll however it hit me it was three that didn't have an MP from that cast.

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>>6169374
>Finally caved and bought Sixshot on eBay sick of waiting
>Get him on Saturday, did like him
>These emails start coming out that he'll be ready next week
GOD DAMMIT
I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN

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>>6170452
lol dumbass

What has better quallity Bayformers toys or Titans Return?
Also,I spotted CW Onslaught at 16$,is that a good price? I don't know because I didn't buy TFs before.Please help.Thanks.

>>6170482
Yes

>>6170501
I will take that on the price.But the TF quallity is good?

>>6170514
Bayformers had a wide range of quality variations, RotF and HftD had the best, Dotm and AoE had some shitty toys on them, TR has pretty good quality overall with some known issues (croc mold weak knees, Highbrow and Scourge lose nek connectors).

16 for Onslaught is a good price he has an awesome bot mode, altmode not so good but still passable.

>>6170521
Thanks.

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>>6170469
S-shut up it was a lapse of judgement on a figure I've been waiting so long for.

>>6169978

Better! This is closer to his colors when he emerges from the barn, guns blazing.

>>6169979

What the hell? The previous one was move screen accurate. They should've just reused the previous paint apps and added more paint apps (like silver) to it.

>>6169980

YES.

>>6169982

I know it looks weird but if you go watch his scenes in the film, these are his final colors. The bronze on the gun, the silver gun, the grey pelvis, the gold on the feet, the purple in the hips, chest, and biceps, the silver teeth, the gold and silver running down his chest. It's all there.

>>6170277
My uncle at nintendo says the Switch is gonna bomb.

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Who this?

>>6170553
give the enter key a break, anon

>>6170589
Skyfire.

>>6170482
The first two movie lines, the 2007 movie and ROTF, have the best toylines, including their "post-movie" lines; Allspark Power and ROTF's untitled 2010 TF line and Hunt for the decepticons. With Movie 1, the better toys are generally the non-movie based characters. ROTF has most of the definitive retail toy versions of the characters.

DOTM is when things started going downhill; suffering from simplification and budget cuts, though it's not completely terrible, and now people seem to think of it as OK. The new characters from the toyline are generally alright, but most of the returning characters from the first two movies got worse toys, with exceptions like Megatron.

AoE was worse, but the Dinobots are pretty neat toys.

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>>6170589
Third party titanmaster Skyfire.

>>6170609
Weird color scheme

>>6170622
>obviously a prototype

>>6170622
Bizzarroglass toxictron flybot. Only 19.99£

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>>6170622
Thats clearly a testshot/prototype, far from the final product.

G2 Menasor is back up on HasbroToyShop on ebay discounted down to $50 with free shipping.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/222396929902

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>>6170021

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>>6170298
>Takara only wins when it comes to Diaclone

>>6170249

What's Shuffler's Titan Master power? Does anybody know?

For that matter, what is Repugnus' ?

>>6169686
Its been weird going from being a 90's kid where BW did't get much respect, and us BW fans being the young kids of the fandom, then it becoming a fandom darling mostly everyone had accepted and loved in the early to mid 2000's, then seeing it gradually fall out of favor as new and younger fans come into the fandom and don't "get" the beast era at all.

>>6170695

I've never seen anything other than casual disdain for it, and I've been watching since G1.

It's got good writing once it gets going, but man, that CGI was always fucking hideous.

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aside from RID Strongarm and Windblade, what other femaleformers we got from 2016 until now?

>>6170707
>good writing
When Beast Wars got good episodes, they're GOAT episodes
When it got bad, it's on par with G1's low moments

>>6170714
Megatronia

>>6170707
Before the movie and the Classics line brought a huge wave of new fans and nostalgic people in, it was in pretty high regard. Lots of Botcons centered around Beast Era stuff. It was pretty crucial to the fandom's formative years on the internet. Disdain mostly came from outsider circles who mostly knew the G1 cartoon primarily.

The CGI is unpolished, but I do think the characters themselves emote pretty well, even better than a lot of newer CGI shows.

>>6170716
can post pic? is the one with 5 transformers in one?

>>6170718
>The CGI is unpolished, but I do think the characters themselves emote pretty well, even better than a lot of newer CGI shows.

This. The CGI is really crude by today's standards, but the facial expressions and body language of the characters are fantastic

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>>6170714
CW Victorion/Megatronia and that RiD quill repaint.

>>6170631
>That original helmet we didn't get

Still fucking mad.

>>6170749
>RiD quill repaint

Have pics or toy name?

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>>6170785
Scatterspike
Straight redeco

>>6170741

The CGI was pretty crude even by standards then. It just wasn't a good format for cartoons at the time due to budget.

>>6170790
>couldn't even give her her proper head
Thanks, John.

>>6170785
>>6170790
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOnCS9ftCM

>>6170785
Shes just a direct Quillfire repaint. http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scatterspike#Robots_in_Disguise_.282015.29

>>6170793
Tight budget

>>6170801
RID has a budget? Color me surprised. Oh wait, that would be a paint app.

>>6170641
Nice. Wish they shipped to Canada.

It's a shame RID has a literal happy meal toy budget, I like a lot of designs from the show

>>6170741
>the facial expressions and body language of the characters are fantastic

I honestly was not able to watch the Armada Trilogy CG animation because it was so stiff comparatively.

>>6170791
It's definitely crude, but when you understand the technical details of getting a full cgi cartoon out on a pretty regular schedule, Mainframes stuff was impressive.

>>6170824
In the 90's, mind you. CGI is cheap and easy as fuck nowadays.

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>>6170790
>>6170794

"female"

I see... it seems any degree of physical feminity is not a transformer thing aside from Wingblade and Arcee versions, sad

>>6170714
Scatterspike is female.

>>6170832
To be honest I don't care anyway but I've never been into transformers for sexy. Real life gives me enough to not want it in my toys.

>>6170832
Nigga, it is a robot porcupine.

>>6170832
Beast Era fems where pretty feminine, at least the ones intended to be a lady from the start. Granted I'm guessing you might've been too young for that era.

>>6170833
>>6170837
>>6170838
I only ask for some feminity, nothing sexual, a light femenine chestplate, a little bit more of hips, a femenine face... come on, something at least when I see the toy can recognise it as a female and not a Optimus Prime recolor with a new face

>>6170840
I had some of those as kid, a reboot of Beast Wars can be something nice to have

>>6170848
Scattorspike is probably the single least feminine fembot in recent history. Most have some hint of it.

>>6170848
Girls are unrealistic

>>6170853
Movieverse Shadow Striker and Override

>>6170861
I wouldn't really consider ROTF and the 2010 movie recent history, in terms of the franchise. I was thinking more with current shows and comics especially now that they've sort of solidified the concepts of fembots within the cannon with the whole Camina thing.

But, I'll concede and add the caveat to my post that I mean actual characters that show up in something (anything) and get any kind of role, not toy-only repaints of shitty legend class figures that could literally be anyone.

I love the Super Ginrai mold. I'd honestly buy another one if they release it in black.

>>6170871
Sounds about right. Every female that wasn't a glorified cameo was either extremely girly or a reference to an existing character. Only other one that was on her level was another beast con from the RiD comic books the same "species" as a male from the show.

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So chunky

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gThty4ptXw
New Wotafa

>>6170871
I mean, how many memorable female transformers characters do we even have?

There's Arcee, from pink car to blue motorcycle and everything in between.

Blackarachnia/Airachnid for spider shit.

Slipstream to get a female seeker.

Strika to get a proper ugly brute.

Wingblade as the fanvoted waifushit.

Strongarm as the cop actually dressed for the job.

And what, Override? Gotta have a leader there somewhere. That's barely half a dozen, and I'm being generous. At least it's fairly evenly split down the middle.

>>6171084
>And what, Override?

Does it count if Override was meant to be a man, and got changed into a woman in the dub?

>>6171084
Character wise? You got that, plus Elita-1 and her crew, Minerva, some obscure micro masters like Discharge from Japanese G1. Airazor; the first to actually get a toy designed as female. Botanica, who never got a toy, but worth noting. Thunderblast from Cybertron. A whole bunch of minicons, but I wouldn't blame you for looking over those. Alice and Sari from ROTF and animated, though those are mostly human. Ripclaw from Beast hunters. Botcon exclusives like Antagony, nighttacer, and Flamewar. And some IDW femmes.

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>>6171037

Good shit.

>>6171084
>G1
Autobots
Arcee
Beta
Chromia
Elita One
Firestar
Karmen
Moonracer
Nancy
Paradron Medic
Vibes
Two unnamed Female Autobots from the show
>Japanese G1
Clipper
Minerva
Discharge
Rosanna
Angela
Windy
Windrazor
>G1 GoBots

Path Finder
Small Foot

Decepticons

Clio
Crasher
Nightracer

>Japanese G1

Esmeryl
Lyzack
Howlback

>>6171109
>Beast Era
Maximals

Airazor
Botanica
Blackarachnia
Rage
Sonar
Stampy's Mom

Predacons/Vehicons

Antagony
Blackarachnia
Manta Ray
Scylla
Strika

The Covenant

Libras
Virgol
Possibly Cancix
Possibly Sagittarii

>>6171097
I meant more so memorable characters, where their general tropes and characterizations are either prime for or are already used in multiple continuities. For that, I'll add Airazor and Elita-1, even though the latter clashes with Arcee and being a pink car. (Though I guess having Arcee stay a motorcycle fixes that)

And anyway, I forgot Crasher, the black repaint that justifies a Mirage/Dragstrip mold!

>>6171113
>Universe / Timelines
Autobots

Crystal Widow
Flareup
Glyph
Roulette

Maximals

Crossblades
Stiletto

Decepticons

Flamewar
Shadow Striker
Nemesis Strika

Shattered Glass Decepticons

Crasher

>Unicron Trilogy
Autobots

Airazor
Arcee
Autobot nurses
Downshift's Lifebond Partner
Motorcycle refugee
Override
Two Velocitronian Band members

Decepticons

Thunderblast

Mini-Cons

Cliffjumper
Combusta
Falcia
Ironhide
Road Rebel
Spiral
Sunburn
Sureshock
Twirl
Offshoot
Mudbath
Breakage
Kickflip
Heavy Metal

>>6171116


>Live-action film continuity
Autobots

Arcee
Elita-1
Chromia

Decepticons

Alice
Fracture

>Transformers Animated
Autobots

Arcee
Elita-1 (later Blackarachnia)
Red Alert
Flareup
Rosanna
Glyph
Two unnamed Female Autobots
Botanica
Substitute autobots
Sari Sumdac
Decepticons
Blackarachnia
Slipstream
Strika
Flip sides
>War for Cybertron
Autobots
Arcee
Decepticons
Slipstream
>Prime
Autobots
Solus Prime
Arcee
Decepticons
Airachnid
>Generations Toys
Minicons

Break-neck

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>this level of autism

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>>6171127
>question is answered
>lolautisim

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>>6171118
You forgot Ripclaw

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>>6171133
>asked for memorable female transformers
>lists nearly every named female transformer including multiples of the same characters from different continuities
>not autism

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>>6171141
And he forgot Windshear too
much dishonor

>>6171127
I know, right? Especially when I make it clear I'm talking about unique/reusable character archetypes that are female. There are already tons for males, I was wondering how many female ones there were.

A lot of the main cast already have their niches. For the most part, you'll know exactly how Ratchet, Shockwave, Grimlock, Starscream, and others will act and interact purely from the tropes they've carved out for themselves. And that's not even mentioning OP and Megs, who are practically multiversal singularities based on how similar their incarnations are.

>>6171141
you can easily list that from looking at a wiki, and from memory if nostalgia is strong.

>>6171146
a cute!

>>6171146
I am really surprised at how that mold only got one use.

And no repaint.

>>6171170
It was a piece of crap honestly. The only reason I still have all the pieces is because I never move it or transform it. The damn thing falls to pieces in your hands.

>tfw reviews and shit of waves 4 and even 5
>tfw living in New Zealand
>tfw stuck on Titans Return wave 2

Literally why even live?

>>6171195
>wave 5
Are you high or something?

>>6171204
What else can you do after going to a tiy store and finding the same shit that was on the shelf months ago?

>>6171146
Muh.

>>6171234
At least you have shit on your shelves. Most stores around here in SE Mass have rows of empty shelves and pegs filled with kiddie crap that doesn't sell at all.

Fuck, yesterday I settled for one of like a dozen Chromedomes. There were three Bisks, some legends class RID crap, the shitty slammers, and four columns of empty pegs.

>>6171291
>I settled
You know you don't HAVE TO regularly buy toys, right?

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>>6171295
>You know you don't HAVE TO regularly buy toys, right?

>>6171295
I don't. The only Titans Return guys I've gotten are Skullcruncher, Astrotrain, the purple legends Dino thing, and Chromedome yesterday. I had a real hankering for a figure and was hoping to get something like Triggerhappy or Twinferno, but that wave somehow hasn't hit here.

How rare is universe 1.0 soundwave? (Came with spacecase)

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>>6171354

>Optimus Primal
>monkey and jet mode
>headmaster

>Megatron
>dragon/dino and jet mode
>headmaster

And then RRRREEEEdeco them into Apeface and Snapdragon

Y/N?

>>6171349
>>6171351
>>6171352
>>6171353
The fuck is this?

>>6171375
Very obviously a custom.

>>6171377
Of what though? Somebody turned a Wolfwire into...what exactly?

>>6171381
Squeezeplay/Cancer.

>>6171332
Three auctions sold recently, for 43, 35, and 12. That averages out to about $30. But those are all loose complete with Space Case. If you don't have Space Case I would drop that value down somewhat. Especially since Space Case was a WAY cooler toy than Soundwave himself.

>>6171381
Filename, Einstein.

>>6171389
>>6171384
>Transformer named Cancer
You learn something new everyday, serves me right for ignoring those moon-babble series

>>6171397
And for not being about to use google, apparently.

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Okay, so I know that after the parents complaining about ROTF's complex transformations, we'll never get that glorious, nearly puzzle-like level of Transformers again. But why is TF engineering so damn lazy nowadays? Like, a good example would be TR Weirdwolf's huge paws just hanging off the back of his damn arms. Same deal with Skullcruncher's claws, just sticking out sideways from his forearms. Yes, I understand the transformations need to be simple so kids can do em, but simple =/= sloppy.

I like a lot of the aesthetic of Titans Return, but I just can't bring myself to buy any yet. The transformations are painfully lazily engineered in my eyes, and the bot modes really suffer as a result.

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>>6171398
Have you googled "cancer robot"?

>>6171403
Try 'Transformer Cancer'.

>>6171403
no i use intelligent search terms

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>>6171406
>>6171408

>>6171402
- because they're remakes of the originals and the originals did it
- because there's nothing wrong with it
- because it looks sweet

>>6171410
Sorry man it just...first thing I came up with. It was a transformer sooo...I figured googling...transformer...at least now I know where the outfit for that Sakamoto comic came from. Or at least the top half. Don't know where the pants went.

>>6171402
The current designs are heavily based on the G1 toys to varying degrees. I've seen some reviewers say that TR Sixshot is pretty much the G1 toy with added articulation.

>>6171402
Are Bayformers your first Transformers? TR designs are pretty classic TF designs.

>>6171084
Thunderblast as the goofy badgirl.

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>>6171413
>>6171418
>>6171420
I'm aware that the TR figures are heavily G1-influenced, that's what I like about them. And no, Bayformers weren't my first by a long shot, I've been collecting since G2. I just loved how complex the ROTF line was so I mentioned it.

I do sort of take exception with "it looks sweet" and "nothing wrong with it" though. I look back on G1 fondly, but I can accept that the engineering back then was mostly pretty primitive, and that some things clearly were a product of that poor engineering rather than a willful choice. I mean, it's pretty telling that when you look at the Headmasters cartoon or official art, Weirdwolf has no paws hanging off his forearms. TR was a chance for Hasbro to fix that old engineering and do it better, and it seems like they just chose to pass on a lot of those opportunities. They could even have engineered a way to fold Weirdwolf's paws up, but also allowed you to leave them out if you wanted them "G1 toy accurate." Best of both worlds, giving us a choice, etc. But they didn't. Like I said, lazy.

>>6171403
>the third image result is from Robot Chicken's Optimus Prime gets prostate cancer" skit

Kek

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>>6171424
She's a slut.

>>6170781
>>6170631
The mask ruined a great toy. I wish we did get that prototype

>>6171418
He pretty much is except they reengineered the lower legs so that the kibble that once hanged off the sides of the lower legs on the original 80's toy is now integrated into the lower legs themselves.

>>6171427
If anything, it's the animation being lazy.

>>6171427
Nah it's more a case of you having wildly unrealistic expectations and crying about them when they don't come true.

>>6171402
Senpai, just be glad Weirdwolf doesn't have hollow arms for once.

>>6171127
It's funny, cause the rest of the world see us all as massive turboautists.

>>6171427
Well someone on a different forum has a similar opinion, on how primitive TR line is- lack of rotating hand, rocker feet, etc.

The guy almost sperg out when it was pointed out that unless people are willing to pay leader price for a deluxe size figure hasbro will never do those kinda of thing for such G1 like line. The guy can't accept it and kept saying that people will pay for them as TR is aimed at "adults."


You would need some extreme engineering and budget to get most of the TR deluxe figures to have moving feet. Just like at Kroc and Hardhead. How many part would you need to get the feet move side way without destroying the general G1 look? The answer is a lot.

>>6171365
This would actually work, but i think they'd go with gigatron for the name of megs.
I'd still buy it.

>>6171141
Why do you gotta be such a shit about it?

>>6171559
Nah, you don't need extreme engineering or budget. Most problems are really easy to solve. A properly placed balljoint with a divot cut out of the cup area could easily replicate the range of movement they currently have plus give you ankle pivot. It also wouldn't "destroy the G1 look," as the balljoint would be concealed within the shin armor and only the tip of the foot would protrude out.

The thing is, you don't need a lot of money to make these figures better--just a little bit of thinking and planning ahead. And if I, a lowly restaurant server with no background in engineering, can think of simple and cost-effective solutions for these problems, that kiiinda says that Hasbro isn't trying very hard.

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>>6171402

How's that ceiling smell, bunky?

>>6171589
This post weirds me out. I've been away from Transformers for a couple of years, and coming back now, it's kind of bizarre to witness the drop in quality and price hike alongside how readily the community seems to have accepted and run with it.

>>6171583
It's /tfg/. It's how it works here. They need something to bitch about that isn't them.

>>6171349
>>6171351
>>6171352
>>6171353
>tfw never have
Thanks again, John.

>>6169980
Watch It get cancelled.

>>6171631
It's already out.

>>6171588
It probably goes against some safety regulation or something.

>>6171636
Oh? Proof? What is the price?

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Why are most voyager Primes not so great? The only decent ones seem to be CW and Classics and that's a damn 11 year old toy. Beast Hunters would look cool if not for the ugly face.

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>>6171645
TF Prime Voyager Optimus First Edition is pretty awesome.

>>6171037
I just noticed that they painted the feet to look like lion claws.

>>6171637
I doubt it, the system I'm describing has been used on fairly recent figures and toy safety regulations haven't changed drastically in the last year or anything.

>>6171668
This is true, it is. It's still a goddamned tragedy that they didn't make those First Edition molds widely available. They were worlds better than the ones we got at retail in the end.

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Also known as (insert name here)

holiday anon in the philippines again, its been awhile, its ironic i ended up bed ridden straight after my first tf haul, while better now the haul i did get ended up being luckluster as my own country ended up getting wave 4 stuff the week after i got mine.

Just tr skyshadow, perceptor, topspin, gnaw, brawn, roadburn, rid skywarp and scorponok, tr shuffler and repugnus the first haul, found a sealed dotm roadbuster (judging by the bootleg gunpla the place also sold and the cruddy paint work i suspect its either a bootleg or "lol hasbro" again) for just below retail, and today an sm store worker pointed out a cw ultra magnus for clearance of 1500 pesos which when converted is pretty nice though the paint on the face is a tad fucked (i also wanted the mp so hesitated but technically australia never got him so why not).

Overall i somehow blew 500aud on those mentioned, plus 2 shirts and 2 psvita games, never ended up going to the great places you guys mentioned (though we did go to manila but waking up at 4am to go fucking sucked and where we went only had the toy kingdom that the tf's of trwave4 first shown up, apparently out of stock)

i promise in the next 2 years ill tour those places, been bed ridden for over a week and further complications didnt help, thanks for reading my blog, patreon link down below

>>6171679

Arcee and Vehicon would disagree.

>>6171689
You got me on the Vehicon. But there is something I really dig about FE Arcee over the RID. Maybe it's that she's taller and more filled out, I dunno. I know the RID transforms cleaner, but I'd still choose the FE.

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>>6171681
Why would you do that to flying-robocop?

>>6171681
what a waste of a god mold. you could have just photoshop the same joke and spared ruining the toy.

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>>6171694
The FE scales nicely with 1/18 figures. You have to open up the "wings" for the rider though.

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>>6171375
>>6171381
>>6171397
You fucking moron. How dare you post here in a Transformers thread without knowing THE BARE MINIMUM of Transformers history.

You make me sick you fucking retard. I sincerely hope you get diabetes unless you change your ways and fucking LEARN about this stuff. I bet you "only recently" got into Transformers. Go post your shitty webcomic if you don't have the balls to read up on TF history. Don't @ me.

>>6171773
@(You)

>>6171773
>tumblr
>this autism

10/10 i kek'd, though the diabetes is a stretch, a true tf fan is more suseptible to it than a casual

>>6171681
What a waste of a perfectly good figure for a "joke" only a 14 year old would laugh at.

>>6171681
I see Cheetimus Prime is into making self avatars now.

>>6171783
Aside from making tumblr your boogeyman in general, you know tumblr images show up in google image searches, right?

>>6171792
If that were the case, he should have used MP Primal as a base.

>>6171593
Don't mind him. There's always one anon that gets super-triggered whenever someone expresses any kind of discrimination over ANY figure. Apparently you are supposed to buy EVERY figure without question and not complain about them.

That said, I also abstained from many Transformer purchases in the past few years because of the cheapness. I came back for TR, and I think the level of complexity is pretty fun. I find the toys extremely satisfying to fiddle with, since you can get them between modes in under 30 seconds in most cases. I'm not saying I don't appreciate the level of engineering in the old RoTF toys, but if I want a puzzle, I'll get a rubix cube. Also, there's Masterpiece.

>>6171588
>And if I, a lowly restaurant server with no background in engineering, can think of simple and cost-effective solutions for these problems, that kiiinda says that Hasbro isn't trying very hard.

No, you're not thinking of a simple and cost-effective solution. You just THINK you're thinking of a simple and cost-effective solution. It's easy as fuck to say "well they just should have done THIS", but you have no idea about how that would actually affect the cost and manufacturing of the toy. I'm not saying I do, either, but at least I'm aware enough to know that I shouldn't be calling the shots in a professional industry that I have zero experience with in any capacity.

>>6171679

Were they really that hard to get though? At least to the extent of still being butthurt about it five years later?

>>6171824
Not in Asia. They were shelfwarming in asia. At one point saw all 3 deluxe Cliffjumpers on the shelves.

>>6171824
Can't speak for anyone else, but I never saw a single one.

But to be fair, I can say the same thing about almost 75% of any given retail wave. Distribution is shit.

>>6171450
What is more attractive than power?

>>6171830
I went by my local TRU just for shits the other day. It was absolutely pathetic. Transformers have been relegated to a 3-foot-wide shelf space, and the only thing they had from Titans Return were two pegs with nothing but Wave 1 Legends. There was a single empty peg for Deluxes (which apparently cost $23), and everything else was RiD trash. Although I did get myself a Bisk.

>>6171824
Not butthurt about it, I own them all. I just feel bad for all the people who never got to experience the glory of say, a FE Bulkhead, and had to settle for the RID piece of crap instead.

And yeah, they were actually pretty hard to get, for me at least. Like the anon above, I never saw a single one ever, and that's back when I was toyhunting several times a week. I eventually had to buy them at inflated prices online.

>>6171848
I stupidly passed on FE Bulkhead at TRU because I was going to pick up that Brawn repaint of him. Well that of course got cancelled and later came out as a fucking overprice Cloud exclusive. Fortunately a couple of months ago I found Bulkhead for like $15 at a local comic shop. So that was nice.

I need to get another FE Arcee, though. I used her in a custom when I was younger and now I'm kicking myself for that. I actually had a back up mib but it turns out she had flaw in one of her feet and it broke immediately.

Are "articulation budgets" actually a thing? I see that term passed around sometimes when people talk about restrictions the tf designers are meant to follow.

It sounds stupid as fuck, like designers are seriously being told to chose between wrist swivels or ankle tilts as though getting the vietnamese kids to pop an extra friction joint together during assembly will make a figure too expensive to be profitable. I'm wondering if it's a real thing or something the fandumb made up.

>>6171865
>Are "articulation budgets" actually a thing?
Articulation costs money to engineer and install, so... yeah.

>>6171865
It's real. No matter how minor a process seems, it adds up when you're manufacturing on a large scale.

>>6171865
A friend of mine worked as a designer for Hasbro for a bit (not on the TF line though). I asked him about this once and he shrugged and said he'd never heard of any such practice. That combined with the fact that, like you said, it just SOUNDS ridiculous, makes me strongly suspect that it's a made-up rumor.

>>6171841
Many TRU, Walmarts and Targets are on hold status with TFs until corporate hs more info on how the new movie is effecting display space.

>>6171875
>(not on the TF line though)
there's the important part, Transformers require a much more vast and varied amount of moving parts for transformation

>>6171865
You are grossly under educated. It's not the worker popping on the part. It's adding the extra cuts in the cast molds (or even added cast molds), it's the additional wasted or added plastic that must be factored in for that joint, it's the risk of engineering issues(strain of plastic, stability of the alt mode) that arise when adding the extra parts.
Also profit is weak on TFs, the demand is there and for over 20 years they kept the same price range on toys even when the dollar kept weakening but now they are in this lose/lose state where they either make a great toy but it's going to be $35+ a deluxe or what they are doing now which is keep cost as low as they can but sacrificing engineering.

>>6171926

Ok I'll admit that retarded and know shit about the toy market but why doesn't Hasbro just kill all the "other" Transformers sublines like those step changers and shit they had and doesn't only concentrate on a very small number of figures every year.

In beast wars years we used to get like what 20 toys a year? Why not just go "fuck it movie year, kill everything make 20 movie figures and sell them for 30$?"

>>6171930
Because who would buy that?

>>6171897
I think people who are solely TF fans often overlook the extra amount of engineering and production that goes into a Transformer compared to any other action figure.

>>6171937

People buy games with a 4 hour campaign for 60$ and then pay 20$ per every DLC, buying a 30$ toy for a screeching kid isn't that wild.

Plus most tansfags buy 3rd party deluxe shit for 100+$ they'd gladly pay 30$ for something with good or at least ROTF tier engineering.

>>6171940

How long DOES it take to design a TF toy anyway? Year? Two years?

>>6171930
>just kill all the "other" Transformers sublines like those step changers and shit they had and doesn't only concentrate on a very small number of figures every year.
Short answer: Less toy space, less brand power, better chance of being pushed out of stores. Gi Joe did exactly what you ask twice and both times it lead to them being pushed out of market. Another example is Marvel Legends before the soft relaunch with IM3. Taking away space makes a more collector market.
>In beast wars years we used to get like what 20 toys a year?
At the start due to weak brand of the original TF near the end we had closer to 50 toys in a single year. and also each years added to each other. RiD and Armada continued this trend with a large amount of toys in single years.

Also what you are asking puts us on Takaras road. Where they make themselves 3-6 MPs a year half of which are repaints and retools. Almost all their sublines are just them taking Hasbro toys are reselling them with a different coat of paint/slight retooling and even then they are still way behind on staying up to speed with those.
Basically a smaller line but higher quality would mean:
1.would be harder to find/buy even online
2. very limited amount of characters and molds, even more so than now
3. a potential death of the brand when sales go bad one quarter

>>6171948
If Takara is anything to go by it's 2 years to design, 2+ years for engineering and prototyping. Consider how early they show test shots and how long it is after that you get the toy.

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>>6171353
Someone went to a lot of effort to make a mediocre custom. Doublecross would have worked much better.

>>6171945
This is a bad comparison. The perceived value of games among consumers is higher, even if the truth is a disappointingly short campaign with no replay value. Parents, especially nowadays, view games as something that will keep their kid engaged and glued to the tv/tablet, and toys as cheap playthings that will soon be forgotten and cluttering up the house.

>>6171959
If that was the case we'd never ever have movie toys. It takes a few months for actual design and prototyping, then about 6 months to manufacture. Times vary depending on the line and how fast it needs to hit the shelves.

>>6171965
>Doublecross would have worked much better.
Get on it then.

>>6171971
>If that was the case we'd never ever have movie toys.
Like you shared at the end ifferent processes with more money involved also consider how accuracy greatly varied as well as transformation engineering where you have some deluxes and even leaders that were very simple to transformer while others were an engineering mess to get into both modes. They also reach out to other teams to make it, the TF toy staff usually triples in size (and cost) to get those molds made and produce. Another thing look at AoE where the head of the TF brand admitted the simpler TFs were a mix of limited time to develop and kid friendly friendly.
People assuming it's always the same funding and teams on the projects. It's not. A non TF example was Jurassic World where it was every team of Hasbro working on something for the brand.

>>6171971
He said Takara anon.

>>6171971

Hasbro changes teams on transformers like the change pants too. The reason why current toys are shittier than what we got before isn't so much cost saving as it's the fact that TR is like the teams second try at transformers with AOE/CW being their first.

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>>6171353
>say that weirdwolf could be retooled into repugnus, another g1 bipedal beast thing, some time ago
>someone makes a custom of a g1 bipedal beast thing using weirdwolf

>>6171971
Even most of the movie toys are probably at the prototype stage by the time the movie even starts filming, though, and they movie tends to not come out for like a year even then.

>>6172129

That explains why a good chunk of movie toys are screen-inaccurate.

Dumb question, but is CW Starscream worth the pick up or am I better off grabbing the original Jetfire?

>>6172053
Takara is even faster thank Hasbro. Most of their designs take about a month.

>>6172158
Jetfire.

While we're talking about this wtf is up with pricing?
Here, deluxes like Mindwipe have been going for anything from 13 to 23 rupees, with larger size classes have a similar variability.

Hey my local TRU has 3 Thrilling 30 Rhinox still in stock, is the figure any good? It looks nice are there any issues with is?

>>6172373

Mine has really loose limbs. Don't know if that's a common problem.

>>6172373
>>6172378
Some came with loose knees, but hes still great.

>>6172373
It's really good.

Only problem with the mold is that it's pretty backheavy with pretty much no heels, so its hard to balance. General Looseness is a QC common issue also.

Are there any of the stand alone heads that work well with another body to create a figure for?(Similar to but not as demeanding as the Cancer custom in the thread)

>>6172233

Yeah but Japan has decades worth of transforming robot shit toys so they can always find someone good enough to replace the ones who fuck off.

Most American toy designers can't even design functioning elbows let alone a whole transforming robot.

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>>6172456
Grimlock, Brawn and Swoop can work with any.

>>6172373
A reminder that he's a pretty bad shellformer, rhino mode has pretty much no articulation, the transformation can be fiddly at times, he has almost no heels, and tons of kibble.

Basically, he's a perfect Rhinox that I highly recommend picking up.

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>>6172500
You can also make some Dynobots with them.

>>6172504
Any pictures of that swoop one transformed?

>>6172501
>shellformer

Not really, most of his rhino bits are well incorporated into his robot mode