Transformers General: lol effort edition

I don't think he can form a dragon on his own.

>>6437127
Is this the dollar store toy thread?

What is the best TR deluxe?

>>6437147
Hot Rod

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>>6437147
>>6437149
No its triggerhappy

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>>6437156
Triggerhappy was hands down the best deluxe until a wave later when Topspin arrived.

>>6437161
>>6437156
Triggerhappy is one of the best toys in general I've had in a long time. He's fucking amazing.

>>6437127
What does the front look like?

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>>6437144

Yes. Congratulations. You saw through the ruse. This is totally the dollar toy store thread despite the thread title clearly being labeled a "Transformers General"

Bravo. Simply, bravo.

>>6437127

>>lol effort.

Start up a third party production, then.

>>6437167
That is the front

>>6437170
Funny, it actually looks better from the back...

>>6437127
>Hasbrofags will defend this
I will. First of all, hollowness might be needed for transformation.
Secondly, filling it out would probably blow the budget for a Leader class figure.

>>6437127
That's the dragon combiner where basically the entire fucking dragon is one one bot and the tail is on the other?

>>6437175
Secondly, we had beast wars figures with hollow shit and nobody cared because we were fucking kids when it came out.

>ITT: poorfags who can't afford anything but dollar-store Hasbroshit, despite the other, far superior MP/3P options available in the market

>>6437168
Go home, Warden.

>>6437161
>unpainted plastic
>boxy spacejet brick
>best

Gotta go with Triggerhappy or Hardhead

>>6437169
Impossible for anybody outside of China.

>>6437196
>caring about unpainted plastic instead of articulation

>>6437127
>Will there be other toys in the Slugslinger wave?
>Yes but they will all be repackaged characters. I do not remember which characters are repackaged however Slugslinger is the only new character in that wave and the final new toy from the Titans Return line

>https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/sdcc2017-plans-until-2021-only-slugslinger-in-wave-6-hidden-gimmicks-and-more-discovered-in-interview-with-hasbro-hasbrosdcc/39023/

Fuck Warden

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>>6437193
If not him, someone else.

>>6437200
Archer >>> Warden

Oh wait I'm talking with someone who loves babby toys

>>6437127
The hell we will! That looks like shit!

>>6437202
Archer was more hands on with Armada, which were babby toys. By 2009 he was more in a management position, not designing

>>6437199

It pisses me off he cancelled the other sets.

I still want a Frenzy and Eject....and Iron Bomber.

*sigh* I'll just get the Takara figure then.

>>6437206
Godbomber is proof that takara can also lose.

>>6437127
No we won't. Most of the movie toys are shit. We all know it. That's why people made such a big deal about the Megatron toys. Finally had a movie toy that wasn't complete rubbish.

>>6437127
what is that, a container robot?

>>6437208
You can't lose if nobody else is competing.

>>6437206
Well, we already got Frenzy. It's Rumble we're missing.

>>6437221

POINT IS.

I WANT THE BLUE DUDES.

Takara come on, give me the blue one.

i also want a Eject cause i think he's underrated.

>>6437204
I'd choose armada over all these shitty CWTRPOTPCHUG

>Last wave is just Slugslinger
>No clue on how we'll get TR Arcee (they'll probably repurpose the last box sets as Hascon exclusives to piss everyone off)
>No Eject and the blue one

Man, this line just fizzed out by the end, that's just pathetic. It doesn't help that wave 5 is barely including new figures as is.

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>>6437147

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When the heck is Masterpiece Bumblebee supposed to get a US release?

Anyone ask that at SDCC?

>>6437242
Supposedly a tru exclusive.

...that said its already in local Australian retail as a zing store exclusive (part of eb games/gamestop chain), don't worry you'll get your yellow camaro soon enough

>>6437244

I hope so. My TRU is scalper central.

>>6437229
>Hascon exclusive

Didn't think of that. And since Arcee isn't part of the standard retail wave, we can kiss any chance of her toy being heavily retooled good bye, expect Nautica 2.0.

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WeiJiang KO Brawl

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>>6437248

>>6437245
My TRU is empty shelves central. Don't know which is worse.

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>>6437250

>>6437248
>>6437250
>>6437253
>blackout never

fuck them

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>>6437247

The card art showed that she at least had the two, I don't know what to call them, "obtrusions" on her back. That's something the Blurr mold lacks. Maybe they just plug in like the turbines on Nautica's arms?

So there's minimal retooling if anything.

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>>6437254
In time. We're already getting Bonecrusher LC from another KO company.

>>6437248
>>6437250
>>6437253
Looks kind of eh. The only thing WJ's done that really impressed me was the Evasion Optimus and Hound.

>>6437258
To be fair they've only done extensive retooling with three movie characters. Megs was just OS'd.

>>6437229
>>No Eject and the blue one

This bothers the fuck out of me.

Is Takara gonna do a release of them?

Takara never even did a release of the red one. Only Rewind.

>>6437255
I'm just not confident on her turning out well after the art on the Velocitron set being completely inaccurate to Laser Prime (who's based on the original G2 Laser Rod OP), and Nautica who barely had anything of her toy.

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>>6437253
>>6437258
Oh I see more.

>Possible moving treads

MY DICK

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>>6437255
>not knowing how the blurr mold works

The shield is also the nose cone for brainstorm, yes the shield is removable, but you have the option of leaving the shield/vehicle on the front DURING transformation keeping blurr/brainstorm parts-form free if one desires.

Meaning an arcee retool would keep this feature as well by just changing that front end/shield section

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>>6437262
TREADS

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>>6437264
FREE GUY

>no mustache

FUCKING SHIT

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>>6437265
Reminds me of their Hound's toes.

>>6437143

Twelve knights supposedly form one dragon. I would have liked that, but no, apparently that was too much to ask.

Is it time to give up hope on Blue (Rumble/Frenzy) from Takara?

>>6437268
That's possible as Legends class. I mean they DID do it with ROTF Devy and still had the bots as triple changers

>>6437268
It's 12 and 9, at the end, at least 3 knights are killed and they still form the dragon no problem.

>>6437269
Takara will do one first if Hasbro has no plans otherwise like Funpub they'll wait for Hasbro's to do it.

>>6437274
Takara might just do the Blue one eventually, Eject isn't really that popular so he might not get a release.

That being said, I never thought I'd see the day that even simple recolors that people wanted would not get released. That's laziness to a whole new level.

>>6437278
recolors cost money and Hasbro's tf division seems to sink more of their money into brand new molds over recolors so you have more repacks instead now. same deal with deluxes like mindwipe, perceptor, wolfire and rodimus or voy like galvatron.

>>6437274

I hate being that guy, i miss FunPub now.

I miss having more unique characters and repaints.

>>6437285
Maybe I'm just stupid because I don't get that. It's literally the same guy in new colors, the packaging could be exactly the same, save for the art character and figure being in new colors.

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Cost wise redeco>retool>new figure, you just slap new colors and there ya go.

They could of had the blue guy come in during this wave and the current wave's legends just so people would get the artificial sense that they're getting a new figure same for eject and yet...they didn't, opting to just do a repack.

Wasn't hasbro the ones who said they were committed to completing sets, hence why we got kickback for the insecticons, they completed the leader seekers despite all else, so WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK is happening, the only possibly sane reason why they have yet to happen is they're trying to spread out their releases so people would buy into the new lines, hence why POTP is reusing TR and CW engineering.

Its the only explanation that makes sense, initially I was gonna argue with an anon but he's right, redecos and recolors cost money and the best way to make people buy into newer lines is to just hold things back.

As for takara's purposes lets just hope they don't jump the gun and do an e-hobby release, we're thankful we got ravage and laserbeak (which are more prominent) but to deny the whole family is upsetting

>>6437248
Holy fuck. And here I was sad that i'd sold off my Hasbro Brawl.

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>own platinum edition hot rodimus because I've always liked that outdated mold
>own mp hot rod because I like the design
>don't own mp rodimus prime because that's stupid
>initially skipped tr hotrod because of proportions but legends kup made me pull the trigger just so they match (i don't need another gen arcee or cw UM from their platinum sets)
>now a leader rodimus prime exist but apprehensive because muh trailer battle station gimmick

Someone, help me, I don't even like cuck rod, if only the voyager seeker was good so I can continue being a seeker fag

>>6437294
At this point I think it's clear the only money they have is to release old material (like Cosmos) and the money needed to recolor old product is just not there and that they have sunk most of it into creating new product which is by far a much more expensive and painstaking process.

>>6437295
>Cost wise: rerelease>redeco>retool>new figure

fixed.

>>6437255
>obtrusions
Fenders

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>>6437295
Bludgeon for example e-hobby release please.

>>6437351
>example
Next.

>>6437351
>he stole Windblade's sword and recolored it
Swift.

>>6437351
I really love the fact that RID Windblade's sword can attach to Hardhead like that. I think it can also attach to Laser Prime but it doesn't look as good.

Has a Grimlock ever been made from a BW Megatron type mold? It seems like a solid idea and something that people would buy.

>no link to old bread

>>6435393
>>6435393
>>6435393

>>6437364
Yes, T-Wrecks bio pretty much describes Grimlock, and that uses the BW Megatron mold.

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Alright Artfire anon, I came into some money and now I want this guy. Since you are responsible for this, I demand you answer this:

>Where are any potential rub points?
>Is there any Diecast?
>Can he hold other Masterpiece accessories?
>Can other masterpieces hold Nightstick?

>>6437147
Hardhead/Quake

>>6437372
Not him but
>Where are any potential rub points?
Undersides of the feet are painted black and that's pretty much it as long as you're careful trasforming him
>Is there any Diecast?
None
>Can he hold other Masterpiece accessories?
Yes, he has the standard MP hand connectors
>Can other masterpieces hold Nightstick?
Yes, Nightstick has a standard MP gun handle

>>6437377
Not him, but does Nightbeat come with an alternate 5mm handle for normal figures?

>>6437391
Nope, he only has an MP gun handle and a special clip that lets him attach to Artfire's arm in place of a nozzle gun

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>>6437377
I am him, and thanks pal

>>6437392
Damn.

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>>6437264
>>6437265
>>6437266
>>6437262
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>>6437253
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>>6437248
Good lord

i found a Leader Movie Megatron before a Voyager and i bought him. Should I have waited for the Voyager and saved $20?

>>6437242
>When the heck is Masterpiece Bumblebee supposed to get a US release?

>>TRU Exclusive
>>twice as much as Japanese versions
>>probably will never see it anyways

How are the American Masterpiece releases suppose to help us again

>>6437439
By realizing that it's 100% easier to just get the Japanese version and tell the Hasbro bean counters to fuck off.

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Not entirely TF-related, but is there any chance in hell of Takara ever revisiting Brave?

I've been messing around with my Brave Masterpiece Exkaiser for the last hour and while I love that toy to bits it's really deteriorating. All the glue and seams have started to turn a kind of dirty brown all over, the chrome is ageing, little Exkaiser's joints are starting to loosen up, one of the feet on King Roader refuses to transform properly to form the trailer hitch, the paint on the diecast parts is chipping off. It's a crying shame watching a toy age like this, especially when it was bought directly from Japan unopened and stored in a glass cabinet, and really babied on the few occasions I did play around with it. Been considering buying a second in the hopes I get one that hasn't aged as badly, but even MISB I guess there's no guarantee.

>>6437287
FUCK YOU

>>6437458
Maybe I'm biased since I bought a bunch of BotCon repaints at TFCon last weekend.

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Found this while looking at trypticon images because I'm a sadist using the sticker sheet.

How mad would you be if this retool comes true?

>>6437457
Pretty slim, they aren't that great at exploring their old IPs outside of Transformers. Most of the nostalgia milking in Transformers is also due to Hasbro's involvement. Besides, they don't wholly-own the rights to Braves, unlike Diaclone or Microman. And even for something belonging to them i.e. Zoids, they don't do much with it besides licensing it to everyone.

It's probably more realistic to hope for a Bandai SOC or those Vulcanlog Sentinel things.

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>>6437350

Hey hey, good choice, good choice.

>>6437472
not even mad if they just fix the hips

>>6437466
Buying botcon toys make you stupid, not biased.

>>6437147
Hardhead. It's the only toy in the entire line where the headmaster gimmick is actually fun.

>>6437472
Only mildly upset because the idea of an Omega Supreme retool of Overlord is becoming increasingly appealing to me the more i think about it.

>>6437486
>SOC Exkaiser

I'd do unspeakable things for that to be a reality but honestly I just don't think there's enough interest in the old Brave series for it to happen. GaoGaiGar is probably the only thing Bandai are ever going to make in that regard.

>>6437226
>Armada
>toys that can't stand up
>knees are a luxury, not a right
>gimmick is gluing a car to the side of a tank for "I'm helping" mode

>Classics
>It's G1 therefore it's evil

Spotted the underage

>>6437574
I always liked the G1 designs the best but let's not pretend we wouldn't be all over an MP Armada Prime that gave the figure actual functioning articulation in both regular and combined modes.

>>6437127

Fucking Hasbro. This pretty much shows that the outdated "size class plastic content limit" paradigm needs to be consigned to the garbage bin of history where it belongs.

>>6437582
Armada was a shit series so no.

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TR windblade is the superior windblade

>>6437589
Thiccblade

>>6437585
It had its moments. Shame the toys were mostly crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxL8hQ0jwyg

>>6437584

Don't kid yourself, it's all the beancounters fault and rampant unchecked greed. Every company's goal is to deliver the shoddiest possible product for the most money they can.

>>6437589

TR ruins the whole aesthetic/point of the design

>>6437589

Fuuuuck my preorders can't come in fast enough. Where the fuck are they, Hasbro? Fucking asian countries have had this shit for weeks now.

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>>6437601

Point of the design? You mean "robot geisha"? Because she looks a fuckton better with the TR geisha face paint. Besides, fat geisha are best for sheathing your meat katana into.

>>6437589
>that tiny head because of the shitty forced in gimmick

not really.

>>6437604
>strong female character
>make her resemble a woman whose sole purpose is to serve men in feudal japan

IDW wins again

>>6437616
As opposed to the one on the left where her head is massive, right?

Also the head looks fine. It's the wings and shit behind her that make her torso look bigger in that picture but her proportions look fine to me.

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>>6437624

You have no idea, man.

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I made a mistake

>>6437633

Clearly, because your picture is sideways.

>>6437604
>acting like the TR is the only one with a a good face
People somehow forget that Takara fixed the fucked up Hasbro face, but I guess that doesn't matter when there is the"SO EXTRA THICC MEME AND MOE FACE UGUUUU" TR version

>>6437642
>but I guess that doesn't matter when there is the"SO EXTRA THICC MEME AND MOE FACE UGUUUU" TR version

Pretty much. Not gonna lie, I like my women a little thick, and the face is easily the best she's gotten so far. It's a good figure. Not perfect, but easily the best Windblade has had, other than a smaller-than-Legends-sized 3P figure with a real kawaii uguu face.

>>6437653
>3P figure with a real kawaii uguu face
I really really want to like that figure but her odd mushy non-nondescript animu face kills it for me. I wish they'd release her with a more realistic face too, then I'd be all over it.

>>6437659

Eh, I'm all for the stylized kawaii uguu face, especially on such a tiny figure. It's meant to be cute, and it is. Their Arcee has the same face, so it's just a style choice thing for them obviously, and I really don't mind that being a thing, especially since we're never getting stuff like that from official sources.

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>>6437295
My guess is that they're planning to repaint TR Blaster and Soundwave for POTP, so they're saving those cassettes to go along with them.

>>6437571
I'm glad others liked this idea as well. Sadly, I doubt it will happen now.

>>6437598
>Minicon nopes the fuck out
Kek

>>6437161
Damn, is he worth buying? Are there any flaws?

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>>6437682

Yes, he's worth buying. Easily one of the best Deluxes in a line filled with great Deluxes. Only flaw I've heard of is apparently, some people got some misassembled on the thighs, which doesn't actually prevent it from transforming, but the knee doesn't bend as far as a result.

Mine doesn't have that flaw.

>>6437690
Was there an image pointing out the difference? If I've gotta shelf-hunt for it I wanna go in educated.

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>>6437629
>As opposed to the one on the left where her head is massive, right?

It's not "massive." That's the size her head is supposed to be.

>Also the head looks fine
No it doesn't. It's too small because they had to shove the shitty gimmick in.

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>>6437711
it looks fine to me

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>>6437693

I don't know if there is. It didn't seem like a common issue, either. Only heard about it a few threads ago and the figure has been out for a while now. Just look at the white thigh bits, they'll be reversed if it's assembled wrong.

Here's what it'll look like if it's assembled correctly, see the pointy bit on the inner thigh's hollow section, how they both point back? Thats the correct assembly far as I know.

>>6437720
congrats, you're blind

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What's the most one should pay for misb Hasbro Fort max? this is the cheapest one on ebay. Would I fare better in B/S/T? I live in the netherlands and he never hit stores here

>>6437736
Same poster, he doesn't necessarily have to be misb.

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Perfect thread, thought I'd give a heads up to the dads who buy their kid's love with toys: the 20 dollar boxed guys are cheaper shit than the normal 15 dollar guys.

>>6437720
because you're looking with your penis

>>6437653
>>6437604
the point of the design is a female figure

the TR sculpt cannot even be considered thicc
the silhouette is too square
it's straight up man with boobs

>>6437741
What makes you say that?

>>6437771
If it can stand up on its own it's already a vast improvement over the generations mold.

>>6437775
It's one of those guys where they just fold up under a truck shell. The truck is a generic suv. After spending tons on the 15 dollar guys over the years, this one seems like the extra 5 bucks just went to the box. Thought it'd be like a smaller version of the bigger higher quality guys.

>>6437711
Left head looks yuge, only ok if you are hard into animu, right is way too small but gives her mercian heroic proportions.

>>6437226
>I'd choose armada over all these shitty CWTRPOTPCHUG
Wow, such a shit taste.

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>>6437765

Looking with it, or at it? Gotta be careful since that Arcee debacle.

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>>6437788
>this one seems like the extra 5 bucks just went to the box

I think we all know where it went, and it wasn't to the box.

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>>6437693

>>6437807
Appreciate it anon

>>6437677
>My guess is that they're planning to repaint TR Blaster and Soundwave for POTP, so they're saving those cassettes to go along with them.

I really hope so, that'd be best case sceneario for me.

it's weird they didn't do them already.

>>6437788
I was considering getting one just because it's a generic SUV nobody would pay much thought to since I really like it when transformer have boring altmodes but it doesn't seem to be a good transformer.
Altmodes are supposed to be camouflage after all, makes no sense to pick an extremely rare race car like a fucking Lancia Stratos Turbo or a goddamn Concept Stingray when trying to pass unnoticed.

>>6437677
Leaders in potp aren't Headmasters though.

>>6437822
Yeah, I sincerly wish we got new guys with more generic altmodes.

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>>6437677
>mfw they release Twincast and Soundblaster without the headmaster gimmick and then repaint them into Blaster and Soundwave but they are only available on a convention exclusive boxset

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>>6437834
>mfw I wasn't a fucking idiot and just bought the masterpieces instead.

>>6437589
It has better boobs but that's about it desu.

>>6437849
>implying that isn't all that matters

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>>6437812
>>6437827
It would most likely be box sets.

>>6437834
Nah, they would still be headmasters so you can use the Primes Masters for heads.

>>6437845
Some might have been pushed by scalpers to only get the TR/Legends but nobody stopped them from pre-ordering/ordering any of the Takara reissues through HLJ/Amiami/Mandarake/CDJapan/Amazon/etc.

>>6437855
Damn, Warden, you can't even excel at fucking up.

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>>6435546
So I ended up getting Voyager Prime and what the hell, this is actually a really solid figure, at the very least for the miserable post-DotM standards. The robot sculpt is amazing, it really feels like the closest they could possibly come up with from the shortcomings of a design that's obviously not made considering his vehicle mode, the paintjob is far from being the worst in the line and the transformation is even surprisingly complex. If something the truck mode looks bland and cheap as hell, the lack of transparent windows and painted rims really hurt his alt mode aesthetics, but it's not like I'll ever leave him in that mode either.

Oh well, time to sharpie him up for those sweet extra details.

>>6437682
mine had really loose shoulders

>>6437604

the point of the design is to look like a stylized girl, not a brick with a lady face

>>6437472
I don't really see how the base mode would work
It would need a complete remold of the torso, and at that point, only tryps legs would be functionally present, everything else is new.
Retooling ft max and hiding the tracks in his legs makes more sense.

>>6437855
>It would most likely be box sets.

Hopefully they keep putting them out next year, nothing says they couldn't do more next year....right?

>>6437944
Stay tuned.

Anyone got Beachcomber pics

>>6437391
>expecting 3rd party thoughtfulness from takara

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>>6437867
Aw man, it's almost insulting to see how much better a figure can get by literally just sharping a little bit of bronze, silver and gold on a few specific areas. Would it really be that hard to do that straight out of the factory, Hasbro?

>>6438006
>Would it really be that hard to do that straight out of the factory, Hasbro?

I'm gonna sound like a shill, but honestly, yeah. Small touch ups like that would require really precise, hand applied paint applications, which would raise the price and take more time to do. Granted, I'd also say its worth it.

So the leader class megatron has retarded down syndrome nubby weird hands which is awful because the rest of the mold looks pretty good.

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>forced headmasters are finally gone
>new toyline that combines previous two gimmicks in a good way that's also ignorable
>armor power up gimmick will be perfect if they do optimal optimus, star saber, and thunderwing
>combiners are back and they even have ankle tilts now
>hinting that they'll finish the missing combiners

this is the true kino toyline. Titans Return fags can get fucked.

>>6438006
Their new factories are in Vietnam so yes.

>>6438014
>kino

SHUT UP

>>6438014
>voyager starscream with gorilla feet/hands, and remolds of CW figures
>good

Sure thing Warden.

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>>6438010
>>6438017
Sure, but there have always been movie figures with detailed paint applications, like just about every Decepticon from the first film. It doesn't have to be hand painted either, computers can do incredibly precise paint apps nowadays.

Also, have I dun goofed by painting the sword and shield with bronze and gold? I ran out of silver sharpie before getting there, hence why the legs are also so plain ;-;

>>6437711
>still bitching that your retail toys don't magically shapeshift to perfectly match their proportions in comics/cartoons/movies/whatever
I swear, Transformers fans are the whiniest, dumbest fucking plebs.

>>6437677
Oh god no, not another use of that shitty mold.

>>6438064
Sauce?

>>6438064
>Human Alliance Soundwave
True movie kino

>>6438064
the only ones I recognize are TLK Optimus and Universe Sideswipe

>>6438050
I'm not asking it to have perfect proportions to the comic. I'm asking for it not to have a fucking tiny head.

>>6437791
>Left head looks yuge

No it doesn't. The TR head is just too small and the proportions in general make it easy to tell that it's a shitty remold from a male transformer.

>>6438064
Metroplex
Drift
TLK Hound
Crosshairs
TLK voyager Prime
TLK voyager Megatron
deluxe Chromedom, but it kind of looks like the Hasbro version
Universe Sideswipe


Can't tell the last two.

>>6438081
It's Human Alliance Soundwave and I think it's Dotm Shockwave by the arm

>>6438073
>not metroplex
I can see TLK Megatron, HA Soundwave, DOTM Shockwave, TR Chromedome, Gen Drift, AOE Crosshairs, and TLK Hound.

>>6438083
didn't see metroplex; I was only looking at the ones further away.

Worse case scenario is in full effect where I live: local Wal Mart has full on abandoned Titans Returns in favor of just stocking TF5 and RiD garbage.

Feel so bad.

>>6437457
I don't think most Brave fans would be on my side because they might have been spoiled by the SOCs but I'd love a simple-ish redux of Brave mechs.
I remember having the KOs of Might Gaine, Land Bison, and Sky Saber before having any transformer and I've been wanting new figures of them for a while for some reason.

A Genesic GaoGaiGar would be great if they never do that, though, I like that design way better than the normal GaoGaiGar.

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>>6438086
>just stocking TF5 and RiD

>>6437457
>>6438092
I would love a Brave classics line. Somethin with the heft of the TF Cybertron figures, even the simplicity, with better articulation and some nice engineering for combining figures. Not even old designs, there could be a new Brave or Brave style series. I wish Takara remolded Combiner Wars, made them more robust(no gaps, better paint) and made a new Brave style line.

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>>6438092
>simple-ish redux of Brave mechs
Yeah that might be nice-
>I like [Genesic] better than the normal GaoGaiGar
You're asking me to start throwing around expletives like Jew faggot CIA nigger now

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>>6438014
>Literally the same post from a night ago

>>6437598
Why did Starscream let himself die here? All he accomplished was saying some stinging words to Megatron to convince him to listen to Optimus and fight Unicron, he could have done that without the "sacrifice." Was he just suicidal and wanted to die?

>>6438115
I never actually watched any of the series. Sorry.

>>6438078
>I'm asking for it not to have a fucking tiny head.
It doesn't. The comic version has a fucking massive head for a humanoid body. The toy's head is in much better proportion.

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http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/young-gangans-watashi-no-omocha-my-toys-bizarre-officially-sanctioned-takaratomy-comic.1116300/

I ran into this via the retweets of Japanese users on Twitter. A men's comic magazine called "Young GanGan" has published a one-shot story about... a girl who's been buying too many Transformers off Amazom.com...?

https://twitter.com/yg_gangan/status/888358653031440385

https://mobile.twitter.com/yg_gangan/status/888352198467375104

Per automatic translations, the tweets go out of their way to promote TakaraTomy's supervision, and there's a (c) TOMY copyright stamp on the frontispiece. That's pretty official!

The kanji of the writer/artist's name suggests they're Yamazaki Doudou, whose work previously appeared in Young GanGan. I have no idea what the actual content of the story is, but the magazine did offer an apology on its website for an art error - a shipping box accidentally overlapped Drift's shoulder instead of him appearing in front of it.

https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=15039

http://blog.jp.square-enix.com/magazine/yg_blog/2017/07/ygno15.html?_ga=2.224547866.1073865139.1500827438-736070041.1500827438

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>>6438143
>They're making comics about me
Oh god

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>>6438152

They said "girl". Not "tranny" or "trap", Anon.

>>6438143
Will this trigger the Allspark?

>>6438143
They'll make a comic out of anything these days.

>>6438143
>>6438159
>girl
>collecting transformers

then why is she cute and buxom, and not fat and ugly?
suspension of disbelief required is too great. immersion destroyed

>>6438177
>implying tits that big aren't fat

>>6438177
Do grils even like transformers??
I always assumed this franchise was a total sausage fest

>>6438178
I didn't imply that, anon

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>>6438159

Jesus Christ those funbags are Titan Class. Good thing I've got just the right Legends Class accessory to fit between them.

>>6438120
He needed to prove Unicron was alive and a real threat, you fool.

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>>6438182
Oh, there are plenty of female Transformers fans out there alright. Even a lot of infamous ones, actually.

>>6437197
>Impossible for anybody outside of China.
Go to China

>>6438092
I'd be into a line done like the current Machine Robo one.

>>6438210
Oh yeah I've seen that lady before, but I can't remember who she is

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>>6438220
>all diecast except for the weak ass plastic balljoints
pls no

I guess I'll probably pre-order Takara Slugslinger. I liked it more, but I was going to settle on the Hasbro version until I learned it was the only figure on wave 6, meaning most stores are probably skipping it.

Anyone have TR Octane? I want to know the parts that are coated in paint. I already know the front of the feet are molded purple but painted white.

>>6438210

lol i remember years and years ago as a lad on the TFW2005 forums, a woman posted pictures of her using classics astrotrain in train mode as a dildo.

>>6438231
She's that crazy geewunner

>>6438256
As far as I can tell, the plane tail fin and cockpit, hands, head, and the back white bits of the truck cab.

I've been watching BWII, and it's kind of hilarious how blatant this show is about shilling the newest products. Seriously, it's like you can almost predict the releases for most of these guys.

-Initial guys are treated well, focus isn't blatant on any character.
-Insectrons show up, get an arc to themselves with a bit from the Autorollers... and nothing really came out of it (at least not yet), and the Autorollers haven't done anything since
-Then the Jointrons show up and it's all about them for a while and then they fuck off for some reason (didn't really find them as offensive as everyone said, the worst thing attached to them was DJ peeing himself, aside from that they just liked to party and take credit)
-After this the Pirate Seacons show up, get an arc to themselves... then they fuck off.
-Megastorm evolves into Gigastorm and suddenly everythings tense since he's really strong and the Maximals can't just beat his ass... then the Tako Tank shows up trashes him no problem.

Are all Japanese Tranformers this bad with shilling their products.

>>6437582
>let's not pretend we wouldn't be all over an MP Armada Prime

i don't give a shit about UT or MP so no, i wouldn't be.

>>6437857
Uh, the Legends reissues weren't offered outside of TakaraTomy Mall who only ships to Japanese addresses.

>>6438329
>I've been watching BWII
Do subs of BWII and BWN even exist?

>>6438344
Just II and the movies for II, Neo's being done later.

The subs are a bit too literal at times, but they're workable.

>>6438231

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Raksha

>>6438344
Beast Wars II was released by Karyuudo Fansubs.

>>6438329
Something I also want to mention about the show is how the Predacons are a massive betrayal conga line. The Autorollers are decent folks but everyone else is just horrible.

Megastorm wants to kill Galvatron to take command, Starscream wants to kill Galvatron and Megastorm, but also wants to be seen as more competent than Dirge and Thrust (he straight up has BB shoot them constantly), and then Dirge and Thrust want to be seen as better than Starscream and BB (but they suck at it really hard).

On a hilarious note Galvatron and Megastorm are related, Galvatron being Megastrorms older brother. Even stranger is that Galvatron actually respects his brother and even holds him at high esteem (even if he scolds him every now and then) which is pretty shocking

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>>6438143
>the return of Kiss Player is near

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>>6438391

Oh boy!

>>6437198
Then Hardhead wins and Trigger ties or beats Topspin for 2nd.

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>Want to put Diac on TR voyager Prime's body
>Don't want to scrape the silver paint

Damn, don't really have a TM to swap with it either.

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>>6438329
>>6438366
you forgot to mention that most of the predacons are literal comedy duos.
Megatstorm-Galvatron are Aniki and his lackey duo. Starscream-BB are flamboyant berserker duo. Dirge-Thrust are manzai duo.
the only sane crews are Autorollers, and they are supposed to be mercenaries that also build stuffs.

>>6438391
But what if instead of lolis you get christmas cakes

>>6438402
I really don't understand the love for Hardhead, was he a desired figure that never got an update until now or something? He's good and all, but he's kinda generic and his transformation is fucking awful, he just tucks in his limbs and lies down.

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>>6438423
christmas cake doesn't sell

>>6438417
Mine hasn't had any scrapage issues anon, it's more durable than you'd think

>>6438167
>Will this trigger the Allspark?

Is there something that DOESN'T trigger the Allspark?

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>>6438108
>heft of the TF Cybertron figures
>even the simplicity
>there could be a new Brave or Brave style series.
There IS a new not-Transformers transformer, Brave style series by TakaTomy, under their Tomica Hyper Rescue line.

The toys use the same engineering as current TFs but are more hefty and less hollow. Unfortunately, the gimmick is parts-swapping the arms/legs and armaments (like many Braves) so all the Walker toys have the same transformation.

They even managed to squeeze out an anime for it this year. The theme is similarly centered around civilian rescue with robots, but it's more similar to the Eldoran shows, with a grade-school cast and non-sentient robots.

Check out the toys here
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVmVgo0o7T_9Rg5h1WIjDRvPmVlVM238U

>>6438432
Actually, the reason that didn't sell was because of a $20 price hike for the driver and not looking anything like Blaster.

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>>6438064
>>6438143
>Chromedome has brown biceps
>Ultra Magnus has white thighs
Even in comics that they commission, Takara is eternally cucked by Hasbro

>>6438489
>Even in comics that they commission
License. If they were commissioning them the comics would be free.

>>6438478
I hate the whole car within a car concept

>>6438315
Not as bad as I thought, thanks.

>>6438339
I was talking about MP Soundwave.

>>6438177
>then why is she cute and buxom, and not fat and ugly?
I will never understand where this stereotype came from, having been to 3 Botcons, and 2 TFCons I have seen many female transformers fans with only a small handful of them being landwhales. Most are younger teenagers I assume are getting into transformers from the comics or tv shows and they're plenty cute but possibly jailbait, hard to tell.

>>6438182
TFCon in particular dude has had maybe 40% girls showing up who were average to cute looking. They seemed shy though, couldn't talk to them to well as it seems like they always drop their spaghetti if you ask them anything.

>>6438507
That's not how those distinctions work.
Licenses are given with set limitations to produce a work using an IP for an agreed length of time. Commissions are for a specfic amount of something created with direct supervision or instructions.
It has nothing to do with if it's free or not.

>>6437220
Skateboard set is a much better DLC.

>>6437258
This is true.

Even Hound is supposedly a mess to actually handle, even in the 2nd version. Their dinobots and RID toys aren't anything noteworthy. I actually like their Battle Blades Bee a lot, but it's not something I feel like I need in my collection.

I was off the grid for a couple weeks. Any new announcements or in-jokes I need to know about?

>>6438550
Cuck Rod is getting a new toy

>>6438550
TR is basically dead. There's some new POTP robots and they look interesting. They're still trying to make ugly fembots out of the Blurr mold. That's about it.

>>6438555
Getting TR Rod was a mistake. It's a shitty toy with nothing good about it. The only reason someone would pick it up is because of the character it represents, and the fact that there hasn't been a passable Rod for ages.

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>>6438555
"""Liege Maximo"""

I don't even give a fuck about G2 or Pretenders and I still feel insulted

>>6438574
Yeah, that was pretty disappointing, they're even worse than the original shells.

Hell, I'd gladly take the inner robot being a Titan Master if the shell had decent articulation and a weapon.

>>6438576
Can't they do a 180 and turn it into a horrific skeleton-tank with treads that look like they are made of ribs and intestine cannon?

>>6438576
Takara would have probably done something pretty cool with the concept, since their Pretenders were human size. Basically, just sell their robot, pack it with the Pretender, then remove the head and attach it to the Pretender whenever they need to be human sized.

>>6438585
So hellish abomination Pretenders? Fund it.

>>6438590
It wouldn't work very well with the Autobot ones though since they had their shells just look like power armor so would just be normal TFs with something like a flip-out fake face.

>>6438574
Pretenders out of TM Vehicles sounded like a good idea until I remembered muh partscount

>>6438574
Eh, I'd preffer if the preters shells were Repugnus or Fangry remolds were the inner bot inserts in headmode to allow leg movement, but these are fine, just a bonus like the Titanmaster vehicles, what I really want to know is what "skills" they'll unlock, going by the Warden interview on Seibertron, the Prime Masters will work like Cyberkeys or Powermasters, Starscream may need one to unlock his combiner mode.

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>buy son bayformer barricade cause he loves police cars
>awakens something inside
>can't go to the grocery store without checking out transformers now
>bought all of these in the last 2 weeks

Please help me stop.
Please.

>>6438598
Better than having his primary weapons in robot mode locked away without a key like his counterpart.

>>6438592
I guess they'd do something like Spike?

>>6438600
Don't worry, if you only buy on retail you won't see new figures anytime soon, either that or spend a couple of days in these threads, you'll hate the fandom and hopefully stop buying Tfs.

>>6438574

i hope they make Gorilla-Spider guy a reality this time.

>>6438527
It's because of the stigma against girls liking robots.

Even if they're only into it for the gay robot boys in the comics, they're still branching out into the toys and other media, so I think they deserve a chance.

>>6438607
Spending time in this thread will probably make people discover reasons to hate figures. Empty gaps, stress marks, loose joints, badly planned paint, partsforming, etc.

>>6438607
>either that or spend a couple of days in these threads, you'll hate the fandom and hopefully stop buying Tfs.
This man is lying. If you stay here you will start envying every figure anyone says anything good about and you will be compelled to want them.

This will murder your wallet. If you want to stop buying transformers then leave this place and never return, now before it's too late!

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>>6438600
>>6438613
This. The motive for being into TFs is quite an experience the first time around. After a year or half a year's worth of buying figures you'd probably find a reason to stop or keep on going.

>>6438600
Just check eBay for the good figures. If you have any sanity, you'll drop TFs like a handful of spiders.

Of course, if you're like us, you'll just see it as a minor hurdle

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>>6438600

Thats how it begins, Anon. I hadn't touched a TF since G1 as a child. Then one day in Walmart, I saw CW Optimus. "Oh cool", I thought. "He's got goofy superhero proportions. I think I'll buy this".

Years later I now have shelves dominated by TF's and 3P stuff.

>>6438071
FUCK OFF KINO FAG

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>>6438600
Pray your son doesn't find a local shop that carries turd parties. You might just burn out his college tuition.

>>6438191
>using a legends class to play with a titan class

Step up senpai

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>>6438633

Not everyone can be a broadside, Anon. Some of us only have a seaspray. But as long as you cause her a tidal wave, it'll all turn out prime.

Just hope she doesn't become unsatisfied, or she might seek out someone a little...Blacker.

>>6438632
>dat little heel
Man, it's the little things.

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>>6438640

>>6438641
All TFs should have flip out heels. Even if they don't need them for balance normally, just put them there in case you need them.

>>6438614
Too late.
I'm actively looking for windblade cause she THICC just like I like 'em

>>6437599
>beancounter anon fags up another thread

>>6438600
>He found Spider 2099 version 2
>Haven't seen the entire wave in person anywhere

Not fair.

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Who else here is a hoarder?

>room filled with boxes from other hobbies, mostly models
>under side of bed half other hobbies, other half smaller mp boxes and platinum editions
>titan metroplex and titan sdcc fort max have been turned into a makeshift table that's holding up all of my cw and uw boxsets
>each of those boxes holds hasbro variants inside the same box
>my bedside drawers has one draw with my current fav tf's to mess with
>combined rotf jetfire and a few recent tr/tlk deluxes and voyagers scattered op top of box piles
>bedroom wardrobe is dominated by larger mp boxes, mostly mp seekers
>meanwhile a separate storage room holds the box of my sdcc fortmax with 2 different optimus evolution pack boxes kept only to protect them during an eventual move
>same for tr trypticon, hasbro metroplex which are also being crammed full of loose leaders
>uw devvy's box can't hold other stuff so remains untouched
>2 boxes dedicated for "junked" transformers, one full of mostly childhood g1 toys (broken due to being an abusive child) the other full of newer stuff such as tr
>have cybetron primus and platinum edition unicron inbound

I plan to actively 100% stop when mp galvatron, mp rodimus prime 2.0, mp beast megatron, titan scorponok and a new cw compatible abominus are put out.

Surely I'm not the worst one here, I have yet to spend for display cabinets to surround myself in to admire all of my stuff

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>>6438640
So Deep Dive is the biggest at least partially black-colored marine TF and Waverider is the blackest one?

Hasbro needs to make a Metroplex-sized guy who turns into giant seabase with parts of a port, oil rig, an aircraft carrier, and fuck-huge anti-aircraft guns.

>>6438679
>>Hasbro needs to make a Metroplex-sized guy who turns into giant seabase with parts of a port, oil rig, an aircraft carrier, and fuck-huge anti-aircraft guns.
So Tidal Wave.

https://www.instagram.com/unlord666/

>>6438667
Know the feel but that's me during Bayformers 2-4's toyine. I have two boxes worth of figures that I have no space left to display (or risk having a cluttered shelf). It started with collecting movie figs, then the IDW figs, then the figures that just looks cool. Eventually I just came to that /toy/-hoarder epiphany and stopped collecting "for a group". Right now I'm just spending money to buy very few TFs and now I just collect books, artbooks and a couple of Figmas.

>>6438696
Well he's a fleet, not a sea base.

Still
>Hasbro ever investing in a non-g1 titan

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>>6438698
You know you can just post the image you wanted on an image board, right?

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>>6438600
Oh boy, pray you don't find the absurdly extensive aftermarket with all its cheap and incredibly tempting figures all standing there for you. You might end up falling in love with Binaltech or early Generations figures or "outdated" Masterpieces.

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>>6438600
>Soundwave is almost twice the size of Megatron
That really makes no sense, he should have been a Voyager at best. A pity that more than a decade of waiting for a CHUG Soundwave ends up with this.

>>6437226
>Armada over CW / TR / PotP
Fair enough.

>Armada over CHUG
What the fuck is wrong with you, anon?

>>6438727
Who knows maybe a Ko company will downsize him but I find it unlikely because upscale stuff more often.

>>6438722
I still remember going to Target and buying Alternators Shockblast/wave.

I still have him and his stupid, easy-to-lose Muffler gun.

>>6438727
I would have been okay if he was just a regular TR Deluxe, Soundwave was never the sort of guy that needed size and opulence to succeed in battle.

>>6438727
If you just use the cw leader megatron you wouldn't have to worry about such an issue.

We have figures in chug for almost every scale anon, soundwave does need smaller figures though as his 2 wfc ones aren't going to chug for everyone

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>>6438738
>If you just use the cw leader megatron you wouldn't have to worry about such an issue
No, I would just have to worry with him looking like a bland undetailed piece of shit with Playskool-tier deco and engineering.

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>>6438741
AND UNPAINTED SLAB OF PLASTIC THAT'S BLATANTLY MEANT TO BE BLITZWING WITH FORCED GIMMICK IS BETTER!?

WITH FUCKING STIIIIICCCCKKKKERRRRSSSSA!?

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>>6438747
I'd rather have optional decals than no decals at all. It might not work well in Blitzwing but that shitty Soundwave sure as hell could use some.

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>>6438747
>>6438741
>cw leader megatron
Go to bed, you are too sleepy.

>>6438755
Not that anon but I've been tempted to get him simply because I can't stand to have Powermaster Prime as a Leader-sized Autobot on one side of my collection and no juxtaposed Decepticon on the other. Convince me otherwise.

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>>6438752
>tr megatron's stickers are optional

No because without them he'll have no faction symbol unless you pay for a 3rd party set, a set you should never have to pay for, least cw megatron has one tampo'd onto him and an ACTUAL optional autobot logo is included should one take idw seriously, the mold was dedicated to be megatron from the outset and is one of the few tf's to actually be drenched in paint (although just one color) that isn't in danger to paint rub.

There are still better voyager megatrons out there than blitztron too, the bludgeon retool (and his takara silver repaint) and depending on your stand with kibble we have nerf-atron.

Do not settle for tr cheap-atron, the leader ain't the best but has more going for the tr voyager.

As for soundwave I've always viewed him to be same size as megs, but regardless even the hasbro version is sticker free and has a much more varied deco than tr megatron, even the fact the mold was made for blaster isn't as bad as how much the blitzwing design is for megatron.

TR did alot of good but we shouldn't have to settle for this

>>6438758
Hes alright, biggest issues are the thin looking shins and akward looking shoulder articulation, other than that he will dwarf your other Cons.

I'd say get either Skyshadow or Overlord to face PM Prime.

>>6437653
There is conflict of design. Transformers work best angular since they need to form vehicles while erotic forms use curves.

>>6437822
No a good alt mode should be intergrated into the robot itself, if berzerker could of used more of the shell he'd be perfect.

But remember its fiction, its how people in g1 not bat an eye seeing a volkswagon beetle rock up with a semi truck and 2 lambo's

>>6438735
The issue is that they gave him the cassette gimmick this time and he needed a legends sized chest to store the legend scaled cassettes, though they all look more like tape players than tapes.

>>6438779
If you mean it as in an altmode fitting a character, sure, that's better but there's an unsettling lack of effective infiltrators and scouts among transformers. There's been like three generic government SUVs and only in the movie lines, you'd think those would be more common with the whole "robots in disguise" schtick.

>>6438829
More like mp3 players, they all have headphone jacks that click when you plug a real one in.

Couldnt resist trying it

>>6438600
I didn't want to touch Transformers 3 years ago when I got back into collecting power rangers/sentai stuff but I went for a vacation in California and I had nothing to do so I went to a TRU near a relative's place and bought a movie voyager Grimlock to fiddle and 3 years forward my shelves have more Transformers than Sentai/Power Rangers since I stopped hard on that to collect Transformers more exclusively. I'm planning on boxing all of my Sentai stuff and just leaving Transformers on the shelves. Not gonna sell the Sentai stuff since most of them bumped in price in the past 2 years alone.

>>6438177
There's clearly something wrong with her.

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>>6438876
yep, we're an expert on what's wrong with people that collect toys

>>6438878
Shut up, A.

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>>6438735
TR Soundwave/Blaster is both big AND small in size due to the TM aspect. The idea of them being communications officers overlooking a communications station isn't far from their character background either. It works better for Blaster though and I usually have him in base mode most of the time.

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>>6438600
pray you dont fall into the third party hole

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I'm a little concerned for the new leader rodimus prime in a few ways

>he's shorter than existing tr leaders which are smaller than earlier leaders case in point first edition movie prime dotm megatron etc
>the leader is going to contain ALOT of trailer kibble on his back
>unless the piece on display was mis-transformed the truck trailer is going to have some unsightly protrusions hanging off the back
>no way can it assume the battle station mode the original could

Its looking like the best point of him is going to be the fact he's the first rodimus prime PROPER toy in so long, and his deluxe mode actually seems decent.

Anyone else have anything about rodimus prime?

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>>6438917
We have to wait until Hascon

They are blue balling us with SDCC this year which I don't think is a good sign.

>>6438917
Well he includes a deluxe so of course he's shorter than Overlord, who is also taller than the other leaders we got this year.

>>6438917
>>he's shorter than existing tr leaders which are smaller than earlier leaders case in point first edition movie prime dotm megatron etc

This is a good thing. The closer it is to voyager size the better. I hate how they keep making characters like Megatron/Starscream/Soundwave leader size.

>>6438917
Adjusted for inflation the original movie leader Prime is about a $50 figure in today's money. Add the rising cost of plastics and that goes up to about $60. The most I've paid for any of my CW/TR leaders is $44.99, which was for Black Shadow because I couldn't hold out to find him locally. The least I've paid for a leader was $34.99 for Soundwave at Wal-Mart. If you're in an area where prices are particularly shit I understand that you'd be concerned, but if you're in the US we're getting what we pay for.

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>>6438921
Does that really justify the size?

>>6438922
Not good when you remember a size class gives you a certain expectation on who its meant to scale up to, pic related, they're meant to fight each other and yet its just not a good match up, same for the titan class transformers like trypticon and metroplex

>>6438924
Prices are bad all the time here so I usually import...sometimes even stuff I'm supposed to get locally because of terrible distribution.

Guess there is no winning for any of us

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Ok, who DIDN'T expect a mega action series nemesis prime?

>>6438932
Every prime will get a black and white repaint. Even the ThreeA one.

>>6438946
waiting on hot toys to follow the trend

What's the purpose of those parts that flip out on the undersides of primes trailer? you don't need them to diplay the trailer on it's own due to those two flip out bits near the cab connector.

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>>6438951
Which trailer of which prime? Rescue Bots?

>>6438958
>>6438951

Fuck, I forgot to say I meant the masterpiece.

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>>6438961
>>6438951
to replicate the g1 toy?

The front ones would be to hold the truck up better when displayed alone (don't real truck trailers have this idk) while the other ones I...think the g1 toy had them

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>>6438961
The ones that swing out towards the sides? those are for stabilizing the trailer's "open" mode, when you open up the container right down the middle.

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based leaker

>DELUXE DINOBOTS

>>6438964
>>6438967

Ah, I see. I thought it was something to do with preventing tire pressure.

>>6438968
Not blurry enough.

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>>6438968
New movie leaders.

...wtf a new grimlock?

>dat blackout
I'm worried about the future of my wallet

>>6438971
You need to work on it.

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>>6438971
>dat mp primal

Oooo....kay, maybe we shouldn't believe this what with "rodimus unicronius" though the optimus raises eyebrows

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>>6438975
Must be very early plans because FUCKING PREDAKING, WHAT!?

I hope some of this is real

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>>6438977
Got a feeling predaking is the new "titan" if each one is a voyager ala devastator.

This one I can't work out however, its more movie shit but the jet mode on starscream is clean, either deluxe repaint or a leader, but the prime is something else let alone the rest

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>>6438968
>>6438971
>>6438975
>That Moonracer
>Those Movie Leaders
>That everything