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- Mon Aug 14, 2023 4:34 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
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Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
After all the booey Exclusives that came out over the last few years, it's nice to see at least Dirge showing up (crosses fingers for Ramjet and Thrust) again. I seem to recall hearing about an upcoming Ramjet reissue, but I think that was more "rumour" than "announcement". I'd ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 8:59 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5298348
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
It's out and in stock now. No idea if the price is agreeable. They seem expensive for what they are, but then everything seems expensive now. Huh. When did that happen? I preordered the stupid thing two years ago (literally two years ago to the day actually, funny how that works out) and have recei...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:02 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5298348
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Well, after seeing the variety of new stuff shown for the SDCC, I think that Hasbro's doing quite well with the variety of characters/decos offered. I like the breadth offered, even if it's simultaneous with frequent character retreads (Ultra Magnus again already?). Sticking by the criticism of pri...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 1:31 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Original G1 designs plus articulation?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16431
Re: Original G1 designs plus articulation?
I would absolutely be interested in an Optimus, if it was priced like a regular Generations toy and not a "high end collectible". I'm not sure if the idea has much mileage beyond that, though. Soundwave would work, maybe the Dinobots...Megatron would be illegal in most places, Seekers woul...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:54 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
- Views: 4917104
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
And they seemed to be doing so well for an image hosting site. They've been a very good image-hosting site, but it seems like what they and their investors are trying to be is a social media site. And right now they're hosting a ton of adult images that are being posted to places like Reddit to dri...
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 1:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone else thoroughly enjoying the Twitter dumpster fire?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 111508
Re: Anyone else thoroughly enjoying the Twitter dumpster fire?
Apparently the rest of the day consisted of people bombarding Musk with Xvideos.com jokes. Possibly to the point where he banned the porn site from Twitter X out of spite, but that last part might just be people mocking him for being a petty manchild. The entire situation has gotten so silly that I ...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Why is Lio convoy popular and what about Big convoy?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4762
Re: Why is Lio convoy popular and what about Big convoy?
I somehow missed this entirely back when it was posted! I think Denyer is right that it's all down to name recognition, but what's really interesting to me is how we got there. I think that was more down to circumstance than popularity, or any conscious choice on Hasbro or Takara's part. Lio got int...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:40 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Expectations of SS Commander class Ultra Magnus.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14217
Re: Expectations of SS Commander class Ultra Magnus.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/20/transformers-studio-series-86-commander-class-ultra-magnus-sample-images-490815 I don't think any of us had "the cab transforms...into a compact red backpack" on our bingo cards. I was expecting either a fully transforming cab or a big chunk of kibble. T...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 9:08 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5298348
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
Maybe Hasbro figured Antagony had so many alt heads that including any 1 of them would just annoy fans of the other 3, so they decided to include none of them so all Antagony fans would be equally unhappy? At least that's fair. That's fair. I've polled the other three people in the world who care a...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
- Views: 4917104
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
I feel like Hasbro is trying to apply their Marvel Legends strategy to Transformers, without really stopping to think about why that strategy might work for one brand and not the other. Wolverine or Spider-Man or Iron Man have so many different designs from so many different eras and artists that yo...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [The video game thread]
- Replies: 2469
- Views: 1114746
Re: [The video game thread]
I've not played BOTW, but from what I've read, they basically turned the Zelda formula inside out. In previous games, you'd enter dungeons to fight bosses and get weapons, then muck about in the overworld to find heart pieces. In BOTW, you muck about in the overworld to fight bosses and get weapons...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 10:41 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
- Views: 4917104
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
I would have loved that personally, even though he almost never has them in his media representations. It would have been nice to have the option to do either/or. I feel the same way about Prowl's shoulder rockets or Ramjet's big dumb missiles...I know that Sunbow and Marvel both omitted them but I'...
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 12:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [The video game thread]
- Replies: 2469
- Views: 1114746
Re: [The video game thread]
The system was branded as "Radeon Dual Graphics" instead of Crossfire but it works about the same as I understand it. With the default configs it's supposed to switch between two GPUs depending on how much demand the system is seeing for GPU capacity. So it'd use the onboard chip if you're...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [The video game thread]
- Replies: 2469
- Views: 1114746
Re: [The video game thread]
The bulk of the parts came from a couple of 2012-vintage machines, so not far off of what you were working with. My original plan was similar to yours actually, I was looking to make a low-cost streaming/DVD player, but that wound up not working out too well because the old AMD video cards cause tro...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: [The video game thread]
- Replies: 2469
- Views: 1114746
Re: [The video game thread]
So I've actually done a lot of gaming lately! My son has absolutely fallen in love with the TMNT lately, and after playing through all the old retro Turtles game in the Cowabunga Collection , we went ahead and bought Shredder's Revenge . It's one heck of a fun game! It has the trappings of an SNES-e...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 7:18 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
- Views: 4917104
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Should look pretty good as the inevitable Cryotek redeco. https://twitter.com/ChromeTyranno/status/1581784142449999877 https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/worta2/legacy_cryotek_digibashmade_by_me/ I actually like Cryotek's deco more, on the original toy, so I'm definitely risking that I'...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 4:43 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5298348
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
I'm not familiar enough with Antagony to be baffled by this. I assume they wanted to keep the original bot head because the original bot head is awesome. I bought Inferno because I liked the opening/shouting bot head. After opening him today (finally) I was delighted to find that the light piping w...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 1:21 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5298348
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/06/22/generations-selects-antagony-and-volvo-prime-live-to-order-487966 >Make a new Antagony >Go to the trouble of making a new head for her when you don't really need to >Its goddamn Scavenger 's head for some reason Sometimes I'm just baffled by what Hasbro will spen...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:44 am
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7436
- Views: 4917104
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Legacy TM2 Megatron I went back and forth on this one quite a bit before actually buying it, because Leaders are so expensive nowadays and because the TM2 design has never been my favourite Megatron. Eventually I did grab one, obviously...mostly because I saw it in-store and I was bored that weeken...
- Mon May 29, 2023 4:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Latest DVD Purchases
- Replies: 1254
- Views: 470316