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- Wed Dec 13, 2023 12:29 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
- Replies: 441
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Re: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
Wheeljack will presumably still get shoehorned into a Legacy type release, it'll just be annoying if it's part of a bundle. As you say, bigger Spychangers or G1.5 ciphers are there if they can get over the obsession with pre-TF colour variants. I think some of the Siege deficits may genuinely have b...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
- Replies: 441
- Views: 1181154
Re: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
I think you're right, unfortunately, Hasbro have gotten more scummy in their business practices as global inflation bites. RE: SS -- mmm, apparently not. https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/10wgblg/siege_sideswipe_vs_kingdom_sideswipe/ That would've been a paper cut issue at the time and ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:25 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
- Replies: 441
- Views: 1181154
Re: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
Oh yeah, Earthrise directly after Siege will have been when people who were less on the fence already really started avoided buying stuff when it first came out, and on top of that inflation and inability to find the sweet spot between "yet another version of a pre-movie character" and &qu...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:03 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5228997
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
McFarlane Toys Signs Multi-Brand Licensing Agreement with Hasbro https://toynewsi.com/news.php?itemid=50888 McFarlane Toys has announced an exciting, multi-brand licensing agreement with leading toy and game company Hasbro, adding TRANSFORMERS, POWER RANGERS, G.I. JOE and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS to t...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
- Replies: 1650
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Re: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
Joes Classified B.A. (heavy artillery Roadblock). Not an original idea, but I like it.
https://i.imgur.com/BThDSIZ.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/BThDSIZ.jpeg
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
- Replies: 441
- Views: 1181154
Re: Remembering that our old toys actually exist!
Got a couple of Battle Across Time two pack Sideswipes with a view to doing one in Action Master colours, and dug Siege Sideswipe out of the Dinobot Hunt group he was in on the back of a shelf. And it's a lot better than I remember after watching BAT 2pk auctions for a few months, the more futuristi...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 5:21 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Ta, can't spot one (they seem to be focusing on Batman for now because there's a shortage of figures of him, apparently) but it's definitely a job for a figure base and sod the alt-mode. The story's heavy on anachronisms and visual-only design work so may as well lean into the pretender shell, plus ...
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who is 60!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 52381
Re: Doctor Who is 60!
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/do ... ewsupdate/
Big spoilers. Still haven't watched episodes, and the plot twist is very fan-fic-slash-official-books but I quite like it insofar it could explain a lot of other things.
Big spoilers. Still haven't watched episodes, and the plot twist is very fan-fic-slash-official-books but I quite like it insofar it could explain a lot of other things.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who is 60!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 52381
Re: Doctor Who is 60!
Just dropping a link to a rather good podcast, which is often fascinating listening for the actor/actress and production team interviews despite the fact I've probably managed to listen to all of about a dozen audiobooks in twenty years. They've just reviewed the new episodes (which I still haven't ...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Autobot Stampede Motto: "One for all, 'til all are one!" The lone survivor of an early team of beastformers known as the Anibots, Stampede has found new purpose with a magnificent, unstoppable team of guerrilla fighters including Prowl, Jazz, Wheeljack, Sunstreaker and Inferno. Inseparabl...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:21 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
The promo photos look good, depending on what price it can be found at. Talking of cassettes, opened up the Noise and Graphy part of the weird SKU throuple Hasbro cassette reissue pack (not calling them Gurafi and Noizu, f*ck that attempt at trademarking phonemes). IIRC half-price Kapow bargains tha...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
- Replies: 1650
- Views: 1047913
Re: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
Chase from Captain Power. Awful figure (look at the arms!) and never had any of the toys or gimmicky light gun stuff as a kid but did get thoroughly engrossed in the UK annual. It looks like there's been a recent warehouse find of MOSC stock, so an interesting if fairly common curio for less than mo...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Anyone else thoroughly enjoying the Twitter dumpster fire?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 109829
Re: Anyone else thoroughly enjoying the Twitter dumpster fire?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67574396 *theme from M.A.S.H* Got a few Bluesky codes if anyone's after. Only not posting them publicly because a) they're getting scraped from Twitter and the web by bots for far right groups, and b) I think BS are sensible enough to track how they're used...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
- Replies: 211
- Views: 5228997
Re: Grumpy old men: armchair brand management
The biggest problem with Super7 stuff seems to be that they don't learn (or can't apply knowledge) to using appropriate plastics. So you get hands that are too rigid or don't grip, in particular, or waxy finishes and quite low detail sculpts like their "vintage" style MOTU stuff. Either is...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
A lot of the Unicron Trilogy stuff looks better in retrospect, doesn't it? Largely chunky and substantial stuff compared to what gets released now, interactivity that's also been cut from modern releases like Laser Prime, and the simple virtue of not just reusing the same small pool of characters.
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
- Replies: 1650
- Views: 1047913
Re: Your Latest Non-TF Toy Acquisitions
Diamond Select Toys Amazon Original Invincible Dupli-Kate which goes some way to proving that it's not just TF sub-lines that have long presumed titles. Not a series I'm that wildly into (dropped the comics due to losing interest, recently started the animated version and in motion plus edited for ...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 6:53 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Payload's the Longhaul equivalent? Never touched the one I got to round out a mixed assortment of 3P/KO Constructicons but yeah he does look the part in the alt-mode.
Treadshot looks like a swish Energon generic, very Cyberjet-y.
Treadshot looks like a swish Energon generic, very Cyberjet-y.
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Doctor Who is 60!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 52381
Re: Doctor Who is 60!
so I'm not sure what's gone on there Possibly this pressure group: https://www.changingfaces.org.uk/news/our-work-with-the-bbc/ I suppose at his tech level cloning isn't any stretch and being a rubber mostly-corpse always looked silly. But they've gone with the typical sunken-eyed skull-face nazi a...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Kingdom Mainframe as I saw one loose and had gotten the Ark without him. Would like to do the same sort of thing this person has with a hybrid AM colour scheme: https://twitter.com/TheClutterdDesk/status/1437087675706707968 Not intending to go this far: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/action...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Transformers Toys & Merchandise
- Topic: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
- Replies: 7434
- Views: 4863745
Re: POST YOUR NEWEST ACQUISITIONS!
Someone pointed out Hasbro Pulse have the Transformers Legacy Wreck ‘N Rule Collection G2 Universe Leadfoot and Masterdominus set for £17 plus shipping (nothing says "please help before this stack of them accidentally crushes us" like a limit of 20 per customer). And it's worth that for Le...