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>>11460746 (OP)
Spam thread. No pastebins, no 'At Page 9 0r 10' reminder, and the previous thread is still alive.
Jannies, delete this shit.

>>11460746 (OP)

existing thread here >>11451367 which was already yours.
such a busy bee.

The previous thread was also still on page 6, albeit one image away from image limit. you couldn't post one more image?

>>11460752
if only that's how it worked

BBTS got my Hook and Long Haul early

>>11460760
BBTS having something early is a miracle, i'm happy for you

>>11460760
same, got an email they were processing soon

>>11460760
>>11460770
Hell yeah! Same. How many bots total? I haven't been followind Devy too closely. I think I have 4 at this point in my pile of loot.

>>11460779
the last 2 come out in september I think

>>11460834
6 in total then?

I try not to buy more than one version of a given mold, and I usually wait long enough to see all the versions that Hasbro is gonna use, and make my choice then.

I got the SS86 Bumblebee, because I figured they were just going to squirt out another Cliffjumper with it.

Instead, they made Bumper, who's one of my favorite obscure bots, and I feel like pulling my fucking face off.

I wouldn't even mind paying resale to get him individually (I got animated Motormaster, don't care for Magnus without his armor, and fuck Horri-bull generally), but it would drive me fucking NUTS to have two guys that looks almost identical on my shelf: the whole reason I got the SS86 in the first place was because I bought the GenSel Bug Bite, and couldn't make myself get any of the BB mold with THAT body

>>11460840
Forgot pic, not that anyone needed it.

Finished up my second custom earlier today. Decided to do her entirely with those 50 cent apple barrel paints from walmart just to see if they were of any value. My verdict is that they're "okay", but really do not like to thin and are extremely chalky.

>>11460840
>>11460843
I'm still mad they did this and didn't remold the car instead of putting the Bumper head on the figure that was actually designed to homage Bumper in the first place.

>>11460854
Apple Barrel is the lowest-end paint for a reason. You can tell from looking at it, though I will say you did an astounding job making it even. Airbrush?
Either way, clearcoat that shit immediately, apple barrel scratches off if you give it so much as a sharp glance.

>>11460854
>>11460858
Should have gave it a base coat of acrylic gunmetal or silver and then when the Apple Barrel Paint scratches off in areas it will just look like battle damage or weathering

>>11460860
holy shit that's actually a really good idea. I might try that sometime. I often run into limitations of painting figures since, yknow, there's joints.

>>11460840
I used to be the same but honestly if a mold is fun, fuck it I’ll buy it twice, thrice, however many times I see fit. Life’s too short to restrict my plastic crack addiction, if I know I’m going to enjoy the figure I’ll double dip. Besides, I love repaints/retools.

>>11460854
Glyph bro
That's a great color and pick

>>11460854
Who's that behind her?

>>11460899
the wire shins suggest it's... that guy.. the remold of him was the purple and white guy with the shoulders..

>>11460858
Thanks for the compliment. I hand painted it all.
>>11460899
Custom Megaempress 2.0

>was excited for snarl and slug two pack because i wanted g2 colors and thought since it was in a two pack I might get them both slightly cheaper
>its not cheaper at all, over $100
Now I'm not so sure I want to get them. I could get Magmatron instead for under $100

I just bought my first Transformer figure after getting rid of my collection a few years ago
Earthrise Optimus Prime for only 60 euros with original packaging but there something with his arm
Theres a big gap whenever i move the arm a bit
Should i use plastic glue to fix this or will this fuck up the figures mobility

>>11460854
You need to apply a clear top-coat to her or she's going to flake everywhere.

>>11460940
The nylon parts are going to flake paint even with topcoat.

>>11460939
Do yourself a favor, return that thing and buy the Studio Series 86 one.

>>11460999
>Just kick around and saddle up for a hefty return over at Target for that sweet toy hunt feel when making that return purchase.

>>11461000
He paid in euros, retard. No Targets in Europe.

>>11460999
i ordered in from a store in spain and had it shipped to me to germany i dont think i can just replace it that easily
i also prefere teh look of this optimus
i like that some truck Kibble is still visible in the rbot mode like the tires on his leg
It adds to the charm of a transforming truck to have some parts of the alt mode visible in the robot mode instrad of doing everything to hide it

>>11460939
Shoulder cracks are common. One of my ER Primes had a pin driven too far on the right shoulder. Return it for another.

Three birds in a line, call them the flock.

>>11461059
That head on the left is so ugly

>>11461059

CUZ WE'RE THE BIRDS OF WAR NOW

AAAAHHHHHHAAAHHHHHAHHHHHH

>>11461035
I cant return it unfortuantly
I bought it from a spanish store and had it shipped to me
Is there a way to fix the shoulder?
its not a big issue so far but maybe in the future it might break which makes me nervous because i like ER prime design more than SS86 Prime even though his articulation is a bit worse compared to 86

>>11461018
>i ordered in from a store in spain
Anon you're replying to here. Funny, I'm from Spain.
>It adds to the charm of a transforming truck to have some parts of the alt mode visible in the robot mode instrad of doing everything to hide it
Understandable. In my case hiding the wheels is what makes the SS86 unique, I already own many Primes with exposed wheels so having a mainline one like this is a breath of fresh air. The involved transformation is pretty cool too, love the clever engineering.

As for the problem with your toy, can the shoulder be dissasembled easily by unscrewing, or is it pinned? If you separate both halves maybe we can see were the problem is.

>>11461104
There's a number of ways you can go about this:
>superglue the area and let it sit for a couple days
Easy fix, though you'll have to be delicate with your toy.

>tamiya putty
Work, apply, and sand to the desired effect. It'll keep the shoulder together really well.

>replace the arm
This is the easiest and most effective solution. Buy a "for parts" ER Prime and swap out the arm via the mushroom joints.

>everything from SS wave 2 shipped
>except constructicons
I feel like I should molest store about any date for them, at this point I will preorder whole team before getting even 1/6.

Did anyone else buy this set? I'm having a lot of fun with them since I got them on Monday. I bought it for Prime, but in hand Starscream is an incredible fun toy. I understand folks who wanted bigger figures, but Im pretty happy with the Deluxe scaling, makes them more affordable to more people.

I made a video of them if anyone wants to see how they transform from each modes, or comparisons to other figures.

https://youtu.be/7rD6LqxesO4?si=LzW7PRsxbiO55rR4

>>11460840
"autism: the post"

>>11461115
I've got 2/6 and 2/5 for Constructicons and Aerialbots respectively but only just as of last week. Distribution seems to be all over the place for some of these.

>>11460840
>reason I got the SS86 in the first place was because I bought the GenSel Bug Bite, and couldn't make myself get any of the BB mold with THAT body
wait isn't Gen Select Bug Bite just using the Cliffjumper altmode?

>>11461059
these look pretty good together.
where'd you get the custom head for magpie girl?

>>11461111
how would you rank tamiya putty vs apoxie sculpt by the way
not using them on transformers but still getting into figure customizing

>>11460999
Fuck off, Tooner

>>11461180
The caboose is vamoose

I have 86 Optimus prime and Earthrise Optimus prime.
I like both a lot.
Earthrise is simpler, but I can't ignore the presence 86 has. Should I wait for Takara's 86 Megatron?

>>11461275
As opposed to what?

>>11461275
Takara's 86 release isn't going to be any different

When are the retooled MP seekers coming out? Or am I better off selling mine and getting third party?

Thoughts on titan omega supreme? Did he have any major qc issues like tidal wave's exploding knees? I heard the protector bot version had a horrible chest/painted see through panel load bearing/hinge cracking problem

>he buys Transformers made post-2001
Lmao

>>11461342
They really need to put out more BW reissues

>>11461331
I'd like to know myself, I want to grab one of the reissues since I haven't bought any mainline figures in years (last figures I bought were PotP stuff), and now I'm going around and picking up all these Titan reissues of figures I missed. Got the re-release redeco of Trypticon, and glad I missed the original version because that lighter grey wasn't very toy accurate (original had a darker grey), and I heard that one had exploding joint problems too.

Scorponok and Omega are next on my list, any issues with those?

>>11461331
>>11461361
The only thing I would recommend is not using the translucent orange fingers as legs for the rocket mode, they develop small strees marks easily that can lead to cracks. Fully open them so the thruster touches the ground and then use the middle finger joints so the tips are only used to keep balance.

>>11461372
Damn, did they go thin on the translucent plastic there or something? That shouldn't be happening unless they cheaped out.

>>11461059
>>11461077
IRON BIRDS OF [spoiler]FOREPLAY[/spoiler]

>>11461342
Hey can you believe I've had this toy s8nce release and only two weeks ago realized the head pops down for beast mode?

>>11461261
You only posts this to convince yourself that the Earthrise is the better toy. But you're wrong.

>>11461374
>Damn, did they go thin on the translucent plastic there or something
No, but translucent plastic for whatever reason is less flexible and prone to develop stress marks under tension. Anyone that has been collectiong for decades can tell you that.

>>11461347
Amen to that
>>11461380
Are you a bit slow? What did you even see as his robot head? The crab eyes and the top of his head as a mouth?

>>11461394
>pops down
Oh yeah, my bad. Although you’re still slow. I figured that shit out like 20 seconds after I touched him

Got Fire Convoy in today, the fix was surprisingly easy, just 9 screws. I think I filed the bit down a little too much but hey ho. Now to get a drink of milk and go to bed. Tomorrow can be God Magnus day.

>>11461347
I say missing links.
the originals are fantastic but a few improvements would be better, and since they're clearly remaking the molds anyway...
also they should scale them up and down. I realize that's not part of the Missing Link concept, but do it anyway. make Insecticon a deluxe. make megalligator and convobat voyagers if not leaders (voyager complexity at least)

>>11461377
sadly disabled on /toy/
>>11461380
I don't think I consciously thought of the uppy-downy part as being part of the transformation so much as just "his head is kind of a jaw, neat"

>>11461404
>havin a glass of milk
do you also have.. chicken.. in a pan.. with a salad..

>>11461405
>and since they're clearly remaking the molds anyway
Examples?

>>11461410
wolfang is basically falling apart because his mold is cheese. they're either remaking it / self-bootlegging it (poorly) or they have the remnant of the old mold and it needed retooling they didn't do.

>>11460746 (OP)
BBTS just notified me that I'm getting my Constructicon 2 pack in early. Neato. They haven't solicited the final two yet have they?

>>11461410
I think Rattrap was a confirmed reconstructed mold
Or maybe that was just the cope we told ourselves due to him being the same price as a deluxe

>>11461428
I'm glad we don't constantly get new versions of beast wars guys that are incrementally improved over old ones, but there are still several that I do not own a satisfying toy for, so for me, subjectively, I do want those done again. In scale with Kingdom figures, with good transformations, with the good aspects of the old toys but not the bad ones.

>>11461180
I actually did get this set, and was planning on posting a review of it - however, it showed up literally a day after I did my review and image dump of Ultra Class Jetstorm and the thread was already approaching death, so I didn't want to be the person who ate up the last of the image limit. I'll post what I have when I get off of work later tonight, assuming this is the correct thread (seriously, someone needs to do something about Goanon - his incessant spamming of threads is why I stopped posting my stuff for so long).

>>11461441
Hearing people already have their's while mine arrives, like, next friday tells me a bit about what Pulse's international shipping, even just to Canada looks like

>>11461388
Oh I know that, yes. But if you make it thick enough it shouldn't stress. Sounds like they made it too thin to hold the pose unless the weight is offset by doing what you said.

>>11461361
Ah, a fellow anon hovering around the re-issue and wondering, lets hope we both find the answers we seek and they aren't too bad, and we obtain our omegas. Supreme taste in tryps, I've been having great fun with my aotp tryp, getting the 'cons all around him and watching episodes of g1.
>>11461372
Good call anon, do you have omega yourself then? because if that's the only personal issue you've had that's likely avoidable and not a dealbreaker.

>>11461445
IIRC anything coming in from the US still ends up going through Canada Post, so a lot of stores will use a cheaper option since it all ends up in 2 depots for sorting and redistribution. Unless they have you paying extra for a third part service like Fedex it's just more economical to do the slightly slower way than to offer like 3 or 4 additional shipping options that people might not even bother with because of the cost difference.

>>11461452
>Good call anon, do you have omega yourself then? because if that's the only personal issue you've had that's likely avoidable and not a dealbreaker.
Yep, got him three Christmas ago. It's not a dealbreaker at all for sure, just something to have in mind as a precaution.

>>11461450
>But if you make it thick enough it shouldn't stress
Eh, I had decently thick ball joint cups getting stress marks, like RID 2001 Red Alert's doors/hip skirts. Always being under tension for many years can stress them no matter the thickness.

>>11461452
Unless there's a sudden crazed rush on Titans, they'll probably be available. Titans always tend to hang around in stock a while.

>>11461473
>Omega christmas supreme
That's pretty cool anon, hope he hangs out with your bots and still brings you joy. Thank you for the precautionary warning also, I'll surely jump on the opportunity for one if I can.
>>11461480
Ah yeah, but more just in general terms I wish anon and myself the best of luck in getting one, never know what other circumstances beyond stock lie in wait, y'know?

>>11461441
>>11461445
Well I think they're pretty great. A few tiny issues, but real tiny. The way Prime's Legs connect just sort of suck and ruin the smooth intuitive neature of everything else. And I wish Starscream's hands could tuck in because they just sort of hang out the back. But those are the only issues of complaint. The paint applications on both are amazing and the hidden sculpted details throughout make them stand out and feel premium. Both roll incredibly too.

I guess the only superfluous thing to request would be Decepticon symbols added to the top of Starscream's wings and a small tinder trailer for Prime

When’s the last time you cracked open a vintage figure anon?
>2/$3.00
Take me back bros

>>11461499
>That's pretty cool anon, hope he hangs out with your bots and still brings you joy.
He's together with my other Titans on top of a cabinet most of the time, but every now and then I get one of them down and transform/mess with it for a while. Omega's base mode is very fun and that rocket is ridiculously tall.

>the new Perceptor can't form tank mode because of the new chest
Fucking hell, it's always two steps back.

>>11461506
hmm loookin a lot better in this picture

>>11461517
Nowadays boxes are basically wholly superior but there's something to tearing open a blister

>>11461506
An upgrade for Locotimus Prime might be the first DNA kit I get

>>11461521
That's good to hear, and a titan row must be a hell of a thing.
You wouldnt by chance have a tryp would you? and be able to give us a sense of size between the two please, or just show off your titan lineup

>>11461517
The closest I got was only 6 years after release, so never.

>>11461539
ima be honest i didnt even like blisters back then. i hated ruining the art on the package. though i enjoyed reading the packagebacks when they were more than just shit in 10 languages

>>11461549
>i hated ruining the art on the package.
I'm too monkey brained for that
Tear open
Get goodies

>>11461517
My first Transformers toys was getting the Go-Bot versions of Soundwave and Ironhide. RIP I miss those little fuckers.

>>11461506
Should I snag this set? Are they fun to transform and mess with? At first the colors and squat train mode for prime didn't click with me but I have been warning up to it. I have a 3p ver of both characters but they are fiddly to mess with.

Trying to decide if I am really liking them now or just wanting to get a new toy and also add to my optimus prime collection.

>>11461542
>You wouldnt by chance have a tryp would you?
I own the original one, got him half a year before Omega. Both of them appeared randomly in a local toy shop years after release.

>and be able to give us a sense of size between the two please, or just show off your titan lineup
Luckily enough they're next to each other. Trypticon's big tail makes fitting him in any display a pain.
I'm thinking of separating them by faction when I get my next Decepticon Titan (should be easy to tell wich one due to a certain little shit in my pic that I bought this year for way too much), with the two ships on each end of the cabinet.

>>11461567
Was Nemesis the overpriced one?

>>11461567
Ah, excellent anon, thank you. That's a rad display, and a sturdy cabinet top.
>nemesis
missed her twice on ebay recently, I'm still bitter but digging the lineup all the same
>lego optimus
very neat

>>11461573
No hes probably referring to Scorponok’s Weaponizer

>>11461573
>Was Nemesis the overpriced one?
No, no. I'm not talking about a Titan (called him a "little shit" after all), but a guy there that points out wich Decepticon Titan I'm going to buy next.

>>11461599
>No hes probably referring to Scorponok’s Weaponizer
Correct!

>>11461593
Thanks anon. Would have never imagined having a bunch of Titans in my collection. I started with The Ark because it had a discount on Amazon and I liked the novelty of a transforming Ark and Teletraan, then Trypticon and Omega Supreme appeared for whatever reason in my city when barely any Transformer does, then Megalo Convoy was less than 90 euros on Amazon... And then I waited for the Nemesis to be discounted too but never happened and was starting to be sold out everywhere, so I had to pay full price.
Also own Encore Fortress Maximus, but that's displayed somewhere else.

>>11461259
You should probably just superglue it. If you disassemble the shoulder, check what's wrong and use the superglue to resculpt the problem area the parts should go back together no problem.

>>11461567
Jealous of your nemesis.

>>11461640
different guy sorry, I was just chiming in about this tamiya putty I'm hearing about. Wondering what's better for figure customizing.

>>11461681
women are fucking psychos who need to be controlled by men, news at 11.
(and yes, the reverse is also true. men without women's influence are not good to be around)

>>11461686
>men without women's influence are not good to be around
But anon this is /toy/, WE'RE men without women's influence who are not good to be around

>>11461681
Needs to be taken to a retardl home just because he spent 300 on ROTB stolen figures and 800 on SS 86 with his disability bux

>>11461686
Can't live with 'em
Can't live without 'em

>>11461565
Yeah man, I say go for it. Watch the video I posted >>11461180 if you can't make up your mind. The Starscream is fun as heck to transform and I love both his modes, his vehicle is wild fun.

Im with you on Prime and the colors, felt a little too Happy Meal. But in person it looks a lot better and it grew on me real quick. Especially when I put him with other Primes.

It's a great set of figures for its price. Both feel real premium. The only true issue is the difficult nature of connecting the Prime legs in vehicle mode, but it doesn't ruin the figure, just makes an otherwise smooth transformation a bit fiddly.

>>11461565
>add to my optimus prime collection.
I know that feeling. Still mad I didn't have the money to buy the huge Legacy Armada Prime when it came out

>>11461681
What a narcissistic cunt.

>>11461611
It's a fine collection anon, really cool to see them stacked up with eachother and still standing out and enjoyed. I got my first titan this year and Im still in awe of it, just have it standing out watching stuff with me half the time and looking imposing. Truly a king Tryp approved collection you have there

I need a nigger foot chest to store my new blankets

>>11461730
Uh oh 'schettios!

>>11461730
Even a wop one is fine. You can make blankets smaller by folding them correctly.

>>11461733
Anon I think you mean a wheeljack american one

>>11461699
Indeed, I was speaking from experience.
>>11461704
so fuckin true. but we have a job to do, and regardless of what Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks, we have to do it. For their sake, not just for ours.

yknow I do think it's funny the two girls we had on Beast Wars were both such feisty tomboys, like those are fun and all, but they still melted with their respective men and that was sweet and adorable and it makes a little LESS good to be around every time I think of how we'll never get that on TV again.

>>11461730
... you mean an army foot locker?

I didn't mean to say that...

>>11461320
Doesn't the Takara have a better paint job?

>>11461744
Only when they do special releases now.

>>11461567
Is that Optimus Prime made of Legos?

>>11461347
The key to this would be to release BW reissues people actually want. Imagine with the insane amount of figures in that library, Hasbro gives us Retrax and Wolfang.

They could rerelease shit like TMCheetor, or Tripredicus, Torca, Bone Crusher, just... fucking Retrax.

>>11461762
>Imagine with the insane amount of figures in that library, Hasbro gives us Retrax and Wolfang.
Prolly the only ones they had left.
and Retrax is still misassembled

Was planning to open them at home, but unpacking my luggages took forever
Ended up taking the boxes back to the office again

>The fattest guy has the best articulation

Interesting

Well the good news is that the paint are good. The previous two the paint got a bit sloppy with windows but at least the faces are good.

I really wish there is a better way to deal with the trailer
Couldn't they at least adding some kind of pulled down leg so the thing can stay up straight rather than falling on the ground

I just need Crasher, and for Hasbro to get off their fat asses to make Powerglider for the Bad Boy redeco.

>>11461762
>They could rerelease shit like TMCheetor, or Tripredicus, Torca, Bone Crusher
After the quality of both the Retrax and Wolfang reissues, I'm fairly confident that anything else they rereleased would be equally degraded. I'm still pissed my poor Wolfang can't hold his own weapons because the pegs that are supposed to hold his elbows together are virtually non-existent; that's not even mentioning all the missing paint details.

>>11461758
They released a Lego Optimus a while ago. And a Bumblebee more recently.

>>11461567
I hope they reprint the Nemesis soon. I missed out on that shit and want it to go with my Ark.

>>11461779
i did not know these guys had trailers that did not contribute to their indibividual robots modes.. they do still to devastator, right?

>>11461787
Why are Scrapheap, Blitzwing, and Megatronus there?

>>11461798
Gobot stand-ins!

Scrapheap is Cy-Kill, Blitzwing is there until I get an Overcharge for Leader-1, and the Fallen from the Bayformers film looks like The Evil One. So much so they retconned The Evil One to be just another incarnation of Megatronus. Checkout this ugly bastard

>>11461802
Why is it Egyptian?

>>11461804
Egyptians are cool looking. Look how many Mummy movies they made.

>>11461804
>The Evil One landed on planet Earth, on the Nazca Plains in Peru, where the ancient human civilizations he came into contact with believed him to be god. He was a source of inspiration for many cultures, his physical appearance particularly influencing the aesthetics of ancient Egyptian, and at some point, he came to truly believe what they said about him: that he was a god, whose divinity had been denied by his contemporaries on GoBotron.
Also the "Stargate" aesthetic is cool as hell.

>>11461753
>>11461744
They got the legs the right color

>>11461762
I was happy with the BW reissues especially Cybershark despite some issues with the others but I do agree.

>>11461811
Well when hasbro gets off their ass and actually do their job and show us Megatron maybe we'll see if the legs are the correct color and those with stolen copies have the wrong colored legs.

>>11461730
Now this is some Chris Chan mentall illness.

>>11461835
?

>hips

The joints are strong enough

No lateral rachet joints but the friction joints hood strong enough.

But I don't what us going on here.
On the left knee, the plastic is all fucked up. It didn't seems to be anything to do with the spring and it did not affect the knee or anything. Maybe something to do when they pull the piece out of the mold?

I don't know what can make dents like this.
Maybe the damages were made when the plastic was still hot and soft?

>>11461811
keep in mind that Takara has shown off figures before in their stock photos that didn't have their final colours yet.

like Earthrise Allicon and Optimus for example

image for reference

>>11461876
it does look like this piece was pulled too quickly, I can see a bunch of drips and folds..

>>11460843
laziest shit ever? Is it literally just a head swap? They could have done the colours of one of those Brazilian versions, surely. Though then I suppose that undermines the possibilty of Bugbite and Glyph. Fuck is the point of Bumper?

>>11461889
how is this transformers one related

>>11461891
https://tfsquareone.blogspot.com/2014/05/brazilian-g1-blue-bumblejumper-quickie.html

Must have been the sites name before the TFOne movie

Well well

Will you look at that

>>11461931
Thought I would like him. But after watching some reviews he reminds me of RID2015 OP in a bad way. Simple transformation, cheap looking plastic, hollow mostly, lacking in paint, and too big to scale with the other primes.

>>11461936
Idk

I will see how it goes when I get it next week

The figure seems to suffer the problem of being a play set before a actual proper figure. The actual art direction doesn't help either with the thick legs.

I guess all of the above made him into a titan figure instead of normal leader/commander release

Got vortex at the store

>>11461681
I had to put this fucker on ignore just to I could browse feedback threads to check for common fixes and stuff, it's insane that they allow his retarded image spam. Nigger can afford stolen toys but can't get a decent camera.

Hot take: Frenzy is a better name for a red robot than a blue one.

>>11461567
>he's not posing Ark and Nemesis sitting in a tree
ngmi

>>11461985
A couple of hefty kekkaronis reading that for a boondoggy of a crunchy little meme.

>>11461730
Thank you for feeling the need to share this

>>11461975
>Hot take: Frenzy is a name for a red robot, not a blue one.
FTFY

>>11461996
Yay! :]

>>11461730
>those curtains
>that wire frame
>that air wick that's been in the wall for two decades
>walls almost as yellowed as LG Cyclonus
Quit buying Titans and move out of your grandmothers', you bum fuck.

>>11461724
Thanks anon. Enjoy your Trypticon, he sure is fun. I really like the base mode, and it's even better if you have a Brunt to spiff it up a bit. Hope they rerelease the guy with colors matching the new Trypticon for all of you who got that version.

>>11461936
>too big to scale
He's supposed to be gigantic, you idiot. He's building sized. That is the proper scale.

>>11461975
Frenzy is the red ones name though.

>>11461975
Red Frenzy isn't an alliteration, so don't waste the color red on it.

Frenzy is red,
Rumble is blue,
sometimes the opposite
is also true

>>11462019
Wire frame? You mean metal? Not a airwick. Just a normal light. That's the colour of the wall? It's called paint. I'm sorry my house makes you mad

>>11462098
He's building sized for MICROMASTERS.
"Micromaster" Hot Rod is twice the size he should be, ergo Star Optimus is twice the size he should be.

Is aotp crasher just a rerelease of the 500 crasher?

>>11461936
>hollow mostly
Of course he's hollow - what were you expecting? He turns into a base - his legs split open to become a bunch of ramps and platforms, and his entire chest is a command tower for Hot Rod to sit in. How else are they supposed to pull that off?
>too big to scale with the other primes
Well, duh. He's a Titan. They're all Deluxes. We knew this going in. Where the hell have you been? Do you even know what the character is supposed to be?

>>11461931
Oh shit, mine just came in today. I gotta ask though, is Hot Rod just not able to sit in his chest compartment AND have the chest close? Feels like a bit of a useless feature without being able to close as a sort of cockpit.

>>11462157
Yes

uk and possibly some euronons, staraction, indemand and apparently kapow (who are asleep at the wheel and havent put them up at the timing of writing) have some pretty good reissue pre-orders up if you havent seen or heard.

>>11462192
Best prices are at Star Action Figures btw

>>11462197
yeah, star action are really going all out on the deals. I ordered nova prime and trailbreaker from indemand before star changed their stance and offered pre orders, and was tempted to cancel and reorder but in demand have done alright for me so didnt wanna fuck em over, but ordered omega supreme and thrust from star

>>11462130
In Siege they were toy colors and cartoon in 86

>>11462182
Damn that looks bad. Isn't he like 180 bucks?

>>11462089
it's amazing how natural this looks.

>>11461645
Not for hasbro plastic. It's fine if your surfacing or fixing minor mold defects, but anything structural should be done with either pla plate or milliput for structural reasons.

>>11462230
pla plate and milliput, you say... I will do some research

>>11462235
oh! pla plate, of course. plastic sheeting. yes yes of course, if you were doing joints or blades or whatever.

>>11462200
Same. I ordered Thrust from IDT before seeing that SAF decided to do preorders after all. I was planning to wait till September and get Nova from SAF though, so I just preorderd that now.
Apparently SAF are saying there will be more reissues next week, though I'm not sure if that means more Transformers.

>>11462158
Nah, titan is too big for them, even these new "small titans", they're meant to pair with micromasters, commander is big enough for that.

ah okay, found the information on (ehh) Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/l6dzk9/looking_to_mod_your_minis_with/ if anyone is curious about these compounds too.
Yeah NOT something you'd be using to fix broken areas on transformers, this is for making new shapes on a toy that lacks the shapes you want it to have. like fixing Lio Convoy's face for example.

>>11462297
Milliput is sufficient it dries harder than plastic. I wouldn't use it to make a joint, but structural parts are fine.

Got my HasLab Omega Prime set in today. Was considering selling it, but I thought I might as well open it as if it was borked I'd just demand a refund. As it turns out, he was fine; I did the fix to be safe and he feels great now.
Haven't combined them into Omega Prime yet but I won't lie, I'm really glad I took a chance on them. They're fantastic. Magnus suffers a little bit from the design (it's a fundamentally wonky design that is difficult to make into a functional toy) but he's a trillion times more stable than the OG. And Prime? Genuinely fantastic figure.
I'm not excusing Hasbro fucking up the QC on the set, the fact it needs fixing is inexcusable and everyone whose Prime broke has every right to be mad, but I'm just glad it worked out OK for me in the end.

That's a lotta prime

>>11462350
Did your Magnus arrive white? Mine had several areas yellowed, mostly the arms, but thr truck area also had some issues.

>>11462354
Yeah, mine is actually 100% fine. I must have lucked out.

>>11462353
Hope it gets a smaller KO, titan is just too big for him.

>>11462364
I am half and half as I tend to like smaller scale figures but I always saw star convoy as a giant and more of a playset. Still think a voyager or delux would be cool cuz I really like star convoys look.

That said I am kinda liking him more then I though as he feels pretty good to move around. I need to dig out some micromasters and mini bots to play with him.

>>11462364
>titan is just too big for him
He is and always was a base playset bot.

>>11462355
Congrats, I'm going to have to send a message to Hasbro about that and the torso issues. No response, but at least we should have something by September.

>>11462305
i'm hearing that milliput, the unfortunately named 'apoxie', and the possibly even worse named 'the green stuff' are all roughly the same thing, just different prices and qualities of finish..

>>11462394
Yes he should be bigger actually.
Have we gotten an Optimus that can drive six inch figures around yet

>>11462406
>is stuff
>is green
>is greenstuff
I couldn't think of a better name

For all the anons who have it, you can still toe Grandus

Hope toyhax or somone makes some stickers to add some more detail to the base mode. Want some G1 OP trailer screens and stuff on the inside of the legs.

Maybe I need to done some of those earthrise and kingdom weaponizer base guys to plug into him.

>>11462415
god, i just checked ebay to see what Grandus cost and $1300+ is just insane. I hope Takara/Hasbro does make a new version of Grandus

>>11462418
>Hope toyhax or somone makes some stickers to add some more detail to the base mode
Anon that's like saying "I hope someone is mad in the thread today"

>>11462413
there's lots of other stuff that is green, that's the problem
"green modeling stuff" would be an amusing name that works

>>11462420
True very true

Ok hope some get made soon.

>>11461517
I don't usually buy vintage stuff, but I found a pretty good deal a few years ago on a set of all 6 of the Cyberjets, carded. I only ever had Hooligan as a kid, and I always wanted the rest.

Part of me still wants to track down all the redecos from like Robot Masters and stuff, but my wallet is afraid to go looking for prices on those.

>>11462428
There's a Transmetal Primal in box on Ebay right now for $20 but like, I'm in the same boat.
I can't afford to start collecting Beast Wars too

>>11462355
Same. No breakages or yellowing, even Magnus’ wing slider is good. I still did the fixes just to be safe though. My only real complaint with the set is that you can’t rotate the uppermost segment of the Matrix Blade handle, so it can only plug into the hand with the flat side of the sword facing forwards.

>>11462442
holy shit who is that on the far left and is he compensating for something because hooooolee shit that's cool.

>>11462089
I will anon, and thanks to you I made my decision and jumped on an omega supreme reissue preorder. Base mode is neat and I specifically built up a collection of little guys in anticipation of tryp, so I must get him deployed out and fit for battle. Hopefully, I passed on a brunt a while ago and they've all shot up in price now since aotp tryp released.
Also, we use the same backdrop! (almost)

>>11462427
I wish the eyes were like that more often. Those are some of the tiniest light piping windows I've seen on a toy.

>>11462442
That's Blastrain from Metal Cardbot, a Korean toyline/cartoon. It's one of the best toys I've bought this year, and one of the coolest super robot designs I think I've ever seen. Though I do slightly prefer the guy next to him, Flame Nova, from the same toyline.

>>11462462
ohhh yeah i've seen some cool designs from metal cardbot.
it's weird that they aren't made from punched out metal pieces on a card, since that's a thing.

>>11462419
how would you even make a new version of grandus he's literally a cube with a head and arms

>>11462477
And unless they revive a toy line's worth of mini guys to play with him there really no point

>>11462459
100% agree

The head is one of my favorite parts of SC and the eyes look great lit up and you have to stick a light right at the top to get any glow.

I wish his head could tilt back more too

>>11462498
Did you fix the windows? Apparently, the top section needs to be unscrewed (carefully since the included screws strip easily), insert the top properly, then screw again.

>>11462442
>>11462462
God I want them and they're so hard to find for NOT $100+

>>11462521
Didn't know there was an issue with the windows, they seem to be installed correct on mine.

>>11462487
siege/earthrise micromasters should come back as pack in partners

also cyberworld is coming out soon.

>>11462527
metal cardbot's cartoon is supposedly being dubbed in English right now with USA releases of the toys following suit soon, although I heard this from a YouTuber who went to a recent toy fair so

>>11462543
>siege/earthrise micromasters should come back
I'd much rather have good ones instead

>>11462544
what pray tell would a good micromaster look like

legion class?

>>11462297
>guys I went to Reddi-
How about you go to the Gunpla general, get informed, and shut the hell up? There is a crack in his Prime's shoulder and model putty fixes cracks and seals parts together. I don't need some dipshit's second-hand opinion. Do me a favor, since you're already there, go to r/customtransformers. Not a single decent post. They don't know the first fucking thing about paints let alone what they "think" works for a fix.

I'm livid at your ignorance. Die, if you can't change your ways.

>>11462369
Everything I don't like about it the original had so I don't really know what to say negatively

>>11462557
Take a break and drink some juice. Chill out lol

>>11462557
different. subject. not sure if you're just having a stroke or something and can't read, but I also verbally expressed disdain for reddit while posting it, so your response is fucktarded as a result.

>>11460752
Nobody cares about your autistic rules, retard.

>>11460857
That figure is too small.

>>11462158
I like the figure but Star Convoy is supposed to be only a bit taller than the previous leader (Dai Atlas), who was only a bit taller than Victory Saber. It's a huge jump in size. If he was like a head or two taller than Omega Prime and Victory Saber, he'd be perfect.

>>11462592
Anon, Victory Saber is huge as fuck, if anything the haslab is undersized. Regular Saber (without V-Star and Victory Leo shoes) is about as big as Optimus already, so that size difference between regular Prime and Star Convoy is fine.

AOTP Star Convoy came out at the wrong time in my opinion. All these cool micromaster features but he came out a whole four toylines after they discontinued micromasters

>>11462364
I’m always hoping for “core class” Titans. Like, I just really want a Leader class Scorponok.

>>11462543
Tiny bots are best bots. Bring back Hot Wheels compatible Go-Bots

>>11462610
the last time Hasbro tried to make a hot wheels compatible transforming transformer it was 90 dollars and also made by mattel.

but yeah, I think if Hasbro actually pushed and marketed for a micromaster style toyline it wouldn't fail. micromasters had virtually no promotion, no tv show no nothing. they didn't even appear as generics in the wfc Netflix show. as far as I know the takara micromasters were more successful BECAUSE they had actual marketing.

>>11462616
Siege Micromasters were just so halfassed
Even beyond the minimum effort they put into filling the first wave with the most boring designs Micromasters live and die by the playsets. And they just didn't commit to it when the other 75% of the line didn't care that micromasters existed in it

>>11462620
I hope cyberworld is successful so hasbro has another go at micromasters. Cyberworld is already showing off playsets and stuff so..

>>11462592
>I like the figure but Star Convoy is supposed to be only a bit taller than the previous leader (Dai Atlas), who was only a bit taller than Victory Saber.
Victory Saber is taller than most combiners by a good deal, because Starsaber is combiner sized.

So yeah, this one is properly sized for the most part, if anything, a little undersized, because the Victory Saber we got is a little smaller than he should be.

I wish Hasbro would put individual accessories up for-sale on their site, like how ToyHax and Nonnef have. There's blast effects, all those Centurian Drone pack-in weapons, comic Prime's head, and all sorts of retrofitting I'd shell out the cash for. Like, is it really that much to ask that I not buy a whole new Shockwave for this handsome devil? $10. Please, God.

>>11462647
Sky Garry alone there looks the size of the entire Big Powered
By the way, I wouldn't really care if they made Sky Garry, but I would be curious to see what name they choose to release him with, because, seriously, Sky Garry?

>>11462653
Could just call him Sky Garrison

>>11462653
Oi he's a Skygarry innit?

>>11462653
wish granted

he's now 'Garrimus Prime'

Can G1 boomers die off already so I can get some G2 Megatrons?

>>11462660
Chalkimus Primal

>>11462661
third party MP scale g2 megatron coming soon™

>>11462661
Never. The G2 cartoon reruns still had grey Megatron.

>>11462661
why do you want some ugly ass green and purple tank?

>>11462662
cargo shortimus maximus

>>11462666
not anon but G2 Megs (ESPECIALLY with the marvel g2 accessories) looks really badass. Pure 90's edge. also the shoulder cannon tank barrel is cool.

>>11462666
Why do I want some dusty, bitchass gun? Also tank beats pistol

>>11462666
Beacuse green and purple are objectively better villain colors that go against the red and blue hero. Think Superman/Luthor or Spider-man/Green Goblin. Fuck boring ass grey/black.

both the tank and pistol serve different uses. A tank is cool. But there's just something undisputably EVIL about a guy turning into a gun specifically to kill people. tank makes more sense in settings that are more 'practical'.

>>11462650
the shipping is prohibitively high for small items like that.

>>11462653
I think it's supposed to be like "Carry but moreso" because that's how japanese works. For them that's like.. when we replace an S with a Z or a C with a K for fun

>>11462650
Wait, what do you want from Shockwave?

>>11462717
An Optimus head

>>11462653
>because, seriously, Sky Garry?
What- you have a problem with Sky Garry-motherfukin'-Oak?

>>11462592
>but Star Convoy is supposed to be only a bit taller than the previous leader (Dai Atlas), who was only a bit taller than Victory Saber.
Star convoy has a micromaster hotrod, who has to be in scale with other micromasters
He couldve been shrunk maybe another 20% but anything smaller is hard to get that engineering on

He's already TWICE the relative size as the original.

In other words, you can make a star convoy that scales with star saber, or you can make one that scales with micromaster hotrod, but you can't do both.
Knee-high micromaster hotrod is just too tall

Not to mention i dunno WHERE you got how big dai atlas was in relation to star saber
In the manga he towers over him, and in the zone animation, star saber never stands up.

It's like rodimus vs ultra magnus.

Then on top of it i don't know where you got how big star convoy was compared to the rest, we've only seen him next to sixliner, sky Garry, super megatron, and grandus

Best i can figure, you're guessing that sky Garry is about star saber size so grandus is about dai atlas size so star convoy must be a head taller than that?
But that's a ton of assumptions

>>11462705
>the shipping is prohibitively high for small items like that.
With all due respect, I buy off ToyHax in bulk orders quite a lot and the most I was charged was $7 shipping for a large bag of 5mm accessories (14 rifles and 2 pistols). I'm sure the multi-million dollar corporation can figure logistics out.

>>11462729
I've never wanted head so badly

>>11462759
yeah but what would you have paid if you wanted one rifle?
The only way it could work is if it was a pick n' mix. like here's the pieces we have in stock, how many would you like? the more you buy the cheaper it gets, kinda thing

>>11462729
>"But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns..."
Fair enough.

>>11462706
>because that's how japanese works
No, it's because "carry" for a transport vehicle was a copyrighted name at the time, (suzuki carry) so they made it "garry" instead, which was common.
It's like McRonalds instead or McDonald's or Starschmucks instead or Starbucks

Shield-D-Prime is up on HLJ, TFSource, and Tokullectibles. HLJ seems like the best of the three for price and release window.

>>11462761
If I wanted to get just one average rifle I'd pay about $6 plus $4 shipping. I'll buy around three weapons and four decal sheets every order. You're right in that it's better to buy in volume to justify that initial higher shipping cost, but $10 for a replacement gun or some null rays isn't outrageous.

I have a dilemma. I like Superion and I sort of want AOTP Superion, but I really don't give a shit about the individual aerialbots.

>>11462766

>Making Shakespeare references with any Transformer besides Dinobot

LORD WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE

>>11462653
>Sky Garry alone there looks the size of the entire Big Powered.

Not in botmode, he was as big as G1 Optimus, maybe a head taller, way far from titan.

>curious to see what name they choose to release him with
Sky Carry

>>11462767
that's still how it works. like you see WcDonald's a lot because that's flipped upside down
ka to ga is a thing they do with a lil accent mark, it's like that.

>>11462592
>>11462647
We saw possesed G1 Prime chocking Sixliner, the micromaster combiner, the battlestars were never shown as huge bots on the manga or magazine ads.

>>11462770
shipping's gonna be awful, I imagine
I was very lucky to belong to a zoids community that knows a guy who knows a guy, so I'm set for mine, but I feel downright guilty we can't all get that price. Still a lot to spend, but..
>>11462778
sounds like you basically want those chinese 3rdparty upgrade kits but yknow, from hasbro. I think that's beyond reasonable to ask for.

>>11462831
and by 'beyond reasonable' i don't mean you exceeded what's reasonable.. i-... i meant like, mondo reasonable.

>>11462766
>>11462820
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.

>>11462836

CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!

>>11462815
It's memes but it really does still feel like the old CW/UW is best option
I like some aspects of the new AotP versions like better articulation and some sculpt but they still feel so ehhhh in Alt Mode

>>11462820
Grimlock never struck me as the Shakespeare type, sorry.

>>11461681
>>11461681
I told him to stop spamming his pictures and he went crying to the mods and I got a warning. He's such a fucking faggot. He's 36 years old, btw.

>>11462418
Maybe add a Cybertron 13 text on the Micro Trailer. Wonder if the size on this one is the same as the 1991 ones.

>>11462592
Holy shit he looks fucking great, really heroic looking.

>>11462418
Some alt insignia to replace the Autobot ones, given the Autobots don't exist at the time of the Thirteen. I get that it's supposed to be the ultimate, only Star Convoy you ever need, for everyone whether you are all in on the Thirteen or you collect just Optimus (Optimi)? or if you have never bought a TF before in your entire life and just decided to drop £150+ on this big beautiful bastard... But c'mon Hasbro, some consistency with the line and the lore he is part of would be nice, especially with the titan price tag. REEEEEEEEE, etc, etc et al, pic rel and so forth.

>>11462918
ML Galvatron confimed

>>11462919
Who she? Looks like a blue Full-Tilt
>inb4 ML Blue bolts

>>11462924
>who's she?
a blue repaint of the powered buggy that came with the diaclone powered convoy-delta magnus, looks like the manga might be teasing a new repaint for the ML magnus

>>11462925
That's cool. ML Magnus and Galvy makes crazy good sense.

>>11462925
Google translate says that Arcee tells buggy "I thought you were a drone..."
also, the short circuiting in the bottom left panel has the buggy stating they aren't good with women.

and yeah, after cross referencing with the powered buggy image on tfwiki, there's nobody else this could be. the head sculpt and chest match up perfectly along with the shoulder wheels. here's hoping that ML ultra Magnus comes with a dianaut colored like Daniel witwicky.

also missing link Magnus is about to be more expensive than star Convoy

>>11462925
>>11462928
>Blue repaint of figure that comes with the figure that was repainted into Ultra Magnus.
>Blue fembot
>Comes with Ultra Magnus
Wait... it fucking is then, isn't it? It is ML Blue Bolts

>>11462931
>Blue feminine bot isn't a fembot
wot

>>11462935
they just say they aren't good with women. Google translate is notoriously bad for getting he/she nuance in Japanese confused, so there's still a like 90% chance that bluebolts is female. this is probably just Yuri.

>>11462884
That would be Shattered Glass Grimlock.

>>11462880
The entire head being a mass of orange is enough reason for me to prefer the CW version.

>>11462979
Dat's bit raycis innit

>>11462880
Hate the forearms, half hands and oversized heels on the new guy.


>>11462979
Even the cartoon slavish UW takara repaint used a different shade of orange for the visor.

>>11463002
I am also pissed off at Slingshot and Fireflight's flat blocks that do not condone the excuse of being arms. Never liked it in the CG renders, never will in the final design.

And has anyone compared base modes for MPG Super Ginrai and AOTP Star Convoy?

I'm interested in how ML Magnus is going to work since the original toy is essentially built like this

>>11462935
Transformers: where the boys have the big tits.

>>11463006
I mean, it's probably going to be ml Optimus in white + a fully articulated Magnus armor trailer you can slot Optimus into. there's a lot of space and the only problem I see coming up involves the legs but I don't think takara will have any issue designing it.

>>11463012
Oh yeah, the cab is obviously going to be ML Convoy
And I can see the arms being simple enough, though outward shoulder movement has always been tricky for Magnus
It's the waist and every bit of what contitutes a leg that has me wondering

>>11463023
if anyone here has ML convoy, can you please try and fold up the legs like Powermaster Optimus prime I want to see if that's what they're going to have Magnus do

>>11460854
Totally off tfg topic but ive seen people do some amazing stuff with apple barrel paints.
Ofcourse there was a tonof mixing and work involved so clearly youd be better served getting a high quality paint. But if you have more time than money you can make it work.

>>11461331
>>11461361
Ive got my eye on a titan, probably trypticon but its just a matter of when i can safely drop the money to get one. I have zarak and its been pretty cool.

>>11462934
>fembot
it's a boy

>>11463059
femboy? even better

Got SS86 Bonecrusher and Scrapper in. Did the fix of Bonecrusher, which definitely improved him a lot, though it was a pain to do.
Anyway, Bonecrusher is a lot better than I expected. Not perfect, and the DNA kit I have on PO will no doubt help immensely, but he's pretty fun and a lot cooler looking in hand. Scrapper is great, wish he had wrists and I feel like calling him a Voyager is a stretch, but he's still a very good toy. I like to have him wield the combiner rifle like a Rick Dom bazooka.

>>11463033
Trypticon is pretty nice feeling in hand. Solid. Only downside is the tail is huge so you can't really face them forward on a shelf, unless your shelves are fucking massively extending out from the wall or something.

>>11462918
HOLY FUCK

>>11462918
>>11463178
I know, they gave him British teeth, ugh.

animated bros...

>>11463011
>>11463059
This panel though... that cannae be a dude

>>11463187
The person has pulled multiple "draw a girl, call it a boy" so can't be 100% confirmed. Probably best to wait until more information is available.

>>11463183
This always felt like the wrong way to go about it since Ark and Animated Spreem are opposite of each other
It's like wanting a new Cybertron Armorhide and using Huffer as a base

>>11463187
He is. They even did the virgin joke they love to do in Japan because he lacks experience with girls transformers.

300 bucks lol

*sighs*

Well, good thing I kept the old chest plate...

>>11463190
I'm not particularly pressed either way, just thought G1 Blue Bolts would be cool, as to establish a sort of lineage for the character, retroactively. Like they kinda did with some Aligned characters.

>>11463202
>inb4 r34 Arcee x Blue-bot shotabot hentai

>>11463205
I know that feel bro. My son just broke a valuable vintage figure

>>11463205
Just glue it?

finally megatron time

>>11463212

Such are the pitfalls of collecting TF. My condolences on the loss to your collection.

>>11463217

And yeah, that's my plan to hopefully salvage it. The most annoying thing is I broke it trying to get it to sit flat in Bludgeon's tank mode and the old one does that with zero fiddling.

Avast, me hearties! today we're going to shiver that yellow bellied Lio Convoy's timbers like never before!

2 and a half shells

>>11463229
>>11463234
I am pissed I missed out on these and the regular Seacons. And they probably won't even get an upgraded current year version rather than CW based molds, either.

>>11463221
Watch him not be in that one either

>>11463229
>>11463234
That God awful pearl

Just got charged for Galaxy Force Noisemaze, so it should be shipping soon from walmart.

>>11463265
Better than Hasbro Butter "White" that they've been using recently where the shit turns as yellow as your fat ugly mother's teeth.

>>11463247
They were just on ebay for 130 less than an hour ago.

Preorders for Shiel-D-Prime are up on Pulse and the normals are finding out about the price

>>11463270
Would rather have yellow than that pearl. Looks like something a chink or jeet would like

>>11463187
What about this picture screams "girl" at all? I dont see it. It's literally just a robot. There is no gender implied and it has no body shape reminiscent of a feminine woman.

I don't understand where you needs are coming from

>>11463279
You sound like a cunt

>>11463265
>>11463279
Ye lack that olden desire for the riches of the sea, matey.

Also base God Neptune is pretty cool, but he could be COOLER. Thankfully I have just the thing for that.

>>11462979
The "Orang Plane Bad" memes made me find him more funny But the solid Orange head nearly really hurts him as lot
I think I saw a ToyHax or somebody decal set that gives him the blue sunglasses look and adds more details

>>11463002
>>11463005
Literally this
The lego ass arms and legs really bug me. The Alt mode is so lacking too
It's like yea he's better in poseablity and articulation but at the cost of everything else
Also BBTS just tagged me for Silverbolt and I don't know man. I'm really on wanting to cancel

>>11463234
>>11463229
The cum cons.

>>11463310
You sound like a chink or jeet

Did anyone get commander Silverbolt? AI won't ask to disassemble the shoulder joint for Superion, but did they make it just like Menasor? The joint on Menasor was way too simple, just a pin connecting to a gear that wasn't properly secure to anything, meaning that the moment you move the shoulder the gear would move a bit, before the shoulder. In time, I can see thr menasor shoulder just giving way due to how they made it.

>>11463314
despite the alt mode being boring holy shit does it compress well. its one of the cleanest transforming planes I've ever seen. (that isn't third party)

>>11463331

>>11463348
Oh for sure
It cleanly tucks away, folds in and SECURE fits


>>11463349
>Can Scramble City possibly
Okay wait a minute

>>11463349
Man Superion’s frame is so fucking ugly, I hope they retool it enough for the inevitable toy deco gift set

>Uh, bro? I think we might be completely slagged...

>>11463355
Cannot foot as leg, but you can switch same kind of limb.

>>11463187
Looks pretty masculine to me, dude. Considering who actually drew this, you can guarantee he would have "prettied up" the design a bit and added some curves if the character was intended to be female - especially the thighs and hips.

>>11463349
I know the frame parts are similar and can be swapped, but I want to know if they improved the joint in any way.

>>11463222
that's the problem with 3p kits. They are just not great plastic. When it's a gun or a head or something, it doesn't matter. but...

>>11463359
>>11463371
>>11463378
Part of me ALMOST liked the Frame at first
But as I messed with it it's awful articulation, clunky, Menasor Frame damaged parts and it NEEDS upgrades
And the entire "Two Members hiding on the back of the legs" is such an insult
Why even buy a full team? 2 get hidden entirely anyways
At least Stunticons had unique molds each almost
Aerialbots is 2 of the limbs just get repaints with no touch ups

>>11463312
I take it back. He is not cooler. Putting this upgrade kit on was the single worst TF experience I've ever had. I couldn't even put the arm covers on, as they snapped when I slid terrormander's crotch in. He's also LESS stable than stock somehow. I with nothing but failure and death to the people at Transform Dream Wave.

>>11462829
Prime is not possessed, that's a dupe misleading the group from finding the real corpse of Prime
& besides, that's a combiner made from 6 dudes, he is tall by default

>>11462924
I think that's unlikely for Galvatron, they're here story purposes
Same way I think about the minibots, their toy look w/ movable limbs is how the artist always draw g1 characters (fitting that he was the concept artist for ML Convoy)

>>11462937
>>11462934
>>11463208
That's not Bluebolts, he's named Deerstalker ディアストーカー (& yes, it's after Sherlock Homes' hat), also he's a detective

>>11463415
T R U E
I had way to frustrating of a time figuring it out but then it was fine once it popped on
He felt great except the chest untabs a lot

>>11462415
I’m jealous and hate you anon but can I come over to play with your grandus I’ll bring my micromasters with me
>this isn’t all of my little frens either there’s about 20 missing

>>11460746 (OP)
why are two general threads still up?

>>11463485
we have a troll that makes new threads
i just checked, there's actually five, with two of them still bumping . Thankfully,nobody is actually using them, or the other one that's at like 360 posts. But you can bet he will later, especially if someone else makes the next thread.

I've got 4 of the Devastator bots coming from bbts. How many bots are there going to be total? The packaging on this one states 2/6

>>11463535
While this one says 3/5

>>11463535
>>11463537
6 bots, 5 releases. 2 deluxes, 2 voagers, 1 commander set.

>>11463349
Let's be clear here, none of the parts between the frames are shared, but they have the exact same engineering. That explains why parts can fit the way they should. I question if the Toyhax Motormaster decals have stickers to color the leg panels...

>>11463414
>And the entire "Two Members hiding on the back of the legs" is such an insult

I just flip the legs around so the bots are on the front. Looks better IMO.

Hold on a sec, who owns both the crappy Legends LG-EX God Ginrai Set and the MPG Super Ginrai? I don't know about you, but I have been thinking for a while of displaying Titan Masters on the MPG Super Ginrai's base, since that base is the basis for the main Autobot base in the show, followed by Overlord's own base mode being the default Decepticon base.

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/20/rumor-missing-link-ironhide-ratchet-decepticon-coming-540289

>Missing Link Ratchet/Ironhide

Erm...will they keep them headless?

>>11463537
Thank, anon. Two more releases to go then?

>>11463278
it's lower than BBTS had, but BBTS lowered theirs
like i was just accusing them of.

>>11463569
they'll just release a second set with whatever one they dont do like bumblebee and cliffjumper

>>11463569
>Ironhide next rather than Prowl, Jazz or literally anybody else
Why?

>>11463587
The whole point of Missing Link is doing G1 toys with modern articulation. Ironhide/Ratchet has one of the weirdest G1 toys.

>>11463587

So they can do Ratchet too.

In that same vein, I wouldn't be surprised if the Con is Starscream so they can churn out Thundercracker and Skywarp.

>>11463588
But if the goal is to recreate the toy as close as possible, wouldn't that mean no heads?

>>11463414
Why is it insult? It's what the toys did.

>>11463591
that's not the ENTIRE point.
they have improvements to them, things that fix some of the dumbest parts of the original. missing like Optimus's hands fold away so he doesn't have to plug them in (er... right? someone correct me) for example. what they're not doing is changing proportions or sizes, though if they get to Beast Wars, I hope they do just that. and other stuff.
so the question here is, just how much of Ironhide can you change and it's still missing link ironhide?. where would you even put elbows or knees? will he beable to detach from the van body? will he have a face sticker on his seat, or a head that looks like the face sticker? maybe optional?

>>11463596
>Optimus's hands fold away so he doesn't have to plug them in (er... right? someone correct me)
Yeah, they did.

>>11463600
okay so yeah. it's taking out the clunky parts. and so the crux of this is, what do you do with a guy whose entire toy identity is being kind of ridicks? he's not a humanoid robot, he's a van that transforms into a battle platform. yeah it has hands but they don't even have gun holes, the guns are on the "chest" and the bottom of the van that folded out into like a skateboard.. what's more, this is now an immobile battle platform, as the rear fenders have rotated, but if those are 'feet' then they are straddling a little.. exercise-machine that also has a support for the chest gun. so basically this is why Diaclone should have stayed Diacclone.

Which do you think came first?
The one storied to be the first created by God in his image?
Or the one made of rocks that has a big club?

>>11463591
In all probality yes, they won't have heads. And that's interesting.

I get the blokees hype now. Hasbro, hot rod classic class blokee when?


seriously though, these things are really fun.

>>11463558
>I question if the Toyhax Motormaster decals have stickers to color the leg panels...
Not really, just a bit

>>11463558
>>11463621
They probably took into account that if someone's going to add labels to a complete Menasor (like $70 in labels), they'll also probably have sprung for the DNA kit and the leg mount kit also.

I was going to post my reviews on Hearts of Steel Starscream and Optimus Prime, but this guy showed up and I've been fiddling with him for most of the afternoon, so I'll do him instead; I can still review the HoS guys later if people are interested.
Anyway, Star Optimus Prime (AKA the Thirteenth Prime). First, I want to point out that his chest windows were perfectly fine - no misassembly. I've had no issues with him - everything is nice and tight and locks into place as intended, with no defects to note. His legs are indeed hollow, but it's by design - they open up into segments for his base mode and serve as storage for all of his blast effects and accessories when they're not in use; it has no bearing on how solid he is in robot mode and was a thing even on the original toy, so it's a non-issue.
He comes with a slew of accessories - two small turrets that plug into his shoulders and can move up and down, his big blaster, a smaller gun that unfolds into a turret for Hot Rod to use, Hot Rod himself, a 'hilt' that can combine with blast effects to create an energy 'sword', an MT-13 Micro Trailer that makes a nice stand-in for Roller and can be turned into a turret, and a LOT of blast effects. He also includes a Zodiac Orb, as well as a blue Energon bullet that seems to serve no purpose, cannot attach to any pegs or ports on Prime nor the barrels of either gun, and is completely absent from the instruction manual. It seems it fits into a slot on the right side of Prime's big gun, but that's about it. The sword hilt and both guns can all be combined together to form a slightly longer gun, which is apparently supposed to be his 'Big Bang Cannon' from the previous (horrible looking) Generations Selects release of this guy. Incidentally, the sword hilt doubles as a Matrix holder, and is apparently designed so you can plug the Zodiac Orb on top, the Silver Matrix from the GS release on the front (in the Matrix-shaped slot), and then plug the whole thing into his chest.

>>11463631
Vehicle mode. 80% of his transformation is just getting his arms in place; the rest is folding the wheels out of his chest and tucking the head in, spinning the torso around, and flipping up some panels to hold it in place. Prime's hand transformation is unusual, and I'm not entirely sure I like it, but it does the job.
I like that this is one Prime that can become a literal convoy, having Hot Rod and the Micro Trailer tagging along with him; alternately, you can store Hot Rod in the trailer, then the trailer inside Prime's trailer/right leg (again, keeping his blast effects in his left one), letting you store all of his components nice and neatly. His big gun and little gun both attach to the top, and the shoulder turrets just spin around atop the cab.
He rolls along with no issue, but he's basically a giant brick - since his 'trailer' is just his legs, there's no hitch between it and the cab, meaning no separating the two or having it bend when he turns like an actual trailer would.

>>11463634
Base mode. It's actually far less involved than it looks - it's just Prime in robot mode, sitting down with his torso bent to the side; the pads with his trailer treads on them detach and reattach to the other side to make a platform that you can mount the small gun/turret to. This platform has a neat feature - the little blue wheel to the far right can be spun to rotate the turret around. Hot Rod can still mount it, but I find that Prime's left arm gets in the way; apparently, the original toy had a bit mode clearance in that area. The platform also features two A.I.R. Lock ramps, so you can connect him to other facilities.
Prime's legs open up to form two bays with little ramps on them, and you can convert the Micro Trailer into its turret mode and plug it securely to the side as a gun emplacement. Prime's head folds down to hide his face (something the old toy couldn't do), and you can fan his 'horns' out and attach blast effects to them if you want. His chest opens up to make a command center, and Hot Rod can squeeze inside - kinda. Because of how long his legs are, he doesn't fit all the way inside unless you fold his legs up awkwardly, and while you CAN close the hatch, you have to leave the wheels sticking out.
The base mode has plenty of ports around that you can plug Weaponizer parts into to help fill things out with, which is also neat, but he also has plenty of firepower as-is.
He's a little short for a Titan, but I like him - something about his base mode feels more playset-like than previous Titans, and I've been having fun plugging the Botropolis facilities into him and connecting him to Skylynx.

>>11463635
from what I'm hearing, this is the ultimate micromaster base hasbro would make in the modern era. released approximately five years too late.

>>11463613
that's a very good point

>>11463613
My autism is flaring up, and I need to state the rock guys aren't Cybertronian.

>>11463621
there's more in the Wildrider and Breakdown sets for the leg panels.

>>11463644
So it is older than the spawn of Primus.

>>11463651
Potentially. Whatever story they had for them they never got around to telling it.

man, blokees classic class optimus is some of the best 10 dollars i've spent on transformers. Why would you ever buy a shitty 10 dollar one step changer when you could get a nontransforming perfect action figure? Hasbro should just pad out the cheap stuff with blokees from now on.

It's a shame Snowcat was designed a decade after Earthforce. He would've been a great foil to Grimlock's antics. Plus where else is the guy gonna go besides somewhere really, really cold?

>>11463660
>Why would you ever buy a shitty 10 dollar one step changer when you could get a nontransforming perfect action figure?
Because one still retains the gimmick the franchise is named after while the other doesn't.

>>11463690
you can fake approximations of some jet vehicle modes with blokees & devastator combining is technically transforming (which is why hasbro won't allow the devastator combination kit to be sold in the US by blokees)

but yeah I get it. If one step changers were more like BW basic class figures maybe they'd be better. (aka legs and arms on ball joints)

So what are the chances we finally get another Predacon in the MP line after Rattrap?

>>11463701
wazzzpinator say he should get figure in mazzzterpiece.. hopefully he doezzzn't come in mazzzter-pieces

>>11463613
But what if Adam had taken to dressing himself in the flesh of the lesser man?

>>11463708
Yeah, make him being taken apart time and again a gimmick. Would be even funnier if his Wasp Cube form from one episode is a bonus accessory.

>>11463630
And there wasn't even color-correcting stickers in the box set. Still gray. Just wish Toyhax could cave in and get append leg stickers for the Menasor frame because the panels are unpaintable plastic.

>>11463708
It's moments like that this really make me not understand how anyone can find that shit funny.

>>11463653
its a shame the wfc Netflix cartoon was dogshit because legacy was supposed to get a cartoon too but it was scrapped. I think even if legacy had the same quality of Netflix wfc they could have at least given us cool animation moments

>>11463729

>>11463737
wazzzpinator takes offenzzze to your comment, you zzzhould realizzze that Japanezzze beazzzt warzzz is much worzzze with zzztupid humor

(I apologize for making you read this.)

>>11463708
kek
>>11463737
that's humor for you. suuubjective.
besides, it's the same gimmick as Grimlock, you get why people like him, right?

>>11463743
>52Toyzz, pleaze help Wazzzpinator

>>11463757
Grimlock is a powerful warrior Dinosaur who only barely gets along with Optimus at best.

>>11463762
me grimlock think me speech trait is very memorable aspect of my very storied history

>>11462880
>>11462979
It's toy, cartoon, and comic accurate... yet remains such a jarring design choice, that almost anything seems preferable, and even something like >>11463002 would need some effort to warm up to, unless he was somehow your favourite character.
>even his stats suck ass compared to his Aerialbots and not by a small margin

if Hasbro is going to release micronus prime as a deluxe, then why can't they release Armada reflector as a deluxe that separates into the street action minicon team? it would be like a deluxe size version of magmatron basically.

>>11463770
Nothing says they can't do it, just haven't done that.

>>11463757
Grimlock's speech gimmick wasn't so shitty that even the show writers would try to write him out of the show as much as fast as possible.

>>11463646
I see

>>11462498
I wonder if it's possible to take the head apart and I dunno, surround the eyes with reflective material like aluminum foil to try and get the light to funnel better, like a flashlight works.

>>11463791
kek, true, they hated writing his dialogue into the show because it made his scenes drag out too long

>>11463796
that's not a bad idea. I have had great effects putting metallic stuff behind transparent stuff, but never in a way that it amplifies the light transmission
I don't understand why lightpiping doesn't universally use fluorescent plastic.

When's the G2 stuff coming?

Been wanting to make these two fight for awhile.

>>11463810
>dude, feathers? Is this a fetish thing? You just made this weird

>>11463416
>that's a combiner made from 6 dudes,
6 tiny, literal micro dudes.

>>11463765
This color in a crisp digibash on the CW/UW mold would prob be great

>>11463811
>I don't know what kind of Vok stuff they got you into when they crumpled you together like two balls of foil, but I'm not into it. NO.

>>11463811
>>11463817

Bold talk coming from a bot who basically kept half of Rampage's soul in a chastity cage.

>>11463813
US Micromaster Size =/= JP Micromaster Size

>>11463819
>When it comes to pain, there is an old earth adage I heard on the disk:
>T'is better to give than to receive. Yessss.

ewww

>>11463414
>Aerialbots is 2 of the limbs just get repaints with no touch ups
You accidentally started talking about Combiner Wars here?

>>11463862
>those clip on knees
>the sculpted elbow joint that isn't an elbow joint
I'm offended and I don't even give two shits about Cyberworld.

>>11463826
You are aware that human children are smaller than human adults, yes?

>>11463569
There's no way they won't be headless, but there will definitely be a toon version later on that either comes with a head insert, like what some of the later encore releases on the original toy got, or, I could see them engineering some way of having a built-in head that can be completely concealed for the toy look. But I think the toy look is 100% going to be the priority.

>>11463892
forgot pic

https://youtu.be/GgAS6sEuIdY?si=vBWrfR-N5hmhfbsX

We just can’t have a good thing, huh

>>11463892
Reminds me of those old G1 upgrade kits

>>11463896
Sure, but what does that have to do with the slop you posted?

Got my RID car brothers and Wedge set up with HasLab Prime and Magnus. Feels good, man.

I bought a used Impactor on eBay. He was a bit dusty, but I gave him a quick brush down and he looks good now.

>The story of Star Convoy, "The Battlestars", has a "star" theme. The original title is "Transformers Great Galactic Star Cluster", which also includes the meaning of the original convoy = fleet. On the other hand, Super Megatron is a star giant. In the first draft, the new hero "Big Bang" was the third convoy. It might be interesting to add it to the prologue of the original story.

Always interesting to see more unused concepts from so long ago.

>>11463959
Did you use your blacklight on him? One can never be too sure.

>>11463979
give a prima retool a trailer, and boom, you've got this guy

>>11463569
The G1 figures have a sticker on the Diaclone seat behind the windshield that's meant to be a robot face. Odds are they'll recreate that Andre The Giant OBEY face with sculpted detail.

>>11463876
>those sculpted elbows
Any time I see a non functional sculpted joint I always take that as the designer saying “look, I realize he should have a joint here but they wouldnt let me”

>>11460746 (OP)
I got the 86 Ratchet and Brawn pack a while back and I'm honestly surprised how much fun I'm having with Brawn. He's kinda whatever toy, but he's just so fun to fiddle with

>>11463590
I can see Starscream, but I can't help but feel they're going to do Megatron just to rub it in SS86's face.

Has anybody dipped their toes into TakaraTomy's other, non-Transformers robot toys? Shinkalion and Jobraver have parts-forming across the board, but in the same vein as the -izers. Really only downside is if you have three or four figures from either line you don't need to get any more besides that because there's very little variation in the transformations at all outside of making combos.

Hades Destroy Form is probably the coolest of the Shinkalion figures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myZjJcMHcYQ

>>11463876
>>11464086
It's a result of 3d modelling
They port parts from another figure, sometimes one that's cancelled, and they make some adjustments to work for the new toy.

Cyberworld scorponok has it in spades

>>11464092
>Has anybody dipped their toes into TakaraTomy's other, non-Transformers robot toys?
I love super robots so yeah. Here's for the Tomy side.

>>11464143
And the Takara one.

>>11463862
Mirage with his iconic He-Man haircut and chin

>>11464143
>>11464146
I keep hesitating on the Super Minipla Volfogg (and Mic can come too I guess), the GaoGaiGar one isn't deathly expensive either
Do you know if they'd be worth it

>>11464153
Don't know anon, the only Super Minipla I own is King J-Der.

Star Convoy's instructions are just awful.

>>11463810
God, we really need a new Optimal Optimus.

>>11464157
Lol

>>11464183
My original still kicks ass but that would be cool.

>>11463896
My guy this was going to be colossal dogshit from the day it was announced
Everybody knew that the second we saw the trailer and heard who was behind it
Literal Scamware shit

>find out MP hauler was announced
>it's $299

uh my memory's a little hazy but were these fire and/or crane trucks always $299?

>>11463906
i was not aware of these... very nice lightpiping

>>11464253
Zoids Prime is $299. Hauler is $214. But even at that price, the Hauler/Grapple mold was still only around $120 at most when it released, not factoring in early bird discounts.

>>11464157
And what a majestic fella he is

>>11464284
Ah yeah I should have specified that was $299 in 51st state money

>>11463979
that is.. fuckin badass.

>>11464092
does Zoids count? because I dipped my toe in so far I'm up to my eyebrows
>>11464183
i got that one 3P that is doing just fine for me but if they made a new one, and he got the red and blue repaint, I'd be into it.

Has anyone figured out if SS86 Megatron can hold the mace from the Centurion pack?

>>11464092
I've been getting their not-Transformers since Drivehead.
>Drivehead is a decade old next year
where has the time gone...

>Star Convoy is titan class
>ss86 Optimus is commander class

this means powermaster Optimus Prime will also be titan class

fuck

>>11464319
>Centurion pack
I hate that I was never able to pick this up. It goes for a retard price now too. It'd be rad if they did another production of the set.

>>11464323
It won't be titan unless Godbomber is included

>>11464174
Yeah, they're a little weird, but aside from how his hands transform, the rest of him is fairly easy to figure out - really, only his upper torso actually transforms.

>>11464188
The original release was kinda perfect, he was large enough that he was pretty articulated and since the show was basing the designs off of the toys at that point he was pretty show accurate. Also lightup shooting missiles fucking rock.

>>11464323
Powermaster Prime is about as complicated as Armada Prime, less so if they don't make a separate Godbomber for him (they won't). Commander will do fine.

>>11464143
>>11464146
Brave super robots are so sexy. It's a shame all the new ones coming out are expensive MP type figures with iffy results. Some times you just want a chunky-ass robot.
Looking forward to that Toyrise King Exkaiser coming out in October.

>>11464321
I just recently found an unopened Drivehead in storage

>>11464390
>Looking forward to that Toyrise King Exkaiser coming out in October.
Yeah I've got that second chance production run on preorder too

I found an SS86 Bonecrusher out in Wal-mart earlier and really did consider buying it for a minute until I realized I'd have to so much chasing both online and IRL to get the others.

>>11464420
My friend picked him up just because he likes the goofy design, you don't necessarily have to make Devastator if you don't want

>>11464433
given how badly their modes got compromised.. surely you would only get this for devastator

Where are all the cogs coming out of at the end of One? Is that supposed to be the Well of All Sparks

>>11464440
Probably either produced in the core by Primus to be handed out, or the Matrix created then when it allowed energon to flow again.

>>11464438
He just genuinely likes the wacky stumpy limbs.

>>11464449
well shit, there you go heh

If I ignore the trailer and extras and just focus on Prime himself, I like Dramatic Capture version more than Studio 86. Both are good, but DC Prime just fits better with my collection and and feels 'right'.

>>11464389
Funniest thing to me is Powermaster has thighs when Armada didn't.

>>11464471
The way I see it, pretty paint on a turd mold doesn't make it any less of a turd
That's basically this entire dramatic capture series really, just turd after turd but with better paint. The reflector trio might be the only good thing to come out of it, but even they're bundled with 40 dollars of something I would sooner throw into the bin than give to someone else for free

>>11464507
You can probably flip the painted turd on ebay for a profit.

>>11464507
For real. I'm interested in reflector but I think I'm going to skip it because I don't want to pay for that shitty seeker mold.

>>11464416
Uh, do you really keep the forearm attached tho Stealth Gao when using the Goldion Hammer? I know that's how it is in the show, but I don't like how the sideskirt is clearly pushing against it and slightly bending the conector part.

>>11464471
I can see the arguments for Studio 86 being better in vehicle mode, but are still pretty close.

>>11464544
The thighs being clearly visible on the ER mold always bothered me. Just feels lazy.

>>11463631
>is apparently designed so you can plug the Zodiac Orb on top, the Silver Matrix from the GS release on the front (in the Matrix-shaped slot), and then plug the whole thing into his chest.
Pics?

>>11463979
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Big_Bang_(G1)

lol, he was just new to me.

do you guys think there's any chance we'll get a toy of hyperdrive?

>>11464609
No.

>>11464635
even as a gen selects Star Convoy retool?

(as I really don't know what else they could retool Star Convoy into)

>>11464645
They haven't even made most the released Turbomasters yet.

So now I've got Star Convoy, the ultimate Micromaster base (and he really is a big base, lots of room for micros). Tons of air locks too (stupid name for base ports). But there's no bases to connect with him, and no micromasters on the market. "Micromaster" Rodimus isn't a micromaster at all, he's a core figure.
>>11464609
Why on earth would they retool Star Convoy into someone who never existed.
>>11464645
Nemesis Star Convoy

>>11464664
It really is hilarious that Micromaster Hot Rod is core size AND his current size class is also discontinued.

>>11464645
>(as I really don't know what else they could retool Star Convoy into)
Cyberverse astrotrain
Maximals mobile base from BWII
maaaaybe majin zarak if they're clever

>>11464672
Wouldn't majin zarak work better as a grandus retool? aren't both of those supposed to turn into aircraft carriers?

>>11464677
Majin Zarak doesn't work from anything, ever. A dedicated mold couldn't make him work.

>>11464672
I could see cyberverse astrotrain but the wings would be a big challenge

he's also supposed to be a triple changer canonically (rack 'n ruin says so) but I don't think that a base mode is part of that

>>11464679
just wait for haslab majin zarak in 14 years

>>11464682
It's impossible.

>>11464683
people thought that one third party shatter figure was impossible

people thought kibble-less 86 Megs was impossible

its possible with enough money

>>11464679
he's actually based on scorponok, hence the name. Basically you remold the parts, and flip his scorpion mode upside down. You can even see the 3 exhaust ports on each side of his chest that tips it off.
Scorps tail becomes the back end of the boat, with those 3 jets. The boat deck replaces the scorpion legs, which would be closed in ship mode and open in bot mode (instead of open in scorp mode and closed in bot mode). His pincher hands and forarms would be replaced with one solid piece for the boat kibble, and a smaller arm would flip down.
Majin's tails would have to be added, and the amount of money it'd take to retool it is probably why we didn't get a toy back in the day.

>>11464672
>mobile base
did it transform? because if it didn't, it still should.

>>11464688
forseriously?

>>11464690
if you go watch the actual scene he transforms in, it becomes obvious.
Not to mention the show had a ton of repaints and retools.

>>11464689
it did not
but boy did it look like it would lol

>>11464692
man I was sure it never transformed onscreen given how people were talking. yeah i'd love to see that.

>>11464664
You see anon you’re not supposed to jump in jump out of the brand, you should’ve been buying since Prime Wars Trilogy or at the very least Siege

>>11464664
>the ultimate Micromaster base
Really?
I think the Thunder arrow is a better base

>>11464609
A micromaster?
Best bet is to wait for a 3rd partyt to do those

>>11464609
?

>>11464713
>>11464715
turbomaster hyperdrive

>>11464715
Unrelated, but what was up with the astronomical gap in paint quality for those little shits? Like Overdrive looks like he was just straight dipped into a bucket while others like Bombshell and Growl actually have effort put into them?

I wonder if the chinese will make "upgrade kits" that fill out your combiner frames without actually needing the deluxes. But then again, that'd probably cost as much as just getting the deluxes anyway.

>>11464742
they have, I remember seeing a g1 breakdown filler for menasor, just the combined mode no vehicle or robot.

>>11464664
>Tons of air locks too (stupid name for base ports). But there's no bases to connect with him, and no micromasters on the market.
Sucks, doesn't it? Unless you had the forethought to nab the bases and Micromasters that flopped years ago, you have nothing to attach to all of those brand-new ports they specifically sculpted into him. Kinda feels like he was supposed to be released around Siege, and they only just got around to making him.

>>11464669
The last core and its tied to a 150 dollar titan

>>11464784
here's hoping they throw in more cores with titans.

>>11464787
Nah new minicons, only other core they should do is the pretender inner bot for Thunderwing

>>11464726
Is t that just Thunder Clash?

Cyberworld would be alright as elbowless-minicons, too bad american kids have to instinctually choke on small toys.

>>11464804
They don't, though - can't remember the last time they actually happened. Thing is, it only needed to happen once for all the soccer moms and Karen's to band together and start bitching about anything they can, even if it's perfectly harmless.

>>11464507
They didn't include the lil' camera from the centurion set?

>this is literally MP10 2.0

Why so lazy?

>>11464909
MP10 is still a good toy though

>here's your """""upgraded""""" remake with 25 years of improvements bro

>>11464928
>better proportions
>more defined details
>more articulation
Yes, it's a good upgrade.

>>11464928
Ok u convinced me to pick it up

>>11464936
>clown shoes and thunder thighs
>actually less defined details, like shin wires being flush surface details instead of recessed and painted, or removal of the lip around the kneecap
>at what cost?
Faggot

>>11464909
I like the idea of an amalgamation of Prime designs, I just wish the legs looked good in the truck mode.

>pulse exclusive is Doubleface doing Convoy cosplay with dark star saber from Micron Legend

I bet sword will be the same as PotP one

Pulsecon listing
>“TRA GEN PCON DTC CMDR ARMADA NEMESIS PRIME & VORPAL SABER
So there are two questions
>will he have the trailer pants
>is the saber minicons or a reuse of Starscream's glorified dagger

If Pulsecon is Nemesis Prime, where the fuck is G2 Motormaster going?

>>11464990
Pulse exclusive lol. Expect mold degredation and qc issues out the ass

>>11464987
>>11464990
JT Prime confirms pants + the vorpal saber is made from three minicons.

MINICON CHADS....

>>11464987
>>11465008
>more zoomer UTslop

>>11465008
I love how they're so adamant in making sure that Minicons are available, but just not in regular retail

>>11464990
Next year we will have GS commander so possibly him?
>>11464987
So he will cost about 120$ + tax now lol
>>11465008
lovely, only exclusives got them

>>11464990
>>11464994
Seeing how they handled G2 Menasor, I'm probably just going to bite the bullet and start getting Bruticus, I can't be arsed to wait for the original set, and then how many years it'll take for G2 repaints and even it's not guaranteed the molds will be good still and distribution is going to be ass anyways

>>11464987
I just hope someone in Hasbro remembers that he's supposed to be dark blue and not flat black. Not that I'll be getting him, mind you.

>>11464987
>VORPAL SABER
So, uh, all black Minicons then?

>>11465008
So what's stopping them from selling the eventual Star Saber as Deluxe figure sometime down the line?

>>11465030
>>11463784

I want an all clear blue plastic Star Saber Minicon team

>>11464987
>ANOTHER fucking boring ass nemesis redeco when powerlinx prime is RIGHT FUCKING THERE

>>11464987

Wow, this makes that Target Animated Nemesis even more unwanted.

>>11464909
Can't wait. Mp-10's my favorite, and this is finally a worthy successor.

>>11465011
The UT ended 20 years ago.

We are getting an SDCC figure this year, right?

>>11465063
That one is in 2027.

>>11465008
Why not do Powerlinx prime with the regular Star Saber first and then do the nemesis redeco?
This is even weirder than when they released Detritus ahead of Hound.

>>11465151
Eh, it's not like this is the first time they pulled this with Armada guys

>>11465151

We'd be in a better position to answer that if we knew what the heck they're doing with Mini Cons in general.

Got the Selects Reflector trio today. Fun little set, I love the colours and the camera mode is super nice. Also they can each form their own little mini-camera mode, which is cool.

>>11465104
and that's when zoomers would be cognizant enough to watch UTslop you dumb fuck. holy shit you UTshills are so retarded

>>11463221
Well at least I know Hasbro got my back for stuff I care about this upcoming week

>>11465184
Why are G1 boomers so deranged?

>>11464928
Most here are buck broken by slop
They unironically think it's better because they don't use anything but mass retail stores like Walmart to buy shit
I'm just gonna get the original

>>11465208
Because old toy commercial slop better than new toy commercial slop

>>11464928
Speaking as someone that has OG Sky-Byte, whilst he's beautifully painted and detailed he's also not great as an actual toy. Very fiddly and awkward to pose.

Am I asking too much if I wish for a modernized leader class version of these two idiots?

>>11465218
>Leader Energon Prime
They absolutely couldn't fit the drones in a Leader budget.

>>11465218
Yes, Mark in his plebbian taste doesn't even acknowledge them in recent TFW interview.
>how about energon or beast machines updates
>MACHINE WARS
fucking marihuana addicted hack

>>11465208
he's right thoughbeit

>>11465218
UTfags can't stop proving how hard they were dropped when they were a baby thinking
hasbro would ever want to make new toys out of the show that tanked ans plunged the franchise into the dark ages until bayformers revived it

>>11465220
keo, based mark shitting on UTfags for wanting more slop and instead giving us TRUE transformer fans what we deserve

>>11464987
>>“TRA GEN PCON DTC CMDR ARMADA NEMESIS PRIME & VORPAL SABER
Great, now we need a reissue of Legacy Evolution Commander Armada Universe Optimus Prime. It's hard to find that thing at MSRP now.

>>11465233
die

>>11465234
And powerlinx/final battle deco

>More minicons bundled with a repaint
>Nemesis set doesn't even mention his actual minicon, Sweep.
>A fucking pulsecon exclusive
>Will likely include the fucked up face for smaller Prime, and not both like any normal company

I'm so tired of Transformers.

>>11465246
>Will likely include the fucked up face for smaller Prime
Why's that bad? Its cool looking.

>>11465246
didn't a buzzworthy bumblebee no-namer deluxe inspection retool contain a toy accurate head for a previously released insecticon? I feel like there's also been another alt-head release recently.

also there will be an upgrade kit within the week if it doesn't include the head.

>>11465273

>I feel like there's also been another alt-head release recently.

Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus and Skywasp both had second heads.

>>11464928
aside from the tiny gun and the too-small arm weapon (which also has no tail-covering for that area)... i think he's pretty great.

>>11465278
much appreciated

>>11465246
NOOOOOOOOOO! NOT HIS ICONIC MINI-CON SWEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>11465283
Run-Over, actually.

>>11465285
Right because it's literally a lazy repaint of Over-Run and being left out of the set is a big fat nothing burger.

But UT fans can be just as annoying as the worst Geewuners and ... whatever we call Bayformer and Animated fans.

>>11465293
His minicon is also a targetmaster, making him fantastic by default AND it doubles as a booster like in the anime opening.

>>11465273
Yes the Creatures Collide set contained not one but two swappable heads

Oh, and that troop builder Target set had a swappable head for the Autotrooper.

>>11465234
He just got a reissue. We’re you not around like 2 months ago when I was literally begging people to buy one simply because I liked it so much and to avoid this exact comment I am replying to

>>11464987
>Pulsecon
Be real with me, how fucked will I be when I try to get this on Pulse?

>>11465349
You a Premium member?

>>11465349
Dinoking is still in stock. You're fine.

>>11465362
No one cared about that garbage core combiner.

>>11465349
First few waves of stock will probably be difficult, but I feel like pulsecon stuff always ends up shelfwarming after that period of hype

>>11465349
You should be fine-ish as long as you check regularly, I saw the Armada Prime reissue in stock for a few days in a row while I was checking for Sandstorm to be restocked

I want another G1 flat face truck Optimus Prime

>>11465359
Nope
>>11465365
>>11465386
All I need to know, thanks friends. I missed the original Armada Prime but was praying he'd get the Nemesis redeco. Minicons means I cannot miss him no matter what.

>>11465389
>Potp
>Siege
>arguably Galaxy Upgrade
>Earthrise
>Masterpiece
>Core
>G1 Universe
>Missing Link
Pick your poison bro
>SS86
>Devastation

>>11465386
Not to mention, the moment a Jetfire is announced, they'll either reissue it or have a selects Powerlinx deco.

>>11465349
Last years SDCC set is still up on the site I'm pretty sure

Do you guys think we'll ever see studio series concept art TFONE characters? I would love a tfone jazz

>>11465425
Not a real surprise when everyone wanted that Optimus, not that meh Megatron repaint.

>>11465429
Probably.

>>11465432
Gladiator ass Megatron is a cool concept. This release feels like it doesn't quite do it right tho
I feel like some Siege style weathering would have gone a long way and if the Grey was darker and the Sword didn't look like shit
Then AoTP Megatronus drops and has considerably nicer weapons for a retail release even if the Axe head is soft gummy ass plastic

>>11465443
>posts gladiator ass Megatron
>does not post Megatron's gladiator ass

So people who collect lots of optimi
and i know that's a lot and some people collect them as their main/sole focus
what do you do with em all? do you swap him out like he's changed for the situation? do you have the council of primes sitting around offering prime solutions to the primeless and the optimally challenged? does he die and then come back as the next one like he's Trucktor Who?

>>11465463
I consider my Optimi(?) to be separate characters while some are the same Optimus just in a new form and for a new story

>>11465463
I call my legacy united G1 toy prime 'Battle Convoy' as a separate individual

>>11465463
I have a ton of Primes, but I display my ER Prime with the other Autobots holding the AoE Prime's sword and shield.

>>11465293
>whatever we call... Animated fans.
Tooners, because the show is so cartoony.

>>11465218
I would legit want both to be commanders. Megatron would loose a lot of mass from his wing pack and rumbler, and optimus would need a substantial parts count for his drones and trailer, plus the functionality of having them still work with a potential Omega.

Honestly both optimus and megatron from energon and cybertron should be commanders. Especially if they keep savage/dark claw mode as a possibility. Leo Breaker could be a leader, Wing Saber might be too big for a leader class too unless he's significantly smaller than he should be. I suppose you could pad him out with a much more impressive Rhisling or the cybertron minicons.

>>11465154
I'm still so fucking upset over this. I didn't buy because I figured they'd put the minicon in the normal deco, because why the fuck wouldn't you

>>11464936
It's about a fifty/fifty. Nobody is convincing me the new claw and gun are upgrades, and the feet, despite the ankle tilts 100% look worse.

Lack of a spark crystal is also a significant downgrade.

>>11465519
At this point, I'm expecting they are going to do some $50 Mini-Con catchup pack with Powerlinx Jolt and the baseline versions of Sparkplug, Longarm, Leader-1, Swindle, Wind Sheer and the Air Defense Team as an online exclusive.

>>11465178
diaclone decos really are the best

>>11465521
The spark crystal was sacrificed in the name of anime accuracy.

Say, does a Titan Master fit inside Kingdom Cyclonus's jet mode cockpit? I know it opens, but nobody mentions fitting in a small figure inside.

>>11464928
The tail-hand and gun are a smidge on the small size and I wish they'd kept the Spark Crystal (I loved those things in general), but otherwise he does indeed look like an improvement over the original - and I say this as someone who actually owned the original. I'm particularly happy that the new one doesn't have the shark body permanently bent to the side like the original.

>>11465447
>Thew Adams tier reply
Faggot.

>>11465554
was it not colored like a starless dragon ball in the anime? all nice blobs of color showing translucency? Lemme uh..
yeah see, here. This is why I loved anime so much back then, you can tell something's clear with just three colors.
apparently these designers can't, or it wasn't in the budget (does he not have lightpiping?)

Is it true that some third parties can have lead piant

>>11465691
I want to see Megatron's silver semispheres in a titanium thong

>>11465695
Chinese ones if I remember correctly

>>11465670
I too didn't like the original bend-a-shark. however, the shark mode tail really lacks any kind of covering, so the robot mode forearm is just THERE. just hangin out. like yeah it's not a forearm, it's a big spinny weapon, but still, the original had more 'shark-belly' meat there. maybe we'll get an ugprade kit.

>>11465695
Dont display Dr Wu with Iron Factory it creates mustard gas

>>11465691
he used to be so funny

>>11465658
>it opens
It does?

>>11465725
Nope. Dunno what he's smoking, but I'll have some.

>>11465725
No, the whole cockpit area rotates as part of his transformation; it would be impossible to fit anything in there. Maybe he's (somehow) confusing Cyclonus for Siege Jetfire, who was the only character that DID have an opening cockpit? In which case, yes, - you can fit a Titanmaster or Headmaster in there, as well as in the two little hidden seats in his backpack.

>>11465749
He probably means how the torso flips open, and the cockpit is there
And no, you can't fit a titan master in there, that's where his head goes.

>>11465476
All aboard the Prime Party

>>11465342
The Seeker was the only one in that pack that didn’t get a swappable head.

>>11465695
Dunno. "That Toy Gay", some canadian youtuber, tried doing an expose video but completely fucked up the lead test kit procedure and took it down sneakily without any sort of retraction or followup.

>>11465725
>>11465749
Maybe they are confusing it with the old Universe mold.

>>11465833
You can close it but the TM needs to fold up like this.

Name the third one.

>>11465691
>>11465718
what happened to him? i used to watch him about 10 years ago maybe even longer

>>11465865
you don't want to know. trust me.
and if you do, I don't want to talk to you

>>11465862
Max Rockatansky

>>11465869
He was funny but I was falling out of transformers so I started watching less and less until I wasn't watching anymore...... did he troon out?

>>11465880
I forget if it went that far, but he'd lambast you for using the term, let's put it that way.

I was able to fix Bludgeon's broken chest plate with super glue. Still can't get it to sit flat, but oh well. His tank mode isn't that great anyway and I'll probably put him back in robot mode later tonight.

>>11465695
>>11465710
>>11465822

Shit, hope that doesn't apply to this particular kit.

>>11465899
Lead paint isn't as big a worry as people tell you. The issue comes when your house is fucking COATED in it, when you repeatedly, every night, eat acidic food off of lead-infused pewter plates, or you're a dumb, unattended child who eats random objects including paint chips
Lead GAS was the big worry, and we got rid of it thankfully. Basically our entire modern understanding of crime came from leaded fuel concentrating in the inner city. But your little garfield mug is fine. You'd have to soak the outside in acid AND scrape it and lick it. the OUTSIDE. and a toy like this will be even less of a concern.. now.. if you were doing surgery on it with a drill, maybe you'd wanna leave a vacuum running next to you, to suck up the dust so you don't breathe it...

>>11465511
If Megatron is a Commander then Optimus would have to be a Titan since both are big and roughly the same height however this time round Optimus does not combine with his trailer so he suffers similar problems to that of G1 Optimus where the trailer would basically buff the budget up.

>it is here
>Open
>This

I don't need the figure to be 100% perfect
But at least I need to have the faceplate without serious marks and stuff.

And does shit like this even count as a defect and can be returned?

Lol

>>11465529
What I'm most surprised is that they couldn't find budget for Tidal Wave's Minicon. Surely they could have made him an inch shorter and use that budget for a Minicon?

>>11465982
Not enough since Minicons are 2 inches

>>11465928
Easy to fix with the right paint. A minor paint scratch doesn't count as a defect to some collectors. But, uh, is the clear plastic even correct? Looks like a red color instead of blue...

>>11465928
Yes, return this.
>>11465862
Tony
>>11465987
Why he should fix it?

And does shit like this even count as a defect and can be returned?
It's very minor damage. Shouldn't have happened, but I don't think it's bad enough that they'll refund you for it. Better off just painting it yourself.
>>11465987
>But, uh, is the clear plastic even correct? Looks like a red color instead of blue...
Look closer - the red you're seeing is Prime's own chest being reflected in his eye. The plastic itself is indeed blue if you look at his right (your left) eye.

>>11465982
>>11465984
Looking back, Tidal Wave was full of missed opportunities. Minicon is one thing, but I'm personally disappointed that the mini-fleet can't combine into mini-Wave. Ark had a Deluxe fig in it, surely Tidal Wave wasn't that much more expensive to produce?

>>11465694
He never had lightpiping.

>>11465928
>Me

Well, my colleague convinced me to get a replacement. She said for the price I paid this is rather unacceptable

The seller says he will contact the company (I assume he's saying the local Hasbro) to see if they accept it (as a defective product - I assumed that is what he means)

Look, I get this is a mass produced consumer product.
I am not asking for perfection here. If there are scratches here and there I will accept it for what is it. But this is over that line I have.
Like I even uncovered the fold that covers the rest of the body and it turns out the yellow knees are perfect in their tone and no scratches at all.
You would think it being Optimus prime, it is the face plate that they will pay special attention to

I also have to say I think the rate I encounter serious QC problems it's getting higher than ever. It is a literally like two out of four of my transformer purchases from the past 3 months that I encounter QC issues with.

I don't remember seeing rate at this level even when getting full lines/waves of releases like 10 years ago with combiner wars and Titan returns.

>>11466028
>You would think it being Optimus prime, it is the face plate that they will pay special attention to
The vietnamese sweatshop worker doesn't careq

Can I ask again? Anyone who has the old Legends Godbomber and a Power of the Primes Leader, can the Matrix Frame fit the chest for God Ginrai? Especially with a Prime Master or Matrix Core installed?

>>11465695
Got this one. I bet it’s safe to assume I’m fucked then, right?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CKNNSC27?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

>>11465982
I imagine the budget that would have gone to a minicon went to the mini dark fleet.

new
>>11466049

>>11465862
Frenzy, Brenzy, Rumble

>>11466124
Rope

Don’t mind me, just posting the superior transforming robot toyline.

>>11466211
>>11466213
>>11466214
>>11466217
wrong thread

>>11466247
dead thread

>>11466211
No reason to try and start shit like a fag. I think a lot of us would like to buy at least a few Cardbots. I keep hearing there's a company trying to bring them to the US without the eyes in vehicle mode, I'm waiting for that.

>>11466333
>I keep hearing there's a company trying to bring them to the US without the eyes in vehicle mode
Agabyss are distributing them in US this year but they're not removing the eyes. Unfortunately the cartoon is only going to air on Youtube and the toys won't be carried by big box retailers, so it's probably DOA.

>>11466370
I don't think that's a death sentence but the company will have to spend a lot to market this stuff to get the kids to see it. Big box isn't as big of a deal as it used to be either. Shame they won't lose the eyes, I wonder where I heard that rumor. I'll still probably grab a few they look fun.

>>11465919
It helps that the trailer is just a couple plates and superstructure. Also that the prime force have very simple transformations that can reuse parts across them. Again, Megatron's wings and rumbler make him practically just as massive as prime trailer included, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

>>11465919
Man do I want a new Energon Rodimus. Everything else in Energon is whatever but Rodimus fucks

>>11465862
Rumble, Frenzy, and Rumble.

Remember, fibrir and ripfig

>>11465862
Frenzy, Rumble, and Rumble. Are you color blind anon?

>>11466211
>>11466213
>>11466214
>>11466217
Still can't find anywhere to even get them that isn't $100+

>>11466640
https://global.gmarket.co.kr/item?goodscode=4426143019
https://global.gmarket.co.kr/item?goodscode=4426143788

>>11466660
>Can't translate page
Do they ship international?

>>11466660
Unfortunately shipping to the US being like $40 each means even with the better price it's basically still $100 total.

>>11465233
>TRUE transformer fans
Shut the fuck up tooner.