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>>11466049 (OP)
>No pastebins
>Old thread isn't at image limit and is only on Page 5
Seriously, you need to knock it off. How many more years do you need to do this for before you finally get bored of being a prick?

>>11466049 (OP)
your photos are always visual diarhea, zodiac

>>11466094
fixed

>>11466082
>>11466083
>>11466085
>blue legs
LMAOOOOO

>>11466082
>>11466083
>>11466085
>>11466094
>>11466095
It's fine, but I'd rather wait for the inevitable final battle box set with battle damaged Megs and Prime and no stupid trailer.

>still a partsformer
I should just accept Hasbro has forgotten how to engineer tanks.

>>11466177
It’s like they put all the effort into designing the treads/legs and then gave up on the rest of the toy.

>>11466049 (OP)
I didn't expect to like Kingdom Rhinox as much as i do when i got him. He feels great in hand and the transformation gets easier the more you do it.
Anyone else have figures that you liked more once you got them in hand?

Where are the reviews for Megs? Why are these fags gatekeeping a figure for weeks, I don't get it.

>>11466241
You already have full hd pics from TT, Hasbro China did small video with box.
Retards wait for US team to get their asses and reveal what was revealed long time ago.

>>11466241
current theory is:
these might not be the final production colors, and there's a small possibility a video review would reveal something that would out the factory origin, and get the thiefs fired

>>11466049 (OP)
Lotsa of old men and an old woman

>>11466083
Is it just me or does it feel like the fusion cannon sticks out the back too much, like it should be able to slide forward through that centre block?

>>11466284
It should be on top of the arm, sideways was always an animation error

>>11466249
I'm not saying I haven't seen the countless leaks, I'm just wondering why no one's posting video reviews.
>>11466250
Clears it up for me, makes sense at least.

>>11466070
Then he posted 4 non-transformers-related troll images in a row to fill up the images in the old one.
There is no moderation here.

>>11466231
magmatron for me. I still have gripes, but.. so nice.
>>11466289
that is the top of the arm, you want it on the inner side of the arm. which only works if the arm is fully extended all the time.

>>11466289
No thanks. I'll take a bit of inaccuracy if it means a functioning elbow. That said, the ability to swivel the forearm below the elbow or even just a second port on the front of the forearm would have been a nice addition.

Oh is that how I'm meant to display him with the trailer

>>11466292
You have one:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1WGKpzNE1F/?-Arouter=story&buvid=XU0D0640676AEA4DFD00C9CCC76029443E803&from_spmid=tm.recommend.0.0&is_story_h5=true&mid=8yhZNau%2BNBzDtXbrzoHokH8FTQ%2FSZMtL1rElX6M3iMo%3D&plat_id=163&share_from=ugc&share_medium=android_i&share_plat=android&share_session_id=048f5bdb-808a-47a0-964a-ce8df6240d12&share_source=COPY&share_tag=s_i&spmid=main.ugc-video-detail-vertical.0.0&timestamp=1750656066&unique_k=PJdVmpc&up_id=122074591

>>11466330
>it's your toy, display him however you wish.

>>11466330
wait that's what his trailer does?

Are Megs' legs really that blue or is it the fancy cameras?

>>11466443
Technically every use of that mold can do that

>>11466296
>>11466289
>>11466327
>Again with the cannon position thing
It's like you people have never seen arm rotation before. Just look at how MP-36 solves this just by using the swivel, same thing you'll be able to do with this studio series.

>>11466327
>the ability to swivel the forearm below the elbow
No need for that. The elbow is pretty much unusable with the cannon on top, just the upper arm swivel is enough.

>>11466511
We genuinely don’t know. All the stolen Megatrons have blue-grey legs but Takaras promo images are just grey. We’ll see which it is when Hasbro show it on stream.

>>11466512
well that's WAY better than not using it.. though I'd still wanna get that kit to give him all the missiles. and then fill out the inside a bit with some plastic card i guess so it's not hollow
>>11466542
yeah see, you get it. it's on the TOP of the arm. opposite side of the palm. that's how it should be.
you can swivel it around to the side where his natural palm direction is yknow, the other way. yeah he could rotate his wrist in that position, but he doesn't need to.

>>11466289
>an animation error
G1 is full of those but in this case they just disregarded the position due to convenience. If they needed Megatron to bend the elbow in some scenes it just wouldn't have worked with the cannon obstructing it.

>>11466556
Yeah same, since I bought the add on kit let me just.. just... wait don't I... don't I have the figure... where is it... ah...

>>11466284
Yeah, the cannon's proportions and shape are completely fucked. I just don't understand how they managed to fail at something so simple.

>>11466231
Emirate Xaaron.
I knew I wasn’t going to dislike the toy simply because it is Xaaron, and I never expected we’d ever get a Xaaron toy from Hasbro, but I never expected to fall in love with him like I have. In the 7 months I’ve owned him there hasn’t been a single day when I haven’t played around with and posed him.

>>11466082
Why are there so many in-hand pics with no pre-orders yet?

>>11466568
what the

>>11466629
Because those are all stolen copies and for whatever reason Hasbro are dragging their heels on "revealing" the toy. One would assume they'll finally show him in tomorrows stream with preorders going up shortly after.

>>11466629
Because it's being announced tomorrow

>Keep seeing comments of Haslab Fire Convoy developing cracks after the fix.
Man, I am haven't even touched mine since getting it to avoid damaging it. This is so annoying.

>>11466568
>anon got the nft toxitron and has just been rugpulled
AIIIIIEEEEEEE

>>11466658
But how? The blockchain is supposed to be 100% secure, right? RIGHT!?

>>11466629
As an European that has to pay more for shipping anyways I just ordered from a Japanese store almost a week ago. I don't get why Hasbro is being so freaking slow with this guy. The leaks had made their reveals a joke for a long while.

>>11466655
the not knowing is the worst, isn't it, full house anon?

>>11466666
holy quints

>>11466439
Thanks, emgo

Well shit. I was removing a stress mark on my Needlenose, and I went a little too long on it. Now his crotch is sizzled.

>>11466699
That's why I don't bother to remove stress marks with a hairdryer. Even when moving it so you don't apply too much heat you need to be really careful because the plastic can go from undamaged to fucked almost instantaneously.

>>11466704
I was actually using a heat gun and it was my first time, so I had no idea how strong it would be compared to a hair dryer.

>>11466699
From Needlenose to Cratercrotch.

>>11466699
Might as well make him a battle damaged custom
Are those gap fillers

>>11466724
yup, just got a bunch of gap fillers for my figs from ebay. Much needed for Needlenose imo.

Haven’t posted an update in a while but my Animated collection is really coming along.
Sunstorm is my latest.

>>11466731
Man we really don't have a oversized lugnut yet huh
Do they still make oversized bootlegs I haven't looked in awhile

>>11466731
Really nice. I have all my Animated figures stored but from memory I think you're only missing Ironhide, Hot Rod, Arcee, Blackout, Safeguard, Blitzwing and Shockwave as far as different characters go. You're almost there, anon.

>>11466734
put him with the legends figures.

>>11466734
>oversized lugnut
You want oversized? Titan Lugnut Supreme as generations selects after they release Animated Omega Supreme.

>>11466737
Arcee is actually hiding behind Cybertronian Optimus there. Aside from those I also need Skywarp and Blurr.

>>11466740
I want a Titan Omega Supreme so bad. I’d also take a revival of that Hot Shot prototype.

>>11466734
Just make your own bro.

>>11466747
True, completely forgot about Blurr, and only thought about some other seekers existing after posting because I only got one of each mold other than Wingblade Prime and obviously went for Starscream.
And about the canceled molds, I want Marauder Megatron and Power master Prime. Those looked fantastic.

>>11466755
>Square as fuck
I understand what it's trying to do but I don't think it captures the show design at all. It just looks more like a Lugnut from a N64 game than anything.

>>11466231
What made you like Kingdom Rhinox beyond "I don't mind how bad the mold is"?
I've been eyeing it because I want a base to make a McDonald's Rhino with the mutant head.

>>11466556
Did DNA put out a version in Toxitron colors?

>>11466699
i would have thought heating plastic up would make its stress marks worse, not better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qKcd6IbC5c

>>11466760
real starfoxy goodness.

>>11466767
how you gonna make the mutant head?
also yeah if I was more confident in my action figure customizing, I'd be tempted to try that too. it's not a terrible mold.. but it sure isn't a satisfying rhinox. I don't see getting paint into every nook and cranny of a figure without learning how to remove pins and disassemble shit, nor making it capable of still moving without scraping its paint or being glued together. I'd need hasbrony to remold it, and they don't seem interested in that anymore.

>>11466782
I'll sculpt it over the head.
If I really felt confident, I could try giving it a jaw but I'm not that confident.
My issue is that everyone tells me the mold is godawful.

>>11466812
whoa kickass. you sculpted before? I've done clay and shit, but I am just now kinda getting into toy customizing, and i realized after ordering it that 33 dollars worth of apoxie sculpt is about a softball's worth. Iunno somehow i heard '1 pound' and thought it'd be really light and this would be a couple huge buckets.

>>11466731
>one Pacific Rim figure
Fucking why? Dont you have somewhere else to put it?

>>11466853
A gypsy said my soul mate would complain about it being in my display

>>11466708
>uses heat gun for the first time ever on a figure approaching 5x its retail.
Really fucking stupid. At least you got rid of the stress mark
>Last time tfg discussed this figure it was going for $80
Asking price is fucking $100 now. Lol fucking why? I get that hes part of a squad but still, he aint a $100 figure thats for damn sure. A reissue would be nice btw

>>11466858
>soul mate
If youre a tiny little asian girl I actually had a dream about you last night

>>11466708
i'm curious why you think heat guns exist, if they were 'just hairdryers but more'
and why you didn't try the lowest setting
i learned about them from Good Eats, and I'm actually disappointed with how blowtorch-y they aren't. You can't quickly blister some golden melted cheese on something, the air will blow the cheese away first. gotta at least get it started in melting first, then you can brown it.

>>11466284
>>11466610
Or, I have a feeling this thing has a faux suspension gimmick where the square block is a square block and the front and back half tubes are one single cylinder that can shift in position when firing, only held by a slider. Whatever the case, maybe the fusion cannon is adjusted so that it could fit as the tank turret, never mind that it was a scope in the original toy, and the Requiem Blaster is intentionally designed after a laser pointer.

>amazon says superion is due next week
This better not be another Ruse Cruise.

Having fun with my Cybertronian Ultra Magnus. The packaging and looked up lore says its a pre-war Cybertronian Senator Shockwave, but that's bullshit and I've head-canoned it to Ultra Mags. Gave him my Bumblebee cannon and now he's a total boss

>>11466886
Why would Ultra Magnus turn into a flying vehicle?

>>11466866
>maybe the fusion cannon is adjusted so that it could fit as the tank turret
Pretty sure this is why. Because a whole slab on the bottom of the eyepiece moves forward on a double hinge to flatten it out so it can fit in the turret. Instead of finding another way they decided to just fuck with the cannon to make it work

>>11466767
I just like the texture of the rhino skin.
and the weight the beast mode has makes it feel like you're holding an actual rhino

>>11466853
Same reason I have the Monster Hunter figures on top, there’s room and it fills out the shelves.

>>11466755
Thats a good lugnut. You got any more pictures of him?

>>11466909
See at 3:36
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0t_Her6Z0

>>11466907
didnt basically everything hover on cybertron?

>>11466918
fun fact, if you go to 'share' you can set a timestamp directly into a link. obsoive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP0t_Her6Z0&t=215s

>>11466886
The colors were intentionally meant to mislead readers into thinking he was Magnus before the last page reveal.

>>11466886
Disagree. My lore is that it's Shockwave in disguise with a face and ability to feel emotions ala his bit in Animated where he goes deep undercover in the Autobots.

>>11466886
Headcanon's the best canon. Behold, the mighty Wreckers!

>>11466699

Jesus, this makes me feel so much better about my Needlenose taking a dive off the top shelf earlier this month. Sorry it turned out that way though anon. Sucks when something like that happens to any figure, but especially one that's pricy and tough to find.

>>11466997

Rewatched Animated recently and was thinking about how cool it would be to get a Shockwave figure that can swap between robot forms.

>>11467009
Definitely sucks. Now I'm just hoping they'll do another reissue for him like they did Spinister.

>>11467009
>>11467024
a little sanding, a little buffing.. it could be good as fine.

>>11467027
Maybe a stupid idea, but I wonder if using the heat gun again at low heat would get rid of the bubbly texture on the surface

>>11467029
it would, but unless you could isolate that spot, build a "stencil" of sorts, 'mask it off' with something heatproof e.g. mylar.. then you'd make the surrounding area worse. and it would never be perfect again, just less bubbly.

>>11467032
oh, also-also? it depends on the kind of plastic. some are okay with being repeatedly heated, some, once you heat and cool it a second time after the first time it solidified from the mold, change irrevocably and would this time, burn instead.

>>11467029
Air will shoot all around it and heat a large area.
Consider heating up a flat piece of metal by leaving it in near boiling water for a few minutes and pressing that against the plastic to flatten the bubbles.
Going too hot will make it stick

>>11466082
>>11466083
>>11466085
Cannon is fine
blue legs are fine
The low shoulder look ugly as fuck

Anyone else think it's odd that there is no art of Slamdance slam dancing?

>>11466557
Even CGI shows did it. If you tried to do a drinking game every time a part of Rhinox clipped through his massive torso in Beast Wars, you'd have liver poisoning before Optimus does the title drop.

>>11467214
No. Unpopular characters get less fanart.

>>11467022
You'll never guess what Animated Shockwaves figure can do.

>>11467276
Why haven't they tried remaking it, having two robots shift between different looks isn't common

So what are we seeing today?
>Megatron
>Mixmaster
>Scavenger
>TF1 Starscream
>TF1 Elita
>Widowmaker

>>11467290
those along with SS86 Grimlock reissue probably

When stream?

>>11467316
About an hour

Time to watch Hasbro reveal things that were already revealed.

Its up

>"""""""""blaster"""""""""

>>11467359
hehe its cute how they have to dance around a single word

>>11467359
Guns are banned

I like the Blaster shirt, where can I get one?

>>11467362
It's from Super7. I have the same one but in black.

I want Marvel Blaster.

>>11467363
>Solent 7

Oh gross

How many verrsions of this Grimlock are there?

predict SS Megatron's qc issues.
>folded up tank treads in the legs are going to have poor tolerances/pins will be off center and stress

>>11467368
4?

Man, I kinda want to get Grimlock but I also really love my Toxitron Grimlock too much to upgrade and he doesn't really fit with rest of the gang

>>11467368
G1
G2
G2 (again)
SG
Mahvel

Yup, that's a Mixmaster alright

>>11467375
And Godzilla Megatron.

Are they doing G2 Grimlock in his teal color?

I'm still not terribly fond of the butt-shelf on Devvy, but other than that, he looks fine.

Did they mistransform Elita or does her head really scrape the floor in bike mode?

>Starscream already yellowing

I'm going to Alice!

Wow, that Arachnid is impressive.

The nerdy guy is turning into the nerdy guy from the Karl Pilkington show

Didn't know these pre-orders were coming - they are up now

>>11467407
*reissues rather

Honestly if they do Skids and Mudflap as ice cream truck I'd probably buy it

Monstructor eventually

>Evan desperately trying to avoid calling Skids and Mudflap racist caricatures

MONSTRUCTOR TEASED

>Would you like Studio Series to be Not Movies
And there it is

SS86 concept snake train or I'll riot

THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF BAYKEKS

BAY BROS... I DONT FEEL SO GOOD...

>>11467422
>>11467423
I mean, Scramble City was technically a movie

>>11467407
What the fuck. I knew about the Omega rerelease, but not Runamuck... And I just read Deception Graffiti for the first time just an hour ago in the Marvel compendium. What are the chances?

hahahahaha! The early production leaks were wrong, his legs aren't blue after all

>>11467418
>>11467422
>>11467423
This was bound to happen. At this point people want to keep seeing characters updated with the engineering of SS86 and the Movie cast is pretty much done. The Studio Series moniker is just a convenient name for people to refer to the design philosophy more that anything now.

>>11467410
I want their separate car modes first.

>>11467419
Not real concept art.

>>11467419
is there any actual concept art of this or all fan speculation?

>>11467419
Rails would be tricky because there's no actual concept art for him, he was just a cast addition in an early script that went nowhere.
Any art you see is purely fanart.

>>11467429
I thought it was just a lighting/photography quirk making his legs look blue.

>>11467419
Literally just some lines in a script draft. There's less to work with for "Rails" then there is for Big Bang or Hyperdrive

>>11467455
>is there any actual concept art
Nope

>>11467463
aotp star Convoy retool when

>Evan talks about the tank that megs is based off
>Calls it the armored "blaster" system
>Its the AGS, the armored GUN system
heh, I thought it was based on the leopard 1 but I see it now

I think a problem with a lot of these being made, besides it having no reuse, besides it being from a unpopular season, is it'd have to be like a Leader too
I want him though...

>>11467463
Did this guy become Thunderclash?

Timelines 2026 leak (lie)

>>11467471
No, he was to be the biggest toy in the same line as Thunderclash but was cancelled.

>>11467477
They seemed really eager to spill the beans on the next Timelines set
But I guess we'll have to wait for SDCC

>>11467478
Ah right-o. The vehicle modes look really similar so maybe they felt having two trucks with trailers was redundant.

>>11467483
They had four car guys in it, so diversity wasn't a consideration.

>>11467468
It felt pretty apparent he was PRing his way around using the word gun

>>11467479
When he kept saying "age of.." I really can't think of anything with that subtitle except for the 4th bay film.

>>11467467
nigger are you blind? SC and Hyperdrive have fuck all in common other than "truck". Hyperdrive has more shared design cues with Motormaster ffs.

>>11467407
Runabout was a Target exclusive right? Hoping they rerelease him nonetheless like they did with Cosmos. It's just feels wrong to have Runamuck without him.

>>11467487
Please calm down.

>>11467490
I CAN'T I'M A FUCKING NERD D:<

>>11467486
The way they talked about it made it seem like it's going to be an original concept, not based on any media like Hearts of Steel.

>>11467468
That's actually pretty funny.

>>11467468
I want the Sonic Collab to continue now
>Evan: "So we turned Shadow's iconic motorcycle into this character, Darkspike, but he's not in this pack alone... if you played Sonic Adventure 2, you'll remember the iconic part of game where the truck from B.L.A.S.T.E.R. chases down Sonic!

>>11467492
It is something where Starscream is going to be amazing and you will want it in 3/6/all the colors, but they just make one and you end up with a bunch of leftover Optimus if you decide to paint them yourself.

>>11467497
A lot of loyalty for a hired Blaster

>>11467477
>>11467486
I don't get it.

>>11467504
The image has Optimus Prime dressed as an admiral.
The Fourth movie is called Age of Extinction.
Both are in reference to a future set of 2-packs that have Optimus Prime, Starscream, Megatron, and Bumblebee cast in a different theme than usual.

>>11467497
>GUN truck Optimus Prime
>it's another Legacy Laser Prime redeco

>>11467497
They could technically remold SS Galvatron into Robotnik's truck from the first live action movie

>>11467483
>>11467484
supposedly the biggest reason hyperdrive wasn't made was because.. well, thunder clash is a pretty big bot. hyperdrive would have been absolutely massive.

>>11467516
So the Metroplex to his Ultra Magnus?

>>11467487
long truck mode, chunky probably-hollow legs, I mean, hyperdrive was even mistaken for Star Convoy when glimpsed through skyquake's scope thingy.

>>11467520
Reminds me, was thinking the other day on what if Hasbro had brought over Star Convoy to represent Optimus for Generation 2 instead of just reissuing the original toy with a backpack and missile launchers.

>>11467516
>well, thunder clash is a pretty big bot.
He was my first transformer and it really isn't that big. Also Hyperdrive doesn't really need to be way bigger than him.

Who the fuck wants Skids and Mudflap?

Airachnid looks great though.

>>11467523
probably would have scaled better with g2 Megs, at least.

>>11467532
Completionists.

>>11467532
mentally ill racist bayfags

Got my Megatron and Constructicons ordered.

>>11467414
>>11467417
You know it's going to be a retool of the core Volcanicus/Dinoking, right?

>>11467545

No, they said "it won't be dinosaurs".

Both leader classes in the case being relevant characters that people actually want?!

>>11467560
Megatron and...?

>>11467562
Reissuing of Grimlock in his regular colors.

>>11467532
>>11467540
>>11467542
Funny how Americans are the biggest racists there are.

>>11467566
Boy am I glad the bordered Decepticon emblem and blue legs were just prototype things

>>11467544
Megs sold out instantly, goddamn.

>>11467565
If you brownoid thirdies weren't so obsessed with us maybe we wouldn't see how subhuman you are. Sadly, shutting your yap seems as impossible for you as imagining how you'd feel if you skipped breakfast.

I'm honestly surprised at no Devy boxset next year or the year after
Surprised both that it isn't happening (soon) and also that they came out and said it so plainly

>>11467568
He's still up on Amazon. BBTS is having a shit fit though lmao.

>>11467576
>>11467578
There is still small part of me that was disappointed that they didn't come with trumpets but I'll live.

>>11467579

Theres a fan kit with trumpets.

>>11467532
I want them + wreckers reissue

Legs look a lot better than I thought they’d look

>>11467586
I can see them doing a wreckers set for the 15th anniversary next year

>>11467572
Always a delight to see dumbass fucking retarded Americans cry about brownioid racism when it was Tom Kenny himself that suggested the idea for a couple of southern hicks good ole boys that everyone interpreted as Jim crow nigger cattle.

>>11467594
I thought it was Bay's idea.

Based

>>11467519
More like the huffer to Hyperdrives optimus prime

>>11467588
>>11467597
Very strong start for 2026 deluxes

>>11467532
ONLY if they're the ice cream truck

>>11467545
Yeah, they literally said on stream the parts "are out there". So they'll retool the dino parts into monster parts.

>>11467600
Excuse me but did Michael bay do the funny voices or was it the voice of sponge bob who wanted to talk like a couple of stereotypical low iq Americans thinking they're black gangsters?

>>11467588
Never in my life did I expect I would consider getting an Airachnid. It actually looks great.

>>11467605
Waitaminut that's a deluxe? There's no way that's not a voyager.

>>11467422
>>11467423
>>11467603
Weird, my reply got wiped. But I'll take tracks and a few of the others that got shortchanged. Also
86 METROPLEX CONFIRMED
>>11467425

>>11467610
They were very explicit and repeated multiple times that Airachnid is a deluxe
She even has a spinning rotor

>>11467594
Why didn't they have southern accents then?

>>11467608
Reno Wilson says he was told to do it. Kenny refused to say anything. Bay says Wilson and Kenny made it up on the spot. Sounds like no one wants to take the blame.

I like Xaaron's 5mm ports. Hasbro should do more redecos and add-ons for the Refractor mold.

>>11467610
>>11467618
They said they based her on official height charts from the movie but admitted that even they got second thoughts when they actually saw the film and so many shots make her seem like she's taller and looking down on everyone else.

One Trion seems to use rubber. I hope that changes.

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran
Needs a pass with lightly soaked cotton swabs but this guy is cool
>mfw it was in transit to me when the real thing was doing the thing

>>11467634
FOURTEEN MISSILES

>>11467363
On that note, does the other guy wash his shirts in acid or something? The Goodbye Megatron shirt's colors aren't as faded as his was.

Another year without SS Breakaway. Sad.

>>11467578
for scavenger, every day is lats day

Big fembot thighs my beloved

Is this a good set?

>>11467680
No.

>>11467680
Most would argue only half are good.

>>11467613
I really hope for a new one, but they apparently want a retool of t30.

>>11467678
So when are we expecting to see her, anyway? Was there anything else in the stream that was notable?

>>11467688
Expected for 2026. Also a TF1 AT.

>>11467680

I like Windsweeper. Breakdown is still boxed in my closet because I don't care about Prime.

>>11467691
Hey if it's just gathering dust I'd buy it off ya. >>11467693

what crossover characters would you guys like to see eventually made? Me personally, I'm hoping for some kind of xenomorph transformer. Maybe a two pack with the aliens marine APC.

>>11467703
Idk if I want any crossovers at all. Transforming versions of anything is (much) cheaper without the Hasbro TF license

>>11467703
damn anon i had such a great idea just a couple of months ago but now completely forgot what it was...

xenomorph will be great
Also Robocop that turns into a cool silver-shiny car

>>11467703
Christine - red Decepticon lady
PROPER Godzilla collab with Mothra, Ghidorah and Godzilla
Jaws
LotR - Sauron, Balrog

>>11467703
Macross x Transformers. Give Jetfire a buddy who uses the Draken III as an alt mode.

>>11467757
>Macross x Transformers
You're never gonna believe this but

>>11467757
This was announced literally last month dude.

>>11467703
Braves

Give me a God Gaoginraigar.

>>11467634
Combine it with armada Megatron

>>11467623
Hope we can eventually get a release of him and flame without the ugly ass comic shading.

>>11467790
It's easy to remove with isopropyl alcohol. I didn't like the shading either at first, but I barely notice it's there now.

>>11467594
I mean neither of those is right
you're talking to a troll, obviously. racism isn't real
tom and the other guy were clearly doing similar characters to what tom kenny and scott menville did in Mission Hill. two ghetto thugs. Race not important (i believe one of them was white or at least damon wayans tier mixed and the other like, hispanic)
The important part is the black guy playing the other transformer didn't see anything wrong with it, so anyone continuing to whine needs to-
>southern hicks
also, same thing. it's important to remember that. redd foxx had stuff to say about that. that's where that whole thing comes from, the south.
>>11467588
ooooohhhh what's this now...
>>11467620
"blame" he says. like there was a crime.
they aren't saying anything so their houses don't get burned down.
>>11467634
Jawesome.
>>11467757
kinda redundant, isn't it? what does transformers add to the equation of transforming jets?

>>11467796
>what does transformers add to the equation of transforming jets?
QC issues.

>>11467800
kek

>>11467703
Cruella De Vil's car.

>>11467757
>Macross x Transformers
Wow, how original.

Please stop me

>>11467805
that'd be fuckin rad.
>>11467816
please please me

>>11467816
But you're having more fun with your toys than anyone else here

Pardon the crappy photo- Scrapper looks great using the Devastator rifle as a Rick Dom style bazooka.

>>11467851
gadzooks!

>>11466295
Because it's not a modable offense. There's no rules for any of this, just etiquette.

>>11467859
right because I could just do whatever i want within the rules and expect to get zero repercussions

>>11467868
...yeah? That's kind of why shitposting here goes unchecked. Or how we always have a dozen TF threads. Global Rules are essentially keeping /b/ shit on /b/ and not breaking the law.

>>11467880
on other boards
christ, anon, please follow along
>there is no moderation here
implies "there is moderation elsewhere"
your reply was like "but da rules" i'm like since when do the rules mean anything

they mentioned Rail Racer/JRX but I'd much rather get Build King
also the idea of Rail Racer needing to be three titans is ridiculous

>>11467889
They are the modern just bigger than commander titans.

>>11467889
>>11467892
Wasn't OG Rail Racer ridiculously unpopular? Three titans for that seems like a guaranteed bomb

Which board is the main hub for discussing Transformers in general? /m/? /co/? /v/?

>>11467680
>prime-style angular head
>Gen1-style boxy body
This looks so wrong, Breakdown shouldn't be this hard to adapt into the gen 1 style

>>11467905
Autists cried murder when they update the heads so now Hasbro makes toy look like a bad FunPub era Botcon toy

>>11467905
it really doesn't work, does it.
Prime's style is so weird to nail. like 'angular' sure but what isn't angular? it's the ANGLES of those angles that make it so distinctive. lots of diagonals, lots of Vs... armor pieces that taper to thin, flat areas..

Am I in the minority when I say FUCK blokees? I can't stand seeing them at Walmart instead of any actual transformer figures now that my Walmart isn't stocking them anymore.

>>11467903
transformers has exactly three good video games (wfc and foc and devastation) so no /v/

I don't ever see transformers in /co/ but I don't lurk there often enough

and I dunno about /m/ I don't check there at all

>>11467919
its not blokees' fault, it's Walmart's fault. If blokees wasn't on the shelf it would be all the other stupid little gimmick things, and for what it's worth blokees are at least fun to build. I just wish blokees would make some blind boxes simple transforming figures like micromasters but hasbro won't let them.

>>11467919
I haven't been to Walmart since last year, so I do not know that feeling.

>>11467889
>the idea of Rail Racer needing to be three titans
What the hell are you talking about?

How has this guy held up? I kinda want him because he looks kinda cool, but if it's the usual transparent bullshit, I'm not going to bother

>>11467935
They literally said so in the stream earlier today

>>11467938
Makes sense, officially he was gigantic, but that's stupid, just bump him to leader or two leaders and commander

>>11467919
Honestly I'd even tke Blokees. In my country, I don't think I've seen anything in local stores after Kingdom. I'm in lucky position since my hometown has geek shop that gets nice stuff every now and then, but it's a total crapshoot. Hell, they got Cannonball in stock not too long ago and I got both 86 death packs from there but even they get hardly any regular releases

Finally got to fiddling with Prima. I bought one and my friend gave me another saber since he didn't want it.

Solas distributes her gifts to her brothers

>>11467944
NTA but I'd forgotten how big they were until >>11467889 mentioned it. Like yeah I definitely do not need them to be at that scale. Three leaders does kinda feel too small though. I'd be cool with them each being somewhere between leader and commander. Seems like a good opportunity for a Haslab but I dont see enough people caring about JRX for that to actually get put into production.

>>11467955
To be fair, trains are pretty big

Now ya see, when the Chinese leaker gets a toy, they pose it like this.
Audience lightly laughs
But when Takara puts up their preorder, they pose it, like THIS
Audience erupts in laughter

>>11467955
I remember thinking that was pretty cool, i loved those guys when I watched that show.

>>11467955
That's three Jetfire sized commanders right there. No way Hasbro would ever actually attempt that though considering they're seemingly hesitant to do Armada Jetfire, and that's a character people actually like who's tied to one of the best toys Hasbro have put out in years and one of the few commander class to sell well enough to warrant being reissued.

>>11467889
>>11467938
Evan is a retard, making Rail Racer the size of a regular combiner would be totally fine and would scale perfectly with Bruticus/Ruination

Oh, please give me a complete line of Seekers with a green one too!

>>11468002
how long until someone makes a war within custom with one of the tfone seekers?

It is 2006, and I am buying new iterations of beloved G1 characters like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Mirage, and Grimlock released under the Transformers Classics line
It is 2016 and I am buying new iterations of beloved G1 characters like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Mirage, and Grimlock released under the Prime Wars line
It is 2026 and I am buying new iterations of beloved G1 characters like Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Mirage, and Grimlock released under the Studio Series 86 line

>>11468002
It is inevitable, but also requires additional tooling because the Seekers weren't all recolors in the movie. He talked about it in the stream.

>>11468005
it is 2036, and you are building customs of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Mirage, and Grimlock from scrap metal after a nuclear war. Or Hasbro not fucking distributing anything properly. My bets are on the latter, honestly.

>>11467703
Beast wars pokemon would be hilarious.

>>11468010
TCPI would probably be a bitch to work with though. Like Hasbro might be better off just making their own electric rat, fire lizard, nocturnal ringed mammal, sky dragon, jackal man, landshark, etc

>>11468016
They are. Eevee Tamagotchi Nano wasn't localized purely because the international guy at TCPI wasn't interested, not because Bandai didn't want to.

>>11468007
i think we'll have bigger shit to do. and if ONLY we had nuclear war, then we'd be dead. naw we'll have the regular kind where we have to be alive.
well, you will be. I rely on several manufactured medications and a CPAP machine to live, haha. Enjoy your apocalypse, suckerrrs. I want my bones mounted so people remember how tall and awesome I was.
>>11468010
it's hard to think of good candidates, given how ... proportionally-efficient pokemon tend to be. There's not a lot other than limbs to just fold out into limbs with, rarely much in the way of torso, lots of head typically.. I guess Spear could be like Waspinator but the robot arms fold out from the huge head just like the robot legs fold out of the abdomen. and the bee legs just fold away. but those huge-ass moth-y wings I've never understood the purpose of.. less good.

>>11468016
>jackal man
.... oh, that took me a second.
i would be cool with just new monsterformers who are like organic beast guys but various monsters, both from mythology and imagination
hell bring back original-toy-accurate Torca for that guy who wants him. he makes no sense as a fuzor but he'd be a good just monster-guy.

>>11467623
>top center
That settles my idea of using Siege Reflector to make a Mainframe.
Why did they have to trap Mainframe with their shitty Ark?

>>11468037
>Spear
Advanced levels of Nippon Banzai

>>11468040
For the seeker recolor position, you have Thunderbird, Phoenix, and for some reason blue Hraesvelgr.

>>11468052
Just buy the Dramatic Capture set bro

>>11468052
DCS isn't a bad purchase tho. But yeah, the Refraktor mold is just too good, and with a little finangling you can pratically make any alt. Gonna fiddle with the three-pack and Xaaron here soon to see if they can't make something horrific.

>>11467987
>>11467986
Fortunately for railracer, the component bots transformations are all extremely simple, and their vehicle modes lend well to height, I do think three leaders would be a bit small, but a single titian might be perfect.

Landfill should be three voyagers and a deluxe though 100%

The new Godzilla Megatron came in and the plastic on him is pretty poor. A bunch of like white stress marks in areas and its hella noticeable from different angles

Im a Godzilla fag, so im happy to have him. Its a fun toy otherwise

>>11467815
Almost thought we'd go through this Jetfire discourse all over again, but no, it's just the Fire Valkyrie with Optimus Prime's head. Might be good partners with Basara.

>>11467955
As goofy as a three titian Rail Racer sounds, it also sounds ridiculously awesome. Just thinking about how fucking massive that would be even with a star convoy sized titians sounds like a ton of fun.

>>11468098
if you keep them vanilla, yeah.. which is not a great idea, they felt very G1 and not in a good way. the anime cheated them into looking cooler and even then, if you look at em for a while, there are issues.
>>11468107
having watched Jorby finally put together that 3p combiner, I have to imagine a toy that big from hasbro would flat-out not be able to hold together, let alone articulate.

>>11467916
Prime arcee's head is hideous, and animated prowl's looks deformed.

>>11467815
>>11468102
It's a damn shame Takara is so unimaginative with their collabs and everything absolutely must be an Optimus. Missed opportunity for this to be Blaster. It would have fit both character-wise and with the colors. Fire Valkyrie even has a similar head design to Blasters toy head.

>>11468110
After how past titians have had joints so strong they self destruct I don't think it would be weak, especially since Railracer's limbs are all technically legs. As for the connections... that could be a crap shoot, but Omega Prime is quite solid for all the problems he has.

>>11468124
but you're talking about titans-on-titans here aren'tcha

Can someone with the new Superion take a picture of the shoulder connection? I want to know if it's still just a pin holding the while thing together.

>>11467944
Even that’s stupid as fuck. 3 Voyagers would be perfectly fine. I notice a lot of you are obsessed with their toys being as big as possible, for no fucking reason. I will speak for myself that in general the larger the figure the less it gets played with. It’s extremely common for anons to admit they rarely or never touch their Titans.

Or
>>11468098
One Commander should be sufficient


>>11468107
>three titans
Retard alert.

>>11468005
Don’t forget the annual timelines release of your favorite four characters

>>11468151
the best toys for fiddling with are core class and deluxes. You'll get more play value out of a good deluxe than an unwieldy titan unless you're really into base modes and micromasters

>>11467788
How?

>>11467532
Me
>>11467542
fag
>>11467606
Retard
>>11467680
On a scale of 1/10 how much of a paypig do you consider yourself?

>>11468161
Exactly. Furthermore the type of person who would suggest a 3 Titan combiner is a poorfag who has no intention of actually buying anything
>I hope they do a voltron crossover and make it 5 titans
See I can say retard shit too

if anyone actually has star Convoy in-hand, could you take a comparison pic of the included micromaster hot rod and kingdom/legacy core class hot rod?

also, I know it's never going to happen but I would love a separate release of micromaster hot rod with the micro trailer and some other bits as a deluxe class.

Anyone have G1 Sideswipe? Can you take a picture of the left side of the sticker on his knee for me?
Also can someone take a pic of the back of Studio Series 86 Megatron with the leg open?
Oh one more can you also do a size comparison of G1 wheelie to every version ever made?
And no I will not thank you in advance or afterward
Ok I’m waiting

>>11468151
it's hardly "no reason"
these characters were made absolutely massive on this show. the ONLY issue with it is just how unfeasible it is to do as a toy. the 21st century transformers anime basically never cared about scale, shit just becomes whatever size they want.

>>11468187
Everyone else in the original toyline is properly scaled so they obviously realized in 1999 this was a stupid idea

>>11468188
what

>>11468099
Big G demands better quality plastics.

>>11468078
>>11468081
I totally forgot about that set but I try to avoid repeats of characters and I already have an Optimus I like, Armada Optimus, and a Jazz I like, RTS Jazz.
The official Mainframe also has a massive backpack.

>>11468181
You could just buy Star Convoy and keep those bits. A lot of reviewers with no sense of joy or wonder seem to hate both those things.

>>11467703

Hank Hill's truck.

>>11468168
>how much of a paypig do you consider yourself?
Not much of one. I don't mind the look of Breakdown and I don't own the mold yet. I already have the Needlenose mold and I really like it. Only thing I don't really like is Windsweeper having Targetmasters instead of his og weapons.

>>11468081
>the Refraktor mold is just too good, and with a little finangling you can pratically make any alt
I always liked the crab.

(theoretical) Uh oh! Hastak has just screwed up big time and needs a new commander class. Unfortunately, they can't make an actual commander class. They have tasked (you) with making a voyager worth commander pricing. Steep challenge, I know. (You may only include one pack-in partner of core or smaller size)

>>11468309
Armada Overload. Take the orignal toy, add elbows and knees, make him big and hollow, and you're done.

>>11468251
1/2 of the set is “I don’t mind it”. The other 1/2 is a toy you already own with a different head. Paypig behavior

>>11467703
The General Lee

>>11468314
It's not being a paypig if you like the mold

>>11468318
i despise the fact that you people saw a sick culture of parasocial but primarily monetary relationships growing up out of the scarcity of female companionship, and you decided to make a culture around disliking it, coming up with mean names for the victims, and then applying those by way of metaphor to anyone engaging in commerce.

>>11468321
Boo hoo nigga

>>11468321
i despise the fact that you people saw a sick culture of parasocial but primarily monetary relationships growing up out of the scarcity of female companionship, and you decided to make a culture around enjoying it, coming up with cute names for the victims, and then applying those by way of metaphor to anyone engaging in commerce.

>>11468321
i despise the fact that you people saw a sick culture of parasocial but primarily monetary relationships growing up out of the scarcity of female companionship, and you decided to make a culture around enjoying it, coming up with endearing names for the victims, and then applying those by way of metaphor to anyone engaging in commerce.

>>11468326
that's.. never happened?

>>11468321
>>11468326
I honestly have no idea what this copypasta could be referring to

>>11468330
I made it up on the spot, someone thought it'd be funny to 'no u' and it was SO funny, that even after he made a typo, he deleted it and tried again..
the number of cooldowns this fucker sits through to make that poor a point...

if you genuinely don't recognize the subject, 'paypig' is what you call someone who pays camgirls

it really do be like dat

I'm normally a G1 guy but I feel like we could scrap the leaders from the ss86 line for a year or so to give them breathing room to do the AOE dinobots.

>Been away for two years
>Do a deep cleaning of the house
>While doing this, I find that purple retool of the Bee movie Arcee with one side just covered by an orange goop.
>no clue what it was, but it seems to have started from the shoulder joint.

What the hell is this? Some mold agent? I sure know this wasn't here the last time I fiddled with it.

>>11467568
Good thing I got him and Grimlock right when they opened up. I was watching the clock like a hawk after the stream

>>11467497
Still no obvious Eggman bot, though. The dude has literally made giant mecha in his own image numerous times in canon; it would be perfect. Seriously, Unicron retool into the Death Egg when?

>>11468340
Bait?

>>11468102
>the Fire Valkyrie with Optimus Prime's head.
Blaster would have been a perfect fit for this - same colors, same abilities, would totally rock out with Basara. Nope! We're getting Optimus Prime #2664568 instead.

>>11468358
death egg robot should be what the robot mode looks like, but I can't see it being an alt mode unless it's titan master compatible.

I want the egg drill from sonic 2 as an alt mode with a removable eggmobile + wrecking ball accessory that can be used as a flail in robot mode.

>>11467680
I only got this for Breakdown. Other guy is in a bin somewhere in a closet Mold works a lot better for Breakdown than it did Bulkhead

>>11468177
Nobody would ever admit to owning core class Hot Rod but luckily for you, Mark anticipated this months ago.

>>11468373
I'd buy it off you if you're willing to sell it

>>11468355
... you don't happen to have a teenage son, do you?

>>11468368

>>11468099
Are there any figures you'd recommend for late-Showa Godzilla, where he's a grumpy but reliable friend of humanity? Most figures I've seen are the longer less-humanoid incarnations where he screams indiscriminately

>>11468378
>Nobody would ever admit to owning core class Hot Rod
I feel bad enough that I now want one...

>>11468393
he's really not that bad of a figure but the kibble can be unsightly. its easy to remove though. My biggest problem is the fact he has a completely hollow head but that's pretty accurate to hot rod so

Rotb core exo suit is just a microman in disguise. Seriously they could’ve released different colored ones with alt heads and maybe different back drones boom new microman. Pairing it with the siege sword dog is also great.

>>11468396
I think something about the face and overall figure was very underwhelming to me, but more appealing when thinking that it's a micromaster running around.

>>11468378
Why is the sword circumcised?

>>11468413
hot rod saw the holy light and converted to Judaism alongside downsizing his body to the micromaster form

>>11468417
>what do i need with playing basketball anyway, I've got a law firm
>>11468413
wait do you mean because the tip is flat? because that's.. not..
if anything, a foreskin is flat at the end.

Just ordered both of the SS86 battle damage packs. Feels like the definition of an indulgence, but I figure any G1 Decepticon display could benefit from having the charred corpses of Ratchet, Prowl, Ironhide and Brawn strewn about. And I got them both for about 70 bucks, which feels good knowing they retailed for 55-60 individually.

>>11468447
I still find these hilarious, and will buy Wheeljack/Windcharger one if they ever make one. Bit morbid, sure, but their role in the movie was literally to die and make room for new guys, and having toys of them doing just that is most movie accurate thing in the entire line

>>11468478

>will buy Wheeljack/Windcharger one if they ever make one

Same. And yeah, being able faithfully recreate the Autobot massacre is also appealing. A) Because it's one of my favorite scenes and one of the most iconic scenes in the movie B) I think that scene plus the death of Optimus Prime are two of the most important moments in the entire franchise as far as what they meant for its future.

>>11468413
It's an american toy.

>>11467407
Was omega supreme always that expensive, like I swear I got guardian robot for like 200 maybe 250usd max when he was released

>>11468378
Why won’t they listen to true and honest people who wanted micromaster hotrodimus and not this bigger shit

I got a little excited this guy was announced, but then I remembered how much worse the Grapple version of this mold is compared to the Inferno version. The changes are so minor, but it affects how the hips/torso fit together, and the boom getting half-crumpled and jamming into the back is so much less satisfying than the ladder's complete disappearing act.

Are there any other potential repaints for the fire truck version? Or are Inferno and Artfire all we got?

>>11468645
>The changes are so minor, but it affects how the hips/torso fit together
Yeah, I actually got Grapple when he came out and thought he was cool enough, then I got Artfire on a whim and it felt like a completely different, better version of the same toy, to the point that I ended up selling Grapple off even though he was the only one I wanted, originally. I've read that the two molds actually only share 50% of their parts, and while that might be a sourceless bullshit claim, I kind of want to believe it. Everything about Grapple feels so much clunkier and less-satisfying.

Not sure what aftermarket prices are like, but If you want the firetruck version, Artfire is worth it. Personally, I'm impressed he got a dedicated, original mold for his Targetmaster that hasn't been repurposed or repainted at all, since.

>>11466049 (OP)
I'm curious. Anyone think Nexus Prime will be a Supreme class Combiner team core frame, like Silverbolt or Motormaster?

>>11468714
I hope it's like two or three deluxes and/or voyagers stuck to each other or something.
Something something about the earlier combiners being primitive technology wise and yet sentient unlike now where they are more complex yet stupid.

>>11468714
We know he's going to be a voyager, so..

>>11468727
So...like Skytread or Battletrap? Maybe a 3 vehicle combiner like the Micron Teams or Arcee Sisters?

>>11467816
We can push the scope of this further.

>>11468604
No I'm pretty sure Omega Supreme Titan class was $150 when it originally came out when I bought it

>>11467489
I'm a bongoloid so no idea mush

>>11468604
Definitely not, £150 at least, maybe a little more but not over £200. As much as I would like him, Chris Cocks is gonna have to suck mine for that £250

How likely is 86 Slug to get a package refresh? Besides Grimlock (who I've got on preorder) he's the only Dinobot I'm missing.

>>11468848
likely, I believe the Dinobots are going to get package refreshes across the next two years according to leaked listings. You're going to have to wait a little bit though.

>>11468645
SG Inferno?? which is super that's unlikely, so yeah

>>11468664
>I've read that the two molds actually only share 50% of their parts
Yep that's true (source: Figure King n°224 (Sept 2016))

>>11468645
SG Inferno?? which is extremely unlikely, so yeah, there's no other character to do with the mold

>>11468664
>I've read that the two molds actually only share 50% of their parts
Yep that's true (source: Figure King n°224 (Sept 2016))

Guessing if the rumored second commander is thunderclash using the motormaster mold while retooled then the combiner form is hyperdrive?

Is it just one anon's recent obsession or is there a Hyperdrive fever going around?

>>11468925
When there is a fixation that isn't my own, I just assume some YouTuber or something made a video about the subject.

>>11468918
The second commander being a retool would be gay. Jetfire or nothing.

>>11468918
>thunderclash using the motormaster
Would hate that. Thunderclash deserves an update with a brand new mold just for him.

>>11468918
Disgusting

>>11466868
>Literal troon pedo cartoon
Stop it

>>11467588
>>11467597
>TF One slop still clogging up shelves and on clearance
>They're actually doing more
Why?

>>11468645
I think that guy fixed the peg breakage issue found on Grapple at least.

>>11469154
you know those are opposites, right
these poltroons are the ones trying to push age of consent to 25 and beyond, and neuter all the kids so they can never have any

oh wait I am on the wrong board to not get banned for that

>>11469161
Because they liked it. Development of Transformers are many months ahead, so you can't have "holy fuck these things from last year are still on shelves" influence decisions until it is too late to correct.

>>11469161
I'm told it was actually a good movie, despite all appearances.

>>11469017
Chances are the second commander won't be a new mold. Could just be G2 Motormaster.

>>11468848
Didn't they just DO another run of him months ago?

>Age of the Primes Deluxe Wave 2 made landfall in New Zealand
>Managed to find Vortex in the wild
Based.

>>11469332
good on ya

>>11469274
Last year, around March-April.

Just got Legacy Quake in the mail and by god this is the worst fucking alt mode I've seen on a mainline TF in ages. It's amazing that they somehow took an already ugly toy (Skullgrin) and retooled it to somehow be even worse. It sucks cause I actually really like the look of the robot mode, the head's pretty much perfect. If only the tank mode wasn't designed by a first grader.

>>11469400
>Just got Legacy Quake in the mail
You did this to yorself.

>>11469400
Why would you buy a turd? Knowing it's a turd?

Between God Fire Convoy and Star Convoy, I'm feeling pretty... completed as far as big Autobots go. I don't know what else they could make that I would want. As for Decepticons, I'm going to need a Devil Gigatron, and I would love, just love, if they would make a new Star-Convoy-scale-and-engineering-esque Overlord.

>>11469413

I think an Alpha Bravo from Vortex is reasonably likely, apparently he's compatible with Silverbolt.

>>11469413
Honestly I bought him on discount just for the Targetmasters but I wanted to at least give the main figure an honest try in hand. The thing really suffers from being a heavy retool instead of its own figure.

Odd choice not to have a hole for a stand somewhere for shark mode

>>11469462
Should have given shark mode landing gear for lols

Decent figure though. Kinda bummed about not backing Omega Prime i may pay the scalpers tax...

>>11469194
why don't you just... watch the movie and see for yourself?
>>11469161
because the slop is bad, but this stuff is good? are you dumb, anon?

>>11469463
Would be better then nothing for sure.

>>11469462
just really wish there was more back here, just to disguise the forearm and what appears to be the other arm below it. the original had something like this, you couldn't see that cylinder in beast mode.
Come on, thirdparty guys. move to america and start churning kits out. nobody will notice. give us lil hinged parts there and in robot mode I guess they can.. plug under his pauldrons.

>>11469465
I have a massively long list of movies i haven't watched. and games i haven't played. basically since I got good at art, that's all I do now. I'm starting to see how mangaka can do it all day and literally have no other life.

>>11467889


If it takes a single Titan release to get them out, that's fine as long as he matches the eventual Ruination in size. That still leaves the individual guys being absolute units in size.

>>11469414
A full G1 gimmick star convoy sized Overlord with hefty plastic would be kino with the actual correct base mode.

>>11469500
Overlord is not Star Convoy sized. He'd likely be smaller cause he'd be more complex because of what he has to pull off in his transformation anyway.

>>11469503
Star Convoy isn't Star Convoy sized, the new one is 15 inches and the original was 12. Meanwhile, the G1 Overlord toy actually was 15 inches tall.

>>11469414
Good grails, but I could go for a Metrotitan too.

>>11469507
Okay, and? Nobody cares about the old toy scale, Hasbro is mostly focusing on their fictional scale with the current toyline. Star Convoy is one of the tallest leaders of all of G1. A Titan Overlord would tower over even MPG God Ginrai.

>>11469507
boy that is unbalanced with a shuttle on only one shoulder..

>>11469537
Headcanon piled onto headcanon.

>>11469200
Mark Maher hinted in that Q&A he did a few weeks ago that the second commander wouldn't be a combiner.
>Q: Will Commanders mostly just be combiner torsos for the foreseeable future or will there be other things?
>A: I think you will be seeing two Commanders sooner than later to disprove that theory! (wink!)

He also said that Hasui wants to make a commander class Armada Jetfire.

>>11469420
I think the most frustrating thing about Quake is that his transformation is quite interesting for a deluxe but the end result is that tank. Also, his bot mode is pretty much spot on but the colours are all wrong.

I want to apologize for all the times I was rude or mean to you guys. It was mostly just directed at the trolls but no matter. This hobby and our discussion should be nothing but fun and I think I have been too abrasive too often here. Im sorry.

>>11469578
it 'appens. it's a different version of the same thing that frequently afflicts groups of artists. There's an eccentricity particular to people who enjoy collecting fun little objects you can mess with, and a lot of it involves being given a lot of shit for it
funny nobody gets to grow up with toys as normal, because now kids don't even bother with them

>>11469400
Hopefully DNA Design or some 3rd party will make an upgrade kit to make his alt mode not complete shit.

>>11469554
Wouldn't Armada Jetfire technically count as a combiner though.

Personally I'd love if the second Commander class was a new Super Megatron to go up against Star Optimus.

>>11469400
>haven't been paying too close attention to mainline for a while, been a 3P Chad for ages
>the past few lines of stuff have looked mostly decent though from what I know, and the big box items have been good (titans, commanders, etc)
>go check what this anon is talking about
What the fuck did they do to that figure.

>>11469554
From his words it sounds like he's counting the second Commander Class toy we're getting besides Onslaught in addition to the next Commander Class toy after it that will show up in 2027. So anyone wanting Hot Spot will definitely have to wait a while.

>the damn door keep falling down

I got the door straighten and even tried to tighten the screw on the side (it won't turn)

Is it just mold degradation and there is nothing I can do besides using some sticky tack or polish on the side of the clicking tabs?

>>11469578
You're good, anon.

>>11469662
what the hecc

>Against my better judgment, I want to get Superion
>Amazon saves my assumption by having Slingshot at 32.
Thanks, Amazon.

>>11469630
No idea, really - you're the first person I've heard complain about it, and my Tryp most certainly doesn't have the issue - I've been transforming him pretty regularly now with no problems whatsoever.

So what do you guys reckon the next haslab is gonna be? Tell me what your dreams told you

>>11469747
My nightmare tells me it's Energon Optimus Prime and that it'll fail just so Hasbro can prove no one wants Energon toys.

>>11469554
>>11469602
i think it'll be Broadside, Mark hinted at one last year.

>>11469747
Gigatron or Multiforce. I say Gigatron because the last Autobot was RID/Car Robots. So even tho the current/just funded HL is Liokaiser, a Decepticon - it might be something they consider... I'm not sure if there is actually a pattern of alternating between Autobot and Decepticon, but in my mind it is real.
I say Multiforce because, if that pattern is a thing, then an Autobot counter to Liokaiser would make sense and a mainline Landcross will probs never happen.

As much of a win I would consider both those options to be, I actually hope it is something completely out of leftfield that catches everyone off-guard.

>>11469161
Transformers One toyline=/=SS Transformers One

>>11469754
I'm sure Energon OP will be a commander at some point.

>>11469773
That'd be cool, would they do an all in, ultimate Broadside with alternate heads for comic and toon versions or gamble on the initial release being enough of a success to release a redeco down the line?

>>11469773
I could see it being Broadside but I also he’d be a good candidate for the new smaller titan class.

>>11469800
*also think

>>11469774
>I'm not sure if there is actually a pattern of alternating between Autobot and Decepticon
Wouldn't matter anyway - Gigatron is a Predacon.

>>11469730

Amazon pricing is really fucked up and weird with certain figures currently. Slingshot and Solus are both 32, but all the recently announced deluxes are 25.

>>11469470
It's that way do the tail can move.

>>11469630
That's a well know issue on the original release, after straightening mine it stays closed but if you already tried that I don't know what else it can be.

>>11469162
What "peg breakage issue"?

>>11469864
The pegs that tab the crane piece into the robot legs are prone to snapping off in the slots due to being hollow and weak. They were fixed for Inferno and I gather Road Hauler.

>>11469162
>>11469872
That was an Earthrise Grapple issue, not an MP issue

>>11469778
I honestly don't know if Energon Optimus can be done at Commander. My hope is that Energon Optimus in Super Mode will make him stand as tall as Magmatron or SS86 Ultra Magnus but doing so would make him Titan Class because it would be a figure that big plus a big empty trailer. If they make him a Commander chances are he would be roughly the same height as the modern Leader Class toy in Super Mode and to me that's too small.

>>11469920
Mmm, I'm not seeing it
To imply a commander would be that small would be to imply that energon OP is at all a complicated figure that uses up all that plastic, which he really isn't.
Energon OP's transformation is like 3 steps, his trailer is a big empty skeleton, the drones are the only complicated part and they really don't have to do much
The skeleton combiners are already that big *without* extra shit, I don't see why fattimus couldn't also pull it off

I wasn't super into him initially (and I think that's mostly because of the weird way he was packaged), but Mags is growing on me as I mess around with him more.

>>11469807
You pedantic fucker, good-guys and bad-guys then (inb4 any potential lore based grey morality of characters has you been a cheeky shite again).

>>11469920
Look at Jetfiire, Skylynx and Magmatron. Energon Prime could easily be done in mainline.

>>11470022
He's easily one of the best/stand out figures of The Transformers entire history.

>>11468714
So what exactly is Nexus meant to be, a gestalt of a variety of disparate vehicles similar to Bruticus?

Ever since that anon mentioned it I've been looking at that Transmetal Primal on eBay for $20 and wondering if I should snipe it at the last second and start a downfall into collecting vintage Beast Wars toys or just let it go and use my money for food

>>11470152
Food you eat and shit out, meaning it's gone forever.

Plastic you eat becomes microplastics in your body, which stays with you forever. Make the correct choice, Anon. Let Primal live shiny and chrome, forever in your body.

>>11470162
I am mentioning it here hoping someone else bids enough that I won't be able to, but... you make a good point

Uh....Impactor...?

>>11470224
He's in desperate need of gap fillers

>>11470232

Yeah, I was just thinking that. I didn't realize how hollow the legs were until I took that shot.

>>11469860
and you don't feel that was even possibly avoidable. and you're okay with that sharp a bend even when the rest of the body doesn't

>>11470022
Definitely weirdly packaged. you couldn't enjoy any mode straight out of the box.
>>11470165
the chrome must be in terrible shape for it to be so cheap

>>11470244
I can't tell actually

Your move, anons!
Got this guy on sale, why didnt anyone tell me this mould was so fun and fluid?

>>11470254
it's sealed? and it's japanese?
.... there's gotta be some catch, but.. go for it dude. if you regret it later, resell it for more than 20 bucks.

>>11470258
There's 39 minutes left on it and only one bid, I think I'm gonna go for the snipe after all

>>11470241
You don't need to move the joints until it looks it's tail is broken you know. It's better that it being a solid brick. Also it's a fucking cybork shark, don't need to think so hard about it.

>>11470256
You didn't notice how this mold got released like 900 times and no one really complained?

>>11470256
We did, you just refused to listen.
Now do yourself a favour and get Armada Wheeljack, the absolute best version of the mold.

>>11469730
I'm 3/5 now and I'll do comparisons when I get all but I'm not feelin what we got already
Had to return and get a second Air Raid too

>>11470022
I kinda love this guy. The show is stinky garbage but god damn do I love the whole 3 in 1 gimmick

>>11470301
I suppose not, sometimes I think a serviceable one beats people into submission or gets a pass when it's just a car guy
>>11470311
I refute such claims.
What makes him the best version, paint or just feels better in hand?

>>11470256
>>11470311
I only have the Sideswipe version of this mold. Man, this figure is amazing. One of my favorites!

>>11470336
>I refute such claims.
>What makes him the best version, paint or just feels better in hand?
Mostly deco. The mold is great in every flavour the black on white with teal and gold is next level sexy. The new chest is also fantastic.

>>11470336
>I refute such claims.
>What makes him the best version, paint or just feels better in hand?
It's the deco. The mold is great in every flavour but the black on white with teal and gold is next level sexy. The new chest is also fantastic.

>>11470256
Those are Sideswipe’s weapons, fyi

>>11470320
I'm just happy the plane modes no longer have morbidly obese hips. CW Skydive especially just bugged me.

>>11470264
Did you win?

>>11470361
To be clear, I was refuting my refusal to listen, not the assertion that he was the best of the mould as I only have one figure of said mould and as such couldnt possibly talk such smack
>Mostly deco. The mold is great in every flavour the black on white with teal and gold is next level sexy. The new chest is also fantastic.
I do like a nicely applied gold trim and contrasting deco, the white in your photo is particularly sharp looking. How much does the new hood differ from the more common one? besides the obvious gouge mark and neat exposed internals detailing in it

>>11470371
No...

>>11470367
Do you think Sideswipe loaned them out? surely Clampdown wouldn't steal em.

>>11470397
I'm sorry to hear, anon

>>11470403
It's okay
Hopefully it's someone here who will at least play with it who won

I wonder if thus a good place to ask or if I should start a new thread...
I have the PE upgrade for Volcanicus (the weapons, armor, and Grimlock-beefing bits), but I seem to have lost the instruction manual in a recent move. Does anybody have scans of the combination instructions? I remember I had to do something weird with the crotch arrangement.

>>11470397
been there. i hate auctions. just put things up for a price, give people maybe a day.

>>11470311
what the dick kind of weapon is that

>>11470423
A hitting stick

>>11470320
I own Air Raid and Slingshot and love the joints, perfect tightness and super smooth. Plastic feels nice too.

>>11470425
feels like it'd be less effective than just a robot fist.

>>11470461
>t. fisting expert

>>11470320
Did they fix the flimsy assembly for the combiner shoulder joint?

>>11470474
kek
i am kinda good with material physics though. it's funny how we sometimes forget that these robots are all made of the same stuff they use to hit each other. so the shapes should be pretty different. I mean imagine the kind of weapons we'd use if the only material we had was flesh with a few bones for interior structure and maybe slightly at the end for impacts.

>>11470311
I can't recommend this in good conscience because it's just a terrible wheeljack
The SG version at least had a cool deco with actual color breakup and better utilied paint apps, but I don't get why people were clamoring for a repaint, knowing how bad and inaccurate it would be

>>11470615
I want a repaint of that minicon

>>11470423
They're shock batons. They don't need to look cool when their whole purpose is to paralyze whoever they whack.

>>11470650
anon, shock batons are really cool! you didn't SAY shock batons.
they should have a crackling energy effect piece you can slide on

Sky-Byte is a damn good figure. After how they blew both Laser Prime and Armada Megatron's shoulders it's great how unhindered his arms are by his huge pauldrons.

>>11470675
I'm looking forward to him once he's on even a -slight- discount. it'll be fun having a transmetal 2 on my shelf that isn't weirdly disproportionate.. well I have cheetor and dinobot and blackarachnia up on my top "random weird cool shit" shelf, in beast mode, along with the movie dinobots and stuff, but...

Why was CW so ass, and why did eat it up

>>11470714
Why were G1 toys so ass and why were they eaten up? Because they weren't ass by the standards of the time, dipshit.

Is this guy any good? I don't own the mold yet, but I hear he feels more solid than Jazz.

>>11470752
He's alright. Not some must have, get on sale if you can.

>>11470752
His ankles are somewhat terrible.

>>11470761
Terrible how?

>>11470752
I have him and jazz, cause I'm a huge knockout fan
You can transform him slightly differently to make him stand out more from jazz, but honestly, he's just kind of disappointing- for knockout

however, if you don't plan on owning any other version of the mold, there's nothing wrong with him. The mold is a *great* mold.

>>11470763
They're rounded and don't provide good support so they lead to him falling backwards often.

>>11470752
He's a worse SS86 Jazz Mold and a Worse TF Prime Knockout that barely resembles TF Prime's twink ass Knockout

>>11470714
well they were coming off of the heels of being the WB, and-
oh. uh, slavish interconnectivity without any thought to making the modes good.

Thanks, DHL
Super cool as always

>>11470806
Thankfully the insides are in better condition

I didn't know it was a book style box with an embossed slip cover
Very lush for Hasbro

>>11470723
>Because they weren't ass by the standards of the time
I thought they were ass and didn't buy a single one of them. That CW year was great to save money.

He’s getting there

>>11470714
CW was one of the most fiery romances and cold break-ups this general may have gone through
Most everyone was 100% on board with a whole line of combiners from the start
We ate up the first two waves and were hungry for more, heck Victorion got the Hot Spot torso simply because it was a new mold we hadn't got our hands on yet
By the time wave 3 came out the honeymoon was over and with wave 4 being all repaints the love died basically over night
The only people sticking around were the one waiting for Bruticus or found value in arguing over which version of Computron was better

>>11470813
that is indeed unusual for hasbro. I never know what to do with packaging that nice.

>>11470817
>Well if it isn't my old friend Dudicus Greg, with nothing for an arm and nothing for a leg!

>>11470817
>please, my son, he's sick

>>11470806
>>11470813
Kinda wanted the set but Optimus's Smokestack shape bugs me and I hate ordering Pulse exclusives

Not really toy related, but I found this and thought I'd share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pau2olEbnc

>>11470938
pretty neat but.. that shit on either side of his face.. resting above his pecs, which rest above his shoulders.. i dunno.

>"Uhhh, maybe it'd be best if you stayed here for now, Staks. The Cybertronians might think your head's missing..."
>"But I can see just fine!"
>"That would compound their concerns."

>>11470949
transtectors are confuse

>"Don't be so limited in your vision, Smallfoot. Behold, Bug Bite, the mightiest of Headmasters!"
>"Did Leader-1 have to agree on sending such a flippant Go-bot?"

>>11470948
It's an odd place for his thigh vents, I guess the transformation is gonna be weird.

>>11470976
is.. is optimus prime getting a pole dance from this thing

>>11470980
It's one way to combine, bloody Deculture.

>>11469282
All the funsies of Devastator thrashing poor Sludge here. Figure-oh, you rock.

On a different note, MPG Godbomber is supposed to come out this weekend if anyone remembers the release window of MP Ginrai and MPG Super Ginrai. Hope many got that today.

>>11470999
as in.. gorgeous delicious?

>>11471013
I'm talking Deculture dude

>>11471014
yeah and I'm-
nevermind

>>11470976
His chest opens up like Optimus Prime's to reveal speakers, which wasn't the case on the original Fire Valkyrie (its speakers were attached to its Sound Booster backpack). Looks like they completely rearranged the original transformation specifically to give him that opening chest - his Fighter Mode cockpit is now hanging off of his back, and his legs presumably connect elsewhere now, hence why the exhaust vents that were originally on his hips now remain where they were in Fighter Mode.

>>11471032
that explains why his shoulders are so low. had to make room.

>>11471032
The VF-19 had the shoulder speakers too, which I'm surprised Basara Prime doesn't included. I suppose the chest ones are enough.
Speaking of his name, Basara Prime? I wonder if we'll get a comic or something explaining how he came to be. A Prime or Convoy getting really into Fire Bomber to the concern of the other Autobots would be explanation enough.
>Bumblebee, is Prime alright? He seems a bit off...
>I dunno, he just keeps mentioning something about "dancing on the planet dance"

>>11471046
>I wonder if we'll get a comic or something explaining how he came to be.
I'm even more curious about how that Matrix Guitar of his came to be. Looks rad, but it's definitely not what you would call a 'standard issue' Matrix.

Baychads won

>>11471054
We've had Matrix Blasters before, and Basara doesn't like weapons, so going in on the guitar makes sense

>>11471056
Not untill it will be known as TF 6. I want my final movie.

>>11471065
it would be kind of nice to close that universe out, yknow. something fitting... before a major voice actor inevitably bites the big one

>>11471056
I have waited

All info we know so far:


>according to leakers (Belloni and Sneider) we get:
>an animated Skybound adaptation is in the works at Paramount
>a live action Bay reboot movie
>a live action Josh Cooley movie
>RotB, TLK and One are not getting sequels, TF vs GIJoe is cancelled.

>>11471056

>>11471079
Here are Vandina's credits...

>>11471065
>>11471067
It's said to be a reboot, nothing to do with previous films. Josh Cooley is also working on a live action TF film (not a TF One sequel).

Also, Paramount loses the film rights if they don't release anything until 2029

>>11471056

Please have not terrible art direction this time.

>>11471056
I am ready for more BAYHEM. Geewunners and bluesky trannies be damned.

>>11470817
>"It's a living."

So, I suppose those troll threads that a certain someone spammed the board with when '86 Megatron's pics were finally leaked had one benefit: they made me aware of a Megatron toy I didn't previously know existed. I wasn't collecting yet around the time Classics came out, and while I was aware of Classics Megatron (and the more Megatron-y colored Takara version) from pics I'd seen years later, I had no idea the mold had been released in red as well. While I had always wanted a gun Megatron (my first - and last - Megs was the G2 "Megatron Rules!" purple one; after that, I got all the Beast Wars Megatrons, who are a separate character entirely, and didn't get another incarnation of the G1 guy again until Siege decades later), I had no real interest in the Classics mold because of the stupid Nerf gun colors , and didn't have enough of an attachment to the silver color scheme to bother chasing down the Takara variant, but seeing the red version posted in that thread caught my eye. After learning he was from an exclusive 2-pack, I tracked it down.
The box was neat, and while I wanted to keep it, I was disappointed to find upon lifting the front flap that there was mold growing inside (all the white specks you see covering it in the picture) despite it having still been sealed in its plastic sleeve (which, admittedly, wasn't exactly air-tight). Fortunately, no mold got inside the box, though I wiped down both figures just in case.

Robot modes. While the box states that this two pack was intended to recreate their fight from the '86 movie, neither Megatron nor Optimus look anything like their original incarnations. I knew this would be the case and am actually fine with it - this was more for the novelty, and Megatron in particular looks different enough that I plan on repurposing him as an original character (though I'm not sure what I want to call him yet. Heat Shot? Heat Ray? Something 'hot' or 'fiery'). He's got a very different face from either Megatron that I'm used to, a very different torso, and a pair of what are described as being "wings" (his gun shell halves, just blatantly hanging off of his back) that G1/G2 Megatron doesn't normally have, on top of the new (but cool) red colors on his extremities. He also holds his Fusion Cannon underslung instead of on the top/side of his arm, and it reminds me a bit of a Flamer from Fallout for some reason, so I'm headcanoning it as being a combination flamethrower/mortar launcher instead of a laser. His articulation is pretty decent - on par with my old Beast Wars guys - so while he's not a great looking Megatron, he's a decent figure overall.
Prime, on the other hand, has some issues. First, upon looking at his instructions, I realized his knee covers were actually on backwards; I had to disassemble his legs to flip them around. Next, his arm kibble, while less blatant than Megatron's shell halves, doesn't have any way to lock in place and gets in the way often, which annoys me; they're clear blue, so I guess they can act as some kind of energy shields, but they're still cumbersome. The head sculpt is kinda cool, and I like his weapons (which can turn into a back mounted turret or jetpack); he also has some really nice metallic blue paint. He looks closer to who he's supposed to be than Megatron does, but is still different enough that I may use him as a stand-in for G2 Sureshot, unless anyone has ideas for a cool name for him, too.

Alt modes. Megatron's transformation consists of his limbs dislocating and rotating around before his 'wings' close around him, making a neat pistol of fictional make. His trigger moves and makes a rather satisfying click when you pull it, and you can actually look through his sights, which have crosshairs in them (though you really can't see a whole lot). You can keep his toes and heel extended on his 'handle' to make him stand up. I will never not hate US gun laws for forcing the stupid orange caps on him; I'm considering painting both gold to match the other accents on his body (why not? I don't plan on carrying him around in public).
Prime turns into a truck as usual, though now he's a cab-over truck with a wind vane (made from his big blaster; I like the big Autobot face printed on it) on top. With the knees flipped the right way around, they now fold a bit more neatly against his bed, though he doesn't have a trailer and has no actual way of connecting one to him anyway. His double-barreled shotgun spits and becomes his smokestacks. I'm...very confused by what the clear blue bits are supposed to be; they're what his annoying arm kibble unfolds into, and while they're clearly supposed to be the sides of his cab (and are painted normally on other releases of this mold), I'm not sure why they're clear blue here. His transformation is pretty straightforward, except for the part where you rotate his upper torso (right under his windshield pectorals) instead of rotating his waist.
They're not horrible toys - clearly dated, and not the best likenesses of the characters they're supposed to represent - but they're kinda neat, and I really like having an official 'gun Megatron' for the first time ever (even if he's not going to be 'Megatron' once I decide on a name for him - I'm seeing him as being more of an unhinged pyromaniac, along the lines of BW Inferno); as a bonus, he fits perfectly into my Black Zarak's claws, so he's being used as his main gun right now.

>>11470817
mine looks the same but the purple chest emblem doesnt seem to want to tab into the two tabs on the chest.

also what are the chances we get a G2 recolor of the constructicons? I want my yellow construction vehicles

Bumblebeebros...we lost

Baychads won

>>11471122
Gold painted caps would look terrific on him.

>>11471067
True, I hate Unicron-Earth thing since it removes chances for him to transform, unless humans will move to Cybertron.

>>11471076
Our time has come

>>11471084
Shame then, still I hope we get unique designs.

>>11471128
They will happen but not in next 2-3 years.

Article without paywall:
https://archive.is/20250627064740/https://puck.news/newsletter_content/what-im-hearing-hbos-comp-shake-up-peacocks-mini-purge-top-10-vanities/#selection-2101.0-2155.69

>Bay misses the ’bots (and the megabucks): Did you know that Michael Bay is developing a new Transformers movie at Paramount that he wants to direct? Bay, the auteur of explosions and up-skirt shots that defined the first five mega-grossers, had sworn off directing the franchise since his Shia LaBeouf–free Transformers: The Last Knight earned just $600 million in 2017—big, but about half the gross of the previous installment. (Paramount also tired of his astronomical fees.) Yet the franchise has atrophied without Bay, and he himself has not reached those box office heights since even complaining recently about not being able to get movies greenlit.

>Bay approached the studio last year to come back as a hands-on producer and possibly director, and he’s got writer Jordan VanDina working on a script. It’s one of five or so Transformers projects in development that David Ellison and Skydance will inherit if/when the Paramount sale closes. Josh Cooley, who made last year’s animated Transformers One, just closed a deal to pursue a live-action take. There’s also a possible G.I. Joe/Transformers crossover in development, and the studio has two separate ideas in early stages. Hopefully the Bay project will come together; it really is the perfect match of filmmaker and material. And Paramount can take its time. The studio keeps the rights as long as a movie is in production by 2029.

>>11470817
>"Draw me like 4/6th of your french girls"

>>11471152
His career is in the toilet so he's got to come crawling back to Transformers and Lorenzo loves him because he's a retarded crackhead. This is literally it for Transformers. The series is done.

>>11471079
>TF vs GIJoe is cancelled.

LMAO OH NONONO JOEKEKS

>>11471183
Hasbro has no say in all of this?

>>11471084
>It's said to be a reboot, nothing to do with previous films
We'll see what Lorenzo has to say about that

>>11471205
Nope, they gave up on the movies after TF One flopped

>I wish studio series focused on the bayverse again

The battle rages on.


Also, the nonsensical hammer they included in the SS86 release makes a good weapon for this Springer.

>we won
Feels nice

>>11471152
>Josh Cooley, who made last year’s animated Transformers One, just closed a deal to pursue a live-action take
Abysmal dogshit
Holy fuck

And to think there were doomerfaggots crying thinking that hasbro and paramount was no longer making TF movies lol

That has not aged well.

>>11471400
Hasbro still isn't. This is 100% paramount now

>>11471082
it's really not a good sign if there's only three things i recognize, one known to be awful, one referencing something trendy and pointless, and one an apparently upcoming sequel to something from a boring time period that really didn't need one
>>11471084
Uhh... well that's not good then. we already had a couple of those.
Just fuckin give us more beast wars but better.

>>11471121
Incendiaround? honestly Heat Ray is probably best.
>>11471148
it is unfortunate how Unicron-Earth removes his ability to appear and be present, but... I think they did that twice for a good reason: you cannot have Unicron appear and be physically present. He's the size of a planet. It's incredible that the old movie even tried, it's not a good idea to ever try that again. You physically cannot fight a planet.

>mfw bbts finally shipped my 4 devy bots after a week of telling them to ship my pile of loot

>>11471524
>You physically cannot fight a planet.
Primus and power of friendship says otherwise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBdzeI8YNkE&t=19s

>another year before we see Liege Maximo

>>11471539
Why the fuck did Superlink recast all the returning Micron Legend characters? Dipshit show.

>>11471540
You will see him during Pulsecon.

>>11471540
If he's first wave 2026 then there's a chance we see him at NYCC

>>11471543
No idea, still I like it.

>>11471540
Do you really want them to hurry? I mean, when they release him the Transformers toyline should abruptly end. That's the only way to make it accurate.

idw Rodimus made me bisexual

>>11471555
trips confirms this is happening

been a good run everyone

>>11471545
when's pulsecon?

>>11471532
Everybody seems to be having shipping problems atm. Usps is super bogged down without FedEx or DHL getting most international packages.

>>11471152
sounds like bay is going to save the franchise again, remember to thank him every time you'll buy an SS84 figure, he's the one funding it

>>11471539
the only thing you could do is downgrade him to very small asteroid size, and have everyone on earth worrying about the approach of this thing, and then it's Unicron and.. it's still fucking impossible to fight more than like, one of his eyes as a huge battlefield where everyone punches the ground for hours, but... idunno. it's a neat idea but it can't work.

>>11471601
Nah, at that point they just need to hire Bruce Willis and his band of oil drillers to plant a nuke in Unicorn's chassis before he gets too close. Perfectly doable...in fact, I get the feeling it's been done before...

>bay is coming back to make ugly bots and slop that just makes people want the franchise to go away for how it aggresively oversaturates the media world
The bayfag is a glutton who will cry unfair treatment after a gorillion movies, toyline domination and being the face of the franchise for years.
Hugo Weaving's wallet must be doing flips without him knowing why

Thoughts on Transformers One? Just got around to watching it. Was entertained and enjoyed it more than I anticipated.

>>11471560
How would a robot make you like women anon?

I never ever liked bayformers even back when i was a teenager
I wanted a new anime (preferably 2D like RID or Armada but I would've taken another Cybertron) but they gave us bayverse & Animated, both of which made me stop caring about the toylines for several years

>>11471604
why would it be him and not frank

>>11471619
i also want a new anime but it wouldn't be the same today. gotta go back in time.

kinda gotta go back in time for anything to be even tolerable.

>>11471615
It's really good. I loved the action scenes the most. But I think the designs are kind of wonky however.

Wait, is Star convoy supposed to be the 13th prime? Then, what's with the Hot rod mini figure?

>>11471634
The original toy had it.

>>11471634
Original lore was that not long after the end of the HM show, Rodimus was turned into a Micromaster to lead them. Later on it's brought up that this was an involuntary changed that was caused by the Matrix because it was something he needed to do (we don't even learn about Hot Rod being a Micromaster until Battlestars). Why he teamed up with Optimus isn't elaborated, though it could be lingering guilt over Optimus sacrificing himself in HM and Cybertron being destroyed. At this point in the fiction was also the first time they brought up Micromasters powering up regular transformers, so Hot Rod peobably gave him a significant boost since he also had the Matrix.

Cybertronian traffic stop

>>11471624
I love the designs but a lot of the (cogged) robots look like they don't transform at all

like what the fuck is post-cog Ironhide going to transform into?

I would love to get cogged jazz as a studio series figure though, god tfone jazz looks so good.

>>11471694
He's so good really
I still need an Auto Trooper

>>11471723
He really is, glad I caved and finally got him for what amounts to current retail clearance because he's just so fun to mess with. That's a sweet lineup anon, an autotrooper would go great there, makes me want one. Though what I would like is an 86 prowl, which is yours? Because it looks incredibly sleek.

>>11466049 (OP)
BAYKINO IS BACK HOLY SHIT

>>11471739
he doesn't get paid enough for that. i hope those three gorillas were put back in the zoo and the janitor got a promotion.

>>11470667
>shock batons are really cool!
BZZZT!

>>11471774
>Whyy Wazzzpinator get electric shockzzz?
>Izzz it beecauzzze Wazzpinator talkzzz with a buzzing? That'zzz racizzzt.

TIL that the japanese releases are literally the same figure and box but with japanese labelling stuck all over it

>>11471917
then howcome they aren't that

>>11471121
>I realized his knee covers were actually on backwards
No, you actually went out of your way to assemble them incorrectly.

>>11471121
those wings aren't too bad, but the fact that the revolver cylinder is visibly not anything from behind does bug me. it needs to be painted on both sides so you can at least say 'okay the revolver cylinder sorta moves somewhere else in robot mode and this leaves the shells behind' not 'look, unpainted plastic'

>>11471917
Let me guess, they'll reduce the sticker size on these new figures from 2025 onwards because of the uniform packaging style between Age of the Primes and Studio Series? Remember, they removed the numbers on all of them, and the 86 and Gamer Edition brandings are just gone.

>>11471929
So you're saying the instructions here are wrong? Because I flipped them to match what's shown in these pictures here.

>>11471939
Considering that the other side is more detailed and usually painted (such as on this version, the original), yes the instructions are wrong.

>>11471917
They've been like that since Siege
Wasn't until Earthspark that they brought back Takara exclusive packaging and paint jobs

>>11471122
>they're clearly supposed to be the sides of his cab (and are painted normally on other releases of this mold), I'm not sure why they're clear blue here.
I think they just didn't bother painting them.

>>11471937
isnt it funny how much stupider packaging has gotten
like we don't really care, we throw it away, but it's another sign of the absolute moronicity at play in every aspect of life.

>>11471967
>We throw every box.
>Star Convoy: But not this one.
Most Titans could get generic box designs, but there are a select few that are special.

Speaking of which, nobody has displayed the base modes of Star Convoy and MPG Super Ginrai's trailer together. My idea is putting the Ginrai base in front of Star Convoy as some sort of front building block, especially since the classic trailer base is actually shown in the first opening of Masterforce, and is actually a pretty good-looking base mode. But when we get to an MPG Overlord, I wonder if anyone will love the grandiose Castle Mode of that one...

>>11471943
meh, it's a two-second fix. Still seems odd that the official instructions would be wrong - especially given how often Hasbro's stock photography tends to be the offender instead.
>>11471951
This also seems strange, though. This pack was for the 30th Anniversary - why would they skimp on paint for a milestone set unless it was supposed to look a certain way for a reason?

>>11471982
I still wish I'd kept snippets of cardbacks from all my old toys.. wish my parents had thought to have me do that. would have been a fun way to scrapbook

>>11471589
It'll be amazing if his movie bombs

>>11471540
Nah, 5 months tops

is his name 'liege maximo', 'liege' (with the title of 'maximo'), or 'maximo' (with the title of 'liege')

>>11472000
A Liege is "A feudal superior or sovereign", so that's his title, with 'Maximo' being his actual name.

>>11472000
In the original context, he was Liege Maximo of the Cybertronian Empire. Jhiaxus had the title Liege Centuro, so it was just a title. However, every single future appearance only uses Liege Maximo as his name, so that idea was forgotten.

>>11472005
>In the original context, he was Liege Maximo of the Cybertronian Empire.
Makes sense - it literally translates from Latin into "The Greatest Sovereign Ruler", so it's not really a name at all. "Centuro" likely stems from the Latin 'Centurion", so Jhiaxus' title likely meant "Sovereign Leader of the Centurions/Soldiers" - he's the guy in charge of the army, but he's outranked by Maximo, who's the 'Greatest' and at the top of the chain of command.

>>11471988
Be real. it's what, 2026 at the earliest? No movie is going to do well. nobody sees em unless they're mobs following some meme.

Leake confirmed AotP's 2026 wave 1 leaders are Big Convoy and Razorclaw, wave 2 is >>11471540, and wave 3 is Armada Megatron and Unicron Soldier, but do we know what 2025 wave 3's leader is?

>>11472010
>The Greatest Sovereign Ruler", so it's not really a name at all
Like optimus prime?

A couple headcanons explain things easily
One, liege maximo is like the reverse of optimus prime, where the first is his name and the second is his rank, in this the first is the order (liege being the ruling class, and each liege has a specific name, like the popes.)
Another is that liege maximo has an ego and grants others a name in his style as a flex and it doesn't convey anything other than that they were chosen by maximo.

Another is his actual name is maximo prime, and all the 13 had ____ prime names, but those that went on to influence history ended up later being called something else (Prima, liege maximo, the fallen, alpha Trion, Maccadam, Nexus Maximus)

finally got Hook and Longhaul. Now that I have him in hand, can't wait to get the rest. Not even the big dumptruck of an ass is as bad as I thought it first was

>>11472024
Onyx Prime!

>>11472042
He's wave 2.

>>11472042
He's a Deluxe; he went up for preorder not too long ago. What rock were you hiding under?

Needed a replacement omega prime vac metal chest piece along with the optimus chest but who knows how that's going to go. Got it today and hasbro sent me the omega prime vac metal ear pieces instead. God fucking dammit.

>>11472063
>>11472065
What the fuck, you pricks? That just means there isn't a Wave 3 Leader at all. They could randomly pick a package refresh from a previous line, but there's no way it's Vector Prime because he's for 2026.

Is there anywhere other than ShowZ that got the fucking Blokees Devastator kit?

>>11472065
he's a deluxe???

>>11472075
Lies, Hasbro isn't sending anything out yet.

>>11472036
I see you didn't do the Bonecrusher fix.

>>11472065
This is a Leader
He's huge

>>11472087
Did you read my post I said:
>omega prime vac metal chest piece
>optimus chest but who knows how that's going to go
They've tried to send me the vacc metal chest piece, but sent me the ears instead.

i think we've been had, and it wasn't a deluxe at all

>>11469400
Okay, counterpoint:
This Quake sucks but I think Skullgrin gets way too much shit. Skullgrin is neat

MPG Godbomber's been showing up time and again, but many people's brains are fried with the announcement of Michael Bay's return to Transformers. You fools have to show off the pics, now.

>>11472105
Skullgrin is trash.
>>11472114
No one gives a shit about anything Masterpiece, not for years now.

>>11471739
Kek

Cyberworld Elita-1's chest looks like that is supposed to form parts of the altmode, but doesn't. Guess that is vestigial from how she's heavily based a more complex comic book character.

When are the amazon preorders for long haul and hook going to roll out? I want my amputee devy already.

>>11472065
>>11472097
Are we being retarded on purpose?
I'm so confused
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/317519
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/317519

>>11472144
god, I so wanted this guy to be good.
i don't think even 3p can save him, especially since they'd have to replace like half the figure.

>>11472105
IMO the best use of the Skullgrin mold is the G2 Cybertronian Trooper.

>>11472138
I just got a notification from Amazon that my Vortex is going to arrive 2 months early. Im thinking the Constructicons are gonna do the same. Bbts got theirs in. I should be excited about this but my budget is totally fucked

>>11469413
Hey, I liked Legacy Quake! He fits well with my Needlenose and Spinister.

>>11471183
>His career is in the toilet
Quite literally

>>11472182
kek

>new 24.99 charge on my card from Amazon

Huh, wonder if Vortex is getting ready to ship early. Only one it could really be since all the other figures I have on preorder were announced within the last month.

>>11467703
Robotnik is a must

so is star prime a good figure
he seems kinda eh from reviews

>>11472193
hollow, thin, and not much good by himself but if you have siege/earthrise micromaster 'bases' or other legends/mm/core/legion class figures he can be a fun playset

>>11472192
It's still baffling that they skipped him for the Sonic crossover; he was the most obvious choice, given his penchant for making transforming mecha in his own likeness.
...I still want a Death Egg retooled from Unicron. It'll be insanely expensive and would never happen, but still.

>>11472214
Too big for that. Maybe Primus first, so that the Death Egg is a manageable size?

>>11472214
i'm sure sega did what takara and hasbro always insist: JUST THESE TWO. maybe knuckles. No room for anyone else.

>>11472195
>hollow
Everyone who complains about him being hollow is an idiot. HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE HOLLOW. His legs are his trailer and open up into bays and platforms for his base mode, and his chest is a command center. How could you possibly expect him to be solid when his transformation relies on him being hollow? How is this even a criticism when that's exactly how his original toy worked, and this is just a remake of that with modern articulation added?

>>11472218
>How could you possibly expect him to be solid when his transformation relies on him being hollow?
that's why i don't like base modes
you could at least put something in there, and have it fold out into a new part of the base mode (a pillar or something?)
I didn't like the hollowness of G2 megatron's legs, but.. it was just of the time.

>>11472224
>you could at least put something in there
The micro trailer (and Hotrod) goes in his right leg. The left one acts as storage for all of his blast effects. His chest has his wheels fold into it for robot mode. Everything gets filled one way or another.

>>11472227
hmm.. well, I do like parts storage, even if it is blast effects
alright, I can let him off the hook.

>>11472228
>even if it is blast effects
Thing is, he comes with so damn MANY of the things that, once you cram them all in, they hardly have enough room to even rattle around; the only noise you'll really hear is Hot Rod rolling back and forth in the micro trailer over on the other side, since he's actually only about half the length of it. Also, both of Prime's feet fold down to form his truck mode's trailer doors, so you can remove stuff (or even deploy Hot Rod and/or the micro trailer) without having to open the tops of the legs; I just did it to show you what's going on inside.

>>11472283
As far as I know you can't remove the micro trailer through the trailer doors, you need to open the leg. Witch is a pretty dumb design.

>>11472283
That's a good way to bend the hell out of your blast effects.

>>11472283
>not having zip bag for those
I wish we could get more effects and not same few just in new colors.

>>11472218
I just wish he had slightly thicker plastic

>>11472359
Oh no! Once they’re bent they’re ruined forever, there’s simply no way to straighten them again.

>>11472405
>its okay if I have to fix them every time I want to use them

Retard

Wow, my payment for Vortex got declined at 7:30am and just went out of stock while I was trying to pay for it at 9:30. Fucking shit

>>11472487
Let that be a lesson to you, In the future be less broke.

>>11472214
>he was the most obvious choice
The main characters were the most obvious choice, and they made toys of them.

>he puts his combiners in gestalt mode before he has the full set
Absolutely disgusting

I will display my devastator with his massive coomer left arm and babylegs.

>>11472359
As the person you're actually responding to, I've been making sure the pieces are all aligned relatively straight while in there. That being said, they're going to bend and warp anyway - literally all of the blast effects I've accrued over the years have warped just from gravity pulling on them, even if I leave them in a baggie. So since I'm constantly straightening them regardless, it really makes no difference where I store them.

>>11472549
>The main characters were the most obvious choice,
So Sonic and Eggman? They're the main characters who have been around from the start - Tails is the sidekick that was introduced in the sequel, and there's no Sonic the Hedgehog without a Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik to play off of. Again, he was the obvious choice.

>>11472597
like they dont already come warped brand new in the box lol

>>11472601
Dr who? You mean Sonic's arch nemesis and rival Zavok.

>>11472304
well it would keep it secure though
>>11472359
i'm not sure there's a way to avoid that
>>11472362
>zip bag
philistine! i have small boxes.. or tackle boxes for other action figure stuff

>>11472405
anon transformers already discourage you from transforming them by you having to be so gentle with them, having to reshape blast effects with a hairdryer every time you wanna use them is kind of unreasonable.
no, what we really need is like a pegboard to store them. with 5mm pegs. or holes, i forget how these work.

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/06/28/rumor-transformers-mpg-19-to-be-a-masterpiece-mp-13-soundwave-redeco-541061

I always wanted this guy. But not if its SG.

>>11472705
It could be Soundblaster, I'd be interested in that

>>11472710
Did that last time.

Maybe this one will be more cartoon accurate or something.

>>11472705
Hey a new Soundwave would be good if MPG wasn't a colossal shitshow with zero good releases since start
Man

>>11472741
Well this isn't new, so...

>>11472741
Any new Soundwave would be an improvement over MP13.

>>11472803
You're just tempting that monkey paw, aren't you?

>>11472085
How anyone could want this non-transforming shit is beyond me, but do your thing.

>>11472806
The joy of Blokees is in putting them together.

>>11472741
I thought MPG rattrap was supposed to be good

>>11472805
>le new toy MONKEY PAW
Fuck off with this retarded meme.

>>11472549
Yeah, don't try if everything works as intended until you get all of them and if something about the combination is fucked you can't return them anymore.

>>11472577
Yeah, don't try if everything works as intended until you get all of them and if something about the combination is fucked you can't return them anymore.

>>11471756
It's a skit.

>>11472877
Achai does good stuff.

>>11472877
thasa pretty cool look
i have little interest in these primes, the only one I cared about was onyx and they fucked his shit right up, but I must say the overall aesthetic is pretty cool here. and it's not based on any existing fiction, right? Like nobody has given us at least eight of these thirteen characters in the past.

>>11472885
must be old

>>11472803
>improvement over MP13.
How? That thing is amazing. The only thing i can think of is his leg articulation could be slightly improved.

If anyone was looking for a Megatronia (like I used to be), she's currently available at Mandarake

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1302052114&lang=en

There's also a guy who just listed her on TFW. His price is higher than what you'd likely pay getting her from japan, shipping and all.

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/massive-sale-mmc-siege-combiner-wars-legends-will-update-reguraly.1279412/

>>11472941
link's not workin

>>11472947
Looks like you have to go to their main page first to get a cookie, then you can view the listings.

https://www.mandarake.co.jp

Fuck making another MP Soundwave, redeco or otherwise? Do Blaster and his boys already.

>>11472950
baffling, but it worked. thank you.
.. not sure why I was so interested, I'm not gonna buy it.. I just wanted to see. I couldn't remember what Megatronia looks like.

>>11472881
Shifting them through their modes does not obligate you to connect them to eachother
>implying im a return pest
How many figures have you returned this year so far?

>>11472877
Does this figure have an ab crunch

>>11472994
No. The torso hinges very slightly backwards for alt mode.

>>11472993
it does if you want to make sure each mode functions
each combiner part is a triple-changer. part 3 is 'body part' and you gotta make sure they hook together right
technically he won't know for sure the torso guy is alright until he has all the limbs, but..

I didnt see this poasted. Boat Elita 1. Still pissed off these dont have elbows tho

>>11473002
pretty excellent for what it is.

>>11473002
This is definitely getting a blue version with a new head.

>>11472803
I kinda really like MP Soundwave but yea the legs could be cleaner I feel
I fucking love the details in him so I'm sad those will get scooped out

>>11472806
I came into 3 of the Vehicles, Then a friend tossed me two of the others from his box so I said fuck it and ordered the last off Aliexpress
Might as well go for it

>>11472824
We'll see

>>11472877
I want this

>>11473002
We're absolutely getting thunderblast from this toy.

>>11472705
Aahhhhh why can't we just get Unicron Trilogy MP toys? I just want to see Energon toys get updated since we're clearly not getting them in Generations. Armada MP toys would also be nice.

>>11472741
Sike

>>11473015
do they bother with new heads when they do the for-babies ones?

>>11473062
100%

>>11473022
It is Riptide in pink. Thunderblast would be a third at most.

>>11473081
interesting

>>11473022
I'm thinking Nautica rather than Thunderblast. Not enough underboob.

>>11473092
Robot mode definitely is closer if you ignore the lack of fans.

>11473033
>$800+ Turd
Lol
Lmao even
Rofl if I dare

>>11473126
It retailed for $600.

>>11473022
We're never getting any retool of this toy because it's a shitty shovelware-tier mold from a half-assed TV show toyline, like RiD 2015

>>11473062
Half the line are pretools
Wheeljack is jazz
Mirage is starscream
Elita is riptide
Galvatron is scourge
Chop shop is beast wars insecticon

They did the same thing with cyberverse

If 86 soundwave doesnt have a lazerbeak I will shit my pants.
>just need laserbeak to complete the cassettes
>impossible to find loose

>>11473168
>beast wars insecticon
ex-fucking-scuse me?

>>11473171
I thought the face made it obvious

>>11473179
But... well first of all I heard they have new heads anyway, previously..
secondly what the actual ass. why would you do a baby version of a character who exists only to please 90s kids

>>11473194
There's a whole list of reasons, here's some in roughly descending order of likeliness
>Keeping the trademark
>The designer has no self control
>You never know when some obscure character nobody gives a fuck about will become a face of the franchise, look at Elita-1

>>11473200
i like two of those.. i want those to happen more

>>11473194
Cyberworld is just weird like that. Cyberworld Scorponok is as much Energon Scorponok as it is G1 Scorponok.

Does 86 Megatron really have a Gunk mode?

>>11473194
>only to please 90s kids
Whom many of which now have children of their own. This can pull them back in to the brand / share the brand with their child. This line is actually brilliant. Personally Im just gonna eternally bitch about the lack of elbows. That will never be ok

>>11473229
You mean a gun mode? Not really - he comes with a 'gun mode' version of himself that functions as an alternate handheld weapon in robot mode, but does not transform into one himself. He's just another tank mode Megatron.