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Which scale is better?
>new Optimus combiner with Giraffe and Elephant arm optionsWait a minute....
>>11215732I prefer the new ones both solo and combined but CW Devastator better scales with Omega Supreme
>bought Scrapper and BoneyDamn FOMO.
>>11215727>New thread on page 9 or 10, or at image limit
>>11215732UW Devy with SS86 Prime, SS86 Devy with ER Prime.
>>11215735Takara chasing Bandai trends is nothing new.
You think hasbro will be the first to make a modern diaclone constructicon deco?
>>11215732
>>11215759Maybe as a convention exclusive boxset that is like $300 dollars or something.
>>11215759Nope, Super7 is doing that as "Wrecking Crew Devastator"
>>11215608>Free StraxusI kind of hate you. I can't get Straxus in Puerto Rico since shipping him from pulse put him at nearly $90. I have an extra 86 Prime axe an I don't even know what to do with it.
>Megatronus the Fallen>Optimus the Prime
>>11215796Robots: The Disguising
>>11215797World of Darkness is getting real wild these days.
wait did they actually canon-weld together megatronus and the fallen?
Fuck the haters. I like the SS86 Bee and Prime. Don't even care about how many times I bought them. They're my favorites followed by Starscream and Soundwave.
>>11215802They were always the same guy
>>11215814that doesn't sense at all
>>11215802They were always the same. His name was Megatronus Prime, then he was stripped of his rank and name after he disgraced himself, becoming known as 'The Fallen Prime'. That was always his story, though the details of what he did to get himself kicked out of the 13 varies from canon to canon.
>>11215804based toy enjoyer
>>11215820i knew the fallen was a fallen prime, but for him to also be megatron's namesake is kind of.. i thought that guy was different. i thought he was a great decepticon hero or whatever. it seems bizarre megatron would name himself after a fallen prime.
>>11215796>Trans the Formers
>>11215822This is why people like me made fun of the friendship origin>what? my political activist friend who named himself after the mythological betrayer, basically Robot Satan (not to be confused with Big Robot Satan), has betrayed me and is . . . LE BAD?!?
>>11215822>i thought he was a great decepticon hero or whatever. it seems bizarre megatron would name himself after a fallen prime.The Decepticon movement was based off of Megatronus' teachings and ideals - his whole mindset was Might Makes Right. Megatron naming himself after him is the equivalent of a devil worshipper claiming Lucifer did nothing wrong, then declaring himself to be the devil to invoke his ideology in his fellow cultists.
Wanting to add a G1-esque Megatron to my collection. Thinking of just getting the new TF One Deluxe. Any other recommendations that could be better that is in the same price range? I'm open to knockoffs.
>>11215822Beast Wars already established "Megatron" was a mythological name written in the Covenant. Hasbro just combined that idea with the Fallen's lore.
>>11215844and then when he became properly bad, he cut off the 'us' liek I don't get it>>11215847that's not how I remember it. but I'm realizing that I'm mixing a lot of TF Prime in here, and that was a different version of the backstory. and I might have been mixing up 'guy megatron named himself after' with 'name megatron was previously using when he was a big hero'
>>11215850>Hasbro just combined that idea with the Fallen's lore.when?
>>11215849SS86 Megatron is coming next year, might want to wait and see what that'll be like.
>>11215849Look up Newage Romulus
Its crazy to me that the youtube show for the new Takara line is going to be the first original TF anime in over a decade. Feels long overdue honestly. No expectations, fully prepared for CGI robots but if it's 2D I don't care about anything else I will be watching
>>11215820I'm trying to remember how the Aligned version went Megatronus liked Solus but Solus liked PrimaStuff happens and Liege Maximo ends up tricking Megatronus into killing SolusThen Megatronus self exilesThe most dindu version of the story>>11215862I'm expecting GO! quality at best
According to tfwiki, "Megatronus" was introduced by the Aligned continuity, which referenced pretty much every previous continuity. Although not directly referenced, the Covenant of Primus "Megatron" was used as the basis for this new name.
>>11215844Early on in the aligned verse they wanted to make Megatronus more of a tragic figure. Liege Maximo was supposed to be Robot Lucifer. Then they sort of changed their minds and swapped the two, where the Fallen was the big bad prime and Liege was a petty trickster.
>>11215867Huh.. but wasn't aligned... sort of made up? like there is no fiction that.. aligns.. with aligned, is there?
>>11215867Which is dumb because the original point was that the Megatron in the covenant was actually BW Megatron in a self referencing prophecy.
>>11215866>I'm trying to remember how the Aligned version wentDon't bother, the story changed with every retelling.
>>11215876In the G1 universe, yeah
>>11215862It'll likely be mini episodes, and it's one episode a month, but yeah I'll watch whatever they put out.
The second Hasbro involved themselves in the idea of the 13 they instantly ruined it. Should've just left it to whatever weird shit Furman wanted to do with it in his comics.
Cant wait to see these in better quality. I really hope they make for decent figures on their own
>>11215890I don't think Furman had much of a plan beyond the stuff with the Fallen.
>>11215901And his unused G2 ideas for Liege Maximo.
>>11215872It's technically what Prime and RiD2015 draw from(loosely) and RiD used Megatronus
>>11215895I can see they’ve got his name as Optimus Prime instead of Convoy
>>11215931It has been like that since the 2007 movie. Only things using Convoy were remakes.
>>11215753The last show with beasts (Zyuohger) bombed though and they really haven't done a purely animal series like Gaoranger since (not withstanding a purely insect based series like Kngohger).
>>11215895So it looks like the animal just turns into a weapon, not quite a full arm, and you Megatron or Optimus gains horns and that's it
>>11215936That’s only movie Optimus isn’t it
>>11215855Aaron Archer and the old Haslab era (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/HasLab_(Hasbro_department) )before Prime bombed and they disbanded the Haslab group. That's when concepts like the 13 Prime, Thundertron and the Star Seekers and the Lords of Deception were created.
>>11215942Look up near the name at the top
>>11215943And Animated. And Prime. And Adventure. And so one.
>>11215949>>11215943Basically the only new Convoys in the last 15 years have been the Primus Vanguard
>>11215901He didn't. Archer has said as much, which is why he and Hasbro repurposed it for the Unicron Trilogy and later the Aligned Continuity.
>>11215944so this was not in any tv show or toy packaging? because those are where you put lore. not.. whatever this is
>>11215963When they started working on Prime they made an entire folder of ideas and lore to use.https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Binder_of_RevelationIt died a fast death.
>>11215895Thats a very Energon looking Optimus.
>>11215953The rule so far seems to be:-Is this taking place in the G1 Universe? Then Convoy is used.
>8 years after combiner wars>Still can't make a fully transformable devastator >Even worst the whole body is now composed of part forming rather than just the handsI can see why Hasbro is heading for r bankruptcy
>>11215964god just when i think things can't be any dumber
After Christmas shopping is done I really want to pick up a Unicron. How's Armada hold up?
>>11215982UT?Is it not just based on origin country?
>>11215988he turns into a fat bullet..
>>11215984Yeah bro because they definitely have the budget to pull off g1 devastator's full force cheating bullshit (only g1 combiner that isn't entirely robots and actually had a ton of extra parts btw) which not even a single third party has competently pulled off until MMC which was revealed THIS YEAR (and no, hulkie does not pull it off competently)
Got a Star Raider Thundertron (by itself). First time really handling the mold, outside of buying a few copies of the voyager to then sell without accesories (this was stated in the listings and pictures).It looks pretty good in person, the colors are vibrant, reminds me of Takara's LG line. Thundertron is a neat looking figure, but clunky:-Articulation is limited in some spots (like the hands can't turn a certain way well, head barely moves without colliding with everything or the hip swivels being a pain in the ass in beast mode thanks to the side skirts).-You don't get much waist swivel unless you unpeg the back.-The peg leg in general. I don't hate it, but it wouldn't have been impossible to add an hinge for the ankle.Aside from that, my personal favorite thing is the fore leg on the shoulder, you can do polarclaws claw gimmick with both shoulders while in robot mode and it rocks. You can also put the sword in the beast mode mouth since the hinge there is strong enough to hold it, along with big enough teeth to secure it in place.If you can ignore the above issues, it's a pretty fun toy.
>>11215990Unicron trilogy was before that went into effect, so yeah, those are still Convoy. If the toy has any fiction related to G1, they tend to use Convoy. It's why Legacy releases kept the western name, if it's not in G1 fiction or UT, then they get western names.
>>11215988Still pretty solid, I'd say. The biggest annoyances are that he's not really all that spherical and his kibble wings in robot mode are always kinda in the way. They can come off pretty easily though. But the articulation is still pretty comparable to modern figures. I'd say the biggest thing to look out for is that chest missile gimmick, that thing has some powerful springs in its mechanism that have absolutely won out over the plastic keeping it in place over time, so it isn't uncommon to see old figures where the chest doesn't lock in anymore.
Not really feeling Devastator, my biggest issue is really the torso above the waist. It's too wide and it just throws off the proportions.
>>11215804Enjoyer located. Destroy.Anyways how is Bee? I told myself I wouldn't go deeper into 86 than Prime and Megs and probably Devastator. But the fun I have with Animated Bee seems like I'd have the same fun with 86.
Any pics of the new d3vestator completed?
>>11216069Grey model
>>11216067Not him, but my opinions are mixed. I needed to get another copy because the first had issues:-Left leg had the connecting tab for the vehicle mode bent, so it couldn't transform.-Left arm swivel just pops off -Bad face paintAfter getting another and cobbling a good one out of them, I can say that transforming it is fun and it posses well. Ignoring the wrong vehicle mode, the only complaint about the toy is the skinny thighs. Had they done the leg transformation differently, they could have bulked up those thighs enough to match the previous bee.If it helps, it goes on sale often and I've seen it as low as 16 on ebay.
>>11216074All that combiner kibble and upcharging for deluxes and it still looks wonky as fuck.
>>11216074Thanks I like it but want it taller. Hope a upgrade kit comes out
>>11216074those proportions are just all OVER the place aren't they.it's very rare that the shins seem short rather than the thighs.
>>11215727Friendly reminder that you are retarded if you buy SS86 Constructicons instead of just paying the late tax for UW Devastator.>but muh Mixmaster footfuck off.
>>11215759Even though I hate the SS Devastator, I would cave and pay for a boxset of a fun Diaclone color scheme or even the Tonka-stator. I'm a little retarded.
>>11216087It's very weird. The proportions on the last one were pretty decent in combined mode, the main issue was the arms being comically small. The new one is only slightly better in the arm department, but now the torso is too wide. I'll try doing an awful shop to see if show what I mean.
>>11216097>but now the torso is too wideThe torso is fine, it's just the head that's too small.
>>11216090If you only care for the combined mode get the $40 undersized cw ko.>>11216093They also made him in yellow.
>>11216074This looks so bad. The fact that thebCW version (which, itself is pretty shitty) looks better is a travesty
>>11216109I already own the UW one. I bought it in 2017. Why would I double dip on a midget chink ripoff?>Yellow and Purple DevastatorMeh. Yellow and Black looks better.
>flashback to 2017 or whatever year it was>Takara unification>oh fuck, it's over.jpg>fast forward to now>Hasbro forces Takara to make embarrassingly garbage toys for worldwide market>the only decent TFs are Takara solo projects>Hasbro on suicide watch>Takara expanding into more and more interesting shitJapan finally won.
>>11216108Head's fine. If you leave it the same size and only resize the torso above the hips, this is how it looks. Yes, the hips are now too wide, but the torso being shrunk a bit really helps his profile.
Having just messed with SS ROTF Skipjack (lovely experience), I'm of the opinion that we need to kick off the geewun accuracy and just add 2-3 more guys to make a kibble-less/light DevyIt's not like there aren't a million to pick from even sticking to just G1, Gravedigger, High Tower, Road Hauler, Buckethead, Quickmix.
Does anyone own this? It's kinda bulky but I like it, been debating getting it for my Optimus. It's $52.
>>11216123Oops forgot pic.
>>11216121A lot of those double up on altmodes. Seems bad unless you want to go crazy and have 15 guys for a robot or something.
>>11216121The whole point of SS is screen accuracy.
>>11216090I got the add on kit for CW Devy which fixed most of the problems except for Long Haul's arms. I have no clue why Hasbro couldnt make those more poseable. They don't do anything in any other mode that they needed to be compromised.
For a brief moment, I assumed the commander Constructicons pack would include the drill when they talked about additional crap for value...until I realized they're including an additional "vehicle" for the pants. Also, with how it parts forms, I'm shocked the Devy head is so small, they can afford to make it bigger if it parts forms.
>>11216090You are retarded if you bought UW Devastator under any circumstances.
>>11216119This looks a million times better.
>>11216116>the only decent TFs are Takara solo projectsShut the fuck up.
>>11216131Then why do they have silver paint instead of matte gray?
>>11216139Sound like they're just upscaling this thing
>>11216146because Hasbro can't do anything right.
>>11216145I'm sure if you did a straight repaint of the original Grimlock toy as Godzilla in 1985 it would be seen as the coolest thing ever by children.
>>11216147Nah, that has way better proportions
Did this guy ever go up for preorder? I thought it was happening today
>>11216153Mark lied
>>11216147I don't think you appreciate how much of a brick Sixbuilder and the other micromaster combiner molds are
>>11216154Figures. So no updates on when it'll actually go up for preorder, i assume. Im not even surprised. One of the few good figures Hasbro makes is going to be a pain in the ass to find.
>>11216157I'm talking about all the add on parts they're probably going to use for Devy this time.
>>11216123>>11216125It just looks like a cheapo 3D print to me, allegedly we are actually getting a proper Armada Jetfire soon™ if that changes your mind
>>11216119And adding to this, after checking the photos, the component that fucks the proportions up is Hook. He ends up making the upper torso too wide, just making him smaller fixes a lot.
>>11216147nah, at least all the kibble on him turns into a sick little plane for your dudes>>11216157cool, now explain why Bonecrusher having a waist joint that you can't use because they attached his scoop to his crotch that also connects to his chest is a good thing
>>11216146did they never have shine marks in the show?
>>11216164isn't that what >>11216139 is saying? they're gonna have add on parts that form a vehicle.
>>11215895These look like shit but people will pretend they're good because takara made them.
>>11216159>wave 1 figure is going to be a pain in the ass to findYou're such a moron, stop posting in this thread.
>>11215895Oh shit, is that Longrack?
>>11216161Oh for real? Is this from somewhere credible? Suppose I can try waiting then.
>>11215895out of all the recent news the new japanese series is the one i was looking forward to the mostFUCK that bmovie looking crap from tfone, FUCK nu legacy shit, finally some japanese robots (as long as the series gets localized)
>>11216131Nah, SS86 is just an overflow line to put more G1 stuff out without completely filling up Generations. Hence why we got SS86 Scourge and Kingdom Cyclonus at the same time.
Thinking about getting some of those three tier display stands to better display the Autobots. Only problem is I also got 4/5 of the SS86 Dinobots.
>>11216147That's sort of what they did with some of the limbs of ROTF SS Devastator.
>>11216172The two constructicons sold out immediately, dipshit.
>>11216170japanese robots will be always better than the typical western over caricatural armor wearing humans with pixar facial expressions, no matter how shit they are
>>11216243>armor-wearing humansif only, western robots is like "Draw lines on it.. it's a robot"
>>11216243>pixarBut Wall-E is the ideal western robot.
>>11216074this is just personal preference but i think that any combiner that so heavily relies on auxiliary parts is a failure by default. i dont want a big action figure that all my other action figures can nest in, i want robots that COMBINE.
>>11216149Even in 85 they would've given him the goddamn dorsal plates
>>11215796>Megatronus the Fallen>Optimus the PrimeProject Tails was really Sonic and not Naruto.
How's this for $40, worth it?
>>11216217Fix Rods right knee anon, I suggest you to get a dedicated shelf for the dinobots, maybe move their dad with them.
>>11216284It's missing a ton of parts and even as a robot it's not really worth displaying without it. At this level it's more for parts than anything.
>>11216284>>11216290Just missing the wings, planet halves, minicon and big crotch flaps? decent find for $40, those tiny side hip flaps are hard to find.I've seen printed replicas from the minicon, missiles and wing connectors, not sure if there are options for the big parts, still might look fine on the background with Galvatron and company in front.
>>11214174AnonI NEED a Victory Robo/Lightspeed RescueIt's like the only one I'm always searching and everybody wants $115+
It's weird how Constructicons are bad guys and Dinobots are good guys. A team of builders sounds like an autobot thing, and a team of retarded insubordinate dinosaurs sounds like something Megatron would comission.
>>11216074Mixmaster's drum seems to open, I'm guessing that's where Devastator's head is stored. Only thing that fits there.
>>11216284MAN those are big feet
>>11216301Mold detail for the Quickmix repaint.
Apeface and Snapdragon smell
Had this set sitting around for awhile.For me, its more of a Leadfoot with bonus fossilizer than a proper 2 pack. Masterdominus is unfortunately too floppy to keep in any fun poses.
Metallic blue is very slick on Leadfoot, I like it quite a bit.
Despite being a floppy mess, Masterdominus did grow on me. He looks pretty cool and the tusks really help complete his appearance. I dislike whatevers going on with the hands so I wish the tusks could have been split to have one for each and help obscure them a bit more.
The matte black is a good look and matches the bones pretty well but chips way too easily so that sucks.Overall he's fairly decent, your average fossilizer.
>>11215895This looks like it has the potential to be fun and interesting. Other than that Megatronus is really exciting.He looks like he'll work very similar to Tarn's figure just much heftier.>>1121606786 Bee's nothing too special. He's too small to pack in anything to be excited about, so unless you're sold on his appearance alone you're not gonna be wowed by him.
Leadfoot just looks nice, some unfortunate paint splotches right on his visor is real annoying but his vibrant yellow and metallic blue is a very striking combo.
I didn't expect Jon Hamm to be great at voice acting. His Sentinel Prime was spot on.
this is great, he can't hold it for shit but still great.
>>11215822>it seems bizarre megatron would name himself after a fallen prime.I mean, there are people in the world right now named Achilles despite Achilles *not* being a good guy or a hero (in the modern sense) in the Iliad. Hell even in Homer's time you weren't supposed to like or sympathize with the guy; at one point in the Iliad he is referred to as "Sirius", the brightest star in the sky at the time and a sign of evil to the ancient Greeks.So it's not completely without precedent.
>>11215925The Aligned continuity also includes the War and Fall of Cybertron video games (and Rise of the Dark Spark, but we don't think about that one), as well as Rescue Bots and Rescue Bots Academy, a trio of novels (Exodus, Exiles, Retribution), a bunch of comics, and some other stuff. Basically it was the default non-movie continuity between about 2010 and 2015 or so.
>>11216183No, according to the page its engipiece LightallThey all seem to be a Pokémon element
>>11216365Leadfoot and crasher both battle it out for my favorite use of this mold, they're both such good decos
Are they going to retool these out of the SS86 constructicons?
If we do get a Trilogy after One, I hope to God they avoid the mistakes of the Netflix Trilogy. Seriously, the shoehorning in of the Maximals and Predicons was painful.
>>11216404are they not making TFtwo and TFthree?
>>11216406Buy the movie when it comes out and we may get it
>>11216404Rumor mill is TFO was only partially funded by Paramount Animation with Hasbro fronting most of the bill. And Transformer Sales are doing REALLY well right now so it's looking good, but still be wary.
>>11216309Holy shit an Autobot Devastator made up of Quickmix (amalgamation of g1 and UC), Scoop, Landfill, Grimlock(Hurricane), Wedge, Hightower and Heavyload (He can be on back-pack duty or take it in turns with Landfill) would be fucking awesome. NOTHING DEFEATS BUILD-KING, NOTHING.
>>11216401Hopefully. They're more interesting colours than the constructicons or the Diaclone ones
>>11216145>finds the only miss in a sea of hitsGojifags are so annoying
Not sure if this was posted yet, but here's an interview with John Warden reflecting at his time with Hasbro. https://youtu.be/jtX6Kbhdtbk?si=JsyKjtymTYdSmLEx
>>11216433Did the Takara people like Warden?
>>11216300IIRC the logic was that Dinobots were made good guys because kids love dinosaurs while the constructicons were made bad guys because of two big reasons: the autobots outnumbered the Deceptions 2 to 1 so this doubled the number of Deceptions, combined with giving the Deceptions a giant combined robot that could bear up all dozen plus wave obbe Autobots
>>11216404I just recently watched those three series for the first time. There were definite missteps (the fuck was up with BW Megatron’s voice?), but I think there’s a lot to like as well. My boi Starscream got to be awesome and Starscreamy throughout. Speaking of, Unicron talking to him was legit terrifying.>Starscream…>Starscream…>I know you’re there…>I know everything…>Now, LISTEN, carefully…
>>11216397Yeah I love Crasher too, even the watermelon G2 Mirage is nice. I just wish it had more of the reptilian art deco.Funnily enough the only version of the mould I don't have is just plain old Mirage.
>>11216300On the other hand, it does seem like a Wheeljack thing to do, building dinosaur robots with small brains.
>>11216404I wanna see if they tackle Galvatron.
>>11216462Maybe by movie 3 or 4but that'll never happen
>>11216230They've been in and out of stock on pulse all day and they've been on plenty of other websites all day, to say nothing about hitting stores next year. You're pathetic.
>>11215727Why the fuck haven’t they made any modern vehicons outside of Tankor
>"Hello, Rightful ruler of Cybertron and bearer of the Matrix of Leadership, I am just a humble Cybertronian passing by and fulfilling my daily duties!"
>>11216484Beast Machines sucked so Hasbro are scared to release anything from it in case it flops. It's the same reason why they don't do Energon toys outside of that one Core Megatron.
>>11216243Proving my point.
>>11216489nice reading comprehension, better than shit doesn't mean great but it's still better than the western shit we keep gettingyou're just being contrarian
>>11216449Hope they continue makingmore gobots. At least Cy-Kill and Leader-1. Maybe use the Ramjet mold again.
On today’s episode of head-cannon’ing the weird stuff I find thrifting: >..after all these Megacycles, I finally found ya..>..the master cockpit to mah ship!! >oh how I missed ya buddy..but hey the boys are takin’ a beatn’, we gotta unleash your secret
>Axalon, heed the call of your commander… transform!
>Axalon robot mode, fully operational
>BEAST MODE!
>>11216607Snoop when, Hasbro?
>>11216484But they released Waspinator in Kingdom and Silverbolt in United. Damn, they even released a Rhinox Masterpiece this year!
>MagnaBat
>Nemesis Dinobot
>>11216484No demand. Beast Machines was such a failure on the creative level that it killed any interest in a western TF show until TFA. And fans hated BM for the character assasination of Silverbolt, Primal, Rattrap and Megatron. The only people that wanted to revisit BM was Funpub. Thank God, Hasbro ended them.
>>11216672I really REALLY want a legacy Mega Tankor
>>11216672Galbatron is a funny mold.
>>11216672The Vehicles are cool, that's pretty much all there is positive to say about it.
>>11216689Vehicons*
>>11216090Explain please.
>>11216696Bigger=better
John Warden needs our help guys, know this general isn't always the most positive, but the Hasbro layoffs put this guy's family in jeopardy.https://gofund.me/743a3621Every little bit helps guys, least we can do to thank him for all his hard work.
>>11216109Yeah, the KO is pretty good. Holds together well. It has a different "Not Decepticon" logo on mine, and I accidentally messed up a peg on the excavator shovel on the leg, but it's still a pretty solid figure if you don't care about having a KO.
>>11216696Oh. I kind of would like to see one in smaller scale, like the size of core class that combine to a leader maybe.
>>11216702Holy fucking shit that is cringe Jfc. I’m nearly at a loss for words. This is very sad and very confusing. How did this man spend 25 years at hasbro and is now broke? How does he have the nerve to make a go fund me? It’s not like he’s disabled or retarded. Nope, just jewish
>>11216709It's because hasbro decided not to give him the shares they awarded him, and that their severance doesn't cover Healthcare. His fiancé's medication costs a fuckton, which means within a year, he'd be paying more than 100k out of pocket for medication. Just a shitty situation all around.
>>11216709it always astounds me how some of you dumb niggers believe that working at a company means you get rich
>>11216709Wife has crohn's disease. He was laid off. No more insurance benefits. Treatments are expensive without insurance coverage. Lack of treatments could lead to complications requiring surgery. Surgery is also expensive without insurance coverage. Not hard to see why even someone who worked in such a position would be in financial trouble after being blindsided by layoffs if they had these medical expenses.
>>11216709Insurance is linked to jobs, anon. American medical care is priced in such a way that people without insurance will have a near impossible time paying off the cost. The prices are all made up. The medicine his wife needs is probably pennies to manufacture but is sold for hundreds, of which insurance would "pay" most of that(literal thousands of dollars), however the payment is all in credit and not cash, i.e. it's all fucking made up.Therapies are also expensive without medicine. >Unfortunately, a single dosage (2 months) of Skyrizi costs $21,017.34. Without it to stabilize her Crohn’s, she runs the risk of another Abdominal Surgery which costs an average of $114,000.Don't care how much you saved up,10,500 for medicine a month will deplete savings fast.
>>11216713Ok John, my bad. I’m on hard times myself so I guess I understand. But everyone is right now so I wouldn’t expect much. >>11216716It always astounds me how many dumb niggers fumble the bag. He’s literally world famous and should have had a personal project ready to go and waiting on the back burner for this. Let’s collab on a project John!
>>11216721you are so fucking clueless it's unreal. How do you even feed yourself?
>>11216720America has the cheapest and best healthcare in the world, and the most freedoms
>>11216721>pfft if it was me I just wouldn't get sick
>>11216721You are british aren't you?
>>11216724>world famous toy designer gets laid off and immediately starts begging like a street bum And I’m the clueless one? >>11216725Exactly this. Medical bills literally do not have to be paid and do not affect your credit. They are a bogus excuse for asking for money. Also don’t marry someone with bad genetics >>11216726I don’t. I stopped getting any type of injections at age 14, I go to the gym and try not to eat any sugar. Haven’t been to the doctor in 15 years. >pic related it’s the transformers General Lee I’m designing Why isn’t John finding any new way to make money other than begging? Why hasn’t he got a job at McDonalds
>>11216731you are an actual honest to god retard lmao
>>11215732It's a shame that neon green is one of those colors that's just always going to look like rubbish when it comes to Hasbro products because they can't be arsed to use good plastic mixes, so Devastator is just doomed to always look washed out and semi-translucent.
>>11216721>world famousHe's a toy designer that only the most hardcore of tf fans even know who he is. To most people who don't hang around mongolian basket weaving forums or that fance website or tfwiki, his name would draw blanks to even collectors who aren't obsessed with the bts nitty gritty and history of the hobby.
>>11216734>name calling with no other worthwhile explanation >calling me a retard Takes one to know one, faggot. John’s not gonna suck your dick, go back to Sonichu world
>>11216736If your argument and any validity, then someone laid off from McDonald’s deserves more sympathy. >he wasn’t that famous just a regular Joe and begging for his fans money is good
>>11216721>>11216731nice chicken scratch
>>11216738the mod that babysits this thread coddles /pol/tards so if I actually waste my time explaining why you are wrong he will have a melty, and it's not like your brain is functional enough to listen anywaySo I will instead continue to call you a retarded mouthbreather
>>11216747more lines = more gooder
>>11216731>Medical bills literally do not have to be paid and do not affect your credit.for shit like ER visits anon, not medicine. you don't get that unless you pay
>>11216720>a single dosage (2 months) of Skyrizi costs $21,017.34>€19456.54do americans fucking really
>>11216348>Masterdominus is unfortunately too floppy to keep in any fun poses.I've said it before and will likely continue to say it until the end of /tfg/, but how do you people not all have a bottle of floor polish or acrylic clearcoat at the ready to fix loose joints? It's been a problem on almost every line I've bought figures from since Thrilling 30. During Prime Wars, almost everything I bought had tons of loose joints right out of the box. Post-siege has been somewhat better, but the modular "izer" bots have picked up the slack, as every one I've picked up has had some loose pegs or ports to the point that they wouldn't even stay together in certain combinations.If I didn't know how to fix loose joints, I literally would have stopped collecting Transformers over a decade ago.
>>11216747>>11216750Thanks
>>11216735Evan said multiple times in the video that they're going to punch up the green for the final product
Hasbro should hire me to replace John’s stupid ass. First thing I would do is fire every DEI piece of shit in the building, just like I did at Nintendo
>>11216359Yeah, Leadfoot was one the few bots I've been legitimately satisfied with in recent years. Overall the mold is kinda meh, as the legs are a mess and fake parts are almost always a dealbreaker for me, but this deco absolutely makes the most of it.It's also one of the only times I'd recommend the toyhax sticker set, since the alt mode looks kind of naked without some form of race livery beyond just a number, and the reflective red sticker for the visor is worth it alone.
>>11216758the best part is, it's not even real. It's all a credit systemThey price that because they don't expect people to actually pay that out of pocket.They just milk as much credit they can get out of insurance companies
Will these new constructicons be hard to get later?
>>11216782how do you expect us to know that? All we know is that they're cutting down waves to extend shelf time, but they're also cutting repacks. So in an ideal world toys should be on shelves for longer. However they're still not accounting for the fact that stores will order tons of wave one and then let that linger rather than stocking waves 2 and 3
>>11216787Thanks...
>>11216782No. They want to scare people with Pulse so they buy the subscription. Constructicons will be easy to find.
>>11216782They took a moment on stream to talk about new distribution plans and how they'd rather not repeat a stunticon situation, so hopefully not
>>11216782If Menasor is any indication, yes.
>>11215732honestly UW with SS86, that just looks better and construction vehicles are big so it works>>11215761the legacy guys looks to be in a way better scale with ER which honestly makes me tempted to get them now
>>11216425The Kiryu is pretty bad too, he should've been the Grimlock mold
>>11216813This one is growing on me, the red on the face is doing a lot of heavy liftingNot a great representation of Kiryu though
>>11216813This is kinda why I have no hope for that weird combiner thing they're making. This shit is so fucking lazy and they keep doing it. Oh we are doing a crossover? All Optimus Primes btw.
>>11216689I’m the anon that brought it up first, and I agree. Beast machines is bad but the vehicons look cool, and they only ever get picked up in the odd series like IDW or whatever
To anyone who cares. Looks like some pre-orders for the new green bois is back up on Amazon.
>>11216348I just can't get over how his ribcage is less than half as big as it should be, and due to them trying to turn the short front legs of a triceratops into the long front legs of a mammoth, the joints are all fucky and wrong.
>>11216486It pains me that I'll never get Energon Starscream to complete the trio.>>11216607I would buy this.
>>11216944Just got Binecrusher but not Scrapper
Zaraks lil buddy came in.
>>11215819He was one name at one point then due to an event or action he is also known by another name? Vlad the impaler was just vlad before he started impaling, so he can be vlad or vlad the impaler. Same guy either way. Im just going to call it the fallen, i dont think ive bought a version of it since that titanium line.
>>11216944Damn, by the time I noticed this they were both gone.
>>11216959We'll get him whenever they do the G2 Cyberjets.
>>11217013That trannytron is an abomination and if I were you I would not be showing it off
Hope they do the v1 G2 recolors. I was denied as a kid getting Scrapper and instead made to buy goggles for the public pool.
>>11217016>rent free
>>11217013>>11217016I'm glad you pointed that out because she looks really fucking good and I'd love to see more pics.
>>11217013I love that head. Probably the prettiest face I’ve ever seen on a TF. Is it printed? File?
>>11217016Every time there's always some new fresh autism
>>11216374achilles wasn't a hero? huh. I've read a ton of greek myth and I do not remember that.
>>11217013>That MegaempressNice work Mavs, might have to do that. I have the actual figure but that looks cool as fuck.
>Reading the new Amazon returns changes.Didn't think they could get any worse, but now if a package is damaged in transit, they can just refuse the return and you'll have to settle the matter with the post office. So so not get fucked over, the item needs to be either in perfect condition or claim it was broken in package, even then they might give out a partial refund.
>>11217063>tfw just had a former neighbor that moved away months ago banging on my gate for a package that was misdelivered to her old address, and then the new neighbor mistakenly gave it to me >This bitch just drove 20 miles and banged on a stranger’s door (we never spoke) for a $20 purchase It’s getting bad. I’m just glad I still had her package unmolested bc she had a crazy ass look in her eyes
>>11216433is he a good one or a bad one
>>11217077It was probably a sex toy
>>11217063Also, you now have to avoid listings that mention "item is fraquently", if you return it for any reason, you are likely being charged a processing fee.
>>11216607what are the huge hip pads for? they seem out of place in both modes
>>11216638>>11216636>>11216632>>11216630I am laughing but I am also curious and intrigued>>11216665a flying squirrel is not a bat!!>>11216671this is ... weird in a good way.. what in god's name is this?
>Honestly considering another Scrapper so Devastator can duel wield.
>>11217087motorcycle saddle bags
>>11217091The gray Dinobot? It’s a 20 yr old bootleg made of the shittiest plastic you ever touched and ragdoll tier joints but I refurbished it
>>11217029Thanks, I posted more shots on tfw: https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/megaempress-head-for-tfone-megatron.1269648/>>11217032Thanks, yeah its printed on resin, not sure if I can post the link here, but its on the tfw thread I linked above.>>11217050Thanks, its way smaller than the original, but the extra articulation helps to make her look more expressive.
>>11216709anon, jews are good with money. this guy is bad with money.
>>11216288Not a bad idea. Moved the Lego cars to another shelf.
>>11217045Remember "hero" in the Greek sense just means a legendary guy who accomplished something notable. It has no moral implications.
>>11216990the having-two-names part is not the part i had a problem with, anon
>>11217121yes yes i meant in our sense>>11217077massive incompetence everywhere.
>>11217108ahh I was wondering. good job>>11217099ohhh yeah those are a thing.
>>11217123So what is the issue then?
>>11217120>indeed. forcing everyone to be insured let the insurance companies set their own pricesHey if certain southerly and midwestern members of Congress weren't standing in the way of progress, America would have a healthcare system like Ireland, where annual treatment for Crohn's disease is less than $4000.
hang on i'm not getting a ban for you
this looks bad
>>11217013>>11217112Man imagine if Megaempress was Megatron's sister and the only reason Megatron and Optimus waged war was because Megatron couldn't accept Optimus being his brother-in-law.
>>11217150She'd be a brocon.
>>11217150>Man imagine if Megaempress was Megatron's sisterShe was made out of Megatron's spare parts. I think by Cybertronian standards that would make her Megatron's sister.
>>11217159It just keeps getting hotter. Now I need that sissy looking Megatron
>>11217149Blame it on the fact the arm joint is inside this guy, instead of the torso and they decided the threads form part of the torso.
>>11217149How come they never do the toon legs?The toy leg’s always looked like corduroy to me
>>11216730Heh, I know why you're asking
>>11217112her proportions are still a bit off, I think it's because the shoulders sit so high.I don't know how the transformation goes, but is giving her high heels an option?
>>11217167The altmode would look even worse.
>>11215895I hope you can do some cool Megazord-esch combo with all the animals.Man, Gaoranger was a great season.
>>11217172Nah, panel treads look better than those tractor ones
>>11217171>the shoulders sit so highThink of it as big shoulderpads, the skinny arms and small hands help to sell than image, the UW did the same. Theres no room for heels, because of transformation.
>>11217175Even the boxart has panel treads
>>11217178Maybe on the MP.
is that guy posting then deleting his own posts so the mods won't btfo him for being off topic
>>11217185do you not?
>>11217063Ah I see. They sent me a fucked up Tidal Wave a few months ago and when I sent it back instead of giving me the full refund like I actually recorded myself clicking, they gave me "amazon credit" which is fucking dogshit. I used all the credit but that should not fucking happen. You sent me defective product. I actually feel so justified for sending shit back to them in the past now.Looks like I'll be cancelling soon.
>>11216304It's mistransformed though. Those go on the back
>>11217199that's even worse! they're big on both sides, but the bigger side should be in front.
>>11217033I don't think he is wrong. It's a full blown male body structure. It's more a femboy than anything else though
>>11217194I'm not a coward
Fuck, I love this mold so much, and these colors especially. Scorpions are a hella cool alt mode and the robot mode is a lot of fun.https://youtu.be/L8hJAmkX3tM?si=MZ7Mb3eYBFURcLdg
>>11217221honestly yeah, flawed as it is, there's something so fun about it. I enjoyed painting my Sandstorm up to make those colors a little easier to swallow.
>>11217221I know they can't launch, but I still really like the Bee missile and twin missiles in his other claw. This guy having the old toy's monster head really makes him stand out
>>11217221>>11217224>>11217226Picked up the toy deco Scorp for cheap, since I wanted at least SOME form of G1/BW Scorp, turns out everything's forgivable if you went in choosing to like the character and toy. The missiles are fun to pretend they're going pewpew, and the bee is definitely a cute little friend to have. Pity the toy deco is so minimal with details, but I markered up some things to make it vaguely passable. Just wish his tail moved around a bit more in either mode, although I actually don't mind how half-assed the bottom of the altmode is. Arachnids do rule, man
>>11217149Eh, the only thing people care about is making Devastator.
>>11216109I'd absolutely LOVE to get this undersized KO of CW Devastator in G2 yellow, but I remember the last time I went looking for it, I couldn't find it anywhere. Any suggestions on where to actually buy it?
>>11216145>>11216425>>11216813>The Kiryu is pretty bad tooI actually really like it after thinking about it for a day. A JXSDF military vehicle turning into a robot is pretty great, even if it's a little basic. My biggest beef is they don't give us an extra blue gun so each arm can have one like Kiryu did. Still, a proper Toho vehicle would have been cooler.The Godzilla looks like ass, but this one is cool.
>>11217232yeah that's the other thing, as soon as he's no longer 'scorponok that guy from the show' i instantly forgive his boxy body and tiny boxy legs. i have no problem with sandstorm and toy-deco guy being their own guys. I guess that's.. alternate dimension scorponok, who is way more competent.but yeah tail articulation was a letdown, and the hollowness is no good. the rest is fine. I actually weirdly like the little spike left by the robot heel in the tail. it sorta fits with the original guy being based more on the toy and having that ridiculous serrated upside-down stinger. which he never used in battle, only to spray acid once. there's an upgrade kit for that stinger if'n you prefer it.
>>11217239it should have been an actual JXSDF military vehicle though
Studio Series AOE/TLK Prime when?
>>11217197At least they gave you an equal amount. You can dispute that since they did give you the full amount anyway, but I agree that it's scummy.My main issue with the changes is that transformers qc is dogshit, so returning several figures a year is normal and that's not something you can do on Amazon now. My other alternative is walmart, who charge more and barely stock anything.
>>11217250isn't that it?
>>11217261Still waiting for Studio Series Daytrader.
>>11217250Was the sword really that big in the movies?
>>11217238Last one on sirtoys for 50 bucks: https://sirtoys.com/toys.php?c=8&p=5336&t=CBB_CW_Devastator_Yellow.html
>>11217275Seems like it.
>>11217278>https://sirtoys.com/toys.php?c=8&p=5336&t=CBB_CW_Devastator_Yellow.htmlThank you very much for the link!! Once I get paid on Friday, this would make for a fun purchase!
>>11217278Sirtoys is dead my guy
>>11217176It's a shame that if (when) we get a new Bruticus that we probably won't get a new Mega Empress and her team (or even a new Victorion) due to the new combiners not having Scramble City-style compatibility.
>>11216770>>11216763>AI Slopper shilling his dogshit off topic spamGet banned already
>>11216770>>11216763these look fucking awesome
>>11216288Is that just transformers one megas with a custom head?
>>11217286Welp >>11217288 sorry man, there are yellow kos from 3p on aliexpress for similar prices.
>>11217249>it should have been an actual JXSDF military vehicle thoughAgreed!Check out this video I made about Signal Flare from 2007, who's alt mode is a Maser Tank. It's not super fancy, but it's a satisfying "crossover" figure if you can stretch your imagination. https://youtu.be/Qq6kq0pCAcs?si=I2lB7pQtTvjLCsS_I look forward to getting this Kiryu Optimus, and think he will go great with Signal Flare here. But i do wish we got a proper Toho vehicle. Imagine one of the three Super-X models, or Gotengo. A proper official Maser Tank would have been brilliant. But they couldn't even manage to give us a partial reminder to give Godzilla spines, so no way they were gonna give us a brand new vehicle mode.I'm still holding out hope they might go nuts for the 75th Anniversary and give us some new molds or even an inspired small line. But that's a dream, and it's five years away.
I got the generations metroplex NIB from a local seller for $200. Should I open it?
When new Masterpiece stuff
>>11217330Toys deserve to be played with
>>11217336Yeah you're right. Open it I shall.
>>11217330Jelly. I sold mine predicting an update but here I am still waiting. He is the very last figure that I regretted selling off that I have not repurchased. >>11217332Hopefully soon bro. Does anyone have MP Rhinox and some Kingdom stuff? Relly curious how they scale. >>11217301Thanks brother >>11217295>off topic >implying Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters, TMNT, X-Men, BttF, Top Gun, Monster Hunter and Zoids aren’t all cannon Lol
>>11217332It's really just Ginrai and some repaints on the horizon
>>11217255Yeah the QC is what bugs me man. I will say I am loving current day engineering and designs, but the QC is absolutely killing me and Amazon was my ray of hope because they would let me exchange or at the very least, send it back. Now that hope is kind of evaporating and on Pulse you'd be lucky if they do a replacement. I had to ask if they would give me 86 Prime's blast effects/axe as my box didn't even come with them and they said "sorry no" so I had to go kick rocks. I managed to trade someone the figure they sent me as a complimentary ploy to get me to leave them alone for those accessories, but this just sucks man.I don't even like John Warden, but what they did to him was shitty, and Hasbro is constantly fucking bitching about lost profits etc. while they waste all this fucking plastic over these QC issues. Everyone BUT the higher ups get punished and everyone else is doing a stellar job imo. But because of poor management of all of their brands, they take it out on the designers and customer support and factory workers and let the blame fall on them because they can't be fucked to pay someone to look over the figures before they were sent out.I had more figures as a kid than I do now and this NEVER was an issue. Maybe once every few years it would happen, but not 3/5 of my purchases.
>>11217239When is this guy comin' out? Wonder how much he'll be. I'm collecting truckbots
>>11217348What's next, Fire Guts God Ginrai?
Sad I'll never get to own that new Omega Prime. Heck, I'd even accept just the Optimus+super mode. Dumb kickstarter memes.
>>11217352Missing accesories has been a recurring issue these past few years. Not having dedicated placing on a clear plastic shell really fucked this up. Better pray they put them all in the baggie, or they didn't give you two of the same accesories when one is for the right, and the other's for the left. Some boxes now have a few strapped with plastic ties, but it doesn't fix the problem.
>>11216450SIMPLE brains, Optimus
>>11216172Tarn was a wave one figure I’ve never found his ass
>>11217317Signal Flare's original energon release had his counterpart be Cruellock, who was based off Godzilla 98/zilla
>>11217358Definitely maybeBut I'll be skipping that one
>>11217373>never found a figure that's been reissued twiceYou're not even trying.
>>11217063What's this about return changes? Where was this said?
>>11217397there was a whole thingbasically it's an attempt to stop these people who serially buy and return things for various fraudulent reasonsbut as usual it's going to punish the law-abiding more
>>11217342Stop coping and trying to twist itYou are not posting or discussing those Franchises TF Collabs, You're just posting AI Art slopYour slop is not on topic, Not real Art and is spam
>>11215727God, the two constructicons keep going in and out of stock on pulse, it's driving me up a wall
>>11216109>get the $40 undersized cw ko.I bought mine years ago just to display the individual Constructicons on my G1 shelf since they scale with g1 WFC/United almost perfectly. I use the UW for Devastator.
>>11217400Where can I read this?
>>11217421iunno it was really easy the last time i heard about it
>>11217373He's literally up for preorder right now
>>11217421Most of it should be in the returns section on Amazon. Though, not everyone has the page updated, some accounts still display the old version, basically:-Refund can take up to 30 days after they recieve it, with the refund given after inspection. Even if they give you the full refund, they can resind it after the fact. The "take away" refund thing was happening randomly in the past few years, but Amazon would normally correct this it you went to chat. Not anymore. Missing parts will also lead to a partial refund (I recently returned something missing parts and got a full refund, but I don't trust this will keep happening).-Items damaged that are believed to be caused by the buyer will only recieve a partial or zero refund. In the event of zero refund, Amazon won't even send the item back so you lose the money and the item. If it's damaged in transit, you now have to contact the post office (I've seen some sites comment on this, but I haven't checked Amazon to confirm).-Items frequently returned have a fee attached. They're basically reprimanding buyers for getting a faulty product because they warned you about it first. While return fees were normally a region specific thing (attached to the cheapest service near you), this one feels really scummy.
>>11217452Where
They're really screwing the pooch with the numbering in Studio Series latelyNewest Bumblebee and Hatchet are both marked as 11786 Optimus and Galvatron and both 31I think Brawn and dead Ironhide shared one as wellAnd the Constructicons just straight up don't have them>>11217457PulseAmazonGamestopFucking everywhere, dude. Try.
>>11217455>Even if they give you the full refund, they can resind it after the fact.super illegal. someone call the lawyers.
>>11217455>Missing parts will also lead to a partial refundthat's fine as long as I only have to do a partial return.
>>11217467They justify it by saying they didn't actually inspect the item then or they reviewed the case again at a later date.Another random things this was before the changes). Any return you make, you must ask for a receipt or anything that proves you sent it back. No, tracking doesn't mean shit for returns, if the item gets lost in transit you are not refunded a dime unless you can prove you sent it back.
>>11217471i'm glad half of this isn't true
>>11217468Why would you want that if you recieve an item missing parts?
>>11217475i mean, most of the time, i wouldn't. but say, oh this transformer is missing his gun, hey there's a listing on mercari for that loose gun by itself, okay just refund me enough to get the gun and i'm a happy customer. or for other stuff I collect, model kits, an incomplete one is always useful so I'd rather take a partial refund and keep the carcass.
>>11217473You can actually find a few statements online about it. Amazon isn't obligated to refund you if they didn't recieve the item, and some cases don't refund without a receipt (which isn't provided in a number of stores, so good luck).
>>11217478I've heard talk that since Amazon receipts are just links now, they can and will just edit them on their end.Chopping down the return by date so you can't make returns or straight up changing the item you ordered so you can't fight them if you get sent the wrong shit
>>11217480I tend to take screenshot for that very reason, same for chats.
>>11217478uh huh>>11217480I mean that I'd believe
>>11217480I've seen how they change the dates for refunds on my end. One item was returned in early August, and I had to wait until mid September because they kept pushing back the date. I only got the money after going to chat. The date got pushed from late August, all the way to October.
>>11217358Piss magnus when?
>>11217358Probably in a few years. I can see Nucleon Quest Convoy being released at some point in 2025-6.
>>11217288>>11217307Okay, thank you for the update! Hopefully I'll be able to get one at a reasonable price.
>>11217150what would her TF1 name be? D16F?
>>11217492don't be vulgar, that's mangus
>>11217028
hang ongod dammit, got roped in again.
>Many voyayers on Amazon are slowly getting theit price changed to 36.99Oh boy, more price hikes.
>>11217532more like price yikes
>>11217028>>11217032>someone takes a male body>put a girl's head on it >people defend itWhy is this even a thing?
>>11217550>someone takes a male body>put a girl's head on itIt's a robot anon
>>11217532>>11217533What's concerning is that is likely not the end of it. I think it's not outside the realm that by Summer of next year the prices are 34.99 for a deluxe, 55.99 for a voyager, and 109.99 for a leader. It's likely why everything is slowing down and why most companies, not just toys ones, are slowing their distribution down to a crawl pace to keep the mes that kind of inflation spike is going to cause more under control.
>>11217552So why didn't you note that to >>11217150who's using terms like sister and concepts of marriage to said robots? Hell they are robots so they don't need bipedal bodies like us or have a head to talk/see out of?It's very disingenuous to throw out the excuse "hurr robots!" when it fits your fetishes while we have all be clearly ignoring that
>>11217556They have Genders, they're just not always sexually dimorphic
>>11217564I don't give a shit about trannies anonTransformers don't fuck and you think that Strika is feminine looking?She's literally crushinator from futurama
>trans hater projects in TRANSformers generalNot ironic, just so stupid.
>>11217550Hasbro did it turning Hotspot into Pyra Magna and Takara repainted it as Megaepmress, even her in universe creation had her reusuing Megatron parts.
>dude just samefags over and over again You really care about this issue it seems
>>11217550Not even from a tranny angle, the head itself just looks like dog shit. But 3d printers have a delusional mindset that preventd them from seeing how bad their 3d printed shit looks
>>11217564>Anon thinks that all species have obvious-to-a-human visual cues for their sexTell you what, tell me if you’re looking at a male or a female sperm whale here.
first i learn there's a girl version of starscream called slipstream, and now i learn there's a girl version of megatron called megaempress. any other girl versions of existing characters i should be aware of?
>>11217564icon of femininity right here
>>11217670Clobber?
>>11217670Depends. Do you mean female counterparts to male characters, or do you mean characters that are different genders depending on the continuity? - Airazor is male in Japan’s dub of Beast Wars. - Cyberverse Acid Storm is gender-fluid. - Earthspark Skywarp and Nova Storm are female - The original G1 character notes for Ratchet have the ‘bot be female, and I kind of hope to get that some day.
>>11217640Honestly this is why I suspect this thread is mostly samfagging because most replies to this would be about how poorly the head was made and little else. >>11217663I don't think that was the point of post, I can't mind read but an anon was taking issue with the defense of "they are robots it doesn't matter" to then follow up with "They have genders but don't apply to sexuality rules" Again I have no idea though, you could just be talking to yourself for how poorly this thread is going. >>11217670At this rate I say the OP for how strange the thread is going.
>>11217683> Airazor is male in Japan’s dub of Beast WarsSide note, this made the relationship between Airazor and Tigatron difficult to dub, and the setup was basically supposed to be an aromantic samurai bushi/retainer one for Season 1. But then Japan had to dub “Other Voices”, where no amount of dub magic would cover up that on-screen Airazor and Tigatron were romantically involved with each other. So the Japanese dub team basically just said “fuck it” and had the two proclaim their love for one another as the Vok were taking them away, and when they got letters from kids asking about it, told the kids that sometimes boys can love boys. Presumably a nonzero number of fujoshis got their start from that.Also when I told that to a friend he remarked that it was a way more mature way of handling things than the American dub team for Sailor Moon handled the relationship between Sailors Uranus and Neptune.
>>11217677>>11217683either one works, and thanks for answering!
>>11217684> about how poorly the head was made and little else. Looks fine to me. Like it’s not high-end master craft sculpting, but I personally own Hasbro-produced Transformers with way worse heads. For a custom job by one guy using his own resources and time and intended for his own personal enjoyment, it’s fine.
>>11217684lmao you are a fucking schizo>noooo nobody else must like thing I don't like for stupid reasons so they must all be the same person!There's absolutely nothing wrong with the head you dumb nigger. You're just reaching because you're seething.
>>11217249>wasting time, effort, and money sculpting and engineering an entirely new mold just for crossover shitutter waste of time and I'm glad Takara has the brains not to engage in it, unlike Hasblow.
I miss Classics & Universe. The peak era of TF toys
>>11217781Indubitably.
>>11217781>>11217807But ankle rockers?!?
>>11217781>>11217807>muh chonky bricks no
>>11217663>tell me if you’re looking at a male or a female sperm whale here.It's in the name, sperm whale, they're obviously all male
>bonecrusher and scrapper pre-orders sold outI have never pre-ordered before, did I goof?
>>11217815>But ankle rockersI used to yearn for ankle rockers on every toy back when I started collecting almost 20 years ago, because I had autism about bots keeping their feet flat on the ground; I though it was like the benchmark for being a true, quality poseable figure. But the truth is that a soulless piece of shit--even with ankle rockers--is still a soulless piece of shit.
>>11217837No, you can wait for the next batch
>>11217825Yes, actually.
>>11217837You should always preorder popular characters, more so if they're part of a team, like combiners or insecticons, you know those get scalped by re sellers.
>>11216192There was an interview to the team not long ago when they were asked about jetfire and overload, didnt comment on overload BUT they are aware of jetfire and mentioned that Prime has the slots for a jetfire combo and we should stay tune for that.Looking at their legacy commander releases, Motormaster(combiner) and then armada Prime, i think maybe these new trilogy will follow the same pattern, combiner next year and jetfire the next one. People say overload should be the commander but i find that absurd, he needs to be a wide leader due to how simple he is
>>11216142Nah, you're clinically braindead if you think SS86 is going to be better than the UW Devastator.
>>11217837They are mainline so they will likely have many waves release
>>11216411Yeah, I would buy this day one, even though I think the SS86 Devastator is going to be a shitshow.
>>11216142-any- circumstances? Like even when they sold the damage box ones for $90 USD?
>>11216731you are genuinely a brain dead whigger lmao
>>11217553there won't be any more toys by that pointwe'll be lucky if we have electricity
>>11217663all species WITH significant differences between the males and females have obvious-to-a-human-unless-you're-from-modern-backwards-civilization visual cues for their sex That said, with sperm whales you can go by head size.it's kind of funny how many beast guys have female altmodes. and I think someone said Airazor, as a lone falcon, would be male because the females live closer together or something.
>>11218016>>>> Anonymous 10/30/24(Wed)16:43:12 No.11218016▶>>>11217553>there won't be any more toys by that point>we'll be lucky if we have electricityYou're right. America's power grid and water supply will be directed at powering all of these fucking underwater dogshit AI computing that we don't fucking need.
>>11217332Rumor mill says Rattrap is up next. Probably a mid to late 2025 release.
>>11218019>>>>>> Anonymous 10/30/24(Wed)16:43:12 No.11218016▶This isn't /qa/
>>11217371WHATEVER....I miss Dr. Smoov.
>>11218018Okay, so that sperm whale I posted. Bull or cow?>>11218028In the Bumblebee movie’s opening I genuinely thought that they’d gotten Dr. Smoov for Shockwave.>”Destroy the launchpad! Let none escape! …DAMMIT they’ve escaped in those little pods! Oh, Megatron is gonna be pissed…”
>>11218036Alright lemme see.. this is for all the delicious dried squid..the perspective makes it tricky, but i'm gonna say.. a newly-mature bull.
>>11217825>muh QC-neglected heaps of yellowing Chinesium plasticno
>>11218036>In the Bumblebee movie’s opening I genuinely thought that they’d gotten Dr. Smoov for Shockwave.Would've been kino if Arcee shot at him and he casually says "females..." before attempting to blow her up.>See Arcee, told you he can't shoot for shit!
>>11218038Probably not. I found it after searching “female sperm whale” and grabbing the first photograph that didn’t have a calf or any comparisons between males and females. But I also didn’t actually double-check because fucked if I can tell the difference at a glance.It’s from here,https://www.thoughtco.com/sperm-whale-facts-4706520Funnily enough sperm whales actually do have a high degree of sexual dimorphism, but it’s almost entirely in their size, with bulls being much bigger than cows. But unless you’ve got a banana for scale or a degree in cetacean studies, you won’t be able to tell at a glance.
>>11218070yeah plus you'd have to know their age. like male humans are bigger, but girls grow taller first.
>>11217837They are complete shit, get a decent 3p Devastator
>>11218082Theres no good 3p option either, everything is too big or too small, closest thing was Hercules, but his altmodes looked like playskool toys even back when he was released.
Imagine, a Transformers x Berserk crossover figure?
>>11218123hmm okay give me your pitch
Is MPG Ginrai going to be short like Raiden? I'm wondering how he'd look next to a chug collection.
>>11218162Approximately this tall
>>11218162Raiden was only short because the trains were made to be HO scale
>>11218181So he's a little too big. God Ginrai's not supposed to be bigger than Victory Saber, right?
>>11218181they couldn't move the knees down a bit?
>>11218181Saber looks like a bitch next to Ginrai
>>11218203>God Ginrai's not supposed to be bigger than Victory Saber, right?They're about the same size, as big as a combiner, MP Saber is closer in scale than the haslab set.
>>11218220see now those are good thigh proportions
Fuck it I caved. I was going to hold out for a Voyager Re-Release but I wanted them bad.
>>11218225really enjoyed that movie and those designs eh
>>11218225I want Megs
>>11218107>his altmodes looked like playskool toysThis is bad because...construction vehicle toys are so mature and not playskool?
>>11218256Check Macy's if your in the United States. The got a Toys R US inside as a section now full of them.
>>11218265Its not about being mature, its about keeping a shared visual style on the collection, but you might be one of those glue enjoyers who puts botbots and rescuebots on the same shelf as generations figures.
>>11218279You're gonna display a Devastator as construction vehicles on a shelf? LOL
So, I'm pretty excited to have picked this up today for $25I never watched the cartoon it's from, but I really like how it looks in both modes and the mini bot and effects make this a wonderful deal.
>>11218284Yes, recreating some cartoon and Devastation scenes, do you even transform your figures?
>>11218036>Okay, so that sperm whale I posted. Bull or cow?NTA, but that's definitely a female. While there's no size reference here, males are also known to have larger teeth on the lower jaw that protrude slightly even when the mouth is closed. They also have thinner tail flukes. The whale in your picture has no teeth visible and a rather broad looking tail, so even though we can't compare her size relative to another whale, we can tell from a glance she's female.
After I get my SS86 Prime next week my goal is to recreate this gif with Prime as Goofy and Jazz as Powerline. Having trouble deciding if Max should be Bumblebee or Hotrod.
>>11218288it is pretty neato, I will admit
>>11218288People shit on this mold for some reason, but I got this mainly for the minicon and I paid like full price. Not disappointed at all. Dude came with a shitload of blast effects and some guns too.
>>11218321>for some reasonThe lower legs, having to mistransform him to use the knee joints, otherwise they're locked.
>>11218288He looks really cool with the flames deco, I was thinking in picking up this guy since I got Armada Prime last month
>>11218306>>11218321>>11218328Yeah the minicon is super fun and Hot R.. era Shot, looks great with the flames and red paint. >>11218325>having to mistransform him to use the knee jointsI noticed at first his knee wouldn't bend. I don't know if it's "mistransformed", but if you move the back part of his leg to the side you can get a proper knee joint movement going. It's really stuff and it's easy to get the other transformation joint to m9ve instead, but the knee is there. It's the worst part of the figure though, yeah. Also, his back pack won't lock into the tabs on his back and one gun wont lock in properly to its robot mode holster. Not the biggest deals, but annoying.
>>11218373>I don't know if it's "mistransformed", but if you move the back part of his leg to the sideYes thats mistransfoming, having to "untransform" part of your figure or getting it into an unofficial configuration. Most of the time its done to get better looks, its a shame when it has to be done to fix a design flaw.
>>11217118More roomy
>>11218107>his altmodes looked like playskool toysAnd these don't? Bonecrusher's altmode looks like some cheap knockoff toy you could find at Walmart for $10.
>>11218497Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, that looks bad, but this thing was worse.
>>11218498The 86 one doesn't even have a cabin, it's just a cheap, flimsy looking canopy.
>>11218498It's worse at being the cartoon version, but in every other way I would say it's either better or kind of a lateral move.I must reiterate that making legs out of treads is a fool's errand, as foolish as trying to make a good combiner where each part has two modes in addition to the body-part mode. It aint happening. we should give up and move on.
I can honestly overlook some of the 86 Devastator issues, but I can't commit until I see how they handle the extra torso parts.
>>11218511>It's worse at being the cartoon versionNah man, its a bad design, the worst in the set, just a cube on treads, the laughable robot mode proportions don't help, the set sold back then because we were desperate for a modern devastator.>>11218509Yes, the 86 one sucks, but the old tfc one was worse, the lego like cabin partsforms cause they recycled the model for their scrapper.
