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>>11674668Tooners are based.
>>11674668Death to MP-10fags as well.
>>11674688I never liked MP-10. Weird monkey proportions and the feet look terrible
>>11673358i feel like Kirkman will get Peter, he already has him on Invincible but i'm sure Kirkman is aware of Peter's mortality. we haven't really had a truly great Peter Cullen voice match yet but i genuinely want Peter to play this Optimus.>>11674284the funny thing is that the Japanese G1 Optimus Prime VA Tessho Genda was actually Primus in Superlink and Galaxy Force soooo there is a precedent already.
Hound is up for only $20 at Target
>New MP hot rod>All i am seeing is the SS86 hot rod in the imageAm I missing something here?Are they just re-release the 86 hot rod under the MPG label? Why?
>>11674716It’s basically an upscaled SS86 with a bit more polishing like having the roof and the back of the legs actually be the right color
>>11674714Already sold out and I missed him dammit. Oh well, I mainly collect The Movie figures for G1, which he's in for all of five seconds, so I guess I can just let this one go.
What’s an old mold that you think we're likely to get a remake of soon? I personally think they’re going to do either the G2 Flipchanger jets or the G2 Smokescreen/Dreadwing set due to their use in BWII and the amount of redecoes they could do from either>>11674725They’ll probably have him in stock again, stores love pulling that kind of stuff to get people to buy things
>>11674668Shame about the fake chest he carries over from the SS but honestly, he looks great. I still feel like the previous MP would have been fine if they'd nixed the matrix chamber (which he never had) so his chest could be the right shape, but this looks good. Just gotta hope the price isn't retarded.
>>11674725>>11674714didnt even see him go up, guess my search filter was wrong
>>11674668>MP based directly on SS86 Hot Rod>Just as Hasbro releases an new SS86 Hot Rod with with more accessoriesAnyone else think this is funny?
>>11674744It’s almost as if they’re meant to celebrate the same event or something. Not sure what that would be though
>>11674668>$130 price tag>for an upscaled uglier Studio Series deluxe (form of the Voyager) that comes with and does less Style Gen continues to be the biggest joke.
>>11674688the direction the MP line took after MP-01 always bummed me out, MP-01, truck being wonky aside, really felt like it was trying to be the ultimate Optimus toy with every feature you could want.
Well, the dream of collecting Missing Link is still nice to think about at leastThese prices will do a good job a keeping it from being reality
>>1167478412000 yen would be a much better priceThey’d sell a lot more
>>11674758Let me guess, you'd rather it was a featureless boxman that explodes on thousands of brittle hinges and crumples back up into the car and has a gigantic backpack.
>>11674784Eh, I've just stopped collecting anything else. ML is way more interesting and more fun to play with than tooner shit.
>>11674820okay toyer
>>11674714Get back to me when they are $7.99 again. Later faggots
>>11674748Yeah, some cartoon movie from the '80s.
>>11674668Did they really just take studio series hotrod and upscale him to mp size?
>>11674829Not gonna lie I kind of like toothpaste convoy
>>11674852I was expecting they use translucent plastic like they did Burning Convoy. But this is better.
>>11674867redpill me on red sideswipe
>>11674876What if Sideswipe was Sideswipe color?
>>11674829Would be insane if Flame Toys release these colors.
>>11674881That G1 red version is not even the right deco of G1 Sideswipe
>>11674721Oh if it's upscaled to MP size that's cool I'll probably get it. SS86 Hot Rod is like the only fucking Hot Rod toy anyone ever made that doesn't suck ass or look retarded.
>>11674668>It just looks like one of the shitty modern Transformers but bigger and more expensiveNot a fan of slavish cartoon accuracy but this is lame in an entirely different way.
>>11674784Most surprising thing is that he actually comes with a small Diaclone dude, but other than that, very much what everyone expected
>>11674668>Didn't even fix SS86 Hot Rod's ayylmao eyes
God damn it
>>11674928I am not a fan for when they combine, they both need to detach their arms.
>>11674881It's kind of lame that all they did was replace the silver with red. Things like the head and blades being red looks off.The G1 deco should have looked more like this.
>>11674928God damn it. If Jetfire is this wonky I’m tapping out of buying Hasbro stuff for good.
>>11674617hope you like him
>>11674829got my hopes up for a sec there.
>>11674866>releasing in july i thinkaw>8250 yen... whatit's a voyager. it's an existing mold.
>>11674947yeahh they should have had more fun with itprobably easy to fix yourself though. or that would fuck with the altmode?
>>11674953I've already been leaning 3rd party since coming back in general, but Sideways is a real downer. Armada remakes since Legacy feel like they've either been 100% great or pure trash, no in between.
>Bought a figure on ebay.>Seller only gets the tracking, doesn't ship it.>Have to go through hoops and ladders just to get a fucking email link, getting customer support to actually talk to you is impossible.Buying anything these days is such a fucking hassle.
>>11674867Swerve have more colors
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>>11674784I'll only buy one if they do orange grimlock
>>11674716>>11674721Actually this thing is a weird Frankenstein of SS86 HotRod and also Kingdom Rodimus. He has Rodimus’ ugly ass legs. What a shit figure
>>11674972we've been in Idiocracy for a really long time now. It'll all break down soon.
>>11674991>>11674993man that guy looks cool
got me a bolbo optimus on sale for voyager moneyhe's breddy gud
>>11674688The only problems I had with mp01 was the fairly ugly hip design and his lack of neck. Mp10 on the other hand is a mess of a design. I hate the feet, the hips, the hands, most of the long ass torso and his hideous, lifeless head.>>11674708I just wish we could get Gary Chalk back as a super robot Optimus again...
>>11674688They're both far better than MP-44.
>>11674716Reusing engineering like this isn't new, but I'm a little surprised by how similar they are. It's an improvement over MP-28 I think, but SS-86 already was too.
>>11674737He does. It changes shapes constantly.
>>11675026Oh, huh. TBF I never watched S3- the movie was a good end-point for me.
>>11674945The fuck does crosswise even need an ankle joint, his head mode horns are supposed to jut out at the end...
>>11674668>Destined to not have a proper thread anymore cause mods refuse to perma GoAnon and his tranny ass
/tfg/ seems to have a hateboner for it but MPG-17 is my favorite MP Optimus so far, unless there's a big QC or engineering issue we don't know about.
>>11674668Meh. It's not bad, but it didn't do anything interesting like Optimus. Aside from stealing Kingdom Rodimus legs and fixing the back, it's just 86 Hot Rod, again.They could have at least included his targetmaster, the fishing rod/pipe weapon from Kiss Players, the rocket/exhaust gun and/or the bow from animated.
>>11675039I’d buy the style gen figures if they were just really high end CHUG scale figures rather than shoehorned as MPs
>>11675048Same because that's literally just Earthrise Prime but bigger.
>>11675056It looks significantly better than Earthrise Optimus though. It doesn't look any closer to ER Prime to me than it does to MP-10.
>>11675039I'll admit, I do like the greebling on him. It’s a very nice detail that makes him feel robotic without being too distracting
>>11674726Thunderclash inshallah
>>11675003His arms are also closer to Rodimus than Hot Rod
>>11675098Oh, actually you are right! This is actually just Kingdom Rodimus retooled into Hot Rod.
>>11674991This dude was so cool. Now I'm regretting selling mine many moons ago.
>>11675108how long are his shins? got a side view?I don't have many carformers but this guy is definitely cool enough to have.
>>11675104It's a series of very strange choices, top to bottom
>>11675131I don't think it's particularly strange at all. They're iterating on a well-received figure. I wish they'd been a little more ambitious even if it meant being less G1, but I wouldn't say it's strange.
>>11674726I don't know how likely that is but I absolutely want new versions of Dreadwing & Smokescreen. I'd buy any and all redecos too.Surely we have to get a proper G2 Megatron at some point soon, right? And then retool that into Reverse Convoy/Rebirth Megatron
>>11674966>... what>it's a voyager. it's an existing mold.Yeah, but he's made with glow in the dark plastic. That shit costs money, since it needs to be chemically treated first.The prices for everything else being so high is unexcusable, though.
>>11675192I’m shocked we’ve never gotten a proper G2 Megatron remake mold given all of the Laser Prime molds we’ve had
>>11674867>the blades is not actually the sides of the car and cant be stored therewhy
Guy who's never bought Transformer figures, did I pick some good ones for my first? The Optimus Primal's just a side thing because I wanted a little guy.
>>11675222I hate the game figures and skipped them both but you do you. Megatron has a design flaw that severely impacts his knee articulation.
>>11675222Optimus is pretty brilliant
>>11675205Takara has given up on the MPM line I feel. This just seems low effort.
>>11675235Don't worry, they've given up on the regular MP line too.
>>11675199glow in the dark plastic is expensive? first i'm hearing of it, it's found in all kinds of super cheapo shit.that would explain why Kenner didn't bother to use it in their Techno-Zoids "Demon Lizard" which was otherwise identical to the old Heldigunner. Still fluorescent green under blacklight, but not glow in the dark (thankfully I was able to add some of my own)yeah I don't see getting this. with the import fees and everything it'd be what, 80 bucks? naw. I bet they won't even bother, knowing that nobody would pay.>>11675205that is indeed a baffling choice.>>11675222is that like, a funko pop?
>Missing Link Grimlock>instead of the Seeker mold, which they could milk for three years easyPonderous. Slagging ponderous.
>>11675237ill wait for a ko if it fits in the kingdom rodimus trailer
>>11675237i dont know the character well enough to know why this is bad. looks cool to me.. a little gappy maybe. Certainly doesn't look like a masterpiece, but what does that even mean anymore? especially at smaller sizes.
>>11675243I feel like they're trying to release Megatron as the first ML destron but, and hear me out here, instead of having Megatron + a cartoon color redeco.. they're doing two separate molds. One based off the release toy (with the spring fire rubber bullets), and then one based off the prototype design (which was the basis for the show character model since it's proportions weren't hot shit)
>>11675243People have wanted a Grimlock reissue for ages and the only way to justify remaking his mold from the ground up is to make it more expensive
>>11675256If they did, would it even be able to be sold here?
>>11675258Does that mean the next four years will be the other Dinobots?
>>11675261Probably not, Grimlock is the most famous one for Obvious Reasons so I can see them just doing him and then moving on
>>11675237Christ thats tragic. I know people always hate on MP-28 for not being perfect but that car mode is leagues above this garbage. This looks like a good MP for people that keep their toys in robot mode.
>>11675256Soundwave already leaked as the next one
>>11675259probably not, I imagine hasbro won't even acknowledge it.
>>11675264I'll take literally everything else being better over the back of the car mode being a little cleaner.
>>11675237HasTak realized they can release anything with "G1" attached to it, and the whales will buy it every time. It's easy money, they don't need to constantly reinvent the wheel. They just have to incrementally tweak small improvements for the same character over and over again. That is enough to make the oldies happy and keep buying their products.
>>11675222>>11675224>>11675234I really liked them honestly tho I still prefer the originals even if they're smallerMegatron SHOULD have a running change and the knee's fixed. If not then there's spots you have to shave downI prefer the SDCC Optimus more honestly
>>11675256I know that even if Takara was doing the line entirely themselves with no Hasbro input they'd still cuck out and not make a gun Megatron
>>11675256They already released Nemesis Prime and included the first ML destron line in his advertisement.
>>11675269The whole car is a mess anon, its half of the toy. The rear is just the biggest fuck you of the whole thing. I'm sure the robot mode will be nice though since they sacrificed the entire car for it.
>>11675237I get why Hot Rod is a difficult one to get right, but I sometimes wonder if they aren't making it more difficult than it needs to be. I think the biggest issue is that it's too fucking G1. I'm not going to say that pic related is the best of all possible Hot Rods, but I think there's room to take the Classics design (or something else for that matter) and iterate on it into something that's more satisfying in both modes than ending on a compromise out of G1 purism. It's Style-Gen anyway, so why not? You could still probably fudge it into something G1-ish enough to fit with MPG-17. I'm very much glad that the figure isn't overpriced toonshit but it's sad to see the trend of phoning in alt modes continue into MP. That said I don't think it's a bad car, but it's nowhere near as good as MP-28 or MP-09. Those figures were a mess for other reasons though, so I still think MPG-20 is a worthy effort. I'll take it over turning the figure inside out with a bunch of panels and hinges, but that shouldn't be the only other option.
>>11675273>Megatron SHOULD have a running change and the knee's fixed.There was no running change. The original run is fucked, the Target reissue is fucked, Flame is fucked.
>>11675283The robot mode is Studio Series but completely unchanged and at 4 times the price. Enjoy this bold new design direction of Masterpiece
>>11675199you know what, I seem to recall in the TMNT Super7 figures, they did glow in the dark ones and apparently they said the GITD material got VERY expensive after covid, having previously been cheap?
>>11675259I mean technically, since you can sell ACTUAL guns, you could do it. you'd just have to say it's for adults only, and that's gonna be weird for a bunch of reasons. It can't have 'toy' anywhere on the packaging for sure.
>>11675282Oh right, that's my bad, I completely forgot. Takara officially says it so it's true, then. I still won't really consider nemesis to be the true first destron in ML it's just a repaint
>>11675275what makes you think that? They still sell gun robots in japan
>>11675273I would have got the SDCC version if that Megatron wasn't stapled to him
>>11674867>G1 Color>Literally just "What if we painted him Red instead of SilverAt the very least they could have made his head black with a silver face if they didn't want to do the white parts of the body.
Alright /tfg/Time for a gameLet's see those Mix tapes. SURELY some of you got roped into Siege-Legacy and SS86 and ended up with a Band Van worth of Tapes
>>11674688You did the meme wrong.
>>11675263Most likely this. Dinobots don't seem nearly as popular in Japan as they are in the west.
>>11675322I have all of those. So...pretend I posted the same pic.
>>11675322I got a $50 Amazon gift card for Christmas and I've been mulling on whether to get Legacy or SS86 Blaster.
>>11675329SS86 Blaster is very good and worth
>>1167532986 blaster. The dark grey looks miles better than the full black and the opaque plastic won't shit itself like the clear plastic.
>>11675322I have duplicates like the Siege guys and the Legacy birds but I'm only displaying my "current" versions of each character.>>11675348Clear plastic doesn't just self destruct by simply existing. Though 86 Blaster is better since the deco is accurate.
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>>11675329>>11675338>>11675348A challenger appears.
>>11675338>>11675356Dude why are you guys just leaking the next Style Gen figure like that
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>>11675352my old-ass ass is like 'that must have taken forever'
>>11675358>>11675359>>11675361>>11675362That is one crazy custom. I feel like nsotalgia is making people rethink the Action Masters, and it helps that the engineering is where its at now too. Soon the nostalgic boost will hit my beloved Beast Machines.
>>11675354That's cool. Can it still transform?
>>11675240>glow in the dark plastic is expensive? first i'm hearing of it, it's found in all kinds of super cheapo shit.Let me clarify: glow in the dark plastic that DOESN'T use depleted Uranium to achieve the glowing effect is expensive. The reason there were so many cheap toys that have a glow feature back in the day was because the military was literally selling their radioactive waste to toy companies, who used the stuff in everything from children's toys to the hands on watches and wall clocks. It wasn't until the 90's, when glow-in-the-dark gimmicks made a resurgence, that the swapped over to phosphors like strontium aluminate, which, while safer, need to be synthesized in a lab to produce their glow effect. Toy companies literally have to pay a laboratory to make the stuff for them, hence why it's a bit more expensive on their end and why you don't see it so often in modern toys these days.
>>11675372Also been going down a rabbit hole of adding accessories to the 13 since some of them are lacking and a few add-ons really make sense.>>11675372It should, but I won't try. I shaved off as many areas that had obvious friction but I'm going to leave it in robot mode when I do mine.
>>11675374well glow in the dark shit sure seemed cheap as free in the 90s. and I was told it had only recently gotten way more expensive, so it must have been something else. They claimed it was material shortages, but.. you literally cannot run out of phosphors, so
>>11675374I had a Monster in my Pocket comic book as a kid and one plot was the Not Godzilla monster would eat glow in the dark material and grow in size since it was radioactive, but I just figured that was the comic embellishing.
>>11675403electromagnetism is one of those sad things where it actually becomes way less interesting the more you learn. basically EVERYTHING is radiation.
>>11675352Is Blackcat a custom?
>>11675351>>11675352God daaaaaaamn>Has a SS86 RumbleIt's not fair
Anyone get this cowpoke?He's pretty fun
>>11675412Yep>>11675413This is why you preorder everything. Hunting for shit in stores is retarded.
>>11675414I'll probably get him eventually, but right now I'm bothered by how low his crotch goes / how high set the hips are.
>>11675352>>11675421Who's green Ravage?
>>11675428*how's green Ravage
>>11675421I had him pre ordered on BBTS and he sat so long they hit me with a "Yea we're not getting this" and cancelledHe was gone instantly on Pulse and Amazon and i have never seen him in stock
>>11675428Blackcathttps://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blackcat
>>11675430When's* green Ravage?
>>11675432Things on Pulse never sell out instantly. The fastest I've seen something sell out is 10-20 minutes. Which isn't a problem as long as you're ready at 1pm when preorders drop
>>11675437I have seen countless things go up and instantly gone lol
>>11675437>Things on Pulse never sell out instantly
>>11675205Go look up the black mamba one
>>11675457https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfKNmINMYasForgot link
>>11675205>>11675237Man when will Masterpiece ever get to covering Armada/Micron Legends? It's been more than 20 years now and pretty much all of the animation designs is almost 1:1 with the original toys so it would be a slam dunk to get modern animation accurate and articulated versions of the old toys. And no the Generations updated toys isn't entirely accurate to the anime designs or even the old toys.
>>11675477official MP hasn't hit up armada yet because there isn't as much of a demand for it. I hope official armada MP, if it ever happens, keeps spring loaded mini-con gimmicks though.
>>11675489It's crazy that there's no demand when Armada Optimus himself was ranked 2nd in that Masterpiece poll all those years ago. Either way that's mostly why I want a MP Armada/Micron Legends line because at least there the Mini-Con pegs and the spring-loaded gimmicks will be retained though I think the spring-loaded Mini-Con gimmicks will be handled like God Ginrai, where plugging a Mini-Con into an active peg will release a clasp allowing whatever part was held down (such as Hot Shot's Axelzooka) to be released but you'd have to manually move the part from then on. I think it would be a nice compromise between keeping the spring loaded unlock feature of the Mini-Cons and having whatever weapon was unlocked by said Mini-Cons not rely on springs and be more durable as a result.
>>11675477Masterpiece hasn't done G1 Galvatron and you think they're ever touching Armada?
>>11675264>hate on MP-28 for not being perfectThat's an understatement.
>>11675497The problem is if they make an MP Armada Optimus fans will expect them to make an MP Armada Megatron. If it's just a one-off then what's the point? Third parties will then fill in and take the scale of the official figure and make the rest of the armada cast.Another big issue is.. uh.. Armada designs are.. simple-ish. They have easy transformations and the designs on the toys are very much similar to the designs on the show. Unlike G1 MPs which were designed to get 100% screen accurate robot and 100% screen/real life accurate alt modes (depending on the era), which was a tough challenge on some designs, and unlike movie MPs which are just designed to flex engineering, Armada.. really doesn't have a whole lot of engineering to deal with. Takara would mostly be focusing on die-cast, scaling, and updating the mini-con gimmicks to not impede articulation. Certainly a tough undertaking but it's not exactly the same as engineering a bunch of fucking panels like MP is known for.If Takara were to update Armada in an MP style, I hope they would call it something else. ARMADA STYLE FLEET or something. I just don't think the 'MP' branding would truly fit on Armada updates.
>>11675499They touched Beast Wars
Leo Prime is hanging around for cheap so I decided to grab it. Did people not like it or something?
>>11675505The designs are simple but that didn't stop God Ginrai from getting a MP toy and he's really simple by MP standards. I don't think it's a requirement that you need to have the toy be panels upon panels to be considered a MP toy. Yes, the vast majority is basically that but there's been lots of changes with the MP toyline as of late with the obvious fact that it's MPG now. TakaraTomy probably wants to milk even more and has made the restrictions more laxed. And besides, there's still a good number of Armada designs that can be complicated, chief among which is Optimus's trailer because the Generations toy dumbed down the base mode to avoid the headache of having the trailer be a bunch of panels folded like one of those blueprint patterns and somehow retain knee and hip articulation when all is said and done which is fair. I also want a good animation accurate Hot Shot toy that also stays true to the original toy but has proper articulation. So far both attempts in Generations has been duds.
>>11675522Which one are you referring to? The Legacy one? It's a solid figure but the lion face is a bit wonky, and since he really only has one other Maximal from his cast available he's sort of an outlier.
>>11675537also missing some ab paint
>>11675537>The Legacy one?Yeah. I don't care that much about the character and the lion is indeed goofy but a voyager for $20 in 2026? I'll take it.
>>11675522I really like the figure a lot... except that the lion head is awful. Someone at Hasbro (I believe it was Mark?) said they were going for a realistic lion sculpt, but they seem to have failed at that 'cause it just looks horribly derpy. In case you don't already know, Takara recently released a new version of the toy with extra paint apps and an entirely new sculpted lion head and blades for the arms. The new sculpt is pretty cartoony since it's based on the lion mode design from the BW2 anime, but it's a welcome alternative to Hasbro's lion sculpt, even if it goes a bit far in the opposite direction. Plus, it has new parts to let his mane spin in a recreation of his "Lion Typhoon" attack from the show. It got severely delayed because they had to fix a factory misassembly error that would have impeded the transformation, but it finally came out and looks great! All that said, if you don't mind Hasbro's weird lion face, then the Legacy release is still a fun figure other than that, so I hope you're enjoying it!
Fuck it, I'm getting Romulus. Maybe the not Hasbro thread knows more about future rereleases from Newage.
>>11675638If you want a gun and a shorter bot, go for it, there is this coming though
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>>11675638Romulus has metal hips.
>>11675647What's wrong with metal hips?
>>11675643>>11675646The reproduction?Already several issues with it
>>11675648Metal joints tend to wear down faster, and fixing them is nearly impossible. In Romulus case, you need ro move them a lot for transformation as well.
>>11675650Reproduction?no the upgrade kit
>>11675648They call me Romulus I have metal jointsBeat me upand get 15 silver points
>>11675522>>11675610Actually, I meant to do a little write-up on the Anniversary Lio Convoy - he got here on Sunday, but I've been busy. Given that people are just getting theirs now and the new Green one (which uses this version of the mold) goes up for preorder later today, it seems like now's the best time for it.Lio's got a couple of changes made to him from the original Legacy release - not just the new face, but new Lion Claws, a new mane with a rotating gimmick, and lots of shiny new paint; his lion tail is sculpted in a gold plastic to match his new mane color.
>>11675657Sure thing Gato
>>11675659Side-by-side beast mode comparison with the Legacy version. Some people may find the anime face on the new one to be a bit goofy, but I find it far preferable to the "realistic" one. Besides, it's cartoon accurate - kinda funny to have people go on and on about how they need their toys to look accurate to the G1 cartoon, but when it comes to Lio looking the way he's supposed to, people are put off.Regardless, the new Lio's mane no longer has the two flip-up slots for his two "Lio Missiles", though you can clip them into the two rectangular slots on the top of his head. His mane bits on the side no longer have the clearance to swing forward the way his Legacy toy's did, which is why he no longer has his two small pistols - there's nowhere to put them, even if you "borrowed" them from his Legacy toy.
>>11675662Robot mode. My camera's really on its way out, so it's a bit hard to see all the cool new metallic paint he has. His lower abs are fully painted, as are his hands, his head, his Matrix Chamber, and a bunch of other places. His "Lion Claws" are nearly twice as long as the Legacy version's dinky little ones, and now actually point in the correct direction (curved back away from his lion toes). His Lio Missiles are painted now, too - but since these are the missiles and not the pistols, he can't hold them in his hands; they can still plug into the backs of his wrists, or slot into his back like on the Legacy toy.
>>11675663Of course, the biggest change here is that he now has his fully functional "Lion Typhoon" gimmick - the fur bits around his lion head are all attached to a wheel and can spin freely in either direction when extended. This gimmick is why the flip-up Lio Missile gimmick was abandoned, as the flip-up parts would get in the way of the mane's ability to spin.Even if he no longer has his pistols or the Lio Missile Attack gimmick, I much prefer this version of him over the Legacy one - he looks the way he's supposed to, I really like his longer claws, the paint is great, and it's fun spiiiiinnnniiiinnggg his shoulder around. Hopefully I'll be able to get the new Green one when he goes up in 9 or so hours.
>>11675665Semi-related to the current conversation, but I also tracked down my very own Newage S01A "Remus" Version after that anon showed off his two threads ago. I love him - I mentioned before, but I always wanted a proper "gun Megatron", and this guy's pretty great all around - he's got a nice ab crunch, comes with all the faceplates and additional weapons of the MP while being CHUG-sized, and I really like this specific colorscheme (which I don't think has been used as an official character by Hasbro yet). He was a bit pricey, but I feel he was the better choice than SS86 Megatron; my only issue with him is that he didn't come with any instructions, though I was able to find videos on YouTube that worked well enough.Rather than using him as a 'replacement' Megatron in my collection, I think I'll just repurpose him as his own character - an Autobot, given he seems to have a more 'heroic' looking face and no faction symbols anywhere on him (obviously).
>>11675665I want to get him, but losing his all gun mode is a bit dissapointing, and they still didn't change his gauntlets so they could swing out as melee weapons.
>>11675666I have Remus tooHe is a fantastic colour scheme and yeah he was a little pricey, I got him for $110I'm pairing him up with ML Sentinel
>>11675662Technically, the new head is moreso og-toy accurate.The BW II anime... They weren't very good at drawing animals, I'll leave it at that lol.
>>11675680>I got him for $110Yeah, that's the same amount I spent for him - even managed to get free shipping. Maybe some day I'll track down the S01EX version to be his evil Decepticon twin brother, Romulus, but for now I'm having a lot of fun with him on his own.
>>11675610Honestly, the reason the lion head looks so off is because they didn’t bother to paint the eyes. Copy Convoy/Nemesis Leo Prime's are painted and it automatically looks better
>>11675725Lion's eyes doesn't look like that
>>11675740They could have at least added a black dot or something. Leaving it a yellow void looks off
>>11675740The dull exposed teeth also give him a derpy HURR HURR face instead since lions don't have exposed fangs like that.
>>11675659>his lion tail is sculpted in a gold plastic to match his new mane color.Except it doesn’t. My one criticism of the Takara version is how dull the gold plastic is, and unfortunately the tail is the one part of it that isn’t painted.Fantastic figure overall though.
>>11675258Do you think the other ML molds weren't made from scratch?
>>11675760He probably thinks Takara pulled moulds from 40 years ago and just re-use them
>>11675725They both look derpy because of those square buck teeth sticking out. They look like Goofy.
Green Lio is up on Amiami and HLJ. Grab him before he's gone.
>>11675754bro put a literal rug on his convoy
I'm not a million percent sure Grimlock has a waist
>>11674784>>11674805yeah he's pricy af, yen vise he's sligtly above MPG Hot Rod Style Gen, or ML Convoy (w trailer)/Nemesis primeMPMN Sideswipe is cheaper, a MPM is cheaper ffs>>11675205Accuracy, ppl would not like it is does the same as the ROTF or DOTM deluxe (have compromised blades)
>>11675505>If it's just a one-off then what's the point?To be fair, they never did MP Deathsaurus
>>11676019They never even did Victory Leo
>>11675825LOL yeah it's not good quality. It looks okay at a distance but up close it looks like it was made out of a Christmas gift bag.That's the one image I took with it before tossing it.
Got 86 Soundwave. It does a lot of weird things and I'm not sure I love it. The tabs that connect the leg to the torso are no longer thick rectangular tabs, they're now thinner tabs with a clip at the end, getting them in and out is very annoying and I don't feel like they'll last long. The entire head transformation section is just bizarre, it uses a lot of space, but a good half of it isn't even necessary, you'd assume this is for storage (for the extra stuff included with the cassettes) but nothing is mentioned in the instructions. The tabs connecting the head to the body are both small and annoying to click in place. The knee extensions are purely friction based, and while mine are currently tight, I've seen videos of other copies having them loose out of the box. On the weapons, I already knew the gun had the wrong orientation, but they also took out the pivot from the missile launcher. I can't recommend it at the current priced and I still feel ripped off after paying 50 (tax included) for mine.
>>11675414This will be the first toy I buy because of nostalgia. I hope adult me likes the new one half as much as kid me did like the old one. But I'm a bit worried that he's too big.
>>11675610i do not understand the hatred for the lion head. it's a little smushed, but by modern standards (and for that matter, 90s standards) it's amazing
>>11675918He'll rotate under the chest I bet
>>11675725It's more than just the eyes. Yes, painting in the eyes help, but it still goes a long way from fixing the problems with that sculpt. The biggest issue is that the lion face (especially the bridge of the nose) slopes way too far downward and not enough outward, making its proportions look almost like a cross between a lion and a horse, making the whole head seem droopy and weird. It's like the eyes are facing forward, but the snout is more at a downward angle. Painting the eyes makes the lion face seem more alive, but still fundamentally bad-looking in terms of overall shape.
>>11675776>>11675746What's weird is that Takara's new remold has exposed teeth too, but don't look nearly as bad. Maybe it's because it's more anime-stylized, or maybe it's 'cause they're sculpted as actual triangles rather than rounded stubs?
>>11676107>but by modern standards (and for that matter, 90s standards) it's amazingI don't know what you're talking about. I literally have the BW2 Lio Convoy figure on my shelf in the room I'm in right now, and his lion head, while imperfect, looks a thousand times better than the Legacy lion head.
>>11675657>~AAA ROMURUSU~>Ore wa tsuyoi>Ore ni kattara METARU FUTOMO-MO!~
>>11675659face just needs to be a lot bigger and this would be pretty perfect.>>11675662jeez that seems like an oversight. and because of the face and mane, you can't really match the show look in either mode. I guess making them detachable pieces would have been too hard, huh?
>>11675703yeahh those are clearly mecha specialists who are just reluctantly drawing animals
>>11675725well in the anime, the eyes go blank in robot mode. I think they were prioritizing that.>>11675746it's tricky, we can't very well have lifting lips, but everyone wants to see the teeth>>11675795sorry man, that's way too rich for my blood. 53 bucks BEFORE international shipping and tariffs?>>11675776they definitely should not have been blunted, but.. yknow, retards.>>11676121yeah they basically took a perfect lion head and then hit 'skew' for some reason. I guess they didn't want the snout sticking out that far in robot mode, but it was a mistake for sure. makes me wish I could add plasticizer to the whole thing, smush it back up into position, then resolidify.
>>11676135I feel Tasmania Kid is probably the worst of it, though to be fair, the original toy didn’t look much like a Tasmanian devil either
>>11676147yeahhhh they had very little to work with. this is still improved over the toy.
>>11676107It's alright. The teeth are a weird choice though.>>11675662I like the Takara version more but I'm not double dipping, and I don't like it that much for that price.
>>11676205i'm definitely gonna shave down the teeth when I resculpt the face like that other guy here did.
>>11675760That is the exact opposite of what I'm saying; I'm saying if they had to make a new mold to rerelease the design at all anyway it makes sense they would do this instead of what they did with that one Prime reissue
What do you guys do when you get that feeling its time to downsize your collection? I have stuff stowed away that I haven't looked at or thought about in YEARS.
>>11676332If you can store everything you have right now, what is the point of downsizing?
What's the best Barricade figure that transforms? Heck gimme your top 3.
>>11676356The new Studio Series one is great. It's his TLK body and not the one he had in the other films, but he's easily my favorite one they've made so far.
>>11676332Haven't thought about that and I got into wanting to recollect old stuff so Unicron Trilogy and older for permanent collection
New Thunderblast mold?If you know, you know.
>>11676418Wheel deficient for the expected character.
>>11676332I only have one small box of transformers that are not quite shelf-ready, and I might still put most of them up when I have more spaceI did some serious downsizing at my last major move, donated all the old and broken toys that I'd just held onto in a big toybox. Everything left, I care about. I still don't have enough space, but it's better than it was two apartments ago.
>>11675414A darn tootin' gewd remake, I tell you what.
